omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Olav Georg Folkestad. Olav Georg Folkestad (1 February 1902 – 1 March 1976) was a Norwegian engineer.

He was born in Skien as a son of station manager Ole Folkestad (1875–1951) and Marianne Evensen (1878–1950), and was an older brother of civil servant Anker Folkestad. In 1927 he married Agnes Sofie Aspaas. They resided in Bærum.

He finished secondary school in 1920 and graduated in engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1924. He started out as an assistant in the Norwegian State Railways bridge division, then at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1926, then in the company Ing. Bonde & Co from 1927. From 1937 he spent the rest of his career as co-owner of Ing. Bonde & Co.

Folkestad chaired the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute from 1953 to 1961, Byggtjeneste from 1966 to 1968 (board member since 1957) and  from 1967 to 1970. He and was a board member of  from 1953 to 1961.

He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, and was decorated as a Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1962. In 1968 he won the "Bygg reis deg" statuette, and in 1969 he was given the Sam Eyde Award by the Norwegian Engineer Association. He died in March 1976 and was buried at Haslum.

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1902 births
1976 deaths
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century Norwegian engineers
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
People from Bærum
People from Skien
Lovebot. The Lovebot character was created by Toronto artist and designer Matthew Del Degan, consisting of a geometric, faceless robot with a red heart logo (called the "hero heart") on its torso. The character is used as a symbol for the "Love Invasion," a movement that aims to share love and kindness globally. He invented the idea for the campaign and character after moving to Toronto and noting the uninspired actions of city subway passengers and realizing he personally felt that people needed to express more compassion.

Del Degan chose to add the heart to the robot's design to signify that people of the city have ability to love and be kind to one another. He decided to use concrete as the Lovebot's artistic medium, which he felt referenced Toronto's urban architecture and history.

The campaign was initially created as a street sticker art campaign but Del Degan and his team eventually chose to also create more than 100, 2 foot concrete statues, each weighing 200 pounds which they placed throughout Toronto. Each robot sculpture was made by hand in his backyard with over 30 volunteers. Each robot is now dedicated to a person who has made a difference in some way and is intended to inspire others into performing additional acts of kindness. In 2013 the campaign took off with a great deal of press coverage, like the Toronto Star, MTV and The Grid (which gave Del Degan a Mensch Award for his work with the Lovebot character and named him one of fifty individuals that had "made Toronto a better place this year").

Lovebot is now a brand owned and operated by Matthew Del Degan. Together the company offers Lovebot merchandise and a toy design that was crowd funded through Kickstarter. In addition, the Lovebot continues to be a vital part of Del Degan's artistic practice in street art and design.  Those volunteering for Lovebot continue to work together under the name "The Lovebot Leaders." The group has doubled since its conception has plans for global outreach. The Lovebot Leaders also emphasize work with charitable initiatives while continuing to build  and distribute Lovebot sculptures.

References

External links
 
 Official creator website

Public art in Toronto
Sam Cearns. Sam Cearns was a British ship-rigged sailing cargo ship and emigrant carrier, built in 1864.  In 1871 she was wrecked near Tierra del Fuego after the crew members gallantly saved the crew of another windjammer Knight Errant.

Description
The Sam Cearns was built in 1864 by Scott & Co at Cartsdyke, Greenock as Yard No 97 for H T Wilson & Chambers' White Star Line.  She was built with an iron hull and rigged as a three-masted full-rigged ship. She was 315.5 feet in length, 36.3 feet in breadth and had a depth of hold of 25 feet; she measured 1402 Gross register tons.  She was launched on 22 June 1864.

Commercial service
She sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage with 367 passengers and 45 crew, arriving at Melbourne on 17 October 1864 after 80 days at sea, during which 4 passengers died. On 17 November 1864 Sam Cearns departed Hobsons Bay, Melbourne for Madras. After taking on a cargo of jute, linseed, cotton, and saltpeter, the Sam Cearns arrived at Liverpool from Calcutta on 13 August 1865.  This maiden voyage could have been her last as she caught fire in the entrance lock, but it was successfully extinguished.

The Sam Cearns''' second voyage to Melbourne from Liverpool for White Star Line took 88 days and arrived on 25 December 1865. Thereafter she traded more widely, including Sydney NSW, Port Chalmers and San Francisco.

Final voyage
On this last voyage, the ship under Capt Frederick Williams had already suffered 30 days of smallpox and a near-mutiny when, off Tierra del Fuego, on 22 June 1871 she came upon the Liverpool ship Knight Errant about to break up in a heavy gale. Williams hove to and attempted to launch their lifeboat but this was destroyed by breaking seas; led by mate Edwin Wright with a volunteer crew, a second boat set off and took off all the crew of Knight Errant in three trips - on the last the boat was destroyed as it returned to Sam Cearns, the master of Knight Errant, mate Edwin Wright and five others were killed with only four getting on board; a search with Sam Cearns' last boat found no more alive - 24 from Knight Errant were saved.

