Located just north of the Arctic Circle, the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes (GKSD) are an inland dune field that is closely surrounded by boreal forest. The history of the GKSD tells us about changes in aridity, a climatic parameter whose history is poorly understood at high latitudes. Vegetated dunes in several states of geomorphic preservation surround the active dune field today, evidencing a comple...

This article proposes a framework to model and reason on what we call multi-calendar appointment scheduling problems. Multicalendar appointment scheduling problems such as planning a phone conference of three persons in France, Tunisia, and Japan refer to various temporal conditions, involving arbitrary calendric types such as months (Islamic months are defined differently from Gregorian months...

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A propositional temporal logic is introduced whose operators quantify over intervals of a reference time line. The intervals are specified symbolically, for example ‘next week’s weekend’. The specification language for the intervals takes into account all the features of real calendar systems. A simple statement which can be expressed in this language is for example: ‘yesterday I worked for eig...

The 2008 AMTA Convention will include as a component of its overall program a Massage Therapy Foundation-sponsored massage research track spanning a poster session and five educational sessions. For further details on the convention's program, inclusive of the massage research-specific sessions, please visit: The Society for Integrative Oncology's (SIO) Fifth International Conference will inclu...

Calendar Availability draft-daboo-calendar-availability-03 Abstract This document specifies a new iCalendar calendar component that allows the publication of available and unavailable time periods associated with a calendar user. This component can be used in standard iCalendar free-busy lookups, including iTIP free-busy requests, to generate repeating blocks of available or busy time with exce...