You are about to embark on a journey that will take you into a world of actions and words that will likely call into question the very manhood you thought was secure. Welcome to the world of Manfractions! What is a Manfraction? It's an amalgamation of two words: Man and Infraction. We all know what a man is (or should be). He's strong, he's virile, he's confident, he's not afraid to take a stand. He works hard and plays hard. He watches sports on TV...real sports like boxin' and football (not that sissy European futbol either). He scratches when and where he wants to, he smokes cigars, drinks beer and doesn't take crap from anybody. He is self-reliant, rational and always ready. He changes his own oil and owns a firearm. He has his own tool belt and air compressor. He can weld two pieces of metal together. He's the kind of guy we all want to be! Infraction is basically a violation of an established set of laws...you know, breakin' the rules. Now put them together and you have Manfraction: any action taken by a man that might be considered an infringement of manhood. That's right, you've done or said somethin' that makes the others around you question your manhood. You've committed a violation so heinous that your buddies are wonderin' why you're not wearin' a skirt. So, you think you're a real man? You think you've got what it takes? This book is gonna show you just how unmanly we've become. Every minute of every day, we're surrounded by Manfractions...they are everywhere! Whether it's men carryin' handbags or men gettin' their hair styled. These kinds of activities must stop and it starts with you! The only way to keep these Manfractions from pullin' you down into the depths of wussydom is to know what they are, stop doin' 'em yourself, and call 'em out when you see 'em. That's what this book is all about: callin' out the Manfractions so you can stay strong, stay on top and be a man!
A cost effective method to improve the space surveillance mission performance of United States Air Force (USAF) ground-based telescopes is investigated and improved. A minimum variance wavefront estimation technique is used to improve Deconvolution from Wavefront Sensing (DWFS), a method to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence on imaging systems that does not require expensive adaptive optics. Both least-squares and minimum variance wavefront phase estimation techniques are investigated, using both Gaussian and Zernike polynomial elementary functions. Imaging simulations and established performance metrics are used to evaluate these wavefront estimation techniques for a one-meter optical telescope. Performance metrics include the average pupil-averaged mean square phase error of the residual wavefront, the average system transfer function, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the system transfer function, and the optical transfer function correlation. Results show that the minimum variance estimation technique that employs Zernike polynomial elementary functions offers improvements over all other estimation techniques in each of the performance metrics. Extended object simulations are also conducted which demonstrate the improvements in image quality and resolution that result from the modifications to the DWFS method. Implementation of the DWFS method into USAF space surveillance telescopes is investigated.
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