In the aftermath, Sam Cearns herself was wrecked on 26 June 1871 in the same heavy gale but all aboard were able to get off via the rigging to shore. In driving snow they remained in a makeshift shelter for two weeks until they were able to hail a passing schooner (actually a wrecker's vessel). All sixty survivors were taken by the schooner to Port Stanley.

Capt Williams received the gold medal of the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society and every volunteer member of the rescuing boat the silver medal, and a gratuity to the widow of the mate. Williams was absolved of all blame for the loss of Sam Cearns'' but was "tired of windjamming" and intended to go to a steamship line, where pay and conditions were better.

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Ships built on the River Clyde
Sailing ships
Victorian-era merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Individual sailing vessels
1864 ships
Maritime incidents in June 1871
Kelling's test. Kelling's test is a chemical test used for detecting the presence of lactic acid in gastric juice.

Procedure
Two drops of iron(III) chloride are added to a test tube with distilled water. After mixing, it is divided into two parts. Add one millilitre of gastric juice in one test tube and the same volume of distilled water in the other test tube, which is acting as a control. The test tube with the gastric juice turns yellow in the presence of lactic acid due to the formation of ferric lactate.

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Chemical tests
Richard Battin. Richard "Dick" Horace Battin (March 3, 1925 – February 8, 2014) was an American engineer, applied mathematician and educator who led the design of the Apollo guidance computer during the Apollo missions during the 1960s.

Battin was born on March 3, 1925, in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Martha Scheu and Horace L. Battin.

Battin began his career in 1951, serving as the assistant director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Instrumentation Laboratory. Battin left the laboratory in 1956, becoming a senior staff member at Arthur Little Inc., but returned to MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory in 1958. He subsequently became the technical director of the Apollo Mission Development program, as well as associate director of the laboratory. Under Battin's leadership, his team created the analytic and software design of the navigation, guidance and control systems for each of the Apollo spaceflights, making the lunar landing of Apollo 11 possible. In 1973, the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory became the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., where Battin served as the associate head of the NASA Program Department. After his retirement from Draper in 1987, Battin continued to teach at MIT, where he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics until 2010.

Battin was noted for his teaching abilities, especially for his work in teaching, mentoring and inspiring many of the leaders in the world's guidance, navigation and control community. Three of the Apollo astronauts were his graduate students. To honor his teaching abilities, the students of MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department honored Battin with their first Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1981.

In addition to being a Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Battin was also a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Battin's many honors include the 1972 AIAA Louis W. Hill Space Transportation Award, the 1978 AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award, the 1989 AIAA von Kármán Lectureship in Astronautics, the 2002 AIAA Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control Award, and the 1996 AAS Dirk Brouwer Award.

An MIT professor in later life, his lecture, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon", is available through the MIT Open Courseware program.

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1925 births
2014 deaths
American electrical engineers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
NASA people
People from Atlantic City, New Jersey
Engineers from New Jersey
Digital Solid State Propulsion. Digital Solid State Propulsion (DSSP) is an aerospace company developing microthruster propulsion technology for small satellites.  DSSP's technology utilizes Electric Solid Propellants (ESPs) to enable small satellites to make orbital maneuvers that have generally not been possible in the very small, mass-constrained satellites such as CubeSats and nanosats.

DSSP's first flight was aboard the NRL SPINSAT, launched as a secondary payload on SpaceX CRS-4 and deployed from the Kibo module airlock on 28 November 2014. NASA safety experts approved the mission because the satellite's 12 thruster-clusters burn an inert solid fuel, that only ignite when an electric charge is passed across it.

In July 2012, DSSP won second place in the 2012 NewSpace Business Plan Competition in Silicon Valley, sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation.

References

External links
DSSP company website
NASA mission page for SpinSat

Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in Reno, Nevada
ParaSurf. ParaSurf is a molecular modelling system using semi-empirical orbital programs to construct molecular surfaces and calculate local properties and descriptors using pharmaceutical companies for drug design.

ParaSurf is supplied to and used by many pharmaceutical companies and biotechs, including Boehringer Ingelheim, F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Sanofi-Aventis.

References

Molecular modelling software
Biological techniques and tools
Bioinformatics software
Science software for Linux
Proprietary commercial software for Linux
Vym (software). View Your Mind (VYM) is a cross-platform concept mapping software.

Background and reception 
In The Fun Is In the Journey, Eugene Vickery said he mostly works with VYM because it does not require Java. VYM was also described as a tool for "easy access to URLs, programs and folders. In SUSE Linux 10 Unleashed, Michael McCallister, highlighted similarities to Dia and the ability to attach documents to the map. Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation: A Guide for Doctoral Students and Faculty described the application as one of two free "brainstorming software" programs "that may help you create a graphic representation of your research plan."

In an article on installing and using VYM, technical writer Jack Wallen called VYM "one of the most user-friendly" of many mind mapping tools available. In a detailed article on VYM, Michal Černý, a university teacher of technology in education, concluded that compared with other open competitors, the maps appear better and there are more setup options than Freemind, but keyboard shortcuts are unusual, and the program can seem cumbersome or illogical. He was favorably impressed with notes and links, basic time management support, organic maps and presentation mode, and scripting support. In a brief article on VYM and its installation, it was called "useful in organizing thoughts and structuring works, whether academic or not," and was said to have "many productive shortcuts." In a list of 50 mental and conceptual map building tools, Monica Edwards Schachter said VYM had some problems, based on forums, but mentioned it had image search. In a 2006 comparative analysis of eight conceptual mapping programs, VYM was ranked 7th.

See also 

 List of concept- and mind-mapping software

References

External links 
 

Free diagramming software
Concept mapping software
Concept- and mind-mapping software for Linux
Software that uses Qt
Free software programmed in C++
Software using the GNU General Public License
Prism Skylabs. Prism Skylabs is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California that connects cameras within businesses to machine learning and A.I. technology in the cloud, to transform these devices into tools for Business Intelligence.  Prism launched as a company in 2011 at the TechCrunch Disrupt awards, where it was featured as a finalist in the Startup Battlefield competition. Prism Skylabs' technology is deployed in over 80 countries and is used by more than 300 customers around the world.

Product
Prism Skylabs provides several mobile and web applications that are used by enterprise customers to make decisions using data from the cameras that are deployed throughout their businesses. Prism launched a mobile application in 2016, Vision, which allows users to search for the presence of specific objects and content within video using tags powered by neural networks.

Prism Skylabs' retail web application is cloud-based software that connects to a retailer's existing video surveillance cameras. The software compresses the video data and sends it to cloud servers, where it is analyzed by Prism Skylabs' video analytics technology. The company sends the analyzed data back to the retailer in the form of statistics and visualizations. To address privacy concerns, the software blurs or completely deletes images of people and replaces them with graphical elements.

The resulting information is intended to help businesses make sense of the large amounts of incoming video data. Prism Skylabs' goal is to enable companies to better analyze long-term trends, such as number of customers, check-out queue lengths, foot traffic patterns, dwell time and the most popular products in a store. Retailers use this information to improve merchandising, store layout and customer service efforts and increase operational efficiencies.

History
Prism Skylabs was founded by Steve Russell and Ron Palmeri in July 2011. Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Anthem Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Data Collective, Expa, Intel Capital, Pacific Partners, Presidio Ventures, Promus, SV Angel, Tomorrow Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners. The company secured $7.5 million in Series A funding in 2011 and an additional $15 million in Series B funding in October 2013. It currently has about 30 employees.

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Companies based in San Francisco
Faustite. The IMA-approved mineral faustite is a member of the triclinic turquoise group of hydrous phosphates with the chemical composition 
. It is named after the American mineralogist and petrologist Dr. George Tobias Faust, who workes with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Some divalent copper generally replaces the zinc position. Faustite is the zinc-rich analogue of turquoise, having almost four times as much zinc than copper in its crystal structure. Trivalent (ferric) iron may replace some of the aluminum. Minor amounts of calcium may also be present. It has a hardness of 4.5–5.5 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, and aside from having a slightly lower hardness, it may be difficult to distinguish it from turquoise in hand specimens.

Faustite has a blue-green to apple green color in polished cabochons. It may be presented as a turquoise imitation and also be treated with stabilizers for jewelry making.

References

IMA Database of Mineral Properties - Faustite
Mindat.org - Faustite
Webmineral.com - Faustite Mineral Data

Phosphate minerals
Triclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 2
Federal Motor Truck Company. The Federal Motor Truck Company was an American truck manufacturer headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. The company was founded in 1910 as Bailey Motor Truck Company by Martin L. Pulcher, who would later found the Oakland Motor Car Company, which launched the Pontiac GM companion brand in 1926.

History 
The company was founded in 1910 as the Bailey Motor Truck Company but was later renamed to Federal. The company then opened a factory in Leavitt Street, near Southwest Detroit. During the prosperous time of the company, around 700 people worked there, producing as many as 3,500 trucks annually. The main competitor of the company was Diamond T. The main providers of engines for the company were Continental, Waukesha, and Hercules.

The company later produced some delivery trucks with Willys-Knight engines, and these were marketed under the Federal Knight brand. Despite being an independent manufacturer, the company produced its own cabs in both standard and deluxe versions. In 1942, the company bought the Stewart Motor Company. After the war, the company enjoyed high sales and was bought by Fawick, although it was soon discovered that the new buyers knew nothing about manufacturing complete trucks, and the company was sold to NAPCO, which closed down the company's factory in Detroit and transferred the trucks' tooling to their own factories in Minneapolis.

Due to economic problems and the uncertainty of the future of the Federal brand, NAPCO retired the brand in 1959, with all operations ceasing in 1960.

Military trucks
Federal built its first U.S. military trucks in 1918 for the U.S. Army. More diverse military (tractor) trucks, including tank transporters, dump trucks, and heavy wreckers, were built for U.S. forces from 1933 through 1945. Federal produced over 10,000 trucks for the military.

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Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
American companies established in 1910
Companies with year of disestablishment missing
Manufacturing companies based in Detroit
Malaysian Technical University Network. Malaysian Technical University Network (MTUN) (Formerly known as Technical University College Network of Malaysia, TUCN) was introduced on Mac 2006. In February 2007, TUCN has changed to MTUN due to rebranding of four College University name to University.

List of institutions

See also
University System of Tunku Abdul Rahman

References

Professional associations based in Malaysia
Educational organisations based in Malaysia
Technical universities and colleges in Malaysia
Engineering universities and colleges in Malaysia
Organizations established in 2006
2006 establishments in Malaysia
NATURTRUCK. NATURTRUCK is a European project whose main objective is to develop injected plastic parts for the commercial vehicles industry (mainly cabin truck parts) made with thermoplastic composite materials from renewable resources (modified polylactic acid and natural fibres), with improved thermal, flame retardancy properties and high quality surface finishing to be used in car internal parts. Those biocomposites are meant to be a real alternative to low-gloss standard ABS grades at a competitive cost.

NATURTRUCK is addressed to allow SME’s partners, and consequently the EU industry, to fabricate new eco-friendly thermoplastic biocomposite products suitable to satisfy the commercial vehicles manufacture sector requirements, at a cost comparable to current ABS price, increasing their differentiation from competitors and creating significant market opportunities.

Partners
NATURTRUCK consortium has been built up in order to join all the required technical and managerial expertise and capabilities and market complementarities and exploitation interests to streamline the achievement of Project results to solve the SME Participant (SMEP) needs and facilitate the exploitation of NATURTRUCK achievements, having representatives of the whole Project value chain. The consortium consists of 10 partners:
 AIMPLAS, Instituto tecnológico del plástico (Spain)
 Químicas del Vinalopó (Spain)
 BAVE - Badische Faserveredelung GmbH(Germany)
 Re8 Bioplastics (Sweden)
 Polycom (Czech Republic)
 Plascam (Turkey)
 BULMA TECNOLOGÍA, S.L (Spain)
 Volvo Group Trucks Technology (Sweden)
 Institute of Natural Fibres (Poland)
 CTAG, Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia (Spain)

References

  Official website
 European Union Seventh Framework Programme
 Dynamic mechanical and thermal properties of polylactide-layered silicate nanocomposites
 Crystallization and thermal properties of polylactide/palygorskite composites
 Hurtling polyamide on Ferrari and Maserati
 Dytech Picks DSM's Bio-based EcoPaXX® PA 410 for Sports Cars' Fuel Vapor Separators
 Sports cars embrace array of green technology
 RS Components amplía su oferta de impresoras 3D para facilitar el acceso al creciente mercado de las tecnologías 3D
 DSM's EcoPaXX is selected by Dytech for Ferrari and Maserati fuel vapor separators
 A New Jeep, a Printed Concept Car & Mixing Diesel and Water
 UPM and Metropolia present the Biofore Concept Car

Research projects
Silicon Institute of Technology, Sambalpur. Silicon Institute of Technology, Sambalpur (known as Silicon West) is a private engineering college located in Sambalpur, Odisha, India. Established in 2009, it is affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. It is the sister college of Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar. It was set up and is managed by a non-profit making trust known as Samleswari Education Trust.

In 2018, IIM Sambalpur was functioning from the premises of this college.

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Private engineering colleges in India
Engineering colleges in Odisha
Universities and colleges in Sambalpur
Colleges affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Orissa