, 2005). The framework centers strengthening the compatibility with existing values and practices to also ensure a high level of simplicity and observable results, two other factors crucial to creating an effective framework (ogers, 2003). All of these elements must also be unified with a simplistic model to make sure the nurses can see the value of the system and their ability to manage it as a resource, not be managed by it.
The second framework element is providing the nurses with the opportunity gain greater mastery over the system by reinforcing the trialability of the system through an extended testing and validation stage. Often technology innovations require an adoption phase where those most affected by its disruptive change have the opportunity to tailor its specific elements and options to their unique needs (ogers, 2003). This step in the framework allows for greater mastery of the system and more identification with…...

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Cresswell K, Sheikh a. (2009) the NHS Care Record Service: recommendations from the literature on successful implementation and adoption. Inform Prim Care 2009;17:153-64. [PubMed]

Hillestad, R., Bigelow, J., Bower, a., Girosi, F., & al, e. (2005). Can electronic medical record systems transform health care? potential health benefits, savings, and costs. Health Affairs, 24(5), 1103-17.

Rogers, E.M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.

Adoption is a boon to birth parents, their children, and to adoptive parents. In many cases, all three parties involved in the process plus secondary parties like relatives and society at large, benefit by an easy adoptive process. As more and more couples turn to adoption as a solution to an inability to bear children or as an alternative to natural childbirth, raising a number of ethical questions. On the one hand, adoption is inherently amoral: an unwanted child needs a home and a willing, competent family or individual is able to provide the necessary love and care. However, beneath that rests a host of issues, including the right of the birth mother or father to contact the child; the right of the adoptive parent(s) to glean genetic or other information about the biological parents; and the right of the child to know about his or her birth parents. In…...

Adoption (Family Law) by Kansas Statutes and Cases
The study of adoption is very important as it influences millions of lives in the United States, who are an element of the adoption process. For instance, the birth parents who put their children for adoption; the children who are adopted; and the parents who adopt children. It is also believed that adoption influences approximately 3% of Americans who initially think of adoption but later on decide against it. For instance, Allen P. Fisher (2003) writes, "Adoption is certainly a very common occurrence in the United States and in much of the world today. No official and complete counts of adoptions exist, but estimates are that about 4% of Americans are adopted; about half of these have been adopted by persons not related to them by birth

." Allen goes on to write, "A recent national survey of 1416 Americans found that nearly two…...

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Allen P. Fisher. Still "Not Quite as Good as Having Your Own"? Toward a Sociology of Adoption. Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 29, 2003

James Bell Associates (2001) "External Evaluation of the Kansas Child Welfare System: July 2000-March 2001." 3rd Quarterly Report. Arlington, Va. (9 August). Taken From: Simon Hakim. A market alternative to child adoption and foster care. The Cato Journal. 2003.

Kansas Adoption Statute. Laws and Legal Issues, 2005. Available at:  http://library.adoption.com/information/Laws-Legal-Issues/217/1.html 

L. Anne Babb. Ethics in American Adoption. Bergin & Garvey, 1999.

" As a result of this relative ease in adopting a child from the Philippines, specifications are also relatively easier to comply compared to other countries. equirements include a budget of up to $25,000 for process completion, both married couples and single individuals can adopt a child, at least a parent must travel in-country for up to 10 days, and adoption is completed in 28-30 months (from completion of requirements to finally adopting the child) (Adoptive Families, 2009).
Adoption requirements and processing in China is stricter than in the Philippines, although both are members of the Hague Adoption Convention. Main difference between the two is that China, most often than not, puts up female children for adoption than male children. This is because of the country's one-child policy and cultural preference for a male, instead of a female, child. This limitation in the child's gender is not encountered in the Philippines.…...

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Freivalds, S. (2009). "2009 Adoption Guide." Adoptive Families Magazine. Available at: www.adoptivefamilies.com.

Gross, J. And W. Connors. (2007). "Surge in adoption raises concern in Ethiopia." The New York Times. Available at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/us/04adopt.html?_r=1 

Johnson, K. (2002). "Politics of International and Domestic Adoption in China." Law & Society Review, Vol. 36, No. 2.

"Simpler child adoption laws pushed." (August 2009). ABS-CBN News Online. Available at:  http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/18/09/simpler-child-adoption-laws-pushed

Adoption Outcomes
In all of us is a hunger

Marrow deep to know our heritage

Without this enriching knowledge,

There is a hollow yearning.

No matter what our attainments in life,

There is still a vacuum,

Emptiness,

And the most disquieting loneliness"

Haley, Alex. "Adoption Poetry 4 http://library.adoption.com

Adoptive children often go through a variety of emotions while attempting to locate their birth parents. For some, the pursuit of their biological families is an all encompassing goal. This idea is evidenced in the poem above, written by an adopted child who is still trying to find her birthparents. The journey is often a long hard road that can lead to a variety of emotions, and positive and negative outcomes. The fruits of many adoptees' efforts may sometimes lead to joy, but other times may cause sorrow.

