omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Total project control. Total project control (TPC) is a project management method that emphasizes continuous tracking and optimization of return on investment (ROI).  It was developed by Stephen Devaux.  It builds upon earlier techniques such as earned value management, critical path method, and program evaluation and review technique, but uses these to track and index projected project profitability as well as the more traditional cost and schedule.  In this way it aims to manage projects as profit and investment centers, rather than cost centers.

Introduced with TPC are a variety of project management metrics and techniques, among them critical path drag, the value breakdown structure (VBS), Devaux's Index of Project Performance (the DIPP), Doubled Resource Estimated Duration (DRED), and Cost of Leveling with Unresolved Bottlenecks (CLUB).

The Project Management Institute's monthly magazine PM Network reviewed the TPC methodology as making "solid points about what can be done to maximize ROI during project execution." In a 2015 PMI white paper on organizational project management, Joseph Sopko wrote about the DIPP:  "The effect of project delivery of any new capability on program NPV should always be quantified and communicated to the project team by the project sponsor... DIPP is the ratio of EMV divided by ETC. As either the EMV is improved or the ETC is reduced, the effect on project value contribution is quantified." He also wrote: "Tools and practices for managing projects and programs as investments have been defined... For example, critical path drag is a concept for evaluating how much any activity along the critical path can be shortened to optimize the project duration."

Later enhancements

Since the total project control approach was introduced in the first edition of Devaux's 1999 book by that title, others have extended both the theory and the practice. In 2013, Tomoichi Sato of JGC Corporation in Yokohama suggested an "extended DIPP" based on risk-based project value. He wrote: "The key concept of Simple DIPP is to obtain the ratio of expected income to cost ETC, neglecting sunk costs in the past. Using  RPV  instead  of  expected  income,  the  author proposes  a criterion  "extended  DIPP".  This represents the ratio of remaining RPV to cost ETC.  If there are project alternatives which are mutually independent, the one with the highest extended DIPP should be chosen... To maximize the project portfolio value of a company, extended DIPP can be used as criteria for prioritisation."

Additionally, critical path drag calculation has been coded into project scheduling software, both in Spider Project and as an add-on product to Microsoft Project from Boyle Project Consulting, PLLC.

Sources

Further reading
 Wideman, R. Max (2004). Total Project Control: A book review
 Gideon Koch (2013) . Value Breakdown Structure VBS
 Kjetil Strand (June 3, 2014), “ACE Introduces the Value Breakdown Structure!” 
 Stephen A. Devaux (June 16, 2014), “The Value Breakdown Structure: Features and Benefits”. 

Project management techniques
ERacks. eRacks Open Source Systems was founded in 1999.  The company provides computer systems based on open-source software, including various distributions of Linux, *BSD and OpenSolaris, and manufactures rack-mounted servers (including NAS systems, firewalls, mail and web servers), desktops, laptops and netbooks.

Business
eRacks also manufactures quiet systems for recording studios.

References

Computer storage companies
Computer hardware companies
Computer companies of the United States
Red heat (disambiguation). Red heat is a practice of using colours to determine the temperature of metal

Red Heat  may also refer to:

 Red Heat (1985 film), a 1985 film starring Linda Blair
 Red Heat (1988 film), a 1988 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi
 Red Heat (video game), a 1989 video game based on the film
 Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean, a 2010 history book by Alex von Tunzelmann
 Red Heat, a 2000 album by American jazz bassist Jimmy Haslip

See also
 Red hot (disambiguation)
Maximum landing weight. The maximum landing weight (MLW), also known as the maximum structural landing weight or maximum structural landing mass, is the maximum aircraft gross weight due to design or operational limitations at which an aircraft is permitted to land. The MLW is set in order to ensure safe landings; if an aircraft weighs too heavy during touchdown, it may suffer structural damage or even break apart upon landing. Aircraft also have a maximum take-off weight, which is almost always higher than the maximum landing weight, so that an aircraft can weigh less upon landing due to burning fuel during the flight.

The operation landing weight may be limited to a weight lower than the maximum landing weight by the most restrictive of the following requirements:

 Aircraft performance requirements for a given altitude and temperature:
landing field length requirements,
approach and landing climb requirements.
 Noise requirements

If the flight has been of unusually short duration, such as due to an emergency just after takeoff requiring a return to the airport, it may be necessary to dump fuel to reduce the landing weight. Some aircraft are unable to dump fuel, however. For example, on 3 February 2020, Air Canada Flight 837, a Boeing 767-300, suffered a rear tyre failure during take-off at Madrid–Barajas Airport on its way to Toronto, causing its left engine to catch fire. The pilots managed to extinguish it by shutting the engine down, but as 767-300s are not designed for fuel dumping, it had to stay in a single-engine holding pattern for over 4 hours to burn fuel and achieve its maximum landing weight, while an SAF fighter reported minimal damage to the landing gear. The plane landed safely and nobody was injured.

Sometimes the emergency may be so pressing that the aircraft has no time to dump or burn fuel in order to achieve its maximum landing weight before touchdown; in that case, a risky overweight landing may be permitted. In other cases, the flight crew may fail to dump fuel when it still had the time to do so before landing, leading to fatal accidents such as Aeroflot Flight 1492 on 5 May 2019, where an apparently needlessly overweight landing turned into a crash that killed 41 of the 78 people on board.

Where aircraft overweight landing is permitted, a structural inspection or evaluation of the touch-down loads before the next aircraft operation will be required in case damage has occurred.

References

Aircraft operations
Aircraft weight measurements
Aviation safety
ObjectView. ObjectView is a software suite published by Cypress Logic that provides access to and the option to create web services.  It is designed to run on web servers and supports Microsoft.net and Apache, supports most database software, and deals with XML requests.

In the 1990s ObjectView was a Windows client-server development tool for database access from Matesys
like Borland's ObjectVision, Gupta Technologies's SQLWindows, and Powersoft's PowerBuilder. It was bought by KnowledgeWare in 1993. In 1994 Knowledgeware released ObjectView Desktop, a scaled-down version.

References

Further reading
 
 

Internet suites
Chemical metallurgy. Chemical metallurgy is the science of obtaining metals from their concentrates, semi products, recycled bodies and solutions, and of considering reactions of metals with an approach of disciplines belonging to chemistry. As such, it involves reactivity of metals and it is especially concerned with the reduction and oxidation, and the chemical performance of metals.

Subjects of study in chemical metallurgy include  the extraction of metals, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and chemical degradation (corrosion).

See also
 Metallurgy
 Physical metallurgy
 Extractive metallurgy

References

Metallurgy
Thapar Polytechnic College. Thapar Polytechnic College is a polytechnic college in Punjab, India. It is Bhadson  Road, Patiala on the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology campus. It offers diplomas in five streams. Electrical  Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Computer Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, It is affiliated to PSBTE & IT Chandigarh (the Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training). There is no entrance exam and admissions are given on the basis of merit of 10th standard . Minimum percentage criteria is 60%. This college is 95% government aided by Department of Technical Education Government of Punjab and received world bank funding through Technical Education Quality Improvement Prog.

Streams for engineering 
 Architectural Assistantship
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering

History 

Thapar Polytechnic College, Patiala (formerly Thapar Polytechnic, Patiala) came into existence in 1956 due to the missionary zeal of the visionary late Lala Karam Chand Thapar and Maharaja Yadwinder Singh of PEPSU State. It is a government aided institution affiliated to Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training, Chandigarh. In 1956, it offered 3-year Diploma courses in Civil Eng., Electrical Eng. and Mechanical Eng. with a total intake of 60 students. It offers Diploma courses i.e. Diploma in Civil Engg., Electrical Engg. Mechanical Engg, Computer Engg and Architectural Assistantship with a total annual intake of 350 students. It is one of the three organizations of Thapar Technology Campus, the other two are Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology and Thapar Centre for Industrial Research & Development. It has been registered as a Patiala Technical Education Trust as a Public Trust by Government of PEPSU State and  Lala Karan Chand Thapar through Public Trust Deed.

Universities and colleges in Punjab, India
Education in Patiala
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in East Punjab
William F. Walker. William F. Walker (December 1, 1937 – August 7, 2007) was the President of Auburn University from 2001 to 2004.

Biography
William F. Walker was born on December 1, 1937, in Sherman, Texas. He graduated with a B.A. and an M.A. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He later got his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University. From 1965 to 1988, he taught at Rice University. He then became Dean of the College of Engineering at Auburn University.

He endorsed Governor Bob Riley.

He died of cancer in 2007.

William F. Walker Teaching Awards
The Fred and Mary Lou Birdsong Teaching Awards were renamed as the William F. Walker Teaching Awards in 2001. The award is presented annually to an outstanding member of the Engineering faculty at Auburn.

