International trade in wildlife threatens biodiversity because it can result in habitat destruction, overexploitation of wildlife, and the spread of invasive alien species. Although traders are required to report goods, including wildlife, to border authorities when the goods are moved across international borders, customs authorities do not have mandatory, standardized reporting requirements f...

common people', in other words almost anything commonly accepted and practised. This is fair enough, but before medicine became scientific how, in this day and age, can we separate folklore from orthodox practice? The beliefs and customs of the past are so numerous that it is impossible to make a complete collection, and any attempt to do so must result in an unreadable jumble. The study of fol...

Hepatitis B (HB) disease occurs with high risk behaviors in the different communities. Aim of this study was to find out some of local customs in lifestyle that might be risk factors for transmitting this disease in order to design the educational programs and control it periodically in Chaharmahal VA Bakhtiari, Iran. This was a case-control study, carried out on patients with HB and the contro...

Recently, there are two mainly methods for SMEs operating cross-border e-commerce in China. One is online store of firms via the cross-border third party platform. The other is the online store of firms built by themselves for export markets expansion. Based on the analysis of cross-border e-commerce process, we explore four factors which may affect the mode selection of cross-border e-commerce...

Purpose To present an approach to support understanding of inter-organisational systems. Design/methodology/approach The approach combines two types of graphical snapshots of relevant properties of each organisation, based on concrete data. The first type of snapshot provides a bird’s eye view of the network that enables matching partners to form groups based on similarity. The second type of s...

Customs is one domain which has faced the need for information systems in a globalizing world. In customs there is a need for close collaboration between business and government in order to build robust technological infrastructures supporting processes related to export and import of goods. This has led to a move towards eCustoms. This case study reports from a longitudinal study of a Danish e...

LESLIE V. GRINSELL, Barrow, pyramid and tomb. Ancient burial customs in Egypt, the Mediterranean and the British Isles, London, Thames & Hudson, 1975, 8vo, pp. 240, illus., £5.75. The disposal of the dead, although a grisly topic, is one of the most interesting of man's activities, reflecting as it does many basic beliefs of the inhumators and cremators. Mr. Grinsell, who was Curator of archaeo...

This paper studies the evolution of a population whose members use their social class to coordinate their actions in a simple tacit bargaining game. In the spirit of Rosenthal and Landau [1979], we interpret the equilibrium behaviours that the players may adopt, as a function of their class, as customs. Players may change their class depending on the outcome of the game, and may also change the...

Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are agreements among a set of countries involving preferential treatment of bilateral trade between any two parties to the agreement relative to their trade with the rest of the world. Preferences, however, need not extend to all trade between the two, and the coverage could depend on the type of PTAs. Customs unions and the so-called free trade areas are co...