The phrase "adopt increases" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where one is discussing the act of accepting or implementing increases, such as in policies or practices.
Example: "The company decided to adopt increases in employee salaries to improve morale and retention."
Alternatives: "implement increases" or "accept increases".
In their carefully designed study, Manchanda et al. [ 38] found that doctors' decisions to adopt were influenced positively by contagion that is, doctors' probabilities to adopt increased significantly with increases in fellow doctor adoption.
Previous victims of crime may be more likely to adopt increased home security (Lavrakas and Lewis 1980).
One is a probability-based approach (e.g. (Banerjee et al. 2013; Peres 2014)), where individuals' probability of adopting the innovation increases as the fraction of peers that adopt increase.
[ 26- 28] Domain score results revealed that intent to adopt increased significantly for both prescribers (p < 0.04) and staff (p < 0.03) at Site C between pre- and post- implementation, and perceived usefulness increased for staff (p < 0.02).
For five of the last six years, the board had reflected the low-inflation era by adopting increases of 2percentt for one-year leases and 4percentt for two-year leases.
In five of the last six years, the board has adopted increases of 2percentt for a one-year lease and 4percentt for a two-year lease.
The mayor's suggested increases -- 3percentt for one-year leases, and 5percentt for two-year renewals -- were the same he advocated but failed to get last year, when the board instead adopted increases of 4percent and 66 percent for the city's rent-stabilized apartments.
A few other cities and counties have adopted increases just shy of 60percentt.
Officials point out that the number of children adopted increased from 3,200 in 2010 to 5,050 in 2013/14.
A clear indication of their leadership is the recently adopted increase in stipend levels for graduate students.
