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LaRoseNoire LaRoseNoire is an italian cultural association dealing with art, music and philosophy, founded in 2001 by Elisabeth Mantovani, astrologer, painter and expert of symbolic art mouvements, formed at the Academy of fine arts of Bologna.
LaRouche Movement The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas, including a number of conspiracy theories. The organization includes interlocking think tanks, magazines and newspapers, national political organizations, a political action committee, and youth cadre.
LaRue Martin LaRue Martin (born March 30 1950 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player, widely considered to be the worst first overall draft pick in NBA history Martin was taken first overall out of Loyola University] by the [[Portland Trail Blazers in 1972, drafted ahead of future Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo.
LaRue Parker LaRue Martin Parker is the current Chairperson of the Caddo nation. She has been chairperson since at least 2000, and was re-elected over opposition candidate, Christine Smith Noah, in the July 9, 2005 election.
Las Abejas Las Abejas, or "The Bees," is a Catholic pacifist group formed in Chiapas in 1991 out of a familial property dispute that left one person killed, and another injured. When members of the community took the injured man to the nearest town for medical attention, they were accused of attacking him themselves and jailed.
Las Aguas Bajan Turbias Las Aguas bajan turbias (English International title: Rivers of Blood, USA:Dark River) is a classic 1952 Argentine drama film directed by Hugo del Carril and written by Eduardo Borrás. The film was based on a novel by Alfredo Varela.
Las Arenas Las Arenas is a neighbourhood of Getxo (Biscay, Basque Country, Spain). It is an affluent residential area that was built over the sands of a beach where the Gobela creek died in a diffuse delta at the mouth of the Stuary of Bilbao in the early 20th century.
Las Aves Archipelago The Las Aves Archipelago is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is located north of the Venezuelan states of Aragua and Carabobo, between Bonaire in the west, and the Los Roques Archipelago in the east, at .
Las bicicletas son para el verano Las bicicletas son para el verano ('Bicycles are for Summer') is a 1984 Spanish play written by Fernando Fernán Gómez dealing with the effects of Spanish Civil War on citizens of Madrid. It was released as a popular film in 1984, directed by Jaime Chávarri.
Las Baulas National Marine Park The Las Baulas National Marine Park, also the Playa Grande Marine Turtle National Park or in Spanish is a Nature Reserve of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, and covers an area of 936 terrestrial acres and approximately 54,000 marine acres near the town of Tamarindo. It supports the largest nesting colony of leatherback sea turtles on the Pacific Costa Rican coast.
Las Bela (princely state) The State of Las Bela was princely state of Pakistan and British India which existed until 1955. The state occupied an area of 18,254 km² in the extreme southeast of the Balochistan province with an extensive coastline on the Arabian Sea to the south.
Las Campanas Redshift Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey is considered the first attempt to map the universe out to a redshift of z = 1. It was begun in 1991 using the Las Campanas telescope in Chile to catalog 26418 separate galaxies.
Las Caritas Las Caritas ("The faces") is a collection of Indian inscriptions in a rock formation looking out over Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic. The place is also called the Trono de Enriquillo ("Enriquillo's throne") because it is said the TaĂno leader Enriquillo used to camp here during his rebellion.
Las Casas del Conde Las Casas del Conde is a tiny village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 78 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of only 74 people.
Las Colinas APT System The Las Colinas Area Personal Transit System is a people mover system that serves the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The system has four passenger stations and a maintenance & control centre, and is run by two cars, one for each route.
Las Condes, Chile Las Condes is a municipality and comuna of Chile located in the northeastern part of the province of Santiago in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, at the foot of the Andes mountains. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid to high income families.
Las Heras, Mendoza Las Heras is a city in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, located in the north of the metropolitan area of the provincial capital (Greater Mendoza). It has more than 180,000 inhabitants as per the and is the head town of the department of the same name.
Las Hilanderas (Velázquez) Las Hilanderas is a late masterpiece by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, painted for Pedro de Arce. The private patronage of the painting has caused it to be shrouded in some mystery, one uncertainty being its date of creation.
Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (1932), known in the English-speaking world as Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land, is a 28-minute-long documentary film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Bunuel and Ramon Acin. The narration was written by Bunuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar.
Las Lomas (Mexico City) Las Lomas is a group of neighborhoods in Mexico City in the delegaciĂłn (borough) of Miguel Hidalgo. Las Lomas includes some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Mexico City, home to some of the biggest mansions and wealthiest people in Mexico.
Las Lomitas Elementary School District The Las Lomitas Elementary School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving parts of the communities of Menlo Park, Atherton and Ladera. Students from this school district who continue on with public schooling matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District.
Las Madrinas Ball Las Madrinas Ball is a debutante ball held in Los Angeles, California by Las Madrinas (Spanish, the Godmothers), an organization founded in 1933 to provide financial support to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and its medical research programs.
Las MarĂas, Puerto Rico Las MarĂas (lahs mah-REE-yahs) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located north of Maricao; northeast of Añasco; south of San Sebastián; east of MayagĂĽez; and west of Lares. Las MarĂas is spread over 13 wards and Las MarĂas Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Las Marismas Las Marismas (Spanish language: The Marshes) is an area of marshy lowlands near the banks of Guadalquivir River, part of Seville province, in Western Andalusia (Spain), which contains part of the territories of the municipalities of Isla Mayor, Los Palacios y Villafranca, La Puebla del RĂo, Villafranco del Guadalquivir, Utrera, Las Cabezas de San Juan and Lebrija.
Las MĂ©dulas Las MĂ©dulas, located near the town of Ponferrada in LeĂłn province, Spain, used to be the most important gold mine in the Roman Empire. Las MĂ©dulas Cultural Landscape is listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites.
Las Meninas Las Meninas (also known as The Maids of Honour), painted in 1656, is a work by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. It is one of the most famous paintings in the world, and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Las noticias del guiñol Las noticias del guiñol ("The news of guignol") is a satirical news program that airs on Canal+ in Spain. It is somewhat based on a similar program airing on its sister Canal+ network in France, Les Guignols de l'info, in that it features latex puppets.
Las Noticias por Adela Las Noticias por Adela is a nightly 90 minutes news show on the Televisa network from Mexico. It is shown from 9PM to 10:30PM Mexico City time (10PM to 11:30PM Eastern) and also airs on GalavisiĂłn in the United States.
Las Olas Boulevard Las Olas Boulevard is a popular thoroughfare located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is home to many of the bars and nightclubs, as well as trendy shops, chic boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and hotels.
Las Palmas (province) Las Palmas is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote, as well as six isles of lesser importance (Alegranza, Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Lobos, Roque del Este, and Roque del Oeste).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spanish city, the capital city of Gran Canaria which is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, 210 kilometers located off the northwestern coast of Africa. It is also the capital of the province of Las Palmas and co-capital of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Las Palmas Handicap The Las Palmas Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet each year in the fall. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf.
Las Piñas Bamboo Organ The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, in the Parish Church of St Joseph in Las Piñas City, Philippines, is a nineteenth-century church organ made almost entirely from bamboo: only the trumpet stops are made from metal.
Las Piñas City The City of Las Piñas (Filipino: Lungsod ng Las Piñas) {population: 472,780, 2000 Census} is a city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. It is bounded on the north and northeast by the Parañaque City; on the east and southeast by Muntinlupa City; on the south by the Municipality of Imus, Cavite; on the southwest and west by the Municipality of Bacoor, Cavite; and on the northwest by the scenic Manila Bay.
Las Piedras, Puerto Rico Las Piedras (lahs pee-AI-drahs) is a municipality in east Puerto Rico located in the center region of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of CanĂłvanas and RĂo Grande; east of Juncos and San Lorenzo; and west of Naguabo and Humacao. Las Piedras is spread over 7 wards and Las Piedras Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Las Ramblas Resort The Las Ramblas Resort was a proposed hotel, resort, and casino project in Las Vegas, Nevada by George Clooney and Rande Gerber (husband of Cindy Crawford), and designed by Arquitectonica. Its scheduled completion was 2008, but Dan Klores Communications, the PR firm representing Las Ramblas, confimed in June 2006 that the 25-acre plot has been sold to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, the developers of the planned W Hotel for USD$202 million.
Las Regueras Las Regueras (Asturian: Les Regueres) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Illas and Llanera, on the south by Grado, on the west by Candamo, and on the east by Oviedo and Llanera.
Las Rosas, Santa Fe Las Rosas is a city in the southwest of the , located 165 km from the provincial capital. It has about 12,600 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the Belgrano Department, which also comprises the municipalities of Armstrong, Bouquet, Las Parejas, Montes de Oca, and Tortugas.
Las sergas de Esplandián Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) is the fifth book in a series of novels on Spanish chivalry by Garci RodrĂguez de Montalvo, which began with AmadĂs de Gaula. The first known edition of this work was published in Sevilla in July 1510, but there was undoubtedly one prior (perhaps published in Sevilla in 1496), since the sixth book of the series, Florisando, appeared in April 1510.
Las Supremas de MĂłstoles Las Supremas de MĂłstoles (or The Supremes of MĂłstoles, in English) is a Spanish pop band made up of three sisters, Susi, Vicky and Luisi (two of them are twins). They participated in a contest broadcast by TVE on March 4 and fifth, 2005, to choose the Spanish performer in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Eres un enfermo" (You are a pervert), a song about a woman who has grown tired of her husband's addiction to cybersex.
Las Tetas De Cayey Las Tetas De Cayey, also known as "Cerro Las Tetas" and "Cerro del Torito", are two mountain tops in Cayey, Puerto Rico nicknamed so for their similarity to a woman's breasts (the word "tetas" is a Spanish vulgar word for "breasts", much like the english word, "tits"). They are located near the Monumento al JĂbaro Puertorriqueño which is a statue found along autopista PR-52 (Interstate PR-1) which cuts across the island from north to south.
Las Trece Rosas "Las Trece Rosas" (the Thirteen Roses) is the name given in Spain to a group of thirteen young women, seven under age, who were executed by a Francoist firing squad just after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Their names were: Carmen Barrero Aguado, Martina Barroso GarcĂa, Blanca Brissac Vázquez, Pilar Bueno Ibáñez, Julia Conesa Conesa, Adelina GarcĂa Casillas, Elena Gil Olaya, Virtudes González GarcĂa, Ana LĂłpez Gallego, Joaquina LĂłpez Laffite, Dionisia Manzanero Salas, Victoria Muñoz GarcĂa and Luisa RodrĂguez de la Fuente.
Las Vegas (TV series) Las Vegas is a dramatic television series about a team of people working in the fictional Montecito Resort and Casino in Las Vegas — dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and restaurant management to casino security. The first season began airing on NBC in September, 2003.
Las Vegas algorithm In computing, a Las Vegas algorithm is a randomized algorithm that never gives incorrect results; that is, it always produces the correct result or it informs about the failure. In other words, a Las Vegas algorithm does not gamble with the verity of the result --- it only gambles with the resources used for the computation.
Las Vegas All-American Classic The Las Vegas All-American Classic is an annual post-season college football all-star game played each January or February since 2002. The game was known in 2002 and 2003 as the Paradise Bowl and was conceived by Darry Alton, who would later help found the Magnolia Gridiron All-Star Classic, in view of the discontinuation of the Blue-Gray Football Classic and the Gridiron Classic, in order to provide players from lesser known and televised schools or players who were primarily backups with a chance to impress NFL scouts.
Las Vegas Bowl The Las Vegas Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1992. Since 2001, the game has featured a matchup of teams from the Pac-10 and Mountain West conferences.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is a public agency that runs the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cashman Center, and Cashman Field and is responsible for the advertising campaigns for the Clark County, Nevada area.
Las Vegas Grind Las Vegas Grind was a brief set of festivals that took place at the Gold Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and 2000. The programs of these festivals mostly consisted of bands that were inspired by, or actually were part of, the garage rock genre of music of the 1960s.
Las Vegas Hilton The Las Vegas Hilton is a hotel, casino, and convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada owned by Colony Capital. With 3,174 hotel rooms, this off-strip hotel is the largest Hilton Hotel in the world and one of the largest hotel-casinos in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Institute The Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, or simply Las Vegas Institute (LVI) is a commercial dental enterprise whose stated purpose is the further education of dental professionals. The LVI does not confer academic degrees as it is not a part of an accredited, university-based dental school.
Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas metropolitan area, also known as the Las Vegas Valley, is a 600 square mile (1600 km²) basin that is part of Clark County in southern Nevada. The area contains the largest concentration of people in the state.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is the joint city-county police force for Clark County in Nevada. It is run by the sheriff, who is the Police Chief of Las Vegas and the Sheriff of Clark County, elected every four years.
Las Vegas Review-Journal The Las Vegas Review-Journal, also known as The R-J, is published in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada, and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas (the Greenspun Media Group-owned Las Vegas Sun is distributed with it).
Las Vegas Sin Las Vegas Sin is one of four teams that will be introduced to the Lingerie Football League in 2008 (formerly announced for 2005 season). The other teams will be Atlanta Steam, Miami Caliente and San Francisco Seduction.
Las Vegas Stars (basketball team) The Las Vegas Stars are a professional basketball team in the IBL set to begin play in 2007. The team will be playing at the Stations Sports Complex, and will be coached by George Tarkanian, son of famed coach Jerry Tarkanian.
Las Vegas Strikers Las Vegas Strikers are an American soccer team, founded in 2003. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and play in the Southwest Conference against teams from Albuquerque, Denver, La Mesa, Phoenix and San Diego.
Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip and to local residents as The Boulevard) is 4Â mi (6.7Â km) of Las Vegas Boulevard South partly in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, that has been designated an All-American Road.
Las Vegas Thunder The Las Vegas Thunder were an independent professional ice hockey team competing in the International Hockey League. The team, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, began play in the 1993-1994 season, but folded on April 18, 1999.
Las Vegas Valley Water District The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) is a not-for-profit water supply agency that has been providing water to the Las Vegas Valley since 1954. The district helped build the city's water delivery system and now provides water to more than one million people in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas Wash Las Vegas Wash is a natural flow of water, sometimes called an urban river, that exists in its present capacity because of an urban population, and works in a systemic conjunction with the pre-existing wetlands that formed the oasis of the Las Vegas Valley. The wash is comprised of urban runoff, shallow ground water, reclaimed water, and stormwater.
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Las Vegas-Clark County Library District is the library district that services Clark County, Nevada except for the cities of Henderson and North Las Vegas. All of the urban branches offer free Wi-Fi and all branches offer free internet access.
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (often informally abbreviated to "Vegas") is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, United States, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally known vacation, shopping, entertainment, and gambling destination. It was established in 1905 and officially became a city in 1911.
Las Vegas, New Mexico Las Vegas is a city in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate towns, West Las Vegas ("Old Town") and East Las Vegas ("New Town"), divided by the Gallinas River, retain distinct characters and separate, rival, school districts.
Las Veguillas Las Veguillas is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 31 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 310 people.
Las Venturas, San Andreas Las Venturas is a fictional city and county featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, located in the state of San Andreas. It is based on Las Vegas, Nevada, and like its real-life counterpart, Las Venturas is a gambling city located in a desert region, with casinos such as The Camel's Toe and Caligula's Palace.
Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of Los Angeles.
Lasagna Lasagna, also lasagne, (pronounced ), is both a form of pasta in sheets (often rippled in North America and other countries, though seldom so in Italy) and also a dish, sometimes named Lasagne al forno (meaning "Lasagne in the oven") made with alternate layers of pasta, cheese, and sometimes ragĂą (a meat sauce). While it is traditionally believed to have originated in Italy, evidence has come to light suggesting that a very similar meal known as "loseyns" (pronounced 'lasan') was eaten in the court of King Richard II of England in the 14th Century.
Lasagna cell A "Lasagna battery" or cell is accidentally produced when salty food such as lasagna is stored in a steel baking pan and is covered with aluminum foil. After a few hours the foil develops small holes where it touches the lasagna, and the food surface becomes covered with small spots composed of corroded aluminum.
Lasagna code Lasagna code is a type of program structure, characterized by several well-defined and separable layers, where each layer of code accesses services in the layers below through well-defined interfaces. The term is in comparison with spaghetti code, comparing program structure to pasta.
Lasallian Schools Press Conference The Lasallian Schools Press Conference (more known as LSPCon) is an annual event that convenes all student journalists from the member schools of De La Salle Philippines for seminars and workshops with speakers from the Philippine media industry. It is organized by the Alliance of Lasallian Campus Journalists, a union of all student publications within the system, along with a host school chosen from the member schools.
Lascar Lascar, though rarely used now, was once the name used to describe a sailor from India or other eastern countries, employed on European ships from the 16th century until the beginning of the twentieth century. The word comes from the Persian Lashkar, meaning military camp, and al-askar, the Omani word for a guard or soldier.
LascÄr Catargiu LascÄr Catargiu (November 1823 – April 11, 1899) was a Romanian conservative statesman born in Moldavia. He belonged to an ancient Wallachian family, one of whose members had been banished in the 17th century by Prince Matei Basarab, and had settled in Moldavia.
Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) (January 9, 1881 – October 27, 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at the University of Manchester.
Lascelles Principles The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom describing the circumstances under which a monarch may refuse a request from a Prime Minister for the dissolution of Parliament. The Lascelles principles are that the monarch could refuse a dissolution if "the existing Parliament was still vital, viable, and capable of doing its job" or if the monarch "could rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons.
Lasell College Lasell College is a private college in Massachusetts offering bachelor's in professional disciplines such as Athletic Training, Fashion and Retail Merchandising, and Hospital and Event Management. It also offers a graduate program in management studies.
Laser A LASER (acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an optical source that emits photons in a coherent beam. The term has since entered the English language as a standard word, laser, losing the capitalization in the process.
Laser 128 The Laser 128 was a clone of the Apple IIc personal computer, first released by VTech in 1984. Unlike the Apple II clones from Franklin, VTech reverse-engineered the Apple ROMs using a clean room design rather than copying them.
Laser 3000 The Laser 3000 is a racing sailing dinghy crewed by two persons with a trapeze for the crew. Launched in 1996, the 3000 was developed from the Laser 2, using the original Frank Bethwaite-designed planing hull combined with a brand new self-draining deck by Derek Clark.
Laser 558 Laser 558 was a popular European offshore pirate radio station (others include Radio Caroline and Swinging Radio England) officially launched in 1984. Laser 558 used mainly American disc jockeys who had been recruited and flown over from America.
Laser ablation Laser ablation is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser energy and evaporates or sublimes.
Laser applications The benefits of lasers in various applications stems from their properties such as coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high powers. For instance, a highly coherent laser beam can be focused down to its diffraction limit, which at visible wavelengths is only a few hundred nanometers.
Laser assisted device alteration Laser Assisted Device Alteration (LADA) is a laser-based timing analysis technique used in the failure analysis of semiconductor devices. The laser is used to temporarily alter the operating characteristics of transistors on the device.
Laser beam welding Laser beam welding (LBW) is a welding technique used to join multiple pieces of metal through the use of a laser. The beam provides a concentrated heat source, allowing for narrow, deep welds and high welding rates.
Laser Beasts Laser Beasts is the name of a line of small 2" tall action figure toys and were produced by Hasbro and Takara starting in 1988. Each Beast is a anthropomorphised animal with body armor that came with a unique weapon.
Laser Books Laser Books was a line of 58 paperback science fiction (SF) novels published from 1975 to 1977 by Canadian romance powerhouse Harlequin Books. Laser published three titles per month, available by subscription as well as in stores.
Laser Camera System The Laser Camera System (LCS) is an instrumentation device developed by Neptec Design Group, a Canadian firm, to perform 3D inspection of NASA's Space Shuttles while in orbit. The LCS is designed to detect damage to the thermal protection system (TPS), which protects the space shuttle during re-entry.
Laser Clay Shooting System The Laser Clay Shooting System was a light gun game created by Nintendo in 1973. Before Nintendo began making video games in 1977, they had developed a wide range of entertainment products including playing cards and other toysThe History of Nintendo - Toys & Arcades.
Laser designator A laser designator is a laser light source which illuminates a target. Laser designators provide targeting for laser guided bombs or missiles such as the Paveway series manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin's Hellfire, respectively.
Laser diode A laser diode is a laser where the active medium is a semiconductor similar to that found in a light-emitting diode. The most common and practical type of laser diode is formed from a p-n junction and powered by injected electrical current.
Laser diode rate equations The laser diode rate equations model the electrical and optical performance of a laser diode. This system of ordinary differential equations relates the number or density of photons and charge carriers (electrons) in the device to the injection current and to device and material parameters such as carrier lifetime, photon lifetime, and the optical gain.
Laser Doppler velocimetry Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV, also known as laser Doppler anemometry, or LDA) is a technique for measuring the direction and speed of fluids like air and water. In its simplest form, LDV crosses two beams of collimated, monochromatic laser light in the flow of the fluid being measured.
Laser Dynamic Range Imager The Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI) is a LADAR device developed by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Space Shuttle program. The sensor was developed as part of NASA's Return to Flight effort following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to provide 2-D and 3-D images of the Thermal Protection System on the Space Shuttle Orbiter.
Laser engineered net shaping Laser engineered net shaping or LENS® is a technology developed by Sandia National Laboratories for fabricating metal parts directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) solid model by using a metal powder injected into a molten pool created by a focused, high-powered laser beam. It is a special type of selective laser sintering, the major difference being the method of powder delivery.
Laser engraving Laser engraving is the practice of using lasers to engrave or mark an object (it is also sometimes incorrectly described as etching, which properly involves the use of acid or a similar chemical). The technique can be very technical and complex, and often a computer system is used to drive the movements of the laser head.
Laser Focus World Laser Focus World is a monthly magazine covering laser, photonics and optoelectronics technologies, applications, and markets. Many professionals in those fields receive it free of charge; it is also possible to subscribe.
Laser game Laser Game or Laser Games is a phrase generally associated with a combat pursuit - like laser tag. Laser Game is generally used in countries outside of the United States where the phrase 'Laser Tag' is not popular within the local language - as the word 'Tag' in the USA and Canada is associate with the children's game of 'Tag' in which one player runs after the others trying to touch them (tag them) to make them the catcher.
Laser guidance Laser guidance is a technique of guiding a missile or other projectile or vehicle to a target by means of a laser beam. Some laser guided systems utilise beam riding guidance, but most operate more similarly to semi-active radar homing (SARH).
Laser hair removal Epilation performed by laser was performed experimentally for about 20 years before it became commercially available in the mid 1990s. Laser and light-based methods are sometimes called phototricholysis or photoepilation.
Laser harp A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds. It is famously used by Jean-Michel Jarre in his concerts.
Laser Invasion Laser Invasion (Gun Sight in Japan and Europe) is a video game developed by Konami and published by Ultra Games in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Its most notable feature was the inclusion of a headset which acted like a light gun but is was activated by the voice.
