Results 81 to 90 of about 1,963,340 (350)

Professional Volunteers

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
In 1939, Dr. William Osler Abbott used his opportunity with an audience at the Charaka Club in New York to recount the process for conducting necessary clinical research for his new gastroenterological technique for treating obstructions in the small intestine.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Effective Use of Volunteers: Best Practices for the Public Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Brudney posits a relationship between the best practices and the benefits realized from volunteer involvement. A volunteer program in the public sector is sponsored by a government agency and, thus, occurs in an organizational context; remuneration is ...
Brudney, Jeffrey L.
core   +2 more sources

Dietary nitrate and nitrite protect against doxorubicin‐induced cardiac fibrosis and oxidative protein damage in tumor‐bearing mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemotherapies such as doxorubicin can have toxic effects on healthy cardiovascular/heart tissue. Following up on a doxorubicin toxicity study in mice without tumors where nitrate water was cardioprotective (lessened toxicity), this study with tumor‐bearing mice undergoing doxorubicin treatment showed no negative effect of nitrate and nitrite on drug ...
Rama D. Yammani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health of volunteers: origin of psychosomatic disorders in PTSD conditions

open access: yesМедицина неотложных состояний
Background. Numerous studies in various scientific areas deal with to the problem of mental health of Ukrainians: the theory and practice of psychological and pedagogical research, psychophysiological concepts and theories, a systematic approach in ...
О.М. Кокун   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The Galaxy Zoo citizen science website invites anyone with an Internet connection to participate in research by classifying galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
M. Raddick   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Volunteer Management Practices and Retention of Volunteers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This report is the second in a series of briefs on a 2003 survey of volunteer management capacity among public charities in the United States. It focuses on charities' adoption of nine volunteer management practices: supervision and communication ...
Jeffrey L. Brudney, Mark A. Hager
core  

Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimum models of hospice at home services for end-of-life care in England: a realist-informed mixed-methods evaluation

open access: yesHealth and Social Care Delivery Research, 2022
Background: Many people prefer to die at home when the time comes. Hospice at home services aim to support patients to achieve this. A range of hospice at home services exist; some services have been evaluated, but there has been limited evidence ...
Claire Butler   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Volunteer Frame and Volunteer Culture

open access: yesEwha Journal of Social Sciences, 2011
한국사회의 경제적 위기와 함께 사회복지의 욕구는 증가하였으나, 사회적 안정망 구축이 아직 충분하지 않은 현실에서 시민사회의 역할의 중요성이 부각되기 시작했다. 본 연구는 심리학의 ``프레임(frame)`` 개념을 원용하여 자원봉사운동을 활성화하고 자원봉사문화를 조성하는 방법을 탐색하는 이론적 관점을 제시하고자 한다.
null Kim,Kyong-Dong, null 김여진
openaire   +1 more source

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 ...

core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy