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Porton Man. Porton Man is an animatronic, humanoid robot, commissioned by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and designed and built by i-bodi Technology, primarily to test the capability of protective clothing used by the UK armed forces.

The animatronic contains over 100 sensors throughout the ‘body’, enabling scientists to conduct research on the effectiveness of chemical, biological and radiological protective suits used by the UK armed forces in real time. Such real-time test have varying benefits and limitations. It has the capability to walk, march, run, sit, kneel and lift its arms, therefore being able to more accurately represent an infantry soldier than a stationary mannequin.

The animatronic cost about £1.1 million and was developed using lightweight Formula 1 technology. Porton Man stands at  and weighs only , compared to previous models which weighed .

The robot was named after the home of the DSTL, Porton Down in Wiltshire.

As of 2017, Porton Man had 'run' the equivalent of 200 miles over various chemical, biological and radiological tests. The US Department of Defense has also used Porton Man since at least 2016, and it was officially endorsed by the US Army in 2018.

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Felecia Davis. Felecia Davis is an American architect, engineer and educator. She is principal of FELECIA DAVIS STUDIO where she bridges art, engineering, design and architecture. Davis is known for her work in computational textiles.

Education 

Davis received her Bachelor of Science of engineering from Tufts University in 1982; a Master in Architecture from Princeton University and a PhD in the Design and Computation Group in the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career 

Davis’ research explores the intersection between textiles and architecture with the aim of producing materials and objects that are responsive to their environments. More specifically, her use of Architextiles combine digital soft fabrication and computational practice to generate fabrics that can facilitate a wide range of functions. To date, Davis has developed textiles that can respond to the touch of non-verbal hospital patients; parametric tents that are able to change size and shape in response to changes in light and the number of people underneath it; as well as walls of fabric that change based on the emotions of those in the room.

In 2022, alongisde Patti Anahory, she was selected as the alternate for the WOJR-Civitella Ranieri Foundation Architecture Prize.

Currently, Davis is associate professor at the Stuckerman Center for Design Computing in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University, where she is also the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. She is also a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. FELECIA DAVIS STUDIO has been a finalist in many architectural design competitions.

Bibliography 
 SOFTBUILT : Computational Textile Architectures (2021) [S.l.]: ACTAR. . .
 FELT: Communication Emotion Through Textile Expression (2019), Technology|Architecture + Design, 3:2, 146–149,  2019 
 Touch:  Communication of Emotion through Computational Textile Expression (2018), Emotion and Ambient Computing Session in the HCII 2018 Proceedings, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, Las Vegas.

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George S. Eccles 2002 Legacy Bridge. The George S. Eccles 2002 Legacy Bridge is a pedestrian bridge on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The bridge was complete in 2001.

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Sebastian Elbaum. Sebastian Elbaum is an Argentinian-American computer scientist. He is a professor at the University of Virginia. Dr. Elbaum was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in "recognition of his contributions of testing techniques for evolving systems. He was also named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the analysis and testing of evolving systems and robotic systems"."

Early life and education
Elbaum received his Ph.D. from the University of Idaho and a Systems Engineering degree from Catholic University of Córdoba.

Career
Upon completing his education, Elbaum accepted a faculty position at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he co-founded two international recognized labs, the E2 Software Engineering Lab and the Nimbus Robotics Lab. He received a $36,500 Google Faculty Research Award and National Science Foundation Award for his project "Solving the Search for Code with Inputs and Outputs" for one year. The following year, he collaborated with Carrick Detweiler for their project "Co-Aerial Ecologist: Robotic Water Sampling and Sensing in the Wild" project as part of the National Robotics Initiative. In 2015, Elbaum was appointed to the rank of Willa Cather/Charles Bessey Professorship.

Elbaum eventually left the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2018 to accept a similar position at the University of Virginia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Elbaum was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in "recognition of his contributions of testing techniques for evolving systems." He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the analysis and testing of evolving systems and robotic systems".

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Chinese frigate Liuzhou. Liuzhou (573) is a Type 054A frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 26 December 2012.

Development and design 

The Type 054A carries HQ-16 medium-range air defence missiles and anti-submarine missiles in a vertical launching system (VLS) system. The HQ-16 has a range of up to 50  km, with superior range and engagement, angles to the Type 054's HQ-7. The Type 054A's VLS uses a hot launch method; a shared common exhaust system is sited between the two rows of rectangular launching tubes.

The four AK-630 close-in weapon systems (CIWS) of the Type 054 were replaced with two Type 730 CIWS on the Type 054A. The autonomous Type 730 provides improved reaction time against close-in threats.

Construction and career 
Liuzhou was launched on 10 December 2011 at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 26 December 2012.

On July 10, 2013, Liuzhou and Yukun of Dalian Maritime University held an open ship day at the container terminal in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province during the 9th China Navigation Day, which was open to the public. The event lasted 3 days.

On September 3, 2013, Liuzhou, Lanzhou and Poyanghu formed a fleet of ships, crossing the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Strait of Magellan and entering the South Atlantic. Visits from Lesotho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The visit lasted 99 days, with a voyage of nearly 30,000 nautical miles, setting a record for the PLA Navy's first joint military exercise with a foreign navy in the South Atlantic and the first visit to Argentina. On December 11, 2013, Liuzhou and others returned to a certain military port in Zhanjiang after completing their visit.

In mid-January 2014, the formation of Hengshui, Liuzhou, Yueyang and Sanya completed several offensive and defensive exercises in the training waters.

Hengshui participated in RIMPAC 2016.

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Chinese frigate Sanya. Sanya (574) is a Type 054A frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 30 November 2012.

Development and design 

The Type 054A carries HQ-16 medium-range air defence missiles and anti-submarine missiles in a vertical launching system (VLS) system. The HQ-16 has a range of up to 50 km, with superior range and engagement angles to the Type 054's HQ-7. The Type 054A's VLS uses a hot launch method; a shared common exhaust system is sited between the two rows of rectangular launching tubes.

The four AK-630 close-in weapon systems (CIWS) of the Type 054 were replaced with two Type 730 CIWS on the Type 054A. The autonomous Type 730 provides improved reaction time against close-in threats.

Construction and career 
Sanya was launched on 30 November 2012 at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 13 December 2013.

In mid-January 2014, the formation of Hengshui, Liuzhou, Yueyang and Sanya completed several offensive and defensive exercises in the training waters.

In March 2015, Sanya and other South Sea Fleet 9th destroyer detachment formation went to sea for practical weapon training. After Sanya arrived in the exercise area, she conducted training on shooting from the main gun to the shore.

Sanya and Liuzhou participated in the India's International Fleet Review in 2016, in which during an exercise, she sailed alongside ,  and .

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Chinese frigate Yueyang. Yueyang (575) is a Type 054A frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 3 May 2013.

Development and design 

The Type 054A carries HQ-16 medium-range air defence missiles and anti-submarine missiles in a vertical launching system (VLS) system. The HQ-16 has a range of up to 50 km, with superior range and engagement angles to the Type 054's HQ-7. The Type 054A's VLS uses a hot launch method; a shared common exhaust system is sited between the two rows of rectangular launching tubes.

The four AK-630 close-in weapon systems (CIWS) of the Type 054 were replaced with two Type 730 CIWS on the Type 054A. The autonomous Type 730 provides improved reaction time against close-in threats.

Construction and career 
Yueyang was laid down in June 2010 and launched on 10 May 2012 at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 3 May 2013.

In mid-January 2014, the formation of Hengshui, Liuzhou, Yueyang and Sanya completed several offensive and defensive exercises in the training waters.

On June 9, 2014, Yueyang, Haikou and Qiandaohu participated in the RIMPAC 2014. The Chinese participating fleet set sail from the Sanya Military Port After crossing the Vietnam Sea and the Bashi Strait, sailing more than 2,100 nautical miles, arrived in the waters north of Guam on June 14. The ships of Singapore and Brunei joined together to form a multi-national task force to Hawaii. On June 24, a multi-national task force arrived at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the United States. During the period, Yueyang and others participated in a 38-day joint military exercise involving 22 navies and visited the United States. On September 3, after 87 days and nights, sailing 19,271 nautical miles, the Chinese navy fleet that participated in the RIMPAC 2014 and performed a visiting mission returned to a military port in Sanya.

On March 31, 2016,  was intercepted and monitored by the Yueyang near the waters of Huangyan Island in the South China Sea.

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2012 ships
Ships built in China
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Chinese frigate Xianning. Xianning (500) is a Type 054A frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 28 August 2018.

Development and design 

The Type 054A carries HQ-16 medium-range air defence missiles and anti-submarine missiles in a vertical launching system (VLS) system. The HQ-16 has a range of up to 50 km, with superior range and engagement angles to the Type 054's HQ-7. The Type 054A's VLS uses a hot launch method; a shared common exhaust system is sited between the two rows of rectangular launching tubes.

The four AK-630 close-in weapon systems (CIWS) of the Type 054 were replaced with two Type 730 CIWS on the Type 054A. The autonomous Type 730 provides improved reaction time against close-in threats.

Construction and career 
Xianning was launched on 22 September 2017 at the Huangpu Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 28 August 2018.

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Ships built in China
Type 054 frigates
International lamp coding system. The international lamp coding system (ILCOS) is defined by IEC 61231, an international standard maintained by the lamp technical committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission. It is intended to provide a well-defined and vendor-independent coding system for all lamp categories except vehicle lamps. The first version of the standard was published in 1993, the most recent update in 2013.

ILCOS defines a short code, ILCOS L, and a standard code, ILCOS D, which provides the complete designation of a lamp.

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Types of lamp
Chinese frigate Sanming (524). Sanming (524) is a Type 053H3 frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 25 December 1999.

Development and design 

The ship's anti-aircraft defense is mainly the Haihongqi-7 with short-range point defense. The foreign trade model of the missile is FM-90N, with a total length of 3 meters, a bullet diameter of 156 mm, a wingspan of 0.55 meters, a launch weight of 84.5 kg, and a maximum speed of 2.3. Mach, the shooting height is 15-5500 meters, the maximum range is 10 to 12 kilometers, the minimum range is 500 meters, and the kill probability is about 70%. It can intercept low-altitude targets with a flying height of less than 5 meters, and the system response speed is 6.5 seconds. After the modification, it was replaced with an 8-unit Haihongqi-10 near defense missile.

The quadruple Eagle Strike-83 anti-ship missile is the standard equipment of the PLA naval destroyer. It is 6.86 meters long, 1.18 meters wingspan, 0.36 meters bullet diameter, total weight 850 kg, warhead weight 165 kg, and sea skimming altitude 35 Meters, at a distance of 5 kilometers from the target, it drops to 5-7 meters from the sea, the maximum range is 150-180 kilometers, and the single shot hit rate is more than 95%.

The hangar and in front of the bridge are equipped with two 76A double-barreled 37mm anti-aircraft guns. After modification, it was replaced with two simplified versions of H/PJ-12 7-tube 30mm naval guns (fire control radar adopts centralized arrangement).

Construction and career 
Sanming was launched in December 1998 at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 25 December 1999 into the East Sea Fleet.

On March 5, 2007, Sanming and Lianyungang formed a Chinese navy formation and arrived in Karachi, Pakistan, to participate in the "Peace-07" multinational naval exercise held in the North Arabian Sea from March 6 to 13.

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Homer Joseph Stewart. Homer Joseph "Stewie" Stewart (August 15, 1915 – May 26, 2007) was an American aeronautical engineer, rocket propulsion expert, and Caltech professor, who pioneered the first American satellites.

Biography
With a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1936, Stewart matriculated at Caltech.

In 1940 Stewart graduated from Caltech with a Ph.D. in aeronautics. In 1938, two years before earning his Ph.D., he became a Caltech faculty member. He taught aeronautics and meteorology, for many years dividing his time between teaching at Caltech and research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

In 1958 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was formed as a response to the USSR's 1957 launch of Sputnik 1. From 1958 to 1960, Stewart took a two-year leave of absence from Caltech to serve as NASA's director of planning and evaluation. He was in charge of calculating and analyzing the exhaust velocities required to lift rockets to their planned orbits.

In addition to contributing to the development of the WAC Corporal, MGM-29 Sergeant, and Jupiter-C rockets, he helped prepare for Pioneer 4 and the preliminary planning of the Apollo Moon missions. He also recommended Cape Canaveral as a launching site. In 1959 Stewart and Wernher von Braun testified to Congress concerning the Soviet spacecraft and missile capabilities. Stewart was the chair of a committee formed to give advice on satellites to the US federal government.

Except for his two-years with NASA, Stewart remained on Caltech's faculty from 1938 until 1980, when he retired as emeritus professor of aeronautics.

In 1970 he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. At his death, Homer J. Stewart was survived by two daughters, one son, and two grandchildren.

Publications
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  (transcript of radio interview of Homer J. Stewart conducted by Irving Bengelsdorf)

See also
 Smith–Putnam wind turbine

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American aerospace engineers
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FN EVOLYS. The FN EVOLYS is a light machine gun designed by FN Herstal in 2021, chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO. The EVOLYS was designed to be lighter and more ergonomic than other machine guns, such as the FN Minimi.

History 
On 22 April 2021, FN Herstal created a teaser trailer, showcasing a new machine gun with the title "A New Chapter Begins". On 6 May 2021 FN Herstal released a 20 minute promotional video, discussing the new design, including its technical aspects, and revealing its name: the EVOLYS. In September 2021, the EVOLYS was first displayed to the public at the Defence and Security Equipment International trade show in London, and it began to enter pre-production the same month.

Design 
The EVOLYS was designed from the ground up for use in urban warfare, which has become more common, and which holds specific requirements. Rather than taking the base of fire from a squad, the EVOLYS was designed to improve the amount of firepower that could be provided by a single soldier. It is select fire, with the option between semi-automatic and fully automatic fire modes. The EVOLYS uses a lateral feed mechanism with the belt at a 45° angle, and it is fully ambidextrous, with all its controls accessible on both its sides, and it can be loaded with one hand.

The firing operation is unusual as it uses an open bolt, firing with a separate hammer upside down inside the upper receiver. This prevents accidents and runaways as even if the bolt moves forward, it won't fire unless the hammer is released by a trigger pull. A single accessory rail mounted on the top of the receiver allows for the mounting of various optics, allowing for better target acquisition. Previous machine gun designs had to use multiple rails, which were not integral to the receiver, making the attachment and usage of optics more difficult. Due to the increased use of suppressors, the EVOLYS was designed to be capable of having a suppressor permanently fitted without it affecting the weapon's performance.

The EVOLYS was constructed using 3D printing and polymers, which help to reduce its weight. At , the EVOLYS is up to 30% lighter than competing machine guns such as the FN Minimi. The EVOLYS is chambered for 5.56×45mm and 7.62×51mm, with 6.5mm Creedmoor and .260 Remington variants in development for potential use by special forces.

Users 

 : Belgian Armed Forces: 20 EVOLYS bought for evaluation purposes.
 : French Special Forces
 : British Army for test purposes
 : United States Army for test purposes in Next Generation Squad Weapon Program

See also
 Knight's Armament Company LAMG
 QJS-161
 QJY-201
 RPL-20
 SIG LMG 6.8

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FN Herstal firearms
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2021
Machine guns of Belgium
5.56×45mm NATO machine guns
7.62×51mm NATO machine guns
Dassault Falcon 10X. The Dassault Falcon 10X is a large, long-range business jet under development by Dassault Aviation in France.

Development 
On 6 May 2021, Dassault launched its $75 million Falcon 10X flagship, scheduled for 2025, to compete with the Bombardier Global 7500 and the Gulfstream G700.

Design 
It is  long and has a 33.6 m (110 ft)-wide, high aspect ratio carbonfibre wing, a first for a Dassault business jet.
It is powered by two Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engines with over  thrust, with a titanium fan blisk, a 10-stage  compressor, a two-stage shroudless HP turbine and a four-stage  turbine.

It has a 16 m long, four-zone cabin wider than its competition,  wide and high, with a 3,000 ft cabin altitude at 41,000 ft and 50% larger windows than on the Falcon 8X.

It should cruise at Mach 0.85-0.925 with a range of 7,500 nmi (13,900 km), and should access steep approaches like London City airport.

With sidesticks and a single throttle lever, the fly-by-wire flight control system has flightpath stability to avoid trimming, and head-up display-based FalconEye combined vision system.
High automation with automated return to straight and level flight, emergency descent, reduced take-off thrust and noise abatement modes could allow two pilots to fly for 15h instead of three currently.

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Kenneth Balkus. Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr. is an American chemist and materials scientist. He is professor of chemistry and former department chair at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and a recipient of the ACS Doherty Award. His well known work is synthesis of zeolite UTD-1, the first high-silica zeolite to contain a one-dimensional, extra-large 14-ring pore system. Other notable work include rare-earth metal organic frameworks. He is editor to Journal of Porous Materials, Springer. He is also co-founder of DB Therapeutics, a company developing cancer therapies.

Early life and education 
Kenneth received his B.S., in chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, with distinction. He then moved to University of Florida for PhD in inorganic chemistry, where he worked with Russell S. Drago.

Career 
Balkus joined University of Pennsylvania as postdoctoral associate in 1986 with Bradford B. Wayland. He joined The University of Texas at Dallas in 1988 where he is currently professor of chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering and leading chemistry department.

Research 
Most of the research in his lab involves nanoporous metal oxides which include zeolites and related
molecular sieves as well as hybrid frameworks.

 Synthesis and Characterization Novel microporous and mesoporous Materials
 Molecular Sieve/Polymer Composite Membranes
 Nanoparticles, Nanotubes and Quantum Dots for Photoconversion Processes
 Nanotube/Nanowire films for Energy Storage
 Molecular Sieve Immobilized Enzymes
 Drug Delivery, Wound Healing and Theranostics
 Electrospinning of NanFibers and Composites
 Molecular Sieve Based Optical and Electronic Chemical Sensors

Awards and honours 

 2012 US Presidential Scholar Teacher Award
 2011 ACS Fellow
 2008 ACS Doherty Award
 2008 Taiwan Chemistry Research Promotion Center Lectureship
 1998 UOP Distinguished Lecturer
 1991-1996 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
 1986 ACS Florida Section Speaker Award
 1986 ACS Sherwin-Williams Award - Finalist

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