BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The key to HIV/STI control is community-wide intervention (CWI) which depends heavily on continuous monitoring and evaluation. Unfortunately, comprehensive CWI assessment methodology and reports are generally lacking. This study developed, applied, and evaluated a rapid tool for assessing CWI in China. METHODS A total of 120 county level respondents in charge of county-w...

Much charitable giving takes place in the context of existing social groups (workplaces, churches, friends and family). We exploit a real-world setting (online fundraising) to provide the first evidence on how the size of the social group affects donations. We show that the number of Facebook friends of individual charity fundraisers has a negative effect on average donation size. This is consi...

We analyze group-voting on binding minimum contributions to environmental projects and assess how such institutions affect subsequent voluntary donations. Mature tourism destinations such as the island of Majorca (Spain) suffer environmental pressures caused by decades of intense tourism development, reducing the environmental quality and tourism appeal of the island. Financed from the local ta...

This paper examines the changing methods, underlying motives, clienteles and controversy surrounding posthumous commemorations of Lord Lister in Britain. The importance of the commemorations for professional identity formation continues throughout the twentieth century, but World War I appears as a turning point. The constituencies commemorating Lister change from broadly international, nationa...

INTRODUCTION Definition The funding of projects by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people via the Internet through virtual platforms is known as crowdfunding. It is also known as crowd financing, equity crowdfunding or crowd-sourced fundraising. A t p r e s e n t , i t i s b e c o m i n g consolidated as a source to get funds to finance ventures without access to trad...

Management sometimes exploits the quest of shareholders for higher return on equity capital, by taking advantage of accounting rules gaps or violating them. The Beneish earnings detection manipulation model, is an attempt to reveal such illegal or at least unethical practices. Evidence regarding the use of “creative” accounting practices, based on that model, during the massive equity fund rais...

In pedagogic literature informed by critical disability studies, academia is widely cited as an ableist institution: the training ground for professions of normalcy. Music therapy could readily be complicit in this normalising discourse with its potential to pathologise participants and maintain a strict ‘normative divide’, between professionals it trains who engage provision. Activists, advoca...