omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Data onboarding. Data onboarding is the process of transferring offline data to an online environment for marketing needs. Data onboarding is mainly used to connect offline customer records with online users by matching identifying information gathered from offline datasets to retrieve the same customers in an online audience.

One of the most common use cases for data onboarding is importing customers' data into a software product. Typically, this data has been saved in different formats, and all of it must be reformatted and restructured to make it compatible with the target software. This process requires significant manual resources, which is why many businesses are looking into automating data mapping, validation, and cleaning processes.

Process
The onboarding process involves ingesting, anonymizing, matching and distributing a customer's data. Offline data used in onboarding efforts include information such as customer names, email addresses, physical addresses and phone numbers as well as CRM and sales transaction data. Part of the data onboarding process is anonymizing personally identifiable information to protect consumer privacy. Another key step involves matching offline data to online devices, such as a desktop browser cookie or mobile device ID. Offline data like a customer's email address or postal address can also be used as an identifier to match to digital ID's, such as a Facebook or Twitter account. Matched data is finally delivered to a technology platform for use in programmatic marketing.

Data onboarding is primarily used to reach a company's customers with more relevant marketing messages. Companies can also use onboarded data to assess the effectiveness of a marketing campaign or the purchasing trends of their customers. Overall, the process allows data-driven marketers to optimize the impact of online campaigns.

Application
The data onboarding industry consists of marketing technology companies like  LiveRamp, FullContact, Semcasting, Datalogix (now part of Oracle Data Cloud), Throtle, Acho Studio, Neustar, El Toro, Circulate, and TrueData, which develops onboarding services for marketers. Businesses use data onboarding companies to determine whether their ads were seen on digital platforms and if they were effective in driving sales. In 2013, Auren Hoffman, the founder of LiveRamp, estimated that one-third of Fortune 2000 marketers were onboarding data, with most of their clients being from the retail, travel, auto, telecommunications, financial services and publishing industries.

To allow customers to seamlessly import their data themselves, product teams look for embeddable software libraries that are easy to implement and cover all the different import use cases they have. Especially for low-touch SaaS products, having an intuitive, self-serve import interface that empowers users of all skill levels to easily import their data is of utmost importance.

References

Customer relationship management software
Marketing techniques
Data processing
Adcom Systems. Adcom Systems is an Emirati unmanned aerial vehicles manufacturer based in the United Arab Emirates. It is made up of a group of 20 private companies.

History

Adcom began producing drones as early as 2002 in the United Arab Emirates. The company rose to the challenge of producing unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) for the United Arab Emirates Air Force as a result of the United States denying the sale of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper technology.

Products

Adcom began as a missile manufacturer before moving on to developing strategic radars and then to UAVs and advanced communication systems. Its main drones are designed to fly at high altitudes and fly for hours while carrying up to 10 missiles. Adcom manufactures a series of drones referred to as Yabhon which includes the Yabhon HALE (high-altitude long-endurance) and Yabhon MALE (medium-altitude long-endurance). Its largest drone is known as the United 40, and is named in honor of the 40th year of the UAE union when the drone was built. It also manufactures the Yabhon NSR which is the first UAV in the world to hunt other UAVs.

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Export
In 2016, Nigerian military procured Yabhon Flash-20 from the United Arab Emirates.

In December 2018, the Algerian Ministry of Defence revealed it has procured and is operating at least two Yabhon United 40 UAVs and two Yabhon Flash-20 UAVs.

References

Emirati brands
Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Abu Dhabi
Emirati companies established in 1991
NoRMA. No Remote Memory Access (abbreviated as NoRMA) is a computer memory architecture for multiprocessor systems, given its name by . In a NoRMA architecture, the address space globally is not unique and the memory is not globally accessible by the processors. Accesses to remote memory modules are only indirectly possible by messages through the interconnection network to other processors, which in turn possibly deliver the desired data in a reply message. The entire storage configuration is partitioned statically among the processors.

The advantage of the NoRMA model is the ability to construct extremely large configurations, which is achieved by shifting the problem to the user configuration. Programs for NoRMA architectures need to evenly partitioning the data into local memory modules, ensure consistency of software caches to enforce the desired consistency model, handle transformations of data identifiers from one processor's address space to another, and realize a message-passing system for remote access to data. The programming model of Norma architecture is therefore extremely complicated.

