A Star-Cross’d Nation

A nation divided.

A Nation by Design

Not yet a GM nation

" We won't swallow it " (Daily Mirror) and " GM comes a cropper as Britain says a huge No " (Daily Express) were typical headlines greeting the results of the UK's public consultation on GM food. The government-funded " GM Nation? " survey showed that only 2% of people would eat it. 95% were worried that growing GM plants would contaminate non-GM ones, 93% felt not enough was known about long-t...

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

a star identification algorithm based on a voting scheme for star trackers

star identification is one of the most important stages in attitude determination with star trackers. this can be performed using matching algorithms between observed stars and a master star catalogue. the main challenge in this approach is to provide a fast and reliable identification algorithm that is sufficiently robust in different pointing views of the star tracker optical system in the sp...