three (3) questions: 1. Examine the significance of the dome of the Dome of the Rock in the history of early Islamic architecture. What was the purpose of the building and how does its form and decorative development respond to these demands? What were its architectural precedents for the building and how were these precedents re-interpreted or transformed into a specifically Islamic tradition? 2. Discuss the reinterpretation of classical sources during the Carolingian period through a detailed
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Services Oriented Architecture is the Future The current buzz word in the Information Technology world is Service-Oriented Architecture‚ also known as SOA. Businesses are increasingly becoming interested in implementing SOA but are reluctant to adopt what might appear to be a silver bullet due to the complexities involved in this hot new business model. Granted‚ SOA is a new complex approach to building IT systems but it takes advantage of the companies existing assets making it an attractive
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Multi-Tier Architecture The Three Tier Model Business applications today all access data as part of their core functionality. As relational database servers gained in popularity 20 years ago‚ the industry moved from a one tier (mainframe) model to a client server model where we had a client performing the presentation logic and most of the business logic and the server with the data storage and some business logic in the form of stored queries. By the early 1990s this model broke down due to
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Islam in Saudi Arabia grew until1600. Both pre-Islamic and post-Islamic civilizations were egalitarian‚ this is because in nomadic societies there isn’t much one could do to be distinguishable and in Islamic societies it is believed that Allah does not call for distinguished social classes; also in both societies the Qur’an was looked to for life relations in pre-Islamic society‚ it also was looked on almost as a code of conduct‚ and in post-Islamic society‚ the Qur’an is the book of Islam making
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How the Islamic Golden Age helped save Europe The Golden Age of Islam is characterized as being a period of great achievement‚ in the fields of science‚ mathematics‚ education‚ medicine‚ and art. Strides and discoveries made in these fields would later change Europe and the world forever. During the time of this tremendous period of growth‚ stretching from 750-1258 AD during the rule of Abbasid Empire‚ Europe was in what is commonly known as “The Dark Ages.” A period characterized by plague
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Networking - Client/Server Architecture Introduction to 2-Tier Architecture 2-tier architecture is used to describe client/server systems where the client requests resources and the server responds directly to the request‚ using its own resources. This means that the server does not call on another application in order to provide part of the service. Introduction to 3-Tier Architecture In 3-tier architecture‚ there is an intermediary level‚ meaning the architecture is generally split up between:
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MIPS Architecture MIPS stands for ’Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages’ RISC Instruction Set Architecture 32 bit general purpose registers PC (program counter) holds address of next instruction all MIPS Instructions are same length Few Instruction formats and simple addressing modes Implementing MIPS • • Implementation of the MIPS instruction set Simplified to contain only – arithmetic-logic instructions: add‚ sub‚ and‚ or‚ slt – memory-reference instructions:
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North Africa‚ and Spain to establish Islamic ruled empires called caliphates that would last until 1258. The major Islamic ruled empires during this time that lasts about six centuries would be the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750) and the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258)‚ and these early Islamic empires would undergo many continuities and changes throughout their long existence. While Islamic culture and interaction with other empires and people endured for the Islamic Empires between the years 632 and 1258
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Main overview between Islamic Financial System and Conventional Financial System : Principles and Operation There are clear differences between the Islamic principles and conventional principles in the financial system. However‚ one must refrain from making a direct comparison between Islamic system and conventional system. This is because they are extremely different in many ways. The key difference is that Islamic system is based on Shariah foundation. Thus‚ all dealing‚ transaction‚ business
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Case "Enterprise Architecture at American Express" What are the key components of the architecture American Express has created? The key components of the architecture American Express has created were the ability to more effectively do business utilizing new payment methods and mobile devices. This was done through technology road map‚ reference architecture road map and utility/capacity road map. The enterprise architecture team created road maps to understand the leadership‚ organizational structure
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