VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE MOVEMENT.

[South Slav Volunteer Movement Medical Service in Russia (1914-1919) - Serbian Volunteer Movement].

Ve od samog po etka Prvog svetskog rata u Rusiji, me u austrougarskim vojnicima slovenskih naroda koji su bili prebegli ili zarobljeni, pojavio se pokret za u eš e u borbama na savezni koj strani kako bi i li no doprineli osloboenju svojih naroda od viševekovne tu inske vlasti. Pokret je bio posebno snažan me u mla im, školovanim zarobljenicima koji su bili zadojeni slobodoumnim idejama nastali...

The Mobilization of Paid and Volunteer Activists in the Neighborhood Movement

This paper compares the mobilization of paid social movement activists with the mobilization of volunteers, a topic mentioned but not treated systematically in previous work. Classic treatments of paid movement activists assume that they are the most dedicated and ideologically committed members of movement .organizations, while collective action theory underlying the resource mobilization pers...

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

Running Head: VOLUNTEER COMPUTING GAMES Volunteer Computing Games: Merging Online Casual Gaming with Volunteer Computing

We describe volunteer computing games, a new paradigm for computing which merges volunteer computing and online casual games. In volunteer computing, the main goal is to harness the computational power of many users’ computers to solve a large computational problem. Unfortunately, participants in volunteer computing come from a very limited demographic—primarily middle-aged male computer expert...