scholarly journals A Very Special Catalogue: The Hipparcos Input Catalogue

1988 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 245-257
Author(s):  
C. Turon
Keyword(s):  
Observational Constraints ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Final Data ◽  
Double And Multiple Stars ◽  
Input Catalogue

The various characteristics of the HIPPARCOS Input Catalogue are described:–How to select 110 000 stars for HIPPARCOS observation from the 210 000 proposed stars, taking into account the following sometimes conflicting requirements : satisfy a maximum of scientific programmes and respect the observational constraints inherent in the HIPPARCOS satellite operation ?–What are the present results regarding the principal astrometric programmes ?–How to process the specific problems which are raised by the HIPPARCOS observation of double and multiple stars and of stars in dense areas ?–Which compilations and observations have been undertaken and are in progress within the frame of the Input Catalogue preparation ? What will be the quality of the final data ?Finally, the contents of the catalogues and annexes that will be published are briefly presented.

Law for Aerospace Activities 1966-2066

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (700) ◽  
pp. 255-270
Author(s):  
H. Caplan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
Impossible Task

The purpose of this prologue is to outline how I have approached the arrogant and impossible task of surveying an unborn century of law. I may also be able to illustrate that the nature and quality of the task is completely different from that attempted in the preceding papers. In the whole paper I have done little more than infer repeatedly, in different ways (a) that the shape of the future so far as law is concerned will be determined by the methods of communication adopted between sectors of the aerospace community and between the aerospace community and society at large, and (b) that the search for effective methods of communication is urgent. But my target is not the lawyers of our community—who I am not qualified to advise. I write for the other members of the Royal Aeronautical Society and I return to the task of persuading them that they have a role to play in evolving future laws for aerospace activities.

Economic Lirowth and Human Rights in Brazil: The First Nine Years of Military Tutelage

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Brady Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Political Democracy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

This is an interim, summary and provisional judgment on the Brazilian experiment of the past nine years, that is, since the military took power on April 1, 1964. To try to give an impression of the results of the interaction among the values of political democracy, equality, and economic growth, and the present levels compared with those of 1964 as well as what appear to be the trends. I have chosen six “indicators”:(1)the autonomy and integrity of the legal system;(2)torture and police brutality;(3)freedom of the mass media;(4)income distribution patterns;(5)education distribution patterns; and(6)the quality of life of the people of the city of greater São Paulo.

Accessories

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (663) ◽  
pp. 413-414
Author(s):  
F. Sturm
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Batch ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Normal Sequence ◽  
Design Requirements

The Title of this paper presupposes the existence of the most important and fundamental document, namely a clear specification of design requirements.The normal sequence of activities after receipt of the specification is as follows: — Design.Prototype and Experimental batch manufacture.Development (and Approval Testing).Production.Customers’ Use.The function of Design and Development determines the ability of the design to meet the specification, and this can be classified as the “Quality of Design.”

scholarly journals Evaluating mental health services. A world perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (S1) ◽  
pp. 239-245
Author(s):  
Norman Sartorius
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
World Wide ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
World Perspective

Evaluations of mental health services are much in demand. Their results are supposed to help in improving the quality of mental health care and in making them economically better viable.Yet, world-wide there is: 1)little agreement about the content of terms such as evaluation, mental health service, outcome of an activity although these and other terms are widely used;2)uncertainty about the best use of results of evaluative research;3)lack of consensus about who should evaluate what and by what method.

scholarly journals The Catalogue of the Components of Double and Multiple Stars (CCDM) - First Edition

1995 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 395-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dommanget ◽  
O. Nys
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Multiple Star ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Double Stars ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Double And Multiple Stars ◽  
General Data ◽  
Input Catalogue ◽  
Better Than

The Hipparcos mission required the realisation of an Input Catalogue giving the positions of 100.000 stars (single or components of double and multiple systems) to an accuracy better than 1″5. At the start of this work (1981) no specific catalogue of double and multiple stars provided these data. The only general data base on double stars available to us, giving positions to ±1′, was the Index (1961,0) updated at the USNO by C. E. Worley till 1976,5 and of which a copy was communicated by P. Muller of the Observatoire de Meudon. It has then been decided to reformat this Catalogue in such a way as to allow the introduction of all necessary information for the mission. This permitted a correct cross-identification with the Hipparcos Input Catalogue (of finally 118.000 stars). It was later called: the Catalogue of the Components of Double and Multiple stars (CCDM). Since then, it has been developed and its aim remains to furnish the best accurate locations and descriptions of the double and multiple systems on the sky for all double and multiple star research.

scholarly journals Raw Data from HIPPARCOS Double and Multiple Stars

1992 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 396-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.L. Bernacca ◽  
F. Donati ◽  
F. Mignard
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Double And Multiple Stars ◽  
Input Catalogue ◽  
Fourier Model

AbstractThe HIPPARCOS Input Catalogue comprises about 118,000 entries of which 16,000 are flagged as related to double or multiple stars. Data analysis begins by fitting Fourier model signals to the observations: the intensity coefficients and the phases at several locations on the spatial modulator are estimated and a first rough recognition of possibly unknown non-single stars is performed. After calibration corrections, a normal point is produced at every transit of a star across the field of view of the telescope and the improved parameters are stored for extensive multiplicity testing and relative astrometry when enough scans are accumulated.

