omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Alexander Abalakov. Alexander Nikolayevich Abalakov (; born 29 November 1959) is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Early life and education
Alexander Abalakov was born on 29 November 1959 in the village of Zalesovo, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In 1977, he enrolled Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute, from which he graduated with honors in 1982 as a certified electrical engineer with a degree in Information and Measuring Technology.

Career
In 1979, he began his career as a laboratory assistant in the research sector. He worked at his occupation in nuclear and tool-making industry from 1982 to 1989. In 1989, he, with the help of his companions, established and took over a cooperative, which is the ancestor of today's F1 Business Group.

In December 2005, he was elected deputy of the Novosibirsk Regional Council of Deputies. Before 2010, he served on the Committee for Construction, Housing and Communal Services.

On 4 December 2011, he became deputy of the 6th State Duma of the Russian Federation, having been elected in the 2011 parliamentary election as part of the federal list of candidates nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for Novosibirsk Oblast. He is a member of the State Duma Committee on Housing Policy and Housing and Communal Services.

References

1959 births
Living people
People from Altai Krai
Communist Party of the Russian Federation members
Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Russian electrical engineers
Volvo FMX. The Volvo FMX (FMX meaning "Forward control Medium Xtreme") is a heavy-duty truck produced by Volvo Truck Corporation. It was introduced in 2010. Based on the standard Volvo FM which is related, the FMX range is a multipurpose truck range for distribution, construction and on highway/off highway transport duties. As of 2011 the engine size is no longer added to the model denomination. The refreshed model based on the first-generation FMX introduced in 2013 and then the second generation, which is a completely makeover, from 27 February 2020.



First generation (2010–2020)

The original first-generation FMX was introduced in 2010 and shared its platform and components with the FM. All FMX have been available with the choice of 11-litre and 13-litre Euro-5 engines, The D11 and D13 models. The production version went on sale in Europe in autumn 2010 and worldwide in 2011.

Facelift

The facelift version based on the FMX was unveiled in April 2013, with sales began in September 2013. It features a darken halogen HID headlights borrowed from the some base equipment of the FH16, a refreshed grille, and a redesigned dashboard with a choice of two digital dials and two analogue gauges, as well as a new steering wheel and an infotainment system. It also comes standard with the Volvo Dynamic Steering System. It is available with a choice of carry-over engines with Euro-VI.

Second generation (since 2020)
Unveiled on 27 February 2020, the second-generation FMX which is a rugged only, compared to the standard FM. It is the first new models launched under the brand's recently President Roger Alm.

Some of the equipment features include a darken halogen LED headlights, a steel-and-polypropylene bumper, an energy-absorbing box construction a 3mm skid plate. It also retains a new-generation steering wheel, a fully digital instrument cluster, and a large touchscreen infotainment system.

The second-generation FMX finally began sales later in 2020.

References

External links

FMX
Vehicles introduced in 2010
Mark E. Davis. Mark E. Davis is the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He is a member of the City of Hope National Medical Center. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in chemical engineering all from the University of Kentucky. His lab focuses on the synthesis of materials for catalysis and biocompatible materials for drug delivery.

Davis was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, for pioneering work in the synthesis of new catalytic materials.

Research
He did his doctoral work with John Yamanis on reactions engineering with annular bed reactors. His academic career started as an assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in 1981 and rose until becoming the Charles O. Gordon Professor of Chemical engineering in 1990. During his time at Virginia Tech, he developed some of the earlier Zeolite molecular sieves and increasing the pore size. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and served as the Executive Officer of the department from 1999 to 2004. In 2004 he joined the City of Hope National Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center.

In 1995, his wife, Mary, was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to go through chemotherapy. Having seen the side effects of cancer treatment, he decided to do research on molecules that would prevent drug from leaking through healthy blood vessels but would stop at the tumor. His group conjugated cyclodextrin to the anti-cancer compound camptothecin to improve the bio-availability and exhibit efficacy in mouse tumor models.  The compound, CRLX101 is now being tested in clinical trials.
The cyclodextrin nanoparticles are also being used to encapsulate siRNA.

He was the recipient of the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1990. In 1997, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, in 2006, to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2011, the National Academy of Medicine. He is also the founder of Insert Therapeutics and Calando Pharmaceuticals.

Personal
Mark was born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, as the son of teachers of history and English.
Mark Davis is an accomplished athlete and was on a full scholarship in track and field at the University of Kentucky. He is the 400-Meter World Champion for the 55–59 division. He was also part of the USA 4x100 and 4x400 meter teams. He met his wife Mary while a professor at Virginia Tech. She was an accomplished flautist before being diagnosed with breast cancer.