The majority of studies that have been conducted however related to adoption research have indicated that the effects of finding one's birthparents are often positive…...

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AFN. "Seth's Reunion Story." "Betsy's Reunion Story." Adoption Family Network.

Retrieved November 27, 2003, http://www.adoptionfamilynetwork.com/stories/story_item.asp?NewsID=4

Babb, L.A. Statistics on U.S. Adoption. The Decree, American Adoption

Congress., 1996.

(10) A geat esouce would be constituted by the Tavel and Touism in Saudi Aabia Euomonito Repot fo 2009. Among othe things, this epot contains infomation on the most ecent intenet developments, o the numbe of touism elated sales made on the intenet. The souce is howeve uneasily available; it can be bought fom the Euomonito website at the high cost of 1,190 GBP (appoximately $1,800).

(11) The Global Aab Netwok (2010) pomotes an aticle emphasizing on the desies of the Saudi Aabian govenment to stimulate the touism secto. The endeavos ae pat of a boade stategy to boost the county's economy though moe evenues, as well as by ceating moe employment oppotunities. In the context of incemental acceptance of technology and online puchases, combined with sustained effots to pomote touism, the futue is expected to bing about an inceased adoption of online shopping fo tavel poducts.

III. Reseach Model and Hypothesis

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Al-Otaibi, M.B., Al-Zahrani, R.M., Electronic Commerce in the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia, King Saud University, last accessed on April 7, 2010http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/DrRasheed/My%20Publications/Ecommerce_in_KSA.pdf

Anderson, D.R., Sweeney, D.J., Williams, T.A., 2009, Statistics for business and economics, Cengage Learning, ISBN 0324658354

Babbie, E.R., 2008, The basics of social research, 4th edition, Cengage Learning, ISBN 0495094684

Kalathil, S., Boas, T.C., 2003, Open networks, closed regimes: the impact of the internet on authoritarian rule, Carnegie Endowment, ISBN 0870031945

Adoption Of Order Fulfillment and Customer Service Satisfaction
"Productivity trends in two retail trade industries, 1987-95." Contributors: Mark . Dumas. Monthly Labor Review. Volume: 120. Issue: 7. 1997. Page Number:

Order fulfillment and customer satisfaction depends on the productivity of workers in the retail industries. The retail sector of the economy was to be an important provider of jobs, accounting for 29% of employment in the private service-producing sector of the economy in 1995, when investigated for this report. In view of that, the productivity of that sector is essential to continuing customer satisfaction. Mark . Dumas is an economist in the Division of Industry Productivity Studies. Bureau of Labor Statistics. His methodology was to compile results of 17 previous investigations of the effect of productivity on fulfillment and customer satisfaction; these ranged across major U.S. industries from telephone service providers to online retailers. This was chosen for the breadth of his…...

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Claycomb, Cindy, Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall, and Lawrence W. Inks. 2001. THE CUSTOMER AS A PRODUCTIVE RESOURCE: A PILOT STUDY AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS. Journal of Business Strategies 18, no. 1: 47. Database online. Available from Questia, Accessed 20 August 2003.  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=openPageViewer&docId=5000746537 http://www.questia.com/.Internet.

Coyles, Stephanie, and Timothy C. Gokey. 2002. Customer retention is not enough: Defecting customers are far less of a problem than customers who change their buying patterns. New ways of understanding these changes can unlock the power of loyalty. The McKinsey Quarterly 20 August 2003.  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=openPageViewer&docId=5000491576 

Dumas, Mark W. 1997. Productivity trends in two retail trade industries, 1987-95. Monthly Labor Review 120, no. 7: 35+. Database online. Available from Questia, Accessed 20 August 2003.  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=openPageViewer&docId=5001133753http://www.questia.com/.Internet.

Regardless the path chosen, the searching adolescent or young adult will find that - unlike life itself - the joy is not in the journey, but in the destination.

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erry, M., arth, R.P., & Needell, . (1996). Preparation, support, and satisfaction of adoptive families in agency and independent adoptions. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 13, 157-183.

rodzinsky, D.M., & Pinderhughes, E. (2002). Parenting and child development in adoptive families. In M. ornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting (2nd ed.): Vol. I. Status and social conditions of parenting. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

ussiere, a. (1998). The development of adoption law. Adoption Quarterly, 1, 3-26.

Grotevant, H.D., & McRoy, R.G. (1998). Openness in adoption: Exploring family connections. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hartman, a., & Laird, J. (1990). Family…...

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Benson, P.L., Sharma, a.R., & Roehlkepartain, E.C. (1994). Growing Up Adopted. Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute.

