indeed she paints a vivid picture of the changes in European and American society and science by focusing on this particular disease. From the wealth of details throughout the book, it is clear that Brumberg, a historian, has thoroughly researched her material. While the details add color to the lengthy case histories, they also tend to become repetitive and tedious, and in some cases the autho...

E-Commerce can be streamlined if products and services are unambiguously identified with industryagreed XML tags through the coding of products and services according to standard classification conventions, such as the Universal Standards Products and Services Classification (UNSPSC). Standardized coding allows for more effective electronic purchasing management by spend analysis ,and assists m...

Today, vast volumes of goods are transported all over the world in containers. Customs authorities are charged with detecting smuggling and can find indications of this by screening documentation on containers that is by law provided by shippers and carriers. In the Contain project, Decision Support Systems for customs to do this risk profiling are developed. In order to test these systems, we ...

Rapid evolvements of mobile broadband application services have attracted much attention from business owners and executives in recent years. However, researches have shown that numerous challenges and obstacles are involved in the successful implementation of a mobile application service. Therefore, a meaningful implementation model is needed. By looking through related works and relative case...

The literature offers many descriptions of the benefits of using DSLs, including improved development productivity, flexibility, maintainability, and separation of business and technical aspects. For instance, Don Batory and his colleagues report on their use of DSLs to implement a command-and-control simulator. 2 Their case study demonstrated added development productivity and flexibility with...

Background Esophageal cancer is the seventh most common malignancy worldwide and the fifth in the developing countries. Its incidence is rising more rapidly than any other cancer. The risk of developing esophageal cancer between countries may be influenced by diversity of cultures and customs. One of the unique customs in Yemen is chewing khat, therefore the aim of this study was to determine t...

Over the past 30 years, the legal status of husbands and wives in marriage has undergone major changes with the result that wives are now beginning to have more of an independent legal identity than in the past and, to some extent, more of an equal relationship with their husbands although full equality has not yet been achieved. At the same time, divorce laws and policies have consistently mov...