omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Countermine System. The Countermine System (CMS), also known as Venom Darts, Venom Penetrators and GBU-61, is an anti-land-mine system consisting of chemical or explosive projectiles released from modified GPS-guided bombs. The darts are used to detonate or deactivate land mines in beach and surf zones. The system was developed by the United States (U.S.) Navy and Boeing at an initial cost of US$153-million. The CMS is expected to be field ready by 2016.

Description
The CMS typically consists of 4,000 .50-caliber darts containing the chemical Diethylenetriamine (DETA) or a small amount of explosive, carried by  GPS-guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) systems. The tungsten tipped darts, each about  long, are clustered in multiple layers within a  tubular canister contained within the JDAM.

The system uses data from the Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis (COBRA) system to locate surf zone mines. This positional data is used to program JDAM Assault Breaching System (JABS) bombs, which are dropped over mine fields from Air Force or Navy aircraft from an altitude of about . The JDAM bombs, identical in form to BLU-109 bombs, are equipped with a corkscrew mechanism that releases the inner canister with a rotational motion, causing panels to separate and the payload of darts to deploy in a  diameter circular pattern. The darts penetrate the soil, or water and sand, at a velocity of  per second. The darts, capable of penetrating more than  of water or  of sand, either detonate or deactivate the land mines. Remaining unactivated darts eventually become inert.

Each CMS unit has a projected cost of $300,000 to $360,000.

Development
The system was developed by the U.S. Office of Naval Research to address the problem of 70 million hidden land mines, some which have killed or maimed more than 13,000 U.S. soldiers since 2001. In 2008, the Naval Surface Warfare Center awarded a $153-million contract to Boeing to design and develop the system, along with a project team of defense contractors including Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Nammo-Talley Defense Systems. The CMS is expected to be field operational by 2016.

See also
  AMMAD

References

External links
 US Navy - Countermine System Fact Sheet
 Countermine dart system and method - patent grant

Equipment of the United States Navy
Mine warfare countermeasures
Military technology
Jeff Ellis (recording engineer). Jeff Ellis (born 16 July 1984)  is an American recording engineer and mix engineer.  His most notable work was featured on both of Frank Ocean's critically acclaimed albums: Channel Orange, and Blonde.

Career 

In 2009, after changing careers from finance to music, Ellis garnered an internship at EastWest Studios, formerly United/Western Recorders, where artists such as Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys once recorded. When his internship ended, Ellis was asked to join the staff as an assistant musical engineer.

In 2012, Ellis became the engineer for recording artist Frank Ocean when he arrived at EastWest Studios to record a track for his debut album, Channel Orange.  Ellis developed a working relationship with Ocean and was offered the opportunity to freelance full-time on the remainder of the project.  Channel Orange was a critical success, earning Ellis a 2013 Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album, as well as a nomination for Album of the Year.  The album also includes the Record Of The Year-nominated track "Thinkin Bout You" a song that Ellis mixed.

Ellis continued to work with Frank Ocean from 2012 to 2016 on his follow up album Blonde. Ellis has also worked with such notable artists such as Akon, Skylar Grey, Nick Jonas, Pernille Rosendahl and Kate Nash, whose album Made of Bricks hit #1 on the UK album chart in 2007.

Awards and nominations

Notable credits

References 

1984 births
Living people
American audio engineers
Grammy Award winners
List of educational institutions in Tirunelveli district. Tirunelveli ranks high for the number of educational institutions in districts of Tamil Nadu.  The following is the list of educational institutions in the district.

Universities

Arts & Science Colleges

Law Colleges

B.ed Colleges

Community Colleges

Medical colleges

Para-Medical Colleges (Tenkasi & Ambasamudram )

Distance Education Institution

Computer Education Institutions

Engineering Colleges

References

Education in Tirunelveli district
Tirunelveli
Flylight Motorfloater. The Flylight Motorfloater is a British ultralight trike, designed by Ben Ashman and produced by Flylight Airsports of Northamptonshire. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The Motorfloater was introduced at the Flying Show in Birmingham in 2010.

Design and development
The Motorfloater is intended as a simple, light and inexpensive aircraft with an emphasis on ease of handling and enjoyment, rather than speed. It was derived from the more complex Flylight Dragonfly and designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category as well as the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit without a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear without wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its standard  span Aeros Fox 16T wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Powerplants available are the single cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke,  Bailey V4 200 engine and the single cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke,  Simonini Mini 2 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the standard Aeros Fox 16T, Aeros Discus 14T and 15T as well as the Aeros Combat 12T.

Specifications (Motorfloater with Fox 16T wing)

References

External links

2010s British sport aircraft
2010s British ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Geworkbench. geWorkbench (genomics Workbench) is an open-source software platform for integrated genomic data analysis.  It is a desktop application written in the programming language Java. geWorkbench uses a component architecture. , there are more than 70 plug-ins available, providing for the visualization and analysis of gene expression, sequence, and structure data.
 
geWorkbench is the Bioinformatics platform of MAGNet, the National Center for the Multi-scale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks, one of the 8 National Centers for Biomedical Computing funded through the NIH Roadmap (NIH Common Fund). Many systems and structure biology tools developed by MAGNet investigators are available as geWorkbench plugins.

Features
 Computational analysis tools such as t-test, hierarchical clustering, self-organizing maps, regulatory network reconstruction, BLAST searches, pattern-motif discovery, protein structure prediction, structure-based protein annotation, etc.  
 Visualization of gene expression (heatmaps, volcano plot), molecular interaction networks (through Cytoscape), protein sequence and protein structure data (e.g., MarkUs). 
 Integration of gene and pathway annotation information from curated sources as well as through Gene Ontology enrichment analysis. 
 Component integration through platform management of inputs and outputs.  Among data that can be shared between components are expression datasets, interaction networks, sample and marker (gene) sets and sequences.
 Dataset history tracking - complete record of data sets used and input settings.
 Integration with 3rd party tools such as Genepattern, Cytoscape, and Genomespace.

Demonstrations of each feature described can be found atGeWorkbench-web Tutorials.

Versions
 geWorkbench is open-source software that can be downloaded and installed locally.  A zip file of the released version Java source is also available.
 Prepackaged installer versions also exist for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

See also
 Genome Compiler

References

External links
 , includes installation, tutorials, FAQs, known issues
 - geworkbench release downloads
 - geWorkbench plugins

Bioinformatics software
Software using the BSD license
Cluster analysis
Systems biology
Protein structure
Gene expression
Indian locomotive class XP. The Indian locomotive class XP was a class of experimental  "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on  broad gauge lines in India.

The two members of the class were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, to an order placed by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) in 1935.

Background
The class XP was intended to have the power of the class XC heavy passenger Pacific locomotives, but the operating area of the light axle load class XB Pacifics.

The performance objectives set for the class XP were running mileages of  between overhauls, and a monthly average mileage of . Both of these objectives were very ambitious for the time.

Design details
The basis for the class XP design was the boiler and firebox of the XB, with some modification to their details.  The wheels and cylinders of the two classes had the same dimensions.

The XP's boiler pressure was higher, and its tractive effort was greater, than those of both the XB and the XC.

Both class XP locomotives were fitted with Caprotti valve gear, and roller bearings on all engine and tender wheels.  The class leader's bearings were supplied by Timken, and its class mate's bearings were by Skefco.

In 1946, when the Indian government ordered the 16 class WP prototypes, their design was based on that of the class XP.

Service history
The class XP locomotives entered service with the GIPR in 1937, as nos. 3100 and 3101.

The class leader was named King George, in honour of the then King-Emperor of India, and the other class XP engine was named Queen Elizabeth, after the then Queen-Empress.

In November 1951, the GIPR was incorporated into the Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways.  In the All-India renumbering of 1957, the two class XP locomotives were given the numbers 22599 and 22600, respectively.

Both locomotives had been withdrawn from service by 1970.

See also

Indian Railways
Locomotives of India

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

 – features a works photo of a class XP locomotive

Railway locomotives introduced in 1937
XP
Vulcan Foundry locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
5 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Passenger locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
John Fothergill (engineer). John Fothergill (born in 1953 in Malta) is pro-vice-chancellor of City University London. He was formerly head of engineering, dean of science and pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IEE, and the Institute of Physics.

He has over 120 refereed papers and over 20 postgraduate students

Early life and education
John Charles Fothergill was born in Malta. He lived in London and in Fish Hoek South Africa before settling in Iver Heath at the age of 10.  He attended Slough Grammar School (now Upton Court Grammar School) and won prizes in Music and Mathematics. He graduated from the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) with a BSc (Hons) in Electronic Engineering (1975), an MSc in Electronic Materials and Devices (1976), and a PhD in the Dielectric Properties of Biopolymers (1980) which he studied with Profs Ron Pethig and John Lewis.

Career
He worked at the Standard Telecommunication Laboratories from 1979 to 1984 as a senior research engineer on high-voltage power cables.

In 1984, he moved to the University of Leicester as a lecturer. He was promoted to professor in 2000 and was head of the Electrical Power and Power Electronics Research Group, dean of science, pro vice-chancellor (learning and teaching), and head of the Department of Engineering.  He remains an honorary visiting professor at the University of Leicester.

