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Ground reinforcement. Ground reinforcement is a reinforcing element placed on a flat surface in order to increase accessibility for vehicles and ensure proper rainwater drainage in addition to protection. The reinforcing element, usually in the form of grids, is used beneath grass, asphalt, concrete in roads, parking lots, driveways and paths.

Materials
The materials used for ground reinforcement include iron, plywood and recycled plastic  Recycled plastic possesses the desirable properties of water resistance and recycling opportunities, in addition to the sustainability.

Installation
Iron plates, being heavy, are generally installed using a crane while plywood and plastic reinforcements are placed by hand. Ground reinforcement grids are installed by preparing a suitable depth of sub base material, overlaid with a screed layer of fine gravel or sharp sand to create a level followed by geotextile membrane before final assembly and in-filling of the final grid surface. Typical ground reinforcement systems involve gravel stabilization and grass reinforcement. These systems reinforce the surface to enable use by vehicles.

References

 How Gravel Stabilisation Grids Work, - Nidagravel UK | Gravel Stabilisers UK Ltd (UK)

Building materials
Materials
Mufutau Adesanya Kasali. Mufutau Adesanya Kasali  MFR is the present Oba Moyegeso of Itele in Ijebu-East, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Early life and education
Mufutau Adesanya Kasali was born on 13 December 1943. He attended Ijebu Ode Grammar School in Ijebu Ode from 1961 to 1966 for his secondary education. He later proceeded to the University of Lagos where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972. He is a trained engineer and also a member of Nigerian Society of Engineers.

Career

He worked as a senior engineer with the old National Electrical Power Authority (NEPA), now  Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) until his retirement.

Selection and coronation

He was unanimously selected from the Ishagbola Ruling House as the Oba Moyegeso of Itele-Elect in 2000. He was subsequently crowned and presented instruments of office by the Ogun State Government on March 3, 2003.

Awards
In 2011, Kasali was awarded MFR, a national honour by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

References

Nigerian royalty
Yoruba monarchs
People from Ogun State
1943 births
Living people
Itzhak Nissan. Itzhak Nissan is an Israeli engineer and business executive who is the chairman and CEO of Meteor Aerospace Ltd., a privately owned Israeli defense and security company that Nissan founded.

Formal education 
Nissan holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Radar Engineering, both with honours, from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Career at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) 
Nissan joined Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. in 1978 as a systems engineer. Nissan's notable accomplishments included conception and development of a leading weapon system for the Israeli Navy and initiation of special programs in cooperation with other countries.

In 1995, Nissan was appointed as general manager of IAI's MBT Division, which was IAI's engineering and development house for missiles, precision weapons, naval systems, and leader of all of Israel's space programs.

In 2002, Nissan was appointed as corporate vice president and general manager of IAI's Systems Missiles and Space Group.

In January 2006, Nissan was appointed as president and chief executive officer of IAI. Nissan led major changes in the company's culture and business orientation, adjusting its workforce structure and introducing the company to the Tel-Aviv stock market with bonds issuing.

Globes business newspaper described Nissan as “a respected manager credited with winning huge deals for IAI”. Nissan left IAI with an all-time high record of orders backlog, totalling nearly $10 billion.

Chairman and CEO at Meteor Aerospace Ltd. 
In 2013, Nissan and Hezi Bezalel founded a privately owned defense and Home Land Security (HLS) company – Meteor Aerospace Ltd. Meteor Aerospace develops and manufactures a range of weapons, and it develops new unmanned systems for air, ground and sea.

Meteor has developed  unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, manned or unmanned surface vessels (USV), and robotic ground vehicles.

Honours and awards 
 2001 – Award for Extraordinary Achievements from Manufacturers Association of Israel
 2008 – High Tech Manager of the Year award from Israel Management Association
 2009 – Selected by D&B as one of the most prominent Israeli business leaders
 2012 – Honorary Doctorate from the Technion

References 

Israeli chief executives
University of Washington College of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)

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System 2000. System 2000 or similar may refer to:

 Federal Telecommunications System 2000, digital telecommunications service for the US federal government
 Satellite Control and Operation System 2000, a satellite Mission Control System software infrastructure from the European Space Agency
 Systema 2000 (also known as the Game Master), a monochrome handheld game console from the early 1990s
 System 2000 (software), a Database Management System (DBMS)
Quasar 2000. The Quasar 2000 is a series of Czech high-wing, single-place, hang gliders that was designed and produced by Quasar of Dolní Bečva. Now out of production, when the series was available the models were each supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The 2000 is made from aluminum tubing, with the double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The nose angle for all models is 132°. The models are each named for their wing area in square metres.

Variants
2000 13
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its  span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The wing area is  and the aspect ratio is 7:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is .
2000 13.6
Mid-sized model for mid-weight pilots. Its  span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The wing area is  and the aspect ratio is 7.8:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is .
2000 14.8
Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its  span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The wing area is  and the aspect ratio is 7.4:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is .

