omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Block register territory. Block register territory (BRT) is a designation applied to some lightly used segments of railroad track in the United States.  In these areas,  trains are only authorized to move into the territory when a special type of log book is filled out correctly.  BRT is described in the General Code of Operating Rules (GCOR) as Rule 6.15.  A standard block register has rows divided into five columns:
An identifier for the train, work crew, or other equipment using the line
The last name of the employee in charge of the equipment or crew
The current date
The time at which the track was entered
The time at which the track was cleared
The first four columns of the register are filled out upon entering the block.  When the track is exited, the last column is filled out and the entire entry is crossed out.

Generally, only one train can occupy block register territory at a time.  Additional trains are only allowed to occupy the block if the operator of the incoming train has contacted all of the other employees named in the open entries in the block register.  Train movements are then made at restricted speed, a low enough speed that the train could stop within half the distance between it and an oncoming train or obstacle.

References

Rail transport operations
Bính Bridge. Bính Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge across the Cấm River connecting the Hai Phong city with Thủy Nguyên District and out to Quảng Ninh.

History

Bính Bridge is a  modern cable-stayed bridge, some 1280 metres long and  22.5 metres wide carrying four lanes for traffic and two pedestrian lanes. The clearance below of  allow 3000-DWT ships can go through. The bridge has concrete steel beam instances, continuous 17 span, the 102 metre tall towers are made of reinforced concrete.

The bridge was constructed by a joint venture, consisting of Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Mitsui Construction and Shimizu Corporation, in 32 months. The owner of the bridge is the Project Management Office for Customs, under the leadership of the People's Committee of Hai Phong City.

Bính Bridge was built from Bính ferry 1300 m, to end the frequent traffic congestion and inconvenience to travel here by ferry. In addition, this bridge will help the development and formation of a new urban area of Hai Phong in the north area is prohibited. Along with the Kien bridge construction project on Highway 10, Bính Bridge played an important part in connection with the Quảng Ninh, Hai Phong, creating favorable conditions for the development of the transport network and the North economy of coastal areas in northern Vietnam.

Bính Bridge construction started on September 1, 2002 and ended May 13, 2005. Japanese government helped to construct the bridge VND 943 billion or 7426 million Yen at that time, including consulting services to supervise the construction. The projects are eligible for preferential loans of the Bank of Japan International Cooperation (JBIC).

Incident
On July 17, 2010 night, three large ships were moored at the wharf. Then the storm broke the cords, lead the vessels drift on the Cam River and then they had impact substantially on the Bính Bridge. Three vessels crashed into Bính Bridge include Shinsung Accord ship (Korean ship owner), tonnage 17,500 tons (the Corporation Bach Dang Shipbuilding Industry launched in mid-June), the two remaining ships was 1700 TEU Vinashin Express Transport Company 01 container ship from South China Sea Transport Company and the Vinashin Orient Corporation ship of Hai Duong Shipbuilding Industry which was being repaired here.

With scratched cables, the experts expect that if the cable is deformed, it takes about 6 months to replace the new cable.

External links
Binh Bridge at Structurae 
Cầu Bính 
Hải Phòng: "Xổng đà" ba tàu biển đâm hỏng cầu Bính  

Road bridges in Vietnam
Bridges completed in 2005
Maritime incidents in 2010
Cable-stayed bridges in Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Haiphong
Shimizu Corporation
Boeing SolarEagle. The Boeing SolarEagle (Vulture II) was a proposed High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle solar-electric spy plane developed by Boeing Phantom Works.

The proposed aircraft had a wingspan of , and was intended to remain airborne for up to five years at a time without needing to land. It had 20 motors of the same type as the Qinetiq Zephyr designed by Newcastle University. Boeing was awarded an $89 million contract by DARPA's Vulture program, with Boeing covering the remainder. It was slated to make its first flight in 2014, but in 2012 the SolarEagle project was cancelled and DARPA's Vulture program was refocused on advancing photovoltaic and energy storage technologies.

References 

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
SolarEagle
Solar-powered aircraft
2010s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
High-altitude platform stations
Propeller aircraft
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States
Walter Polaris. The Walter Polaris was a Czechoslovakian three-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine for powering light aircraft that was developed in the 1930s.

Applications
Letov Š-39
Rearwin Junior

Engines on display
A preserved example of the Walter Polaris engine is on display at the following museum:
Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely

Specifications (Polaris)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 

1930s aircraft piston engines
Polaris
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
Enrico Piaggio. Enrico Piaggio (22 February 1905 – 16 October 1965) was an Italian industrialist.

