omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
XMOS. XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops audio products and multicore microcontrollers. The company uses artificial intelligence and other sensors in the platforms that it develops. It creates voice interface technology developments for applications in various services that are voice activated.

History
XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May, and Hitesh Mehta. It received seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise fund, and Wyvern seed fund.

The name XMOS is a loose reference to Inmos. Some concepts found in XMOS technology (such as channels and threads) are part of the Transputer legacy.

In the autumn of 2006, XMOS secured funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, DFJ Esprit, and Foundation Capital. It also has strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Huawei Technologies, and Xilinx Inc, which in 2014 invested $26.2 million. Additionally, they received an investment through the sale of 22.3% of the Company's shares to Prelude Trust plc of Cambridge. In September 2017, XMOS secured $15M in an investment round led by Infineon.

In July 2017, XMOS acquired SETEM, a company that specialises in audio algorithms for source separation.

In 2019, XMOS raised $19 million in funding from Harbert European Growth Capital and existing investors.

In December 2023, XMOS signed a joint development agreement with Sonical for Headphone 3.0 technology.

Products
Xmos designs multicore microcontrollers under the xCORE series. While the second generation launched in 2015, had dedicated audiocontroller spun off and were used in soundboards as well as headphone amplifiers, the third generation was launched in 2020 and focused on applications within the AIoT. The fourth generation added RISC-V compatibility and was announced in December 2022.

References

Microcontroller companies
Fabless semiconductor companies
Technology companies established in 2005
Semiconductor companies of the United Kingdom
British brands
2005 establishments in England
British companies established in 2005
Trafalgar Wharf, Portsmouth. Trafalgar Wharf is a shipyard in Portsmouth accommodating marine engineering businesses ranging from sailmakers and boat brokers to boat builders. It was formerly the VT Halmatic shipyard, owned by VT Group and latterly by BVT Surface Fleet. In November 2023 the site was acquired by Premier Marinas who also operate Port Solent marina opposite.

History

In September 2008, Trafalgar Wharf Ltd took over the former BVT Surface Fleet site and renamed it Trafalgar Wharf. The site is the former VT Halmatic shipyard where many smaller Royal Navy warships, such as  Fast Patrol Boats and Corvettes were built. BVT Surface Fleet had been formed by the merger of the BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions subsidiary with VT Shipbuilding, itself originating as Vosper Thorneycroft. With the sale of the Portchester site, they vacated the yard, bringing an end to the company's use of the area, consolidating operations at its Shipyard facilities in HMNB Portsmouth. The site has evolved over the years to now encompass Europe’s largest indoor dry stack boat storage facility for over 300 small boats and a significant commercial shipyard providing bespoke refit and maintenance programmes for commercial vessels and private yachts. On the 23rd November 2023, the site was purchased by Premier Marinas adding to the companies existing portfolio of 10 marina and boatyard sites across the South Coast. The wider Trafalgar Wharf site has also become a hub for a wide range of marine and non-marine businesses and will now be known as Premier Trafalgar Wharf.

Site
The  Trafalgar Wharf site is located in the upper reaches of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite Port Solent. The company intends to remain true to its industrial roots, combining light marine trade with heavier industries. The site offers a wide range of space for marine businesses in buildings ranging from the massive  main shed, probably the largest building of its kind on the south coast, to smaller individual business units including office space, housing many companies, overlooking Port Solent Marina.

Premier Trafalgar Wharf an indoor dry stack boat storage is available in Portsmouth Harbour for motorboats, sportfishers and RIBs between 4 metres and 13 metres. Owned and operated by Premier Marinas' the companies friendly, highly trained dry stack team is capable of lifting two boats every 10 minutes using one of the three 42 tonne forklifts, all of which include telescopic cameras to provide advanced visibility, allowing the team to lift boats up 65 foot and down 25 foot. Easier than launch and recovery from a trailer. Trafalgar Wharf can accommodate up to 380 boats, making it the UK's largest indoor dry stack facility.

References

External links
Trafalgar Wharf Website 
Trafalgar Wharf on Facebook

Ports and harbours of Hampshire
Wharves in the United Kingdom
Process architecture. Process architecture is the structural design of general process systems. It applies to fields such as computers (software, hardware, networks, etc.), business processes (enterprise architecture, policy and procedures, logistics, project management, etc.), and any other process system of varying degrees of complexity.

Processes are defined as having inputs, outputs and the energy required to transform inputs to outputs.  Use of energy during transformation also implies a passage of time: a process takes real time to perform its associated action.  A process also requires space for input/output objects and transforming objects to exist: a process uses real space.

