He actually agreed to the adoption.

So the adoption papers were signed.

What is the problem with gay adoption?

Are any of you up for adoption?

The adoption people told us it was going to take a year for the adoption to go through.

This is the uncle signing the adoption papers.

She refused to sign the final adoption papers.

Treat this as an adoption. He's yours forever.

And four months later, the adoption papers came through.

And that's followed by these lines about gay adoption

like crime, and warfare, and economic phenomena like bank runs and market crashes and the adoption of innovation and the spread of product adoption.

And this holds for germs, ideas, product adoption, behaviors, and the like.

I am father Doonigan. I work for the St. John Adoption Society.

lifecycle adoption curve popularized by Geoff Moore in a book called Crossing the Chasm.

On the left hand panel, again, we have the S shaped curve of adoption.

like smoking, or vaccination, or product adoption, or other kinds of behaviors that relate to interpersonal influence.

So 50 percent of programs were in FORTRAN, And, that is very rapid adoption of a new technology.

My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.

Your father and I think the best thing for the child is to give him up for adoption.

In the dotted red line, we show what the adoption would be in the random people, and in the left hand line, shifted to the left, we show what the adoption would be in the central individuals within the network.

Hyun Sook stayed at Father Keene's, and her uncle agreed to let her stay there until the adoption went through.

It's because of what the state of Michigan says that I am that I am disqualified for any sort of adoption.

If you have a baby and you think that baby's gay, you should be allowed to put it up for adoption.

Everybody believed themselves to be doing the right thing by God and by the state for the big society, fast tracking adoption.

So the question is, is there any hope for adoption of something like this, which would presumably save a lot of lives?

And so I suggested to the uncle that we go down and meet Father Keene, to find out how the adoption process worked.

So, as all of you probably know, the classic way of thinking about this is the diffusion of innovation, or the adoption curve.

Now, one of the interesting things is trying to figure out what sales looked like and what's the adoption rate in a new market.

'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, 'I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies '

If I'm likely to do something that affects others around me, this technique can get early warning or early detection about the adoption within the population.

I recognize that the adoption of this technology will depend as much on economic and political forces as it will on the soundness of the science.

Among the friends, the first evidence you saw of a blip above zero in adoption of the innovation, for example, would be evidence of an impending epidemic.

Let's say by the time he's 30 years old, he has 10 children, all with different mothers, maybe some of the children had to go up for adoption.

Now, for the next 11 years, all I know is that this woman, this birth woman, should have her eyes scratched out for not signing the adoption papers.

It was the primary purpose of the social worker, the aim, to get the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life, to sign the adoption papers.

The adoption papers were signed, the child was given to the adoptive parents, and the mother shipped back to her community to say that she'd been on a little break.

It's just going to look like this, and start scaling their sales and marketing and spending and then it all collapses again, because it really was an early adopter sign, not mainstream adoption.

What's going on is the mainstream market just hasn't adopted and this might go on for years and never kick in but if you're lucky, you'll hit a tipping point and market adoption happens.

Having said that, value is not the same as price because value incorporates other qualities such as coolness, such as ease of use, ease of training, ease of translation, ease of adaptation, ease of adoption.

I mean, anything that we can quantify, we have hundreds of different measurements of different, information related measurements capacity, adoption rates and they basically double every 12, 13, 15 months, depending on what you're looking at.

The adoption process took, like, a matter of months, so it was a closed shop, you know, sealed deal, an industrious, utilitarian solution the government, the farmer, the adopting parents, the consumer, the mother, the earth, and the child, the crop.

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e commerce, or Internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or Internet advertising, they were all right they were just wrong in time.

And so the speed of the adoption of things is just going to become that much more rapid, in a way that we just totally cannot conceive, when you get it to 6.3 billion and the growth in the world's population.

And then, finally talk a little bit about a third way, about another technology, which is probably better than anything we have, but which there hasn't been any enthusiasm for adoption precisely because people are so enamored with the current car seat solution.

Now, in addition to that, if you were an analyst who was trying to study an epidemic or to predict the adoption of a product, for example, what you could do is you could pick a random sample of the population, also have them nominate their friends and follow the friends and follow both the randoms and the friends.