omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
CocoonJS. CocoonJS was a mobile development framework produced by Ludei, a San Francisco-based startup founded by serial entrepreneur Eneko Knörr. It enables software developers to build mobile apps using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, instead of device-specific languages such as Objective-C. It enables wrapping up of HTML, CSS and Javascript code depending upon the platform of the device. It extends the features of HTML and Javascript to work with the device. The platform is similar to Adobe PhoneGap but claims significant improvements.

Development on the framework stopped in 2017. Ludei ceased operations in 2019.

Engines with CocoonJS support 

 AngularJS
 Backbone.js
 Construct 2
 Famo.us
 Goo Engine
 Handlebars.js
 ImpactJS
 Ludei CAAT
 
 Panda.js
 Phaser
 Pixi.js
 PlayCanvas
 Wozlla

References

External links
 CocoonJS 
 Cocoon.io website 

Android (operating system) development software
BlackBerry development software
IOS development software
Rich web application frameworks
Take-off warning system. A take-off warning system or TOWS is a set of warning signals required on most commercial aircraft, designed to alert the pilots of potentially-dangerous errors in an aircraft's take-off configuration.

There are numerous systems on board an aircraft that must be set in the proper configuration to allow it to take off safely. Prior to every flight, the flight officers use checklists to verify that each of the many systems is operating and has been configured correctly. Due to the inevitability of human error, even the checklist procedure can lead to failures to properly configure the aircraft.

Several improper configurations can leave an aircraft completely unable to become airborne—these conditions can easily result in fatal hull loss accidents. In order to reduce this, all major nations now mandate something similar to the US requirement that on (nearly) "all airplanes with a maximum weight more than 6,000 pounds and all jets [...] a takeoff warning system must be installed". This system must meet the following requirements:

(a) The system must provide to the pilots an aural warning that is automatically activated during the initial portion of the takeoff roll if the airplane is in a configuration that would not allow a safe takeoff. The warning must continue until—

(1) The configuration is changed to allow safe takeoff, or

(2) Action is taken by the pilot to abandon the takeoff roll.

(b) The means used to activate the system must function properly for all authorized takeoff power settings and procedures and throughout the ranges of takeoff weights, altitudes, and temperatures for which certification is requested.

TOWS is designed to sound a warning for numerous other dangerous errors in the take-off configuration, such as the flaps and slats not being extended when the throttles are opened while the aircraft is on the ground. The alert is typically in the form of an audible warning horn accompanied by a voice message that indicates the nature of the configuration error.

See also
A number of aircraft disasters due to improper configuration have happened in spite of the presence of a functional take-off warning system:
 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
 LAPA Flight 3142
 Lufthansa Flight 540
 Mandala Airlines Flight 91
 Northwest Airlines Flight 255
 Spanair Flight 5022

References

Avionics
Warning systems
Applied Acoustics. Applied Acoustics (French: Acoustique Appliquée, German: Angewandte Akustik) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was established in 1968 by Elsevier, which continues to publish the journal bimonthly. This journal covers research and applications in all aspects of acoustics. The editor in chief is Shiu Keung Tang (University of Hull).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.4.

Abstracting and indexing
This journal is indexed by the following services:

Science Citation Index
Current Contents/ Engineering, Computing & Technology
Academic Onefile
Applied Mechanics Reviews
CSA (database company)
Ei Compendex
EBSCO Information Services
GeoRef
INSPEC
Scopus

External links
 Journal Homepage

References

Bimonthly journals
Acoustics journals
Elsevier academic journals
Engineering journals
The Wave (company). The Wave is a firm building artificial wave pools for surfing in England. The Wave: Bristol was opened in 2019, on the northern outskirts of the city. A second site, The Wave: London, is planned.

Development 
The founder of the project is Nick Hounsfield. The project was named  "The Wave: Bristol" in 2012, initially focusing on a site next to the Portway in Bristol. This site was rejected as it was not big enough. A  site on farmland at Easter Compton was selected in 2013, with artificial wave generation technology supplied by the Spanish company Wavegarden. A sustainability agenda for The Wave was created by Chris Hines MBE.

In August 2017, South Gloucestershire Council approved the £20 million scheme, which is designed to prioritise sustainability.  In October 2019 construction was completed.

Setting 
The Wave offers different sizes and styles of wave to suit different abilities, from 0.5m white water to 2m barrelling waves. The pool is divided into right and left sections, with waves breaking in opposite directions on each side.

