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No App, No Entry: Conceptualizing Digital Technology Captivity in Service Access

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We introduce Digital Technology Captivity (DTC), a form of consumer vulnerability that arises when digital technologies become the mandatory gateway to essential services. When access is tied to systems that feel unfamiliar, complex, or intimidating—and when preferred alternatives are limited—consumers may experience heightened vulnerability ...
Carolyn Wilson‐Nash, Rob Angell, Yuanming Qiu, Ismini Pavlopoulou, Dimitrios Kolyperas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Approximation of Discontinuous Functions by Positive Linear Operators. A Probabilistic Approach

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We obtain approximation results for general positive linear operators satisfying mild conditions, when acting on discontinuous functions and absolutely continuous functions having discontinuous derivatives. The upper bounds, given in terms of a local first modulus of continuity, are best possible, in the sense that we can construct particular ...
J.A. Adell, P. Garrancho, F.J. Martínez‐Sánchez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The q-Stirling numbers of the second kind and its applications

Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, 2018
Summary: The study of \(q\)-Stirling numbers of the second kind began with \textit{L. Carlitz} [Duke Math. J. 15, 987--1000 (1948; Zbl 0032.00304)]. Following Carlitz, we derive some identities and relations related to \(q\)-Stirling numbers of the second kind which appear to be either new or else new ways of expressing older ideas more comprehensively.
Kim, Min-Soo, Kim, Daeyeoul
openaire   +2 more sources

Culture, Community, and Development: Unpacking the ‘Socio‐Cultural Milieu Dynamics’ of Solomon Islands and Their Influence on Australia's Aid Localisation

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using public ethnography anchored in the post‐development theory and interpretivist epistemological paradigm, this study examines what we term the ‘socio‐cultural milieus dynamics’ (SCMD) of the Solomon Islands (SI) and how these shape meaning, discourse, and practice in ways that influence Australia's aid localisation efforts and aid outcomes.
Mark Opoku Amankwa, Gladys Nangira Murruka, Kwadwo Adusei‐Asante, Vicki Frances Banham, Clement Amponsah, Emmanuel Enyinful   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree planting, natural colonisation, hybrid approaches: Land manager decisions explored

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a global drive to protect biodiversity and help combat climate change. In the UK, this is expressed in a number of policy initiatives and tools that include increasing tree cover as an important nature‐based solution to achieving national policy targets.
Bianca Ambrose‐Oji, Maddy Pearson, Katy Spencer, Elliot Colley, Matt Guy, Kevin Watts   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three closed forms for convolved Fibonacci numbers

Results in Nonlinear Analysis, 2020
In the paper, by virtue of the Faà di Bruno formula and several properties of the Bell polynomials of the second kind, the author computes higher order derivatives of the generating function of convolved Fibonacci numbers and, consequently, derives three
Feng Qi
doaj  

The impact of COVID‐19 on public perceptions of wild meat in Central Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat is a significant source of food and income generation in Central Africa. However, there is little knowledge of how the assumed link between COVID‐19 and wild meat consumption has been discussed by the media and received by the public. In this study, we conducted media content analysis of 264 articles published in 2019–2020 related to
Yuhan Li, Lude Kinzonzi, Paul Loundou, Divin Malekani, Krossy Mavakala, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Katharine Abernethy, Matilda Eve Dunn, Donald Midoko Iponga, Robert Mwinyihali, Joss Wright, Eleanor Jane Milner‐Gulland, Lauren Coad, Juliet H. Wright, Daniel W. S. Challender   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Series and Connections Among Central Factorial Numbers, Stirling Numbers, Inverse of Vandermonde Matrix, and Normalized Remainders of Maclaurin Series Expansions ^†

Mathematics
This paper presents an extensive investigation into several interrelated topics in mathematical analysis and number theory. The author revisits and builds upon known results regarding the Maclaurin power series expansions for a variety of functions and ...
Feng Qi
doaj   +1 more source

Euler-Mahonian Statistics On Ordered Set Partitions (II)

, 2007
We study statistics on ordered set partitions whose generating functions are related to $p,q$-Stirling numbers of the second kind. The main purpose of this paper is to provide bijective proofs of all the conjectures of \stein (Arxiv:math.CO/0605670). Our
Kasraoui, Anisse, Zeng, Jiang
core   +2 more sources