omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Bruce A. Finlayson. Bruce A. Finlayson is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician. He is the Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, United States. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is known for his contributions to chemical engineering in general and for the development and application of computational methods engineering problems in particular.

Career
Finlayson received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from the Rice University in 1961 and 1963 respectively and Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1965; all in chemical engineering. He served for two years as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, working at the United States Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C.

Books authored
 The Method of Weighted Residuals and Variational Principles, Academic Press (1972). .
 Nonlinear Analysis in Chemical Engineering, McGraw-Hill, (1980). .
 Numerical Methods for Problems with Moving Fronts, Ravenna Park Publishing, (1992). .
 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing, Wiley-Interscience, (2006). .

References

External links
Dr. Finlayson's Personal Home Page

University of Washington faculty
Rice University alumni
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
American fluid dynamicists
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Chemical engineering academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
AI Memo. The AI Memos are a series of influential memorandums and technical reports published by the MIT AI Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. They cover Artificial Intelligence, a field of computer science.

Noteworthy memos in the series include:

 AI Memo 39, "The New Compiler", describing the first implementation of a self-hosting compiler (for LISP 1.5)
 AI Memo 41, "A Chess Playing Program", describing Kotok-McCarthy, the first computer program to play chess convincingly
 AI Memo 239 (1972), also known as HAKMEM, a compendium of hacks and algorithms
 Sussman and Steele's Lambda Papers:
 AI Memo 349 (1975), "Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus"
 AI Memo 353 (1976), "Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative"
 AI Memo 379 (1976), "Lambda: The Ultimate Declarative"
 AI Memo 443 (1977), "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO"
 AI Memo 453 (1978), "The Art of the Interpreter of, the Modularity Complex (Parts Zero, One, and Two)"
 AI Technical Report 474 (1978), "RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME"
 AI Memo 514 (1979), "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode"

References

External links 
 AI Memos (1959–2004) collection at DSpace at MIT
 AI Series historical archive at the CSAIL Publications and Digital Archive

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial intelligence papers
History of artificial intelligence
Memoranda
Toronto Solar Neighbourhoods Initiative. Toronto Solar Neighbourhoods Initiative (“Solar Neighbourhoods”) is a joint project of the Atmospheric Fund and Toronto Energy Efficiency Office, with support from the Toronto Environment Office and Toronto Hydro. Its goal is to encourage the installation of solar water heating systems in Toronto homes through financial incentives and other support to both homeowners and the local solar industry. Phase I (2008-2009) of the pilot project is targeting homes in Toronto’s Ward 30. The program was developed based on a directive in Toronto’s “Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan”, which was approved by Toronto City Council in June 2007.

Name
Official named the Toronto Solar Neighbourhoods Initiative, the pilot program is referred to as "Solar Neighbourhoods" for short.

Funding
Solar Neighbourhoods was made possible by a provincially mandated grant of $400,000 from the Portlands Energy Centre, a natural gas-based power plant located within Ward 30, to go toward local air quality initiatives.

Process
The Solar Neighbourhoods program offers incentives of up to $1,000 towards the purchase of solar water heating systems for eligible residents. Those who participate can choose to receive $1,000 up-front towards the cost of their system or a $500 up-front rebate along with zero-interest financing to cover the cost of the system (up to $10,000). In order to qualify for these savings homeowners must live within Ward 30, and have an ecoENERGY home assessment with the selected auditing partner, Windfall Ecology Centre. This ecoENERGY assessment is necessary to access federal and provincial  government solar hot water incentives, as well as incentives for a number of other home energy improvements through the ecoENERGY-Retrofit Homes program. The installation must be done by a Solar Neighbourhoods eligible contractor who has met basic requirements, including Canadian Solar Industry Association (CanSIA) membership, using CanSIA certified installers, providing basic labour and equipment warranties, and maintaining adequate WSIB and commercial insurance. This incentive can be received in conjunction with other government incentives such as the ecoENERGY incentive, Ontario Home Energy Savings Program and 2009 Home Renovation Tax Credit.

Community Partners
Solar Neighbourhoods works in conjunction with a local solar buying club called the Riverdale Initiative for Solar Energy (RISE Again), which is bringing together neighbours in Riverdale to purchase both solar water heating systems and solar photovoltaic systems. A number of community solar buying groups exist across Toronto and southern Ontario, and are working together under the OurPower.ca umbrella.

