IF <logical expression> THEN <statement>.. ELSEIF <logical expression> THEN <statement>.. ELSE <statement>.. CIF . ... ELSEIFs when present must precede any corresponding ELSE. ... When the IF or ELSEIF condition has the value .TRUE., the statements following are executed and control is transferred to the statement following the CIF. ... When the IF and all ELSEIF clauses have a value which is .FALSE., control is passed to the statement following the corresponding ELSE or CIF. ...

. The multicolor snapshot at top captures the central region of the giant globular cluster Omega Centauri. All the stars in the image are moving in random directions, like a swarm of bees. From these measurements, they can predict the stars' future movement. The bottom illustration charts the future positions of the stars highlighted by the white box in the top image. Each streak represents the motion of the star over the next 600 years. The motion between dots corresponds to 30 years. NASA/ESA/STScI

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

TYPES Trees are represented by two types: entree (enumerated tree) and bitree (bit tree). ... Also, it's possible to match patterns: tree <* treequery treequery >* tree The last two operations return TRUE if the node matches the treequery pattern. ... Example of how to add a node: select entree_next(tid) from dmoz where tid <* '1.2.3.*.0' order by tid desc limit 1; INDICES Type tree supports two types of indices: B-Tree - accelerates operations: <,>,<=,>= and =. ...

... The changebar (represented by two hyphens in the image) appears in the 10px space to the left of the paragraph. The illustration shows a vertical line that represents the left edge of the paragraph's containing block. ... The change bars (two red hyphens) appear to the left of the word "THIS", which begins the fourth line of text. The following PRE element simulates the example. Vertical bars represent the left containing block edge. ... to the left of the line containing | ...

ON-LINE STATIC EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER . ... Static image reconstruction from the data measured in vivo is still intriguing problem in EIT. ... dipole (adjacent) current injection and voltage measurements on pairs of adjacent electrodes (like in Sheffield systems) . ... You can view examples of the text files for polar , dipole and trigonometric injection, use them for testing the server and find more details on HOW TO PREPARE INPUT FILE FOR THE ON-LINE EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER page. ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

... Gravity data reflect changes, related to the groundwater redistribution, ice melting, and precipitation accumulation. ... We apply Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA, or extended EOF) technique to filter GRACE data and separate the principal components (PCs) of different periods. We performed data averaging over the large river basins of Russia. ... Fig 1. ... MSSA is a promising method for GRACE data processing, de-striping, filtering, and Principal Components (PCs) separation. ...

... We describe a new library (AST) which provides a flexible high-level programming interface for handling world coordinate systems in astronomy and for producing graphical output. ... Relationships between coordinate systems are represented within AST by objects called Mappings. ... While Mappings represent the relationships between coordinate systems, the coordinate systems themselves are represented by objects called Frames. ... Like all objects, a Frame also provides methods. ...

Next: The Newton--Raphson Method. Up: Fitting of Data Previous: Fitting of Data . ... In a linear problem, if the errors on the observations have a gaussian distribution, the ``Maximum Likelihood Principle'' gives you the ``best estimate'' of the parameters as the solution of the so-called ``Least Squares Minimization'' that follows: . ... A certain number of numerical methods have been developed to solve the non--linear least squares problem, four have so far been implemented in MIDAS. ...

... Asteroids Near Earth . ... Though the sizes are not to scale, the Sun and planets of the inner solar system are shown in this illustration, where each red dot represents an asteroid. ... On September 26, a large solar coronal mass ejection smacked into planet Earth's magnetosphere producing a severe geomagnetic storm and wide spread auroras. ... In this crowded starfield spanning some 3 degrees within the high flying constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

External influences on spin parameters for INTERBALL - AP . ... The main interest is that almost all kind of external influences to parameters of motion (eclipse, normalization, ROS) are presented in the one time interval. Three upper panels illustrate the spin velocity, the angle between kinetic moment and sun direction, and the nutation.All external events are represented on the lowest panel as blue, green and yellow columns. ...

... The purpose of this task is to take GTI files, and align them with the frame readout times of a given instrument, so that they can be used to properly filter events and calculate exposure times for that instrument. ... time --> . ... There should be exposure extension(s) in the event list, which will contain the frame readout times for the events in this file. ... This is also true of the exposure extension, which stores the frame readout times as an absolute time and an interval. ...

... Class . ... METHOD . ... java.lang.Object ij.LookUpTable . public class LookUpTable . ... LookUpTable (java.awt.image.ColorModel cm) . ... createGrayscaleColorModel (boolean invert) . ... drawColorBar (java.awt.Graphics g, int x, int y, int width, int height) . ... Constructs a LookUpTable object from an AWT Image. public LookUpTable (java.awt.image.ColorModel cm) . ... Method Detail public int getMapSize () . ... public static java.awt.image.ColorModel createGrayscaleColorModel (boolean invert) . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 High--accuracy modelling of the Earth's gravitational potential from GOCE satellite gradiometry mission M. S. Petrovskaya, A. N. Vershkov Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia The Earth's gravitational potential is presented in form of a spherical harmon­ ic series with the coefficients C n;m which are the fundamental dynamical constants for the Earth. The set of C n;m for degree 0 џ n џ N and order jmj џ n consti­ tutes a geopotential model. ...

... Two high school students from Texas and Louisiana are the winners of the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards for their astronomy projects presented at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. The awards were presented on May 18 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ...

... Ancient Greeks understood it quite well, and they considered astronomy not only as science, but also as art, with its Muse - Urania. ... Pushkin . ... Vulcano Island . ... Vulcano Workshop . ... Jim Beall Tree, Washington . ... Julia Tree, Pushkin . ... Tyumen, St.Peter and Pavel church . ... Binary Star . Binary System of X-ray Pulsar . Disk Accretion onto Magnetized Neutron Star . ... Discovery of X-ray stars . ... X-ray stages of binary evolution and Non X-ray stages of binary evolution . ...

This menu contains items that illustrate and explain some of the basic concepts that are represented by any operating system and by UNIX in particular. It helps you to understand why UNIX behaves in the way that it does. ... what an operating system is . the structure of the UNIX operating system . about commands and processes . the UNIX file system . ... Understanding these concepts you will help you make better use of UNIX and have a clearer idea about what it is you are doing. ...