omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Philipos C. Loizou. Philipos (Philip) C. Loizou (Greek: Φίλιππος Λοΐζου, November 10, 1965 – July 22, 2012) was Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).

Career 
Loizou was an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock (1996 to 1999) prior to joining the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, where he helped co-found the Center of Robust Speech Systems (CRSS). He established the Speech Processing and Cochlear Implant Laboratories at the University of Texas at Dallas and held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2009. Loizou developed a noisy speech corpus known as NOIZEUS.

References

External links 
 Philipos Loizou's Homepage
 CI lab 
 Speech Processing lab

University of Texas at Dallas faculty
1965 births
2012 deaths
Audiologists
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering alumni
Cypriot emigrants to the United States
Lead(II) iodate. Lead(II) iodate is an inorganic compound with the molecular formula Pb(IO3)2.  It is naturally found as heavy white powder.

Production
One way to produce lead(II) iodate involves the reaction of lead nitrate with double moles of potassium iodate.  Lead iodate can be precipitated precisely by simultaneous dropwise addition of equivalent solutions of lead nitrate and potassium iodate with water as a solvent at around 60 °C.

Pb(NO3)2(aq) + KIO3(aq) → KNO3(aq) + Pb(IO3)2(s)

Industrial mass production methods use a less precise method due to higher quantities of reactants.  Many other group 1 elements can be used in place of potassium to add iodate to the reaction due to solubility of group 1 element iodates.

Uses
One use for the compound lead(II) iodate is the volumetric determination of lead content in ore.  The determination of lead content in a sample of ore begins with the precipitation and separation of lead as a sulfate.  The solution of this lead sulfate product is then slightly acidified and the lead is precipitated out as lead(II) iodate out by adding potassium iodate.  Lead(II) iodate can then be titrated in the presence of hydrochloric acid and chloroform to indicate the exact amount of lead that was dissolved from the original ore sample.  In this chemical process lead(II) iodate is used to isolate the lead found in a sample of ore from other chemicals present so that it can be studied and quantitated effectively.
PbSO4(aq) + KIO3(aq) → K2SO4(aq) + Pb(IO3)2(s)

References

Iodates
Lead(II) compounds
CVV 3 Arcore. The CVV 3 Arcore was a single seat competition glider designed and built in Italy in the late 1930s, a development of the CVV 1 Pinguino. It participated in several national gliding competitions in the short period before the outbreak of World War II.

Design and development
The Arcore was designed at the Centro Volo a Vela (CVV), or Experimental Soaring Centre, of the Royal Polytechnic of Milan by Gildo Preti. It was the third glider to be designed and built there and had a close resemblance to the first of them, the CVV 1 Pinguino.  Both were wood and fabric single seat competition gliders, cantilever monoplanes with mid-mounted gull wings. The wings in particular were very similar in all respects apart from the Arcore's   greater span. They were built around a single spar, with a plywood covered D-box ahead of it and fabric behind.  In plan, they had a constant chord centre section, filling about a third of the span, and outer sections with taper on both leading and trailing edges ending in semi-elliptical tips. The centre section had positive dihedral but there was none on the outer panels.  Ailerons occupied the whole of these outer panels, hinged parallel to the trailing edge.  Short span airbrakes extended upwards only, mounted just behind the spar at the outer ends of the centre section.

Both models had ovoid cross section fuselages with ply skinning. In other respects the fuselages and empennages of the two types differed significantly, most obviously in the design of the cockpit and canopy and the related fuselage depth, as well as in the undercarriage.  The upper edge of the fuselage of the Acore was straight and at about the height of the wing tips, higher than that of the earlier aircraft, enabling the fuselage top, teardrop shaped canopy of the Pinguino to be replaced by one with an upper line co-linear with that of the fuselage. The two models shared a rather upright windscreen, halfway between the nose and the wing leading edge. The Arcore had a shorter landing ski than its predecessor, ending at a fixed, partly recessed monowheel assisted by a small tail bumper.  As before, its horizontal tail was raised above the fuselage on a shallow step but the elevator area was reduced by taper and it carried a small trim tab. The narrow fin was shorter than before, which allowed a shorter, broader rudder to be horn balanced. The control surfaces were fabric covered, and the fixed surfaces ply skinned.

