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Contents Railtrack: police urge charges Insight NHS exports patients to Germany Investec Contents Horse play: Prince Charles relaxes at polo in… Television ...
2001 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
M. Yoshida, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Toshiyuki Sasaki, George Kosugi, Tadafumi Takata, K. Sekiguchi, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kentaro Aoki, Ryo Asai, Youichi Ohyama, Koji S. Kawabata, Motoko Inata, Yoshihiko Saito, Hiroko Taguchi, Noboru Ebizuka, Yasushi Yadoùmaru, Tomohiko Ozawa, Masanori Iye,
Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS) is completed and now waiting for a commissioning run on the Subaru Telescope atop Mauna Kea. We have developed a software system that includes the control of FOCAS instruments, Multiple Object Slits (MOS) design, and an analyzing package especially for evaluating performances of FOCAS. The control software system consists of several processes: ... spectroscopy targets in the field of view of FOCAS easily through its GUI and to design MOS ... enables prompt performance check and evaluation of the FOCAS itself during a commissioning period. We describe the ...
Tópico(s): Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
2000 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Noboru Ebizuka, Koji S. Kawabata, Keiko Oka, Akiko Yamada, Masako Kashiwagi, Kashiko Kodate, Takashi Hattori, Nobunari Kashikawa, Masanori Iye,
Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) is a versatile common-use optical instrument for the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope, offering imaging and spectroscopic observations. FOCAS employs grisms with resolving powers ranging from 280 ... composed of a transmission grating and prism(s). FOCAS has five grisms with replica surface-relief gratings ... VPH gratings. We discuss the performance of these FOCAS grisms measured in the laboratory, and verify it ...
Tópico(s): Optical Coatings and Gratings
2011 - Oxford University Press | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
The FOCAS (Faint Object Classification and Analysis System) apparatus for the detection and classification of images on astronomical plates ... a field 37 arcmin on a side. The FOCAS acts to reduce the digitized image to a ... accuracy of the classifier have not been established. FOCAS has been used to assemble catalog of 86, ...
Tópico(s): Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
1981 - Institute of Physics | The Astronomical Journal
Gabriel Pedraza, Jacky Estublier,
... specify and implement. In this paper we present FOCAS, in which the application is described as a ... either atomic or composite, are to be executed. FOCAS analyzes the orchestration model and its distribution annotations ... a server per service). The paper shows how FOCAS transforms a simple orchestration into a distributed one, ...
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2009 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Koji S. Kawabata, Noboru Ebizuka, Toshiyuki Sasaki, K. Sekiguchi, Masanori Iye, Kentaro Aoki, Ryo Asai, Motoko Inata, Nobunari Kashikawa, George Kosugi, Youichi Ohyama, Kiichi Okita, Tomohiko Ozawa, Yoshihiko Saito, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Hiroko Taguchi, Tadafumi Takata, Yasushi Yadoùmaru, M. Yoshida,
The Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph, FOCAS, is a Cassegrain optical instrument of Subaru telescope. For its versatility, FOCAS has many optical components such as grisms, filters, and polarizers. ... field of view (6 arcmin in diameter) of FOCAS, rigorous efforts were made in developing, manufacturing and ...
Tópico(s): Planetary Science and Exploration
2003 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Nobunari Kashikawa, Kentaro Aoki, Ryo Asai, Noboru Ebizuka, Motoko Inata, Masanori Iye, Koji S. Kawabata, George Kosugi, Youichi Ohyama, Kiichi Okita, Tomohiko Ozawa, Yoshihiko Saito, Toshiyuki Sasaki, K. Sekiguchi, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Hiroko Taguchi, Tadafumi Takata, Yasushi Yadoùmaru, M. Yoshida,
Abstract The Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) is a Cassegrain optical instrument for the Subaru Telescope. Its capabilities include $6^\prime \phi$ FOV direct imaging, low-resolution spectroscopy ($R=250 \ ... and polarimetry. We describe the overall design of FOCAS, its observing functions, and the performance verification procedures ...
Tópico(s): Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
2002 - Oxford University Press | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Under the travelling wave transformation, Calogero–Degasperis–Focas equation is reduced to an ordinary differential equation. Using a symmetry group of one parameter, this ODE is reduced to a second-order ... all single travelling wave solutions to Calogero–Degasperis–Focas equation.
Tópico(s): Nonlinear Photonic Systems
2007 - Institute of Physics | Communications in Theoretical Physics
Nobunari Kashikawa, Motoko Inata, Masanori Iye, Koji S. Kawabata, Kiichi Okita, George Kosugi, Youichi Ohyama, Toshiyuki Sasaki, K. Sekiguchi, Tadafumi Takata, Yasuhiro Shimizu, M. Yoshida, Kentaro Aoki, Yoshihiko Saito, Ryo Asai, Hiroko Taguchi, Noboru Ebizuka, Tomohiko Ozawa, Yasushi Yadoùmaru,
Faint object camera and spectrograph, FOCAS, is a Cassegrain optical instrument of Subaru telescope. It has a capability of 6 arcmin FOV direct imaging, low resolution spectroscopy, ... observing functions, and the preliminary performance verifications of FOCAS will be presented.
Tópico(s): Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
2000 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
F. Valdés, L. E. Campusano, Juan D. Velásquez, P. B. Stetson,
... of the Faint Object Classification and Analysis System (FOCAS). FOCAS automatically produces catalogs of objects from digital images. ...
Tópico(s): Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
1995 - Institute of Physics | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Sobia Malik, Paul J. Wilson, Richard Smith, D. M. Lavigne, Bradley N. White,
... silvestre y sus derivados. Los penes de Pinípedos ( focas, leones marinos y morsas) vendidos en tiendas de ... sugiere que la venta legal de poductos de focas esta sirviendo como cobertura para la venta ilegal. ... podría estar formentando la caza no regulada de focas, incluyendo a especies protegidas, además de la captura ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
1997 - Wiley | Conservation Biology
Shinobu Ozaki, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Hikaru Iwashita, Kenji Mitsui, Takashi Hattori, Chien‐Hsiu Lee, Yôko Tanaka, Toshihiro Tsuzuki, Satoshi Miyazaki, Takuya Yamashita, Norio Okada, Yoshiyuki Obuchi,
Abstract The Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) is an optical imaging and spectroscopy instrument for the Subaru Telescope. It has been a workhorse instrument since the first-light phase of ... unit (IFU) that has recently been installed in FOCAS. The IFU utilizes an image slicer that divides ...
Tópico(s): Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
2020 - Oxford University Press | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Ke Chen, Nan Wang, Min Guo, Xinyu Zhao, Hongchao Qi, Chenxi Li, Guangyin Zhang, Lin Xu,
... photoacoustic signal. A fiber-optic cantilever acoustic sensor (FOCAS) was used to sense weak photoacoustic signals. To ... effect of SF6 gas on the responses of FOCAS and photoacoustic cell (PAC) was investigated. When SF6 ... be greatly reduced and the sensitivity of the FOCAS will be improved. With the excitation light power ...
Tópico(s): Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
Yoshihiko Saito, Youichi Ohyama, Nobunari Kashikawa, M. Yoshida, Toshiyuki Sasaki, George Kosugi, Tadafumi Takata, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Motoko Inata, Kiichi Okita, Kentaro Aoki, K. Sekiguchi, Koji S. Kawabata, Ryo Asai, Hiroko Taguchi, Noboru Ebizuka, Yasushi Yadoùmaru, Tomohiko Ozawa, Masanori Iye,
Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph, FOCAS, is a Cassegrain versatile optical instrument of Subaru telescope. Among various observing modes of FOCAS, the multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) requires dedicated software ... required time for the MOS target acquisition with FOCAS.
Tópico(s): Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
2003 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
... implementation con-siderations used in the construction of FOCAS are given. Detection and classification at 24th magnitude ...
Tópico(s): CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
1979 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
R. H. Méndez, A. M. Teodorescu, R. P. Kudritzki, Andreas Burkert,
... Cassegrain imaging spectrograph, Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS). As a first application, we have extended a ... center of NGC 4697. We compare the new FOCAS velocities with the earlier FORS velocities, for 158 ...
Tópico(s): Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
2009 - IOP Publishing | The Astrophysical Journal
Tomoki Morokuma, Tokita Kouichi, C. Lidman, Mamoru Doi, Naoki Yasuda, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, K. Barbary, Kyle Dawson, V. Fadeyev, H. K. Fakhouri, Gerson Goldhaber, A. Goobar, Takashi Hattori, Junji Hayano, I. Hook, D. A. Howell, Hisanori Furusawa, Y. Ihara, Nobunari Kashikawa, R. A. Knop, K. Konishi, J. Meyers, Takeshi Oda, R. Pain, S. Perlmutter, D. Rubin, A. L. Spadafora, N. Suzuki, N. Takanashi, Tomonori Totani, Hiroyuki Utsunomiya, Lifan Wang,
... taken with the Subaru low resolution optical spectrograph, FOCAS. These SNe were found in SN surveys with ...
