... The European Union (EU) has granted 1.9 million euros to support a 6-country educational programme, based on Universe Awareness (UNAWE) . UNAWE is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) endorsed programme that uses the beauty and grandeur of the Universe to encourage young children, particularly those from an underprivileged background, to have an interest in science and technology and foster their sense of global citizenship from the earliest age. ... Universe Awareness website . ...

... Numerical simulations of highly turbulent flows in astrophysics benefit greatly from recent advances in high performance computing. ... Figure: Perspective full domain view of vertical velocity at one instant in time in 3-D turbulent convection simulation ( ). ... Original PostScript figure (1496 kB) . ... Figure: Phase diagram of pointwise convective flux as function of the vertical velocity in a horizontal plane near midlayer for turbulent convection with , and , with . ...

... Class . ... FIELD | ... METHOD . DETAIL: FIELD | ... java.lang.Object ij.plugin.filter.FractalBoxCounter . ... PlugInFilter . ... Calculate the so-called "capacity" fractal dimension. ... This method should return a flag word that specifies the filters capabilities. ... ImageJ will lock the image before calling this method and unlock it when the filter is finished. For PlugInFilters specifying the NO_IMAGE_REQUIRED flag and not the DONE flag, run(ip) is called once with the argument null . ...

home education > resources . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Resources . ... Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomical Pseudo-Science . ... Astronomy of Many Cultures Resource Guide . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Space Science Education Resource Directory . ... A New York Times reporter examines the work of John Mack on UFO abductions and critiques the whole phenomenon and the media's exploitation of it: http://www.around.com/abduct.html . ...

... Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:10:05 +0100 . ... Package: oal-3.96.tgz - 166619 B MD5: 4532db73783b95f45b2acf0845a804df Uploaded by: Uwe Lammers < ulammers@rssd.esa.int > Accepted on: Thu Jan 30 16:10:05 2003 UTC The most recent ChangeLog entry says: Version 3.96 - 2003-01-30 (UL) ------------ + skip pn AUX data anomaly correction stage if data is found too anomalous (e.g. old-vintage SciSim AUX data) + catch pathological case that frame time increment is 0 (caused crash in epframes test harness) . ...

... Проф. А.Д.Чернин (ГАИШ, МГУ, Москва): ЭНЕРГЕТИЧЕСКИЙ СОСТАВ ВСЕЛЕННОЙ: НОВАЯ СИММЕТРИЯ 13.00-15.00. ... Проф. Л.И.Мирошниченко (ИЗМИРАН, Троицк, Россия): СОЛНЕЧНОЗЕМНЫЕ СВЯЗИ В 23-ЕМ ЦИКЛЕ СОЛНЕЧНОЙ АКТИВНОСТИ Лекция 9 10.50-11.30. ... М.И.Рябов, А.Л.Сухарев (Одесская обсерватория Радиоастрономического института НАНУ) : О ПРОЯ ВЛЕНИИ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ СТРУКТУРЫ ПЕРЕМЕННО СТИ ПОТОКОВ ВНЕГАЛАКТИЧЕСКИХ РАДИОИСТОЧНИКОВ 3С120, OJ287, 3С273, 3С279, 3С454.3 НА РАЗЛИЧНЫХ ФАЗАХ АКТИВНОСТИ 4. ... РИ НАНУ Гравиметр. ...

... There exists a region just outside the Roche limit of white dwarfs where a planet would receive an insolation between that of Venus and Mars for up to 8 billion years. ... The giant planets in our solar system harbor dozens of planet-size rocky and icy moons, some of which have habitats that may be dissimilar to Earth but could still be suitable for life. ... Conversely, Earth-like planets orbiting long-lived stars are potentially favorable places for complex life. ... Planets Around Giant Stars . ...

... Smoke sighted . ... B. Call USFS at 437-2286, provide fire info as well as local weather data. ... B. 3.5m telescope: Face enclosure into smoke direction and turn on PF1. 2.5m telescope: Turn on HVAC system or set system for 1.0 pressurization. ... If time permits and immediate evacuation is not ordered: . a. make sure everyone on site is awake and aware of . ... Echelle: Top off LN2, (if time does not permit, turn Ion Pump off, turn off camera power) . DIS: Turn off camera electronics . ...

Insights & Perspectives Think again Targeting cancer's weaknesses (not its strengths): Therapeutic strategies suggested by the atavistic model Charles H. Lineweaver1)*, Paul C. W. Davies2) and Mark D. Vincent In the atavistic model of cancer progression, tumor cell dedifferentiation is interpreted as a reversion to phylogenetically earlier capabilities. The more recently evolved capabilities are compromised first during cancer progression. ... Our most detailed example involves the immune system. ...

Iron (Fe) i s extremely reactive with oxygen. ... Archean - Find occurrence of minerals that only form in non-oxidizing environments in Archean sediments: Pyrite (Fools gold; FeS 2 ), Uraninite (UO 2 ). ... Chemical building blocks of life could not have formed in the presence of atmospheric oxygen. ... Oxygen prevents growth of the most primitive living bacteria such as photosynthetic bacteria, methane-producing bacteria and bacteria that derive energy from fermentation. ...