omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Roderick Lim. Roderick Y. H. Lim is a Singaporean nano- and biophysicist at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Life 
Lim studied physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2003 he obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore for research carried out at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. This was followed by postdoctoral work at the M.E. Mueller Institute for Structural Biology at the Biozentrum until 2008. In 2009, he was appointed Argovia Professor for nanobiology at the Biozentrum and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, where he received tenure in early 2014.

Work 
Lim is interested in nucleocytoplasmic transport regulation, its impact on cellular function, and how this phenomenon can be leveraged towards bio-inspired applications. He studies how karyopherin receptors facilitate this highly rapid and selective process through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). Lim combines biophysical, nanotechnological, and cellular approaches to unravel the emergent physical principles that underlie biological function and then verify the results in biomimetic systems. His key contributions include a karyopherin-centric model of the NPC and the discovery of two-dimensional transport control in artificial systems. Of late, he has gravitated towards mechanobiology, in particular cell motility and cancer progression. Lim is a co-inventor of ARTIDIS ("Automated and Reliable Tissue Diagnostics"), an atomic force microscope-based innovation for cancer diagnosis.

Awards and honors
2008 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize

References

External links 
 

Living people
People from Singapore
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
National University of Singapore alumni
Academic staff of the University of Basel
University of Basel alumni
Biozentrum University of Basel
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Dietrich-Gobiet DP.VII. The Dietrich-Gobiet DP.VII was a simple, low power, German sports aircraft flown in early 1924.

Design and development

The low-powered DP.VII was a simple, easily transportable, low-wing monoplane intended to make sports aviation more widely accessible.  It had a simple, thick section wing, essentially rectangular in plan apart from blunted, angled tips.  This had two main wooden box spars and was braced to the upper fuselage on each side with an inverted V-form pair of struts from the upper fuselage longerons to the spars at about one-third span. Unusually, the one-piece wing structure passed through the deep fuselage above the lower longerons and could be extracted in a few minutes then transported away  on a pair of trestles normally stowed inside the DP.VII. The aircraft had long-span ailerons filling about two-thirds of the wing.

The simple, flat-sided fuselage was a steel-tube structure with four longerons, linked by welded struts, defining the shape. Internal piano wire bracing stiffened the fuselage, which was fabric-covered.  The open cockpit was over the rear wing and was large enough for a passenger to sit behind the pilot, straddling a box seat. Though the power was low, the structure was light and the load/empty weight ratio (0.89) was noted as high. At the time, the installation of the  air-cooled Haacke HFM-2 engine was seen as particularly clean, with only the upper cylinders projecting out of the cowling.

The DP.VII's mainwheels were mounted on a single axle, conventionally rubber sprung to a cross member attached to the lower fuselage longerons by a V-form pair of struts on each side. Less conventionally, the undercarriage structure was braced by another, transverse, V-strut from the cross piece centre to the longerons. There was a sprung tail skid at the rear.

The exact date of the DP.VII's first flight is not certain, but the prototype had been well tested by late May 1924 and there were plans to put it into quantity production. At almost the same time, Dietrich-Gobiet were developing the DP.VIIA which, despite the similar designation, was a larger-span, parasol-wing monoplane.  It had a similar fuselage and empennage to the DP.VII but a much more powerful engine, a Siemens-Halske Sh 4 five-cylinder radial producing about .  This aircraft was on display at the Third International Aero Show at Prague in early June 1924. Few of either type seem to have been produced.

Variants
DP.VII Low-wing monoplane, powered by a  Haacke HFM 2 flat-twin engine. 
DP.VIIA Parasol-wing monoplane, powered by a   Siemens-Halske Sh 4 radial engine, with 20% greater span and 50% heavier loaded weight. Based on the Stahlwerk Mark R.III.

Specifications (DP.VII)

References

1920s German sport aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Vittorio Croizat. Victor (Vittorio) Croizat (1856–1915) was an engineer and industrial entrepreneur who figured prominently in the early development of public lighting and the Italian automotive industry in Turin (Torino).

Early life
Croizat was born in Chambéry, France, to Joeseph Croizat and Clémence Vautaret. In December 1889, he married Marie Chaley in Ceyzérieu, France. French engineer Joseph Chaley was a great uncle to both Marie and Victor. Soon after their marriage, Victor and Marie emigrated to Turin, where Victor was employed by the city to develop and implement a street/city lighting plan.

