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DELO Industrial Adhesives. DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA (inherent spelling: DELO; international brand name: DELO Industrial Adhesives) is a leading manufacturer of industrial adhesives and equipment for dispensing as well as curing adhesives. The company has its headquarters in Windach near Munich, Germany, and employs 780 people. It operates worldwide from subsidiaries in the US, China, Singapore and Japan as well as representative offices in South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia. Customers include Bosch, Huawei, Siemens und Sony.

Founded in 1961, Sabine and Wolf-Dietrich Herold took over DELO in the course of a management buy-out and converted it into an independent, owner-managed company.

Products and technology
Adhesives, potting compounds and optical materials from DELO are mainly used for microelectronic and optical applications in consumer electronics and the automotive industry. The company specializes in UV curing and dual-curing polymers for high-volume industrial production. These products obtain their complete or initial strength under UV light.

Delo is regarded the world market leader in smart card bonding, for example for encapsulating credit card chips. In addition, almost every mobile phone in the world contains DELO adhesives.

DELO also develops and produces microdispensing valves and UV LED lamps for dispensing and curing adhesives, respectively.

Timeline
 1961 Foundation
 1997 In the course of a management buy-out, DELO becomes an independent company managed by Wolf-Dietrich Herold and Sabine Herold
 2004 Establishment of a representative office in Shanghai/China
 2005 Establishment of a representative office in Singapore
 2008 Foundation of a subsidiary in Boston, USA – DELO Industrial Adhesives LLC
 2012 Foundation of a subsidiary in Singapore – DELO Industrial Adhesives (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
 2013 Foundation of a subsidiary in Shanghai, China – DELO Industrial Adhesives (Shanghai) Co. Ltd
 2017 Foundation of a subsidiary in Yokohama, Japan – DELO Industrial Adhesives Inc. (Japan)

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Manufacturing companies of Germany
Chemical companies established in 1961
Chemical companies of Germany
German brands
1961 establishments in West Germany
1989 mergers and acquisitions
German companies established in 1961
PDOS (operating system). PDOS is a discontinued multiuser multitasking operating system, written in assembly language developed in the early 1980s by the Eyring Research Institute for the Texas Instruments TMS9900 processor, and later ported to the Motorola 68000 processor.  At the time its speed, accuracy and power made it ideal for process control. It was used in system development for education and industrial uses. Eyring also sold application programs (e.g. a statistics package) for the operating system.

References

Monolithic kernels
68k architecture
Ferro-actinolite. Ferro-actinolite is the ferrous iron-rich endmember of the actinolite-tremolite continuous solid solution series of the double chain calcareous amphibole group of inosilicate minerals. All the series members belong to the monoclinic crystal system.

The following formula comparison indicates the position of individual well-known members within the series:
tremolite:  ☐Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)2
actinolite:  ☐Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe2+0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
ferro-actinolite:  ☐Ca2(Mg2.5-0.0Fe2+2.5-5.0)Si8O22(OH)2

Some other substitute cations that may replace either Ca, Mg, or Fe include potassium (K), aluminium (Al), manganese (Mn), titanium (Ti), and chromium (Cr). A fluorine (F) anion may partially replace the hydroxyl (OH).

Physical properties

Ferroactinolite prisms are much darker in color than actinolite due to their higher iron content affecting opacity, but may be dark green in thin slices or around the edges. Its crystals are brittle, with a hardness of 5–6 on the Mohs scale, and have a white streak. Ferroactinolite is pleochroic and has a higher refractive index and surface relief than actinolite.

References

 Mindat.org - Ferro-actinolite
 Mindat.org - actinolite
 Ferro-actinolite in the Handbook of Mineralogy 
 IMA Master List

Amphibole group
Boeing CQM-121 Pave Tiger. The Boeing CQM-121 Pave Tiger is an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Boeing for use by the United States Air Force. Intended for the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) role, the drone reached the flight-test stage before cancellation.

