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SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF VOLUNTEERING AND LABOUR MARKET IN SPORT

open access: yesEkonomika, 2014
. Volunteering for society is of multidimensional significance nowadays. From the organisation’s position, it represents a cheap source of work, mostly in the fields where there are several reasons for the work not being done by professionals, or ...
Eva Caslavova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shipping the good apples out: a note on contributions of time and money [PDF]

open access: yes
This note applies insights from a famous problem in price theory, "Shipping the Good Apples Out," to expand the comparative static predictions of the model of monetary donations and volunteering developed by Andreoni, Gale and Scotz (1996).
Cyril Chang, William Smith
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Volunteering: The Force Multiplier for Community Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In May 2014, United Way Worldwide's research team surveyed 74 U.S. and international United Way CEOs. The survey found that:The United Way network has seen a bigger increase in the growth rate of volunteering than the nation as a wholeThere is a gap ...

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Volunteers and volunteering in leisure : social science perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Leisure has been widely examined within the context of social science theory; however, little work has considered the range of social science disciplines and applied them to specific phenomena located within the leisure field.
Baum, T.G.   +3 more
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The Role of Calcitonin Gene‐Related Peptide in High‐Altitude Headache: A Prospective Field Study

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective High‐altitude headache (HAH) is a common neurological condition associated with rapid ascent to high altitude. The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying HAH remain incompletely understood. Calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP), a neuropeptide implicated in migraine pathophysiology, may play a key role in the pathophysiology of ...
Roman Schniepp   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does volunteering benefit students’ happiness, social connectedness, and self-efficacy? an interaction with gender

open access: yesBMC Psychology
Background Volunteering has been found to offer benefits for volunteers, but there is little research on how volunteering could benefit individuals’ happiness, social connectedness, and self-efficacy in the context of Saudi Arabia. Methods This study was
Fatimah Hamdi Alganami   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Over the past two decades we have seen a growing body of research that indicates volunteering provides individual health benefits in addition to social benefits.
Kimberly Spring   +2 more
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Effectiveness of rTMS on Working Memory and Inhibitory Impairments in Patients With Post‐Stroke Executive Deficits

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Considerable efforts have been dedicated to developing effective treatments for post‐stroke executive impairment (PSEI), among which repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown great potential. This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of high‐frequency rTMS on working memory (WM) and response ...
Mengting Lao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

To volunteer or not to volunteer? A cross-country study of volunteering [PDF]

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This paper uses data from the 4th wave of the European Values Survey (EVS) to investigate the factors that in?uence the decision to participate in volunteering activities, considering both volunteering in general as well as volunteering in particular ...
Boguslawa Sardinha   +1 more
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