Excavating Temporalities

Temporalities for Workflow Management Systems

Time is a very important dimension of any aspect in human life, affecting also information and information management. As such, time must be dealt with in a suitable way, considering all its facets. The related literature already considered temporal information management from a pure database point of view: temporal aspects (also known as temporalities) of stored information cannot be neglected...

Deep Impact : Excavating Comet Tempel

Introduction: On 4 July 2005, Deep Impact delivered 19 GJoules of kinetic energy to the nucleus of comet Tempel 1, taking numerous images and spectra of the comet before, during, and after the impact. The preliminary analysis of the data has already lead to significant, new understanding of cometary properties and behavior [1] and this talk will summarize the present state of our understanding ...

Temporalities of Inequality and Timeframes of Development

In this paper I discuss what I think of as the “modalities of time” involved in a development project in the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. By “modalities” I mean the understandings of time held by the different actors involved, but also the timeframes relevant to various social dynamics impacted by the project. Max Gluckman discussed such timeframes in terms of “structural duration,” the perio...

Excavating Culture: Summary of Results.

This is a companion paper to the seven articles also published in this special issue of Applied Developmental Science This paper summarizes and discusses the results from common analyses that were conducted on different datasets. The common analyses were designed to disentangle contextual and ethnic influences on parenting. Initial ethnic group differences were found in many of the datasets wit...

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