omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
MES Institute of Technology and Management. MES Institute of Technology and Management is a self-financing engineering college under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, established in 2009. The college is located at Kollam District near Thirumukku, Chathannoor, Kerala.

References
http://www.mesitam.ac.in

External links
 Official website

Private engineering colleges in Kerala
Colleges affiliated to the University of Kerala
Engineering colleges in Kollam
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Kerala
Integrated Crisis Early Warning System. The Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS) combines a database of political events and a system using these to provide conflict early warnings. It is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States. The database as well as the model used by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories are currently undergoing operational test and evaluation by the United States Southern Command and United States Pacific Command.

History

ICEWS was a DARPA program conceived and led by Dr. Sean P. O'Brien that launched in 2008. In March 2010, O'Brien authored an article that compared ICEWS with past efforts in the realm, including systems designed by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. According to the paper, the first of three phases of the ICEWS involved a competition between different groups to successfully predict events of interest based on historical data. The winning team, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, combined six different conflict modeling systems, including agent-based models such as Barry Silverman's Factionalism and Ian Lustick's Political Science-Identity (PSI) computational modeling platforms, logistic regression models such as those developed by Philip A. Schrodt and the Bayesian statistics model used by Steve Shellman, and geo-spatial network models built by Michael D. Ward.

The ICEWS data and model are currently maintained by Lockheed Martin and undergoing operational test and evaluation by the United States Southern Command and United States Pacific Command.

Reception

Academic reception

ICEWS has been discussed in papers on conflict prediction as well as papers on the coding of political events. There has also been some research comparing ICEWS with the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone.

Reception in blogs

ICEWS has been discussed extensively in blogs related to geopolitical forecasting as well as crisis prediction. Among the topics discussed have been the utility of access to ICEWS data in improving the quality of predictions made in The Good Judgment Project and its similarities and differences with the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT).

References

External links
  (maintained by Lockheed Martin)

International relations
DAR-23. The DAR-23 is a Bulgarian ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Aeroplanes DAR, first flying in August 2001.

The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

The DAR-23 project started in December 2000, with the prototype completed in August 2001. The design was first displayed in North America at AirVenture in July 2012. There is no indication that any more than two prototypes have been completed or that series production has commenced.

In March 2014 the company indicated that the design was being re-developed.

Design and development
The DAR-23 features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration open cockpit with a windshield, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration, mounted high above the cockpit.

The aircraft structure is made from a combination of 1050, 2024, 3130 and 6164 aluminum tubing, with the main beam, cockpit pod and main landing gear made from composites. The landing gear is pyramidal in design. Its all-metal wing employs composite flaperons. Controls are actuated by push-pull cables, while the elevator trim is electric. The nosewheel is steerable. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is  and standard engines used include the  Hirth F-23, the  Rotax 503 and the  Rotax 582 two-stroke powerplants. Construction time from the supplied standard kit is estimated as 350 hours, although a quick-build kit is also available.

Specifications (DAR-23)

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
2010s Bulgarian ultralight aircraft
DAR 23
High-wing aircraft
Indian locomotive class YAM-1. The Indian locomotive class YAM-1 is a class of metre gauge (Y), Alternating Current (A), mixed traffic (M) electric locomotives in India. Twenty were built in 1964–66 by a Japanese consortium led by Mitsubishi.

Background
When the Madras (now Chennai) to Tambaram line was electrified in 1931, the 1500 V DC system was originally used. As part of an extension of the electrification to Villupuram in 1965, the whole section was converted to the 25 kV AC system. Eighteen YAM-1 locomotives (later extended to 20), and YAU-1 4-car electric multiple units were built for service on the network.

Design

The YAM-1 locomotives were supplied in batches by Mitsubishi in 1964–66 (four in 1964, 14 in 1965 and two in 1966). They were jointly built by Mitsubishi, Toshiba and Hitachi, as shown by their builders' plates. They are of the B-B configuration, with two monomotor bogies, each with one bogie-mounted DC traction motor; the two traction motors were permanently coupled in parallel. They had an Oerlikon compressor and exhauster for the locomotive's air brakes and the train's vacuum brakes, and Arno rotatory converters. They were equipped with two Faively AM-12 pantographs.

Service
They were not very powerful—they had a power output of , a starting tractive effort of , a maximum speed of , and a weight of . They were given the fleet numbers 21904–21923.

They were used on the electrified metre gauge lines of the Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways, usually in the Chennai area. 
With the conversion of the main lines to  (broad) gauge, they were relegated to departmental service, although fifty-wagon goods trains were occasionally handled.

In their latter days, all 20 locomotives were allocated to Tambaram Electric Shed. The last use of a YAM-1 was on 30 June 2004, not long after the last EMU service on Chennai network reached Tambaram.

