omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Air Routing International. Air Routing International (commonly called Air Routing or ARI), was a worldwide provider of international trip support and corporate flight handling since 1978. Air Routing was acquired by Rockwell Collins in January 2010.

Air Routing International was founded by Rudy Fabre, Tom Balousek, and Richard Wilkens in 1978. The founders developed a network of agents in markets throughout the world.

The company's technical platform, Flight Manager, the cornerstone of Air Routing's client interface, was introduced in 1998. Flight Manager, in tandem with Air Routing's staff, is used by flight departments to obtain current flight details on their planned trip.

Air routing has been expanding its service offerings since its inception which, today, include arranging on-board catering, ground transportation, and hotel reservations for business, private, and government flight operations. Air Routing International and its associates, Wilkens Weather, Air Routing Fuel and Air Routing Card Services, maintain its corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas.

Memberships and affiliations 
National Business Aviation Association, Inc. (NBAA)
European Business Aviation Association (EBAA)
Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA)
Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA)

Other flight support providers
Jeppesen
Universal Weather and Aviation

References

Civil aviation
Flight planning
Rod Coutts. Rod (J. Roderick) Coutts is a Canadian entrepreneur and a co-founder of Teklogix International. He was born in Cookstown, Ontario. Coutts graduated from University of Waterloo in 1964 with a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.

In 2000, Coutts donated an estimated $7 million in shares to the University of Waterloo, as his tribute to the school.

"My family has had a lot of good fortune over the years and the University of Waterloo had a lot to do with that," says Coutts. "This is my chance to give something back."
In return for his generosity, the University has named a building after him: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall (commonly referred to as Rod Coutts Hall, or RCH). Since then, Coutts has continued supporting the university by funding bursaries and scholarships.

In 2007, Rod Coutts received his Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.'07).

Teklogix
Coutts was the founder of Teklogix International with four other young entrepreneurs: Lawrie Cragg, Al Vanderburgh, Cliff Bernard and Pete Halsall. The company focused on providing mobile workers with wireless data transmission and real-time data management within the logistics industry. Teklogix became Psion Teklogix in the year 2000, after it was purchased for $544 million (Cdn.) by U.K.-based Psion, started by David Potter.

Coutts met the other Teklogix founders while working at Ferranti International's Canadian division, Ferranti-Packard Electronics. Ferranti-Packard was known for projects related to FP6000 (Ferranti-Packard 6000, which became the ICL 1900), ReserVec, Back Up Interceptor Control (BUIC) for the United States Military, as well as Ferranti-Packard's drum memory systems. He worked closely on drum memory associated with the early warning radar system for North America. Coutts and the rest of the founding group left Ferranti-Packard and formed Teklogix in 1967.

See also
 Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)
 List of University of Waterloo people

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian electrical engineers
Ferranti
Living people
Delta J. The Delta J or Thor-Delta J was an American expendable launch system of the late 1960s. Only one was launched, with the Explorer 38 spacecraft. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets.

The Delta J was derived from the Delta E. The first stage was a Thor missile in the DSV-2C configuration, with three Castor-1 solid rocket boosters clustered around it. A Delta E was used as the second stage. The Altair third stage of the Delta E was replaced with the more powerful Star 37D SRM.

The only Delta J to fly was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 2E on 4 July 1968. It successfully placed the Explorer 38 satellite into medium Earth orbit.

See also 
 Expendable launch system
 PGM-17 Thor
 Delta (rocket family)

References 

Delta (rocket family)
Pitch drop-back. Pitch drop-back is the phenomena by which an aircraft which is perturbed in flight path angle from its trim position by a step input exhibits an output which is indicative of a second order system.

A pilot who actuates an elevator input may find that the aircraft then "droops" or "drops back" to a position further toward the start position.  The phenomenon is particularly marked in tilt-rotor aircraft. Pitch drop-back may be controlled using a Stability Augmentation System or Stability Control and Augmentation System.

