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The authors give some main properties of bounded convex sequences of order \(m\geq 2\). Define \(S_ m\) as the class of real sequence \((a_ n)\), \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), with the following properties: (i) \(M_ 2\leq a_ n\leq M_ 1\) \((n=0,1,\dots)\) and (ii) \(\bigtriangledown^ r a_ n\geq 0\) \((r=2,\dots,m\); \(n=0,1,\dots\) \((m\geq 2))\), where \(\bigtriangledown^ r a_ n=(-1)^ r\Delta^ r a_ n\). The main result is the following: the sequence \((a_ n)\) belongs to \(S_ m\) iff there exists a sequence \((b_ n)\) such that: (i) \(a_ n=(- 1)^ m\sum^ n_{k=0} V^{m-1}_{n-k} b_ k\), (ii) \((- 1)^{m+j}\sum^ n_{k=0} V^{m-j-1}_{n-k} b_ k\geq 0\) for \(j=2,\dots,m-1\); \(n\geq j\), (iii) \(b_ k\geq 0\) for \(k\geq m\), (iv) \(V^ k_{n-k}\sum^ n_{i=0} V^{n-k-1}_{n-i}\) \(b_ i\to 0\) \((n\to\infty)\) for \(k=1,\dots,m-1\) and (v) \(\sum^ \infty_{k=0} V^{m-1}_ k b_{n+m}\) is convergent, where \(V^ r_ n={n+r\choose r}\).