omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
8th Air Brigade (Argentina). The 8th Air Brigade was an Argentine Air Force brigade that existed between 1976 and 1988 based at the Mariano Moreno Airport near Buenos Aires. It was created upon the procurement of Mirage III fighter planes and fought during the Falklands War.

History
In 1970, Argentina bought 12 Mirage III interceptors, which were designated the Mariano Moreno Squadron.

In 1973, the Mariano Moreno Military Air Base was established, and the squadron became the 1st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. Then, in 1976, they became the 8th (VIII) Air Brigade and the 8th Operations Group, later renamed the 8th Fighter Group.

In 1988, the Air Force disbanded the 8th Fighter Group and transferred the aircraft to the 6th Fighter Group, based in Tandil. The VIII Air Brigade was dissolved, as well.

Falklands War 

In 1982, the G8C was deployed to Patagonia, concentrating the Mirage Squadrons at the bases of Comodoro Rivadavia and Rio Gallegos. They were to defend the mainland against possible British attacks by long-range Avro Vulcan bombers and carrier-borne Sea Harriers. The Mirages were armed with air-to-air missiles, two R-550 and one R-530, and equipped with two additional fuel tanks.

Pilots

Source
 Major José Sánchez.
 Major Luna.
 Captain G. Ballesteros.
 Captain G. A. García Cuerva (dead).
 Captain Ricardo González.
 Captain Raúl Gambandé.
 Captain Carlos Arnau.
 Captain Marcos Czerwinski.
 Captain Jorge Huck.
 1st Lieutenant Perona.
 1st Lieutenant Yebra.
 1st Lieutenant Marcelo Puig.
 1st Lieutenant Carlos Selles.
 1st Lieutenant Alberto Maggi.
 1st Lieutenant Bosich.

Order of battle
 8th Air Brigade.
 8th Fighter Group.
 8th Technical Group.
 8th Base Group.

References

External links
faa.mil.ar/

Argentine Air Force
Argentine Air Force units and formations in the Falklands War
Aloha 28. The Aloha 28 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Edward S. Brewer and Robert Walstrom and first built in 1972.

The Aloha 28 design was developed into the Aloha 8.5 in 1983.

The Aloha 28 should not be confused with the Aloa 28, the successor to the Aloa 27 that has been built by the French shipyard Aloa Marine since 1972.

Production
The boat was built by Ouyang Boat Works in Whitby, Ontario, Canada under its Aloha Yachts brand between 1972 and 1988, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Aloha 28 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a  masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder mounted on a skeg and a fixed swept fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel fitted.

Several masts and rigs were supplied during the course of production, including a tall masted version, with a mast about  taller than standard.

With the tall mast fitted the design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 195 with a high of 202 and low of 192. It has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a review Michael McGoldrick wrote, "The Aloha 28 was designed by Ted Brewer, a Canadian who has gained a considerable reputation for drawing some serious cruising boats. The Aloha 28 certainly qualifies on this count. Although Aloha wasn't designed for racing, a long waterline makes it a fast boat. It also had a long production run, stretching from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s ... In its final years of production, this boat was also marketed as the Aloha 8.5. The Aloha 8.5 had a different window configuration and a better forward hatch."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Alerion Express 28
Beneteau First 285
Beneteau Oceanis 281
Bristol Channel Cutter
Cal 28
Catalina 28
Crown 28
Cumulus 28
Grampian 28
Hunter 28
Hunter 28.5
Hunter 280
J/28
Laser 28
O'Day 28
Pearson 28
Sabre 28
Sea Sprite 27
Sirius 28
Tanzer 8.5
Tanzer 28
TES 28 Magnam
Viking 28

References

External links

Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Edward S. Brewer
Sailboat type designs by Robert Walstrom
Sailboat types built by Ouyang Boat Works
SB Edme. Edme is a Thames barge which was built in 1898 for the Horlocks of Mistley. She was registered in Harwich. She is one of two barge sailing today that have no auxiliary engine.

Description

EDME is  long, with a beam of  and a draught of . She is assessed at .

History
She was built of wood at Harwich in 1898 by Cann for F.W.Horlock. The United Kingdom Official Number 105425 was allocated. She sailed commercially until 1939 carrying malt and acid. During the 1939-1945 she served in Harwich Harbour as an anchor point for barrage balloons. In 1946 she was derigged and used as a timber lighter in Heybridge Basin. She then became a houseboat.

From 1971 there was a lengthy restoration by Ian Danskin at Maldon, Essex before she was bought by the Harman-Harrison Consortium, taken to St Osyth in 1992 and rerigged as bowsprit barge. She is now owned by EDME Consortium, and based at St Osyth. In 2013 she obtained a grant towards the cost of replacing a chine. Along with the SB Mirosa she still has no engine.

