The authors examine the use of tenets of diffusion of innovations theory in the medical informatics literature to reveal how the theory has and can continue to provide a basis for scholars seeking to align their research with the theory. A content analysis method was used to examine over 2,000 journal articles from the fields of medical informatics, medicine, and information systems. The author...

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation projects. Our focus is on the motives behind this decision and the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find that the factors inf...

Isolation and structure analysis of two amino acids from bovine ligamentum nuchae elastin hydrolysates revealed the presence of pyridine cross-links in elastin. The structures of these amino acids were determined to have 3,4,5- and 2,3,5-trisubstituted pyridine skeletons both with three carboxylic acids and a mass of 396 (C(18)H(28)N(4)0(6)) identified as 4-(4-amino-4-carboxybutyl)-3,5-di-(3-am...

OBJECTIVES To assess the magnitude of difference in antibiotic use between clinical teams in the acute setting and assess evidence for any adverse consequences to patient safety or healthcare delivery. DESIGN Prospective cohort study (1 week) and analysis of linked electronic health records (3 years). SETTING UK tertiary care centre. PARTICIPANTS All patients admitted sequentially to the ...

Dynamic innovation processes are combined for complex technological advances bring about decision-making under uncertainty. This paper reflects the case of strategic decision-making on a technology development project using real options reasoning. Like investment options in financial markets real options introduce explicit risk measures for possible alternatives. Managerial decisions on innovat...

An increasing number of Taiwanese universities are improving operational performance through innovation and total quality management (TQM). In addition, the National Quality Award (NQA), which is based on TQM, is now used to evaluate quality performance in various industries in Taiwan. Thus, several models for performance measurement have been proposed in recent years. However, these models do ...

In the present complex systems of construction industry which strives for achieving sustainability, integration of all building systems and agencies has become critical and essential. Integrated design process (IDP) is a method of realizing high performance buildings that contributes to sustainable communities. IDP is being extensively used in Canada and USA. Green building rating systems aimin...

The article deals with the issues of overcoming poverty, inequality, nutrition improvement, ensuring a healthy way life, raising education quality, enhancing well-being, and building up peaceful open society for internally displaced persons (IDP) receiving community by means social response strategy. goal research: theoretic substantiation strategy in work IDP context perspective their sustaina...

To obtain a favorable tradeoff between treatment benefits and morbidity ("therapeutic ratio"), radiotherapy (RT) dose is prescribed according to the tumor volume, with the goal of controlling the disease while respecting normal tissue tolerance levels. We propose a new paradigm for tumor dose prescription in stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) based on organ-at-risk (OAR) tolerance levels...