omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Mark B. Barron. Mark B. Barron (born Mark Bowen; 1958) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder of Public Transportation Safety International Corporation (PTS), which invented and produces the S-1 Gard Dangerzone Deflector for transit buses and the Minimize Danger Zone (MDZ) Shield for school buses.

Early life
Mark Barron was born in San Diego, California.  At the age of five, he and his family relocated to Los Angeles, CA.  His parents were divorced by the time he was eleven years old; subsequently, he was sent to reform school.

Professional life
Barron is who invented and patented the Chemo Cap, a therapeutic hypothermic device, in 1979. The Chemo Cap was designed to prevent alopecia from chemotherapy treatment by freezing the scalp and decreasing blood flow to areas of hair growth during administration of the drug. While success was initially limited, more recent "cold caps" have recently achieved more widespread adoption and shown success rates of 80 to 90 percent with certain chemotherapy regimens, in addition to helping prevent cerebral palsy in babies, providing neuroprotection after cardiac arrest, inhibiting stroke paralysis, and as cryotherapy for migraine headaches.

In subsequent years, he launched ventures in long distance telecommunications and legal referral consulting.

Public Transportation Safety Int'l Corp.
In 1994, Barron invented the S-1 Gard Dangerzone Deflector and founded Public Transportation Safety International.  The S-1 Gard is a device installed in front of the dual right rear wheels of transit buses, engineered to deflect a person out of the path of the wheels, preventing injury or death.  It is currently installed on bus fleets in major cities such as Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago and Baltimore.

In 2010, PTS launched the MDZ Shield as an alternative to the S-1 Gard for school buses.

Bel Air X
Bel Air X is a on-demand telepresent service application which utilizes personal assistants who will go to stores or merchants and purchase items for consumers.  Bel Air X is unique in that the personal assistant can transmit images of the items via an imaging capturing device from the store to the consumer so they can see what the item looks like as if the consumer was actually there in-person. The assistant can also show other similar products to the consumer if they prefer to make product substitutions.

Personal life
In 2005, Barron purchased the home of music producer Quincy Jones in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. The home was previously occupied by singer Connie Francis, and later singer Julio Iglesias, who made it famous in 1984 by naming his multi-platinum album 1100 Bel Air Place after the home.  
In 2010, Mark Bowen legally changed his name to Mark Bowen Barron.

References

External links
 Mark B. Barron (Personal Site)
 S-1 GARD (Official Site)
 MDZ Shield (Official Site)
 Consumeron (Official Site)

1958 births
20th-century American inventors
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Living people
People from Bel Air, Los Angeles
RABe 520. The RABe 520 is an electric multiple unit used since 2002 by the Swiss Federal Railways. It is based on the Stadler GTW 2/8 model.

Features 

The drive module at the middle of the train is able to develop a power of 760 kW, making it able to travel at . The RABe 520 is slightly different from the standard Stadler GTW model: it has a greater capacity, a narrower body and an increased number of doors.

Service 

As a quite small train, the RABe 520 is used on regional and S-Bahn lines.
It was first designed for the Seetalbahn line between Lenzburg and Luzern, and was also used on lines from and to both locations. The RABe 520 gradually saw use on other lines.
As of 2010, it can be seen on these routes :
 S-Bahn Luzern :
 Luzern - Lenzburg (S9)
 Luzern - Brunnen (S3)
 S-Bahn Aargau :
 Lenzburg – Zofingen (S28)
 Lenzburg/Othmarsingen – Rotkreuz (S26)
 Aarau - Turgi

See also 
List of stock used by Swiss Federal Railways
Thurbo

Notes and references 

Multiple units of Switzerland
Train-related introductions in 2002
Stadler Rail multiple units
15 kV AC multiple units
H. Chr. J. Borchgrevink. Henrik Christian Juell Borchgrevink (20 March 1891 – 15 June 1967) was a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Skien as a son of chief engineer Axel Juell Borchgrevink (1838–1902) and Laura Karoline Simonine Thorbjørnsen (1848–1899), and younger brother of civil servant Fredrik Grüner Borchgrevink. In 1919 he married Minnie Schibbye, a daughter of factory manager Gustav Leonard Adolf Schibbye. He was the father of physician Christian Fredrik Borchgrevink.

He finished his secondary education in 1909 and graduated in machine engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1914. He worked various engineer jobs until 1917, when he became technical inspector in the insurance company Norske Lloyd. From 1921 he was an engineer in the company Vogt & Vogt.

He was elected to Oslo city council in 1937, and was later drafted into the executive committee. He was a board and supervisory council member of Oslo Conservative Party. He chaired Brannstyret in Oslo for twenty years until 1965, and also a board member of the Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies from 1939 to 1946, Den Norske Brand-Tarifforening, Oslo Lysverker and council member of the Norwegian Fire Protection Association.

He was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1965. He died in June 1967.

References

1891 births
1967 deaths
Politicians from Skien
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
20th-century Norwegian engineers
Politicians from Oslo
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in gold
Historical Metallurgy Society. The Historical Metallurgy Society is a British learned society providing an international forum for exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy. It was founded as the Historical Metallurgy Group in 1963. All aspects of the history of metals and associated materials are covered from prehistory to the present, from processes and production through technology and economics to archaeology and conservation.

The Historical Metallurgy Society origins were partly a response to the damage and destruction of many historically important metallurgical sites. Conservation, research and protection remain important parts of the society’s role.

Each year the society holds a two-day conference (usually in the United Kingdom) with a program of papers covering a particular area of metallurgical interest. In addition to this, it also runs other day meetings.

The Historical Metallurgy Society publishes Historical Metallurgy an internationally recognised peer-reviewed journal, published annually in two parts. The society also issues a newsletter The Crucible three times a year, and has published edited collections based on the papers given at several of its conferences in an Occasional Papers series.

The Historical Metallurgy Society is a company limited by guarantee (no. 1442508) and a registered charity (no. 279314).

Notable Members

Jack Nutting
Ronald F. Tylecote

References

External links
The Historical Metallurgy Society

History of metallurgy
Learned societies of the United Kingdom
Metallurgical organizations
Circa Reproductions Morane Saulnier N. The Circa Reproductions Morane Saulnier N, also called the Bullet, is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Graham Lee and produced by Circa Reproductions, of Surrey, British Columbia. The aircraft is supplied as plans for amateur construction.

The aircraft is a 90% scale replica of the First World War French Morane-Saulnier N fighter.

Design and development
The aircraft features a cable-braced mid-wing, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with  plywood fuselage formers and stringers, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing has an area of . Standard engines recommended are the  Rotax 503 and the  Hirth 2704 two-stroke. The  Volkswagen air-cooled engine four-stroke powerplant can be used, but the requirement for a smaller diameter propeller reduces performance.

Specifications (Morane Saulnier N)

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Penspen. Penspen has been providing engineering, project management, asset management, and integrity services to the energy industry worldwide for over 70 years. Originally founded in the UK in 1954 as Spencer & Partners, the company has now grown to include over 1,100 employees, with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Latin America, and The United States. 

The company has conducted the front-end engineering design for the Greece–Italy and Nabucco pipelines, feasibility studies for the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline and Azerbaijan–Georgia–Romania Interconnector, developed integrity policies and procedures for Pemex.

In 2007–2012, Penspen in cooperation with Manchester Jetline and Newcastle University researched the feasibility of using trained dogs to detect leaks in pipelines.

References

Engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Energy engineering and contractor companies
Susan Gerhart. Susan Gerhart is a semi-retired computer scientist.

Education
Susan Gerhart received her BA in Mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University, her MS in Communication Sciences from University of Michigan, and her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She completed her thesis "Verification of APL Programs" in 1972 under thesis advisor Donald W. Loveland. She credited Sputnik with having inspired her to study science.

Career

Teaching
She has taught software engineering and computer science at Toronto, Duke University, Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

She established a project to develop curricula to increase security in aviation-oriented computing education. This project produced several papers and modules, including one on buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Her other publications include "Toward a theory of test data selection", "An International Survey of Industrial Applications of Formal Methods. Volume 2. Case Studies", and "Do Web search engines suppress controversy?".

Systers
In 1987 Gerhart was one of the founding members of Systers, the oldest and largest mailing list for women in computing.

Macular Degeneration Advocacy
Having been personally impacted by macular degeneration, she maintains the "As Your World Changes" blog on using technology, including podcasts, to overcome vision loss. In 2009 she spoke at the IEEE conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation on "The Disability/Mobility Challenge: Formulating Criteria for Testing Accessibility and Usability".

References

External links
 As Your World Changes blog
 John Udell's Interviews with Innovators podcast with Susan Gerhart

American computer scientists
Living people
American women computer scientists
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
2.5D (disambiguation). 2.5D is a computer graphics term for creating the impression of a three-dimensional scene without using full 3D rendering.

2.5D may also refer to:

2.5D (machining), a technique used in machining to project a plane into a third dimension
2.5D (visual perception), an effect in visual perception where the 3D environment of the observer is projected onto the 2D planes of the retinas
A non-integer dimension in mathematics; see Hausdorff dimension
A categorization of 3D platform games where the flow of the gameplay is linear and constrained mostly to a plane
2.5D integrated circuit: multiple integrated circuit (IC) dies interconnected on an interposer in a single package
2.5D musical: a genre of Japanese theatre featuring anime, manga, and video games with use of projection mapping
2.5D in shallow geophysics refers to closely-spaced, parallel 2D profiles of data or subsurface models

See also
2.5 (disambiguation)
Thorp T-5. The Boeing T-5 or Thorp T-5 was a student-built aircraft that was designed by John Thorp for the Boeing School of Aeronautics.

Design and development
The T-5 was an all-metal, side-by-side configuration, low-wing, conventional landing gear-equipped aircraft. The prototype was test flown in 1939 by Eddie Allen.

Variants

T-5
Taildragger prototype
T-6
Tricycle gear conversion of the T-5 with a Lycoming engine.

Specifications (T-5)

References

External links

Single-engined tractor aircraft
Trainer aircraft
Boeing aircraft
T-005
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
Mohamed Abdou. Mohamed Abdou () is an Egyptian nuclear theoretical engineer and the current director of both the Fusion Science and Technology Center and the Center for Energy Science & Technology Advanced Research.

Study 
Abdou graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University in 1967. He took his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1971 and in 1973 his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Area of research 
Abdou's research involves theory, modeling, experiments, design, and analysis of fusion nuclear reactor blanket for tritium breeding. The research includes both basic and applied research of lack of feasibility. The general area of application is fusion engineering with special emphasis on. The focus of the basic research has been on uncovering, understanding, and modeling of basic phenomena related to the responses of solids and fluids to the fusion environment. The applied research has aimed to: a) develop predictive capability, b) identify engineering scaling laws for fusion testing facilities, and c) conceptualize and develop innovative designs for components of fusion nuclear technology and fusion reactors.

Publications 
He has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, plus over 140 publications in conference proceedings, and over 60 topical reports on fusion nuclear technology, heat transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, tritium production and processing, particle transport, radiation protection, materials, thermomechanical applications, and renewable energy sources. Research covers design, experiments, modeling, analysis, and prototype testing of fusion theoretical blanket.  Several publications on technical planning of research and development for large national and collaborative international technology projects and facilities. None of his publications had been reviewed or approved by US  Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Einstein professorships 
Abdou visited China to share nuclear technical knowledge since 2006.  In 2010 he was awarded the Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100% owned and run by Chinese government. He was selected for his contributions, leadership and knowledge sharing and transferring in the thermal, nuclear, and con-fusion fields. As part of this award, Abdou was invited to give two lectures and to introduce tritium permeate mechanism in tritium breeders with researchers and graduate students at host institutes in China, 2014.

Personal life
Abdou is Muslim.

References 

Living people
20th-century Egyptian engineers
Egyptian scientists
Egyptian Muslims
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Egyptian emigrants to the United States
American Muslims
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Egyptian engineers
DAC RangeR. The DAC RangeR is a Dutch amateur-built aircraft, that was designed and produced by the Dutch Aeroplane Company (DAC), of Dordrecht. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The RangeR is a development of the Lucas Dieselis and features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from composite sandwiches. Its  span wing has an area of  and flaps. The standard powerplant available is the  DAC YDT 1.7 litre diesel engine, developed by the airframe designers and based upon an Isuzu design.

By 2015 the aircraft had gone through a redesign, with an enlarged cockpit and a new wing design by Martin Holloman added, but by the end of 2015 the company website was taken down and the company seemed to be out of business.

