HTA aims at informing healthcare policymakers, managers and practitioners of the "clinical consequences, but also the economic, ethical, and other social implications of the diffusion and use of a specific procedure or technique on medical practice" [ 4] (p. 431).
Our results identify individual variation and transmission biases that have potential implications for the diffusion of innovations in natural populations.
Although the political implications of the innovation-diffusion debate were profound, they were generally of less interest to scholars than was its resolution not least because it created the interesting methodological problem of how one might scientifically determine the primacy of either process.
Our study has theoretical implications regarding the diffusion of information and emotional contagion as well as practical implications for understanding how important information and social support can be effectively collected and distributed to populations in need.
Implications for understanding the diffusion of SPSS are discussed.
Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary field of policy analysis that examines the medical, economic, social, and ethical implications of the incremental value, diffusion, and use of a medical technology in health care [ 1].
Despite the substantive economic and efficiency-related implications of OSS adoption, there is surprisingly little research into the determinants of the diffusion of OSS across public sector jurisdictions.
The implication of "The Death of Cancer" is, on the contrary, that innovation and diffusion can sometimes conflict.
An implication of the existence of lignin-mediated networks is the retardation of enzyme diffusion due to confinement.
One of the best examples of the diffusion of Internet-style business creation is Tariq Krim, chief executive of Netvibes.
