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Kostadin Kostadinov (professor). Professor Kostadin Grozev Kostadinov (Bulgarian: Костадин Грозев Костадинов) is a professor of robotics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and former Deputy Minister for Education in Bulgaria.

Biography

Kostadin Kostadinov was born on 27th November 1955 in Svilengrad, Bulgaria. He acquired a Master’s degree in both Electrical engineering and in Robotics at the Technical University of Sofia in the period 1976 – 1983. In 1994 he finished his PhD in Applied mechanics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). He has since participated in many scientific forums across Europe. He became a full-time professor at BAS in 2008 and currently works at its Institute of Mechanics.

Political career

After the collapse of communism in Bulgaria, professor Kostadinov became co-founder of a political party in 1990, called Conservative Party in Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Консервативна партия в България). The party did not survive the next decade and in 2006 Kostadinov participated in the foundation of GERB – a political party which would go on to win successive parliamentary elections from 2009 onward. Kostadinov became advisor to Minister of Education Yordanka Fandakova (GERB) in August 2009 and held this position till January the following year. From November 2014 till March 2016 Kostadin Kostadinov was Deputy Minister for Education in the second cabinet of Prime-Minister Boyko Borissov. He was part of the team of Minister of Education Todor Tanev, who was a member of the Reformist Bloc – a constituent party of the then-ruling coalition, led by GERB. After GERB formed their third government in 2017, Kostadinov again became advisor to the Minister of Education, Krasimir Valchev (GERB).

Notable works

References

1955 births
Living people
People from Svilengrad
Technical University, Sofia alumni
Bulgarian politicians
Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2021 Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft King Air crash. On 21 May 2021, a Beechcraft King Air 350i belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crashed near the Kaduna International Airport, killing all 11 occupants, including the Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Army Ibrahim Attahiru.

Aircraft
The Nigerian Air Force had six Beechcraft B300 King Air 350i. The NAF201 also crashed on 21 February, 2021.

Accident
On the evening of 21 May 2021, a Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft King Air 350i with Ibrahim Attahiru and ten other occupants were on a visit to the northern state of Kaduna to attend a Nigerian Army recruit passing out parade the following day. During the flight the aircraft crashed killing all on board including Attahiru.

See also
List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (2020–present)

References

External links

Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft King Air 350i crash
Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft King Air 350i crash
Accidents and incidents involving military aircraft
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Accidents and incidents involving the Beechcraft Super King Air
Aviation accidents and incidents in Nigeria
Military history of Nigeria
Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft King Air 350i crash
Elektra Glide. Elektra Glide is a futuristic motorcycle racing game developed by designer Adam Billyard for the Atari 8-bit computers, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64. It was published in 1985 by English Software. Mastertronic also published the game in the US.

Gameplay

The objective of Elektra Glide is to stay on the track, and reach the tunnel leading to the start of the next section before time runs out. Many strange obstacles stand in the way of achieving this goal, such as spinning prisms, bouncing globes, and airships that drop columns in the player's path. There are three different zones to race across: America, Australia and the British mainland with each zone having different landscape graphics.

Reception
Elektra Glide was a commercial success in Europe, selling around forty to fifty thousand units. The game received very positive reviews in the contemporary press. Computer and Video Games reviewer praised the game and rated it as "the second best Atari game released this year" Computer Gamer magazine review was also very positive and summed up: "One of the best Atari/Commodore games that I have seen for a long time - go out and buy it now!"

References

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1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari 8-bit computer games
Commodore 64 games
Science fiction racing games
Motorcycle video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Australia
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Video games set in the United States
Mastertronic games
English Software games
Flight 702. Flight 702 may refer to:

 Air Manila Flight 702, a Lockheed L-188 Electra which crashed on 4 June 1976, due to an engine failure and subsequent crew errors
 Air Algérie Flight 702P, a Boeing 737-100 which crashed on 21 December 1994, due to crew fatigue and crew errors
 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702, a Boeing 767 which was diverted to Switzerland on 17 February 2014 by the co-pilot; no one was injured and the co-pilot was arrested

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Sarath Ratanavadi. Sarath Ratanavadi (, )  is a Thai engineer and businessman. He made his fortune as founder and CEO of Thailand's third-largest energy firm, Gulf Energy Development. Ratanavadi has degrees from Chulalongkorn University and University of Southern California, and resides primarily in Bangkok. He also serves as the chairman of the NIST International School Foundation, the school his two sons attended.

