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Águas Emendadas Ecological Station. The Águas Emendadas Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the Federal District, Brazil. It protects an area of cerrado biome in excellent condition, including savannah, scrub and forest. Streams flow from the station north into the Tocantins River basin, which connects to the Amazon River basin, and south into Río de la Plata basin. The flat terrain floods in the rainy season and lets fish pass between the river basins.

Location

The Águas Emendadas Ecological Station is in the northeast of the Federal District and has an area of .
It is in the administrative region of Planaltina.
It is a fully protected conservation unit for protecting the natural environment and supporting basic and applied research in ecology and for education in conservation.
Public access is only allowed for researchers and for educational purposes.
The unit has administration buildings and an Environmental Information Center with an auditorium.
The unit is crossed by five roads, and animals are often killed by vehicles.

History

The Águas Emendadas Biological Reserve was created in August 1968 with an area of . 
Later it was doubled in size with the addition of the Mestre D´Armas or Bonita lagoon.
It was reclassified as an ecological station by federal law 11.137 of 16 June 1988.
Due to the excellent state of conservation of the ecosystems, in 1992 UNESCO declared it one of the areas that comprised the nucleus of the Cerrado Biosphere Reserve.

Hydrology

Águas Emendadas lies on the height of land between the Tocantins River basin in the north and the Paraná River basin in the south.
The Vereda Grande stream running to the north meets the Maranhão River, a tributary of the Tocantins.
The Brejinho stream running south combines with the Fumal stream which feeds the São Bartolomeu River, which joins the Corumbá River, which in turn meets the Paranaíba River and forms the Paraná.
Since the area is very flat, parts may flood during the rainy season from December to March. 
This allows fish from the two rivers basins to mingle.

Environment

Vegetation includes the range of cerrado flora from open fields to scrub, dry and flooded gallery forest and marshland.
Fires occur in the dry season between May and October.
They used to be rare, but with the greater human population in the region now occur almost annually.
The scorched vegetation revives when the rains come.
There are large numbers of animals including the maned wolf, pampas deer, armadillo and anteater. 
Birds include toucans, parrots, caracara and seriemas.

Notes

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1968 establishments in Brazil
Ecological stations of Brazil
Protected areas of the Federal District (Brazil)
Protected areas established in 1968
Cerrado
Autonomy Cube. The Autonomy Cube was an art project run by American artists and technologists Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum that places relays for the anonymous communication network Tor in traditional art museums. Both have previously created art pieces that straddle the border between art and technology. The cube is in line with much of Paglen's and Appelbaum's earlier pieces in targeting the field of surveillance and government snooping. The sculptures consist of 1.25 ft blocks of acrylic Lucite containing Wifi-routers based upon two open source hardware Novena-motherboards.

Overview 
The first sculpture was installed in Oldenburg, Germany in 2014 and acts as both a Tor exit-relay and Wifi-hub for visitors of the museum. Any user who connects to the museum open Wifi called Autonomy Cube is directed through the Tor-network for all their activity. This effectively anonymizes and hides the traffic from many forms of surveillance and interception.  In January 2016, four installations had been made in New York, London and Frankfurt, beyond the one in Oldenburg. More sculptures are planned, with three coming during May 2016, one at Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. Institutions that have shown the cube in limited exhibitions include Metro Pictures Gallery on Manhattan which exhibited Paglen's work, Whitechapel Gallery in London as part of the Electronic Superhighway (2016–1966) exhibition and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen.

The willingness of museums to host these installations was a surprise, says Paglen, who hopes the relays can play a potentially important role in the Tor network. Omar Kholeif at Whitechapel Gallery has commented on the idea that "when we enter civic institutions we expect them to have Wi-Fi, [and] we just hand over our data", and how the Cubes bring this agreement forth to discussion.

