omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Electronic Transaction Aggregation & Analysis Layer. Electronic Transaction Aggregation & Analysis Layer (eTaal) is a public service developed by India's National Informatics Centre to measure the impact of various e-governance initiatives at national and state levels.

As an indispensable analytical service, it also provides an integrated visual interface providing a real-time view of e-transactions taking place under various e-Governance applications implemented by Government, in an easily understandable visual graphic. These include Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) on the basis of transaction count shared by them in an automated manner using Web Services technology.
Many tax payments are also analyzed with ETAAL at the NIC.
The NIC also offers ETAAL services over the counter during normal office hours, in India.

The dashboard also facilitates quick analysis of transaction data in tabular and graphical forms enabling users to drill down to lowest level without compromising on privacy, security or integrity of the application software. Users can view consolidated e-Transaction statistics of e-Governance projects across the country and visualize their real-time utilization status.  ETAAL covers all Central Ministries and State/UT governments.

References

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
E-government in India
Gyanendra Nath Pande. Gyanendra Nath Pande or Gyan N Pande (1939-20 January 2020) was a British civil engineer of Indian descent associated with developments in computational engineering. He was Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Civil and Computational Engineering at Swansea University and founder president of the International Centre for Computational Engineering (IC2E).

Education and career
Pande grew up in India and obtained a Bachelor of Technology in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1959. He worked in the field of geomechanics, gaining more than ten years experience as a project engineer in tunnelling and hydroelectric installations in the Himalayas. From 1973 he studied at University of Wales (now Swansea University) from where he received a PhD in 1976.

He joined the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Wales in 1975 as lecturer, and was awarded a 'Personal Chair' in 1994 (the same year he was awarded a DSc degree).

In 1985 he was the founding editor of the computational geomechanics journal, Computers & Geotechnics. He was the founder president of the International Centre for Computational Engineering (IC2E), an organisation instrumental in setting up research and collaborations between universities and industry.

He was Emeritus Professor at Swansea University and a Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers.

He died on 20 January 2020.

Professional appointments
 Co-chair, International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics
 Chief Editor, Computers & Geotechnics
 Member, Advisory Panel of Geotechnique
 Chairman, Ground Engineering Group of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Wales Branch
 Chairman, International Committee on 'Computer Modelling of Masonry'
 Member of an expert committee appointed by Hydro-Quebec, Canada

Awards and honours
 Special Achievements in Geomechanics Award, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), 2014
 Manby Prize, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 2005
 Significant paper award of IACMAG, 2001 and 2002
 Best paper award – Journal of Rock Mechanics & Tunnelling Technology, 2003

Works
Pande wrote over 250 books and research papers.

Personal and family life
Pande was a founding member and trustee of the Tridev Meditation and Spiritual Awareness Society at Swansea.

Pande's younger brother Jitendra Nath Pande was professor and head of medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India. He was senior consultant (medicine) at the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi.

References

2020 deaths
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Alumni of the University of Wales
Academics of Swansea University
British people of Indian descent
Fellows of the Institution of Civil Engineers
1939 births
Rotary transfer machine. A rotary transfer machine is a machine tool, typically for metal working by machining, comprising a large indexing table with machining stations surrounding the table. Such rotary transfer machines are used for producing a large number of parts in fairly short cycle times.

Operation
In rotary transfer machines, the workpieces are located and clamped in pallet type fixtures that are indexed in a circular path. During one cycle, sequential machining operations are performed simultaneously on the workpieces. The indexed table turns vertically or horizontally, and its movement could be continuous or intermittent. As the indexing table turns, the subsequent machining operation is repeated on the workpiece which was just machined by the previous station. This design combines automated part feed with simultaneous operations, enabling rapid completion of parts.

Applications
Rotary transfer machines are commonly used for the mass-production of metal parts in the automotive industry and for pneumatic and hydraulic fittings. The parts can range from simple to complex, depending on the layout of the machining tool, which is often custom-designed for the manufacturing of a single part or family of parts. Rotary arrangement presents a compact arrangement that saves floor space. The annual production capacity of one rotary transfer machine can range from 100'000 units to tens of millions of units.

Rotary transfer machines can generally cope with all standard machining operations like turning, milling, drilling, reaming, threading, recessing, marking, deburring, etc... for sizes ranging more or less from a fingernail up to a backpack.

References

 
Machines
Machining
Tools
Charles W. Wason. Charles W. Wason (1854–1918) was an engineer, Orientalist, philanthropist and bibliophile.

Wason was born on April 20, 1854, in Cleveland. His father was a banker. After schooling at the Guildford Academy, he studied for a degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University from 1872 to 1876, returning to Cleveland after his graduation to take a job with the East Cleveland Railway Company. He rose through the ranks to eventually become president of the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railway Company, as well as running other utility companies.

Wason developed a deep interest in China after he and his wife visited the country in 1903. This interest persisted, and after Sarah Pike Conger's Letters From China was given to him six years later by his wife's mother, he devoted himself to collecting English-language works on China. He began to amass a considerable collection, but ill-health forced him to turn over the acquisition of new items to his friend Arthur H. Clark. Clark, a publisher by trade, expanded the collection by around 9,000 volumes, including works in Chinese, French, Spanish and Portuguese. A ballroom in Wason's house, decorated with Chinese imagery, was converted into a library for the collection.

Wason died on April 15, 1918, at age 63. His collection was bequeathed to his alma mater, Cornell University. His will also stipulated an endowment of $50,000 for the acquisition of new titles for the collection.

References

External links
 Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University Library.

1854 births
1918 deaths
19th-century American businesspeople
American bibliophiles
American orientalists
American railway entrepreneurs
Businesspeople from Cleveland
Collectors of Asian art
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
USCGC William Trump. USCGC William Trump (WPC-1111) is a  cutter of the United States Coast Guard.
When she was delivered to the Coast Guard, on November 25, 2014, she was the eleventh vessel of her class, and the fifth vessel based in the Coast Guard's station in Key West, Florida.

Like her sister ships she has the endurance to take her crew on five day missions of up to .
She has modern electronics, integrating her with the rest of the Coast Guard and is designed for search and rescue, apprehending smuggling vessels, intercepting international refugees, and other constabulary duties.  She carries a high-speed jet-boat, that is deployed and retrieved via her stern launching ramp.  She is armed by a remotely controlled 25 mm autocannon, and four crew served Browning fifty caliber machine guns.  Her two diesel engines can propel her at .

Operational history

On December 24, 2015, William Trump, with other Coast Guard elements, pursued an expensive pleasure-craft stolen from Fort Myers, Florida. William Trump chase of the vessel spanned 20 hours, and over , before the three-man crew gave up and surrendered.  The stolen craft was a  "go-fast", worth approximately $350,000, was powered by three  outboard motors, and was capable of traveling at .
The three suspects, David Llanes Vasquez, Farfan Ramirez-Vidal and Sauri Raul De La Vega, were turned over to the Lee County Sheriff Department, after the stolen vessel had been towed home.

Initially the Sheriff's department had tried to apprehend the gö-fast, which responded by ramming the law enforcement vessel. The Sheriff's department handed the chase over to the Coast Guard when the vessel left their jurisdiction.

On May 5, 2016, the William Trump was mobilized when a report was received that a fishing vessel was firing upon a pleasure-craft 20 miles from one of the Florida Keys.  Both vessel were boarded and brought back to port, for an investigation.

In November, 2018, the William Trump, and her sister ship, the Charles Sexton, interdicted 36 Cuban migrants from illegally entering the US, and repatriated 35 of them to Cabañas, Cuba.  One migrant seemed to suffer a heart attack and was sent to a US port for medical treatment.

Namesake
Like all the vessels in her class William Trump is named after an individual from the Coast Guard's past who has been recognized as a hero.
Her namesake, William Trump, distinguished himself for his heroism helping soldiers land on Omaha Beach, during the Invasion of Normandy, actions that won him a Silver Star.

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2014 ships
Sentinel-class cutters
Ships built in Lockport, Louisiana
Langlois JL.2. The Langlois JL.2 was a three-winged agricultural aircraft built in France in 1979. It failed to sell and only one was built.

Design and development
The Langlois JL.2 was an unusually laid out three wing aircraft, not a conventional triplane but a tandem wing design of the Mignet Pou-du-Ciel type with an extra forward low wing.  The upper front and rear wings had the same span but the lower one was both shorter and of narrower chord. Its function was to stabilize the pendulum mode oscillations to which the tandem wing design was prone. Langlois intended it to be a fertilizer spreader, or crop duster, calling for robust construction and a more powerful engine than in most Mignet style aircraft.

All three wings were simple parallel chord, square tipped cantilever structures.  The stabilizing wing was mounted on the lower fuselage longerons and the rear wing on the upper rear fuselage.  The upper wing was pivoted high over the fuselage; on each side on a pair of inverted V-struts from the upper fuselage and a single, forward strut from below met at a pivot point.  The JL.2 was controlled, like all Mignet type designs, by changing the wing incidence. This was done through two links connecting the rear of the wing and the control column. There were no ailerons.

The fuselage was a simple flat sided construction except at the nose, where a  Lycoming O-360-A2A air-cooled flat four engine was smoothly cowled. Immediately behind the engine was a hopper for the fertilizer.  This was filled from above and discharged sideways, below the fuselage, via two side-by-side, vertical, narrowing ducts which fed spreaders with deflector plates on top.  These structures were braced with struts from a frame under the nose. The pilot sat high in the cockpit at the leading edge of the rear wing under a perspex canopy with minimal obstruction.   The fin was triangular and the unbalanced rudder rectangular.  The JL.2 had a fixed tailwheel undercarriage, with main wheels on cantilever legs. A tailwheel with a long leg kept the tail high off the ground.

The JL.2 first flew in August 1979 and received its Certificate of Airworthiness on 29 January 1980. However, there was little call in France for such an agricultural aircraft, so when the certificate expired the following January it was not renewed and the aircraft was abandoned at Mortagne. It had flown 102 hours.

Specifications

References

Tandem-wing aircraft
Agricultural aircraft
1970s French civil utility aircraft
Triplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1979
Nitrogen fixation package. A nitrogen fixation package is a piece of research equipment for studying nitrogen fixation in plants. One product of this kind, the Q-Box NF1LP made by Qubit Systems, operates by measuring the hydrogen (H2) given off in the nitrogen-fixing chemical reaction enabled by nitrogenase enzymes.

Principle of operation
Nitrogen is produced by bacteria, which have an endo-symbiotic relationship with the legume host. In this relationship, the plant shares its carbohydrates with the bacteria so that the bacteria can thrive, and the plant benefits by having excess nitrogen made available. The bacteria's creation of nitrogen also creates hydrogen, which is what the unit measures to determine the nitrogen produced. Measurement of H2 evolution as a means of determining nitrogenase activity is an alternative technique to acetylene reduction assay, and allows real-time monitoring of changes in nitrogenase activity.

Product description 
Q-Box NF1LP is an experimental package using an open-flow gas exchange system for measurement of nitrogen fixation in H2-producing legume symbioses. A flow-through H2 sensor (Q-S121) measures the production rate of H2 from N2-fixing tissues, allowing in vivo measurement of nitrogenase activity in real time.  Measurements of nitrogenase activity on up to three plants is possible, i.e. a four-channel system including a reference sample.

Operation 
Nitrogen fixation packages must be used in a laboratory-type environment. This can be a temporary laboratory set up in the field, as long as it is under stable, uncontaminated conditions. The product must be supplied with many potted samples of the plants and of the neighbouring soil, taken from separate areas on the farm or field under study. The tests rely on the availability of the Herbaspirillum bacteria in the soil. This bacterium is found at the root of most legumes, which is where they produce nitrogen. To test soil properly, it must be free of added nitrogen fertilizers, which have harmful effects on the Herbaspirillum bacteria needed for fixation.

Applications
Different aspects of nitrogen fixation can be examined with these products, such as effects of temperature on the fixation process, the regulation of the process by oxygen, and the inhibition of nitrogen fixation by an over-abundance of fertilizers.

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External links
 

Microbiology equipment
Nitrogen cycle
Spent shale. Spent shale or spent oil shale (also known as retorted shale) is a solid residue from the shale oil extraction process of producing synthetic shale oil from oil shale. It consists of inorganic compounds (minerals) and remaining organic matter known as char—a carbonaceous residue formed from kerogen. Depending on the extraction process and the amount of remaining organic matter, spent shale may be classified as oil shale coke, semi-coke or coke-ash residue, known also as oil shale ash. According to the European Union waste list all these types of spent shale are classified as hazardous waste.

Oil shale coke is created by chamber ovens which were used for oil shale gas production.  Vertical retorts create mainly semi-coke. Most solid heat carrier processes create coke-ash residue as the semi-coke created during the process is combusted for the process's energy needs.  

Spent shale can be used as ingredients in cement or brick manufacture.  In Jordan, usage of spent shale for the production of sodium carbonate, ammonium sulfate, and potassium sulfate has been studied.

References

Oil shale
Hazardous waste
Adobe Scout. Adobe Scout is a visual profiler for Adobe Flash content running on desktop or mobile platforms, and works together with Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Scout enables in-depth profiling of ActionScript 3 code execution, 2D graphics and text rendering, and 3D graphics rendered via the Stage3D application programming interface (API).

Scout is the successor of the code profiler introduced in Adobe Flash Builder. Scout was released in January 2013, and provided memory and code execution profiling. Stage3D support was added c. June 2013, along with an integrated Stage3D rendering preview and draw-call recording and replay toolset.

Features
Scout supports profiling of Flash content running on the same machine, or on remote machines, both of which need to connect to Scout via the Telemetry TCP/IP connection. Content on desktop platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X may be running in Adobe AIR or Adobe Flash Player. Content on mobile platforms such as Android and iOS may only be profiled if they are running in Adobe AIR for Mobile.

Scout provides code execution metrics, namely the per-frame execution time for ActionScript 3 code, and the memory use by objects created by Flash Player or User code. Developers may also track custom events within the Scout interface.

