omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jure Zupan. Jure Zupan is a Slovenian physicist and founder of chemomectrics research in Slovenia, known for his work in applications and development of artificial neural networks in chemistry.

Life
Zupan was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1943. He studied Physics at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1966. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1972. He did his first research on the magnetic properties of solids at the Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (1963–1973). In 1974 he has joined National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana to work on Computerized Databases, Chemometrics, and Artificial Intelligence. He did his post doctoral research at ETH Zürich (1975) and at NIH, Bethesda (1978).

Work 
Since 1985 he is a Full professor at the University of Ljubljana. He was Visiting Professor at the Arizona State University in Tempe, USA (1982), at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (1988), for 3 consecutive years (each year for three months) at the Technical University Munich, Germany (1990–1992), and at the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain (1995). After 1988 his research focused to the field of Artificial Neural Networks. He is now mostly interested in the multi-dimensional data representation and context extraction from large assembles of multi-dimensional data. He is member of the European Academy of Science (Salzburg) and member of the Engineering Academy of Slovenia.

Selected publications
Zupan is author and editor of 10 books and monographs and has co-authored more than 200 articles. With Johann Gasteiger he co-authored Neural Networks in Chemistry and Drug Design. The book received more than 500 citations and was nominated the book of the month in 1993.

Political career 
 Minister for Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia

References

External links 
Official homepage

1943 births
Living people
Scientists from Ljubljana
Mathematical chemistry
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
University of Ljubljana alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
ETH Zurich alumni
Slovenian physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Chignik Bay Seaplane Base. Chignik Bay Seaplane Base  is a public-use seaplane base serving Chignik, a city in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Facilities and aircraft 
Chignik Bay Seaplane Base has two seaplane landing areas: the E/W waterway is 6,000 by 4,000 feet (1,829 x 1,219 m) and the NE/SW waterway is 10,000 by 4,000 feet (3,048 x 1,219 m). The beach is used for aircraft pull-up. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 210 aircraft operations, an average of 17 per month: 95% general aviation and 5% air taxi.

See also 
 Chignik Airport 
 Chignik Fisheries Airport 
 Chignik Lagoon Airport 
 Chignik Lake Airport 
 List of airports in Alaska

References

External links 
 Diagram for Chignik Bay Seaplane Base (Z78) (GIF). FAA, Alaska Region. 25 Dec 2003.

Airports in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Seaplane bases in Alaska
Anangpur Dam. The Anangpur Dam is an Indian hydraulic engineering structure built during the reign of the King Anangpal I of the Tomara dynasty in the 8th century. It is located near the Anangpur village in Faridabad district, Haryana, India.

History 
The king Anangpal Tomar I declared himself an independent ruler and established the Tomar Dynasty of Delhi in the early 8th century. He built his capital at the Anangpur village in Haryana and expanded his kingdom from there. He is said to have built numerous palaces and temples during his reign, majority of which are now completely diminished. Anangpal I is often misunderstood to be Anangpal II.

Structure

The ancient and solid gravity dam structure, a pre-Islamic structure that fords a local nala (stream) is  in height and  in length between the two banks. It has been built with quartzite stones (locally available), duly chiselled and dressed, as a regular dam section with downstream base width increasing in steps with depth up to the foundation. It has entry manholes from the top of the dam, which lead into the body of the dam for inspection and control of flow through sluices for downstream uses. The intake entry into the sluice is on the upstream side. The downstream outlet end leads to the flat terrain below the dam at the ground level. The reservoir created by the dam is mostly silted over the centuries, but it is said to be in use.

Topography
A local nala (stream) originating in the Aravalli hills was intercepted by building a dam at a chasm to store rain water. It is basically a water harvesting structure meant to store rain water during the monsoon season for beneficial uses of irrigation.

It is an important biodiversity area within the Northern Aravalli leopard wildlife corridor stretching from Sariska Tiger Reserve to Delhi. Historical place around sanctuary are Badkhal Lake (6km northeast), 10th century ancient Surajkund reservoir, Damdama Lake, Tughlaqabad Fort and Adilabad ruins (both in Delhi), Chhatarpur Temple (in Delhi). It is contiguous to the seasonal waterfalls in Pali-Dhauj-Kot villages of Faridabad, the scared Mangar Bani and the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary.

Access
It is approachable by road from Delhi from the Delhi - Mathura road. Anangpur, which is  from the dam, is  from Delhi city and is approachable from Qutub Minar and Surajkund. But the access to the dam is through a path from the Anangpur village, which goes through flat pastureland and then over a rocky forested hill. Sarai metro station is nearest.

See also 
 Anangpal Tomar
 Lal Kot
 Surajkund
List of dams and reservoirs in Haryana

References

Dams in Haryana
8th century in India
History of Haryana
Indian architectural history
Hermes-class post ship. The Hermes class were a series of four 20-gun ships, launched between 1811 and 1816. Two pairs of ships were produced, to slightly different designs – the first two had 20 guns and were unrated flush-decked ship-sloops, whilst the latter two were converted to 26-gun sixth-rates. The design was based on the ex-French 20-gun corvette , which the British had captured in 1796.

The first pair was built at Milford Dockyard on the north side of Milford Haven.  was launched in 1811 and  in 1813. Milford Dockyard was closed following their construction, and the second pair were built at the new Pater (later Pembroke Dock) Dockyard on the south side of Milford Haven.

The second pair –  and  – were launched on the same date in 1816. They were modified at Plymouth Dockyard in 1820 and 1821 respectively, before their first commission, by the addition of quarterdecks and forecastle to what had originally been flush-deck vessels, and they were at that time re-classed as 26-gun sixth rate post ships.

The Cyrus class was based on the design of the Myrmidon of the Hermes class.

Ships in class 
 
 Builder: Milford Dockyard
 Ordered: 18 January 1810
 Laid down: May 1810
 Launched: 22 July 1811
 Completed: 7 September 1811 
 Fate: Grounded and burnt in action at Mobile in 1814.
 
 Builder: Milford Dockyard
 Ordered: 2 August 1811
 Laid down: July 1812
 Launched: 18 June 1813
 Completed: 6 February 1814 at Plymouth Dockyard
 Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1823.
 
 Builder: Pater Dockyard
 Ordered: 28 November 1812
 Laid down: April 1815
 Launched: 10 February 1816
 Completed: 21 March 1816 
 Fate: Sold to break up at Alexandria in 1841.
 
 Builder: Pater Dockyard
 Ordered: 28 November 1812
 Laid down: March 1815
 Launched: 10 February 1816
 Completed: 26 March 1816 at Plymouth Dockyard 
 Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1829.

References
 Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793–1817, Chatham Publishing, London 2005.
 Davy Lyon, The Sailing Navy List – all the Ships of the Royal Navy 1688-1860, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993.

 
Sloop classes
Self service technologies. Self-service technologies (SSTs) are technological interfaces allowing customers to produce services independent of involvement of direct service employee. Self service technologies are replacing many face-to-face service interactions with the intention to make service transactions more accurate, convenient and faster.

Examples of SSTs 
Automated teller machines (ATMs), self-pumping at gas stations, self-ticket purchasing on the Internet and self-check-out at hotels and libraries are typical examples of self service technologies.  As users of self service technologies continue to become more accepting, additional solutions for making service transactions more convenient and faster will be developed.

References 

Retail processes and techniques
Retail formats
Ant robotics. Ant robotics is a special case of swarm robotics. Swarm robots are simple (and therefore likely to be cost-effective) robots with limited sensing and computational capabilities. This makes it feasible to deploy teams of swarm robots and take advantage of the resulting fault tolerance and parallelism. Swarm robots cannot use conventional planning methods due to their limited sensing and computational capabilities. Thus, their behavior is often driven by local interactions. Ant robots are swarm robots that can communicate via markings, similar to ants that lay and follow pheromone trails. Some ant robots use long-lasting trails (either regular trails of a chemical substance or smart trails of transceivers). Others use short-lasting trails including heat and alcohol. Others even use virtual trails.

