As Ian Manners has argued, the EU would be a normative power in the sense that it repeatedly attempts to "shape conceptions of the normal" through practices of "diffusion" of its best practices and its effort of capacity building in third countries (Manner, 2002).
In practice, the diffusion metric is in a form of geometric distance (dissimilarity), called diffusion distance, which is represented by the Euclidean distance in the embedded space [1], [31], [33].
Furthermore, modifications of novel practices during their diffusion might lead to alignment with regime elements and thus, social innovations might lose their transformative edge and become more symbiotic to the regime.
In an effort to advance the substance abuse treatment field toward evidence-based diffusion practices, recommendations are made for greater use of methodologically rigorous experimental or quasi-experimental designs, psychometrically sound instruments, and integration of quantitative and qualitative data collection.
This pattern seemed to be mostly shaped by human activities (in particular by seed diffusion practices).
In addition, the different hospital-level distribution patterns of specific therapeutic practices illustrated the diffusion process of therapies across facilities.
In practice, the nonlinear diffusion is quite inefficient, which limits its practical application.
In practice, the competitive diffusion of Evolutionary Trace Annotations via a global network of local evolutionary and structural similarities provides a highly specific and reliable method to predict the function of novel protein structures.
The survey's design was informed by how new technologies or innovations are adopted in practice and a diffusion of innovations framework was considered.
"New institutionalists tend to emphasize the global diffusion of practices and the adoption of these by organizations, but pay little attention to how such practices are interpreted or 'translated' as they travel around the world.