Scout provides historical profiling and a detailed breakup of all central processing unit (CPU) using activities within Flash Player, including code execution (ActionScript), 2D graphics rendering (DisplayList Rendering), network and video, and others.

Scout provides in-depth visual profiling of 3D graphics content rendering with the Stage3D API:
Stage3D Preview - View the current back-buffer of executed Stage3D Content
Stage3D Recording - Capture every Stage3D command executed by the Flash content, and replay or step through executed commands
GPU memory use - Profile texture memory use with a real-time breakdown
Stage3D Program Editor - Interactively modify recorded Stage3D commands and see what effect this has on rendering. Edit the AGAL code for the vertex and fragment programs executed by each draw call.

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External links
 

Adobe Flash
Flash
C++ software
Cross-platform software
Windows graphics-related software
Scout
Wallace Clement Sabine Medal. The Wallace Clement Sabine Medal of the Acoustical Society of America is presented to an individual of any nationality who has advanced the science of architectural acoustics, either by being published in professional journals or periodicals, or by another accomplishment in architectural acoustics at the discretion of the awarding body. The award was named for pioneering acoustician Wallace Clement Sabine. Founded in 1957 by the Acoustical Society of America, the award is given when an outstanding candidate is recognized.

Award recipients
 Vern Oliver Knudsen (1957) 
 Floyd R. Watson (1959) 
 Leo Beranek (1961) 
 Erwin Meyer (1964) 
 Hale J. Sabine (1968) 
 Lothar Cremer (1974) 
 Cyril M. Harris (1979) 
 Thomas D. Northwood (1982) 
 Richard V. Waterhouse (1990) 
 Harold Marshall (1995) 
 Russell Johnson (1997) 
 Alfred C. C. Warnock (2002) 
 William J. Cavanaugh (2006) 
 John S. Bradley (2008) 
 Christopher Jaffe (2011) 
 Ning Xiang (2014) 
David H. Griesinger (2017) 
 Michael Vorländer (2018) 
Gary W. Siebein (2020)

See also
Wallace Clement Sabine
Architectural acoustics
Acoustical Society of America
 List of physics awards

References

Awards of the Acoustical Society of America
Ivo Kolin. Ivo Kolin (1924, Zagreb - 2007, Zagreb) was a Croatian economist, engineer and inventor.

After years of experimentation he demonstrated in 1983 the first Low Temperature Difference (LTD) Stirling engine which ran at the temperature difference as low as 15 °C, astonishingly low at the time. It was also the first time in history of piston motors heat was turned into a mechanical work at the temperature lower than the boiling water. The engine was later significantly improved by an American engineer James Senft building on his previous work with Ringbom Stirling engines. Senft created an ultra LTD Ringbom Stirling engine which ran at the temperature difference of just 0.5 °C. Such engines, which could even run from heat absorbed while resting on the palm of a human hand, offer many applications, such as Solar Powered Stirling Engines.

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1924 births
2007 deaths
Engineers from Zagreb
Croatian inventors
Yugoslav inventors
Yugoslav engineers
Society for Experimental Mechanics. Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) is a professional organization for engineers and scientists studying the design and implementation of experiments to characterize materials, structures, and systems. Formed in 1943 as the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (SESA), early work focused on methods such as photoelasticity and strain gages.  Society historical records refer to the society as SESA through the 1984 Fall SESA meeting in Milwaukee, WI and start referring the society as SEM with the 1985 Spring SEM meeting in Las Vegas, NV.  The society has expanded to include topics including modal analysis, digital image correlation, Split Hopkinson pressure bar, Residual stress, and biomaterials.

Technical Divisions

The society comprises seventeen technical divisions that program sessions at either the SEM Annual Conference or IMAC Conference, and develop content for publications:

 Applied Photoelasticity
 Biological Systems and Materials
 Dynamics of Civil Structures
 Composite, Hybrid & Multifunctional Materials
 Dynamic Behavior of Materials
 Fracture and Fatigue
 Inverse Problem Methodologies
 MEMS and Nanotechnology
 Modal Analysis
 Model Validation & Uncertainty Quantification
 Optical Methods
 Residual Stress
 Technical Committee on Strain Gages
 Thermomechanics and Infrared Imaging
 Time Dependent Materials
 Sensors and Instrumentation
 The Western Regional Strain Gage Committee

Publications

SEM publishes proceedings volume from the SEM Annual Conference and IMAC Conference with its publishing partner Springer Science+Business Media.
SEM-published journals include:

 Experimental Mechanics, which prints 9 issues annual of peer-reviewed manuscripts on advances in experimental mechanics.
 Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, which prints peer-reviewed manuscripts on materials in high strain-rate and extreme conditions.
 Experimental Techniques, which is a bimonthly publication on the development and application of experimental mechanics techniques.

See also
 List of Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics

References

External links
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Home Page

Engineering societies based in the United States