Honest, sober and willing: Oxford college servants 1850-1939 by Crossley, KP

“…These networks became particularly important after 1868, when the university began licensing lodging houses for undergraduates, and college servants and their families provided a trustworthy source of labour. Colleges were early adopters of contributory pension schemes. By the late nineteenth century, the employment contract reflected a fundamental shift in the apportionment of responsibility for managing the financial risk associated with death, illness, and most importantly, old age. …”

ISA API: an open platform for interoperable life science experimental metadata by Johnson, D, Batista, D, Cochrane, K, Davey, RP, Etuk, A, Gonzalez-Beltran, A, Haug, K, Izzo, M, Larralde, M, Lawson, TN, Minotto, A, Moreno, P, Nainala, VC, O'Donovan, C, Pireddu, L, Roger, P, Shaw, F, Steinbeck, C, Weber, RJM, Sansone, S-A, Rocca-Serra, P

“…We describe the ISA API feature set, early adopters, and its growing user community. The ISA API provides users with rich programmatic metadata-handling functionality to support automation, a common interface, and an interoperable medium between the 2 ISA formats, as well as with other life science data formats required for depositing data in public databases.…”

Symposion and philosophy by Tecuşan, MM

“…Chapter 3 examines the scanty evidence for an early adoption of sympotic practices by philosophers, at school or otherwise. …”

Agricultural Technology Adoption as a Journey: Proposing the Technology Adoption Journey Map by Jeen Wei Ong, Mohd Fairuz Abd Rahim, WeiLee Lim, Mohd Nizam Mohd Nizat

“…To facilitate the mass adoption of technology, this study suggests documenting the experiences of innovators and early adopters of the technology as a guide in building the technology adoption journey map of the early majority.…”
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Digital Twin for Railway: A Comprehensive Survey by Sara Ghaboura, Rahatara Ferdousi, Fedwa Laamarti, Chunsheng Yang, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

“…As DTR is still in its early adoption stage, there is hardly any clear direction to identify the technologies for specific DTR applications. …”
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Regional representation of wind stakeholders’ end-of-life behaviors and their impact on wind blade circularity by Julien Walzberg, Aubryn Cooperman, Liam Watts, Annika L. Eberle, Alberta Carpenter, Garvin A. Heath

“…In another scenario, parameter settings simulating policy interventions aiming at boosting early adoption incites new social norms favorable to recycling, lowering the cumulative landfill rate below 10%.…”
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Crowdfunding for Design Innovation: Prediction Model With Critical Factors by Song, Chaoyang, Luo, Jianxi, Holtta-Otto, Katja, Seering, Warren, Otto, Kevin

“…Online reward-based crowdfunding campaigns have emerged as an innovative approach for validating demands, discovering early adopters, and seeking learning and feedback in the design processes of innovative products. …”
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Promoting teachers’ technology professional development through laptops by Md. Khambari, Mas Nida, Wong, Su Luan, Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi

“…Hence, they were regarded as the early adopters of technology innovation in schools, and became the agents of change. …”
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A research on individual innovativeness levels of football referees (Kocaeli region case) by Kursad Sertbas, Levent Atalı

“…In this research, it was determined that individual innovativeness levels of football referees were included in the “early majority” category at the rate of 44% and in the “early adopters” category at the rate of 34%. No football referee was included in the “laggards” category comprising the people who are biased towards change and who adopt the innovations later than anyone. …”
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Extracting Innovative Buyers by Scoring Using Innovator Theory by Ryo Iwata, Kaoru Kuramoto, Kenyuu Matsumoto, Satoshi Kumagai

“…Innovative buyers are users who influence other users' product purchases, also known in innovator theory as innovators and early adopters. They purchase products quickly, visiting physical stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores. …”
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The Digital Revolution in Higher Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning by Khalid Ilias Basheer Qolamani, Mohammad Mahdi Mohammed

“…The review brings together insights from academic literature, industry publications, and the digital transformation of higher education over the past few decades, which has been widespread and measurable.  Early adopters of technologies such as analytics, AI, and immersive media will be best positioned to improve the student experience in the future. …”
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Increasing the intention of Gen Zers to adopt drone delivery services based on a three-step decision-making process by Charlie Chen, Makoto Nakayama, Peter Ractham

“…AbstractGeneration Zers are digital natives who may be early adopters of drone delivery services for e-commerce. …”
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Fancies explained by Alesha Serada

“…These perspectives may require reconfiguration today: since the end of the 2010s, traditional power relations have been contested by ‘decentralized’ gaming that uses blockchain technologies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Their early adopters suggest that NFTs may disrupt traditional circulation of value to the benefit of players as opposed to major corporations. …”
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A Different Shade of Green: A Survey of Indonesian Higher Education Institutional Repositories by Paul Genoni, Toong Tjiek Liauw

“…CONCLUSION The findings lead the authors to speculate that institutional repositories serving Indonesian higher education institutions are in their early adoption phase; and that initial drivers for them have been corporate information management, institutional prestige, and the need to combat plagiarism.…”
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Attitudes towards and expectations on the role of artificial intelligence in the classroom among digitally skilled Finnish K-12 mathematics teachers by Ray Pörn, Mats Braskén, Mattias Wingren, Sören Andersson

“…The research concluded that the K-12 mathematics teachers surveyed have broad experience with digital tools and will likely become early adopters of AI tools in the classroom. …”
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Extracting Innovative Buyers by Scoring Using Innovator Theory by Ryo Iwata, Kaoru Kuramoto, Kenyuu Matsumoto, Satoshi Kumagai

“…Innovative buyers are users who influence other users' product purchases, also known in innovator theory as innovators and early adopters. They purchase products quickly, visiting physical stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores. …”
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Value of distribution system information for DER deployment by Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan, Burçin Ünel, Yury Dvorkin

“…Moreover, progressively decreasing DER investment costs alleviate the effects of information asymmetry, suggesting that early adopters face disproportionately high welfare losses attributed to incomplete information between the DER stakeholders. …”
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Network Mobility Management Challenges, Directions, and Solutions: An Architectural Perspective by Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Rabab Al-Zaidi, Mohammad Hammoudeh

“…However, user mobility was not envisaged as one of the early Internet’s use cases due to the early adoption of destination based routing and the assumption that end-nodes are static. …”
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Online Success as Horizon of Survival: Children and the Digital Economy in Lagos, Nigeria by Jaana Serres

“…Literature on the impact of the digital ecosystem on youth is largely grounded on Western case studies and Eurocentric in its working assumptions; yet African children and teenagers—who account for most of the continent’s population—have been early adopters of social media’s possibilities and are exposed to distinctive risks. …”
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Forest Owner Willingness to Accept Payment for Forest Carbon in the United States: A Meta-Analysis by Sadikshya Sharma, Melissa M. Kreye

“…Since FFOs manage forests for multiple objectives, it is unclear which contract requirements and payment levels will appeal to early adopters and perhaps establish the direction of innovation. …”
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