scholarly journals The role of faith in mental healthcare: Philosophy, psychology and practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Foreman
Keyword(s):  
Group Decision ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
List Type ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Therapeutic Choice ◽  
Effective Assessment ◽  
Optimal Implementation

SummaryIt is time to improve clinical approaches to faith in mental healthcare, particularly in psychotherapy. Understood as a psychological trait, faith has potentially great personal salience and introduces socially desirable biases into human reasoning. Therapies may have faith-informed components, either explicitly, or (as with some forms of mindfulness) implicitly, which may modify the patient's faith as well as producing symptomatic change. In this narrative review, the ethics of faith's inclusion in therapy is briefly appraised. The psychology of faith is discussed, and a model of the influence of the practitioner's faith on therapeutic choice is presented. Finally, faith-informed approaches to practice, including their impact on therapeutic effectiveness, are considered and recommendations made for their optimal implementation.LEARNING OBJECTIVES•Understand the main types, characteristics and likely effectiveness of faith-informed therapies versus their secular equivalents•Develop a framework for effective assessment of the contribution of faith to a patient's quality of life, and use this to balance the advantages and risks of employing a faith-informed therapy•Be aware of the unavoidability of bias in the assessment of faith, and learn how to minimise this bias, if necessary by making a group decision

scholarly journals How Double Star Astronomy May Develop After HIPPARCOS

1992 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 435-438
Author(s):  
J. Dommanget ◽  
P. Lampens
Keyword(s):  
Double Star ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Hipparcos Catalogue ◽  
Double And Multiple Stars ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
Input Catalogue

AbstractNow that the HIPPARCOS satellite safely revolves on its “degraded” orbit — after the exploit of the ESA technicians to rescue it from the faulty ignition of its apogeum boost motor — and regularly provides the information expected for reaching the initial aim of the project, one may turn to examine the possible exploitation of the final HIPPARCOS Catalogue.In the present paper, we describe how double and multiple stars have been introduced in the Input Catalogue and what may be expected from their observation. We also try to evaluate how much the final HIPPARCOS data may influence future researches on these celestial bodies and what kind of ground–based observation programmes should be conducted in order to support the space results.

scholarly journals Recent Developments in Improving Daytime Angular Resolution from the Ground

1974 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. O. Kiepenheuer
Keyword(s):  
Angular Resolution ◽  
Solar Chromosphere ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Modulation Transfer ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Atmospheric Seeing

The subject of this symposium is the fine structure of the solar chromosphere. Progress in this field of reserach will depend to a high degree of the quality of seeing, resp. on the effective angular resolution available on the ground. Today's situation of solar ground seeing has changed distinctly in the last years. I would like to report here a few new aspects, which could be condensed into 3 questions: (1)Are there on the ground ‘good seeing windows’, comparable in quality with stratosphere results obtained from balloon borne equipment?(2)Is there a chance to resolve from the ground the solar scale height, corresponding to about 0.1″.(3)Is there a residual fundamental atmospheric seeing noise resp. a basic limit to the atmospheric Modulation Transfer Function (MTF)?

Escitalopram vs duloxetine in major depressed patients with pain

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 604-604
Author(s):  
A. Baloescu ◽  
V. Baloescu ◽  
J.D. Sichitiu
Keyword(s):  
Daily Activity ◽  
List Type ◽  
Baseline Score ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Depressive Patients ◽  
Baseline Sample

ObjectiveEvaluate the efficacy and tolerability of escitalopram and duloxetine in depressive patients with pain.MethodsSample A (escitalopram): 22 patients (15 female and 7 man, mean age 51.75); Sample B (duloxetine) 25 patients (18 female, 7 man, mean age 53,85). They were diagnosed with major depressive disorder according to ICD 10; assessed with HAMD 17 items in baseline, 14, 28, 42, 56 days; CGIS at baseline, 28 and 56 days; CGII at 28 and 56 days.ResultsEscitalopram 10–20 mg/day; duloxetine 60–120 mg/day. Sample A HAMD 17 items: baseline-21.8; 14 days-19.7; 28 days- 17.2; 42 days-13.5; 56 days-11.8. Sample B HAMD 17 items: baseline-22.3; 14 days-19.9; 28 days- 17.4; 42 days-13.2; 56 days-10.5. Item 13(somatic/general) -diffuse or vague muscle aches or heaviness in the arms or legs mean baseline score for Sample A -1.65; Sample B-1.75; 56 days: Sample A-0.80 and Sample B-0.65. CGIS: mean baseline Sample A: 4.2 and Sample B-4.3; 56 days Sample A-1.9 and Sample B-1.5. CGII 56 days: Sample A 7/22 (31.8%) -much improved and 10/22(45.45%) very much improved; Sample B 11/25 (44%) much improved and 14.25(56%) very much improved. We noted mild nausea 20/47, mild restlessness 12/47, mild dizziness 9/47 at the beginning of the treatment (both samples).Conclusions1)Escitalopram and duloxetine are safe and effective treatment.2)Coexistence of depression with physical pain negatively affects the performance in daily activity and quality of life; in such cases the first treatment option could be duloxetine.3)Escitalopram is also efficient in such cases.

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