Union Conference Research Articles

Effectiveness of SunPlus as an Accounting Information System in SDAC East Indonesia Union Conference Using DeLone & Mclean Information System Success Model

Faith-based organizations play a pivotal role in society, necessitating robust information management systems for efficient functioning. This study examines the effectiveness of SunPlus, an accounting information system, within the context of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDAC), utilizing the Delone & McLean information system success model. The SDAC is a global faith-based organization overseeing numerous institutions. Data for this study was gathered through a questionnaire distributed among all SunPlus users within the SDAC East Indonesian Union Conference, which yielded responses from 80 participants. The findings highlight the significant impact of information and system quality on user usage and satisfaction, which in turn affect the overall net benefit to the organization. However, the study also reveals that service quality variables do not significantly influence usage and user satisfaction. Consequently, while SunPlus serves as an essential accounting information system, it may require additional enhancements to achieve optimal effectiveness in meeting the organization's needs. The study underscores the importance of continuous evaluation and improvement of information systems in faith-based organizations to ensure they adequately support their complex administrative and operational functions. These findings are crucial for the SDAC and similar organizations striving to enhance their information management systems for better performance and user satisfaction.

Elements of Compensation Package Influencing Employee Retention: A Case of Non – Tithe Based Institutions of Seventh – Day Adventist Church – West Kenya Union Conference

In the modern business world, organizations are faced with a major challenge of retaining the best performing employees who are highly skilled and competent and capable of driving their productivity to higher levels. This study aimed at determining the elements of the compensation package that influences employee retention. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population for this study comprised of 289 regular employees. Data for the study was collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire. The data gathered was coded and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, mean and standard deviations were used. The study adopted the use of Linear regression analysis as well as the use of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The study established that there is significant difference between levels of education on employee’s perception of influence of compensation package on retention (p=0.001). There is also a significant difference between designations of employees with regard to employee bonuses (p=0.002). The regression model revealed a positive and significant influence of compensation policy employee retention (0.190, 0.020). The adjusted R Square of 0.343 of the regression model indicated that 34% of the variation in the employee retention variable is explained by the independent variables. The study concluded that the element with a significant influence on employee retention is the compensation policy. The study recommended that organizations should consider conducting regular assessments of their compensation policies to align them with employee expectations and industry standards.

Birds and people: from conflict to coexistence

Negative interactions between humans and animals are becoming increasingly frequent, as wild habitats shrink and human presence and activities expand throughout the world. Conflicts between people over conservation are one of the outcomes of this increased interaction, with severe consequences for both wildlife and people. Globally, conflicts can arise across diverse ecosystems, species and circumstances. Even if most attention in wildlife‐related conflicts has been on mammals, birds are also often at the centre of such conflicts, but conflict research is still not explicitly present in ornithological literature. Examples of such conflicts include those related to birds and agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing and public health interests. Conflicts are often more complex than initial assessments might suggest, involving ecological, economic, cultural, social and political elements. Reflecting the complexity of these issues and their increasing relevance to bird conservation, a British Ornithologists' Union conference was organized in November 2021 that aimed to highlight examples of conflicts that exist between people over birds and their conservation. Building on this conference, we provide here a review of key themes relating to the understanding of conflicts, including the importance of conflict perceptions, the collaboration between multiple disciplines and the different types of knowledge needed to better understand conflicts. We then consider the management of bird conservation conflicts, including the key issues of dealing with uncertainty, the role of technical solutions and the importance of collaboration and building trust, illustrating each theme with real‐world examples. Finally, we outline potential future conflicts around bird conservation and how best to address them proactively.

Health Equity in Sickle Cell Research and Access to Therapy

Health Equity in Sickle Cell Research and Access to Therapy

Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union

Few architectural sites seem as symbolic of the system of political rule whose official seat they accommodate as the African Union Conference Center and Office Complex (AUCC) in Addis Ababa. Funded, designed, and built by Chinese agencies, the complex sits at the center of a shifting set of international relations that also thread through the organisation’s longer architectural history. In analysing the project, this article explains processes of material, spatial, and administrative organisation at its core: an array of design and construction practices, building-related technologies, and forms of post-delivery management and maintenance that we argue amount to a mode of technical governance. Understanding this architectural form of governance requires a closer study of the design, construction, and post-occupancy of the AUCC as well as the adjacent German-designed Peace and Security Council building. It also necessitates situating these within a longer history of architectural contributions to the shifting nature of Pan-African governance in Addis Ababa over time.

Perceptions on Witnessing in the Zimbabwe West Union Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

Despite attempts by the Adventist church in the Zimbabwe West Union Conference to train and motivate its church members to be involved in witnessing, many of them remain passive. This study therefore sought to find out the perceptions of the members on the witnessing process and to proffer suggestions that would see all church members being actively involved in this divine calling. This study employed a qualitative descriptive research design. Open-ended questionnaires and focus group discussions were the means through which data was collected. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and reported according to emerging themes. Findings showed that about eight-three percent of the participants believe that when one is saved witnessing will naturally be an outflow of the salvation experience. Forty percent of the participants indicated that there is very little written by Seventh-day Adventists on witnessing for Christ hence they lack adequate information to aid them in witnessing. As a result of this lack of clear information there are misguided views concerning the practice of witnessing like the belief that it is for a few gifted people, not everyone. The foregoing findings entailed the study to recommend leadership in all levels of the church to help church membership adopt the biblical witnessing model.

Pinsk Union Conferences of 1930–1937: Religious and National Component

Pinsk Union Conferences of 1930–1937: Religious and National Component

Nordic satellite television as cultural defence in Denmark 1967–1988

ABSTRACT This article explores the ideas of what constituted Nordic television in discussions about the future of Danish television from 1967 to 1988. By the 1960s the Nordic countries already shared television programmes through the Nordvision cooperation. Satellite techno-logy offered a new dimension. The cultural bonds of the Nordic countries were able to be reinforced by sharing television programmes, and just as importantly, Nordic cooperation would shield Nordic viewers from a multitude of foreign channels in the future. The Nordic countries successfully negotiated the exceptional option of sharing a satellite beam across national borders at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conference in 1977. Still, Nordic satellite television ultimately lost the battle to provincial Denmark in the early 1980s. In accordance with the dominant Danish national self-imagination, the Danish nation was to be defended from within, and regional television provided what was perceived as an authentic defence against West German television flowing across the border.

Becker , Peter Wheatley , Natasha Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands (review)

SEER, 99, 4, OCTOBER 2021 776 peasant assemblies that always drove toward unanimous decision-making, the Soviet public sphere tolerated no dissident voices. Whereas Jeffrey Brooks’s analogous study, When Russia Learned to Read (Princeton, NJ, 1985), can be tested quantitatively (literacy rates in late imperial Russia were steadily rising), no means can be devised to quantify the contributions of public speaking to the development of Russia’s civil society. It is hard to agree with the judgment that the Bolsheviks ‘achieved a synthesis of […] authority and democracy’ (p. 293). Nevertheless, this study significantly advances our understanding of late imperial Russian political history. Department of History Jonathan Daly University of Illinois at Chicago Becker, Peter and Wheatley, Natasha (eds). Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands. The History and Theory of International Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2020. xvi + 396 pp. Notes. Index. £80.00. In a speech to the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung in 1991, the German-born American historian Fritz Stern recalled how in April 1979 he was walking alongside ‘bombed-out squares and half-decrepit mansions’ close to one of the crossing points between West and East Berlin with the French public intellectual Raymond Aron when the latter suddenly turned to him and said: ‘It could have been Germany’s century’ (Fritz Stern, Verspielte Größe, Munich, 1996, p. 11). In some ways, this is also the starting point for the fine collection of essays under review here, except in this case the reader is invited to imagine that the century could have belonged to post-Habsburg Austria, or more specifically, to 1920s-era Vienna. This radical suggestion is based on the claim that, as a state whose finances, borders and even independent existence were controlled by the victorious Allies from 1919, Austria stood at the junction of competing but overlapping trends in world politics: the imperial, the national, the regional and the internationally-minded. As ‘Global Austria’ (Weltösterreich), an imagined ‘inter-national’ or ‘supranational ’ cultural and economic space already present in the minds of some Central European intellectuals before 1914, it also drew several of its near neighbours (and erstwhile dominions) into the same trajectory, notably Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In the first chapter, Glenda Sluga introduces a little-known fact: in 1927 governments in the region launched a deliberate campaign to move the headquarters of the League of Nations from Geneva to Vienna. This project REVIEWS 777 ‘lost its traction only once the League of Nations had taken the decision to build the Palais des Nations on Lake Geneva’ in 1929 (p. 31). Beyond the League itself, the Austrian capital hosted a variety of congresses in the early 1920s, including the 1922 International Postal Union Conference and the 1926 PanEuropa Congress. Its police chief, Johannes Schober, who also served twice as Chancellor of the Austrian republic, became the founding president of Interpol, or, as it was then known, the International Criminal Police Commission, in 1923 (p. 11). More generally, the hunger problems that the city suffered in the immediate post-war period made it a central meeting point for experts from across the world in the fields of nutrition, paediatric medicine and finance. In part, these developments mark a profound political shift in Austria as it was ‘reduced’ from empire to small nation, but they also reflect the continued influence of what Sluga calls ‘Habsburg-induced cultural internationalism’ (pp. 24, 28). One example of this would be the cosmopolitan idealism of the writer Robert Musil, whose world vision straddled the passage of Central Europe from site of great power rivalries to global war to mid twentiethcentury liberal internationalism. As Sarah Lemmen shows in her impressive essay on the foreign policy of the inter-war Czechoslovak Republic, the shadow of Vienna’s imperial past could also be seen in attempts to make Prague the new capital of the post-Habsburg lands after 1918, in other words the region’s ‘mainplayer’,throughitsdevelopmentofnewinternationalpolitical,economic, diplomatic and cultural networks extending well beyond Europe (p. 351). In 1920, President Tomáš Masaryk even enticed the Orientalist Alois Musil (a second cousin of Robert) to move from Vienna, where he had established an Oriental Institute...

