omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ice formation on aircraft. "Ice Formation on Aircraft" was the first issue in the Aerology Series produced by the Bureau of Aeronautics Training Division, Navy Department, Washington D.C.

The issue does not credit a single author or artist for the work, as the manual is meant for training purposes and was provided to Naval Aviation Cadets.

This issue of Ice Formation on Aircraft was published in 1943.

Physical 
The first issue of Ice Formation on Aircraft cover features an aircraft flying in a straight line under the title, which references one of the purveying points within the issue to "maintain your flying speed".

The cover is a gradient variation of blue to white. The cover also features the insignia of the naval aviators, which is a set of wings behind an anchor and a United States flag on a shield. All of the inner pages are printed in black and white and combine illustrations with instructional text. The manual also has two holes punched through it in order for it to be placed into a binder or bound in some fashion with the other manuals in the series once they were received. The manual states on the very first page that it, plus the other issues in the series, once bound together will make a “complete text on Aerology”.

Content 
The issue features 40 pages. Within those 40 pages there are illustrations along with technical instructions detailing the formation of ice on aircraft. Each section of the manual deals with a type of ice and its ramifications for aircraft. The illustrations for the manual feature flight patterns during different types of icy weather as well as images that depict ice build up on essential aircraft parts such as the carburetor  The end of the manual features a summary section and another section entitled “Pilot counsel”.  The text also features a glossary section that defines some of the terms used throughout. 
Unlike some of the later releases by the Bureau of Aeronautics Training Division, such as the Sense series, this series featured less of an entertainment element for the readers. Even "Taxi Sense", an issue of the Sense series made for the same audience of navy aviators featured many more humorous illustrations than "Ice Formation on Aircraft". This issue only features one cartoonish drawing without dialogue, whereas the Sense manuals contain numerous funny illustrations for the reader.

Film adaptation 
"Ice formation on aircraft" was made into a short film of the same name in 1960 for instructional use. The film was produced by Walt E. Disney. The animated version of the issue is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. The video features some of the very same illustrations featured within the physical manual, but provides detailed animations showing the formation of ice and appropriate flight patterns when certain types of ice are encountered. The film is 48 minutes in length and in black and white. The animated film, much like the individual issue are less for entertainment and more based on the delivery of instructional training information.

References 

Water ice
Aviation safety
Interface (journal). Interface (also known as The Electrochemical Society Interface) is a quarterly open access scientific journal published by the Electrochemical Society covering developments in electrochemistry and solid-state chemistry, as well as news and information about and for members of the society.

History 
The journal was established in 1992, because the Journal of the Electrochemical Society became a purely technical publication. The new publication was intended to provide members with information on matters affecting their society interests. The first issue was published in the Winter of 1992, with a cover that featured Nobel Laureate Rudolph Marcus, who learned of his winning the prize while at the ECS fall meeting in Toronto.

Indexing and abstracting
The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:

References

External links 
 

Electrochemistry journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1992
Electrochemical Society academic journals
Ned Lerner. Edward Lerner, or Ned Lerner, is a video game programmer and technology project leader in the video game industry.

Career 
In 1983 he founded Lerner Research (a 3D simulation development company) which was responsible for Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, Deep Space, Ultima Underworld, F-22 Interceptor, and also created the first 3D system licensed by Electronic Arts.

He later co-founded Blue Sky Productions (later Looking Glass Studios), filling the roles of Chairman of the Board, Chief Operating Officer, and VP Product Development. During this time, he led the development of more 3D simulation and entertainment software, such as Flight Unlimited, System Shock, Links Pro, John Madden Football '93, and Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds.

In 1997, he co-founded Multitude, an Internet gaming multiplayer startup that created FireTeam, the first real-time internet team game with full voice conferencing. The full voice functionality was spun off into a standalone product called FireTalk.

Ned later went on to work at Venture FireFighters, and Electronic Arts (as Chief Technology Officer).

Ned previously worked for Sony Computer Entertainment America, Director of Tools & Technology. In this role he was involved in the development of games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Portable.

References 

20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chief technology officers
Video game designers
Video game programmers
Upper Karnali Hydropower Project. The Upper Karnali Storage Hydropower Project is a proposed run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Karnali river in Nepal. It will have an installed capacity of 900 MW, making it the largest hydropower plant in Nepal when achieved. However, most of the generated power is set to be exported to both Bangladesh (about 500 MW) and India (another 292 MW), via a 400 kV double circuit transmission line, with the only remaining 108 MW of total power dedicated to local consumption.