Specifications (2000 14.8)

References

2000
Hang gliders
Quasar Relief. The Quasar Relief is a series of Czech high-wing, single-place, topless, competitions hang gliders that was designed and produced by Quasar of Dolní Bečva. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Relief is made from aluminum tubing, with the cross tube and battens made from carbon fibre and the double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The nose angle for all models is 132°. The models are each named for their rough wing area in square metres.

The design is "topless", that is lacking a kingpost and upper rigging, instead using a reinforced cross tube for rigidity.

Some models, designated with an "RX" suffix, have a small horizontal stabilizer attached to the keel tube that can be deployed 90° to act as a speed brake for landing.

Variants
Relief 13
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of  and an aspect ratio of 8:4:1.
Relief 13 RX
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of  and an aspect ratio of 8.0:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is . This model has a small horizontal stabilizer attached to the keel tube that can be deployed 90° to act as a speed brake.
Relief 14
Mid-sized model for mid-weight pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of  and an aspect ratio of 7.7:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is .
Relief 14 RX
Mid-sized model for mid-weight pilots. Identical to the 14, except this model has a small horizontal stabilizer attached to the keel tube that can be deployed 90° to act as a speed brake.
Relief 15
Large-sized model for heavy-weight pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of  and an aspect ratio of 7.2:1. The pilot hook-in weight range is .

Specifications (Relief 13)

References

External links

Relief
Hang gliders
IBM 711. The IBM 711 was a punched card reader used as a peripheral device for IBM mainframe vacuum tube computers and early transistorized computers. Announced on May 21, 1952, it was first shipped with the IBM 701. Later IBM computers that used it were the IBM 704, the IBM 709, and the transistorized IBM 7090 and 7094.

Overview
The 711's read mechanism was based on the IBM 402's and could read 150 cards per minute (250 cards per minute on the IBM 7090). It included a control panel that could be wired to transfer any 72 columns out of the 80 on a card into the computer's memory, though in practice the panel was almost always wired to read the first 72 columns. Cards were read in binary format. Data from each row was read into two 36-bit words, starting with row 9, for a total of 24 words per card. Computer object code could then be executed directly. Conversion to characters or numbers was done in software. The 72 column restriction influenced early computer languages, such as Fortran and Cobol, which only allowed source code in the first 72 columns of each punched card. 

The 711 was relatively slow and magnetic tape was much faster, so it was common for 7000 series installations to include an IBM 1401, with its high speed peripherals, to do card-to-tape and tape-to-line-printer operations off-line, with the 711 mainly used for initial program load of operating systems and diagnostics.

Variants of the 711, the IBM 712 and the IBM 714 were used with the IBM 702 and IBM 705 computers.

In the media
An IBM 711 is shown reading cards as part of an IBM 7090 installation in the 2016 American biographical film Hidden Figures.

See also
 IBM 716 companion line printer
 List of IBM products.

References

IBM 700/7000 series
Card reader (punched cards)
711
Quasar Tramp. The Quasar Tramp is a Czech high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed and produced by Quasar of Dolní Bečva. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Tramp was designed as a simple leisure wing available in just one size. It is made from aluminum tubing, with the single-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The nose angle is 120°, wing area is  and the aspect ratio is 5.9:1. Pilot hook-in weight range is .

Specifications (Tramp)

References

Tramp
Hang gliders
Quasar (Czech company). Quasar is a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Dolní Bečva and founded by Karel Haman. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, plus ultralight trike wings.

The company produces a wide range of hang glider wings that has included beginner wings, like the Quasar Tramp, intermediate wings, such as the Quasar 2000 and the Quasar Flavio that was designed by world hang gliding champion Tomáš Suchánek plus the competition topless Quasar Relief wing design.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Ultralight aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Hang gliders
Harindra Joseph S. Fernando. Harindra Joseph S. Fernando is the Wayne and Diana Murdy Family Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences at University of Notre Dame. He holds joint appointments in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences (primary) and Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering.
He also holds a concurrent appointment with the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics.

He schooled at St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and studied at the University of Sri Lanka (BSc in Mechanical Engineering, 1979), the Johns Hopkins University (MA 1982 and PhD 1983 in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics) and Caltech (Post-Doctoral research in Environmental Engineering Science, 1983–84). During 1984–2009, he was a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University, and was the founding Director of the Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics (1994–2009). In 2010 he joined University of Notre Dame.  He has held visiting professorships at the Solar Energy Research Institute (1987–88), University of Cambridge (1990), the UK Meteorological Office (1991–96), ETH (1996), Tel Aviv University (2002), and the University of Toulon (2007–11).

