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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"aid work"”.
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Disaster Relief and Psychological First Aid
… tool for those involved in disaster relief and aid work. A review of the literature, mental health disorders, basic information about disasters, common stress reactions, and Psychological First Aid are included. Although Psychological First Aid has not really been systematically studied, it …
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Building bioinformatics solutions for biomarker identification
… and application of bioinformatics systems to aid work in the field of biomarker discovery and diagnostic test development. The aim of the work was to develop a flexible data storage and analysis platform that would be capable of housing and working with data from a variety of modern biomarker …
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Strategic relational communication in crisis : the humanitarian example
… was handled. The primary purpose of this work is to investigate communication cycles between aid organizations and the Haitian community, and to compare the effects on the execution of projects during and after the crisis. The objective is to gain entry into the psyche of both the helpless …
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Prediction of freshmen withdrawing from an emerging state university
… student characteristics, source of financial aid, work status and place of residence during student‘s freshman year. The statistical treatment of the data collected within this investigation required several techniques in determining its significance. An analysis of variance was employed to …
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Proselytizing Problem-Solving:The Religious and Secular Values of Engineering for Good
… need as they decide what it means to do their work well. These new humanitarians do not simply engage in pro bono efforts done for new users that cannot afford their traditional services. They are creating a new type of engineering to address newly recognized forms of need. Those involved in …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
… on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with everyday corruption in developing countries? In what ways are bribes condemned, excused, or justified? While aid workers may feel …
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Government Policies: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
… trade-theoretic model to examine if foreign aid discourages the recipient countries from pursuing trade liberalization. In the model, foreign aid is given to the recipient in period two and its amount is negatively related to the period-one real income. The recipient optimally chooses a …
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“Tutteli to Japan”: A case study of spontaneous collaboration in disaster response
… likeminded strangers on-the-ground to accomplish aid supply delivery. Unlike commonly seen in citizen response to disasters, this case did not start as an extension of pre-existing social group activities or an informal group of volunteers under the name of TTJ. Rather, the effort emerged from …
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Assessing marketing and aid strategies to stimulate economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
… management through hedging, and growth through aid—that could potentially facilitate growth in SSA. Since many SSA countries derive a considerable portion of their total export revenues and foreign exchange from the exports to highly volatile commodity markets, risk management strategies are …