See also
Non-uniform memory access, a different memory architecture for multiprocessors

References

Computer memory
Cam shedding. Cam shedding, also known as tappet shedding, is the control of the movement of heald shafts in weaving simple constructions by means of cams or tappets.

In positive cam shedding, the heddle (or heald) shafts are both raised and lowered by the tappets.

In negative cam shedding, the heald shafts are either raised or lowered by the mechanism but are returned by the action of an external device, usually springs. The maximum number of heald shafts controlled by tappet shedding is 20, but this is not possible in practice.

References

Bibliography
 Textile Terms and Definitions, 11th revised edition, The Textile Institute, 2002. 
 Principles of Weaving, R. Marks and A.T.C. Robinson, The Textile Institute, 1986. 

Weaving equipment
Project Dragonfly (space study). Project Dragonfly is the first conceptual design study that assesses the feasibility of a laser-propelled interstellar probe, conducted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. Contrary to past unmanned interstellar mission studies such as Project Daedalus and Project Icarus, the focus is particularly on a small spacecraft. The project was founded in 2013 by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is).

A subsequent design competition was launched in 2014. The objective was to design a spacecraft that is capable of reaching Alpha Centauri within 100 years using existing or near-term technologies and a beam power below . Four teams presented their designs at the final workshop at the British Interplanetary Society in London in July 2015. The teams consisted of students from Cairo University, Cranfield University, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Texas A and M University, Technical University of Munich, and University of California, Santa Barbara. The team of the WARR of the Technical University of Munich won the competition.

The design of the University of California, Santa Barbara has subsequently evolved into the design for Breakthrough Starshot of the Breakthrough Initiatives. Results of the competition have subsequently been published in peer-reviewed journals. The competition has been accompanied by a Kickstarter campaign that was supported by space artists such as David A. Hardy.

See also 

 Interstellar travel
 Project Daedalus
 Project Icarus
 Spacecraft propulsion
 Beam-powered propulsion
 Laser propulsion

References 

Interstellar travel
Hypothetical spacecraft
Francisco Adolfo Cabrera. Francisco Cabrera is an Argentine engineer, born in the Mendoza Province. He became an engineer in electricity in the University of Mendoza, and headed the minister of economic development of Buenos Aires under Mauricio Macri from 2007 to 2015. Macri was elected president in 2015, and appointed him minister of production.

Biography 

Cabrera is an electrical and electronics engineer. He obtained his degree from the University of Mendoza in 1981. He has a Master in Business Administration from the Higher School of Economics and Business Administration.

He began his career at Hewlett-Packard, then went through the Roberts Group, HSBC Group, among other companies.

Social Security 

He founded the pension fund company AFJP and was its CEO.

Media 
Between 2002 and 2007 he was Executive Director of the newspaper La Nación and integrated the directory of the newspapers Los Andes de Mendoza and La Voz del Interior de Córdoba.

Think Foundation 
In 2010 he was elected president of the Pensar Foundation, the Proposal Republican think tank dedicated to the study, research and development of public policies.

Minister of Economic Development of the City of Buenos Aires 
One of the policies he carried out was the creation of the so-called Creative Districts, which are poles of the City of Buenos Aires where specific activities related to culture and innovation are concentrated, such as the Technology District of Parque Patricios, the Audiovisual District in Palermo, Chacarita, Villa Ortúzar, Colegiales and Paternal, the Arts District in La Boca, etc.

Minister of Production of the Nation 
On December 10, 2015 he was appointed as Minister of Production of the Nation by Mauricio Macri.

During its management, the SME Law, which gives tax benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises and the Entrepreneurs Law, which created a new corporate type, simplified stock companies (SAS), whose constitution demands less requirements than other companies, such as anonymous and limited liability. In this law the figure of the repentant was also instituted to denounce posters and the National Competition Authority was created, a decentralized body of the Executive Branch in which the Court of Defense of Competition and the Secretaries of Instruction for Anti-Competitive and Concentration Behaviors operate Economic, whose function is to impose fines and penalties.

On June 16, 2018 he was replaced in his position by Dante Sica and appointed as president of the Investment and Foreign Trade Bank and Ad-Honorem advisor to President Mauricio Macri.

References

Production ministers of Argentina
Republican Proposal politicians
University of Mendoza alumni
Living people
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
People from Mendoza Province
Year of birth missing (living people)
Phoenix Gleitschirmantriebe. Phoenix Gleitschirmantriebe (Phoenix Paragliding Drives) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Würselen. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and for the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.

The company seems to have been founded in the early 2000s and gone out of business about 2008.

The company produced the Phoenix Skywalker line of paramotors, powered by the  Solo 210 and the  Hirth F-33 engines.  The aircraft was noted for the use of a paddle-bladed  diameter four-bladed composite propeller, which allowed the design of a smaller cage assembly which improved ground transport portability and handling on take-off and landing.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Ultralight aircraft
Paramotors
Swann Chemical Company. The Swann Chemical Company was an American chemical company started by Theodore Swann, described by one historian as "a flamboyant Birmingham mogul and New South industrialist." Swann Chemical first operated a chemical manufacturing plant in Anniston, Alabama where PCBs were first made on an industrial scale after development of a new process under leadership of Theodore Swann. The plant was later bought by Monsanto Industrial Chemicals Co. in 1935. The plant, just west of Anniston, had around 1,000 employees.

One historian wrote that, "In many ways, the spirit of Swann Chemical became the corporate culture of Monsanto."

References

Defunct chemical companies
Chemical companies of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Alabama
China National Electronics Import & Export Corporation. China National Electronics Import & Export Corporation (CEIEC) is a Chinese state owned enterprise in diversified business areas. It is one of a handful of defense trading companies authorized to represent the domestic defense production industries in overseas sales, concentrating on sales of defense electronics. It is also in construction engineering specializing in construction of civil infrastructure. By international contracting revenue the company is ranked among the top 250 contractors in the 2015 Top 250 International Contractors published by Engineering News Record. From 2006 to 2008, CEIEC was sanctioned for violations of the Iran, North Korea, Syria Nonproliferation Act. In November 2020, the United States Department of the Treasury levied additional sanctions on CEIEC.

Business areas

Public safety systems
The company has built national public safety systems. It successfully built a nationwide system for Ecuador and will rollout the system in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Construction engineering
The company builds sports Tencent 
stadiums, radio and television infrastructure, power transmission, urban water supply system and other kinds of public, commercial, or residential properties. It has built several projects in Angola during the country's post-war building boom including a basketball arena in Huambo.

References

External links 

 

Defence companies of the People's Republic of China
Government-owned companies of China
Arms trading companies of China
Chunar stone. Chunar stone or Red-spotted sandstone is a kind of reddish or buff-colored, finely grained, hard sandstone quarried in the Chunar in the Mirzapur District of Uttar Pradesh, and widely used in the architecture of India.

Background
Notable buildings and monuments carved from chunar stone include:

 Pillars of Ashoka.
 St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata.

References

Building stone
Li Guoying. Li Guoying (; born December 1963) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the minister of water resources. He was previously the governor of Anhui province. A hydraulic engineer by profession, Li worked in his early career as a technician and administrator in the national ministry of water works, the Yellow River Commission, and in Heilongjiang province. He was transferred to Anhui in 2015 to serve as deputy party chief before becoming acting governor in 2016.

Biography
He was born in Yuzhou, Henan province. He studied hydroelectric power generation and engineering at North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in Zhengzhou and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. He also had a graduate degree in philosophy from the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, then a doctorate from Northeast Normal University in environmental science.

After graduating university, Li worked for the Yellow River commission of the Ministry of Water Works as a survey technician for the planning and research department. He spent most of his career in the water works system, as the assistant to the chief engineer, then the deputy director of the Yellow River commission, then chief engineer of the national Ministry of Waterworks. He was then transferred in May 1999 to head the department of water works in Heilongjiang.  

In March 2011, he was named Vice Minister of Water Works and chairman of the Yellow River Commission; he stayed on the post until August 2015, when he was named deputy party chief of Anhui. He was then elevated to acting governor a year later, on September 1, 2016. His elevation confirmed trends that the senior Communist Party leadership was again showing preference for engineering and technical backgrounds over lifelong apparatchiks. At the time of his appointment Li, 52, was the second youngest governor in China. He was confirmed as governor in a legislative session on January 21, 2017.

