Evaluation of influential factors on development of E-commerce: Case of Tehran SMEs by Abbas Monavvarian, Amir Manian, Masoud Movahedi, Mohsen Akbari

“…In addition, we proposed ecommerce adoption stages in two levels of early adoption and institutionalization. Based on surveying 304 SMEs we tested the proposed model and concluded that the external environmental factors can be divided by two main categories of remote environmental factors and industry level factors. …”
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Harbingers of Failure by Anderson, Eric, Lin, Song, Simester, Duncan, Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth

“…The authors identify customers, termed “Harbingers of failure,” who systematically purchase new products that flop. Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail—the more they buy, the less likely the product will succeed. …”
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Creative Construction : the capacity for environmental innovation in real estate development firms by Bradshaw, William B., II

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Expanding the Distributed Generation Concept: Toward Decentralized Energy and Water Supply by Rosaria Ciriminna, Mario Pecoraino, Francesco Meneguzzo, Mario Pagliaro

“…Referring to recent progress and to real‐life findings from around the world, this work provides an answer to several relevant questions of direct interest to policy makers and early adopters of broadened distributed generation. The conclusions offer guidelines for developing a successful distributed generation strategy at the regional level by unifying solar energy and water management policies.…”
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Different Paths to Achieve High Technological Innovation in Clustered Firms: An Analysis of the Spanish Ceramic Tile Industry by Francesc Xavier Molina-Morales, Luis Martínez-Cháfer, David Valiente-Bordanova

“…The results reveal the presence of equifinality, as there are diverse paths or combinations of factors that lead clustered firms to higher technological innovation performance. Additionally, early adoption of new technologies and a high absorptive capacity are included in most of the successful combinations of factors.…”
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Firearms accidents in sixteenth-century England by Gunn, SJ, Gromelski, T

“…Artisans were prominent among early adopters, but by the end of the century yeomen were the most frequent gun owners. …”

Developing Digital Photomicroscopy by Kingsley Micklem

“…This allowed the development of digital image processing, storage and presentation. (3) As early adopters of digital cameras, their advantages and limitations were recognised in implementation. (4) The adoption of immunofluorescence for multiprobe detection prompted further developments, particularly a critical approach to probe colocalization. (5) Subsequently, whole-slide scanning was implemented, greatly enhancing histology for diagnosis, research and teaching.…”
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Interactions between social learning and technological learning in electric vehicle futures by O Y Edelenbosch, David L McCollum, Hazel Pettifor, Charlie Wilson, Detlef P van Vuuren

“…Increased electric vehicle market shares can induce technological learning which reduces technology costs while social learning stimulates diffusion from early adopters to more risk-averse adopter groups. In this way, both types of learning process interact to stimulate each other. …”
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Applying graphics processor units to Monte Carlo dose calculation in radiation therapy by Bakhtiari M, Malhotra H, Jones M, Chaudhary V, Walters J, Nazareth D

“…Harnessing this potential of GPUs will help in the early adoption of MC for routine planning in a clinical environment.…”
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When to trust AI: advances and challenges for certification of neural networks by Kwiatkowska, M, Zhang, X

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has been advancing at a fast pace and it is now poised for deployment in a wide range of applications, such as autonomous systems, medical diagnosis and natural language processing. Early adoption of AI technology for real-world applications has not been without problems, particularly for neural networks, which may be unstable and susceptible to adversarial examples. …”

Instagram marketing: a content analysis of top Malaysian restaurant brands by Salleh, Salmalina, Hashim, Noor Hazarina, Murphy, Jamie

“…Only seven of the ten restaurants have an Instagram account and the results suggest that early adoption may not lead into early implementation. …”

Understanding the factors that impact effective uptake and maintenance of HIV care programs in South African primary health care clinics by Alastair van Heerden, Xolani Ntinga, Sheri A. Lippman, Hannah H. Leslie, Wayne T. Steward

“…The perceived benefits of HIV programs hinged on the social validation of the program by early adopters. Wide program availability and improved convenience for providers and patients increased perceived benefit. …”
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Influence of physician networks on the implementation of pharmaceutical alternatives to a toxic drug supply in British Columbia by Megan Kurz, Brenda Carolina Guerra-Alejos, Jeong Eun Min, Brittany Barker, Bernadette Pauly, Karen Urbanoski, Bohdan Nosyk

“…Innovators were defined as individuals initiating PSS prior to May 2020, and early adopters were individuals initiating PSS after. …”
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Analysis of urban air transportation operational constraints and customer value attributes by Dunn, Nicholas (Nicholas S.)

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Telling a New Story: Working Together to Build Place-based Food Systems in the Palouse-Clearwater Region of the U.S. Inland Northwest by Colette DePhelps, Soren Newman, Darin Saul

“…From early adopters and the first stirrings of cultural change to development of a thriving local foods culture and economy, the Palouse-Clearwater region of southeastern Washington and north central Idaho has seen remarkable place-based food-system development through decades of hard work by a broad variety of players. …”
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Japanese Capital Internationalization and its Regional Leadership in Southeast Asia by Ignacio José Miñambres García

“…This has in turn resulted in a particular structure of internationalization characterized by heavy presence of strategic-seeking FDI in developing economies, early adoption of cross-national outsourcing and horizontal production networks and a recurrence return to Southeast Asia as the natural area of internationalization for Japanese capital. …”
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Rooftop solar deployment, what’s next? by Eric O’Shaughnessy

“…Third, rooftop PV is transitioning from early adoption to a period of mass diffusion, a transition that entails new challenges. …”
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La Belgique francophone, la Wallonie et le français by Armel Wynants

“…This article first recalls that contrary to the opinion that was dominant in the 19th century, Central French in written form was early adopted in the area, from the Middle Ages on, leaving Walloon to appear only by inadvertence. …”
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Bandwagon and leapfrog effects in internet implementation by Hashim, Noor Hazarina, Murphy, Jamie Anthony, Doina, Olaru, O'Connor, Peter

“…Leapfrog effects, however, attenuate adoption and often lead to effective technology use relative to early adopters. Drawing on and combining related Malaysian hospitality studies, this paper illustrates these two effects and extends the literature by showing that early, and late, adoption can relate positively to successful Internet implementation. …”

Clinical adoption patterns of 0.35 Tesla MR-guided radiation therapy in Europe and Asia by Berend J. Slotman, Mary Ann Clark, Enis Özyar, Myungsoo Kim, Jun Itami, Agnès Tallet, Jürgen Debus, Raphael Pfeffer, PierCarlo Gentile, Yukihiro Hama, Nicolaus Andratschke, Olivier Riou, Philip Camilleri, Claus Belka, Magali Quivrin, BoKyong Kim, Anders Pedersen, Mette van Overeem Felter, Young Il Kim, Jin Ho Kim, Martin Fuss, Vincenzo Valentini

“…Conclusions This is the first comprehensive study reporting patterns of utilization among early adopters of a 0.35T-MRgRT system in Europe and Asia. …”
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