Berry, M., Barth, R.P., & Needell, B. (1996). Preparation, support, and satisfaction of adoptive families in agency and independent adoptions. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 13, 157-183.

Brodzinsky, D.M., & Pinderhughes, E. (2002). Parenting and child development in adoptive families. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting (2nd ed.): Vol. I. Status and social conditions of parenting. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Fifty-seven days following the birth of the child, the biological father contested the adoption. For three years, the courts battled the case and the child remained in the home of the adopted parents throughout (ABA, 6). When the child was three, the courts ruled the adoption was not legal, since the father had not relinquished his rights, and the child was returned to the biological father (ABA, 7). This case shows clearly the emphasis placed on the biological parent's rights, even at the expense of the adoptive parent's rights.
In addition to the right to revoke consent, the biological parents also, in many states, have a right to seal adoption records to ensure privacy. In most cases, non-identifying information is available to adoptive parents and adoptees at age 18 or 21. However, any identifying information is generally withheld. According to the court system, this confidentiality is vital to the adoption…...

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American Bar Association. "Chapter 6: Adoption."

The ABA Guide to Family Law. New York: Random House Reference, 1996. 1-13.

Groza, Victor. And Rosenberg, Karen. Clinical and practice issues in adoption: bridging the gap between adoptees placed as infants and as older children. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998.

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Brumble and Kampfe (p. 158) speculate this could have been due to the great number of American soldiers who saw, first hand, the devastation of the war and the need to help orphaned children. During the 1950s, Harry and Bertha Holt adopted eight Korean children, getting federal laws changed in order to do so. They were pioneers of international adoption and founded what has become the largest international adoption agency in the world. n the 1960s, the civil rights movement and the war in Viet Nam fostered a new tolerance and acceptance of human differences. Special needs adoption gained momentum in the 1970s, as more people became willing to adopt healthy children who were older, bi-racial, and possibly needed to be placed with siblings. There were more people willing to adopt children once considered "unadoptable," who had mental, emotional or physical problems (Brumble and Kampfe, p. 159).
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Immediately following World War II, Americans began to adopt foreign-born children, particularly children from Germany and Greece. Brumble and Kampfe (p. 158) speculate this could have been due to the great number of American soldiers who saw, first hand, the devastation of the war and the need to help orphaned children. During the 1950s, Harry and Bertha Holt adopted eight Korean children, getting federal laws changed in order to do so. They were pioneers of international adoption and founded what has become the largest international adoption agency in the world. In the 1960s, the civil rights movement and the war in Viet Nam fostered a new tolerance and acceptance of human differences. Special needs adoption gained momentum in the 1970s, as more people became willing to adopt healthy children who were older, bi-racial, and possibly needed to be placed with siblings. There were more people willing to adopt children once considered "unadoptable," who had mental, emotional or physical problems (Brumble and Kampfe, p. 159).

The case of Roe v. Wade in 1973 meant that a woman did not have to give birth if she did not want to do so. Social mores have also changed. Whereas an unwed mother was once shunned by society and sometimes even by her own family, single women give birth and raise their own children with much greater frequency that ever before. Both abortion and the trend of single mothers keeping their babies has resulted in fewer babies being available for adoption.

Higher rates of infertility means that more couples are looking for adoptable babies. Many women are waiting until their thirties and forties to have children and may not realize until they want to start a family that they will have trouble doing do. After 35, a woman's

Furthermore, the argument against adoption by same-sex couples presupposes that traditional marital relationships necessarily possess the qualities and attributes that are required to provide a stable and loving home for adopted children. In fact, the rate of marital dissolution (i.e. divorce) in the United States is more than half of all marriages, and the average length of so-called "traditional" marriage in the U.S. is only approximately seven years (Henslin, 2007). Moreover, those statistics do not represent the actual level of happiness and healthiness of the traditional marital relationship since many more couples are unhappy but choose not to divorce for various reasons. In addition, spousal abuse and other forms of domestic violence are problems that occur quite regularly within traditional marriages and they are a serious social problem in society (Henslin, 2007).
At a minimum, the argument against adoption by same-sex couples suggests that the home environment of traditional marriages…...

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Henslin, J. (2007). Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

The main framework is however the Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) theory that was proposed by ogers (1995). Other factors are however incorporated so as to make use understand the user adoption of the ENUM technology. The users possessing high adoption application of ENUM are to be assumed to be the 'early adopters' and are to be associated with the factors employed in oger's (1995) theory in characterizing the early adopters. The user adoption of ENUM is effectively hypothesized to be affected/influenced by; (1) the characteristics of the innovation such as the perceived relative advantage, trialability, compatibility, complexity and observability. (2) the communication channels (influence of peers and industry ) (3) the social system (existence of restrictive policy) (4) individual characteristics (how techno savvy the users are ) as well as the general attitude of the users (individuals and telecommunication industry) towards the convenience, cost effectiveness and other advantages of…...