Inspiration for the Cube came from a 1962 art project by Hans Haacke called Condensation Cube. It similarly consisted of a plexiglass cube but instead contained water that would move through different states of liquid to gas. Paglen also states he wants to raise the question: "What would a more civic-minded version of the Internet look like? What could the Internet look like if the Internet hadn't been turned into the greatest means of mass surveillance in the history of humanity?"

References

External links 

 Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube (2014)

Arts organizations based in the United States
New media art
Tor (anonymity network)
Kamtech Logistics Uganda Limited. Kamtech Logistics Uganda Limited (KLUL), is an ethanol manufacturing company in Uganda.

Location
The headquarters of the company and the company's factory are located in Baropuu Village, Angweta Angwet Parish, Adekokwok sub-county, Lira District, Lango sub-region, in the Northern Region of Uganda. This is approximately  southeast of the central business district of Lira Town, the nearest large town and location of the district headquarters.

History
The company's plant opened on 20 February 2014. The company was established by investors from  Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Uganda. The ethanol plant was built at a cost of US$1.8 million.

Overview
In 2010, Uganda received US$30 million  (UShs100.9 billion) from the World Bank, under the East Africa Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP), to increase cassava productivity and yields in the country. According to the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), since EAAPP was implemented, cassava production has increased from 6 million tonnes annually to 11.3 million tonnes. Thirty six percent of the country's cassava is grown in the Northern Region.

The new factory buys cassava from farmers and processes the crop into ethanol. The high yields of the crop assures the factory adequate supply of raw material. Due to increased demand, the price is attractive and rising. Some of the associated bio-products include animal feed, chicken feed and acetaldehyde, which is used in making acetic acid. The by-products of acetic acid are used in printing processes, wood furniture and the treatment of bacterial infections. The factory processes 15 tonnes of cassava daily to produce  per day on average. That is about 10 per cent of what Uganda imports.

Other considerations
Ethanol can be extracted from cassava, maize and sorghum. However, maize is too expensive and sorghum is in short supply.

See also
 Economy of Uganda
 Northern Region, Uganda

References

External links
Investing in infrastructure to open northern Uganda for agriculture

Manufacturing companies of Uganda
Chemical companies established in 2014
2014 establishments in Uganda
Lira District
Central Region, Uganda
Dirac cone. In physics, Dirac cones are features that occur in some electronic band structures that describe unusual electron transport properties of materials like graphene and topological insulators. In these materials, at energies near the Fermi level, the valence band and conduction band take the shape of the upper and lower halves of a conical surface, meeting at what are called Dirac points.

Typical examples include graphene, topological insulators, bismuth antimony thin films and some other novel nanomaterials, in which the electronic energy and momentum have a linear dispersion relation such that the electronic band structure near the Fermi level takes the shape of an upper conical surface for the electrons and a lower conical surface for the holes. The two conical surfaces touch each other and form a zero-band gap semimetal.

The name of Dirac cone comes from the Dirac equation that can describe relativistic particles in quantum mechanics, proposed by Paul Dirac. Isotropic Dirac cones in graphene were first predicted by P. R. Wallace in 1947 and experimentally observed by the Nobel Prize laureates Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov in 2005.

Description

In quantum mechanics, Dirac cones are a kind of crossing-point which electrons avoid, where the energy of the valence and conduction bands are not equal anywhere in two dimensional lattice -space, except at the zero dimensional Dirac points. As a result of the cones, electrical conduction can be described by the movement of charge carriers which are massless fermions, a situation which is handled theoretically by the relativistic Dirac equation. The massless fermions lead to various quantum Hall effects, magnetoelectric effects in topological materials, and ultra high carrier mobility. Dirac cones were observed in 2008-2009, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on the potassium-graphite intercalation compound KC8 and on several bismuth-based alloys.