Invention
In 1991, American electrical engineer James McLurkin was the first to conceptualize the idea of "robot ants" while working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The robots consisted of sensors, infrared emitters, and communication systems capable of detecting objects in their path. McLurkin's invention was through studying the behavior of real ants in ant colonies and keeping ant farms as a basis for his programming. Through this examination, he could better understand how insects structured their workloads in order to produce a viable and working prototype of robotic ants.

Background
Researchers have developed ant robot hardware and software and demonstrated, both in simulation and on physical robots, that single ant robots or teams of ant robots solve robot-navigation tasks (such as path following and terrain coverage) robustly and efficiently.  For example, trails coordinate the ant robots via implicit communication and provide an alternative to probabilistic reasoning for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping problem.

Researchers have also developed a theoretical foundation for ant robotics, based on ideas from real-time heuristic search, stochastic analysis and graph theory.

See also 
 Swarm intelligence, especially ant colony optimization

References

External links 
 Ant robot by Sven Koenig
 Ant algorithm by Israel Wagner
 Robo-ants by Zhenishbek Zhakypov

The text of this article was adopted from the Tutorial on Ant Robotics in compliance with their Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike  Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.

American inventions
Multi-robot systems
German submarine U-757. German submarine U-757 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. Laid down as yard number 140 at the Kriegsmarinewerft (KMW) in Wilhelmshaven, U-757 served with 6th U-boat Flotilla from 28 February 1942 until 8 January 1944 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Friedrich Deetz.

Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-757 had a displacement of  when at the surface and  while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of  for use while surfaced, two Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co. RP 137/c double-acting electric motors producing a total of  for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two  propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .

The submarine had a maximum surface speed of  and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for  at ; when surfaced, she could travel  at . U-757 was fitted with five  torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes, one  SK C/35 naval gun, 220 rounds, and a  C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.

Service history
U-757s first victims were the British transport vessel HMS LCT-2398 - destroying 291 tons of shipping - in the convoy HX 228, and the American merchant vessel William C. Gorgas- destroying a further 7,197 GRT of shipping. Both incidents occurred on 11 March 1943, fourteen days into her twenty-five-day-long third patrol. Of the seventy-three crewmen on board the Gorgas, twenty-two perished.

On her fourth patrol, U-757 sank the Norwegian Fernhill on 7 August 1943, thirty-one days into her sixty-day patrol, 4,116 GRT of shipping lost in the sea. Of the ship's forty-four crewmen, forty survived the attack, being rescued by the American tanker Idaho two days later.

Fate
On 8 January 1944 in the North Atlantic, south-west of Ireland, U-757 was hit by depth charges from the British frigate  and the Canadian corvette . U-757 went down with all 49 seamen, at position .

Wolfpacks
U-757 took part in five wolfpacks, namely:
 Panther (6 – 10 October 1942)
 Neuland (4 – 12 March 1943)
 Without name (11 – 29 July 1943)
 Rügen 5 (6 – 7 January 1944)
 Rügen (7 – 8 January 1944)

Summary of raiding history

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

External links

German Type VIIC submarines
U-boats commissioned in 1942
1941 ships
U-boats sunk in 1944
World War II submarines of Germany
U-boats sunk by depth charges
U-boats sunk by British warships
U-boats sunk by Canadian warships
Ships built in Wilhelmshaven
Submarines lost with all hands
World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Maritime incidents in January 1944
The New Accelerator. "The New Accelerator" is a 1901 science fiction short story by H. G. Wells, first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1901. The story addresses an elixir, invented by Prof. Gibberne, that accelerates all of an individual's physiological and cognitive processes by some orders of magnitude, such that although the individual perceives no change in themselves, the external world appears almost frozen into immobility, and only the motion of most rapidly moving objects – such as the tip of a cracked whip – can be perceived.

The exploration of the consequences of this is incomplete; for example, the inventor and his companion find that while under the influence of the elixir they can easily singe their clothing from the heat produced by friction against the air as they walk, such is the rapidity of their motion; but this same air friction would render it impossible to breathe at a correspondingly accelerated rate, and this difficulty is ignored.

The drug has considerable advantages, as well as risks, drawing upon a trope present in other of Wells' literary works that describes the possibility of scientific discoveries to be both a blessing and a curse.

"The New Accelerator" was included in the H. G. Wells short-story collection Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903) and much later reprinted in the first edition of Amazing Stories (April 1926).

In 1966, the premise of this story was adapted as an episode of the CBS TV series The Wild, Wild West titled "The Night of the Burning Diamond" (season 1, episode 26, originally aired 8 April 1966).

In 2001 it was adapted for the first episode of the 2001 miniseries The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells. The French comic-series La Brigade Chimérique features, among other characters from literature and comic, Prof. Gibberne's son Andrew Gibberne.

References

External links

 
 
 

1901 short stories
Short stories by H. G. Wells
Science fiction short stories
Works originally published in The Strand Magazine
Alfred Holmes White. Alfred Holmes White (April 28, 1873  – August 25, 1953) was a chemical engineer at the University of Michigan.

Biography
He was born in Peoria, Illinois to Samuel Holmes White and Jennie McLaren. He married Rebecca Mason Downey on July 28, 1903, and had two children.

He led the university's chemical engineering department to great heights of prestige, for over 40 years, beginning with its founding in 1898.  His earliest academic job was at the University of Illinois, from 1893 to 1896, after which he joined the University of Michigan the next year, and rose to become a full professor by 1911. He was later made an emeritus professor.

His published works include The Disintegration of Cement Floors and Sidewalks and Studies in the Manufacture of Coal Gas, both in 1909.

References

Further reading
Snippet of a bio of him from the Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 32, 1941.
—contains an illustration of him

American chemical engineers
1873 births
1953 deaths
University of Michigan faculty
University of Illinois faculty
FlowMon. Flowmon is a name for monitoring probe which is the result of academic research activity on CESNET and also a name for a commercial product which is marketed by university spin-off company Flowmon Networks.

Flowmon probe - result of research activities 
Flowmon probe is an appliance for monitoring and reporting information of IP flows in high-speed computer networks. The probe is being developed by Liberouter team within the scope of CESNET research plan Optical National Research Network and its New Applications, research activity 602 - Programmable hardware.

Flowmon probe is built upon a pair of programmable network cards, called COMBO, and a host computer with Linux operating system. The pair of COMBO cards consists of a main card with PCI, PCI-X or PCI-Express connector for a connection to a motherboard of the host computer and of an add-on card with 2 or 4 network interfaces. Both cards contain programmable chips (FPGAs) which are able to process high amount of data at multi-gigabit speed. The flow monitoring process itself is split between the hardware (acceleration cards) and the application software running on the host computer. Following the principle of hardware/software codesign, all time-critical tasks are implemented in FPGA chips on acceleration cards while more complex operations are carried out by the application software. This concept enables monitoring of modern high-speed (1 Gbps, 10 Gbps) networks with no packet loss and with no necessity of input sampling. At the same time, a flexible and user-friendly interface is provided by software.

Flowmon probe is a passive monitoring device, i.e. it does not alter passing traffic in any way. Therefore, its detection is hardly possible. When connected to a network, Flowmon probe observes all passing traffic/packets, extracts and aggregates information of IP flows into flow records. Flowmon probe is able to export aggregated data to external collectors in NetFlow (version 5 and 9) and IPFIX format. Collectors collect incoming flow records and store them for automated or manual and visual analysis (automated malicious traffic detection, filter rules, graphs and statistical schemas). The whole system allows monitoring of actual state of monitored network as well as long-term traffic analysis.

Flowmon probe is part of GÉANT2 Security Toolset, which consists of the NetFlow analysis tools NfSen and NfDump and the Flowmon appliance.

See also
Network traffic measurement
IP Flow Information Export
NetFlow

Network analyzers
Networking hardware
DISA (company). DISA is a company founded in Denmark (with the name Compagnie Madsen A/S) which since 1900 has produced metal casting products.

In 1936 it changed name from Dansk Rekyl Riffel Syndikat A/S to Dansk Industri Syndikat A/S and was a defence manufacturer most notable for producing the Madsen machine gun and Madsen M-50.

History
In 1896 V.H.O Madsen designed an air-cooled, repeating machine gun which then took his name, Madsen. In the year 1900 the company Compagnie Madsen A/S was founded. This company was to produce this Madsen machine gun.

In 1930 A.P Møller bought a sum of shares corresponding to 15% of the total shares. In the following years A.P Møller expanded his shareholding to 31.6%, and was hereby the biggest shareholder.

Arms manufacturing products

 Madsen M1888 Self Loading rifle
 Madsen M1896 Flaadens Rekylgevær
 Madsen machine gun
 Schouboe Automatic Pistol
 Lightened Experimental submachine gun
 Madsen-Saetter machine gun
 Madsen M45
 Madsen-Ljungmann Self Loading rifle M. 1945
 Madsen M47
 51 mm Madsen Grenade launcher M 1947
 Madsen M50
 Madsen LAR
 Madsen 20 mm AA gun

References
Citations

Bibliography

External links
Official Website
Weapons Museum Website

Firearm manufacturers of Denmark
Danish companies established in 1900
Defense companies of Denmark
Manufacturing companies of Denmark
Joginpally B R Engineering College. JBREC (Joginpally B.R. Engineering College) is an engineering college in Hyderabad which is affiliated to JNTU. It was established in 2002 by Sri. J. Bhaskar Rao. It is best for excellence in technology and infrastructure. The college is permanently affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.

General information 
It has an intake of more than 700 students. Being established in the early years of the 21st century.

Location and campus 
On the outskirts of Hyderabad.

History 
J. B. Educational Society was formed in 1993 by J. Bhaskar Rao to provide professional education in English. JBREC was sponsored and established by J.B.R. Educational Society. It is recognized by AICTE and affiliated to JNTU.

Facilities

Library 
The college library has around 2000 old books & 2 new books relevant to the student's fields of study.  The library has subscriptions to new papers.  Books of general interest and dictionaries of the disciplines are not given to students for reference.

Health– Center 
JBIET has a health center that provides first-aid and medical kits along with the guidance of a medical assistant. The institution has as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bhaskar General Hospital(established by J.B.Group of Management) for medical and diagnostic services both as outpatients and inpatients.

Street Cause - an NGO 
The college also has a few of its students being very active in carrying out regular social events, through a very famous organization called 'Street Cause'. Every month, the students have a schedule chalked out and events are conducted. These events aim at tackling social issues in the society. Some of the events include, visiting orphanages and interacting with the children there, providing amenities to the down-trodden and regular distribution of food.

Student Activity Centre (SAC) 
The college has a Student Activity Centre which is totally student-oriented. It is governed by the students studying in the college and is mainly concerned with the organizational activities of fests in the college. This centre is where students organize meetings to come to a consensus.

Sports
In JBREC, students are encouraged to involve in physical activity either in college or off-site. Sports room is available for students for various recreational activities. Team games are offered along with other sports. Sports events are conducted on a regular basis to promote various sports.

References

Engineering colleges in Hyderabad, India
2002 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2002