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DRDO Kapothaka. Kapothaka was a technology  demonstrator mini-UAV for reconnaissance. The Kapothaka (also spelled Kapothaha) which means “dove” is believed to be a  predecessor of Nishant UAV system.

History
Following the successful deployment of a remotely piloted vehicle by Israel during Lebanon war in 1982 Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) undertook the development of a remotely piloted vehicle kapothaka in 1983  to develop the necessary technologies. During the next 4 years ADE developed a small RPV to validate in-flight video transmission capabilities and to implement ground take off and parachute recovery.

Characteristics
Kapothaka had an all-up-weight (AUW) of  and was powered by an conventional twin boom configuration 26 bhp piston engine. It had a very small, low radar cross-section and was launched from a rail with rocket assistance. The system had a  wingspan, a length of . Operating ceiling was . The integral wing-boom-tail unit was made of Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) material whereas the fuselage is a combination of aluminium and GFRP; the aircraft has an endurance of 90 minutes while carrying payload of  and can achieve a speed of  in flight. It is equipped with TV and panoramic cameras, providing real time imagery intelligence.

This programme enabled ADE to cut teeth on the intricacies of UAV design development and deployment. The endeavour culminated in successful demonstration of aerial reconnaissance using an RPV during Operation Brasstacks in September 1987. Indian Army, impressed by the unique capability provided by an RPV, formulated a "qualitative requirement" for a tactical UAV system for artillery leading to the development of Nishant UAV system.

Specification

See also
DRDO Nishant
List of unmanned aerial vehicles

References

Unmanned aerial vehicles of India
Military equipment of India
Kapothaka
Ball transfer unit. A ball transfer unit is an omnidirectional load-bearing sphere mounted inside a restraining fixture. They are identical in principle to a computer trackball (pointing device). Typically the design involves a single large ball supported by smaller ball bearings. 

They are commonly used in an inverted ball up position where objects are quickly moved across an array of units, known as a ball transfer table, a type of conveyor system. This permits manual transfer to and from machines and between different sections of another conveyor system. They are used in airports for luggage delivery, or in industry as part of manufacturing systems. Prior to the invention of the ball transfer unit, first patented by Autoset Production Ltd in 1958, these applications were solved by the use of inverted casters. However, casters recognise a trail, meaning that the wheels had to align before directional change could be achieved.

Ball transfer units can also be used in a non-inverted ball down position as a type of caster, however this use is restricted by load-bearing limitations and the type of floor. Manufacturers have addressed this problem with ball transfer units incorporating recirculating ball principles, however the inverted position is still the most common application and the least problematic.

See also

References

Bulk material handling
ACROSS Project. ACROSS is a Singular Strategic R&D Project led by Treelogic funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade activities in the field of Robotics and Cognitive Computing over an execution time-frame from 2009 to 2011. ACROSS project involves a number higher than 100 researchers from 13 Spanish entities.

ACROSS project objectives 
ACROSS modifies the design of social robotics, blocked in providing predefined services, going further by means of intelligent systems. These systems are able to self-reconfigure and modify their behavior autonomously through the capacity for understanding, learning and software remote access.

In order to provide an open framework for collaboration between universities, research centers and the Administration, ACROSS develops Open Source Services available to everybody.

Three application domains 
ACROSS works in three application domains:

 Autonomous living: robots are used as technological tools to help handicapped person into daily tasks.
 Psycho-Affective Disorders (autism): robots are used to mitigate cognitive disorders.
 Marketing: robots are used to interact with humans in a recreational approach.

Consortium 
 Treelogic
 Alimerka
 Bizintek
 Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
 University of Deusto
 European Centre for Soft Computing
 Fatronik - 
 Fundació Hospital Comarcal Sant Antoni Abat
 Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Gestión de la Investigación en Salud de Sevilla, "Virgen del Rocío" University Hospitals
 m-BOT
 Omicron Electronic
 Universidad de Extremadura - RoboLab
 Verbio Technologies

References

External links 
 
 ACROSS SlideShare

Robotics projects
Free software projects
Robotics suites
AI software
2009 in robotics
Research and development in Spain
George Campbell Ross. George Campbell Ross C.B., C.B.E. (9 August 1900 – 30 July 1993) was an Engineer and a Rear Admiral in Britain's Royal Navy. He was also the son of Sir Archibald Ross OBE (1867 - March 19, 1931), a pioneering marine engineer.

Service biography

World War I
He served on HMS Warspite, HM Submarine P59 and HMS Vendetta during World War I.

