omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ironcast. Ironcast is a turn-based strategy video game with individual missions played through a match-three system.  The game features procedurally generated missions and permadeath, staples of the roguelike genre.  The game was developed by Dreadbit and released for PC platforms in March 2015, PS4 and Xbox One in March 2016, and Nintendo Switch version in August 2017.

Gameplay 
The game is set in a steampunk 19th century, the player commands mecha robots (the eponymous Ironcasts) and must deploy them to repel a French invasion of Britain.  Players can choose from an assortment of missions, their successful completion will reward the player with repairs and upgrades to their Ironcast.  The missions are conducted through a match-three system, with coloured tiles on the grid representing resources required for the Ironcast's operation.

Production 
Ironcast was developed by Dreadbit, a studio founded by Daniel Leaver, formerly a senior designer at Media Molecule.  The game was part funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, raising £10,183 in October 2014.

Reception 
The game received a positive critical reception on PC and Xbox One, with Metacritic scores of 75/100 and 78/100, respectively, and a mixed reception on PlayStation 4, with a Metacritic score of 70/100.  Christian Donlan, reviewing the game at Eurogamer described it as "tense and personable and clever". John Walker at Rock, Paper, Shotgun found it "much more tactically thoughtful than a match-3 RPG has been before", though found the game's presentation dull.

References

External links
Ironcast official site 

2015 video games
Alternate history video games
Crowdfunded video games
Kickstarter-funded video games
Linux games
MacOS games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
Ripstone games
Roguelike video games
Single-player video games
Steampunk video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about mecha
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in the 19th century
Windows games
Xbox One games
List of ships built by Hall, Russell & Company (501–600). List of ships built by Aberdeen shipbuilders Hall, Russell & Company, from yard number 501 to 600.

The ships built in the sequence 501 to 600 cover the period 1911 to 1917. The vessels built during this period are typically armed trawlers and smaller naval vessels for the Admiralty.

Notes
 Where available, vessel measurements taken from Lloyd's Register, giving registered length, beam and draft. Hall, Russell and Company's own measurements typically are length overall, beam and moulded depth.
 Yard Number 554, 558 allocated twice in records

References

Ships built in Scotland
Thomas J. Allan. Thomas J. Allan (1940-1966) was a British radio engineer who died in Antarctica.

Allan was a radio engineer for the British Antarctic Survey at Stonington Island in 1965-1966. He died in May 1966, in a sledging accident, along with John Fraser Noel, near what was subsequently named Tragic Corner off Marguerite Island.

Mount Allan in Antarctica, one of the Traverse Mountains, is named in his memory.

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1940 births
1966 deaths
20th-century British engineers
Accidental deaths in Antarctica
Nelsonite. Nelsonite is an igneous rock primarily constituted of ilmenite and apatite, with anatase, chlorite, phosphosiderite, talc and/or wavellite appearing as minor components. Rocks are equigranular with a grain size around 2 – 3 mm. The black ilmenite is slightly magnetic while the whitish apatite is not.

Name
It was named for Nelson County, Virginia, and is also found in that state's Amherst and Roanoke counties. In 2016, the Virginia legislature designated it as the official State Rock of Virginia.

Use
At one time, it was mined for the primary extraction of titanium dioxide. Titanium dioxide from ilmenite is used as a white paint pigments and in the early 1900's as a colorant of artificial teeth. The calcium phosphate from apatite is used as agricultural fertilizer. While no active mining of Nelsonite occurs in Virginia, active mining occurs in parts of China for rare-earth elements.

Formation
Anorthosite-related nelsonite occurs mainly as veins and lensoidal intrusions in anorthosite complex or wall rocks. The Fe–Ti–P-rich magma liquids formed immiscible and eutectic mixtures crystallizing around 850-1,000 °C followed by intense fractionation.
Disagreement exists on the role liquid immiscibility plays in generating nelsonite and Fe–Ti oxides ore. It is not common to have such relatively large density differentials of mineral constituents as seen in Nelsonite; ilmenite (4.7–5.2 g/cm3)  and apatite (~ 3.5 g/cm3). Nelsonites experience differential weathering. Exposed apatite within the Nelsonite is readily removed through solution by meteoric waters that can result in a cellular or sponge-like ilmenite mass.

