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[News Script: Thought for today]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the "Thought for Today".
Date: September 15, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel

Description: This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded… more
Date: December 1998
Creator: Leissner, Debra Holt
Partner: UNT Libraries

Accuracy Variations in Human Facial Identification Based on Time of Exposure.

Description: This study examined the relationship between time of exposure to the human face and accurate subsequent photo line-up identification. A volunteer group of 124 undergraduate students was divided into three approximately equal sized subgroups. The three groups were then exposed to a video or a portion of a video depicting a theft. Exposure times ranged from two minutes to 30 seconds. The subjects were then given a questionnaire and shown a photo line-up of the mock perpetrator and five foils. Sub… more
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Date: December 2006
Creator: Cowle, Kenneth M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Clocks]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 6, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Clocks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the thousands of clocks that will need to be reset at Disneyland due to daylight savings time.
Date: April 23, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[lesson on telling time]

Description: Photograph of a teacher giving a lesson on telling time to a young classroom. She holds a paper clock with penciled-in hands for a student to complete the exercise against a chalkboard. Other students are visible in the foreground.
Date: 197X
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Time and Frequency: Theory and Fundamentals

Description: From Abstract: "This is a tutorial Monograph describing various aspects of time and frequency (T/F). Included are chapters relating to elemental concepts of precise time and frequency; basic principles of quartz oscillators and atomic frequency standards; historical review, recent progress, and current status of atomic frequency standards; promising areas for developing future primary frequency standards; relevance of frequency standards to other areas of metrology including a unified standard … more
Date: May 1974
Creator: Blair, Byron E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Relativity In Transylvania And Patusan: Finding The Roots Of Einstein’s Theories Of Relativity In Dracula And Lord Jim

Description: This thesis investigates the similarities in the study of time and space in literature and science during the modern period. Specifically, it focuses on the portrayal of time and space within Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1899-1900), and compares the ideas presented with those later scientifically formulated by Albert Einstein in his special and general theories of relativity (1905-1915). Although both novels precede Einstein’s theories, they reveal advanced compl… more
Date: December 2011
Creator: Tatum, Brian Shane
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Relationship between the amount of parental supervision time and child delinquency.

Description: This study assesses the relationship between parental supervision and children's delinquency. Data used in this study came from interviews with 99 parents from the Denton city area of Texas in 2003. A probability sample of 53 was contacted by way of randomly selected residential telephone numbers. In addition, 46 parents were non-randomly selected. Parents were asked about how much time they spent supervising and engaging in activities with their children and whether or not the oldest child exh… more
Date: May 2005
Creator: Bessa, Yawo Agbessi
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Elicitation of words related to time

Description: Recording of an elicitation of a wordlist related to time and time keeping based on English words and sentences used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: October 8, 2019
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Partner: UNT College of Information
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[News Clip: Member Of Service]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 13, 1993, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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