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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Willingness to Adopt"”.
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Horticultural Producers' Willingness to Adopt Water Recycling Technology in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Water-recycling technologies have been developed to reduce water consumption and surface runoff in horticultural operations. However, WRT may increase risk of disease from water-borne pathogens such as Pythium and Phytophthora. More information is needed about producers' management practices and …
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Greenhouse growers’ willingness to adopt integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM) strategies in Lebanon
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Community College Faculty Perceptions and Use of Pedagogical Translanguaging in the Academic ESL Classroom
… for decades. While these students aspire to eventual matriculation into an academic or vocational program, the vast majority will fall victim to attrition. The time has come for administrators and faculty leaders to reject the status quo and advocate for programmatic changes that have …
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Improving employee adopting of ERP by reducing employees' perceived risks through training
… ERP implementation has been one of the key topics that have been discussed by management and ICT researchers. Whilst it has led to an abundance of information and knowledge on the subject, there remain some dark corners which still need to be studied in detail. The lack of attention on these …
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Determinants of Future sUAS Adoption: An Empirical Analysis of Organizational and Behavioral Factors Within the Commercial Aviation Maintenance Enterprise
<p>The adoption of small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) represents a significant technological shift within the commercial aviation maintenance enterprise, offering the potential to improve inspection accuracy, enhance operational efficiency, and reduce maintenance-related risk. Despite these …
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Enhancing Telehealth Use To Reduce No-Shows in a Rural Arizona Outpatient Clinic
… perceptions of telemedicine as a strategy to reduce no-show rates at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The project examined whether a brief educational session could improve provider understanding and willingness to use telehealth. Background: Patients missing appointments …
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Fashion: Hedonic vs. utilitarian: A study of fit issues of women’s ready to wear and an examination of the technology acceptance model for consumer adoption of 3D body scanning for improved fit of denim
… exposes the problems women face in the ready to wear (RTW) apparel sizing system and also investigates the idea that 3D body scanning technology can be used to eliminate ill-fitting apparel for consumers, in this case denim pants (jeans). In order to investigate why consumers have not yet …
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Conservation Awareness and Public Knowledge of the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) on Vancouver Island, Canada
… as longer‑term residents are more likely to develop emotional and cognitive bonds with local ecosystems. Results supported this prediction: longer‑term residents distinguished ecotypes, identified SRKWs, and recognized their spatial distribution more accurately. Stressors such as salmon …
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Designing Mnemonics Serious Games to Promote Knowledge Retention in Memory-Intensive Courses
… difficulty of memory-intensive courses due to many factors necessitates using technological tools to promote retrieval practice and long-term learning. Hence, a mnemonics game, based on the RADAR framework proposed by Oyibo, was implemented to foster knowledge retention. Fifty-two students, …
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Understanding Potential Agricultural Owner-Operator And Tenant Adoption Of Saturated Buffers In Elm Creek Watershed, Minnesota
… agricultural best management practice that aims to redirect nitrogen laden subsurface tile water into a buffer area to promote denitrification, thus reducing excess nutrients in nearby water bodies This study explores factors that influence adoption of this emerging tool. 20 agricultural …
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Risk Aversion and Adoption of Conservation Agriculture Practices in Eastern Uganda
Many poor farmers, especially in Africa, have not adopted recent farming innovations to improve their yields. One theory is that poor farmers are risk averse and therefore do not invest in high risk high return innovations and that risk averse farmers will only adopt larger innovations if they …
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IoT at Amgen - Evaluating and Piloting Industry 4.0 Technology in Biomanufacturing
… namely, networks of wireless sensors and actuators- in industrial manufacturing processes. While Industry 4.0 purports to usher in the next generation of smart factories, traditional manufacturing facilities may also stand to benefit by selectively adopting IoT technology to augment mature …
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Building integrated photovoltaics in Ghana: aesthetics and policy.
Buildings are known to account for over 40% of CO2 emissions globally, a number which is likely to increase if no feasible interventions are adopted. One sure way is the adoption of advanced solar applications such as building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), intending to make buildings energy …
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Human-nature relationships and nutrient management practices of Illinois farmers
… relationships are the way in which people relate to nature. Although this relationship has been extensively theorized, systematic and empirical investigations are numbered. This study of Illinois farmers builds upon the existing typological approaches with a novel framework and unexplored …
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Promoting sustainable waste management in urban Malta : a composting programme for apartment complex living
… particularly in reducing organic waste sent to landfill. This dissertation explores adult learning and behavioural dimensions influencing household organic waste composting among apartment residents in Malta. Grounded in Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory and Ajzen’s Theory of Planned …
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Market prospects for wood products certified for forest management and/or legality in Japan
… of the wood entering the country is destined to Japan’s house building industry. However, Japan has been an indifferent market regarding demand of wood products certified for sustainable forest management. Current pressures that may indicate a shift in market conditions include: the recent …
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A Study On Employee’s Intention To Adopt Green Practices At The Workplace In The Context Of The Hotel Industry
This study aims to examine the effect of organisational commitment and employee’s pro-environmental behaviour at home on their intention to adopt green practices at the workplace in the context of hotel industry, by taking the theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework. Hotel employees …
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Enforcing Global Strategies in Subsidiaries of Highly Decentralized Multinational Corporations. The Role of International Sales Managers
… of subsidiaries of multinational corporations to global coordination efforts by their headquarters is an important contemporary research subject in the field of international business studies. This case study of sales and marketing organizations in five international subsidiaries of a highly …
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Exploring teachers' perceptions of student motivation to learn through digital game-based learning integration in K–5 classrooms : a qualitative descriptive single case study.
Students' motivation to learn remains essential to pedagogical conversations and instructional design elements (Keller, 1987a; Vos et al., 2011). Fortunately, emerging research posits that digital game-based learning (DGBL) environments significantly motivate technologically savvy learners (Boeker …
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Perceptions of value consumption of digital business platforms by informal sector Traders in South Africa
… digital business platforms (DBP's) in relation to how informal sector traders (IST's) are using them to buy, sell and market their product and services in their daily trade functions. This study has adopted the approach of classifying the social media platforms, internet banking platforms and …
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