omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
West Technical College. The West Technical College () is a high school in Timișoara. It was founded in 1946 as a school for civil, industrial and agricultural constructions. It suffered numerous name changes since, but kept its profile as an industrial and construction-oriented institution. From 2018 onward, it is known as the West Technological High School (). Currently, it is the only high school in Timiș County with a construction profile in which plumbers, masons, electricians, builders, carpenters, joiners and painters are trained.

The building that houses the high school is located in the site of historical monuments called Old Iosefin and was built in 1946 for school purposes. Between 2013 and 2017, the building also housed the city's High School of Fine Arts.

References 

Educational institutions established in 1946
Schools in Timișoara
1946 establishments in Romania
High schools in Romania
Robert Lafore. Robert W. Lafore (born March 11, 1938) is a computer programmer, systems analyst and entrepreneur.  He coined the term "interactive fiction", and was an early software developer in this field.

Career
Lafore worked as a systems analyst for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the early days of microcomputing, he wrote programs in BASIC for the TRS-80 and founded his own software company.

Lafore has written a number of text adventure games, for which he coined the term "interactive fiction", for the company Adventure International.

Lafore has authored a number of books on the subject of computer programming, including Soul of CP/M., and Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC and XT.  Later books included C++ Interactive Course, Object-Oriented Programming in C++, Turbo C Programming for the IBM, and C Programming Using Turbo C++.  At one time he was an editor for the Waite Group publishers.

References

External links
http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=E8178A8C-D171-4B68-A507-127DE6FF7B9C
http://www.pearsoned.co.in/web/authors/3304/Robert_Lafore.aspx

1938 births
Living people
American computer programmers
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
Fly Products Gold. The Fly Products Gold is a family of Italian paramotors that was designed and produced by Fly Products of Grottammare for powered paragliding.

Design and development
The aircraft line features a paraglider-style high-wing, single-place accommodation and a single Simonini  engine in pusher configuration. As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot.

Over 1000 examples had been delivered by 2005.

Variants
Gold 95
Version with a  Simonini engine with a 2.4:1 reduction ratio and a  diameter propeller
Gold 130
Version with a  Simonini engine with a 2.4:1 reduction ratio and a  diameter propeller

Specifications (Gold 130)

References

1990s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Resonating valence bond theory. In condensed matter physics, the resonating valence bond theory (RVB) is a theoretical model that attempts to describe high-temperature superconductivity, and in particular the superconductivity in cuprate compounds. It was first proposed by an American physicist P. W. Anderson and Indian theoretical physicist Ganapathy Baskaran in 1987. The theory states that in copper oxide lattices, electrons from neighboring copper atoms interact to form a valence bond, which locks them in place. However, with doping, these electrons can act as mobile Cooper pairs and are able to superconduct. Anderson observed in his 1987 paper that the origins of superconductivity in doped cuprates was in the Mott insulator nature of crystalline copper oxide. RVB builds on the Hubbard and t-J models used in the study of strongly correlated materials.

In 2014, evidence showing that fractional particles can happen in quasi two-dimensional magnetic materials, was found by EPFL scientists lending support for Anderson's theory of high-temperature superconductivity.

Description

The physics of Mott insulators is described by the repulsive Hubbard model Hamiltonian:

In 1971, Anderson first suggested that this Hamiltonian can have a non-degenerate ground state that is composed of disordered spin states. Shortly after the high-temperature superconductors were discovered, Anderson and Kivelson et al. proposed a resonating valence bond ground state for these materials, written as

where  represented a covering of a lattice by nearest neighbor dimers. Each such covering is weighted equally. In a mean field approximation, the RVB state can be written in terms of a Gutzwiller projection, and displays a superconducting phase transition per the Kosterlitz–Thouless mechanism. However, a rigorous proof for the existence of a superconducting ground state in either the Hubbard or the t-J Hamiltonian is not yet known.  Further the stability of the RVB ground state has not yet been confirmed.

