... You can work in group sizes as large as 5. Each individual in that group could be assigned a particular question which would allow the group to complete the assignment in a more efficient manner. ... The Assignment: . Provide some information in response to the following questions. ... Find some information on possible tidal power sites in the United Kingdom and report on their potential for power generation. Find some information on the design and potential of the Advanced Gas Turbine. ...

... ftools (ftools-1.2) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... Please note the following limitations: . FTOOLS do not allow string parameters to be assigned an empty string on the command line. ... The GUI does not use the PFILES environment variable to locate FTOOLS parameter files. ... When run from the GUI, an FTOOL uses its own parameter file to determine the type of each parameter, but ignores the default values in its parameter files, because the GUI specifies all paraeters on the command line. ...

... 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. Franklin studied static electricity, produced by rubbing glass, amber, sulfur etc. with fur or dry cloth. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1140 Camera Mount & Enclosure . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... 1200 FLC . ... MRO-PLA-CAM-0000-0106 FTT/NAS & FLC Development Plan . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/DocMan) ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

To read standard input into a shell script use the read command. For example: echo "Please enter your name:" read name echo "Welcome to Edinburgh $name" . This prompts the user for input, assigns this to the variable name and then displays the value of this variable to standard output . ... For example: echo "Please enter your surname\n" echo "followed by your first name: \c" read name1 name2 echo "Welcome to Glasgow $name2 $name1" . ...

... 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. ...

... Chapter 4: Solar System Targets > 4.2 Target Identification . ... The following information is required to identify and classify each target. ... For example, separate targets should be defined if you plan to take spectra of several different surface features on a planet, or if you plan to observe the same feature with different timing constraints. ... Description . PLANET . If the target is the center of a planet, enter PLANET followed by its name (e.g., PLANET JUPITER , PLANET SATURN ). ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... Subject: G.08 How are stars named? Can I name/buy one? ... The Supernova of 1987 (Supernova 1987A), one of the major astronomical events of this century, was identified with the star named SK -69 202 in the very specialized catalog, the _Deep Objective Prism Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud_, published by the Warner and Swasey Observatory. These procedures and catalogs accepted by the International Astronomical Union are the only means by which stars receive long-lasting names. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... mod_proxy extension for load balancing . ... Thus, in order to get the ability of load balancing, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer have to be present in the server. ... Enabled via lbmethod=byrequests , the idea behind this scheduler is that we distribute the requests among the various workers to ensure that each gets their configured share of the number of requests. ... lbfactor is how much we expect this worker to work , or the workers's work quota . ... worker...

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. ...

... The Site Safety Officer is responsible for continued safe functioning of facilities and equipment including telescopes, and the safety of personnel involved in or near maintenance activities. ... All employees are responsible for prompt reporting of conditions requiring maintenance. ... Preventive maintenance programs will be designed to insure a safe and healthful working environment for every employee and to minimize the need for emergency repairs. ... EMERGENCY REPAIRS . ... WRITTEN PROCEDURES . ...

Next: Details of Setup File Up: Setup Files Previous: Examples of Setup Files Contents . A list of the setup parameters is given below, followed by detailed information on each setup paramater in Section 3.6.4 . ... Note that the VLBA uses the concept of baseband channels. ... BBC: BBC assigned to each baseband channel. ... IFCHAN: IF channel to BBC for each baseband channel. ... NCHAN: Number of baseband channels. ... TPSPEEDH: Tape speed in inches per second at high density (obsolete). ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... Executable GOTO statements . ... Input/output statements . ... GOTO statement_number_variable, (snr1, snr2, snr3) - an assigned GOTO statement, jumps to the statement number that equals the statement number variable (an arbitrary number of statement numbers snr are permitted). GOTO statement_number_variable - this is an assigned ordinary GOTO statement, it is a combination of the first one, GOTO snr1, and previous one, GOTO statement_number_variable without a list of permitted alternatives. ...

CREW 21/22 . ... ISS-21 IMAGE . ... ISS-22/23 Flight Engineer, . ... In August 1996 Wheelock was assigned to the Johnson Space Center as a test engineer to provide the Shuttle equipment test. ... He was assigned as a lead test engineer participating in the ISS hardware testing. ... In 2001 he was assigned as the support astronaut for the ISS-2 and ISS-4 crews. ... The main objective of the flight was to deliver the new Harmony module to the International Space Station and deploy P6 Solar Arrays. ...

CCD Forum Message . Forums: . ... CCD Tips and Techniques | Post . ... Colour Filter On A CCD . ... I was wondering if you could help me with a question I have about colour filters on CCD's: . For a CCD that is using a bayer colour filter on top of the pixel array, i have seen two different ways that this has been arranged: . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Visitor Mode Guidelines . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... This page provides information about Observation Block (OB) creation only for users assigned Visitor Mode time at ESO telescopes. ... Please notice that the scheduling containers should NOT BE USED for preparation of visitor mode OBs, because the Visitor Mode Observing Tool (vOT), used to execute the observations at the telescope on Paranal, will ignore them. ...