omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Suleiman Al Abbas. Suleiman Al Abbas () is a Syrian engineer and politician who was the minister of petroleum and mineral resources in the period 2013–2016.

Education
Abbas holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering, which he received from the Romanian University of Ploieşti in 1982. He also obtained certificates in oil well control and contract arbitration from the Arab Engineers Federation.

Career
Abbas served as director of Al Jibseh oil fields in 1997. Then he was appointed director of planning department at the Syrian Petroleum Company in 2005. He became a board member of Al Furat Oil Company in 2008. He also served as deputy oil minister. On 9 February 2013, he was appointed minister of petroleum and mineral resources to the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi in a minor cabinet reshuffle. Abbas replaced Saeed Hunedi as oil minister. His term ended in 2016.

Sanctions
Abbas has been in the list of financial sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom against Syria since 2014 due to his alleged role in the repression of the Syrians during the civil war.

References

Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians
Living people
Syrian engineers
Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești alumni
Oil and mineral reserves ministers of Syria
Year of birth missing (living people)
Syrian expatriates in Romania
Petroleum engineers
20th-century Syrian engineers
Air Creation Tanarg. The Air Creation Tanarg is a French ultralight trike, designed and produced by Air Creation of Aubenas. The aircraft is supplied as complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. In the United Kingdom the Tanarg is amateur-built from kits supplied by Air Creation.

Design and development

The Tanarg was designed as a long-range cruising trike to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of  with a ballistic parachute. It is also an accepted Special Light-Sport Aircraft in the United States. The Tanarg features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from mixed constriction, with bolted-together aluminium tubing, composites and carbon fibre panels, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. With the BioniX wing it has a  span that is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant options include the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 582 engine and  the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 912UL and  Rotax 912ULS engines. With the 912 engine the aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic trike, including the Air Creation iXess, Air Creation Nuvix, Air Creation Fun and Air Creation BioniX.

Specifications (Tanarg 912 trike with a BioniX 15 wing)

References

External links

2000s French sport aircraft
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Homebuilt aircraft
Tanarg
JNR Class C51. The  is a type of 4-6-2 steam locomotive built by Kisha Seizo Mitsubishi and Japanese National Railways (JNR) Hamamatsu Works . The C classification indicates three sets of driving wheels. The C51 introduced  diameter driving wheels to Japan. C51s raised the average speed on the Tōkaidō Main Line from  to . In 1930, a C51 hauled the first Tsubame (swallow) express, reducing travel time between  and  to 9 hours.

China Railway class SL9
 
To alleviate a severe motive power shortage, sixteen JGR Class C51 locomotives, C51 8, 28, 30, 33 - 35, 88, 95, 96, 116, 130 - 132, 173, 175, and 178, all equipped with a Sumiyama feedwater heater, were converted to standard gauge and sent to the Central China Railway in 1939, where they operated primarily between Nanjing and Shanghai, at first with their original JGR numbers, later as パシナ (Pashina) class. After the Liberation of China and the establishment of the People's Republic, these became China Railway class ㄆㄒ9 (PX9) in 1951, and reclassified as class SL9 (勝利9, Shènglì, "victory") in 1959.

Preserved examples
As of 2012, four Class C51 locomotives were preserved at various locations.

 C51 5: At the Railway Museum in Saitama, Saitama (formerly preserved outdoors at the Ome Railway Park in Ome, Tokyo
 C51 44: At Akita Depot in Akita, Akita
 C51 85: At Kagoshima Depot in Kagoshima, Kagoshima
 C51 239: At the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in Kyoto

See also
 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification
JGR Class 8900
JNR Class C52

References

Railway locomotives introduced in 1919
4-6-2 locomotives
Steam locomotives of Japan
1067 mm gauge locomotives of Japan
Steam locomotives of China
Standard gauge locomotives of China
Passenger locomotives
SureStop. SureStop is an anti-lock bicycle brake technology and manufacturing company. It was founded in 2009 in Palo Alto, California, as SlidePad by Brian Riley and Andrew Ouellet.

As of 2021, SureStop is headquartered in Irvine, California, with a subsidiary in Shenzhen.

History
Slidepad was started by Riley and Ouellet while students at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Ouellet received inspiration for the product after he crashed his bicycle when applying too much pressure on his front brakes, resulting in front wheel lockup. In 2009, Riley and Ouellet entered their initial design in Cal Poly’s Business Plan competition and won 1st place. In 2013 Alan Nordin, former president of Fallbrook Technologies' bicycle division, joined the company as an executive advisor.

In 2011, Slidepad Technologies formed an agreement with a Taiwanese manufacturer to build a Slidepad braking system for OEM distribution. Jamis Bicycles was the first bike-manufacturer to specify the technology on their 2013 models.  Stanford University and Jamis Bicycles currently use Slidepad technology.

In November 2012, the company took a 40-day, 11,000 mile, "Save Your Teeth Tour" across 90 bike shops from Palo Alto, California, to New Jersey.

In 2014 the company rebranded from SlidePad to SureStop.

On April 14, 2017, the product was on Season 8 Episode 21 of Shark Tank. Brian Riley and Kyle Jansen, another founder, accepted a deal with Mark Cuban.

Description
SureStop is a system for bicycles aimed at making the correct application of braking force easier for novice or casual cyclists. It integrates into V-brake systems to provide single-lever braking for front and rear brakes. It modulates the front brake force in real time, based on the road surface and rider weight position, and avoids front wheel lockup accidents when applying the front brake. It was designed to prevent riders from flipping over their handlebars when applying the front brake. Once the brake pads make contact with the rear wheel, the Slidepad slides forward, which pulls a cable that is connected to the front brakes. Similar to the anti-lock brake system in cars, the mechanism prevents the front wheel from locking, no matter how hard the brake is pressed or how slippery the road conditions are.

See also
Combined braking system

References

2009 establishments in California
Bicycle parts
Companies based in Irvine, California
Manufacturing companies established in 2009
Cycle parts manufacturers
Science and technology in Greater Los Angeles
Higher School of Communication of Tunis. Sup'Com (or SUP'COM or Higher School of Communication of Tunis or Engineering School of Communication of Tunis) (), founded in 1998, is the main school of educating engineers in telecommunications in Tunisia. It is affiliated to the University of Carthage and occupies the advanced ranks in the competitive examination for the access to the engineering studies.

As a school of national elites, Sup’Com evenly benefits from the tutelage of both, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.

Member of the Réseau Méditerranéen des Ecoles d'Ingénieurs (Mediterranean engineering schools’ network), Sup’Com was admitted since December 2008 as an associated member in the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE), it is furthermore the first foreign school to be associated internationally with the Institut Mines-Télécom.

Sup’Com is an engineering school, which main objectives are:
 Training engineers with a higher scientific and technical level, capable to conceive, implement and manage services, systems and telecommunication networks.
 Contributing to the national effort related to the scientific and technological research in the field of information and communication technology (ICT).
 The in-service or qualifying training, of senior managers in the ICT field.
With the admission, of the first 150 candidates over 8500, in the competitive examination for the access to the engineering studies, Sup’Com made the choice of quality and the distinguished pedagogical and scientific supervision.

The biannual teaching is organized into modules provided in diverse forms (integrated courses, practical, customized works and mini projects).

Departements and laboratories
There are 4 departments in Sup’ Com:
 Electronics, physics and distribution
 Applied mathematics, signals and communications
 Computer and networks
 Economy, management, law, humanities and languages

The supervised practice, important component of engineer's course, takes place in the diverse laboratories of the university:
 Electronics, optics, transmission and microwaves laboratory
 Simulation and computer-aided design laboratory
 Mobile networks laboratory
 Broadcasting and multimedia laboratory
 Computer science laboratory with microcomputers and working stations connected to networks
 Switching systems laboratory
 Language laboratory

Diplomas
SUP' COM awards the following diplomas:
 National Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering
 Master's degree in ICT
 Master's degree in Telecommunications
 PhD in ICT
 Merit Award in ICT.

See also
 Carthage University

References

Higher School of Communication of Tunis
Universities in Tunisia
Education in Tunis
1998 establishments in Tunisia
Universities and colleges established in 1998
Ganymede (software). Ganymede is an open source network directory management framework, designed to allow administrator teams to collaboratively manage subsets of an organization's directory services, such as NIS, DNS, Active Directory / LDAP, DHCP, and RADIUS, among others.  First announced and released at the 1998 USENIX LISA conference, Ganymede has been under public development and use since then.

Ganymede uses a central server which supports clients connecting via Java RMI. The Ganymede server maintains a transactional object graph database of network information such as user objects, group objects, system objects, network objects, etc.  Users and administrators run Ganymede clients (GUI or XML based) to create, modify, or delete objects in the database. Whenever a user commits a transaction, the Ganymede server schedules a number of background threads to write out updated network source files and run whatever system scripts are required to propagate the new data into the managed network directory services. If multiple users are working concurrently, the scheduler makes sure that the entire network environment is updated with transactionally consistent directory images as builds finish and new ones are issued.

The Ganymede server is meant to be programmed by the adopter, who can define arbitrary object data types along with custom logic to interact with the user through the GUI and to maintain consistency within and between objects. Adopters can also create custom tasks which can be executed at specified times by the internal Ganymede scheduler. Such custom tasks can make changes in the server's object database and/or can run external scripts to update external services.

Ganymede has an elaborate XML data format which can be used to import and export the server's object database schema and object data. Importing XML will typically result in the creation, modification, or deletion of database objects, and will trigger one or more network directory service rebuilds just as using the GUI client would do.

Above all, Ganymede is designed around administration teams.  Administrators are members of 'Owner Groups', which own objects.  Any object that is changed by a user or an automated task can result in change report email being sent to administrators in the appropriate Owner Group, making it possible for admins to keep up to date with changes that others in their groups are making. Owner Groups can be granted authority over arbitrary subsets of the object database, making it easy to slice up the network directory space in any fashion that may be desired.

As a programmable framework, Ganymede must be programmed for a specific set of directory management tasks. Fundamental Generic Networking in Germany has used it as the basis of their Doctor DNS project, which is being used to manage DNS for the Kaiserslautern University of Technology.

References

External links
 
 

Directory services
Cross-platform free software
DNS software
Identity management systems
Free network management software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Software using the GNU General Public License
1998 software
S5/8. S5/8 was a serial communications standard devised in the United Kingdom in the  1980s as a simplified subset of RS-232 intended to make interoperability easier. Although published by the British Standards Institution as standard DD 153:1990, it was not widely adopted, and the BSI standard was later withdrawn.

Description
S5/8 differed from RS-232 in using 0 and +5 V signalling levels, simplified handshaking, and a fixed data transfer rate of 9600 bits per second. An 8-pin DIN 45326 connector was specified as standard, although a physically compatible 180-degree 5-pin DIN connector could be used to carry a subset of the signals. Data transmission consisted of frames containing one start bit, 8 data bits and one stop bit, with no parity bit.

Two classes of device were specified, D and S. D-devices could supply power (5 V up to 20 mA) at the connector, whereas S-devices could derive power from a connected D-device.

Pin assignment

Applications 
The S5/8 standard was adopted by a few British microcomputers, such as the Thorn EMI Liberator and the CST Thor XVI, as well as some versions of MSX computers, such as Yamaha CX11 and YIS-503 and its derivatives, the Sakhr MSX series.

References 
 

History of computing in the United Kingdom
Serial buses
Dlib. Dlib is a general purpose cross-platform software library written in the programming language C++. Its design is heavily influenced by ideas from design by contract and component-based software engineering. Thus it is, first and foremost, a set of independent software components. It is open-source software released under a Boost Software License.

Since development began in 2002, Dlib has grown to include a wide variety of tools. As of 2016, it contains software components for dealing with networking, threads, graphical user interfaces, data structures, linear algebra, machine learning, image processing, data mining, XML and text parsing, numerical optimization, Bayesian networks, and many other tasks. In recent years, much of the development has been focused on creating a broad set of statistical machine learning tools and in 2009 Dlib was published in the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Since then it has been used in a wide range of domains.

See also
 Comparison of deep learning software

References

External links
 
 DLib: Library for Machine Learning

C++ libraries
C++ numerical libraries
Computer vision software
Data mining and machine learning software
Free software programmed in C++
Free statistical software
Software using the Boost license
Koolhoven F.K.44. The Koolhoven F.K.44 was a two-seat, single engine sport monoplane designed and built in the Netherlands in the early 1930s. It was built to order, but only one was completed.

Design and development

The F.K.44 was a two-seat sports aircraft with a parasol wing of constant chord and rounded tips, braced on each side by a pair of struts which diverged from the wing spars to the lower fuselage longerons. It was powered by a 115 hp (87 kW) four-cylinder inverted inline Cirrus-Major engine driving a two blade propeller. The fuselage was flat sided. The seats were placed under the wing, surrounded with cabane struts,  with a large rectangular cut-out for enhanced visibility in the trailing edge. Behind them the upper decking sloped away; further aft still the fuselage tapered to the tail. The vertical tail was straight tapered and square tipped, the horizontal tail set just above the top of the fuselage and braced to it and the elevators separate with a cut-out to allow rudder movement. The F.K.44's fixed, conventional undercarriage had mainwheels mounted on long, shallow V-struts attached to the lower fuselage longerons and with substantial tall, vertical legs to the forward wing spar, meeting the wing strut.

Operational history
The F.K.44 was not intended for production, rather to be built by order. The first such was started but not completed and so the second example was the first and indeed the only one flown. This had been flying for a while on a temporary registration before going on the civil list as PH-AJM' on 28 August 1931. It was owned by Jacob Mees, a banker who punningly christened his Koolhoven the "Koolmees" or "Great Tit" in English. The following year Mees gave the Rotterdam Aero Club the use of his aircraft, but it was destroyed in June 1933, during an emergency landing at Castricum following an engine failure.

Specifications

References

F.K.44
1930s Dutch sport aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
International Middleware Conference. The International Middleware Conference brings together academic and industrial delegates who have an interest in the development, optimisation, evaluation and evolution of middleware.

History
The first instance of the Middleware conference was held in 1998. Since 2003 the conference has been run annually. Many recent conference events have been ACM/IFIP/USENIX supported events.

Conference structure
Middleware uses a single-track conference program, although it includes a growing number of submission categories. As of 2013, these include:
Research papers
Experimentation and deployment papers
Big ideas papers

The conference also includes:
Tutorials
Demonstrations and posters
A doctoral workshop

A number (six, in 2012) of workshops are typically co-located with the main conference.

See also
List of computer science conferences

References

External links
http://www.middleware-conference.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130511173841/http://2013.middleware-conference.org/

Computer science conferences
Middleware
Toplofikatsiya Sofia. "District Heating Sofia" is the district heating company in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is the oldest and largest district heating network in Bulgaria (and, according to the company's website, on the Balkan Peninsula), brought into use in 1949 with the opening of the first combined heat and power plant – TEC Sofia.

Toplofikatsiya Sofia is a single-member JSC and holds a monopoly on heat distribution in the city. As of 2012, the company has a hot water and steam distribution network of over 950 km throughout the city (slide 3) and has over 430 000 clients.(p. 15)

The company has four power stations – two cogeneration plants, and two heat-only boiler stations –

The company also has several temporary boiler stations throughout the city, which are usually only used during the winter months.

As of February 2013, part of the 2013 Bulgarian protests are aimed at the business model employed by Toplofikatsiya Sofia, with protesters complaining about high bills and lack of transparency in the company's practices.

See also

 Energy in Bulgaria

References

External links 
 toplo.bg – official website

Coal-fired power stations in Bulgaria
Economy of Sofia
SX-404-class submarine. The SX-404-class submarine,  was a class of midget submarines produced by the Italian firm Cos.Mo.S.

Overview
The 70-ton SX-404 can carry two Cosmos CE2F series swimmer delivery vehicles externally.

Pakistan
In 1965, the Pakistan Navy was given authorization by the Ministry of Defense to award the contract to the Italian shipbuilding company, the Cos.Mo.S., designed the SX-404-class midget submarine for the purposes of the diver propulsion vehicle in 1965. The SX-404 submarine program had a strong preference over the  that was being built in France but there were severe problems encountered when the torpedo required according to the Pakistan Navy's standard could not be compatible with the SX-404 design.

The SX-404 class were some of the smallest submarines in the world at the time, but could still carry twelve passengers, making them invaluable for raids and reconnaissance in shallow water.

The SX-404-class submarines were intended to be use as the diver propulsion vehicle for the SEAL Teams in the Navy Special Service Group, and were delivered in September 1971 but there were problems encountered providing the cover for the Hangor-class submarines (the motherships) continued until these problems were resolved in December 1971.

Between the 1972–73, Pakistan Navy commissioned six more SX-404-class submarine that was bought from the Italian shipbuilding company, the Cosmos Spa., with their main function of transporting a twelve Navy SEAL Team members on a reconnaissance missions. In 1976, there was one submarine that was lost in an accident while two were decommissioned for scrap metals in 1982–83.

The entire program of SX-404-class submarines were eventually phased out and decommissioned from her military service with the Navy in 1990 with the remaining three submarines– two were sold for scrap metal while one was preserved at the Navy Museum in Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. The SX-404-class submarine program was phased out with the development of the  in 1990.

Republic of China
Taiwan ordered two SX-404s and they were delivered in the mid-1960s. They were retired in 1973 when larger ex-USN submarines became available.

References

External links
 

Submarines of the Pakistan Navy
Italy–Pakistan relations
Submarines of the Republic of China Navy
Cos.Mo.S