Measuring Time

Measuring Time
Author: Helon Habila
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393052510

Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women. Mamo, the sickly, awkward twin, is doomed to remain in the village with his father. Gradually he comes out of his father's shadow and gains local fame as a historian, and, using Plutarch's Parallel Lives as his model, he embarks on the ambitious project of writing a "true" history of his people. But when the rains fail and famine rages, religious zealots incite the people to violence--and LaMamo returns to fight the enemy at home. A novel of ardent loyalty, encroaching modernity, political desire, and personal liberation, Measuring Time is a heart-wrenching history of Nigeria, portrayed through the eyes of a single family.

Measuring Time

Measuring Time
Author: Masatoshi Kajita
Publisher: Programme: Iop Expanding Physi
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780750321228

In this fascinating book Masatoshi Kajita recounts the importance of precise measurements and their inherent uncertainty, before telling the story of humankind's efforts to define and measure time with increasing accuracy, culminating in the development of atomic clocks. These improvements in the accurate measurement of time and frequency have played a pivotal role in the development of modern science; including the confirmation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and the recent detection of gravity waves. Furthermore, such measurements afforded by atomic clocks and other mechanisms are being used to examine key questions about the very fundamentals of our universe, the possibility of symmetry violation and even testing the idea that there may be variation of the fundamental constants themselves over time.

Measuring Time, Making History

Measuring Time, Making History
Author: Lynn Hunt
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789639776142

Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Are the Gregorian calendar, world standard time, and modernity itself simply impositions of Western superiority? How did the idea of stages of history culminating in the modern period arise? Is time really accelerating? Can we—should we—try to move to a new chronological framework, one that reaches back to the origins of humans and forward away or beyond modernity? These questions go to the heart of what history means for us today. Time is now on the agenda.

Measuring Time

Measuring Time
Author: Mario Vanhoucke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2009-10-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 144191014X

Meant to complement rather than compete with the existing books on the subject, this book deals with the project performance and control phases of the project life cycle to present a detailed investigation of the project’s time performance measurement methods and risk analysis techniques in order to evaluate existing and newly developed methods in terms of their abilities to improve the corrective actions decision-making process during project tracking. As readers apply what is learned from the book, EVM practices will become even more effective in project management and cost engineering. Individual chapters look at simulation studies in forecast accuracy; schedule adherence; time sensitivity; activity sensitivity; and using top-down or bottom-up project tracking. Vanhoucke also offers an actual real-life case study, a tutorial on the use of ProTrack software (newly developed based on his research) in EVM, and conclusions on the relative effectiveness for each technique presented.

Measuring Time with a Calendar

Measuring Time with a Calendar
Author: Darice Bailer
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1624317030

Real-world examples and engaging activities guide readers in learning about measuring time with a calendar. Readers practice selecting appropriate measuring tools and units of measurement, converting between units, and solving problems by measuring.

Laura Grisi: the Measuring of Time

Laura Grisi: the Measuring of Time
Author: Clément Dirié
Publisher: Jrp Ringier
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9783037645666

On the many lives and mediums of a postwar Italian artist-adventurer Published on the occasion of her long-deserved retrospective at Muzeum Susch, this book testifies to the singular vision of Italian artist Laura Grisi (1939-2017) within contemporary art history. Born in Greece, educated in Paris and living between New York and Rome, where she died, Grisi spent long periods of her life in Africa, South America and Polynesia. This involvement with non-Western cultures indelibly marked her own search for a cosmic thinking. Although her work is often reduced to Pop art, Grisi always worked within the fundamental motif of the "journey"--from remote locations visited and documented, to the multiplicity of mediums used. Grisi embodied a stateless, nomadic female subject defying the politics of identity, the univocity of representation and the unidirectionality of time. Grisi's work spans from her avant-garde Variable Paintingsof the mid-1960s and her 1970s pioneering environmental installations dealing with fog, wind and rain, to her conceptual photo-works of the 1980s.

Measuring Time

Measuring Time
Author: Julia Vogel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Clocks and watches
ISBN: 9781614732822

Explains how to keep track of the parts of the day with a clock; describes the development of the sundial, the hourglass, and the clock; and discusses minutes and seconds, telling time, analog and digital timepieces, and ways to express the time.

Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time

Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time
Author: Sir Henry H. Cunynghame
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book focuses on the history of timekeeping and it's impact on human civilization. With detailed descriptions and illustrations, the book covers the methods used in ancient times and compares them to modern techniques. It focuses on how timekeeping devices have evolved from sundials to atomic clocks. The book also gives an insight into the importance of accurate timekeeping in various fields, including astronomy, navigation, and commerce.

Leveled Texts: Measuring Time

Leveled Texts: Measuring Time
Author: Christi Sorell
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1425877087

All students can learn about measuring time through text written at four different reading levels. Symbols on the pages represent reading-level ranges to help differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the text.

Measuring Time at a Race

Measuring Time at a Race
Author: Dianne Irving
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1429651911

A look at math in everyday life, focusing on time measurement and how it is used in different kinds of races, and including problem-solving activities and graphic organizers.