A process system is a specialized system of processes.  Processes are composed of processes.  Complex processes are made up of several processes that are in turn made up of several processes.  This results in an overall structural hierarchy of abstraction.  If the process system is studied hierarchically, it is easier to understand and manage; therefore, process architecture requires the ability to consider process systems hierarchically. Graphical modeling of process architectures is considered by dualistic Petri nets. Mathematical consideration of process architectures may be found in CCS and the π-calculus.

The structure of a process system, or its architecture, can be viewed as a dualistic relationship of its infrastructure and suprastructure.  The infrastructure describes a process system's component parts and their interactions.  The suprastructure considers the super system of which the process system is a part.  (Suprastructure should not be confused with superstructure, which is actually part of the infrastructure built for (external) support.)  As one traverses the process architecture from one level of abstraction to the next, infrastructure becomes the basis for suprastructure and vice versa as one looks within a system or without.  

Requirements for a process system are derived at every hierarchical level.  Black-box requirements for a system come from its suprastructure.  Customer requirements are black-box requirements near, if not at, the top of a process architecture's hierarchy.  White-box requirements, such as engineering rules, programming syntax, etc., come from the process system's infrastructure.

Process systems are a dualistic phenomenon of change/no-change or form/transform and as such, are 
well-suited to being modeled by the bipartite Petri nets modeling system and in particular, process-class dualistic Petri nets where processes can be simulated in real time and space and studied hierarchically.

See also

 Complex system
 Enterprise information security architecture
 Flowchart
 Information architecture
 Method engineering
 Petri net
 Process calculus
 Process engineering
 
 Process modeling
 Process theory
 System of systems
 Systems architecture
 Systems theory
 Workflow

References

Quality
Systems engineering
Systems theory
Bromma Air Maintenance. Bromma Air Maintenance AB (BAM), is a Swedish company providing aerospace services, including maintenance on fixed-wing and rotor-wing aircraft. 

The company's headquarters is at Stockholm Bromma Airport in Stockholm, Sweden. BAM has subsidiaries on the Airport of Norrköping, Malmslätt Airport in Linköping and on the local airport in Sveg.

History

BAM was founded in 1979 by Ingemar Björk by the acquisition of Flygfirma I. Ehrenström, who had the Swedish agency for Gulfstream, Aero Commander and Fairchild. The company had 5 employees in those days, and among the most common planes to be maintained were Cessna Citations and Learjets.

1980, BAM became appointed service center for Raytheon Beechcraft.

1997 BAM opened a maintenance hangar on the airport in Norrköping that performed line maintenance on the commercial airliner Air Express that operated from Nice in France.

In the year of 2000, 45 mechanics, technicians and administrative staff were employed by BAM. When the former owner announced that the company was for sale, 24 of the employees joined forces and purchased BAM. The former Technical Director, Egert Lönn, was appointed as General Manager.

In 2003 BAM was appointed by the Swedish Airforce to extend their ongoing cooperation by adding line maintenance at the flight school in Malmslätt on their Jet Trainers SK 60 / Saab 105, beside the maintenance on the Airforce Beechcraft Super King Air.

During the years, BAM has included aircraft sales, aircraft part sales, avionics shop, sheet metal workshop and CSC (Customer Support Center with EASA DOA, POA and CAMO certificates in accordance with EASA part-M and EASA part-21 subpart G&J).

Airfleet

BAM has its own fleet of two Beechcraft Super King Air. These are modified and equipped to perform calibration flights and ambulance assignments. One of the planes is rented out to support air ambulance transports in Scandinavia, and the other plane execute measure and calibration flights on behalf of the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority. These flights are performed in countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Lithuania, Spain and Iraq.

See also
Cessna Citation
Learjet
Beechcraft

References

External links
BAM official webpage

References 
Aerospace companies of Sweden
Defence companies of Sweden
Companies based in Stockholm
Aircraft maintenance companies
Air navigation service providers
Swedish companies established in 1979
ASMD. ASMD may refer to:
 Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the four elementary arithmetic operations
 Anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis, a form of agenesis
 "ASMD", a code used to refer to the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba gas turbine turboprop engine
 Anti-ship missile defence
 Another name for Niemann–Pick disease associated with the SMPD1 gene (types A and B)
Cold shrink tubing. Cold shrink tubing is an open ended rubber sleeve, made primarily from rubber elastomers with high-performance physical properties, that has been factory expanded or pre-stretched, and assembled onto a supporting removable plastic core. Cold shrink tubing shrinks upon removal of the supporting core during the installation process and the electrician slides the tube over the cable to be jointed, terminated or abandoned and unwinds the core, causing the tube to collapse down, or contract, in place. The following video demonstrates the installation process of using Cold Shrink to abandon power cables.

