omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Glyn England. Glyn England (1921-2013) was a British electrical engineer.

Early life
He attended Penarth County Grammar School (now Stanwell School), then Queen Mary College in London.

Career
Prior to World War II, he was scientific assistant with the Road Research Laboratory.

In the 1950s, he served as a Labour Party councillor in Hertfordshire; he later became a founder member of the Social Democratic party.

CEGB
Glyn started working for the Central Electricity Generating Board as an electrical engineer supervising installation work. He finished up as chairman from 1977 to 1982, taking over from Sir Arthur Hawkins and being replaced by Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring.

A deal was signed with Glyn of the CEGB and Charles Chevrier, director-general of Électricité de France for the construction of a £550 million 2000MW HVDC Cross-Channel link between England and France. Each would cover the cost of four of the eight cables crossing the channel.

In 1981 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath.

References

1921 births
2013 deaths
British electrical engineers
People educated at Stanwell School
People from Llantrisant
Xitieshanite. Xitieshanite is a hydrous iron sulfate–chloride mineral with chemical formula: Fe3+(SO4)Cl·6(H2O).

It was discovered in 1983 and named for the discovery location of Xitieshan lead/zinc ore deposit in the Qinghai Province, China. It was approved by the IMA in the year of its discovery. The mineral has also been reported in 2005 from acid mine drainage from a coal mine in Green Valley, Vigo County, Indiana.

Properties 
Xitieshanite mainly consists of oxygen (56.14%) and iron (17.82%), but otherwise contains chlorine (11.31%), sulphur (10.23%) and hydrogen (4.50%). This mineral grown in lead-zinc mines, in the oxidation zone of it. Xitieshanite is a pleochroic mineral, which is an optical phenomenon, meaning the mineral appears as if it's changing colors depending on the axis it is being inspected at. On the X axis it appears as it's colorless, while it looks pale yellow if viewed on the Y axis, and light greenish yellow on the Z axis. It doesn't show any radioactive properties whatsoever.

References

Iron(III) minerals
Sulfate minerals
Halide minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 14
Kulekhani Reservoir. The Kulekhani Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Kulekhani River near Kulekhani in the Indrasarowar Rural Municipality of Makwanpur District in Bagmati Province, Nepal. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports the 60 MW Kulekhani I, 32 MW Kulekhani II and 14 MW Kulekhani III   Hydropower Stations. Construction began in 1977 and Kulekhani I was commissioned in 1982. Kulekhani II was commissioned in 1986 and a third power station, the 14 MW Kulekhani III was expected to be commissioned in May 2015 but was delayed due to issues with the builder. The US$117.84 million project received funding from the World Bank, Kuwait Fund, UNDP, Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund and OPEC Fund. It is owned by Nepal Electricity Authority.

The  tall dam creates a reservoir called Indra Sarobar which stores  of water.

The Kulekhani Dam in Nepal has a total installed capacity of 106 megawatts (MW):
 Kulekhani I: 60 MW installed capacity
 Kulekhani II: 32 MW installed capacity
 Kulekhani III: 14 MW installed capacity

Kulekhani I hydropower station
From the reservoir, water is sent to the Kulekhani I Hydropower Station via a  headrace tunnel to a gate house which controls the flow of water to the power station. From the gate house water travels down a  long penstock where it reaches the underground power station. It contains two 30 MW Pelton turbine-generators. The difference in elevation between the reservoir and the power station affords a net hydraulic head of .

Kulekhani II hydropower station
Water discharged from the Kulekhani I power station enters a series of tunnels and diversions where it reaches the Kulekhani II Hydropower Station which is also located underground and contains two 16 MW Francis turbine-generators. The elevation difference between the reservoir and the power station affords a net hydraulic head of . The dam and reservoir are in the Bagmati River basin while the power stations are in the Rapti River basin.

Kulekhani III hydropower station
Construction of the Kulekhani III Hydropower Station had been underway since 2008 and is now finally complete as of 2019. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) had extended the completion deadline of the Kulekhani 3 Hydropower Project for the fifth time to January 2018 as construction was running late due to its slowpoke contractor. The project’s civil contractor Sino Hydro has completed 100 percent of the construction, and there has been full progress in the installation of the turbine, water gate and transmission lines to evacuate the electricity generated by the plant. It will use the tailwaters of Kulekhani II and have an installed capacity of 14 MW.

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Dams in Nepal
Hydroelectric power stations in Nepal
Rock-filled dams
Dams completed in 1982
Interbasin transfer
Energy infrastructure completed in 1982
Energy infrastructure completed in 1986
Buildings and structures in Makwanpur District
Indrasarowar Rural Municipality
Underground power stations
1982 establishments in Nepal
Artificial lakes of Nepal
Xocolatlite. Xocolatlite is a sulfate mineral named for its chocolatey appearance. Discovered in the La Bambolla gold mine of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, Xocolatlite's name is derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl (literally "bitter water"; a root word of "chocolate"), a drink made from cocoa, water, and chili.

References

Sulfate minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 10
Abernethy v Mott, Hay and Anderson. Abernethy v Mott, Hay and Anderson [1974] ICR 323 is a UK labour law case, concerning unfair dismissal.

Facts
Mr. Abernethy, a civil engineer, claimed unfair dismissal under the Industrial Relations Act 1971, Section 24, from his firm of 20 years, Mott, Hay and Anderson, after declining a secondment to work for the Greater London Council and then being told he was redundant. He was offered £850 in redundancy and £750 ex gratia. They argued he was either redundant or incapable of doing the work the employers wanted him to do.

The Tribunal held he was not redundant, but the employers had shown he was incapable and it was not unfair. The National Industrial Relations Court dismissed his appeal. Unwillingness to work related to capability.

Judgment
The Court of Appeal held the dismissal was fair, and the employer did not act unfairly by failing initially to give the principal reason to the employee for dismissal. Lord Denning MR said the following:

Cairns LJ held that although the employer was wrong to say he was redundant to begin with, it could reformulate the real reason for dismissal as a different one, and if that was fair, it was valid. An employer could give a false reason because he wished to not hurt the worker's feelings, though he might later have trouble giving evidence that the real reason was fair, and it could constitute a breach of procedural fairness in not giving the worker the accurate charge. Alternatively there could be a mistake of language.

James LJ concurred.

Notes

United Kingdom labour case law
Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases
1974 in United Kingdom case law
Lord Denning cases
7440th Composite Wing. The 7440th Composite Wing (Provisional) was a Major Air Command-controlled (MAJCON) temporary wing of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), active in Turkey in 1991. The concentration of aircraft under the 7440th Wing's control made possible the opening of a "northern front" against Iraq, via Turkey, during the 1991 Gulf War.

Formation
By late December 1990, there was already a formidable arsenal of USAFE airpower deployed to Turkey: 20 F-111Es, 24 F-16Cs, 10 F-15Cs, and 4 SAC KC-135s.  These aircraft were in Turkey for various reasons including rotational training, a NATO exercise, and NATO alert duty, but remained under control of their respective home units. Eventually more than 100 USAFE aircraft and 2,600 personnel deployed to Incirlik. However, if Turkey approved the task force's activation, Joint Task Force Proven Force could absorb all of these assets and the others it required.

Operations
The Turkish government finally approved the JTF on 15 January 1991. The following day, USAFE activated the Wing and began the command's largest Desert Shield deployment, bringing the total number of aircraft at Incirlik to 110. However, it was not until 17 January, the first day of Desert Storm, that Turkey approved operations from Incirlik. Therefore, JTF Proven Force entered the war on Day Two.