In 2014 Ratanavadi established Gulf Electric and opened the company's first power plant in Thailand. Gulf continued to expand through its public offering in 2017 and now has invested in renewable energy and crypto.

References

Sarath Ratanavadi
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sarath Ratanavadi
USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni
1965 births
Innlay Tactical Jeep. The Innlay Tactical Jeep, commonly called the Innlay Jeep (), is a 4x4 off-road vehicle designed and manufactured by Tatmadaw Heavy Industry. Currently, the production capacity is 200 units annually. Later will increase to 1000 units per annual.

The Innlay Jeeps are only issued to Tatmadaw and Myanmar Police Force.

History 
In 2016, Tatmadaw took over automobile industries from Ministry of Industry (Myanmar). Those factories were halted operations due to various reasons by government before transfer to Tatmadaw.

The axles for Innlay are produced from Tatmadaw Heavy Industry (Myingyan) and gearboxes are from Tatmadaw Heavy Industry (Magway). The final assembly is done by Tatmadaw Heavy Industry (Htonbo). Htonbo factory assembled Mazda Pathfinder XV-1 since 1970.

The engine looks like DCD Engine (CY 499 Ti) produced from No (14) Heavy Industry (Thagaya) under Ministry of Industry (Myanmar). But the factory was suspended its operation in 2017 due to financial losses. So the Tatmadaw imported engines from China. The imported engine is Dongfeng CYQD80-E4 which is in turn a copy of Nissan QD32. This vehicle is based upon ZX Admiral pickup trucks.

Variants 
The Innlay is manufactured in a short wheelbase version with a canvas roof and a pair of large folding benches in the rear. This variant is mainly issued to high-ranking officers.

A Type 63 multiple rocket launcher mounted variant and rocket pod mounted variant were seen at the 76th Anniversary Armed Forces Day parade.

References 

Post–Cold War military equipment of Myanmar
Military light utility vehicles
Cars introduced in 2016
Lambert Sonna Momo. Lambert Sonna Momo (born 1970 in Yaoundé) is a Swiss computer scientist of Cameroonian origin. He is known for his work in electronic identification and authentication through biometrics.

Education 
After obtaining a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Yaoundé in 1993, he continued his studies with two master's degrees at the EPFL in Lausanne in software engineering (2001) and in information systems (2003).

He obtained his doctorate in information and security systems at the University of Lausanne in 2008 for a thesis on "Elaboration de tableaux de bord SSI dynamiques: une approche à base d'ontologies" (Developing dynamic ISS dashboards: an ontology-based approach) under supervision of Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie.

Career

Academic career 
Until 2014, he taught at University of Lausanne on topics related to computer security and the protection of private data.

In 2016, he assembled a multidisciplinary team composed of biometrics specialist Sébastien Marcel at Idiap Research Institute; cryptographer Serge Vaudenay, director of the EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory, electronics engineer  Pierre Roduit at HES SO Valais Wallis, and microtechnologist Eric Grenet at Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology. This team jointly developed BioID and BioLocker, a patented biometric authentication technology based on multi-view vein scanningthat combines data security and respect for private sphere protection.

Entrepreneurship 
He is the founder of GLOBAL ID SA, a spin-off of EPFL that brings vein-based biometric authentication technology to the market.

The biometric technology based on vein recognition is considered ethical because the key is hidden and therefore impossible to steal; the encryption is done end-to-end with a random code that changes constantly.

The contactless scanner is under development and the project has received a grant of 1 million from the Swiss Confederation.

Lambert Sonna Momo is the Inventor of the VenoScanner.

Publications

Awards 

 2021: Winner of the 2nd Cameroon Digital Boost in Douala
 2013: Honorary citizen of the city of Douala for services rendered.
 2022: Appointed head of the Bangang community in Switzerland

References

External links 

 Website of Global-ID
 Website of Idiap Research Institute
 Website of LASEC-EPFL

1970 births
Living people
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
University of Lausanne alumni
University of Yaoundé alumni
People from Yaoundé
Academic staff of the University of Lausanne
Plated fabric. Plated fabrics are fabrics that have different colors or types of face and back. The fabrics are formed by using different kinds of yarn types or colors to both be invisible on the other side. Different properties of several textile fibers are exploited to obtain various surface interests and patterns. One of the aspects is the thermophysiological and moisture comfort of clothing.