Design and development
The CQM-121 program began in 1983, with Boeing being awarded a contract for the development of a small drone aircraft that was intended for the suppression of enemy air defenses. The resulting YCQM-121A, given the code name "Pave Tiger", was a tailless aircraft powered by a two-stroke engine. The drones were to be fitted in 15-cell containers with wings folded; the sides of the container would open to allow for launch on a rail using a solid-fuel rocket booster. The aircraft would then follow a pre-programmed route, and could either use electronic countermeasures to suppress air defense systems, or use a small warhead to directly destroy them.

Operational history
Flight testing of the 13 YCQM-121A aircraft began in 1983, however the following year the project was terminated. The aircraft was resurrected in 1987, however, as an alternative to the AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow anti-radar missile; the anti-radar version, designated YCGM-121B and codenamed "Seek Spinner", first flew in 1988. It was equipped with a warhead for the destruction of enemy radars, and could loiter while awaiting detection of an enemy radar set. The program was terminated in 1989.

Also in 1987, the U.S. Air Force ordered an electronic countermeasure version of the aircraft, given the designation YCEM-138A Pave Cricket. Equipped with an AN/ALQ-176 jammer, the program was also cancelled in 1989.

Variants
YCQM-121A Pave Tiger
Original radar jamming variant; 13 built.
YCGM-121B Seek Spinner
Loitering anti-radar missile variant.
YCEM-138A Pave Cricket
Electronic countermeasures version of YCGM-121B.

Specifications (YCQM-121A)

References

CQM-121
1980s United States special-purpose aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Canard aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft of the United States
Aircraft first flown in 1983
1st Topographic Survey Squadron. The 1st Topographic Survey Squadron is a unit of the Australian Army.  It provides mapping support the Army. The squadron was originally part of the Royal Australian Survey Corps which reintegrated with Royal Australian Engineers on 1 July 1996. It was an independent squadron until 13 January 2003 when it became part of the new 6th Engineer Support Regiment. In 2014 the squadron came under the command of the 1st Intelligence Battalion.

References

Army engineer units and formations of Australia
Company sized units of the Australian Army
Military units in Queensland
Engineer companies
Bioretrosynthesis. Bioretrosynthesis is a technique for synthesizing organic chemicals from inexpensive precursors and evolved enzymes. The technique builds on the retro-evolution hypothesis proposed in 1945 by geneticist Norman Horowitz.

Technique 

The technique works backwards from the target to identify a precursor molecule and an enzyme that converts it into the target, and then a second precursor that can produce the first and so on until a simple, inexpensive molecule becomes the beginning of the series. For each precursor, the enzyme is evolved using induced mutations and natural selection to produce a more productive version. The evolutionary process can be repeated over multiple generations until acceptable productivity is achieved. The process does not require high temperature, high pressure, the use of exotic catalysts or other elements that can increase costs. The enzyme "optimizations" that increase the production of one precursor from another are cumulative in that the same precursor productivity improvements can potentially be leveraged across multiple target molecules.

Didanosine 

In 2014 the technique was used to produce the HIV drug didanosine: a simpler molecule was identified that can be converted into didanosine when subjected to a specific chemical transformation in the presence of a specific enzyme. The gene that creates the enzyme was then "copied", adding random mutations to each copy using ribokinase engineering. The mutant genes were inserted into Escherichia coli bacteria and used to produce (now-mutant) enzymes. The enzymes were then mixed with the precursor and the mutant enzymes that produced the greatest amount of didanosine were retained and replicated. One mutant stimulated a 50x increase in didanosine production. The first step was repeated, using the first precursor in place of didanosine, finding a yet simpler precursor and an enzyme to produce it. One mutated enzyme produced a 9,500x increase in nucleoside production. A third retrogression allowed them to start with the simple and inexpensive sugar named dideoxyribose and produce didanosine in a three-step sequence.

References

External links 
 

Chemical synthesis
Genetic engineering
Organic chemistry
Lead frame. A lead frame (pronounced  ) is a metal structure inside a chip package that carries signals from the die to the outside, used in DIP, QFP and other packages where connections to the chip are made on its edges.

