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Alfons Hoffmann. Professor Alfons Hoffmann (born 12 March 1895 in Grudziądz (Graudenz) - 30 December 1963 in Gdańsk) was a Polish engineer and political activist.

He attended Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig, from 1905 to 1910, earning degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. After graduating, between 1911–1913 and 1918–1919, Prof. Hoffman worked as an engineer for the Garbe Lahmeyer company in the electric machine laboratory and in the construction department, in Aachen, Westphalia.

Before World War I Hoffman was a prominent member of the Polish intelligentsia in the portion of Poland that was part of the Prussian partition. He was active in social and cultural organizations, including the youth movement Sokół and local choirs. At the end of the war, between 1918 and 1920 he became politically involved and advocated for the return of Pomerania to newly independent Poland.

In 1922 Hoffmann worked out the first plan for the electrification of Province of Pomerania. He is called the father of electrification in the pre-war Poland.

During the Stalinist era, Hoffmann was removed from any position which would have a direct effect on the development of Polish power engineering industry. He became an instructor at the Gdańsk University of Technology in the Engineering Department and was working, from 1950 to 1955, under Prof. Kazimierz Kopecki. Later he joined the Institute of Hydroengineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he became professor in 1957. He was active until his death.

Alfons Hoffmann died on 30 December 1963 and was buried in the Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz cemetery.

Prof. A. Hoffmann's Medal
In 1992, Prof. A. Hoffman's Medal was created by the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers as the Patron of all Polish Power Engineering. To this day, distinguished persons are awarded the Prof. A. Hoffmann's Medal. The criteria for receiving this honor is formally described as persons representing high ethical values, meritorious for the development of national electrical power particularly in the field of projects, scientific research, exploitation and repairs in power engineering, and the building of power industry objects.

Award recipients:
 In 2004 Professor Xose M. Lopez-Fernandez for his activity in promoting the knowledge on Electrical Power Transformer.
 In 2007 Pierre Boss for outstanding merits in the field of the Power Engineering.

References

External links
 Professor Alfons Hoffmann by Tadeusz Domżalski

1895 births
1963 deaths
People from Grudziądz
People from West Prussia
20th-century Polish engineers
Academic staff of the Gdańsk University of Technology
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
Wellman–Lord process. The Wellman–Lord process is a regenerable process to remove sulfur dioxide from flue gas (flue-gas desulfurization) without creating a throwaway sludge product.

In this process, sulfur dioxide from flue gas is absorbed in a sodium sulfite solution in water forming sodium bisulfite; other components of flue gas are not absorbed. After lowering the temperature the bisulfite is converted to the sodium pyrosulfite which  precipitates.

Upon heating, the two previously described chemical reactions are reversed, and sodium pyrosulfite is converted to a concentrated stream of sulfur dioxide and sodium sulfite. The sulfur dioxide can be used for further reactions (e.g. the production of sulfuric acid), and the sulfite is reintroduced into the process.

Na2SO3 + SO2 + H2O → 2NaHSO3 
2NaHSO3 → Na2S2O5↓ + H2O
Na2S2O5 + H2O →  2NaHSO3  
2NaHSO3 → Na2SO3 + SO2 + H2O

In its initial version (Crane Station, Maryland, 1968) the process was based on potassium sulfite, but the economic prognosis was poor. Interest in the process occurred because of the worldwide shortage of sulfur in 1967 and resulting high prices; power-plant flue gas was viewed as an additional source of sulfur to relieve the shortage. the later version used sodium sulfite and was installed (as a demonstration system funded by USEPA) at Mitchell Station, Indiana in 1974. It was coupled with the Allied reduction (by natural gas) process to make elemental sulfur which can be shipped anywhere, for example to a sulfuric acid plant. Additional installations of W-L were made in New Mexico. The process has been offered commercially by Davy Powergas in Lakeland, Florida. Because of side reactions forming thiosulfate (nonregenerable), there is a small makeup requirement in the form of trona (sodium carbonate).

