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Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad is a public university founded in 1990 in Arad, Romania. It was named in honor of the  Romanian engineer and aviation pioneer Aurel Vlaicu.

Overview
Started in 1972, as the Arad Institute of Sub-Engineers, the institution was accredited on 18 May 1990 to grant university degrees. Over the years, Aurel Vlaicu University has developed new specializations, with new faculties, which meet the terms of quality standards. The 2009–10 academic year marks the establishment of the Faculty of Design and the specializations: psychology, computer science, economics, marketing, and fashion and fashion design. Thus at the beginning of academic year UAV has 9 departments, 38 specialties license, 19 master's programs, field IOSUD (Institution organizing PhD studies) in Philology, and 12 departments.

A fundamental dimension of higher education is the scientific research. In the 2008–09 academic year scientific research accelerated in comparison with previous years. In 2008 UAV participated in 9 international research projects and 7 national research projects. Of these, 8 international projects and 5 international projects won. The value of research contracts funded by the national competition was 2,027,202 RON and of the international projects was US$52,350."Rector’s speech to the opening of the academic year 2009-2010

Faculties
 Faculty of Design
 Faculty of Economic Sciences
 Faculty of Exact Sciences
 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
 Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences
 Faculty of Theology
 Faculty of Engineering
 Faculty of Food Engineering, Tourism and Environmental Protection
 Faculty of Physical Education and Sport

References

 Rector’s speech to the opening of the academic year

External links
 Official website
 Top of Romanian Universities - 2007 (in Romanian)
Accreditation of Aurel Vlaicu University (in Romanian)
 Universitatea Aurel Vlaicu din Arad (in ro.Wikipedia)

Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad
Universities and colleges established in 1972
1972 establishments in Romania
Universities and colleges established in 1990
1990 establishments in Romania
Namas Chandra. Namas Chandra (born April 17, 1952) is the retired Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was Elmer-Koch Professorship of Engineering and Associate Dean for research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He was the director of the Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative and the BioMechanics and Materials Laboratory at UNL. He was also the Director of $5.8 M UNL-Army Center for Trauma Mechanics. From 1986 to 2006, he was at Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida State University. He finished his MS from University of Houston in 1983 and PhD from Texas A&M University in 1986. In 2005, he won FSU's 'Outstanding Researcher' award.

Chandra's research interests included materials science, mechanics of materials and structures, molecular dynamics, superplasticity, composites, and thermal properties of composites. His research was on the mechanics of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their effects on brain tissue. Chandra's study of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was primarily for the United States military, a major sponsor of the research initiative.

Chapters in books 
 Superplastic Materials and Superplastic Metal Forming, Handbook of Metallurgical Process Design, ed. G. E. Totten, K. Funatani and L. Xie, Mercel Dekker Publications, , 46 Pages, 205-250 (2004).
 Hierarchical Modeling of Deformation of Materials from the Atomic to Continuum Scale, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Composite Materials and Structures, ed. Y.W. Kwon, D. H. Allen, R. Talreja, Spring Publications, , 48 Pages, 579-624 (2008).

Research contracts and grants 
 Factors that Facilitate or Inhibit Enrollment of Domestic Engineering PhD Students; A Mixed Methods Study, National Science Foundation, $149,851, PI: N. Chandra, 9/1/2009 to 8/30/2011.
 UNL-Army Center for Trauma Mechanics, Army Research Office, $3,261,250, PI: N. Chandra, 9/1/2008 to 8/31/2010.
 Adaptive heat sinks: alloyed copper/carbon nanofibers, Cooperation Program between Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine (FRANCE), €306, 900, co-PI: N. Chandra, 2006 to 2009 for Amelie Veillere.
 Heat sinks with controlled architecture and carbon nanotubes and/or nanofibers, €657, 550, Research Foundation for aeronautics and space, co-PI: N. Chandra, 2006 to 2009 for Guillaume Lacombe.
 UNL-Advance, National Science Foundation, $3, 181, 000, PI: B. Couture, Co-PI: N. Chandra, M. Holmes, J. McQuillan, D. Mandersheid, 7/01/2008 to 8/31/2013.

