This document covers the FORTRAN version of the interfaces of this subsystem. ... Fortran offers a single intrinsic function for locating substrings within a string: INDEX. ... begin a search at any location within the string. -- search in two directions: forward (left to right), and reverse (right to left). -- search for a multi-character substring; or for any character contained in an arbitrary collection; or for any character NOT contained in an arbitrary collection. ... IF ( LEN ( STRING ) .LE. ...

In the area of environmental health and safety some of the major codes and laws are: The Occupational Safety and Health Act, National Fire Protection Association Codes , Environmental Protection Act, American National Standards Institute Codes , and all Uniform Building Codes . ... The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is an extremely comprehensive collection of regulations governing safety and health in the work place. ... These codes have been adopted into the state Fire Codes. ...

The following low level subroutines belong to the category UTILITY: . General utility routines'' In parentheses the name of the source file is given. char2str . Copy a fchar value to a char[]. ( gclib.c ) . ... Copy a zero-terminated character string to a fchar. ( gclib.c ) . ... tofchar converts a null-terminated string to the fortran equivalent of a character (fchar). ( gclib.c ) . ... Converts fchar to ASCIIZ string. ( gclib.c ) . ...

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific gratefully acknowledges the partnership of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and Pima Community College. ... National Optical Astronomy Observatory . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors for their generous support in making this meeting possible . NASA Lunar Science Institute . Infrared Processing and Analysis Center . ... Spitzer Science Center . ...

... If the star names used in data files are not exactly the same character strings as those used in star files, the reduction program will try to make cross-identifications. ... The program applies these rules in attempting to parse name strings containing multiple designations that are not separated by the `` = '' string (surrounded by blanks). ... This situation can be avoided by making sure that all star names are spelled consistently, and that names in star files agree with names in data files. ...

... Data Collection and Analysis . AAS 223 . ... The data below shows who has been tweeting about the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society , with a cut-off to avoid being drowned by the " long tail " of the distribution. ... If you mouse over the bar then you the user's actual name (or at least whatever text was given to Twitter) and the number of tweets or retweets they made. ... Total number of tweets , of which were made by the following accounts (the cut off to appear is tweets): . ...

The first character in each record (line) of formatted output defines a carriage control character to the lineprinter, often called ASA-character, for a previous name of the US Standardization Organization ANSI. ... When using VAX/VMS for output first on a file, which is to be printed later on paper, it is advisable to use the extension .DAT . ... You use the compiler switch -vms f77 -vms prog.f and get the control characters removed from the screen output. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Single and Multi-dimensional Arrays . Strings . ... BEWARE: In C Array subscripts start at 0 and end one less than the array size. ... In C Strings are defined as arrays of characters. ... char name[50]; C has no string handling facilities built in and so the following are all illegal : . ... In order to allow variable length strings the 0 character is used to indicate the end of a string. ... Write a C program to read through an array of any type. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

... The following entity names are used in HTML, always prefixed by ampersand (&) and followed by a semicolon as shown. ... Name Syntax Description Aacute Aacute; Capital A, acute accent Agrave Agrave; Capital A, grave accent Acirc Acirc; Capital A, circumflex accent Atilde Atilde; Capital A, tilde Aring Aring; Capital A, ring Auml Auml; Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark AElig AElig; Capital AE dipthong (ligature) Ccedil Ccedil; Capital C, cedilla Eacute Eacute; ...

... subroutine splitSetTabName(setTabName, setName, tabName, noColonFound) character(*), intent(in) :: setTabName character(*), intent(out) :: setName, tabName logical(bool), intent(out), optional :: noColonFound end subroutine splitSetTabName . The parameter type `table' (see param ) accepts a string consisting of a dataset name followed by a colon followed by a binary table name. ... An example of how to use splitSetTabName is as follows: . setTabName = stringParameter('mytable') ! ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Don't Follow You! ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on September 16, 2002 14:59:47 UTC . ... Let me explain - harvey1 - September 16, 2002 - 18:31 UTC . Once again, we are askew of the issue. - doctordick - September 17, 2002 - 18:15 UTC . ... 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" . ...

... Functions are one of the fundamental building blocks in JavaScript. ... The return statement specifies the value returned by the function. return number * number All parameters are passed to functions by value ; the value is passed to the function, but if the function changes the value of the parameter, this change is not reflected globally or in the calling function. ... return 1 . ... The two "parse" functions, parseInt and parseFloat , return a numeric value when given a string as an argument. ...

... From a Bang to a Whimper - Celebrating Differing Views of the Universe - Tuesday 12 May 2009, Trinity College Dublin . ... Constructing a 16 inch Dobsonian Telescope: Monday 11 May 2009, Ballyclare . тАШ Discover the Stars at ArmaghтАЩ - the second Cross-Border Schools Science Conference, an International Year of Astronomy 2009 event, took place in Armagh on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th April 2009. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Астронет | ... Universe . ... In the Universe that we can observe there are some billion galaxies. The greatest of them are similar to the Milky Way, where we live, and to the Andromeda galaxy. ... Some of these stars are much greater than the Sun, the others are much smaller. ... Besides the stars, every galaxy contains a great amount of gas and dust. ... small - маленький; small er - меньше; the small est - самый маленький; great - большой; great er - больше; the great est - самый большой. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

. The determination of the distance to RS Pup, following the method of the American astronomer Robert Havlen, is based on the measurement of the phase difference between the variation of the star and the variation of isolated nebular features. This artist's illustration is not to scale. ESO

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...