References

Further reading
 
 

Chemical processes
Acid gas control
Environmental engineering
Richard V. Rhode. Richard V. Rhode (March 2, 1904 – November 13, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, who researched aerodynamic loading. He was awarded the Wright Brothers Medal in 1937 for this work. He continued doing secret aerodynamics-related research work during World War II, the results of which were later declassified.

Early life and education
Rhode was born on March 2, 1904 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1925.

Career
After graduation he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) as an aeronautical engineer at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. He married Frances Elizabeth May in 1929 and had four children: Elizabeth May (deceased), Mary Diana (deceased), Joseph George, II and Richard Valentine, Jr. In 1945 he became chief of the aircraft loads division. In 1949 he transferred to the NACA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and became assistant director for research (aircraft construction and operating problems). When NASA came into existence in 1958, he became assistant director for advanced design criteria in the space vehicle technology division. There, he was responsible for advanced technology supporting the development of space vehicles.

Legacy
He retired in early 1967 and was awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He died on November 13, 1994 in North Carolina.

References

External links
Research Papers from the NASA Technical Reports Server

American aerospace engineers
1904 births
1994 deaths
Engineers from Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
20th-century American engineers
European Flight Test Safety Award. The European Flight Test Safety Award was created after the fatal accident of test pilot Gérard Guillaumaud by his fiancée Heidi Biermeier. The regulations of the award state that recipients must be individuals who made significant contributions in the area of safety within flight testing.

Award Ceremony 
The award was first granted in October 2007 in London at the award dinner concluding the 1st European Flight Test Safety Workshops. The workshop is hosted by the Flight Test Safety Committee of Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) and of Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE).  The recipient is nominated by a jury, consisting of two flight test experts and the founder of the award, Ms. Heidi Biermeier.

Recipients 
 2007 Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Dieter W. Reisinger, MSc (Austrian Airlines)
 2008 Gérard Temme of CertiFlyer B.V.
 2009 Patrick L. Svatek, (Flight test engineer at NAVAIR, now USNTPS Patuxent River)
 2010 Billie Flynn, (Experimental Test Pilot) Lockheed Martin, 
 2011 General (retired.) Desmond Barker (CSIR), author of the book Zero Error Margin - Airshow Display Flying Analyzed
 2012 Capt. David C. Carbaugh, chief pilot, Boeing Flight Operations Safety
 2013 Maurice "Moe" Girard, senior engineering test pilot, Bombardier
 2014 Gulfstream
 2015 Daniel Schwenzel (Airbus Helicopters)

Workshop Locations and Theme 

 2007 London
 2008 Amsterdam
 2009 Vienna, "First Flight"
 2010 London
 2011 Salzburg, "Displaying Prototype Aircraft - Risks and Preparation"
 2012 Salzburg, "Loss of Control - Tackling Aviation's #1 Killer"
 2013 Amsterdam, "Human Machine Interface and Flight Deck Design"
 2014 Manching, "Safety Management Systems in Flight Test Organizations"
 2015 Aix-en-Provence, "Finding the Black Swan"

There is also an annual North American Flight Test Safety Workshop.

See also

 List of aviation awards

References

External links
 Website Flight Test Safety Committee
 Flight Test Safety Workshop 2009 in Vienna
 Flight Test Safety Workshop, May 2010 in San Jose, California
 Flight Test Safety Workshop 2011 in Salzburg
 Society of Experimental Test Pilots

Aerospace engineering
Aviation safety
Aviation awards
Guo Yonghuai. Guo Yonghuai (also spelled Yung-Huai Kuo, ; April 4, 1909 – December 5, 1968) was a Chinese aerospace engineer and aerodynamics scientist.