In 2012, he became pro vice-chancellor (research and enterprise) at City University London.

He is a visiting professor at the Three Gorges University and Taiyuan University of Technology, China.

External References
 http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2012/apr/professor-john-fothergill-appointed-pro-vice-chancellor-at-city-university-london
 http://www2.le.ac.uk/staff/community/people/staffupdates/professor-john-fothergill
 https://web.archive.org/web/20070610121926/http://www.le.ac.uk/engineering/research/groups/power/staff/fothergill.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20130624071948/http://johnfothergill.co.uk/

References

1953 births
Maltese emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from Slough
People educated at Upton Court Grammar School
Alumni of Bangor University
Academics of the University of Leicester
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Fellows of the IEEE
English engineers
Living people
People associated with City, University of London
Vice-chancellors of the University of Leicester
Sky Shield. Sky Shield is an advanced airborne electronic warfare system for fighter jets developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel.

The electronic warfare pod is an all-inclusive multi-purpose escort jammer and electronic attack system. Sky Shield engages enemy radars in hostile environments, providing comprehensive electronic countermeasures against enemy threats. The system creates a corridor for multiple attacking aircraft, thus increasing aircraft survivability in time and providing attack options. The Sky Shield pod covers the frequency spectrum range from D band to Ku band and includes a digital interferometer system for signal detection, a DRFM-based technique generator and a modular solid-state active electronically scanned array transmitter for jamming.

The system was purchased by the Brazilian Air Force in 2006 for its AMX A-1 fighter aircraft for SEAD missions.

In February 2022, Rafael announced finalization of the development and conduction of flight testing of a new generation of Sky Shield for an undisclosed customer.

External links
Deagel.com-Guide to world military aircraft
Rafael website

References 

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Electronic countermeasures
Robert Rex Seeber Jr.. Robert Rex Seeber Jr. (1910-1969), an inventor at IBM, co-invented the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC).  He was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated with an A.B. from Harvard University in 1932. He died in La Jolla, California. His primary research contributions were in computer systems design, and associative memories and processors.

As a mathematician, Seeber began his career as section head, actuarial, at the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., from 1932-42. From 1942-45, he did civilian research on submarine, anti-submarine, air, and anti-air operations for the U.S. Navy. He also performed mathematical computing for the Navy.

The balance of Seeber's professional life was as a computer architect and inventor at International Business Machines Corp. from 1945-68.  Seeber's first project at IBM was the SSEC. He was an advocate of modifiable instruction sets. For this machine was developed the stored-program concept, the basis of modern computing machines. As a senior staff member of the Department of Pure Science for IBM, he was responsible for supervision of the computation and educational activities at the Watson Laboratory.

Seeber was also the inventor of the "Wordwriter" an IBM Selectric typewriter with a memory capable of storing 42 eighteen-character words and phrases, selected by the operator. Stored words were selected by pressing a foot pedal at the same time as striking the letter to which the word is keyed. The machine featured optional automatic capitalization and hyphenation.

Partial list of awards
 Naval Ordnance development award, 1944.
 Division of War reserves award, Columbia University, 1944.
 Office of Scientific Research and Development, Certificate of Merit, 1945.

References

 American Men of Science: A Biological Directory, The Physical and Biological Sciences, Supplement 4, edited by The Jaques Cattell Press, Eleventh Edition. R.R. Bowker Company. New York & London. 1968. p. 520.
 Mary Ellen Thomsen, "Typist's Dream" in Harvard Alumni Bulletin, January 14, 1956.   
 Charles J. Bache, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh, IBM's Early Computers. MIT Press. 1986.
 Emerson William Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. MIT Press. 1991. p. 681.

1910 births
1969 deaths
Harvard University alumni
IBM employees
People from Detroit
Ryoichi Nakagawa. was a Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1936 and joined Nakajima Aircraft Company in the same year.

Career
He improved Nakajima Sakae engine for Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Nakajima Ki-43 and other planes. He was the chief designer of Nakajima Homare engine for Nakajima Ki-84, Nakajima C6N, Kawanishi N1K and others.

After World War II, Nakajima Aircraft Company was disbanded and was banned from producing aircraft by the GHQ. It was divided into 12 companies. Two of them were Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) and Fuji Precision Industries (Prince Motors). Prince Motor Company operated out of the old Nakajima premises in Ogikubo, Tokyo and Nakagawa was appointed the senior engineering manager, leading its engineers. He supervised all the Prince vehicles projects including Skyline, Gloria, R380, S390P-1 Royal limousine and others. Nakagawa was the motivating force behind Prince's early use of Italian design houses, and went on to use the knowledge gained to promote and guide Japanese designers like his protégé Shinichiro Sakurai.

