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SAS Viya. SAS Viya is an artificial intelligence, analytics and data management platform developed by SAS Institute.

History 
SAS Viya was released in 2016. The software was containerized with the release of Viya 4 in 2020.

Technical overview 
The platform is cloud-native, and is executed on SAS's Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) engine. It is compatible with open source software, allowing users to build models using open sources tool such as R, Python and Jupyter. It integrates with major large language models like GPT-4 and Gemini Pro. The platform uses econometrics to create predictive models for forecasting scenarios based on complex data. It also has features for detecting algorithmic bias, auditing decisions and monitoring models.

SAS Viya has released software as a service (SaaS) modules for creating AI content. These include Viya Workbench, used for AI models, and Viya App Factory, for creating AI applications. Users can develop models in Viya Workbench using either a Visual Studio Code interface or Jupyter. Viya Copilot, a generative AI virtual assistant, was released in April 2024.

The software is available on Amazon AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, and on Microsoft Azure Marketplace under a pay-as-you-use model.

Applications

Healthcare 
In 2023, the company introduced SAS Health, a common health data model built on the SAS Viya platform. AstraZeneca has partnered with SAS to use SAS Viya and SAS Life Science Analytics Framework in its delivery and approval processes.

Agriculture 
In 2024, SAS partnered with North Carolina A&T State University to create a cloud platform for agricultural research based on Viya.

Business 
The software is also widely used in business, especially in areas such as predictive modelling and fraud detection.

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SAS Institute
Data mining and machine learning software
Applied data mining
Applied machine learning
Tin(II) acetate. Tin(II) acetate is the acetate salt of tin(II), with the chemical formula of Sn(CH3COO)2. It was first discovered in 1822.

Preparation 

To obtain tin(II) acetate, tin(II) oxide is dissolved in glacial acetic acid and refluxed to obtain yellow Sn(CH3COO)2·2CH3COOH when cooled. The acetic acid can be removed by heating under reduced pressure, and the white Sn(CH3COO)2 crystals can be obtained by sublimation.

Properties 

Sn(CH3COO)2·2CH3COOH undergoes disproportionation and decomposition when heated under normal pressure, and products such as tin(IV) oxide and hydrogen are generated. The decomposition of anhydrous Sn(CH3COO)2 is to the blue-black tin(II) oxide.

Anhydrous Sn(CH3COO)2 decomposes in water, but complexes such as KSn(CH3COO2)3 and Ba[Sn(CH3COO)3]2 can be formed in alkali metal or alkaline earth metal acetates.

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Tin compounds
Acetates
Barium ruthenate. Barium ruthenate is an inorganic compound, with the chemical formula of BaRuO3. It can be obtained from the stoichiometric reaction of barium oxide and ruthenium(IV) oxide at temperatures below 1200 °C, or from the thermal decomposition of Ba[Ru(NO)(NO2)4(OH)]·xH2O. It reacts with ruthenium and ruthenium(IV) oxide at 1250 °C to obtain black needle-like crystal BaRu6O12. Hydrogen or zirconium can reduce it when heated to produce metal ruthenium.

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Barium compounds
Ruthenates
Transition metal oxides
Perovskites
Navy Strike. Navy Strike is a 1995 combat flight simulation video game developed by Rowan Software and published by Empire Interactive for the MS-DOS.

Gameplay
Navy Strike includes three United States Armed Forces aircraft: F-22 Raptor, F/A-18E Super Hornet, and fictional AX, resembling F-117 Nighthawk.

The game has a strategy mode called Commander Module. This feature allows the command of air assets for a naval task force in the China Sea, Persian Gulf, or Libya. The player receives orders to perform tasks like neutralizing airstrips or enforcing no-fly zones, and are given a set number of assets. The player can set paths, designate targets, watch missions on a small video screen, or choose to fly the missions themself.

VGA and SVGA graphics modes are supported.

Reception

Navy Strike received generally average reviews from critics. PC Gamer said the game feels like Dawn Patrol adapted to a modern setting. It was also compared to U.S. Navy Fighters by saying: "If you're not interested in the Commander section, or don't care for unrealistic flight models, then U.S. Navy Fighters is the better bet." In conclusion Navy Strike was called "a good introductory sim". PC Games said the game has only inherited the weaknesses of its predecessor, Dawn Patrol. PC Player compared the game unfavorably to U.S. Navy Fighters and Flight Commander 2. Joystick described the 3D graphics as "fast" and mission design as "interesting" but disliked the lack of realism and sound effects.  liked the realism of the missions and squadron management but disliked the interface and sound.

