omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Elizabeth Pillion. Mary Elizabeth Lynch Pillion (January 18, 1921 – June 8, 1990) was an American chemist with the United States Army from the late 1940s into the 1970s.

Early life 
Elizabeth Lynch was from Lawrence, Massachusetts, the daughter of Michael Francis Lynch and Abigail F. Scott Lynch.

Career 
Pillion was a chemist at the United States Army's Quartermaster Research and Engineering Command in Natick, Massachusetts. Much of her work involved studying storage and cleaning methods for feeding and hydration systems in extreme environments. In 1962 she received the Research Directors' Award for her work on a spectrophotometric correction technique for identifying ingredients in disinfectants and other solutions.

Pillion's research was published in scholarly journals including Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatographic Science, Military Medicine, and Applied Microbiology.

Selected publications 

 "Military individual and small group water disinfecting systems: an assessment" (1977, with Morris R. Rogers, Arthur M. Kaplan, and Joseph J. Vitaliano)
 "Prevention of Food Residue Spoilage in Waste Packaging from Feeding Systems Utilized by Personnel Operating in a Closed Gaseous Environment Requirement Number AF 4-12" (1975, with Morris R. Rogers, Arthur M. Kaplan, and Joseph J. Vitaliano)
 "Resistance of Weathered Cotton Cellulose to Cellulase Action" (1970, with Arthur M. Kaplan, Mary Mandels, and Marvin Greenberger)
 "Long-term Storage Study of Disinfectant, Germicidal, and Fungicidal" (1965, with Morris R. Rogers and Arthur M. Kaplan)
 "Gas Chromatography of Phenylphenols and Chlorophenylphenols on a Silicone Nitrile Column" (1965)
 "Absorptivity Correction in Multicomponent Spectrophotometric Analysis" (1961, with Morris R. Rogers and Arthur M. Kaplan)
 "Effects of Local Cooling on Finger Blood Flow in Individuals Exposed to Warm Ambient Temperature" (1951, with Mortimer Eugene Bader and Jere Mead)
 "The Inhibition of Frostbite Wheals by the Iontophoresis of Antihistaminic Agents" (1949, with Martin B. Macht and Jere Mead)
 "Peripheral vascular effects produced by localized warming of various skin areas" (1948, with M. E. Bader, and M. B. Macht)
 "The Effects of Various Amino Acids on Peripheral Blood Flow and Skin Temperature" (1948, with M. B. Macht)
 "Changes in skin temperature and blood flow of hand following ingestion of certain amino acids" (1948, with M. B. Macht)
 "Control of Peripheral Blood Flow: Responses in the Human Hand when Extremities are Warmed" (1947, with B. G. Ferris, R. E. Forster, and W. R. Christensen)

Personal life 
Elizabeth Lynch was married to John William Pillion, an Army physician. She lived in Andover, Massachusetts. She died in 1990, in Methuen, Massachusetts.

References 

1921 births
1990 deaths
People from Lawrence, Massachusetts
American women scientists
20th-century American chemists
Women chemists
United States Army civilians
Tecnam P-Volt. The Tecnam P-Volt is an Italian light electric aircraft that was under development by Tecnam in conjunction with Rolls-Royce.

On 13 June 2023 the company announced it was suspending development of the P-Volt due to battery technological limitations.

Design and development
The P-Volt was developed from the Tecnam P2012 Traveller as a nine passenger short-haul aircraft suitable for commuter airline use. Like the Traveller, it was to have a high wing layout with fixed tricycle landing gear. Rolls-Royce was developing the electric power train and the aircraft was projected to have a range of 85 nautical miles per charge.

The range was projected with a 30 minute energy reserve for VFR, and the aircraft would have been difficult to operate with an IFR alternate airport within range.

The company announced that the project was being suspended on 13 June 2023, due to battery technology limitations, expressing concern that the batteries could only assure planned mission completion when new. As the battery performance degraded with use, the only way for operators to fly scheduled routes would be by replacing the batteries after only a few hundred flights, making the aircraft uneconomical to operate.

Operators
In March 2021, Norwegian airline Widerøe had announced their intention to purchase an unknown number of P-Volt aircraft for delivery in 2025 and entry into service in 2026.

See also
 Eviation Alice

References

External links
 Press release: Tecnam P-Volt: Lifting The World To Sustainable Energy

Tecnam aircraft
Proposed aircraft of Italy
Space Empires 4X. Space Empires 4X is a 4X science fiction board wargame developed by Jim Krohn and published by GMT Games in 2011. It has received two expansions: Close Encounters (2012) and Replicators (2018), with a third one, All Good Things, in development.

Gameplay 
In Space Empires 4X, up to 4 players engage in space exploration, colonization and combat, while developing technologies to design new ships or improve their existing ones. The game is played on a hexagonal map of space, and ships are represented by cardboard chits. The size of the map, victory conditions, and starting resources depend on the number of players and on the scenario players choose at game start. In addition to seven scenarios for two players and scenarios for bigger groups, there are four single-player scenarios with two distinct opponent factions. Multiplayer scenarios can optionally be played in teams. Outside of these teams, there is no in-game cooperation or trade between players, ships and fleets of players who don't belong to the same team will fight whenever there is an encounter. Combat is resolved with dice rolling. As it is a wargame, almost all technologies are focused on improving the combat abilities of their ships, often in the form of modifiers to the dice rolls. The game includes the fog-of-war mechanic, as players usually cannot know the precise information about the forces of their opponents.

Reception 
Cody Carlson, reviewing the game in 2013 for Deseret News, concluded that the game deserves a spot in his Top 5 list. Simon Kriese, reviewing from Spieletest, was also complimentary to the game, praising its strategy, simple rules, engagement, and solo variants, but criticised the component quality. As of 2023, since 2012, the game has also been consistently ranked in around top 50 war games at BoardGameGeek. It was also a nominee for the 2011 Golden Geek Best Wargame award, and the winner of the Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame award.

See also
 Galac-Tac
 Starweb

References

External links 
 

4X games
Board games introduced in 2011
Board wargames with artwork by Rodger B. MacGowan
Science fiction board wargames
Wargames introduced in the 2010s
Space conquest board games
Territorial acquisition and development games
Institute of Seismological Research. Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) is a earthquake engineering and research center in Gandhinagar, India. In the aftermath of 2001 Gujarat earthquake, the institute was established by the Department of Science and Technology of Government of Gujarat in 2003.

History 
In 2003, Dr. J. G. Negi formulated the framework for Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) and established the centre with the funding from Asian Development Bank. He resigned in 2004 due to differences arising between him and the state government. Later, Prof. Naveenchandra N. Srivastava was deputed by Gujarat government to lead the institute. Formal research activities were commenced in 2006.

ISR is the nodal agency in the western state of Gujarat to deploy and maintain a sub-network of 22 broadband seismograph stations and 40 strong-motion accelerographs. The sub-network is the part of the larger network called Indian National Strong-Motion Instrumentation Network, operated by Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

See also 

 National Centre for Seismology

References 

Gandhinagar
Earthquake engineering
Engineering research institutes
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects
2003 establishments in Gujarat
Taurob Inspector. Taurob Inspector is an ATEX certified mobile robot, developed and manufactured by the Austrian company Taurob GmbH. The Inspector was developed from the Taurob Tracker as part of the OGRIP (Offshore Ground Robotics Industrial Pilot) project.

History

Project inception 
With Taurob's victory in the ARGOS challenge, the commercially available Taurob Tracker in addition to the ARGOS robot were evaluated for operational use within an Oil & Gas environment.  From this evaluation the foundation specification for the Taurob Inspector was created with the first prototypes being developed in early 2018.

First deployments 
Taurob inspects are currently being operated on a 12 month deployment on Total Energies' Shetland Gas Plant.

World first offshore deployment 
The first ever offshore deployment of an ATEX certified robot in 2020 on Total Energies' K5 gas field 110km off the coast of the Netherlands.

