Humans conceive of time in terms of space, as shown by the language that we use to talk about temporal relations: we habitually speak of stretching out or compressing an activity, heading toward the future, returning to the past and so on (Whorf 1956, Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Binnick 1991:Chapter 1). When describing the meanings of the tenses, linguists have relied on a specific instance of the...

OBJECTIVE To establish the current level of awareness and investigate the use of timelines within clinical computing systems as an organized display of the electronic patient record (EPR). DESIGN Multicentre survey conducted using questionnaires and interview. SETTING Seven UK hospitals and several general practice surgeries. PARTICIPANTS A total of 120 healthcare professionals completed ...

Planning is a core field of Artificial Intelligence since its beginnings and, there are many planning techniques that have been introduced in the literature. The timeline-based approach is a particular temporal planning paradigm which has been successfully applied in many real world scenarios. However despite its practical success, there is not a shared view of this approach. In this context, m...

OBJECTIVE To develop a timeline for evaluating public health nutrition policy interventions. DESIGN Concept mapping, a stakeholder-driven approach for developing an evaluation framework to estimate the 'time to impact' for policy interventions. The Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act 2007 was used as the model to develop the evaluation timeline as it had typical characteri...

Time is an abstract concept that may be better understood when mapped onto space. For English speakers, typically a timeline is used that runs horizontally from left (past) to right (future) (Boroditsky, Fuhrman, & McCormick, 2011) and can be separated into regions, past and future. However, it is unclear from prior research how these regions along the timeline are differentiated. In addition, ...

In this paper we study the problem of answering connectivity queries about a graph timeline. A graph timeline is a sequence of undirected graphs G1, . . . , Gt on a common set of vertices of size n such that each graph is obtained from the previous one by an addition or a deletion of a single edge. We present data structures, which preprocess the timeline and can answer the following queries: •...

Graphic representations that show how the design process changes over the course of solving a problem are powerful tools for researchers. This paper presents three such representations—timelines, cumulative time plots, and progress time plots—and describes how they provide insights into the design process of engineers.

Properties of the static, spherically symmetric solutions in the Jordan, Brans-Dicke theory. ABSTRACT. We have studied the properties of the static, spherically symmetric solution of Jordan, Brans-Dicke theory. An exact interior solution for standard space-time line element in the Schwarzschild form is obtained.