Merchant diasporas have long attracted the attention of scholars through the narrow prisms of 'nations' and states. The history of Amsterdam's Greek Orthodox merchants, together with the other cases - who left the Ottoman ...

There is a substantial body of literature on behavior inappropriateness in face-to-face social settings; however, not much is known about what individuals consider inappropriate (or appropriate) on Internet-mediated social ...

The objective of this work was to investigate the effects of auditory and visuo-spatial secondary tasks on variability in lane position in predictable and unpredictable driving conditions. Sixty-six participants drove a ...

The goal of the present study was to cross-validate two measures of cultural tightness and looseness, CTL: one used in a comparison within the United States, and the other used in a cross-country comparison. The former was ...

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In this paper we deal with cranberry morphemes in Turkish, which are meaningless and bound. First, we discuss the accuracy of the term "unique", which is frequently used to describe cranberry morphemes, and we assert that ...

Hardy’s well-known Tauberian theorem for number sequences states that if a sequence x= (xk) satisfies lim Cx= L and Δ xk: = xk + 1- xk= O(1 / k) , then lim x= L, where Cx denotes the Cesàro mean (arithmetic mean) of x. In ...

Recently Marques and Trojovsky [On some new identities for the Fibonomial coefficients, Math. Slovaca 64 (2014), 809-818] presented interesting two sum identities including the Fibonomial coefficients and Fibonacci numbers. ...

This chapter presents the perceptions of earthquake survivors and representatives of disaster?related institutions on what they see as related to resilience in the face of earthquakes. It discusses the findings relation ...

In this paper, we derive new double binomial sums families related with generalized second, third and certain higher order linear recurrences. We also present various parametric generalizations of some results of [1, 2]. ...