References

High-temperature superconductors
Correlated electrons
Condensed matter physics
Theoretical physics
Siberian State Industrial University. Siberian State Industrial University (, abbreviated СибГИУ) is the oldest university in Novokuznetsk, Russia. It was established on June 23, 1930, to train professional personnel for the construction of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine (Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant).  Prior to raising the status in 1994, it was named the Siberian Metallurgic Institute (SMI), then it was renamed the Siberian State Mining-Metallurgic Academy (SibGGMA). In 1998, the status of the university had risen to the level of the Technical University and it received the title of Siberian State Industrial University (SibSIU). The university is located in the central district of Novokuznetsk.

Siberian State Industrial University has about 15,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students, and a faculty of about 1200, including 326 professors and 350 associate professors.

Famous Alumni
Vladimir Lisin - a Russian steel tycoon, graduated with MSc in Metal Engineering in 1979.

References

External links 
 Siberian State Industrial University (Russian / English)

See also
Education in Siberia
List of institutions of higher learning in Russia

Universities in Kemerovo Oblast
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
1930 establishments in the Soviet Union
Technical universities and colleges in Russia
Novokuznetsk
4.5-Inch Beach Barrage Rocket. The 4.5-Inch Beach Barrage Rocket, also known as "Old Faithful", was a  rocket developed and used by the United States Navy during World War II. Originally developed from the "Mousetrap" anti-submarine rocket, it saw widespread use during the war, being replaced by more powerful rockets toward the end of the conflict.

Development
Developed during 1942 by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), under the direction of Charles Christian Lauritsen, in response to a requirement by the United States Navy for a rocket capable of being launched from landing craft to provide fire support during amphibious landings, the 4.5-Inch BBR was an improved version of the Mousetrap anti-submarine rocket system, using the Mousetrap's Mk 3 rocket motor mated to a  general purpose aerial bomb. An impact fuse was mounted in the nose of the rocket, with an annular fin assembly providing stability. A modified, larger version of the Beach Barrage Rocket, using the Mk 9 rocket motor, was also produced, being introduced into service in late 1944.

Operational history
First test fired on 24 June 1942, further tests in August proved sufficiently successful for the Navy Bureau of Ordnance to place an initial order for 3,000 Beach Barrage Rockets; the weapon was introduced into combat service that November, during the invasion of northern Africa. Fired from 12-round launchers and capable of being fitted with either the standard high explosive or a white phosphorus warhead, approximately 1,600,000 examples of the BBR were built; although the rocket proved inaccurate in service, it was widely used, and was highly regarded by members of the amphibious forces. The effect on the target of the Beach Barrage Rocket was described as being equivalent to that of a barrage from heavy mortars.

The 4.5-Inch BBR also saw use as an improvised ship-to-ship weapon, as well as being launched from ground-based launchers; it is credited with the first ship to be sunk by another purely by rocket attack, occurring near Ormoc in December 1944. Toward the end of the war, the Beach Barrage Rocket was replaced in service by the  High Velocity Spinner Rocket.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Fowler, William A. (1975). "Charles Christian Lauritsen", in Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences. .

Rocket weapons of the United States
World War II weapons of the United States
California Institute of Technology
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1942
UTVA Kobac. The UTVA Kobac (English: Sparrowhawk) was a prototype Serbian single-engine, low-wing tandem-seat turboprop training/light attack aircraft manufactured by Pančevo based UTVA Aviation Industry, and designed by the Military Technical Institute. Revealed as a mockup on 2 September 2012 during the Batajnica 2012 Air Show, the aircraft's first flight was planned for 2013, but was never realized.

Design Concept
Based on the proven UTVA Lasta 95P-2 tandem two-seat low-wing trainer, the Kobac promised a  maximum speed and was intended to serve the Serbian Airforce and export customers with advanced training in all weather conditions. Equipped with the capability to conduct border patrols and strikes against ground-based targets, the aircraft was touted as a close air support, counterinsurgency, and reconnaissance aircraft similar to the Super Tucano and Texan II.