First planned in the 1990s as a smaller-scale 240 MW facility, the current 900 MW design was approved in 2008. A much larger 4,180 MW generation eventuality was identified on the same site during the feasibility studies, but this option was not selected. As of February 2020, the Power Purchase Agreement was hoped to be signed within 3 months, which might give a boost to the long-delayed project.

The expected cost of the dam is US$1.5 billion, partly funded by the Asian Development Bank, and its construction should employ an estimated 3,000 workers during 5 years.

References

Hydroelectric power stations in Nepal
Proposed hydroelectric power stations
Gravity dams
Run-of-the-river power stations
Dams in Nepal
Proposed renewable energy power stations in Nepal
Sri Vasavi Engineering College. Sri Vasavi Engineering College is an educational institution in Tadepalligudem, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, A.P. and is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and also accredited by NBA. The college has a campus of  25 acres located at Pedatadepalli, 5 km from town of Tadepalligudem.

Now, it also acts as temporary campus for National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh situated in Tadepalligudem.

Admissions
Admissions are made on par with other Colleges of Engineering and Technology in the State of Andhra Pradesh through the Common Entrance Test EAPCET conducted by the state government. While 70% of the seats allotted are based on merit in EAPCET, 30% of the seats are earmarked for Management Quota.

Academics
The B.tech Programs offered are:

Mechanical engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Computer Science and Technology

References

External links
 Official Website

Engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh
Universities and colleges in West Godavari district
Educational institutions established in 2001
2001 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Vector NTI. Vector NTI was a commercial bioinformatics software package used by many life scientists in the early 2000s to work, among other things, with nucleic acids and proteins in silico. It allowed researchers to, for example, plan a DNA cloning experiment on the computer before actually performing it in the lab.

It was originally created by InforMax Inc, North Bethesda, MD in 1993 and versions in the early 2000s were well reviewed at the time. However, in 2008 it was locked and turned into a commercial software after 2008 which created problems for locked in users who were forced to buy the software to continue accessing their data on newer computers. What was previously a single software package was subsequently split into Vector NTI Express, Advanced, and Express Designer.

Vector NTI was discontinued by its corporate parent Thermo Fisher at the end of 2019 and support ceased a year later.

Features 

 create, annotate, analyse, and share DNA/protein sequences
 perform and save BLAST searches
 design primers for PCR, cloning, sequencing or hybridisation experiments
 plan cloning and run gels in silico
 align multiple protein or DNA sequences
 search NCBI's Entrez, view, and save DNAs, proteins, and citations
 edit chromatogram data, assemble into contigs

See also 

 Bioinformatics
 Cloning vector
 Computational biology
 Expression vector
 List of open source bioinformatics software
 Restriction map
 Vector (molecular biology)
 Vector DNA

References

External links 

Description of software
 Vector NTI homepage at Invitrogen.com
 Vector NTI at openwetware.org
 Vector NTI v10 (only PC)

Tutorials
 Vector NTI tutorial at NorthWestern.edu
 
 

Other
 description of Vector NTI Viewer

Bioinformatics software
Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern (born August 9, 1956 in Mittweida, East Germany) is a German Process Engineer. He is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.

Education & professional career  
Seidel-Morgenstern graduated from Technische Hochschule Leuna-Merseburg and received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1987. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville he defended a Habilitation at Technische Universität Berlin in 1994. Subsequently he worked for Schering AG in Berlin, before becoming in 1995 Professor of Chemical Process Engineering at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. In 2002 he was appointed as a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, where he is head of the “Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering” group.

Major research interests 
Seidel-Morgenstern's research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, adsorption and preparative chromatography, crystallization and the development of new reactor concepts. The results of his work are published in more than 400 research papers. Specifically, the following topics are being investigated in his department:
New Reactor Concepts
Chromatographic Reactors
Membrane Reactors
Heterogeneous catalysis
Adsorption and Preparative chromatography
Crystallization
Separation of Enantiomers

Awards &  honors (selection)

Publications (selection) 
Journal and Book Contributions, Patents

External links 
 Website at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
 Website at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (in German)

References 

1956 births
Living people
People from Mittweida
People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
German chemical engineers
Academic staff of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Engineers from Saxony
Max Planck Institute directors
DHR D Class. The DHR D Class was a  gauge  Garratt-type articulated steam locomotive used on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) in West Bengal, India.

Service history
The sole member of the class was built by Beyer, Peacock & Company, Manchester, England in 1910, and entered service the following year, as no. 31 in the DHR fleet.  Its basic dimensions were designed to be roughly equivalent to those of two of the DHR's existing B Class  engines, with the intention that it would produce approximately double the power of those engines. However, in practice it was only able to haul 65% more load than a single B Class unit.

Although the DHR did not acquire any further articulated locomotives, no. 31 remained in service until November 1954.

See also

Rail transport in India#History
Indian Railways
Locomotives of India
Rail transport in India

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Beyer, Peacock locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1911
Steam locomotives of India
0-4-0+0-4-0 locomotives
2 ft gauge locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Garratt locomotives
Individual locomotives
Individual locomotives of India
Saraswati River (Uttarakhand). Saraswati River is a tributary of Alaknanda River flowing in Uttarakhand State, India. It joins Alaknanda River at Keshav Prayag, near Mana village, Badrinath. The confluence of 
rivers Alaknanda and Bhagirathi at Devprayag in the state of Uttarakhand, forms and flows as river Ganga or the Ganges from the point forward. 
A natural stone bridge, named Bhim Pul, lays across the flowing Saraswati river, making a passage towards Vasudhara falls and Satopanth Lake. Many locals believe that Bhim Pul is a rock bridge founded by Bhima of Mahabharatha, to help Draupadi cross the rivulet.

References

Rivers of Uttarakhand
Geography of Chamoli district
List of University of Surrey academics. A list of University of Surrey academics, includes those who work or have worked at the University of Surrey, including a brief description of their notability.

Science and engineering
 Alf Adams – physicist who pioneered the strained quantum-well laser
 Jim Al-Khalili – nuclear physicist, author and broadcaster
 Lewis Elton – physicist and researcher into higher education
 Sir Martin Sweeting – founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
 Allan Wells – Olympic 100m gold medalist; engineering lecturer
 Henryk Zygalski – mathematician, cryptologist and breaker of the Enigma Machine
 Max Lu – chemical engineer and nanotechnologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey as at 2024.

Humanities and social science
 Sara Arber – sociologist
 Martyn Barrett – psychologist and lead expert for the Council of Europe's Education Policy Advisers Network
 David Blanchflower – economist and member of the Monetary Policy Committee
 Dame Glynis Breakwell – psychologist
 Marie Breen Smyth – international relations scholar
 Bonnie Buchanan – professor in sustainable fintech
 Greville G Corbett - distinguished professor of linguistics
 Nigel Gilbert – sociologist, pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences	
 Tim Jackson – ecological economist; professor of sustainable development; author of Prosperity Without Growth
 Diane Watt — medievalist 
 Roberta Guerrina – political scientist
 Lionel Haward — father of British forensic psychology

Health and Medical Sciences 
 Derk-Jan Dijk - Distinguished Professor of Sleep and Physiology, Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre
 Jill Maben - Nurse academic and educator
  James Michael Lynch - Microbiologist

See also
 List of University of Surrey alumni

References

 
Surrey
USA-258. USA-258, also known as GPS IIF-8, GPS SVN-69 and NAVSTAR 72, is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System. It was the eighth of twelve Block IIF satellites to be launched.

Launch 
Built by Boeing and launched by United Launch Alliance, USA-258 was launched at 17:21 UTC on 29 October 2014, atop an Atlas V 401 carrier rocket, vehicle number AV-050. The launch took place from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and placed USA-258 directly into medium Earth orbit.

Orbit 
As of 29 October 2014, USA-258 was in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , a period of 729.56 minutes, and 55.00 degrees of inclination to the equator. It is used to broadcast the PRN 03 signal, and operates in slot 1 of plane E of the GPS constellation. The satellite has a design life of 15 years and a mass of .
 It is currently in service following commissioning on December 12, 2014.

References 

Spacecraft launched in 2014
GPS satellites
USA satellites
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets
Gordon M. Kaufman. Gordon M. Kaufman is Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014. The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences appointed him as the Distinguished Lecturer for 2015.

