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Pi Epsilon Tau. Pi Epsilon Tau () is an American honor society for petroleum engineering students. Its purpose is to maintain the standards and high ideals of the petroleum engineering profession and to build a bond between its members and the industry. The society was established in 1947 at the University of Oklahoma.

History 
Faculty member Paul S. Johnson established Pi Epsilon Tau at the University of Oklahoma in November 1947 as an honor society for petroleum engineering students. It was officially recognized by the university of January 7, 1948. The honor society's purpose is to maintain the standards and high ideals of the petroleum engineering profession and to build a bond between its members and the industry.

Pi Epsilon Tau's founders planned to expand it to other campuses, creating a national honor society. Its Beta chapter was established at the University of Tulsa in 1948. Gamma was formed in 1949 at Texas Tech University in 1949. Other chapters were established at colleges across the United States. 

It is governed through a national council of five membersand a national convention.

Symbols 
The emblem or key of Pi Epsilon Tau is shaped like an oil derick, standing on the base of an isosceles triangle. Its flag features the emblem on top of a three-leaf clover that symbolizes Saint Patrick.

The society's colors are black and gold. Its flower is the red rose. Its pledges are called "roustabouts".

Membership 
Membership in Pi Epsilon Tau is open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students studying petroleum engineeing based on academic achievement, leadership, and sociability. Pi Epsilon Tau has three class of members: active (students), honorary, and alumnus.

Chapters 
Following are the chapters of Pi Epsilon Tau, with active chapters indicated in bold and inactive chapters in italics.

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1947 establishments in Oklahoma
Student organizations established in 1947
Petroleum engineering
Engineering honor societies
Hoshine Silicon Industry. Hoshine Silicon Industry (Hoshine; ) is a publicly listed Chinese company that engages in the development and sale of silicon-based material products.

It is one of the world's largest producers of silicon metal.

Background 

In 2005, Hoshine was founded by Luo Liguo.

On 30 October 2017, Hoshine held its initial public offering becoming a listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

In June 2021, the Biden administration ordered a ban on U.S. imports of a key solar panel material from Hoshine. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) separately banned imports of silicon-based products made by Hoshine as well as goods made using those products. Alejandro Mayorkas stated the agency had information reasonably indicating that Hoshine used Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang to produce its silicon-based products. The United States Department of Commerce also added Hoshine to the Entity List.

In August 2022, Bloomberg News reported that despite U.S. restrictions, Hoshine continued to expand its business with its share price up 111% since the restrictions were announced.

On 20 February 2024, Hoshine filed a complaint at the United States Court of International Trade  challenging the CBP's decision in June 2021.

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2005 establishments in China
2017 initial public offerings
Chemical companies established in 2005
Companies based in Ningbo
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Quantum Aerospace. Quantum Aerospace is a commercial and private space logistics company specializing in the delivery of commercial, scientific, and personal cargo into space. Quantum Aerospace works with NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and private companies, including SpaceX.

Quantum Aerospace services space destinations, including Earth’s orbit, the Moon, and the upcoming Mars orbital mission.

Additionally, the company operates Galactic Glide, a division focused on stratospheric marketing and science study, using high-altitude balloons to deliver products and scientific instruments into low Earth orbit.

Arts and humanities 
The company collaborates with Space Ark Media, an organization dedicated to preserving cultural artifacts by sending them into space. In 2024, Quantum Aerospace launched the first AstroVault.

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Private spaceflight companies
Hwatsing Technology. Hwatsing Technology (Hwatsing; ) is a partially state-owned publicly listed Chinese company headquartered in Tianjin that manufactures semiconductor chip production equipment.

Its most notable product offerings are in chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) machines.

Background 

In 2000 at Tsinghua University, Luo Jianbin and Lu Xinchun began their research on CMP technology.

In April 2013, Tsinghua Holdings and the Tianjin Municipal Government established Hwatsing to commercialize the technology developed from the CMP project. Hwatsing produced China's first 12-inch CMP machine.

