In other words, IDT evaluates the factors that affect diffusion by taking individual perceptions into consideration, and examines how innovation is diffused through communication processes within social systems.
Studies have shown that in large group settings, like that of a college party, people feel less obligated to take action when they notice something suspicious since their responsibility is diffused among multiple bystanders.
At any level above this, the fact that there is a real dispute over sovereignty comes into play, and while this can be diffused and delayed through all manner of legalistic wrangling, the issue never really goes away.
"With the proper tools and techniques you can shape it to your will; it can be diffused, reflected, focused through lenses, projected, or colored.
When an enterprise acquires knowledge through training, the acquired knowledge will be diffused and accumulated to become a valuable asset through a knowledge integration mechanism including human bridge, organizational bridge and procedural bridge, accordingly, the training performance will be enhanced.
(It's a phone; not a bomb that needs to be diffused).
I navigate every weekday in a theatre of war through a maze of racial microaggressions hurled at me like insouciant, double entendre-tipped, weak seeking projectile missiles -- each of which MUST either be diffused or exploded on the spot.
If that angst cannot be diffused, any talk of a new world order would be futile.
THE great housing bubble of the 2000s was diffused widely through the population and didn't owe its beginnings to any single promotional scheme.
These ruffles were diffused and often associated with multiple bacteria.
