Improving upon a recent result of L. Coburn and J. Xia, we show that for any bounded linear operator T on the Segal-Bargmann space, the Berezin transform of T is a function whose partial derivatives of all orders are bounded. Similarly, if T is a bounded operator on any one of the usual weighted Bergman spaces on a bounded symmetric domain, then the appropriately defined “invariant derivatives”...

We investigate the factors influencing the intention to use of mobile value added services in the Pacific island of Fiji. Technology adoption literature suggests that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use influence intention to adopt new technology. However, behavioral research suggests that intention to adopt is influenced by social norms. We investigate the impact of these three cons...

This paper presents a contribution to research on norms detection by proposing a technique, which is called the Potential Norms Detection Technique (PNDT). The literature proposes that an agent changes or updates its norms based on the variables of the local environment and the amount of thinking about its behaviour. Consequently, any changes on these two variables cause the agent to use the PN...

We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations of nonprofits in 100 American cities: elite-oriented cultural and educational institutions, and socialwelfare oriented organiza...

This paper brings together results which are required in order to extend the global games approach to settings where the game structure is endogenous. More precisely, it shows that the selection argument of Carlsson and van Damme [2] holds uniformly over appropriately controlled families of games. Those results also give proper justification for the inversion of limits which is often implicit i...

Recently Antilla, Ball and Perissinaki proved that the squares of coordinate functions in ln p are negatively correlated. This paper extends their results to balls in generalized Orlicz norms on Rn. From this, the concentration of the Euclidean norm and a form of the Central Limit Theorem for the generalized Orlicz balls is deduced. Also, a counterexample for the square negative correlation hyp...

Local state transformation is the problem of transforming an arbitrary number of copies of a bipartite resource state to a bipartite target state under local operations. That is, given two bipartite states, is it possible to transform an arbitrary number of copies of one of them to one copy of the other state under local operations only? This problem is a hard one in general since we assume tha...

This study investigates the appropriateness and effectiveness of the design of icons for a Chinese web browser. Web browser developments are outlined, together with the future potential growth of Chinese internet users. The findings of the study show that the subjects shown icons and text, had higher recognition rates, and had higher satisfaction ratings. Furthermore, some evidence points to a ...

China’s role in the global food system has expanded immensely in recent years. In the seafood sector, it is now the largest consumer of seafood products in the world, making the Chinese market highly significant for global fisheries. Drawing on ethnographicand interview-based research in the largest seafood market in Beijing, this paper analyzes the social context of Chinese consumption and tra...