Tópico(s): Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
2010 - Oxford University Press | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Vasilis P. Bozikas, Mary H. Kosmidis, Thomy Tonia, Christina Andreou, Kostas Focas, Athanasios Karavatos,
... 2006; accepted December 4, 2006. Drs. Bozikas and Focas are affiliated with the Second Department of Psychiatry, ...
Tópico(s): Stuttering Research and Treatment
2007 - American Psychiatric Association Publishing | Journal of Neuropsychiatry
... intervention unit. The Forsyth County Cancer Screening Project (FoCaS) was a comprehensive clinic- and community-based education ... County, North Carolina. The results suggested that the FoCaS project was effective in increasing mammography screening among ...
Tópico(s): Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
2000 - Oxford University Press | Health Education Research
Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui, Masahiro Ikoma, Yasunori Hori, Kenji Kurosaki, Yui Kawashima, Takahiro Nagayama, Masahiro Onitsuka, Amnart Sukom, Yasushi Nakajima, Motohide Tamura, D. Kuroda, K. Yanagisawa, Teruyuki Hirano, Kiyoe Kawauchi, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Hiroshi Ohnuki, Takuya Suenaga, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Hideyuki Izumiura, N. Kawai, M. Yoshida,
... B-band using the Suprime-Cam and the FOCAS instruments onboard the Subaru 8.2m telescope, and ... 0.11601 \pm 0.00117 (B-band, Subaru/FOCAS), Rp/Rs = 0.11654 \pm 0.00080 (J- ...
Tópico(s): Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
2013 - IOP Publishing | The Astrophysical Journal
Catherine M. Foley, Heather J. Lynch,
... las consecuencias ecológicas de la presencia de tantas focas en la isla podría ser similar a las ... histórico sobre la era de la caza de focas antárticas presenta vacíos inevitablemente, el uso de registros ...
Tópico(s): Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
2019 - Wiley | Conservation Biology
... the manufacturing workshop of enterprises. This article uses FOCAS data acquisition method to research and develop the ... equipment information model based on MTConnect protocol and FOCAS can solve the data acquisition and storage functions ...
Tópico(s): Engineering Technology and Methodologies
2020 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Russell J. Smith, William P Collier, Shinobu Ozaki, J. R. Lucey,
... the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey, using the new FOCAS IFU spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope. For J1436+ ...
Tópico(s): Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
2020 - Oxford University Press | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
V. P. Bozikas, Mary H. Kosmidis, T. Tonia, Christina Andreou, K. Focas, A KARAVATOS,
... 2006; accepted December 4, 2006. Drs. Bozikas and Focas are affiliated with the Second Department of Psychiatry, ...
Tópico(s): Stuttering Research and Treatment
2007 - American Psychiatric Association Publishing | Journal of Neuropsychiatry
Cynthia C. Webb, Gordon Bartley, Bruce B. Bykowski, G. R. Farnsworth, M F Riley,
... injection system, developed by SwRI, is called the FOCAS® system.
Tópico(s): Biodiesel Production and Applications
2003 - | SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
Yoshihiko Saito, Youichi Ohyama, M. Yoshida, Toshiyuki Sasaki, George Kosugi, Nobunari Kashikawa, Tadafumi Takata, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Motoko Inata, Kiichi Okita, Kentaro Aoki, K. Sekiguchi, Koji S. Kawabata, Ryo Asai, Hiroko Taguchi, Noboru Ebizuka, Yasushi Yadoùmaru, Tomohiko Ozawa, Masanori Iye,
... provided by the Faint Object Camera And Spectograph (FOCAS) on the Subaru Telescope. Since M82 is a ... cluster candidates using the multiobject spectroscopic mode of FOCAS. In the central 6' diameter region of M82, ...
Tópico(s): Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
2005 - IOP Publishing | The Astrophysical Journal
Shinobu Ozaki, Yôko Tanaka, Takashi Hattori, Kenji Mitsui, Mitsuhiro Fukusima, Norio Okada, Yoshiyuki Obuchi, Satoshi Miyazaki, Takuya Yamashita,
... optical imaging spectrograph, Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS), on the Subaru Telescope. Basic optical design has ... and set by the mask exchanger mechanism of FOCAS. Slice mirrors, pupil mirrors and slit mirrors are ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
2012 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
... of attenuated or dead bacilli from some ,distant focas, identified or otherwise, of tuberculous disease.4. The ...
Tópico(s): Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
1910 - BMJ | BMJ
Tópico(s): Spaceflight effects on biology
1962 - Elsevier BV | Planetary and Space Science
Tópico(s): Astro and Planetary Science
1969 - EDP Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics