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James Mapes Dodge. James Mapes Dodge (Manhattan, June 30, 1852 – Germantown, Philadelphia, December 4, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, industrialist and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1903–1904. He is known as president of the Link-Belt Company, and as pioneer of applying scientific management methods.

Life and work 
Dodge was the son of William Dodge, member of the New York bar, and Mary Mapes Dodge, a children's writer and editor of the St. Nicholas magazine. He grew up in Manhattan, attended the Newark Academy, and obtained degrees from Cornell University, and Rutgers University

After an apprenticeship at the shipbuilding company John Roach & Sons, in 1876, he started a mining machine manufacturing company with E.T. Copeland in New York. When this didn't work out and the company dissolved, he worked another six years in manufacturing companies in Chicago and Indianapolis. In 1884 he founded Burr & Dodge in Philadelphia, that in 1906 merged with the Link-Belt Engineering company into the Link-Belt Company with Dodge as president, later de Link-Belt Construction Equipment company. 

In his lifetime Dodge was a productive inventor, and was granted over 200 patents concerning link-belts, moving stair, toys, etc. In 1903–04 Dodge was president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1906 he and Henry R. Towne were responsible for maneuvering Frederick Winslow Taylor to the Presidency of the ASME in 1906.

The Philadelphia plant of the Link-Belt Company is known for its significant labor efficiency improvements, due to the introduction of scientific management applications. According to Leon P. Alford especially Dodge's personal involvement and personality made this happen. He had offered the workers special arrangements and incentives to accept Taylor's changes, which won him much respect and trust from the workers..

Publications 
 James Mapes Dodge, "The money value of technical training," in: Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 25 (1903): 40–48
 James Mapes Dodge, G. Schlesinger, Industrielle Betriebsführung, 1913 
 James M. Dodge, President Link-Belt Engineering Co., "History of the Link-Belt Industry," Industrial World: Devoted to the Metal. Electrical. Mining & Allied Industries 78 (26, June 28, 1906):753.

Patents, a selection
 US D6203 S, Design for a toy-boat, 1872
 US 37499 Drive chain, 1880-81
 US 239739 Hinge Joint &c., 1881 
 US 954941 Sprocket-wheel, 1909-1910

Publications about James Mapes Dodge
 Charles Piez, Personal reminiscences of James Mapes Dodge, 1916
 George P. Torrence. James Mapes Dodge: Mechanical Engineer, Inventor, Pioneer in Industry. 2010

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1852 births
1915 deaths
American mechanical engineers
People from Ulster County, New York
Cornell University alumni
19th-century American engineers
20th-century American engineers
Engineers from New York (state)
Newark Academy alumni
People from Manhattan
Rutgers University alumni
Jouët 760. The Jouët 760 is a French sailboat, that was designed by Philippe Briand.

Production
The boat was built by Yachting France under the Jouët name, between 1982 and 1986, with 150 examples completed, but it is now out of production.

The Jouët 760 design is very similar to the related Jouët 750.

Design

The Jouët 760 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a fixed fin keel or optionally a short keel and centreboard. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the standard fixed fin keel.

The boat is fitted with a Volvo Penta MD5 diesel engine of . It has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Beachcomber 25
Beneteau First 25.7
Beneteau First 25S
Beneteau First 260 Spirit
Bombardier 7.6
C&C 25 Redline
Cal 25
Catalina 25
Catalina 250
Com-Pac 25
Dufour 1800
Freedom 25
Hunter 25.5
Kirby 25
O'Day 25
Merit 25
Mirage 25
MacGregor 25
Northern 25
Tanzer 25
US Yachts US 25
Watkins 25

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Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Philippe Briand
Sailboat types built by Yachting France
Sailboat types built by Jouët
Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device. The Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device (OSWALD) is an open source learning platform developed by students of the Oregon State University to allow undergraduate students of computer science to obtain first experiences through direct technical contribution.

The device is capable of common tasks such as browsing through the internet, instant messaging and playback of multimedia content. It can also support Java and USB.

Software

Operating system 
The kernel of the system is linux based. Any software needs to be built by the students themselves through a compilation of BitBake recipes which are managed by OpenEmbedded. The installation requires a correctly formatted SD card containing the bootable build.

Java 
OSWALD is capable of running Java code. Java files can be compiled on the device or delivered  as compiled .class files. A network access can be established through standard Sockets and ServerSockets, since the wireless interface supports IP.

Hardware 
The systems main processor is the Texas Instruments OMAP3530 running with 500 MHz. The graphics processor is the SGX530 for 2D and 3D graphics. Physical space is limited by 128 Mbyte DDR-SDRAM with a clock speed of 266 MHz. There is also a 256 Mbyte NAND flash memory. The display is a resistive touchscreen having a DVI out with a resolution of 1024x768 (HD). Speakers are the Texas Instruments TLV320AIC33 stereo.

The touch screen, buttons and a built in accelerometer are handled via microcontrollers that contain software. The Cypress CY8C24794 handles the controls of the touchpad and button inputs. The Atmel ATMega48 monitors the accelerometer. A Texas Instruments cc2431 is used as a wireless interface (802.15.4 wireless supported).

References

Oregon State University
Linux-based devices
Vertex Railcar. Vertex Railcar was a jointly owned Chinese-American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock.  It was founded in 2014 and operated a facility in Wilmington, North Carolina that builds freight railcars. The manufacturer closed operations at end of 2018.

The company was founded as Vertex Rail Technologies, based in Massachusetts, in 2014, and publicly announced in November its plans to purchase a former Terex manufacturing facility in Wilmington and convert it to railcar construction. The cost of renovating the factory was estimated at $60 million, and Vertex said that it would employ 1,300 people at full-scale production.  In April 2015, Vertex Rail Technologies entered into a joint venture with Chinese manufacturer CRRC Corporation and Hong Kong–based private equity firm Majestic Legend Holdings, under which the manufacturing operation was named Vertex Railcar, CRRC provided railcar designs and some components, and Majestic Legend  invested $6 million. Once Vertex received regulatory approval for and began manufacturing railcars, CRRC would be able to increase its stake to 50% by buying out the other stakeholders.

Vertex received Association of American Railroads certification of its first railcar design, DOT-117 tank cars, in August 2015, followed by certification for its covered hopper design later in the year.  It began building hopper cars, constructed of US and Chinese origin components, in September, and delivered the first of them in December. The company had orders for 3,100 hopper cars at the beginning of 2016, and planned to build up to 3,000 cars, including hopper, tank, and gondolas, during the year. In February 2016, Vertex launched a subsidiary to lease railcars to customers who preferred not to own them. However, weakening demand for sand used in hydraulic fracturing in petroleum extraction led Vertex to decrease construction of its hoppers cars, which were designed to transport the sand, and lay off workers at the Wilmington plant in May, leaving the company with 221 employees.

In August 2016, at the request of a letter from 55 US House of Representatives members alleging that Vertex was being unfairly subsidized by the Chinese government by way of state-owned CRRC, the United States Department of the Treasury began an investigation into whether the Chinese investment in Vertex constituted a national security risk. 42 US Senators sent a similar letter in September, conveying concerns about the state-owned enterprises behind Vertex. The Treasury Department released its report in December and found that the joint ownership was not a risk.

The company announced closure of plant and layoffs of remaining employees by end of 2018.

References

Defunct rolling stock manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in North Carolina
Manufacturing companies established in 2014
Companies based in Wilmington, North Carolina
Gooch shading. Gooch shading is a non-photorealistic rendering technique for shading objects. It is also known as "cool to warm" shading, and is widely used in technical illustration.

History
Gooch shading was developed by Amy Gooch et al. at the University of Utah School of Computing and first presented at the 1998 SIGGRAPH conference. It has since been implemented in shader libraries, software, and games released by Autodesk, NVIDIA, and Valve.

Process
Gooch shading defines an additional two colors in conjunction with the original model color: a warm color (such as yellow) and a cool color (such as blue). The warm color indicates surfaces that are facing toward the light source while the cool color indicates surfaces facing away. This allows shading to occur only in mid-tones so that edge lines and highlights remain visually prominent. The Gooch shader is typically implemented in two passes: all objects in the scene are first drawn with the "cool to warm" shading, and in the second pass the object’s edges are rendered in black.

See also 

 List of common shading algorithms
 Phong shading
 Cel shading
 Non-photorealistic rendering

References

Shading
Computer graphics
Irmak Nature Park. Irmak Nature Park () is a nature park located in Sarıyer district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

Irmak Nature Park is situated across Kirazlıbent Nature Park inside the Belgrad Forest and is west of Bahçeköy, Sarıyer. The area was declared a nature park by the Ministry of Environment and Forest in 2011, and is one of the nine nature parks inside the Belgrad Forest. It covers an area of about . The protected area is named 
for the creek () running through the protected area.

