omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Carlos Nicholas Fernandes. Carlos Nicholas Fernandes (born 1976) is an inventor, founder and CEO of InstantTV, a service that offers Cloud DVR.

Early life 
Fernandes was born in Mumbai. Fernandes started his first business when he was 12, selling water purifiers door-to-door. He went on to study Electrical Engineering from Bombay University, and completed an MBA from Chicago University.

Career

Initial years 
Fernandes moved to Singapore in 1998 and joined the Information Technology Institute (ITI) (later known as Kent Ridge Digital Labs  and currently known as the Institute of Infocomm Research), which is a government research institute run by Singapore's Agency for Science Technology and Research. In 1999, he joined a startup called Ecquaria Technologies, where he developed and marketed software. Ecquaria had been founded by people who had previously been associated with Kent Ridge Digital Labs.

PerceptiveI 
Fernandes founded PerceptiveI, a company that offered enterprise software solutions, in 2000. The technology used in this company won many awards, both for Fernandes and the company. For his work, Fernandes was recognized by David Lim, the then Singaporean Minister for Information, Communications, and the Arts in 2003.

RecordTV 

Fernandes purchased the assets of RecordTV.com, and added in technology that he had invented and patented in 2006 (along with Varsha Jagdale), in a way that would not violate the rights of copyright owners. This allowed RecordTV users to legally record TV shows, something which the original company had been sued for by the MPAA. Later, the service was renamed to InstantTV and launched its own app.

Current pursuits

Blaze 
In 2017, Fernandes launched Blaze, an AI-based conversational news bot (chatbot) that was enhanced through human curation, in India. It is accessible through Facebook Messenger. As of 2018, he was working on the fake news problem.

RecordTV vs MediaCorp litigation

Fernandes got into legal trouble in 2008 after MediaCorp alleged that RecordTV was using technology that violated copyright laws. Fernandes refused to shut down his company, and instead preemptively sued MediaCorp for groundless threats. He then claimed millions in damages and continued to operate its website. He even won the appeal, after MediaCorp decided to take the case further.

See also 
 InstantTV
 World Economic Forum
 Young Global Leaders

References 

Living people
1976 births
Businesspeople from Mumbai
Indian people of Portuguese descent
Singaporean people of Portuguese descent
Singaporean people of Indian descent
Singaporean inventors
University of Mumbai alumni
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni
21st-century Singaporean businesspeople
Farman HF.6. The Farman HF.6 was a reconnaissance aircraft built in France shortly before the First World War.

The HF.6 would later be developed into the more advanced Farman HF.14, which differed from the former in having a more streamlined horizontal stabilizer and an oval rudder.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

1910s French military reconnaissance aircraft
HF.06
Single-engined pusher aircraft
1910s French military trainer aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1911
Rotary-engined aircraft
Farman HF.10. 

The Farman HF.10 was a reconnaissance aircraft built in France shortly before the First World War.

Development
The HF.10 was developed in 1911 for the military aircraft competition (Concours Militaire), held in Reims. The HF.10 had a Gnome Rhone engine, but the subsequent HF.10bis had a slightly more powerful Gnome Gamma engine with a power of 70 hp.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

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1910s French military reconnaissance aircraft
HF.10
Single-engined pusher aircraft
1910s French military trainer aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1912
Rotary-engined aircraft
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. The Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology is a peer-reviewed platinum open-access scientific journal covering all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is published by the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences and the editor-in-chief is Thomas Schimmel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). The journal was established in 2010. It is a member of the Free Journal Network.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Chemical Abstracts Service
Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
Ei Compendex
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.65.

References

External links

Nanotechnology journals
Continuous journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2010
Caproni Ca.9. The Caproni Ca.9 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.

Design
The Ca.9 was very similar to the Caproni Ca.8 in being a modern high wing monoplane with a wooden structure and canvas covering, equipped with a wing warping system to control roll and reinforced by metal tie rods connected to the fuselage and to a special structure placed above it; the fuselage was based on a wooden lattice structure, in turn reinforced by metal cables, and was covered in cloth only for the front half; the same wooden structure with a canvas covering characterized the empennage. 

The fixed undercarriage, was composed of two wheels with curved skids. The engine, which operated a fixed-pitch, two-bladed wooden propeller, was a Y-shaped three-cylinder Anzani capable of developing a power output of 35 hp (26 kW).

Career
Flown for the first time in the summer of 1911, the Ca.9 served at the flying school annexed to the Caproni workshops in Vizzola Ticino; on 20 January 1912, piloted by Enrico Cobioni, an instructor at the Caproni school, the Ca.9 beat the world speed record for aircraft with less than .

