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Taishin International Bank Tower. The Taishin International Bank Tower () is a skyscraper office building in Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan. The height of building is , and it comprises 25 floors above ground, as well as six basement levels. It is the corporate headquarters of Taishin Financial Holdings.

Design
The tower was completed in 2004 and was designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Haigo Shen & Associates. Inspired by the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, it was primarily designed by the same architectural firm. The overall shape of the building represents a water droplet as the principle design concepts. The exterior walls of the building use low-reflective light-blue glass façade, and the selection of building materials is based on environmental protection concepts.

See also 
 List of tallest buildings in Taiwan
 List of tallest buildings in Taipei
 Taishin Financial Holdings

References

2004 establishments in Taiwan
Office buildings completed in 2004
Skyscraper office buildings in Taipei
Bank headquarters in Taiwan
Helmut Horn. Helmut Justus Karl Horn (June 24, 1912 - January 20, 1994) was a German-American engineer and applied physicist who was employed at the early Marshall Space Flight Center. Horn worked first at the Peenemünde Army Research Center and later, after the end of World War II, was hired by the U.S. through Operation Paperclip.

Biography
Horn was born on June 24, 1912, in Frankfurt. He attended college at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, graduating in 1939 with an M.S. in engineering, specifically applied physics. After graduation, he went to work with the German rocket team at Peenemünde under Wernher von Braun. He continued there from 1939 until the war's end in 1945.

As a member of von Braun's rocket team, Horn was one of the engineers scouted by Operation Paperclip. He traveled to the U.S. aboard the Argentina, arriving on November 16, 1945.  After arriving Horn worked within the U.S. rocket program, first at Fort Bliss and then at White Sands. His wife Leni followed him, immigrating to the U.S. to join him in 1951. By 1952, Horn had moved to Redstone Arsenal, where he taught at the Redstone Arsenal Institute of Graduate Studies as a lecturer in Applied Mathematics.

By 1960, Horn had joined the rocket team at the newly created Marshall Space Flight Center, where he first served as head of the Dynamics Analysis Branch of the center's Aeroballistics Division. In 1960 or 1961, Horn was involved with development on the Saturn program. He adapted the bilinear tangent steering law developed by mathematician Derek Frank Lawden, creating an algorithm that would improve upon existing software to calculate optimal in-flight trajectories. Horn's algorithm eventually led to the Iterative Guidance Mode used by the guidance systems of numerous Saturn projects including the Saturn V rocket. In 1962, Horn took part in investigating the viability of lunar orbit rendezvous for Project Apollo. By February 1969, he was the assistant director of MSFC's Aero-Astrodynamics Laboratory; he was later promoted to deputy director.

References

External links
 Helmut Horn Collection, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections

American aerospace engineers
German aerospace engineers
German rocket scientists
1912 births
1994 deaths
Scientists from Frankfurt
Engineers from Frankfurt
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Early spaceflight scientists
Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield
NASA people
Operation Paperclip
1970 Lehigh Engineers football team. The 1970 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.

In their sixth year under head coach Fred Dunlap, the Engineers compiled a 4–6 record. Thad Jamula and Geo Nicholson were the team captains.

Following the decision by the Middle Atlantic Conference to end football competition in its University Division, the Engineers competed as a football independent in 1970, though five of the former league rivals (Bucknell, Delaware, Gettysburg, Lafayette and Lehigh) continued to play an informal round-robin called the "Middle Five".

The three-way rivalry with Lafayette and Rutgers remained on Lehigh's football schedule, but press reports in 1970 make no mention of a Middle Three Conference champion.

Lehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

References

Lehigh
Lehigh Mountain Hawks football seasons
Lehigh Engineers football
Space jet. Space jet or spacejet or variation, may refer to:

 Mitsubishi SpaceJet, a failed project of a regional jet aircraft
 Club 328 (ICAO airline code: SDJ; callsign: SPACEJET), a UK charter airline

 KelliCraft Space Jet, a model airplane powered by Jetex
 Spaceplane, a spacecraft in the form of an airplane, sometimes called space jets in popular media and fiction
 Astrophysical jet, a jet in space, a jet that is an astronomical feature in deep space

See also

 Hand-held maneuvering unit, an astronaut maneuvering device for spacewalks that is a jet gun
 Reaction engine, including space thrusters that uses jets of propellant
 MiGFlug, a company offering "space jet flights", flights to the "edge of space"
 SpiceJet (IATA airline code: SG; ICAO airline code: SEJ) Indian airline
 Batik Air, an Indonesian airline initially named Space Jet
 Jet space
 
 
 Space (disambiguation)
 Jet (disambiguation)
Zhai Wanming. Zhai Wanming (; born August 1963) is a Chinese scientist who is a professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. He was a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography
Zhai was born into a family of farming background in Jingjiang, Jiangsu, in August 1963. He was the second of three children. After the resumption of college entrance examination, he was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University, where he studied vehicle heat transfer under Yu Chengshun (. After university, he stayed at the university, he was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to full professor in 1994. In July 1994, he became director of its Train and Route Research Institute.

Honours and awards
 1995 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
 December 2011 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 9 February 2021 Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design and operation of high-speed rail transportation networks.

References

1963 births
Living people
People from Jingjiang
Scientists from Jiangsu
Southwest Jiaotong University alumni
Academic staff of the Southwest Jiaotong University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering
Delegates to the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Sandes (software). Sandes is an Indian state-owned freeware instant messaging platform developed by the Government of India. It runs on Android, iOS and in web browsers. The platform is hosted exclusively at Government infrastructure and both are governed by the rules and regulations of Government of India.

Sandes offers instant messaging, VoIP, File sharing and integration within various Indian Government digital services. In initial releases it was only accessible by government officials but now it is available for the public. At present, full features of the platform are only available to verified users.

History 
In 2019, the Government of India started a project to build an instant messaging platform named Government Instant Messaging System (GIMS) as part of its Make in India initiative. The main goal of the project was to provide a secure messaging platform to government employees for internal communication which doesn't arouse the security concerns attached with the communication platforms hosted abroad or those owned by foreign entities. The initial software testing started in mid-September 2019 and ran for an extensive period of time. Around 6,600 government officials from various departments participated in this pilot program which reported to have exchanged about 20 lakh messages. Later in February 2021 the client application was rebranded as Sandes and published in the official website. This time the program was made available to the public in limited number.

The Delhi police used the Sandes app to discuss sensitive information about dignitaries during the G20 summit. India's paramilitary forces transitioned to the 'Sandes App' for official communication and document sharing in January 2024, replacing WhatsApp.

In July 2024, the Maharashtra government mandated the use of the Sandes app for all official communications to enhance operational security and detect potential misuse.

Features 
Sandes allows users to make end-to-end encrypted one-to-one and group messages. Also allows users to make end-to-end encrypted one-to-one voice and video calls. Messaging features include forward, forward to mail, broadcast, backup, text customization and tag. Tag is a functionality to mark a message as Confidential, on Priority or as Auto Delete. If a message is marked Auto Delete, then it will be automatically deleted once the recipient reads it. Currently Sandes is integrated with NIC email, DigiLocker and eOffice. So users can access these services without leaving the platform.

Limitations
A valid mobile number is required to sign up. Public users are limited to one-to-one chat. An official group is limited to 200 members. A casual group is limited to 50 members. Broadcast list is limited to ten contacts at a time. Users are only allowed to send the following file types: documents (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf), images (jpeg, jpg, png), audio (mp3, m4a), video (mp4). File size is limited to 15mb per file.

