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Phase Exchange
Published in Ludwlg Luckner, Wsewolod M. Schestakow, German Migrationsprozesse, Migration Processes in the Soil and Groundwater Zone, 2017
Ludwlg Luckner, Wsewolod M. Schestakow, German Migrationsprozesse
The process by which nutrients are changed into living tissue is known as assimilation. It is a constructive metabolism, i.e., a biosynthetic process. The basic stoichiometric formula for biomass is given by C106 H180O45N16P1.
Introduction
Published in Moustafa Samir Moussa, Nitrification in Saline Industrial Wastewater, 2014
Assimilation is the process in autotrophic organisms in which nitrogen compounds (NH4+, NO3−) are incorporated into cell material for growth, a biochemical mechanism that uses ammonia or nitrate. Animals and other heterotrophic organisms require protein from plants and other animals as their nitrogen source. They are not capable of transforming inorganic nitrogen into an organic nitrogen form.
Social Media as Acculturation Agent: Vietnamese Consumers’ Assimilation into South Korean Culture
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Culture is the most important determinant of consumer attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles (Cleveland & Laroche, 2007). With the accelerating globalization supported by digital technology and new media platforms, consumers can now encounter global consumer cultures easily (Cleveland & Bartsch, 2019). Until recently, the acculturation phenomenon was regarded as a cultural diffusion process from a stronger society (e.g., Western) to a weaker one (e.g., non-Western), so the assimilation was sometimes discussed on the basis of asymmetrical power relations (Cleveland & Bartsch, 2019; Cruz et al., 2023). However, Cleveland and Bartsch recognized and forecast that the constituents of global consumer cultures would gradually migrate from West to East, resulting in the transfiguration and multiplication of global consumer cultures. The rise of Korean culture as one of the global cultural genres is a representative example of this phenomenon, one of the reasons for this popularity being global consumers’ active consumption of cultural content through social media. In this context, this study investigated the role of online social networks in the phenomenon of individual assimilation into Korean cultures, and how it influences the actual and intended consumption of cultural content and products.
Towards Adoption of Generative AI in Organizational Settings
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2023
The exploration of diffusion has been conducted by researchers from a multi-stage perspective, with a specific focus on adoption, implementation, and assimilation. These stages of diffusion are further divided into three distinct categories, for example, adoption encompasses initiation, comprehension, early and actual adoption. Implementation comprises adaptation followed by acceptance and then implementation stages. On the other hand, assimilation encompasses normalization, infusion, and complete assimilation stages. Moreover, scholars have investigated the factors that can impact each stage of adoption.13