The Kobac concept envisioned modifications to the Lasta platform to suit advanced new roles. Most importantly it was planned to be powered by a  turboprop engine housed in a lengthened nose and possess five hard points for the carriage of more than  of stores.

Two engine options were planned to be offered in the production version of the Kobac. The  Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25C and the Ukrainian built  Ivchenko-Progress Motor Sich AI-450S. To handle the increase in power, the rear fuselage of the Lasta airframe was lengthened and a new rear fin was designed. Additionally,  fuel tip tanks were planned to complement the  internal fuel capacity, raising the Kobac flight endurance to approximately five hours or .

All four underwing pylons of the Kobac were intended to carry unguided munitions, tube rocket launchers and gun pods for either a 12.7-mm (0.5-inch) machine gun or  autocannon. The outer wing pylons were intended for mounting air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles or racks for practice bombs; while the centreline hardpoint was designed to carry an electronic warfare pod.

UTVA redesigned the Kobac cockpit with a new canopy offering better visibility than the Lasta-95. The rear seat was raised by approximately  to give the back-seater better forward vision and both positions were to be fitted with Martin-Baker Mk 15B lightweight ejection seats. A modern three-screen cockpit was installed in the Kobac mockup, with a large central multifunction display for tactical displays and sensor imagery. Control of the system was to be by HOTAS (hands-on throttle and stick) and a navigation and attack system was reportedly devised with sensors mounted in a low-profile pallet under the centre fuselage.

Specifications (Kobac prototype)

Video promotion
  KOBAC - turboprop training aircraft - Al Jazeera Balkans

See also

References

UTVA aircraft
Military Technical Institute Belgrade
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined turboprop aircraft
2010s Serbian military trainer aircraft
Cancelled military aircraft projects
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Sparsh (software). 'SPARSH' is an interaction method to transfer data between digital devices by touch gestures. The Sparsh prototype system is designed and developed by Pranav Mistry, Suranga Nanayakkara of the MIT Media Lab.  Sparsh uses touch-based interactions when transferring data, such as photos, text, video, or links, from one device to the other and the data transfer is handled via the cloud.

The user authentication is achieved by face recognition, fingerprint detection, or username-password combination. At present, Sparsh system supports Android and Windows platforms.

End of Project
As of August 2024, and perhaps earlier, the website of the main developer no longer mentions the project.

The most recent updates in regard to the project may have been in 2013, with the main developer no longer updating their website. It currently simply mentions their career and inability to update the website linking to the archive of the SPARSH project. however, this also simply has the same message and as such does not provide any further information.

It is likely the lead developer, Pranav Mistry, has now left the project behind instead focusing on other elements of his career.

Although the project supports Android  it can no longer be found on the google play store, SPARSH rather leading to a pensions app by the Government of India. Due to a lack of up to date websites, it is not possible to determine whether it can still be downloaded for windows or through other methods for Android.

References

External links
Sparsh homepage
Sparsh video demonstration

User interfaces
MIT Media Lab
Joy Romero. Joy Romero, P.Eng was the Chair of the Governing Council of Athabasca University. She was first appointed to the Governing Council in 2002. She is Vice President of Technology Development for Canadian Natural Resources Limited.  She is also an advisor to the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and holds a post-graduate diploma from the University.