Effect Of Human Resource In Accounting Information System On Management Decision-Making In Seventh-Day Adventist Institutions In Eastern Nigeria

The constant changes in the business environment, both domestic and international, have brought about great challenges on management of business organizations. Despite huge investments in accounting information systems, several organisations have not realized the full potential benefits of using these systems because of persistent failures. This study therefore investigated the effect of human resources in accounting information system on management decision-making in Seventh-day Adventist institutions in Eastern Nigeria Union Conference. This study adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. The population of this study was 250 accounting officers (Management, and General Administration) in the 24 entities. The sample size was total enumeration of all the 250 employees. A structured and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The response rate was 84.4%. Data was analyzed using inferential statistics (simple linear regression analysis). The findings revealed that human resources in AIS has a positive and significant effect on management decision-making in Seventh Day Adventist Institutions in the Eastern Nigeria. Based on the findings of this study, the study recommended that institutions should give devoted attention on factors that will promote human resource development in the institutions, as this is capable of contributing positively on the management of the organization, which include informed decision-making.

Teacher Retention in Secondary Schools of Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kenya Union Conference

The study aimed at examining retention of teachers in secondary schools of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church in East Kenya Union Conference (EKUC). It employed a concurrent mixed methods research design and adopted an exploratory approach using a descriptive survey. Out of the twenty secondary schools in the Union, the researcher targeted eleven which sat for the national exams since 2008. The subjects of the study included teachers, principals, the Conferences/Field Education Directors and the BoM chairpersons. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaires for teachers. Interview schedules were organized for education directors, the school BoM chairpersons, the principals and teachers for triangulation. Observation schedule was also organized. This targeted the school infrastructure and generally all what goes on in the school. The school learning facilities and the behavior of teachers in school was also captured here. The other instrument used was the tool for document analysis to collect data for 8 years. Ninety-eight (98) teachers were required to fill the provided questionnaire, but the eleven principals, five education directions and eleven Boards of Management (BoM ) chairpersons were subjected to interviews. Three teachers per school were also interviewed for triangulation purpose. Observations were also done during the visits in schools. Documentary analysis method was also used to gather information on the turnover trends of teachers for eight years. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. Documentary analysis was done on records about teacher retention. Content analysis was done on responses from interviews and in open-ended questions to identify the emerging themes. The findings show that more teachers were leaving schools than those being employed in most of the years. Generally, it is evident that some teachers left church employment. The turnover was experienced annually. However, teachers intended to remain in the school as long as the administration was cooperative, understanding, appreciative, recognizes their efforts, was caring and was ready to treat them with dignity. The study recommends that the school administration should be cooperative to teachers, by treating them with dignity and appreciating their efforts. There should be stringent measures for motivating teachers, ensuring that they had access to housing and transport and that they were adequately remunerated.