He received a Doctorate of Engineering from his old school Tokyo University in 1961.

After the merger of Prince and Nissan in August 1966, he was promoted to the senior executive director of Nissan in 1969.

Later he became the chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. (JSAE). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.

He died on July 30, 1998.

See also

Nakajima Aircraft Company
Nakajima Sakae
Nakajima Homare
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Nakajima Ki-43
Nakajima Ki-84
Nakajima C6N
Kawanishi N1K
Prince Motor Company
Prince G engine
Prince Skyline
Prince Gloria
Prince R380
Prince Royal
Jiro Tanaka
Shinichiro Sakurai
Nissan
Nissan S20 engine
Nissan R382

References 

1913 births
1998 deaths
Japanese automotive pioneers
Japanese aerospace engineers
Japanese automotive engineers
Japanese founders of automobile manufacturers
Nissan people
Businesspeople from Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
Japanese business executives
Corporate executives in the automobile industry
Felix Giles (engineer). Felix Gordon Giles, DSO (23 November 1885—22 June 1950) was an Australian engineer who served as an officer in ANZAC's 10th Battalion during World War I.

Early life and education 
Giles was born in Darwin on 23 November 1885 to Alfred Giles and Mary Augusta Giles (née Sprigg). He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and passed a three-year course at the School of Mines in electrical engineering. Giles married Elsie Kilpack on 24 July 24, 1909. He worked for the electrical branch of the General Post Office and later the Adelaide Electric Lighting and Traction Company.

Military career 
Giles enlisted in the South Australian Scottish Infantry in May 1908 and rose through the ranks. He was promoted to corporal in March 1910, to sergeant in September 1910 and to 2nd lieutenant on 21 August 1911. After the outbreak of World War I Giles was transferred to the Australian Imperial Force and assigned command of the 10th Battalion's G Company. In January 1915, when his company was merged with D Company, Giles became second-in-command of the company.

Giles was promoted to captain in September 1914. He participated in the Gallipoli Campaign, assuming command of D Company when the company commander was wounded. He was one of only four officers within the 3rd Brigade to serve continuously from the first landing to the evacuation.

In March 1916 Giles was promoted to major. At the Battle of Pozières he was gassed and suffered multiple concussions from near misses of high explosive shells. He persisted and led his men into defensive positions, conduct that brought him the second recommendation for the DSO. His coolness under fire was praised by his fellow officers. In January 1917 Giles suffered from shell shock after being wounded during a reconnaissance.
His conduct at the capture of Le Barque, where he harassed the German rearguard during their withdrawal, earned him a mention in Alexander Haig's dispatches on 9 April 2017, and later that year he was awarded the DSO for "services rendered in the prosecution of the war".

After the war Giles resumed his civilian work as an electrical engineer. He became a meter superintendent with the Adelaide Electric Supply Company.

References 

1885 births
1950 deaths
Australian military personnel of World War I
Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
People from Darwin, Northern Territory
Military personnel from the Northern Territory
William E. Glenn. William Ellis Glenn (May 12, 1926 – July 13, 2013) was an American inventor and Professor at Florida Atlantic University best known for his contributions to imaging technology. Glenn was awarded 136 U.S. patents, has worked as head of NASA Imaging Technology Commercial Space Center, as well as head of FAU's Imaging Technology Center and is among the most prolific commercially viable inventors in America. In 1978, the digital noise reducer invented by him, earned NYIT its first television Emmy award. Glenn directed NYIT's former Science and Technology Research Center in Florida, where he also developed his invention. The digital noise reducer received a patent in 3-D technology in 1979.

References 

1926 births
2013 deaths
20th-century American inventors
Florida Atlantic University faculty
United States Navy personnel of World War II
American Presbyterians
New York Institute of Technology faculty
United States Navy officers
Indian locomotive class WL (1939). The Indian locomotive class WL of 1939 was a class of  "Pacific"-type steam locomotives used on  broad gauge lines in British India, and then in post-partition Pakistan.

Classes 
The four members of the class were built for the North Western Railway (of British India) by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, in 1939, and were delivered the following year.  Upon the partition of India in 1947, they all went to Pakistan.

The class WL of 1939 is not to be confused with the Indian locomotive class WL of 1955, the first ten members of which were also built by Vulcan Foundry.  According to Vulcan Foundry's publicity material, the two classes bore no resemblance to each other.

Class table

See also

Rail transport in India#History
History of rail transport in Pakistan
Locomotives of India
Pakistan Railways

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

 – features a works photo of a class WL (1939) locomotive

Railway locomotives introduced in 1940
WL (1939)
WL
Vulcan Foundry locomotives
4-6-2 locomotives
5 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Passenger locomotives
Scrapped locomotives