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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Adoption model"”.
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Cloud computing adoption model for governments and large enterprises
… As it moves from being a buzz word and hype into adoption, organizations are faced with question of how to best adopt cloud. Existing frameworks of cloud adoption look at different aspects of cloud but stop short of taking a view of the complete spectrum and suggesting a path. Cloud Computing …
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An optimized electronic government services adoption model using structural equation and maximum attribute relative models
Electronic Government (e-gov) and its adoption plays an important role in assisting countries to provide their citizen with various services. However, the literature has shown that the adoption of current e-government services adoption model does not properly precise in fulfilling the user's …
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A Concerns-Based Adoption Model Study of University Instructors Engaged in Faculty Development for Enhancing Learning With Technology
… The study was grounded by the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), first proposed by Hall, Wallace, and Dossett in 1973. CBAM is a widely-used framework that allowed the researcher to assess faculty response to the innovation in three different ways: • concerns about the innovation (assessed …
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Analysis and calibration of social factors in a consumer acceptance and adoption model for diffusion of diesel vehicle in Europe
… ill understood. Analysis of an AFV transition model developed at MIT has revealed that AFV diffusion dynamics are particularly sensitive to consumer consideration as influenced by social exposure to AFVs. While some empirical research in this area exists, uncertainty regarding these social …
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Technology Adoption Within UK Retail Construction: An Analysis of the Technology Adoption Model (TAM) on Addressing Barriers Preventing Technology Adoption as a Solution to Productivity
… for its low productivity rates and its slow adoption of technologies. This thesis looked to analyse key barriers that are preventing UK Retail Construction organisations from successfully adopting new technologies, in order to find a resolution to the productivity issues faced by the sector. …
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Encouraging Diverse Instructional Practices through Teacher Self-reflection
… Questionnaire, part of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (Hord et al., 1987) as well as a questionnaire developed by the author will be used to assess teachers’ acceptance of the change. The questionnaires associated with the Concerns-Based Adoption Model are available for adaptation and …
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Teachers' concerns about integrative physical education: A cross-cultural comparison
… in the USA and Germany. The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) of Hall, Wallace, and Dossett (1973) provided the theoretical framework. Interview data were collected from 14 teachers in the USA and 16 teachers in Germany. Data were analyzed using grounded theory procedures. Findings …
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Elementary teachers' beliefs regarding the use of the Internet in K-5 classrooms and the impact on their teaching practices
… item Likert scale from the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM). Quantitative data was collected in the form of a paper/pencil survey and questionnaire. The selected literature review covered the use of the Internet in schools, teacher professional development, motivation, and the diffusion …
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Incentives for Adoption of Site -Specific Technologies Under Uncertainty: Economic and *Environmental Implications
… second part of the thesis develops a technology adoption model under uncertainty and risk aversion to examine the incentives for adoption of SSCM and its farm-level impacts. The theoretical model shows that ignoring the input availability uncertainty and risk preferences of farmers results in …
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The impact of technical barriers on the effectiveness of professional development as related to a distance education system-based course: A case study in the Web World Wonders environmental science learning community.
… as stated above. Using the Concept Based Adoption Model, a description of the teacher's demographics, Levels of Use and Stages of Concern with relation to gender, age, teaching experience, and technological experience was examined. Technical barriers were identified and an explanation of …
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Privacy in context : the costs and benefits of a new deidentification method
… operations. I construct a technology adoption model and investigate if a for-profit health insurer could use deidentified data for key internal software quality management applications. If privacy-related data are analyzed without rigor, little support is found to incorporate more …
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Big data fusion to estimate driving adoption behavior and urban fuel consumption
… travel demand and computes fuel consumption. The model is calibrated for application on any range of car fuel efficiency and combined with other sources of data to produce urban fuel consumption estimates for the city of Riyadh as an application. Targeted traffic congestion reduction strategies …
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Influence of the abolition of corporal punishment on the management of teaching and learning in secondary schools in the uMlazi District, KwaZulu-Natal
… The study was underpinned by the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), theory and used an interpretivist paradigm with an exploratory research design. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed several themes, including the deterioration of discipline, lack of …
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The Adoption of Low Impact Development by Local Governments
… institutional, and regulatory barriers to LID adoption. The research questions for this study are: What constitutes LID adoption? Why do localities adopt LID? What are the major factors that influenced the level of LID adoption by local governments? Specifically, this study focused on …
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A comparison of alternative technology adoption models : the adoption of a CASE tool at a university
… be able to measure, as well as anticipate, the adoption and diffusion of these new technologies into organisations. For this purpose adoption models came to the fore. Such models include the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) (Davis, 1989), the Technology Acceptance Model 2 (T AM2) (Venkatesh & …
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Peruvian Food Insecurity in The Face of Recurrent Natural Disasters: A Two-Step Adoption Analysis for Improved Potato Varieties
… used to identify specific constraints to their adoption and dis-adoption. The assessment focused on a two-step adoption model, adoption and dis-adoption, by utilizing a Heckman Probit model to demonstrate two-steps of the adoption process. The Heckman Probit model was used to analyze variables …
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Implementing Walkthroughs: One School's Journey
… focus group interviews, the Concerns Based Adoption Model Stages of Concern Questionnaire, and documents. Findings suggest that classroom walkthroughs work best in school climates that have an established level of trust between administrators and teachers. Walkthroughs, with classroom …
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Implementing Powerful Geography: Analysis and Assessment of Teacher and Student Reactions and Experiences
… Action Research Method and the Concerns-Based Adoption Model to collect qualitative data to measure, analyze, and assess the reaction of teachers to the Powerful Geography framework before, during, and after implementation of this research-based teaching innovation. This project, which was …
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Organizational challenges in cloud adoption and enablers of cloud transition program
… the different factors that influence cloud adoption using the system dynamics approach. A set of causal loops that demonstrates the relationship between the different factors has been developed. The effects of these loops have then been aggregated and an abstracted version of an adoption …
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Effective Search in Online Knowledge Communities: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
… the two major factors affecting user knowledge adoption decision: argument quality and source credibility. We then design a customized Genetic Algorithm to adjust the weights for new features we proposed. We compared the performance of our ranking strategy with several others baselines on a real …
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