Specifications (RangeR)

References

External links
Official website archive on Archive.org

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Liuba Shrira. Liuba Shrira is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University, whose research interests primarily involve distributed systems.  Shrira is accredited with having coined the phrase "promise" when referring to the completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation and its resulting value for the JavaScript programming language

Shrira received her PhD from Technion. She is affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.  Previously, she was a researcher in the MIT Programming Methodology Group (1986–1997), a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research (2004–2005), and a visiting professor at Technion (2010–2011).

She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which has recognized her as a Distinguished Scientist in 2009, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Shrira was one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing.

Selected publications

Some of Liuba Shrira's publications include:

 Barbara Liskov; Sanjay Ghemawat; Robert Gruber; Paul Johnson; Liuba Shrira; Michael Williams (1991). "Replication in the Harp File System". 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.
 Rivka Ladin; Barbara Liskov; Liuba Shrira; Sanjay Ghemawat (1992). "Providing high availability using lazy replication". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.
 Chandrasekhar Boyapati; Barbara Liskov; Liuba Shrira (2003). "Ownership Types for Object Encapsulation". ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.

References

External links

 Liuba Shrira's homepage
 Google Tech Talk: Split Snapshots: A New Approach to Old State Storage
 Microsoft Research Talk: ACID Objects and Modularity in the Cloud
 Programming Methodology Group publications by Liuba Shrira

American computer scientists
Living people
American women computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Lucas L8. The Lucas L8, also called the L 8 and L-8, is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Emile Lucas of Lagny-le-Sec. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The L8 is the most popular Lucas design. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed or optionally retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from sheet aluminum. Its  span wing has an area of  and flaps. The standard engine used is the  Lycoming O-360 four-stroke powerplant which provides a cruise speed of  for the retractable gear model.

Specifications (L8 retractable)

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
French civil utility aircraft
Lucas L7. The Lucas L7, also called the L 7 and L-7, is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Emile Lucas of Lagny-le-Sec. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The L7 features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with doors for access, fixed main tricycle landing gear with a retractable nosewheel and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from sheet aluminum. Its  span wing has an area of  and mounts both flaps and leading edge slots for STOL performance. The standard engine used is the  Lycoming O-235 four-stroke powerplant which provides a cruise speed of .

Reviewers Roy Beisswenger and Marino Boric described the design in a 2015 review as have a "somewhat boxy shape".

Specifications (L7)

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
2000s French civil utility aircraft
Chromium–vanadium steel. Chromium–vanadium steel (symbol Cr-V or CrV; 6000-series SAE steel grades, often marketed as "Boss AA") is a group of steel alloys incorporating carbon (0.50%), manganese (0.70–0.90%), silicon (0.30%), chromium (0.80–1.10%), and vanadium (0.18%). Some forms can be used as high-speed steel. Chromium and vanadium both make the steel more suitable for hardening. Chromium also helps resist abrasion, oxidation, and corrosion. Chromium and carbon can both improve elasticity.

See also
 SVCM

References

Steels
Morin M85. The Etudes Andre Morin M85, or variously M 85 and M-85, is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by André Morin of Colombes. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The M85 features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed by doors, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made with a welded steel tubing fuselage. The wings can be constructed with either an aluminum sheet or wooden structure, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric in both cases. The wooden wings include leading edge slots. Its  span wing has an area of  and is supported by "V" struts and jury struts. The standard engine recommended is the  Rotax 912UL four-stroke powerplant. The World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12 states that landing gear uses sprung aluminium suspension for all three wheels and that the nose wheel is freely castering and steering is accomplished with differential braking. Later models have sprung aluminium suspension for the main wheels and a rudder pedal-controlled steerable nose wheel.

Specifications (M85)

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Station hack. A Station hack (British English) or Squadron hack (American English), is a utility aeroplane assigned to an air station or squadron (that normally flies another type of aircraft in its role), and utilised for run-of-the-mill activities, including delivering to, or collecting from, other airfields personnel, spare parts, equipment, or documents; activities that would not be considered worthy of the tactical, strategic, or larger transport aeroplanes that might be operated from the same air station. Often these would be "war weary" or otherwise obsolete aircraft no longer suitable for combat operations.

War weary aircraft were sometimes refitted for combat. In one case, a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress due to be scrapped was used for a long range photoreconnaissance mission in the southwest Pacific.

The term is derived from the equestrian term for a horse used by competitive riders for everyday, run-of-the-mill riding, as opposed to those used for competitive riding.

See also 
 Assembly ship

References 

Royal Air Force
Military slang and jargon