Life
Piaggio was born in Pegli, which at that time was an independent municipality. His father was Rinaldo Piaggio, the founder of Piaggio. He graduated with a degree in economics from University of Genoa in 1927, and would later receive an honorary degree in engineering from the University of Pisa, in 1951.

Piaggio and his brother Armando inherited the family engineering business on their father's death in 1938.  This had initially manufactured rolling-stock but had moved into aircraft production by the outbreak of World War II.  Their factory was seriously damaged by Allied bombing and was unable to continue aircraft production when the war ended.

Enrico Piaggio took the decision to diversify into manufacturing Vespa scooters.  This proved to be a far-sighted move, as Piaggio would eventually become one of the biggest manufacturers of two-wheel vehicles in the world.

Piaggio had also been critically wounded in September 1943, following a shooting incident in the lobby of the Excelsior Hotel in Florence.  His life was saved only by removing one of his kidneys.

In October 1965, Piaggio was taken ill at work during an industrial dispute. The ambulance taking him to hospital had to make its way through crowds of strikers.  Piaggio was released from hospital and died at home ten days later.  Thousands of mourners lined the streets as his funeral passed by, including many of the erstwhile strikers.

Family
Enrico Piaggio was the second husband of Paola Antonelli, the widow of the El Alamein commander Colonel Alberto Bechi Luserna.  They lived in the Villa Varramista which Piaggio purchased in 1953.

 
Piaggio's stepdaughter, Antonella Bechi Piaggio, went on to marry Umberto Agnelli.

References

Agnelli family
Piaggio people
1905 births
1965 deaths
Walter Mars. The Walter Mars was a Czechoslovakian 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine for powering aircraft, a licensed built Gnome-Rhône 14M.

Applications
Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Note. 204 of these airplanes were produced in the Aero Praha factory during the war.

Engines on display
A preserved example of the Walter Mars engine is on display at the following museum:
Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely

Specifications (Mars)

See also

References

1930s aircraft piston engines
Mars
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
Walter Castor. The Walter Castor was a Czechoslovakian seven-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine for powering aircraft that was developed in the late 1920s. The Super Castor was a nine-cylinder development. Castor I production began in 1928, Castor II in 1932 and the Castor III in 1934.

Applications
Aero A.35
Aero A.304 (Super Castor)
Airspeed Envoy
Breda Ba.25
Dornier Do K
Fizir F1V 
Hopfner HV-6/28
Letov Š-28
Rogozarski AZR
Savoia-Marchetti S.71

Engines on display
A preserved example of the Walter Castor engine is on display at the following museum:
Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely

Specifications (Castor I)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 

Castor
1920s aircraft piston engines
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
LatencyTOP. LatencyTOP is a Linux application for identifying operating system latency within the kernel and find out the operations/actions which cause the latency. LatencyTOP is a tool for software developers to visualize system latencies. Based on these observations, the source code of the application or kernel can be modified to reduce latency. It was released by Intel in 2008 under the GPLv2 license. It works for Intel, AMD and ARM processors.

As of 2021, the project appears inactive with the last commit to the source code in October 2009.

See also

Green computing
PowerTOP
top (software)

References

External links
 

Linux process- and task-management-related software
Computers and the environment
National Society of Metal Mechanics. The National Society of Metal Mechanics (NSMM) was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1872 and 1985.

History

The organisation was founded in Birmingham in 1872 as the Amalgamated Brassworkers Society.  Led for many years by William John Davis, it was soon renamed the National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers.  In 1919, members rejected a proposal to join the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and instead chose to expand the union's remit, renaming the body as the National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics.  By 1920, it had 37,363 members, but it suffered during the Great Depression, and this figure fell to 15,000 by 1937.

In 1985, the union merged with the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section; at this point, its membership was 27,000.

General Secretaries
1872: William John Davis
1883:
1888: William John Davis
1921: Arthur H. Gibbard
1940s: Arthur Penny
1955: V. M. Robus
1962: Frank Briggs
1975: J. H. Wood
1981: Charles P. McCarthy

References

External links
Catalogue of the NSMM archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Metal trade unions
1872 establishments in the United Kingdom
Trade unions established in 1872
Trade unions disestablished in 1985
Trade unions based in the West Midlands (county)
1366 Technologies. 1366 Technologies was a company based in Bedford, Massachusetts that developed a technique to produce silicon wafers by casting them in their ultimate shape directly in a mold, rather than the prevailing standard method in which wafers are cut from a large ingot. In July 2021, the company merged with Dallas-based Hunt Perovskite Technologies to form a new company, CubicPV.  The company's management predicted that the new approach will be able to produce wafers at half the cost of current methods.  The company's name was a reference to the solar constant, representing the watts of solar energy that hits each square meter outside of Earth's atmosphere.

