Farmers’ Experiences of How Under-Sown Clovers, Ryegrasses, and Timothy Perform in Northern European Crop Production Systems by Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio, Lauri Jauhiainen, Hannu Känkänen, Juuso Joona, Tony Hydén, Tuomas J. Mattila

“…Early adopter-farmers form a living lab of farms that have a great deal of hidden knowledge about the cultivation of cover crops (CCs). …”
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A Real-World Experience: Retrospective Review of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Utilization and Quality in Community Emergency Departments by Courtney M. Smalley, Erin L. Simon, McKinsey R. Muir, Baruch S. Fertel

“…Emergency medicine (EM) has been an early adopter of POCUS with indications expanding over the last 10 years. …”
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Striving to Fill in Gaps between Clinical Practice and Standards: The Evolution of a Pan-Canadian Approach to Patient-Reported Outcomes Use by Amanda Caissie, Robert Olson, Lisa Barbera, Jennifer O’Donnell, Carol-Anne Davis, Jennifer Croke, Louise Bird, John Kildea, Erika Brown, Michael Brundage, Michael Milosevic

“…Facilitated through a quality improvement initiative spearheaded by the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR), and now guided by the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO)’s Quality and Standards Committee, patient representatives and early-adopter radiation treatment programs continue to champion the expansion of PROs initiatives across the country. …”
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Good governance for sustainable blue economy in small islands: Lessons learned from the Seychelles experience by Dominique Benzaken, Michelle Voyer, Angelique Pouponneau, Quentin Hanich

“…We used a mixed methods approach to explore the experience of Seychelles, a blue economy early adopter, combining policy and institutional analysis, semistructured interviews with key actors and partners, and country fieldwork. …”
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Lasers for Satellite Uplinks and Downlinks by Mark Dmytryszyn, Matthew Crook, Timothy Sands

“…The manuscript also intends to identify commercial sector early-adopter fields and those fields likely to adapt to laser employment for transmission and receipt.…”
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Understanding factors influencing uptake and sustainable use of the PINCER intervention at scale: A qualitative evaluation using Normalisation Process Theory. by Libby Laing, Nde-Eshimuni Salema, Mark Jeffries, Azwa Shamsuddin, Aziz Sheikh, Antony Chuter, Justin Waring, Anthony Avery, Richard N Keers

“…Interview recruitment targeted four early adopter regions; the survey was distributed nationally. …”
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Understanding factors influencing uptake and sustainable use of the PINCER intervention at scale: A qualitative evaluation using Normalisation Process Theory by Libby Laing, Nde-eshimuni Salema, Mark Jeffries, Azwa Shamsuddin, Aziz Sheikh, Antony Chuter, Justin Waring, Anthony Avery, Richard N. Keers

“…Interview recruitment targeted four early adopter regions; the survey was distributed nationally. …”
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Monitoring disparities in healthcare-associated infection surveillance: A SHEA Research Network (SRN) Survey by Caitlin McGrath, Valerie Deloney, Latania Logan, Lorry Rubin, Karen Ravin, Martha Muller, Allison Bartlett, Annabelle De St Maurice, Matthew Linam, Carolyn Caughell, Lynn Ramirez

“…Conclusions: Most institutions in this sample are not collecting data that would allow for assessment of disparities in the rates of HAIs; however, there is interest in doing so. A minority of early adopter facilities are assessing whether disparities exist and are designing interventions. …”
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Early music and Web 2.0 by Leach, E

“…While the most familiar example of a web 2.0 interface for most readers is probably Facebook, I am no longer a user (I was an early adopter and found it too intrusive, although I hear its privacy settings are now better than in 2005). …”

Evaluating the effect of wardbased outreach teams on primary healthcare performance in North West Province South Africa: A plausibility design using routine data by T Assegaai, H Schneider, G Reagon

“…North West Province (NWP), South Africa, was an early adopter of the primary healthcare (PHC) ward-based outreach team (WBOT) strategy and has made considerable progress in implementing it. …”
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Enabling European Archaeological Research: The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure by Nicola Aloia, Ceri Binding, Sebastian Cuy, Martin Doerr, Bruno Fanini, Achille Felicetti, Johan Fihn, Dimitris Gavrilis, Guntram Geser, Hella Hollander, Carlo Meghini, Franco Niccolucci, Federico Nurra, Christos Papatheodorou, Julian Richards, Paola Ronzino, Roberto Scopigno, Maria Theodoridou, Douglas Tudhope, Andreas Vlachidis, Holly Wright

“…The archaeological research community has been an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organisation, analysis and presentation of research results of individual projects. …”
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Operational Implementation of Remote Patient Monitoring Within a Large Ambulatory Health System: Multimethod Qualitative Case Study by Katharine Lawrence, Nina Singh, Zoe Jonassen, Lisa L Groom, Veronica Alfaro Arias, Soumik Mandal, Antoinette Schoenthaler, Devin Mann, Oded Nov, Graham Dove

“…ObjectiveIn this study, we evaluate the early implementation of operational RPM initiatives for chronic disease management within the ambulatory network of an academic medical center in New York City, focusing on the experiences of “early adopter” clinicians and patients. MethodsUsing a multimethod qualitative approach, we conducted (1) interviews with 13 clinicians across 9 specialties considered as early adopters and supporters of RPM and (2) speculative design sessions exploring the future of RPM in clinical care with 21 patients and patient representatives, to better understand experiences, preferences, and expectations of pragmatic RPM use for health care delivery. …”
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Facilitating translational team science: The project leader model by Lynn Sutton, Lisa G. Berdan, Jean Bolte, Robert M. Califf, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Jennifer S. Li, Jonathan McCall, Rebbecca Moen, Barry S. Myers, Vonda Rodriquez, Tim Veldman, L. Ebony Boulware

“…Duke University’s clinical and translational science enterprise has been an early adopter of project management to support clinical and preclinical programs. …”
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Digital photography and the dynamics of technology innovation by Zelten, J. Peter

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Introduction of shared electronic records: multi-site case study using diffusion of innovation theory. by Greenhalgh, T, Stramer, K, Bratan, T, Byrne, E, Mohammad, Y, Russell, J

“…DESIGN: Multi-site, mixed method case study applying utilisation focused evaluation. SETTING: Four early adopter sites for the SCR in England-three in urban areas of relative socioeconomic deprivation and the fourth in a relatively affluent rural area. …”

Implementation of Telehealth Services at the US Department of Veterans Affairs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed Methods Study by Claudia Der-Martirosian, Tamar Wyte-Lake, Michelle Balut, Karen Chu, Leonie Heyworth, Lucinda Leung, Boback Ziaeian, Sarah Tubbesing, Rashmi Mullur, Aram Dobalian

“…Even though the VA was an early adopter of telehealth in the late 1990s, the vast majority of VA outpatient care continued to be face-to-face visits through February 2020. …”
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Smart Wearables for the Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review by Mohammad Moshawrab, Mehdi Adda, Abdenour Bouzouane, Hussein Ibrahim, Ali Raad

“…The healthcare sector, for example, was an early adopter of smart wearables, which primarily serve as diagnostic tools. …”
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Mob grazing: A nature-based solution for British farms producing pasture-fed livestock by Markus Wagner, Claire Waterton, Lisa R. Norton

“…Interviews revealed the shift to mob grazing as a gradual process of farmer adaptation, involving the need to overcome constraints such as fencing and water access. Some early adopters amongst our sample of farmers observed various benefits to sustainability of livestock production, soil and ecosystem health, and animal health. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Patterns and Trends in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Developed Countries by Salem Buhashima Abdalla, Mamun Rashid, Moohammed Wasim Yahia, Emad Mushtaha, Alex Opoku, Ahmad Sukkar, Aref Maksoud, Rawan Hamad

“…Since the UAE has been an early adopter of BIM, its utilization of BIM is now likely to reach that of developed nations. …”
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No-till and conservation agriculture in the United States: An example from the David Brandt farm, Carroll, Ohio by R. Islam, R. Reeder

“…A few innovative Ohio farmers, including NT pioneers David Brandt and Bill Richards, were early adopters of the new conservation practice. Initially, no-till was most successful on sloping, well drained soils, then with improvements to the system, including cover crops, it became more widely adopted on all soil types. …”
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