Specifications

See also 
 Giovanni Battista Caproni
 Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni

References

Ca.009
Aircraft first flown in 1911
Experimental aircraft
Caproni Ca.7. The Caproni Ca.7 was a proposed biplane designed by Caproni in the early 1910s.

Design
The Ca.7 was an all-wood biplane equipped with a double horizontal fletching system, mounted respectively at the front and rear ends of the fuselage . The project involved the installation of two "tandem" engines inside the fuselage, which would have to accommodate, in addition to the pilot (housed at the front end, just behind the bow landing), two passengers (seated behind the engines).

The aircraft had two pushing propellers, driven by chain drive devices from the engines housed in the fuselage; the two engines were connected by friction clutches, so that they could work together or separately. Precisely because of the design difficulties involved in the use of two engines, both housed in the fuselage, one at a time should have been turned off, even in flight, for cooling needs, but prevented the construction of the airplane, which therefore he remained at the project stage.

Although, the Ca.7 never left the drawing board, its design contributed to the development of the multiengine Caproni bombers of World War I.

Specifications

See also 
 Giovanni Battista Caproni

References

Ca.007
Experimental aircraft
Caproni Ca.8. The Caproni Ca.8 was a single-seat monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.

Design
The Ca.8 was a light, single-seater, single-engine aircraft, equipped with a wing in a medium-high position and with tailing in the tail. The fuselage was composed of a wooden trellis, reinforced by tie rods in a metal cable and with metal joints in turn; its front part, between the engine and the trailing edge of the wing, was covered with canvas, while the rest was uncovered. The wing, with an appreciable angle of dihedral, had in turn a wooden structure covered with canvas; it had no ailerons, and the roll control depended on a wing warping system; the deformation of the wing ends to guarantee warping was made by some tie rods which, like the bracing cables which reinforced the wing itself, were fixed to the top of a pyramidal structure located above and in front of the uncovered pilot station.

The empennages consisted of a horizontal plane placed under the fuselage and an entirely movable vertical plane hinged to the rear end of the fuselage itself. The landing gear consisted of a pair of spoked wheels placed under the front of the aircraft, to the supporting structure of which were also linked two wooden skids in anti-rollover function, and a tail skid arranged between the trailing edge of the wing and the leading edge of the horizontal tail plane.

The powertrain consisted of a fanless 3-cylinder Anzani engine with 25 hp and a fixed pitch wooden two - blade propeller, placed at the top of the aircraft in a trailing position.

Operational use
The Caproni Ca.8 made its first flight on June 13, 1911. It then performed a series of test flights and some public performances; the latter, performed for the benefit of spectators coming from Vizzola Ticino and the surrounding area, were highly appreciated by the public and soon became a regular appointment, which resulted in a series of elegant social occasions.

Subsequently, the Ca.8 successfully covered the role of training aircraft; the pilot school that was established under the company Ingg. De Agostini & Caproni Aviation formed about ten pilots on the Ca.8 during the summer of 1911; among them Costantino Quaglia (who participated in the Libyan campaign as an aviator), Enrico Cobioni (who later would have beaten several records and would have become the head instructor of the school), Costantino Biego (who would then command the Battalion Aviators of the Aeronautical Service ) and the Russian Costantino Akakew (who in 1921 would become the first commander of the Soviet Air Force).

Specifications

See also
 Giovanni Battista Caproni

References

Ca.008
Experimental aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1911
Caproni Ca.22. The Caproni Ca.22 was a single-engine monoplane made by the Italian company Aeronautica Caproni in 1913.

Design
Developed on the initiative of Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni was made in a single sample for research purposes to study the characteristics of an aircraft equipped with an angle wing of variable incidence. In fact, the wing was in three pieces and was anteriorly hinged on the front side member which served as a rotation axis for the same; the variation of incidence of the wing was commanded by a handwheel that commanded a helical tube that acted on the rear pylon. Moreover, with a system of tie-rods, the rear planes of the tail were controlled so as to compensate for the variations in pressure exerted on the wing, maintaining the longitudinal equilibrium of the optimal aircraft.

The Ca.22 in 1913 obtained various world records of height and ascent.

Operational history
On 30 June 1915 the pilots of the 15th Reconnaissance and Combat Squadron withdraw the Caproni 2 Parasol 100 hp to Vizzola Ticino, taking them to the flight field of Pordenone but after the accidents on the new aircraft, one of which causes the death of a pilot for the breaking of a wing, the squadron was dissolved on 15 September 1915.

