Amateur naturalists have played an important role in the study and conservation of nature since the 17th century. Today, naturalist groups make important contributions to bridge the gap between conservation science and practice around the world. We examined data from 2 regional naturalist programs to understand participant motivations, barriers, and perspectives as well as the actions they take...

Governor Robert Ehrlich was notified through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) (www.emacweb.org) that Aaron Broussard, the president of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, had put out a call for help in meeting the medical needs of the area’s 452,000 residents. Governor Ehrlich activated the MDDF, a volunteer organization within a military structure, comprising health care professio...

Intensive experiences show and confirm that grid environments can be considered as the most promising way to solve several kinds of problems relating either to cooperative work especially where involved collaborators are dispersed geographically or to some very greedy applications which require enough power of computing or/and storage. Such environments can be classified into two categories; fi...

Four measurement models of the structure of motivation to volunteer were evaluated in 2 samples of older (minimum age = 50 years), active volunteers. Motivation to volunteer was assessed with the Volunteer Functions Inventory. Whereas no support was found for either unidimensional or bipartite models, qualified support was observed for both 6-factor and 2nd-order factor models. The best fit of ...

TOPIC This is the personal perspective of the author's experience during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. As a member of a professional mental health volunteer organization, this chronicles 3 months' experience in the local shelters. PURPOSE Difficulties with organizational support and structure hampered the effectiveness and functioning of this volunteer organization in the shelters. To identify...

In this paper, a cryptanalysis of the Bivium keystream generator in the SAT form is considered. For encoding the initial cryptanalysis problem into SAT a special program system TRANSALG was used. For an obtained SAT instance we use Monte Carlo method to search for a partitioning with good time estimation. Several weakened cryptanalysis instances of the Bivium generator were successfully solved ...

This paper presents the findings of a prototype study which sought to identify factors that contribute to effective emergency management in Greece and other European states regarding both natural disasters and critical accidents. The parameters for proper action and successful intervention in operational and logistical are identified based on the document analysis and interviews with emergency ...

In the United Kingdom (UK), advance directives have recently received considerable attention from professional and voluntary organizations as well as medical journals and the media. However, despite such exposure, many doctors remain uncertain of the importance or relevance of advance directives with regard to their own clinical practice. This paper addresses these uncertainties by first explai...

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most highly selective all-discipline honor society, with more than three hundred chapters on campuses across the country. The structure and continuity of the organization depend on volunteer faculty and student leaders at each college or university, both for selection and induction of honorees and for our increasing service...