The Politics of Tribal Perseverance

There is a short answer to the question that has been posed to the participants in this roundtable. Tribes have a great deal of currency in modern Yemen because they provide an effective means to govern and protect local society. Tribalism is a deep pool of widely accepted customary practices in Yemen that people draw upon to provide security, manage agricultural resources (Yemen's tribespeople are mostly settled agriculturalists), and resolve local disputes.

A Web Service for Content-Based Management

Rapid development of Internet technique and electronic commerce change the way of operation and management in enterprises and organizations, of which information storage systems will be affected greatly. Researchers are now more and more interested in finding a way to access information effect and efficient. We design and implement a web content management system which allows content creators to create, submit and manage contents conveniently. In our web content management system, data can be defined as documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. We analyze the destination and function of web content management system first, and then design how files are organized and managed. In web content management system, the content is stored and managed at the sub-document or component level for greater content reuse. With web content management system, users can maintain security, manage objects, manage servers, and manage auditing easily.