Technology
The company used a $4 million grant obtained from the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program in December 2009 to fund research over an 18-month period. Grants from ARPA-E are designed to provide money to relatively small projects offering the potential for high-payoff results in fostering advanced techniques. 1366 Technologies was able to announce eight months into the grant period that it had achieved success in its casting technology, in which molten silicon is poured directly into a mold to produce wafers in their final form, a square  on each side that is 200 micrometres thick and are then extracted from the mold using a proprietary technique to ensure that the wafer doesn't break while being removed. In traditional methods, wafers of this size are cut from a large single ingot or crystal, in an approach that leaves as much as half of the original silicon ingot as waste.

David Danielson, program director for solar energy at ARPA-E said that "early indications show this could be one of our great success stories." ARPA-E's first director Arun Majumdar estimated that current techniques generate solar power at a cost of $4 per watt, and that bringing down that cost to $1.50 per watt could lead to the widespread adoption of solar energy. Company president Frank van Mierlo estimated that solar power generated using wafers from 1366 Technologies would be cheaper than power generated using coal.

The company is now on their third generation of wafer-producing machines, which are full-sized, industrial line machines. The company will open a commercial-scale factory in upstate New York, slated for completion in 2017. This plant will start producing 50 million wafers annually, totaling 250 megawatts of output. It will eventually scale to 600 million wafers and 3,000 MW of annual production.

Financing
1366 Technologies has raised $70 million in capital to commercialize their innovation, from such investors as South Korean Hanwha Chemical, a major user of silicon wafers, as well as from Ventizz Capital Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.

References

External links
1366 Technologies company website

1366 Technology NREL grant 2009
Technology companies based in Massachusetts
Manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts
Companies based in Bedford, Massachusetts
Manufacturing companies established in 2009
Technology companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in Massachusetts
BSA A65 Star. The BSA A65 Star was a Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) motorcycle aimed at the US market for unit construction twins. As well as giving a clean look to the engine, with the pushrod passages part of the cylinder block casting, unit construction reduced the number of places oil could leak from. A range of A65 Star twins was produced between 1962 and 1972.

Development
The decision by Lucas in the late 1950s to switch production of motorcycle electrical components (from magneto/dynamo systems to alternators/coil systems) forced British motorcycle manufacturers to completely redesign their engines.  Triumph and BSA took the opportunity to move from pre-unit and semi-unit construction to full unit construction, that is, with the engine and gearbox together in an integrated casting.  At the same time, Bob Fearon, managing director and general manager of BSA, recognised the need for a new look that built on the best features of the A10s but would succeed in the potentially lucrative, but competitive, US market. Working with chief development engineer Bert Perrigo, he developed the unit construction Star twins.

A range of these  Star twins were produced between 1962 and 1972, and improved on the old pre-unit A7 and A10 series, being lighter and easier to manufacture, with more up to date styling. Not enough time was spent on testing and development as BSA were struggling to remain competitive with Triumph models and the emerging Japanese motorcycles. Large side panels were fitted to cover the space behind the engine but they contributed to a dated look. This was reinforced by engine vibration, but acceleration was good to a top speed of .

Twelve volt electrics were introduced in 1966 and the top of the range BSA Spitfire with a claimed top speed of . In 1967 BSA won a special Queens Award to Industry and by 1969 80% of the BSA factory production was going to America. In the US the 650 Star twins were selling well with styling changes including high rise handlebars and more streamlined fuel tanks. In 1970 a new 'oil in frame' design was adopted but this proved unpopular with shorter riders, as it increased the seat height. This was sorted out by 1972 but by then BSA were facing serious financial problems and stopped production of the outdated 650 Star twin.

See also
 BSA A65 Rocket

References

A65 Star
Motorcycles introduced in 1962
Motorcycles powered by straight-twin engines
ADaMSoft. ADaMSoft is a free and open-source statistical software developed in Java and can run on any platform supporting Java.

History 
ADaMSoft was initially started by Marco Scarnò as a simple prototype of the statistical software developed by UNESCO and called WinIDAMS. Later it resulted useful for several activities of the CASPUR statistical group (ADaMS group). The software was further developed until it became an interesting package which was tested and, finally, opened to the web community.

Features

Statistical methods 
ADaMSoft can perform a wide range of analytical methods:
 Neural Networks MLP
 Graphs
 Data Mining
 Linear regression
 Logistic regression
 Methods for Statistical classification
 Record linkage methods
 Contains algorithms for Decision trees
 Cluster analysis
 Data Editing and imputation
 Principal component analysis
 Correspondence analysis

Data sources 
It can read/write statistical data values from various/to sources including:
 Text Files
 Excel Spreadsheets
 ODBC data sources
 MySQL
 Postgresql
 Oracle

Web Application Server 
By using the ADaMSoft Web Application Server it is possible to use all the software facilities through the web; in other words to let that internet users can access to the ADaMSoft procedures without having it installed.