The nature park offers outdoor recreation activities such as hiking, cycling and picnicing for visitors on daily basis.[2] There are playgrounds for children. Admission is charged for visitors and vehicles.

Ecosystem
Flora
Vegetation of the nature park is dense wood of deciduous trees comprising sessile oak (Quercus petraea), Kasnak oak (Quercus vulcanica), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), European alder (Alnus glutinosa), sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), laurestine (Viburnum tinus), common ivy (Hedera helix), butcher's-broom (Ruscus aculeatus) and blackberry (Rubus).

Fauna
Animals mainly observed in the Belgrad Forest are wild boar, golden jackal, deer, roe deer, fox, gray wolf, marten, hare, squirrel, porcupine, wood mouse, the reptile tortoise and the bird species buzzard, hawk, magpie, crow, woodpecker, passer, finch and goldfinch.

See also
 Ayvat Bendi Nature Park
 Bentler Nature Park
 Falih Rıfkı Atay Nature Park
 Fatih Çeşmesi Nature Park
 Kirazlıbent Nature Park
 Kömürcübent Nature Park
 Mehmet Akif Ersoy Nature Park
 Neşet Suyu Nature Park

References

Nature parks in Turkey
Protected areas established in 2011
2011 establishments in Turkey
Parks in Istanbul
Sarıyer
Belgrad Forest
Channelizer. In digital signal processing,  a channelizer is a term used for algorithms which select a certain frequency band from an input signal. The input signal typically has a higher sample rate than the sample rate of the selected channel. It is also used for algorithms that can select multiple channels from an input signal in an efficient way.

One of the most common methods for selecting a channel from an input signal is to first shift the frequency by multiplying it with a complex sinusoid, then passing the signal through a low pass filter. Alternatively, a decimator (rate changer) can be used. One common type of channelizer is the polyphase channelizer.

Decimation is the process of reducing  sample rate. Decimation originally meant "take one sample in every 10", but later this term was generalized to simply mean any reduction in sample rate.

Digital signal processing
Sikorsky S-28. The Sikorsky S-28 was a proposed four engine biplane bomber aircraft designed by Igor Sikorsky to be built in France during World War I. Sikorsky moved to France in March 1918 and soon met with officers of the Armée de l'Air who asked him to design an aircraft capable of carrying a new 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bomb. Although the aircraft was initially designed to be powered by two Liberty L-12 engines, the technical section of the Armée de l'Air suggested using four Hispano-Suiza 8 engines instead.
 
By early August 1918 Sikorsky's plans were completed and the project was approved. The French ordered five examples and preparations were made to start construction, but the order was cancelled when World War I ended and no S-28s were completed.

References

Four-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Four-engined piston aircraft
1910s French bomber aircraft
Sikorsky S-30. The Sikorsky S-30 was a proposed aircraft design by Igor Sikorsky to be built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing Corporation at Roosevelt, New York in 1925. The twin engine biplane was to have been used on mail routes or configured as a commercial passenger airliner. No examples of the S-30 were ever manufactured.

Specifications

References

S-30
Biplanes
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Kehar Singh (physicist). Kehar Singh (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian optical physicist and an emeritus fellow of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a former CLUSTER chair professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and a former professor of IIT Delhi. He has also served as an academic visitor at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.

Known for his research on applied optics, Singh is an elected fellow of Optical Society of America, SPIE, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Laser and Spectroscopy Society of India and Optical Society of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1985. He is also a recipient of the 2001 ICO Galileo Galilei Award of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

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Further reading 
 

Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science
Indian optical physicists
1941 births
Scientists from Uttar Pradesh
Fellows of Optica (society)
Fellows of SPIE
Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Academic staff of IIT Delhi
Living people
List of bridges in Belgium. This list of bridges in Belgium lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest in Belgium. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.

