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Journal of Zhejiang University Science A. The Journal of Zhejiang University Science A: Applied Physics & Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering applied physics and engineering. It was established in 2000 and  is published by Zhejiang University Press and Springer Science+Business Media.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and Inspec. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.941.

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Monthly journals
Engineering journals
Academic journals established in 2000
English-language journals
Zhejiang University Press academic journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Physics journals
Elinor Otto. Elinor Otto (October 28, 1919 – November 12, 2023) was an American factory worker who was an original "Rosie the Riveter". She built airplanes for over a half-century, and spent many years working for Boeing before retiring at age 95. She was known as the "Last Serving Rosie the Riveter".

Early life and World War II
Elinor Otto was born in Los Angeles on October 28, 1919.

The name "Rosie" was given to women who took on the thousands of jobs left vacant after men had departed for the war. Otto began working at the Rohr Aircraft Corporation in Chula Vista, California, during World War II. She joined the war effort with her two sisters, one of whom worked with her at Rohr. When Otto first joined Rohr, she was recently single and was taking care of her young son. She earned 65 cents an hour in 1942.

Post-World War II
Otto mainly worked for economic reasons, because she had to take care of her mother and son. She has also said that, "I'm a working person, I guess. I like to work. I like to be around people that work. I like to get up, get out of the house, get something accomplished during the day."

After the war ended, all the working women were let go. Otto tried out other jobs, like office work, but she hated being still. She also worked as a carhop until roller skates were added to the uniform. In 1951, she went back to factory work.

For 14 years, she worked at Ryan Aeronautical Co. in San Diego. Later she was employed at Douglas Aircraft Company, which merged with McDonnell Aircraft, and later became part of Boeing.

By 2014, Otto had worked on every single C-17 plane at the Boeing plant. She retired in November 2014.

Otto appeared at the Veterans Day Parade in New York City and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Today Show.

After living in Long Beach, California for 55 years, Otto moved to North Las Vegas, Nevada in 2019. She died from a stroke at Centennial Hills Hospital in Las Vegas on November 12, 2023, at the age of 104.

Awards and honors
In November 2014, Otto was honored for her contributions to the military with the Lillian K. Keil award from the American Veterans Center. She received the special award with eight other honorees.

Otto was honored by the California State Assembly member Bonnie Lowenthal as the 70th Assembly District Woman of the Year in 2014.

Otto received the Air Force Association's 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference in September 2017.

In December 2017, Otto flew in one of the C-17s she'd worked on, in a ceremonial flight flown by Air Mobility Command head Gen. Carlton Everhart at March ARB, California.

In 2019, a bar named after Elinor Otto opened in Long Beach, California.

References

External links
 Economist Obituary published 22 Nov 2023

1919 births
2023 deaths
20th-century American people
20th-century American women
21st-century American people
21st-century American women
American women centenarians
American women civilians in World War II
Boeing people
People from Long Beach, California
Reflective memory. Reflective memory is a means to share common data between different and independent systems deterministically. Such systems using a common reflective memory form a reflective memory network which is a deterministic one, when any system of the network acquired data and writes it to its local memory, such data is written locally to all other systems, this behaviour is like a dual-ported memory system. Reflective memory networks are real-time local area networks where each device or computer always has a local up-to-date copy of the shared data set. These networks are designed for highly deterministic data communications delivering tightly timed performance required on distributed control systems or simulations. Reflective memory technologies are focused to applications where determinism, simplicity for implementation and lack of software overhead are very important considerations.

Reflective memory was developed in the 1980s by VMIC for applications in VME systems. Usually reflective memory devices are connected together by means of fiber optic. It is commonly used with real-time operating systems, VXI and other platforms. VMIC was acquired by GE Fanuc, a cooperative venture between  GE and Fanuc of Japan. This business became GE Intelligent Platforms, and the embedded computing element of the business was spun off in 2015 as Abaco Systems, who now market reflective memory. 

Examples of reflective memory application are:
 the Large Binocular Telescope, where it has been reported that each subsystem of the telescope control system includes ethernet connection for reflective memory.
 CERN
 Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) plasma control system (PCS)
 Aircraft flight simulators

References

External links
 Abaco white paper on Reflective Memory

Computer memory
Little Wing Autogyros, Inc.. Little Wing Autogyros, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Mayflower, Arkansas and founded by Ron Herron. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of autogyros in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction including for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company is jointly owned by Ron Herron and his fiancée, Kristine Irvin. Herron is an instructor of aviation maintenance instructor at Pulaski Technical College, North Little Rock, Arkansas and also formerly ran an aviation maintenance facility, Little Wing Aviation.

Herron set out to design a safer autogyro, after experiences flying the Bensen B-8M in the mid-1970s. The company's designs use an unusual control system, common to all the Little Wing Autogyros, that was designed by David Kay in the early 1930s. It uses a mast that is fixed fore-and-aft, but which pivots laterally for banking the aircraft. Longitudinal control is achieved by an elevator and horizontal stabilizer system, designed to eliminate power-induced bunt "push-over" accidents.

The company has produced a whole line of single and two-seat autogyros, based on light aircraft fuselages, from the Little Wing LW-1 to the Little Wing LW-5. The Little Wing Roto-Pup is based on the Preceptor Ultra Pup airframe and optimized for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

A Little Wing LW-5 is preserved in the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Integration Point (company). Integration Point, Inc. is a privately owned software company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company specializes in the development, implementation and support of global trade management software to efficiently manage the import and export of goods around the world.
This Software-as-a-Service (Saas) model was built utilizing cloud technology, which provides companies with a Global Trade Network that touches every transaction affecting trade compliance. 

Integration Point is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has offices in Rochester, New York; El Paso, Texas;  Reynosa, Mexico; Torreon, Mexico;  Brussels, Belgium; Vadodara, India; Sao Paulo, Brazil;  Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia;  Frankfurt, Germany; Shanghai, China;  Cape Town, South Africa; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Melbourne, Australia.

History 

Integration Point was founded in 2002 by Tom Barnes, who maintains his role as CEO of the company.

In 2002, Clay Perry joined Integration Point with 20 years of experience in managing technology teams throughout the manufacturing and distribution sectors of international trade.

In 2003, Melissa Irmen joined Integration Point and plays an active role in various international trade initiatives and organizations, and speaks to media and conferences regularly on  global trade topics including   WCO, NAFTZ, ICPA, and AAEI.

In October 2018, Integration Point announced it was being acquired by Thomson Reuters for an undisclosed amount.

References

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Defunct software companies of the United States
Companies based in Charlotte, North Carolina
L-W-F NBS-2. The L-W-F XNBS-2 was a planned 1920s biplane night bomber designed by the Lowe, Willard & Fowler Engineering Company for the United States Army Air Service.

Development 
The L-W-F XNBS-2 was a scaled-down version of the L-W-F Model H Owl mailplane. Two XNBS-2 prototypes were ordered in 1923 but the project was cancelled before construction started.

Specifications

References

Citations

Bibliography

L-W-F aircraft
1920s United States bomber aircraft
Lowe, Willard & Fowler Engineering Company. The Lowe, Willard & Fowler Engineering Company was a College Point, New York City based manufacturer of airplanes founded in December 1915 named for its founders, Edward Lowe Jr., Charles F. Willard, and Robert G. Fowler,

Willard had been previously employed by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and Aeromarine and had developed a technique for molding laminated wood to form a monocoque fuselage while Fowler had been the first person to fly west-to-east across the United States. Lowe arranged the majority of the financing, while Fowler recruited Willard.

Fowler and Willard departed the company shortly afterwards in 1916 and Lowe renamed the firm the L-W-F Engineering Company." After their departure from the company, the companies initials were repurposed to refer either to either Laminated Wood Fuselage or Linen, Wire and Fabric. The company was reorganized after Lowe was forced out by company backers in 1917.