Interwar
Engineering Courses at RN College, Greenwich, and RN Engineering College, Keyham 1919–1921; HMS Hawkins, Flagship of China Station 1921–1924.
Lecturer in Marine Engineering, RN Engineering College 1924–1927; HMS Effingham, Flagship of East Indies Station 1927–1929; HM Dockyard, Chatham 1929–1931; HMS Rodney (29), Atlantic Fleet 1931–1933; Invergordon Mutiny 1931; Assistant Naval Attache, British Embassy, Tokyo 1933–1936; Liaison Officer to Japanese Flagship Asigara, Coronation Review 1937; introduced Oerlikon 20 mm cannon to the RN 1937; HMS Manchester, East Indies Station 1937–1939.

World War II
Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty 1939–1941; Engineer Officer, HMS Nelson, and Staff Engineer Officer to Flag Officer, Force H, Malta Convoy, North Africa and Sicily 1941–1943; HMS ST ANGELO, Malta, as Staff Engineer Officer, on staff of Capt, Force 'H', Aug–Dec 1943; surrender of Italian Fleet 1943; Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty 1943–1947;

Postwar
Chief of Staff to R Adm, Reserve Aircraft 1948–1949; Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Admiralty 1949–1953; retired in October 1953. After retirement from the Royal Navy Ross joined Armstrong Siddeley as a liaison officer between the company and the Admiralty.

Family life
He married, on 16 September 1929 Alice Behrens, daughter of the banker Paul Behrens (of the Salomon Oppenheim bank) in Berlin, the first German women to marry an Englishman after World War I.

References

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (King's College London, University of London)

Royal Navy rear admirals
1900 births
1993 deaths
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Dithizone. Dithizone is a sulfur-containing organic compound. It is a good ligand, and forms complexes with many toxic metals such as lead, thallium and mercury.

Dithizone may be prepared by reacting phenylhydrazine with carbon disulfide, followed by reaction with potassium hydroxide.

Dithizone is used to assess the purity of human pancreatic islet preparations used for transplantation into patients with type 1 diabetes. Dithizone binds zinc ions present in the islet's beta cells, and therefore stains the islets red. Exocrine tissue also present in the preparations does not bind dithizone, and is therefore not stained.

References

Thiocarbonyl compounds
Utopic Software. Utopic Software, formerly Persystent Software, is a privately held computer software company with offices in Tampa, Florida, USA, specializing in automated PC repair, self-healing operating system repair, imaging and secure hard drive wipe.
Utopic Software acquired Persystent Technologies in 2012. Utopic retained the Persystent brand and rebuilt the solution as a cohesive and centralized suite of features.

Utopic Software developed patented technology that restores application and operating system (O/S) files in as little as 45 seconds. The product is called Persystent Suite for Windows-based PCs. The PC repair technology can be automated to perform repair upon each reboot or it can be managed on demand for more flexibility.

References

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Software companies based in Florida
Companies based in Tampa, Florida
Software companies of the United States
Intrall. Intrall, or International Truck Alliance, was a Russo-British automotive company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with factories in Poland. In late 2003, the company was bought by Daewoo Motor Poland and operated under the name Intrall Polska (Intrall Poland) between 2004 and 2007.

The company produced FSC Lublin and Honker model trucks, and in 2006 received rights to manufacture Praga vehicles. In addition, the company designed and produced the Intrall Lubo line of mixed van/truck work vehicles.

In 2007, stricter engine emission regulations and the Polish government -- a major Intrall customer -- mandated all companies that supply the Polish Military must be at least half owned by Polish interests forced production to end. Later that year, the company was declared bankrupt by both London and Polish courts.

Products

Intrall 

 Intrall Lubo van/truck

Lublin vehicles
 Lublin Furgon all-metal van
 Lublin Furgon with raised roof
 Lublin Towas work van
 Lublin Kombi
 Lublin Skrzyniowy flatbed
 Lublin Brygadowy 4-door flatbed
 Lublin Kontener box body
 Lublin special vehicles
 Police, fire and emergency vehicles

Honker vehicles

 Honker hardtop
 Honker Softtop
 Honker Skorpion - desert patrol vehicle 
 Honker Sibil - civil version of the Skorpion
 Honker special vehicles
 Military ambulance

Gallery

See also
 Honker

References

 Intrall. [w:] Samochody Świata 2007. Wyd. Media Connection, Warszawa, s. 220.

External links
 Official site
 Official Polish site (archived 29 February 2012)

Car manufacturers of Poland
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in London
Defunct truck manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Truck manufacturers of Poland
European Association for Structural Dynamics. The European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD) is a professional body founded in 1990 to bring together members of structural dynamics community from all over Europe.

Activities
EASD oversees the organization of the European Conferences on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN) that will be held at three (or four) year intervals. These conferences shall be devoted to theoretical developments and applications of structural dynamics to all types of structures and structural materials.

