INTRODUCTION Several studies have documented that international adoptees have an increased occurrence of health problems and contacts to the health-care system after arriving to their new country of residence. This may be explained by pre-adoption adversities, especially for the period immediately after adoption. Our study aimed to the assess health-care utilisation of international adoptees in...

Uses and gratifications and domestication research suggest that the gratifications obtained from mobile services go far beyond the instrumentality of flexibility and availability. On the other hand, ICT-adoption research focuses instrumentality by relying on concepts of usefulness and ease of use to explain the adoption of information and communication services of all kinds. Mobile parking serv...

Due to its location in the dry belt, the vast country of Iran has always been faced with the problem of water shortages. In such a climate one should take measures to increase the productivity and improve the efficiency of irrigation through expansion of water-conserving technology in the agricultural sector, as this is the largest and most important consumer of water. Therefore this study aime...

Acceptance of online shopping adoption by individuals has been a concerning issue for researchers in the past decade. However, most research has focused in evaluating the attitudes and intention to use electronic commerce from the shoppers’ perspective, neglecting to analyze the behavior and attitudes of those who have not adopted e-commerce yet: the nonshoppers. The objective of this study is ...

We first reviewed seven theoretical models that have been used to explain technology adoption and use, primarily in the workplace. Then, we examined the boundary conditions of prior models of technology adoption when applied to the household context using empirical data from 1,247 U.S. households. Those households that had adopted household technologies were surveyed regarding their use behavio...

The Internet, and more recently mobile phones has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. This paper examines the adoption of the Internet and WAP-enabled mobile phones in Singapore. Specifically, we compare users of WAP-phones and non-WAP phones in terms of profile of Internet users, Internet activities and issues relating to WAP-enabled mobile phones. The results provide researchers a...

Ecommerce is considered to provide substantial benefits to business. It enables new ways of working to emerge as organisations face the future and embrace the notion of the 'new economy'. SMEs in regional areas of Australia are lagging in their adoption of e-commerce. This paper examines the reasons for the adoption and non-adoption of ecommerce by regional SMEs. The research is exploratory and...

Models of social diffusion reflect processes of how new products, ideas, or behaviors are adopted in a population. These models typically lead to a continuous or a discontinuous phase transition of the number of adopters as a function of a control parameter. We explore a simple model of social adoption where the agents can be in two states, either adopters or non-adopters, and can switch betwee...

Background: Mobile health is one of the new technologies for the utilization of health information. For its successful implementation as well as any other system, we must primarily measure the adoption and use of its factors. The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate published articles about the factors affecting the adoption of mobile health and categorizing the factors affec...