omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Yusof Basiron. Yusof Basiron (born 20 June 1948) is a scientist and an influential public figure in the Malaysian palm oil industry. He was the CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), and a non-independent non-executive director on the board of Sime Darby.

Education
In early education, Basiron went to Royal Military College (Malaysia). He earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1972. He also has multiple post-graduate degrees, including a PhD degree in applied economics and management science from the University of Stirling in Scotland completed in 1986.

Career

In 1979, Basiron joined the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) and later became their director-general in 1992. He continued to serve as director-general of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) when it was formed in April 2000, through a merger of PORIM and the Palm Oil Registration and Licensing Authority (PORLA). He left his position as director-general of the MPOB in 2006 and served as CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC).

Awards and recognition
In 2017, Basiron was conferred "Leadership Award" for his contribution as CEO at the annual Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) Leadership Awards.

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Living people
1948 births
Malaysian scientists
Malaysian businesspeople
Palm oil production in Malaysia
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian Muslims
People from Negeri Sembilan
AME VI. 

The AME VI was a reconnaissance aircraft, produced in Spain in the mid 1920s.

Design and development

It was designed by pilot and engineer Captain Manuel Bada Vasallo assisted by Arturo González Gil based on the Bristol F.2b aircraft used at the time by the Spanish Military Air Arm (Aeronáutica Militar Española), hence its designation AME.

The two first prototypes were built in 1924 at the Aeronáutica Militar workshop in Cuatro Vientos. Conventional for its day, it was a biplane with staggered wings powered by a Hispano-Suiza 8Fb  engine. The twin-leg Lamblin radiators were mounted on the undercarriage. The pilot and observer sat in open cockpits in tandem.

Twenty examples were produced for the Aeronáutica Militar of the Spanish Army in 1925 and 1926, being incorporated in the Grupo IV unit at Melilla, along with the existing Bristol F-2b. In February 1927 the AME VI were made part of the Escuela de Observadores training unit at Cuatro Vientos. They remained in service until December 1931 when they were phased out during the military restructuring promoted by Manuel Azaña, the newly nominated Minister of War of the republican government. Azaña's aim was to modernize the Spanish military and cut down the expenses of the state in the aftermath of the Great Depression.

The AME VI was further developed with redesigned fuselage and tail unit as the AME VIA

Operators
 (Kingdom)
Aeronáutica Militar
 (Republic)
Aeronáutica Militar

Specifications

See also

References

External links

Birth, first steps and pre-war planes of the Spanish Military Aviation

1920s Spanish military reconnaissance aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924
Digital Communications Associates. Digital Communication Associates, Inc. (DCA), was a company in the computer and telecommunications industry, located in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States.

Overview
Digital Communications Associates was founded by John Alderman, who led the company until 1981, when he was replaced by Bertil Nordin. In February 1983, DCA went public, raising 24 million USD. Later, Garry Betty (1957-2007) was CEO of DCA, until he left for Earthlink in November 1996.

Together with Intel, DCA had designed the DCA/Intel Communicating Applications Specification (CAS). It defines a standard, high-level programming interface for data communications applications. The DCX format is the standard file format for storing FAX images in CAS. DCA was in the market of producing T-1 multiplexers. In 1995, DCA of Alpharetta, Georgia, was acquired by Attachmate of Bellevue, Washington.

Acquisitions
In 1981, under the leadership of Bertil Nordin, DCA acquired Technical Analysis Corporation (TAC), the makers of the IRMA Board which enabled PCs to function as 3270 terminals to an IBM mainframe host.

In September 1986, DCA bought Cohesive Networks.

In 1986, DCA acquired Microstuf, makers of the Crosstalk Communications package together with their flagship product, the terminal emulation program Crosstalk Mk.4.

In 1991, DCA acquired Cincinnati-based InterComputer Communications Corporation (ICC), makers of the INFOConnect line of terminal emulation and file-transfer products (focused on the Unisys ecosystem), OpenMind (collaboration) and RLN (remote lan node)

In 1992, DCA acquired Westborough-based Avatar Technologies, makers of the Mac Mainframe hardware and software 3270 emulators, for $8 million.

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1972 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1995 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
American companies established in 1972
American companies disestablished in 1995
Companies based in Fulton County, Georgia
Computer companies established in 1972
Computer companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Networking hardware companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors
List of elevator manufacturers. This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.

Current elevator manufacturers

Bangladesh 
 Walton Group

Finland 
 Kone

France 
 Saint-Gobain

Germany 
 TK Elevator
 Wittur

India 
 Johnson Lifts

Japan 

 Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation
 Fujitec 
 Hitachi 
 Mitsubishi Electric
 Toshiba

South Korea 
 Hyundai Elevator

Switzerland 
 Schindler Group

United Kingdom 
 Stannah Lifts

United States 
 McKinley Elevator Corporation
 Otis Elevator Company

Former elevator manufacturers
 Dover Corporation: Elevator division acquired by Thyssen AG in 1999.
 Montgomery Elevator: Acquired by Kone, Canadian division in 1985 and U.S. division in 1994.
 Marshall Elevator: Sold to Otis
 Schweizerische Aufzügefabrik AG
 Thyssen AG: Merged with Krupp and became ThyssenKrupp in 1999, with subsidiary ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG
ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG announced in 2021 a name change and rebranding to TK Elevator
 Westinghouse: Elevator division bought by Schindler in 1989
 Anton Freissler –  invented and developed a number of paternoster and elevators. Incorporated into Otis

See also

 Lists of companies

References

External links 
 

Elevator
Just Aircraft. Just Aircraft LLC is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Walhalla, South Carolina and founded by Troy Woodland in 2002. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of STOL light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and complete ready-to-fly light-sport aircraft.

Just Aircraft is a limited liability company.

Woodland had worked at Flying K Enterprises, the manufacturer of the Flying K Sky Raider, but left to start his own company to market his own designs, partnering with investor Gary Schmitt. The company collaborated with the British company Escapade Aircraft in the design of the Escapade. Woodland next designed the Just Highlander, a development of the Escapade incorporating a larger wing mounting high-lift devices, a larger fin and elevators, balanced tail control surfaces and a strengthened conventional undercarriage. The Just Superstol is a further development of the same line with an emphasis on STOL performance onto unprepared surfaces.

In 2004 the company relocated to Walhalla, South Carolina. By 2013 the Highlander outsold the Escapade line by 10:1, with about one third of sales being outside the US.

Aircraft

References

External links

 
Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Homebuilt aircraft
INAS 315. The INAS 315 was an Indian naval air squadron based at INS Hansa, Goa.

History 
INAS 315 was commissioned on 1 October 1977 by Rear Admiral M. K. Roy. Cdr B K Malik was the first Squadron Commander. The squadron was initially equipped with three Ilyushin Il-38 aircraft and later two more Il-38 aircraft were inducted. With the induction of the Il-38s, the Navy acquired modern maritime reconnaissance and fixed-wing Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) capability. In January 1978, the squadron aircraft using the on board Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) equipment successfully located the wreckage of the ill-fated Air India Jumbo which had crashed soon after take-off of the Mumbai coast. The Winged Stallions completed 25,000 hours of accident free flying in 1996. The squadron's Il-38 aircraft were given "Sea Dragon" mid-life upgrades in 2009.

On 1 October 2002, two Il-38s of INAS 315 collided in mid-air during a flypast near Dabolim, Goa, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the squadron. The collision and subsequent crashes killed all six crew members in each aircraft and three bystanders on the ground. Prior to the collision, the squadron had flown 30,000 hours over 25 years without a serious accident.

The squadron was decommissioned in 31 October 2023 after 46 years of service.

References 

Aircraft squadrons of the Indian Navy
Military units and formations established in 1977
Ariel Ace. The Ariel Ace is a 2014 sports motorcycle that is manufactured by the British Ariel Motor Company in Crewkerne, Somerset, England.  It uses the  V4 engine from the Honda VFR1200.

It is the Ariel marque's first new motorcycle in more than 50 years.

Design

Ariel has a "long-standing relationship with Honda",  who were sufficiently impressed with Ariel's Atom sports car to allow them to use their VFR engine in the Ace. The V4 engine is suspended from "a huge, bridge-like aluminium frame" that resembles a trellis frame in appearance. Trellis frames are usually fabricated from welded tubes, such as on the Ducati Monster, as well as for the chassis of the Atom.   The Ace's frame, however,  is not made from welded steel tube; rather the frame sides are machined from a solid aluminium billet. This gives the frame's diagonal stiffeners their distinctive triangular vee section, rather than the usual round-section tube.

The Ariel Ace comes with a choice of two alternative front suspensions; either a conventional upside-down telescopic fork or Ariel's own girder fork.  Rear suspension uses a single-sided swingarm.  The final-drive is a shaft-drive.

An unusual feature is that the rider's knees do not grip a shaped fuel tank; instead, one's knees are alongside the frame, which is rather less comfortable.

Customization
Bikes can be ordered from the factory with various options, and upgraded over time. Options include front and rear suspension, handlebars, bodywork, fuel tank size, exhaust, wheels, seat, footrests, colors and finishes.

Reception
Roland Brown, writing in The Daily Telegraph, concludes that the Ace is a "dramatically styled, cleverly engineered and enjoyably powerful V4 roadster that returns the renowned Ariel marque to motorcycling in impressive fashion". Jensen Beeler, writing in Asphalt and Rubber, dubbed it "the most expensive Honda you will ever come across" noting its exclusivity. Loz Blain in Gizmag called it "one of the best looking motorcycles I've ever seen", also noting the £20,000 price puts it out of reach for many riders.

Gizmag and Jalopnik both noted the unique customization options available to create a cruiser, fully faired sportbike, or naked bike around a common frame and powertrain; the latter publication called it an "adult Lego set".

A review in Road & Track compared the design to that of the Atom sports car, calling it "purposeful" but "not particularly pretty".

See also
 List of Ariel motorcycles

References

External links 

 
  (Bike magazine, 27 August 2014)

Ariel motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in 2014
International Conference on Composite Materials. International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM) is an international scientific conference devoted to all aspects of composite materials. The list of topics includes manufacturing, mechanics, fracture and damage, fatigue, design of components and structures, impact behavior, experimental methods.

History 
The conference was initiated by the Metallurgical Society of AIME. The first conference was held in 1975 simultaneously in Geneva and Boston and was rather small. The second conference, ICCM-2, held in 1978 in Toronto, Canada, gathered around 300 delegates. Official welcome was given by Frank Thurston, Director of the National Aeronautical Establishment, Ottawa; the key address was given by Alan Lovelace from NASA.

List of events

References

External links 
ICCM-23
ICCM-20
ICCM-19

Academic conferences
Ray Lightwood. Raymond Lightwood (1922–2001) was a British medical engineer who developed the first variable rate heart pacemaker, together with Leon Abrams at the University of Birmingham.

Ray Lightwood was born in Coventry. He was educated at Birchfield Road School in Birmingham. During World War Two Lightwood received training at the Radar and Wireless training school at RAF Yatesbury and after initially serving in India as a ground and service engineer, he became a travelling engineer with South East Asia Command. He was also seconded to Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough to study captured radar equipment. After the war Lightwood worked as an industrial electronics applications engineer and representative.

Lightwood was a medical engineer, researcher and technician in the Department of Surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham from 1958 to 1987. In consultation with cardiothoracic surgeon Leon Abrams he researched, designed and developed the first variable rate heart pacemaker in 1960. Lightwood used electrodes attached to the heart coupled to an external pacemaker, so all the electronic components were kept outside the body, and could be replaced in the event of failure. This was the first patient controlled permanent pacemaker as the primary circuit consisted of an inducing coil supplied by a portable transistor which produced short pulses at adjustable intervals and intensity.

Ray Lightwood gave lectures about his research to conferences and societies. Lightwood also delivered lectures at Birmingham University, Keele University and the University of Nottingham, as well as at Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham and at Coventry Technical College. Lightwood was awarded the Official Degree of BSc (Pure Science) in 1974 by Birmingham University for which he submitted a thesis entitled 'An inductively coupled system for electrical pacemaking of the heart'. He retired from the Department of Surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 1987. He was a Methodist Lay Preacher. Lightwood died in 2001.

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1922 births
2001 deaths
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
British bioengineers
Engineers from the West Midlands (county)
Wings of Freedom. Wings Of Freedom, Inc. was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Hubbard, Ohio. The company was previously located in Middlefield, Ohio. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction.

In late 2019 the company website had been taken down and it is likely that the company has closed.

The company's line included two Raceair Designs aircraft designs, the Raceair Skylite and Raceair Lil Bitts, plus the Wings of Freedom Phoenix 103, which is based upon the discontinued Aero-Works Aerolite 103, for which Wings of Freedom has been providing parts. The Wings of Freedom Flitplane is an original design, intended to be simple and inexpensive to build and fly.

The origin of the company name is explained, "the name 'Wings of Freedom' is derived from the feeling that every pilot has experienced when he or she has taken to the air. (Freedom)".

Aircraft

References

External links

Official website archives

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Raceair Designs. Raceair Designs LLC is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Gilbert, South Carolina, founded by designer Ed Fisher. The company was formerly located in Mayville, New York and Warren, Ohio. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction and complete ready-to-fly aircraft under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company only offered plans and kits for a short while and then closed down operations in the late 1990s. Its Raceair Skylite and Raceair LiL Bitts designs are also produced by Wings Of Freedom of Hubbard, Ohio. Raceair Designs is now back in operations.

Aircraft

References

External links

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aliflurane. Aliflurane (code name Hoechst Compound 26 or 26-P) is a halocarbon drug which was investigated as an inhalational anesthetic but was never marketed.

See also
 Halopropane
 Norflurane
 Roflurane
 Synthane
 Teflurane

References

General anesthetics
Cyclopropanes
Ethers
Organochlorides
Organofluorides
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Fluranes
Roflurane. Roflurane (INN, USAN; development code DA-893) is a halocarbon drug which was investigated as an inhalational anesthetic but was never marketed.

See also
 Aliflurane
 Halopropane
 Norflurane
 Synthane
 Teflurane

References

General anesthetics
Ethers
Organobromides
Organofluorides
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Fluranes
Abandoned drugs
Synthane. Synthane (development code BAX-3224) is a halocarbon agent which was investigated as an inhalational anesthetic but was never marketed.

See also
 Aliflurane
 Halopropane
 Norflurane
 Roflurane
 Teflurane

References

General anesthetics
Ethers
Organofluorides
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Abandoned drugs
INAS 330. The INAS 330 is an Indian naval air squadron based at INS Shikra, Mumbai.

History 
Among the most potent weapon platforms in the Naval inventory is the Westland Sea King helicopter. This versatile and advanced multi role aircraft has taken modern age maritime warfare to theatres well beyond the nation’s shores. INAS 330 was commissioned on 17 April 1971 under the command of Cdr M P Wadhawan. The squadron was initially equipped with Westland Sea King Mk 42 ASW helicopters acquired from British Westland Helicopters Ltd.

On 26 July 1971, the first Sea King landed on . From then on the indomitable team of Harpoons and ‘Mother’ (the carrier) saw a series of firsts. The first operational ASW mission was flown on 18 October 1971. On 31 November 1971, while on an ‘Advance Screen’, a Sea King picked up a suspected submarine contact and carried out a Vectored attack for the first time. The Harpoons received their baptism with fire when hostilities broke out in 1971. Extensive ASW operations were undertaken and the Harpoons clocked over 156 hours of war effort. Over the decade the Harpoons continued to operate from INS Vikrant as the only front line carrier borne rotary wing squadron and earned the honour and reputation of being the most versatile and baleful of the whirly birds. The squadron got greater punch with the procurement of Sea King 42B which have an improved sensor fit and capability for Anti-Shipping strikes.

The squadron shifted to INS Shikra, Mumbai from INS Garuda, Kochi in October 1995 and has been based there ever since. As always the Harpoons continue to remain the eyes and ears of the fleet. Aptly named the flying frigate, the Sea Kings continue to act as force multipliers while operating from INS Viraat, Godavari class frigates and Brahmaputra class frigates. The ship borne flights continue to execute multifarious missions in all weather – by day and night.

References 

Aircraft squadrons of the Indian Navy
Military units and formations established in 1971
INAS 339. The INAS 339 is an Indian naval air squadron based at INS Hansa, Goa .

History 
INAS 339 was commissioned by V Adm S K Jain on 23 November 1990 at INS Kunjali, Mumbai. Cdr S V Purohit was the commissioning Squadron Commander of the squadron. The squadron initially operated Westland Sea King helicopters but changed over to Kamov 28s in March 1993. The squadron, thereafter, shifted base to INS Hansa, Goa.

The Falcons inducted the Kamov 31 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft in 2003 along with the induction of the Talwar Class frigates from Russia, which has understandably given them the status of Navy's ‘Eyes in the Skies’. INAS 339 operated both the KV 28 and KM 31 helicopters until May 2009. Thereafter, the KV 28 were rebased to INAS 333 in Vizag as replacement of the decommissioned KA 25s.

References 

Aircraft squadrons of the Indian Navy
Military units and formations established in 1990
Dissimilatory sulfate reduction. Dissimilatory sulfate reduction is a form of anaerobic respiration that uses sulfate as the terminal electron acceptor to produce hydrogen sulfide. This metabolism is found in some types of bacteria and archaea which are often termed sulfate-reducing organisms. The term "dissimilatory" is used  when hydrogen sulfide () is produced in an anaerobic respiration process. By contrast, the term "assimilatory" would be used in relation to the biosynthesis of organosulfur compounds, even though hydrogen sulfide may be an intermediate.

Dissimilatory sulfate reduction occurs in four steps:
 Conversion (activation) of sulfate to adenosine 5’-phosphosulfate (APS) via sulfate adenylyltransferase
 Reduction of APS to sulfite via adenylyl-sulfate reductase
 Transfer of the sulfur atom of sulfite to the DsrC protein creating a trisulfide intermediate catalyzed by DsrAB
 Reduction of the trisulfide to sulfide and reduced DsrC via a membrane bound enzyme, DsrMKJOP

Which requires the consumption of a single ATP molecule and the input of 8 electrons (e−).

The protein complexes responsible for these chemical conversions — Sat, Apr and Dsr — are found in all currently known organisms that perform dissimilatory sulfate reduction. Energetically, sulfate is a poor electron acceptor for microorganisms as the sulfate-sulfite redox couple has a standard formal reduction potential (E0') of -516 mV, which is too negative to allow reduction by NADH or ferrodoxin that are the primary intracellular electron mediators. To overcome this issue, sulfate is first converted into APS by the enzyme ATP sulfurylase (Sat), at the cost of a single ATP molecule. The APS-sulfite redox couple has an E0' of -60 mV, which allows APS to be reduced by either NADH or reduced ferrodoxin using the enzyme adenylyl-sulfate reductase (Apr), which requires the input of 2 electrons. In the final step, sulfite is reduced by the dissimilatory sulfite reductase (Dsr) to form sulfide, requiring the input of 6 electrons.

See also 
 Sulfur cycle
 Sulfur assimilation

References 

Sulfur metabolism
David Jebb. David Jebb ( – 6 August 1826) was an English surveyor and engineer who was Surveyor-General in Ulster. in charge of the construction of the Boyne Navigation, a series of canals running 31 km (19 mi) roughly parallel to the River Boyne from Oldbridge to Navan in County Meath, Ireland. Jebb himself built a flour mill at Slane in 1766 to take advantage of the navigation that he had recently completed that far.

Jebb was born into a prominent family, the son of Rev. John Jebb. His brothers were Dr. John Jebb and Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet. He built Egham Park in Surrey.

He died at Sansome Lodge in Worcester.

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1730s births
INAS 350. The INAS 350 is an Indian naval air squadron based at INS Dega, Visakhapatnam.

The squadron operated Sikorsky UH-3H from 2009 when it was bought along with INS Jalashwa. In 2024, the helicopters were de-inducted from service during a ceremony. The type was replaced by Sea King 42C.

References 

Aircraft squadrons of the Indian Navy
Military units and formations established in 2009