Historical and architectural interest bridges

Major road and railway bridges

Notes and references 
 

 Others references

See also 

 :fr:Liste des ponts de Bruxelles  - List of bridges in Brussels
 :fr:Liste des ponts de Liège  - List of bridges in Liège
 :fr:Liste des ponts de Namur  - List of bridges in Namur
 :nl:Lijst van bruggen over het Albertkanaal  - List of bridges over the Albert Canal
 Transport in Belgium
 Rail transport in Belgium
 List of motorways in Belgium
 Geography of Belgium

External links

Further reading 
 
 

Belgium
 
Bridges
Bridges
S. M. Imamul Huq. S.M. Imamul Huq is a Bangladeshi academic. He was a professor of the Department of Soil, Water & Environment, University of Dhaka. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Barisal from 2015 to 2019.

Education 
In 1970, Huq graduated from the University of Dhaka with a B.Sc. degree in soil science, and the following year finished an M.Sc. degree in the same subject. He completed a second M.Sc. in agricultural soil and water engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, in 1980. In 1984, he received a D. Engg. from the University of Nancy I, France, for his dissertation Comparaison de la résistance au stress salin de Vigna sinensis (L.) Savi et de Phaseolus aureus Roxb.

Career 
Huq joined the faculty at the University of Dhaka in 1973 as a lecturer in soil science. From 2005 to 2008, he served as chair of the Department of Soil, Water and Environment.

Huq was appointed to a four-year term as vice-chancellor of the University of Barisal in May 2015. Late in his tenure, students began protesting, alleging that they had been excluded from the university's Independence Day commemoration. Tensions escalated after Huq used the expression "razakarer bachcha" (children of collaborators with Pakistan), which the students believed was directed at them. The following day students padlocked the academic building and boycotted classes. Authorities closed the campus the next day, and Huq apologized, saying he had been misunderstood. Students responded by burning him in effigy. Student protests demanding his resignation continued for a month. At the end of April 2019, Huq was granted leave for the remainder of his term as vice-chancellor.

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Bangladeshi writers
University of Dhaka alumni
Asian Institute of Technology alumni
Nancy-Université alumni
Academic staff of the University of Dhaka
Vice-chancellors of the University of Rajshahi
Academic staff of the University of Rajshahi
Vice-chancellors of the University of Barishal
20th-century Bangladeshi male writers
Bhaskar Thapa. Bhaskar Thapa () (September 7, 1963 – June 19, 2013) was a Nepalese-American tunnel engineer who led the engineering of the  Caldecott Tunnel Fourth Bore project. He is considered an expert of the New Austrian tunnelling method (NATM). The Caldecott Tunnel passes through California State Route 24 and connects Alameda County and Contra Costa County, California. The project had an estimated cost of $391 million He had presented his tunnel technology programme at Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (Nepal) and was very keen to work on Kathmandu Terai Fast Track. He is a member of Jacobs Associates, an engineering firm based on California. He has received his PhD on geotechnical engineering from UC Berkeley and an engineering degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. He died from heart failure while playing tennis on June 19, 2013. A plaque rests above the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, California in tribute of Bhaskar's work and life.
 In 2016, the Bhaskar Tejshree Memorial Foundation released a compilation book of works done on tunnel engineering by Bhaskar.

Family 
Bhaskar is the son of diplomat and former minister Dr. Bhekh Bahadur Thapa and public health specialist Dr. Rita Thapa. He grew up in Kathmandu, Nepal. He has two sisters, Manjushree Thapa and Tejshree. Bhaskar grew up in Nepal and attended university in the United States, where he completed his Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in civil engineering. Bhaskar and his wife, Sumira, have two sons.

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American civil engineers
American people of Nepalese descent
2013 deaths
1963 births
Harvey Borovetz. Harvey S. Borovetz is an American bioengineer currently a Distinguished Professor and former Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh and an Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Society, Council on Arteriosclerosis, American Heart Association.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Pittsburgh faculty
American bioengineers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Brandeis University alumni
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Robert C. Brown (engineer). Robert C. Brown is an American mechanical engineer.

Brown obtained a bachelor of arts in mathematics and a bachelor of science in physics at the University of Missouri in 1976. He then pursued a master's of science and doctorate in mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, which he completed in 1977 and 1980, respectively. Brown held the Bergles Professorship in Thermal Science within Iowa State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2003 to 2008, when he was elevated to the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering. Brown is also associated with ISU's BioCentury Research Farm.

Brown was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2002, and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Iowa State University faculty
21st-century American engineers
Michigan State University alumni
University of Missouri alumni
Engineers from Iowa
American mechanical engineers
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors