... I am developing an Informed Prefetching and Caching system as part of the kernel in which it is very important that the memory assigned to hold the data does not get swapped to disk. Without any thought to swapping I used vmalloc() to assign memory to the data structures of the Informed prefetching system. ... I later realized that most probably the pages assigned using vmalloc() were getting swapped to the disk and when I referenced them, they were brought from the disk rather than memory. ...

... 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 (-...

... 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 (-...

... VINOGRADOV PAVEL VLADIMIROVICH . ... ISS flight engineer . Roskosmos 1st class test-cosmonaut and cosmonaut-instructor (Russia) . ... From August 1996 to August 1997 Vinogradov trained as a flight engineer of the Mir-24 prime crew. ... By the decision of the Russian Space Agency Panel, though, Vinogradov was withdrawn from the ISS crew team and assigned to the Mir-28 Expedition as a backup crew flight engineer and to the Mir-29 Expedition as a prime crew flight engineer. ...

... The first is the pointing accuracy of the FOC. The second is the internal geometric accuracy of an FOC image itself, including the correctness of the distortion model, the plate scale, and the image rotation. ... The accuracy with which HST places a target in the FOC field of view depends in a complex way on the target coordinate uncertainty, the positions of the guide stars in the FGS fields of view, and the alignment of the FOC imaging aperture with respect to the FGS reference frame. ...

... omdetect (omdetect-5.9.1) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . ... subroutine omdetect read data for selected OSW image get mode of image by sigma clipping to get average background level Loop though all pixels on the image- for each pixel with a value >=nsigma * background mode analyse surrounding pixels to ascertain if these pixels may constitute a ``point'' source. If so, set the pixels to an assigned source number, compute the source position and shape by moments, and store the parameters. ...

Describes how spatial region boundaries are handled. The golden rule for spatial region filtering was first enunciated by Leon VanSpeybroeck in 1986: . ... With this in mind, the rules for determining whether a boundary image pixel or table row are assigned to a region are defined below. For image filtering, pixels whose center is inside the boundary are included. ... That is, an row is inside the boundary without regard to its integerized pixel value. ...

... Higgs, 1989; DRAO 1991. ... 12-13 RA (hours) 15-16 RA (min) 18-22 RA (sec) (XX.XX) 24-28 RA error (sec) (XX.XX) ( blank = unknown ) 30 Sign of declination 31-32 DEC (degrees) 34-35 DEC (arcmin) 37-40 DEC (arcsec) (XX.X) 42-45 DEC error (arcsec) (XX.X) ( blank = unknown ) 47 Epoch of coordinates (1=B1950, 2=J2000, 3= unknown ) 49 Type of position determination (1=rough estimate, 2=centroid, 3=peak, 4=fitted Gaussian, 5= unknown ) 51-56 Flux #1 ( variable format ) 58-62 Error in ...