Variants
Ca.22 Single-engine monoplane with variable-incidence mainplanes, powered by an Gnome Lambda rotary engine
Ca.23 Fixed incidence wing,  Fiat engine.
Ca.24  Fixed incidence wing,  Gnome 9 Delta engine, produced in series.

Specifications (Ca.22)

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Further reading

Ca.022
1910s Italian experimental aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1913
Caproni Ca.25. The Caproni Ca.25 was a single-engine monoplane made by the Italian company Aeronautica Caproni in 1914.

Design
The Ca.25 was similar to the Caproni Ca.22 in being of high-wing parasol design, but differed in the installation of the autoresistance system.

Despite the very modest flight characteristics of a single copy of the aircraft was purchased by the military and was used for test flights.

Specifications

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Ca.025
1910s Italian experimental aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1914
Reza Shadmehr. Reza Shadmehr (; born 1963) is an Iranian-American professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  He is known for his contributions to the fields of motor control, motor learning, and computational neuroscience.

Biography 
Shadmehr was born in Tehran, Iran in 1963, and immigrated to the United States when he was 14 years old. He was raised in Spokane, WA by foster parents Lee and Evelyn Applingtion. He attended Gonzaga University, earning a BS in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) in 1985. He was subsequently mentored in robotics at the University of Southern California by Michael A. Arbib, where he was an IBM Graduate Fellow, completing a PhD in 1991. He then was awarded a McDonnell-Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship to attend MIT, where he was mentored in computational neuroscience by Emilio Bizzi. After MIT, he joined the Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering in 1995, where he has remained his entire career.  He was the director of the PhD program at Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering department from 2007 to 2018.

Shadmehr was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017.  In 2022 he received a Javits Award in the Neurosciences.

Research 
Shadmehr studies the problem of how the brain controls movements of the arm and the eyes, using a broad set of approaches, including computational, behavioral, and neurophysiological techniques, in both humans and monkeys. The main idea of his research is to use robotics and control theory as a framework for how the brain controls movements. While at MIT, he invented an influential paradigm to study mechanism of motor control in humans and other mammals. The “force field” paradigm allows one to investigate how the brain learns internal models that help control the physics of our body and the objects that we interact with. This paradigm led to the discovery that a function of the cerebellum is to transform motor commands into predictions of sensory consequences. These neural models are internal representations of physics that the brain learns through experience of prediction errors. Once learned, the neural models may become the basis of control for voluntary movements.

An important discovery was regarding how cells in the cerebellum are organized into populations that make predictions and learn from prediction errors. The discovery of this population coding has made it possible to understand the language used by neurons of the cerebellum to build internal models that relate actions to their consequences.

Books

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1963 births
Living people
Gonzaga University alumni
Academics from Tehran
University of Southern California alumni
Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty
Space Launch System (disambiguation). Space Launch System or variation, may refer to:

 a system for space launch, which include rocket and non-rocket systems
 a launch vehicle system, a rocket vehicle to launch material into orbit
 Space Launch System (NASA SLS), a NASA STS Space Shuttle replacement, super-heavy launcher
 Space Launch System (Turkey) (UFS; ), a satellite launcher from Turkey
 Space Launching System (USAF SLS), a 1960s U.S. Air Force launch vehicle family proposal

See also

 List of space launch system designs
 SLS (disambiguation)
Andrew Wyllie (engineer). Andrew Wyllie  (born December 1962) is a Scottish civil engineer who was chief executive of the UK-based Costain Group from 2005 until stepping down on 7 May 2019. In November 2018, he became the 154th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Career
Wyllie grew up in Scotland, being educated at Dunfermline High School and the University of Strathclyde, graduating in 1984 with a BSc in civil engineering.

Wyllie began his construction career as a graduate engineer at Taylor Woodrow in 1984, working in Saudi Arabia, Ghana and the Falkland Islands, and gained an MBA from the London Business School in 1993. After a three-year spell in business development at Taylor Woodrow, he became operations director of the firm's Africa division in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed a director of Taylor Woodrow Construction, of which he became managing director, aged 38, in July 2001. After four years in that role, he was appointed chief executive of the Costain Group in 2005, taking office in early 2006.

He helped stabilise the then financially struggling business, which finished 2006 by issuing profits warnings and cancelling dividends. It finished 2006 with a pre-tax loss of £61.7m, by which time Wyllie was refocussing Costain on larger clients and pushing through a rights issue in 2007. In March 2019, Costain announced Wyllie would be stepping down as CEO on 7 May 2019, to be succeeded by Alex Vaughan.

