omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Centurion Transport Engineering. Centurion Transport Engineering was an Australian bus bodybuilder in Upfield, Melbourne.

History
Centurion Transport Engineering originally built specialist bodies for transport disabled passengers. In 1980 it began bodying route buses. Originally based in Sunshine it later relocated to Upfield. It bodied over 400 buses including many for the Australian Defence Forces and 4x4 Unimogs for AAT Kings. Centurion ceased operations in 1990.

References

External links
Bus Australia gallery

Bus manufacturers of Australia
Australian companies disestablished in 1990
Dane A. Miller. Dane A. Miller ( – February 10, 2015) was an American business executive.  Miller was co-founder of the orthopedic company Biomet and was its president and chief executive from 1978 to 2006.

Miller was brought up in Springfield, Ohio, and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Materials Science Engineering in 1969 from the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) from which he received the Distinguished Alumnus award in 2010.  He subsequently obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in Materials Science (Biomedical Engineering) from the University of Cincinnati.  After working for rival companies Zimmer and Cutter Laboratories, Miller joined with Niles Noblitt, Jerry L. Ferguson and M. Ray Harroff, to found Biomet in 1977.  Miller's own grandmother, Grace Shumaker, was the first recipient of a Biomet hip implant. To encourage public confidence in titanium as a material for implants, Miller arranged for a surgeon to introduce a piece into his own arm, which he left there for ten years to test its safety.

In March 2006, Miller was removed from the company's board of directors, and his retirement was announced.  A few months later, he headed a private equity consortium that bought back the business for $11.4 billion and still owned it in 2014.  Miller became a consultant to the new company in addition to resuming the role of a director.  The company later announced a merger with Zimmer Holdings.

References

Further reading
Patrick Kavanaugh - The Maverick CEO; Dane Miller and the Story of Biomet (privately printed, 2008)  

Engineers from Ohio
1940s births
2015 deaths
People from Springfield, Ohio
Kettering University alumni
University of Cincinnati alumni
Place of birth missing
Rajesh Gangwar. Rajesh Gangwar (born 12 January 1967) is a socialist who believes in nonviolence. Born and raised in a small village of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh he became an engineer, but left his career after becoming interested in social movements. He has been on several hunger strikes to protest against the harassment of women.

Early life 
Rajesh Gangwar was born in Chakdaha, a small village in Bareilly on 12 January 1967, to a family with a background in agriculture. After completing primary and secondary education at Patel Inter College, Dhaunra Bareilly, and Government Inter College, Bareilly, he studied Engineering at Government Polytechnic Nainital before graduating from Bareilly College, with an interest in Sociology. He began working as an engineer at Oswal Sugar Mill, Nawabganj, Bareilly, but three years later found he lacked sufficient interest in the field, and left to focus on social work.

Protests 
Rajesh Gangwar has been on several hunger strikes to protest the harassment of women.

Hunger strike in Delhi against Damini rape case 
Gangwar travelled to Delhi on 24 December 2012 and went on hunger strike as he considered the Government was not taking enough action on the Delhi rape case of Vasant Vihar. On receiving medical advice he gave up the strike on 6 January after being hospitalized.

Hunger strike in Bareilly  
After his daughter was murdered on 5 November 2014 he sat on hunger strike for 11 days.

Padayatra against corruption and unemployment 

Gangwar started his padayatra on 26 May 2013 from Bareilly. He travelled more than 250 km in 11 days to raise attention to corruption and unemployment in India. He reached Delhi on 5 June 2013 via Rampur, Moradabad and Ghaziabad. After reaching Delhi, he went to Raj Ghat to pray to Mahatma Gandhi then walked around the Parliament and came to Jantar Mantar, Delhi.

References 

Rajesh Gangwar news in Times of India
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/delhi-gangrape-crime-against-women-protesters-jantar-mantar/1/240844.html
News in Hindustan Times
Delhi gang rape case: Protesters observe black day
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/delhi-gangrape-crime-against-women-protesters-jantar-mantar/1/240844.html
Rajesh Gangwar in Delhi Gang-Rape Protests
News About one of his Hunger Strike.
http://hindi.oneindia.in/news/2013/01/07/delhi-delhi-gangrape-fasting-protester-hospitalised-225464.html

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/delhi-gang-rape-case-fasting-protester-hospitalised-313976
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1785469/report-delhi-gang-rape-35-protesters-shave-heads-at-jantar-mantar
http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/damini-gangrape-protesters-shave-off-heads-at-jantar-mantar-19451.html?page=3
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1786251/report-delhi-gang-rape-fasting-protester-hospitalised

http://www.amarujala.com/news/samachar/national/health-of-rajesh-gangwar-deteriorated-sitting-on-hunger-strike-in-delhi-gangrape-case/
iatvnews.com/print/news/anti-rape-protester-calls-off-indefinite-hunger-strike—19513-1.html

1967 births
Living people
Terminal guidance. In the field of weaponry, terminal guidance refers to any guidance system that is primarily or solely active during the "terminal phase", just before the weapon impacts its target. The term is generally used in reference to missile guidance systems, and specifically to missiles that use more than one guidance system through the missile's flight.

