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Raymond Beurle. Raymond Louis Beurle (1921 – 21 June 2013, Nottingham) was an English electrical engineer. In 1963 he became the first professor of electrical engineering at University of Nottingham.

He gained an honours degree in engineering before engaging in experimental work for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He then went on to work on the application of new techniques to aid blind people, completing his PhD thesis  "Electronic Aids for Blind People". He then started working for the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern before moving onto Imperial College, London in 1955. In 1957 he moved on to English Electric Valve Company (EEV), where he was manager of the Camera Tube and Image Tube Research Department.

While he was living in Great Baddow, he had a patent registered for an image production invention which he assigned to EEV.

He participated in the Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization organised by Heinz von Foerster in 1960, delivering a paper on "Functional Organization in Random Networks".

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1921 births
2013 deaths
English electrical engineers
English academics
English inventors
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Tyring platform. A tyring platform or tyring plate is a circular metal or stone table used for the fitting of a metal tyre or rim to a wooden wheel.  These were commonplace when such wheels were needed for the numerous carts, carriages and wagons used throughout society and were standard equipment for a wheelwright.  

The tyre or rim would be heated to a high temperature to make it expand for the fitting.  The plate was then needed to support the hot metal and the wheel.  The heat would typically cause the wooden wheel to catch fire and so water would be used to douse it.  The need for a bonfire or furnace to heat the tyres made it efficient to fit several tyres at the same time in a batch and so a strong and stable platform would facilitate this.  The platforms would therefore be made of material such as stone or iron.  They would typically be circular and large enough to hold the biggest wheels with a hole or rod to secure and locate the hub of the wheel.

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Wheels
Leila Parsa. Leila Parsa is an electrical engineer from Iran whose research concerns power electronics, electric motors, and their applications in electric vehicles, electric aircraft, electric boats, and the generation of renewable energy. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Education and career
Parsa is originally from Iran, born in Tehran. She was a student at Iran University of Science and Technology, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1996 and a master's degree in 1999.

After a year in Germany at RWTH Aachen University, she moved to the US, and completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University in 2005.
On completing her Ph.D., she joined the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She remained there until 2016, and joined the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2017.

She is a past chair of the Electrical Machines Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

Recognition
Parsa received the IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Member Award in 2007, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2009. She was a 2021 recipient of the Nagamori Awards, given for her work on "multi-phase permanent magnet motors, design, analysis, and control". She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to control of multi-phase permanent magnet motor drives".

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1976 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Iranian electrical engineers
Iranian women engineers
Iran University of Science and Technology alumni
Texas A&M University alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Avure Technologies. Avure Technologies, Inc. is a food processing company. It was one of the world’s leading producers of industrial-scale high pressure processing (HHP) equipment production along with Hiperbaric and UHDE High-Pressure Technologies.

History 
Avure was initially formed as a subsidiary of Flow International. It was acquired in 1999 through the purchase of the Swedish electro technical company, ABB. This company is known for the manufacture of systems for the automotive and aerospace sectors. Avure was established in 2000 as a food safety business, focusing on high-pressure processing equipment for the food industry. It later led a consortium of American food processing companies for the Department of Defense Dual Use S&T (DUST) program.

Avure Technologies had consistently incurred losses for Flow International. By 2002, the business was split into two: Ultrahigh-Pressure Waterjet Systems, which served the general manufacturing and industrial markets; and, Avure Technologies, which began focusing on the food safety and fresh products industries. In 2005, Avure Technologies was sold to the Los Angeles-based private equity firm, Gores Technology Group LLC.  

Avure was later acquired by Milestone Partners, which split the company into two global platforms, one retained the Avure brand and focused on HPPsystems while the other focused on metal densification systems under the Quintus brand.

In 2018, Avure Technologies changed its name to Quintus Technologies.

Technologies 
The company produces commercial pressure vessels and HHP system blocks such as basket load conveyor, operator’s panel, control systems, water systems, and high-pressure pumping systems. It also holds the patent for QUINTUS, a wire-winding technology that features isostatic pressure.

In 2008, Avure developed a pressure-assisted thermal sterilization of mashed potatoes, which the FDA accepted a year later.

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American companies established in 2000
Food and drink companies of the United States
Food safety organizations
Gold hexafluoride. Gold hexafluoride is a binary inorganic chemical compound of gold and fluorine with the chemical formula . As of 2023, it is still a hypothetical compound that has never been prepared or observed. In 1999, Neil Bartlett stated, "It should exist, if made at low temperature and kept cold."

Potential properties
Like ,  should be an extremely powerful oxidizer. The compound is calculated to be stable.