On 9 June 2022, Hwatsing held its initial public offering becoming a listed company after listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market. The offering raised $540 million and the shares rose 64% on its trading debut.

In August 2024, it was reported that Hwatsing would invest $237.2 million to build a new plant in Shanghai.

In December 2024, Hwatsing was targeted in a new round of US export controls and added to the United States Department of Commerce's Entity List.

Business operations 

Hwatsing's main product offerings are CMP machines. It has also expanded into other business lines such as grinders and wafer regeneration.

Hwatsing has been touted to break the monopoly of Applied Materials in China. Clients of Hwatsing include Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Hua Hong Semiconductor and Yangtze Memory Technologies.

See also
Chemical-mechanical polishing
Tsinghua Holdings
Semiconductor industry in China

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External links
 

Tsinghua University
2013 establishments in China
2022 initial public offerings
Companies based in Tianjin
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Electronics companies established in 2013
Equipment semiconductor companies
Government-owned companies of China
Semiconductor companies of China
WFD Translift. WFD Translift Sp. z o.o. is a Polish company specializing in the production of elevators. Over the years, it has undergone several name changes due to organizational transformations, being known as Warszawska Fabryka Dźwigów Spółka Akcyjna w Warszawie from 1950 to 1951, Zjednoczenie Urządzeń Dźwigowych (ZUD) from 1951 to 1957, Zakłady Urządzeń Dźwigowych (ZUD) from 1957 to 1972, Zakłady Urządzeń Dźwigowych ZREMB (ZUD ZREMB) from 1972 to 1976, Kombinat Dźwigów Osobowych ZREMB (KDO ZREMB) from 1976 to 1991, Warszawska Fabryka Dźwigów "Translift" Przedsiębiorstwo Państwowe from 1991 to 2010, and Warszawska Fabryka Dźwigów "Translift" Sp. z o.o. from 2010 to 2011.

History 
Historically, the company was headquartered in Warsaw, primarily at Postępu 12 in the Służewiec neighborhood of Mokotów, and operated numerous assembly plants throughout Poland. During the era of the People's Republic of Poland, it held a monopoly on the production of passenger and freight elevators and was part of the ZREMB industrial union from 1972 to 1991. In 1965, it acquired a license for passenger elevators featuring a collective control system from the Swedish company , which became widely installed in Polish large-panel buildings.

Between 1989 and 1990, the Kombinat Dźwigów Osobowych ZREMB was dissolved due to the political transformation in Poland. As a result, regional assembly plants were removed from the organizational structure of the combine and later transformed into private enterprises or were liquidated. In Gdańsk, the assembly plant was renamed "Dźwignia", while the plants in Łódź, Poznań, and Wrocław were renamed "Windpol", "Prolift", and "Dźwignia", respectively. The assembly plant in Katowice was renamed "Zremb Katowice".

On 27 August 1991, by the decision of Minister of Spatial Economy and Construction, KDO–ZUD was transformed into the state enterprise Warszawska Fabryka Dźwigów "Translift", which was privatized only at the end of 2010. The former headquarters of the company at Postępu Street in Warsaw was demolished in 2016. Currently, the only assembly plant is located in Kobyłka.

References

External links 
 Official website

Elevator manufacturers
Manufacturing companies of Poland
Manufacturing companies established in 1950
Companies based in Masovian Voivodeship
Strutmasters. Strutmasters is an American automotive parts manufacturer that specializes in suspension parts. It was founded by Chip Lofton in 1999 and is headquartered in Roxboro, North Carolina. Strutmasters invented an air-to-coil suspension conversion kits.

History 
Chip Lofton founded Strutmasters in 1999. Lofton initially began operations for Strutmasters in a barn on his goat farm after receiving requests to convert cars to a conventional suspension after he fixed the same issue on his Lincoln Continental. Lofton went on to move operations for Strutmasters into a factory and eventually into a modern facility in Roxboro.

