Self-Tracking

Author: Gina Neff
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262529122
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others. Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.

A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America

Author: James C. Halfpenny
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9780933472983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Guide to identifying mammals in North America through tracking, and using this information in understanding their behavior.

Mastering Variable Surface Tracking

Author: Ed Presnall
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 9781929242139
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Are you looking for a new challenge for your tracking dog? Try the AKC sport of Variable Surface Tracking or VST, a tracking sport that can be done in an urban setting. "Component training" breaks down skills for ease of learning. Includes a workbook.

Combat Tracking Guide

Author: John Hurth
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811710998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
The first book on tracking in a combat situation that includes suggestions for integrating visual tracking operations into existing military doctrine in addition to the boots-on-the-ground detail necessary for soldiers who perform those operations How to visually track an armed individual or group in a combat situation for the purposes of gaining intelligence, locating the enemy, and/or killing them Packed with photographs and carefully crafted diagrams A functional, readable manual for soldiers, trackers, military organizations, affiliates, and enthusiasts around the world

Tracking Wonder

Author: Jeffrey Davis
Publisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 1683646894
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Discover how the lost art of wonder can help you cultivate greater creativity, resilience, meaning, and joy as you bring your greatest contributions to life. Beyond grit, focus, and 10,000 hours lies a surprising advantage that all creatives have—wonder. Far from child’s play, wonder is the one radical quality that has led exemplary people from all walks of life to move toward the fruition of their deepest dreams and wildest endeavors—and it can do so for you, too. “Wonder is a quiet disruptor of unseen biases,” writes Jeffrey Davis. “It dissolves our habitual ways of seeing and thinking so that we may glimpse anew the beauty of what is real, true, and possible.” Rich with wisdom, inspiring stories, and practical tools, Tracking Wonder invites us to explore how the lost art of wonder can inspire a life of greater joy, possibility, and purpose. You’ll discover: The six facets of wonder—key qualities to help you cultivate the art of wonder in your work, relationships, and lifeHow wonder can help us fertilize creativity, sustain the motivation to pursue big ideas, navigate uncertainty and crises, deepen our relationships, and moreThe biases against wonder—moving beyond societal and internalized resistance to our inherent giftsWhy experiencing wonder isn’t really about achieving goals—though that happens—but about how we live each dayInspiring stories of people whose experiences of wonder helped them move through the unthinkable to create extraordinary livesPractical exercises, tools, and reflections to help you begin your own practice of tracking wonder A refreshing counter-voice to the exhausting narrative hyper-productivity, Tracking Wonder is a welcome guide for experiencing more meaning and joy in the present moment as you bring your greatest contributions to life.

Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer

Author: John Jeanneney
Publisher: Teckel Time
ISBN: 9780972508926
Category : Deer hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
Jeanneney explains how a trained dog can be used to find wounded deer that would not be recoverered by other means.

Client Data Organizer Tracker Book

Author: Jk Roberts
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781098880149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
Client Profile And Appointment Log Book Record Book Organizer Personal Client Record Book Customer Information Tracker For Salon Nail Hair Stylists Barbers Spa Therapist And more The Best Client Record Book About You to make it easy and quick to write for Record your customer's information about Customer's Name, Birthday, Email, Phone, Occupation, Address, Notes, Date/Time, Activity Customer Customer Name Address Phone No Email Occupation Birthday Appointment Date Time Service Amount Remarks Size: 7.5x9.25 110 page Made in USA

Letter Tracking

Author: Ann Arbor Publishers
Publisher: High Noon Books
ISBN: 9780878797356
Category : Visual discrimination
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Every program has its "star"! In the Ann Arbor extensive list of tracking materials, this popular Letter Tracking program through the years has been a standout. Teachers and optometrists tell us that's because it serves a dual purpose, effectively teaching the alphabet sequence and the visual discrimination of letters while correcting reversals and rotations and instilling the habit of left-to-right progression that is so essential to the skill of reading. The rationale is simple: The student matches and tracks lower case alphabet letters to improve letter recognition. Practice of following a line of print in left-to-right direction and matching written letters is extensive. In addition the development of two critical eye movement skills (scanning and locating) is helped tremendously by this task. Print size decreases slowly throughout the books. And then there is the timing factor. Youngsters enjoy "beating" themselves -- i.e., shaving a few seconds off their previous recorded time.

Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes

Author: Keith A. Hobson
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128147245
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes, Second Edition, provides a complete introduction to new and powerful isotopic tools and applications that track animal migration, reviewing where isotope tracers fit in the modern toolbox of tracking methods. The book provides background information on a broad range of migration scenarios in terrestrial and aquatic systems and summarizes the most cutting-edge developments in the field that are revolutionizing the way migrant individuals and populations are assigned to their true origins. It allows undergraduates, graduate students and non-specialist scientists to adopt and apply isotopes to migration research, and also serves as a useful reference for scientists. The new edition thoroughly updates the information available to the reader on current applications of this technique and provides new tools for the isotopic assignment of individuals to origins, including geostatistical multi-isotope approaches and the ways in which researchers can combine isotopes with routine data in a Bayesian framework to provide best estimates of animal origins. Four new chapters include contributions on applications to the movements of terrestrial mammals, with particular emphasis on how aspects of animal physiology can influence stable isotope values. Includes an animal physiology component that is an in-depth overview of the cautions and caveats related to this technique Covers marine and aquatic isoscapes and methods to track marine organisms for researchers trying to apply isotopic tracking to animals in these environments Features state-of-the-art statistical treatments for assignment and combining diverse datasets

The SAS Guide to Tracking

Author: Bob Carss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493044311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
With a Foreword by John “Lofty” Wiseman, author of The SAS Survival Handbook! Anyone who has spent any time outdoors has come across strange tracks and wondered, “What was here?” In this new and revised edition of The SAS Guide to Tracking, a veteran of Britain’s elite Special Air Service shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance. An essential handbook for developing a new awareness of the outdoors,this book is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement organizations. Included are tips on: Tracking in desert, forest, jungle, marsh, and grassy areas Interpreting animal, human, and vehicle signs Preserving night vision Using time frames to eliminate misleading signs Detecting quarry when they backtrack or circle around Interpreting how time and weather affect signs Spotting intentionally misleading signs