She is racing in 2017 in the Thames and Medway sailing barge matches. She is notable for her shallow draught.

See also

List of active Thames sailing barges

References

Further reading

External links

 Thames Sailing Barge Trust
 Mersea museum barge database
 Sailing Barge Association
 Society for Sailing Barge Research active barges

Edme
1898 ships
Individual sailing vessels
Ships built in Harwich
Transport on the River Thames
Sailing ships of the United Kingdom
Ships and vessels on the National Register of Historic Vessels
Value of Earth. The value of Earth, i.e. the net worth of our planet, is a debated concept both in terms of the definition of value, as well as the scope of "Earth". Since most of the planet's substance is not available as a resource, "earth" has been equated with the sum of all ecosystem services as evaluated in ecosystem valuation or full-cost accounting.

The  price  on  the  services  that  the world's  ecosystems  provide to humans has been estimated in 1997 to be $33 trillion per annum, with a confidence interval of from $16 trillion to $54 trillion. Compared with the combined gross national product (GNP) of all the  countries at about the same time ($18 trillion) ecosystems would appear to be providing 1.8 times as much economic value as people are creating. The result details have been questioned, in particular the GNP, which is believed to be closer to $28 trillion (which makes ecosystem services only 1.2 times as precious), while the basic approach was readily acknowledged. The World Bank gives the total gross domestic product (GDP) in 1997 as $31.435, which would about equal the biosystem value.
Criticisms were addressed in a later publication, which gave an estimate of $125 trillion/yr for ecosystem services in 2011, which would make them twice as valuable as the GDP, with a yearly loss of 4.3–20.2 trillion/yr.

The BBC has published a website that lists various types of resources on various scales together with their current estimated values from different sources, among them BBC Earth, and Tony Juniper in collaboration with The United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).

See also
Gross world product
Willingness to pay
Earth Economics
Ecological values of mangroves
Natural capital
Total economic value

References

Ecosystems
Economic indicators
Assam Petro-Chemicals. Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited is a PSU which is owned by Oil India Limited and Government of Assam. It is the largest producer of Methanol and Formaldehyde in India with production capacity of 600TPD Methanol and 325TPD Formaldehyde. The company was incorporated in 1971 and by 1976 had started production at their small methanol plant located at Namrup along with formaldehyde and a few urea-formaldehyde resins like urea-formaldehyde glue and urea-formaldehyde moulding powder. Post expansion in 1989 and 1998, the company expanded the methanol plant to the capacity of 100TPD (tonnes per day) and formaldehyde plant to 100TPD. The company announced in September 2017 that it would invest  and expand to produce 500TPD methanol and 200TPD formalin and become the largest producer of methanol in India. The required feedstock for these plants are natural gas, urea and carbon dioxide. Natural gas, supplied by Oil India Ltd, is used as feedstock for methanol production. Urea and carbon dioxide are supplied by BVFCL Fertilizer Plant.

Methanol production
The company is among the top five producers of methanol in India; the other four being Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers & Chemicals, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers and National Fertilizers Limited.

In October 2018, the company started a pilot project to use methanol as cooking gas in place of conventional liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The company was the first in India to offer methanol as an alternative to traditional cooking fuel. At the launch, the canisters, weighing  each, were priced at  each. Eighteen such canisters of methanol were equivalent to one LPG cylinder which is used for domestic cooking in India. The project was launched in support of NITI Aayog under their concept of "methanol economy" to reduce the cost of importing LPG.

References

External links

1971 establishments in Assam
Chemical companies of India
Chemical companies established in 1971
Companies based in Assam
Indian companies established in 1971
Companies formerly listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Amalgamated Instrument Makers' Society. The Amalgamated Instrument Makers' Society was a trade union representing workers involved in manufacturing scientific instruments in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1887 as the Scientific Instrument Makers' Trade Society.  In 1891, it was a founder member of the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades.

Initially a very small union, it had only 664 members in 1900, but then began growing, reaching 2,400 members by 1914.

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) put out a call for other unions to amalgamated with it, and the Instrument Makers was one of seventeen unions which balloted its members on the proposal.  The vote was passed, and in 1920 it merged with the ASE and eight other unions to form the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

References

Engineering trade unions
Trade unions established in 1887
Trade unions disestablished in 1920
British scientific instrument makers
Trade unions based in London
Printed electronic circuit. A printed electronic circuit (PEC) was an ancestor of the hybrid integrated circuit (IC). PECs were common in tube (valve) equipment from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Brands
Couplate was the Centralab trademark, whilst Sprague called them BulPlates.  Aerovox used the generic PEC.

