"These new communication media offer tremendous advantages like immediacy, and everyone uses them, but there has not been any rapid diffusion of the skills, the literacy skills, necessary to use them.
A new Gartner Group report says that outsourcing and the diffusion of tech skills are making IT staff less necessary, and projects that IT staff sizes will shrink 15% by 2010.
Diffusion of alcohol skills training is enhanced or impeded by fundamental characteristics of the training mechanism, such as its complexity and accessibility [ 56].
Diffusion of the acquisition of new skills and knowledge within practices is desirable, and randomising by practitioner would have increased the risk of contamination, especially if practitioners from the same practice were randomised to be trained and not trained.
Consequently, intensified communications under the Mongols allowed the diffusion of certain Chinese skills and tastes to the rest of Eurasia.
For (N=500,) the outcome is opposite: Actual values are worse than the benchmark, thus a reduced diffusion of topics and skills, but also a smaller level of polarization.
For (N=100,) there is a slight improvement in the actual values of AK and KD, meaning a larger diffusion of topics and skills (higher erudition), but the same high level of polarization.
A market economy based on private property, if left to itself, contains powerful forces of convergence, associated in particular with the diffusion of knowledge and skills; but it also contains powerful forces of divergence, which are potentially threatening to democratic societies and to the values of social justice on which they are based.
With these tests, we have studied how the control strategies affected the diffusion of topics and of skills in the agent population.