Student Retention in Secondary Schools of Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kenya Union Conference

The study assessed students’ retention in secondary schools of the SDA Church in EKUC. It employed a concurrent mixed methods research design and adopted an exploratory approach using a descriptive survey. The subjects of the study included students, principals, the Conferences/Field Education Directors and the Board of Management (BoM) chairpersons. Based on expectancy theory of motivation, the study adopted the concurrent mixed methods research design. The target population was the twenty Seventh-day Adventist Church maintained Secondary Schools in EKUC. The unit of analysis was eleven secondary school principals, five education directors and, eleven chairpersons of the school boards of management (BOM) and 335 students. Cluster sampling technique was used to get the samples. The target population was divided into five clusters (principals, students, education directors and, board chairpersons). Samples were obtained from each of these clusters. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaires for students. Interview schedules were organized for education directors, the school BoM chairpersons and the principals for triangulation. Observation schedule was also organized. This targeted the school infrastructure and generally all what goes on in the school. The school learning facilities and the behavior of teachers in school was also captured here. The other instrument used was the tool for document analysis to collect data for 8 years. Students (335) were required to fill the provided questionnaire, but the eleven principals, five education directions and eleven BoM chairpersons were subjected to interviews. Documentary analysis method was used to get information on KCSE performance for the same period of eight years. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. Documentary analysis was done on records about teacher retention. Content analysis was done on responses from interviews and in open-ended questions. The findings show that there were high numbers of students in Form 2 and 3 who dropped within the year and those who joined. Students were being replaced as they dropped out in some of the years. All in all, there were high annual turnover rates. This could affect the learning processes as well as students’ academic performance. The study recommends the need for schools to put in place strategies for ensuring that students learning facilities were available. Students should also be motivated to remain in school. Bursaries and sponsorships for students from poor backgrounds should be availed. Spiritual guidance, work programs and flexible fees payment mechanisms should also be instituted so as to support children from poor background to remain in school.

Determinants of Teacher and Student Retention in Secondary Schools of Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kenya union Conference

The study aimed at establishing the factors which influence the low retention of teachers and students in secondary schools of the SDA Church in EKUC. It employed a concurrent mixed methods research design and adopted an exploratory approach using a descriptive survey. This was to investigate the factors which influenced the retention of teachers and students in EKUC schools. Out of the twenty secondary schools in the Union, the researcher targeted eleven which sat for the national exams since 2008. The subjects of the study included teachers, students, principals, the Conferences/Field Education Directors and the BoM chairpersons. The study was based on the expectancy theory of motivation which states that certain behaviour leads to the expected outcome. In the research, certain behaviours by the relevant authorities should lead to high retention of students and teachers. Teachers should be availed bursary funds for career advancement, given incentives for motivation and be made to believe that they are appreciated by the school administration. The administration should assist the needy students to get financial support. The findings showed that two independent variables (school administration and motivation strategies) commonly contributed to the retention of teachers and students. School administration was the most common factor which contributed to low retention, among the two groups. It was found important to carry out exhaustive studies on each of the study variables for comparative purposes in public schools and undertake exploratory and in-depth studies on the same.

Determinants of Teacher and Student Retention in Secondary Schools of Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kenya union Conference

The study aimed at establishing the factors which influence the low retention of teachers and students in secondary schools of the SDA Church in EKUC. It employed a concurrent mixed methods research design and adopted an exploratory approach using a descriptive survey. This was to investigate the factors which influenced the retention of teachers and students in EKUC schools. Out of the twenty secondary schools in the Union, the researcher targeted eleven which sat for the national exams since 2008. The subjects of the study included teachers, students, principals, the Conferences/Field Education Directors and the BoM chairpersons. The study was based on the expectancy theory of motivation which states that certain behaviour leads to the expected outcome. In the research, certain behaviours by the relevant authorities should lead to high retention of students and teachers. Teachers should be availed bursary funds for career advancement, given incentives for motivation and be made to believe that they are appreciated by the school administration. The administration should assist the needy students to get financial support. The findings showed that two independent variables (school administration and motivation strategies) commonly contributed to the retention of teachers and students. School administration was the most common factor which contributed to low retention, among the two groups. It was found important to carry out exhaustive studies on each of the study variables for comparative purposes in public schools and undertake exploratory and in-depth studies on the same.