The wave pool can provide up to 1,000 waves per hour. There is space for up to eighty users at a time. The dimensions of the pool are  long by  wide and  deep. 

Besides the wave pool, the scheme includes a clubhouse, lake, restaurant, camping ground, woodland trails, and gardens.

Renewable energy 
In 2023, The Wave installed an on-site solar array, which they claim will produce enough electricity to match demand from the facility. The waves themselves are generated using only sustainable energy.

See also 
Surf Snowdonia

References

External links 

Water parks in the United Kingdom
Proposed buildings and structures in England
Sports venues in Gloucestershire
Tourist attractions in South Gloucestershire District
Madigan-Hyland. Madigan-Hyland was an American engineering firm active in the New York City area, named for founders Michael J. ("Jack") Madigan and Richard V. Hyland. Their offices were located in Long Island City.

The firm's work in New York City was closely associated with the tenure of Robert Moses as NYC Parks Commissioner, and included many major elements of the city's infrastructure. They often worked in concert with architects, other engineers and specialty consultants to complete large and complex urban infrastructure projects.

Origins

Madigan (1894-1981) was a Danbury, Connecticut native who worked his way up in the construction industry without formal education and who did not complete high school. Hyland received his training as a civil engineer from Notre Dame University. The two met in 1927 and formed the firm shortly after, with Madigan providing business experience and New York City connections, complemented by Hyland's professional design expertise.

Madigan had met and impressed Robert Moses - then the president of the Long Island Park Commission - the year before while serving as superintendent on a portion of the development of Jones Beach State Park for another company.  During World War II, he was a special assistant to Robert Patterson, then the Undersecretary of War, and was awarded the Medal for Merit as acknowledgement of his efforts. Subsequent to the war, he became the World Bank's chief engineer from 1947-49 and again from 1951-67 at which point he retired from the industry.

Distinguished employees of the firm included Emil Praeger, a notable engineer and designer in his own right.

Selected work

West Side Elevated Highway
Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge
Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway
Tappan Zee Bridge
Pier 57 (1954), New York City, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

The firm was also part of a large team of consultants who contributed to the design of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, including principal designer Othmar Ammann, and was also involved in the later strengthening and widening of the bridge.

References

Engineering companies of the United States
I. I. Rabi Award. The I. I. Rabi Award, founded in 1983, is awarded annually by IEEE.

 "The Rabi Award is to recognize outstanding contributions related to the fields of atomic and molecular frequency standards, and time transfer and dissemination."

The award is named after Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winner in 1944. He was the first recipient of the award, for his experimental and theoretical work on atomic beam resonance spectroscopy.

Recipients 

 1983 - I. I. Rabi
 1984 - David W. Allan
 1985 - Norman Ramsey, Nobel Prize in 1989
 1986 - Jerrold R. Zacharias
 1987 - Louis Essen
 1988 - Gernot M. R. Winkler
 1989 - Leonard S. Cutler
 1990 - Claude Audoin
 1991 - Andrea De Marchi
 1992 - James A. Barnes
 1993 - Robert F. C. Vessot
 1994 - Jacques Vanier
 1995 - Fred L. Walls
 1996 - Andre Clairon and Robert E. Drullinger
 1997 - Harry E. Peters and Nikolai A. Demidov
 1998 - David J. Wineland, Nobel Prize in 2012
 1999 - Bernard Guinot
 2000 - William J. Riley Jr.
 2001 - Lute Maleki
 2002 - Jon H. Shirley
 2003 - Andreas Bauch
 2005 - Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Prize in 2005
 2004 - John L. Hall, Nobel Prize in 2005
 2006 - James C. Bergquist
 2007 - Patrick Gill and Leo Hollberg
 2008 - Hidetoshi Katori
 2009 - John D. Prestage
 2010 - Long Sheng Ma
 2011 - Fritz Riehle
 2012 - James Camparo
 2013 - Judah Levine
 2014 - Harald R. Telle
 2015 - Ulrich L. Rohde
 2016 - John Kitching
 2017 - Scott Diddams
 2018 - Jun Ye
 2019 - Steven Jefferts 
 2020 - Robert Lutwak
 2021 - Ekkehard Peik

See also

 List of physics awards

References

Physics awards
Awards established in 1983
Atomic physics
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
IEEE awards
Nemesis (car). The Nemesis is a Lotus Exige modified by British company Ecotricity. According to Dale Vince, the director of Ecotricity, the car was meant to "smash the boring, Noddy stereotype of the green car". It took two years, a team of F1 engineers, and  to make, including  of Dale Vince's own money.

Design
The Nemesis used the chassis of a Lotus Exige bought off eBay. The petrol engine was removed and replaced with two electric motors and a new transmission. Battery packs were strategically placed and the air ducts on the original body were removed, as they are not needed for electric propulsion. The exterior was painted grey with black and white stripes. The car has a range of  on a charge from a 36 kW⋅h battery. All the electricity the car used came from wind power produced by Ecotricity.  The car has a hypothetical top speed of  and can go  in 8.5 seconds.

Speed Record 
On 27 September 2012, the Nemesis recorded a top speed of  at Elvington Airfield in North Yorkshire, a feat that broke the land speed record for EVs (electric vehicles) in the UK. The previous record was .

External links 
 Interview with Dale Vince by Robert Llewellyn about the Nemisis in the Nemesis.

References 

Electric sports cars
The Karlskrona Manifesto. The Karlskrona Manifesto for sustainability design in software was created as an output of the Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy) held in Karlskrona, Sweden, co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'14). The manifesto arose from a suggestion in the paper by Christoph Becker, "Sustainability and Longevity: Two Sides of the Same Quality?" that sustainability is a common ground for several disciplines related to software, but that this commonality had not been mapped out and made explicit and that a focal point of reference would be beneficial.

The Karlskrona Manifesto can be split into nine principles:

 Sustainability is never isolated and can also be looked at globally. 
 Sustainability has multiple dimensions, so it is necessary to define which dimension is being looked at during analysis.
 Sustainability is multidisciplinary and requires multiple perspectives.
 When looking at sustainability, this should be done independently of the focus of the system. 
 Sustainability can be assessed by the system itself and how the system fits into the larger system.
 System status at different levels of usage is important for responsible decisions to be made with sustainable design.
 Identify the most effective way to be sustainable over alternative options at different levels to ensure the most sustainable choice is being made.
 The current generation shouldn't be compromised, however meeting the needs of the future generations is necessary when evaluating the most sustainable choice.
 Assessing software over a long term and consider decisions with this in mind.

These principles were later made into a catalogue to support software sustainable design.

External links
 Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy)
 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'14)
 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems
 Christoph Becker, Sustainability and Longevity: Two Sides of the Same Quality?
 Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Leticia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Martin Mahaux, Birgit Penzenstadler, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Camille Salinesi, Norbert Seyff, Colin Venters, Coral Calero, Sedef Akinli Kocak, Stefanie Betz, The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design
 Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design Official site

References

Sustainability
Software design
Dutchman (repair). A dutchman, or in some uses graving piece, is a matching piece of good material used to replace a relatively small damaged area that has been cut out of a larger item, to avoid having to replace the entire item; or, any of various techniques for accomplishing such a repair. In some cases, the meaning has been extended to include small pieces that are inserted between units of a larger structure as a planned part of the construction process, rather than as an ad hoc repair. The term is used in woodworking, masonry, railroading, boatbuilding, theater, and other fields.

Uses

Woodworking 
In construction and woodworking, a dutchman can refer to an inset wood patch used to repair wood. Typically a square inset is cut into the damaged area and a new piece of wood is glued into the inset.

Masonry 
In stone masonry, a Dutchman is an inset selectively replacing only the fault in a stone with new stone material, usually matching adjacent material as closely as possible.

Shipbuilding
In shipbuilding, boat-building and ship's carpentry, a dutchman repair can refer to repairs in metal as well as wood. The term Dutchman was first used in shipbuilding.

Railroading 
In railroading, a dutchman is colloquially a short air brake extension hose or a temporary rail repair.

A rail repair dutchman is typically a  long piece of rail that is cut in advance for the purpose and carried by a section crew. If the gang finds a rail with a chipped or broken end, they remove the connector plates (fishplates), cut out the damaged section, replace it with the dutchman, and bolt the connectors back in place. This is often only a temporary repair.

When welding rails together using the Thermite process began at the start of the 20th century, a section of railhead approximately  long, also called a dutchman, was often placed between the sections being joined, with only the web and foot of the rail being new Thermite steel.

Theater
The term is also used in theatrical scenery construction, where a dutchman is a strip of material, usually canvas or muslin, used to cover the joint between two adjoining surfaces (such as flats). The strip is then painted or textured to match the adjoining pieces and create a seamless effect.   Warp or weft threads can be removed from the edge of the dutchman to allow the edges to feather into the surrounding surface.    On canvas flats, dutchman is usually applied with diluted white glue or paint.

