omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Mednafen. Mednafen (My Emulator Doesn't Need A Frickin' Excellent Name), formerly known as Nintencer, is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system free software wrapper that bundles various original and third-party emulation cores into a single package, and is driven by command-line input. It is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. Certain emulation cores of Mednafen have been ported to RetroArch/Libretro.

RetroArch's fork Beetle-PSX supports additional features, including hardware rendering (Vulkan and OpenGL), higher internal resolution, anti-aliasing, texture filtering, texture replacement, post-processing shaders, GTE subpixel precision and perspective-correct texture mapping.

The emulator runs under Microsoft Windows, Linux, AmigaOS, OpenBSD, PlayStation 3, RISC OS, and Wii.

Supported systems

Front-ends 

There are a number of open-source graphical front-ends for Mednafen actively being developed.

See also 
 List of video game console emulators
 Computer system

References

External links 

 

Free video game console emulators
Free software programmed in C++
Free software that uses SDL
Game Boy Advance emulators
Game Boy emulators
Game Gear emulators
Linux emulation software
MacOS emulation software
Multi-emulators
Nintendo Entertainment System emulators
Software that uses GTK
Software using the GNU General Public License
TurboGrafx-16 emulators
Windows emulation software
JECRC University. JECRC University (formerly Jaipur Engineering College & Research Centre) is a private university located in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Academics and Research
JECRC University offers several undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses and PhD programmes in science and technology, arts, commerce, health and medicine, law, etc.

Each Academic Department in JECRC University has a Research Lab to facilitate the students to carry out research. A special Research Task Force (RTF) of faculty members has been created.

An amount of 16 crore rupees is received as a Research Grants from Government/ Non-Government Agencies.

Some of the key Grants/ Projects awarded by the Government Agencies:
JU Women Technology Park Sanctioned by DST, GOI
Impact of Gender Mainstreaming Projects of Government of India
JU – Biotechnology Business Incubator by DST, Rajasthan
DST DAAD 2019 Indo German Joint Collaboration funded by DST, GOI
Green Chemistry Frontiers funded by DST, GOI Prof. Sanjay
ISRO Exhibition under auspices of DST, GOI
TIDE by MeitY, GoI
Science, Technology and Innovation Hub by DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi
Promotion of European and International cooperation in science and research
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) 2022–2023
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Startup funding for budding entrepreneurs

Ranking
The World Rank of JECRC University is 408 in Top Mathematics Universities and all India rank is 07 by Research.com in 2022.

All India Rank 15 among 500+ colleges, and Zonal Rank 03 out of 127 colleges by Internshala Annual Rankings 2022.

The Week-Hansa Research Survey 2022 – India's Best Universities – Emerging Multidisciplinary Universities – ALL INDIA Rank 09.

Incidents 
On 1 January 2024, two students of JECRC were killed in a hit and run case by unidentified speeding vehicle while crossing the road at night near Hotel Highway King. Both students Ambika Soni and Mohit were initially rushed to SMS hospital. The case was registered in Shyam Nagar Police station of Jaipur.

See also
List of institutions of higher education in Rajasthan

References

External links 

 

Private universities in Rajasthan
Universities and colleges in Jaipur
Universities and colleges established in 2012
2012 establishments in Rajasthan
Ministry of Works (Malaysia). The Ministry of Works (; Jawi: ), abbreviated KKR, is a ministry of the Government of Malaysia that is responsible for public works, highway authority, construction industry, engineers, architects and quantity surveyors.

Organisation
Minister of Works
Deputy Minister of Works
Secretary-General
Under the Authority of Secretary-General
Legal Advisor's Office
Internal Audit Unit
Integrity Unit
Corporate Communication Unit
Deputy Secretary-General (Policy and Development)
Highway Planning Division
Policy and International Division
Development and Privatization Division
Facilities Management Division
Deputy Secretary-General (Management)
Human Resources Management Division
Management Services Division
Account Division
Finance Division
Corporate Planning Division
Information Management Division

Federal department
 Malaysian Public Works Department, or Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia (JKR). (Official site)

Federal agencies
 Malaysian Highway Authority, or Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM). (Official site)
 Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB), or Lembaga Pembangunan Industri Pembinaan Malaysia. (Official site)
 Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), or Lembaga Jurutera Malaysia. (Official site)
 Board of Architects Malaysia, or Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia (LAM). (Official site)
 Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia (BQSM), or Lembaga Juruukur Bahan Malaysia. (Official site)

Key legislation
The Ministry of Works is responsible for administration of several key acts of parliament.

History
In 1954, the British government took several measures to separate the administration of the Malay Peninsula (Malaya) from its main administration centralised in Singapore. This marked the beginning point where the local government departments in the Malay Peninsula were permitted to implement their own policies and programs respectively. In 1956, the chief minister and several ministers were appointed to lead the Federation of Malay Peninsula.

In the same year, several ministries were formed including the Ministry of Works, which then was originally named the Ministry of Works, Post and Telecom. Sardon bin Haji Jubir was the first minister to lead this ministry. The functions and responsibilities of the Public Works Department were retained and put under the purview of the ministry’s administration. In 1957, the ministry was reorganised and renamed the Ministry of Works and Transportation.

The rapid progress made in the country's development and socioeconomic condition during the 1970s resulted in the increase of the ministry’s functions and roles. With the addition of new roles, the Ministry was renamed once more to the Ministry of Works and Public Amenities in 1978. However, in line with the specialisation of responsibilities, the government renamed the ministry as the Ministry of Works Malaysia in the 1980s.

See also
Minister of Works (Malaysia)

References

External links
 Ministry of Works
 

 
Federal ministries, departments and agencies of Malaysia
Malaysia
Construction in Malaysia
Infrastructure in Malaysia
Howard Kent Birnbaum. Howard Kent Birnbaum (18 October 1932 Brooklyn, New York – 23 January 2005 Urbana, Illinois) was an American metallurgist who was well known due to his works on the interaction of point, linear and planar defects in plastic deformation of materials.

He received his BS in 1953 and MS in 1955 from Columbia University. In 1958 he received his PhD in metallurgy from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1958 he started teaching at the University of Chicago and joined University of Illinois in 1961.

Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship - 1967
Robert Franklin Mehl Gold Medal - The Metallurgical Society, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers - 1986
Von Hippel Award - Materials Research Society - 2002

Footnotes

References
Karl A. Gschneider Jr., Howard K. Birnbaum, Acta Materialia, Vol. 53 (2005), pp. 2545–2546 

1932 births
2005 deaths
Scientists from New York (state)
American metallurgists
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
People from Brooklyn
University of Chicago faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Herbert Gleiter. Herbert Gleiter (born 13 October 1938 in Stuttgart) is a German researcher in physics and nanotechnology.

In 1966, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1988 for contributions to the field of nanotechnology. He became the Chair Professor of the Institute of Material Science at Saarland University, Germany in 1979. He has also held positions at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Bochum.

In 2004, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theoretical and practical uses of nanostructured materials.

Since 2012, he is Director and Chair Professor of the 'Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience' of 'Nanjing University of Science and Technology' of Nanjing in China. In 2019, he received the Advanced Materials Laureate during the 30th IAAM Award Assembly.

References

External links 
Invisible Origins of Nanotechnology: Herbert Gleiter, Materials Science, and Questions of Prestige
prof. H. Gleiter's page at KIT,Germany:https://www.int.kit.edu/staff_herbert.gleiter.php

Living people
20th-century German physicists
University of Stuttgart alumni
Academic staff of Saarland University
Harvard University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Foreign fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
1938 births
Recipients of the Saarland Order of Merit
Recipients of the Cothenius Medal
Porosity Storage Reservoir. Porosity Storage Reservoirs are man-made water storage reservoirs located in shallow alluvial (sand and gravel) deposits. The porosity, or void space, refers to the open spaces between the sand and gravel,  and it is in this area that the water is stored.  By separating and isolating a portion of an alluvial deposits through the use of walls made of natural materials, large reservoirs of water (up to a 100,000 acre feet) can be built up to 150 feet below ground. Securely storing water underground in this way protects the water from evaporative loss, unwanted contamination and is seen as low impact to the environment, compared to traditional dams and above ground water reservoirs.

Porosity Storage Reservoir innovations and technologies were created by Donald O. Summers and Stanley R. Peters on behalf of the parent company PS Systems, Inc.

References

External links 
 

Reservoirs
Bali–Java Powerline. The Bali–Java Powerline is a planned electric power transmission line in Indonesia. It will be used for the crossing of the Bali Strait between Java and Bali. If built, the towers will be the world's tallest electricity pylons with a height of . As of January 2018, the project is underway with planning for land acquisition. However, as of April 2018, there are also indications that the project may never come to fruition as there is substantial resistance to the project for religious and cultural reasons.

The line on the Java side will begin in at the Paiton power plant, then through Watu Dodol in Banyuwangi Regency, and on to Bali. On the Bali side, it would be in parts of western Buleleng, Jembrana, Tabanan and Badung regencies.

The two towers that will carry the line over the Bali Strait (Selatbali) have planned positions as follows:  for the  on Java and  for the  on the Bali side.

References

Buildings and structures in Java
Buildings and structures in East Java
Buildings and structures in Bali
High-voltage transmission lines
Proposed electric power transmission systems
Proposed electric power infrastructure in Indonesia
L&YR Class 30 (Hughes). The L&YR Class 30 (Hughes) was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The class was designed by George Hughes and introduced in 1910. Twenty-nine were rebuilds from Aspinall's L&YR Class 30 and 40 were new locomotives.

Numbering
A total of 69 locomotives was produced and these passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. The LMS gave them the power classification 6F and numbered them as follows:
 Rebuilds, 12771-12800
 New locos, 12801-12839

In 1948, British Railways (BR) inherited 11 locomotives and numbered them in the range 52782-52839.

Withdrawal
The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1927 and the last in 1951. None were preserved.

References

0-8-0 locomotives
30 (Hughes)
Railway locomotives introduced in 1910
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
D n2 locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Government Gateway. The Government Gateway is an IT system developed to allow applicants to register for online services provided by the UK Government, such as obtaining a driving licence and HMRC self-assessment. This replaced the old system of paper submissions.

The system was set up by the Office of the e-Envoy and allows users to register as either an individual, an organisation or an agent. Its security credentials are accredited by CESG (formerly Communications-Electronics Security Group) within GCHQ.

The government gateway is being replaced by GOV.UK One Login.

History
Government Gateway was launched on 25 January 2001, initially being used by services from HM Customs and Excise and for applications through the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food for common agricultural policy aid schemes, in addition to Inland Revenue end-of-year transactions.

Procurement of the service was commenced with an Official Journal of the European Union contract notice published in October 2005, following which a contract for the design, development and operation of the service was to Atos Origin in September 2006. After supplier shortlisting, Atos Origin were the only company who maintained their interest in supplying the system: other companies who had been invited to negotiate withdrew their bids early in 2006.

Services on the Government Gateway were meant to be gradually moved to replacement systems, including GOV.UK Verify. The move was meant to be complete by March 2019.

Following reports of conflict between HMRC and the Government Digital Service (GDS), HMRC has been developing its own service which allows users to sign in using an existing Government Gateway user ID.

HMRC will begin migration from the Government Gateway to the One Login For Government, a new system being developed by GDS, during 2023.

Successor 
The Government Gateway is gradually being replaced by GOV.UK One Login.

See also
 Gov.uk

References

E-government_in_the_United_Kingdom
Rajen Sheth. Rajen Sheth  is an executive at Google, where he currently runs product management at cloud AI and machine learning team.  The idea of an enterprise version Google's email service Gmail was pitched by Rajen in a meeting with CEO Eric Schmidt in 2004. Schmidt initially rejected the proposal, arguing that the division should focus on web search, but the suggestion was later accepted. Sheth is known as "father of Google Apps", and is responsible for development of Chrome and ChromeOS for Business.

Career
Rajen studied Computer Engineering (1994-1999) in Stanford University like Sergey Brin and Larry Page. He graduated with Electrical Engineering and got a master's degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University in 1999 and then joined Microsoft. At that time, Microsoft was reshaping their email service, Hotmail. After a year at Microsoft, he moved to a Silicon Valley startup known as Zaplet, where he built what he calls “future email technologies.” In 2004, he joined Google.

References

Google employees
Living people
Stanford University alumni
American Jains
People from the San Francisco Bay Area
Year of birth missing (living people)
Dredge valve. The dredge valve is a component of a Cutter Suction Dredge or a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger that is used control the flow of water and sand in the suction and discharge pipes of one of these types of dredgers.
There are 3 cases when this vertical valve can block or reduce the mixture flow of water and sand by lowering its gate: 
                                                                                                                                                                               
 1.from the hopper of the TSHD to the discharge pipe.
 2.from the dredge cutter head of the CSD to the ship
 3.from the dredge drag head of the TSHD to the ship

The dredge valve’s gate is hydraulically control and it has raised a lot of challenges because of maintaining it clean. The gate can be blocked by the sand that enters through the dredge valve causing a lot of damages. Because of this reason the dredge valve has a lot of water flushing canals in order to keep it clean.

See also
 Gate valve

References

Dredgers
John Duncan (weaver). John Duncan (fl. 1800–1818) was a Scottish weaver who wrote an authoritative book about weaving in 1808.

Biography

John Duncan came from Glasgow, but nothing has so far been found about his ancestry. He was the inventor of a patent tambouring machine (Patent No 2769, of 1804). This was an early sewing machine, for "raising flowers, figures and other ornaments on muslins, lawns, silks, woollens, or mixed cloths". Duncan may have used the chain stitch, which was employed for tambour lace, as was later done by Barthélemy Thimonnier. Sometimes Duncan's invention has been described as the first embroidering machine; as with other pioneering machines of the period, it was unsuccessful.

Works
Duncan's major work was Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Art of Weaving (Glasgow, 1808). It was later said, by Clinton G. Gilroy, to be an unacknowledged source used in Andrew Ure's Philosophy of Manufactures.

Duncan wrote an account of his tambouring machine in the Edinburgh Encyclopædia, article "Chain Work," according to Harte. (p. 124)

Duncan was also the probable author of the "Cloth Manufacture" article in Volume 6 of the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, signed "(J.D.)"  The entry contains "a description of a loom invented by the author of this article," which purports to improve upon the vertical loom of Mr. Johnson, also discussed in the entry.  Figures 3 and 4 of Plate CXCV, entitled "Vibrating Loom," illustrate his invention.

Duncan also wrote articles for Rees's Cyclopædia on:
Draught and Cording of Looms (Vol 12, 1809)
Draw Loom (Vol 12, 1809)
Hundreds (Vol 18, 1811)
Weaving (Vol 38, 1818)
and is possibly the author of:
Flax (Vol 14, 1810)
Silk (Vol 32, 1815/16)
Stocking Frame (Vol 34 1816)
and perhaps the short articles on:
Diaper (Vol 11, 1808)
Dimity (Vol 11, 1808)
Dornock (Vol 12, 1809).

References

Year of death unknown
19th-century Scottish writers
19th-century Scottish male writers
Writers from Glasgow
British weavers
Year of birth unknown
L&YR Class 26. The L&YR Class 26 was a class of 20  passenger steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway designed by Henry Hoy and introduced in 1903.  Most passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) at the grouping in 1923 though they were withdrawn soon afterwards with none remaining in service after 1926.

Design and construction
Hoy intended the class to work Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham and Bury services where heavier trains and on lines gradients were giving difficulties to the Aspinall 2-4-2T radial tank locomotives.  To a degree they were an evolutionary design based on the enlarged version of the 2-4-2T radial tanks with six-coupled wheels and the belpaire firebox used on the Aspinall Atlantic High Flyers and Coal engine 0-8-0 types.

Service
On their introduction in 1903 they were allocated to Liverpool to Southport workings covering a temporary shortage of electric stock; they were subsequently placed on their intended routes where they had an initially successful introduction, but problems with the class shortly emerged. Their heavy weight was not good for the track and the long rigid wheelbase put pressure on rails with severe curves in sidings. The flanges were removed from the centre driving wheels which eased some issues but increased the risk of derailment on track which was slightly out of alignment and most notably at junctions. This is due to flangeless driving wheels working better on smaller wheels placed closer together. The side tanks tended to badly leak and they gained a reputation for poor stopping ability.

Where George Hughes produced a superheated upgrade to the L&YR Class 5 2-4-2Ts, they were able to perform the services allocated to the 2-6-2Ts and the latter were removed from passenger services in 1913. They were then placed on banking and shunting duties with water pickup equipment and coal rail removed for increased visibility for these duties. However they were not well-suited to these duties due to large  driving wheels and flangeless centre-wheels.

Numbering

Withdrawal
One was withdrawn with unrepairable cracked frames in 1920.  A total of three, Nos 202, 404 and 125 were withdrawn before being allocated a LMS number in 1923.  In the event only two (11704 and 11711) actually carried their allocated LMS number and all members of the class were withdrawn by 1926.  All had been scrapped by 1928 and none have been preserved.

References

Sources

2-6-2T locomotives
26
Railway locomotives introduced in 1903
Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani. Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani (10 May 1940 – 30 May 2012) was a Moroccan engineer, economist and writer.

Biography 
Aerospace engineer graduate from École nationale de l'aviation civile (the French civil aviation university ; promotion 1963) and economist graduate from ENSAE ParisTech (promotion 1973), Ottmani held senior official positions in the Moroccan public administration, particularly in the Departments of Public Works and Transportation. He was Transportation Planning Director for a long period, before becoming Secretary General of the Ministry of Transports. He was also a founding member of the «association pour la sauvegarde, le développement et la promotion de la ville dEssaouira » ("association for the safeguarding, the development and the promotion of Essaouira city").

Writing 
Ottmani's literary work is largely focused on his hometown, Essaouira, which he often referred to by its former name Mogador.

His first book, "Une cité sous les alizés" ("a city under the trade winds"), is a historical study of Mogador-Essaouira from prehistory to the World War II. Then he turned to fiction, but retaining a strong historical basis.

In "Si Mogador m'était contée" ("if Mogador could talk"), the old narrator, Lalla Aïcha, revives twenty stories from the ignored past of the city. "Le Soldat qui venait de Mogador" ("The soldier who came from Mogador") tells the story of the trip to Mecca of Si Taieb El Ech Chiadmi Maskali, since 1912 ; the young man spent nearly twelve years in Libya and is involved in guerrilla warfare by the Senussi against the Italian colonization.
"Le Fils du Soleil" ("Son of the Sun") is a historical novel which tells the amazing story of Mustapha Zemmouri, better known under the name Estevanico, Moroccan from Azemmour region, slave kidnapped by a Spanish man to America and became one of the first discoverers of Arizona and New Mexico.

Awards 
Ottmani was awarded the " Société de Géographie humaine de Paris" ("humain geography society of Paris) with the " prix René-Caillié" ("René-Caillié award") in 1997. His book "Le Fils du Soleil" ("Son of the Sun") received the "Prix du Maroc du livre" ("Morocco book award") in 2006 in the creative writing category. His biography of Si Kaddour Benghabrit was selected for the "Prix Grand Atlas" in 2011.

Bibliography 
 Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani, Une cité sous les alizés : Mogador des origines à 1939, Éditions La Porte, 1997, 356 p. ()
 Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani, Le Fils du soleil : l'Odyssée d'Estevanico de Azemor, Éditions La Porte, 2006, 316 p. ()
 « Le Soldat qui venait de Mogador » (Ed. La Porte).
 « Si Mogador était contée » (Ed. Eddif).
 « Kaddour Benghabrit : Un Maghrébin hors du commun » (Ed. Marsam).
 Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani's obituary

References 

1940 births
2012 deaths
École nationale de l'aviation civile alumni
Moroccan economists
Moroccan writers in French
Aerospace engineers
People from Essaouira
Moroccan engineers