This paper examines method adoption factors in three organisations and their three specific locales over a 43-year-period. The collected data covers the said 43 years, which were divided into four time periods, or phases, that are... more
This paper examines method adoption factors in three organisations and their three specific locales over a 43-year-period. The collected data covers the said 43 years, which were divided into four time periods, or phases, that are concurrent with the four computer generations, as described in Friedman and Cronford (1989). A conceptual framework is presented for method choice and adoption with the Rogers’s (1995) theory of Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) as a focal point. Analysis is made in accordance with the DOI to identify factors affecting method choice. The results show that DOI characteristics (factors) groups have affected method choice and adoption, and factors specific to different methods explained why a certain method was chosen and adopted. Four method categories were created from the basic method definition in this study. In locale one and two the method categories were almost identical, but in locale three they were different. Phase one (late 1940s until the mid1960s) w...
Abstract. We demand that the Gauss law at the edge must be obeyed by the electric potential φ(r) generated within a neutral plasma/electrolyte of strictly finite size by the in-troduction of a test charge qb. Our proposal has the nice... more
Abstract. We demand that the Gauss law at the edge must be obeyed by the electric potential φ(r) generated within a neutral plasma/electrolyte of strictly finite size by the in-troduction of a test charge qb. Our proposal has the nice features that total ionic numbers are conserved, the point-Coulomb behaviour of φ(r) is guaranteed at short-distance, and accumulation of induced charges near the centre and the surface can be demonstrated rig-orously. In contrast, the standard Debye–Hückel potential φD(r) applicable to unbounded plasma has the strange features that the Gauss law cannot be obeyed at the plasma’s edge, total ionic numbers themselves are altered, the short-distance Coulomb behaviour has to be imposed by hand, and induced charge appearance at the surface cannot be built-in.