References

External links

Economy of Toronto
Solar energy
Theater Battle Management Core Systems. The Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) is a set of software systems used by all air wings of the United States military to plan and execute military missions utilizing airborne resources, maintain automated airspace deconfliction, and allow inter-service communication, originally designed by Lockheed Martin for the United States Military. There are multiple configurations of the servers and clients depending on the situation. It has two levels of control, at the larger 'force' level, or at the detailed 'unit' level.  It is used to generate the Air Tasking Order (ATO) and the Airspace Control Order (ACO).  It replaced the Contingency Theater Automated Planning System (CTAPS).  It has many electronic interfaces to other systems, many which are based on USMTF information exchanges.

See also
 Air Operations Center
 Air Combat Command
 Global Command and Control System
 Global Cyberspace Integration Center

References
 Federation of American Scientists
 Lockheed Martin whitepaper 

Military communications
United States Air Force
Idriss I Dam. The Idriss I Dam, also known as the Idriss the First Dam, is a gravity dam on the Inaouen River, a tributary of the Sebou River. The dam is situated in the Gharb Basin and is located  northeast of Fes in Taza and Taounate Province, Morocco. The dam serves to provide irrigation water for  of land and its power plant generates 66 GWh of electricity annually. It is named after Idriss I. It has faced criticism since it failed to deliver irrigation to the projected number of acres and it has also denied water use to historical downstream agricultural and residential users.

Environmental issues
A number of water pollutants enter the Sebou River and its tributaries, notably including pesticides and fertilisers from agricultural runoff and untreated sewage from towns along the river. In the upper parts of the watershed within the Middle Atlas is the prehistoric range of the endangered primate Barbary macaque, which animal prehistorically had a much larger range in North Africa.

See also

 List of power stations in Morocco

References

Bibliography
 Allan M. Findlay. 1994. The Arab world
 C. Michael Hogan. 2008.  Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus, GlobalTwitcher.com
 Michele L. Thieme. 2005. Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: a conservation assessment  431 pages

Dams completed in 1973
Energy infrastructure completed in 1978
Dams in Morocco
Hydroelectric power stations in Morocco
Gravity dams
20th-century architecture in Morocco
Attrition test. An attrition test is a test carried out to measure the resistance of a granular material to wear.  An example of a material subjected to an attrition test are stones used in road construction, indicating the resistance of the material to being broken down under road traffic.  Heterogeneous catalysts are also subjected to attrition tests to determine their physical performance in a heterogeneous catalytic reactor.

The test itself involves agitating the particles, typically by tumbling within a drum, vibration, or with jets of gas to simulate a fluidised bed.  After a specified time, the material is sieved, and the sieved material is weighed to measure the proportion of material which has been reduced to below a certain size (referred to as 'fines').  The specifics of the test are defined by various standards as applicable to the purpose in question, such as those defined by ASTM.

Roads
Tribology
SCH-5472. SCH-5472. is a stimulant drug developed by Schering-Plough in the 1950s.

Synthesis

Potassium amide was made from the reaction of potassium metal with liquid ammonia. The coupling between the carbanion created from diphenylmethane [101-81-5] (1) and ethyl 2-furoate [614-99-3] [1335-40-6] (2) gives 2-furyl benzhydryl ketone, CID:63950182 (3). This was reacted with concentrated liquid ammonia in methanol solvent in an autoclave. The product of this step was 2-benzhydrylpyridin-3-ol, CID:125491889 (4). Reduction of the pyridine gave 2-(diphenylmethyl)piperidin-3-ol, CID:209477 (5).

See also 
 AL-1095
 Desoxypipradrol
 Difemetorex

References 

Stimulants
2-Benzylpiperidines
DVR College of Engineering and Technology. Devarakonda Vittal Rao College of Engineering and Technology (DVRCET) was an engineering college affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. The college is currently listed as academically inactive. It functioned under the Devarakonda Educational Society.

History
It was established in 1997 at the Madhapur campus (later changed to MBA campus). In year 2001, it was shifted to Kashipur Village near Sangareddy. The chairman of the college, Devarakonda Vittal Rao, was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mahabubnagar constituency of Andhra Pradesh and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.

Devarakonda Educational Society
The Devarakonda Educational Society was established in 1994 as a non-profit organization. Sri D.Vittal Rao  is the president of the society. In servicing the objective, the Devarakonda Educational Society established the D.V.R.College of Engineering and Technology in 1996, the D.V.R. Post Graduate College of Management Studies in the year 1997, offering academic programmes in Engineering, Technology, Management and MTech.