One unit has been preserved at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works.

Locomotive shed 
  All the locomotives of this class has been withdrawn from service.

See also 

 Indian locomotive class WAM-2/3
 Rail transport in India#History
 Indian Railways
 Locomotives of India
 Rail transport in India

References

External links

 http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-specs.html#YAM-1

Railway locomotives introduced in 1964
Metre gauge electric locomotives
Electric locomotives of India
Hitachi locomotives
Toshiba locomotives
25 kV AC locomotives
Mitsubishi locomotives
John P. van Gigch. John Peter van Gigch (1930 – August 29, 2006 in Sebastopol, California) was an American organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus in System Management at the California State University.

Life and work 
Born in Argentina in 1930, Van Gigch transferred in the 1960s from a university to the States. In 1968 he received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University for his dissertation The Impact of Technology on the Mental Content of Work in Industrial Operations. 

In 1968 he started working at California State University at the School of Business and Public Administration. In the 1970s he became Professor Operations/Strategic Management, and head of the Department of Management, College of Business at the California State University. In 1993 he retired from the business school faculty. Until his death he remained an active member of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, where he led the Special Integration Groups on Modeling and Metamodeling.

Van Gigch research interest was in the field of decision making, systems design, modeling and metamodeling. In the 1970s he developed a new approach to organizational decision-making based on systems thinking together with the Dutch scientist Walter J.M. Kickert, since 1990 professor of public management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In the 1980s he wrote some notable papers on the foundations of information systems as a science and the epistemological foundations of Operations Research. In his latter work he kept focused on "an epistemological inquiry about the foundations of knowledge of a scientific discipline".

Publications 
 1971. Using systems analysis to implement cost-effectiveness and program budgeting in education. With Richard E. Hill.
 1974. Applied General Systems Theory. Harper & Row Publishers. Foreword by C. West Churchman
 1987. Decision making about decision making: metamodels and metasystems. Edited by John P. van Gigch ; with a foreword by Stafford Beer
 1991. System Design Modeling and Metamodeling
 2003. Metadecisions: Rehabilitating Epistemology. Springer
 2006. Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management

References

External links 
 John P. van Gigch , 1988 

1930 births
2006 deaths
American business theorists
American systems scientists
Oregon State University alumni
California State University, Sacramento faculty
Just Superstol. The Just SuperSTOL is an American STOL amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Just Aircraft of Walhalla, South Carolina. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Superstol is a development of the Just Highlander and differs by the addition of automatic leading edge slats, a long stroke air shock  robust landing gear with  tundra tires, Fowler flaps and a newly designed tailplane. The resulting design features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. It is designed for operation on rough airfields.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, while the wing uses an aluminum spar and aluminum ribs, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. The wings are supported by "V" struts with jury struts and can be folded for ground transportation or storage without the need for disconnecting fuel lines or control connections. Standard engines available include the  Rotax 912UL, the  Rotax 912ULS or Rotax 912iS, the  Rotax 914,  Jabiru 2200, the  Jabiru 3300 and the  Volkswagen air-cooled engine, four-stroke powerplants. The aircraft can take-off and land in under

Variants
SuperSTOL
Powered by a Rotax 912 or Rotax 914
SuperSTOL XL
Just Aircraft introduced the Stretch XL, a stretched version in 2015. It can accommodate engines such as the 180 hp UL Power 520 at 255 pounds and the 160 hp Lycoming O-320 at 315 pounds.

Specifications (SuperSTOL)

References

External links

AVweb media interview about the Superstol
Gallery of 23 photos

Homebuilt aircraft
STOL aircraft
Just Aircraft aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Zoltán Illés. Dr. Zoltán Illés (born 17 January 1961) is a Hungarian chemical engineer and politician, member of the National Assembly of Hungary (MP) for Terézváros, 6th District of Budapest (Budapest Constituency VIII) from 2010 to 2014. He also represented Terézváros between 1998 and 2002. He secured a seat from Fidesz National List in the 2002 Hungarian parliamentary election.

He served as Chairman of the Committee on the Environment from 25 June 1998 to 14 May 2002. Illés was appointed Secretary of State for Environmental Protection and Water in the Ministry of Rural Development on 2 June 2010. He is also a meritorious student and received prestigious Fulbright - Humphrey Scholarship.

In September 2013, Illés responded to a formal question from Bernadett Szél (LMP) about the Roșia Montană Project in Romania, where amongst other things he said "just because you’re pretty doesn’t also mean you’re smart," and lectured her for daring to utter the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's name. Later, Illés has apologized for these remarks. House Speaker László Kövér has defended Illés' controversial comments in parliament, referring to his fellow Fidesz politician’s words as "offensive, but not flagrantly offensive."

