SED-ML Script Language

The Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language (SED-ML) is a XML format describing simulation experiments, so that they can be easily exchanged independent of software tools that created them. This document describes the SED-ML Script, a Python based shorthand that makes it easy to create / edit SED-ML documents

Education for all five years after Dakar. The long road of Yemen

Although there are positive developments in the education of Yemen and other Arabic countries, it is yet unclear if the Dakar-goals can be achieved; especially the education of girls is a critical aspect. The article informs about the education system of Yemen, the challenges of the MENA-region, using the example of Yemen, difficulties of girls\u27 education and the Basic Education Strategy as a trace to reach the Dakar goals. (DIPF/Orig.)Obwohl es positive Entwicklungen im Bildungsbereich Jemens und anderer arabischer Länder gibt, ist unklar, ob die Dakar-Ziele erreicht werden können; insbesondere die Mädchenbildung ist ein kritischer Faktor. Neben Informationen über das jemenitische Bildungswesen informiert der Beitrag über die Herausforderungen der MENA-Region am Beispiel Jemens, Schwierigkeiten in der Mädchenbildung und die Basic Education Development Strategy als ein Weg zur Erreichung der Dakar-Ziele. (DIPF/Orig.

Feeding and Feedback in nearby AGN from Integral Field Spectroscopy

I report results of recent integral field spectroscopy of the inner few hundred parsecs (pc) around nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at a sampling of a few pc, obtained with the Gemini Telescopes. In the lowest activity AGNs, it is possible to observe inflows in ionized gas along nuclear spirals and filaments. In more luminous AGN inflows have been observed also in hot molecular gas (H_2) emission in the near-IR. In most cases the H_2 kinematics is dominated by circular rotation in the plane around the nucleus, tracing the AGN feeding. The ionized gas, on the other hand, traces the AGN feedback. Its kinematics shows two components: (1) one originating in the plane, and dominated by circular rotation; (2) another outflowing along the Narrow-Line Region (NLR) whose flux distribution and kinematics frequently correlate with structures seen in radio maps. Mass outflow rates along the NLR range from 10^-2 to 1 M_sun yr^-1, corresponding to 10-100 times the accretion rate to the AGN, indicating that most of the NLR gas mass has been entrained from the galaxy plane. The average kinetic power of the NLR outflows is ~10^-4 times the bolometric luminosity.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "The Monster's Fiery Breath", eds. Sebastian Heinz and Eric Wilcot

Prediction and reconstruction of on-orbit acceleration

As the number of acceleration sensitive experiments to be carried on each Shuttle or Space Station mission increases, the requirement for either low-g environment or for accelerometry at each experiment location also increases. Preflight planning of such experiments in the past has not always included detailed analyses of the acceleration environment at the experiment location that had a serious impact on the experiment. Careful modeling of the mission activities and their effect on the experiment in many cases would have been beneficial to these experiments. In some cases, the experiment was not comprised, but insufficient instrumentation was available onboard to directly measure accelerations at the experiment location. The type of preflight modeling available to assist in experiment design and mission integration is described, as well as the use of that tool postflight to enhance flight data when sensors are not ideally suited to experiment analysis. Examples of recent shuttle flight experiments are presented