Biography 
Guo was born in Rongcheng, Shandong. He started his undergraduate education at Nankai University in 1930, transferred to the department of physics at Peking University in 1933, and graduated from Peking University in 1935. He enrolled in an oversea program in 1939 and entered the University of Toronto in Canada in 1940 and obtained a master's degree there. From 1941 to 1945, Guo studied compressible hydrodynamics at the California Institute of Technology. After obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy degree in aeronautics, he stayed there as a research fellow. From 1946, he became an associate professor and later, professor at Cornell University. Invited by Tsien Hsue-Shen, Guo returned to China in October 1956 and became the vice director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Guo was a founder of mechanics in mainland China and made significant contributions to mechanics, applied mathematics and aeronautics. In 1958, he helped found the University of Science and Technology of China and served as the chair of the department of Chemical Physics.

Beginning in May 1960, Guo served as vice director of the Beijing Ninth Research Institute of the Second Ministry of Industry, and became a leader of China's atomic and hydrogen bomb projects. He led work in explosive mechanics, high-pressure physical property equations, aerodynamics, aeronautics, structural mechanics, and weapon experimental environment, and solved a series of important problems. In December 1982, China's Science Press published The Works of Guo Yonghuai.

Guo married the linguist Li Pei. They had one daughter. He died of a plane crash near Beijing Capital International Airport on December 5, 1968, when traveling from Qinghai to Beijing. When crashing, he and his guard, Mou Fangdong, protected the data from being destroyed.

Awards and honors 
In 1985, he was awarded a Grand Prize of National Science and Technology Advancement. In 1999, Guo won the Two Bombs, One Satellite Achievement Medal. In 2018, the asteroid 212796 Guoyonghuai was named in his memory.

References

1968 deaths
1909 births
Aerodynamicists
Chinese aerospace engineers
Cornell University faculty
Educators from Shandong
Engineers from Shandong
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
National Southwestern Associated University alumni
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in China
Writers from Weihai
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1968
National University of Peking alumni
Nankai University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
DeviceKit. DeviceKit is a modular hardware abstraction layer designed for use in Linux systems that is designed to simplify device management and replace the current monolithic Linux HAL. DeviceKit includes the ability to enumerate system devices and send notifications when hardware is added or removed from the computer system.

In May 2008, HAL developer David Zeuthen announced his intention to deprecate HAL, mainly because of its complexity and redundancy with other libraries in the Linux environment. The only missing part in those libraries would be a centralized service to enumerate existing devices, signal adding/removal of devices and merging and classifying available hardware information in one point. DeviceKit is the new library providing those services, while the hardware is supposed to be accessed through other libraries instead of HAL or DeviceKit.

The first distribution to include DeviceKit was Fedora 11. Ubuntu 9.10 replaced some of the old HAL features with DeviceKit and functionality from udev.

On 1 December 2009, it was announced that DeviceKit-disks was renamed to udisks and that a similar rename would happen for DeviceKit-power.

Future 
According to DeviceKit devel mailing list, DeviceKit is getting merged with  and the existing DeviceKit programs such as DeviceKit-disks and DeviceKit-power will be switched over to use .

See also 

 Haiku Device Kit
 HAL
 PackageKit
 PolicyKit

References

External links
 DeviceKit Home at freedesktop.org

Human–computer interaction
Free system software
User interfaces
Freedesktop.org
Applications using D-Bus
Software using the GNU General Public License
Process Lasso. Process Lasso is Windows  process automation and optimization software developed by Jeremy Collake of Bitsum Technologies. It features a graphical user interface that allows for automating various process-related tasks, and several novel algorithms to control how processes are run. 

The original and headline algorithm is ProBalance, which works to retain system responsiveness during high CPU loads by dynamically adjusting process priority classes. More recently, algorithms such as the CPU Limiter, Instance Balancer, and Group Extender  were added. These algorithms help to control how processes are allocated to CPU cores. Numerous additional automation capabilities exist, including disallowed processes and application power plans.

The paid (Pro) version has some extra features, such as the ability to run the core engine (Process Governor) as a system service.

Features
Among this program's features are the following:
 ProBalance - Dynamic priority and affinity optimization
 Persistent priorities and CPU affinities
 Performance Mode - A maximum performance mode that disables CPU core parking and frequency scaling
 Process Watchdog - Advanced IFTTT rules
 CPU Limiter - Limit Application CPU Use
 Instance Balancer - Spread application instances across CPU cores
 Instance Count Limits - Limit number of running application instances
 Power Profile Automation - Switch power plans when application is run
 Disallow Processes - Prohibit select processes from running
 Keep Running - Automatically restart processes that terminate
 Responsiveness Metric - Novel algorithm to measure system responsiveness
 SmartTrim - Selective, threshold-based virtual memory trimming
 Stand-Alone Background Core Engine (Governor)
 Group Extender - Enable group unaware apps to use more than 64 CPU cores
 Available in IA-32(bit) and x86-64(bit) builds

Users who take advantage of the programs advanced features; such as assigning persistent priority class and CPU affinities to services or programs which are CPU intensive should fully familiarize themselves with Process Lasso's documentation. While optimizing and parking specific services and programs CPU cores and fine tuning priority classes can enhance system performance; a user could lock their system into "full load" by incorrectly elevating a service or program which makes use of multi-threading; where by the program can make the system; including mouse and keyboard actions non-responsive.

Reception
The program was featured on FreewareBB, and received an "Excellent" rating from Softpedia, as well as a certification for containing no malware.
The application has a 4.63 rating (out of a possible 5) at MajorGeeks.com.
Editors at CNET gave it 'Outstanding', 4.5 of a possible 5 stars.

References

External links
 Process Lasso - Process Lasso Official website
 Process Lasso Documentation - Process Lasso Documentation

Computer performance
Computer system optimization software
Utilities for Windows
Windows-only freeware
Synthetic Metals. Synthetic Metals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials.

Abstracting and indexing 
Synthetic Metals is abstracted and indexed in the following services:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020  impact factor of 3.266. It has published several highly cited papers (1 with ~1000 citations; 5 with >600 citations; 30 with >200 citations, according to Web of Science); most of them are devoted to conductive polymers (especially polyaniline) and one to optical properties of carbon nanotubes (see Kataura plot).

References

External links
 

Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Semi-monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1985
Materials science journals
USC&GS Yukon (1898). USC&GS Yukon was a steamer that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1898 to 1923. She was the second and last Coast and Geodetic Survey ship to bear the name.

Construction and characteristics 

Yukon was built under a contract let 9 April 1898 to Gas Engine & Power Company and Charles L. Seabury Company, Morris Heights, Bronx, New York, for building the ship in components suitable for shipping under the supervision of Assistant J. F. Pratt. The components were shipped by rail to Seattle, Washington, and then to St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, arriving there on 3 July 1898.  A survey team under Assistant Pratt had been waiting at St. Michael for her to arrive since 29 June 1898, and on 11 July 1898 enough material was on shore for them to begin laying Yukon′s keel. Approximately twenty men assembled her. Work on Yukon was delayed when the assembly team was diverted to make repairs to the Coast and Geodetic Survey survey steamer USC&GS Taku, which had arrived at St. Michael in a "disabled condition," but Yukon nonetheless was completed and launched on 20 August 1898, only 41 days after her keel had been laid and after only 29 days of actual work to assemble her. Yukon was commissioned immediately.

Service history 
With all equipment and stores loaded aboard Yulon by 23 August 1898, "at 2:15 a.m. she started for the mouth of the Kwiklok by way of the Aproon Mouth" for surveys. From the Aproon Mouth she towed a scow with the survey party's camping outfit to the Kwiklok, where she arrived 26 August 1898. After a brief stay on the survey grounds all vessels, including Yukon, headed to St. Michael on 10 September 1898 for winter storage. After arrival on 13 September 1898, Yukon, Taku, two steam launches, the scow, and eight "pulling boats" were housed for the winter. The survey party embarked on the United States Navy gunboat  for transportation to Seattle.

In the summer of 1912, Yukon rendered assistance to the inhabitants of Kodiak on Kodiak Island following an eruption of Mount Katmai. Tragedy struck her in November 1916 when a member of her crew, watchman F. A. Paul, was lost by probable drowning at King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula.

