This dissertation focuses on the literary and media texts pertaining to the calendar reform introduced by the Bolshevik government after the October Revolution in 1917, and the establishment of specifically Soviet calendar in 1917-1929. The careful examination of the texts reveals a particularly salient feature of the new calendar, namely, its chaotic nature. Drawing on Paul Recoeurs theory of narrative as an exclusively human method of comprehending reality, this study investigates the phenomenon of calendrical narrative in its social and private aspects. Chapter 1 reconstructs the political and ideological context of the historical period employing materials from the two leading Soviet newspapers, Pravda and Izvestiia, and, more specifically, those articles which promote the new Soviet vision of holidays and the ritual calendar as a whole. Chapter 2 deals with Vladimir Mayakovskys vision of time as mans enemy and his construction of a perfect calendar for the future. Chapter 3 examines Mikhail Bulgakovs interpretation of the Christian ritual calendar as a message to ordinary people explaining the moral virtues of Christ, as well as those literary devices he employed highlighting the importance of this message to society and the individual. / Slavic Languages and Literatures

This dissertation examines how changes in the understanding of Christian time developed in the Congregational Church in the United States, and in particular considers the processes and influences that led to the adoption and wide sharing of the broadly ecumenical Christian liturgical calendar in local Congregational churches. Internal and external factors from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that may have inspired these shifts are investigated, including: the emerging ecumenical movement, and in the United States the work of the Federal and National Council of Churches; the international and ecumenical liturgical movement; the writings of influential Congregationalists such as Von Ogden Vogt and Willard Sperry; and new approaches regarding church architecture and other ecclesiastical arts, including hymnody. While developments from the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century are not neglected in this study, focus is given primarily to the period from 1886, when the National Council of the Congregational Church issued its first survey of local congregations concerning worship practices, to 1957, when the Congregational Church, having already merged with the Christian Church, joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church to form the United Church of Christ. Church-related periodicals, denominational hymnals, annual reports, writings of various Congregational clergy, and minutes of national Congregational meetings serve as primary texts in this investigation. A vital component of the study is the examination and interpretation of a variety of worship resources produced by the Commission on Worship and Evangelism of the Congregational Church and the National Council of Congregational Churches, as well as worship-related letters, editorials, and services found within various Congregational publications. While external factors were important in the reception of the ecumenical liturgical year into the annual calendars of Congregational churches, this research shows that it is the writings of various Congregational clergy, published as pamphlets, articles, and books, that have had the greatest influence. The results of this work fill a lacuna in scholarship related to the worship of the Congregational churches from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, and contribute more generally to studies of the transitions in mainline American Protestant theology and practice in the late modern period.

Calendar applications have been a primary tool for time management, although they have been slowly developed and improved. The slow development of calendar applications has created friction of usage. In this report, we propose a friction mitigation strategy for calendar applications. A set of characteristics are identified: active, intelligent, personal, extensible, information-centred and dynamic view, which describes the notion of friction. The goal is to develop a framework, supporting the prototype and providing reusable components for future development. The prototype is evaluated by participants and the result is used to conclude that friction can be mitigated to some extent. / Kalenderapplikationer är, och har varit, ett primärt verktyg för tidshantering även om de har utvecklats och förbättrats långsamt. Den långsamma utvecklingen av kalenderapplikationer har skapat en friktion vid användning. I den här rapporten föreslår vi en strategi för att mildra friktionen som skapas av kalenderapplikationer. En uppsättning av egenskaper identifieras: aktiv, intelligent, personlig, extensible (tänjbar), informations centrerad och dynamisk vy, vilka beskriver begreppet friktion. Målet är att utveckla ett ramverk som supporterar prototypen och innehåller återanvändbara komponenter för framtida utveckling. Prototypen utvärderas av användare och resultatet används för att dra slutsatsen att friktionen kan mildras i viss utsträckning.

甘迪龍. / "2005年8月" / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2005. / 參考文獻(leaves 127-131). / "2005 nian 8 yue" / Abstracts also in English. / Gan Dilong. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2005. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 127-131). / 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 「月令」硏究的意義 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 「月令」界說及硏究範圍 --- p.1 / Chapter 第三節 --- 近人硏究成果 --- p.3 / Chapter 第一章 --- 「月令」諸篇的年代 --- p.5 / Chapter 第一節 --- 〈夏小正〉 --- p.5 / Chapter 第二節 --- 《豳風´Ø七月》 --- p.8 / Chapter 第三節 --- 楚帛書「月令」 --- p.10 / Chapter 第四節 --- 《管子》五行時令各篇 --- p.11 / Chapter 第五節 --- 《呂氏春秋》「十二紀首」 --- p.15 / Chapter 第六節 --- 《禮記´Ø月令》 --- p.18 / Chapter 第七節 --- 《淮南子´Ø時則訓》 --- p.23 / 小結 --- p.27 / Chapter 第二章 --- 「月令」各項內容硏究 --- p.29 / Chapter 第一節 --- 星象記錄 --- p.29 / Chapter 第一項 --- 北斗 --- p.31 / Chapter 第二項 --- 參與心 --- p.40 / Chapter 第三項 --- 二十八宿 --- p.46 / 小結 --- p.52 / Chapter 第二節 --- 五行配當 --- p.53 / Chapter 第一項 --- 五數之物 --- p.54 / Chapter 第二項 --- 聲律 --- p.57 / Chapter 第三項 --- 十干 --- p.59 / Chapter 第四項 --- 王居明堂禮 --- p.60 / 小結 --- p.62 / Chapter 第三節 --- 物候及農事 --- p.62 / Chapter 第一項 --- 〈夏小正〉 --- p.63 / Chapter 第二項 --- 〈七月〉 --- p.64 / Chapter 第三項 --- 「十二紀首」、〈月令〉及〈時則訓〉 --- p.67 / 小結 --- p.71 / Chapter 第四節 --- 政令與禮制 --- p.71 / Chapter 第一項 --- 〈夏小正〉所載的禮制 --- p.72 / Chapter 第二項 --- 楚帛書「月令」的宜忌 --- p.73 / Chapter 第三項 --- 《管子》的政令 --- p.74 / Chapter 第四項 --- 「十二紀」、〈月令〉、〈時則訓〉的政令與禮儀 --- p.76 / 小結 --- p.81 / Chapter 第三章 --- 「月令」的綜合討論 --- p.82 / Chapter 第一節 --- 「月令」的時節劃分 --- p.82 / Chapter 第一項 --- 四時十二月 --- p.82 / Chapter 第二項 --- 五行配四時 --- p.86 / Chapter 第三項 --- 二十四節氣與三十時 --- p.93 / 小結 --- p.97 / Chapter 第二節 --- 「月令」的曆法 --- p.98 / Chapter 第一項 --- 陽曆而非陰陽合曆 --- p.98 / Chapter 第二項 --- 十月太陽曆的商榷 --- p.99 / Chapter 第三項 --- 三正論的爭議 --- p.102 / 小結 --- p.106 / Chapter 第三節 --- 「月令」的思想 --- p.106 / Chapter 第一項 --- 王政理想 --- p.107 / Chapter 第二項 --- 資源保護 --- p.112 / Chapter 第三項 --- 與陰陽家的關係 --- p.115 / 小結 --- p.123 / 餘論 --- p.125 / 參考書目 --- p.127 / 參考論文 --- p.130 / 附錄一 「十二紀首」、〈月令〉、〈時則訓〉對讀 --- p.132

There are two matters for us to consider.The first is that of the association of Alhamisi with religious connotations and if that is only specific to Kiswahili language (community); and the second is if the borrowing of Alhamisi is linguistically well motivated even for that purpose. For both these matters, we shall be comparing the Kiswahili calendar with that of its neighbours to determine what we think is a discrepancy, especially, with the Kiswahili borrowing of Alhamisi. We shall discuss the issues above and others in this paper as follows. In the following section we shall, briefly, consider the basis of the formulation of some week calendars.This will be followed by the consideration of the week calendars of a number of languages in East Afiica. Lastly, we shall focus specifically on the Kiswahili week calendar; comparing it with the others and drawing our conclusion.

6 pp. / More and more consumers are choosing to buy locally produced foods. Locally grown foods are, fresher, contain more nutrients if picked at full ripeness, and are considered by many consumers to be better tasting than foods that have endured many miles of transportation. Consuming local produce may help communities by stimulating local economies and protecting the environment. This article outlines the benefits of buying locally grown foods. A recipe that is easy and affordable using some local produce is included. A calendar of seasonal produce in Arizona is included in the Appendix.

The creative project by the means of formed symbols and codes conveys the consumer the information about the past, history and traditions at the contemporary qualitative level of designed creative works. The project consists of four calendars which suit the tastes of different consumers.

Data is all around us, everywhere we go and in every activity we do. It exists in all aspects of our everyday personal life. Making sense of these personal daily data, which leads to more self-awareness is becoming remarkably important as we can learn more about our habits and behavior and therefore we can reflect upon this extended self-knowledge. Particularly, these data can assist people to learn more about themselves, uncover existing patterns in their behaviors or habits and help them to take action towards newly developed goals. Accordingly, they can either try to improve their behaviors to gain better results and trends or to maintain existing ones. Through the interviews that I conducted, I learned that “Productivity” is one of the most important personal attributes that people are very interested to monitor, track and improve in their daily lives. People are interested to learn more about the supportive or preventive causes that effect their daily productivity, which eventually can help them to improve their time-management and self-management. In this thesis, I focus on two research questions: (1) How can we design a visualization tool to help people be more engaged in understanding their daily productivity? In order for people to learn more about themselves, they need context about their living habits and activities. So I chose digital calendars as a platform to integrate productivity related information as they provide beneficial contextual information, supporting many of the questions that people ask themselves about their personal data. As the next step, I had to find an effective way of representing influential factors on productivity on the calendar. This led to define my second research question: (2) What combination of visual encodings will enable people to most easily identify a relationship between two different pieces of daily information rendered on a calendar? For finding the best visual encoding, I considered encoding Numeric data using Saturation and Length encodings, and Nominal data using Shape encoding. I designed two types of questions: Calendar related questions, to investigate the interference level of visualizations in calendar related tasks, and Visualization related questions to identify which visualization is faster and leads to more accurate results and better user ratings. I compared the combination of Numeric x Numeric (Saturation x Saturation, Saturation x Length, Length x Length) and Numeric x Nominal (Shape x Length, Shape x Saturation) data encodings. My results demonstrated the following: for Calendar Task questions and in Numeric x Numeric category, Length x Length had the overall best results. For the same task set and in Numeric x Nominal category, Shape x Length was rated the best. For Visualization Task questions and in Numeric x Numeric category, Saturation x Saturation had the better performance overall in most of the cases and for same task set and in Numeric x Nominal category, Shape x Saturation was the fastest while Shape x Length was the most accurate. These findings along with interviews provided me with useful information for refining the visualization designs to more accurate, more user-friendly and faster visualizations which assist people in monitoring goals, trends, status, contexts, influencing factors and differences in their productivity related personal daily data and brings them more insight awareness and possibly self-reflection. / Graduate / 0984 / tavakkol@uvic.ca

Data is all around us, everywhere we go and in every activity we do. It exists in all aspects of our everyday personal life. Making sense of these personal daily data, which leads to more self-awareness is becoming remarkably important as we can learn more about our habits and behavior and therefore we can reflect upon this extended self-knowledge. Particularly, these data can assist people to learn more about themselves, uncover existing patterns in their behaviors or habits and help them to take action towards newly developed goals. Accordingly, they can either try to improve their behaviors to gain better results and trends or to maintain existing ones. Through the interviews that I conducted, I learned that “Productivity” is one of the most important personal attributes that people are very interested to monitor, track and improve in their daily lives. People are interested to learn more about the supportive or preventive causes that effect their daily productivity, which eventually can help them to improve their time-management and self-management. In this thesis, I focus on two research questions: (1) How can we design a visualization tool to help people be more engaged in understanding their daily productivity? In order for people to learn more about themselves, they need context about their living habits and activities. So I chose digital calendars as a platform to integrate productivity related information as they provide beneficial contextual information, supporting many of the questions that people ask themselves about their personal data. As the next step, I had to find an effective way of representing influential factors on productivity on the calendar. This led to define my second research question: (2) What combination of visual encodings will enable people to most easily identify a relationship between two different pieces of daily information rendered on a calendar? For finding the best visual encoding, I considered encoding Numeric data using Saturation and Length encodings, and Nominal data using Shape encoding. I designed two types of questions: Calendar related questions, to investigate the interference level of visualizations in calendar related tasks, and Visualization related questions to identify which visualization is faster and leads to more accurate results and better user ratings. I compared the combination of Numeric x Numeric (Saturation x Saturation, Saturation x Length, Length x Length) and Numeric x Nominal (Shape x Length, Shape x Saturation) data encodings. My results demonstrated the following: for Calendar Task questions and in Numeric x Numeric category, Length x Length had the overall best results. For the same task set and in Numeric x Nominal category, Shape x Length was rated the best. For Visualization Task questions and in Numeric x Numeric category, Saturation x Saturation had the better performance overall in most of the cases and for same task set and in Numeric x Nominal category, Shape x Saturation was the fastest while Shape x Length was the most accurate. These findings along with interviews provided me with useful information for refining the visualization designs to more accurate, more user-friendly and faster visualizations which assist people in monitoring goals, trends, status, contexts, influencing factors and differences in their productivity related personal daily data and brings them more insight awareness and possibly self-reflection. / Graduate / 0984 / tavakkol@uvic.ca

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1992. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-175).