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... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

Teacher checklist for external trips Children 1. Numbers attending 2. Departure time ________________________________________________ 3. ... Parental permission slip signed and returned 8. Parental permission for photographs gained/not gained 9. Arrangements agreed for children with special needs 10. Parent/Guardian contact details obtained (in case of delay, or emergency) 11. ... Emergency contact number for school ____________________________________________________________ ...

... Restrictions ) are used. If specified form of output is EMP then astrometric equatorial coordinates are printed in the form usual for Ephemerides of Minor Planets, with formal precision of 0.01 minute of time in R.A. and 0.1 minute of arc in declination. ... It should be noted that the near-opposition ephemerides are not calculated for bodies/ points with numbers from –12 to 0 (in case they are included into task for computation of such ephemerides only their names are displayed in the results). ...

Home . ... The aim of the conference is to discuss recent achievments in algebraic geometry and number theory with special emphasis on their relation to the information theory. Topics to be consdered include the study of points on varieties over number fields and finite fields, zeta functions, modular forms, asymptotic properties of arithmetic invariants of algebraic varieties (such as class numbers, regulators, Schafarevich-Tate groups). ... Alexander Kirillov (Moscow, Philadelphia) . ...

... Get Object Information Returns: <string># Returns a string containing the current target object's name and object type. ... Returns: Nothing. ... LX200GPS AutoStar ­ Performs no function Select deep sky Library where D specifices 0 - Objects CNGC / NGC in Autostar LX200GPS 1 - Objects IC 2 ­ UGC 3 ­ Caldwell (Autostar LX200GPS ) 4 ­ Arp (LX200 GPS) 5 ­ Abell (LX200 GPS) Returns : 1 Catalog available 0 Catalog Not found LX200GPS AutoStar ­ Performs no function always ...

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... For example, IKI is located near Kaluzhskaya station of the orange colored line (line number 6). [pic] To help you find your way, there are several multicolored metro maps in every car, and a loud speaker that announces the name of the station at every stop. ... After you got out the train doors, turn right and proceed to the escalator (moving staircases) in the direction of your train movement. ... Enter the Kaluzhskaya metro station, go downstairs and take the train on the RIGHT side. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The length of the shadow depends on the height of an object (like a mountain or a human) and how high up the Sun is. ... We can calculate the length of the shadow if we know the Sun's angle above the horizon and the object's height. ... The Earth spins 360 degrees in 24 hours, which means it spins 1 degree in 4 minutes; that in turn means the Sun moves 1 degree every 4 minutes in the sky. ...

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... DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS By Catherine E. BorschИ magine having the power to control a digital camera aboard the International Space Station. ... Thanks to an innovative project called Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM), a special Space Station payload enables students to photograph and examine the Earth from a space crew's perspective. ... Astronaut Leroy Chiao will serve as commander and NASA Space Station science officer for the Expedition 10 crew. ...

... Insert date: . Day: . Month: . ... This CGI -script calculates a day of week of the given date, Julian date of Greenwich noon JD and extracts from the database indices of solar activity: Wolf number for the day W , monthly W m and yealy means W y of Wolf number for month and year of the date. The prediction of Wolf number (which was made in 1998 and, hence, lost actuality) is also presented. The database uses solar activity data got from server of National Geophysical Data Center . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 14 - 20.05.2012, Forecast on 21 - 28.05.2012, Carrington Rotations 2123 2124 (28,19.04; 25,42.05.2012) SUNSPOT ACTIVITY ON LAST WEEK WAS AT HIGH LEVEL ON MAY 14 AFTER WHEN 13.05 ON THE SOLAR VISIBLE DISK THERE WERE AT ONCE 4 SUNSPOT GROUPS, BUT ALREADY FROM 15.01 EVERYTHING RETURNED TO THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE AVERAGE. ... FLARES to tm te c/p local. ...

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. Full screen versions . Number - magnitude counts . Number - redshift counts . | Front page | . | << - Redshift wedge | Completeness estimates - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... source code A class to hold all the information from a NIFS-produced data cube. ... Returns the data content of scidata as a numpy array. source code . ... Returns a spectrum from the specified spaxel, over the designated wavelength or velocity range. source code . ... source code Returns the data content of scidata as a numpy array. ... The fitscube instance is updated in-situ. source code Returns a spectrum from the specified spaxel, over the designated wavelength or velocity range. ...

... The defaults for each variable are: MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers 5 There is an absolute maximum number of simultaneous children defined by a compile-time limit which defaults to 256 and a "MaxClients" directive which specifies the number of simultaneous children that will be allowed. ... If you need more than 256 simultaneous children, you need to modify both HARD_SERVER_LIMIT and MaxClients. In versions before 1.2, HARD_SERVER_LIMIT defaulted to 150. ...

fitshdr_expand - expand/extend FITS-file header fitshdr_expand [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_expand utility allows to expand/extend existent FITS headers. FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_expand is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. --header-no= NNN . Where NNN - FITS-header's number (0,1,.. ... By default 1. --help . Output a brief help message and exit. --version . Print the version number of fitshdr_expand to standard output and exit. --nobackups . ...

Trace: ranking . ... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ vector {$_}} sort {$a = $b} keys(% vector ); # Parse tsquery, assuming it to be ORed only $ ... SAI VO | ...