Dental hygiene, as an emerging profession, needs to increase the number of intervention studies that identify improvements in oral health outcomes for clients. Historically, dental hygiene studies have typically been atheoretical, but the use of theoretical frameworks to guide these studies will increase their meaningfulness. Rogers' theory of diffusion of innovations has been used to study res...

Context: Prior research has established that a small proportion of individuals dominate team communication during global software development. It is not known, however, how these members’ contributions affect their teams’ knowledge diffusion process, or whether their personality profiles are responsible for their dominant presence. Objective: We set out to address this gap through the study of ...

It is widely believed that the whole economic system has exhibited an increasingly intertwined nature in the context of economic globalization and regional integration. With the increasing interactions among trading partners in a supply network, bankruptcy of a member firm may make others get into distressed situations. This kind of phenomena is called bankruptcy diffusion or bankruptcy contagi...