The Arcore first flew in 1938, in time to take part in the Italian National Gliding Competition that year.  Only a few, possibly only one, were built; one source says four but pre-war civilian registers contain only the prototype, I-DICI, which is also the only Arcore in the official record.

Operational history

The Arcore competed at two Italian National Gliding Competitions, that of 1939 as well as 1938, both held at Asiago.  It also took part in at least one competition held in Germany.

Specifications

References

External links
Göttingen 535 airfoil

1930s Italian sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Vibration calibrator. Vibration calibrators , sometimes also called reference shakers, are electromechanical instruments which enable calibration of vibration sensors and measuring instruments to traceable standards. They produce sinusoidal mechanical vibration signals with known amplitudes and frequencies. The vibrating part of the instrument is usually a cylindrical steel stud with an internal thread for attachment of the test object. An electrodynamic or piezoelectric actuator system is used to produce the vibrations. With older instruments it was necessary to adjust the vibration amplitude according to the weight of the test object. However, modern instruments contain a built-in reference accelerometer and closed-loop control, with which the amplitude is kept constant up to a maximum specified weight of test object. Older models can be used to calibrate objects weighing up to a maximum of approximately 100 g, whereas the latest instruments can work stably with test objects weighing over 500 g.

Vibration calibrators are most often used for testing and checking vibration sensors and measuring instruments at the site of their operation and are, therefore, usually transportable and battery operated.

The most commonly occurring vibration frequency of calibrators is 159.2 Hz, which is equivalent to a radian frequency of 1000 rad/s. The vibration displacement, velocity and acceleration of sinusoidal signals are connected with each other through the factor of the radian frequency. Advantageously, at 1000 rad/s the numerical values of the amplitudes for all three vibration quantities are the same. For example, a vibration acceleration of 10 m/s² at 159.2 Hz is equivalent to a vibration velocity of 10 mm/s and a vibration displacement of 10 μm.

With some instruments it is possible to choose between several frequencies or to finely tune a specific frequency range. Frequencies between 16 Hz and 10 kHz are common on the market.

Occasionally, vibration calibrators also contain a signal conditioner for connection to various types of vibration sensors, and additionally a display for reading the sensitivity.

A procedure for the calibration of vibration calibrators is described in the international standard ISO 10816-44.

References 
 T. Usuda, A.O. Oota, H. Nozato, Y. Hino. (2009)  "Transportable Vibration Calibration System Employing E-trace Scheme", Proceedings of the IMAC-XXVII

External links
 Vibration Calibrators, Brüel & Kjær
 Vibration Calibrators, Metra
 Calibration, Kistler
 Portable Vibration Calibrator, The Modal Shop
 Portable Vibration Calibrators, Agate Technology
Measurement
Leo Quinn. Leo Quinn (born 13 December 1956) is a British business executive.  In 2015 he became the Group Chief Executive of Balfour Beatty. In October 2013, he founded The 5% Club

Early life and education 
Quinn was raised in Ladbroke Grove and was educated at the London Oratory School. As a young man Quinn worked at his father's business in West London. He attended University of Surrey intending to study electronic and electrical engineering before transferring to Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he switched to civil engineering. He then went to Imperial College earning an MSc in management science.

Career 
Quinn worked as a civil engineer for Balfour Beatty, beginning in 1979. He worked for 16 years with Honeywell inc. in various management roles, including Global President of H&BC Enterprise Solutions.

For three years, Quinn was COO in the production management division of Invensys, a multinational engineering and information technology company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

From 2004 to 2008, Quinn was Chief Executive of De La Rue plc, a support service company  involved in security printing, papermaking and cash handling systems.

He was also a director of Tomkins plc.