References

1937 births
2007 deaths
People from Sherman, Texas
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
Oklahoma State University alumni
Rice University faculty
Presidents of Auburn University
Deaths from cancer in the United States
20th-century American academics
Egyptian German Automotive Company. The Egyptian German Automotive Company (EGA) is an Egyptian car assembler who is located in the 6th of October City in Cairo. It was founded by engineer Samy Saad and the former Daimler-Benz CEO Jürgen Erich Schrempp as a joint venture to assemble vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz brand. The management of the 1996 founded firm is assumed by the Daimler AG who has given it to Markus Schäfer.
As of 2015, following the political and economic turmoil in Egypt, assembly of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars has ceased. Since then, the company has been offering sub-assembly for other Automotive assembly plants in Egypt.

Brake Disc Machining

The brake discs machining plant started operation in 2002, basically covering the local content requirements for locally assembled vehicles, as well as minor spare parts supply to Daimler AG in Germany. In 2010, the plant expanded its capacity to 900,000 units annually, supplying Daimler AG with spare parts for a wide range of brake discs, covering recent passenger car models, historical classics and modern commercial vehicles. Export of brake discs has been ongoing since then to Daimler AG warehouses in Germersheim, Germany, as well as commercial vehicles unit in Kassel, Germany.
A product development and validation facility (dynamometer) has been amended to the plant.

In 2014, the company was validated as VW Group supplier.

Partner companies

EGA is partially owned by National Automotive Company (NATCO), a major player in the Egyptian automotive market.
EGA is a 25% shareholder in a newly-found Grey Cast Iron foundry; Egyptian Kuwaiti Foundry (EKF), which is located nearby, and was established mainly to manufacture raw brake discs and drums for local and global markets.

References

External links
Official website of the Egyptian German Automotive Company
Official website of Mercedes-Benz Egypt

Car manufacturers of Egypt
auto parts suppliers
Mercedes-Benz Group joint ventures
6th of October (city)
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1996
Egyptian companies established in 1996
Conglomerate companies of Egypt
Bruce Daniels. Bruce Daniels is an American hydroclimatologist, business executive and computer programmer. He is known in Silicon Valley as one of the pioneers of the personal computer and user-friendly interfaces.

Daniels earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz after receiving an Sc.B. and S.M. in computer science from MIT.  He specializes in water-related impacts of climate change, especially in the American West.  His contributions to decisions concerning California water quality date to 2003, when he was appointed to the state's Regional Water Quality Control Board.  In 2011, he was honored as an ARCS Scholar in Northern California. In 2016, he serves as the elected president of the board of directors of the Soquel Creek Water District in Santa Cruz County, California.

Daniels has also been a computer programmer and business executive who has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Oracle, Borland, Sun Microsystems and his own start-up, Singular Software, which created relational database management software for the Apple Macintosh. He was a lead programmer for the Macintosh, and a software manager for the Apple Lisa.  When he was still a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was one of the creators of an early personal computer game, Zork.

References

Apple Inc. employees
Living people
American video game programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
SBB BDe 4/4 II. The BDe 4/4 II were electric multiple units ("EMUs") specially built in the 1950s for the CFF line La-Plaine - Geneva. The line was electrified not to Swiss standard (), but to the Southern French 1.5 kV DC standard, so standard rolling stock could not be used.

History
The two special EMUs were delivered in 1956 and 1957 as BFe 4/4 II class numbers 881 and 882. In 1961 they were renumbered 1301 and 1302 and in 1963 reclassified to BDe 4/4 II.  They ran in three car trainsets with a light steel carriage and a driving car.

The BDe 4/4 IIs were underpowered and prone to frequent break downs, leading them to spent often in the workshop under repair.  To maintain the service, the CFF had to use unusual solutions including diesel haulage.  Due to extensive electrification, the CFF does not possess many diesel locos. The first choice was  Am 4/4, (former DB V 200 class) but these too were unreliable, forcing the occasional use of shunting locomotives, such as the diesel Em 3/3, or the quadruple voltage electric Ee 3/3 IV.  None of these locomotives permitted train heating, which was a problem in winter.  In 1977, a light steel coach  (B 50 85 29-30 503) was fitted with a pantograph and switchgear to solve the problem.

In 1995, the la Plaine - Geneva service was upgraded and branded Rhône Express Régional.   After nearly 40 years of service, the venerable BDe 4/4 II were retired and replaced with new rolling stock.

