Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A random laser is a laser that uses a highly disordered gain media. A random laser uses no optical cavity but the remaining principles of operation remain the same as for a conventional laser. Random laser action has been observed in many different media, including semiconductor powder, nanostructured and non-nanostructured thin films, laser dyes, ceramics and many more. Developments in nanoparticles have demonstrated large amounts of optical scattering can occur when photons are incident. In this way, light can be diffused around a medium in much the same way as it is on white paint and in clouds. If nano...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rangaswamy Srinivasan (born February 28, 1929) is an inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK. In 1981, Rangaswamy discovered that an ultraviolet excimer laser can be used to etch a living tissue precisely without causing any thermal damage to surrounding area. He named it Ablative Photodecomposition (APD). In 1983, Rangaswamy collaborated with an ophthalmic surgeon to use APD for a surgery of the cornea. This led to development of LASIK. In 1998, Rangaswamy was awarded the Biological Physics Prize by the American Physical Society. IBM Research, a division of IBM, is...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Range Safety and Telemetry System (RSTS) is a GPS based, S-band telemetry receiving and UHF command destruct system, with two 5.4-meter telemetry and command destruct auto-tracking antennas. The system built by Honeywell International. The system is capable of providing four redundant telemetry links and expanding for added telemetry link receiving. The prime purpose of the RSTS is to provide the range safety and telemetry functions necessary to track and verify a safe rocket flight within prescribed boundaries or safely terminate an errant rocket. One of the, operationally identical, RSTS systems is located at...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The maximal total range is the distance an aircraft can fly between takeoff and landing, as limited by fuel capacity in powered aircraft, or cross-country speed and environmental conditions in unpowered aircraft. Ferry range means the maximum range the aircraft can fly. This usually means maximum fuel load, optionally with extra fuel tanks and minimum equipment. It refers to transport of aircraft for use on remote location. Combat range is the maximum range the aircraft can fly when carrying ordnance. Combat radius is a related measure based on the maximum distance a warplane can travel from its base of...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The J-class yacht Ranger successfully defended the 1937 America's Cup, defeating the British challenger Endeavour II 4-0 at Newport, Rhode Island. It was the last time J-class yachts would race for the America's Cup. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt funded construction of the Ranger, and she was launched on May 11, 1937. She was designed by Starling Burgess and Olin Stephens, and constructed by Bath Iron Works. Stephens would credit Burgess with actually designing the Ranger, but the radical departure from conventional J-class design was more likely attributable to Stephens himself. Geerd Hendel, Burgess's chief...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Range Rover Classic is a 4x4 luxury SUV series built by British car maker Land Rover from 1970 to 1996. It was the first generation of vehicles produced under the Range Rover name. For most of its history, it was known simply as the "Range Rover"; Land Rover coined the term "Range Rover Classic" for the brief period the model was built alongside its P38A successor, and applied the name retrospectively to all first-generation Range Rovers. Although only intended to be a post-war stopgap, the Rover Company's Land Rover 4x4 launched in 1948 proved to a be a worldwide success; within two years it was vastly...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A rangefinder is a device that measures distance from the observer to a target, for the purposes of surveying, determining focus in photography, or accurately aiming a weapon. Some devices use active methods to measure (such as sonar, laser, or radar); others measure distance using trigonometry (stadiametric rangefinders and parallax, or coincidence rangefinders). These methodologies use a set of known information, usually distances or target sizes, to make the measurement, and have been in regular use since the eighteenth century. Rangefinders may be used by military or law enforcement snipers as a means of...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ranger L-440 (or 6-440C series) are six-cylinder inline inverted air-cooled aero-engines produced by the Ranger Aircraft Engine Division of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation of Farmingdale, New York, United States. The engine was mainly produced for Fairchild's family of training aircraft in the mid-1930's. The engine was designated the L-440 by the United States military. Fairchild was an aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. The company was founded by Sherman Fairchild in 1929 as Fairchild...
