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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Forecasting Photo-Dissolution for Future Oil Spills at Sea: Effects of Oil Properties and Composition. [PDF]

Environ Sci Technol
Freeman DH, Nelson RK, Pate K, Reddy CM, Ward CP.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cotton Fiber-Based Sorbents for Treating Crude Oil Spills. [PDF]

ACS Omega, 2020
Shin Y, Han KS, Arey BW, Bonheyo GT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonfinancial Performance Metrics in Executive Pay and Corporate Risk‐Taking—Evidence From S&P 500 Firms

Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the implications of the use of nonfinancial performance metrics in executive compensation (hereafter, NFPM‐linked pay) on corporate risk‐taking and firm performance in subsequent periods. Using hand‐collected data on the performance metric choices of S&P 500 firms and a comprehensive set of proxies for corporate risk‐taking,
Wan‐Ting (Alexandra) Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Synthesis of a new oil-absorbing PVC oil boom and its application to maritime oil spills. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Liu C, Jia X, Wang Y, Gu Y, Liu Y, Wei L, Xu L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Instruments for assessing the impacts of oil spills: an integrated approach to health, the environment and the socioeconomic profile of exposed areas. [PDF]

Cad Saude Publica
Aragão LHDAE, Santos MJFD, Gurgel ADM, Santos MOSD, Nepomuceno MM, Gurgel IGD.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Botanical treatment enhances biochemical responses in enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) clones

JSFA reports, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bacterial wilt of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is a severe disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, resulting in complete crop failure and considerable damage. This study assessed the biochemical responses of two enset clones (one resistant and one susceptible) when inoculated with the pathogen and ...
Getahun Yemata, Masresha Fetene
wiley   +1 more source

16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of seawater microbiota from Rayong Province, Thailand, affected by oil spills. [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc
Pinpimai K, Punnarak P, Thitiphuree T, Songploy S, Panichpol A, Chankong A, Chavanich S, Viyakarn V.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Eco-friendly magnetic activated carbon nano-hybrid for facile oil spills separation. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Shokry H, Elkady M, Salama E.
europepmc   +1 more source