Common examples include long-range air-to-air missiles that use semi-active radar homing (SARH) during most of the missile's flight, and then use an infrared seeker or active radar homing once they approach their target. Similar examples include surface-to-air missiles, anti-ballistic missiles, and some anti-tank missiles.

Concept
Radar beams are cone-shaped, spreading out from the diameter of the antenna at a characteristic angle that is a function of the size of the antenna and its wavelength. This means that as one moves away from the radar, its accuracy continues to degrade while the signal grows weaker. This makes it difficult to use the radar signal itself as the guidance signal, a system known as beam riding, except for very short-range engagements. 

However, the signal being reflected off the target also forms a cone shape centred on the target, but with a much greater spread angle. This leads to one of the most common types of radar-based missile guidance, semi-active radar homing, or SARH. This places a small receiver in the nose of the missile that listens for the signals reflected off the target, and therefore grows more accurate and powerful as the missile approaches the target.

However, after launch the target return is at a minimum. While the launch platform may have no trouble picking up the signal from a distant target, the much smaller antenna in the missile may not be receiving enough of a signal to properly track. In these cases, some other form of guidance is used to get the missile into the range where the signal is stronger. Examples would be radio control (command guidance) or inertial guidance systems, which fly the missile closer to the target. In this role, these are known as "midcourse guidance" systems.

In practice, terminal guidance systems are often optical or active radar systems, in an effort to greatly increase accuracy. These systems often have many times the accuracy of solutions like SARH, but operate only at short ranges, on the order of a few kilometers. Missiles that are designed to operate entirely within the range of these sorts of systems, like heat seeking missiles, do not use the term "terminal guidance" because they use the same guidance system throughout their flight.

See also
 Countermeasure
 Precision bombing
 Precision-guided munition
 Guided bomb
 Guidance system
 Proximity fuze
 Proximity sensor
 Artillery fuze
 Magnetic proximity fuze
 Missile

References

"The Guidance of Space Vehicles", NASA

Missile guidance
Tashan Power Plant. The Tashan Power Plant () is a fuel-fired power plant in Tashan, Shuitou Village, Jincheng Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China.

History
The construction to build the power plant was approved by the Executive Yuan in January 1995. The construction was then completed in October 2000 with 4 generation units, unit 1–4. In March 1998, the construction for unit 5-8 was approved by the Executive Yuan and it was commissioned in February 2004. On 6 July 2016, the Ministry of Economic Affairs approved the construction of unit 9–10. The two generation units were ordered in 2017.

Infrastructure
To cope with the increasing electricity demand and generation, a petroleum transmission trestle was built in 2002 near the power plant for the transportation of diesel oil for the plant. This reduced the risk of fuel shortages.

The smolestacks of the plant are 62.4 metres tall .

See also

 List of power stations in Taiwan
 Electricity sector in Taiwan

References

2000 establishments in Taiwan
Buildings and structures in Kinmen County
Energy infrastructure completed in 2000
Jincheng Township
Oil-fired power stations in Taiwan
Pilotless Bomber Squadron. Pilotless Bomber Squadron may refer to various military units for unmanned aerial vehicles (drones):
1st Pilotless Bomber Squadron, a USAF unit initially designated the First Pilotless Bomber Squadron (Light) in October 1951 
2nd Pilotless Bomber Squadron
11th Pilotless Bomber Squadron (1954-5), a USAF unit that became the 11th Tactical Missile Squadron
69th Pilotless Bomber Squadron 
Pilotless Aircraft Unit (1945-tbd), a Navy Bureau of Aeronautics unit at NAS Mojave with a detachment at Point Mugu

References 

Squadrons of the United States Air Force
Ground Equipment Facility. A Ground Equipment Facility of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a radar station or other designated Air Traffic Control site of the United States.  Several of the facilities originated as Cold War SAGE radar stations, including some facilities of the joint-use site system (JUSS) (e.g., San Pedro Hill Air Force Station provided radar tracks for both the Army and USAF).  The USAF declared full operational capability of the 1st 7 Regional Operational Control Centers (ROCCs) on December 23, 1980.