LaRouche Movement The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas, including a number of conspiracy theories. The organization includes interlocking think tanks, magazines and newspapers, national political organizations, a political action committee, and youth cadre.
LaRue Martin LaRue Martin (born March 30 1950 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player, widely considered to be the worst first overall draft pick in NBA history Martin was taken first overall out of Loyola University] by the [[Portland Trail Blazers in 1972, drafted ahead of future Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo.
LaRue Parker LaRue Martin Parker is the current Chairperson of the Caddo nation. She has been chairperson since at least 2000, and was re-elected over opposition candidate, Christine Smith Noah, in the July 9, 2005 election.
Las Abejas Las Abejas, or "The Bees," is a Catholic pacifist group formed in Chiapas in 1991 out of a familial property dispute that left one person killed, and another injured. When members of the community took the injured man to the nearest town for medical attention, they were accused of attacking him themselves and jailed.
Las Aguas Bajan Turbias Las Aguas bajan turbias (English International title: Rivers of Blood, USA:Dark River) is a classic 1952 Argentine drama film directed by Hugo del Carril and written by Eduardo Borrás. The film was based on a novel by Alfredo Varela.
Las Arenas Las Arenas is a neighbourhood of Getxo (Biscay, Basque Country, Spain). It is an affluent residential area that was built over the sands of a beach where the Gobela creek died in a diffuse delta at the mouth of the Stuary of Bilbao in the early 20th century.
Las Aves Archipelago The Las Aves Archipelago is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is located north of the Venezuelan states of Aragua and Carabobo, between Bonaire in the west, and the Los Roques Archipelago in the east, at .
Las bicicletas son para el verano Las bicicletas son para el verano ('Bicycles are for Summer') is a 1984 Spanish play written by Fernando Fernán Gómez dealing with the effects of Spanish Civil War on citizens of Madrid. It was released as a popular film in 1984, directed by Jaime Chávarri.
Las Baulas National Marine Park The Las Baulas National Marine Park, also the Playa Grande Marine Turtle National Park or in Spanish is a Nature Reserve of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, and covers an area of 936 terrestrial acres and approximately 54,000 marine acres near the town of Tamarindo. It supports the largest nesting colony of leatherback sea turtles on the Pacific Costa Rican coast.
Las Bela (princely state) The State of Las Bela was princely state of Pakistan and British India which existed until 1955. The state occupied an area of 18,254 km² in the extreme southeast of the Balochistan province with an extensive coastline on the Arabian Sea to the south.
Las Campanas Redshift Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey is considered the first attempt to map the universe out to a redshift of z = 1. It was begun in 1991 using the Las Campanas telescope in Chile to catalog 26418 separate galaxies.
Las Caritas Las Caritas ("The faces") is a collection of Indian inscriptions in a rock formation looking out over Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic. The place is also called the Trono de Enriquillo ("Enriquillo's throne") because it is said the TaĂno leader Enriquillo used to camp here during his rebellion.
Las Casas del Conde Las Casas del Conde is a tiny village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 78 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of only 74 people.
Las Colinas APT System The Las Colinas Area Personal Transit System is a people mover system that serves the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The system has four passenger stations and a maintenance & control centre, and is run by two cars, one for each route.
Las Condes, Chile Las Condes is a municipality and comuna of Chile located in the northeastern part of the province of Santiago in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, at the foot of the Andes mountains. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid to high income families.
Las Heras, Mendoza Las Heras is a city in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, located in the north of the metropolitan area of the provincial capital (Greater Mendoza). It has more than 180,000 inhabitants as per the and is the head town of the department of the same name.
Las Hilanderas (Velázquez) Las Hilanderas is a late masterpiece by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, painted for Pedro de Arce. The private patronage of the painting has caused it to be shrouded in some mystery, one uncertainty being its date of creation.
Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (1932), known in the English-speaking world as Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land, is a 28-minute-long documentary film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Bunuel and Ramon Acin. The narration was written by Bunuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar.
Las Lomas (Mexico City) Las Lomas is a group of neighborhoods in Mexico City in the delegaciĂłn (borough) of Miguel Hidalgo. Las Lomas includes some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Mexico City, home to some of the biggest mansions and wealthiest people in Mexico.
Las Lomitas Elementary School District The Las Lomitas Elementary School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving parts of the communities of Menlo Park, Atherton and Ladera. Students from this school district who continue on with public schooling matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District.
Las Madrinas Ball Las Madrinas Ball is a debutante ball held in Los Angeles, California by Las Madrinas (Spanish, the Godmothers), an organization founded in 1933 to provide financial support to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and its medical research programs.
Las MarĂas, Puerto Rico Las MarĂas (lahs mah-REE-yahs) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located north of Maricao; northeast of Añasco; south of San Sebastián; east of MayagĂĽez; and west of Lares. Las MarĂas is spread over 13 wards and Las MarĂas Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Las Marismas Las Marismas (Spanish language: The Marshes) is an area of marshy lowlands near the banks of Guadalquivir River, part of Seville province, in Western Andalusia (Spain), which contains part of the territories of the municipalities of Isla Mayor, Los Palacios y Villafranca, La Puebla del RĂo, Villafranco del Guadalquivir, Utrera, Las Cabezas de San Juan and Lebrija.
Las MĂ©dulas Las MĂ©dulas, located near the town of Ponferrada in LeĂłn province, Spain, used to be the most important gold mine in the Roman Empire. Las MĂ©dulas Cultural Landscape is listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites.
Las Meninas Las Meninas (also known as The Maids of Honour), painted in 1656, is a work by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. It is one of the most famous paintings in the world, and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Las noticias del guiñol Las noticias del guiñol ("The news of guignol") is a satirical news program that airs on Canal+ in Spain. It is somewhat based on a similar program airing on its sister Canal+ network in France, Les Guignols de l'info, in that it features latex puppets.