References

External links 
Academic Profile
Davis Lab website
PNAS Profile

Living people
1955 births
Engineers from Pennsylvania
American chemical engineers
Academic staff of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain
Kentucky Wildcats men's track and field athletes
University of Kentucky College of Engineering alumni
Virginia Tech faculty
California Institute of Technology faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
People from Ellwood City, Pennsylvania
City of Hope National Medical Center
Philip's Music Writer. In computing, Philip's Music Writer or PMW, formerly known as Philip's Music Scribe or PMS, is a music scorewriter written by Philip Hazel. It was mentioned in the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities publication Computing in Musicology in 1993 and remains under active development as free software.

Development 
The software was originally written in order for Hazel to typeset recorder music for his children. It was written in BCPL for an IBM mainframe at the University of Cambridge and also ran on a system running Panos, which was later sold as the Acorn Business Computer. The program was subsequently ported to Acorn's Archimedes running Arthur and later ported to Unix-like systems. It began as commercial software and was later released as free software.

On-screen proof-reading was rudimentary on the Acorn Business Computer, which used the BBC Micro for screen output. The Arthur version initially ran at the command line, but was later converted to use the WIMP and outline fonts. Sibelius was released in 1993. Hazel later observed that composers and arrangers generally preferred such WYSIWYG editors, while music engravers tended to prefer text input scorewriters, because of the increased degree of control available. The learning of such text input requires more time investment by the user, so the notation was designed with the aim of being "both compact and easy to learn". The Linux version (ported in 2003) is "back to its roots", being command line driven.

The software uses PostScript fonts named PMW-Music and PMW-Alpha, which were conceived by the author and Richard Hallas. The fonts were originally designed as  outline fonts.

, it remains under active development as free software.

Features 
Musical notation is provided to the software in textual form, which generates output to a printer or for saving in PostScript or Drawfile format. Simple MIDI files and sound output can also be generated.

Reception 
The software was mentioned in the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities publication Computing in Musicology in 1993, and chapter 18 in Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes, MIT Press (1997, ).

References 

Cross-platform software
Free music software
Free software programmed in C
Free typesetting software
Music notation file formats
RISC OS software
Scorewriters
Scorewriters for Linux
Aluminium granules. Aluminium granules are fine spherical aggregates of aluminium.

Manufacture
Aluminium granules are manufactured by the melting of primary or secondary aluminium and blown in air or vacuum, or are cast in sand and then sieved off. Other methods include casting of molten aluminium in water.

Granules versus powders 
Aluminium granules have been found safer and economical compared to atomized aluminium powder. Aluminium granules have lower explosion risk in production and in use of the product itself.

Advantages
The density of aluminium granules ranges from 1.0 to 1.8 g/cm3 and is much higher compared to aluminium powder.

See also

 Aluminium powder

References

Aluminium alloys
Deoxidizers
Jessiko. Jessiko is a  long autonomous robot fish developed by French start-up Robotswim, located in Palaiseau, Paris area.

History 

Jessiko project was launched in 2005 by Christophe Tiraby, a French engineer.

In March 2009, Christophe Tiraby founded Robotswim company to industrialize and commercialize Jessiko.

In November 2009, "Jessiko robot fish" wins the Great Prize of Innovation of Paris City in the Design category.

Jessiko is first exhibited at Innorobo robotic fair in March 2011.

From May 12 to August 12, Jessiko is exhibited on France Pavilion Expo 2012 Yeosu World Fair in South Korea. Robotswim implemented at this occasion the first school of robot fish in permanent conditions.

Versions 

5 versions of prototypes have been developed (V0 to V4)

Industrial version commercialized since 2012 is V5.

Characteristics

Use 
Jessiko was marketed as a luxury decoration for businesses such as hotels, restaurants, and museums. Tiraby expressed hope that one day it would be common to find his invention in household ponds and swimming pools.

References

See also 
 Biomechatronics

External links 
 
 Robotswim Youtube channel

Robots of France
Electromechanical engineering
Robotic animals
Underwater robots
Fish and humans
Inverted arch. An inverted arch or invert is a civil engineering structure in the form of an inverted arch, inverted in comparison to the usual arch bridge.

Like the flying arch, the inverted arch is not usually used to support a load (with teh exceptions of the foundations of the piers and retaining walls, see below), as for a bridge, but rather to resist sideways, inwards loads. The conventional arch supports a vertical load downwards on the centre of the arch and translates this into forces both downwards and outwards at the base of the arch. In most cases, this sideways force is a nuisance and must be resisted by either strong foundations or a further 'bowstring' girder, in the form of a tied-arch bridge.