After serving exclusively in Alaskan waters, Yukon was retired from Coast and Geodetic Survey service in 1923.

Notes

References

NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Tools of the Trade: Ships: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Yukon
NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Hall of Honor: Lifesaving and the Protection of Property by the Coast & Geodetic Survey 1845-1937
NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Hall of Honor: In the Line of Duty 1846-1936

Ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Survey ships of the United States
Ships built in Morris Heights, Bronx
Ships built in Alaska
1898 ships
Alaska-related ships
Gear shaping. Gear shaping is a machining process for creating teeth on a gear using a cutter. Gear shaping is a convenient and versatile method of gear cutting. It involves continuous, same-plane rotational cutting of gear.

Process theory

The types of cutters used for gear shaping can be grouped into four categories: disk, hub, shank, and helical cutters. The cutters are essentially gears that are used to form the teeth. This method of gear cutting is based on the principle that any two gears will mesh if they are of the same pitch, proper helix angle, and proper tooth depth and thickness.

Process characteristics
By using a gear-shaped corresponding cutter that is rotated (in relation to a blank gear) produces the gear teeth. The cutters that are rotated are timed with the workpiece.  This process produces internal gears, external gears, and integral gear-pinion arrangements.

Process schematic
The process of gear shaping uses a toothed disk cutter which reciprocates in axial rotations. The workpiece (or blank gear) rotates on a second shaft (spindle). The workpiece is aligned with the cutter and it gradually feeds into the cutter while rotating. If a two-step process is used, all tooth spaces are partially cut before finishing.

Setup and equipment
The machine used for gear shaping generally consists of a base, column spindle, and an arbor. The gear cutter is mounted on the spindle, and the gear blank is mounted on the arbor. The cutter reciprocates up and down while the workpiece is gradually fed into the cutter. At the end of each cutting rotation, the spindle is retracted slightly to discourage any more cutting into the new cut teeth of the gear.

References
 Todd, R (1994). "Gear Shaping", Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide.
 Gear Shaping Machines. Retrieved on January 13, 2009.

Notes

Gears
Saint Elmo – Hikari no Raihousha. is a 65-minute television special first originally aired in April 1986, in the Kansai region network Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. Although credited to Leiji Matsumoto, the show was originally created to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Kansai Electric Power Company, who sponsored and produced the film. It was later released on VHS format on November 21, 1987, by Pony Canyon.

The events of the story are centered on a Japanese solar power plant based in the planet Mercury called "Saint Elmo". Its name was based on the rare scientific phenomenon called St. Elmo's fire, named after Erasmus of Formiae. This phenomenon occurs in electrical weather at which high points (like masts on ships) will charge and give off a glow.

Plot

Japan builds a large space power plant called Saint Elmo in the planet Mercury. The plant supports Earth with its large solar energy supply, but, when there is an abnormality at the plant, Earth has to send several technicians to fix the problem.

Staff
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata
Script: Hiroyasu Yamaura
Music: Michiru Oshima
Animation: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
Design: Katsumi Itahashi

Cast
Tōru Furuya, as 
Hideyuki Tanaka
Kei Tomiyama
Keiko Han
Kōzō Shioya
Leiji Matsumoto
Masako Nozawa
Reiko Mutō

Theme songs
The show features two theme songs, "Prometheus Futatabi" and "Tomoshibi wa Eternity", both performed by Yūko Ishikawa. The first was composed by Akihiro Yoshimi, while the second was composed by Yūhei Hanaoka. They were both arranged by Eiji Kawamura and the lyrics were written by Kayoko Fuyumori.

References

External links
Leijiverse: Saint-Elmo Hikari no Raihôsha
 

1986 science fiction films
1986 anime films
1986 television films
1986 films
Anime television films
Japanese animated science fiction films
Fiction set on Mercury (planet)
Toei Animation films
Films directed by Tomoharu Katsumata