Volunteer administrators from 105 hospitals in five states in the northeast and southern United States provided open-ended survey responses about what they perceived to be the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing healthcare volunteer management. Taken together, these 105 hospitals used a total of 39,008 volunteers and 5.3 million volunteer hours during a 12-month period between 201...

as alterations to the patient's home. While medical rehabilitation is primarily the responsibility of the hospital team, many other people may be involved-in particular, the patient's general practitioner and the staff of voluntary organizations, local authorities, and Ministry of Health limb-fitting and appliance centres. The object of industrial rehabilitation is to find jobs for disabled wor...

Project Bayanihan seeks to develop the idea of volunteer computing , which allows people to very easily pool together their computers' processing power and cooperate in solving parallel problems. While the idea of volunteer computing o ers many exciting new prospects in global supercomputing and collaboration, its realization involves many challenging research issues that need to be addressed. ...

This paper presents the works done by several research groups from University of Extremadura and CETA-CIEMAT (Centro Extremeño de Tecnoloǵıas Avanzadas) in order to deploy an infrastructure for distributed computing over Secondary School computing resources at Extremadura (Spain). To achieve the highest levels of performance, some tests have been developed. From small proofs of concepts with a ...

The paper presents a new, cost effective, volunteer computing based platform. It utilizes volunteers’ web browsers as computational nodes. The computational tasks are delegated to the browsers and executed in the background (independently of any user interface scripts) making use of the HTML5 web workers technology. The capabilities of the platform have been proved by experiments performed in a...

Cloud has emerged as a new computing paradigm that promises to move into computing-as-utility era. Desktop Cloud is a new type of Cloud computing. It merges two computing models: Cloud computing and volunteer computing. The aim of Desktop Cloud is to provide Cloud services out of infrastructure that is not made for this purpose in order to reduce running and maintenance costs. This paper discus...

Although numerous theories suggest that voluntary organizations contribute to lower crime rates in neighborhoods, the evidence for this proposition is weak. Consequently, we propose a dynamic perspective for understanding the relationship between voluntary organizations and neighborhood crime that involves longitudinal analyses and the measurement of the age of organizations. By using longitudi...

The presence of volunteer potato Solanum tuberosum L., cutleaf nightshade, S. triflorum N., and hairy nightshade, S. physalifolium Rusby (Solanales: Solanaceae), throughout potato crop rotations can diminish the effectiveness of crop rotations designed to control disease and pest problems associated with growing potatoes. In greenhouse bioassays, larvae of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotar...

Glyphosate-resistant (GR) volunteer corn is a significant problem weed in soybean grown in rotation with corn in the midwestern United States and eastern Canada. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of glufosinate applied in single or sequential applications compared with acetylcoenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase) inhibitors applied alone or tank mixed with glufosinate for contro...

The introduction of Java by Sun Microsystems, and the recent explosive growth of interest in platform-independent executable content on the WorldWide Web , has opened exciting new possibilites in parallel computing. This paper proposes the idea of volunteer computing , which aims to allow people from anywhere in the world to volunteer their computers' processing power towards solving a large pa...