Career

Lighting
Croizat worked as an engineer in Turin, specializing in electric and gas lighting. He obtained multiple patents (in Germany and the United States, at a minimum) for gas lighting and heat exchange apparatuses. He published articles regarding industrial uses of acetylene, Scattered evidence of his work in public lighting indicates that he worked in Constanta, Romania, and on a design for a lighthouse oil lamp at Cape Guardafui in Somalia.

Transport

Croizat was a pioneer in the automobile industry of northern Italy; after licensing motor designs from Peugeot, he founded Automobili Peugeot SA Brevetti to produce new automobiles under the brand Peugeot-Croizat. The company used modified versions of the Peugeot designs, and operated from 1905 to 1907. Croizat was also a dealer for Rambler bicycles.

Croizat also was an investor in early oil refining efforts in Italy, and owned the Piano d'Orta oil refinery.

Personal life
Victor and Marie had several children; one, Léon Croizat, became a pioneer in botany and evolutionary theory.

References

Italian automotive pioneers
Italian automobile designers
Italian people of French descent
1856 births
1915 deaths
Robert Halligan. Robert W. Halligan (1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American engineer and information officer of the California Department of Transportation. During his 45-year career there, he helped state Highway 24, and convinced CalTrans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bay Bridge by stringing lights on the cables of the suspension spans – a temporary change which later became permanent.

He was also known for his enthusiasm and showmanship: Known as a "walking museum of transportation lore", he moved from engineering to public affairs in the 1960s, where he arranged to have airplanes land on new freeways, orchestrated parades of covered wagons, and even antique car caravans, and high school bands.  He was responsible for highway 280's designation as "The world's most beautiful freeway".

Robin Williams Tunnel

Halligan is most remembered for convincing the agency to paint a rainbow on the Robin Williams Tunnel, on Highway 101 between Mill Valley and the Golden Gate Bridge, since he thought it would be nicer to welcome commuters driving back to the North Bay at the end of the day, when the highway planners were spending a lot of time thinking about the aesthetics and design of the roads in the 1960s and 70s.

References

External links
 
 Robert Halligan Transportation Museum

1926 births
1999 deaths
People from Albion, Nebraska
20th-century American engineers
California Department of Transportation
PL-6. PL-6 is a discontinued system programming language based on PL/I.  PL-6 was developed by Honeywell, Inc. in the late 1970s as part of the project to develop the CP-6 operating system, a follow-on to Xerox CP-V to run on Honeywell Series 60 and DPS-8 systems.

Description

Data types

PL-6 has no provision for floating point data.

Aggregates
Arrays are one dimensional and zero-based, with the zero specified explicitly.  For example, DCL x (0:4) SBIN; declares an array of five signed 36-bit integers.  The elements are numbered x(0), x(1),...,x(4).

Structures are also supported.  For example:

 DCL 1 struct,
       2 a,
         3 b CHAR(3),
         3 * CHAR(1),
       2 c CHAR(4);

declares a structure named struct consisting to two elements: a minor structure a consisting of a three-character field b and an unnamed one-character element ("*" indicates the element is unnamed), and a four-character element c.

The top level of the structure must be 1, and the remaining levels 2–10, if used, have to be specified in order with no levels skipped.

References

External links
 

Systems programming languages
Procedural programming languages
Programming languages created in the 1970s
Honeywell mainframe computers
Sumant Moolgaokar. Sumant Moolgaokar (5 March 1906 – 1 July 1989) also known as SM was an Indian industrialist, known as architect of Tata Motors. He was the chief executive of Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO). also was vice-chairman of Tata Steel

and served as non-executive chairman of Maruti Suzuki.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, third-highest civilian honour by the Government of India in 1990.  

He started his career as an engineer in CP cement, located at kymore a small town in Madhya Pradesh now known as ACC kymore cement works where he worked from 1932–33 later he joined TATA group. He established Kymore engineering institute now known as Sumant Moolgaokar Training Institute on 17 March 1957 it has many departments in many disciplines from instrumentation to welding which are the core maintenance requirements for cement plants then it was first training Institute of its kind in India especially  for cement industry. In his memory Sumant Moolgaokar Stadium opened at Telco Colony, Jamshedpur.
The Tata Sumo vehicle, launched in 1994, was named after him.

References

1906 births
1989 deaths
Marathi people
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry
Businesspeople from Mumbai
Tata Motors people
German submarine U-1208. German submarine U-1208 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.
She was laid down on 30 June 1943 by Schichau-Werke, Danzig as yard number 1578, launched on 13 January 1944 and commissioned on 6 April 1944 under Korvettenkapitän Georg Hagene.

Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-1208 had a displacement of  when at the surface and  while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of  for use while surfaced, two AEG GU 460/8–27 double-acting electric motors producing a total of  for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two  propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .

The submarine had a maximum surface speed of  and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for  at ; when surfaced, she could travel  at . U-1208 was fitted with five  torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes, one  SK C/35 naval gun, (220 rounds), one  Flak M42 and two twin  C/30 anti-aircraft guns. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.

Service history
The boat's career began with training at 8th U-boat Flotilla on 6 April 1944, followed by active service on 1 January 1945 as part of the 11th Flotilla for the remainder of her short service.

In one patrol she sank one merchant ship, for a total of .

Wolfpacks
U-1208 took part in no wolfpacks.

Fate
U-1208 was sunk on 24 February 1945 in the English Channel in position , by depth charges from Royal Navy frigates  and . All hands were lost.

Summary of raiding history

References

Bibliography

External links

German Type VIIC submarines
1944 ships
U-boats commissioned in 1944
Submarines lost with all hands
U-boats sunk in 1945
U-boats sunk by depth charges
U-boats sunk by British warships
World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
World War II submarines of Germany
Ships built in Danzig
Maritime incidents in February 1945
Ships built by Schichau
International Requirements Engineering Conference. The International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.

The RE conference originally started as two alternating biennial conferences. 
 The first of these was the International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE), starting in 1993. 
 The second was the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), starting in 1994. In 2002, these two conference series merged under the name Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'02).  
Also starting in 2002, the conference venue began rotating between three general locations: Europe, North America, and a non-European, non-North American location.  Since 2003, the conference series has been known as the International Requirements Engineering Conference.

List of Conferences
Past and future RE conferences include:

Most Influential Paper Award

Beginning with the 11th RE in 2003, an award was given for the paper deemed to be the most influential paper published from the conference held 10 years earlier.  The judging for this award is done by the program committee for the current conference.  If more than one award is given, the papers receiving the awards are categorized.

References

Software engineering conferences
Methyl 2-fluoroacrylate. Methyl 2-fluoroacrylate (MFA) is a chemical compound classified as an acrylate ester. The molecular formula is C4H5FO2 and the molecular weight is 104.08. The systematic name of this chemical is methyl 2-fluoroprop-2-enoate. It is used in industrial chemistry to produce acrylate polymers with mechanical and optical properties, and insect antifeedant 2-azabicyclo[2.1.1]hexane.

Hazards

MFA is highly flammable and can be harmful if inhaled, in contact with skin, or if swallowed. It is irritating to eyes, respiratory system, and skin.

References

Methyl esters
Monomers
Organofluorides
Acrylate esters
Dematerialization (products). The dematerialization of a product literally means less, or better yet, no material is used to deliver the same level of functionality to the user. Sharing, borrowing and the organization of group services that facilitate and cater for communities needs could alleviate the requirement of ownership of many products.

In his book In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World, John Thakara states that "the average consumer power tool is used for ten minutes in its entire life—but it takes hundreds of times its own weight to manufacture such an object". A product service system with shared tools could simply offer access to them when needed. This shift from a reliance on products to services is the process of dematerialization. Digital music distribution systems, car clubs, bike hire schemes and laundry services all can be examples of dematerialization.

References

External links
 Dematerialization pattern from the Liberating Voices pattern language discusses problems and solutions related to dematerialization

Technological change
Industrial ecology
Waste minimisation
Environmental social science concepts
ADMIE. Independent Power Transmission Operator S.A. (IPTO or ADMIE from "ΑΔΜΗΕ" - Ανεξάρτητος Διαχειριστής Μεταφοράς Ηλεκτρικής Ενέργειας A.E. in Greek) is the Transmission System Operator for the Hellenic Electricity Transmission System. The mission of the company is the operation, control, maintenance and development of the national transmission system of Greece to ensure the reliable and efficient electricity supply, as well as the operation of the electricity market following the principles of transparency and equality.

Since February 2012 it is independent in operation and management, retaining the necessary independence required for compliance with 2009/72/EC EU Directive.
Till the end of June 2017 it was a wholly owned subsidiary of Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC S.A.).
As of June 20, 2017 ADMIE follows the model of proprietary separated Administrator (Ownership Unbundling) and is fully harmonized with the Directive 2009/72/EC.

The current shareholder structure of ADMIE is as follows:
51% ADMIE HOLDINGS Inc., 
25% DES ADMIE S.A., 
24% State Grid Europe Limited.

Until 31 January 2012, ADMIE was a joint company with the Hellenic Electricity Market Operator S.A. (now called LAGIE) under the name "Hellenic Transmission System Operator S.A.".

ADMIE's compliance with the requirements applicable to the model of the Independent Transmission Operator was certified by the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) in December 2012.

ADMIE S.A. is a member of ENTSO-E (the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity).

In summer 2022 analysts said that if Russian gas was completely stopped ADMIE would struggle to cope.

Privatization 
The Greek Bailout Agreement in July 2015 includes the privatization of ADMIE.

For this purpose, ADMIE is to be split from PPC S.A., with a 51% stake to be transferred to the Greek State and a 49% stake to be sold, including a stake of at least 29% to be offered to strategic Investors.

On 21 October 2016, a consortium formed by Terna S.p.A. and F2i SGR S.p.A. (both with 50% stakes) submitted a binding offer for the acquisition of a 24% stake in ADMIE. Finally, the 24% of the company was sold to the State Grid Corporation of China.

See also

 Energy in Greece

References

External links

Electric power transmission system operators in Greece
Jabal Hamzah ballistic missile test and launch facility. Ballistic missile test and launch facility was built in the late 1950s and it is the oldest functioning ballistic missile installation in the developing world, located near Jabal Hamzah  west-northwest of Cairo.

History 
After Egypt's defeat in 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt started the missile program and became interested in ballistic missiles after the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the 1956 Suez Crisis, as the importance of ballistic missiles had arisen to penetrate Israeli airspace.

Egypt attempted to acquire ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union but failed and then Egypt focused on the indigenous rocket program that was developed by German scientists based on German V-2, Wasserfall and the French Véronique rockets technology in 1960.

During the late 1950s, Egypt constructed the Jabal Hamzah ballistic missile facility to conduct test fires.

Chronology of events at Jabal Hamzah ballistic missile facility 
 July 1962 - four successful test flights of single stage, liquid fueled rockets of Al Zafir and Al Kahir SRBMs.
 23 September 1971 - launch of Al Kahir rocket.
 6 October 1973 - launch of Al Kahir rocket.

Overview 
In 2010, an analysis had been published using satellite imagery from commercial sources that shows between 2001 and 2009, Jabal Hamzah facility experienced an increase in activity and expansion as new constructions took place including a new missile launch pad and horizontal processing building.

See also 
 List of rocket launch sites

References 

Military history of Egypt
Military installations of Egypt
Rocket launch sites in Egypt
Vikram Sheel Kumar. Vikram Sheel Kumar (born 1976) is an American engineer, doctor, and entrepreneur.

Early life and education
Vikram Kumar was born in the United States to an Indian-American family. His father was a neurosurgeon. As a child, the family returned to India, where Kumar attended the Modern School in New Delhi. After graduation, he studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology.

In 1996, Kumar returned to the United States and received a BS in operations research from Columbia University in 1999. He then studied medicine and business at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, which was supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

Career
In 2002, Kumar co-founded Dimagi, a for-profit software company which develops open-source software technology for doctors in impoverished areas. Kumar currently serves as the company's Chief Medical Officer (CMO). He also co-founded Cogito Corp, a startup which uses a mobile-phone-based voice analysis system to determine the mental health patterns of patients, and Ozorie, which manufactures pain relief, rapid healing, and hair revival products.

In 2004, Technology Review named him one of the world's top 100 innovators under 35 in biotechnology and medicine, and awarded him the "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award. In 2005, he received the Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) award.

In 2005, Kumar was one of the judges on the MIT Technology Review contest, which found a series of proposed refutations of the strategies for engineered negligible senescence approach to biomedical gerontology had not succeeded.

In 2007, Kumar completed a residency as a clinical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He then returned to India to help his ailing father, who owned Doctor Kares Hospital, a super-specialty hospital in New Delhi, manage his business. While in India, Kumar also founded another startup. After his father's death, he returned to Boston to better manage Dimagi.

In 2017, Kumar co-founded Clear Creek Bio to develop a dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) inhibitor, called brequinar, for leukemia. The company is also studying brequinar as an oral antiviral drug for SARS-CoV-2. Kumar currently serves as the CEO of Clear Creek Bio. As of now, he lives in Boston, with his wife and two children.

References

 Dr. Vikram Sheel Kumar. Dimagi
 Healthy Thinking | Vikram Kumar BS'99 - Columbia University
 Vikram Sheel Kumar - Economic Times.
 NRI doctor is one of the 2005 Ten Young Outstanding Americans (TOYA Awards)
 India no longer a hot destination for jobs: NRIs disillusioned; many flee after impulsive return

Living people
1976 births
Columbia University alumni
Harvard Medical School alumni
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows