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The Adoption and Diffusion of Level Fields and Basins
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1999 Strategic investments in agriculture often are lumpy and irreversible, with significant impacts on operating and fixed costs. Leveling cotton fields to zero slope in central Arizona is a strategic decision made by relatively younger farmers who are ...
David P. Anderson +2 more
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Cross-cultural influence on diffusion and adoption of innovation: An exploratory case study to investigate the social-cultural barriers [PDF]
, 2011 The development of science and technology increasing rapidly; in many cases advantageous innovations find obstacles for their establishment and in some others they simply fail. The authors of this paper demonstrate that the reason this may happen, is not
Ali, M, Deligiannaki, A
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Broadband adoption by SMES [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Because the benefits of broadband for businesses have been widely publicized, the UK government has tried to ensure that there is a wide and fast take-up of
Oni, Oluwasola
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Diffusion and adoption of the surgical robot in urology [PDF]
Translational Andrology and Urology, 2021 Over the last two decades, robotic surgery has become a mainstay in hospital systems around the world. Leading this charge has been Intuitive Surgical Inc.'s da Vinci robotic system (Sunnyvale, CA, USA). Through its innovative technology and unique revenue model, Intuitive has installed 4,986 robotic surgical systems worldwide in the last two decades ...
Shah, Anup A. +4 more
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Modeling adoptions and the stages of the diffusion of innovations [PDF]
Knowledge and Information Systems, 2014 Understanding the dynamics underlying the diffusion of new ideas or technology in a society is an important task with implications for sciences such sociology and economics, as well as important business applications, especially in marketing. In this article, we take a first step in this direction, by studying the problem of how to model, in a simple ...
Yasir Mehmood 0002 +2 more
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Adoption and Diffusion of Agroecological Practices in the Horticulture of Catalonia [PDF]
Agronomy, 2021 The environmental impact of conventional food production systems imposes a rapid transition towards sustainable production systems through the adoption of agroecological practices. The barriers and accelerators of the adoption of agroecological practices were identified for horticultural crops in Catalonia.
Polonio Punzano, Adrián +2 more
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Diffusion as a Process of Creative Adoption [PDF]
The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2006 This paper elaborates an integrated framework for understanding diffusion as a process of creative adoptions in the business sector. Within the context of the economics of localized technological change, adoption is viewed as a complementary component of a broader process of adjusting the technology when unexpected events in the product and factor ...
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Introduction to IT Adoption, Diffusion, and Evaluation in Healthcare Minitrack [PDF]
2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014 Adoption, implementation, and evaluation of information technology (IT) in healthcare continue to challenge organizations and society, as well as researchers. This mini-track addresses these Health IT topics within the framework of 1) EHR and PHR; 2) adoption resistance and attitudes; 3) health information exchanges; 4) HIT use; and 5) teleservices.
Leigh W. Cellucci +3 more
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Instilling purpose and value in the implementation of digital badges in higher education
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2019 This qualitative multi-case study examined digital badge programs being used at three higher education institutions, at the course level, the department level, and the university level.
Jill Stefaniak, Kimberly Carey
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Wearables
, 2019 Although the sales of wearables are increasing in the last few years, it is still unknown how wearables are actually adopted and being used in everyday life by consumers. In this study, we try to identify the adoption and diffusion patterns of wearables by performing a sentiment analysis on 97 semi-structured interviews with wearables owners/users ...
Spil, Ton A.M. +2 more
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