Children are a precious gift from God, and the blessing of a child is a special time in a person's life. All cultures and religious traditions have certain ways of welcoming a newborn child into the community; also, each culture and religion has its own customs and traditions for the birth of a child. During and after the birth of a Muslim child, there are certain rituals the mother and fathe...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...