Aside from its own designs, of which only the model V and its derivatives, and the J-2 (a US Dehavilland DH-4 modified into a twin engine aircraft) saw series production, LWF built the Curtiss HS-2L, Martin NBS-1  and Douglas DT-2 under licence, and they modified 63 US Dehavilland DH-4As into DH-4Bs.

Following the reduction or cancellation  of orders following the end of World War I and the failure of its post-war designs to win orders, the company declared bankruptcy in 1924.

Aircraft

See also
List of aircraft manufacturers

References

Notes

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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in New York City
Companies based in Queens, New York
1915 establishments in New York (state)
1924 disestablishments in New York (state)
American companies disestablished in 1924
American companies established in 1915
WD Mersey. The TSHD WD Mersey is a British trailing suction hopper dredger, owned and operated by Boskalis Westminster Ltd (known as Westminster Dredging Company until 2014) and built in Italy. The ship maintained ports around the British Isles, including Liverpool, the Manchester Ship Canal, Harwich, Heysham and the Firth of Clyde

In 2017 she was sold and renamed UMD Hercules.

References

Service vessels of the United Kingdom
Dredgers
Ships built in Venice
Pricol. Pricol Limited (founded as Premier Instruments and Controls Limited) is an automotive components and precision engineered products manufacturer based in Coimbatore, India. It was founded in 1972 by the late V.N. Ramachandran and N.Damodaran, but started production in 1975. It manufactures automotive components for motorcycles, scooters, cars, trucks, buses, tractors and off-road vehicles used in the construction and Industrial segment. Pricol also manufacture sintered components and products for fleet management. Vijay Mohan is the founder, Vikram Mohan is the Managing Director and Vanitha Mohan is the Chairman.

Locations 
Pricol Limited has six manufacturing plants in India, Plants 1,3 & 4 in Coimbatore, Plant 2 & 9 in Manesar, Plant 5 in Pune, Plant 10 in Sricity and Plant 12 in Satara.  The company also has a plant operating in Jakarta (Indonesia)  and business offices in Tokyo, Singapore, Cologne (Germany) and Detroit (USA).

Pricol also acquiesced a group company PMP of Ashok Piramal group, which operates the manufacturing plants in Satara (India), Rudrapur (India), Puebla (Mexico) and in Prague (Czech republic), they bought complete wiper business from PMP.

Operations 
Pricol operates in five business areas: driver information systems, switches, actuators and sensors, powertrain products, telematics and infotainment, and fleet management systems.

Products

Driver Information System Products
 Instrument clusters
 Gauges

Power Train Products
 Sintered components
 Oil pumps
 Water pumps
 Chain tensioners 
 Auto fuel cock
 Auto decompression unit
 Fuel feed pump
 Idle speed control valves
 Pressure relief valves

Sensors & Switches
 Speed sensors
 Fuel level sensors
 Selective catalytic reduction
 Map and Tmap sensors
 Oil level switch
 Temperature sensor
 Brake light switch
 Vacuum switch
 Power sockets
 Pressure sensor
 Position sensor

Telematics & Infotainment
 Display & Infotainment
 Body control module
 Telematics products

Fleet Management Systems
 Speed limiter
 Centralized Lubrication Systems
 Vehicle tracking system
 Digital tax fare meter
 Cabin Tilting Systems
 Journey risk management

History 
Key events in Pricol Limited's history

Group Companies 
 Pricol Travel Limited
 Pricol Properties Limited
 Pricol Logistics Private Limited

References

Companies based in Coimbatore
Auto parts suppliers of India
1972 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Indian companies established in 1972
Manufacturing companies established in 1972
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Sospan Dau. The TSHD Sospan Dau is a Dutch trailing suction hopper dredger owned by Sosban BV. The vessel has worked on dredging projects, including offshore aggregates, port maintenance, land reclamation, coastal defense and beach replenishment. The name Sospan Dau is Welsh and originates from Sosban Fach and Llanelli's tin plating industry, Sospan being the Welsh for Saucepan and Dau being Welsh for Two as the ship is a successor to the original Sospan.