Inverted arches are used where sideways forces must be restrained, and where space is most easily available beneath a construction (for example, the strainer arches are built as an afterthought, had to fit into the space available, and thus sometimes include the inverted components). They have often been applied to railway cuttings, but are perhaps most distinctively used as the base of docks, particularly dry docks and locks that must be supported even when they are empty of water that could otherwise resist the sidethrust of their walls. Some canal tunnels were built oval in section, such as the Newbold-on-Avon tunnel, where the lower section forms an invert for strength.

A further use of inverted arches is to support lengthways forces from another arch, such as a bridge or viaduct. This is often done on poor ground, to reduce the ground loading otherwise there is need for extensive foundations. In the simplest case, the arches simply spread the downwards loads of viaduct piers into a wider ground area, exactly as for an inverted arch bridge. Such arches were used beneath the Hownes Gill Viaduct, on the advice of Robert Stephenson. Inverted arches have also been added to existing bridges, to reinforce them after their banks start to slide inwards. Such a repair was applied to The Iron Bridge in the 1970s.

Inverted arches are often used in conjunction with retaining walls. The arch provides a foundation for the walls and can resist the sideways forces upon them. The retaining wall also provides the vertical load needed by the arch. They are also used as foundation for the piers in order to distribute the load over the area between the piers.

See also 
 Counter-arch

References

Sources 
 
 

Arches and vaults
Automate This. Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World is a book written by Christopher Steiner and published by Penguin Group.

Book
Steiner begins his study of algorithms on Wall Street in the 1980s but also provides examples from other industries.  For example, he explains the history of Pandora Radio and the use of algorithms in music identification.  He expresses concern that such use of algorithms may lead to the homogenization of music over time. Steiner also discusses the algorithms that eLoyalty (now owned by Mattersight Corporation following divestiture of the technology) was created by dissecting 2 million speech patterns and can now identify a caller's personality style and direct the caller with a compatible customer support representative.

Steiner's book shares both the warning and the opportunity that algorithms bring to just about every industry in the world, and the pros and cons of the societal impact of automation (e.g. impact on employment).

See also 
 Artificial intelligence
 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
 Race Against the Machine
 Technological unemployment

References 

2012 non-fiction books
Books about automation
Algorithms
Portfolio (publisher) books
Automation
Diamond Vision. Diamond Vision (known as Aurora Vision in Japan) displays are large-scale video walls for indoor and outdoor sports venues and commercial applications, produced by the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Diamond Vision Systems is a division of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. and is headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, where certain products are designed and assembled for the North American market.

Diamond Vision video screens incorporate technologies developed by Mitsubishi Electric. For wide viewing angles, Diamond Vision screens utilize chip-type LEDs. Mitsubishi Electric also uses patented processing technology in Diamond Vision boards for imagery and color reproduction. Early Diamond Vision displays used Cathode-ray tube technology, similarly to Jumbotrons.

Diamond Vision's awards include an Emmy Award and the Best in Sports Technology award from the Sports Business Journal–Sports Business Daily. In addition, Diamond Vision installations have been recognized five times by Guinness World Records.

Diamond Vision Systems is the Official Large Outdoor Video Display Provider of the PGA Tour.

Historical milestones

Mitsubishi Electric began manufacturing and installing large-scale video screens in 1980, with the introduction of the first Diamond Vision board at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Diamond Vision installed 3 screens at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, and two in Wembley Stadium during Live Aid. They would be used to show the live feed from Philadelphia to Wembley and Wembley to Philadelphia.

In 2004, Diamond Vision Systems installed North America’s largest indoor high-definition (HD) screen, measuring 34 feet by 110 feet, at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The following year, the Diamond Vision LED display at Turner Field (now Center Parc Stadium) in Atlanta was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest high-definition television screen.

Diamond Vision was recognized by Guinness World Records in 2009, when two video boards measuring 72 feet by 160 feet at Cowboys Stadium (now AT&T Stadium) in Arlington, Texas were named the world’s largest 1080p high-definition video displays.

In 2012, Diamond Vision Systems won an Emmy Award in the Pioneering Development of Large-Venue, Large-Screen Direct View Color Video Displays category.

A Diamond Vision 25,610 square-foot high-resolution video display with a pixel density of 2,368 x 10,048 was installed in Times Square in 2014.