Strutmasters sponsored the No. 17 truck driven by Timothy Peters in NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series from  2009 to 2012.

In 2015, Strutmasters sponsored the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Strutmasters.com 199 at Bowman Gray Stadium.

In 2019, Strutmasters signed on as a major associate sponsor for NHRA Top Fuel racer Doug Foley. In the same year, the company also signed on as a sponsor for professional Pro Fuel motorcycle racer Janette Thornley.

Strutmasters also became the co-primary sponsor for NHRA Top Fuel’s Stringer Performance team and its driver, Clay Millican, replacing Great Clips as the racing team's sponsor. Strutmasters also joined Nitro Funny Car driver Dave Richards as a sponsor for the NTK NHRA Carolina Nationals.

Strutmasters sponsored former NHRA Pro Stock champion Bo Butner for the 2020 season of NHRA's Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. Lofton sold Strutmasters in August 2020, remaining as a partner in the company.

A year later, he would step back from his business projects due to contracting cobalt poisoning. Strutmasters has also funded NHRA race car drivers such as Pro Modified racer Wally Stroupe, and Top Fuel racers Justin Ashley, Lex Joon, and Audrey Worm.

Strutmasters also sponsored NHRA Pro Stock motorcycle racer Scotty Pollacheck.

Products 
Strutmasters specializes in manufacturing air-to-non-air suspension conversion kits. Strutmasters also offers solutions for fixing failed complex air, magnetic, electronic, and hydraulic suspension systems.The company also sells parts for specific car brands and models. It also sells suspension conversion kits for motorcycles.

Strutmasters assembles its kits in-house at its Roxboro headquarters. The company also packages DIY instructions with its products and hosts video tutorials for suspension replacement on its website.

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1999 establishments
1999 establishments in the United States
Automotive technologies
Automotive companies of the United States
Auto parts suppliers of the United States
Reaction Dynamics (company). Reaction Dynamics (RDX) is a rocket manufacturing company from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, founded in 2017. It has developed a hybrid propulsion technology for rocket engines  which use biopolymers fuel mixture. The first orbital launch vehicle of RDX is Aurora, which is in development phase (the first flight being scheduled in 2025). The launch facility will be in Canada at the spaceport of Nova Scotia.

References

External links 
 Official website

Canadian companies established in 2017
Companies based in Quebec
Aerospace companies of Canada
Private spaceflight companies
Technology companies established in 2017
Sirius Space Services. Sirius Space Services is a rocket manufacturing company from Paris, Ile-de-France, France, founded in 2020. The company is developing three rockets (launch vehicles): Sirius 1, Sirius 13, Sirius 15, which use STAR-1 engine. The launch facilities will be: Arnhem Space Centre (Australia) and Guiana Space Centre.

References

External links 
 Official website

French companies established in 2020
Companies based in Paris
Aerospace companies of France
Private spaceflight companies
Technology companies established in 2020
Exotrail. Exotrail is a space service company from Palaiseau, Ile-de-France, France, founded in 2017. The company produces electric propulsion systems used in smallsats. Is also develops an hosting vehicle (orbital transfer vehicle/space tug) - SpaceVan, for smallsats. It has two U.S. subsidiaries. In February 2023 the company has raised $58 million to scale up production.

References

External links 
 Official website

French companies established in 2017
Companies based in Paris
Aerospace companies of France
Private spaceflight companies
Technology companies established in 2017
Blanca Rodriguez (scientist). Blanca Rodriguez is a Spanish computer scientist who is Professor of Computational Medicine, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and head of computational biology at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the development of in silico models for drug discovery and digital twins for the identification of innovative therapies.

Early life and education 
Rodriguez is from Valencia. She studied engineering at the Technical University of Valencia. As a student, Rodriguez knew nothing about cardiology, but she attended a talk by an arrhythmia specialist. She decided to pursue a career in research, and completed a doctorate in computational biology. She moved to Tulane University for her postdoctoral research, where she spent two years before moving to the University of Oxford as postdoc in St Cross College.

Research and career 
Rodriguez was made a professor at Oxford in 2007. She leads the Computational Cardiovascular Science Team, where she develops methodologies for advanced therapeutics. Rodriguez studies the causes and modulators of differences in human pathophysiology. Her early work considered the mechanisms that underpinned cardiac arrhythmias and their diagnosis. Cardiac arrhythmias impact large numbers of people worldwide and can have several causes, including mutations, disease and drugs. Rodriguez uses computational modelling and simulation to identify new treatment pathways for cardiac arrhythmia.

Rodriguez has developed digital twins for precision medicine and in silico trials for new therapies. In silico methodologies can be used for drug development, and digital twins can eliminate the need for animals in research.

In 2015 she was appointed to the Board of the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research.

Awards and honours 
 2012 MRC Centenary Award
 2013 Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences
 2017 NC3Rs International Prize 
 2018 MPLS Impact Award
 2018 AWS Machine Learning Research Award

Selected publications

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Living people
People from Valencia
University of Valencia alumni
Academics of the University of Oxford
Spanish women computer scientists
21st-century Spanish women scientists
Spanish emigrants to the United Kingdom
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jeremy Valeriote. Jeremy Valeriote is a member of the Green Party of British Columbia representing the riding of West Vancouver-Sea to Sky. He was first elected in the 2024 British Columbia general election. He was the first BC Green elected on the B.C. mainland. Following the resignation of Sonia Furstenau, Valeriote was appointed as interim leader until a leadership election is held.

Valeriote is a geological engineer by training who worked for more than two decades as an environmental consultant in the mining, environmental management and impact assessment sectors. He has also consulted for local government and sat on the town council in Gibsons from 2014 to 2018. He worked in the mayor's office in Squamish from 2021 to 2023.

He previously ran in the same district in the 2020 British Columbia general election, and was briefly reported as the winner of the seat that year, but after the advance ballots were counted he was found to have narrowly lost to Jordan Sturdy of the British Columbia Liberal Party.

Electoral results

References

See also 
 43rd Parliament of British Columbia

Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Green Party of British Columbia MLAs
21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
British Columbia municipal councillors
Latitude (company). Latitude (formerly Venture Orbital Systems) is a French rocket manufacturing company developing the Zephyr rocket.

Background 
The company was founded in 2020 and is located in Reims.
In June 2022 it had closed a €10 million Series A funding.
In January 2024, the company has raised $30 million for producing it's rockets. In June 2024, Latitude has been awarded €15 million by the French government. It inaugurated its micro-launcher factory in Reims on 19 October 2021. A micro-launcher named Zephyr is currently under development. Its first flight is scheduled for the end of 2025.

References

External links 
 Official website

French companies established in 2020
Companies based in Reims
Aerospace companies of France
Private spaceflight companies
Technology companies established in 2020
X-Bow Systems. X-Bow Systems is a space company that produces solid rocket motors and small launch vehicles to be used in orbital and suborbital launch services.

History 
It was founded in 2016 and it is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company has operations in New Mexico, California, Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, Texas, Maryland, Utah, and Washington D.C.

On 27 July 2022, the company successfully launched the first of its Bolt Rocket. In September 2023, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded X-Bow Systems a $17.8 million contract to demonstrate its technologies.

References

External links 
 Official website

American companies established in 2016
Companies based in New Mexico
Aerospace companies of the United States
Private spaceflight companies
Technology companies established in 2016
Space Epoch. Space Epoch is a Chinese space launch company based on Beijing, which is developing a stainless-steel, methane-liquid oxygen type rocket, named XZY-1 or Yuanxingzhe-1.
The company secured a 200 million yuan (US$27.6m) in financing in 2023.
A collaboration with Taobao (Alibaba‘s e-commerce shopping platform) to make reusable rockets for parcel delivery was announced in March 2024.