Manufacture and structure 
Plated fabrics are the combination of two separate yarns of different properties. The knitted plated fabrics are produced by an arrangement of needles that do not bring the back yarn to the face (also called right side of the fabric) or the face yarn to the back. 

Particular knitting machines allow the selective knitting of separate yarns on the face and back to form plated fabrics.

Function and use 
Layers made of fibers with contrasting characteristics, appropriately selected, can help in producing improved clothing functionality. Different fibers have different properties. Natural fibers are often hygroscopic, and synthetics are more commonly hydrophobic. The contrast of these properties can be used to obtain different functionality. For example, fabrics with cotton on the outside and polyester or polypropylene inside are suitable for moisture wicking.

Advantages
Plated fabric can improve clothing comfort through thermophysiological  and moisture comfort by reducing the sensation of dampness.

See also 

 Technical textile

References 

Textiles
Knitted fabrics
Axiom Mission 2. Axiom Mission 2 (or Ax-2) was a private crewed spaceflight operated by Axiom Space. Ax-2 was launched on 21 May 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, successfully docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on 22 May.
After eight days docked to the ISS, the Dragon crew capsule Freedom undocked and returned to Earth twelve hours later.

Ax-2 was the second Axiom mission after Axiom Mission 1 in April 2022 and the third private crewed SpaceX Dragon mission.

Crew 
The crew was commanded by Axiom employee Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut. John Shoffner, a space tourist, served as the pilot. The Saudi Space Agency purchased the other two seats on the flight and named astronauts Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi to be the Mission Specialists.

Axiom had initially announced in April 2021 that one crew member for the second Axiom spaceflight to the ISS would be selected via Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?, a reality television series to be produced by Discovery Channel.
On 11 January 2022, Axiom announced Italian Air Force Colonel Walter Villadei as the company's first international professional astronaut. Col. Villadei was subsequently announced by Axiom as a backup crew member for Ax-2. He would later go on to serve as the pilot on Ax-3.

On 22 September 2022, Axiom Space announced it would partner with the Saudi Space Agency to send two Saudi astronauts on Ax-2 to research cancer, cloud seeding, and microgravity in space. This mission included the first female Saudi astronaut to go to space.

Mission
Axiom 2 lifted off on 21 May 2023 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, onboard a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. For the first time on a crew mission, the first stage of Falcon 9 landed on land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Landing Zone 1 instead of the more common at-sea recovery typical of crew flights. The mission, which was the second flight of Crew Dragon Freedom, docked with the International Space Station a day later.

During the mission, the crew performed public outreach activities along with scientific research, including studies into the effects of microgravity on stem cells and other biological experiments.

After eight days docked to the ISS, Axiom 2 undocked and returned to Earth twelve hours later. Freedom splashed down successfully in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida. It was recovered by SpaceX's recovery ship Megan.

Gallery

See also 
 Timeline of private spaceflight

External links

References

2023 in spaceflight
May 2023 in the United States
Axiom Space
International Space Station
Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX human spaceflights
Private space missions
Ronalds Point. Ronalds Point is the rocky point on the north coast of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated just east of the terminus of Snellius Glacier. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after Francis Ronalds (1788-1873), a British scientist and inventor who modified the octant to create the surveying sector; in association with other names in the area deriving from the early development or use of geodetic instruments and methods.

Location
Ronalds Point is located at , which is 22.4 km east-southeast of Cape Yelcho and 17 km west of Cape Valentine. British mapping of the area in 1822,1972 and 2009.

Maps
 Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
 Elephant Island: From a survey by the Joint Services Expedition, December 1970. Scale 1:132000 topographic map. Royal Geographical Society (UK), 1972.
 British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
 South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands. Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References
 Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links
 Ronalds Point. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

Headlands of the South Shetland Islands
Elephant Island
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Silvia Giordani. Silvia Giordani (born 1973) is an Italian chemist who is Professor of Nanomaterials at Dublin City University. Her research considers carbon-based functional materials for biotechnology. She was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship in 2012.

Early life and education 
Giordani was born in Bergamo in Italy. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Milan, where she completed a Laura in pharmaceutical chemistry. Whilst studying Giordani worked as a chemical health analyst in the Public Health Laboratory of Bergamo. Whilst visiting her uncle in the United States for a study vacation she was awarded a doctoral scholarship, and eventually ended up a graduate student at the University of Miami. Her doctoral research considered digital processing at the molecular level. She moved to Trinity College Dublin for her first postdoctoral research position. Giordani moved to the University of Trieste for a scientific fellowship.

Research and career 
Giordani was awarded the President of Ireland Young Researcher Award to start her independent scientific career at Trinity College Dublin. She worked an assistant professor at TCD for six years, before launching her own research laboratory at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Her research group considered nano-carbon materials. She moved to the University of Turin as an associate professor in 2016. Soon after she was appointed a full Professor Chair of Nanomaterials within the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University. Her research considers nanomaterials and the design of personalised drug delivery systems.

Awards and honours 

 2012 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Fellowship 
 2014 Royal Irish Academy Women in Science
 2018 University of Otago William Evans Fellowship
 2020 High Level Scientific Mobility Grant

Selected publications

References 

Italian chemists
People from Bergamo
1973 births
Living people

University of Milan alumni
University of Miami alumni
Academic staff of the University of Turin
Italian women chemists
Imperial 23. The Imperial 23 is a British trailerable sailboat that was designed by L. Wakefield as a cruiser and first built in 1966. Starting in 1968 it was sold as the Islander 23.

Production
The design was built by Russell Marine in the United Kingdom, from 1966 until about 1970, but it is now out of production. It was imported into the United States by Wells Yachts.

Design
The Imperial 23 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem plumb stem, a slightly reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed twin keels. It displaces  and carries  of iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard twin keels.

The boat is normally fitted with a small  outboard motor for docking and manoeuvring or, optionally, an inboard motor.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a dual quarter berths in the bow cabin and two straight settees in the aft of the main cabin. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove and a sink. The head is located in the bow cabin, between the bow quarter berths. The fresh water tank has a capacity of . Cabin headroom is .

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 2010 review American Steve Henkel wrote, "here is a typical British import of the 1960s: Twin iron keels and a sturdy rudder skeg for lying upright on the English tidal flats without risk of damage; heavy, sturdy hull and relatively small sail area for dealing with brisk English Chanel winds; tabernacle for easier mast lowerings provision for an inboard engine despite the boat's relatively small size. (Re size: The boat measures 22' 6" from the lower tip of her reverse transom to the forward tip of her galvanized steel anchor roller, thus claiming to be a '23-footer.' On deck she’s only 22' 2".) Best features: Forward quarter berths instead of the usual V-berths provide easier access to the head, complete with hinged door for privacy. A unique (but optional) 'Autohoist' permits vertical storage of an outboard engine; the skipper winds the motor out of the water with a worm-gear driven winch. Worst features: The jutting samson post  on the small foredeck may make picking up and securing a mooring easier, but might worry the foredeck crew who, when in a hurry, could easily trip on the upward-sticking prong."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by L. Wakefield
Sailboat types built by Russell Marine
My T. Thai. My Tra Thai is an American computer science engineer, professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida, and Fellow of the IEEE.

Early life and education
Thai completed two bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics from Iowa State University in 1999 before enrolling at the University of Minnesota for her PhD.

Career
Upon completing her PhD, Thai joined the University of Florida as an assistant professor and received a Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for her project "C-WMD: Models, Complexity, and Algorithms in Complex Dynamic and Evolving Networks." She also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Awards from 2010 to 2015 for her project "Optimization Models and Approximation Algorithms for Network Vulnerability and Adaptability." In 2015, Thai became the first woman to be named a Full professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida. The following year, she was named a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor from 2016 to 2019.

In 2019, Thai was appointed the Associate Director of The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Thai was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her "contributions to modeling, design, and optimization of networked systems."

References

External links

Living people
University of Minnesota alumni
Iowa State University alumni
University of Florida faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women