omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Valeport Limited. Valeport Limited is a manufacturer of instrumentation for the hydrographic, hydrometric and oceanographic industries.

History

Valeport was founded near Dartmouth, in Devon in 1969  by Jim Stevens and originally sold the Braystoke Flow Meter, an impeller-type device which was used in the feasibility study for the Thames Barrier. The popularity of this led to an expansion of the company into other types of flow meters and accessories.
Valeport was then purchased in 1982 by Oceonics Group PLC before their flotation, which led to an expansion of Valeport's expertise to include CTD measurement. Oceonics sold Valeport in 1985 in a management buyout to the current chairman, Charles Quartley. The business remains solely owned by Charles Quartley and his immediate family.

Since 2005, Charles Quartley’s son Matthew took over the role of managing director from his father. In 2010, Matthew Quartley was awarded the annual Association of Marine Scientific Industries|Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) “Businessperson of the Year”  award  for being an “excellent example of the new generation of business people who are entering this dynamic industry and taking it to new heights”.

Valeport has greatly expanded since its founding in 1969: having outgrown its original site in Dartmouth, in 2003 the company moved to its current location on the banks of the River Dart at Totnes. From 2003 to 2012, Valeport’s annual turnover nearly quadrupled to £6.7m.  This continued growth led to Valeport investing £2.5m in a new, 16,000 sq. ft. manufacturing building adjacent to the original building in Totnes in 2013.

Customer base
Valeport's customer base includes business and individuals from the academic, environmental (including the monitoring of animal movements), military, oil and gas, renewable, construction, dredging and civil engineering sectors. Notable projects have included the installing of a tide gauge network for the Port of London Authority (PLA), and providing CTD sensor heads for the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), part of the University of St Andrews.

As of 2010, 72% of Valeport’s products are exported overseas annually, up from 60% in 2007.

The Totnes Pound

In 2014, an image of Valeport’s technologies was included on the Totnes Pound’s £t21 note.  Notable individuals pictured on the Totnes Pound notes currently include mathematician, philosopher and inventor Charles Babbage, musician Ben Howard, and author Mary Wesley.

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Manufacturing companies of England
Companies based in Devon
Manufacturing companies established in 1969
Murata Boy and Murata Girl. Murata Boy and Murata Girl are two self-balancing robots developed by Murata Manufacturing, a Japanese electronic components company. The company developed the robots to showcase a range of their products and generate publicity. The robots are designed to be as energy-efficient as possible, both in their basic technological components and through features like automatic sleep mode.

Murata Boy
Murata Boy is a bicycle-riding robot which, standing 50 cm tall and weighing 5 kg, can travel at a speed up to 2 km per hour. It can balance on the bike moving forwards, backwards, and when remaining still (without planting his feet on the ground). The robot is equipped with:
 gyro sensors (for stability and redressing)
 a shock sensor (for impact detection)
 an angular velocity sensor
 a temperature monitor
 a CCD camera
 an ultrasonic sensor (for obstacle detection)
 an infrared sensor (for detecting human movement)
 an EMI filter (to reduce electronic interference)
 Wi-Fi and energy-efficient close-distance bluetooth modules (for interaction)
Murata Boy was listed on TIME magazine's list of Best Inventions of 2006.

Murata Girl
Murata Girl is a unicycle-riding robot released in 2008, standing 50 cm tall and weighing 6 kg that can travel at a speed of 5 cm per second and can ride along a balance beam. She is equipped with the following:
 gyro sensors (for stability and redressing)
 a shock sensor (for impact detection)
 a temperature monitor
 a CCD camera
 an ultrasonic sensor (for obstacle detection)
 an infrared sensor (for detecting human movement)
 Wi-Fi and energy-efficient close-distance bluetooth modules

References

Best Balance Bike

External links
 Description page on Murata's official website

2005 robots
Humanoid robots
Robotics in Japan
Best Balance Bike
Michael Segal. Michael Segal (Hebrew: מיכאל סגל; Russian: Михаил Сегал, born 1972 in Kishinev, USSR) is a professor of Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, known for his work in ad-hoc and sensor networks.

Career 
After completing his undergraduate studies at Ben-Gurion University in 1994, Segal received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University in 2000 under the supervision of Klara Kedem. The topic of his PhD Dissertation was: Covering point sets and accompanying problems.

After continuing his studies with David G. Kirkpatrick at University of British Columbia, and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Studies  he joined the faculty at Ben-Gurion University in 2000, where he also served as the head of the Communication Systems Engineering department between 2005 and 2010.
He is known (equally with his coauthors) for being first to analyze the analytical performance of the well-known Least Cluster
Change (LCC) algorithm that is widely used in ad hoc networks for re-clustering in order to reduce the number of modifications. He also was one of the first to introduce and analyze the construction of multi-criteria spanners for ad hoc networks.

Segal has published nearly 200 scientific papers and was a recipient of the Toronto Prize for Research in 2010.
He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Computer and System Sciences.
Currently he is heading the Engineering program studies in Eilat campus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has served several times as a head of the University Regulations Committee and Disciplinary court.
Along with his Ben-Gurion University professorship, he held visiting professor positions at Cambridge University, University of Liverpool and Lancaster University.
Prof. Segal is the member of the Committee for Information and Communication Technology Standards of Standards Institute of Israel.

References

1972 births
Living people
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Schleicher ASG 32. The ASG 32 is a Two Seater Class glider manufactured by Alexander Schleicher. The prototype had its maiden flight in Poppenhausen on 31 May 2014. Deliveries began in 2015.

Design and development 
The ASG 32 is a two-seat mid-wing sailplane of composite construction, it has a retractable landing wheel and a horizontal tail mounted atop the vertical fin (T-tail).

The aircraft was announced in April 2013, with the intention that it would fill the gap between the ASK 21 trainer and the larger Schleicher ASH 30 Open Class two seater.  The ASG 32 meets the requirements of the FAI 20 metre Two-Seater Class. Pure sailplane, motorized self-launching and sustainer engine versions were announced.

Construction of the prototype started in 2013, during which the fuselage and tailplane were displayed. The maiden flight was on 31 May 2014, piloted by the designer Michael Greiner and the Schleicher CEO, Peter Kremer.

The electrically powered variant of the ASG 32 will be delivered after the other variants.

The ASG 32 and ASG 32 Mi were awarded an EASA Type Certificate on 11 February 2016.

Variants 

Data from Schleicher 
ASG 32	The pure sailplane, without any engine.
ASG 32 Mi	The motor glider aircraft, capable of self launching with a retractable engine and propeller mounted in the centre fuselage.
ASG 32 El	The electrically propelled motor glider aircraft, capable of sustaining flight for an expected  under engine power.

Specifications (ASG 32 Mi)

See also 

Schempp-Hirth Arcus

References

Notes

Citations 

https://www.nightofscience.de/dynasite.cfm?dsmid=514304

External links 

Schleicher website

2010s German sailplanes
Schleicher aircraft
Motor gliders
Electric aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2014
T-tail aircraft
Wankel-engined aircraft
Aart den Boer. Aart den Boer (30 December 1852 in Nieuw-Lekkerland – 11 May 1941) was a Dutch architect and contractor.

Life 
Den Boer began his career as a carpenter and, through evening classes, became teacher of technical drawings (and later superintendent of construction). He was also an assistant to C. Smit, director of the shipping company Reederij op de Lek, which ran paddleboat services on the river Lek to Rotterdam.

He designed the steam oil mill "De Toekomst" ("The Future" in Dutch) and the retirement home of L. en N. Smit's foundation that was built in 1885 in Nieuw-Lekkerland which was later used from 1958 to 1996 as town hall. Aart, along with his brother Jan, founded the concrete factory J. & A. den Boer in 1883 in Nieuw-Lekkerland, which was established there until 2019. Aart den Boer was active as councilor and deputy mayor of Nieuw-Lekkerland and chairman of the school board of a Christian school.

References

1852 births
1941 deaths
19th-century Dutch architects
20th-century Dutch architects
People from Nieuw-Lekkerland
Bicentenary University of Aragua. The "Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua" (UBA) is a private institution of higher education in Turmero, Aragua State, Venezuela.

Undergraduate degrees offered:

Engineering Faculty

Systems engineering
Electrical engineering

Faculty of Management and Social Sciences

Administration
Public Accounting
Social Communication
Psychology

Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences

Law

Private universities and colleges in Venezuela
Universities and colleges established in 1986
1986 establishments in Venezuela
Hendrik Tolman. Hendrik Lieuwe Tolman (born 16 January 1961, in Leeuwarden) is the original developer of the WAVEWATCH III (tm) wind wave model.

Tolman studied civil engineering at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, where he wrote in 1985 his master thesis under de guidance of prof. Jurjen Battjes on the design of a measurement platform in the surf zone.

He has been the branch chief for the Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch in the US National Weather Service of NOAA since 2007, having joined the branch in 1992.

References

1961 births
Living people
Dutch civil engineers
American civil engineers
Dutch oceanographers
Delft University of Technology alumni
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel
People from Leeuwarden
Dutch emigrants to the United States
BadUSB. BadUSB is a computer security attack using USB devices that are programmed with malicious software. For example, USB flash drives can contain a programmable Intel 8051 microcontroller, which can be reprogrammed, turning a USB flash drive into a malicious device. This attack works by programming the fake USB flash drive to emulate a keyboard. Once it is plugged into a computer, it is automatically recognized and allowed to interact with the computer. It can then initiate a series of keystrokes which open a command window and issue commands to download malware.

The BadUSB attack was first revealed during a Black Hat talk in 2014 by Karsten Nohl, Sascha Krißler and Jakob Lell.  Two months after the talk, other researchers published code that can be used to exploit the vulnerability. In 2017, version 1.0 of the USG dongle, which acts like a hardware firewall, was released, which is designed to prevent BadUSB style attacks.

Criminal usage 

In March 2020, the FBI issued a warning that members of the FIN7 cybercrime group had been targeting companies in the retail, restaurant, and hotel industries with BadUSB attacks designed to deliver REvil or BlackMatter ransomware.  Packages have been sent to employees in IT, executive management, and human resources departments.   One intended target was sent a package in the mail which contained a fake gift card from Best Buy as well as a USB flash drive with a letter stating that the recipient should plug the drive into their computer to access a list of items that could be purchased with the gift card.  When tested, the USB drive emulated a keyboard, and then initiated a series of keystrokes which opened a PowerShell window and issued commands to download malware to the test computer, and then contacted servers in Russia.

In January 2022, the FBI issued another warning that members of FIN7 were targeting transportation and insurance companies (since August 2021), and defense companies (since November 2021), with BadUSB attacks designed to deliver REvil or BlackMatter ransomware. These targets were sent USB drives in packages claiming to be from Amazon or the United States Department of Health and Human Services, with letters talking about free gift cards or COVID-19 protocols that were purportedly further explained by information on the USB drive. As above, when plugged in, the USB drives emulate a keyboard, and then initiate a series of keystrokes which open a PowerShell window and issue commands to download malware.

See also 

 Juice jacking

Further reading

References

Further reading 
 

USB
Computer security exploits
Thomas Paulay. Thomas Paulay   (26 May 1923 – 28 June 2009) was a Hungarian-New Zealand earthquake engineer.

Academic career
Trained as chemical engineer, after fleeing Hungary to West Germany, Paulay arrived in New Zealand in 1951, and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1957. After a PhD 'The coupling of shear walls', in 1961, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury, where he spent many years studying the seismic behaviour and design of structures.

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paulay was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to civil engineering.

Paulay delivered the fourth Mallet–Milne memorial lecture for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London in 1993.

Selected works
 Seismic design of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, 
 Simplicity and confidence in seismic design, 
 Reinforced concrete structures,

References

External links
 google scholar 
 institutional homepage 

1923 births
2009 deaths
People from Sopron
Hungarian emigrants to New Zealand
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury alumni
New Zealand civil engineers
New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Naturalised citizens of New Zealand
Hungarian military personnel of World War II
8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon. The Oerlikon-Bührle 8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon (8 cm aircraft rocket) is an 80-mm rocket produced in Switzerland by Oerlikon-Buehrle. Developed from 1947 to 1952  and used until 1991 by the Swiss Air Force under the name Oe85.

Overview

The rocket consists essentially of three parts:
 The drive unit with the solid rocket fuel inside and four tail fins and two mounting devices with which the rocket is attached to the weapon carrier.
 The warhead, Optional is a high-explosive fragmentation and hollow-charge or for training an inert warhead.
 The impact fuse.
From the rocket exists also a "Manipulier" (training / inert) version, they have no explosives and no rocket propellant, however, are identical to the real projectile in the shape, aerodynamic and weight.
It was used on the de Havilland Venom and Hawker Hunter fighters. The use in the FFA P-16 was planned, but it was only used for trials and testing of the P-16 prototypes because these aircraft never went into serial production. 
For the projectiles, there were three different weapons carrier / Pylons:
 Pylon for a single rocket
 Pylon for two rockets in tandem
 Pylon for four missiles on each pylon side in tandem

External Pictures
 On aircraft fitted with 2 and 4 pylon
various images of the rocket

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20140808061757/http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/themen/history/mittelaus/hunter/bewaffnung.html
https://www.swiss-archives.ch/detail.aspx?ID=7171229
Tidsskrift i sjöväsendet. Nr.7 1953.

Rheinmetall
Air-to-ground rockets
Artillery of Switzerland
Oerlikon-Contraves
Rocket artillery
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s
Eclipse Project. In 1997 and 1998 the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, supported and hosted a Kelly Space & Technology, Inc. (KST) project Eclipse, which sought to demonstrate the feasibility of a reusable tow-launch vehicle concept.  The objectives were: demonstration of towed takeoff, climb-out, and separation of the EXD-01 from the towing aircraft; validation of simulation models of the towed aircraft systems; and development of ground and flight procedures for towing and launching a delta-winged airplane configuration safely behind a transport-type aircraft.

The NASA Eclipse Project was designed to examine the feasibility of towing a delta wing aircraft having high wing loading, validate the tow simulation model, and demonstrate various operational procedures, such as ground processing, in-flight maneuvers, and emergency abort scenarios.  Further project goals were to successfully tow, in-flight, a modified QF-106 delta-wing aircraft with an Air Force C-141A transport aircraft.  This would demonstrate the possibility of towing and launching an actual launch vehicle from behind a tow plane.  The project was conducted in 1997-1998, with F-106 Delta Dart airframes modified to QF-106 drones, towed behind C-141A cargo aircraft.

The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) supplied the C-141A transport aircraft and crew and configuring the aircraft as required for the tests. The first test of the series took place on December 20, 1997, when NASA research pilot Mark Stucky flew a QF-106 on the first towed flight. Stucky flew six successful tow tests between December 1997 and February 6, 1998.  On February 6, 1998 the Eclipse project accomplished its sixth and final towed flight, bringing the project to a successful completion.

References

NASA vehicles
Edgar Charles Barnes. Edgar Charles Barnes (6 April 1909 – 27 December 1987) was a pioneer in the field of industrial hygiene and the first industrial hygienist to work for a major U.S. corporation. He was also a founding member and director of the Health Physics Society.

