Digital technology has permeated nearly every inhabited corner of the globe, from the metropolitan global information hubs in the USA or Europe, where everything from the parking ticket to the vacuum cleaner seems increasingly digital and networked, to the most remote African or Indian village, where the mobile phone and network are proliferating at much talked-about speeds. Meanwhile, the swel...

In northern Nigeria, widows’ identities and status are defined within the mores, norms, traditional religions, and legal institutions of the cultures of the community. The ethnic cultural laws are oppressive and retrogressive. The nexus of these cultural pressures trigger discriminatory practices that deny school attending widows’ access, and completion of primary and secondary levels of educat...

As progressing social mores and new legislation mandate greater levels of accessibility across broadcast television, online video, education, and the workplace, it becomes ever more important to deliver captioned content at lower cost, with higher quality, and more quickly. To reach those goals, attention is shifting toward automation. While many attempts have been made to apply large vocabular...

Over the centuries historians and scholars have documented the devastating effects that war has upon society; yet whilst it is known how destructive warfare can be, wars continue to be waged. There have, however, been attempts to provide rules and regulations to limit the damaging effects of conflict. The Greeks attempted to place restraints on the recourse and conduct of war, whilst the Romans...

This article analyses how the nineteenth-century fictional heroines in Stendhal's Mina de Vanghel and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's `Le Bonheur dans le crime' don a maidservant disguise order to revolt against their society's oppressive mores subsequently reverse power dynamics between men women, as well servants masters mistresses. By drawing on period's non-literary discourses that likewise depi...

The purpose of this discussion is to note the application maintenance statutes vis-à-vis Muslim couples in South African courts. Firstly, important judgments are referred chronological order; secondly, rights a spouse set out for following periods: during marriage, after death her husband and postdivorce; lastly, jurisdiction courts discussed light changing mores society. In short, question how...

In Saudi Arabia, family members, general practitioners, morticians, or police officer, who are eligible to request autopsies, refrain from doing so expedite the burial of deceased. Inaccurate entries into medical death certificate facilitate so. The reason for ignoring completion certificates is not fully explored. Yet, incompetence avoiding medicolegal allegations seem be causative factors. th...

Learners’ dictionaries aim to give clear indications of meaning, but not all aspects of meaning can be neatly packaged up in definitions – even without the constraints of a restricted defining vocabulary. It is difficult, for example, to deal effectively with connotation and culture-bound meanings; to show evaluations clearly and consistently; or to explain even-handedly the ideological undercu...