Abstr act. One of the most broadly investigated topics in the literature on conceptual mappings is the importance of spatial construals for thinking and talking about time. In two forthcoming articles [1] [7] we explore how people understand timelines – both as graphical objects, in discourse about timelines taken from newspapers and the web, and in poetic examples. A comparison with metaphors ...

We present in this article two different ways to make CMB maps in practice, from large timelines. One is to make a simple destriping, fitting the data and using the scan intercepts to remove the low frequency noise (stripes). The second, optimal, is to resolve linearly the map-making problem, which in case of big timelines must be simplified and changed from matrices to vectors for the calculat...

When studying heritage artefacts, it is important to understand, communicate and cross-examine indications about how they evolved through time. Changes occurring in the artefact’s morphology or functional role, once properly described and distributed in time, can be represented using linear graphics called timelines. Timelines have been, before and within the computer age, a classical and easy ...

While timelines for clinical development have been extensively studied, there is little data on the broader path from initiation of research on novel drug targets, to approval of drugs based on this research. We examined timelines of translational science for 138 drugs and biologicals approved by the FDA from 2010-2014 using an analytical model of technology maturation. Research on targets for ...

background: most studies evaluated the vaccine coverage, but the time of vaccination is important as coverage. this study was conducted to evaluate the expanded program of immunization (epi) in outskirt of iranian cities regarding to incidence of delay vaccination among children less than 4 years. methods : this cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among children 24-47 months old, li...

Patch management of networks is essential to mitigate the risks from the exploitation of vulnerabilities through malware and other attacks, but by setting too rigorous a patching policy for network devices the IT security team can also create burdens for IT operations or disruptions to the business. Different patch deployment timelines could be adopted with the aim of reducing this operational ...

Real world planning applications typically involve making decisions that consumes limited resources, which requires both planning and scheduling. In this paper we propose a new approach that bridges the gap between planning and scheduling by explicitly modeling the problem in terms of resources, state variables and actions. We show that it is an intuitive way to formulate real world problems wi...