Cold shrink tubing is used to insulate wires, connections, joints and terminals in electrical work. It can also be used to repair wires, bundle wires together, and to protect wires or small parts from minor abrasion.
It needs storage in controlled environments with temperatures not exceeding 43 degrees Celsius.

See also 
Heat-shrink tubing
Electrical wiring

References 

Electronics work tools
Plastics applications
Pincers (tool). Pincers are a hand tool used in many situations where a mechanical advantage is required to pinch, cut or pull an object. Pincers are first-class levers, but differ from pliers in that the concentration of force is either to a point, or to an edge perpendicular to the length of the tool. This allows pincers to be brought close to a surface, which is often required when working with nails.

Pincers are primarily used for removing objects (typically nails) out of a material that they have been previously applied to. Carpenter's pincers are particularly suited to these tasks.

Sharpened pincers are also used to cut away natural calluses, also called chestnuts, from a horses body.

Further use of pincers is the trimming of the edges of horses hoofs.    

If the pincers have perpendicular cutting edges, the pincers are often called end-nippers or end-cutters. They're often used in jewelry making, for trimming flat wire or cutting off the end of an ear stud.

Pincers, often red-hot, have also been used as an instrument of torture since ancient Roman times or earlier.

Pliers are a similar tool with a different type of head used for squeezing, rather than cutting and pulling.

See also 
 Chela (organ)
 Pincer (biology)

References 

Cutting tools
Pliers

pt:Turquesa (ferramenta)
River, Estuary and Coastal Observing Network. The River, Estuary, and Coastal Observing Network (RECON) is a pioneering waterway observing system founded and maintained by Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) operated by the SCCF's Marine Laboratory at Tarpon Bay.

RECON is funded primarily by private donations to SCCF's Marine Laboratory. Seven fixed locations stream water quality data from in situ Satlantic instrument packages. The sensor array includes a chemical-free nitrate sensor (ISUS), a CTD (conductivity, temperature, and depth) and fluorometer package for depth, turbidity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, and chlorophyll a fitted with a bleach injection system (WETLabs, Water Quality Monitor), and a CDOM fluorometer. One of the stations also incorporates a Nortek Aquadopp 2-dimensional current profiler sampling at 1 MHz for flow measurements. Data are currently collected hourly and transmitted in near-real time via cellular modems to a dedicated SQL database and can be viewed also in near real-time and plotted at RECON's website.

Extensive field testing by SCCF has led also to several innovative modifications to improve duration and robustness of these instruments. These include a non-toxic exterior anti-fouling paint, copper foil applied to all connectors and cables, and a custom designed support structure to attach to existing pilings. Other enhancements include a user-friendly website designed for scientists, decision-makers and the general public. Information disseminated through the website includes concise definitions of water quality parameters measured and how to interpret trends in water quality at high resolution. To maintain data quality control, water samples are collected to validate instrument settings and readings with traditional wet-chemistry methods. Water samples are analyzed by a state-certified Florida Department of Environmental Protection laboratory in Tallahassee, FL. SCCF plans to maintain the observing systems for the next three years or more, depending on funding.

References

External links
 Official Website
 Gulfbase GNFL licensed text

Lee County, Florida
Garcia River Forest. The Garcia River Forest is a  forest located in Mendocino County, California, about  north of San Francisco. It is owned and managed by The Conservation Fund. The fund generates  credits by logging a portion of the forest less intensely than is allowed under California law. These credits are sold to PG&E which retires them on behalf of customers enrolled in its ClimateSmart program. PG&E's ClimateSmart program is a program where customers voluntarily pay more on their utility bill to offset a percentage of their GHG emissions.

The California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) conducts and monitors The Garcia River Forest Project in order to restore forests to reduce global warming.

References

External links

Forests of California
Protected areas of Mendocino County, California
Ryan Foursome. The Ryan C-1 Foursome, also known as the "Baby Brougham" was a single-engine, four-seat light aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical in the United States in 1930 as an executive transport. It was a high-wing, braced monoplane based on Ryan's highly successful Brougham design, but substantially smaller. The interior was luxuriously furnished, with deeply upholstered seats, and an oversize cabin door was fitted to ease boarding and disembarking for the three passengers.

Only three examples were built before deteriorating economic conditions led to the sale of the Ryan factory in October 1930. One of the three machines was fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine and designated the C-2. This latter aircraft was lost during an attempted transatlantic crossing by Alex Loeb and Richard Decker in August 1939.