Occurrence
Nelsonites are generally associated with anorthosite intrusions and scarce worldwide.
 Nelsonite occurs at various localities, not limited to: Nelson, Amherst, & Roanoke Counties, Va.; Carthage & Cheney Pond, N.Y.; Laramie, W.Va.; Washington State; Quebec, Canada; and China.

Roseland-Piney River district, Virginia
The nelsonite occurs in alkalic Roseland anorthosite, and in gneiss, granulite, and charnockitic rocks surrounding the anorthosite. Multiple varieties of equigranular nelsonite are present in the Roseland-Piney River district.
 Ilmenite nelsonite: the most abundant variety, commonly occurs in marginal parts of the anorthosite and in surrounding rocks near the anorthosite contact.
 rutile nelsonite: occurs only within the anorthosite.
 magnetite and biotite nelsonite: limited to the rocks surrounding the Roseland anorthosite.
 hornblende nelsonite
 gabbro-nelsonite: a rock intermediate in composition between gabbro and nelsonite
The prefixes ilmenite, rutile, magnetite, biotite, and hornblende denote special richness of the rocks in these minerals.

References

Igneous rocks
Symbols of Virginia
Nelson County, Virginia
Scoot-Mobile. The Scoot-Mobile prototype was built mostly from aircraft parts, manufactured by the Norman Anderson Co in Corunna, Michigan in 1946.  The Scoot-Mobile was a 3-wheeler with automatic gear change, 3 wheel brakes, and could reach a top speed of 40 mph.

References
 

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Michigan
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Michigan
Standard Electric (automobile). The Standard Electric automobile was an electric car manufactured by the Standard Electric Car Company in Jackson, Michigan from 1912 to 1915.

History 
The Standard Electric used electric motors made by Westinghouse and claimed to have a range of  on a charge.  It was operated by a tiller from the left-hand side.  The controller had six forward speeds, and had a top speed of .  The model M was a closed model coupe or open runabout, and priced from $1,785 to $1,900, .

In 1913 the company name was changed to Standard Car Manufacturing Company.  In November 1915, Standard Car closed and sold their plant to Benjamin Briscoe who moved in to build his Argo cyclecar.

References

External links 

 Standard Electric at ConceptCarz.com

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Michigan
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Michigan
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1911
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1915
Cars introduced in 1911
Electric vehicles
Brass Era vehicles
1910s cars
National Research and Development Agency (Japan). The Japanese government has established National Research and Development Agencies () that fall under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
 RIKEN
 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ)
 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
 National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)
 National Institute of Genetics (NIG)
  National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB)
 National Institute of Informatics (NII)
 National Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
 National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM)
 National Cancer Center (NCC)
 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
 National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID)
 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)
 National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP)
 National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN)

See also
 Independent Administrative Institution

References

Research and development in Japan
Lycée des Îles Wallis et Futuna. Lycée des Îles Wallis et Futuna (LdIWF), also known as  de Wallis et Futuna is the public senior high school/sixth-form college of the Wallis and Futuna islands. Its campus is on Wallis.

LdIWF offers classes in French, English, Applied Arts, First Aid, Physical Sciences, Economics and Social Sciences. 

Students can also undertake vocational baccalaureates in:
Electrical Engineering
Commerce, Accounting and Administration
Business and Sales
Science and Technology in Management and Administration ()

References

External links
 Lycée des Îles Wallis et Futuna 

Education in Wallis and Futuna
Schools in France
Carl Spetzler. Carl Spetzler is an American businessman, author, and academic. He is known for his research, publications, and expertise in the fields of decision quality and decision theory.

Education 
Spetzler holds a BS in chemical engineering and an MBA and Ph.D. in economics and business administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Career 
Spetzler’s interest in decision quality began at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) at Stanford University (now known as SRI International), where he worked with decision theory pioneer Ronald A. Howard.

While at SRI, Spetzler was instrumental in helping client Merrill Lynch establish their Cash Management Account (CMA) product in 1977. Revolutionary for its time, the CMA was a great success for Merrill Lynch and inspired its competitors to introduce similar products. Author Joe Nocera describes Spetzler’s key role in the development of the CMA in his book A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class.

In 1981, Spetzler and Howard formed Strategic Decisions Group (SDG), a management consulting firm focused on using the principles of decision quality to help organizations improve their strategic planning, innovation, and risk management.

Spetzler is the Chairman and CEO of SDG. He also serves as the program director of the Strategic Decision and Risk Management Program at Stanford’s Center for Professional Development.

Publications 
Spetzler is the author of Decision Quality: Value Creation from Better Business Decisions, written with Hannah Winter and Jennifer Meyer. Decision Quality explores Spetzler’s decision-making framework, including the six requirements for decision quality, how to apply them, and common pitfalls of decision-making.

Journal Publications 
The Development of a Corporate Risk Policy for Capital Investment Decisions, Carl Spetzler, IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics  (Volume: 4, Issue: 3 ), Sept. 1968.

Probability Coding in Decision Analysis, Carl S. Spetzler, Carl-Axel S. Staël Von Holstein, (1975), Management Science, 22(3):340-358, retrieved September 1, 2016.

Larry Neal and Carl Spetzler, "An Organization-Wide Approach to Good Decision Making", Harvard Business Review, May 27, 2015.

Honors, memberships, and awards

Honors and Awards 
 SRI International inducted Spetzler into its “Hall of Fame” in 2006 for his work in decision analysis and his influential work with Merrill Lynch. 
 In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Spetzler the Frank P. Ramsey Medal which honors outstanding contributions to the field of decision analysis.
 Treasury & Risk Magazine named Spetzler to its 2008 list of 100 Most Influential People in Finance.

Memberships 
 Society of Decision Professionals
 Board of Trustees Member, Illinois Institute of Technology
 Board Member, Decision Education Foundation
 Advisory Board, The Good Judgment Project

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
American chemical engineers
American business writers
American businesspeople
Willem van der Oord. Willem Johan van der Oord (27 September 1919 – 5 September 1985) was a Dutch hydraulic engineer. He was involved in setting up the Mekong Committee and served as its Executive agent from December 1969 until June 1980. He also worked for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

Van der Oord was born in Haarlemmermeer in September 1919. He was elected a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. He died in September 1985 at the age of 65.

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1919 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Dutch engineers
Hydraulic engineers
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Haarlemmermeer
Wickham Model C Sunbird. The Wickham Model C Sunbird is a single-seat homebuilt aircraft designed by Boeing engineer James M. Wickham.

Design
The Sunbird is a single-place low wing taildragger made primarily of wood. Power was originally a 1600cc VW, but a Continental C85 was installed later in its life.

Operational history
The Wickham C was the third of six designs by Wickham, which first flew in 1975.

Specifications

See also

References 

Homebuilt aircraft
1970s United States sport aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1975
Single-engined piston aircraft
Wickham Model E. The Wickham Model E Sunbird II is a single seat homebuilt aircraft designed by engineer James M. Wickham. Jim Wickham had studied engineering at Ohio State University, and graduated from MIT as an Aeronautical Engineer. Wickham's career began at Chance-Vought, then in 1938 joined the Stearman division of Boeing. Starting in the 1950s, Wickham started designing and building his own series of homebuilt aircraft.

Design
The Sunbird II is a single place low wing aircraft made primarily of wood. It differs from the Model C by employing tricycle landing gear, a larger wing, and power from a larger 1835cc VW engine.

Operational history
The Wickham E was the fifth of six designs by Wickham, which first flew on August 8, 1979 at Arlington, WA. The aircraft was lost following a spin test where the aircraft did not recover.

Specifications (Wickham Model E Sunbird II)

See also

References 

1970s United States sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1979
Single-engined piston aircraft
Maveric Systems. Maveric Systems is an engineering services company founded in 2000. It works across digital platforms, banking solutions, data technologies, and regulatory systems. Maveric Systems has dedicated offshore delivery and research centers in Chennai & Bengaluru, India.

Headquartered in Chennai, India, Maveric Systems has branches in Pune, Bangalore, Singapore, Mexico City, London, Dubai, Riyadh, New Jersey, and Kuala Lumpur. The firm operates in the APAC and Middle East.

History
The company was founded in 2000 by Ranga Reddy, P Venkatesh, NN Subramanian and VN Mahesh. The company initially offered testing services to banks and financial institutions, but by 2012, Maveric Systems diversified into requirements assurance, application assurance, and program assurance. Maveric additionally offered domain specialisation, platforms, and technical competency.

In 2018, the company expanded its board to include Chitra Ramakrishna, the former CEO and Managing Director of National Stock Exchange, and D. K. Sharma, a technology specialist and former CIO of Citigroup Global Consumer Banking’s International Business as independent Board of Directors.

References

Software testing
Information technology industry of Chennai
Companies based in Chennai
2000 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Indian companies established in 2000
Abbey Panels. Abbey Panels Ltd., originally The Abbey Panel & Sheet Metal Co. Ltd., was a Warwickshire-based coachbuilding company founded on Abbey Road, Nuneaton in 1941, initially assembling Supermarine Spitfires for the ongoing war effort. The original partners were Edward Loades, Les Bean, Bill Woodhall and Ernie Wilkinson. As the business grew they expanded to Old Church Road, Coventry before having their main manufacturing plant on the well known Bayton Road Industrial Estate in Exhall. In 1967, Ted Loades listed the business on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and it became known as Loades PLC, with Abbey Panels its main brand, alongside Albany Zinc (castings), Loades Dynamics (machining) and Loades Design (automotive styling) (previously known as Descartes Design).
The company specialised in producing handmade prototype car bodies and did so for many notable car companies including: Bristol Cars, Lea Francis, Jaguar Cars, Rover, MG, Healey, Rolls-Royce, Buick, Lincoln, Volvo and BMW amongst others. They fashioned the bodywork of cars such as the Le Mans winning Ford GT40, numerous Jaguars (XK120, C-type, D-type, E-type, XJ13, XJ220, XK180), the original Mark I Land Rover Station Wagon, Jim Clark's Lotus 38 and Stirling Moss's 1957 Pescara Grand Prix winning Vanwall. They also produced many specialist parts for the aerospace industry, particularly for Rolls-Royce plc, such as the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine duct of the Harrier jump jet.

In 2002 the company stopped much of its manufacturing and began a phased closure of the Abbey Panels plant in Coventry. They continued to run their aerospace engineering and machining company for some time, and refocused their efforts on redeveloping their industrial properties.

Gallery

References

External links 

Companies based in Warwickshire
1941 establishments in England
Coachbuilders of the United Kingdom
Collective Knowledge (software). The Collective Knowledge (CK) project is an open-source framework and repository to enable collaborative, reproducible and sustainable research and development of complex computational systems. CK is a small, portable, customizable and decentralized infrastructure helping researchers and practitioners:

 share their code, data and models as reusable Python components and automation actions with unified JSON API, JSON meta information, and a UID based on FAIR principles
 assemble portable workflows from shared components (such as multi-objective autotuning and Design space exploration)
 automate, crowdsource and reproduce benchmarking of complex computational systems
 unify predictive analytics (scikit-learn, R, DNN)
 enable reproducible and interactive papers

Notable usages
 ARM uses CK to accelerate computer engineering
 Several ACM-sponsored conferences use CK to automate the Artifact Evaluation process
Imperial College (London) uses CK to automate and crowdsource compiler bug detection
 Researchers from the University of Cambridge used CK to help the community reproduce results of their publication in the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'17) during Artifact Evaluation
 General Motors (USA) uses CK to crowd-benchmark convolutional neural network optimizations 
 The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the cTuning foundation released a CK workflow with a reproducible "live" paper to enable collaborative research into multi-objective autotuning and machine learning techniques
 IBM uses CK to reproduce quantum results from nature
 CK is used to automate MLPerf benchmark

Portable package manager for portable workflows
CK has an integrated cross-platform package manager with Python scripts, JSON API and JSON meta-description to automatically rebuild software environment on a user machine required to run a given research workflow.

Reproducibility of experiments
CK enables reproducibility of experimental results via community involvement similar to Wikipedia and physics. Whenever a new workflow with all components is shared via GitHub, anyone can try it on a different machine, with different environment and using slightly different choices (compilers, libraries, data sets). Whenever an unexpected or wrong behavior is encountered, the community explains it, fixes components and shares them back as described in.

References

External links
 Development site: 
 Documentation: 
 Public repository with crowdsourced experiments: 
 International Workshop on Adaptive Self-tuning Computing System (ADAPT) uses CK to enable public reviewing of publications and artifacts via Reddit: 

Workflow applications
Build automation
Smokeless Powder Company. In 1888 the 'Smokeless Powder Company', owned by James Dalziel Dougall Junior, the son of the famous glaswegian gunsmith -J D Dougall, took a 99-year lease for 126 arces around 'The Outpost', from the Youngsbury Estate. The site's name was changed from 'The Outpost' to Barwick and Barwick was formed as a 'factory hamlet'.

The 'factory hamlet' was designed and superintend by the company's engineer Ernest Spon A.I.C.E. Mr Ernest Spon was well known for his civil engineering books, such as 'Workshop Receipts' and 'The Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells...'

The Smokeless Powder Company (S.P.C.) manufactured various high explosive powders for use in torpedoes, artillery shells, small arms ammunition (for the military and sporting) and mine blasting. The 'Smokeless Powder Company' was a world leader in its high explosive powders. S.P.C had over 100 employees at the factory.

On 26 May 1893, there was an explosion & fire in one of the drying houses. As a result, company employees Mr A Aylott & Mr A Ginn both died in this incident[4] The accident was thoroughly investigated by H.M. Chief Inspector of Explosives - Colonel V.D.Majendie C.B; on 20 June 1893.

In 1896 the Smokeless Powder Company, was purchased by the New Schultze Gunpowder Company Limited, located at Eyeworth, Fritham, Hampshire.[5] As a result of this sale, the company was renamed the Smokeless Powder & Ammunition Company Limited in 1896. The company had two of Great Britain's greatest ballistics' experts working for it - Mr F W Jones & Mr R W S Griffith. The Smokeless Powder & Ammunition Company continued to produce high explosive powders until it ceased trading in circa 1910.

References

Gunpowder
Irisbus Cristalis. The Irisbus Cristalis is a trolleybus manufactured by Iveco Bus (formerly known as Irisbus). It comes in two variants:
ETB12 – Rigid bus
ETB18 – Articulated bus

The ETB12 is a full-sized trolleybus whose competitors were the MAZ-ETON T203, Škoda 24Tr Irisbus and the Škoda 30Tr SOR.

Irisbus vehicles
Trolleybuses
Low-entry buses
Articulated buses
Tony James (chemist). Tony D. James FRSC (born 7 October 1964) is a chemist who is currently Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath and recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1986) and the University of Victoria (PhD, 1991). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012 and received the Daiwa Adrian Prize in 2013.

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1964 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
University of Victoria alumni
Academics of the University of Bath
British chemists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
People from Broseley