The lead frame consists of a central die pad, where the die is placed, surrounded by leads, metal conductors leading away from the die to the outside world. The end of each lead closest to the die ends in a bond pad. Small bond wires connect the die to each bond pad. Mechanical connections fix all these parts into a rigid structure, which makes the whole lead frame easy to handle automatically.

Manufacturing

Lead frames are manufactured by removing material from a flat plate of copper, copper-alloy, or iron-nickel alloy like alloy 42. Two processes used for this are etching (suitable for high density of leads), or stamping (suitable for low density of leads). The mechanical bending process can be applied after both techniques. A lead frame has two sections: a die paddle, where the die sits in the leadframe, and the leads. The leadframe is made of an alloy the molding compound can adhere to, a thermal expansion coefficient that is as close as possible to that of the die and compound, has good thermal and electrical conductivity, is strong enough and has high formability.

The die is glued or soldered to the die pad inside the lead frame, and then bond wires are attached between the die and the bond pads to connect the die to the leads in a process called wire bonding. In a process called encapsulation, a plastic case is moulded around the lead frame and die, exposing only the leads. The leads are cut off outside the plastic body and any exposed supporting structures are cut away. The external leads are then bent to the desired shape.

Uses

Amongst others, lead frames are used to manufacture a quad flat no-leads package (QFN), a quad flat package (QFP), or a dual in-line package (DIP).

Advances in lead frame technology have allowed better packing techniques like routable lead frame technology  that allow improved thermal and electrical performance.

See also
 Chip carrier – Chip packaging and package types list

References

Chip carriers
Noel Ashbridge. Sir Noel Ashbridge KBE (10 December 1889 – 4 June 1975) was an English engineer who played a key role in the early technical development of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Early life and education
Ashbridge was born in 1889 in Wanstead, Essex, the youngest son of Sylvia (née Moore) and John Ashbridge, a solicitor. He was educated at Forest School in East London, before studying for a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering at King's College London, graduating in 1911.

Career
After graduating, Ashbridge undertook further training with shipbuilders Yarrow & Company, engineering firm British Thomson-Houston and the Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company. In 1914, he joined the Royal Fusiliers, moving to the Royal Engineers two years later.

After the war, Ashbridge was employed by the Marconi Company. His involvement in developing the 2MT transmitter led to him acquiring a job as assistant chief engineer at the BBC from January 1926, under his Marconi colleague Peter Eckersley. After three years, he took over from Eckersley as chief engineer.

In the following years, he played a key role in the development of the engineering side of the BBC, and also offered technical advice to other European countries. For his work, the Danish monarch made him a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1934, and he was knighted in the United Kingdom in 1935. He was later part of a wartime committee set up to plan for post-war resumption of television broadcasting.

In 1943, he became deputy director-general of the BBC. In 1948, due to restructuring within the Corporation, he became director of technical services. In 1950, he was involved in the foundation of the European Broadcasting Union. He retired from the BBC two years later. After retiring, Ashbridge served on the board of Marconi for seven years.

Personal life
Ashbridge married Olive Maud Strickland on 17 July 1926. They had two daughters, Wendy and Helen. Maud died in 1948. His interests outside of engineering included cricket and sailing. He died at a nursing home in Speldhurst, Kent in June 1975, aged 85. He was survived by his two daughters.

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1889 births
1975 deaths
People educated at Forest School, Walthamstow
Alumni of King's College London
BBC people
Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
People from Wanstead
20th-century English engineers
People from Speldhurst
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Engineers soldiers
Royal Fusiliers soldiers
Military personnel from the London Borough of Redbridge
Société de Véhicules Automobiles de Batilly. The Société de Véhicules Automobiles de Batilly () (SoVAB) is a subsidiary of the French car manufacturer Renault, created in 1980 to operate the light commercial vehicle plant located at Batilly.

History
The project to create a new facility at Batilly, Meurthe-et-Moselle, was begun by Renault's subsidiary Saviem in 1972. It was continued when Saviem was merged with Berliet to form Renault Véhicules Industriels (RVI). The factory was constructed between 1976 and 1979. In 1980 Renault took from its subsidiary RVI a 25% stake of the factory's capital to form SOVAB. At the same year the factory started to manufacture the first-generation Master. The first-generation Trafic was introduced in 1981 and the Renault B in 1982. During the following years Renault collaborated with General Motors and in 1997, they launched the Master II which was also marketed as Opel Movano. From 1995 onwards the Batilly factory became the sole assembler of the Trafic I and its German clone the Opel/Vauxhall Arena, after Chausson's Creil factory was closed down. The model was discontinued in 2000. Renault kept Batilly when sold RVI to Volvo in 2001. In 2010 was introduced the Master III.

Facilities
The SOVAB complex comprises 101 hectares of which 181,838 m2 are covered. There is a single production line. The vehicles assembled by the company are sold by Renault, Opel, Vauxhall, Nissan and Renault Trucks. On 13 June 2013, SoVAB produced its 2,000,000th unit.

Within SOVAB there is also a Renault Tech workshop which has 6,800 m2 and employs 72 people.

Current Vehicles manufactured

 Renault Master III (2010−present)

Former Vehicles manufactured
 Renault Master/Renault Trucks B series/Renault Trucks Messenger  (1980−1997)
 Renault Trafic (1981−2000)
 Renault Master II/Renault Trucks Mascott (1997−2010)

References

Renault
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1980
1980 establishments in France
Motor vehicle assembly plants in France
Ofeq-10. Ofeq-10, also known as Ofek-10 (Horizon in Hebrew), is part of the Ofeq family of reconnaissance satellites designed and built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Satellite description 
Ofek-10 is an upgraded variant of Ofeq-8, which employs a high-resolution synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) that is capable of observation at night and through clouds. The satellite's price was US$300 million. The satellite weighs 400 kg.

Launch 
Ofeq-10 was launched on 9 April 2014, at 19:06:02 UTC from the Palmachim Airbase in Israel, four years after Ofeq-9's launch. It was delivered using a Shavit launcher. Ofeq-10 was launched westward in a retrograde orbit.

References 

Reconnaissance satellites of Israel
Space synthetic aperture radar
2014 in Israel
Spacecraft launched by Shavit rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2014
Preserved EMUs of Southern Railway. Preserved EMUs of Southern Railway. This is a list of preserved Southern Railway (UK) designated electric multiple units (EMUs).

Glossary
For an explanation of type codes, such as DMBSO, see British Rail coach type codes.

2-BIL

2-EPB

Departmental Sandite Units 930205 and 930206 (ex-DMBSOs 65302/65304/65379/65382) relocated to MoD Bicester for storage after closure of Finmere Railway Station.

2-HAP

4-CEP 

The full list is shown below. Complete units are highlighted:

4-CIG 

The full list is shown below. Complete units are highlighted:

4-SUB

4-TC

4-COR

4-EPB

4-DD

4-REP

62482 is the last 4-REP in existence and is currently placed in storage in Nottingham. The 4REP appreciation society were looking at saving the remaining carriage and turning them back to a 4-REP.

4-VEP

Remaining unpreserved units/coaches

Preservation

5-BEL

The table below sets out the current position:

6-PUL

After withdrawal from passenger service, the underframes of several PUL and PAN unit carriages were reused by the engineering department as long-welded rail carriers and crane runners.

Former 6-PUL Pullman cars 264 Ruth and 278 Bertha have been preserved, and are now used as ordinary locomotive-hauled Pullman cars. Number 264 is part of the Venice Simplon Orient Express fleet, working charter trains on the main line, while 278 is on the Swanage Railway. Former 6-PUL Trailer Composite car, number 11773, was preserved on the Swanage Railway for many years, but fell into bad condition and has now been scrapped.

GLV

MLV

Waterloo & City Line

A single DMBSO of Class 487 stock, No. 61, used on the Waterloo & City line has been preserved at the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton.

References

External links 
 Hastings Diesels
 Network SouthEast Railway Society
 400Series.co.uk
 Southern Electric Group
 Woking Miniature Railway

Southern Railway (UK) electric multiple units
Rail transport preservation in the United Kingdom
Squirrel bridge. A squirrel bridge is a construction (similar to a wildlife crossing) which enables small animals, especially squirrels and martens, to safely cross busy roadways. The bridges are a measure for wildlife management and natural habitat preservation, and serve the functions of both animal welfare and accident prevention. The Nutty Narrows Bridge in Longview, Washington, built in 1963, is regarded as the first of its kind. The city has since built eight other bridges for squirrels.

Costs to construct squirrel bridges vary significantly, depending on construction. Simple rope bridge constructions, such as those in Brecht, Belgium, have cost only about 250 euros, while the bridge built in The Hague in 2013 took half a year to construct and cost 150,000–200,000 euros.

List of squirrel bridges 
The following bridges protect the red squirrel, common in Europe, or the North American gray squirrel (either of which may be hunted as an invasive species depending on the continent).

Similar concepts for other species

See also
 Bat bridge
 Amphibian and reptile tunnel

References

Further reading 
 Why did the squirrel cross the road? Science and technology news, University of Leeds, 2008
 Squirrel Bridges and Road Warning Signs
 Brendan D. Taylor, Ross L. Goldingay: Can Road-Crossing Structures Improve Population Viability of an Urban Gliding Mammal?

Articles containing video clips
Bridges
Conservation projects
Natural resource management
Concrete Plant Park. Concrete Plant Park is a public park in the Longwood section of the Bronx, New York City.  It consists of  located on the west bank of the Bronx River between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard.  The centerpiece and namesake of the park is a group of restored structures from the concrete plant which once occupied its site.  It is maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

History and description 
The Transit-Mix Corporation operated a concrete plant on the site from the late 1940s through its abandonment in 1987, according to NYC Parks, although the city's land records indicate the property was foreclosed for non-payment of taxes in 1981.  In 2000, the property was transferred to NYC Parks, which formed a partnership with community organizations, including the Bronx River Alliance, to design and construct the park.  The city stabilized the old structures from the abandoned plant, cleared tons of debris, and constructed other park facilities.  The park was opened to the public in 2009.

Besides the restored concrete plant structures, which have fences around them, the park includes a walk along the Bronx River, grassy lawns, seating (some of it under a small metal canopy), a "reading circle" of concrete chair-like structures, and a paved bicycle and pedestrian trail that is part of the developing Bronx River Greenway.  The park's north entrance is on Westchester Avenue just east of Whitlock Avenue, and its south entrance is on Bruckner Boulevard west of Bronx River Avenue.

The ruined Westchester Avenue station, which was built in 1908 and designed by architect Cass Gilbert, stands near the park's northern entrance, where it is partly suspended over Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor. One proposal to save the station from demolition involves moving part of it to a pier in the park.  However to date no source of funding for the project has been identified.

Gallery

References

Parks in the Bronx
Urban public parks
Longwood, Bronx
Michael T. Wright (university administrator). Michael Thomas Wright (11 April 1947 – 10 January 2015) was a British academic who was the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University between 1996 and 2006.

Life 
Wright was born 11 April 1947 and attended Sheldon Heath School, Birmingham. He took an apprenticeship then studied Electrical Engineering at Aston University, gaining a first class degree in 1969, and a PhD in 1972.  Working in industry as an engineer, he rose to become director of several companies and returned as Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He was later Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, between 1994 and 1996, becoming Vice-Chancellor in 1996 for ten years. He retired in 2006 and died of cancer 10 January 2015. He was survived by his wife and daughter.

Honours 
FIEE 1981; FREng 1988; FIMechE 1989; FRSA 1989; CMath 1994; FIMA 1994; CCMI 1997.
He received prizes for his published academic work: IEE Student Paper Award 1970, IEEE Petrochemical Industry Author Award 1981, IEE Power Division Premium for published work 1983.

References

External links
 Aston University

1947 births
2015 deaths
Senior members of the IEEE
Vice-chancellors of Aston University
Academics of Aston University
British mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications