News tagged with stopwatch
Easy to visualize goal powerful motivator to finish a race or a task
Whether you are swimming in the Olympics or saving for a vacation, being able to see progress toward your goal will help you reach it.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Aug 15, 2011 |
3 / 5 (1) |
1
TiVo DVR viewers bypassing 10 p.m. slots
New research indicates viewers who use digital video recorders to watch their favorite broadcast TV shows tend to watch shows recorded between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. -- and many of them appear to be skipping 10 p.m. telecasts ...
Apr 15, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Search results for stopwatch
Time recording up one's sleeve
Optimized operations are essential to globally competitive companies. Until now, inspectors have timed procedures, usually manually, in order to organize manual assembly operations efficiently – a method ...
Jan 03, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
2
Secrets of the 'Levitating' Slinky: Viral web videos trigger physicists to explore a striking phenomenon
While holiday shoppers search frantically for the Moshi Monsters, LeapPad Explorers, or Lalaloopsy Silly Hair dolls atop their children's wish lists, many physicists remain engrossed in the properties of a ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
4.4 / 5 (18) |
44
|
Review: Nike device improves, but oversimplified
(AP) -- Since 2003, I've tried several fitness accessories that use the GPS system to tell you how far and how fast you're running. I've generally liked them, except for the fact that they don't work well ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 27, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Timing particle flight
A team of UT Arlington researchers is designing a new, time-of-flight detector that could one day significantly boost measurement capabilities at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Oct 12, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
URMC surgeon is nation's first to implant pacemaker-like device for bowel incontinence
(Medical Xpress) -- Since the technology secured FDA approval this spring, a University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) surgeon this month became the first in the nation to implant a pacemaker-like device ...
Jul 04, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
A 'guardian angel' to watch over your heart
When a heart attack begins, a stopwatch starts. With each passing minute heart tissue is deprived of blood, causing it to deteriorate or die. In order to minimize damage to the heart, blood flow must be restored promptly, ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Review: GPS running watches offer improvements
My accessories for last month's Mardi Gras Marathon in New Orleans included a pair of bead necklaces and three watches.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 16, 2011 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
1
Beat it: how the brain perceives rhythm
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain uses distinct timing mechanisms to measure the duration between the intervals in a sequence of sounds, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust.Researchers from the Wellcome ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2011 |
3.7 / 5 (7) |
1
|
Doing good with operations research
For Northwestern University's Karen Smilowitz, the term "industrial engineering" is a bit of a misnomer. It evokes the image of the engineer in a factory with a stopwatch in hand, making sure production is as efficient as ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
Dramatic ocean circulation changes revealed
The unusually cold weather this winter has been caused by a change in the winds. Instead of the typical westerly winds warmed by Atlantic surface ocean currents, cold northerly Arctic winds are influencing ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2011 |
4.4 / 5 (22) |
13
|
List of search results for stopwatch