Quinn became Group Chief Executive of QinetiQ Group PLC in November 2009, replacing Graham Love. and succeeded in increasing the company's pre-tax profits. He remained in this position until 2014, when he was hired by Balfour Beatty, which had been struggling financially, to create a turnaround plan.

In October 2013, Quinn founded The 5% Club.

Personal

Quinn is married with two sons. Quinn has three brothers.

References

External links

1956 births
Living people
Alumni of Imperial College London
Alumni of the University of Portsmouth
British chief executives
People educated at London Oratory School
People from Ladbroke Grove
ImageNets. ImageNets is an open source framework for rapid prototyping of machine vision algorithms, developed by the Institute of Automation.

Description 
ImageNets is an open source and platform independent (Windows & Linux) framework for rapid prototyping of machine vision algorithms. With the GUI ImageNet Designer, no programming knowledge is required to perform operations on images. A configured ImageNet can be loaded and executed from C++ code without the need for loading the ImageNet Designer GUI to achieve higher execution performance.

History 
ImageNets was developed by the Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany. The software was first publicly released in 2010. Originally, ImageNets was developed for the Care-Providing Robot FRIEND but it can be used for a wide range of computer vision applications.

References

External links
 ImageNets homepage
 Download ImageNets

Computer vision software
Learning in computer vision
Harold Friedman. Harold Leo Friedman (born 24 March 1923 in Manhattan, New York City; died 16 September 2005 in Stony Brook, Long Island, New York) was an American physical chemist who contributed to the study of thermodynamic properties of fluids with applications in oceanography and physiology. 

He received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D in chemistry from the University of Chicago.

He taught at the University of Southern California and worked for I.B.M.'s research center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y before moving to teach at Stony Brook University in 1965. He was chairman of Stony Brook's chemistry department during the 1970s, retiring as a professor emeritus in 1994.Dr. Francis T. Bonner, chairman of Stony Brook's chemistry department from 1958 to 1970, noted the significance of Dr. Friedman's research in understanding the actions of electrolytes.

For thirty years, Dr. Friedman was a chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was fascinated with the composition of water as well as the movement of particles and electrical charges in chemical solutions known as electrolytes. Among other disciplines and applications, the literature on physiology and oceanography regarded his findings as crucial. In 1962, he published a book named Ionic Solution Theory, which detailed his research.

In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for pioneering work in the theory of the statistical mechanics of ionic solutions and in the application of the theory of experimental observables".  In 1988, he was awarded the Robinson Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Faraday Division.

On September 16, 2005, Harold L. Friedman died of Parkinson's disease complications, aged 82, in the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, New York.

Works 
 Ionic Solution Theory, ,1962
 A Course In Statistical Mechanics, , 1988

External links 
 Stony Brook Chemistry page
 THE NEW YORK TIMES: Harold Friedman, 82, Chemist Who Studied Electrolytes (24. September 2005)
 Journal articles

References

20th-century American chemists
1923 births
2005 deaths
Scientists from Manhattan
University of Chicago alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Aerola Alatus. The Aerola Alatus is a Ukrainian mid-wing, single-seat, glider  and motor glider, designed and produced by Aerola of Kyiv.

Design and development
A manufacturer of rigid wing hang gliders, Aerola decided to produce an ultralight sailplane along similar concept lines. The resulting aircraft is offered with and without a retractable engine. The prototype glider was known as the AL-12, with the motorized prototype  designated as the AL-12M. The production versions are the Alatus and Alatus-M, respectively.

The aircraft is made from composites. Its  span, slightly forward-swept wing has an area of . The landing gear is of a bicycle design, with a main wheel and a nose wheel, plus wing tip skids. The bubble canopy is in one piece and is removable. The light wing loading and low stall speed mean that the aircraft can be flown in the smallest thermals. The wings can be removed for ground transport on top of an automobile, while the fuselage is small enough to fit inside a van or to be secured to a small trailer.

Variants
AL-12
Initial unpowered prototype
AL-12M
Initial powered prototype
Alatus
Production model pure glider with an empty weight of  and a gross weight of . Conforms to German LTF and LFG requirements.
Alatus-M
Production model motor glider with an empty weight of  and a gross weight of . Conforms to German LTF and LFG requirements, as well as US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. Powered by a pylon-mounted retractable  CorsAir M25Y ES engine that produces a climb rate of 2.0 m/s (400 fpm) and gives an endurance of 1.5 hours. An electric powerplant is also available which provides a half-hour endurance. The Alatus-M can be converted back to the Alatus by removing the powerplant pylon and engine.

Specifications (Alatus)

See also

References

External links
Official website
Official photos of the Alatus and Alatus-M

2000s Ukrainian sailplanes
Mercedes-Benz OM640 engine. The Mercedes-Benz OM640 engine is a 2.0 liter inline-four cylinder  diesel engine manufactured by the Mercedes-Benz division of Daimler AG.

Other applications
The OM640 is the basis for the Thielert Centurion 2.0 aircraft engine. 

Also used as the basis for the Austro Engine AE-300/330 aircraft engine in Diamond DA-42 and DA-62 aircraft.

See also
 List of Mercedes-Benz engines

References

OM640
Diesel engines by model
Straight-four engines
George T. Felbeck. George Theodore Felbeck (February 1, 1897 – March 1, 1962) was an American businessman who was born in Salina, Kansas, United States to Lewis and Matilda Felbeck.  He married Helen Mildred née Kniseley on November 5, 1919.

Felbeck was a graduate of the University of Illinois where he received his B.S.M.E. degree in 1919 and his M.S.M.E. degree in 1921.  He left college in 1918 to serve in the infantry of the U.S. Army.  While at Illinois he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.  He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1943.

Felbeck became a research assistant for Union Carbide in 1923, then headed its plant in Buffalo, New York. He then moved to New York City in 1925 to serve as an engineer for Union Carbide. He served at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from 1942 to 1946 in the Manhattan Project as a chemical and nuclear engineer, under the command of Kenneth Nichols. In 1944 he was appointed president of Union Carbide and served until he retired on February 28, 1962.

He and Helen had five children, Dr. George T. Felbeck, Jr., Dr. David K. Felbeck, Richard B. Felbeck, Kristina A. Felbeck (died 1936) and Karen H. Canaday.

Felbeck and his wife were two of 95 passengers who died in the American Airlines Flight 1 crash on March 1, 1962, the day after his retirement.

References

1897 births
1962 deaths
Accidental deaths in New York (state)
American chemical engineers
United States Army personnel of World War I
Manhattan Project people
People from Salina, Kansas
20th-century American engineers
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1962
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
University of Illinois alumni
20th-century American chemists
Sigma Pi members
Rutger de Regt. Rutger de Regt (28 November 1979) born in Zoetermeer is a Dutch designer.

Biography 
Rutger de Regt is a furniture design graduate since 2011 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. This is where he lives and started his design studio. It was also in 2011 when he made his international debut at Ventura Lambrate in Milan with two remarkable collections: The Happy Misfits and the Make&Mold series.

Work 
The Happy Misfits concept is based on the process of manipulating the skin by flexible shaping. Make&Mold is a furniture series for which Rutger invented a process to use industrial plastic mold techniques. This chair received a nomination for the Thonet Mart Stam prize, the jury members were Ed Annink, Maarten Baas, Ramin Visch and Harm Tilman.
In 2012 Rutger is working on the first prototypes of the Excavate series, elaborating on the technique he developed for the ‘Chair for Charity’.

Projects 
October 2012 Design Auction : Chair for Charity
Rutger de Regt was one of the 14 designers who designed a ‘Chair for Charity’ for the Venduehuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. The revenue of this chair went to The National MS Foundation, a foundation that fights for people with multiple sclerosis. His chair and many other pieces of among others the designers Maarten Baas, Piet Hein Eek, Marcel Wanders, Ineke Hans and Richard Hutten had been put up for auction.
‘Chair for Charity’ by Rutger de Regt in collaboration with Marlies van Putten. They studied the way in which the separate parts of the chair connect to form a whole. To achieve this effect, the chair was poured into a mould with flexible polyurethane rubber. The result is a piece of furniture with a structure reminiscent of a honeycomb.