Boilermaking 
In the boiler industry, "dutchman" refers to the replacement section of tubing used to repair a tube failure.

References 

Maintenance
Distributed Processing Technology. Distributed Processing Technology Corporation (DPT) was an American computer hardware company active from 1977 to 1999. Founded in Maitland, Florida, DPT was an early pioneer in computer storage technology, popularizing the use of disk caching in the 1980s and 1990s.

History

DPT was founded in Maitland, Florida, by Steve Goldman in 1977. The company was the first to design, manufacture and sell microprocessor-based intelligent caching disk controllers to the OEM computer market. Prior to DPT, disk caching technology had been implemented in proprietary hardware in mainframe computing to improve the speed of disk access.

DPT's products popularized the use of disk caching in the 1980s. The company was also a pioneering designer of RAID controller ASICs. According to Bill Brothers, Unix product manager at the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), a computer operating system vendor, "The kind of performance those guys (DPT) produce is phenomenal. It's unlike any other product on the market."

Goldman served as the president and chief executive officer from DPT's inception until the company was acquired by Adaptec in November 1999 for US$236 million. Adaptec completed their acquisition of DPT in December 1999.

Further reading 
Floppy controller speeds access with cache
Caching Disk Controller Relieves System Bottlenecks
Disk Controller Unburdens Real Time Applications

References

External links
 

Computer companies established in 1977
Computer companies disestablished in 1999
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
1977 establishments in Florida
1999 disestablishments in Florida
RAID
SCSI
Browser-based computing. Browser-based computing is the use of the web browsers to perform computing tasks. Opportunities for computing on the Web have been noted as far back as 1997. Computing over the web was described in 2000. Applications include distributed computing for web workers as illustrated by James (formerly CrowdProcess) and HASH, the use of the browser's stack in QMachine, the embedding of web applications as semantic hypermedia components and  the Signaling Server in Peer-to-peer networks set via WebRTC. Browser-based computing complements cloud computing, because they reduce server-side computational load, often using cloud-hosted, RESTful web services.

References

Distributed computing architecture
Donald R. Uhlmann. Donald Robert Uhlmann (b. 1936) is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Optical Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Uhlmann holds a BS degree in physics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than two decades, eventually holding its Cabot Professorship of Materials, before moving to the University of Arizona

He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and of the U.K. Society of Glass Technology. He has been elected a member of the Academy of Ceramics. He was also elected as a member into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1996 for achievements in glass technology and in optical and structural applications of glass. He is a Trustee of the Ernst Abbe Foundation and on the Advisory Board of the Institute fur Neue Materialien, both located in Germany, and is a director of Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.

He has published over 400 technical papers, and is the author or editor of over 10 books.

References

External links 
 Donald R. Uhlmann | College of Optical Sciences | The University of Arizona
 Facilities
 Dr. Donald R. Uhlmann

1935 births
Living people
Yale College alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
21st-century American engineers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
University of Arizona faculty
Fellows of the American Ceramic Society
Bundle branches. The bundle branches, or Tawara branches, transmit cardiac action potentials (electrical signals) from the bundle of His to Purkinje fibers in heart ventricles. They are offshoots of the bundle of His and are important to the electrical conduction system of the heart.

Structure 

There are two branches of the bundle of His: the left bundle branch and the right bundle branch, both of which are located along the interventricular septum. The left bundle branch further divides into the left anterior fascicle and the left posterior fascicle. These structures lead to a network of thin filaments known as Purkinje fibers. They play an integral role in the electrical conduction system of the heart by transmitting cardiac action potentials to the Purkinje fibers.

Clinical significance 

When a bundle branch or their fascicles becomes injured (by underlying heart disease, myocardial infarction, or cardiac surgery), it may cease to conduct electrical impulses appropriately, resulting in altered pathways for ventricular depolarization. This condition is known as a bundle branch block.

History 

The bundle branches were separately described by Retzer and Braeunig as early as 1904, but their physiological function remained unclear and their role in the electrical conduction system of the heart remained unknown until Sunao Tawara published his monograph on Das Reizleitungssystem des Säugetierherzens (English: The Conduction System of the Mammalian Heart) in 1906. Although Tawara's monograph had demonstrated that the branches of the bundle of His may transmit cardiac action potentials to the ventricles, the functional proof for his observation was not provided until 1910, when Hans Eppinger and Carl Julius Rothberger showed that cutting off both branches to induce a bilateral bundle branch block results in a complete heart block.

References

Further reading

Cardiac anatomy