References

1909 births
1987 deaths
Penn State College of Engineering alumni
American industrial engineers
Public health researchers
Health physicists
Health Physics Society
20th-century American engineers
Ababeel1. Ababeel-1 shortcut "A1" (Arabic: أبابيل1) the first Palestinian reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), armed drone, made in Gaza by al-Qassam Brigades Industries, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

Types
 A1A reconnaissance aircraft
 A1B with attacking-throwing tasks
 A1C with attacking-suicide tasks

Background
Mohamed Zouari, an aerospace engineer originally from Sfax, left Tunisia for Syria in 1991 in order to escape the wave of repression of the Islamic political party Ennahdha by the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime. With knowledge of aeronautics and the design of drones, He then joined the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, where he supervised its unmanned aircraft manufacturing program, ultimately leading to the development of Ababeel1. The first battlefield use of the Ababeel1 was in the Gaza War of 2014.

See also
 Palestinian domestic weapons production
 Qassam rocket
 Yasin (RPG)

References

Aircraft manufactured in the State of Palestine
Palestinian military reconnaissance aircraft
Weapons of Palestine
2014 in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian inventions
Unmanned military aircraft
3-Chlorophenol. 3-Chlorophenol is an organic compound with the molecular formula C6H4ClOH.  It is one of three isomers of monochlorophenol.  It is a colorless or white solid that melts easily and exhibits significant solubility in water.  Together with 3,5-dichlorophenol, it is prepared industrially by dechlorination of polychlorophenols. Alternatively, it arises via the cumene process, which starts with the alkylation of chlorobenzene with propylene.

References

Cited sources

3-Hydroxyphenyl compounds
3-Chlorophenyl compounds
Unified Diagnostic Services. Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS) is a diagnostic communication protocol used in electronic control units (ECUs) within automotive electronics, which is specified in the ISO 14229-1. It is derived from ISO 14230-3 (KWP2000) and the now obsolete ISO 15765-3 (Diagnostic Communication over Controller Area Network (DoCAN)). 'Unified' in this context means that it is an international and not a company-specific standard. By now this communication protocol is used in all new ECUs made by Tier 1 suppliers of original equipment manufacturer (OEM), and is incorporated into other standards, such as AUTOSAR. The ECUs in modern vehicles control nearly all functions, including electronic fuel injection (EFI), engine control, the transmission, anti-lock braking system, door locks, braking, window operation, and more.

Diagnostic tools are able to contact all ECUs installed in a vehicle which has UDS services enabled. In contrast to the CAN bus protocol, which only uses the first and second layers of the OSI model, UDS utilizes the fifth and seventh layers of the OSI model. The Service ID (SID) and the parameters associated with the services are contained in the payload of a message frame.

Modern vehicles have a diagnostic interface for off-board diagnostics, which makes it possible to connect a computer (client) or diagnostics tool, which is referred to as tester, to the communication system of the vehicle. Thus, UDS requests can be sent to the controllers which must provide a response (this may be positive or negative). This makes it possible to interrogate the fault memory of the individual control units, to update them with new firmware, have low-level interaction with their hardware (e.g. to turn a specific output on or off), or to make use of special functions (referred to as routines) to attempt to understand the environment and operating conditions of an ECU to be able to diagnose faulty or otherwise undesirable behavior.

UDS uses the ISO-TP transport layer (ISO 15765-2). The United States standard OBD-II also uses ISO-TP. Since OBD-II uses service numbers 0x01-0x0A, UDS uses service numbers starting with 0x10, in order to avoid overlap.

Services 

SID (Service Identifier)

Negative response codes
Negative response from ECU contains SID 0x7F and two payload bytes: request's SID and error code. These codes can be found in freely available software (for example, BusMaster) as well as in the ISO itself.

See also
On-board diagnostics, general article about diagnostic services in vehicles
OBD-II PIDs, about the US standard

References

External links
Unified Diagnostic Services - ISO 14229 (poster by softing.com)
PCAN-UDS 2.x API description

Automotive technologies
Embedded systems