... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... Extended-source photometry cannot be done in the same was as is done by omdetect , because information about the sources that omdetect used is not available to omsource . Basically, omdetect uses the pixels assigned to a source to compute source counts from the source, and the value obtained obviously depends on the ``thresh-hold level'' (please see the omdetect documentation for more information). Omsource uses each pixel within the aperture to obtain the source counts. ...

Next Previous Contents . The description above concentrates on the C programming language. It should apply directly to C++ and Objective C. In assembler, you have to call ioperm() or iopl() as in C, but after that you can use the I/O port read/write instructions directly. ... Or use /dev/port as described above. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... The CONEFERNCE PROGRAM is available (last updated on 09/28/2015). Dear participants, please note that the POSTER SESSION will take place at two days: on Tuesday (09/22/2015) and on Wednesday (09/23/2015), from 1:30 till 2:00 p.m. (before the lunch). List of posters is available at the last page of the PROGRAM. ... Conference program . Conference poster . Conference venue . Conference proceedings . ...

... Download the english dictionary, ispell-english.tar.gz, from the Tsearch V2 homepage at: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/ . The Tsearch V2 homepage also has russian, slovak, slovenian, and french dictionaries available. tar -xvzf ispell-english.tar.gz su; cp english.aff /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib cp english.dict /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib exit; ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... A language centre has helped move a group of Russian academics a step closer to realising their ambition of studying for a prestigious research degree in the UK. The scholars from Samara State Aerospace University lacked the English language skills needed to study at Glynd?r University for a PhD, one of the highest academic qualifications. ... This has seen Glynd?r University Professor Richard Day, Professor of Composites, visit Russia to deliver guest lectures to students at Samara. ...

As well as using the shell to run commands you can use its built-in programming language to write your own commands or programs. You can put commands into a file - known as a shell script - and then execute that file as you would a command or program. The use of the Bourne shell (sh) is illustrated as this is available on all UNIX systems. ... The C and TC shells use a programming language which is similar to the C programming language. Creating and executing simple shell scripts . ...

... Perform rst run and assign all tracks with parent in wrong Jet to the other Jet Perform second run and see what changes: 6 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 cosJet1 : cosJet2 {bInSameJet == 1} ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 cosJet1 : cosJet2 {vertexNumber == 77} ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 ­1 ­ 0.5 0 0.5 1 cosJet1 : cosJet2 {( cosJet1 cosJet2 ) (jetNumber==1)} ­1 ­ ... Unfortunately, the number of events with a p t - corrected mass > 2.0 GeV seems to go down ! ...

... The process starts with the electronic submission of a proposal and ends with the delivery of a data tape. ... The methods used for proposing, scheduling, coordinating observations, quick­look plots, and data delivery are presented. ... Observation time is allocated 50% Japan only, 25% US­Japan, 15% US only, and 10% ESA­Japan. ... The database then serves as the common reference point for each country's e#orts, and thus the e­mail proposals are used throughout the observation cycle. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Все про астрономическое оборудование > Астрономическое оборудование > Протокол ACL (Astronomy Command Language) - у кого есть инфо . ... Просмотр полной версии : Протокол ACL (Astronomy Command Language) - у кого есть инфо . ... ACL - это, как я понимаю, именно протокол обмена через COM порт, альтернативный LX200. ... Про ACL нигде ни слова, хотя железа не нем работает достаточно. ... ACL похож на какую-то альтернативу. ...

Spanish Language Astronomy Resources Inspire Innovation around the Planet . ... These Spanish-language astronomy resources are being put to innovative use around the world. ... It is not surprising to hear that the most excitement about these Spanish-language astronomy resources comes from states with high numbers of Spanish-speakers such as New Mexico, Texas, California, Arizona and Florida. ... Spanish-speaking astronomy enthusiasts can expect more Spanish language resources in the near future. ...

CREW 21/22 . ... NII TsPK picture Timothy John CREAMER . ... NASA Astronaut . ... In summer 2000 Creamer was assigned to the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office where he was engaged in the development of the computer equipment for Space Station and Control Center, as well as the Local Area Network integrating different modules of the International Space Station. ... On February 12, 2008 NASA officially declared of his assignment to the backup crew for Expedition 19 to the ISS. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Beginners Guide To Stars, Constellations In French Language . ... Post Message | ... I'm looking for a good guide to the constellations for beginners that is in the French language. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . draft dated 1 July 1996. ... dated 12 March 1996. ... version 2.0, dated 14 Dec 96. ... version 2.0, dated 19 Feb 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 11 October 1996. ... version 3.0, dated 10 April 1996. ... version 1.1, dated 30 July 1996. ... version 1.10, dated 13 Nov 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 05 Sep 1997. available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . ... draft version dated 27 November 1996. back to top . ...

... Trouble Reports . Anonymous FTP . APO35 Mailing Lists . ... These are distributed to people at each member institution, including someone who is reponsible for making the information available to other people. The trouble reports presently exist as paper in a notebook. ... Various files are distributed via anonymous ftp, including the current version of Remark, drawings, and some outdated documentation that has not been transferred to WWW. The address is: ftp.apo.nmsu.edu. ...

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... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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