Las Noticias por Adela Las Noticias por Adela is a nightly 90 minutes news show on the Televisa network from Mexico. It is shown from 9PM to 10:30PM Mexico City time (10PM to 11:30PM Eastern) and also airs on GalavisiĂłn in the United States.
Las Olas Boulevard Las Olas Boulevard is a popular thoroughfare located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is home to many of the bars and nightclubs, as well as trendy shops, chic boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and hotels.
Las Palmas (province) Las Palmas is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It consists of about half of the Atlantic archipelago, including the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote, as well as six isles of lesser importance (Alegranza, Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Lobos, Roque del Este, and Roque del Oeste).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spanish city, the capital city of Gran Canaria which is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, 210 kilometers located off the northwestern coast of Africa. It is also the capital of the province of Las Palmas and co-capital of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Las Palmas Handicap The Las Palmas Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet each year in the fall. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf.
Las Piñas Bamboo Organ The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, in the Parish Church of St Joseph in Las Piñas City, Philippines, is a nineteenth-century church organ made almost entirely from bamboo: only the trumpet stops are made from metal.
Las Piñas City The City of Las Piñas (Filipino: Lungsod ng Las Piñas) {population: 472,780, 2000 Census} is a city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. It is bounded on the north and northeast by the Parañaque City; on the east and southeast by Muntinlupa City; on the south by the Municipality of Imus, Cavite; on the southwest and west by the Municipality of Bacoor, Cavite; and on the northwest by the scenic Manila Bay.
Las Piedras, Puerto Rico Las Piedras (lahs pee-AI-drahs) is a municipality in east Puerto Rico located in the center region of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of CanĂłvanas and RĂo Grande; east of Juncos and San Lorenzo; and west of Naguabo and Humacao. Las Piedras is spread over 7 wards and Las Piedras Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Las Ramblas Resort The Las Ramblas Resort was a proposed hotel, resort, and casino project in Las Vegas, Nevada by George Clooney and Rande Gerber (husband of Cindy Crawford), and designed by Arquitectonica. Its scheduled completion was 2008, but Dan Klores Communications, the PR firm representing Las Ramblas, confimed in June 2006 that the 25-acre plot has been sold to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, the developers of the planned W Hotel for USD$202 million.
Las Regueras Las Regueras (Asturian: Les Regueres) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Illas and Llanera, on the south by Grado, on the west by Candamo, and on the east by Oviedo and Llanera.
Las Rosas, Santa Fe Las Rosas is a city in the southwest of the , located 165 km from the provincial capital. It has about 12,600 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the Belgrano Department, which also comprises the municipalities of Armstrong, Bouquet, Las Parejas, Montes de Oca, and Tortugas.
Las sergas de Esplandián Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) is the fifth book in a series of novels on Spanish chivalry by Garci RodrĂguez de Montalvo, which began with AmadĂs de Gaula. The first known edition of this work was published in Sevilla in July 1510, but there was undoubtedly one prior (perhaps published in Sevilla in 1496), since the sixth book of the series, Florisando, appeared in April 1510.
Las Supremas de MĂłstoles Las Supremas de MĂłstoles (or The Supremes of MĂłstoles, in English) is a Spanish pop band made up of three sisters, Susi, Vicky and Luisi (two of them are twins). They participated in a contest broadcast by TVE on March 4 and fifth, 2005, to choose the Spanish performer in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Eres un enfermo" (You are a pervert), a song about a woman who has grown tired of her husband's addiction to cybersex.
Las Tetas De Cayey Las Tetas De Cayey, also known as "Cerro Las Tetas" and "Cerro del Torito", are two mountain tops in Cayey, Puerto Rico nicknamed so for their similarity to a woman's breasts (the word "tetas" is a Spanish vulgar word for "breasts", much like the english word, "tits"). They are located near the Monumento al JĂbaro Puertorriqueño which is a statue found along autopista PR-52 (Interstate PR-1) which cuts across the island from north to south.
Las Trece Rosas "Las Trece Rosas" (the Thirteen Roses) is the name given in Spain to a group of thirteen young women, seven under age, who were executed by a Francoist firing squad just after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Their names were: Carmen Barrero Aguado, Martina Barroso GarcĂa, Blanca Brissac Vázquez, Pilar Bueno Ibáñez, Julia Conesa Conesa, Adelina GarcĂa Casillas, Elena Gil Olaya, Virtudes González GarcĂa, Ana LĂłpez Gallego, Joaquina LĂłpez Laffite, Dionisia Manzanero Salas, Victoria Muñoz GarcĂa and Luisa RodrĂguez de la Fuente.
Las Vegas (TV series) Las Vegas is a dramatic television series about a team of people working in the fictional Montecito Resort and Casino in Las Vegas — dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and restaurant management to casino security. The first season began airing on NBC in September, 2003.
Las Vegas algorithm In computing, a Las Vegas algorithm is a randomized algorithm that never gives incorrect results; that is, it always produces the correct result or it informs about the failure. In other words, a Las Vegas algorithm does not gamble with the verity of the result --- it only gambles with the resources used for the computation.
Las Vegas All-American Classic The Las Vegas All-American Classic is an annual post-season college football all-star game played each January or February since 2002. The game was known in 2002 and 2003 as the Paradise Bowl and was conceived by Darry Alton, who would later help found the Magnolia Gridiron All-Star Classic, in view of the discontinuation of the Blue-Gray Football Classic and the Gridiron Classic, in order to provide players from lesser known and televised schools or players who were primarily backups with a chance to impress NFL scouts.
Las Vegas Bowl The Las Vegas Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1992. Since 2001, the game has featured a matchup of teams from the Pac-10 and Mountain West conferences.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is a public agency that runs the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cashman Center, and Cashman Field and is responsible for the advertising campaigns for the Clark County, Nevada area.