References

Gold compounds
Fluorides
Hexafluorides
Hypothetical chemical compounds
Purbanchal University School of Engineering. Purbanchal University School of Engineering () is the only constituent engineering college of Purbanchal University. Located in Biratnagar, the capital of Koshi Province it established in 1999 AD with aim to provide engineering skills and knowledge related to the sector. PUSOE provides bachelor and masters level course in various streams of engineering.

Selection criteria 
The following remains the criteria for admission to Bachelor level course and masters level courses:

 Applicants should have passed +2 or ISc or Diploma in Surveying or any other engineering field for joining bachelor level cousres.
 For masters level course, the applicant should have passed Bachelor in Engineering of the respective subject.
 Applicants should have passed entrance exam taken by University.

Scholarship 
It is provided to 10% students in each course with 5% seats open while other 5% reserved. These are granted based on scholorship act of the university.

Courses offered

Bachelor level courses 

 Bachelor in Civil engineering (48 seats)
 Bachelor in Electrical engineering (48 seats)
 Bachelor in Electronics and Communication engineering (60 seats)
 Bachelor in Computer Engineering (60 seats)

Masters level courses 

 MSc in Engineering Management
 MSc in Information System Engineering
 Master of Engineering in Earthquake
 MSc in Construction Management
 MSc in Electrical Power Engineering

Affiliated colleges 
Purbanchal University has 17 other affiliated colleges for engineering studies. They are:

 Acme Engineering College
 Aryan School of Engineering and Management
 Central Engineering College
 College of Information Technology and Engineering
 College of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Sciences
 Eastern College of Engineering
 Hillside College of Engineering
 Geomatic Institute of Technology
 Gomendra Multiple College
 Himalayan Institute of Science and Technology
 Himalayan WhiteHouse International College
 Kantipur City College
 Kantipur International College
 Khwopa Engineering College
 Morgan Engineering and Management College
 Nepal Polytechnic Institute
 Pathivara Center For Advanced Studies
 Dhulibari Campus

See also 

 Pulchowk Campus
 Thapathali Campus
 Gaushala Engineering Campus
 Geomatic Institute of Technology

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Engineering colleges in Nepal
Purbanchal University
1999 establishments in Nepal
Engineering universities and colleges in Nepal
Universities and colleges established in 1999
Bombay Development Department. The Bombay Development Department (BDD) was established in 1920 by the British government with the primary objective of providing more land for housing and constructing 50,000 tenements on reclaimed lands. The Bombay Development Department (BDD) chawls were constructed by the British government between 1920 and 1925. It was established by Sir George Lloyd, the Governor of Bombay.

Projects 
The Bombay Development Department has been responsible for several notable projects, including BBD Chawls, the Back Bay Reclamation project and the development of Salsette Island, which helped provide adequate water to the city of Bombay. BDD undertook the reclamation of Marine Drive located along the southern coast of Bombay Island and initiated the development of suburbs to the north. BDD undertook massive housing schemes in the city, which are now known as BDD chawls.

BDD Chawls 
The Bombay Development Department (BDD) constructed affordable housing for the large number of workers employed in the mills, ports, and railway construction. It consisted of single-room tenements spanning 150 sq. ft.

As of August 2021, there are a total of 195 BDD Chawls located at Worli, Naigaon, and N M Joshi Road in Parel area of Mumbai, covering an area of 86.98 acres, with the Worli BDD chawls occupying the largest area of 59.69 acres and housing close to 12,000 families. Out of the 195 BDD chawls, 121 are located in Worli.

Redevelopment 
The BDD chawls, which are over a century old, have been in a state of disrepair for a long time and are a safety concern, making redevelopment a longstanding demand. In 2017, the BJP-Shiv Sena government led by Devendra Fadnavis launched a Rs 17,000 crore redevelopment plan. The plan includes rehousing the residents of more than 16,000 apartments in the new buildings for free. But the project could not begin due to issues like eligibility criteria, selection of contractors and agreement issues. In August 2020, the BDD Chawls redevelopment plan was revived by CM Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar. The Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena led Eknath Shinde government has set a target to complete the redevelopment of the BDD chawls before the 2024 elections.

In January 2023, the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde approved the allotment of 300 sqft housing units to eligible residents of the BDD chawls in Worli, Naigaon, and NM Joshi Marg (Parel) after the redevelopment process. The new housing units are larger than the previous ones, which were 269 sqft. The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has been assigned for the redevelopment.

See also 
 Bombay City Improvement Trust 
  History of Bombay under British rule (1661–1947)
 History of Mumbai

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Works cited

1920 establishments in India
History of Mumbai
Bombay Presidency
Chiara Petrioli. Chiara Petrioli is an Italian computer scientist whose research interests include mobile computing, wireless networks, sensor networks, and underwater acoustic communication. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, and director of the university's Sensor Networks and Embedded Systems (SENSES) Laboratory.