References

External links 
 ADaMSoft SourceForge
 Softsea - ADaMSoft

qw

Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free statistical software
Mukul Sharma (professor). Mukul M. Sharma is a professor who holds the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Centennial Chair in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1980) and then M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Southern California in 1981 and 1985 respectively. He has been on the faculty at the University of Texas for the past 39 years and served as chairman of the department from 2001 to 2005.

His research interests include hydraulic fracturing, oilfield water management, formation damage, and improved oil recovery.  He has published over 450 journal articles and conference proceedings and has 21 patents.

In 2018, Sharma was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the science and technology of production from unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. He is the recipient of the 2002 Lester C. Uren Award, 2017 John Franklin Carll Award and the 2009 Lucas Gold Medal, SPE's highest technical awards. He is a distinguished alumnus of IIT Kanpur and USC and has also received the 2004 SPE Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award and the 1998 SPE Formation Evaluation Award. He served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2002, has served on the Editorial Boards of many journals, and taught and consulted for industry worldwide.

Beyond academia, Sharma has founded Austin Geotech Services, an E&P consulting company in 1996. He also co-founded Layline Petroleum in 2006, Navidad Energy in 2017, Geothermix in 2020, and Polaris Lithium in 2021.

Awards
 Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2019
 US National Academy of Engineering, 2018
 SPE John, Franklin Carl Award, 2017
 SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, 2009
 Lester C. Uren Award, SPE, 2003
 SPE Formation Evaluation Award, 1998
 SPE Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, 2004
 SPE Distinguished Member, 2004
 SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 2004
 Billy and Claude Hocott Distinguished Engineering Research Award, 2010
 Editorial Review Board, SPE Journal, 1996-2000
 Technical Editor, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1992–95
 Martin Marietta Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996
 Halliburton Foundation, Faculty Excellence Award, 1994

References

 Personal Website 
 UT PGE Faculty Profile 
 ResearchGate Profile 
 LinkedIn Profile 
 Google Scholar Profile

Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
IIT Kanpur alumni
USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ic! berlin. ic! berlin brillen GmbH is a German eyewear company based in Berlin. Founded in 1996 by Ralph Anderl, it produces eyewear from 0.5 mm thick stainless spring steel sheet metal using a hinge design that avoids the use of any screws, welds, or glue in the construction of their frames.

In November 2023, it was announced that Marcolin had completed the acquisition of ic! berlin.

History
In 1996, Ralph Anderl joined Philipp Haffmans and Harald Gottschling to help market their idea for screwless sheet metal eyewear in Berlin. Unable to sell the idea, the trio founded HGA Gesellschaft to produce and market eyewear under the brand ic! brille. The first frame to be produced was ‘Jack’, weighing 20 grams, with an initial run of 50 pieces.

ic! brille became ic! berlin in late 1997. Starting in a small apartment with a shop front in Max-Beer-Straße in Berlin-Mitte, ic! berlin moved to the nearby Backfabrik in 2005. While Haffmans and Gottschling focused on design and production, Anderl would take control of finance, organization and distribution. In 2003, the trio split, with Anderl remaining at ic! berlin as the sole Managing Director. That same year, Harald Gottschling and Philipp Haffmans embarked on a new venture. Joining forces with Daniel Haffmans and Moritz Krüger, they founded MYKITA, another eyewear brand.

Under Anderl, ic! berlin has expanded into fashion, launching a line of jeans and collaborating with other designers and fashion labels such as Kix, A Bathing Ape, Luisa Hecking and Superfine. In 2013, German artist and entertainer Friedrich Lichtenstein took up residency at ic! berlin as an ornamental hermit.

In November 2017, Ralph Anderl sold a majority stake in ic! berlin to the German investment company Premium Equity Partners.

Today, ic! berlin has over 180 craftsmen, engineers, and technicians who design, build, and market the company's original eyewear designs across 60 countries in Europe, North America, and Asia. The company's Flagship Store is located at Münzstraße 5 – 10178 Berlin, Germany.

Awards

 2008	Golden Silmo Eyewear Award, France/Paris
 2008	Eyewear of the Year 2009/IOFT, Tokyo/Japan
 2009	Eyewear of the Year 2010/IOFT, Tokyo/Japan
 2010	Eyewear of the Year 2011/IOFT, Tokyo/Japan

References

External links
 

Eyewear companies of Germany
Companies based in Berlin
Eyewear brands of Germany
2023 mergers and acquisitions