In January 1991, USAFE leadership deployed USAF officers from the 16th Air Force Regional Cost Center (based at Torrejon AB, Spain) to compile and prepare a report on the overall cost effectiveness and efficiencies of operating  an active, wartime Composite Wing.  

The 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing deployed six F-4Es to join the 7440th Wing in early 1991, flying an 18,600-mile deployment. They were mission ready within 36 hours and they flew some of that aircraft's last combat sorties. The 20th Tactical Fighter Wing had aircraft deployed to Incirlik for a Weapons Training Deployment in August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait. As the start of the air campaign neared, the 20th TFW reinforced its presence, as all US aircraft at Incirlik were incorporated into the 7440th Composite Wing (Provisional).

Following Desert Storm, the 7440th Wing conducted all initial planning, logistics, and air operations for Operation Provide Comfort, airlift missions to supply over 1 million Kurdish refugees in the mountains of Northern Iraq. In the 31 days of airlift operations without benefit of friendly ground forces at the drop zones, the 6-nation airlift dropped more tonnage and flew more miles than the entire Berlin Airlift. As Provide Comfort continued after the introduction of 10th Special Forces into the refugee camps, the 7440th transitioned into Joint Task Force Provide Comfort. The initial airlift was under the command of Colonel Chuck Wald with Lt. Colonel Mike DeCapua as planning and intelligence section chief.

Composition

See also
 Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War

References

Major command controlled wings of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations established in 1991
1991 establishments in the United States
Nano differential scanning fluorimetry. NanoDSF is a type of differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) method used to determine conformational protein stability by employing intrinsic tryptophan or tyrosine fluorescence, as opposed to the use of extrinsic fluorogenic dyes that are typically monitored via a qPCR instrument. A nanoDSF assay is also known as a type of Thermal Shift Assay. 

Protein stability is typically addressed by thermal or chemical unfolding experiments. In thermal unfolding experiments, a linear temperature ramp is applied to unfold proteins, whereas chemical unfolding experiments use chemical denaturants in increasing concentrations. The thermal stability of a protein is typically described by the 'melting temperature' or 'Tm', at which 50% of the protein population is unfolded, corresponding to the midpoint of the transition from folded to unfolded.

In contrast to conventional DSF methods, nanoDSF uses tryptophan or tyrosine fluorescence to monitor protein unfolding. Both the fluorescence intensity and the fluorescence maximum strongly depend on the close chemical environment of the tryptophan. Typically, interior tryptophan residues in a more hydrophobic environment exhibit a notable emission red shift from approximately 330 nm to 350 nm upon protein unfolding and exposure to water. Quantification of these fluorescence wavelength shifts at various temperature intervals yields a measurement of Tm. Accepted methods to detect and quantify the fluorescence wavelength shift include measuring the intensity at a single wavelength, computing a ratio of the intensity at two wavelengths (typically 330 nm and 350 nm), or calculating the barycentric mean (BCM) by measuring the center of mass of the fluorescence waveform. The latter BCM method takes advantage of the entire UV-fluorescence spectrum, thus allowing for flexibility when auto-fluorescent small molecules are present.

Applications of nanoDSF include protein or antibody engineering, membrane protein research, quality control and formulation development, and ligand binding. NanoDSF has also been utilized to rapidly evaluate the melting points of enzyme libraries for biotechnological applications.

Currently there are at least four instruments on the market that can measure fluorescence wavelength shifts in a high-throughput manner while heating the samples through a defined temperature ramp. These instruments employ either proprietary quartz capillaries, cartridges, or plates or generic high-throughput 384-well plastic plates for sample analysis.

Applications 
The nanoDSF technology was used to confirm on-target binding of BI-3231 to HSD17B13 and to elucidate its uncompetitive mode of inhibition with regards to NAD+.

NanoDSF was used to compare the thermal stability of a matched set of anti-CD20 antibodies representing a range of variants. The results revealed a spectrum of activities.

References

Further reading 

 
 

Biochemistry methods
Protein methods
Biophysics
Molecular biology
Laboratory techniques
Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company. Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC)  is the only petrochemical producing company headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain and sells its products both locally and exports to other gulf countries and beyond, including U.S., China, India, Pakistan among others.

GPIC is jointly owned by three major governmental institutions, namely, Bapco energies from the Kingdom of Bahrain, SABIC Agri-nutrient Investments from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) from the State of Kuwait.

Established with a paid-up capital of $160 million, the Company employs 420 people of whom 92% are Bahrainis.

Its operations that involve natural gas purchases, employment and training of Bahraini nationals, utilization of local contractors, power consumption and other financial and commercial operations inject around $270 million annually into the national economy. GPIC uses natural gas which is available locally, as a basis for the production of ammonia, urea and methanol, which are its sole products.

It produces: Ammonia, Methanol, and Urea.

Corporate management
The company’s Board of Directors  comprises representatives from the three shareholding states and is chaired by H.E. Eng. Kamal Bin Ahmed Mohammed The company’s executive management is led by Yasser A.Rahim Alabbasi as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

References

Petrochemical companies
Oil and gas companies of Bahrain
1979 establishments in Bahrain
Brian Dunne. Brian Boru Dunne II (January 8, 1924 - November 30, 2017) was Project Orion's chief scientist. Dunne worked on explosive model tests in Point Loma, San Diego alongside Jerry Astl and Morris Scharff. He continued to work for General Atomics and later started his own firm called Ship Systems.

Project Orion 
Dunne was the chief experimental scientist on Project Orion. He worked on Project Orion as an experimentalist. Dunne and Howard Kratz set up a facility for firing explosive-driven plasma jets as sample pusher-plate targets, after explosive-driven flights were cancelled.

Media appearances 
 History Undercover: Code Name Project Orion (1999) 
 To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (BBC, 2003)

References

2017 deaths
1924 births
American scientists
Aeronautical engineers
IRNSS-1F. IRNSS-1F is the sixth navigation satellite out of seven in the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) series of satellites after IRNSS-1A, IRNSS-1B, IRNSS-1C, IRNSS-1D and IRNSS-1E. The satellite is one among the seven of the IRNSS constellation of satellites launched to provide navigational services to the region.

Launch 
It was launched aboard a PSLV-XL rocket bearing flight number C32 and was successfully put into geosynchronous orbit at 1601 hrs IST on 10 March 2016.

Spacecraft 
The satellite carries two types of payloads. The navigation payload transmit navigation service signals to users and ranging payload consists of C-band transponder that facilitates accurate determination of the range of the satellite.

It carries Corner Cube Retro Reflectors for laser ranging.

IRNSS-1F has a 12-year mission life.

See also

 Communication-Centric Intelligence Satellite (CCI-Sat)
 GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN)
 Satellite navigation

References

External links 
 ISRO Future Programmes
 IRNSS 1F Real time tracking

Spacecraft launched by India in 2016
IRNSS satellites
Spacecraft launched by PSLV rockets
Kunal Bahl. Kunal Bahl is an Indian technology entrepreneur and investor.

Early life
Bahl was born in India and had completed his initial school education at Delhi Public School R. K. Puram (DPS) New Delhi. He applied to the University of Pennsylvania and received admission. He graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, earning two bachelor's degrees in Entrepreneurship, Operation & Information Management from The Wharton School and Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He finished an executive marketing program from Kellogg School of Management. He worked with Microsoft for a short period, as he went back to India due to a visa issue in 2007.

Career
Bahl co-founded the e-commerce company Snapdeal in 2010. In 2022, the company assumed the group corporate identity of AceVector, which houses multiple businesses such as Snapdeal, Unicommerce, and Stellaro Brands.

He is the Promoter of Unicommerce, a SaaS company in India, which had its IPO in 2024 becoming on the most highly subscribed IPOs of the year.

He is also the Co-founder of Titan Capital, an early stage venture capital firm in India and has invested in companies like Ola, Urban Company, Mamaearth, Credgenics, Shadowfax, Razorpay, Giva, among others. Famously Titan Capital, which invests the personal funds of Kunal and Rohit Bansal, has made returns of over 100 times in many investments like Ola, Urban Company, Mamaearth, among others.

Bahl has also been involved with various industry associations and think-tanks. He has been on the board of governors of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a member of the executive council of NASSCOM, and the chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on E-commerce. He also serves on the National Startup Advisory Council, a committee to advise the Indian government on efforts needed to build a strong startup ecosystem.

He also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Piramal Enterprises, an Indian conglomerate.

Television
Kunal was one of the three main judges and investors in Prime Video's reality TV show "Mission Start Ab" aired on 19 December 2023. He is also one of the sharks and investors in Shark Tank India Season 4 which is being aired on Sony Liv

Awards and recognitions
 BMA Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 
 ET Top 50 Entrepreneur of India 2014
 Ranked 25 on Fortune 40 under 40 most influential business leaders list 2014 
 EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Startup 2014 
 Nasscom NextGen Entrepreneur 2014 
The Economic Times Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2015
 AIMA Transformational Business Leader of the Year 
 Indian Affairs Business Leader of the Year 2015 
The Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership 2018
The Economic Times Comeback Award 2019

Personal life
Bahl is married to Yashna, who ran a confectionery business.

References

Living people
Businesspeople from New Delhi
Wharton School alumni
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Kellogg School of Management alumni
Indian chief executives
1984 births
People from Delhi
Shark Tank India
German trawler V 1502 Wiking 6. V 1502 Wiking 6 was a German Vorpostenboot built in 1939 as the whaler Wiking 6. Requisition by the Kriegsmarine, she served throughout World War II as V 1502 Wiking 6 and the Flakjäger FlJ 24 Wiking 6 before being seized by the Royal Navy at Emden on 29 October 1945 and renamed Empire Viking VI. Allocated to the Soviet Union in 1946, she was renamed Slava II.

Description
The ship was  long, with a beam of  and a depth of . She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine which had cylinders of 43 cm (16 in), 72 cm (28 in) and 120 cm (47 in) diameter by 68 cm (26 in) stroke. It drove a single screw propeller and was rated at 217 nhp.

History
Wiking 6 was built as a whaler by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Wesermünde for Deutsche Ölmülen Rohstoffe GmbH, Hamburg. Her port of registry was Hamburg and the Code Letters DKAP were allocated. She was operated under the management of the Hamburger Walfang Kantor GmbH. In 1939, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine, serving from 25 October with 15 Vorpostenflotille as the Vorpostenboot V 1502 Wiking 6. She was redesignated as a Flakjäger in 1940, serving as the Flakjäger FlJ 24 Wiking 6.

On 29 October 1945, FlJ 24 Wiking 6 was seized by the Royal Navy as a prize of war at Emden. She was passed to the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Viking VI. The Code Letters GSBX were allocated and her port of registry was changed to London. She was sent to the Southern Ocean in November 1945. On 7 December, she was allocated to the Soviet Union by the Tripartite Merchant Marine Commission in Berlin. She was handed over to the Soviet Union in September 1946 in London. She was renamed Slava II.

Possible fate
Slava II may have been in service until 2012. On 31 October 2012, a ship of that name was severely damaged by fire at Kachemak, Alaska, United States when a man tried to commit suicide on board by pouring flammable liquid over himself and setting fire to it.

See also 
 List of Vorpostenboote in World War II
 List of Empire ships (U–Z)

References 

Ships built in Bremen (state)
1939 ships
Whaling ships
Merchant ships of Germany
Steamships of Germany
World War II auxiliary ships of Germany
Ministry of War Transport ships
Empire ships
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Merchant ships of the Soviet Union
Steamships of the Soviet Union