In a 20-year longitudinal study of domestic adoptions, Harold Grotevant and Ruth McRoy, professors at the University of Minnesota and University of Texas at Austin, respectively, found that birth mothers in open adoptions experienced less adoption-related grief than those in closed adoptions.
Kept Harpo for a year and then gavehim out for adoption to a professor at Hamilton College.
To explore patterns in "cultural adoption and abandonment," Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger, and Gael Le Mens, an economics professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, tracked the popularity of first names over 100 years in France and the U.S. The names that soared into popularity fastest, they discovered, also tended to fall out of favor more quickly.
"The philosophy was the blank slate, that adoption is a new start," Professor Blair said.
The real problem was that the systems were not ready for widespread adoption, says David Westfall Bates, the Harvard professor who was the lead author of the Institute of Medicine report.
Defining innovation as "the adoption of new practice in a community," Professor Denning and Mr. Durham lay out eight practices they deem vital to success: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, executing, leading and embodying.
In Florida, Kevin Folta, a horticultural sciences professor, is advocating for the adoption of crop-saving genetic technology.
Rafter's course materials discovery platform leverages eight years of adoption, bibliographic and economic data to give professors insight into adoption patterns, prices and content of more than 11 million textbooks and other course materials.
"Nobody thinks the adoption credit was created to help lesbian mothers," Professor Cain said.
But, we have many ways to encourage quality, from adoption by a school district or a college professor, to ratings by other users (ala eBay or SlashDot).
