In Internet telephony, end systems can take a much larger role in providing services than in traditional telephony systems. We analyze the importance of end system services and describe the services and the Service Logic Execution Environment (SLEE) implemented in our SIP user agent, SIPC. Since we believe that end system services differ in their requirements from network services, we define a ...

In [4, 13], Bancilhon and Paredaens introduced a notion of completeness for relational database languages on instance-level. Their criterion was subsequently called BP-completeness. Since then, it was used frequently in the context of other database models. However, its application in the context of languages involving object creation appears to raise some serious problems. In this paper, we us...

this article aims to show that the recent story of zahhak is in fact a re-modeling of the creation myth. this theory is proved through the comparison of the structural elements of the zoroastrian myth of creation with the story of zahhak from the shāhnāma. for this purpose, initially, a summary of the creation myth is presented in three parts. then, it is concluded that the triple division of z...

A further implication of the doctrine of creation from nothing is that all of God’s creatures are intimately connected to one another in an echo of the primordial coinherence of the Trinitarian persons. Since all creation is centered in God, all finite things, despite their enormous differences in size, position, quality, or metaphysical status, are linked together as ontological siblings. When...

The story of the creation of man and woman in the Qur’an differs infundamental ways from the story of creation in the Bible. The Qur’an explainsthat, contiguous with the creation of Adam, was the creation of his mate from thesame material and essence. These two, Adam and Eve, hold equal positions as Allah’skhalafah(vicegerent) on earth. This article discusses the Kiramat(generosity)of women in ...