In my course “Time” I set out to disrupt the connection between cognitive tools used represent time (clocks and calendars) experiences of time. This article documents some topics pedagogical methods use: using unusual due dates for assignments, making clock look strange, disrupting idea “now,” showing how clocks cultivate gullibility, exploring different hour systems past, criticizing clock-bas...

Mobile computing presents a huge new opportunity and huge challenges for the Semantic Web and logic reasoning in general. Mobile phones contain many different types of information that are very important for our life, from addresses and telephone numbers, to calendars. In some cases, our mobiles contain parking, train and bus tickets, they notify us when it is time to go to take plane or of a c...

In the past years the management of temporal data has attracted numerous researchers resulting to a large number of temporal data extensions to the relational and object oriented data models. In this paper, the proposed temporal data model focuses on the functional characteristics of the histories. The paper introduces a set oriented description of the calendars together with a function oriente...

Rice is the staple crop for more than half world’s population, but there a lack of high-resolution maps outlining rice areas and their growth stages. Most remote sensing studies map extent; however, in tropical regions, grown throughout year with variable planting dates cropping frequency. Thus, mapping stages useful only extent. This study addressed this challenge by developing phenology-based...