Academic work and research 

Professor Fernando has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals covering a variety of subject areas. He has led several large multi-university research projects dealing with Mountainous Terrain Weather, Air-Sea Interactions in the Northern Indian Ocean, Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Waves and Instabilities, Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations and Coastal Fog.

During 2005–07, the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, NBC, PBS, Nature and other international news outlets extensively featured his work on hydrodynamics of beach defenses. In 2008, the Arizona Republic Newspaper included him in “Tempe Five Who Matter”—one of the five residents who have made a notable difference in the life of the city, for his work on Phoenix Urban Heat Island.

He has edited several books. These include Environmental Fluid Dynamics Handbook (Taylor & Francis, 2013), Human Health and National Security Implications of Climate Change (Springer, 2012), and Double Diffusive Convection (AGU, 1994).

He is editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Fluid Dynamics.

Honors 

Among honors Professor Fernando received include Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Joseph Fourier/University of Grenoble, France (2014) and in 2016 he  was awarded Doctor of Laws (LLD) Honoris Causa by the University of Dundee, Scotland. He is also an elected member of the European Academy.

References

External links 
 Harindra Fernando’s webpage, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
 Publications, indexed by Google Scholar

University of Notre Dame faculty
Alumni of the University of Sri Lanka
Johns Hopkins University alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Arizona State University faculty
Alumni of St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa
Tiroler Wasserkraft. Tiroler Wasserkraft AG (TIWAG) is an Austrian company that generates electricity from hydropower based in Innsbruck, Austria.

The company mainly produces electricity through hydropower. The company operates several hydropower plants in the Tyrol region of Austria, including the Kühtai, Pitztal, and Martell power plants. Tiroler Wasserkraft is owned by Verbund, Austria's leading electricity company.

It operates the Amlach power station on the river Drava.

References

External links
 
 S&P Global Credit Rating regulatory article 2022

Companies based in Innsbruck
Electric power companies of Austria
Austrian brands
Higher Education Press. Higher Education Press (HEP) is a publisher in China of university and college-level textbooks, owned by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The company's headquarters is in Beijing. HEP was among the world Top 50 publishers.

HEP partnered with ScienceOpen in April 2016, indexing one of its flagship Open Access journals Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (FASE).

Journals

 Engineering
Frontiers of Architectural Research
Frontiers in Biology
Frontiers of Computer Science
Frontiers in Energy
Frontiers of Law in China
Frontiers of Medicine
Frontiers of Physics
Protein & Cell

References

Book publishing companies of China
Reprise License Manager. The Reprise License Manager (RLM) is the software licensing toolkit developed and marketed by Reprise Software, providing on-premises and cloud-based license management, license enforcement and product activation solutions for publishers of commercial software applications. The Reprise License Manager is used by over 800 Independent Software Vendors: 
 Computer Modelling Group
 The Foundry Visionmongers
 Hewlett-Packard
 Intergraph
 SAP SE 
 Siemens
 Tecplot
 Trimble Navigation
 ViaSat
 Live2D Cubism

See also
 Copy protection
 Digital rights management
 Floating licensing
 License borrowing
 List of license managers
 Product activation

References
(2009) 22 Embedded Systems Design 2 Google Books.
Chemical Engineering Process. 2008. Volume 104. Issues 7-12. Page 34. Google Books.

External links

 RLM License Administration Manual

System administration
Software licensing
Symposium on Laser Physics. Symposium on Laser Physics is an academic conference in the field of Laser Physics.  SLP has been organized, once every four years since 1971.

History
The first Symposium on Laser Physics took place from August 29  to September 5, 1971, on the campus of University of Isfahan, with the support and cooperation of Sharif University of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ali Javan was director of the symposium, which was sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

References 

Laser science
Recurring events established in 1971
Colin Matthews (businessman). Colin Stephen Matthews CBE FREng (born 20 April 1956) is a British businessman, and was the Chairman of Highways England from 2014 to 2020; and EDF Energy.

Early life
He attended the independent Oundle School in north Northamptonshire. He is the son of Sir Peter Matthews, the former boss of Vickers, and was born in Canada. He holds dual Canadian-British nationality.

In 1977 he gained a First Class MA degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. In 1984 he gained an MBA from INSEAD, a famous business school in France. He became a Chartered Engineer.

Career
He started out on an engineering apprenticeship at Lucas Girling, a brakes manufacturer, in Birmingham, in 1977.

General Electric
He joined GE in 1988.

British Airways
In 1997 he became Managing Director of the engineering division of British Airways. As Technical Director, he left British Airways in 2001.

BAA
In 2008 he became Chief Executive of BAA plc, renamed Heathrow Airport Holdings in 2012. He announced his resignation from Heathrow Airport Holdings on 1 April 2014 when he announced he would leave the company later that year. Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport.

Highways England
On 21 July 2014 he was appointed as Chairman of the Highways Agency, which became Highways England in December 2014. He took up his position at the Highways Agency on 1 September 2014. As of 2015, Matthews was paid a salary of between £130,000 and £134,999 by the agency for his part-time role, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.

Personal life
He is married with four children. He has a French wife, Florence. In 2015 he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He lives in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, with another house in France. He enjoys sailing in Cornwall. He is a devout Christian.

See also
 Jim O'Sullivan, Chief Executive of Highways England since July 2015, who also came from BAA plc, and a former Chief Engineer of Concorde.

References

External links
 Highways England
 Sunday Telegraph interview
 Royal Academy of Engineering 

1956 births
British Airways people
Businesspeople in aviation
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
English chief executives
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Heathrow Airport Holdings
INSEAD alumni
People educated at Oundle School
People from Richmond, London
Living people
Thomas Sederberg. Thomas W. Sederberg is the associate dean of the college of physical and mathematical sciences and professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research involves computer graphics and computer aided design. He helped invent free-form deformation and T-splines.

Education and career 
Thomas W. Sederberg studied civil engineering at Brigham Young University for both his Bachelor's (1975) and his Master's (1977) degrees. Sederberg received his PhD from Purdue and joined the civil engineering faculty at BYU in 1983. His PhD thesis discussed how to compute intersecting Bézier curves.

He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics and for Computer Aided Geometric Design.

Sederberg co-founded T-Splines, inc. in 2004, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.

Awards 
SIGGRAPH awarded Sederberg with the Computer Graphics Achievement award in 2006. In 2013 Sederberg received the Pierre Bézier award for his contributions to solid modeling.

Purdue gave Sederberg the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award in 2014. Brigham Young University awarded him the Steven V. White University Professorship, the Technology Transfer Award and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. His publications are highly cited—in 2014 Thomson Reuters named Sederberg as one of the 108 most-cited professors in computer science.

Personal life 
Sederberg married Brenda Clark in 1978, and they had eight children.One of them is Matthew Sederberg, CSO of Coreform, a successful software company.

See also 
 T-spline
 free-form deformation

References

External links 
 Sederberg's syllabus for CS 557: Computer aided geometric design
 Sederberg's publications at ScholarsArchive
 BYU devotional on faith and joy

Brigham Young University faculty
Brigham Young University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Living people
Computer graphics researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tore Planke. Tore Planke (born 25 January 1943) is a Norwegian engineer, inventor and businessperson.

He was born in Oslo to Sverre Martens Planke and Vivien Brath, and is a brother of Petter Planke. He was married to Grete Lind from 1970 to 1991, and to Ingrid Elisabeth Planke from 1994.

Planke graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1969, specializing in cybernetics. He co-founded the industry company Tomra in 1972, along with his brother. The company produced reverse vending machines based on his inventions using electronics and optics for recognizing the bottles.

References

1943 births
Living people
Engineers from Oslo
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Norwegian inventors
Norwegian company founders
Kalbermatten Woopy. The Kalbermatten Woopy is a Swiss high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed by Laurent de Kalbermatten of Villars-sur-Glâne. The aircraft seems to have been just developed to prototype stage and it is not clear if production was undertaken.

Design and development
The Woopy fuselage is made from aluminum tubing, with a conventional tail, a seated pilot position and weight shift controls. The wing is inflatable and based on the same concept as an air mattress, kept inflated by two small battery-powered fans. Launch and landing is carried out on foot.

Much of the development was undertaken using scale flying models to speed construction and reduce pilot risk.

Two models were developed, the Woopy Fly and the Woopy Jump, plus a powered version of the Woopy Fly.

Variants
Woopy Fly
Initial model. Its  span wing is inflatable and has an aspect ratio of 4.58:1 and a wing area is . The glider empty weight is  and it has a glide ratio of 9:1.
Powered Woopy Fly
A powered version of the Woopy Fly was developed in Siberia and flown with a  two-stroke engine that gave it an empty weight of  and a cruise speed of  with a  propeller.
Woopy Jump
More portable development model. Its wing is also inflatable and the glider empty weight is  and the aircraft can be folded into a bag  long.

Specifications (Woopy Fly)

References

External links
Photo of a Kalbermatten Woopy

Woopy
Hang gliders
https://www.aeroexpo.online/prod/woopyjump/product-182061-26242.html
1926–27 Drexel Engineers men's basketball team. The 1926–27 Drexel Engineers men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1926–27 men's basketball season. The Engineers, led by 2nd year head coach Ernest Lange, played their home games at Main Building.

Roster

Schedule

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References

Drexel Dragons men's basketball seasons
Drexel
1926 in sports in Pennsylvania
1927 in sports in Pennsylvania
1926 in Philadelphia
1927 in Philadelphia