Climate change and lifestyle: people’s expressed motivations to adopt or not adopt a climate-friendly way of life

Climate change and health: time to adopt environmental probity?

Whether we like it or not, doctors have a peculiar relationship with the societies which they serve. This peculiar relationship, however, comes at a price. In the January edition Trevor Thompson and I reviewed the background to the mounting challenge that climate change presents to global health. Here I would like to explore the moral and ethical challenges that face GPs in particular. At the 2...

To Adopt or Not to Adopt - That is the Question

The area of adoption and diffusion has had a strong pro-innovation bias (Brancheau and Wetherbe 1990; Parthasarathy and Bhattacherjee 1998; Ram 1987; Venkatesh and Brown 2001). This bias has resulted in somewhat of a neglect of the area of non-adoption. Existing theories including TAM (Davis 1989) and the innovation diffusion theory (Rogers 1983) provide critical insights into technology usage....

To Adopt or Not to Adopt Computer-Based School Management Systems? - An ITEM Research Agenda

Motivations and Obstacles for Seniors to Adopt Social Network Services

In light of the analysis framework including Political and governmental support, Economical and commercial support, Social and communities support and Technology support (PEST), this study identified motivations and obstacles for seniors’ use of social network services (SNS). Scenario simulation interviews based on four steps in which the seniors built strategies for learning about social media...

Generalizing ADOPT and BnB-ADOPT

ADOPT and BnB-ADOPT are two optimal DCOP search algorithms that are similar except for their search strategies: the former uses best-first search and the latter uses depth-first branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we present a new algorithm, called ADOPT(k), that generalizes them. Its behavior depends on the k parameter. It behaves like ADOPT when k = 1, like BnB-ADOPT when k = ∞ and like a...