See also

 WhatsApp
 Signal (software)
 Telegram (software)
 Session (software)

References

External links 
 
 
Digital India initiatives
National Informatics Centre
Modi administration initiatives
Instant messaging
Freeware
RAF M2 'Stils'. The RAF M2 "Stils" was designed by Rīgas Autobusu Fabrika in 1994. It was designed to replace the aging RAF-2203 and offer a new modern vehicle to the newly opened market after collapse of Soviet Union. Only 2 prototypes were ever produced (one minivan, one ambulance) until bankruptcy of Rīgas Autobusu Fabrika in 1998. Both prototypes were lost after the bankruptcy but were found and shown to public in 2011.

Rīgas Autobusu Fabrika developed 2 concept models to replace the RAF-2203, the 1st concept being the RAF M1 'Roksana' and 2nd the RAF M2 'Stils' which was chosen as successor of RAF-2203, but start of mass production failed, hopes for small production failed soon after due lack of parts, budget and manpower.

This minivan used modernized version of ZMZ-406 4 cylinder, 2,3 liter gasoline engine. It used hydropneumatic suspension, much like some Citroën vehicles. The design was produced together with Russian NAMI (automotive institute). The minivan version could have seated 12 people and reach speed up to 170 km/h. Ambulance version could have seated 4 with 1 patient bed. Unlike the RAF 2203 or the prototype RAF M1 'Roksana', RAF M2 'Stils' was front-wheel drive.

Gallery

References

 Motormuzejs.lv
 Autonews.lv

1990s cars
Riga Autobus Factory vehicles
Vans
Minibuses
Ambulances
Cars introduced in 1994
Motor vehicles manufactured in Latvia
Airborne Electronic Attack. Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) is a European Union Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) initiative meant to equip future European military aircraft with new electronic-warfare capabilities. The project is led by Spain with the goal of enabling a platform for Airborne Electronic Attack missions that could adapt to the latest electronic warfare requirements, which include suppression of enemy air defences, escort/modified-escort role, non-traditional electronic attack, self-protected/time-critical strike support, and continuous capability enhancement. The system will also protect the GNSS from interference by foreign powers in various ways.

It will follow a modular development approach, with the option of being inside the aircraft or in a pod configuration, in order to be compatible with different aircraft, such as the Eurofighter Typhoon or the Future Combat Air System. It will allow European air forces to safely carry out operations within EU territory and the projection of the force in other potential areas of operations.

Features 
Main features:

 Very high ERP, for main, side and scattered lobes jamming
 Solid-state active phased array AESA jamming
 Multiple DRFM architecture for simultaneous beam aimed multi-threat jamming
 Smart digital jamming techniques
 Up to 360° wide angular coverage
 Extended low and high brand threat coverage capabilities

Increased ES/EA mission capability through advanced jamming functions:

 Pod or internally mounted, for fighter aircraft, UAV, J-UCAV or mission aircraft with network centric warfare (NCW) capabilities
 Very high power main / side / scattered lobe jamming
 Unsigned raid DDA, up to RF horizon action possible
 Smart techniques / coherent waveforms / covert jamming
 Smart power management using active phased array transmitter

Members

Companies 
 Indra

See also 

 Common Security and Defence Policy
 Permanent Structured Cooperation
 European Main Battle Tank
 European Patrol Corvette
 Eurocopter Tiger
 European External Action Service

References 

Permanent Structured Cooperation projects
Electronic warfare
Electronic countermeasures
Mohamed Yalouh. Mohamed Yalouh is a Moroccan  inventor known for his works in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Engineering. He won the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN) in 2020. Yalouh’s Hexa-Stroke Engine was named the invention with the best design and conceptualized representation. He won numerous other titles from innovation expositions and contests around the world, such as the International Innovation & Invention Competition in Taiwan. Yalouh was recently recognized on IFIA’s list of notable inventors for his innovations.

Early life 

Yalouh was born in Tetuan, Morocco and currently lives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates where he attends the American Community School of Abu Dhabi.

He co-founded Waind, a student-led research and development project aimed at exploring innovative solutions to global problems through Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. The startup aims to build a R&D network of student communities worldwide to explore new hard-tech innovations.

Career 

At 14 years old, Mohamed learned about different elements of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering. At 15 years old, he drafted his own patent application for “The Hexa-Stroke Engine” (H.R.R.E). This invention is a 6-stroke and multi-powerstroke diesel automotive engine, predominantly relating to Felix Wankel’s Triangle Rotary Engine from 1954. Yalouh’s H.R.R.E stands distinctive with few similar models. Some of the features it possesses include low fuel consumption, powerful coordinated power strokes, lighter in weight, environment friendly, lower weight-to-power ratios, neutral temperature across its housing, and so on. These were set to bring a conceptual, innovative solution to minimize emissions and reduce the carbon footprint, and yet perform more efficiently with an overall far exceeding performance than its previous versions.

References 

Living people
Social entrepreneurs
2005 births
People from Tétouan
21st-century inventors
Materiel de 155 sur affut-truck Schneider. The Materiel de 155 sur affut-truck Schneider was a railway gun designed and built early in the First World War.

History
Although the majority of combatants had heavy field artillery before the outbreak of the First World War, none had adequate numbers of heavy guns in service, nor had they foreseen the growing importance of heavy artillery once the Western Front stagnated and trench warfare set in.  Since aircraft of the period were not yet capable of carrying large-diameter bombs the burden of delivering heavy firepower fell on the artillery.  Two sources of heavy artillery suitable for conversion to field use were surplus coastal defense guns and naval guns.  

However, a paradox faced artillery designers of the time; while large caliber naval guns were common, large caliber land weapons were not due to their weight, complexity, and lack of mobility.  Large-caliber field guns often required extensive site preparation because the guns had to be broken down into multiple loads light enough to be towed by a horse team or the few traction engines of the time and then reassembled before use.  Building a new gun could address the problem of disassembling, transporting, and reassembling a large gun, but it didn't necessarily address how to convert existing heavy weapons to make them more mobile.  Rail transport proved to be the most practical solution because the problems of heavy weight, lack of mobility, and reduced setup time were addressed.

Design
The Materiel de 155 sur affut-truck Schneider began life as six coastal defense guns based on the Canon de 155 L mle 1877 field gun converted by Schneider to railroad guns during the First World War.  The 155 L had a hooped steel construction with gain-twist rifling.  The guns had a de Bange breech and fired separate loading bagged charges and projectiles. 

The guns sat on a Vavasseur mount with a gun shield which was bolted to a four-axle, well-base flatcar.  The Vavasseur mount was a type of top-carriage recoil system where the gun sat on a cradle that held the trunnioned barrel. When fired a combination of hydraulic buffers and inclined rails returned the gun to position.  Once in position, the timber firing platform under the center of the carriage was lowered onto the rails and the carriage was lifted by four jackscrews through the floor of the car.  The combination of jackscrews, outriggers, and rail clamps stabilizing the carriage during firing.  The gun was capable of 360° of traverse at elevations from +10° to +35° with a maximum range of  and provided counter-battery fire during the Battle of Verdun.

Photo Gallery

References

155 mm artillery
Artillery of France
Railway guns
World War I artillery of France
World War I railway artillery of France
World War I guns
RAF M1 'Roksana'. The RAF M1 "Roksana" was designed by Rīgas Autobusu Fabrika in 1991. It was designed to replace the aging RAF-2203 and offer a new, modern vehicle to the newly opened market after the collapse of Soviet Union. Only 1 prototype was ever produced until the bankruptcy of Rīgas Autobusu Fabrika in 1998. The prototype was lost after the bankruptcy, but was found in Ventspils in 2017 and soon presented to the public.

Rīgas Autobusu Fabrika developed 2 concept models to replace the RAF-2203, the 1st concept being the RAF M1 'Roksana' and 2nd the RAF M2 'Stils' which was chosen as successor of RAF-2203, but start of mass production failed, hopes for small production failed soon after due lack of parts, budget and manpower.