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Arrow, K. (1962). The Economic Implication of Learning by Doing. Review of Economic

Studies, Vol. 29,pp. 166-170.

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Review, Vol. 74 (July-August), pp. 101-109.

Adoption Of Social Media by Small Business and Entrepreneurs in the Gulf Region
The internet technology has revolutionized the communication landscape among businesses in both developed and emerging economies because of the unprecedented growth of the social media. Social media is an interactive technology system that business and people use to collaborate, connect, and create personal and business profiles. A growing consensus among marketing professionals, business and academic communities shows that social media is very critical to the business communities. The social media has become a new phenomenon that has radically changed the strategy businesses communicate and operate. Through social media, businesses globally have been able to gain access to resources that would have been difficult to secure internally. An advanced in the internet technology has led to the rapid growth of social media with 1.5 billion active monthly users on Facebook, 359 million monthly active users on Google+, more…...

Adoption is a social phenomenon that spans centuries, cultures, and nations. It is the focal point of many policies, laws, and public attitudes. In the United States, adoption legislation and practices change and reflect society's evolving perspectives. Interracial adoption, once generally accepted and promoted during the Civil ights Movement, now faces intense debate among social service professionals and greater society. Despite several arguments against interracial adoption, there exist even more compelling reasons for individuals and civilizations to support and encourage this practice.
Children without permanent families and homes desperately need and deserve love and stability. It seems reasonable to state that society concurs with this statement. Since the procurement of an affectionate and stable environment for children is the principal objective of adoption, it appears the racial composition of a prospective family is of lesser concern. In other words, the races of adopted children and their respective parents pale significantly in…...

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Bashir, Samiya A. 'The Best Interest of the Child.' Colorlines Magazine: Race, Action,

Culture. (2002): 1-5.

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News 14.1 (1998): 1-10.

Same Sex Adoption
hy is the idea of a same sex couple adopting a child an anathema to some conservatives, evangelical Christians, and others that tend to lean to the political right? Is it because they are homophobic and basically believe that gays and lesbians are not worthy of being in a union to begin with? Is it because they believe only their heterosexual union under the banner of Christianity qualifies them to adoption? Those questions will not be answered in this paper and indeed they are not the essential substance of this paper, but they are relevant as background to this issue. Meantime, with an estimated 130,000 American children waiting to be adopted, it seems fair and reasonable that same sex couples, providing they meet the basic economic and social criteria, should be able to adopt a child for their family. Thesis: The salient point of this paper posits that…...

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Clifford, Denis, Hertz, Frederick, and Doskow, Emily. A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay

Couples. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2010.

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March 14, 2012, from EBSCOhost / Academic Search Premier.

In order to really understand resistance in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, it is important to look at all of the characters and not just the highlighted European males, such as the protagonist Marlowe, that sit at the center of the story.  That is because resistance is the undercurrent behind all of the action in the story.  The main characters are always acting against the threat of resistance by the African people who are often portrayed as victims, but are consistently offering resistance to the colonizers, as evidenced by the arrow attack by the natives on the ship. ....

Teen pregnancy is a complex topic that can relate to a variety of other topics, making it possible to include body paragraphs that touch on everything from child sexual abuse to educational attainment by teen mothers.  That is because teen pregnancy does not generally exist in a vacuum, but is the result of a combination of varied social factors including race, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, educational level, and residency.

Some topics that you could include in a body paragraph in a teen pregnancy essay include:

1. The relationship between religious practices and teen pregnancy rates; are teenage girls....

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory that suggests that people have different levels of needs. They cannot focus on higher needs until their lower needs are met. This hierarchy has applications in many areas of life, so you can find a ton of articles on the theory.

In Maslow’s theory, needs ascend in the following order

• Physiological needs
• Safety needs
• Love and social belonging needs
• Esteem needs
• Cognitive needs
• Aesthetic needs
• Self-actualization (added later in expanded needs)
• Transcendence (added later in expanded needs)

Until a person has met their lower needs they do not have the resources to focus on meeting higher needs.

Some sources you could....

Firms can effectively meet the challenge of technological change by redesigning their innovation ecosystem. Here is a step-by-step guide with proper spacing and format:

1. Assess the current innovation ecosystem: Start by analyzing the existing innovation ecosystem within the firm. Understand the strengths, weaknesses, and bottlenecks that hinder technological change adoption. This evaluation will provide insights into the areas that need redesigning.

2. Identify emerging technologies: Keep a close eye on emerging technologies in the industry. Understand their potential impact on the market and how they can disrupt existing business models. This step will help firms stay ahead of the curve and....