Future research might be enriched, at least in the case of large national innovation systems, by absorbing concepts developed in other strands of institutionalist literature, such as "intercurrence" and "embeddedness".
This study provides evidence that clinical providers in limited-resource settings are capable of absorbing concepts of modern QI and applying them, with some technical support, to integrate services.
These absorbed concepts re-emerged some 10 years later when the ideas for CML started circulating.
The main objective of this paper is to show the effectiveness and usefulness of the concept of an absorbing layer with increasing damping (ALID) in numerical investigations of elastic wave propagation in unbounded engineering structures.
The book is an absorbing introduction to the emerging field of neuroeconomics, which combines economic concepts with the study of brains and behavior in humans and animals.
Lever is an absorbing subject.
A significant part of the project consists of the design, fabrication and drop-testing of two representative composite fuselage sections, to generate the experimental data needed for the validation of new energy absorbing structural concepts, validation of simulation tools to model and analyse these structures subjected to crash loads.
It had taken two decades for fashion houses to absorb the concept of a brand designing for a "lifestyle," as dreamed up by Ralph Lauren in the 1980s when he created patrician elegance in housewares to suit the country-club clothes.
"They are not prepared to absorb the concept of compromise," he said.
(Note: for the first time, JWT is sensing a real desire to get a leg up in absorbing basic marketing concepts. But even an infinite stream of "knowledge" will be meaningless unless the aforementioned structural issues are resolutely addressed).
"As a university professor who tries to get students to absorb mathematical concepts, a Jimmy Buffett fan, and the parent of three daughters, I have to say that I was quite disappointed that Jimmy Buffett stooped to recording this song," says Marc Feldesman, chair of the anthropology department at Portland State University.
