Twitter is a fast growing real-time social media tool. As Twitter evolves, more and more people are partaking in sharing what is happening around the world through various Twitter applications. Hashtag use has become a unique tagging convention to help associate Twitter messages with certain events or contexts. Prefixed by a # symbol with a keyword, a Twitter hashtag serves as a bottom-up userp...

If school diffusion of innovation is viewed as complex adaptive process, how shall we prepare school leaders to be effective diffusion decision makers? Coming from the epistemological belief that knowledge is subjective and embodied, this paper proposes to use Agent Based Modeling (ABM) for learning by focus on learning to “do” diffusion of innovation rather than learning about diffusion of inn...

Background: Achieving significant weight loss and glycemic control in diabetic patients remains a challenging task. Objective: This study compared the effects of a soy-based meal replacement (MR) plan vs an individualized diet plan (IDP; as recommended by the American Diabetes Association) on weight loss and metabolic profile. Design/Subjects: A total of 104 subjects were randomized prospective...

in recent years, innovation and its related issues as succeeding factors in business and also a way to enter the international markets are much taken into consideration. how innovation is created in organizations /companies and basically what processes are followed in order to present a new product to the market are significant aspects of innovation which are taken into account. in this paper, ...

Introduction Collaborative innovation is a trans-disciplinary approach for developing the wholeness synergy to improve the competitiveness of an organization through holistic, competitive and complementary interactions between and among innovation participants in a specific environment (Bommert, 2010; Swink, 2006). The collaborative innovation system essentially consists of three sectors: indus...

Application of modern irrigation and drainage canals for efficient use of water resources is necessary. Thus , identifying the factors influencing farmers ’ attitudes toward participation in irrigation and drainage projects (IDP) is essential. The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting attitude toward participation in IDP in Syakh Darenjan, Fars Province , Iran. Stratified rando...

Typischerweise erlauben Shibboleth-basierte Authentifikationsund Autorisationsinfrastrukturen (AAI), wie die DFN-AAI, nur einen Identity Provider (IdP) für eine teilnehmende Organisation, um den Wartungsaufwand seitens des AAI-Betreibers möglichst gering zu halten. Ferner wahrt dies die Benutzerfreundlichkeit, da so das IdP-Verzeichnis minimal ausfällt, aus dem Nutzer vor der Authentifikation d...

Croatian enterprises report relatively low level of innovativeness. The objective of this paper is to identify factors that constraint innovation activity of Croatian fi rms. The analysis is focused on the impact of constraining factors on the decision to abandon and delay innovation development employing Croatian Community Innovation Survey 2006 (CIS2006) data. Exploration of factors leading t...

in the current age, the importance of using knowledge as a tool for creativity and innovation at national level is considerable. furthermore, it would be taken into consideration as strategic need in the competition among different countries. hence in this paper, a new knowledge strategic management framework was developed with emphasizing on knowledge based innovation, upon up studying knowled...