References

Federal Aviation Administration
Joint Surveillance System radar stations
Air traffic control
Mantis the spider robot. Mantis the spider robot is a large, robotic spider created by Matt Denton and his company Micromagic Systems. It took four years to create and design it. The robot is capable to transport one person and can circulate on any surface. The robot weighs , is  high and is powered by a Perkins Engines Turbo Diesel motor of 2.2L of 50Hp that is in charge of the hydraulic system. Several sensors around it help it to walk. The robot is controlled by a computer running the Linux operating system and HexEngine software, which controls the hydraulic solenoid in the legs. It is driver-operated by joysticks within a cockpit, can travel at approximately  and can cover  on a  tank of diesel, but its creators are investing to triple the speed.

See also
Arachno-Bot

References 

Robotic spiders
2013 robots
Robots of the United Kingdom
Aquilair Swing. The Aquilair Swing is a French ultralight trike that was designed and produced by Aquilair of Theizé. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

As of May 2013 the Swing was no longer advertised in the company catalog of aircraft offered.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants on the main wheels and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from metal tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The initial wing used was the La Mouette Swing 14,  from which the aircraft takes its name. In 2010 the La Mouette Ipsos 14.9 wing was introduced  instead of the Swing wing. The  span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The standard powerplant supplied was the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 582, with the  two cylinder, horizontally-opposed  Verner VM133MK engine optional.

Incorporated features include rigid seats, a high engine thrust line, a low centre of gravity and elbow-height control bar and a full cockpit fairing. The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

Specifications (Swing with Swing 14 wing)

References

2000s French sport aircraft
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Aquilair aircraft
N-localizer. The N-localizer is a device that enables guidance of stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using tomographic images that are obtained via computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or positron emission tomography (PET). The N-localizer comprises a diagonal rod that spans two vertical rods to form an N-shape (Figure 1) and permits calculation of the point where a tomographic image plane intersects the diagonal rod. Attaching three N-localizers to a stereotactic instrument allows calculation of three points where a tomographic image plane intersects three diagonal rods (Figure 2). These points determine the spatial orientation of the tomographic image plane relative to the stereotactic frame.

The N-localizer is integrated with the Brown-Roberts-Wells (BRW), Kelly-Goerss, Leksell, Cosman-Roberts-Wells (CRW), Micromar-ETM03B, FiMe-BlueFrame, Macom, and Adeor-Zeppelin stereotactic frames and with the Gamma Knife radiosurgery system.

An alternative to the N-localizer is the Sturm-Pastyr localizer that comprises three rods wherein two diagonal rods form a V-shape and a third, vertical rod is positioned midway between the two diagonal rods (Figure 3). The Sturm-Pastyr localizer is integrated with the Riechert-Mundinger and Zamorano-Dujovny stereotactic frames.

Compared to the N-localizer, the Sturm-Pastyr localizer is less accurate and necessitates more elaborate calculations to determine the spatial orientation of the tomographic image plane relative to the stereotactic frame. In contrast to the N-localizer that does not require specification of the pixel size in a tomographic image, the Sturm-Pastyr localizer requires precise specification of the pixel size.

Research conducted four decades after the introduction of the N-localizer and Sturm-Pastyr localizer has revealed computational techniques that improve the accuracy of both localizers.

Figures

References

Further reading
 

Neurosurgery
Computer-assisted surgery
Surgical oncology
Robert D. Napier. Robert D. Napier (1821 – May 1885) was a Scottish engineer, and the youngest son of David Napier (marine engineer).

Educated in Liverpool and London, Robert D. Napier worked, with brothers John D. and Francis ("Frank") for his father's shipbuilding firm. At the age of 30, he moved to Australia, where he oversaw dredging operations in Sydney Harbour. While there, he invented the "Differential Self-Acting Friction Brake" and the "Napier Windlass".

In 1856 he brought out to Port Adelaide, South Australia in sections, a paddle-steamer Moolgewanke for trading on the River Murray. He and partner Capt. William Webb operated her for a few years from Goolwa before selling her, with barge Unknown, to George Bain Johnston. He was also involved with Capt. William McCoy in operating the paddle steamer Leichardt. He returned to Scotland about 1865–1866 and established a new business "Napier Brothers" with his brother John.

Napier also experimented and wrote on a number of important scientific topics.  He is best known for his 1866 work "On the Velocity of Steam and other Gases, and the True Principles of the Discharge of Fluids".  This work was one of the earliest discussions of the diverging nozzle, later known as the de Laval nozzle.  It presented the well-known "Napier formula" for steam loss through an orifice.  He also wrote a number of papers on the flow of water through nozzles.

He never married, and he died in Glasgow in May, 1885.

References

1821 births
1885 deaths
Engineers from Glasgow
British marine engineers
Scottish company founders
19th-century Scottish businesspeople
20th-century Scottish businesspeople
WAGR M class. The WAGR M class was a class of  Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives operated by the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) between 1912 and 1955. A total of 13 were built by Beyer, Peacock & Co, Manchester in two batches.

History
The first batch of six engines was constructed in 1911. These engines, entered into service with WAGR in 1912, were only the third Garratt design to be produced and represented a significant step in the development of the type. The second batch, which consisted of seven units, was built in 1913/14 and designated as the Ms class due to the use of superheated steam. One of the engines from the first batch was retrofitted with a superheater and given a Ms classification.

All of the M/Ms class locomotives were utilized to haul trains on the WAGR's light lines. They were withdrawn from service between 1947 and 1955, and all were scrapped.

Class lists

M class list
The numbers and periods in service of each member of the M class were as follows:

Ms class list
The numbers and periods in service of each member of the Ms class were:

Namesakes
The M class designation was previously used for the M class locomotives that were withdrawn in 1911. It was reused in the 1970s when the M class diesel locomotives entered service.

See also

History of rail transport in Western Australia
List of Western Australian locomotive classes

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Beyer, Peacock locomotives
Garratt locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1912
M WAGR class (1912)
2-6-0+0-6-2 locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
Freight locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Space Symposium. The premier gathering of the global space community, the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium (formerly the National Space Symposium) is held each Spring at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Attended by top-level representatives from the international space community, the Space Symposium features presentations and panels that provide insight into space developments and the latest thinking on critical industry issues; an expansive exhibit center that showcases the latest space technology; special event and awards presentations: targeted programs for specific groups, including young space professionals, the cyber community and educators and students; and, above all, ample opportunities for networking.

The 2013 event attracted 9,000 total participants from more than 30 nations.

Space Foundation Awards 
The Space Foundation annually presents five major awards. at its Space Symposium: The General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award; John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration; Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award; the Space Achievement Award; and the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award - in partnership with the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF) and NASA.

References

Space organizations
Math.NET Numerics. Math.NET Numerics is an open-source numerical library for .NET and Mono, written in C# and F#. It features functionality similar to BLAS and LAPACK.

History 
Math.NET Numerics started 2009 by merging code and teams of dnAnalytics with Math.NET Iridium. It is influenced by ALGLIB, JAMA and Boost, among others, and has accepted numerous code contributions. It is part of the Math.NET initiative to build and maintain open mathematical toolkits for the .NET platform since 2002.

Math.NET is used by several open source libraries and research projects, like MyMediaLite, FermiSim and LightField Retrieval, and various theses and papers.

Features 
The software library provides facilities for:
 Probability distributions: discrete, continuous and multivariate.
 Pseudo-random number generation, including Mersenne Twister MT19937.
 Real and complex linear algebra types and solvers with support for sparse matrices and vectors.
 LU, QR, SVD, EVD, and Cholesky decompositions.
 Matrix IO classes that read and write matrices from/to Matlab and delimited files.
 Complex number arithmetic and trigonometry.
 “Special” routines including the Gamma, Beta, Erf, modified Bessel and Struve functions.
 Interpolation routines, including Barycentric, Floater-Hormann.
 Linear Regression/Curve Fitting routines.
 Numerical Quadrature/Integration.
 Root finding methods, including Brent, Robust Newton-Raphson and Broyden.
 Descriptive Statistics, Order Statistics, Histogram, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient.
 Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling.
 Basic financial statistics.
 Fourier and Hartley transforms (FFT).
 Overloaded mathematical operators to simplify complex expressions.
 Runs under Microsoft Windows and platforms that support Mono.
 Optional support for Intel Math Kernel Library (Microsoft Windows and Linux)
 Optional F# extensions for more idiomatic usage.

See also 
 List of numerical analysis software
 List of numerical libraries

References

External links 
 Math.NET Numerics Website
 Math.NET Initiative

C Sharp libraries
Numerical software
Artis, LLC. Artis, LLC is a research and development company located in Herndon, Virginia.  Founded in 1999, the company provides services and creates products for defense and commercial markets using extremely high-speed sensing and parallel processing.  The name of the company stems from an acronym, short for "advanced real-time information systems."

Products
One of the company's products is Iron Curtain, an active protection system designed to defeat attacks from rocket-propelled grenades, tandem RPGs and other recoilless rifle systems.  In April 2013, it was reported the company achieved a perfect score during U.S. government testing.

The company also features SmartMat, which is designed to monitor pedestrian traffic such as counting humans walking in and out of buildings or to and from events.  Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Smartmat system connects to the Internet for ease of tracking and can run off battery or AC.

Services
Artis provides software design, simulation and modeling, engineering and other high-speed analytical and design services for safety and defense applications.  Some of the areas being developed include active protection systems, digital armor, underbelly IED blast mitigation, robotics and motion detection, and highway worker safety systems.

References

External links
Company website
National Geographic TV report on Iron Curtain, March 11, 2015

Technology companies established in 1999
Defense companies of the United States
Privately held companies of the United States
1999 establishments in Virginia