Production centre 
In 2021 Taurob opened a subsidiary for the serial manufacture of robots - "Taurob Services S.A.S" with partner Dietsmann Smart Labs, a 100% subsidiary of Dietsmann NV. The subsidiary is based in Salies-du-Salat, France and is housed within Dietsmann's 24,000m² engineering and construction site. The inspector is the first robot to be produced by this venture, with the first robots leaving the production line in Q3 2021.

Technical specification

References

External links
 Official Website (English)

Science and technology in Austria
Robots
Victor Li (engineer). Victor C. Li is the James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the E.B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also Director of the Center for Low Carbon Built Environment at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Li led the team that developed engineered cementitious composites (EEC), popularly known as "bendable concrete." Li argues EEC can increase the durability of infrastructure and reduce its carbon footprint.

Education 
Li grew up in Hong Kong; he moved to the U.S. in 1973 to attend Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and engineering from Brown in 1977. Li remained at the Brown University School of Engineering for graduate studies, earning an M.Sc. in mechanical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D. in solid and structural mechanics in 1981. At Brown, Li was mentored by James R. Rice and Lambert Ben Freund.

Career 
Li taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1989 as an assistant and later associate professor. He joined the University of Michigan in 1990 as an associate professor, becoming a full professor in 1993. Between 1999 and 2004, Li was the Højgaard Visiting Professor of Concrete Technology at the Technical University of Denmark in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

In 2005, Li and his team of researchers gained attention for developing a new type of fiber-reinforced bendable concrete. In 2019, Li published Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC): Bendable Concrete for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, the first book devoted to the subject of ECCs.

In 2004, Li was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from the Technical University of Denmark.

References

External links 

 

Brown University alumni
Brown University School of Engineering alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Living people
American engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kentik. Kentik is an American network observability, network monitoring and anomaly detection company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

History 
Kentik was founded in 2014 as CloudHelix by Co-founders Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel. The company changed its name to Kentik in 2015.

Technology 
Kentik's Network Observability Cloud is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product that ingests NetFlow and other network data and analyzes it to provide network monitoring and anomaly detection services for the operators of Internet-connected networks. Kentik's underlying data engine is a clustered datastore modeled on Dremel. The engine collects and correlates live operational data from Internet routers and switches to produce network activity and health information.

Analysis 
Since November 2020, Kentik has been the organizational home of Doug Madory's Internet routing analysis practice, previously associated with Renesys and Renesys' subsequent acquirers DynDNS and Oracle. While employed by Kentik, Madory discovered the Global Resource Systems IP address hijacking which occurred during the final hours of the Trump administration and was the first to accurately quantify the 2021 Facebook outage, the largest communications outage in history.

References

External links 
 
 Kentik Internet Analysis

2014 establishments in California
American companies established in 2014
Computer companies established in 2014
Networking companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Technology companies established in 2014
Software companies of the United States
Taikanite. Taikanite is a silicate mineral. It was named after the Taikan Range, Russia, its type locality.

Properties
Taikanite is a mineral with a color that ranges from emerald green to blackish-green. It  crystallizes in the monoclinic system. It has a high relative density of 4.72. The mineral has a hardness of 6 to 7.

Occurrence
The type locality is the Taikan Range, in the Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East, where the mineral was discovered in a manganese deposit. It has also been found in Hotazel, Northern Cape province, South Africa.

See also
List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (T)

References

Silicate minerals
Strontium minerals
Barium minerals
Manganese minerals
Elise McAbee. Elise McAbee Saunders (July 28, 1920 – May 9, 1991) was an American materials engineer with the United States Army.

Early life and education 
McAbee was from Orange County, New York, the daughter of Daniel Hayes McAbee and Ruth E. Edgecomb McAbee. She earned a degree in chemical engineering at West Virginia University in 1942.

Career 
McAbee worked in the Army's Plastics and Packaging Laboratory at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. She and her colleagues won the Army Research & Development Achievement Award in 1965. Her research on plastics, polymers, and adhesives was published in academic journals including The Journal of Adhesion and The Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Selected publications 

 "Use of multiple regression analysis to develop predictive models for failure times of adhesive bonds at constant stress" (1974, with William C. Jones, Raymond F. Wegman, and David W. Levi)
 "Failure of Adhesive Bonds at Constant Strain Rates" (1972, with Michael J. Bodnar, William C. Tanner, and David W. Levi)
 "Application of Superposition Techniques to Thermal Degradation of Epoxide Resins" (1971, with H. T. Lee and David W. Levi)
 "Use of a Reaction Rate Method to Predict Failure Times of Adhesive Bonds at Constant Stress" (1970 with David W. Levi)
 "Relation between the Tensile Modulus of Propellants and the Failure Time" (1970, with David W. Levi)
 "Prediction of Failure Times for Some Adhesive-Bonded Joints" (1970, with William C. Tanner and David W. Levi)
 "Prediction of mechanical properties of polymers. Tensile strength of glass-reinforced plastics" (1969, with David W. Levi)
 "Prediction of Lifetimes of Nylon Samples at Various Stress Levels" (1969, with David W. Levi)
 "Treatment of propellant mechanical property data by reaction rate analysis" (1967, with David W. Levi)
 "Effect of Temperature and Rate of Loading on the Tensile Properties of Glass-Reinforced Polyester" (1964, with Mitchel Chmura)
 "Tensile Properties of Double-Base Propellants" (1962, with Mitchel Chmura)
 "High-Rate Tensile Properties of Plastics" (1961, with Mitchel Chmura)
 "Effect of Testing Rate and Type of Machine on Tensile Properties Data for Plastics" (1958)

Personal life 
Elise McAbee married John Everitt Saunders in 1973. She died in 1991, in Bexar County, Texas, aged 70 years.

References 

1920 births
1991 deaths
American women engineers
West Virginia University alumni
People from Orange County, New York
High temperature lignite coke. High temperature lignite coke (BHT coke) is a carbon-rich fuel that is produced from lignite by exposure to heat in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis).

History 
Because East German industry urgently needed coke after the Second World War and the anthracite coal traditionally used for its production was found for the most part in western Germany, the two process engineers Erich Rammler and Georg Bilkenroth began researching and developing a metallurgical high-temperature lignite coke in 1949. This could be used for iron production, non-ferrous metallurgy and carbide production.

The two scientists of the Bergakademie Freiberg concentrated their research on the  Lower Lusatian lignite and in 1952 were finally able to obtain a patent for  Lignite high-temperature gasification.

The coke was produced both as bulk material and in briquette form.

Production facilities 
From 1952, the high temperature lignite coke was produced in the large coking plant VEB Braunkohleveredelung Lauchhammer and later also in the coking plant at  VEB Gaskombinat Schwarze Pumpe. By-products of lignite coking are tar, medium oil and light oil as well as high-quality natural gas.

50-year anniversary celebration 
On 14 June 2002, former employees and cooperation experts were invited to Lauchhammer on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the First Coke Tapping, as reported by the "Zeitschrift der Lausitzer und Mitteldeutschen Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH" in its magazine LBMV konkret 4/2002, p. 7.

References

Bibliography 
Bilkenroth/Rammler: Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung eines stückigen Hochtemperaturkokses von hoher Druck-, Abrieb- und Sturzfestigkeit aus Braunkohlenbriketts (Patentschrift Nr. 4630, 1952)
Herbert Krug, Karl Heinz Rentrop: Die Erzeugung eines hochfesten, grobstückigen Braunkohlehochtemperaturkokses (BHT-Koks) im einstufigen Verfahren nach Bilkenroth-Rammler – eine komplexe Aufgabe. Bergakademie Freiberg 1991
Erich Rammler: Mein Berufsleben, Teile I bis III, unveränderte Abschrift persönlicher Aufzeichnungen., erg. um die Beiträge: Angela Kießling u. Susanne Scholze: Der wissenschaftliche Nachlass Erich Rammlers in der Universitätsbibliothek der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Käte Rammler und Hans-Georg Friedel: Erich Rammler privat – Biographische Daten und persönliche Erinnerungen. Freiberg, 2006; ISBN 978-3-86012-291-4
Ganske-Zapf, Mandy; Grabowsky, Dennis; Kalimullin, Robert: Erfindungen aus der DDR, Berlin 2018, S. 24ff., ISBN 3-95958-139-4

Coal
Niess 1-80. 

The Niess 1-80, also known as Galeão 5 FG, was a military and civilian trainer aircraft built in Brazil during the 1950s. It was originally developed by Marc Niess as an prototype based on the CAP-4 Paulistinha, which he worked while employed at Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista.

Development
In early 1952, the Brazilian Air Force decided to use Fábrica do Galeão to build a light trainer for the Brazilian air clubs, and chose the 1-80(in Portuguese: Um-Oitenta) prototype airplane by designer Marc Niess. The tests for aeronautical certification began at Campo de Marte, where the plane was approved soon after. The engineers decided to make some modifications to the original design of the plane, structural changes in the wings that become made of plywood, and the fuel capacity was increased. 

After the modifications, the now called Galeão 5 FG, were more robust and had greater range, although they were inferior in aerobatic practices. It proved to be a very difficult aircraft to control, and was not recommended for basic pilot instruction. Even so, a couple of units were donated to Brazilian flying clubs, and a few others went to Paraguay and Uruguay.

Operators

Brazilian Navy

Specifications (Galeão 5 FG)

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Photo on Flickr
 Brazilian Naval Air Arm - CAP Paulistinha

Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
1950s Brazilian military trainer aircraft
1950s Brazilian civil trainer aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1952
HMCS William Hall. HMCS William Hall (AOPV 433). is the fourth  for the Royal Canadian Navy. The class was derived from the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship project as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy and is primarily designed for the patrol and support of Canada's Arctic regions. Named after Quartermaster William Nelson Edward Hall, who was the first African Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross. He received the medal for his actions in the 1857 Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion.

Design and description 
The s are designed for use in the Arctic regions of Canada for patrol and support within Canada's exclusive economic zone. The vessel is  long overall with a beam of . The ship will have a displacement of . The ship has an enclosed foredeck that protects machinery and work spaces from Arctic climates. The vessel will be powered by a diesel-electric system composed of four  MAN 6L32/44CR four-stroke medium-speed diesel generators and two electric propulsion motors rated at  driving two shafts. William Hall will be capable of  in open water and  in  first-year sea ice. The ship will also be equipped with a bow thruster to aid during manoeuvres and docking procedures without requiring tugboat assistance. The ship will have a range of  and an endurance of 120 days with 65 personnel. William Hall will be equipped with fin stabilizers to decrease roll in open water but can be retracted during icebreaking.

William Hall will be able to deploy with multiple payloads, including shipping containers, underwater survey equipment or landing craft. Payload operations are aided by a  crane for loading and unloading. The ship is equipped with a vehicle bay which can hold pickup trucks, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.  The ship will also have two  multi-role rescue boats capable of over . The ship will be armed with one BAE Mk 38  gun and two M2 Browning machine guns. The patrol ship has an onboard hangar and flight deck for helicopters up to the size of a Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone. William Hall will have a complement of 65 and accommodation for 85 or 87.

Construction and career

The keel for William Hall was laid on 17 February 2021 and the hull floated-out on 27 November 2022. The ship was formally named on 28 April 2023 and began sea trials in July. On 31 August 2023, the Royal Canadian Navy took possession of William Hall to begin post-acceptance trials. 

William Hall was in St. John’s Harbour during the first week of March 2024 while on cold weather training exercises. Post-delivery work on William Hall concluded early in 2024 and was followed by readiness training and operational test and evaluation activities assessing class-wide capabilities. The ship was commissioned on 16 May 2024 at Halifax.

References

Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessels
Canadian defence procurement
2022 ships
Ships built in Nova Scotia