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1995 video games
Combat flight simulators
DOS games
Empire Interactive games
Naval video games
Rowan Software games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in Kuwait
Video games set in Libya
Concettina Buccella. Concettina Buccella is an Italian power engineer whose research topics include "modeling of electrostatic precipitators, impact of electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic compatibility, composite materials, modeling of power converters, control and modulation techniques for power converters, renewable energy, smart grids, analytical and numerical modeling of electric systems". She is  Professor in Power Converters, Electric Machines and Drives at the University of L'Aquila.

Education and career
Buccella is originally from L'Aquila, and has a doctorate in electrotechnical engineering from the University of L'Aquila, earned in 1988. She completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1995 at Sapienza University of Rome.

She worked as an engineer for Italtel from 1988 to 1989. She returned to the university in 1990, became an assistant professor in electrotechnics in 1994, and was promoted to associate professor in 2002. She was given her current full professorship in 2020.

She is one of the founders of a 2007 spin-off company from the University of L'Aquila, DigiPower Ltd., and has served as CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of the company. She was the chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Renewable Energy Systems Technical Committee for 2017–2018.

Recognition
In 2023, Buccella was elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the modeling of electric systems and the modulation of multilevel converters".

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from L'Aquila
Italian electrical engineers
Italian women engineers
Women electrical engineers
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Cullen Buie. Cullen R. Buie is an African American mechanical engineer specializing in microbial fuel cells.

Life and career

Education 
Buie's passions changed during high school when he attended an engineering camp that gave him the opportunity to receive college credits and scholarships. This led him to study mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, receiving his Bachelors of Science in 2003. He then went on to earn a Master of Science (M.S.) in 2005 at Stanford University, as well as his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in 2009 in mechanical engineering. At Stanford, he was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, working under Juan Santiago. While working towards his Ph.D, Buie worked on microfluidic electro-osmotic pumps for fuel cells at Stanford.

Career 
After graduating Stanford in 2009, Buie began teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010. During his teaching career, Buie had also worked on numerous of research labs. In 2010, he worked on microbial fuel cells at UC Berkeley. In 2012, he was working alongside a team in Australia to test the effectiveness of bacteria in these microbial fuel cells. Buie is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and leads the Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI).

Cullen Buie is a co-founder of a startup called Kytopen, which has created a technology called Flowfect. This new technology gives scientists a way to mass-produce genetically engineered cells as it opens the pores of cells to deliver genetic material.

Awards 
Cuie has received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to investigate the challenge of getting genetic material into bacterial cells. He has also received the NSF CAREER Award and the Presidential Early Career Award named by Barack Obama.

Personal life 
Buie's older sister, Simone, is the motivation for his research as she had died due to a bacterial infection, sepsis. In disbelief that individuals were still dying from common bacterial infections, Buie and his team are actively researching to eliminate this issue.

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Living people
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
African-American engineers
American mechanical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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21st-century African-American scientists
Kindernay. Kindernay was a brand of hub gears manufactured by the Norwegian start-up company CA Technology Systems. They used hydraulic gear levers and were manufactured in Oslo, Norway. Their system differed from their competitors by having a modular design called Swap Cage where the gear mechanism can be easily separated from the hub housing, so that the end-user can use the hub gear with several different wheel sets. This could make it easier and more economical to change wheel sets to adapt the bike for different seasons or roads, or so that wheels can be easily changed between bikes. The hubs are assembled at Kindernay's factory in Oslo by hand, but in the long term it was planned that production be automated and assembled by robots.

History 
In 2000, the entrepreneur Christian Antal was studying economics when he began to materialize his interest in developing a bicycle gear, and entered into a collaboration with the mechanical engineer Knut Tore Ljøsne, who had previously worked at Kongsberg Automotive.

In 2010, CA Technology Systems was founded. A prototype of the 14-speed Kindernay XIV hub was presented in 2016.

In 2021 Kindernay was one of the winners of the prestigious Eurobike award for their 7-speed hub model Kundernay VII which is approved for 160 Nm, and is designed to withstand heavy loads that can occur on for example cargo bikes. The efficiency of the XI hub has been tested by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and achieved an efficiency in the test rig between 94.4% for 1st gear and 99.5% for 11th gear. 

In late 2023 Kindernay went bankrupt,.

