Understanding the Factors Influencing Adoption of Digital Banking in Emerging Markets: The Role of Perception and Personality Antecedents by Ntswaki Petunia Matlala

“…Although digital banking services provide customers with increased convenience and accessibility around the clock, many still struggle to grasp their ever-changing nature. To address this, a study was conducted to identify the main factors influencing the adoption of digital banking in South Africa. …”
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Women Born to Older Mothers Have Reduced Fertility. Evidence From a Natural Fertility Population by Niels van den Berg, Ingrid K. van Dijk, Rick J. Mourits

“…Using mixed effect Poisson and linear models to take within family (sibling) relations into account, we show that among married daughters fertility is reduced for those who were born to mothers with an advanced maternal age, resulting in fewer children ever born and earlier ages at last birth. We do not find consistent evidence for effects on neonatal mortality. …”
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Reprises textuelles dans The Dew Breaker d’Edwidge Danticat by Corinne Duboin

“…Her characters, whether victims or perpetrators, all strive to free themselves from a haunting past : is it ever possible to forgive so as to heal the pain ? …”
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The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Yalçın Yalçınkaya

“…Today, social networks are more popular than they have ever been. We use social networks to take a step, to interact with others. …”
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Evolution of Access Routes to High Mountain Refuges of the Mer de Glace Basin (Mont Blanc Massif, France) by Jacques Mourey, Ludovic Ravanel

“…Despite these adaptations, the danger they pose continues to rise, and the necessity to equip them is ever more important (633 m. of ladders at present), which raises doubts about the future accessibility of such high mountain refuges.…”
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Adieu, de Balzac : « Une absence au monde qui vient de se déclarer au cœur de l’histoire » by France Vernier

“…The reader in turn is stimulated to an ever deeper reflection on the fate of this “collateral” victim, and the effect Balzac’s text has on a re-focusing of History.…”
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Redefining the role of Learning Development practitioners by Steve Briggs

“… At a time when higher education (HE) sector funding is reported to be ever more perilous (Simons and Lister, 2024; Wareing, 2024) and means of making savings may need to be enacted at universities, it is essential that the unique role and impact of Learning Development (LD) practitioners is clearly understood by decision makers, for only then will it be valued and resourced. …”
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The Organizational Structure and Operational Logic of an Urban Smart Governance Information Platform: Discussion on the Background of Urban Governance Transformation in China by Junfang Kang, Xianjun Wang

“…At present, the Chinese government is trying to resolve various social contradictions, such as people’s ever-growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. …”
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Using genomic data and machine learning to predict antibiotic resistance: A tutorial paper. by Faye Orcales, Lucy Moctezuma Tan, Meris Johnson-Hagler, John Matthew Suntay, Jameel Ali, Kristiene Recto, Phelan Glenn, Pleuni Pennings

“…Given that ML is likely to become an ever more important tool in medicine, we believe that it is important for pre-health students and others in the life sciences to learn to use ML tools. …”
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Portfolio de doctorants et postures d’apprenti chercheur by Elsa Chachkine, Fabienne Saboya

“…The professionalization of doctoral students is a major challenge in an ever-changing socio-economic context, where strong investment in research and innovation is essential. …”
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Research on the tourism service quality evaluation of Gongbei Lingnan community under the perspective of SERVQUAL theory by Jing Liu, Xinru Kuai, Pohsun Wang

“…The Lingnan community faces the challenge of improving tourism services to meet the ever-increasing needs of tourists with the continuous growth of tourists. …”
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Individual from the Viewpoint of Psychology and Sociology in the Context of Leisure Time-Library by Hasan Atmaca

“…In today’s world, people are getting much stumbled with the changing conditions in such phenomena like rapid growth of cities, contemporary technologies and the relative growth of industry due to the latter requiring more and more information as ever before in order to recover themselves from this transition. …”
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An interpersonal pragmatic perspective on seductive discourse by Jim O’DRISCOLL

“…The fact that these desires often take the form of background, half-conscious or unconscious expectations should not blind us to the fact that this concern for self-presentation is ever-present. This is one reason why, although SD is often necessarily covert, it is not thereby inherently deceptive. …”
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Public Perception of Massage Therapy by Özlem Özdinç

“…In study 1 (n = 1,925), we distinguished four groups of individuals by their massage perception (positive, negative) and whether they had ever received a massage (yes, no). In study 2 (n = 1,209), we observed the four types of people that study 1 determined to compare the influences of a service expert and discount on their perceptions of massage therapy in a 2 (therapist: expert, nonexpert) x 2 (discount: yes, no) Solomon four-group experiment. …”
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Un/Seeing Campus Carry: Experiencing Gun Culture in Texas by Benita Heiskanen

“…The article dem­onstrates a tension between seeing and unseeing—remembering and forgetting—the armed campus space and the range of visual metaphors through which firearms are discussed without ever exhibiting the actual, physical object of a gun. …”
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Materials Flow Analysis as a Tool to Improve Solid Waste Management: A Case of Ankara by Nesli Aydın

“…The progress of recent civilisation and the associated growth in population worldwide has contributed considerably to the increase in the quantity of waste produced. The ever-increasing consumption of resources has resulted in high amounts of solid waste from domestic activities, which can pose significant threats to the environment and human health. …”
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4 3 2 1, The Book of Endlessly Forking Paths by Ilana Shiloh

“…But Auster’s latest novel is still unique. Ever since Aristotle, fiction has aspired to mimesis, to a recognizable representation of reality. …”
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