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Healthcare in Sweden is in need of eHealth innovations to meet the requirements a highlydeveloped society. However to develop and implement eHealth in the healthcare system ischallenging because the system is experienced as complex, conservative and fragmented.In this thesis a qualitative single case study has been conducted to further investigate thechallenges of development and implementation of eHealth. This study demonstrates that itis challenging to understand the complexity of the healthcare system and this has animpact on eHealth development. Involvement of potential users and collaborationbetween stakeholders are seen as a suggested solution to understand this problem. Thisthesis has also shown that to involve users and collaborators is challenging as well.Further the study has shown that there are technological challenges in realizing eHealthin the healthcare system and there is a challenge to develop and implement informationsystems because of regulatory limitations. Despite years of experience in healthcare or ITdevelopmentmany of the respondents find that these factors challenge innovation efforts.

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In the late 1990s, the Ministere de l'Education du Quebec (MEQ) undertook a reform program that would reframe the educational system. Technology and pedagogy were seen as needing realignment to better meet a student-centered, technology-driven, lifelong learning experience. The New Reform as this new framework is known will be fully implemented by 2008 and educators are its pivotal agents. With Information and Communications Technologies being central to the new reform, this qualitative study looks at educator use of the most widely used Internet application, electronic mail. Very little research has looked at how pervasive electronic mail has become among educators and how it is affecting their multidirectional, multilayered roles as educators. Data originate from respondent electronic mail, a literature review, and the author's personal experience. Outcomes, reached through inductive analysis, reveal that educators continue to experience difficulty manipulating electronic mail technology even though they appreciate its multiple advantages. How electronic mail can facilitate networked communication and educator teamwork to better translate the MEQ's new reform successfully is the focus of this study. Implications derived from the outcomes are discussed in view of enhancing ongoing contributions by Quebec educators.

Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / ""This thesis aims to develop a better understanding of the adoptive behaviour of grain growers, through identifying socio-economic factors that influence adoption processes, and the identification of farmer typologies based upon a market segmentation approach. This study has established a clear understanding of the behavioural characteristics associated with the target population in terms of adaptive behaviour, production capabilities, information seeking characteristics and innovativeness. This study has clearly identified characteristics of agricultural knowledge systems, including the influence of information providers, the quality and credibility of information, and social influences. This study has identified a range of farming typologies on the basis of the identification of the relationships between the measured characteristics of the target population, using a series of highly robust approaches involving principal component analysis and k-means cluster analysis." -- from Abstract. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1288064 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 2007

Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / ""This thesis aims to develop a better understanding of the adoptive behaviour of grain growers, through identifying socio-economic factors that influence adoption processes, and the identification of farmer typologies based upon a market segmentation approach. This study has established a clear understanding of the behavioural characteristics associated with the target population in terms of adaptive behaviour, production capabilities, information seeking characteristics and innovativeness. This study has clearly identified characteristics of agricultural knowledge systems, including the influence of information providers, the quality and credibility of information, and social influences. This study has identified a range of farming typologies on the basis of the identification of the relationships between the measured characteristics of the target population, using a series of highly robust approaches involving principal component analysis and k-means cluster analysis." -- from Abstract. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1288064 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 2007

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1994. / Spine title: The pumpkin industry in Tonga.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of K-12 Educational Administration, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on March 31, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-285). Also issued in print.

Thesis (DBA) -- Swinburne University of Technology, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, 2006. / Dissertation submitted to Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Doctor of Business Administration, 2006. Typescript. Bibliography: p. 157-166.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 18, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.