Islanders’ Heterogenous 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...

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...

" Three Temporalities : Toward a Sociology of the

Reconstructing the origin of Andaman Islanders.

The origin of the Andaman "Negrito" and Nicobar "Mongoloid" populations has been ambiguous. Our analyses of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences from Onges and Great Andaman populations revealed two deeply branching clades that share their most recent common ancestor in founder haplogroup M, with lineages spread among India, Africa, East Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. This distribution sugges...

Erythema Migrans–like Illness among Caribbean Islanders

Erythema migrans is the skin manifestation of Lyme disease and southern tick-associated rash illness. Neither disease is found in the Caribbean. We report 4 cases of erythema migrans of a possible emerging clinical entity, Caribbean erythma migrans-like illness.