omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Asher Kravitz. Asher Kravitz (; born 1969), is an Israeli author and lecturer on physics and mathematics at the Academic College of Engineering in Jerusalem and the Open University. He is also an animal rights activist and wildlife photographer.

Biography

Kravitz was born in Jerusalem and raised in a traditional Jewish home. He studied electronics at Kiryat Noar, a vocational yeshiva high school, and at the Djanogly High School in Jerusalem. His military service in the Israeli Army began in the Commando Brigade of the Armored Corps. Toward the end of his service, he served as an instructor of Krav Maga.

Kravitz completed his bachelor's degree in Physics at the Hebrew University and his master's degree at the Technion. While studying at the Technion, he joined the Israeli Police Force and served as an investigator in the National Unit for the Investigation of Serious Crimes. After leaving the police force, he taught for two years at the High School of Arts and Sciences.

Since the year 2000, Kravitz has been teaching courses in mathematics and physics at the Academic College of Engineering in Jerusalem and at the Open University of Israel. He also lectured on literature at the Hebrew University School for Overseas Students.

Photography and documentation of wildlife
Since 1997, Kravitz has worked on documenting wildlife through photography, both in Israel and in Africa. During the 2000s, a number of his articles on animal rights and well-being were published. Kravitz documented his many excursions to Africa with extensive photography of its wildlife and also participated in an Israeli mission to set up a haven for orphaned gorillas in Cameroon.

Books 
His first two books, Magic Square (G'vanim, 2002) and Boomerang (Keter, 2003), are whodunits with plots built around complex criminal cases. His third book, I'm Mustafa Rabinowitz (Kibbutz M'uhad, 2005), is a story about a soldier fighting in an anti-terrorist unit in the Israeli army and the moral dilemmas that he faces. His fourth book, The Jewish Dog (Yediot Books, 2007), is the post-mortem autobiography of Koresh, a dog born into the household of a German Jewish family during the pre-Holocaust period in Germany, and his lifelong travails. This last novel was awarded a "Diamond Citation" by the Book Publishers Association of Israel.

References

External links
, website of The Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature
Asher Kravitz, The Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature
The first chapter of I'm Mustafa Rabinowitz, website of Yediot Books

1969 births
Living people
Israeli animal rights activists
Israeli humorists
Israeli mathematicians
Israeli novelists
Israeli physicists
Jewish physicists
AN/ALQ-101 countermeasures pod. AN/ALQ-101 (or Dash 10) is an electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod used on aircraft such as the Blackburn Buccaneer at RAF Honington. It was also used in the Falklands War by the Avro Vulcan bomber during Operation Black Buck.

The system was developed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electronic Systems in Baltimore, MD. Its use by the RAF on Buccaneer Aircraft based at RAF Honington and RAF Lossiemouth was supported by Ferranti based in Edinburgh, Scotland who introduced a major update to the system. The modifications to adapt it for use on the Vulcan aircraft were carried out by the RAF.

Functionality
Carried externally on a pylon under the wing of the attacking aircraft, the Dash 10 pod is used to counter radar guided weapons. It operates by manipulating the radar signals transmitted from such weapon systems and re-broadcasting them back to the sender in a convincing but highly deceptive manner. The intention is to trick the enemy air-defense system into aiming at an imaginary target which is located some miles distant from the aircraft fitted with the Dash 10 pod. Because enemy air defense systems appear to work normally whilst the Dash 10 pod is operating, the enemy personnel monitoring them do not realize that they are being deceived.

See also

List of military electronics of the United States

External links
Smithsonian Museum - AN/ALQ-101(V) Jamming Pod
National Museum of the USAF - ALQ-101 Electronic Countermeasures Pod

Electronic countermeasures
Military equipment of the United Kingdom
Military electronics of the United States
Electronic warfare equipment
Tropenhaus Frutigen. The Tropenhaus () in Frutigen, Switzerland, is a commercial project using geothermal energy from hot water flowing out of the Lötschberg base tunnel for the production of exotic fruit, sturgeon meat, and caviar in a tropical greenhouse in the Swiss alps. In 2007, the project received the Prix Evenir, the Swiss petroleum industry's CHF 50,000 award for sustainable development.

