turbulence

• “The strong distortion of laser fields in turbulence is due in large part to the coherent nature of a laser beam, which means that phase distortions in the laser field result in interference of the beam with itself and large fluctuations in the beam intensity.”

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• “Claire McCaskill is returning the private jet she used taxpayer dollars to fly, prompting roughly 432,481,021 pun-tastic articles using the word "turbulence.”

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “They aim to protect assets rather than chase returns, so short-term turbulence has less of an effect," says Anders Nordheim , Eurosif's head of research.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Wise Ethical Investment Seeks Profit

• “More Chart: The IMF's New Projections IMF Meetings Focus on Currency Moves Renewed turbulence from the sovereign-debt crisis has the potential of "inflicting major damage on the recovery," a risk elevated by the mountainous wall of around $4 trillion in debt that has to be refinanced over the next two years.”

  The Wall Street Journal: IMF Cuts 2011 Global Growth Prospects

• “Whenever you believe that the present state of turbulence is destined to become a permanent condition, trouble brews.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Cara Barker: Are You Living a Life Too Small?

• “The early work in turbulence modeling in the fluid dynamics community is an instructive case study as well (model parameters that were originally thought to be universally valid turned out to depend on the type of flow, but experimental results were limited early on).”

  Climate Science and Software Quality | Serendipity

• “Another example of a creative way to avoid economic turbulence is the exchange of technology among manufacturers practicing pricing-down-the-learning-curve strategies.”

  Unstable Information Economy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “This suggests his latest recommendation is tactical in nature, and geared toward locking in profits and avoiding the risks of short-term turbulence in the exchange rate.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Goldman: Get Out of Bullish Yuan Bet

• “Specifically, the dimples create drag due to a delayed separation layer, and hence less turbulence behind the ball. (some studies say the turbulence is made smaller, and is thus reduced.)”

  Can A Car's Gas Mileage Be Improved By Adding Golf Ball Dimples? » E-Mail

• “The Eureka itself was to do with how bubbles behave acoustically when fragmenting in turbulence (for example underneath a breaking wave).”

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