References

External links 
 BioMechanics and Materials Lab

Living people
Indian mechanical engineers
University of Nebraska faculty
Indian emigrants to the United States
1952 births
Florida State University faculty
20th-century Indian engineers
College of Engineering (KNUST). The College of Engineering is one of the six colleges of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, Ghana. It was established in October 1952 to prepare students for professional qualifications only. It has since grown and expanded and now as a college runs 15 BSc, 20 MSc, MPhil and PhD programmes under 3 faculties; the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the faculty of Civil and Geo Engineering and the faculty of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering and 10 academic departments.

Academics 
The College of Engineering offers undergraduate programmes leading to the award of a Bachelor of Science degree as well as postgraduate programmes leading to the award of MSc, MPhil or PhD degrees.

BSc Programmes 

 Aerospace Engineering
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
 Automobile Engineering
 Geomatic Engineering
 Biomedical Engineering
 Chemical Engineering
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Engineering
 Electrical/Electronic Engineering
 Geological Engineering
 Industrial Engineering
 Materials Engineering
 Marine Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Metallurgical Engineering
 Petroleum Engineering
 Petrochemical Engineering
 Telecommunication Engineering

MSc Programmes
 Chemical Engineering
 Environmental Resources Management
 Thermo Fluids
 Design and Production
 Applied Mechanics
 Soil and Water Engineering
 Food and Postharvest Engineering
 Agricultural Machinery Engineering
 Agro-Environmental Engineering
 Telecommunication Engineering
 Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation
 Water Resources Engineering and Management
 Road and Transportation Engineering

Departments 

 Agricultural Engineering
 Chemical Engineering
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Engineering
 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 Geological Engineering
 Geomatic Engineering
 Industrial Engineering 
 Materials Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Petroleum Engineering
Telecommunication Engineering

Research Centres 
 Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC)
 The Brew-Hammond Energy Centre (TBHEC)
 Transport Research and Education Centre, Kumasi
 KNUST Engineering Project 
 KNUST-College of Engineering Innovation Centre

References

External links 
 Official Website

Engineering universities and colleges
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Swap chain. In computer graphics, a swap chain (also swapchain) is a series of virtual framebuffers used by the graphics card and graphics API for frame rate stabilization, stutter reduction, and several other purposes. Because of these benefits, many graphics APIs require the use of a swap chain. The swap chain usually exists in graphics memory, but it can exist in system memory as well. A swap chain with two buffers is a kind of double buffer.

Function

In every swap chain there are at least two buffers. The first framebuffer, the screenbuffer, is the buffer that is rendered to the output of the video card. The remaining buffers are known as backbuffers. Each time a new frame is displayed, the first backbuffer in the swap chain takes the place of the screenbuffer, this is called presentation or swapping. A variety of other actions may be taken on the previous screenbuffer and other backbuffers (if they exist). The screenbuffer may be simply overwritten or returned to the back of the swap chain for further processing.  The action taken is decided by the client application and is API dependent.

Direct3D
Microsoft Direct3D implements a SwapChain class.  Each host device has at least one swap chain assigned to it, and others may be created by the client application. The API provides three methods of swapping: copy, discard, and flip. When the SwapChain is set to flip, the screenbuffer is copied onto the last backbuffer, then all the existing backbuffers are copied forward in the chain. When copy is set, each backbuffer is copied forward, but the screenbuffer is not wrapped to the last buffer, leaving it unchanged. Flip does not work when there is only one backbuffer, as the screenbuffer is copied over the only backbuffer before it can be presented. In discard mode, the driver selects the best method.

Comparison with triple buffering
Outside the context of Direct3D, triple buffering refers to the technique of allowing an application to draw to whichever back buffer was least recently updated. This allows the application to always proceed with rendering, regardless of the pace at which frames are being drawn by the application or the pace at which frames are being sent to the display. Triple Buffering may result in a frame being discarded without being displayed if two or more newer frames are completely rendered in the time it takes for one frame to be sent to the display. By contrast, Direct3D swap chains are a strict first-in, first-out queue, so every frame that is drawn by the application will be displayed even if newer frames are available. Direct3D does not implement a most-recent buffer swapping strategy, and Microsoft's documentation calls a Direct3D swap chain of three buffers "triple buffering". Triple Buffering as described above is superior for interactive purposes such as gaming, but Direct3D swap chains of more than three buffers can be better for tasks such as presenting frames of a video where the time taken to decode each frame may be highly variable.