Li was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and was a full member of the 19th Central Committee.

References

1964 births
Living people
Northeast Normal University alumni
North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power alumni
Governors of Anhui
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan
Politicians from Xuchang
Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress
Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress
Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress
Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Ministers of water resources of the People's Republic of China
Thomas A. Furness III. Thomas A. Furness III is an American inventor, professor, and virtual reality pioneer based in Seattle, Washington. He is a Professor in the University of Washington Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and the founder of the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington and its sister labs at the University of Canterbury (HIT Lab NZ) and University of Tasmania. Known for his contributions in developing human interface technology, he has earned the title, "Grandfather of Virtual Reality."

Furness recently received the first-ever lifetime achievement award for his 50 years service in the field of virtual reality and augmented reality from the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California. In 2018, Furness was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

In addition to being a professor at the University of Washington, he is also the general manager and owner of the RATLab (Rocking and Thinking Laboratory), an engineering research and development company.

Early life
Born in Canton, North Carolina, on April 19, 1943, to Margaret Nash Furness and Thomas A. Furness Jr., Furness was the older of two boys. At a young age, Furness was driven, brilliant, and curious about technology. He spent much of his childhood disassembling and building electronics in a lab he built in the basement of his parents’ home. He won the state science fair as a teen, and graduated from Enka High School in 1961. Upon graduation, Furness went on to attend Duke University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering.

Career
He was commissioned in the Air Force and sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, from September 1966 to 1989. During this time, he developed advanced cockpits for fighter aircraft. It was also during this time that Furness completed his PhD at the University of Southampton in England (1977–79). Furness arrived at the University of Washington in the fall of 1989 and founded the Human Interface Technology Lab (HITLab).

Personal life
In 1965, Furness married his high school sweetheart Linda Pearce, and the two had 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren.

References

1943 births
Living people
21st-century American inventors
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni
University of Washington faculty
Virtual reality pioneers
Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015. The Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, sometimes referred to as the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) Act of 2015, is an update of the United States Government of its commercial space use, legislated in 2015. 
The update to US law explicitly allows US citizens and industries to "engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources" including water and minerals. The right does not extend to extraterrestrial life, so anything that is alive may not be exploited commercially.

Overview
The law was passed on May 21, 2015 to allow US industries to "engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources", but it asserts that "the United States does not [by this Act] assert sovereignty, or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body."  Some scholars argue that the United States recognizing ownership of space resources is an act of sovereignty, and that the act violates the Outer Space Treaty. This has created a controversy on claims and on mining rights for profit. The SPACE Act includes the extension of indemnification of US launch providers for extraordinary catastrophic third-party losses of a failed launch through 2025, while the previous indemnification law was scheduled to expire in 2016.  The Act also extends, through 2023, the "learning period" restrictions which limit the ability of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to enact regulations regarding the safety of spaceflight participants.  Indemnification for extraordinary third-party losses has, as of 2015, been a component of US space law for over 25 years, and during this time, "has never been invoked in any commercial launch mishap."

Businessweek has summarized one effect of the legislation as "American citizens could keep anything they brought back from space."

Legislative history 

Part of the origin of the law lies in the proposed Asteroids Act (H. R. 5063) introduced by Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL) and Derek Kilmer (D-WA) in July 2014. That act was supported by lobbying efforts by Planetary Resources, a Washington-based company that hopes to commercially mine asteroids. Additional lobbying by Deep Space Industries and Bigelow Resources, two other companies with commercial interests in space, helped the proposed Asteroids Act along, which was later rolled into the SPACE Act.

The House of Representatives passed the legislation in May 2015 and the Senate subsequently passed similar legislation. 
The legislation was reconciled between the House of Representatives and the Senate, then moved to the executive branch for signing or vetoing before 20 November 2015. 
President Obama signed the legislation into law on 25 November 2015.

See also
 Guano Islands Act
 Moon Treaty
 Outer Space Treaty
 Space law
 Timeline of private spaceflight

References 

Acts of the 114th United States Congress
2015
Private spaceflight
Commercial spaceflight