OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop an in-depth understanding of healthy volunteers' experiences of mental health trials. METHODS A qualitative study was nested within a healthy volunteer placebo-controlled trial of duloxetine, a psychotropic drug used for treating patients with major depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Eight participants were interviewed, and data w...

Cross-cultural effects on neuropsychological and cognitive test performance may mean that normative data obtained from North American and European samples do not apply to the South African population. There is a need for normative studies on the South African population in order to effectively test individuals on, for instance, neuropsychological tests such as those used to identify Alzheimer’s...

Volunteer Computing is a low cost and easy deployable solution for scientific projects that require large amounts of computational power. Volunteer computing public access capabilities comes with several security threats to the projects, thus, this projects must be designed and focused towards security in order to be able to stand against this threats. The following paper presents a summary of ...

Between about 1964 and 1969, drug consumption was embedded into the transnational networks of a countercultural youth underground. In London, the high mobility of the underground members was evoking a deep-rooted fear of a casual way of life. The West Berlin underground was much more politicized than its London counterpart. In West Berlin, until the last third of the 1970s, there was no coordin...

Understanding volunteer motives is especially important today. This article describes five unique motivations to volunteer. Written by Kimberly Wiley, Chelsea DeMasters, Colin Dobbins, and Caroline Casola, published the UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth Community Sciences, May 2023.

Background In vivo Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging (cDTI) has great potential to depict the microstructure of the myocardium, with Mean Diffusivity (MD), Fractional Anisotropy (FA), and Helix Angle (HA) maps. Quantitative analysis of these parameters might help disease diagnosis, however HA is particularly difficult to quantify as it varies across the myocardial wall. To overcome this, we deve...

Objective(s):Human cytomegalovirus (CMV), a double-strand DNA herpesvirus, can be transmitted via blood transfusion which is especially important for immunocompromised recipients and can cause a fatal infection. CMV seroprevalence in Iran was studied on blood donors, healthy subjects, and some patients. Highly variable rates were detected. The purpose of this study was to review CMV seroprevale...

Globally, health worker shortages continue to plague developing countries. Community health workers are increasingly being promoted to extend primary health care to underserved populations. Since 2004, Healthy Child Uganda (HCU) has trained volunteer community health workers in child health promotion in rural southwest Uganda. This study analyses the retention and motivation of volunteer commun...