References

Athabasca University people
Canadian university and college chief executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act. The U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act is an act that was passed in 1953 to regulate the manufacture of highly flammable clothing.  It was enacted after years of rayon viscose fabrics being proven to be the primary cause of quick starting, high temperature fires as well as having the secondary effect of causing illnesses in factory workers. Viscose is the key word when describing the chemical dangers of rayon fabrics, because a chemical named carbon disulfide is used to convert cellulose into a viscose fabric capable of being threaded together for clothing. This is an important distinction to make for the sake of clarity as cellulose fabrics are still commonly advertised as "green" in the sense that the fabric is derived from the cellulose in plants, but the introduction of carbon disulfide in the manufacturing process creates a reaction that is remarkably toxic to the workers who are developing and working with the fabric. There was also a series of tragic deaths in the 1940s caused by the highly flammable nature of the fabric involving children who were wearing long rayon pile cowboy chaps or brushed rayon sweaters.  The Federal Trade Commission was initially placed as the enforcement authority but this responsibility was later transferred over to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1967 when the act was amended to include interior furnishings, paper, plastic, foam, and other materials used in wearing apparel and interior furnishings. A provision of the act makes willful violation a felony with maximum penalties of a $10,000 fine and 3 years in prison, which reflects how seriously the dangers of flammable fabrics were being taken. The Consumer Product Safety Commission was given the authority, under the U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act, to issue mandatory flammability standards.  Flammability standards for clothing textiles, vinyl plastic film in clothing, carpets, rugs, children's sleepwear, mattresses, and mattress pads have all been established.

Amendment to 1953 Act
The amendment of the act in 1967 was meant to further the initial intention of the US Flammable Fabrics act by extending it to include the "prohibition of the introduction or movement in interstate commerce of articles of wearing apparel and fabrics which are so highly flammable as to be dangerous when worn by individuals, and for other purposes." This distinction was an integral one because it drew a clear line in the sand that American companies would not be allowed or expected to tolerate highly flammable fabrics to be manufactured or used in manufacturing. This act would also lead to the Fire Research and Safety Act of 1968, which was tasked to study different preventative methods against loss of life and injury by fire. 90th United States Congress cleared Senate bill  on December 1, 1967. U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the Flammable Fabrics Act Amendment on December 14, 1967.

References

External links
 
 

1953 in American law
83rd United States Congress
Fire prevention
Fire prevention law
Textile industry of the United States
SND College of Engineering & Research Centre, Yeola. SND College of Engineering and Research Centre Yeola is an engineering school in Yeola, Nashik district, Maharashtra, India.  It is run by the Jagdamba Education Society (JES).

History

SND College of Engineering, Yeola was started in 2006. Courses in Computer, Electronics, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering branches were started first. IT and Civil engineering departments are added later. Its first graduation ceremony took place in 2010 along with campus placements.

Campus

The campus is spread over a single campus of .

Courses offered

Bachelor's degree courses
 Mechanical Engineering (180)
 Computer Engineering (60)
 Civil Engineering (60)
 Electrical Engineering (60)
 Information Technology (60)

Postgraduate courses
 Master's in civil engineering (Structural Engg.) (24)
 Master's in electrical engineering (Electrical Power System) (24)
 Master's in electrical engineering (Design Engg.) (18)
 Masters in Computer Engineering (18)
 MBA

The college also offers internship for postgraduate students.

Research groups 
WINGS is the Wireless Innovation Group, a wireless research group of Ph.D holders.

Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park
The Product Development Centre identifies students’ projects that are commercially viable and develop them into prototypes and test for reliability. The product is offered to the students, employees or even outsiders for being commercially exploited.

References

External links 
 

Engineering colleges in Maharashtra
Education in Nashik district
Educational institutions established in 2006
2006 establishments in Maharashtra
USA-215. USA-215, also known as NRO Launch 41 or NROL-41, is an American reconnaissance satellite, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Launched in 2010, it has been identified as the first in a new series of imaging radar satellites, developed as part of the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) programme, to replace the earlier Lacrosse spacecraft.

Launch 
USA-215 was launched by an Atlas V launch vehicle, flying in the 501 configuration, operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA). The rocket was launched from Space Launch Complex 3E at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, at 04:03:30 UTC on 21 September 2010. It was identified as NRO Launch 41, and was the twenty-third flight of an Atlas V; the vehicle had the tail number AV-025, and was named Gladys.

Mission 
The satellite's orbit and mission are officially classified; however, it has been located by amateur observers in a retrograde low Earth orbit. As of 14 February 2021, it was in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of  and 122.99° of orbital inclination.