The body building and engine installation was done in Riga experimental workshop, after which it was sent to United Kingdom for final design works. RAF M1 'Roksana' was designed together with British International Automotive Design. The minivan could have seated nine people. Unlike the RAF M2 'Stils', the RAF M1 'Roksana' has stayed as rear-wheel drive as in its predecessor RAF-2203.

Gallery

References

 Raw21.com
 CSDD.lv
 Delfi.lv

1990s cars
Riga Autobus Factory vehicles
Vans
Minibuses
Cars introduced in 1991
Motor vehicles manufactured in Latvia
Sylvie Lorente. Sylvie Lorente is a French mechanical engineer known for her research on the thermodynamics and fluid mechanics of porous media, and in particular for her work on the constructal theory of flows and their dynamic evolution. She is the inaugural holder of the William M. Brown Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, and professor (exceptional class) at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse.

Education and career
Lorente studied civil engineering at INSA Toulouse (the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse), earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 1996.

She became a faculty member at INSA Toulouse, working as an assistant professor from 1995 to 1997, an associate professor from 1997 to 2006, a full professor from 2006 to 2015, and professor (exceptional class) in 2015. She added her affiliations as adjunct professor at Duke University in 2006, extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria in 2011, and College of Engineering Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University in 2019.

Books
Lorente has authored books including:
Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies (with Adrian Bejan, Ibrahim Dincer, António F. Miguel, and A. Heitor Reis, Springer, 2004)
La loi constructale (with Bejan, L'Harmattan, 2005)
Design with Constructal Theory (with Bejan, Wiley, 2008)

Her edited volumes include:
Constructal Human Dynamics, Security and Sustainability (with Bejan, Miguel, and Reis, IOS Press, 2009)
Constructal Law and the Unifying Principle of Design (with Bejan and Luis A. O. Rocha, Springer, 2013)

Recognition
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers gave Lorente their Edward F. Obert Award, jointly with Adrian Bejan, in 2004, and gave her their Bergles–Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer in 2005. The International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer gave her their inaugural Hartnett–Irvine Award in 2007, with Bejan, for their work on constructal theory.

Lorente was named to the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2008, and in 2015 she was named a knight (chevalier) in the Ordre national du Mérite. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2019.  She joined the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, in 2022.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French mechanical engineers
University of Toulouse alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toulouse
Academic staff of the University of Pretoria
Villanova University faculty
Members of Academia Europaea
Members of the ERC Scientific Council
20th-century French women engineers
21st-century French women engineers
20th-century French engineers
21st-century French engineers
Continental Engineering Corporation Tower. The Continental Engineering Corporation Tower, or CEC Tower for short (), is a skyscraper office building in Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan. The height of building is , and it comprises 31 floors above ground as well as six levels below ground. It is the corporate headquarters of Continental Engineering Corporation. As of February 2021, it is the 23rd tallest building in Taipei.

Design
The tower was completed in 2002 and was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. For the exterior of the first five floors of the building, granite panels were used with a coated double glazed façade to provide high transparency, thermal insulation and soundproofing on the north and west sides of the building. Natural sunlight can stream through the curtain wall to save on energy usage.

See also 
 List of tallest buildings in Taiwan
 List of tallest buildings in Taipei
 Continental Engineering Corporation

References

2003 establishments in Taiwan
Office buildings completed in 2003
Skyscraper office buildings in Taipei
USCG CG-107. CG-107 was a wooden-hulled patrol vessel in commission in the fleet of the United States Coast Guard.

History
She was laid down at the Camden, New Jersey shipyard of Mathis Yacht Building Company, one of 203 "Six-Bitters" ordered by the United States Coast Guard, 30 of which were built by Mathis. She was designed for long-range picket and patrol duty during Prohibition for postings 20 to 30 miles from shore. The date of her launching and completion is uncertain although the class design was finalized in April 1924 and all of the Six-Bitters were commissioned by 1925. She was commissioned in 1924/1925 as CG-107. She was struck from the register in 1932/1933.

References

1925 ships
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
Ships built by the Mathis Yacht Building Company