We introduce the properties of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) survey for IAU Symposium 204. 2MASS is a near-infrared survey of the entire sky characterized by high reliability and completeness. Catalogs and images for 47% of the sky are now available online. This data release has been used by Wright (2000) and Cambrésy et al. (2000) to subtract the stellar foreground at 1.25 and 2.2 micr...

NASA's Mars Geodesy/Cartography Working Group (MGCWG), established in 1998 and chaired since 2000 by one of us (TCD), consists of leading researchers in planetary geodesy and cartography at such diverse institutions as JPL, NASA Ames and Goddard Centers, Purdue and Ohio State Universities, Malin Space Science Ssystems, the German Center for Aerospace Research DLR, and the US Geological Survey, ...

a jurisprudence and legal survey of claiming damages exceeding wergild (diyeh) in mandatory insurance law   mehdi gaemi [1] hormoz asadi kuh bad [2]   abstract the basis of possibility of claiming damages surplus to wergild under mandatory insurance law is one of the important topics investigated in the current article. it is neither purely permitted nor purely an issue of damage payment, but r...

We introduce a subclass of Kripke’s fixed points in which falsehood is the preferred truth value. In all of these the truthteller evaluates to false, while the liar evaluates to undefined (or overdefined). The mathematical structure of this family of fixed points is investigated and is shown to have many nice features. It is noted that a similar class of fixed points, preferring truth, can also...

Disregarding the cultural intelligence which is considered as a foundation in various aspects of human development, can lead students to lead students to develop unevenly. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the level of cultural intelligence, Islamic Azad University, the East Mazandaran province. The method of this study was a survey and the statistical population of 13,917 person...

We present Very Large Array (VLA) Hi imaging of four low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies ([OBC97] P01-3, [OBC97] C06-1, [OBC97] C04-1, [OBC97] C04-2)1 which were thought to strongly deviate from the Tully-Fisher (TF) relation based on Arecibo singledish observations. We do not detect three of the four targeted LSB galaxies in Hi down to a 4σ limit of 0.08Jy km s−1. We find that two of the fou...