Difference from hybrid integrated circuits
PECs contained only resistors and capacitors arranged in circuits to simplify construction of tube equipment.  Also, their voltage ratings were suitable for tubes.  Later, hybrid ICs contained transistors, and often monolithic integrated circuits.  Their voltage ratings were suitable for the transistors they contained.

References 

Electronic circuits
Wolfgang Engel. Wolfgang Friedrich Engel is a GPU and Graphics Programmer. He is the founder and CEO of The Forge Interactive. Previously, he also worked as the Lead Graphics Programmer for Rockstar Games. He is also the founder and editor of ShaderX, GPU Pro, and GPU Zen books series.

Career
As a developer, Engel has developed videogames in addition to games for the television series Wetten, dass..?. He was the Lead Graphics Programmer at Rockstar Games, where he led the graphics development of the RAGE engine. During his time at Rockstar he contributed to Rockstar Games franchises including Midnight Club, Red Dead Redemption, and Grand Theft Auto. At that time Engel also developed the Oolong gaming engine for iPhone, that eventually shipped about a hundred games. In 2008 Engel introduced light pre-pass rendering as a method of deferred shading variant in the development of videogame graphics, and is known as an expert in shader programming.

Engel then founded Confetti Interactive and Confetti Games in 2009, and is its CEO. Confetti is a think-tank for real-time graphics research in the videogame and movie industry, graphics tools developer, and programming services company. Tools Engel has helped develop for the company include Aura, a global illumination system; Ephemeris, a skybox/skydome system; and PixelPuzzle, a Post FX pipeline system. As a part of his role with Confetti, Engel works with external clients, and provides consultations to other game developers. Confetti contributed to games including Tomb Raider, Battlefield 4, Murdered Soul Suspect, Star Citizen, Dirt 4, Vainglory, Transistor, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Battlefield 1, Mafia 3, Quake Champions, and Phyre.

Writing
Engel has written or edited more than 20 books on graphics software development in use by the videogame industry, in line with contemporary techniques and practices. The book series he has authored include the ShaderX, GPU Pro, and GPU Zen books series. The ShaderX4 book was awarded the Game Developer Front Line prize in 2006. His books have also included edited collections of pieces by other industry experts and designers, and Engel has also been technical editor to books published by other authors on the same subject matter. Engel also writes articles for developer magazines and game tutorials for videogame-oriented websites. Engel has also spoken at public conferences regarding various techniques in videogame creation and is a faculty member and advisor to the Academy of Game Entertainment Technology.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
German video game designers
German technology writers
Rockstar Games
German company founders
Carolyn Griffiths. Carolyn Jane Griffiths is a railway engineer. She founded and lead the UK's Rail Accident Investigation Branch, where she had the position of Chief Inspector, reporting directly to the Secretary of State for Transport. She was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for 2017/18.

Griffiths joined the rail industry in 1979. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2013.

For her services to the rail industry she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Cranfield University in the same year.

References

Living people
Rail accident investigators
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
21st-century British women engineers
British railway mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
21st-century women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Grampian 26. The Grampian 26 is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Alex McGruer and first built in 1967.

The Grampian 26 design was developed into the Discovery 7.9 in 1975 and which was built in small numbers.

Production
The boat was built by Grampian Marine in Oakville, Ontario, Canada between 1967 and 1977. The company completed 980 examples, making it one of the most successful Canadian designs in its size range.

Design

The Grampian 26 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a vertical transom, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel or centreboard.

The boat was optionally factory-equipped with a Palmer gasoline engine or can be equipped with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The fresh water tank has a capacity of .

Operational history
In the 1970s a Grampian 26 was sailed down the St Lawrence River, to the Atlantic Ocean, down the east coast of North America, through the Panama Canal and north to Seattle on the US west coast.

Owners Dick and Theda Morris sailed their Grampian 26 from New York to Europe and cruised it there for two years. They then returned across the Atlantic to Key West, Florida via the Caribbean.

In a review Michael McGoldrick wrote, "The prize for the boat with the best price/size ratio on the used market has to go to the Grampian 26... What makes the Grampian such a great deal is its size - it is a BIG twenty-six footer. It has a large cockpit, standing headroom throughout the length of the cabin, and one of the bigger v-berths that can be found on any size production sailboat. And if all this isn't enough, the Grampian 26 is a surprisingly fast boat...The Grampian's main cabin has a dinette arrangement on the port side and a galley along the starboard side, so it does not have all that much lounging space."

Variants
Grampian 26
This model was introduced in 1967, with a fin keel. It has a length overall of , a waterline length of , displaces  and carries  of ballast. The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel fitted. The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 228 with a high of 238 and low of 219. It has a hull speed of .
Grampian 26 CB
This model was also introduced in 1967 and features a centreboard, but only a few were built. It has a length overall of , a waterline length of , displaces  and carries  of ballast. The boat has a draft of  with the centreboard extended and  with it retracted. The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 225 with a high of 219 and low of 231. It has a hull speed of .