References

Computer graphics
Superplastic forming and diffusion bonding. Superplastic forming and diffusion bonding (SPF/DB) is a technique allowing the manufacture of complex-shaped hollow metallic parts.  It combines Superplastic forming (SPF) with a second element "Diffusion Bonding" to create the completed structures.

Principle
Two metal sheets are welded together at their edges, then heated within the confines of a female mould tool.

When the part is hot, an inert gas is injected between the two sheets ; the part becomes hollow to the form of the mould. Parts may be welded in other areas than the edges to give an internal structure as the sheets are blown.

Applications
 Hollow titanium blades for jet engines.
 Military aircraft structures such the aft fuselage of the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. McDonnell Douglas (McDonnell Aircraft Company) developed the production equipment and tooling technology in St. Louis during the mid-1980s through the leadership of engineers Ray Kittelson, Vern Mueller, David Rohe and Duane Jennings.

See also
 Superplasticity

References

Joining
Metal forming
Presentation (software). Presentation is a Windows software application for conducting psychological and neurobehavioral experiments, developed by Neurobehavioral Systems Inc. and first released in 2003. It supports auditory and visual stimuli creation and delivery, records responses from nearly any input device and allows control of parallel port, serial port, TCP/IP and Ni-DAQ for communication to and from fMRI devices, response devices, eye trackers and brain imaging equipment.  It also supports Microsoft Kinect for Windows.  It is temporally accurate to less than a millisecond.  Presentation has over 10,000 users worldwide.  Presentation supports Unicode via the utf-8 specification.

Users
Presentation is used in universities and their experiments all over the world, such as
 Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
 Perception, memory and aesthetics of indeterminate art
 Common ground for spatial cognition? A behavioral and fMRI study of sex differences in mental rotation and spatial working memory
 Contagious yawning and the brain
 Stereoscopic Depth and the Occlusion Illusion
 Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech
 An Interdisciplinary Study of Visual Indeterminacy

Programming
Presentation uses two proprietary scripting languages to describe and control experiments.  It also has a Python module allowing the use of Python to control experiments.

SDL (Scenario Description Language)
SDL is a simple language used to describe the stimuli and trials which make up an experiment.  Compile-time logic can be used to generate and/or randomize stimuli.

PCL (Program Control Language)
PCL is a fully functioning scripting language based loosely on C and Basic.  It uses strong type checking to ensure that the intention of the programmer is explicit.  Loops, "if" statements and subroutines are supported.  It can be used in conjunction with the objects created in SDL, or used alone to create, manipulate and present stimuli.  The editor supports code completion.

Python 
Presentation has a Python module which allows users to use Python instead of PCL to script their experiments.  Anything that can be done in PCL can also be done in Python.

References

External links
Neurobehavioral Systems Home Page
Presentation Experiment Examples Archive
Animated and Interactive Presentation Software Demo

Neuroscience software
Medical software
Behavioral experimentation software
Alv Egeland. Alv Egeland (born 22 March 1932) is a Norwegian physicist.

He was born in Kvinesdal. He took the cand.real. degree in 1959, and his doctorate at Stockholm University in 1963. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1972. His fields are space research and aurora borealis research. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

References

1932 births
Living people
Norwegian physicists
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
People from Kvinesdal
Clean Energy Project. The Clean Energy Project (CEP) was a virtual high-throughput discovery and design effort for the next generation of plastic solar cell materials that has finished. It studies millions of candidate structures to identify suitable compounds for the harvesting of renewable energy from the sun and for other organic electronic applications. It ran on the BOINC platform.

Project purpose
The project searched for the most suitable organic compounds with which to make solar cells, the best polymeric membranes with which to make fuel cells, and how best to assemble the molecules for such devices.

