VOLUNTARY AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
nonprofit groups supported entirely or partly by public donations and committed to the restructuring of public wellbeing or social welfare…
VOLUNTEERISM
noun. the custom of lending one's time and effort to acts which add to a positive goal.
VOLUNTEER BIAS
any step-by-step variation between involved parties who volunteer to be in an analysis in contrast to those who don't.
VON FREY SPECIFICITY THEORY
a nineteenth-century theory, now highly controversial, which tried to describe feelings of coldness, contact, warmth, and pain by connecting them…
VOICE-STRESS ANALYZER
an tool which identifies minute alterations in the voice, that the human ear cannot hear, which supposedly happen whenever an…
VON RECKLINGHAUSEN'S DISEASE
an autosomal dominant genetic disorder wherein the typical anomalies are pigmented spots on the skin and tumors of the PNS.…
VON RESTORFF EFFECT
a memory-procedure theory postulating that an object which is different from others within a sequence will be recalled more than…
VULVECTOMY
noun. the surgical removal of all or a portion of the vulva . A vulvectomy is carried out as a…
VOODOO DEATH
a culturally-bound syndrome viewed in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific islands, Haiti, and Australia. A person who has went against a…
WAITING-LIST CONTROL GROUP
a management group, generally randomized, which will be recipient to the identical intervention chosen to the experimental groups but at…
VOLUNTARY TURNOVER
the amount of workers who leave an establishment or unit voluntarily during a chosen time frame, generally to fill a…
WAGE COMPRESSION
the propensity for the space in salaries between permanent workers and the newly hired to thin as the rate of…