Courses and Facilities
The college Library had a collection of 21000 volumes, and 3500 titles, eight news papers and other professional periodicals. The library has a book bank for SC and ST students. Books for SC and St students were given free for certain period by the Social Welfare Department of the government of Telangana as per the Government’s policy. Select articles from the periodicals are bound and there were 2000 such bound volumes.
The college offered courses in seven disciplines which were Electronics and Communications Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering in it including MBA and MTech in VLSI Design & Embedded systems and MTech in Computer Science Engineering. The college did not offer any hostel facility but provided transportation facilities to its students. There were 16 college buses connecting to the city.

Technical and cultural events
Co-circular activities included basketball, volleyball and cricket grounds inside the campus. Inter-college competitions were held regularly. Technical events like: "Aktzin", conducted by Electrical department; "Elektra", conducted by Electronics department, and "Xyno minds" conducted by Computer science department were national event held annually. There was a college annual cultural festival Dhoom organized by its students, mostly.

National Cadet Corps @ DVR College
The college had its association with the Indian Army's NCC wing to train students through CATC camps inside campus and even produced potential cadets to attend national level NCC camps. NCC in the college was under the command of 33 Telangana Battalion of Indian Army headquartered at Sangareddi, Telangana.

Image gallery

References

External links 

 
 
 xynomindz official website 
 

Engineering colleges in Telangana
All India Council for Technical Education
1997 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 1997
SEEC microscopy. Surface-enhanced ellipsometric contrast microscopy (SEEC) uses an upright or inverted optical microscope in a crossed polarization configuration and specific supporting plates called surfs on which the sample is deposited for observation. It is described as an optical nanoscopy technique. 

SEEC relies on precise control of the reflection properties of polarized light on a surface, improving the axial sensitivity of an optical microscope by two orders of magnitude without reducing its lateral resolution. Applications could include real-time visualization of films as thin as 0.3 micrometers and isolated nano-objects in air and in water.

Principles

A 2006 study on polarized light coherence led to the development of new supports (the surfs) having contrast amplification properties for standard optical microscopy in cross-polarizer mode. Made of optical layers on an opaque or transparent substrate, these supports do not modify the light polarization after reflection even if the numerical aperture of the incident source is significant. This property is modified when a sample is present on a surf; a non-null light component is then detected after it has been analyzed, rendering the sample visible.

The performance of these supports is evaluated by measuring the contrast (C) of the sample defined as: C = (I1-I0)/(I0+I1) where I0 and I1 represent the intensities reflected by the bare surf and by the analyzed sample on the surf, respectively. For a one nanometer-film thickness, the surfs display a contrast 200 times higher than on silicon wafer.

This high contrast increase allows the visualization with standard optical microscope of films with thicknesses down to 0.3 nanometers, as well as nano-objects (down to a 2 nanometer diameter) and this, without any kind of sample labeling (neither fluorescence, nor a radioactive marker). An illustration of the contrast enhancement is in the Figure for optical microscopy between cross polarizers of a Langmuir-Blodgett structure on a silicon wafer and on a surf.

Applications

Life sciences
Biological films
Biochips
Soft lithography

Thin films and surface treatment
Langmuir-Blodgett films

Nano-materials
Nanoparticles
Graphene

Commercial applications 
Nanolane's Sarfus Mapping Station is based on surface-enhanced ellipsometric contrast microscopy.

References

Nanotechnology
Microscopy
Laboratory techniques
Scientific techniques
Biological techniques and tools
Laboratory equipment
Optical microscopy
Thunderstrike (video game). Thunderstrike is a futuristic 3D  shooter game released by Millennium Interactive in 1990.

Plot 
The year is 2238 and the most popular sport in the world is the Military Olympics, in which gladiators in various combat aircraft fight robot drones and each other for victory.

Gameplay 
Players control a low-flying combat aircraft in a series of combat arenas filled with enemy robot drones. They start with the titular "Thunderstrike" fighter by default, but may choose between five different models, all differing in flight characteristics.

Players must defend their base installations (red pyramids) from attack by various robot drones; if they are all destroyed the game is lost. Meanwhile, they must find and destroy the robot spawn bases (blue/red bunkers); when these are all destroyed the round is won and the player progresses to the next arena.

Reception
Computer Gaming World advised flight-simulator fans to avoid Thunderstrike, but that "those who want a challenging game with more than the average arcade style, however, are bound to be pleasanty surprised ... addicting".

References

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1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
DOS games
First-person shooters
Millennium Interactive games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
David E. Daniel. David Edwin Daniel  (born December 20, 1949, in Newport News, Virginia, U.S.) is a former deputy chancellor of the University of Texas System.
 Previously, he was the fourth president of the University of Texas at Dallas, where he served from 2005 to 2015. He is a former councillor of National Academy of Engineering. , he serves as a consultant in Dallas, Texas.

Daniel received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980, where he also served as a faculty member until 1996 before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Daniel was Gutgsell Professor of Civil Engineering and department head until becoming dean of the College of Engineering in 2001.  He has written numerous books, book chapters, technical and scientific publications, as well as serving as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering from 1992 to 1995.  Daniel was awarded the prestigious Norman Medal in 1975, the American Society of Civil Engineers' highest honor, and has twice received the Croes Medal .

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for leadership in developing the geoenvironmental engineering field, and major contributions to engineering practice involving landfills and waste containment systems. In 2013, he was elected to be a Councillor of National Academy of Engineering.

Notes

References

1. The University of Texas at Dallas (2009).  Biographical Information.  In David E. Daniel's Biographical Information: Office of the President.  Retrieved August 26, 2009, from https://web.archive.org/web/20090813014609/http://www.utdallas.edu/president/bio/.

2. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009).  Biographical Sketch for David E. Daniel.  In Biographical Sketch for David E. Daniel | Engineering at Illinois.  Retrieved August 26, 2009, from http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/administration/Bio-data/dedaniel-bio.php.

3. Daniel DE (2008).  "Curriculum Vita for David E. Daniel."  The University of Texas at Dallas.  Retrieved August 26, 2009, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100529190257/http://www.utdallas.edu/president/documents/daniel-cv.pdf.

4. American Society of Civil Engineers (2016), "Geoenvironmental Engineering: Honoring David E. Daniel", Geo-Chicago 2016, DOI: 10.1061/9780784480175 from http://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784480175.

Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Presidents of the University of Texas at Dallas
Living people
1949 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
René Grillet de Roven. René Grillet de Roven, also René Grillet, was a French mechanic and watchmaker who designed a mechanical calculating machine in the 17th century.

Biography 
Grillet came from Rouen in northwestern France, the capital city of Normandy. He served as watchmaker to King Louis XIV.

In 1673 Grillet published a small book, Curiositez mathematiques de l'invention du Sr Grillet horlogeur a Paris, in which he announced the invention of an arithmetical calculating machine.  A few years later, in 1678, he wrote a short article in Le Journal des Sçavans describing the machine.  According to Grillet, he was inspired by Blaise Pascal's work with calculating machines to combine the Pascaline with Napier's bones, and build a machine that could perform both addition and multiplication.

Grillet displayed his machine at fairs in France and the Netherlands between 1673 and 1681.  He tried to establish a business of manufacturing and selling calculating machines, with unclear success.

In addition to the calculating machine, in his career Grillet invented a hygrometer (for which he was accused of plagiarism by another inventor); graphometers; drawing instrument set; protractor, set square, with plumb-bob.

In 1690, the first textile-printing factory in England was established by a Frenchman named René Grillet, who took out a patent on the process.

References 

Michael R. Williams History of Computing Technology, IEEE Press 1997 (Kapitel 3.6: René Grillet)
Michael R. Williams From Napier to Lucas. The use of Napier's Bones in calculating instruments, Annals of the History of Computing, Band 5, Nr. 3, 1983, S. 279-296

External links 
 Stephan Weiss Die Rechenkästen nach Schott und ihre Simulation, pdf
 Biography of René Grillet de Roven

French watchmakers (people)
17th-century artisans
Engineers from Rouen
17th-century births
Year of death missing
Tupolev Tu-82. The Tupolev Tu-82 was a 1940s Soviet experimental swept-wing bomber. It was the first Soviet jet bomber with swept wings.

Design and development
Similar to the earlier Tupolev Tu-14, the Tu-82 was designed to investigate the use of swept wings. Powered by two Klimov VK-1 engines, the Tu-82 first flew in February 1949. It achieved a top speed of 934 km/h and a ceiling of 14,000 m. Tupolev planned a larger combat version as the Tu-86, but it was not built.

Specifications (Tu-82)

See also

References

Notes

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Tu-0082
1940s Soviet bomber aircraft
Twinjets
Aircraft first flown in 1949