This article presents an annotated portfolio of projects that seek to understand and communicate the social societal implications blockchains, DLTs smart contracts. These complex technologies rely on human technical factors deliver cryptocurrencies, shared computation trustless protocols but have a secondary benefit in providing moment re-think many aspects society, imagine alternative possibil...

rooke Ellison could have been bitter, rendered a quadriplegic at age 11 when she was struck by a car while walking home from her first day of junior high. Instead, she's living a fuller life than she could have imagined when doctors told her she'd never walk again. The secret, says Ellison, 31, of Stony Brook, N.Y., is helping others cope with their own life-altering challenges. "My mother tell...

We model the search for volunteers as a war of attrition. Every player is tempted to wait for someone else to volunteer for the tasks. When tasks are not equivalent, it may be optimal to volunteer quickly to perform an easy task. We analyze the trade-off between volunteering for an easy task and taking the risk of having to perform a more strenuous task in order to get the chance of avoiding al...

The managerial aspects of studying factors student volunteering are considered in this article. role analyzing (individual, motivational, contextual etc.) allows for enhancing quality volunteers’ work, and attracting new members volunteer organizations. specific organization at the university is engagement activity processes education upbringing. In research, two methods were used: survey semi-...

Objective Given positive attitudes to volunteering are likely be associated with support for and individual participation, this study aimed develop test a 10-item ‘attitudes formal volunteering’ scale retired older adults that could used inform intervention efforts. Method A sample of 801 Australian retirees (62% female; mean age: 71.9 years) completed survey included the attitude scale, demogr...

48 university students similar to those used in experiments on sensory deprivation (SD) were surveyed to determine their knowledge about sensory deprivation, their acknowledged reasons for volunteering to be in sensory deprivation experiments, and their previous history of unusual appearing (SDlike) experiences. The responses indicated considerable knowledge of sensory deprivation, very "active...

OBJECTIVES We tested whether higher levels of social capital on college campuses protected against individual risks of binge drinking. METHODS We used a nationally representative survey of 17,592 young people enrolled at 140 4-year colleges. Social capital was operationalized as individuals' average time committed to volunteering in the past month aggregated to the campus level. RESULTS In ...