See also

List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Beneteau First 26
Beneteau First 265
C&C 26
C&C 26 Wave
Contessa 26
Dawson 26
Discovery 7.9
Herreshoff H-26
Hunter 26
Hunter 26.5
Hunter 260
Hunter 270
MacGregor 26
Mirage 26
Nash 26
Nonsuch 26
Outlaw 26
Paceship PY 26
Parker Dawson 26
Pearson 26
Sandstream 26
Tanzer 26
Yamaha 26

References

External links

Video: Grampian 26 CB sailing

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Alex McGruer
Sailboat types built by Grampian Marine
Lagos–Abeokuta Expressway. The Lagos–Abeokuta Expressway is an  expressway connecting Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, and Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State,and Lagos Nigeria's largest city. The Lagos - Abeokuta expressway is Nigeria busiest highway, linking metropolitan and greater Lagos, with other Nigerian states.

The expressway is the busiest inter-state and intra-city route in Nigeria handling more than 250,000 PCUs daily and constitutes one of the largest road networks in Africa. It is part of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) projects, concerned with road improvement and connectivity between the States of Nigeria.

BRT development
In 2017 the Lagos State government planned to develop and construct a BRT lane in the Lagos Abeokuta expressway.  The construction and development of the BRT lane will occur in two phases; phase I is from Oshodi to Abule Egba, while phase II runs from Abule Egba to Ota toll gate, which is the boundary between Lagos and Ogun States.

The regulator of the BRT scheme, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), has boasted traffic on the heavily congested Oshodi-Iyana-Ipaja-Abule-Egba route would reduce by 40 percent after the completion of the project.

The passenger estimate on the corridor is about 230,000 per day, but it can reach 300,000.

Reconstruction
The reconstruction of the expressway was announced on May 14, 2018, by Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Minister of Power, Works and Housing of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the goal of reducing travel time for hundreds of thousands of commuters. The contract was awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria and Reynolds Construction Company Limited at a sum of ₦22,000,000,000.00, equivalent to $61,380,000.00. Two sections of the expressway will be reconstructed: Section I (Lagos to Ota) and section II (Ota to Abeokuta).

References 

Expressways in Nigeria
Transport in Lagos
Balawali. Balawali is a small village in Bijnor district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh near Railway Bridge on Ganga River. Balawali is a Railway Station also with code (BLW).

Anderson Railway Bridge
The  long Old bridge of Iron was constructed in 1888 in the British period at a cost of 27 Lakh 94 thousand rupees on the Ganga in Balawali. The Bridge was made under the guidance of Engineer Sir Jason Anderson & hence was named Anderson Bridge. This iron rail bridge used to operate rail traffic, but in the year 2001 the railway bridge was closed due to the new bridges being built nearby. Trains are still operating from the new bridge.

The 128 year old railway bridge was made ready for road traffic movement from the year 2016. The new Railway Bridge  i.e.  was built across the holy river Ganga near Balawali railway station between the Laksar and Najibabad Railway route in Uttar Pradesh. This Railway bridge is a landmark of the UP and Uttarakhand border. The Old Railway Bridge is used for road transportation and the other New Bridge for road transportation is under construction.

The  long Old Anderson Bridge was the Second Railway Bridge on Ganga Main River after The  long Malviya Bridge at Varanasi and the First Bridge on Ganga River up stream.

External links
pincode.net
News from Balawali
दूसरी पारी को तैयार हुआ पुराना बालावाली रेलवे पुल

Villages in Bijnor district
IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing. The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing is a Technical Field Award that is given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. This award is presented for contributions in the field of signal processing.

The award is named after Joseph Fourier, a French mathematician and physicist who is noted for the representation of periodic signals as linear superpositions of sine-wave basis functions known as the Fourier series, and applications of the Fourier Series to the analysis of vibration and heat transfer. The Fourier transform, which is widely used throughout electrical engineering and in particular signal processing, image processing, and communication theory, is also named in his honor.

The IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing may be presented to an individual or team of up to three people.

Recipients of the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. The Fourier Award is presented annually at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in the Spring.

Recipients 

Source:

 2015: Georgios B. Giannakis
 2016: Bede Liu
 2017: Russell Mersereau
 2018: Peter Stoica
 2019: Alan Conrad Bovik
 2020: Alfred O. Hero III
 2021: K. J. Ray Liu
 2022: Ali H. Sayed
 2023: Rabab Ward
 2024: Stéphane Mallat
 2025: Björn Ottersten

See also

 List of engineering awards

References

External links 

IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing web page
List of Recipients of IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing

IEEE awards
Awards established in 2015