Russian ELT projects and prospects

Russian Prospects - political and economic scenarios

Requirements for AO-ELT operation and ELT site monitor

Performance of AO systems on ELTs depends not just on seeing; other parameters such as strength of high-altitude turbulence are more relevant for the laser tomography. Nights good for some instruments are not so good for others, so there is a clear advantage to go from the simple queue scheduling on seeing to a more complex strategy of selecting in a multi-parameter space. The need to know thos...

Russian space programs: Achievements and prospects of automatic control applications

Performance of manned and automated spacecraft and vehicles greatly relies on the control system operation quality. The account hereunder describes the history and evolution of control systems, principles of their development, and the latest concepts. Copyright © 2004 IFAC

An elt-3/elt-5/elt-6 GATA Transcription Circuit Guides Aging in C. elegans

To define the C. elegans aging process at the molecular level, we used DNA microarray experiments to identify a set of 1294 age-regulated genes and found that the GATA transcription factors ELT-3, ELT-5, and ELT-6 are responsible for age regulation of a large fraction of these genes. Expression of elt-5 and elt-6 increases during normal aging, and both of these GATA factors repress expression o...

Cofinancing of World Bank Projects: Problems and Prospects

In this thesis we examine the cofinancing of World Bank projects with commercial banks in the context of the current international debt crisis. After describing the institutions involved, with particular emphasis on the World Bank, we review the history of cofinancing with commercial banks. We then describe the controversy that has existed between the World Bank and commercial banks and present...