Medieval monks noted that using a similar gearing system driven by a descending weight might be used to measure out an hour of time mechanically.
Elsewhere, the Joint Committee on the Draft Care and Support Bill (at 9.45am), the measure to sort out the social care system, hears from the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and his junior ministers Norman Lamb and Dr Daniel Poulter.
In their outdoor laboratory, they set out to measure how much atmospheric carbon the crops were able to lock in the soil.
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In 1999, astronomers set out to measure the speed of expansion by looking at distant supernovae exploding stars to see how fast they were moving away.
The first challenge was figuring out how to measure whether or not chemicals were blocking the integrase enzyme so that hundreds of different potential medicines could be tried out.
Scales that turned out to measure the same qualities with different words were eliminated and the researchers eventually lighted on 19 that described aspects of four underlying qualities that they dub attractiveness, eeriness, humanness and warmth.
And we look forward to seeing this settlement lead to some small measure of relief to a lot of families out there that need help.
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The build plate is significantly bigger, with the ability to spit out creations that measure 11.2 x 6.1 x 6.0 inches (410 cubic inches).
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"This team needs to measure itself with the best out there in order to get better, " Klinsmann says before rushing off to another practice.
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Dr Pollack has worked out how to measure the earth's temperature several hundred years ago by studying the actual heat that once made it warm.
And like just about all other Iowans, the people of Mason City are itching to meet the Republican hopefuls for the next election to find out how they measure up.
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Once new institutions figure out how to measure and articulate the true value proposition of student learning to the public, they will be able to compete directly with the traditional Ivory Towers.
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Iraqi leaders have met the first of 18 benchmarks laid out by Congress to measure progress in Iraq.
He denied that he's out to kill the measure or slow it down.
Until now, France and Slovenia were the only two countries to have opted out from this measure of financial transparency, already implemented at a European level.
Added to that, the government last week gave India's 29 states the power to opt out of the retail measure, and a number of India's states have already said they won't allow foreign supermarkets to open there.
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Arizona and Oklahoma voters passed a measure Tuesday allowing residents to opt out of President Barack Obama's federal health care reform and its requirement that people have insurance, according to a CNN projection based on an analysis of exit poll data.
But the investment business seems to find any measure better than none even if it turns out to be a few inches short of a yardstick.
"It is impossible for me to explain to parliamentary colleagues how a measure that has had the support of 42 out of the 44 dioceses failed to pass in general synod, " Sir Tony said, questioning whether the election process to the House of Laity was "sufficiently representative".
"We call on the government of South Sudan to carry out the necessary investigation, punish the guilty and take every measure to guarantee that this never happens again, " Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Researchers have begun prototyping a pair of tighty-whiteys coated with the requisite carbon electrodes to make electrochemical computing a reality, as it turns out the nether regions are a prime place to measure chemicals excreted in one's sweat.
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There are a score of technologies out there to help us measure influence.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index trimmed its earlier gains to trade flat after another manufacturing measure came out showing a decline.
The State Forests of New South Wales, a government firm based near Sydney, has worked out a clever way to measure, and trade, the carbon dioxide stored in trees.
Nor is Johnson opposed to wired helmets as long as the crowd still has the power to drown out a snap count or a chip on a player to measure performance.
But Duke's directors hadn't gone out of their way to thoroughly measure their future CEO before committing to hiring him.
The Chapare accord works out to one cato (a measure equal to 1, 600 square metres) for each of the 23, 000 families who signed up to it.
They will also allow readers to find out how schools are helping pupils to progress, with a value-added measure that indicates how pupils have improved between the end of Key Stage 1 (infants) and the end of Key Stage 2 (juniors).
"We call on the government of South Sudan to carry out a full investigation of the incident, punish the guilty and take every measure to guarantee that this will never happen again, " Lavrov said, in a statement on his website.
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