scholarly journals The Status of the Dirbe Instrument on the COBE

1990 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
M.G. Hauser ◽  
T. Kelsall ◽  
H. Moseley ◽  
R. Silverberg ◽  
T.L. Murdock ◽  
...  

AbstractThe Diffuse Infrared-Background Experiment (DIRBE) on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite is a 10-band absolute photometer covering the wavelengths 1–300 microns using photovoltaic, photoconductive, and bolometric detectors. The input is via a 19-cm, off-axis, highly-baffled Gregorian telescope, with the detectors located at a pupil plane so they share the same field of view (0.7 × 0.7 degrees). The whole assembly is mounted inside a 1.4 K; super-fluid, liquid-He dewar, which is shared with the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrometer (FIRAS) instrument. Each day half of the sky is surveyed, as the line-of-sight of the DIRBE is canted 30 degrees to the COBE spin axis. The whole sky is fully observed in 6 months, as the spin axis precesses at about 1 degree per day. At present each sky pixel has been observed at least once. The basic findings on the general brightness of the sky - Zodiacal light and galaxy - are provided, as well as a synopsis of the advantages and disadvantages associated with a space-borne observatory. The relationship of our experience and findings with respect to possible future missions and their scientific goals is presented.

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-402
Author(s):  
ANDREW MCKENZIE-MCHARG

AbstractIn 1789 in Leipzig, a slim pamphlet of 128 pages appeared that sent shock waves through the German republic of letters. The pamphlet, bearing the title Mehr Noten als Text (More notes than text), was an ‘exposure’ whose most sensational element was a list naming numerous members of the North German intelligentsia as initiates of a secret society. This secret society, known as the German Union, aimed to push back against anti-Enlightenment tendencies most obviously manifest in the policies promulgated under the new Prussian king Frederick William II. The German Union was the brainchild of the notorious theologian Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–92). But who was responsible for the ‘exposure’? Using material culled from several archives, this article pieces together for the first time the back story to Mehr Noten als Text and in doing so uncovers a surprisingly heterogeneous network of Freemasons, publishers, and state officials. The findings prompt us to reconsider general questions about the relationship of state and society in the late Enlightenment, the interplay of the public and the arcane spheres and the status of religious heterodoxy at this time.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Jaenudin ◽  
Sandi Aprianto ◽  
Citra Setyo Dwi Andini

Background: Garbage is something material or solid objects that is no used by humans. The impact or risk of improper handling of garbage can cause to environmental damages that can cause health problems and disesase, one of them is diarrhea disease. According to the health profile of West Java Province (2012) showed that the 1.906.886 diarrhea incidence. Cirebon City is ranked ninth with 88,702 diarrhea incidence. Purpose: The purpose of this research is to know the relationship of waste management with the incidence of diarrhea In Argasunya Village Cirebon City. Method: This research used descriptive correlation with kohort retrospekif approach. The population in this study that is all the people who suffer from diarrhea in the Argasunya Village with 72 respondents. The sample in this study using total sampling with 72 respondents who suffer from diarrhea. The research instrument used the observation sheet of waste management and the result of the status of the patient according the medical record data in Sitopeng Public Health Center. The analysis used univariate and bivariate used Chi Square test. Result: The result of univariate analysis showed that most of the waste management did not fulfill the requirement of 59 respondents (81,9%) and most of the acute diarrhea was 62 respondents (86,1%). There was no significant relationship of waste management with the incidence of diarrhea In Argasunya Village Cirebon City, p-value = 0,677.


This chapter deals with the principles of finance as applied in the foodservice industry. It discusses the concept of revenue management, financial analysis and reporting, financial control, principles of budgeting, and forecasting. Specifically, it discusses finance in general and of the financial system and the meaning and application of financial management. It introduces the basics of the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of organizations. The important topics presented are the relationship of finance to other business disciplines, basic financial information in decision-making, understand financial statements, and financial ratios. It applies several analysis tools and techniques to learn about the time value of money, interest, and interest rates.


Author(s):  
Michael E. Pregill

This chapter examines the main narrative of the Golden Calf found in Exodus 32, as well as other allusions to this episode from Israel’s history from what became the canonical Hebrew Bible. The account of the Calf in Exodus appears to have been shaped by polemical imperatives in the earliest stages of its development, and reflects complex questions surrounding sanctioned forms of divine worship, the status of different priestly groups, and the relationship of those groups to the Israelite monarchies and the cult forms they sponsored. The conception of the Calf in Exodus appears to reflect ancient ideas about the sanctioned means of worshipping the God of Israel, with an older form of Israelite cult practice—the use of bulls or calves to suggest the invisible divine presence—being critiqued here. However, rather than corroborating the Exodus narrative’s presentation of the affair, the version of the episode preserved in Deuteronomy reflects the profoundly different imperatives of a later age. While the Exodus narrative ultimately hearkens back to a time in Israel’s history in which the making of the Calf was perceived primarily as a lamentable cultic infraction, the reframing of the narrative in Deuteronomy embeds it in a larger discourse in which the making of the Calf appears as the pre-eminent example of idolatry, a distinctive ideological construction of the exilic and post-exilic periods that marked all forms of religious practice not sanctioned as “orthodox” as betrayals of the covenant and regression to the worship of false gods.


1990 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
J. C. Mather ◽  
M. G. Hauser ◽  
C. L. Bennett ◽  
N. W. Boggess ◽  
E. S. Cheng ◽  
...  

AbstractThe Cosmic Background Explorer, launched November 18, 1989, has nearly completed its first full mapping of the sky with all three of its instruments: a Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) covering 0.1 to 10 mm, a set of Differential Microwave Radiometers (DMR) operating at 3.3, 5.7, and 9.6 mm, and a Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) spanning 1 to 300 µm in ten bands. A preliminary map of the sky derived from DIRBE data is presented. Initial cosmological implications include: a limit on the Comptonization y parameter of 10−3, on the chemical potential μ parameter of 10−2, a strong limit on the existence of a hot smooth intergalactic medium, and a confirmation that the dipole anisotropy has the spectrum expected from a Doppler shift of a blackbody. There are no significant anisotropies in the microwave sky detected, other than from our own galaxy and a cosθ dipole anisotropy whose amplitude and direction agree with previous data. At shorter wavelengths, the sky spectrum and anisotropies are dominated by emission from ‘local’ sources of emission within our Galaxy and Solar System. Preliminary comparison of IRAS and DIRBE sky brightnesses toward the ecliptic poles shows the IRAS values to be significantly higher than found by DIRBE at 100 μm. We suggest the presence of gain and zero-point errors in the IRAS total brightness data. The spacecraft, instrument designs, and data reduction methods are described.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Davies

The rise of populist political rhetoric and mobilisation, together with a conflict-riven digital public sphere, has generated growing interest in anger as a central emotion in politics. Anger has long been recognised as a powerful driver of political action and resistance, by feminist scholars among others, while political philosophers have reflected on the relationship of anger to ethical judgement since Aristotle. This article seeks to differentiate between two different ideal types of anger, in order to illuminate the status of anger in contemporary populist politics and rhetoric. First, there is anger that arises in an automatic, pre-conscious fashion, as a somatic, reactive and performative way, to an extent that potentially spirals into violence. Second, there is anger that builds up over time in response to perceived injustice, potentially generating melancholia and ressentiment. Borrowing Kahneman’s dualism, the article refers to these as ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ anger, and deploys the distinction to understand how the two interact. In the hands of the demagogue or troll, ‘fast anger’ can be deployed to focus all energies on the present, so as to briefly annihilate the past and the ‘slow anger’ that has been deposited there. And yet only by combining the conscious reflection of memory with the embodied response of action can anger ever be meaningfully sated in politics.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-411
Author(s):  
Martin Prudký

The religious traditions and texts of ancient Israel have shaped European civilization and culture in a fundamental way. One of the key motifs that the Hebrew Bible has contributed to the formation of the spiritual traditions of this culture is the conception that faith entails a ‘stepping out’ of the status quo on the new journey to which God calls a person. An archetypal story in this respect is the narrative concerning the call of Abram (Gen. 12:1–3). This paper presents the basic motifs of Abram’s call in the context of the book of Genesis and sketches their impact on subsequent religious traditions. It pursues the question of the relationship of vocation and mission (of ‘stepping out’ and ‘charting a course’), which are two fundamental aspects of Abraham’s role as ‘the father of the faith’. In addition, this paper reflects on these motifs’ potential to impact the public domain.


2016 ◽  
Vol 824 ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Pasek ◽  
Ingrid Matouskova ◽  
Petr Ort ◽  
Vojtech Chlubna ◽  
Katerina Paskova ◽  
...  

The research focused on the analysis of the interaction of the individual components of the system operationally efficient building – indoor environment quality – user has been conducted since 2014 in the Czech Republic by a team of College of Banking (BIVŠ) employees. The purpose of the research is the evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of operationally efficient buildings by their owners, users or facility managers. One of the most monitored research parameters is the rating of indoor environment quality and its influence in physical and psychological fitness and work performance of the building users. Next, there are also other relationships which are examined – as the importance of the indoor environment quality with regards to other building's parameters, its influence of the estate market value and the users' willingness to participate on the creation and keeping of indoor environment quality. The interpretation of gathered data proved a significant difference of the individual users' demands in relation to their individual preferences. This fact is necessary to respect while design and managing the operationally efficient buildings.


2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1049-1070
Author(s):  
LUCY BATES

ABSTRACTInterpretations that solely emphasize either continuity or controversy are found wanting. Historians still question how the English became Protestant, what sort of Protestants they were, and why a civil war dominated by religion occurred over a hundred years after the initial Reformation crisis. They utilize many approaches: from above and below, and with fresh perspectives, from within and without. Yet the precise nature of the relationship of the Reformation, the civil war, the interregnum and the Restoration settlement remains controversial. This review of recent Reformation historiography largely validates the current consensus of a balance of continuity and change, pressure for further reform and begrudging conformity. Yet ultimately it argues that continuity must form the foundation for any interpretation of the Reformation, for controversial or dramatic alterations to the status quo only made sense to contemporaries in the context of what had come before. Challenging ideas, like challenging individuals, did not exist in a vacuum devoid of historical context. The practical limits of possibility, constrained largely by the established norms and procedures, shaped the course of English Reformation. As such, practicality seems a unifying and central theme for current and future investigations of England's long Reformation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Desy Desy Amanda ◽  
Santi Martini

ABSTRAKSeseorang dengan kelebihan berat badan dan hiperkolesterol memiliki risiko mengalami penyakit hipertensi lebih besar. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis hubungan antara karakteristik dan status obesitas sentral dengan kejadian hipertensi di Puskesmas Sidoarjo. Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan observasional analitik dengan rancang bangun penelitian cross sectional. Besar sampel sebanyak 50 orang. Teknik pengambilan sampel dilakukan secara convenience atau accidental sampling. Variabel independen dalam penelitian ini yaitu karakteristik responden dan status obesitas sentral. Variabel dependen yaitu hipertensi. Karakteristik umur responden penderita hipertensi terdiri dari dua kategori yaitu umur >59 tahun dan <59 tahun. Jenis kelamin responden terdiri dari dua kategori yaitu laki-laki dan perempuan. Analisis data menggunakan uji statistik chi square. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penderita hipertensi dengan obesitas sentral memiliki risiko lebih tinggi mengalami hipertensi dibandingkan penderita yang normal dan kelompok umur >59 tahun jenis kelamin laki-laki merupakan faktor yang paling dominan dalam penelitian ini. Ada hubungan antara umur dengan kejadian hipertensi (p = 0,000), jenis kelamin dengan kejadian hipertensi (p = 0,044) dan status obesitas sentral dengan kejadian hipertensi (p = 0,001). Kesimpulan penelitian, terdapat hubungan antara umur, jenis kelamin, dan status obesitas sentral dengan kejadian hipertensi. Saran penelitian, bagi penderita hipertensi sebaiknya melakukan pemeriksaan tekanan darah secara rutin. Kata Kunci: hipertensi, karakteristik, obesitas sentral ABSTRACTA person with overweight and hiperkolesterol have high risk of hypertension. The aim of this research is to analyse the relationship between the characteristic and status of central obesity with the prevalence of hypertension in Sidoarjo. This type of research use analytic observational with cross sectional design. A sample sizes is 50 people. The technique of sampling uses convenience or accidental sampling. Independent variables are characteristics of the respondents and the status of central obesity. The dependent variable is hypertension. The characteristics of the aged respondents divided into two categories there are aged >59 years and <59 years. The gender of respondents were into two categories, namely men and women. Analyzing data using chi square test. Results of research indicates that sufferers of hypertension with Central obesity have a higher risk of experiencing hypertension sufferers than normal and >59 year age group gender the most dominant males in this study. There is a relationship between the age with the prevalence of hypertension (p = 0.000), sex with the genesis of hypertension (p = 0.044) and statuf of central obesity with the prevalence of hypertension (p = 0.001). The conclusions of the research, there is a relationship between age, gender, status of central obesity with the prevalence of hypertension. Suggestion, for patients with hypertension should check a blood pressure regularly. Keywords: hypertension, characteristics, central obesity


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