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...

Sexuality is a very private matter in Japan. Japan’s cultural mores and concepts of family unity have led to very conservative attitudes toward homosexuality. For instance, gay people generally fear disgracing their families, and this fear might prevent them from revealing their sexual identity to others, and so keeping it secret. Thus, homosexuality in Japan is a highly controversial topic. Be...

Weidlein and Reck [1], in a paper titled “A Million Years of Standards” state, “Standards are as old as man. The spoken word, perhaps the oldest standard of all, grew up with him; others slowly developed over the millenia. Standards of behavior, which may ante­ date even the language, crystallized gradually as folkways and mores, and as practices of worship.” Although we are not interested in t...

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...

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...

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...

Gender bias in employment is not a new phenomenon. The historical devalued status of women and equity-seeking groups preserved cultural social gendered roles permeates the workplace contributes to institutional structures which are fashioned by reproduced through traditional norms mores relegating secondary roles. question then becomes continuation these reinforced structural best long-term int...