Royal Ordnance factories were privatised on 2 January 1985 and became part of the Explosive Division of Royal Ordnance Plc, later RO Defence.

In 1999, after acquisition by BAE, VSEL was merged into the new BAE Systems RO Defence.

The privatised ROFs become known in 1984 as Royal Ordnance PLC, then in 1987 as RO Defence ; and now BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions.

Aside from Pluto itself and Charon, the first plutino, 1993 RO, was discovered on September 16, 1993.

Finally, in the early 1960s, Coalinga held the first practical demonstration for reverse osmosis ( RO ), and its Armona water was replaced by RO water.

As such, the Kafra Shop ( an Item Mall ) was added to the RO servers.

Ragnarok Mobile Story Online was also released in Japan for Android and iOS, providing users with the traditional RO gameplay on a mobile platform.

On-air, each station was known as " The New XX ," where XX was the last two letters of the station's callsign ( e. g., " The New WI " for CHWI, " The New RO " for CHRO, " The New PL " for CFPL, etc.

After being acquired by CHUM, CHRO was re-branded to The New RO in 1998 and joined the NewNet system.

III ( also known as RO 166 ) was a nuclear warhead-equipped Mk.

The planned Mk III ( also known as RO 166 ) was a nuclear warhead equipped Mark II with a longer range ( around 75 mile ) achieved with improved Ramjet engine and bigger boosters.

Italo was influential on the production of Eurodance in general, while Italian-produced Eurodance artists, such as Alexia, Cappella, CO. RO, and Double You, tended to preserve features such as operatic female vocals.

In 2003 a not-so-well-known home-educated DJ named DJ RO started playing in a small bar and restaurant known as GWEILOS ; DJ RO helped promote the club every Monday night while there was an emergence of Filipino Rock bands like Bamboo, Orange and Lemons and Kitchie Nadal that started performing in Gweilos and eventually became popular.

Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory, or AST / RO, was a 1. 7 meter diameter off-axis telescope for research in astronomy and aeronomy at wavelengths between 0. 2 and 2 mm.

The building was acquired by RO Developments Limited in 2005 from Yamanouchi ( more latterly Astellas Pharma ).

Previously, she was on CHUM Limited in Ottawa where she held numerous positions such as a morning news anchor for Breakfast @ the New RO, producer and host of The Broad Perspective on CFRA and an anchor for KOOL-FM.

Taka Michinoku was the only Japanese member of RO & D, with all the rest being gaijins ( foreigners ).

RO works by iteratively moving to better positions in the search-space which are sampled using e. g. a normal distribution surrounding the current position.

Matyas showed the basic form of RO converges to the optimum of a simple unimodal function by using a limit-proof which shows convergence to the optimum is certain to occur if a potentially infinite number of iterations are performed.

Mathematical analyses are also conducted by Baba and Solis and Wets to establish that convergence to a region surrounding the optimum is inevitable under some mild conditions for RO variants using other probability distributions for the sampling.

ISO 3166-2: RO is the entry for Romania in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

An alkoxide ( RO < sup >–</ sup >) is the ionic or salt form ; it is a derivative of an alcohol where the proton has been replaced by a metal, typically sodium.

The first case of this happened on August 22, 2006, when Radio One announced it would divest WILD-FM in Boston, the WILD for now is still owned by RO ; however, it too will be divested.

Ragnarok Online (, alternatively subtitled The Final Destiny of the Gods ), often referred to as RO, is a Korean massive multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG created by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin.

In this type of call, typed messages are relayed as voice messages by a TRS operator, ( also known as Communication Assistant ( CA ), Relay Operator ( RO ), Relay Assistant ( RA ), or Relay Agent ( Agent )), and vice-versa.

Most methods do this by using an excess of RO < sup >-</ sup >.

FCK lost away to CFR Cluj ( RO ), won 1 – 0 at home against AC Sparta Prague, 0 – 1 away loss against PSV ( NE ), and by beating CFR Cluj at home 2 – 0 and 3 – 0 away over AC Sparta Prague, FCK qualified for spring 2010 Europa League Round of 32 to face Olympique Marseilles.

He has also directed and designed many classical productions with major theaters around the world including, The Threepenny Opera, The Golem and plays by Václav Havel, Botho Strauss, and Suzan-Lori Parks for The New York Shakespeare Festival, Die Fledermaus at the Paris Opera, Don Giovanni at the Opera de Lille, Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher at the American Repertory Theater and The Maggio Musicale in Florence, Woyzeck at Hartford Stage Company, Molière's Don Juan at the Guthrie Theater and The New York Shakespeare Festival, Kathy Acker's Birth of the Poet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the RO theater in Rotterdam, Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights at the Autumn Festivals in Berlin and Paris.

On or before 31 September following the RO year ( 1 Apr-31 Mar ) Suppliers can meet their Renewables Obligation by:

Palumbo teamed with former FBI partner Stamboli to challenge for the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship on March 20, 2005, but were defeated by Jamal and Taiyo Kea of RO & D.

The standard format for vehicle registration plates in Romania is a blue vertical stripe ( the " Euroband ") on the left side of the plate displaying the 12 stars of the European Union and the country code of Romania ( RO ), followed – in black characters on a white background – by a one-or two-letter county code and a combination of two or three digits and three capital letters.

Ragnarok Online (), often referred to as RO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Gravity based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin.

Michinoku teamed up with RO & D honorary member PYSCHO to take part in AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship tournament and reached the second round before being eliminated by Katsuhiko Nakajima and Tomoaki Honma.

Each Rights Object ( RO ) is individually protected for one receiving device by encrypting it with the device public key.

Brevets prior to 2003 ( when roles became represented by the single WSO brevet ) include " N " ( Navigator ), " LM " ( Air Loadmaster ), " AE " ( Air Electronics Operator ), " B " ( Bomb Aimer ), " AG " ( Air Gunner ), " AS " ( Air Steward ), " M " ( Meteorological Observer ), " QM " ( Air Quartermaster ), " S " ( Air Signaller ), and " RO " ( Radio Observer ).

Four and Five stage RO / DI filtration units can be obtained for as little as $ 100 and are a cost effective means of converting tap water into water usable in a marine aquarium.

* RO + JA: Royalty, often associated with Rhea.

* 1993 RO, the next plutino discovered after Pluto.

* September 23 – The M / S Princess of Tasmania ( Australia's first passenger RO / RO diesel ferry ) makes its maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.

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For example a carboxylate may be methylated on oxygen to give a methyl ester, an alkoxide salt RO < sup >−</ sup > may be likewise methylated to give an ether, ROCH < sub > 3 </ sub >, or a ketone enolate may be methylated on carbon to produce a new ketone.

Rooks County ( standard abbreviation: RO ) is a county located in the U. S. state of Kansas.

Random optimization ( RO ) is a family of numerical optimization methods that do not require the gradient of the problem to be optimized and RO can hence be used on functions that are not continuous or differentiable.

The name, random optimization, is attributed to Matyas who made an early presentation of RO along with basic mathematical analysis.

Commonly, plants are grown in a soil substrate containing some combination of dead or live sphagnum moss, sphagnum peat moss, sand, and / or perlite, and are watered with distilled, RO, or rain water.

The district entirely surrounds the city of Rosenheim, which is independently administered but hosts the district's administration ; both the city and the district share the " RO " designation for their license plates.

* RO, meaning " balance " in " Dragontongue " from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.