Teacher Retention in Secondary Schools of Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kenya Union Conference

The study aimed at examining retention of teachers in secondary schools of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church in East Kenya Union Conference (EKUC). It employed a concurrent mixed methods research design and adopted an exploratory approach using a descriptive survey. Out of the twenty secondary schools in the Union, the researcher targeted eleven which sat for the national exams since 2008. The subjects of the study included teachers, principals, the Conferences/Field Education Directors and the BoM chairpersons. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaires for teachers. Interview schedules were organized for education directors, the school BoM chairpersons, the principals and teachers for triangulation. Observation schedule was also organized. This targeted the school infrastructure and generally all what goes on in the school. The school learning facilities and the behavior of teachers in school was also captured here. The other instrument used was the tool for document analysis to collect data for 8 years. Ninety-eight (98) teachers were required to fill the provided questionnaire, but the eleven principals, five education directions and eleven Boards of Management (BoM ) chairpersons were subjected to interviews. Three teachers per school were also interviewed for triangulation purpose. Observations were also done during the visits in schools. Documentary analysis method was also used to gather information on the turnover trends of teachers for eight years. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. Documentary analysis was done on records about teacher retention. Content analysis was done on responses from interviews and in open-ended questions to identify the emerging themes. The findings show that more teachers were leaving schools than those being employed in most of the years. Generally, it is evident that some teachers left church employment. The turnover was experienced annually. However, teachers intended to remain in the school as long as the administration was cooperative, understanding, appreciative, recognizes their efforts, was caring and was ready to treat them with dignity. The study recommends that the school administration should be cooperative to teachers, by treating them with dignity and appreciating their efforts. There should be stringent measures for motivating teachers, ensuring that they had access to housing and transport and that they were adequately remunerated.

Student Retention in secondary schools of Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kenya Union Conference

The study assessed students’ retention in secondary schools of the SDA Church in EKUC. It employed a concurrent mixed methods research design and adopted an exploratory approach using a descriptive survey. The subjects of the study included students, principals, the Conferences/Field Education Directors and the Board of Management (BoM) chairpersons. Based on expectancy theory of motivation, the study adopted the concurrent mixed methods research design. The target population was the twenty Seventh-day Adventist Church maintained Secondary Schools in EKUC. The unit of analysis was eleven secondary school principals, five education directors and, eleven chairpersons of the school boards of management (BOM) and 335 students. Cluster sampling technique was used to get the samples. The target population was divided into five clusters (principals, students, education directors and, board chairpersons). Samples were obtained from each of these clusters. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaires for students. Interview schedules were organized for education directors, the school BoM chairpersons and the principals for triangulation. Observation schedule was also organized. This targeted the school infrastructure and generally all what goes on in the school. The school learning facilities and the behavior of teachers in school was also captured here. The other instrument used was the tool for document analysis to collect data for 8 years. Students (335) were required to fill the provided questionnaire, but the eleven principals, five education directions and eleven BoM chairpersons were subjected to interviews. Documentary analysis method was used to get information on KCSE performance for the same period of eight years. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. Documentary analysis was done on records about teacher retention. Content analysis was done on responses from interviews and in open-ended questions. The findings show that there were high numbers of students in Form 2 and 3 who dropped within the year and those who joined. Students were being replaced as they dropped out in some of the years. All in all, there were high annual turnover rates. This could affect the learning processes as well as students’ academic performance. The study recommends the need for schools to put in place strategies for ensuring that students learning facilities were available. Students should also be motivated to remain in school. Bursaries and sponsorships for students from poor backgrounds should be availed. Spiritual guidance, work programs and flexible fees payment mechanisms should also be instituted so as to support children from poor background to remain in school.

Organization of antibiotic stewardship in Europe: the way to go.

SummaryIt is more than two decades ago that a European Union conference on “The Microbial Threat” hosted by the Danish Government in Copenhagen in September 1998 issued recommendations to encourage good practice in the use of antimicrobial agents and reduce inappropriate prescribing. Essential components of those recommendations were antimicrobial teams in hospitals and the use of feedback to prescribers as well as educational activities. Two decades later, important surveillance systems on both antimicrobial resistance as well as on antibiotic consumption are functioning at the European level and in most European countries; European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) has thoroughly re-evaluated, standardized and harmonized antibiotic susceptibility testing and breakpoints; there have been educational activities in many countries; and stewardship teams are now included in many guidelines and policy papers and recommendations. Yet, antimicrobial resistance problems in Europe have shifted from methicillin-resistant Staphylococus aureus (MRSA) to vancomycin-resistent Enterococcus faecium (VRE) and to multidrug-resistant gramnegative bacteria, while antibiotic consumption volumes, trends and patterns across countries do not show major and highly significant improvements. The way to go further is to recognize that better prescribing comes at a cost and requires investment in expert personnel, practice guideline drafting, and implementation aids, and, secondly, the setting of clear goals and quantitative targets for prescribing quality.

Evaluation of the Internal Control System of Seventh-Day Adventist Hospitals in South Philippine Union Conference

Evaluation of the Internal Control System of Seventh-Day Adventist Hospitals in South Philippine Union Conference

Introduction to the thematic set: Progress in Remediation of Polluted Soils

Lead Guest Editor: Jaume Bech Co-Guest Editors: Elena Korobova, M. Manuela Abreu, Carmen Perez-Sirvent, Hyo-Taek Chon and Nuria Roca The collection of papers presented in this Thematic Set is an outcome of the SSS8.4 Session ‘Progress in remediation for soils polluted by potentially toxic elements’, presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference held in Vienna, April 2017. Soils are essential components of the environment, the basis of terrestrial ecosystems and a crossroad of biogeochemical cycles at the lithosphere-hydrosphere-biosphere-atmosphere interface. Soils are a limited and vulnerable resource and soil quality must be preserved. Anthropogenic mismanagement through poor industrial and mining practices, overuse of agrochemicals, bad disposal of sewage sludge and waste, cause contamination, environmental and health concerns. Therefore soil pollution needs innovative and eco-friendly technologies for its remediation. This Thematic Set contains 13 papers written by authors from 12 countries: Armenia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines, Russian Federation, Spain, Thailand and USA. This collection of original studies focuses on five topics: 1) sequential extraction/speciation, 2) phytoremediation, 3) oxygen content in iron sulphides, 4) stabilization of Zn compounds in a long incubation experiment, and 5) bioavailability of potential toxic elements. ### Sequential extraction/speciation There are five papers dealing with this topic: Burachevskaya et al. studied the Zn fractional distribution in artificially contaminated Haplic Chernozem in South Russia, using the Miller and Tessier methods of sequential extraction. The authors concluded that the content of Zn in the fraction bound to the removed component obtained by the Tessier method area was lower than that obtained by the Miller method. Minkina et al. researched the Zn speciation in Technosols of the Karabash copper smelter, Southern Urals, Russia, using the combined fractionation scheme and a set of X-ray synchroton …

A Completeness Theorem for a Hahn–Fourier System and an Associated Classical Sampling Theorem

We introduce a completeness theorem for a Hahn–Fourier-type trigonometric system, where the sine and cosine functions are replaced by \(q,\omega \)-trigonometric functions, where \(0<q<1,0<\omega \) are fixed. The completeness is established in an appropriate \(L^2\)-space, defined in terms of Jackson–Norlund integrals. We then derive a \(q,\omega \)-counterpart of the celebrated sampling theorem of Whittaker (Proc R Soc Edinb 35:181–194, 1915), as reported by Kotel’nikov (in: Material for the first all union conference on questions of communications, Moscow, 1933) and Shannon (Proc IRE 37:10–21, 1949), for finite Hahn–Fourier-type integral transforms. A convergence analysis is established and comparative numerical examples are exhibited.