omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance. The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (Recovery Appliance or ZDLRA) is a computing platform that includes Oracle Corporation (Oracle) Engineered Systems hardware and software built for backup and recovery of the Oracle Database. It performs continuous data protection,  validates backups, automatically resolves many issues, and provides alerts when backups fail validation.

It is designed for Oracle databases and works only on Oracle databases. It is considered a 3rd party backup and recovery product. 
It was introduced in 2014 as part of Oracle Corporation's family of "Engineered Systems" and shares components with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, with an additional layer of software that provides specific features for backup, recovery, replication, monitoring, and management. Like the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, it is periodically refreshed as a new interoperable and expandable “generation” based on newer hardware technology at the time of release.  In September 2019, the Recovery Appliance X8M introduced a 100 Gbit/s internal network fabric based on RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), replacing the InfiniBand fabric used in previous Recovery Appliance generations.

The Recovery Appliance elastic configuration starts with a "Base Rack" that can be increased to a "Full Rack" or larger "multi-rack" configuration. A Base Rack is capable of managing over 207 terabytes of backup data, while a Full Rack can manage over 1.26 petabytes.  Multi-Rack configurations of up to 18 racks wide can manage more than 22 petabytes of data. Since Recovery Appliance only needs to store data that has changed, the actual size of databases that are protected can be many times larger than the storage capacity of a Recovery Appliance.

References

External links 
https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/zero-data-loss-recovery-appliance/index.html
https://juliandontcheff.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/oracle-zero-data-loss-recovery-appliance/
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3002738
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E55822_01/index.htm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/zero-data-loss-recovery-appliance-2766885.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2H2un84EA
https://www.doag.org/formes/pubfiles/8565375/2016-MW-Konrad_Haefeli-Zero_Data_Loss_Recovery_Appliance-_in_Action_-Praesentation.pdf
https://siliconangle.com/2016/11/25/ready-new-data-recovery-regulations/

Oracle hardware
Oracle software
Nicole Spillane. Nicole Spillane (born 2 January 1988) is a French and Irish applied mathematician. She is a researcher with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, where she works in the center for applied mathematics of the École Polytechnique. Her research concerns parallel algorithms for solving large systems of linear equations.

Career 
Spillane studied for an engineering diploma at the École des ponts ParisTech from 2006 to 2010. Over the same period she visited Stanford University and the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Pierre and Marie Curie University. She completed her doctorate in applied mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2014. Her dissertation, Méthodes de décomposition de domaine robustes pour les problèmes symétriques définis positifs, was jointly supervised by Frédéric Nataf and Patrice Hauret. After postdoctoral research at the University of Chile, she joined CNRS and the École Polytechnique in 2015.

In 2017 the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications gave Spillane their Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.

Works

References

External links
Home page

1988 births
Living people
21st-century French mathematicians
21st-century Irish mathematicians
Irish women mathematicians
Academic staff of École Polytechnique
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century French women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Ulset Hydroelectric Power Station. The Ulset Hydroelectric Power Station ( or Ulset kraftstasjon) is a hydroelectric power station in the municipality of Tynset in Hedmark county, Norway.

The plant is located in the Orkla River system and utilizes a drop of  from Stor-Sverjesjøen (Big Lake Sverja, regulated at ) and Falningsjøen (Lake Falning, regulated at ). It also utilizes water from two streams, which reduces the volume of water supplied to the Ya River.

The plant has a 35 MW Francis turbine and an average annual production of about 140 GWh. It started production in 1985. The plant is owned by KVO, whereby Statkraft is the largest owner and it is operated by Trondheim Energi Kraft.

References

Hydroelectric power stations in Norway
Tynset
Statkraft
Energy infrastructure completed in 1985
Business Controls Corporation. Business Controls Corporation is a privately held computer company
that developed an application-program-generator and also a series of accounting software packages. These packages were widely enough used for various business magazines to have back-of-the-book ads for companies seeking accountants with experience in one or more of them.

Computer magazines ran coverage for their SB-5 application-program-generator as from time to time new versions were released, each with new or improved features.

Early days
The company's initial offerings were packages for the DEC PDP-8, although Business Controls Corporation also wrote custom-written programs for customers.

Large customers with mainframes who also used smaller systems for departmental use and distributed processing also used BCC's services.

SB-5
The addition of an application-program-generator named SB-5 that, from specifications, could generate COBOL code was a major step forward. Although this began with supporting the DEC PDP-11, they subsequently began to support COBOL on DEC's DECsystem-10 & DECSYSTEM-20. VAX support came later.

The specifications also permitted COBOL inserts and overrides: SB-5 could build an application that was all COBOL, yet only code the portions that varied from BCC's "vanilla" accounting packages.

Similar offerings
A similar idea was done for the IBM mainframe world in the form of a series of application-program-generators from Dylakor Corporation. They were named DYL-250, DYL-260, DYL-270 & DYL-280. Dylakor was acquired by Computer Associates.

The specific syntax was different, but it had wider use, and - a mark of success and recognition in the industry  - syntax-compatible implementations were released by a competitor.

Still another alternative was Peat Marwick Mitchell's PMM2170 application-program-generator package. Like the others, it supported COBOL inserts and overrides.

Extended integration
Business Controls Corporation subsequently extended SB-5's feature set to provide support for System 1022, a product for the DECsystem-10 & DECSYSTEM-20; 1022's vendor also had a VAX/VMS (later OpenVMS) product, System 1032.

References

Procedural programming languages
OpenVMS software
Programming tools
Source code generation
Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell. Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell, 472 U.S. 400 (1985), is a US labor law case before the United States Supreme Court concerning age discrimination.

Background

Western Air Lines required flight engineers to retire at age 60. Plaintiffs were forced to retire at 60 and brought suit at the Federal District Court. Defendant argued that the age requirement was a bona fide occupational qualification that was reasonably necessary for the airline's safe operations. The case proceeded to trial and a jury found for the plaintiffs after a trial.

Statutory background 
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prohibits mandatory retirement prior to age 70, but section 4(f)(1) provides an exception: "where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business."

Opinion of the Court
The Supreme Court held that it was lawful to require airline pilots to retire at 60, because the Federal Aviation Administration forbade using pilots over 60 in aviation. But the Court held that refusing to employ flight engineers over that age was unjustified as there were no such FAA requirements.

See also

United States labor law
ADEA

References

External links
 

1985 in United States case law
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court
United States employment discrimination case law
Robot Attack. Robot Attack is a clone of the arcade game Berzerk written by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu for the TRS-80 and published by Big Five Software in 1981. It was the first game from Big Five to include speech.

Gameplay
Robot Attack is a game in which the player fights against hostile robots aboard a space station. The player starts in a mazelike room full of robots, and the goal is to destroy the robots and exit the room. The maze walls, robots, and the robots' shots are all deadly. After a while in each room, an indestructible "flagship" appears which performs the same function as Evil Otto in Berzerk.

Development
Bill Hogue recorded the voice lines on tape and digitized them through the TRS-80 cassette port.

Reception
Ian Chadwick reviewed Robot Attack in Ares Magazine #12 and commented that "Robot Attack is highly recommended for the nimble fingered arcade buff and even more so for the curious programmer who wishes to discover the secrets behind the usual technique of voice replication used here. Another feather in the cap of Big Five".

Bruce Campbell reviewed Robot Attack in The Space Gamer No. 52. Campbell commented that "Robot Attack gets a high recommendation. It will quickly pay for itself by saving you quarters you are spending at the arcade".

See also
 K-Razy Shoot-Out
 Robon
 Thief

References

External links
 Review in 80 Micro
 Review in Creative Computing

1981 video games
Big Five Software games
Multidirectional shooters
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States
Radiant (yacht). Radiant, formerly known as Darius, is a motor yacht built in 2009 by Lürssen.  With an overall length of  and a beam of , she is owned by Emirati billionaire Abdulla Al Futtaim.

Design
Radiant'''s exterior was designed by Tim Heywood and her interior by Glen Pushelburg. The hull is built of steel and the superstructure is made of aluminium, with teak laid decks. The yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands.

Amenities

Zero speed stabilizers, elevator, swimming pool, beach club, helicopter landing pad on the top deck, massage room, swimming platform, tender garage with tender, air conditioning, on deck jacuzzi, gym, and movie theatre.

Engines
She is powered by twin 8,715 hp MTU 16V 1163 TB73L diesel engines. She has  fuel tanks.

History
Court case
After her delivery there was a lawsuit against the previous owner who sold the yacht to Abdulla Al Futtaim in 2008. He failed to pay a commission fee to the broker, Edmiston. The judge ruled in favour of Edmiston, ruling that the yacht owner should pay Edmiston their commission.

See also
 Al Raya''
 Luxury yacht
 List of motor yachts by length
 List of yachts built by Lürssen

References 

2009 ships
Motor yachts
Vince Calhoun. Vince Daniel Calhoun is an American engineer and neuroscientist. He directs the Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a partnership between Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University, and holds faculty appointments at all three institutions. He was formerly the President of the Mind Research Network and a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.

Education 

B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (1991)
 M.A. in biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (1993)
 M.S. in information systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (1996)
 Ph.D. in electrical engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (2002).

Career 
Calhoun is an expert on brain imaging acquisition and analysis and has created numerous algorithms for making sense of complex brain imaging data. He is the creator of the group independent component analysis algorithm, which has become widely used for extracting 'networks' of coherent activity from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. He was also an early innovator in approaches to characterizing the dynamics of brain connectivity. He has also developed techniques to link many different types of data, called 'data fusion' including various types of brain imaging (structural, functional, connectivity) with genomic and epigenomic data. A key focus of Calhoun's work is the development of tool to identify brain imaging markers to help identify and potentially treat various brain disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and many more.

Awards 
Calhoun is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).

References

External links

Living people
University of New Mexico faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
1967 births
American electrical engineers
TrackMan. The TrackMan is a radar system that uses Doppler technology to track and record 3D characteristics of a sports ball in motion.

History 
TrackMan was created in 2003 by golfers and brothers  Klaus (CEO) and Morten Eldrup-Jørgensen and radar engineer Fredrik Tuxen (CTO). Tuxen worked with the tracking of bullets and missiles using Doppler radar. The Jorgensens contacted Tuxen to see if the technology could be used to track golf balls. The team developed the TrackMan system and demonstrated it in the United States to five golf equipment manufacturers. Mizuno, Nike, Ping, Callaway, and TaylorMade became TrackMan's first customers. TrackMan products are sold worldwide to professionals, amateurs, and businesses. The company's headquarters is in Vedbæk, Denmark.

Usage

Golf 

The TrackMan is a device that uses Doppler radar to monitor the launch of a golf ball. It is set up behind the golfer and is roughly the size of a laptop. With each swing, it measures every aspect of the club movement, the trajectory of the ball, and its landing. It is equipped with a video camera so golfers can watch themselves while looking at information about their swing. Rather than calculating its projectile motion from initial launch parameters, it can track the entire flight of the ball from the moment of impact to the point where the ball comes to rest. After it finishes tracking, the TrackMan displays data and graphics on the screen of a connected computer or smartphone. Users can compare their data to professional golfers or others with similar skills. The main advantage of using the device compared to traditional video analysis is that golfers get pure data instead of guessing everything from the video. Golfers and instructors use feedback from TrackMan to practice and improve their performance on the golf course. It was first used on the PGA Tour in 2006.  Television broadcasters also utilize it to display on-screen graphics such as the ball's trajectory as a golfer hits his or her tee shot.

Baseball 
TrackMan has recently been rolled out to all 30 MLB stadiums and more than 80 minor league ballparks. Major League Baseball uses Statcast, a system that uses cameras and radar to track and measure player and ball movements at all times. PITCHf/x, the previous pitch tracking system used by Statcast, was replaced by TrackMan in 2017. PITCHf/x used high-speed cameras to measure the velocity of a baseball at 55 feet from home plate, where the ball may have already lost some speed. The TrackMan uses Doppler radar to measure maximum velocity, which is defined at the release point of the pitch. The new technology led to reports of pitchers throwing slightly faster than they did in 2016.

Football 
In 2019, the Chicago Bears became the first NFL team to use the TrackMan system in evaluating field goal kickers to find a new kicker after a critical missed field goal ended their previous season in a wild card playoff game.

References 

Radar
Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a division of Yale College that acts as a College of Arts and Sciences. It consists of four divisions, humanities, social sciences, sciences and engineering and applied sciences. (Ref 2 says "The FAS spans three broad intellectual areas, represented by the divisions of Humanities, Social Science, and Science. ") FAS faculty are represented by an elected 22 member senate who liaise between the faculty and university administration.

References

Yale College
CLUPI. CLUPI (Close-Up Imager) is a miniaturized camera system on board the planned European Space Agency Rosalind Franklin rover. CLUPI has been designed to acquire high-resolution close-up images in colour of soils, outcrops, rocks, drill fines and drill core samples, as well as and the search for potential biosignature structures and patterns.  This camera assembly is part of the science payload on board the rover, tasked to search for biosignatures and biomarkers on Mars. It is planned to be launched not earlier than 2028 and land on Mars in 2029.

Overview
The CLUPI instrument is being developed by a Swiss–French consortium supported by the Swiss Space Office and the French Space Agency (CNES). Its Principal Investigator is Jean-Luc Josset, from the Space Exploration Institute, Neuchatel in Switzerland. Frances Westall and Beda Hofmann are Co-PIs. The science team includes scientists from Canada, Europe and Russia, especially for biosignature recognition.  Instrument field tests started in 2009 with preliminary CLUPI systems tested during several Arctic winters. 

CLUPI will be mounted on the movable rover's drill box and it will acquire high-resolution, close-up images in colour of the texture, structure and morphology of rocks and soil. The resolution will be similar to what geologists would obtain by using a hand-held magnifying lens:  at a distance of 10 cm from the target, the maximum resolution is 7 μm/pixel.  Its field of view can be changed by the use of two fixed, flat mirrors (FOV2 and FOV3). The CLUPI visual images will complement those provided by PanCam to provide the context necessary for interpretation of mineralogy and potential visible biosignatures.

CLUPI will observe the drilling area very closely from different angles to help characterise rock structures such as embedded crystals and fractures. After the drill has been used and retracted, CLUPI will be used to image the amount and appearance of dislodged fines. From the high position, the camera will be able to observe the borehole to a depth of approximately 10 cm, depending on the local illumination conditions. Then, CLUPI will be used to image the collected core prior to delivery to the rovers' internal analytical instruments for further processing and analyses.

See also 

 Astrobiology
 Life on Mars
 Planetary habitability

References 

ExoMars
Mars imagers
Astrobiology
Ron Goodin Power Station. Ron Goodin Power Station is a power station in Alice Springs in the southern part of the Northern Territory of Australia. It was commissioned in 1973 by the Northern Territory government. It is now owned and operated by Territory Generation.

Ron Goodin Power Station is close to Alice Springs and is now close to housing surrounding a golf course. It is intended to be decommissioned when an upgrade to the Owen Springs Power Station is completed in an industrial estate further from residential land.

References

Natural gas-fired power stations in the Northern Territory
Buildings and structures in Alice Springs
Assam-type architecture. Assam-type architecture also known as "Beton" or "Baton" is an architectural style developed in the state of Assam in India during the late modern period. It is found in Assam and Sylhet region. The houses constructed using this style are generally termed as Assam-type houses, consisting usually one or more storeys. The houses are built to be earthquake proof, and are made from materials ranging from wood and bamboo to steel and concrete.

History 
Before the arrival of the British in India, affluent families in Assam lived in expensive, elaborately constructed houses, while the others survived in huts made from mud-plastered bamboo walls and thatched roofs. With the knowledge of and access to modern science, British engineers assessed the natural environment and designed and constructed buildings that are now known as Assam-type buildings.

Present day 
The present-day Assam-type buildings are a result of architectural changes that were introduced in colonial Assam.

Elements of Assam-type style

The structure 
Buildings are constructed on both flat and sloped terrains. On flat grounds, the buildings are typically rectangular or L or C layout. On other surfaces, such as highlands, they are usually rectangular in shape, accessed via the hillside. The roof is typically erected by high gables to overcome heavy rainfall in the region, where walls are usually timber-framed, plastered with cement. With high ceilings and well-ventilated rooms, the floorings are either wooden or concrete with tiled, mosaic or stone surfacing with stilts.

The configuration 
The general design of a residential building incorporates a living room, verandah, kitchen, besides bedrooms and bathrooms. Some may additionally feature long corridors, connecting rooms, especially buildings such as schools and colleges.

References 

Architecture of Assam
House styles
House types
Bahamas Plastic Movement. The Bahamas Plastic Movement is a nonprofit organization based out of Eleuthera in the Bahamas that focuses on reducing plastic pollution. The organization was founded in 2013 by Kristal Ambrose. The organization specializes in using youth to end plastic pollution. They are an active member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

In 2017, the Bahamas Plastic Movement helped create Jack Johnson's music video for "You Can't Control It," and the cover for his album All the Light Above It Too.

Plastic bag ban 
In 2018 a youth delegation from the Bahamas Plastic Movement traveled to Nassau, Bahamas to meet with Romauld Ferreira, Minister of the Environment and Housing, to ban plastic bags in the Bahamas. The Bahamas Plastic Movement claimed that if plastic pollution on beaches increased that $8.5 million in tourism would be lost. Fereira and his cabinet have since approved plans to phase out plastic bags by 2020.

References 

Non-profit organisations based in the Bahamas
Ocean pollution
Eleuthera
Organizations established in 2014
2014 establishments in the Bahamas