The control system (TICS) for the test interferometer being built to support the development of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)[1] will itself be a prototype for the final ALMA array, providing a test for the distributed control system under development. TICS will be based on the ALMA Common Software (ACS)[2] (developed at the European Southern Observatory), which provides CORBAbased[...

The control system (TICS) for the test interferometer being built to support the development of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)[1] will itself be a prototype for the final ALMA array, providing a test for the distributed control system under development. TICS will be based on the ALMA Common Software (ACS)[2] (developed at the European Southern Observatory), which provides CORBAbased[...

The Alma Ata Declaration is now 28 years old. This article uses its framework to assess the changes that have occurred in recent years in the English health system. It summarises the health reform changes that have occurred internationally and those in the English health system in two eras, pre- and post-1997 - when the Labour Party came to power. It concludes that linked forces of managerialis...

We report Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of polarized dust emission from the protostellar source Ser-emb 8 at a linear resolution of 140AU. Assuming models of dust-grain alignment hold, the observed polarization pattern gives a projected view of the magnetic field structure in this source. Contrary to expectations based on models of strongly magnetized star for...

We present the first data release of ALMA-IMF Large Program, which covers 12m-array continuum calibration and imaging. The Program is a survey fifteen dense molecular cloud regions spanning range evolutionary stages that aims to measure core mass function (CMF). describe acquisition done by Atacama Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory subsequent imaging we performed. image products...

Many scientific deliverables of the next generation radio telescopes require widefield imaging or high dynamic range imaging, or both. Some next generation telescopes nearing completion (EVLA and ALMA) indeed promise at least a ten-fold increase in the sensitivity compared to the existing telescopes. High imaging dynamic range requires removal of systematic errors to high accuracy and for long ...

The study of gas and dust at high redshift gives an unbiased view of star formation in obscured objects as well as the chemical evolution history of galaxies. With today’s millimeter and submillimeter instruments observers use gravitational lensing mostly as a tool to boost the sensitivity when observing distant objects. This is evident through the dominance of gravitationally lensed objects am...

ACS provides the infrastructure for the software of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and other projects[1][2]. Using CORBA middleware, ACS supports the development of component-based software, from highlevel user interfaces down to the hardware device level. It hides the complexity of CORBA beneath an API that allows the application developer to focus on domainspecific programming. Although A...

We describe preliminary results for two ALMA projects – 1) imaging the HCN(4-3) line and H26α lines in Arp 220 and 2) measurements of the dust continuum in a sample of 107 high redshift galaxies to probe the evolution of the ISM masses. The HCN observations in Arp 220 at 1/2′′ resolution provide the first high resolution imaging of the dense star forming gas in this prototypical ULIRG. The HCN ...