Technical 
Compared to their main competitor Rohloff who makes hub gears with 6 planetary series, Kindernay uses 3, which they claim simplifies the design and reduces weight. Kindernay claims to have patented the important innovations of their system, and that they have patents that last until 2032. The wheels have freehub with 24 points of engagement, and Kindernay differs by having a 12 mm through-axle on all their models. Their hubs can be adapted to frames with standard widths of 135 mm, 142 mm and 148 mm.

See also 
 Rohloff
 Shimano Alfine

References 

Bicycle parts
Swan 108. The Swan 108 is a Finnish maxi yacht that was designed by Germán Frers as a blue water cruiser-racer and first built in 2023. The exterior design is by Lucio Micheletti and the interior design is by Misa Poggi.

The boat will be first publicly shown at the 27-30 September 2023, Monaco Yacht Show.

Production
The design is built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland. It was publicly announced in 2021, followed by a customer order in May 2021 and with construction of the first boat started the same year. The first boat was launched on 9 June 2023 and a second boat was under construction at that time.

Design
The Swan 108 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of carbon fibre with SPRINT epoxy, with wood trim, including a teak-faced deck. It has a fractional sloop rig with a boom-furling mainsail or non-furling square-topped mainsail, with three sets of swept spreaders and carbon fibre spars. The hull has a plumb stem with a bowsprit, a reverse transom with a drop-down tailgate swimming platform, dinghy garage, dual internally mounted spade-type rudders controlled by dual wheels and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring, plus two 230 V 26 kW 1 phase diesel generators. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design is available with a number of interior configurations. The standard interior has sleeping accommodation for 14 people in seven cabins. It has a double island berth in the bow cabin, another double island berth in the starboard forward cabin, two midship aft cabins, each with two single berths, an abaft cabin with two bunk beds and two aft cabins, one with two bunk beds to starboard and the other with a double to port. The main salon has a U-shaped settee and a straight settee with a dining table. The C-shaped galley is located on the port side aft. There are seven heads, one for each cabin.

See also
List of sailing boat types

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Keelboats
2020s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Germán Frers
Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan
MANTIS (space telescope). MANTIS (Monitoring Activity from Nearby Stars with UV Imaging and Spectroscopy) is a planned NASA space telescope. MANTIS will study the emission of ultraviolet (UV) radiation of stars, especially in the extreme UV range, to judge the habitability of planets orbiting them. The telescope will be built by the University of Colorado Boulder as a cubesat at a cost of $8.5 million.

Ultraviolet radiation and stellar flares can impact the habitability of planets. For many stars, MANTIS will perform the first measurements of extreme UV emissions.

References

Space telescopes
ACE 3000. The ACE 3000 was a proposed modern 4-4-4-2 coal-burning duplex drive steam locomotive design for Ross Rowland's ACE 3000 Project and for the American Coal Enterprises, the locomotive was designed by Ross Rowland and was developed by American Coal Enterprises in the late 1970s.

Testing 
In 1985, Chesapeake and Ohio 614 was modified to do better performance under the guidance of David Wardale. For several weeks between January and February of 1985, No. 614 (renumbered to 614-T, with the "T" denoting testing) had hauled several coal trains between Huntington, West Virginia and Hinton, West Virginia.

When the 1970s came, the 1970s oil crisis had hit and it was causing problems for the railroads that had dieselized in order to cut costs and operating diesels was getting more expensive.

Design 
Development of the modern 4-4-4-2 coal-burning steam locomotive that was classified as the ACE 3000 was done by American Coal Enterprises, which was founded to raise funds to build this steam locomotive using modern technologies that could make steam just as efficient as diesels.

The locomotive was originally designed to be a steam turbine locomotive, but was instead redesigned to utilizing a traditional reciprocating drive as the development of the locomotive had continued.

It was designed using a duplex-drive which meant that it would be a duplex locomotive and was designed to be a cab-forward steam locomotive.

See also 
 Chesapeake and Ohio 614
 Ross Rowland

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Steam locomotives
Duplex locomotives
Unbuilt train designs
Reach for the Skies (video game). Reach for the Skies is a 1993 combat flight simulation video game developed by Rowan Software and published by Virgin Games for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS.

Gameplay
The game is set on the southeast coast of England during the Battle of Britain. Players have the option to fight for either the Royal Air Force (RAF) or the Luftwaffe. After that is the choice of playing as either the pilot or the controller. Pilots fly in missions and take out enemy aircraft. Controllers make strategic decisions for the battle. The game offers two control options: simple or easy. Simple mode uses basic joystick directions and a fire button. Help systems like autogun and autopilot are offered. Autogun fires the gun automatically when an enemy is over the gunsights. Autopilot flies the plane automatically between predesignated points.

