Do spicy foods cause ulcers?

Introduction The belief that spicy food causes gastric or duodenal ulcers is still surprisingly common. Perhaps the easiest evidence for this is the large number of pages on the Internet devoted to dispelling the idea, like the CDC [C2005]....

Religion and Conversion in Islamic North and West Africa

Cultural Profile Islam Islam is probably the fastest growing religion in the world. Statistics vary widely but even a conservative estimate from the U.S. Center for World Mission [GP1997] places its growth rate at 2.9% from 1970 to 1996, just...

Digital Rights Management and Society

DRM technology and its respective laws are harmful to society in that they take advantage of honest and less savvy people and force them to relinquish control of their property to corporations.

OOP in C++ and D

C++ and D are object oriented programming languages which were inherited from the C language. They share a number of features in common, particularly in syntax, but over all the languages are quite different.

An Overview of the REST Architecture

REST in an architectural style that is used throughout the World Wide Web. REST defines a number of constraints. REST is a client-server architecture and connections are stateless. REST uses standardized interfaces and self-descriptive messages...

Standard German Transcription

Introduction Standard German is one of the larger languages of the world. According to the Ethnologue [RG2005], Standard German had 95,392,978 speakers in 1990 and German 101 [G1994] reports it as being more than 120 million people. Most of these...

Free Electronic Formats

Electronic documents are everywhere and the old method of using pen-and-paper are becoming increasingly scarce. However, the introduction of electronic formats has introduced a new level of complexity to the system that has significant...