NHS Volunteer Responders Scheme

Volunteer stroke scheme for dysphasic patients with stroke.

The needs of the dysphasic patient with a stroke, in whom the effect of physical damage is so often intensified by loss of morale, are well recognised. Both the numbers who survive and the long periods for which support is needed create a problem that is unlikely to be relieved without help from the community. A pilot scheme using untrained volunteers working within a responsible organisation a...

Life Saving Apps: Linking Cardiac Arrest Victims to Emergency Services and Volunteer Responders

In cases of emergency, such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the first few minutes are crucial for victims to receive care and have a positive outcome. However, emergency services often arrive on scene after those first few minutes, making any bridging solutions key. Finding a defibrillator or accessing a trained volunteer responder are some of the technological solutions that are being deve...

Responders and non-responders to probiotic interventions

"Responders and non-responders to probiotic interventions" (2010).

Volunteer computing

The explosive growth of interest in platform-independent programming languages for the WorldWide Web , such as Sun Microsystems' Java, is opening exciting new possibilites in parallel computing. This thesis will present and investigate the idea of volunteer computing, which will allow people to volunteer their computers' processing power towards solving a large parallel problem by simply visiti...

Volunteer Monitoring