Current project status
On June 24, 2013, the Clean Energy Project released its database to the public and the research community.  The release was featured on the White House Blog and by several news organizations including the MIT Technology Review. The database contains 150 million density functional theory calculations on 2.3 million molecules.

Publications 
 C. Amador-Bedolla, R. Olivares-Amaya, J. Hachmann, A. Aspuru-Guzik, Towards Materials Informatics for Organic Photovoltaics, in Informatics for Materials Science and Engineering, K. Rajan, Ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam (2013). In press.
 R. Olivares-Amaya, C. Amador-Bedolla, J. Hachmann, S. Atahan-Evrenk, R.S. Sánchez-Carrera, L. Vogt, A. Aspuru-Guzik, Accelerated Computational Discovery of High-performance Materials for Organic Photovoltaics by Means of Cheminformatics. Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011), 4849–4861. 
 
 A.N. Sokolov, S. Atahan-Evrenk, R. Mondal, H.B. Akkerman, R.S. Sánchez-Carrera, S. Granados-Focil, J. Schrier, S.C.B. Mannsfeld, A.P. Zoombelt, Z. Bao, A. Aspuru-Guzik, From Computational Discovery to Experimental Characterization of a High Hole Mobility Organic Crystal. Nature Communications 2 (2011), 437.

See also
 BOINC
 List of volunteer computing projects
 World Community Grid

References

External links
Clean Energy Project at the World Community Grid
Clean Energy Project Website 
Clean Energy Project Database

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects
Science in society
Free science software
Taipan 28. The Taipan 28 is a cruising sailing yacht.  The  GRP bermuda rigged sloop was designed and built in Pak Sha Wan, Hong Kong by Interchem Engineers Ltd.

Around 100 were built from approximately 1970-1980 starting with hull number 100.  They have a full keel and a relatively short rig. Different interiors were built, with interior tables or berths to starboard and 3-4 berths. They were powered by an inboard diesel engine.

Specifications

General

Length Overall (L.O.A):   28'0"      8.53m
Waterline Length (L.W.L): 20'9"      6.3m
Beam:                     7'9"       2.36m
Draft:                    4'6"       1.37m
Ballast Keel:             3,064 lb    1,389 kg

Displacement

Displacement:             7,850 lb    3,560 kg

Sail Area

Working sail area:        
With Genoa jib:

Tank capacity

Fuel                      9 gallon   34 litre
Water                     23 gallon  87.06 litre

Engine

Almost all boats were fitted with MD1B Volvo Penta engines. Marine Diesel, 10 HP, 1 cylinder, 4 stroke, water cooled, max speed 2500 rpm, ratio 1.87:1 with 12 volt dyna starter.

Known Vessels

Racing
The Aberdeen Boat Club, Hong Kong holds an annual Classic Yacht Rally which includes a division for locally built Taipans called the Taipan Cup.

Taipan Cup

References

External links
 Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club website
 Aberdeen Boat Club website
 Official Volvo Penta Site

Sailing yachts
1960s sailboat type designs
Influenza Antiviral Drug Search. The Influenza Antiviral Drug Search was a distributed computing project that was running on the BOINC platform.  It is a project of the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Project purpose

The Influenza Antiviral Drug Search conducted millions of virtual docking experiments in order to discover compounds that may be suitable for real-world clinical trials to combat new or drug resistant strains of influenza virus.

One vulnerability of all influenza strains is that they need viral neuraminidase, NS1 Influenza Protein and hemagglutinin in order to infect a body.  A chemical compound that can disable one of these molecules has the potential to be an effective antiviral drug.

See also
 BOINC
 List of distributed computing projects
 World Community Grid

External links
Influenza Antiviral Drug Search

References

Pharmaceutical industry
Drug discovery
SSE Renewables. SSE Renewables is a renewable energy subsidiary of SSE plc, which develops and operates onshore and offshore wind farms and hydroelectric generation in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

History
In October 2009, SSE announced that Airtricity would be rebranded as SSE Renewables from 1 January 2010, with the Airtricity brand still in existence as an energy supplier in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Description
SSE Renewables is owned by SSE plc and describes itself as "the renewable development division of SSE".

SSE Renewables operates the Greater Gabbard wind farm off the coast of England, and the Beatrice wind farm off the coast of Scotland. The company built and operates the 72 megawatt (MW) Meentycat wind farm, currently the largest Irish wind farm, supplying 100% renewable electricity to its customers.

The company's hydroelectric assets in Scotland include those developed by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, which became Scottish Hydro Electric in 1989 and merged to form SSE in 1998.

References

External links
 

Electric power companies of the Republic of Ireland
Wind power companies
SSE plc
Jón Kristinsson. Jón Kristinsson (born May 7, 1936, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic architect.

Biography
Kristinsson matriculated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1956. He then studied architecture at Delft University of Technology.

In 1966, Kristinsson together with his architect colleague and wife Riet Reitsema co-founded an architecture and engineering office in Deventer.

During the period 1992–2001 Kristinsson together with Kees Duijvestein held a joint professorship in Environmental technique and design in the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. Following retirement in 2001, Kristinsson has worked on innovations at the Architecten- en ingenieursbureau kristinsson bv office in Deventer.

In 2024, he was awarded the Order of the Falcon for his contributions to for pioneering work in ecological building design on the international stage.

Major building designs

Town Hall Lelystad (1976) an integrated design of a self-supporting building. World's first seasonal heat storage in wet ground, parabolic solar collectors, balanced ventilation with heat regain, humidifying by plants and spring fountains, insulated shutters at night and acoustic of a concert hall. (Not built)
Minimum-energy housing development 1979-83 in Schiedam. 184 social houses were built. The project altered the building tradition in the Netherlands. Some of the innovative design includes: Airtight building, wall insulation on the outside, foundation and roof insulation. In the kitchen balanced ventilation with heat recovery in the hood of the cooker.
In 1980: Atolls in the North Sea pumped dry by windmills/watermills as an alternative for atomic power.
The energy producing greenhouse and the "edible city" are development concepts with 2ha glasshouse with seasonal heatstorage that heat 200 properly designed houses.
Floriade 2012 the tenannual horticultural exposition in Venlo the Netherlands

Bibliography 
Kristinsson Jon Architecten- en ingenieursbureau Kristinsson Jubileumboek. Deventer 1996;
Kristinsson J., Exergieprojecten A.H.H. Schmitz, P.J.W. Singendonk (ed.), TVVL Magazine 28 10, 1999.
Kristinsson, Jon Light urban development. The Architecture Annual 1997–1998. Bekkering, Henco, Hans de Jonge Klaske Havik (Eds.) Delft University of Technology. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1999. Broschiert. 
Kristinsson, Jon Breathing window and healthy ventilation in buildings. The CIB 2003 International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE2003) Brisbane 2003.  pdf
Kristinsson, Jon Smart and energetic architecture. International Conference "Bridging to the Future" - Bridging energy planning and spatial design strategies - Beurs van Amsterdam, June 8, 2006. pdf

References

External links
List of Dutch architects
Dutch WikiPedia article
Website of the Kristinsson office
The Breathing Window website

1936 births
Living people
Dutch architects
Jon Kristinsson
Delft University of Technology alumni
Jon Kristinsson
Recipients of the Order of the Falcon
Ropid. Ropid is a tiny robot designed and developed by Tomotaka Takahashi of Robo Garage at Kyoto University.
The name of the robot is a combination of Robot and Rapid.

Ropid is a carbon fiber and plastic android that weighs 3.5 pounds. The robot has four onboard gyro sensors and four accelerometers that allow it to operate. This robot can respond to voice commands and has a mouth that moves when it speaks.

In addition to its communication features, the Ropid can walk, run, and jump faster than many other similarity constructed robots.
 Ropid uses the "bent knees" method to balance, but appears lifelike because of the speed of its movements. Ropid can jump up to three inches off the ground.

Specification

References

External links
 ROPID at ROBO-GARAGE
 ROPID entry at Plastic Pals
 ROPID Press Release Video
 ROPID press demonstration Video

Bipedal humanoid robots
Robots of Japan
2000s robots