As environmentalist, he strongly criticized the planned upgrade of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, signed between the Hungarian and Russian governments in January 2014. As a result, he was unable to run as parliamentary candidate for the 2014 parliamentary election. Since then, Illés accused Orbán's government in several cases with corruption and development of oligarchic system.

Personal life
He is married. His wife is Dr Adrienne Illésné Gerlényi. They have a son, Szabolcs.

References

1961 births
Living people
Hungarians in Vojvodina
Hungarian people of Croatian descent
Fidesz politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Politicians from Subotica
Alenia. Alenia may refer to:

Companies
 Alenia Aermacchi, an Italian aeronautics company, founded in 2012
 Alenia Aeronautica, a former Italian aeronautics company, founded in 1990 and merged into Alenia Aermacchi

 Alenia Marconi Systems, a former Anglo-Italian defence electronics company
 Alenia Spazio, an Italian aerospace company (now Thales Alenia Space)

Other uses
 Alenia (butterfly), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae
Caldwell machine gun. The Caldwell machine gun is a machine gun of Australian origin developed by Thomas Frederick Caldwell in 1915.

History
The Caldwell machine gun was designed by Thomas F. Caldwell of Melbourne, who moved to the United Kingdom to bring his invention to the notice of British Army authorities. The weapon was in appearance similar to the Maxim gun, but came with two barrels, capable of working in conjunction or separately with a discharge of 500 rpm. It used pan magazines containing 104 rounds instead of the belt feed of the Maxim gun, which was prone to jamming.

As reported at the time:
"The Caldwell Machine Gun Company's invention of a quick-firing machine gun was recently sent to London in charge of Captain O. H. Moss and the inventor (Mr. T. F. Caldwell). The directors have now received information from their representatives and Messrs. Light and Fulton, solicitors to the company in London, that the gun has been sold, subject to certain conditions, for £5,000 in cash, £1 per gun royalty on all guns manufactured in Great Britain, and ten per cent of the consideration received from the sale of foreign rights or licenses The manufacturers are now completing a new gun under the supervision of Mr. Caldwell, whose services have been taken over at £1,000 per annum. The new gun will shortly be submitted to the Admiralty".

Overview
The weapon has two barrels and is chambered for the .303 British round. The cooling jacket is similar to the Maxim gun but comes with a steam valve. The Caldwell is lighter and simpler than the Maxim and can be field-stripped in under one minute without the use of tools. The rate of fire of the Caldwell is variable as the gun is fired with a hand crank with the rate of fire dependent on the operator.

References

See also
 List of machine guns
 List of multiple-barrel firearms

.303 British machine guns
Machine guns of Australia
Multi-barrel machine guns
Einsteinium(III) iodide. Einsteinium triiodide is an iodide of the synthetic actinide einsteinium which has the molecular formula EsI3. This crystalline salt is an amber-coloured solid. It glows red in the dark due to einsteinium's intense radioactivity.

It crystallises in the hexagonal crystal system in the space group R with the lattice parameters a = 753 pm and c = 2084.5 pm with six formula units per unit cell. Its crystal structure is isotypic with that of bismuth(III) iodide.

References

Further reading

Einsteinium compounds
Iodides
Actinide halides
South African Spatial Data Infrastructure. The South African Spatial Data Infrastructure (SASDI) is an initiative of the South African government that makes policies and technical standards on the use of geographical data such as maps, aerial and satellite photographs, and surveys. It also seeks to facilitate the capture, management, maintenance, integration, distribution and use of spatial information in South Africa. SASDI is under development by the Committee for Spatial Information (CSI).

Parliament passed the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, which established the CSI, in December 2003, and the President assented to the act in February 2004.

Significance 
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. SASDI promotes efficiency by using state resources by sharing information among different spheres of government.

The act's passage was an acknowledgement of the strategic value of spatial information for South Africa. It is important that all SASDI stakeholders, including users, gain an understanding and appreciation of the value of spatial information for planning, management and decision-making.

The CSI consists of a principal committee and six subcommittees (data, systems, standards, policy and legislation, education and training, and marketing and communication).

References

External links 
 South African Spatial Data Infrastructure
 The SDI Act - GISSA
 Spatial Data Infrastructure Act of 2003

Geographic information systems
Earth sciences data formats
Government of South Africa
Bob Keiller. Robert Keiller CBE (born 29 January 1964) is a British businessman. He is the former chief executive of Wood Group, a British multinational oil and gas services company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 2016, he became chairman of Scotland's national economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise. He also runs a consultancy, AB15.

Early life
Keiller grew up in the border town Jedburgh, here he attended Jedburgh Grammar School.  He went on to study a Masters of Engineering degree from Heriot-Watt University and is a Chartered Engineer. He has an honorary doctorate from Robert Gordon University.