Reception

Amiga Format compared the game to Their Finest Hour and said Reach for the Skies is "much more playable on a low-end Amiga" and has "the edge in speed and lasting playability". In conclusion it was called "an excellent flight simulator". The One gave a positive review but recommended to try Knights of the Sky first. CU Amiga summarized: "Excellent ideas poorly implemented. A waste." Atari ST User concluded "It's not exactly original stuff, but it's damn exciting and damn realistic."

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1993 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Battle of Britain video games
Combat flight simulators
DOS games
Rowan Software games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Virgin Interactive games
World War II video games
Iain Gilmour Gray. Sir Iain Gilmour Gray  (born 22 March 1957) is a British engineer and academic, working as Professor and Director of Aerospace at Cranfield University since 2015.

Gray worked for British Aerospace from graduation in 1979 until 2007, including as managing director of Airbus UK for the final three years, before transferring to government service as the first chief executive officer of the Technology Strategy Board (later Innovate UK"). Before he left for Cranfield, Gray was appointed Commander of the Order of British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours "for services to Science, Technology and Innovation".

Gray was knighted in the 2023 Birthday Honours "for services to the Aerospace Industry".

References

External links 

 Gray's page at Cranfield
 Prof. Nick Leven's speech appointing Gray as honorary Doctor of Engineering at the University of Bristol, 2006.

Living people
1957 births
British academics
Knights Bachelor
Academics of Cranfield University
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day. The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day is an adventure video game developed by New Game Order.  Players explore a post-apocalyptic future ruled by sentient robots.

Gameplay 
In a post-apocalyptic future, sentient robots take over the world.  Players control RT-217NP, a robot who scavenges the remnants of human technology.  The game is played from a third-person perspective, and players hear RT-217NP's thoughts on human society as they interact with the world.  After completing various puzzles involving gathering parts to repair technology, players discover that humans are not extinct, as thought.  RT-217NP joins a group of rebels who seek to rescue the humans.  After this point, players are given more freedom to explore, and they can speak to various characters, choosing dialogue options.

Development 
ComonGames, a Russian game studio.  The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day was released for Windows on September 22, 2016; Android on September 23, 2016; iOS on December 7, 2017; and Switch and PlayStation 4 on March 3, 2022.

Reception 
Although initially impressed by its graphics and production values, Rock Paper Shotgun said that The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day is "disastrous" and not worth playing because of what they felt were "ghastly sluggish controls" and "barely comprehensible writing/translation".  Adventure Gamers praised the graphics and story, but they disliked the controls and thought some of the puzzles were frustrating.  They concluded that it should hold the interest of adventure gamers.  Pocket Gamer criticized it for having "poor writing, uninspired puzzles, and a wonky camera".

Sequel 
ComonGames [a.k.a. New Game Order] released another adventure game set in the same world, The Uncertain: Light at the End, in October 2020 for Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox One.  Players control a human protagonist, and it does not continue RT-217NP's story.  It received negative reviews on Metacritic.

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2016 video games
Windows games
Android (operating system) games
iOS games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
Single-player video games
Indie games
Adventure games
Post-apocalyptic video games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in Russia
Rhenium dioxide trifluoride. Rhenium dioxide trfluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula .  A white diamagnetic solid, it one of the few oxyfluorides of rhenium, another being rhenium trioxide fluoride, .  The material is of some academic interest as a rare example of an dioxide trifluoride.  It can be prepared by the reaction of xenon difluoride and rhenium trioxide chloride:

According to X-ray crystallography, the compound can exist in four polymorphs. Two polymorphs adopt chain-like structures featuring octahedral Re centers linked by [bridging bridging fluoride]]s. Two other polymorphs adopt cyclic structures  and , again featuring octahedral Re centers and bridging fluorides. Like related oxyfluorides, these coordination oligomers break up in the presence of Lewis bases.  Adducts of the formula  where L =  acetonitrile have been crystallized.

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Rhenium compounds
Fluorides
Transition metal oxides
International Journal of Structural Integrity. The International Journal of Structural Integrity is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on damage tolerance design, structural integrity and failure. It was established in 2010 and is published by Emerald Publishing. The editors-in-chief are José A.F.O. Correia (University of Porto) and Shun-Peng Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China).

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
British Library
EBSCO
EI Compendex
Emerging Sources Citation Index
QUALIS
ReadCube Discover
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals
Scopus

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English-language journals
Emerald Group Publishing academic journals
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals established in 2010