ISBN: 978-6-1347-6066-9
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Range of Motion or ROM is an exercise machine that won the 1991 Popular Science award for "Best of what's new" in leisure products. It claims to give a full workout (equivalent to 15 minutes of stretching, 25 minute muscular endurance training and 40 a minute of cardiovascular workout) in 4 minutes and costs $14,615 (USD). The Range of Motion was invented by artist John Pitre. Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the ASME awards for its journalistic excellence...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ranger Boats are a popular line of boats designed primarily for bass fishing. The company was founded in 1968 by Forrest L. Wood in Flippin, Arkansas. Ranger is generally credited with the introduction of the modern bass boat. Ranger Boats are a part of Genmar, the world's largest recreational boat manufacturer. Ranger is a major sponsor of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour of bass fishing tournaments; the tour's initials are taken from Wood, and its championship event is named the Forrest Wood Cup. In June of 2009, Genmar filed Bankruptcy in US District Court, with a sale of the Ranger Brand expected to happen sometime in...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Range imaging is the name for a collection of techniques which are used to produce a 2D image showing the distance to points in a scene from a specific point, normally associated with some type of sensor device. The resulting image, the range image, has pixel values which correspond to the distance, e.g., brighter values mean shorter distance, or vice versa. If the sensor which is used to produce the range image is properly calibrated, the pixel values can be given directly in physical units such as meters. The sensor device which is used for producing the range image is sometimes referred to as a range camera....
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A rangefinder camera is a camera fitted with a rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism allowing the photographer to measure the subject distance and take photographs that are in sharp focus. Most varieties of rangefinder show two images of the same subject, one of which moves when a calibrated wheel is turned; when the two images coincide and fuse into one, the distance can be read off the wheel. Older, non-coupled rangefinder cameras display the focusing distance and require the photographer to transfer the value to the lens focus ring; cameras without built-in rangefinders could have an external...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Range Stormer is a concept car designed by Richard Woolley under the Land Rover brand. It was introduced to the public at the 2004 North American International Auto Show. Gritzinger (2004) recognized the Range Stormer as an unusually "sporty" vehicle in the context of Land Rover's history, thanks to a sharply sloped windshield and A-pillars, a low roof, hood vents, and the "scissor"-style nature of the doors. Other notable features of the Range Stormer include a "clamshell" hood. A production version of the Range Stormer was planned for release in 2005 as a 2006 model, when it would become a four-door, "but...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In passing through matter, charged particles ionize and thus lose energy in many steps, until their energy is (almost) zero. The distance to this point is called the range of the particle. The range depends on the type of particle, on its initial energy and on the material which it passes. For example, if the ionising particle passing through the material is a positive ion like alpha particle or proton, it will collide with atomic electrons in the material via Coulombic interaction. Since the mass of the proton or alpha particle is much greater than that of the electron, there will be no significant deviation...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ranger 29 is a twenty-nine foot (9m) fiberglass production sailboat designed by Gary Mull in or around 1970. The hull is constructed of a solid fiberglass laminate. The keel is molded as part of the hull and the ballast is poured in. The hull is a moderate displacement design. The rudder has a partial-depth skeg, with balance area below. This skeg is also molded into the hull. There is an interior liner dropped in to the boat before the deck is put on. The design weight of the Ranger is 6,400 lbs (2.9 tonnes). The hull-deck joint is built in the normal method, with an inward-facing flange on the hull, glued...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Range Rover Evoque is a relatively compact luxury vehicle scheduled for production in 2011 from Land Rover. The production model was announced on July 1, 2010, and it is Land Rover's first serious attempt at offering a vehicle designed to address the issue of climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. A near production concept of the crossover SUV was unveiled at the North American International Auto Show as the Land Rover LRX in January 2008, and production is scheduled to begin in 2011. The LRX is the most compact Land Rover to date. Its size complements a wide array of efficiency...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ranger Special Operations Vehicle or RSOV is a light military vehicle of the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment, based on the Land Rover Defender. There are 12 RSOVs in the "Alpha Company" of each of the three Ranger battalions. The vehicles are fielded in three platoons, each platoon encompassing two sections of two RSOVs and two Kawasaki KLR250 motorcycles. In 1992, the U.S. Army decided to replace the M151 MUTT jeep with the new and improved Ranger Special Operations Vehicle. The RSOV's design is based on the Land Rover Defender Model 110. It is designed for a crew of three and up to 7 passengers....
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ranger 2 was a flight test of the Ranger spacecraft system of the NASA Ranger program designed for future lunar and interplanetary missions. Ranger 2 was designed to test various systems for future exploration and to conduct scientific observations of cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radiation, dust particles, and a possible hydrogen gas "tail" trailing the Earth. Ranger 2 was of the Ranger Block 1 design and was almost identical to Ranger 1. The spacecraft consisted of a hexagonal base 1.5 m across upon which was mounted a cone-shaped 4 m high tower of aluminum struts and braces. Two solar panel wings measuring...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to collide with the lunar surface, returning imagery until they were destroyed upon impact. Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research,...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ranger was a General Motors car brand that lasted from 1968 to 1976. The brand was used in conjunction with two markets, an automobile marketed as "South Africa's Own Car", built in Port Elizabeth from 1968 to 1973, and another model range that was produced from 1970 to 1976 in Antwerp, Belgium, by General Motors Continental SA. General Motors Suisse SA from Biel-Bienne Switzerland also produced Rangers from 1970 to the factory's end in August 1975. The cars built in this period were a mixture of parts from other General Motors products and featured a body shell similar to the Opel Rekord with internal parts...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Range segmentation is the task of segmenting (dividing) a range image, an image containing depth information for each pixel, into segments (regions), so that all the points of the same surface belong to the same region, there is no overlap between different regions and the union of these regions generates the entire image. There have been two main approaches to the range segmentation problem: region-based range segmentation and edge-based range segmentation. Region-based range segmentation algorithms can be further categorized into two major groups: parametric model-based range segmentation algorithms and...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Range and Direction Finding (RDF) was the initial technique and hardware in Great Britain that eventually came to be called 'radar.' Since the earliest days of radio (wireless), the signals had been used in direction finding on land, sea, and in the air. This was accomplished by rotating the antenna at a receiving station and noting the direction of rotation that gave the maximum signal, thus showing the direction to the transmitting station. The abbreviation DF was often applied to this technique, as well as the receiving equipment. Since radio was being used, the abbreviation RDF came to be commonly used for...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ranger V-770 was an American air-cooled inverted Vee aero-engine developed by the Ranger Aircraft Engine Division of the Fairchild Engine Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Range Rover Sport is a luxury-type sport utility vehicle (SUV) produced by the Jaguar Land Rover business unit of India's Tata Motors. The chassis has been adapted from the integrated bodyframe, semi-monocoque, independently suspended design which debuted on the Discovery 3 in 2004. This gives the Range Rover Sport the refinement and structural rigidity advantages of a monocoque chassis with the robustness of a separate chassis design for off-road applications. It also allows for less expensive manufacturing of the vehicles due to a large number of common components. Although sitting on a modified version of...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ranger was a car sold by General Motors in South Africa in the early 1970s. Known as 'South Africa's Own Car', with a springbok badge, it was based on the European Opel Rekord, with a Chevrolet engine. The brand was discontinued after only a few years. The Ranger name was also used for a version of the Opel Rekord in Switzerland during the early 1970s. The Ranger name is now used by Ford for a pickup truck, the Ford Ranger, in the United States, and is also used in South Africa for an unrelated model. It was also used by Chrysler in Australia for a version of the Chrysler Valiant in the mid-1970s....
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