Work organisations face demanding challenges, such as expectations to be creative, innovative, agile, competitive, efficient and adept at using employees’ knowledge while understanding and taking care of employees’ wellbeing. Organisations are actively implementing new ICT systems and environments because they seem to increase the effectiveness of interaction and collaboration, workplace learni...

this paper studies two ancient seasonal festivals which were celebrated on summer and winter solstices. because of misconceptions regarding sasanian calendar, these two festivals, known as ābrīzgān and āḍarjašn, have remained unnoticed in modern researches. a sound interpretation of the old iranian calendar as described by biruni would uncover the true character of these festivals. this paper d...

Electronic calendar has been intensively used in people’s life and work. In recent years it is popularized in the context of social networks, which forced the emergence of social calendar. For social calendar people is not just satisfied with creating, storing and exchanging their schedule data, they wants to use the calendar as a social network app, send invitations on some scheduled events, f...

Calendar scheduling is a personal behavior and there are diverse factors on which the user’s decision depends. Whether the user is initiating a new meeting or responding to a meeting request she chooses an action with multiple objectives. For instance, when trying to schedule a new meeting at a preferred time and location, the user may also want to minimize change to her existing meetings, and ...

This paper presents an early version of the Reminder, a prototype ECA developed in the European project MonAMI. The Reminder helps users to plan activities and to remember what to do. The prototype merges mobile ECA technology with other, existing technologies: Google Calendar and a digital pen and paper. The solution allows users to continue using a paper calendar in the manner they are used t...

A purely arithmetical model of early naked-eye astronomy is developed. The astronomical origin of the Mayan Calendar (the 260-day Tzolk’in, the 365-day Haab’, the 3276-day Kawil-direction-color cycle and the 1872000-day Long Count Calendar) is demonstrated and the position of the Calendar Round at the mythical date of creation 13(0).0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumku is calculated. Evidence shows that this...

It is becoming difficult to convey information from an everincreasing number of digital sources to users in a condensed and meaningful way. This growth has particularly occurred with peripheral information sources. These are of general interest to users, but do no require or typically command constant focus or attention. Examples include weather, stock data, blogs, and calendars. Ambient Displa...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) researchers often use calendar periods as an imperfect proxy for highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) when estimating the effect of HAART on HIV disease progression. The authors report on 614 HIV-positive homosexual men followed from 1984 to 2007 in 4 US cities. During 5,321 person-years, 268 of 614 men incurred acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, 49 d...

We calibrate the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development International Commodity Market model using 2019/20 marketing year crop data 2020 calendar livestock biofuel to project China's agricultural imports under six plausible policy scenarios focusing on ethanol, corn, pork from 2021 2030. Our baseline projection reflects current of relaxing tariff rate quota (TRQ) corn imposing ethanol wi...

The objective of this research is to develop a mathematical procedure construct Hijri calendar that consistent with the Gregorian calendar. Our hypothesis was derived from Quran Chapter, Alkahf verse (25), which states “They remained in their cave for three hundred years, adding nine”. We understand mean “every 300 solar years equivalent exactly 309 lunar years”. starting point locate number da...