See also
 List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical abbreviations
 Index of aviation articles

References

Aerospace engineering
Briegleb BG-6. The Briegleb BG-6 was a 1930s single-seat glider designed by William G. Briegleb to be both factory and homebuilt.

Development
The BG-6 is a high-wing single-seat glider with a steel-tube-and-fabric fuselage, wooden wings with fabric covering and a metal-and-fabric tail. The type certificate was approved on 14 September 1940.

Nine gliders were built by Briegleb's company, the Sailplane Corporation of America, and 67 kits were sold to homebuilders. Three factory-built gliders were impressed into service with the United States Army Air Forces in 1942.

Variants
BG-6
Company designation for both factory and homebuilt aircraft.
XTG-9
United States Army Air Corps designation for three factory built BG-6s which were impressed as training gliders in 1942.

Aircraft on Display
National Soaring Museum - In Storage

Operators

United States Army Air Corps

Specifications (BG-6)

See also
Briegleb El Mirage Airfield

References

Notes

Bibliography

Sailplane Directory

1930s United States sailplanes
Glider aircraft
BG-6
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
High-wing aircraft
Merida Bikes. Merida Industry Co., Ltd (MIC; ) is a Taiwan-based company with R&D headquarters in Germany that designs, manufactures, and markets bicycles globally in over 77 countries. Founded in 1972 by Ike Tseng (1932–2012), the company designs and manufactures over two million bicycles a year at its factories in Taiwan, China, and Germany. After Tseng's death in January 2012, his son Michael Tseng became the company's president.

After making bicycles as an original equipment manufacturer for numerous other brands, the company established its own brand, Merida, in 1988.  The company currently designs and manufactures bicycles primarily for its own brand—and for brands with which it shares financial interest, including the now German brand Centurion.

Merida has been a publicly traded company on the Taiwanese stock exchange since 1992 and is valued as of 2012 at approximately £350 million, making it one of Taiwan's largest companies.

The name Merida derives roughly from the translation of its three syllables měi-lì-dá, which mirror the company's goal to manufacture bikes that enable the customer to reach their destination.

History

The original Merida factory was organized after the Raleigh Nottingham factory as the company began by making Raleigh bikes for the North American market.  Tseng would later develop his own welding robots to meet his production goals.

In 2001, Merida bought 49% of Specialized for a reported US$30 million, with its CEO and founder Mike Sinyard remaining the majority owner.  In the past, Merida manufactured bicycles for companies including Mongoose. In 2007, Merida invested $7 million to renovate its 35-year-old factory in Taichung, without halting production.

Sponsorship
Merida has been co-sponsor of the Multivan Merida Biking Team, with athletes such as José Antonio Hermida and Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå, and of bicycle racing events such as the TransUK and TransWales mountain bike races. Since 2004, the team has been scoring over 30 World Cup wins as well as Olympic gold and silver medals.

In 2013 Merida became co-sponsors of the Pro-Tour Lampre-Merida road racing team and changed to Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling Team in 2017, which is called Team Bahrain Victorious since 2021.

See also
 List of companies of Taiwan
 Rebranding
 Original design manufacturer (ODM)

References

External links

 

Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1972
Cycle manufacturers of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
Multinational companies headquartered in Taiwan
1972 establishments in Taiwan
Mountain bike manufacturers
PCMOS. Probabilistic complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (PCMOS) is a semiconductor manufacturing technology invented by Pr. Krishna Palem of Rice University and Director of NTU's Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE). The technology hopes to compete against current CMOS technology. Proponents claim it uses one thirtieth as much electricity while running seven times faster than the current fastest technology.

PCMOS-based system on a chip architectures were shown to be gains that are as high as a substantial multiplicative factor of 560 when compared to a competing energy-efficient CMOS based realization on applications based on probabilistic algorithms such as hyper-encryption, bayesian networks, random neural networks and probabilistic cellular automata.

References 

Electronic design
Digital electronics
Logic families
Integrated circuits
Delta L. The Delta L, Thor-Delta L, or Thrust-Augmented Long Tank Thor-Delta was a US expendable launch system used to launch the Pioneer E and TETR satellites in 1969 (failed) and HEOS satellite in 1972. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets.

The Delta L was a three-stage rocket. The first stage was a Long Tank Thor, a stretched version of the Thor missile, augmented by three Castor-2 solid rocket boosters. The second stage was the Delta E. An FW-1D solid rocket motor was used as the third stage.

The first launch of the Delta L took place on 27 August 1969, from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A defective valve caused plumbing in the hydraulics system to rupture and leak fluid, causing first-stage engine gimbaling to fail around  minutes into launch. The stage completed its burn successfully, but threw the second stage far off course. Orbital velocity could not be achieved, and Range Safety sent the destruct command at T+383 seconds. Neither the Pioneer E nor the TETR payloads achieved orbit. The second and final Delta L launch was from Space Launch Complex 2E at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, on 31 January 1972. It successfully placed the HEOS-2 satellite into a highly elliptical orbit.

References

Delta (rocket family)
Center for Probing the Nanoscale. The Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN) at Stanford University was founded in 2004 by researchers from Stanford University and IBM. The center is one of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC). The goal of the center is to develop and apply novel nanoprobes that dramatically improve our capability to observe, manipulate, and control nanoscale objects and phenomena. Developed technology will be transferred to industry for commercial implementation. Nanoprobe development and applications are under way in five theme groups, focusing on Individual Nanomagnet Characterization, Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nanoscale Electrical Imaging, Plasmonic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and BioProbes.

Besides the scientific research activities, CPN members actively engage in public outreach programs to bring nanoscale science and technology to a broad and diverse audience. A Summer Institute for Middle School Teachers is held each summer and gives teachers the opportunity to learn about nanotechnology, engage with scientists, develop course material and get hands-on experience in research labs. Nanoprobe lectures and video recordings from various workshops are also available on-line.

External links
National Science Foundation - Consortium of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers

Stanford University
National Science Foundation
Nanotechnology institutions
2004 establishments in California
Delta M. The Delta M or Thor-Delta M was an American expendable launch system used for thirteen orbital launches between 1968 and 1971. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets.

The Delta M had a three-stage configuration. The first stage was the Long Tank Thor, a stretched version of the Thor missile, previously flown on the Delta L. Three Castor-2 solid rocket boosters were attached to the first stage to increase thrust at lift-off. A Delta E was used as the second stage, and the third stage was a Star-37D solid rocket motor. On the final flight, six boosters were flown instead of three, in a configuration known as the Delta M6, or "Super Six."

All thirteen launches were made from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The first launch carrying Intelsat III F-1 on 18 September 1968, was a complete failure when the first stage began suffering abnormal pitch gyrations starting at T+20 seconds. The booster maintained a stable attitude until around T+100 seconds when it pitched over and began to break up from structural loads. As the Delta was also headed back towards land, Range Safety Officer sent the destruct signal at T+108 seconds. It was bound for a Geostationary transfer orbit above the Atlantic Ocean and be in operation in time to relay broadcasts of the next month's 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

The fifth launch on 25 July 1969, Intelsat III F-5 suffered a rupture of either the third stage casing or nozzle and ended up in an unusable orbit. Of the thirteen launches, twelve carried geosynchronous communications satellites. The thirteenth, which was the final flight and the only one in the Delta-M6 configuration, placed Explorer 43 into a highly elliptical orbit.

References 

Delta (rocket family)
Differential stress. Differential stress is the difference between the greatest and the least compressive stress experienced by an object. For both the geological and civil engineering convention   is the greatest compressive stress and  is the weakest,

.

In other engineering fields and in physics,  is the greatest compressive stress and  is the weakest, so

.

These conventions originated because geologists and civil engineers (especially soil mechanicians) are often concerned with failure in compression, while many other engineers are concerned with failure in tension. A further reason for the second convention is that it allows a positive stress to cause a compressible object to increase in size, making the sign convention self-consistent.

In structural geology, differential stress is used to assess whether tensile or shear failure will occur when a Mohr circle (plotted using  and ) touches the failure envelope of the rocks. If the differential stress is less than four times the tensile strength of the rock, then extensional failure will occur. If the differential stress is more than four times the tensile strength of the rock, then shear failure will occur.

Differential stress at any point in the Earth is limited by the strength of the rock itself - any attempt to increase the differential stress above the ultimate rock strength will lead to deformation. Tectonic stress adds to the total differential stress in a rock - when a rock deforms by brittle fracturing, its strength will change and differential stress is reduced. Therefore, both rock strength and overburden of crust are able to alter the differential stress.

References

Tectonics
Uranyl carbonate. Uranyl carbonate refers to the inorganic compound with the formula UO2CO3. Also known by its mineral name rutherfordine, this material consists of uranyl (UO22+) and carbonate (CO32-). Like most uranyl salts, the compound is a polymeric, each uranium(VI) center being bonded to eight O atoms.  Hydrolysis products of rutherfordine are also found in both the mineral and organic fractions of coal and its fly ash and is the main component of uranium in mine tailing seepage water.



Uranyl carbonates as a class of materials
Many uranyl carbonates exist, rutherfordine being the simplest stoichiometry. Most uranyl carbonates additional components including water and diverse anions and cations.  

A common method for concentrating uranium from a solution uses solutions of uranyl carbonates, which are passed through a resin bed where the complex ions are transferred to the resin by ion exchange with a negative ion like chloride. After build-up of the uranium complex on the resin, the uranium is eluted with a salt solution and the uranium is precipitated in another process.

Uranyl carbonate minerals 
Uranyl carbonates include:
Andersonite (hydrated sodium calcium uranyl carbonate)
Astrocyanite-(Ce) (hydrated copper cerium neodymium lanthanum praseodymium samarium calcium yttrium uranyl carbonate hydroxide)
Bayleyite (hydrated magnesium uranyl carbonate)
Bijvoetite-(Y) (hydrated yttrium dysprosium uranyl carbonate hydroxide)
Fontanite (hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate)
Grimselite (hydrated potassium sodium uranyl carbonate)
Joliotite (hydrated uranyl carbonate)
Liebigite (hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate)
Mckelveyite-(Y) (hydrated barium sodium calcium uranium yttrium carbonate)
Metazellerite (hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate)
Rabbittite (hydrated calcium magnesium uranyl carbonate hydroxide)
Roubaultite (copper uranyl carbonate oxide hydroxide)
Rutherfordine (uranyl carbonate)
Schröckingerite (hydrated sodium calcium uranyl sulfate carbonate fluoride)
Shabaite (hydrated copper cerium neodymium lanthanum praseodymium samarium calcium yttrium uranyl carbonate hydroxide)
Sharpite (hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate hydroxide)
Swartzite (hydrated calcium magnesium uranyl carbonate)
Voglite (hydrated calcium copper uranyl carbonate)
Wyartite (hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate hydroxide)
Widenmannite (lead uranyl carbonate)
Zellerite (hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate)
Znucalite (hydrated calcium zinc uranyl carbonate hydroxide)

References 

Uranyl compounds
Carbonates
Nuclear materials
Point of delivery (networking). A point of delivery, or PoD, is "a module of network, compute, storage, and application components that work together to deliver networking services. The PoD is a repeatable design pattern, and its components maximize the modularity, scalability, and manageability of data centers."

The modular design principle has been applied to telephone and data networks, for instance through a repeatable node design describing the configuration of equipment housed in point of presence facilities. The term is similarly used in cable video networks, to describe the modular component that delivers video service to a subscriber. The distinction of a PoD versus other design patterns is that it is a deployable module which delivers a service.

The PoD design pattern is especially important in service provider infrastructure, for instance in datacenters supporting cloud computing services, in order to sustain scalability as usage grows.