References

Multiple units of Switzerland
1500 V DC multiple units
List of state highways in Gujarat. Gujarat state is one of the most prosperous state in Western India and having a good transportation infrastructure with an extensive road network. The Road & Buildings Department (RBD) of Gujarat government is primarily responsible for construction and maintenance of road Huis including state highways and panchayat roads in Gujarat. This department is operating through 6 wings geographical spread across the state in 26 districts. There are 17 national highways with total length of 4032 km and more than 300 state highways with total length of 19,761 km.

The state highways are arterial routes of a state, linking district headquarters and important towns within the state and connecting them with national highways or highways of the neighboring states.

Type of road and its length

List of state highways

References

Government of Gujarat

State Highways
 
Gujarat State Highways
State Highways
Chloropyridine. Chloropyridines are a group of aryl chlorides consisting of a pyridine ring with chlorine atoms as substituents.

Chloropyridines include:
2-Chloropyridine
3-Chloropyridine
4-Chloropyridine
2,6-Dichloropyridine

Production
Direct halogenation of pyridine with chlorine gas above 270 °C gives a mixture of 2-chloropyridine and 2,6-dichloropyridine.

2- and 4-chloropyridine are prepared from the corresponding pyridinols using phosphoryl chloride.

Uses
Chloropyridines are important intermediates to pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. A major use of 2-chloropyridine is the production of production of the fungicide pyrithione. Reaction of 4-chloropyridine with thioglycolic acid gives pyridylmercaptoacetic acid, a step in the production of cephalosporin antibiotics.

See also
Bromopyridine

References
Rajban. Rajban is a small town near Paonta Sahib in the Sirmaur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

Rajban is home to one of the oldest cement factories (Cement Corporation of India) in Himachal Pradesh. It is located on the river bank, where the Tons River and the Giri River converge. Rajban is a very small town with a dense forest adjacent to it and the high steep hills can be seen easily. 

Rajban is known for its central government establishment, known as Cement Corporation of India. It employs approximately 500 workers. This industrial establishment has developed a residential colony near the plant known as C.C.I Rajaban Colony for its employees. It has various facilities including a hospital, school, small parks, and a large playground within the boundaries of the colony. Earlier Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan was there for the education of employees' children but with the span of time the school has been changed and now Doon Valley School provides education on the premises. 

Rajban is a popular place for neighbouring people to celebrate Durga Puja and other festivals of the year. The temple La Devi also attracts a number of pilgrims throughout the year because of its vicinity. Rajban has also see growth and new residential development following the start of a Defence Research and Development Organisation project near the town.

Climate
During summer the temperature of the town remains between 0 and 40 °C and in the winters it comes down to 7 °C. During winter the temperature here remains a bit mild between 18 and 27 °C.

Cities and towns in Sirmaur district

References
MySims SkyHeroes. MySims SkyHeroes is a video game developed by Behaviour Interactive and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sixth and final game in the MySims series. The game was released in 2010 for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

Gameplay
MySims SkyHeroes is an aviation game that features a solo campaign, boss battles, local co-op, and online multiplayer. There are upgrades for the planes through a plane editor which will allow players to customize a plane using parts like wings and engines acquired by completing missions. Some upgrades are purely decorative, like wheel styles, but wing, engine and body upgrades upgrade stats using a three star rating system.

Multiplayer
The multiplayer modes available are racing and battle modes. In multi-player, users which have a game profile will be able to use their saved planes and avatars.

Plot
The player starts out as an unknown pilot and leads the resistance to the evil Morcubus and his drones who plan to take over the skyways. The player will have to team up with NPCs to defeat Morcubus and his Chaos Pirates. This game introduces new characters Rose, Dragomir and Svetlana as the Chaos Pirates' top pilots.

Reception

The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

IGN commented on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions' high quality graphics. IGN also commented on the Wii version's simple controls but felt that the game has nothing really special about it. "The story mode is missing the clever writing that was enjoyed in some of the previous MySims games, and the lack of variety in the missions makes most of them feel like a chore". "Multiplayer can be fun, but it's not doing anything we haven't seen before". IGN commented that the DS version is oddly more complicated and way less fun than the console versions. The punishing gameplay takes away from what could have been a really fun multiplayer experience.

References

External links
 
 

2010 video games
Behaviour Interactive games
Electronic Arts games
Flight simulation video games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation 3 games
The Sims
Video games developed in Canada
Wii games
Xbox 360 games
Lockheed CL-288. The Lockheed CL-288 was a conceptual interceptor aircraft based on the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, powered by two wing-mounted engines.

References

Lockheed aircraft
1950s United States fighter aircraft
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States
Twinjets
Mid-wing aircraft
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear