omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Boyd Morrison. Boyd Morrison (* February 17, 1967) is an American thriller novelist, actor and former Jeopardy! champion. He has co-authored several books with The New York Times fiction best-seller Clive Cussler.

Education
Boyd Morrison has earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University and a PhD from Virginia Tech in industrial engineering.

Career
After his graduation from Rice University, Morrison joined Lockheed working on the Space Station Freedom project at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. He left NASA to get his PhD in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech. Morrison moved to Seattle and went to work for Microsoft in the Xbox games group. Among his credits are PC and Xbox games, including Project Gotham, Racing 2, Flight Simulator 2004, and Forza Motorsport.  Morrison left Microsoft in 2005 to write full-time.

Morrison's first book The Noah's Ark Quest (The Ark) was self published and later published by Simon and Schuster. The Ark (The Noah's Ark Quest) has been translated into 22 languages, was selected for IndieBound's Indie Next list in May 2010, and became a top 15 bestseller in the UK.

In 2022, The New York Times lauded his novel, The Lawless Land, as having "a satisfyingly bustling plot."

Bibliography

Tales of the Lawless Land
Boyd Morrison co-authors this series with sister Beth Morrison, an expert in medieval manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum

The Oregon Files (Juan Cabrillo Series)
Morrison co-authors part of The Oregon Files series with Clive Cussler.

Tyler Locke Adventures

Stand Alone Novels

References

External links

Modern Signed Books Interview with Boyd Morrison about Typhoon Fury and writing with Clive Cussler

1967 births
Living people
American thriller writers
Contestants on American game shows
Lockheed people
Microsoft people
NASA people
Rice University alumni
Virginia Tech alumni
Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company. The Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company (ALTEC) is an Italian aerospace company owned by the Italian Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space. It was founded in 2001 by Alenia Spazio and Consorzio Icarus, and is based in Turin. It will serve as the Control Centre for the two ExoMars missions to Mars.

References

External links
ALTEC home page 

Aerospace companies
Thales Group joint ventures
European Space Agency
Science and technology in Italy
ExoMars
Belakovskiite. Belakovskiite is a very rare uranium mineral with the formula Na7(UO2)(SO4)4(SO3OH)(H2O)3. It is interesting in being a natural uranyl salt with hydrosulfate anion, a feature shared with meisserite. Other chemically related minerals include fermiite, oppenheimerite, natrozippeite and plášilite. Most of these uranyl sulfate minerals was originally found in the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, US. The mineral is named after Russian mineralogist Dmitry Ilych Belakovskiy.

Association
Belakovskiite is associated with other sulfate minerals: meisserite, blödite, ferrinatrite, kröhnkite, and metavoltine. This association is found as efflorescences on a sandstone associated with uranium mineralization.

Crystal structure
The framework of belakovskiite crystal structure is a hexavalent cluster with composition (UO2)(SO4)4(H2O). Such clusters are connected via Na-O and hydrogen bonds.

References

Uranium(VI) minerals
Sulfate minerals
Sodium minerals
Triclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 2
Oppenheimerite. Oppenheimerite is a very rare uranium mineral with the formula Na2(UO2)(SO4)2•3H2O. Chemically related minerals include fermiite, natrozippeite, plášilite, belakovskiite and meisserite. Most of these uranyl sulfate minerals were originally found in the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, US. The mineral is named after American Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Association and origin
Oppenheimerite is associated with other sulfate minerals: fermiite, bluelizardite, wetherillite, blödite, chalcanthite, epsomite, gypsum, hexahydrite, kröhnkite, manganoblödite, sideronatrite, and tamarugite.

Crystal structure
The crystal structure of oppenheimerite is of a new type. It contains chains of the (UO2)(SO4)2(H2O) composition, connected with two types of sodium polyhedra.

References

Uranium(VI) minerals
Sulfate minerals
Sodium minerals
Triclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 2
Plášilite. Plášilite is a very rare uranium mineral with the formula Na2(UO2)(SO4)2•3H2O. Chemically related minerals include natrozippeite, belakovskiite, meisserite, fermiite and oppenheimerite. Most of these uranyl sulfate minerals were originally found in the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, US. The mineral is named after Czech crystallographer Jakub Plášil.

Association and origin
Plášilite is associated with other sulfate minerals: natrozippeite, johannite, blödite, brochantite, chalcanthite, gypsum, hexahydrite, manganoblödite, and tamarugite. Non-sulfate coexisting minerals include atacamite, calcite, dickite and gerhardtite. Plášilite is secondary in origin, being the product of weathering of the primary uranium mineral, uraninite.

Crystal structure
The crystal structure of plášilite is of a new type. Its building blocks are:
 (UO2)2(SO4)2(OH)2 sheets, with a charge 2-, parallel to (010), of a phosphuranylite topology
 edge-sharing NaO2(H2O)4 polyhedra, parallel to [001]
The sodium-bearing polyhedra link the uranyl-sulfate sheets. It terms of sheet geometry, crystal structure of plášilite is similar to that of deliensite.

References

Uranium(VI) minerals
Sulfate minerals
Sodium minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 14
Pristine Sources. Pristine Sources is a software management concept coined by the developers of the short-lived Bogus Linux distribution and popularized by Marc Ewing, co-founder of Red Hat Inc, after he adopted it and RPM Package Manager as a development philosophy for Red Hat Linux.  It was the concept that enabled Red Hat to build Linux distributions faster and more reliably than had been possible previously.  Briefly, the problem with building an operating system out of the myriad pieces of open source (or free software) components available from teams across the Internet was that there were many of these components and they all upgraded on different schedules at different times.  Ewing's insight was to recognize that he could not take responsibility for these components.  He and Erik Troan, wanted to build a software package management system, RPM, that allowed the team at Red Hat to avoid changing any of the source code of the software components they needed to use to build their Red Hat Linux operating system.

It is best summed up by Ewing's explanation in a mid-1990s Red Hat manual:

"The Philosophy Behind RPM"

References

External links
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/3/html/System_Administration_Guide/ch-rpm.html

Programming principles
Rotational components of strong ground motions. Rotational components of strong ground motions refer to variations of the natural slope of the ground surface due to the propagation of seismic waves. Earthquakes induce three translational (two horizontal and one vertical) and three rotational (two rocking and one torsional) motions on the ground surface. To study the nature of strong ground motions, seismologists and earthquake engineers deploy accelerometers and seismometers at various distances from active faults on the ground surface or bedrock in order to record the translational  motions of ground shaking. The corresponding rotational motions are, then, estimated in terms of the gradient of the recorded translational ground motions. Different methods may be adopted for the indirect estimation of the earthquake rotational components, such as time derivation and finite difference. Specialized instruments, such as gyroscopes and tiltmeters, which can detect small changes in the orientation of the ground surface, may be used to directly measure rotational ground motions. Currently, ring laser gyroscopes are widely used to measure the amplitude of rotational movements of the ground surface. 

In most seismic codes, the excitation due to the translational components is solely considered in the design of resistant structures against earthquakes, and the effect of the rotational components of strong ground motions is commonly ignored.  However, recent seismological data indicated that the ratio of the amplitude of the rotational components to the translational components at close distances from the fault can be significantly larger than that was expected. In the past decades, this observation led to the attraction of theoretical studies towards near-field effects of the earthquake rotational loading on the structural response. The results of these studies implied that the rotational components may result in significant damage of structures sensitive to high-frequency excitations, and, hence, their influence should be incorporated in seismic codes. For the first time, new seismic parameters were proposed to estimate the effect of the rotational excitation on the seismic response of structures.

References

Earthquakes
Seismology
Lon D. Wright Power Plant. The Lon D. Wright Memorial Power Plant is a 130-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant owned and operated by the City of Fremont Department of Utilities located in Fremont, Nebraska. The plant consists of 3 units labeled 6, 7, and 8 as a continuation of five units that were previously housed in a facility located in downtown Fremont.

Units

Unit 6 
Unit 6 is a 17 MW coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox water tube boiler with a General Electric turbine and generator that entered commercial service in 1957. The unit can also be run on natural gas.

Unit 7 
Unit 7 is a 22 MW Babcock & Wilcox water tube boiler with a General Electric turbine and generator that entered commercial service in 1963. The unit can also be run on natural gas.

Unit 8 
Unit 8 is a 92 MW Babcock & Wilcox water tube boiler with a General Electric turbine and generator that entered commercial service in 1977. The unit can also be run on natural gas.

Air Quality Control System (AQCS) 
In July 2013, the Fremont City council awarded a US$46.7 million bid to Fagen Inc. to add emission control equipment to Unit 8 to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's clean air standards. The project was completed and commissioned in late 2015.

References

Power stations in Nebraska
Coal-fired power stations in Nebraska
Buildings and structures in Nebraska
Derril Marshall Generating Station. Derril Marshall Generating Station is a 40 MW (megawatt) natural gas/fuel oil heavy frame General Electric gas turbine owned and operated by the City of Fremont Department of Utilities in Fremont, NE. It was purchased by the city and began commercial operation in late 2003 as a peaking facility to supplement the city's coal fired facility Lon D. Wright Power Plant.

Renamed 
In September 2015, the Fremont mayor, Scott Getzchman announced that the gas fired peaking unit would be renamed Derril Marshall Generating Station.

References

Power stations in Nebraska
Buildings and structures in Nebraska
Antanas Baskas. Antanas Baskas (born 22 February 1936 in Marijampolė, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian computer scientist, politician and former member of the Seimas.

Biography
Baskas was born to a working-class family in Marijampolė, Lithuania on 22 February 1936.

Baskas graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1960. He worked at the Vilnius Construction Bureau for Computational Machines, first as technician, later - as an engineer and a manager. In 1966 Baskas became an engineer and, later, research fellow at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Between 1977 and 1992 he worked at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 1973. Baskas has published around 40 research papers and authored hundreds of articles in Lithuanian press in the areas of technology and politics.

In 1990 Baskas joined the Liberal Union of Lithuania and remained a member until 1992. In the elections in 1992, Baskas was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas on the electoral list of Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania. He was a member of Social Democratic Party of Lithuania between 1994 and 1996. He ran unsuccessfully for a Seimas seat in 1996, 2000,  2004 and 2008.

After leaving the Seimas in 1996, he continued his work at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University.

References

1936 births
Living people
Members of the Seimas
Liberal Union of Lithuania politicians
Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania politicians
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania politicians
Kaunas University of Technology alumni
People from Marijampolė
Aoki Lapis. is a vocal synthesizer application software program produced by Yamaha Corporation with i-style Project for the software Vocaloid 3.  The voice was provided by a contest winner, Japanese actress Nako Eguchi.  Aoki Lapis is named after the semi-precious gemstone Lapis lazuli.

Development
Aoki Lapis was introduced at the Comiket 80. It is part of a joint collaborative project between Japanese search engine site Surfer's Paradise, anime studio Studio DEEN, and Nico Nico Douga users, called "i-style Project." It has been designed to work with everyday users of VOCALOID, not just professional musicians, and designed for a new type of music, termed "lifestyle".  The product was sold with or without the Vocaloid 3 editor or as deluxe edition with bonus content.

Later updates to this software included "Aoki Lapis SE" which was a re-release of her original software and "Aoki Lapis Neo", which was released as a Mac update.

It was later given an "older sister" called "Merli".

Additional software
The software package was released for iOS apps VocaloWitter and iVocaloid.  That version of the VocaloWitter app managed to earn 1st place out of all paid apps on the iTunes store on September 11, 2013.

On August 10, 2013, Lapis was shown in a demonstration using another synthesizer called "ToSpeak". The voice was also shown at the "Comic Market 84", an event held at Osaki West Station shopping centre.

It was later released for Mobile Vocaloid Editor.

Characteristics
The character Aoki Lapis is a fairy who has no memory of who she is. She belongs to a race of fairies capable of transforming music into power and her voice is said to have the power to give life when she sings.  The large gem she has on her head is a Paraíba Tourmaline, an extremely rare and precious gemstone. Her design is "light" in contrast with her sister, Merli.

Marketing

Video games and apps
Lapis appeared in an iOS game called "Vocadol" along with Vocals Anon & Kanon, Lily, VY1, Merli, Cul and Kokone.

A free to download iOS app can be downloaded based on the character. It allows Lapis to appear on screen as though she was in the environment being pictured. The app is called , Lapis can be selected by typing in the code 105-2659. She will appear anywhere her PDF file stage (which must be printed off on a separate sheet of card/paper) is registered. She will sing and dance to the song "Daydream Flight" when active.

Another released app, which was released for free, was called  for both iOS and Android. In it, Lapis counts sheep, ostensibly to help the user fall asleep; it also comes with an alarm.

She also starred in a series of app-based games starting with .

Competition
There was a "dress up" competition for Lapis. A base picture was issued and fans were invited to dress her up and submit the entry.

I-Style then started two contests to celebrate Lapis' second anniversary. The first contest was an art contest for Lapis, while the second was a song contest.

See also
 List of Vocaloid products

References

Fictional singers
Japanese idols
Japanese popular culture
Vocaloids introduced in 2012
SimScale. SimScale is a computer-aided engineering (CAE) software product based on cloud computing. SimScale was developed by SimScale GmbH and allows computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and thermal simulations. The backend of the platform uses open source and proprietary simulation codes. The open source codes include:
 FEA: Code_Aster
 CFD: OpenFOAM
The proprietary simulation codes include: 

 CFD: Numeric Systems Pacefish

The cloud-based platform of SimScale allows users to run more simulations, and in turn iterate more design changes, compared to traditional local computer-based systems.

History 
SimScale was launched in 2013.

Features 

The thermal module allows uncoupled thermo-mechanical, conjugate heat transfer and convective heat transfer simulations.

Industrial applications 
Japan-based Tokyowheel — a company that engineers technical carbon fiber racing wheels for competitive cyclists — used SimScale's CFD software component to determine the most aerodynamic wheel profile. QRC Technologies performed thermal simulations on SimScale to test multiple variations of their RF tester.

Marketing 

On 2 December 2015, a community plan was announced making the platform accessible free of charge, based on a new investment round led by Union Square Ventures. It includes a one-time allotment of 3000 computation hours and 500 GB of storage for any registered user. Simulations and projects created by a user registered under the plan are accessible to all other users within the public project library.

SimScale has also organized several free webinars:
 3D Printer Workshop
 F1 Aerodynamics Workshop
 Simulation in Biomedical Engineering Workshop

References 

Cloud platforms
Computer-aided engineering software for Linux
Finite element software
Simulation software
Complexe Moteurs Tracteurs. Complexe Moteurs Tracteurs, also known as CMT, was an Algerian manufacturer of agricultural machinery, tractors, and engines for several Algerian motor vehicle manufacturers such as Enmtp and SNVI. The CMT was an EPE / SPA in the portfolio of the SGP  It was created in 1997 following the restructuring of the ENPMA. The complex was completed in 1972 by the German manufacturer DIAG according to the contractual form "product in hand" for the manufacture of agricultural tractors and diesel engines for different users. In 2009, CMT split into two companies Etrag which specializes in tractors and EMO which specializes in engines.

Products

Tractors
Since 1974 more than 112 000 farm tractors were manufactured in CMT factories, when it was under the label Sonacome.
Cirta C4006 From 1974 until 1983.
Cirta C6006 From 1974 until 2003.
Cirta CT900 From 1974 until 2003
Cirta CX3.70 From 2003 until 2010
Cirta CX 100 From 2001 until 2009
Cirta C6807 From 1998 until 2009

Engines
Manufacturing diesel engines air cooled from 60 to 110 HP for agriculture and various mechanical Algerian companies.
Cirta F4 L912

See also
Sonacome
ENMTP

References

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Algeria
Economy of Constantine, Algeria
Companies established in 1997
Companies based in Constantine, Algeria
Government-owned companies of Algeria
Companies of Algeria
Desiré Dubounet. Desiré D. Dubounet  (born William Charles Nelson; 19June 1951) is an American alternative medicine inventor, filmmaker and performer currently living in Budapest. Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid, an energy medicine device that is considered to be dangerous to health and has been described as a scam.

Biography 
Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific EPFX device in the late 1980s which supposedly claimed could diagnose and eliminate diseases including AIDS and cancer. The EPFX device is described as balancing "bio-energetic" forces; bio-energetic forces do not exist. Some people died after using the EPFX system instead of seeking or continuing medical care.

In 1992 the United States Food and Drug Administration ordered Dubounet to stop claiming that the EPFX could diagnose or cure diseases, but she did not; in 1996 she was indicted on nine counts of felony fraud, though none were in relation to the EPFX. Dubounet has since left the United States. Dubounet is also involved in homeopathic medicine; she received a patent for a process for manufacturing homeopathic "remedies" in 1997. At least 10,000 EPFX devices have been sold in the United States.

Dubounet lives in Budapest, and performs at the nightclub Bohemian Alibi. and produced and starred in the  English-Hungarian comedy The Story of F***. Dubounet also directed the erotic comedy Paprika Western.

References

External links 
 Archived website
 Official site

1951 births
American homeopaths
American expatriates in Hungary
Radionic practitioners
Living people
American transgender women
People from Warren, Ohio
James Isabirye Mugoya. James Isabirye Mugoya, also known as James Isabirye or James Mugoya, is a Ugandan engineer and businessman. He is the founder, owner and chief executive officer of Mugoya Construction Company Limited. In 2012, he was listed as one of the wealthiest individuals in Uganda.

Background and education
Mugoya was born in the Eastern Region of Uganda, circa 1950. He attended King's College Budo before entering Nairobi University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering.

Career
While at university in Nairobi in the 1970s, Mugoya became friends with one of President Daniel Arap Moi's sons. Following graduation, he started Mugoya Construction and Engineering Company Limited. According to print media in both Kenya and Uganda, Mugoya's business was awarded a series of lucrative government and private sector contracts during this period. He became very wealthy.

Following the changes of government in Kenya, where Mugoya's company was established and where the majority of business was located, contracts began to dwindle and Mugoya made plans to relocate to Uganda. Meanwhile, in Uganda, the Nsimbe Estate joint venture that he had started with the National Social Security Fund (Uganda),was ruled illegal by Ugandan authorities and was scuttled.

See also
 List of wealthiest people in Uganda

References

External links
 Website of National Social Security Fund (Uganda)

Living people
1950 births
Ugandan businesspeople
University of Nairobi alumni
People from Eastern Region, Uganda
Ugandan civil engineers
Energieeinsparverordnung. The Energieeinsparverordnung (; EnEV) is a regulation in Germany describing minimum requirements regarding energy use of new and renovated buildings. This legal ordinance was issued and repeatedly updated – The requirements were set to stricter standards in irregular intervals – by the Federal Government, which was authorized to do so by §1 of the Energy Conservation Act (Energieeinsparungsgesetz, EnEG). 

To obtain a building license, private buildings and most commercial buildings had to be built according to the regulation. The EnEV and the EnEG have been replaced by the Buildings Energy Act (Gebäudeenergiegesetz, GEG) on November 1, 2020.

See also

 
 Energiewende in Germany

References

External links
 Text der Energieeinsparverordnung  (current version) 
 Synopse der Änderungen und Texte der EnEV 2007, 2009 und 2013 
 EnEV 2004 (bis zum 1. Oktober 2007 gültig) 
 Informationen zur EnEV 2009 
 Info Portal Energieeinsparung: Novellierungsverfahren des Energieeinsparrechts 
 BEE: Klimaneutral und kosteneffizient die EnEV 2016 erfüllen. Informationsbroschüre zur Energie-Einspar-Verordnung 2016 
 Informationen zur EnEV 2013  

Energy efficiency
Energy in Germany
Energy law
Law of Germany