In 1985 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Education
BS in industrial and electrical engineering, Yale University (where he was a business associate of campus humor magazine The Yale Record)
MBA Harvard University
DBA Harvard University

Selected books
Gordon M. Kaufman (2011), Risk Analysis: From Prospect to Exploration Portfolio and Back.  Nabu Press, 66 p.
Gordon M. Kaufman, Patrick J. Lee (1992), Are Wildcat Well Outcomes Dependent Or Independent?, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 p.
Giovanni Andreatta, Gordon M. Kaufman (1990), Software Reliability Modeling and Exponential Order Statistics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 45 p.
Eytan Barouch, Gordon M. Kaufman (1976), Oil and Gas Discovery Modelled as Sampling Proportional to Random Size, M.I.T. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 63 p.
Eytan Barouch, Gordon M. Kaufman (1976), On Sums of Lognormal Random Variables, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 42 p.
Gordon M. Kaufman (1963), Statistical decision and related techniques in oil and gas exploration. Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Series, Prentice Hall, 307 p.

References

Living people
Yale University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Year of birth missing (living people)
Air Magic Ultralights. Air Magic Ultralights was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Houston, Texas. When it existed the company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft.

In the late 1990s, the company produced both the Spitfire designed by Fred Bell and the Spitfire II two seater. Both designs were constructed from bolted aluminium tubing covered in Dacron fabric.

By 1998, the company reported that it had delivered a total of 582 aircraft.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Houston
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Yamaha R-MAX. The Yamaha R-MAX is a Japanese unmanned helicopter developed by the Yamaha Motor Company in the 1990s. The gasoline-powered aircraft has a two-bladed rotor and is remote-controlled by a line-of-sight user. It was designed primarily for agricultural use, and is capable of precise aerial spraying of crops. The R-MAX has been used in Japan and abroad for agriculture and a variety of other roles, including aerial surveys, reconnaissance, disaster response and technology development.

Development
The Yamaha R-MAX and its predecessor, the Yamaha R-50, were developed in the 1990s in response to demand in the Japanese market for aerial agricultural spraying. Fixed-wing manned crop dusters had been in use in Japan for many years, but the small size of most Japanese farms meant that this method was inefficient.  Manned helicopters were sometimes used for spraying, but were very expensive. The R-MAX allowed much more precise small-scale spraying, at a lower cost and lower risk than manned aircraft. The R-MAX was approved for operation in the United States by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2015.

Operational history
, the R-MAX fleet has conducted over two million hours of flying time in agricultural roles and several other capacities, including aerial sensing, photography, academic research, and military applications.

Volcano observation
In the spring of 2000, the Japanese government requested the use of an R-MAX to observe the eruption of Mount Usu, which had been dormant for 22 years, as close observation of the volcano was deemed too dangerous for manned helicopters. The R-MAX allowed scientific observers to spot and measure build-ups of volcanic ash which would have otherwise been missed, and improved the observers' ability to predict  hazardous volcanic mudslides.

Fukushima nuclear disaster
Yamaha R-MAXs were used in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami to monitor radiation levels around the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster from inside the "no-entry" zone.

Research
The R-MAX has been used by several universities worldwide for guidance and automatic control research. In 2002, Georgia Tech's UAV Research Facility began using a Yamaha R-MAX for research into autonomous aerial guidance, navigation, and control systems. Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California Berkeley, UC Davis and Virginia Tech have also used R-MAX units for research.

Variants
In May 2014, Yamaha partnered with the American defense firm Northrop Grumman to produce the fully autonomous R-Bat variant of the R-MAX which they see having military and civilian applications.

Specifications (R-MAX)

References

Unmanned helicopters
Unmanned aerial vehicles of Japan
Agricultural robotics
Airborne military robots
Helicopter Training School. Helicopter Training School (HTS) is an institution of Indian Air Force located at Hyderabad. It was established at Air Force Station Palam on 2 April 1962. It is one of the largest helicopter units of IAF.

Training 
Apart from training helicopter pilots for the Air Force, the Helicopter Training School also trains pilots of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and other friendly countries.

The Helicopter Training School located in Air Force Station Hakimpet has about 40 types of helicopters, and on an average, 15 to 20 helicopters fly everyday as part of training to officers.

Participation in relief work 
HTS participated in relief works during floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and air-dropped food and other essential supplies.

See also
 Indian National Defence University
 Military Academies in India
 Sainik school

References 

Indian Air Force