... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . Completions are a simple synchronization mechanism that is preferable to sleeping and waking up in some situations. ... When your driver begins some process whose completion must be waited for, it's simply a matter of passing your completion event to wait_for_completion() : . ... void complete(struct completion *comp); void complete_all(struct completion *comp); . ...

... The following thoughts have occurred to us recently regarding the 6x5 ccd camera array for the Cosmological Survey Telescope. ... Heat is conducted away from the ccd via a copper cold finger to a cold plate which is shared by all 30 ccd modules. ... Located at the ccd locations on the cold plate are spring loaded platforms which are thermally coupled to the cold plate with copper braid (not shown). ... The ccd can, the window, the filter assembly, and the ccd assembly is called the ccd module. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... As an exercise to put through the new InMin library through its paces, I have looked recently at applying Nested Sampling ( Skilling2006 ) algorithm to the fitting of star-formation history as function of redshift. ... The data I used are from Figure 1 of Yuksel08 but I use only the grey data paints, which are just the data originally from Hopkins2006 . ... The next step is to define the function which is the model for the history of the SFR density. ...

The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

EMI test using VXD3 R20 assembly Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Outline The problem Why we want beam test? ... What do we need for test ? Conclusion January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 2 The problem As you already know from M.Breidenbach talk, we had observed Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) effects in VXD3 operation. ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 3 Why beam ? ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 12 ...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: ATP1021 Title: comment on the paper by Dalin , Pertsev and Romejko Significance of lunar impact on noctilucent clouds ( revised version) Article Type: Research Paper Section/Category: Keywords: Noctilucent clouds moon influence mesosphere Manuscript Region of Origin: Abstract: a critical review of the paper by Dalin , ... Reference: Dalin, P.A., N.N. Pertsev, V.A. Romejko. ...

Summary of A. Skop enkov's prop osal This proposal concerns the classical Knotting Problem in topology: classify embeddings of a given space into another given space up to isotopy. ... The Knotting Problem is known to be hard. ... The Knotting Problem is most interesting for manifolds of dimension at most 4, because embeddings of such manifolds often appear in other branches of mathematics and its applications. ... For N not a homology sphere until 2005 no description of the orbits was known. ...

... Home eclipse_10_08_2014 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... This Month's Sky . ... This Month's Sky - 2015 . This Month's Sky - January 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... On the first occasion, the satellite passed through the eclipse area at 04:30 Moscow time, making it the first on our planet to see the shadow of the Moon, which was still in space and was only approaching the Earth ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... The first Moon passage over the solar disk (00:30 UT) (Movie wmv; 1.2 MB) . ...

... 1,2]. this article we considered the problem of development of mathematical logic programming of intelligent agents for searching, recognizing, collecting g information in the Internet. ... http://www.cplire.ru/Lab144/index.html) 5. .. : - . ... Moscow, 1999. ­ pp. 54-59. (http://www.cplire.ru/Lab144/internet.pdf) 8. ... Morozov A.A., Obukhov Yu.V. An Approach to Logic Programming of Intelligent Agents for Searching and Recognizing Information on the Internet // Pattern Recognition and Image...

... Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Boris V. Morukov (M.D., Ph.D.) . Russian Cosmonaut at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from high school in 1967; received a doctorate in medicine from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute (now Moscow Medical University) in 1973; joined the professorate in space, aviation and naval medicine at the Institute for Biomedical Problems in 1978; received a Ph.D. in the disciplines listed above in 1979. ...

... Well, actually, the story hasn't changed much since last time in TALPOIDA. ... Your passage down the last corridor in TALPOIDA was cut off and you were ambushed, though of course, you managed to escape down a hidden little crevice to find yourself....in a dark and cavernous underworld. Welcome to DIOPATRA.. ... Deathmatch, however, is NOT supported, as DIOPATRA is a bit too large and too dark to make an enjoyable deathmatch wad. ... DIOPATRA is an almost completely cavernous wad. ...

. Comment on J0616-3456 . No detection: the position is probably okay, hence, the source is probably resolved out completely. VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

I/146 Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser+ 1988) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions Roeser S., Bastian U. =1988A .. ... 449R ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Positional data; Proper motions Description: PPM North gives J2000 positions and proper motions of 181,731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. ... The mean epoch is near 1931. ...

... russian ) . ... Came to work at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) . ... Chairman of the "Solar Physics" section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . Vice-Chair of «Solar System» Section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences and "Geophysical Research" Section of Scientific Technical Council of Federal Space Agency. Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Scientific interests . ...

Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: J1 - Io : 81, J2 - Europa : 24, J3 - Ganymede :129, J4 - Callisto : 36 total number: 270 type: relative dates: 1996-1997 observatory: see observatories list in the comments Reference. Emelianov N. V., Vashkovjak S. N. (2009) Astrometric results of the observations of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 1997. ... X coordinate in arcseconds (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual eclipse) 10. ...

Next: Scientifically discovered God Up: No Title Previous: Simple Universe . ... As a matter of fact, it stands already for several centuries. ... The characteristic time, t , of civilization development, was known already. ... Indeed, the expansion of the Universe was not yet discovered, and, the Universe was believed to be eternal! ... If the Universe has lived for an infinitely long time then the Tsiolkovskii's paradox can be solved only with this key, the key of ``Superintelligence''. ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...