In December 2017 it was confirmed Wyllie would succeed Robert Mair as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and in November 2018, he became the ICE's 154th president.

A fellow of the ICE, Wyllie is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (elected 2009), the Institute of Directors and the British-American Project. He is a member of the Infrastructure Board of the Confederation of British Industry and a companion of the Chartered Management Institute.

From April 2009 to March 2017 Wyllie was a non-executive director of Scottish Water, and, since September 2017 has been a non-executive director of Yorkshire Water.

Honours
Wyllie was appointed a CBE for services to construction and engineering in the 2015 New Year Honours.

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Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Scottish civil engineers
Living people
People educated at Dunfermline High School
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Alumni of London Business School
1962 births
Van Eck Dam. Van Eck Dam is an artificial reservoir within the Mhlosinga Nature Reserve, near Big Bend in the Lubombo District of Eswatini. Covering an area of 187 hectares, it is an important site for waterfowl and other waterbirds, as well as animals such as the Nile crocodile and hippopotamus. It has been recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.

References

Ramsar sites in Eswatini
Reservoirs in Eswatini
Focke-Achgelis Fa 325. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 325 Krabbe was a proposed rotary wing transport designed in Nazi Germany by Focke-Achgelis in 1942.

Design and development
Heinrich Focke began designing the Fa 325 for the Kriegsmarine, which was interested in a torpedo-armed helicopter. The design had four rotors, and was, effectively, two Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Draches attached to each other, powered by two Bramo 301R-3 radial engines (BMW development of the Bramo 323 Fafnir engine for helicopter use). Empty weight was calculated at , and maximum take-off weight at . The Kriegsmarine leadership withdrew from the Fa 325 project in 1943, and Focke ceased further development.

See also
Focke-Achgelis Fa 223
Focke-Achgelis Fa 330
Focke-Achgelis Fa 269

References

Fa 325
1940s German military transport aircraft
1940s German helicopters
Twin-engined piston helicopters
Boeing NeXt. Boeing NeXt was a division of aerospace manufacturer Boeing, exploring urban air mobility.
Its portfolio includes a passenger air vehicle (PAV), a cargo air vehicle (CAV) and other urban, regional and global mobility platforms.

By September 2020, Boeing was to close its Boeing NeXt division, in response to financial losses in the wake of the 737 MAX groundings and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation.

Projects

Passenger air vehicles

To test on-demand autonomous air transport, Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences designed and developed in one year an electric VTOL Passenger Air Vehicle prototype.
It made its first flight on January 22, 2019, in Manassas, Virginia, hovering before further tests and a transition to forward flight.

The Cora by Wisk is an autonomous personal air vehicle prototype developed by Wisk Aero LLC (Cooperation of the Kitty Hawk Corporation and Boeing).

Boeing and Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche, Porsche Engineering Services GmbH and F.A. Porsche decided October 2019 to work together to design a personal air vehicle prototype.

Cargo air vehicle

The unmanned, fully electric cargo air vehicle (CAV), transporting up to , was flying indoor in 2018 before outdoor flights in 2019.

Further projects
Beside the application development of electrically powered aircraft, NeXT develops concepts in the field of civil supersonic and hypersonic aircraft.

SkyGrid, a kind of aerial operating system using AI.

See also
 List of electric aircraft
 Flying car (aircraft)
 Personal air vehicle
 Air taxi

References

External links 
 

Boeing
Aerospace companies of the United States
Asmic. Anisyl sulfanyl methyl isocyanide (Asmic) is an organic molecule that contains an isocyanide group and an ortho-methoxy-phenyl sulfide group. Asmic can be used to synthesize tri-substituted isocyanides. Asmic is a colorless to off-white solid with a melting point of 27 °C that can be prepared by dehydration of the corresponding formamide by POCl3.

Asmic can be deprotonated at the position adjacent to the isocyanide by various organic bases. The anionic form of Asmic, which is stable at low temperatures, can be alkylated with a variety of electrophiles. Two sequential deprotonation-alkylation reactions and a subsequent sulfur-lithium exchange reaction allow the synthesis of tri-substituted isocyanides.

The ortho-methoxy-phenyl sulfide group is thought to facilitate deprotonation by chelating to metalated bases allowing for the base to achieve optimal trajectory during the deprotonation.

Asmic can be used to prepare oxazoles by condensation reactions with esters. The ortho-methoxy-phenyl sulfide group can also undergo sulfur-lithium exchange, and likely proceeds via a 10-s-3 sulfuranide.

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Thioethers
Isocyanides