Equipment 
The ship has a traditional twin propeller stern and bow thruster for manoeuvering and like most trailing dredgers, includes bottom doors for dumping, a dredge engine, a jet water engine, a degassing installation, a suction pipe and associated pipelines and valves. Unique to most dredgers however, is a very large bulbous bow and spud pole for more efficient use of the dredge pump and heading/position keeping during beaching.

Projects 
In 2014 & 2015 the Sospan Dau created the Cowes Harbour breakwater.

References

External links
 

Dredgers
Service vessels of the United Kingdom
Papendrecht
Blue Force Gear. Blue Force Gear, Inc. is a United States manufacturer of modular lightweight load-carrying equipment (MOLLE) gear, firearm slings, and other tactical equipment that was established in Pooler, Georgia during January 2004. They design and manufacture equipment for law enforcement, U.S. Armed Forces (and NATO Forces), and Sport Shooters. Select equipment manufactured contains a National Stock Number (NSN) and a National Item Identification Number (NIIN) for supplying armed forces. Its name, Blue Force Gear, is derived from military symbology dating back to World War I: blue being for Allied forces and red for enemy forces.

They are most known for their firearm sling, the Vickers Sling.

Background 

On May 1, 2012 the Vickers Combat Application Sling was assigned NSN: 1005-01-604-0627. Combat trials led by U.S. Marines validated the issue of the NSN in combat trials in Afghanistan (2011) for their new M27 Infantry Rifle. The sling was fully authorized for use on the M4, M4A1 and M16 series of rifles by the United States Marine Corps. The sling then joins over 100,000 other Blue Force Gear slings already issued across the United States Armed Forces.

Vickers Sling name 

The Vickers Sling, a firearm sling, is named after Larry Vickers. Larry Vickers, a retired US Army 1st SFOD-Delta (Delta Force) combat veteran, took part in the United States invasion of Panama and participated in Operation Acid Gambit, a mission to extract a CIA operative, Kurt Muse, from Modelo Prison in Panama City, Panama. Blue Force Gear and Larry Vickers both originally designed the Vickers Sling product line, the Vickers Combat Application Sling (VCAS).

References

External links 
 Blue Force Gear, Inc official website

Manufacturing in the United States
Military technology
Elias C. Aifantis. Elias C. Aifantis (; born October 10, 1950) is professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 
professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University since 1982.

He has held academic positions with the University of Illinois (1976–1980) and the University of Minnesota (1980–1982).
 
E. C. Aifantis  received his diploma from the National Technical University of Athens and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1975).

He has more than 300 published papers in the areas of mechanics and materials science.

E. C. Aifantis is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Materials, and is on the Advisory Board of Mechanics of Cohesive Friction Materials and Structure. He was on the Board of Acta Mechanica.

In 2015, he was awarded with the Fray International Sustainability Award in Antalya, Turkey, for his significant achievements in sustainable research and academia.

See also 
 GRADELA

References 
 E. C. Aifantis in ResearchGate
 E. C. Aifantis in MTU
 Elias Aifantis in LinkedIn
 CV of E. C. Aifantis
 Aifantis International Symposium (4 - 9 October 2015, Antalya, Turkey)

Notes

Selected papers 

 E.C. Aifantis,  "On the role of gradients in the localization of deformation and fracture", International Journal of Engineering Science. Vol.30. No.10. (1992) 1279–1299.
 B.S. Altan, E.C. Aifantis, "On the structure of the mode-Ill crack-tip in gradient elasticity", Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia. Vol.26. No.2. (1992) 319–324.
 B.S. Altan, E.C. Aifantis, "On some aspects in the special theory of gradient elasticity", Journal of the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials. Vol.8. No.3. (1997) 231-282.
 C.Q. Ru, E.C. Aifantis, "A simple approach to solve boundary-value problems in gradient elasticity", Acta Mechanica. Vol.101. No.1. (1993) 59-68.
 M.Yu. Gutkin, E.C. Aifantis, "Dislocations and disclinations in gradient elasticity", Physica Status Solidi B. Vol.214. No.2. (1999) 245-286.
 H. Askes, I. Morata, E. Aifantis, "Finite element analysis with staggered gradient elasticity",  Computers and Structures. Vol.86. No.11-12. (2008) 1266–1279.
 H. Askes, E.C. Aifantis, "Gradient elasticity in statics and dynamics: An overview of formulations, length scale identification procedures, finite element implementations and new results", International Journal of Solids and Structures. Vol.48. No.13. (2011) 1962-1990.

Academic staff of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Michigan Technological University faculty
1950 births
Living people
Mechanical engineers
Materials scientists and engineers
Engineers from Thessaloniki
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni
GRADELA. GRADELA is a simple gradient elasticity model involving one internal length in addition to the two Lamé parameters. It allows eliminating elastic singularities and discontinuities and to interpret elastic size effects.  This model has been suggested by Elias C. Aifantis. The main advantage of GRADELA over Mindlin's  elasticity models  (which contains five extra constants) is the fact that solutions of boundary value problems can be found in terms of corresponding solutions of classical elasticity by operator splitting method.

In 1992-1993 it has been suggested by Elias C. Aifantis a generalization of the linear elastic constitutive relations by the gradient modification that contains the Laplacian in the form

where  is the scale parameter.

See also 
 Linear elasticity
 Mindlin–Reissner plate theory

References 

 E. C. Aifantis, "On the role of gradients in the localization of deformation and fracture" International Journal of Engineering Science Volume 30, Issue 10, October 1992, Pages 1279–1299 
 E. C. Aifantis, "On non-singular GRADELA crack fields" Theor. Appl. Mech. Lett.  2014, Vol. 4 Issue (5): 5-051005    DOI: 10.1063/2.1405105
 E. C. Aifantis, "On the gradient approach – Relation to Eringen’s nonlocal theory" International Journal of Engineering Science Volume 49, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 1367–1377
 C. Q. Ru, E. C.Aifantis, "A simple approach to solve boundary value problems in gradient elasticity. Acta Mechanica, 1993, Volume 101, Issue 1-4, pp 59-68.

Elasticity (physics)
Solid mechanics
New York Locomotive Works. Breese, Kneeland, and Company was a nineteenth century builder of steam locomotive engines located at Jersey City, New Jersey.  Initially styled the New York Locomotive Works, the company was active under various ownerships in building steam locomotives from 1853 until 1873.  The original proprietors were Charles Kneeland, William Hamilton and S. Breese.  Encrease Personette Gould (1822-1876), usually known as E. P. Gould, a well known mechanic and formerly the mechanical superintendent of the Hudson River Railroad was the first shop foreman and designer.

Locomotives
The initial products were noted for their up to the minute designs and were well received.  The first two locomotives went to the Hudson River Railroad in 1853.  Named the Superior and the Baltic they were very large for their time, weighing 29 tons and were fitted with 78 inch driving wheels.  They also featured advanced features such as straight top boilers, front end throttles and more heating surface than most contemporary locomotives.

Reorganizations
Although the company seemingly was off to a good start the "iniquitous conduct of certain western railroad managers... buying engines on credit while they knew their companies were hopelessly insolvent..." doomed the enterprise and the financial collapse of 1857 put the company in the hands of its creditors.

The company was reorganized as the Jersey City Locomotive Works with William Hamilton in charge, but the company again failed in 1865.  James McHenry then leased the shop to build over 100 locomotives for the broad gauge Atlantic and Great Western Railroad which apparently was unable to supply its needs through commercial builders.

When McHenry's contract concluded, the works were leased to Nathaniel McKay, brother of Donald McKay, of clipper ship fame, formerly associated with locomotive builder McKay and Aldus.  McKay Iron Works built general machinery, including a few locomotives, until the works closed for good in 1872.

Production
Total locomotive production at Jersey City is estimated at about 300 under all managements.  One locomotive, El Paso & Southwestern Railroad No. 1 (formerly Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad number 40), built by Breese Kneeland, is preserved at the Centennial Museum, University of Texas, El Paso.

See also
 Rome Locomotive Works, another company trading as New York Locomotive Works

References

Defunct locomotive manufacturers of the United States