Of course she couldn't know what it meant, because I had never explained the word, or told her I was adopted even though as an adoptee, my family and my life have been formed by adoption, and knowledge of it is something I have always taken for granted.
In this paper, we present an agent-based system designed to support the adoption of knowledge sharing practices within communities.
The system is based on a conceptual framework that, by modelling the adoption of knowledge management practices as a change process, identifies the pedagogical strategies best suited to support users through the various stages of the adoption process.
Drivers of adoption included knowledge and perception of co-benefits (for yield, productivity, and the environment), knowing another adopter, and believing that changes to farm management are an appropriate method to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.
It is also necessary to identify potential pitfalls in the deployment of such models and impacts of service interruptions on the adoption of knowledge services, which is a limitation of the current research and therefore brings us to explore future research axis.
Taking the view of software development and maintenance as being part of the broader phenomenon of software evolution, this paper argues that the adoption of knowledge management practices in software engineering would improve both software construction and more particularly software maintenance.
Thus different types of opinion leaders influence health providers than those that influence household behavior; both are however critical to adoption of knowledge in decision-making and policy implementation.
Perceived facilitators to healthy lifestyle adoption included knowledge about the link between preeclampsia and future CVD, use of the "window of opportunity" following a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia, education about healthy eating, and access to a community of women with recent preeclampsia.
Precision agriculture involves the development and adoption of knowledge-based technical management systems with the goal of optimizing application of fertilizer, chemicals, seeds, and irrigation resources to reduce input costs and maximize production.
In general terms they are meant for the creation and adoption of new knowledge to improve the value of products, processes, and services delivered to customers.