Las Vegas Grind Las Vegas Grind was a brief set of festivals that took place at the Gold Coast Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and 2000. The programs of these festivals mostly consisted of bands that were inspired by, or actually were part of, the garage rock genre of music of the 1960s.
Las Vegas Hilton The Las Vegas Hilton is a hotel, casino, and convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada owned by Colony Capital. With 3,174 hotel rooms, this off-strip hotel is the largest Hilton Hotel in the world and one of the largest hotel-casinos in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Institute The Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, or simply Las Vegas Institute (LVI) is a commercial dental enterprise whose stated purpose is the further education of dental professionals. The LVI does not confer academic degrees as it is not a part of an accredited, university-based dental school.
Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas metropolitan area, also known as the Las Vegas Valley, is a 600 square mile (1600 km²) basin that is part of Clark County in southern Nevada. The area contains the largest concentration of people in the state.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is the joint city-county police force for Clark County in Nevada. It is run by the sheriff, who is the Police Chief of Las Vegas and the Sheriff of Clark County, elected every four years.
Las Vegas Review-Journal The Las Vegas Review-Journal, also known as The R-J, is published in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada, and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas (the Greenspun Media Group-owned Las Vegas Sun is distributed with it).
Las Vegas Sin Las Vegas Sin is one of four teams that will be introduced to the Lingerie Football League in 2008 (formerly announced for 2005 season). The other teams will be Atlanta Steam, Miami Caliente and San Francisco Seduction.
Las Vegas Stars (basketball team) The Las Vegas Stars are a professional basketball team in the IBL set to begin play in 2007. The team will be playing at the Stations Sports Complex, and will be coached by George Tarkanian, son of famed coach Jerry Tarkanian.
Las Vegas Strikers Las Vegas Strikers are an American soccer team, founded in 2003. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and play in the Southwest Conference against teams from Albuquerque, Denver, La Mesa, Phoenix and San Diego.
Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip and to local residents as The Boulevard) is 4Â mi (6.7Â km) of Las Vegas Boulevard South partly in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, that has been designated an All-American Road.
Las Vegas Thunder The Las Vegas Thunder were an independent professional ice hockey team competing in the International Hockey League. The team, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, began play in the 1993-1994 season, but folded on April 18, 1999.
Las Vegas Valley Water District The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) is a not-for-profit water supply agency that has been providing water to the Las Vegas Valley since 1954. The district helped build the city's water delivery system and now provides water to more than one million people in Southern Nevada.
Las Vegas Wash Las Vegas Wash is a natural flow of water, sometimes called an urban river, that exists in its present capacity because of an urban population, and works in a systemic conjunction with the pre-existing wetlands that formed the oasis of the Las Vegas Valley. The wash is comprised of urban runoff, shallow ground water, reclaimed water, and stormwater.
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Las Vegas-Clark County Library District is the library district that services Clark County, Nevada except for the cities of Henderson and North Las Vegas. All of the urban branches offer free Wi-Fi and all branches offer free internet access.
Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (often informally abbreviated to "Vegas") is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, United States, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally known vacation, shopping, entertainment, and gambling destination. It was established in 1905 and officially became a city in 1911.
Las Vegas, New Mexico Las Vegas is a city in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate towns, West Las Vegas ("Old Town") and East Las Vegas ("New Town"), divided by the Gallinas River, retain distinct characters and separate, rival, school districts.
Las Veguillas Las Veguillas is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 31 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 310 people.
Las Venturas, San Andreas Las Venturas is a fictional city and county featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, located in the state of San Andreas. It is based on Las Vegas, Nevada, and like its real-life counterpart, Las Venturas is a gambling city located in a desert region, with casinos such as The Camel's Toe and Caligula's Palace.
Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of Los Angeles.
Lasagna Lasagna, also lasagne, (pronounced ), is both a form of pasta in sheets (often rippled in North America and other countries, though seldom so in Italy) and also a dish, sometimes named Lasagne al forno (meaning "Lasagne in the oven") made with alternate layers of pasta, cheese, and sometimes ragĂą (a meat sauce). While it is traditionally believed to have originated in Italy, evidence has come to light suggesting that a very similar meal known as "loseyns" (pronounced 'lasan') was eaten in the court of King Richard II of England in the 14th Century.
Lasagna cell A "Lasagna battery" or cell is accidentally produced when salty food such as lasagna is stored in a steel baking pan and is covered with aluminum foil. After a few hours the foil develops small holes where it touches the lasagna, and the food surface becomes covered with small spots composed of corroded aluminum.
Lasagna code Lasagna code is a type of program structure, characterized by several well-defined and separable layers, where each layer of code accesses services in the layers below through well-defined interfaces. The term is in comparison with spaghetti code, comparing program structure to pasta.
Lasallian Schools Press Conference The Lasallian Schools Press Conference (more known as LSPCon) is an annual event that convenes all student journalists from the member schools of De La Salle Philippines for seminars and workshops with speakers from the Philippine media industry. It is organized by the Alliance of Lasallian Campus Journalists, a union of all student publications within the system, along with a host school chosen from the member schools.
Lascar Lascar, though rarely used now, was once the name used to describe a sailor from India or other eastern countries, employed on European ships from the 16th century until the beginning of the twentieth century. The word comes from the Persian Lashkar, meaning military camp, and al-askar, the Omani word for a guard or soldier.
LascÄr Catargiu LascÄr Catargiu (November 1823 – April 11, 1899) was a Romanian conservative statesman born in Moldavia. He belonged to an ancient Wallachian family, one of whose members had been banished in the 17th century by Prince Matei Basarab, and had settled in Moldavia.
Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) (January 9, 1881 – October 27, 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at the University of Manchester.
