This article focuses on the diffusion and adoption of innovations in clinical practice. The authors are specifically interested in underresearched questions concerning the latter stages of the creation, diffusion, and adoption of new knowledge, namely: What makes this information credible and therefore utilized? Why do actors decide to use new knowledge? And what is the significance of the soci...

The innovative knowledge created by firms that ultimately exit their industries represents a source of technology that existing firms may build on. However, no empirical work has examined if such knowledge dies with an innovating firm or if significant diffusion of knowledge occurs even after a firm exits an industry. We base our theoretical predictions about the differing effects of firm exit ...

Face-to-face contact, even temporary one, helps researchers form personal ties and transfer tacit knowledge. The ability of researchers to colocate, including attendance at international conferences, workshops and seminars, is affected by the administrative barriers to international mobility. This paper uses a gravity-style empirical framework to examine the link between international knowledge...

the global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. the article by robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

Research on the diffusion of knowledge and learning within and between organisations has emphasised the situated nature of knowledge and the difficulties in transferring learning from one context to another. The context in which such knowledge is applied and the implementation process itself can have significant implications for how new knowledge is translated into practice by affecting how it ...

background and purpose : there has been no report in which preoperative evaluation of adc for prediction of post therapeutic outcome was presented. the aim of our study was to retrospectively evaluation the use of the apparent diffusion coefficient (adc) for the prediction of malignancy and the outcome of malignant astrocytic tumors. methods: we reviewed mri of 26 male and 14 female patients wi...

Information spreads rapidly across Web sites, Web logs and online forums. This paper describes the research framework of the IDIOM Project (Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media), which analyzes this process by identifying redundant content elements, mapping them to an ontological knowledge structure, and tracking their temporal and geographic distribution. Linguists define "idi...

In this paper the question of “how much the a priori knowledge of floor plans will assist navigation in challenging indoor environments?” will be investigated. Additionally, the effect of different levels of accuracy of floor plans on the overall estimation process will be studied. In particular, the effect of wrong a priori knowledge of maps and floor plans on navigation accuracy will also be ...