External links
 EURODYN 2011 (Official Website)

Engineering organizations
Solar flower tower. AORA's Solar Flower Tower is a hybrid power generator that utilizes solar and alternative fuels, including diesel fuel, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, biogas, and other biofuels, to provide a constant green power source targeted for community-sized production. A module, dubbed the Solar Flower Tower because it looks like a golden yellow tulip, creates about 100 kW of electricity. The basis of the design is to use solar heated compressed air to spin a micro turbine. What makes the micro turbine unique is the efficiency of smaller power blocks, which allows small-scale construction, meaning simpler operation and less land needed.

AORA

Formerly known as EDIG Solar, AORA is an Israeli based company that develops solar-hybrid power generators. The EDIG group of companies has contracted engineering project with organizations such as Ministry of Defense (Israel), El Al Israel Airlines, and the National Health Service Provider. EDIG presently has a relationship with the Weizmann Institute of Science, providing engineering services. It was at the Weizmann Institute of Science where the solar thermal technology was developed. After the technology was licensed to EDIG, continued advancement was developed until they decided to turn their new solar division into a sub-company, EDIG Solar, now known as AROA.

How the tower works

In half an acre of land (about 40% of a football field), a solar tower module is surrounded by thirty heliostats reflecting the sun ray into a special solar receiver inside the module. The receiver heats the turbine's compressed air to about 1,000 °C, and the heated air is sent into the turbine's expander to create electricity.

See also

 Active solar
 Solar energy
 Solar power
 Solar power in Israel
 Solar power tower

References

External links 
 E.D.I.G. Construction Management website
 AORA Solar raises $5m for solar thermal technology
 Green Prophet Sees Aora's Solar Flower Power Fire Up in the Desert
 Tulips in the Desert Aora Solar Air cycle with biofuel backup (Interview with Dr Pinchas Doron of Aora Solar attached)

Solar power
Arcserve. Arcserve is a provider of data protection, replication and recovery solutions for enterprise and mid-market businesses. Arcserve was founded in 1983 as Cheyenne Software. Software vendor CA Technologies, which was then known as Computer Associates, acquired Cheyenne in 1996 and continued to develop and market the Arcserve product under the same brand.

History 
Arcserve was first developed as a product used to back up other software programs and to ensure that data in the network could not be lost. The major function of the first release was to automatically copy all of the information in the system so that mishaps such as power failures and equipment malfunctions would not destroy or erase it. During the early nineties, Arcserve became Cheyenne's flagship product with massive growth in sales. Cheyenne brought out an improved version of its core program Arcserve in 1993 and began distribution through Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

During the mid-nineties, Cheyenne continued to release a series of new Arcserve products tailored specifically for different market segments such as Macintosh and Windows users. Software vendor CA Technologies, which was then known as Computer Associates, acquired Cheyenne in 1996 and continued to develop and market the Arcserve product under the same brand.

In August 2014, Arcserve became an independent company when Marlin Equity Partners acquired the business from CA Technologies. They released their first product and named it Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP). 
Arcserve provides some of the largest independent software vendor (ISV) developed backup software products in the market, and supports a wide variety of platforms and applications. Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) is offered as fully integrated software, set-and-forget virtual or physical appliances, and the Arcserve(r) Cloud.

On April 26, 2017, Arcserve announced the acquisition of email archiving technology, now named Arcserve UDP Archiving. On July 11, 2017, Arcserve announced the acquisition of Zetta, a cloud-based disaster recovery solutions provider, by which it now offers direct-to-cloud DRaaS and BaaS with Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct.

On March 17, 2021, Arcserve announce that regulatory approval was received for the completion of the merger with StorageCraft.

See also
List of backup software

References

Backup software
Storage software
List of countries by energy consumption and production. This is a list of countries by total primary energy consumption and production.

 1 quadrillion BTU = 293 TW·h = 1.055 EJ
 1 quadrillion BTU/yr = 1.055 EJ/yr = 293 TW·h/yr = 33.433 GW

The numbers below are for the total energy consumption or production in a whole year, so should be multiplied by 33.433 to get the average value in GW in that year.

List

See also
 List of countries by energy consumption per capita
 Electric energy consumption
 List of countries by electricity consumption
 Electricity by country
 List of countries by electricity production
 List of countries by renewable electricity production

References 

Countries by energy consumption and production
Energy consumption
Energy production
List of Java bytecode instructions. This is a list of the instructions that make up the Java bytecode, an abstract machine language that is ultimately executed by the Java virtual machine. The Java bytecode is generated from languages running on the Java Platform, most notably the Java programming language.

Note that any referenced "value" refers to a 32-bit int as per the Java instruction set.

See also 
Jazelle DBX (Direct Bytecode eXecution), a feature that executes some Java bytecodes in hardware, on some ARM9 CPUs
Common Intermediate Language (CIL), a similar bytecode specification that runs on the CLR of the .NET Framework

References

External links 
The Java Virtual Machine Instruction Set

Instruction set listings
Java platform
CPU Sim. CPU Sim is a software development environment for the simulation of simple computers. It was developed by Dale Skrien to help students understand computer architectures. With this application the user is able to simulate new or existing simple CPUs. Users can create new virtual CPUs with custom machine language instructions, which are implemented by a sequence of micro instructions.  CPU Sim allows the user to edit and run assembly language programs for the CPU being simulated.

CPU Sim has been programmed using the Java Swing package. This means that it is platform independent (runs on every platform that has a Java virtual machine installed).

Wombat 1 Sample CPU 

A sample computer system, the Wombat 1, is provided with CPU Sim.  It has the following registers:

 pc (program counter);
 acc (accumulator);
 ir (instruction register);
 mar (memory address register);
 mdr (memory data register);
 status.

The assembly language of the Wombat 1 computer consists of 12 instructions. Each instruction is stored on 16 bits; the first 4 are the opcode and the other 12 are the address field.

Features 

CPU Sim has the following features:

 allows the creation of a CPU (a virtual one), including the registers, RAM, microinstructions, and machine instructions;
 allows the creation, editing, and execution of assembly language programs for the simulated CPU;
 allows stepping forward and backward through the execution of assembly language programs.

Example program for the Wombat 1 CPU 

This program reads in integers until a negative integer is read.  It then outputs the sum of all the positive integers.
Start:	read		// read n -> acc
	jmpn  Done  	// jump to Done if acc < 0.
	add   sum  	// add sum to the acc
	store sum 	// store the new sum
	jump  Start	// go back & read in next number
Done:	load  sum 	// load the final sum
	write 		// write the final sum
	stop  		// stop

sum:	.data 2 0	// 2-byte location where sum is stored

The following modification of the program is also used sometimes:
Start:	read		// read n -> acc
	jmpz  Done  	// jump to Done if nacc is 0.
	add   sum  	// add sum to the acc
	store sum 	// store the new sum
	jump  Start	// go back & read in next number
Done:	load  sum 	// load the final sum
	write 		// write the final sum
	stop  		// stop

sum:	.data 2 0	// 2-byte location where sum is stored
This one can use negative input to subtract, or 0 to break the loop.

See also

 Comparison of EDA software
 List of free electronics circuit simulators
 Computer architecture simulator

References

External links 
 
 GitHub Source Repository
 CPUSim Youtube Playlist 
 CPUsimulator Applet

Electronic circuit simulators
Table of Contents (Enochs). Table of Contents is a sculpture designed by the American artist Dale Enochs. The sculpture is made from limestone and was commissioned by Joseph F. Miller. The sculpture is located across the street from the IUPUI campus, at the N.E. corner of W Michigan St and West St, and sits in front of the Miller Centre in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Table of Contents displays four geometric shapes, which include a circle, triangle, crescent and square. These shapes sit atop a table with four legs, all pieces are carved from limestone.  The shapes as well as the table are carved with curved lines which run up and down the sculpture, but some areas are left smooth. The square has "terrae" written on the side. Terrae means extended mass land.

Acquisition
The sculpture was commissioned by Joseph F. Miller and installed, in 1999, at the west entrance of the Miller Centre, which houses The Joseph F Miller Foundation.

Artist
Dale Enochs creates sculpture for both public and private settings. He works primarily in stone often combining contrasting materials such as steel, bronze and copper. His work includes large free standing sculpture, wall sculptures, water features, memorials and architectural elements. It can be seen in public and private collections throughout the US as well as in Japan and China.

Enochs is an internationally known limestone carver who graduated from Indiana University. He lives and works near Bloomington, Indiana. His works vary from large scale outdoor public commissions to delicate wall relief sculpture. His works are included in many private collections and he has created a number of public works. Among these are his works at the White River Gardens in Indianapolis, Prophetstown in Tippecanoe County, and in Takihata, Japan. Additionally, his work in limestone was featured on HGTV as a segment of the show, Modern Masters.

Mr. Enochs was the Lee G. Hall Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art at DePauw University in the fall of 2003.

Location history
The sculpture is located at the entrance to the Miller Centre in downtown Indianapolis, IN. It was installed in 1999.

See also
Ankhhaf (sculpture)
Indiana Limestone (sculpture)
Reserve head

References

External links
Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University
Dale Enochs

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Public Art Collection
Outdoor sculptures in Indianapolis
1999 sculptures
Limestone sculptures in Indiana
1999 establishments in Indiana