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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Early Adopters"”.
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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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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
… into 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 …
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Personal Factors in the Success of Early Adopters of a Major Technology: Faculty Experiences With Interactive Video Teaching
… logs 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 …
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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 …
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Leveraging the Indie movement in wellness through a waitlist aggregator
… competition and startups need to stand out, the early stages are critical. They seek to generate leads and assess customer expectations through a landing page they host on their own domains, where users can join a waitlist to test their product idea. This can become expensive in terms of budget …
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Competitive determinants of technology diffusion in the wood household furniture industry
… as 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 …
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Empirical Analysis of StratSoy Use: Changes in Uses and Users Over Time Using Statistics From the Web Site
… use of the StratSoy site. Academic users are the early adopters for most uses of the site. In addition to documenting the adoption of a web site, the dissertation demonstrated the use of a new type of data, server logs, in investigating the adoption and diffusion of the Internet.
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Creative Construction : the capacity for environmental innovation in real estate development firms
… The small firms who have been leading adopters are likely to utilize alternative financing arrangements with at least some investors that give the developer or the investor a longer-term stake in the project. 2) Early adopters of environmental innovation have moved away from price …
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IS Success Model for Evaluating Cloud Computing for Small Business Benefit: A Quantitative Study
… of technology effectiveness for a business. Early adopters of a new technology are a rich resource to determine benefits for later adopters, and this is true for those businesses looking to implement cloud computing. This is critically important for small businesses. Cloud computing is …
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A success story in shifting the paradigm together : partnership between service and education in building an onsite clinical nurse leader program
… campus classroom setting. Nursing programs were early adopters of distance learning technologies, from the first two-way audio, one-way video classes, to satellite, two-way video classes to the recent proliferation of web-based programs. However, an innovative alternative is proposed - bringing …
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An investigation into the initial adoption of e-learning innovation in teaching and learning: the case of Makerere University
… that the enormous amount of experiences that early adopters and innovators could share regarding e-learning could assist as e-learning becomes more of a mainstream activity within the university.
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Building trust in mobile commerce: a technical report presented to the Department of Information Systems, University of Cape Town
… and risk issues on a population of potential 'early adopters'. The study provides several interesting findings. The study determined that personal characteristics significantly influence the perceived trustworthiness of the vendor, technology and the institutional framework. It was further …
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Business Development and Commercialization of UroSense™.
… and are important indicators to facilitate early treatment and diagnosis. UroSense™ is an advanced urological system that is also equipped with programmable alarms that trigger when the urine bottle is full thus serving as a warning system to caregivers. Future Path Medical has targeted the …
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Nationalism-as-Technology and Peace in Europe, 1815-1914
… attempted continental conquest. Later on, other "early-adopters" also employed nationalism to take land from their neighbors. Sardinia, for instance, used Italian nationalism to build volunteer armies and fight Austria for control of northern Italy in 1859. But the early adopters were then …
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The supply and demand of wine-on-tap in the United States: An examination of perceptions and experiences
… study was to investigate the perceptions and early experiences associated with a recent trend in the United States' foodservice and wine industry: wine-on-tap. Three study populations were investigated: wine consumers, restaurant and winery professionals. Contrary to expectations driven by …
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RFID : ROI opportunities after the sunk cost
… financial model that positive value exists for early adopters of RFID technology.
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Early adoption of accounting standards in the banking industry
… whether U.S. bank holding companies choose early adoption of accounting standards to better access external financing. Both economic intuition and theories suggest that banks are motivated to take measures such as information disclosure to better access capital markets. Examining accounting …
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Value chain dynamics in the RFID technology
… making mass scale adoption a reality. The early adopters were found to be in the retail supply chain industry followed by many interesting applications in areas ranging from Fish Tracking to authentication of currency notes. Projects implemented till 2006 were mainly pilot in nature with a …
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Publishing the confidential: an ethnographic study of young Irish bloggers
… to social network sites, young people have been early adopters of all forms of Web 2.0 communication. Diary-style blogs have been one of the tools they have used as outlets for creativity and communication, whilst simultaneously bringing into a public forum a genre which was inherently private. …
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