With the advancement and development of technology and in response to an era of digital convergence and an environment of changing media, every advanced country in the world is eager to promote the digital industries. In order to get connected with the rest of the world, Taiwan has drawn a plan to retrieve all the analog channels in 2010, urging the TV systems in Taiwan to entirely enter the digital era. This research drawing on the perspective of the diffusion of innovations explores the character traits of the early adopters of the Chunghwa telecom MOD services. The researcher utilized demographic variables, individual innovativeness, media use and opinion leader tendencies to exam the character traits of Chunghwa telecom MOD early adopters. This research adopts the research method of questionnaire survey and collects 334 valid questionnaires. Through statistic analyses, the result shows a significant correlation between the early adopter character traits and education level, income, individual innovativeness, opinion leader tendencies and newspaper exposure. With the understanding of the character traits of Chunghwa telecom MOD early adopters, this study helps not only offer the system operators some suggestions on promotion but also expedite the diffusion of digital TV in Taiwan.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed January 20, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Georgeanne Artz. Includes bibliographical references.

From 1983 in which year Chinese people started being allowed to travel to the first outbound destination to nowadays that more than 150 countries have signed the ADS (approved destination status) with Chinese government, Chinese outbound tourism had a great progress in 32 years. During these years, more and more Chinese tourists could be seen in different places in the world. In 2014, the number of Chinese outbound tourists firstly achieve to over 100 million. The numbers are predicted to continue by 2020. It is meaningful to put Chinese outbound tourism as an object and discover its future development. Therefore, the aim of this study is set as to analyse the future diffusion of Chinese outbound tourism. The available theoretical foundation is diffusion theory (Rogers, 2003). Its mature and practical theoretical system guides the research framework of this study. This theory is reliable for analysing and discussing the diffusion of Chinese outbound tourism from some aspects such as S-shaped curve, communication channels, adopter classification, etc.  A questionnaire survey and some hypothetical indicators are designed in this study to fulfil the aim and research questions. Results are described from several aspects. The analysis of results prove that Chinese outbound tourism could be reckoned as an innovation. Finally, conclusions show that Chinese outbound tourism is currently going through the developing process between ‘innovators’ and ‘early adopters’. If the influencing factors which derived based on diffusion theory could be developed or solved positively, it is possible for Chinese outbound tourism to develop continually following the S-shaped curve in the future. The influencing factors has been studied out. They are the communication channels, the conscious gap between people who live in cities and people who live in towns and villages, the wealth gap between rich people and poor people. Not many related implementations are given out in this study, which needs future researches to explore.

An ever increasing body of legislation and regulation is transforming the UK’s energy system and its surrounding national energy framework. Depending on the mechanisms that result from this process, new forms of engagement with energy, particularly electricity, might emerge. The current trajectory of UK energy policy leans towards a centralised scenario with a portfolio of centralised renewable energy technologies (i.e. geographically concentrated such as offshore wind), nuclear power stations and gas fired power stations with the option of Carbon Capture and Storage technologies if it becomes a commercially viable option (CCC, 2011). Forecasts predict that a combination of these technologies could place the UK on the right path to reach its 2050 carbon reduction commitments (UKERC, 2008). However, this approach fails to take broader benefits of decentralisation and localisation into account and many official documents such as the Microgeneration Strategy (DECC, 2011a) and those surrounding Community Energy Online (DECC, 2011b) point to a need for greater public engagement in the generation of energy in order to ‘derive greater benefits locally’ (DECC, 2011a: 45). The question remains in how far these diverging objectives can be achieved within the current regulatory environment as there is a lack of coordinated incentives in place to facilitate the development of new scales and ownership structures capable of promoting new forms of engagement at scales below the point at which economies of scales apply. This thesis seeks to establish what barriers are preventing community energy with the capacity to increase acceptance of renewable energy technologies while also contributing towards climate change action, energy security and the strengthening of local economic cycles from becoming more widely embedded in the UK. The main focus is on how ‘niche creation’ policies such as the feed-in tariff might provide the basis for overcoming these barriers by diffusing new scales and ownership structures of renewable energy technologies. Accompanying social innovations could potentially include more meaningful engagement with energy in general and renewable energy in particular, while also enabling communities willing to invest in renewable energy technologies to build resilient local energy infrastructures with the capacity to reduce the impact of increasing energy insecurity, fossil-fuel depletion and climate change constraints. In order to appreciate the potential of community energy in the UK, parallels are drawn to the governance of national energy frameworks in other European countries, Germany and Denmark in particular, that have provided the basis for successful community energy engagement.

In Australia, small and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector appear to have been slow to undertake the adoption and implementation of quality assurance processes. Over the last two decades, policy makers and researchers have tended to focus on the technology uptake issues as a lever to stimulate economic activity. However, there has been less research and associated public policy initiatives on socio-technical systems (STS) like quality assurance programs or on implementation rather than uptake issues. By implementation it is meant those actions by the firm after the decision to adopt the new system has been taken, including the adaptation of existing routines to support the new equipment or processes. In industry, failures and delays in implementing new systems have meant that many firms have not reaped the promised benefits. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2006.

Thesis (MBus) -- University of South Australia, 1994

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Communication, 2007. / "December, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 02/22/2008) Advisor, Young Lin; Committee members, Carolyn Anderson, Heather Walter; Interim School Director, Carolyn Anderson; Dean of the College, James Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) --University of Adelaide, Department of Geography, 1976.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-136). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Human Environment and Design, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 16, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-111). Also issued in print.