Lascelles Principles The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom describing the circumstances under which a monarch may refuse a request from a Prime Minister for the dissolution of Parliament. The Lascelles principles are that the monarch could refuse a dissolution if "the existing Parliament was still vital, viable, and capable of doing its job" or if the monarch "could rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons.
Lasell College Lasell College is a private college in Massachusetts offering bachelor's in professional disciplines such as Athletic Training, Fashion and Retail Merchandising, and Hospital and Event Management. It also offers a graduate program in management studies.
Laser A LASER (acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an optical source that emits photons in a coherent beam. The term has since entered the English language as a standard word, laser, losing the capitalization in the process.
Laser 128 The Laser 128 was a clone of the Apple IIc personal computer, first released by VTech in 1984. Unlike the Apple II clones from Franklin, VTech reverse-engineered the Apple ROMs using a clean room design rather than copying them.
Laser 3000 The Laser 3000 is a racing sailing dinghy crewed by two persons with a trapeze for the crew. Launched in 1996, the 3000 was developed from the Laser 2, using the original Frank Bethwaite-designed planing hull combined with a brand new self-draining deck by Derek Clark.
Laser 558 Laser 558 was a popular European offshore pirate radio station (others include Radio Caroline and Swinging Radio England) officially launched in 1984. Laser 558 used mainly American disc jockeys who had been recruited and flown over from America.
Laser ablation Laser ablation is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser energy and evaporates or sublimes.
Laser applications The benefits of lasers in various applications stems from their properties such as coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high powers. For instance, a highly coherent laser beam can be focused down to its diffraction limit, which at visible wavelengths is only a few hundred nanometers.
Laser assisted device alteration Laser Assisted Device Alteration (LADA) is a laser-based timing analysis technique used in the failure analysis of semiconductor devices. The laser is used to temporarily alter the operating characteristics of transistors on the device.
Laser beam welding Laser beam welding (LBW) is a welding technique used to join multiple pieces of metal through the use of a laser. The beam provides a concentrated heat source, allowing for narrow, deep welds and high welding rates.
Laser Beasts Laser Beasts is the name of a line of small 2" tall action figure toys and were produced by Hasbro and Takara starting in 1988. Each Beast is a anthropomorphised animal with body armor that came with a unique weapon.
Laser Books Laser Books was a line of 58 paperback science fiction (SF) novels published from 1975 to 1977 by Canadian romance powerhouse Harlequin Books. Laser published three titles per month, available by subscription as well as in stores.
Laser Camera System The Laser Camera System (LCS) is an instrumentation device developed by Neptec Design Group, a Canadian firm, to perform 3D inspection of NASA's Space Shuttles while in orbit. The LCS is designed to detect damage to the thermal protection system (TPS), which protects the space shuttle during re-entry.
Laser Clay Shooting System The Laser Clay Shooting System was a light gun game created by Nintendo in 1973. Before Nintendo began making video games in 1977, they had developed a wide range of entertainment products including playing cards and other toysThe History of Nintendo - Toys & Arcades.
Laser designator A laser designator is a laser light source which illuminates a target. Laser designators provide targeting for laser guided bombs or missiles such as the Paveway series manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin's Hellfire, respectively.
Laser diode A laser diode is a laser where the active medium is a semiconductor similar to that found in a light-emitting diode. The most common and practical type of laser diode is formed from a p-n junction and powered by injected electrical current.
Laser diode rate equations The laser diode rate equations model the electrical and optical performance of a laser diode. This system of ordinary differential equations relates the number or density of photons and charge carriers (electrons) in the device to the injection current and to device and material parameters such as carrier lifetime, photon lifetime, and the optical gain.
Laser Doppler velocimetry Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV, also known as laser Doppler anemometry, or LDA) is a technique for measuring the direction and speed of fluids like air and water. In its simplest form, LDV crosses two beams of collimated, monochromatic laser light in the flow of the fluid being measured.
Laser Dynamic Range Imager The Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI) is a LADAR device developed by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Space Shuttle program. The sensor was developed as part of NASA's Return to Flight effort following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to provide 2-D and 3-D images of the Thermal Protection System on the Space Shuttle Orbiter.
Laser engineered net shaping Laser engineered net shaping or LENS® is a technology developed by Sandia National Laboratories for fabricating metal parts directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) solid model by using a metal powder injected into a molten pool created by a focused, high-powered laser beam. It is a special type of selective laser sintering, the major difference being the method of powder delivery.
Laser engraving Laser engraving is the practice of using lasers to engrave or mark an object (it is also sometimes incorrectly described as etching, which properly involves the use of acid or a similar chemical). The technique can be very technical and complex, and often a computer system is used to drive the movements of the laser head.
Laser Focus World Laser Focus World is a monthly magazine covering laser, photonics and optoelectronics technologies, applications, and markets. Many professionals in those fields receive it free of charge; it is also possible to subscribe.
Laser game Laser Game or Laser Games is a phrase generally associated with a combat pursuit - like laser tag. Laser Game is generally used in countries outside of the United States where the phrase 'Laser Tag' is not popular within the local language - as the word 'Tag' in the USA and Canada is associate with the children's game of 'Tag' in which one player runs after the others trying to touch them (tag them) to make them the catcher.
Laser guidance Laser guidance is a technique of guiding a missile or other projectile or vehicle to a target by means of a laser beam. Some laser guided systems utilise beam riding guidance, but most operate more similarly to semi-active radar homing (SARH).
Laser hair removal Epilation performed by laser was performed experimentally for about 20 years before it became commercially available in the mid 1990s. Laser and light-based methods are sometimes called phototricholysis or photoepilation.
Laser harp A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds. It is famously used by Jean-Michel Jarre in his concerts.
Laser Invasion Laser Invasion (Gun Sight in Japan and Europe) is a video game developed by Konami and published by Ultra Games in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Its most notable feature was the inclusion of a headset which acted like a light gun but is was activated by the voice.
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