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  • External variables that affect willingness to accept technology as a resource : a pilot project

    Creator:
    Bricher, Judith Scheuerman
    Abstract:
    A home computer revolution is predicted to change America in the next 20 years. If this is to occur, a consumer must perceive the home computer as a technological resource. According to consumer behavior studies, acceptance of a new product is based on internal determinants, which are affected by environmental...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , business and social environmental influences were not related to attitudes toward either technology or

  • Technology and its limitations

    Creator:
    Bella, David A.
    Resource Type:
    Technical Report
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    to an essential characteristic of professional technology; it is a social enterprise. The

  • The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

    Creator:
    White, Stephen J.
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    Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
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    Masters Thesis
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    TECHNOLOGY, VALUE AND SOCIAL SETTINGS A REPRISE: 67 VALUING TECHNOLOGY IN A POLITICAL AND PUBLIC

  • A blank screen? : digital divide discourses and practices

    Creator:
    Powell, Jasmine
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    The existence of a “digital divide,” or inequalities of access to digital technologies among different American subpopulations, has been hotly debated and contested since the National Telecommunications and Information Administration first popularized the phrase in 1995. The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the dominant discourses around the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    buzzword that has resulted in incredible changes in the way that people perceive technology, specifically

  • Impacts of the Internet on academic culture in Aceh, Indonesia

    Creator:
    Daud, Darni M.
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    The adoption and increasing uses of the Internet in higher education in many parts of the world have resulted in fundamental changes in academic cultures. The transfer of information is essential to academic life, and the Internet offers faster and easier access to information and communication between people than ever...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    on social behavior of the people. It was found that adoption of a new technology in Aceh changes

  • Standing in the Way of Control : Small Farmers, Water Use, and Technology Adoption in Oregon

    Creator:
    Hepperly, Jody R.
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    In recent years, several interrelated forces—prolonged drought, growing populations, height-ened environmental protections, sustained agricultural use, and hydrologic alterations due to climate change—have increased pressure on water users in the Western United States, where the agricultural sector accounts for up to 90% of total water withdrawals. Technology im-provements developed since the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Title: Standing in the Way of Control: Small Farmers, Water Use, and Technology Adoption in Oregon

  • Investigating socio-technical factors in short-term continuous improvement project effectiveness

    Creator:
    Stelson, Paul Martinez
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    Lean manufacturing, or more generally continuous improvement (CI), has been the methodology behind significant improvements in quality, work in process inventory reductions, lead time reduction and cost reduction while conversely being associated with failed implementations and occasionally with unpopular work practices. This research focused on promoting understanding of CI methodology...
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    Masters Thesis
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    project more difficult. 24% of the projects involved an aspect of information technology that could

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    overall social project. The will of society to use or not to use technology is all-important, although it

  • Interactive video communication technology and successful aging in place : applying the selective optimization with compensation model

    Creator:
    Yamamoto, Toshiko
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    This study utilized the theoretical framework of selective optimization with compensation (SOC) (Baltes, 1987; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) to interpret older adults' definitions about successful aging in place. Factors contributing to successful aging in place, including the importance of social interaction and perceptions of the usefulness of interactive video communication...
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    Dissertation
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    of interactive video communication technology (IVC) for achieving optimal levels of social

  • A technology acquisition tool for key decision makers

    Creator:
    Self, Stephen
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    Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the need for a technology acquisition tool to be used in the capital purchasing process in health care organizations. Design Multi-method approach consisting of interviews of ten executives of health care organizations. A written survey was then mailed to Chief Executive...
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    Dissertation
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    Public Health presented On December 12, 2008 Title: A Technology Acquisition Tool For Key Decision