The idea for the greenhouse began in 2002 when it became apparent that the water continuously flowing out of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel could not be directly diverted to the local river, the Kander, as its temperature of  would disrupt the biological rhythm of the endangered trout there. Rather than cooling the water artificially, wasting its thermal energy, tunnel engineers founded a start-up company to use the warm water to heat a greenhouse. The construction of the site began in May 2008 at 8 million CHF, and was completed by the end of 2009. Visitors were welcomed that same year.

A sturgeon farm, one of few in Europe, is the heart of the Tropenhaus. Some 60,000 fish are intended to be grown in 40 outdoor basins. The sturgeons thrive in permanent Siberian summer conditions and are intended to yield 20 tonnes of meat as well as two tonnes of caviar annually. The first sturgeon fillets were sold in local stores in November 2008. The rest of the greenhouses are dedicated to the production of tropical fruits, such as banana, papaya, mango and guava, of which about 10 tons are intended to be grown annually in an area of .

The Tropenhaus is also a tourist destination, with a visitors' centre, a visitors' trail through the installation, a restaurant, and an exhibition room (paid for by a Bernese energy company) showcasing the project's use of renewable energy and sustainability. It is located some  or 7 minutes' walk from Frutigen railway station.

See also 

Fishing industry in Switzerland

References

External links

Greenhouses
Fish farming
Agriculture companies of Switzerland
Agriculture companies established in 2003
Privately held companies of Switzerland
Swiss companies established in 2003
Tourist attractions in the Canton of Bern
Way Kuo. Way Kuo (; born 5 January 1951 in Taipei, Taiwan) is the fourth President of the City University of Hong Kong and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong. Before joining CityU, he was University Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee.

Kuo received his PhD degree in engineering in 1980 from Kansas State University and BS degree in nuclear engineering in 1972 from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan.

Kuo is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to reliability design for microelectronics products and systems. He is also a member of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and International Academy for Quality. He is Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), American Statistical Association (ASA), and Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).

References

1951 births
Living people
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Members of Academia Sinica
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Kansas State University alumni
National Tsing Hua University alumni
Scientists from Taipei
Heads of universities in Hong Kong
Taiwanese nuclear engineers
Academic staff of the City University of Hong Kong
American expatriates in Hong Kong
 Taiwanese expatriates in Hong Kong
James Charles Inglis. Sir James Charles Inglis (9 September 1851 – 19 December 1911) was a British civil engineer.

Early life
Inglis was born in Aberdeen on 9 September 1851.

Career
He began his engineering career in Glasgow, before moving to London in 1871, where he trained under James Abernethy. There, he gained experience on a number of projects, including the Alexandra dock works at Newport. In 1885, he took the post of assistant to the chief engineer of the South Devon and Cornwall Railway, where he worked on the construction of Plymouth railway station and the widening of the Newton –Torquay railway line. He joined the staff of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1887 but set up his own practice shortly after, working under contract to the GWR on a number of projects, as well as a number of harbour works in Plymouth and Torquay.

In 1892, he was appointed Chief Engineer to the Great Western Railway, just after the line had completed its conversion from broad gauge to standard gauge. 
He was tasked with replacing a number of Isembard Kingdom Brunel's large timber viaducts in Cornwall with new bridges of steel and stone.

Inglis served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid volunteer unit of the Volunteer Force which provided technical advice to the British Army. He was appointed a major in that corps on 24 June 1893, by which time he was also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps on 1 April 1908 on the date that it transferred from the disbanded Volunteer Force to the newly raised Territorial Force.

Among his major works were the construction of Fishguard Harbour (establishing a steamboat link with the Midland Great Western Railway and Great Southern and Western Railway at ); the construction of the Badminton railway line in South Wales; and the construction of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway (now known as the Chiltern Main Line) between  and .

Honours and death
Inglis was elected president of the ICE for the November 1908 to November 1910 session. During his time as president he saw the start of construction of their new headquarters at One Great George Street. Inglis ceremoniously laid the foundation stone for the building in 1910 after placing beneath it copies of the institution's Royal Charter and the Telford, Watt and Stephenson medals awarded by the institution. He was knighted by King George V at St James's Palace on 23 February 1911 by which point he was the General Manager of the Great Western Railway. Inglis died on 19 December that year and is buried at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Cemetery, Hanwell in London.

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1851 births
1911 deaths
People from Aberdeen
British civil engineers
Scottish civil engineers
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps officers
Great Western Railway people
Military personnel from Aberdeen
19th-century British Army personnel
Volunteer Force officers
Territorial Force officers
Hymecromone. Hymecromone (4-methylumbelliferone) is a drug used in bile therapy. It is used as choleretic and antispasmodic drugs and as a standard for the fluorometric determination of enzyme activity.

Hymecromone is a crystalline solid with a melting point of 194–195 °C.  It is soluble in methanol and glacial acetic acid.

See also
Umbelliferone
Coumarin

References

Coumarin drugs
Hydroxyarenes
No. 10 Squadron SLAF. No. 10 "Fighter" Squadron is a squadron of the Sri Lanka Air Force. It currently operates the IAI Kfir from SLAF Katunayake. The squadron is tasked with providing offensive support for ground & maritime (anti-shipping) operations, air interdiction and interception. It specializes in high altitude precision ground attacks.

History
The squadron was formed on January 5, 1996 at the SLAF Katunayake with six IAI Kfir multi-role fighter jets acquired from Israel, with US State Department approval. These included five C2 types and a TC.2 type trainer. At its formation the squadron had six pilots, four engineers and 70 technicians along with the six aircraft. In 2000, the squadron received eight more Kfirs that included C7 types and another trainer. 

On November 2, 2007 the Sri Lankan Air Force claimed that aircraft from the squadron killed the LTTE’s Political Wing Leader S.P. Thamilselvan and a group of LTTE cadres in an air raid. During the last phase of the war it maintained units at SLAF China Bay.

In March 2009, the squadron was presented with the President’s Colours.

By 2017 only one Kfir was serviceable out of 7 while Mig 23 and Mig 27 of the No. 12 Squadron grounded in the same year.

In 2021 government approved a US$49 million deal with Israel Aerospace Industries to update the remaining five Kfirs to Block 60 standard.

Aircraft operated

Year of introduction
 IAI Kfir C2 - 1996
 IAI Kfir TC2 - 1996
 IAI Kfir C7 - 2000

Notable members
 Monath Perera

References

External links
Sri Lanka Air Force  Base Katunayake 
scramble.nl
Kfir, the dare-devil air monster 
Men who killed Thamilselvam speak

Military units and formations established in 1996
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Hugh Smellie. Hugh Smellie (3 March 1840, in Ayr – 19 April 1891, at Bridge of Allan) was a Scottish engineer.

He was locomotive superintendent of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway from 1870–1878, the Glasgow and South Western Railway from 1878–1890 and the Caledonian Railway in 1890.

See also
Locomotives of the Glasgow and South Western Railway
Locomotives of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

References

1840 births
1891 deaths
19th-century Scottish people
People from Ayr
Scottish engineers
British railway pioneers
Scottish railway mechanical engineers
Caledonian Railway people
Glasgow and South Western Railway people
19th-century British businesspeople
Alexander Sotirov. Alexander Sotirov is a computer security researcher. He has been employed by Determina and VMware. In 2012, Sotirov co-founded New York based Trail of Bits with Dino Dai Zovi and Dan Guido, where he currently serves as co-CEO.

He is well known for his discovery of the ANI browser vulnerability as well as the so-called Heap Feng Shui technique for exploiting heap buffer overflows in browsers. In 2008, he presented research at Black Hat showing how to bypass memory protection safeguards in Windows Vista. Together with a team of industry security researchers and academic cryptographers, he published research on creating a rogue certificate authority by using collisions of the MD5 cryptographic hash function in December 2008.

Sotirov is a founder and organizer of the Pwnie awards, was on the program committee of the 2008 Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT '08), and has served on the Black Hat Review Board since 2011.

He was ranked #6 on Violet Blue's list of The Top 10 Sexy Geeks of 2009.

References

External links
 Alexander Sotirov's website
 Trail of Bits
 The Pwnie Awards

Living people
Computer security specialists
University of Alabama alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
National Livestock Identification System. The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) is a livestock identification and tracking system used in Australia. It is administered by Integrity Systems Company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Meat and Livestock Australia.

The system uses Radiofrequency Identification Devices (RFID) applied as ear tags to identify and track livestock, each assigned an individual and unique electronic and physical printed tag numbers. There is an associated central electronic database which is used to record each animal's residency and keep track of the other animals it has interacted with. The system improves food safety, acts as a market export assurance program which improves Australia's access to foreign export markets, and assists with disease control, tracing and management. Farmers must register their property with their local jurisdictional government if they hold one or more heads of livestock. Livestock includes cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, camels, deer, alpacas, llamas, horses and poultry; although State and Territory definitions of "livestock" may differ. NLIS does not confirm ownership of livestock. The system originates from a cattle-tracing system introduced in Australia in the 1960s to help fight bovine tuberculosis, which was officially successfully eradicated in Australia on 31 December 1997.

The NLIS RFID system was introduced in New South Wales on 1 July 2004 and replaced the previous tail tag system for cattle. The approved devices used are the commonly used ear tags or alternatively a rumen bolus.

Similar systems exist in other countries such as the National Animal Identification System in the United States, the British Cattle Movement Service and the proposed National Animal Identification and Tracing in New Zealand.

See also
Agriculture in Australia
Ear tag
Microchip implant (animal)

References

Identification of domesticated animals
Livestock in Australia
Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier de Laumoy. Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier de Laumoy (1750–1832) was a French Army engineer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
De Laumoy was the son of a French infantry captain. He entered the French military engineering school in 1760. He was assigned to America in 1777 and on 17 November Laumoy was commissioned Colonel of Engineers; joining Washington's winter camp at Valley Forge. The French engineers, de Laumoy, Louis de la Radiere, and Louis Lebègue Duportail, provided knowledge of European fortifications and siege warfare.

Laumoy was deployed to the southern operations area on 8 February 1779; advising Benjamin Lincoln at Charleston to surrender given the inadequate fortifications. He accordingly was taken prisoner at the Siege of Charleston (on 12 May 1780) and was exchanged on 26 November 1782. Laumoy was breveted Brigadier General on 30 September 1783, and honorably discharged from the army the following month.

He returned to France in December 1783. On 4 July 1784 he was awarded the Order of Saint Louis, a distinction his father had also received. On 1 July 1785, Laumoy was made Aide maréchal général des logis at Saint-Domingue. Later, returning to France, he was Mestre de camp on 2 December 1787. For some months in 1788, he served on the army general staff. On 14 February 1789, he was second-in-command at Martinique, when the French suppressed a rebellion by island's large African slave and ex-slave population. As one of the hated administrators, Laumoy was obliged to return to France in May 1790.

For a while, Laumoy held a number of staff posts in the French Revolutionary Army. However, along with Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, on whose staff ge servedm he was forced to flee in August 1792, and was captured by the Austrians at Rochefort, Belgium. Upon release he lived in exile in Holland, but escaped to America when Napoleon invaded The Netherlands. Laumoy lived in Philadelphia until he was removed from the émigré list. He returned to France in the summer of 1801. He retired in 1810, and died 19 January 1832.

References

External links
Dictionaire Des Officiers de l'Armee Royale qui ont Combattu aux Etats-Unis pendant la Guerre d'Independance 1776–1783
Tony Broughton, Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789 – 1814: Labadie to Lazowski

French generals
Continental Army generals
French people of the American Revolution
French knights
People of the French Revolution
1750 births
1832 deaths
Order of Saint Louis recipients
Liberating Technologies. Liberating Technologies, Inc., better known as LTI, is a research and development company owned by Coapt, LLC and based in Holliston, Massachusetts.

LTI specializes in research and development with a research funding portfolio supported by the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, Veteran's Administration, and other entities.

Additionally, it is known for the Boston Digital Arm, the first microcontroller-equipped hand prosthesis.

In 2021, LTI was purchased by Coapt, LLC, a leader in myoelectric pattern recognition.

References

External links 
Liberating Technologies website.
College Park - Research.

Prosthetic manufacturers
Technology companies based in the Boston area
Companies based in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Holliston, Massachusetts
Manufacturing companies established in 1999
Technology companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Massachusetts
Mary Danforth Ryle. Mary Danforth Ryle (8 January 1833 – December 21, 1904) was an American philanthropist.

Biography
She was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on 8 January 1833, the daughter of Charles Danforth, the designer and manufacturer of the first coal-burning locomotive engine.  A veteran of the War of 1812, Charles Danforth was also known for his patented invention, that of the Danforth Spindle, a cotton spinning frame.

Mary Danforth married William Ryle of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, reputed to be the largest and wealthiest silk importer in the United States.  William Ryle was the nephew of John Ryle, the "Father of the U.S. Silk Industry" in Paterson.

Throughout her life, Mary Danforth Ryle was always philanthropic.  After her father's death, she donated the residence of her father to the city of Paterson to be used as the city's first library.  She provided the funds to alter, furnish and equip the new institution.  After the catastrophic fire of 1902, in which much of downtown Paterson was destroyed, including the Danforth Library, Ryle once again donated the funds necessary to build the new Danforth Memorial Library located on Broadway in Paterson.  Ryle contracted with Henry Bacon, who designed the Lincoln Memorial to build the new city library. The Danforth Memorial Library is perhaps the most notable and beautiful public buildings in the city of Paterson, New Jersey.  

She died on December 21, 1904.

Mary Danforth Ryle was so loved by the citizens of Paterson that at the time of her death, the funeral was one of the largest the city had ever seen.  Mrs. Ryle was buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson.

References

Further reading
 Centennial Edition, Paterson (N.J.) Evening News, Page 45, July 1876.
 New York Times, "Mrs. Ryle's Gift to the City of Paterson, N.J." 7/16/1903, pg. 3

1833 births
1904 deaths
People from Paterson, New Jersey
Burials at Cedar Lawn Cemetery
Trimethylolethane trinitrate. Trimethylolethane trinitrate (TMETN), also known as metriol trinitrate (METN, MTN, METRTN) or nitropentaglycerin, is a nitrate ester. It is a high explosive similar to nitroglycerin. It is a transparent oily liquid, colorless to light brown. It is odorless. It is used in some solid propellants and smokeless powders as a plasticizer. Its chemical formula is .

TMETN was first prepared and patented in Italy under name Metriolo. Germans began producing it before World War II, when it was demonstrated to be an erosion and flash-reducing agent in smokeless powders. It is a liquid explosive with properties similar to nitroglycerin, but more stable to heat. It is prepared by nitration of trimethylolethane (metriol). It does not induce headaches.

TMETN can be initiated by friction, impact, and electrostatic discharge. It can be used as a high-viscosity plasticizer-binder together with nitrocellulose, but its poor colloidal properties has made such use rare. Long-term milling can however assist here; success can also be achieved by adding an inert plasticizer and a volatile solvent/colloidal agent.

TMETN is miscible with ether and acetone. It is insoluble in 95% sulfuric acid. It can be used as a plasticizer together with, or as an alternative to, triethyleneglycol dinitrate (TEGDN). It can also be used as a monopropellant; in fact triethylene glycol dinitrate, diethylene glycol dinitrate, and trimethyloleate trinitrate are being considered as replacements for nitroglycerin in propellants.

References

External links
 MSDS 

Nitrate esters
Explosive chemicals
Liquid explosives
Monopropellants
Plasticizers