Motivations of cybervolunteers in an applied distributed computing environment: MalariaControl.net as an example

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Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Krebs, Viola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77953567896     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v15i2.2783     Document Type: Article

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