October 2012 Dutch Design Week : Hal2 meets Dutch Design
On this occasion, Hal2 Ruimtevormgevers invited Rutger de Regt to present pieces of the Happy Misfits, Make&Mold, Make&Mold Pewter and a series of small stools and tables called Tabouret.

5 December - 10 March 2013 Triennale Design Museum Milan: “KAMA. Sex&Design”
The Triennale Design Museum in Milan will present the red Happy Misfits chair of Rutger de Regt in their exhibition “KAMA. Sex & Design”. The exhibition investigates the relationship between Eros and design. The exhibition, curated by Silvana Annicchiarico, contains more than 200 objects from historical drawing and archeological finds with mythic roots, to modern furniture and artworks by international artists and designers.

HandMade Industrials

References

External links 
 

1979 births
Living people
Dutch furniture designers
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague alumni
People from Zoetermeer
AWD Trucks. AWD Trucks (All Wheel Drive) was a British truck manufacturer that produced Bedford trucks from 1987 to 1992, until it was merged with Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group. The last truck of the company was discontinued in 1998, and so the Bedford name became entirely defunct at that time. There is another British based company called AWD Company Limited Of Camberley in Surrey England an entirely different original brandname who were specialized in developing and manufacturing all wheel driven lorries, earthmoving machinery and other 4WD 6WD roadvehicles founded in 1958 production ended in 1966.

History 
In 1986, General Motors decided to sell their Bedford heavy-duty truck division to David J.B. Brown, who was the founder of Artix Limited, while they re-formed the Bedford light truck division into IBC Vehicles. Brown restarted production of the heavy-duty trucks (Bedford TJ, Bedford TK, Bedford MK, and Bedford TL) under the AWD Trucks name in 1987, since the Bedford name was owned by General Motors, but was only used in light vans such as the Bedford Midi and Bedford Rascal, both of which were designs of Suzuki and Isuzu. The now-called AWD Trucks were mostly made for the export market, on which they were very popular, but in Britain, they were only bought by the construction industry and the military.

At that time Brown opened a new firm called Multidrive Vehicles that built 8x6 versions of the AWD TK and AWD TL, mostly for the military and special services. In 1992 the AWD brand was merged with Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group and the only truck that was kept in production was the very outdated Bedford TJ (which was now called AWD TJ), because it was a very good export seller, especially in Pakistan and India, but nevertheless, the production of the truck ended in 1998, and that was the end of the Bedford name. By that time the AWD company had achieved £3 billion of exports and gained 4 Queen's Awards to Industry, with an annual turnover of £400 million.

In 1996 David J.B. Brown sold the Multidrive Vehicles company to Caterpillar. Brown then became a design consultant for the Cat 7 Series ADT. The Bedford trucks that were built by Multidrive Vehicles, were modernized, re-skinned, and were re-badged to Caterpillar vehicles.

These Caterpillar trucks were exported to many countries and were also used in the Gulf War, in Bosnia, Kosovo, and in other countries. The company re-entered the British market in 2001, and also started exports to South Africa that same year. In 2003 the company started producing a whole new range of military vehicles, but the production of the older trucks did not stop. With the death of Brown in 2006, the company was bought by Dr Qu Li.

Products (Multidrive Vehicles)

References

External links 
 MTL33
 AWD-Bedford » Tank Transporter
 AN AWD (BEDFORD TL) 17.18
 AWD » Bedford J
 Browned Off
 ENTERING THE FRAY
 Multidrive Vehicles

 
Car brands
1987 establishments in England
1992 disestablishments in England
British companies established in 1987
British companies disestablished in 1992
Emergency services equipment makers
Defence companies of the United Kingdom