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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"Adopters"”.
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Energy-efficient, innovative housing: a comparison of probable adopters and nonadopters
… analysis. Findings indicated that probable adopters of the housing alternatives were usually younger, had more education, were in the earlier stages of the family life cycle, believed in the energy crisis, believed the energy situation had impacted housing decisions, had attempted to reduce …
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Beyond the Early Adopters: Examining the potential for car-sharing in Richmond, Virginia
Car-sharing is a membership-based mobility service that offers short-term vehicle rentals. Studies have shown that car-sharing can increase transportation sustainability by encouraging the use of public transit and reducing vehicle miles traveled. This thesis examines the potential for car-sharing …
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RFID implementations : business process and technology lessons learned, recommendations and best practices for new adopters
This thesis focuses on documenting learnings from a RFID data exchange pilot in the fast moving consumer goods industry. The pilot we studied is a collaborative effort between two of the largest retailers in the world and five of their major suppliers, facilitated by EPCglobal and the MIT Auto-ID …
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Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations: The francophone case
… of francophone translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of planned lexical innovations promoted by the French government. The two major research questions were: (a) whether there are relationships between sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and socioprofessional variables and reported …
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A Framework for Adoption of Challenges and Prizes in US Federal Agencies: A Study of Early Adopters
<p>In recent years we have witnessed a shift in the innovation landscape of organizations from closed to more open models embracing solutions from the outside. Widespread use of the internet and web 2.0 technologies have made it easier for organizations to connect with their clients, service …
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An Analysis of the Financial Reporting Quality of Early Adopters of Accounting Standards Update, ASU 2016-02
… the financial reporting quality of the early adopters of Accounting Standards Update on Leases, ASU 2016-02. Methodology modeled after an event study on clawback provisions conducted by Dehaan, Hodge, and Shelvin (2013) aids in the development of the hypothesis and matched-sample event study …
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Personal Factors in the Success of Early Adopters of a Major Technology: Faculty Experiences With Interactive Video Teaching
… to generate data from three successful early adopters. This study revealed that these instructors were motivated to use technology in teaching to provide access to students, and to engage in professionalization through self-directed learning. Successful technology-enabled teaching went beyond …
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Insects as a Sustainable Food Ingredient – Utilization of Carrot Pomace, Identification of Early Adopters, and Evaluation of Mealworm Acceptability
… composition, 2) identify and classify early adopters of insects, and propose a product form, and 3) assess the acceptability of frozen, ready-to-cook mealworms with early adopters.</p> <p>A response surface design was used to evaluate the use of carrot pomace in various percentages in the …
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Genetics and genomics in nursing.: What are the characteristics of genetic nurse adopters and nurse opinion leaders in genetics and genomics?
… utilising genetics/genomics in their practice (adopters) and nurses who may lead the way and encourage others (opinion leaders) to do likewise. Identifying the characteristics of such adopters and opinion leaders within nursing may provide useful information for more wide-scale detection of …
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Investigating faculty-based communities of practice for technology-augmented pedagogical practices at Eduardo Mondlane University: A case of innovators and adopters
… to adopt them. Lecturers (innovators and adopters: early adopters and late majority adopters) who participated in the four workshops on EdTech professional development, reported instances of innovators exhibiting peer leadership in group-learning activities during the workshops. The CoPs …
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Compensation Choice - The Effect on Firm Performance: An Interindustry Look at Performance Plans and Restricted Stock
… change is analyzed pre and post adoption for adopters; these adopters are then compared to non-adopters and to non-adopting peers. Data were gathered from COMPUSTAT and analyzed using four statistical methods; ttests, analysis of variance, multivariate analysis of variance and analysis of …
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Adoption and Impacts of IPM for Cambodian Rice Farmers
… Extent of adoption and characteristics of adopters are discovered. Farmers are considered high adopters of IPM if they used two non-pesticide or minimal-pesticide practices to control rice insect, disease, weed, or rodent pests in the last twelve months; farmers are considered low adopters …
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Perceived attributes of diffusion of innovation theory as predictors of Internet adoption among faculty members of Imam Mohammed Bin Saud University.
… in demographic characteristics of Internet adopters and non-adopters among faculty members at IMSU, examined whether faculty members' perceptions of the Internet affected adoption, determined if the university administration's decisions impacted faulty members' decisions to adopt the …
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Distributional effects of net metering policies and residential solar plus behind-the-meter storage adoption
… (DER), could be regressive, given that DER adopters in the U.S. are wealthier on average than non-adopters and due to the possibility that DER owners shift certain costs onto passive customers. By using a dataset containing close to 100,000 customers' half-hourly load data and income …
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Accounting for self-selection bias in assessing impacts of agricultural innovations : the case of farmer support programs in the Eastern Cape
… the two farmer types. The results show that FSP adopters had relatively higher TE scores, with over 50% having scores of above 70%. However, a t-test for equality of mean TE scores revealed no statistically significant differences between them (t=-1.3969, p=0.1662), suggesting that the FSPs …
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The Adoption of Disabled Children
… for adoption, as well as the narratives of those adopters who take on disabled child. The findings reveal that social workers often take a tentative approach to placing a disabled child, which impacts upon adoption outcomes, both in the way they represent disabled children and in the way they …
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Competitive determinants of technology diffusion in the wood household furniture industry
… well as, characteristics of innovators or early adopters within the industry. The results provide both insight into the technological direction of this industry and factors influencing the adoption of innovations by industrial organizations. The U.S. wood household furniture industry was surveyed …
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How network structure impacts socially reinforced diffusion?
… choices that depend on the number of prior adopters. What is the effect of network structure on such adoption dynamics? The emerging consensus holds that when agents require a high reinforcement threshold for adoption, clustered networks are better conduits of social contagion than random …
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