Career
Keiller was the chief executive of Wood Group from 2012 to 2015, having been group director of Wood Group PSN since April 2011 and CEO of Production Services Network (PSN) prior to its acquisition by Wood Group. He was CEO of PSN since 2006, having led Halliburton's production services division in the early 2000s before piloting its buyout from Kellogg Brown & Root in 2006. He was previously chairman of the Offshore Contractors Association, the Helicopter Issues Task Group, chairman of the Entrepreneurial Exchange and co-chair of Oil & Gas UK.

Keiller left Wood Group at the end of 2015, receiving a golden parachute of nearly £500,000.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to business and entrepreneurship.

Personal life
He lives in Bieldside, Aberdeen.

References

1964 births
Living people
People educated at Jedburgh Grammar School
Scottish engineers
British chief executives
British corporate directors
Alumni of Heriot-Watt University
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
People from Jedburgh
Gu Tian. Gu Tian () was a cargo ship situated in Mawei, Fujian. Built in the 1970s, it was the largest concrete ship ever constructed in China. The vessel displaced  and measured  long with a beam of . High running costs led to the ship being abandoned and stranded ashore.

Now derelict, the ship has been stranded for more than 40 years, but, being made of concrete, does not deteriorate. Work began in November 2012 to dismantle the ship.

References

Ships of China
Concrete ships
1973 ships
High to medium air defense. High to medium air defense (HIMAD) is a group of anti-aircraft weapons and tactics to do with defense against high to medium altitude air threats, primarily aircraft and missiles.
HIMAD and its complements, short range air defense (SHORAD) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), divide air defense of the battlespace into domes of responsibility based on altitude and defensive weapon ranges.

China 
 HQ-9
 HQ-22

France / Italy 
 SAMP/T

Germany 
 IRIS-T SLM

India  
 Barak-8 (co-developed with Israel) 
 Project Kusha

Iran 
 Bavar-373

Israel 
 Barak-8 (co-developed with India)

Russia 
Russian systems include:
 S-300 
 S-400 
 S-500

South Korea 
 L-SAM

Turkey 
 Hisar (missile family)
 SİPER

United States  
United States Army systems include:
 MIM-23 Hawk
 MIM-104 Patriot

Anti-aircraft warfare
Team Mini-Max AeroMax. The Team Mini-Max AeroMax is an American amateur-built aircraft and light-sport aircraft, produced by Team Mini-Max of Niles, Michigan. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
Developed from the ISON Airbike, the AeroMax features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat open cockpit that is  wide, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The narrow fuselage allows the pilot to sit in the cockpit with his or her legs on the outside of the aircraft, with feet on the external rudder pedals.

The aircraft is made from pre-fabricated metal components and CNC laser-cut plywood parts. Its  span wing  has an area of , is supported by "V" struts and features fiberglass drooped wingtips. The main landing gear is made from sprung steel and mounts drum brakes. The elevator trim system is electric. The aircraft's recommended engine the  Hirth F-23 two-stroke powerplant. Tricycle landing gear, tundra tires and floats are under development. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as 200–300 hours.

A tandem two seat model is also under development by the company.

As of August 2012, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.

Specifications (AeroMax)

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
IRQL (Windows). An Interrupt Request Level (IRQL) is a hardware-independent means with which Windows prioritizes interrupts that come from the system's processors. On processor architectures on which Windows runs, hardware generates signals that are sent to an interrupt controller. The interrupt controller sends an interrupt request (or IRQ) to the CPU with a certain priority level, and the CPU sets a mask that causes any other interrupts with a lower priority to be put into a pending state, until the CPU releases control back to the interrupt controller. If a signal comes in at a higher priority, then the current interrupt will be put into a pending state; the CPU sets the interrupt mask to the priority and places any interrupts with a lower priority into a pending state until the CPU finishes handling the new, higher priority interrupt.

Windows maps not only hardware interrupt levels to its internal interrupt table but also maps software interrupts. The mappings in this table are called Interrupt Request Levels, or IRQLs, and a separate IRQL is kept for each processor in a multiprocessor system. The IRQL values are specific to the x86, IA64 and AMD64 processor architectures that Windows can run on, though theoretically they can support other CPUs that use a similar interrupt scheme (such as the DEC Alpha and MIPS, which were supported briefly on early versions of Windows). This means that APCs (asynchronous procedure calls), user threads and kernel mode operations can be interrupted, and the system must run them at an IRQL lower than the thread scheduler (or "dispatcher").

See also
 Interrupt
 Interrupt handler
 Interrupt priority level
 Programmable Interrupt Controller
 spl (Unix)

References

Windows administration