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Information and Agricultural Development in Tanzania: A Critique

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Manda, P. A. (2002). Information and agricultural development in Tanzania: A critique. Information Development, 18(3), 181-189.
Provides a critical evaluation of the relationship between the flow of information and the pace and process of agricultural change and development in rural Tanzania. Examines the …

Barriers to Standby Power Reduction

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Martin Herrerias Cuernavaca May 18, 2010 10:29 am
I'm doing research on standby-power consumption of domestic appliances in Mexico. We were originally trying to come up with a device to automatically identify and prevent standby …

Evaluating Stormwater Reporting Line

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Victoria Kramer Columbia May 18, 2010 10:24 am
Our stormwater program is in the process of setting up a stormwater reporting line and web-form for people to report water quality and other stormwater related complaints and deve…

Influencing Business Sector Behaviour

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Leanne Lobe Kitchener May 17, 2010 10:53 am
I am looking for examples of business sector programs that have been developed (entirely or in part) using the CBSM model to understand how CBSM principles can be applied to corpo…

ACEEE Job Opening: Senior Industrial Energy Efficiency Associate

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Julie Edwards Washington May 17, 2010 8:49 am
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a leading national nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., seeks to hire a qualified senior associ…

Emergence and Robustness of a Community Discussion Network on Mercury Contamination and Health in the Brazilian Amazon

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Mertens, F., Saint-Charles, J., Lucotte, M., & Mergler, D. (2008). Emergence and robustness of a community discussion network on mercury contamination and health in the Brazilian Amazon. Health Education & Behavior, 35(4), 509 - 521
Information exchanges, debates, and negotiations through community social networks are essential to ensure the sustainability of the development process initiated in participatory…

No Dawn for 'New Dawn'

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Kumar, A., Shankar, R., & Momaya, K. K. (2009). No dawn for New Dawn: The non-diffusion of an innovation. Asian Journal of Management Cases, 6(1), 27 - 35.
This case describes events in the build-up to the diffusion of an innovation before it has reached critical mass. The innovation in question is the large-scale use of renewable en…

Implementing, Embedding, and Integrating Practices: An Outline of Normalization Process Theory

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May, C., & Finch, T. (2009). Implementing, embedding, and integrating practices: An outline of normalization process theory. Sociology, 43(3), 535 - 554.
Understanding the processes by which practices become routinely embedded in everyday life is a long-standing concern of sociology and the other social sciences. It has important a…

Validation of a Theoretical Model Linking Organizational Fit and Diffusion of Innovation in Information Systems Development

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Gladwin, J. & Wilson, T. D. (2000). Validation of a theoretical model linking organizational fit and diffusion of innovation in information systems development. Health Informatics Journal, 6, 219 - 227.
Exploratory, inductive analysis has not validated the linking of diffusion of innovation and dynamic equilibrium frameworks by grounding these theories in empirical information sy…

The Role of Action Research in the Investigation and Diffusion of Innovations in Health Care: The PRIDE Project

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Waterman, H., Marshall, M., Noble, J., Davies, H., Walshe, K., Sheaff, R., & Elwyn, G. (2007). The role of action research in the investigation and diffusion of innovations in health care: The PRIDE project. Qualitative Health Research, 17(3), 373 - 381.
In this article, the authors discuss the role of action research in relation to the investigation and practical implementation of innovations in health care. The diffusion of inno…
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