References

Network architecture
Software design patterns
Systems engineering
Hoa Cam Concrete. Hoa Cam Concrete JSC (CTCP Bê tông Hoà Cầm; HASTC:HCC) is a construction materials company in Vietnam, specializing in the manufacture and distribution of concrete, cement, sand and stone. It has participated in major construction projects including hydropower plants, electricity transmission networks and office buildings.  Hoa Cam is located in Da Nang and its main markets are Da Nang Province, Quảng Nam Province and Dung Quat Economic Zone of the South Central Coast region. It is listed on the Hanoi Securities Trading Center.

See also
Gravel
Gravel pit
Sand mining
List of companies in Vietnam

References
See External links.

External links
Hoa Cam Concrete official site
Google finance, Hoa Cam Concrete JSC

Companies listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange
Cement companies of Vietnam
Vietnamese brands
Da Nang
Super Tokkyū. is the name given to the concept of building new high-speed narrow gauge () railway lines in Japan to extend the Shinkansen network of high-speed lines.

No Super Tokkyū routes have actually been built.

Concept
The Super Tokkyū concept involves building new narrow-gauge lines along the routes of planned Shinkansen lines. All infrastructure would be built to high-speed Shinkansen standards, including its wider loading gauge, 4,000 m minimum curve radius, and total grade separation, with the ability to convert the lines to  in the future. Although they would be slower than regular Shinkansen trains, they would have a speed of more than  , enabling some reductions in journey times to be achieved, and total construction expenditure could be spread over a longer period, with travel times gradually reduced as more sections are completed.

The ultimate goal is eventual conversion to standard-gauge Shinkansen track once the entire line is completed, but with gauge change trains (GCTs), it may be possible in the future to upgrade these sections to full Shinkansen specifications even while inter-operation with conventional lines remains in place.

Proposals
In 1991, the Super Tokkyū concept was formally planned to be used as part of the following three Shinkansen extensions:

 Kyushu Shinkansen southern section between Yatsushiro and Nishi-Kagoshima
 Tohoku Shinkansen extension between Morioka and Hakodate through the Seikan Tunnel
 Hokuriku Shinkansen extension beyond Nagano
These schemes were subsequently constructed to full Shinkansen specification lines.

The West Kyushu Shinkansen route to Nagasaki was also initially proposed as a Super Tokkyū line from Takeo-Onsen. However, after construction commenced the proposal changed to incorporate GCTs, resulting in the Takeo Onsen to Nagasaki section (subsequently opened in March 2023) being constructed as standard gauge lines. The service is proposed by GCTs using the Hakata to Shin-Tosu section of the Kyushu Shinkansen, then the narrow gauge line to Takeo Onsen, then the new West Kyushu Shinkansen line for the final section of the trip.

See also
 Gauge Change Train, an experimental train designed to operate on both narrow-gauge and standard-gauge routes
 Mini-shinkansen, the concept of converting narrow-gauge lines to standard gauge for use by Shinkansen trains

References

Shinkansen
Khurais oil field. Khurais oil field () is an oil field in Saudi Arabia that went online on June 10, 2009, adjacent to the world's largest, the Ghawar trend. The Khurais field, with an area of 2,890 km2 and 127 km long, is located about 250 km southwest of Dhahran and 150 km east-northeast of Riyadh. Pilot-scale production at Khurais began in 1963, but the field was never fully developed.

Khurais Megaproject
A project to develop this field along with Abu Jifan and Mazalij oil fields is called the Khurais Megaproject. The project began in 2006, is led by Halliburton for wells drilling, Snamprogetti for crude and utilities, Hyundai for gas. It is expected to cost $3 billion, and is expected to increase Saudi Arabia's export capacity from 11.3 to 12.5 million bpd. It will produce Arabian light crude, as well as 315 million scfd of sour gas for Shedgum Gas Plant and 70,000 bpd of Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) for Yanbu Gas Plant.

The remote oil complex is served by Khurais Airport, which provides air service for personnel commuting on a weekly basis from the Dammam area.

See also

2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack

References

External links
Khurais Megaproject
Saudi Aramco website.
map of oil and gas infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

 
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Oil fields of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Aramco oil and gas fields