Variants
 C-1 - original version with Wright R-760 engine (2 built)
 C-2 - diesel-powered version with Packard DR-980 engine (1 built)

Specifications (C-1)

References

Notes

Bibliography
 
 
 
 
 

1930s United States business aircraft
Foursome
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
GNRI Class SG. The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) SG and SG2 classes was one of the last designs of Charles Clifford.   They were primarily intended for goods work, but the increased wheel diameter enabled effective passenger duties, managing heavy excursion trains with ease and speed.

Beyer, Peacock & Company built the first two batches in 1913 and 1915 and the 1924-25 batch were built by Nasmyth, Wilson & Company.

Design
They were the first GNR designs to be fitted with Schmidt superheaters and  piston valves, the SG class having a re-designed motion with rocker arms as well as the first to have  wheels instead of .

Engines were originally built with flush riveted smokeboxes. After the first major overhaul, domed rivets were used. These locomotives originally ran with flared tenders, but at a later date  straight sided tenders were also used.

When first brought into service, the five SGs were originally numbered 137, 138, 37, 40 and 41. The last three were renumbered 47, 48, 49 and the whole series was finally renumbered 175, 176, 177, 178, 179.

Differences
The major difference was in the brake rods of which there were two inboard of the wheels. The earlier SO and 562 locomotives had four pull-rods, the outer ones being outside of the wheels.

The 1915 batch (Classified 52 and 502) had direct motion, without rocker arms, driving inclined piston valves, and Robinson superheater. The only external difference was that the shaft and reversing rod were a little higher which resulted in the rear of the left hand side sandbox rod being inclined upwards from the centre sandbox back to the firebox.

The Wakefield mechanical lubricator was mounted further back on the 502. These locomotives were also fitted with Ross pop safety valves as built. The 1913 batch had lever safety valves changed to Ross pop type after first major overhaul after 10 years.

CIÉ ownership
On the break-up of the GNR in 1958, Córas Iompair Éireann took over a number of these locomotives for a period of five years up to the end of steam on CIÉ. They were used particularly on the ex-Dublin and South Eastern Railway services to Wexford and Rosslare. CIÉ retained the GNR numbers, with suffix N except in the case of No.19, also ‘CIE’ was stencilled on the locomotive buffer beams. After withdrawal, some locomotives, including 15N, 179N, and 181N were kept in reserve by CIÉ, some until 1965.

Model 
The SG Class is currently available as a 00 gauge etched-brass kit from Studio Scale Models.  It includes transfers, brass etches, most nameplates and cast white metal parts.

References

Further reading
 

SG
0-6-0 locomotives
Beyer, Peacock locomotives
Nasmyth, Wilson and Company locomotives
Steam locomotives of Northern Ireland
Steam locomotives of Ireland
Railway locomotives introduced in 1913
Scrapped locomotives
5 ft 3 in gauge locomotives
C h2 locomotives
MGWR Class E. The MGWR class E was a small 0-6-0T steam locomotive class designed in 1891 by Martin Atock, the then locomotive superintendent of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) and twelve engines were built.  After the MGWR was merged into Great Southern Railways (GSR) in 1925 they were designated Class 551 or J26.  They were also known as the Irish Terrier class.

Locomotives

Design and historical development

The MGWR Class E were initially intended for shunting around the Dublin Broadstone terminus.   Further locomotives were ordered for rural and small branch line work around Killala, Achill, Clifden, Athboy and Kingscourt.

After the grouping of 1925, the Great Southern Railways classified them Class 551 or Class J26, and fitted them with new smokeboxes, safety valves and chimneys. The nameplates, builder’s plates and sandbox numbers were removed at this time and replaced with a numberplate.

After 1920 they were forced to move from the Achill branch when that became restricted for 6 wheel coupled locomotives.

Their low axle loading gave them good utility and they were often popular, though some duties stretched their abilities.

Three engines, 553, 555 and 560 were fitted with enlarged cabs and modified footsteps.  This enabled an additional ton of coal to be carried and they successfully worked on the enclosed Waterford and Tramore section.

Model 
An etched-brass kit of the Class E / J26 has been produced by Studio Scale Models including brass etches and cast white metal parts.

See also
 Diesel Locomotives of Ireland
 Multiple Units of Ireland
 Coaching Stock of Ireland
 Steam locomotives of Ireland

References

Sharp Stewart locomotives
Kitson locomotives
0-6-0T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1891
5 ft 3 in gauge locomotives
Steam locomotives of Ireland
Scrapped locomotives
E