In 2016, Diamond Vision HD screens replaced the main center video board and the auxiliary boards in right and left field at U.S. Cellular Field (now Rate Field).

References

External links
 Diamond Vision official webpage 

Mitsubishi Electric products, services and standards
Video
CircuiTikZ. CircuiTikZ is a TikZ add-on for typesetting circuit diagrams in a TeX environment such as LaTeX. It was started by Massimo Redaelli in 2007 when he had to create exams at the Polytechnic University of Milan as a research assistant. After he left University in 2010 the project began to stumble. From 2015 on the further development mainly takes place at the Institute for Electronics Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

CircuiTikZ is widely used for publications and books in the academic environment of electronics.

CircuiTikZ is released under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or the GNU General Public License.

See also
PSTricks
 List of TeX extensions

References

External links
CircuiTikZ at GitHub
CircuiTikZ at CTAN
Stackexchange questions tagged circuitikz.

Free TeX software
Macro programming languages
Fixed position assembly. Fixed position assembly refers to an assembly system or situation in which the product does not move while being assembled, this configuration is usually contrasted in operations management and industrial engineering with assembly lines. Dimensioning this system is very simple: considering CP as productive capacity and T as average assembly time, then N, number of working stations, is given by N=CP*T.

Advantages

high system flexibility: both in introducing new products and attaining product customization
high variability in operations naturally lends itself to introducing job enlargement (to the benefit of the worker)
low investment: only "capital" needed are generic worker tools.

Disadvantages

High work in progress
Significant space occupancy
Higher labor costs: workers need to know how to perform all operations of the technological cycle and therefore skilled labor needs to be employed (this is in sharp contrast to the assembly line in which a worker needs almost no training thanks to division of labour being carried to its extreme.

See also

Production systems

Further reading
A. Portioli, A. Pozzetti, Progettazione dei sistemi produttivi, Hoepli 2003

External links
 Boeing being assembled

Industrial processes
Protoflight. Protoflight is a portmanteau of "prototype" and "flight hardware". As defined by NASA Technical Standard NASA-STD-7002A, it refers to a strategy where no test-dedicated qualification article exists and all production (flight) hardware is intended for flight. An example of a program using protoflight methods is the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter project.

A protoflight approach carries a higher technical risk approach compared to a full qualification test program since it has no demonstrated life capability over the anticipated life cycle of the hardware, but is a technology development design process that utilizes higher risk tolerances, agile management practices, and quick responsiveness that are needed for certain prototype flight projects or missions.

Examples
 Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator

References

Aerospace
Vetter Streamliner. The Vetter Streamliner was a feet forwards motorcycle made by Craig Vetter in 1980–1981 to demonstrate high fuel economy with an aerodynamic fairing.

Design
Vetter had been creating his Vetter "Windjammer" fairings for some years before the Streamliner was designed, and created the Craig Vetter Fuel Economy Challenge to heighten interest in aerodynamic-conscious design. Vetter's objective was to surpass the economy of the 1980 mileage contest winner, a conventional Harley-Davidson with tall gearing.

The Streamliner was built around a Kawasaki KZ250 custom touring bike, with foot controls moved to the front. In contest conditions the machine achieved  (125 mpg in best-case conditions), versus the manufacturer's claimed  for the original, unfaired model.

Vetter now considers more than 8–10 hp overpowered, and has said that selecting an engine with the appropriate power output is "critical" for mileage contests.

Influence on industry and legacy
Vetter's streamliner is credited with "inspiring others to push the limits of motorcycle fuel economy", with many other entrants in his mileage challenge and one electric motorcycle modeled after Vetter's original.

The Vetter Streamliner is now on display at the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum in Ohio.

Other Vetter Streamliners
Vetter also created a fairing for a downhill skateboard speed contest in 1978 which bore the name "Vetter Streamliner". It was featured in a 1978 CBS Sports Spectacular broadcast from Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio.

References

Feet forwards motorcycles
Motorcycles of the United States
Streamliner
SSC Space US. SSC Space US, Inc., formerly Universal Space Network, Inc., or USN is an American company specializing in tracking, telemetry, and control of spacecraft.  It is a subsidiary of Swedish Space Corporation, with four main sites and cooperative agreements with many others.
USN has been used by commercial satellite operations such as Sirius XM Radio and scientific missions both in low Earth orbit (such as GALEX) and in orbit around the Moon (such as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter).  USN has offered a 50% discount for their services for competitors for the Google Lunar X Prize.

External links
Universal Space Network (archived) main site.
Integrating a Global TT&C Network Paper from USN about integration with other networks.

References

Deep space networks