References 

Spacecraft launched in 2010
National Reconnaissance Office satellites
USA satellites
Space synthetic aperture radar
Mecc Alte. Mecc Alte is an Italian electrical engineering company that makes electrical generators. It is based in Vicenza, in the Veneto region of north-east Italy.

History
It was founded in 1947 in Alte near Vincenza.

Products
The types of synchronous alternators it makes are:
 2 pole (1 - 208 kVA)
 4 pole (3.5 - 3000 kVA)
 6 pole (500 - 2100 kVA)

It also makes
 Permanent magnets
 Welding generators

See also 

List of Italian companies

References

External links
 Mecc Alte
 CREI Ven (research centre)

Engineering companies of Italy
Rail industry
Italian companies established in 1947
Electronics companies established in 1947
Italian brands
Companies based in Veneto
Ampère Prize. The Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France is a scientific prize awarded annually by the French Academy of Sciences.

Founded in 1974 in honor of André-Marie Ampère to celebrate his 200th birthday in 1975, the award is granted to one or more French scientists for outstanding research work in mathematics or physics.  The monetary award is 50,000 euro, funded by Électricité de France.

Winners 

 2024 : Xavier Pennec
 2023 : Philippe Grangier 
 2022 : Yann Brenier 
 2021 : Equipe géodynamo d'ISTerre 
 2020 : Guy David 
 2019 : Jacqueline Bloch 
 2018 : Frank Merle
 2017 : 
 2016 : Alain Brillet
 2015 :  
 2014 : Gilles Chabrier
 2013 : Arnaud Beauville
 2012 : 
 2011 : 
 2010 : 
 2009 : 
 2008 : Gérard Iooss
 2007 : 
 2004, 2005, 2006 : Prize not awarded.
 2003 : Gilles Lebeau
 2002 : 
 2001 : Bernard Derrida
 2000 : Pierre Suquet
 1999 : Yves Colin de Verdière
 1998 :  and Jean-Michel Raimond
 1997 : Michèle Vergne
 1996 :  and Marc Mézard
 1995 : Claude Itzykson
 1994 : 
 1993 : Christophe Soulé
 1992 : Pierre-Louis Lions
 1991 : Michel Devoret and 
 1990 : Jean-Michel Bismut
 1989 : Adrien Douady
 1988 : Jules Horowitz
 1987 : Michel Raynaud
 1986 : 
 1985 : Haïm Brezis
 1984 : Daniel Kastler
 1983 : Claude Bouchiat, Marie-Anne Bouchiat and 
 1982 : Paul-André Meyer
 1981 : Édouard Brézin, Jean Zinn-Justin
 1980 : Alain Connes
 1979 : Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
 1978 : Pierre Cartier
 1977 : Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
 1976 : Jacques Dixmier
 1975 : André Lagarrigue
 1974 : Jean Brossel

See also

 List of mathematics awards
 List of physics awards
 List of prizes named after people

References

External links 
 

Physics awards
Mathematics awards
Awards established in 1974
Southern Skies Spymotor. The Southern Skies Spymotor is an American paramotor that was designed and produced by Southern Skies of Taylorsville, North Carolina for powered paragliding.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a paraglider-style high-wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration. As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot.

Designed to be a lightweight paramotor, the Spymotor weighs  and can lift a pilot up to . The propeller protection cage is made from a combination of silver-welded  stainless steel tubing and TIG-welded aluminium. Electric starting was a factory option.

Specifications (Spymotor)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Southern Skies Quattro. The Southern Skies Quattro is an American paramotor that was designed and produced by Southern Skies of Taylorsville, North Carolina for powered paragliding.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and was the first paramotor to use a four-stroke powerplant. It features a paraglider-style high-wing, single-place accommodation and a single computer-controlled, electronic ignition system-equipped, , , Honda Kart engine, without a reduction drive, mounted in pusher configuration. As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot.

With its heavier four-stroke engine, the Quattro weighs  and can lift a pilot up to .

Specifications (Quattro)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors