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Although focused on social services, this also provides useful material, from a user's perspective, on health services and voluntary organisations.
Recovery of voluntary motion in the upper extremity following hemiplegia.
The discrepancy between apparent need and service provision is currently covered by family and spousal support and by voluntary services.
Participation in the activities offered, of course, is voluntary.
Her methodology is qualitative documentary analysis, drawing principally on municipal reports and committee minutes, and also some voluntary sector records.
Because segmentalist behavior is voluntary, no external agency is necessary to enforce it.
In classical political economy, voluntary arrangements to fix prices and restrict competition were part of a citizen's broader right to contract.
The commissioning group facilitated bids from the voluntary sector, linking them to academic units.
Instead, directives would rely on essential requirements2 and the use of voluntary standards.
In some instances, the programs involve professional organizations, voluntary associations, and workplaces.
Danish health authorities have now decided to introduce economic evaluation of new pharmaceutical products on a voluntary basis for 2 or 3 years.
Thus, the fixational subsystem can exhibit improved voluntary control despite chronic visual deprivation.
Unable and unwilling to rely on an urban treatment network, voluntary providers turned their backs on the city.
First, it is important to recognise that, compared with the whole voluntary sector, the field of social services is among the smallest.
There is clearly scope for partnership development of equity release schemes bringing together central government, local government, the voluntary sector and the private sector.
Under the voluntary license solution, countries can negotiate with patent holders to manufacture their branded and patented products locally.
There are no precise thresholds to determine when a choice is voluntary enough, for instance, to be granted immunity from state interference.
To implement their decisions they needed either voluntary cooperation on the part of other officials or an imperial edict to force the issue.
Four different phases of voluntary-state relationships are identified.
Voluntary group members tended to perceive local authority officers as more highly qualified and of higher status than themselves.
Symposium of factors influencing the voluntary intake of herbage by ruminants: voluntary intake in relation to chemical composition and digestibility.
Similarly, the conclusion reads more like a reprise than a true coming together of their thesis about leadership and its applicability to voluntary organisations.
The recluse has been through lots of counseling, and there are no grounds for thinking him incompetent or his choice less than sufficiently voluntary.
We have argued that the period from the beginning of the 1980s and onwards represents another turn in the voluntary-statutory relationship.
The decentralized actors entered a voluntary agreement before the actual legislation.
From the beginning of the 1980s ideas began to flourish which attributed positive qualities to voluntary organisations.
Participation was voluntary and had been approved by the school committee.
Where the standards were unclear, gover nment officials faced the dilemma of how to ground the political justification for authoritative direction of private voluntary relationships.
In the realm of private autonomy, the rules of law imply a definition of what counts as 'voluntary', a definition that can be adjudicated.
In this example, it cannot be said if the gifts were compulsory, recommended, or completely voluntary.
A fully voluntary choice is thought to represent faithfully the agent's stable values and attitudes and desires.
Voluntary transfer refers to the process by which policy-makers freely choose to adopt policies or practices from another place or time.
The third-sector-dominant model in which voluntary organisations play the dominant role in both the financing and provision of services.
By contrasting the two experiences, it demonstrates that a successful tax policy relies to a significant extent on the population's degree of voluntary tax compliance.
In addition to this, the communal regime and voluntary poverty had an impact on the convent's economic welfare.
The authors set themselves the difficult tasks of addressing a broad audience of academics, policy-makers, mortgage lenders, housing associations, the voluntary sector and pressure groups.
Possible neural mechanisms underpinning difficulties in triggering inhibitory responses and in the voluntary initiation of actions in schizophrenia are considered.
The 1780s and early 1790s, therefore, increasingly seemed a brief interlude during which voluntary emancipation had once appeared to be a real possibility.
Ultimately, utilising an accreditation scheme, as a secondary or supplemental regulatory instrument to an established policy regime, would safeguard against voluntary industry dominated regulation.
Voluntary guidelines set by advertising regulators could be a catalyst for change, and have been seen to work.
He also recommends that responsibility for large areas of social provision should be transferred from the state to the voluntary sector.
In chapter six the authors report on local authority and voluntary sector responses to homelessness in rural areas.
There, he had created voluntary guilds to alleviate the artisan's distress due to the introduction of freedom of trade.
The work of accommodation agency services in some voluntary organisations, assisted by funding from government, provides the clearest example of market efficiency approaches.
Participants were purposively selected with assistance from locally based voluntary sector projects working with people with multiple problems and needs.
Furthermore, the existence of a developed system of state welfare does not preclude, and indeed may promote, a vibrant voluntary sector.
While the notions of voluntary and coercive policy transfer highlight extremes, the process of policy transfer is unlikely to be exclusively one or the other.
A quarter are involved in a civic group (most commonly a residents' association, political party or voluntary organisation).
Voluntary agencies were not independent and self-determined actors, but were legitimised by government only in so far as they acknowledged their subservient position.
The government also became the major financer of the voluntary agencies, which provided 80 per cent of the social services in the colony.
Within this climate, the inherent tension for voluntary and/or non-statutory drug agencies involved in policy making has clearly created ethical dilemmas.
Similar problems were reported with obtaining information from social services, housing and voluntary agencies.
The views of statutory and voluntary agencies working in this field were also sought.
Although available to all volunteers who have expenses, in practice honorary executives of voluntary agencies are those most likely to receive the payment.
Consider its application when appraising policy to increase welfare state spending; will this always crowd out voluntary charitable giving?
In addition to foreign trade incentives and constraints over compliance, a net voluntary measure could be improved by including the effect of withholding.
Potential participants were invited to attend interviews, and participation was voluntary.
There is a wealth of evidence suggesting that condensed tannins in plants influence the voluntary feed intake, palatability and digestibility of the fodder2,4,5.
In the new sample, nine homes were local-authority managed establishments while 22 were from the private and voluntary corporate organisations.
Under a system of voluntary disclosure, the non-credibility of a statement of ignorance creates the incentive to acquire and disclose genetic test results.
Creative approaches to funding the cost of accommodation, meals and transport should be explored by local authorities, home managers and voluntary organisations.
Voluntary management committees play an important role in connecting the organisation to local people and keeping in touch with local views and needs.
Institutions of civil society, including trade unions, churches and voluntary associations, were also intimately involved in the development of the administration of the welfare state.
He defines the heterogeneous products as interventionist products that protect defined interests and/or supersede voluntary transactions.
However, both civil servants and representatives of the voluntary sector appeared reluctant to criticise the new government's proposals for the revised strategy.
Notions of voluntary ef fort, social capital and communitarianism are prominent.
Ideally, villages had to be set up and run by the villagers themselves on a voluntary basis, without interference from outside and above.
They sought to simplify the tax structure to ensure voluntary compliance.
Voluntary transfer can be sought by an individual official, as a protest.
What is of relevance, instead, is the ongoing voluntary acceptance of the club's constitution by its current members.
The list of nominees shows that most had extensive experience of voluntary work, in political organizations, local government, or philanthropic activity.
The voluntary system had given them considerable authority for regulating the conditions of working life.
The cultivation and expression of moderate anger was seen as a voluntary act : a person chose to enflame or dampen the feeling.
Voluntary and public, as well as private, sector organisations are now expected to be 'business-like'.
While this work adds considerably to our understanding of the changing role of the voluntary welfare sector, these accounts are largely aspatial.
The changing relationship between the state and the market and the consequences for voluntary action in housing are central concerns of this article.
Besides, recent empirical research calls for further investigation of the actual strength of the voluntary sector in combating social problems.
Families brought their children to the clinic for health checks and immunizations on a voluntary basis.
All cattle farmers on the island participated in this study on a voluntary basis.
In this context, the way in which we are relevantly like others is just our capacity for voluntary, self-regarding choice.
Consequently, the diversification of economic and political relations within a more liberal development model has required voluntary cooperation between private and state actors.
In voluntary manumissions women clearly predominated, though not as excessively as some have assumed.
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