As an object with three dimensions, Dirac cones are a feature of two-dimensional materials or surface states, based on a linear dispersion relation between energy and the two components of the crystal momentum x and y. However, this concept can be extended to three dimensions, where Dirac semimetals are defined by a linear dispersion relation between energy and x, y, and z. In -space, this shows up as a hypercone, which have doubly degenerate bands which also meet at Dirac points. Dirac semimetals contain both time reversal and spatial inversion symmetry; when one of these is broken, the Dirac points are split into two constituent Weyl points, and the material becomes a Weyl semimetal. In 2014, direct observation of the Dirac semimetal band structure using ARPES was conducted on the Dirac semimetal cadmium arsenide.

Analog systems 
Dirac points have been realized in many physical areas such as plasmonics, phononics, or nanophotonics (microcavities, photonic crystals).

See also 
 Dirac matter

References

Further reading
 

 

 

 

 

 

Electronic band structures
Pipelayer (vehicle). A pipelayer or sideboom is a type of a construction vehicle used to lay pipes. It is used in the construction of oil, gas and water pipelines.

Description 

The lifting equipment of pipelayers includes:
 boom, mounted on the left side of the machine
 counterweights
 hydraulic hook and boom winches.

A pipelayer can also be equipped with accessories:
 crane (used to lift and place pipeline elements in a trench)
 dragline (used to backfill a trench)
 rammer (used to compact the soil in an excavation).

Standards 

Construction, installation, operation, inspection, testing, and maintenance  of sidebooms are covered by OSHA standard 1926.1440 - Sideboom cranes and ASME B30.14 - Side Boom Tractors.

References 

Engineering vehicles
Hannu Häkkinen. Hannu Häkkinen (born 1962) is a Finnish physicist and professor of computational nanoscience at the University of Jyväskylä.

Education and career
Hannu Häkkinen studied physics at the University of Jyväskylä and received his master's degree in 1988. He earned his doctorate in 1991. Emil Aaltonen Foundation granted him the Young Researcher Award from his doctoral dissertation (Effective Medium Studies of Dislocations and Surfaces in FCC Metal).

Häkkinen started his scientific career at the faculty of University of Jyväskylä. He has held there several teaching and research posts from 1987. After his graduation, Häkkinen worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta from November 1992 to August 1994. Then he returned to Jyväskylä and worked as a senior teaching assistant at the university of Jyväskylä from 1994 to 1998. Between 1998 and 2003 he was again in the Georgia Institute of Technology, this time working as an academy researcher and a senior research scientist.

From 2007 Häkkinen has been a professor of computational nanoscience in the University of Jyväskylä. The professorship is a joint position in Physics and Chemistry Departments. He was nominated the scientific director of the Nanoscience Center in the University of Jyväskylä in 2012.

University of Jyväskylä is organizing the International Symposium on Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters (ISSPIC) in August 2016. Professor Häkkinen is the chairman of the conference.

From 2016 to 2020 he is working as an academy professor at the Academy of Finland. He was awarded the Theodor Homén Prize in 2008 by the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

Research
Professor Häkkinen's special interests as a scientist are nanoscience and nanotechnology. Most of his work is related to the different types of nano-structures. He has studied electronic, optical, magnetic, chemical and catalytic properties of bare, supported, and ligand-protected metal nanoparticles. He has also done research with carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Some of Häkkinen's work after 2010 was related to the structural and chemical properties of metal nanoparticle/bionanoparticle (virus) hybrids. Normally a virus is so small that observing it is quite impossible. Häkkinen developed a specific method in which he attached a self-made 1 to 3 nanometer sized gold particles onto the surface proteins of enteroviruses. The golden nanoparticles act as markers. After the operation the exact location of the viruses could be examined by electron beam imaging. The method made also possible to study the surface structure of the virus.

Publications

Hannu Häkkinen has published (or has been a co-author in) nearly 200 scientific publications. Most of them have appeared in the notable series and journals of physics and chemistry (for example Journal of the American Chemical Society).

References

External links
 Homepage of Professor Häkkinen, University of Jyväskylä
 Publications
 Hannu Häkkinen's scientific articles ResearchGate.net

1962 births
Finnish physicists
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Jyväskylä
GMM-120 self-propelled mortar. The GMM-120 self-propelled mortar () is a proposed armoured mortar carrier concept with a 120 mm automated mortar station. The system is being developed by STC Delta.

Design and technical characteristics
The carrier vehicle is constructed around the chassis of 6x6 MAN KAT1 transport vehicles primarily used for military purposes. It consists of two main components and three independent sections with the crew cabin located in the center offering space for four passengers or artillery crew and a large back portion encasing the automated artillery station. The weapon is stored and remains concealed inside the carrier until the large roof hatches open in preparation for fire missions.

Protection
The vehicle is fitted with several layers of armour that provide overall protection in accordance to STANAG 4569 level 2 similar to the Didgori APCs.

Armament
The primary weapon GMM-120 is an automated weapon station equipped with a digital fire control- and navigation panel with GPS. It is further supported with a state of the art communication system.  The rate of fire is 15 rounds per minute with ranges of 480 m to 7,100 m. The vehicle can carry a total of 60 and different type mortar ammunition with the module itself carrying 10 rounds while two separate containers carry 25 rounds each. The weapon has a 360 degree traverse and almost 90 degree elevation angle.
During transport the weapon remains concealed and won't be operated. However it takes less than a minute to have the weapon system ready to fire or relocate.

For self-protection, the carrier is armed with a NSV heavy machine gun mounted on top of the driver cabin. This however provides the gunner only a limited traverse angle so that the vehicle ideally has to face the threat.

See also
 Mortar
 Mortar carrier
 Remote weapon station

References

Mortar carriers
120 mm mortars
VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz. The VCS Verkehrs-Club der Schweiz (French: ATE Association transports et environnement; Italian: ATA Associazione traffico e ambiente; English: Swiss Association for Transport and Environment) is an association that provides a human and environmentally compatible mobility in Switzerland.

Goals 
VCS was established in 1979 to commit a sustainable transport policy in Switzerland. It supports an optimally transposed interaction of the various Swiss transport carriers, among them public railway, tram and bus transport, pedestrian and bicycle transport, individual transport by car, and goods transport by rail and trucks. Its about 100,000 VCS members form the largest transport association dedicated to sustainable mobility, by car, tram or bicycle, whether on foot or by train and bus.

Among its campaigns, VCS filed a complaint against the shopping mall Seedamm-Center which planned to expand its facilities.

The VCS' goals include, among others, the economical use of energy, to promote environmental-neutral car, to contain immoderate road construction in Switzerland, consultations, promotion of public transport, political initiatives to support public transport, shift of freight to rail, improving road safety. Based in Bern, VCS provides for its members an eco-motor insurance, roadside assistance, emergency hotline, and so on.

References

External links 

  

Clubs and societies in Switzerland
1979 establishments in Switzerland
Organizations established in 1979
Non-profit organisations based in Switzerland
Organisations based in Bern
Transport organisations based in Switzerland
Public transport in Switzerland
Sustainability in Switzerland
Political organisations based in Switzerland
Swiss Climate Alliance
Environmental organisations based in Switzerland
Remote monitoring and management. Remote monitoring and management (RMM) is the process of supervising and controlling IT systems (such as network devices, desktops, servers and mobile devices)  by means of locally installed agents that can be accessed by a management service provider. 

Functions include the ability to:
 install new or updated software remotely (including patches, updates and configuration changes)
 detect new devices and automatically install the RMM agent and configure the device
 observe the behavior of the managed device and software for performance and diagnostic tasks
 perform alerting and provide reports and dashboards
Traditionally this function has been done on site at a company but many MSPs are performing this function remotely using integrated Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms.

See also
 Network management
 Network monitoring
 Application service management
 Application performance management
 Managed services
 Information technology outsourcing

References

Remote administration software
Pierre Satre. Pierre Satre (4 May 1909 – 12 July 1980) was a French engineer, and the chief designer of the Anglo-French Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde.

Early life
He was born in Grenoble in south-east France, in the region of Rhône-Alpes.

Career

Sud Aviation
He became the Technical Director of Sud Aviation in Toulouse, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, working with Lucien Servanty.

Concorde
He became the Chief Designer of Concorde. Experiments for the new aircraft were carried out on the 1950s supersonic Dassault Mirage III, and later the 1960s Dassault Mirage IV.

Personal life
He died aged 71 on 12 July 1980. He received the Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). He received the French Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur). He was awarded the FAI Gold Air Medal in 1959.

See also
 List of RAeS medal recipients

References

1909 births
1980 deaths
Concorde
French aerospace engineers
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
People from Grenoble
Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal winners
BionX. BionX was a Canadian maker of electric motors for bicycles as well as bicycle retrofit kits, operating from 1998 to 2018, originally named EPS (Electric Propulsion Systems) .

BionX was headquartered in Aurora, Ontario where motors were produced and assembled  before being marketed in over 15 countries. Research and development was based in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The European sales and service center was located near Munich, Germany.

History 
In 1998, entrepreneur Jean-Yves Dubé formed Energy and Propulsion Systems (EPS), a company in Quebec, Canada.  In 2000, the name was changed to "BionX".

In 2008, the company was acquired by Magna and by then its motors had become standard in many ebikes in Europe and North America, including bikes by Trek and Matra, Kalkhoff.

In 2011, Bionix introduced SeaScape, an electrically assisted paddle-boat product line.

On February 27, 2018, BionX Canada went into receivership, its 80 employees were dismissed, and the company was shut down temporarily to find a buyer. Grant Thornton Limited was appointed as Receiver. In June 2018, parts of the business were sold off to three other businesses, and the rest of the company assets were liquidated via online auction that ended August 15, 2018. By October 2018, BionX's receiver sold the company's intellectual property, patents, trademarks, software web domains as well as remaining inventory with court approval to Amego Electric Vehicles and its nominee Leisger Cycle Inc.

Motors 
BionX motors were typically mounted into an oversized rear wheel hub and were noted for their low noise;  regenerative braking capability and  hub-embedded motor controller.

The D series of motors was the most recent and strongest BionX technology with a torque of 25/50 Nm. The motor cylinder was larger but thinner than previous versions and weighed 4.0 kg (8.8 lb). Before that was the S series which with 3.5 kg (7.7 lb) was lighter than the P series at the same strength. The P series motors were the first produced by Bionx. They had a torque of 9/40 Nm at a weight of 4.7 kg (10.4 lb).

*Since the maximum legal power specifications in Watts are different for the same motor in North America and Europe, the name varies. For example, the P-350 is usually sold as the P-250 in Europe.

While Bionx had competition from several wheel hub-based motor companies, including Panasonic (e.g. KTM's eRace), Alber's Xion (lately in Kalkhoff bikes), Heinzmann, and GoSwiss, their primary competitor was the Bosch eBike.

See also 
 Pedelec
 Electric bicycle
 Electric motor

References

External links 

 ridebionx.com – BionX company homepage
 Ebike

Companies based in Ontario
Electric cycle manufacturers
Electric motors
Miter gauge. A miter gauge is a device used for holding workpieces at a set angle while being cut on table saws, band saws or sanded on stationary disk sanders. The miter gauge slides in a slot on the worktable (known as a miter slot) on the machine being used. Typically, the miter gauge and the workpiece are held together by hand and moved across the worktable making the cut (or sanded edge). There are more sophisticated miter gauges which have the ability to clamp the workpiece or have adjustable stops for repetitive machining of workpieces.

References

Saws
Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi is the present Minister of State for Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates. He has a DBA in Project and Programme Management from Skema Business School, a master's degree in Project Management from the British University in Dubai, a master's degree in Business Administration from New York Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa. He was the Minister of Climate Change and Environment from February 2016 to July 2020.

References

State ministers of the United Arab Emirates
New York Institute of Technology alumni
University of Tulsa alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)