History 
In January 2023, the company performed hot fire tests of its rocket.

The XZY-1 rocket is 64 meters tall, with a payload capacity of 6.500 kg to 1.100 km sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The tanks are three and fours meter diameter. The cargo cabin has a volume of over 120 m3.
The Yuanxingzhe 1 is designed to be reusable and capable to sea landing.

First flight is planed in 2025.

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Aerospace companies of China
Commercial launch service providers
Private spaceflight companies
AltPNT. AltPNT refers to the concept of Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing as an alternative to GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
Such alternatives include Inertial navigation systems (INS), eLORAN, Terrain-based navigation (TBN), Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) and LiDAR.

References

Further reading 
 USSF Alternative Positioning, Navigation, & Timing Challenge Definition Workshop
 Startups map out strategies to augment or backup GPS
 Competing with Uncle Sam’s free space offerings

Navigation
Phyllis Hayford Hutchings. Phyllis Hayford Hutchings (May 18, 1904 – July 7, 1965) was an American astronomer, engineer, and college professor. She taught astronomy at Rollins College in Florida, and at Whitman College in Washington.

Early life and education
Hayford was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of John Fillmore Hayford and Lucy Dalzell Stone Hayford. Her father was director of the College of Engineering at Northwestern University. She earned a degree in civil engineering from Northwestern University in 1926, and earned a Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1932. Her dissertation was titled "The Galactic Rotation Effect in Open Clusters".

Career
Hayford worked at Lick Observatory from 1926 to 1937, in various positions, including assistant to Donald Howard Menzel, computer and research fellow. Her work their often involved calculating the orbits of comets. She taught astronomy at Rollins College in Florida from 1935 to 1943, and at Whitman College in Washington from 1947 until her death in 1965. She also spoke to school and community groups about astronomy topics.

Publications
 "A Brilliant Meteor" (1927)
 "Elements and ephemeris of Minor Planet 1929 PA" (1930, with Charlotte E. Moore)
 "Elements and ephemeris of Comet D 1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann)" (1930, with Claude M. Anderson Jr.)
 "Observations of Comet B 1929 (Neujmin) and of minor planets" (1930, with C. J. Krieger, N. T. Bobrovnikoff, F. L. Whipple, and Charlotte E. Moore)
 "A study of galactic rotation with special reference to the radial velocities of the galactic star clusters" (1932)
 "Occultation of an 8.9 Magnitude Star by Jupiter" (1933)
 "Observations of Eros made at the Lick Observatory during the opposition of 1931, with a preliminary determination of the solar parallax" (1937, with R. J. Trumpler, F. J. Neubauer, C. E. Smith, and K. P. Kaster)

Personal life
Hayford married mathematician William Lawrence Hutchings in 1934; they had a daughter, Lucy, born in 1938. Phyllis Hutchings died in 1965, at the age of 61, while she was teaching a summer course in Lawrence, Kansas.

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1904 births
1965 deaths
Northwestern University alumni
Rollins College faculty
Whitman College faculty
American astronomers
American women scientists
Acetate pathway. The acetate pathway, also known as the polyketide pathway, is a fundamental biosynthetic route in organisms for the production of fatty acids and polyketides. This pathway operates at the interface of central metabolism and specialized metabolite synthesis, playing a crucial role in the synthesis of both primary and secondary metabolites.

It begins with acetyl-CoA and involves the stepwise condensation of two-carbon units, typically derived from malonyl-CoA, to form increasingly longer carbon chains. In fatty acid synthesis, these chains are fully reduced after each elongation step, while in polyketide synthesis, the reduction steps may be partially or completely omitted, leading to a diverse array of complex natural products. The acetate pathway is essential for the biosynthesis of vital cellular components such as membrane lipids, as well as a wide range of bioactive secondary metabolites, including many pharmaceutically important compounds.

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Metabolic pathways