The diffusion of innovation theory is deployed to investigate the global assimilation of collaborative information technologies (CITs). Based on the concepts of IT acquisition and utilization, an assimilation framework is presented to highlight four states (limited, focused, lagging, and pervasive) that capture the assimilation of conferencing and groupware CITs. Data collected from 538 organiz...

Chromatic assimilation is the shift in color appearance toward nearby light. Assimilation was measured using nearby light with time-varying chromaticity. This light induced time-varying assimilation within the test area. Assimilation was quantified by the amplitude of temporally varying test-area light--in counter-phase to the induced assimilation--required to null the assimilation. Unlike prev...

stomata are closed by moisture stress, reducing carbon assimilation and yield production with dry land agriculture. relative 13c to 12c molar ratio assimilation by a plant is a function of time stomata remain open during plant life time, itself a function of moisture stress. the purpose of this study was to test the existence of any relationship between stomatal conductance and assimilation rat...

■ Abstract This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. The existing literature shows that today’s immigrants are largely assimilating into American society along each of these dimensions. This review also considers direc...

In order to improve the forecasting ability of numerical models, a sequential data assimilation scheme, nudging, was applied to blend remotely sensing high-frequency (HF) radar surface currents with results from a three-dimensional numerical, EFDC (Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code) model. For the first time, this research presents the most appropriate nudging parameters, which were determined ...

Several important issues in voice assimilation have been recently revisited. In particular, is it gradient or categorical? Distributional analyses of the voicing ratio in assimilating vs. neutral contexts conducted on French data have yielded somewhat discrepant results, yet suggesting that assimilation is categorical and optional at the same time. In this study, we compare between-word voice a...

The assimilation model describes therapeutic change as an integration of experiences that had previously been problematic, distressing, avoided, or warded off. This study assessed whether assimilation was associated with treatment outcome in a sample of psychotherapeutic treatments for depression. Further, it assessed the direction of the association-whether increasing assimilation predicted de...

Given that oral consonants often block total vowel assimilation (Aoki 1968, Steriade 1987), this case of metathesis can be analyzed as serving to allow assimilation to apply unimpeded (cf. Broselow 2001). In terms of Optimality Theory, both the constraint driving assimilation and the constraint blocking assimilation across an oral consonant are satisfied, at the cost of violating faithfulness c...

The assimilation of enterprise systems has extensive influence on power interactions within organizations. Previous assimilation research has typically focused on organizational-level assimilation processes, and the impact of individual characteristics, including personal power, has been overlooked. Social network analysis provides a useful way to empirically examine the changes to personal pow...