Petrioli was a student at Sapienza University, earning a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. there, before becoming a professor at the same university. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to wireless and underwater networks". She won the GammaDonna 2022 Award for innovative female entrepreneurship of the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, for her work with startup company WSense.

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External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Fellows of the IEEE
MD-22. MD-22 (Chinese: 鸣镝-22 / 鸣镝-二十二; pinyin: míng dí-22 / míng dí-èrshíèr) is a hypersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by the CAS Institute of Mechanics and the Guangdong Aerodynamic Research Academy (GARA), this Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, the MD-22, is a near-space hypersonic technology demonstrator and test platform. The aircraft can be launched through a specialized Xian H-6 mothership.

Specification

See also 
 FL-71
 FH-97A
 AVIC Dark Sword
 Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma
 Lockheed Martin SR-72
 WZ-8

References

External links 
 China Displays Mach 7 hypersonic UAV
 China's 'Mach 7' MD-22 UAV Breaks Cover At Zhuhai Air Show; Many Call It Testbed For Country's Hypersonic Technology
China showcases a new hypersonic drone MD-22 supposedly reaching Mach 7
MD-22 Drone: China’s New Mach 7 Hypersonic Weapon

Unmanned military aircraft of China
Hypersonic aircraft
Platinum(II) fluoride. Platinum(II) fluoride is a binary chemical compound of platinum and fluorine with the chemical formula . Some sources claim that its existence is uncertain.

Synthesis
Effect of fluorine on heated platinum wire at 500-600 °C:

Physical properties
The compound forms yellow crystals. Insoluble in water.

Chemical properties
Platinum difluoride decomposes under strong heating:

References 

Fluorides,2
Fluorides
Platinum group halides
Walter Villadei. Walter Villadei (born April 29, 1974) is an Italian military officer. He graduated from the Academy of the Italian Air Force in Pozzuoli and holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Naples Federico II and a specialization in astronautical engineering from the University of Rome.  He was trained as a cosmonaut in Russia. He first flew to space in June 2023 on the Galactic 01 mission. In January-February 2024, he spent 18 days at the International Space Station as part of Axiom Mission 3.

Career
Villadei began his career in 1998 at the 46th Aerial Transport Brigade in Pisa, where he worked on aircraft maintenance and several operational deployments abroad until 2003. He was then assigned to the Air Staff in Rome, within the Office of Advanced Technologies and UAV Programs. He earned a master's degree in satellites and orbital platforms in 2005 and represented the Air Staff on the Space Programs Defense Committee (technical level). In 2011, he was assigned to the new Space Policy Office established within the 3rd Department of the Air Staff. In 2014, he was appointed by the Presidency of the council as the national delegate to the European Commission for support and monitoring of space.

In 2008, Villadei began his initial spaceflight training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. In 2012, he received his full cosmonaut wings, and in 2015, he completed his advanced pre-assignment training, earning qualifications as a Soyuz flight engineer, user of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, and extravehicular activity operator.

Villadei is also a regular lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome and "Tor Vergata" on "Experimentation in Space" and "Space Systems." He graduated from the Senior Courses of the NATO Defense College in 2017.

Since September 2017, Villadei has been the head of the "Space Policy and Operations" office in the General Directorate of Space of the Air Staff. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the Italian Space Agency.

In 2021, he was selected to fly into space on the Virgin Galactic Unity 23 flight on a SpaceShipTwo. The mission was later renamed Galactic 01.

In 2022, he was selected for training in Houston to prepare for a future space flight with Axiom Space.

The same year, as part of an agreement between Axiom Space and the Italian Ministry of Technological Innovation and Digital Transition, Walter Villadei was selected as a back-up crew member for Axiom Mission 2, and was assigned as pilot on Axiom Mission 3, launched on January 18 2024. He spent 21 days in space, returning 9 February 2024 when Axiom Mission 3 splashed down into Atlantic Ocean.

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Italian Air Force personnel
Italian astronauts
Italian aviators
1974 births
Living people
Kevin Adkins. Kevin Adkins is an American aerospace engineer, atmospheric scientist, and professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Following distinguished service and leadership in the industry on a variety of transformational fixed-wing and rotorcraft development projects, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society for his outstanding contributions in the profession of aeronautics. At Embry-Riddle, he is the Director of the Unmanned Vehicle and Atmospheric Investigation Lab (UNVAIL). Prior to his faculty appointment, Adkins served in the United States Air Force and worked in industry as both a lead aircraft design and flight test engineer.

Early life and education 
Kevin A. Adkins was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His fascination with flight and love of the outdoors resulted in him building various air, land and sea vehicles during his teenage years and completing a pilot certificate at the age of 17. These experiences propelled him to undertake studies in aerospace engineering and atmospheric science. He was educated at the University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University and Mississippi State University.

Research
Adkins research focuses on boundary layer meteorology, design and applications of uncrewed aircraft systems, and advanced air mobility.

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American aerospace engineers
American atmospheric scientists
Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University faculty
Engineers from Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Michigan alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Mississippi State University alumni
Scientists from Michigan
Mark Lesser. Mark B. Lesser is an American game producer and electronic engineer, best known for programming the first handheld games from Mattel Electronics. He also developed several installments of the NHL video game series.

Lesser graduated from MIT with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He joined the Microelectronics Division of Rockwell International in 1972 as a Circuit Designer. Lesser primarily worked on transistor chips for handheld calculators. Around this time, George Klose, a product development engineer at Mattel Electronics, had the idea to convert handheld calculators into digital games; Rockwell took on the proposal, and Lesser was assigned to the new project for Mattel. Lesser designed the program directly into the hardware, using punch cards in a minicomputer to write the game. Eventually, a 512-byte chip held all the game’s logic, display, and scoring. This “obstacle avoidance” handheld electronic game became Auto Race (1976)—the first handheld game with solid-state electronics. Lesser ultimately programmed the first three titles of the Mattel handhelds line, following up the success of Auto Race with Football (1977), and Baseball (1978). These games proved to be so popular that they spawned several imitators, including a line of electronic games by Coleco. In four years at Rockwell, Lesser created seven handheld games.

Around 1980, Lesser was hired at Parker Brothers, where he programmed Frogger II: Threeedeep! (1984) for the Atari 2600 and developed several (never-released) games. He later moved on from Parker Brothers to work at Microsmiths, then founded his own company, MBL Research, Inc. In 1991, Lesser subcontracted with Blue Sky Productions on the Sega Genesis version of John Madden Football ’93 (1992). Electronic Arts, pleased by Lesser’s good work, later offered him the contract to develop NHL ’94. (Lesser later confessed, “I’d never watched a hockey game, I didn’t know anything about it.”) He continued working on the NHL series through NHL ’99. Lesser’s final game was published in 1999 by EA Sports: a supercross motorcycle simulation game called Supercross 2000. Since 2000, Lesser has been retired from game programming.

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American game designers
American electrical engineers
American video game programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Steve Bentley. Steve Bentley (born in Blackpool, England) is an entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and managing director of Sofema Aviation Services. He is a Fellow at Royal Aeronautical Society (since 2020).

Career and education 
In 1980, Steve Bentley moved to British Caledonian Airways BCAL as a direct entry base maintenance supervisor working on BAC 1-11, Boeing 707, Boeing 747, Boeing 757, Douglas DC10, Airbus A300 & Airbus A310.

In 1988, he moved to take up a 3-year contract position with Royal Brunei Airlines, where he was employed as a quality assurance auditor. In 1991, Steve joined Virgin Atlantic as a certifying staff at Heathrow Airport. In 1993, he moved to quality assurance at the Crawley HQ undertaking the role of senior airworthiness inspector for acquired Boeing 747-400 aircraft during build and delivery in Seattle, USA.

Sofema Aviation Services 
In 2008, Steve Bentley launched Sofema Aviation Services in Sofia, Bulgaria. The company provides aviation consultancy and regulatory training to European Commercial Aviation.

In 2012, following the successful launch of Sofema Aviation Services, he launched EASA Online as an online regulatory training platform and training portal.

In 2016, EASA Online was rebranded as Sofema Online which has a wider base of regulations including Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Overseas Territories Aviation Regulations (OTAR’s).

During the spring of 2018, Steve became a 25% share founder and co-owner in Romanian EASA Part 145 – RAS Technic at Otopeni Airport, Bucharest.

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British businesspeople
Airline founders
British chief executives
Businesspeople from Liverpool
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Sodium technetate(V). Sodium technetate(V) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula NaTcO3. It is a perovskite material and a rare example of an insoluble sodium salt.

Preparation 
Sodium technetate(V) can be prepared by co-heating technetium, sodium pertechnetate and sodium oxide, and decomposition occurs at high temperature. In addition, NaMoO4 decomposed in a NaOH solution will also produce NaTcO3. The NaTcO3 puckering effect resembles NaMoO3 and the band between the e  and a1g state disappears.

Properties 

NaTcO3 is a black solid that is a member of the Na2O–Tc2O5 system. It is stable to .

References

External reading

Kanellakopulos, Basil. The ternary oxide of 3-to 7-valent technetium with alkalis. (1964), (AEC Accession No. 31424, Rept. No. KFK-197), pg. 73.

Sodium compounds
Technetium compounds