omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II. Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II is a 1994 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film written and directed by Steven Lovy and Robert Lovy, and starring Jim Metzler, Vernon Wells, Deborah Shelton, Dennis Christopher, Nicholas Worth and Traci Lords. It is the sequel to the 1990 cult classic movie Circuitry Man.

Synopsis 
In the backdrop of Earth's polluted future, a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath "Plughead". But Plughead, who has tangled with Danner before, has his own plans. He is forcing a female scientist to help him manufacture life extending longevity chips, which he intends to sell to rich and powerful clients.

Cast 
 Vernon Wells as "Plughead"
 Deborah Shelton as Kyle
 Jim Metzler as Danner
 Dennis Christopher as "Leech"
 Nicholas Worth as "Rock"
 Traci Lords as Norma
 Paul Willson as "Beany"
 Andy Goldberg as "Squid"
 Tom Kenny as "Guru"
 George Murdock as Senator Riley
 Bill Bolender as Private Richards
 George Buck Flower as Jerry
 Gigi Gaston as Rider

Reception 
Writing in Entertainment Weekly, J. R. Taylor rated it C− and wrote that the film recycles the plot from the first film, though he praised Metzler as "one of the more interesting genre guys around".  Michael Weldon, author of The Psychotronic Video Guide, called it "an almost plotless, sometimes funny comedy sequel".

References

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1994 films
1994 independent films
1990s science fiction action films
American independent films
American sequel films
Cyberpunk films
American post-apocalyptic films
American robot films
American science fiction action films
I.R.S. Media films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
1994 science fiction films
English-language independent films
English-language science fiction action films
Alpha Coal Project. The Alpha Coal Project is a coal mine and railway project in Queensland, Australia.  The development is expected to cost A$6.9 billion.  Coal exports would leave the country via port facilities at Abbot Point after being transported along a 495 km rail line.

The project is being jointly developed by the Indian conglomerate GVK and Hancock Coal.  Hancock holds a 21% interest in the project.  The life of mine is expected to be 30 years.

The mine is the first to be approved by both the Government of Queensland and the Federal Government to be built in the Galilee Basin.  State approval was granted on the 29 May 2012 and federal approval was granted on the 23 August 2012.  According to GVK Hancock Coal managing director Paul Mulder, it is also the first fully integrated project to be built in Australia.  The major benefit of this is that queues of ships waiting for cargo off-shore from the port can be avoided.

The mine is to be built about 40 km northwest of the small town of Alpha in Central West Queensland. 4,000 staff are expected to be employed during construction with another 2,000 needed for on-going operations.

The Minister for Environment Tony Burke has stipulated the project must adhere to 19 conditions aimed at protecting the Great Barrier Reef.

Peak production is expected to reach 80 million tonnes per year.  The first coal production is planned to occur during the 2015/16 financial year.  It is expected to deliver coal to ship at $55 a tonne.  This is because ore at the mine is easy to mine and the terrain between the mine and port is relatively flat.  A 2013 Oxford University study forecast a coal price of at least $US90 to go forward and $150 to generate economic gains for the project.  A slowing in demand from China was also cited as a concern which would influence the viability of the mine.

See also

Coal mining in Australia

References

External links
Alpha

Barcaldine Region
Coal mines in Queensland
Northern Borders University. Northern Border University (NBU) is located in Arar, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 2007. It contains 16 colleges: 9 in Arar, 4 in Rafha,  2 in Turayf, and 1 in Al Uwayqilah. It has a variety of majors in multiple levels, including bachelor's and master's degrees programs across various fields, including business, computer science, engineering, education, law, medicine, pharmacy, and sciences..

NB University has partnerships and collaborations with various international universities and institutions, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States, the University of Stavanger in Norway, and the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom.

See also
 List of universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia

References

External links 
 

2007 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia
Educational institutions established in 2007
Volkswagen Australia. Volkswagen Australia Ltd was formed in 1957 by Volkswagen AG of Germany and various Australian state Volkswagen distributors. The company acquired the vehicle assembly facilities of Martin & King at Clayton in Victoria, that site having been used for local assembly of the Volkswagen Beetle since 1954. By 1960 sheet metal panels were being pressed at Clayton and by 1967 the engine and most components were being produced there.

In 1967 Volkswagen Australia developed a unique model, the Country Buggy, which used components from the Beetle and the Kombi.

Due to falling sales the operation reverted to assembly only in 1968. A new company, Motor Producers Limited was formed and operations were expanded to include Datsun and Volvo models as well as Volkswagens. The factory was sold to Nissan in 1976 and Australian assembly of Volkswagens ended shortly after. Volvos continued to be assembled up until 1988, and Nissans until 1992.

References

External links
Volkswagen Australia Website
Volkswagen Australia SUV cars

Defunct manufacturing companies of Australia
Motor vehicle manufacturers of Australia
Volkswagen Group
Australian subsidiaries of foreign companies
Nutation (engineering). In engineering, a nutating motion is similar to that seen in a swashplate mechanism. In general, a nutating plate is carried on a skewed bearing on the main shaft and does not itself rotate, whereas a swashplate is fixed to the shaft and rotates with it.  The motion is similar to the motions of coin or a tire wobbling on the ground after being dropped with the flat side down. Precession is the physical term for this kind of motion.

Nutating mixers are used in gentle three-dimensional (gyrating) agitation of chemical or biological scientific procedures by repetitively moving the vessels holding the liquids.   

The nutating motion is widely employed in flowmeters and pumps.  The displacement of volume for one revolution is first determined.  The speed of the device in revolutions per unit time is measured.  In the case of flowmeters, the product of the rotational speed and the displacement per revolution is then taken to find the flow rate.

A nutating disc engine was patented in 1993 and a prototype was reported in 2006. The engine consisted of an internal disk wobbling on a Z-shaped shaft. Nutation has also been used in drive systems for gearboxes, with proposed uses including helicopter rotors, seat recliners and a European Space Agency probe to Mercury.

References

External links
 Nutating Disk Displacement Flowmeter

Mechanical engineering
Precession
DVB-MS. DVB-MS is a complementary system for digital television multi-point distribution based on the satellite delivery system DVB-S. For cable delivery system DVB-MC is used which is based on DVB-C.

The DVB-MS system uses microwave frequencies above  to directly distribute television services from a central point to homes of viewers. To receive the signal a small frequency converter is used instead of a satellite dish for DVB-S. DVB-MC uses frequencies below .

References

Digital Video Broadcasting
Yo Kobayashi. is a Japanese researcher in the field of robotics in Waseda University.　 He has developed the needle insertion system, robotic surgery, computer-assisted robot and tremor suppressibility robot.

Research Interests
Robotics
Robotic surgery
Surgical Segment Navigator
Medical, rehabilitation and assistive engineering
Computer-assisted surgery
Control engineering
Intelligent mechatronics

Education
Ph.D. degree in Engineering, 2008, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Employment
Visiting research assistant, Waseda university (2005-2007)
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007)
Assistant, Waseda university (2009-)
Instructor, Waseda university (2010-)

Membership
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Honors and awards
Best paper award Finalist of 2008 IEEE Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2008

References

External links 
:ja:早稲田大学の人物一覧
Masakatsu G. Fujie
:ja:菅野重樹
:ja:高西淳夫
早稲田大学総合理工学部 教員紹介

1981 births
Living people
Japanese roboticists
Academic staff of Waseda University
Network-enabled weapon. Network-enabled weapons are a class of air-to-ground precision-guided munitions that are being developed by a number of countries.  A derivative of GPS-guided weapons, which are guided to a specific coordinate entered prior to release, network-enabled weapons have the additional ability to have targeting coordinates updated in flight through the use of a common datalink, and be tracked by aircraft and other platforms  logged into the same network. Previous weapons have used datalink to provide updated target information in flight (e.g. AMRAAM), but the creation of a common datalink allows control of the weapon to be passed from one platform to another, for example from an aircraft that launches the weapons to a ground party that is in visual contact with an enemy tank formation.

The concept for network-enabled weapons originated at the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command headquarters in 2003 as a solution to the problem of attacking moving targets in all-weather, high-threat environments. The Air Force's Air Armament Center refined the idea and in late 2003 declared network-enabled weapons to be the "single most cost effective means available for enhancing overall armament capability."

An Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration was funded in 2005 to develop the miniaturized radio that would be needed and demonstrate the feasibility of the concept. Subsequently, the requirements for the Small Diameter Bomb Increment 2 were modified to incorporate the capability.  Later weapons incorporating this technology include the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW C-1) and the Turkish Air Force's SOM cruise missile.

References

Guided weapons
Military communications
Scottish Science Advisory Council. The Scottish Science Advisory Council is a government organisation that is Scotland's highest level advisory body for science, engineering and technology.

The group of experts provide independent advice to the Scottish Government. Members are appointed by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.
It acts in an advisory role and does not direct any research funding, which comes from the UK Research Councils.

History
Scotland has a proud tradition of science research and innovation, but this tends to be exclusively found in its main universities. R&D in Scottish industry is lower than the rest of the UK (RUK). Scotland has 10% of the population of the UK but produces 30% of the PhDs in microbiology and genetics. The University of Dundee is noted for its work in biochemistry.

However, in physical sciences, from 1999 to 2004, there was a 12% drop in Scottish graduates, and a 17% drop in engineering and technology graduates. In the post-war years, and up to the early 1990s, Scotland was producing more than its fair share of science and engineering graduates; it was seen a popular and challenging option, although mainly among males. Now, proportionately more children at Scottish schools are perceived to be indifferent to the challenges that science presents. Older science teachers at Scottish schools are not being replaced in the number needed. Why Science Matters, the 2003 report, found that Scotland was short of around 350 chemistry teachers and 200 physics teachers.

The organisation was announced in August 2001, and founded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with funding from the Scottish Executive.

From 1 January 2007, it moved to the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser. Previously it had been at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

See also
 Scottish Science Trust
 Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
 Scottish Council for Development and Industry
 Campaign for Science and Engineering

References

External links
 

2002 establishments in Scotland
Government agencies established in 2002
Organisations based in Edinburgh
Organisations supported by the Scottish Government
Research and development in the United Kingdom
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Science and technology in Scotland
Science education in the United Kingdom
Science policy in the United Kingdom
Scientific organisations based in the United Kingdom
Scientific organizations established in 2002
Costimator. Costimator is an American series of cost estimating software developed by Thomas Charkiewicz in 1982 and is designed to model manufacturing costs. The software is designed, developed and marketed by MTI of West Springfield, Massachusetts.

History 

Costimator was designed by Thomas Charkiewicz, a former machinist and manufacturing manager who studied computer-aided manufacturing at the University of Massachusetts. Costimator was released in late 1982, designed to model manufacturing costs.

In 2002, IBM bought Costimator OEM from MTI Systems, Inc. Many of the products on the market focused on machine shop operations. Costimator had its roots in the machining industry, but later branched out to include several other manufacturing processes.

John Kagan, the former manager of PC Cost Management at IBM and Lenovo estimated that between 2003 and 2004, IBM saved more than $10 million using Costimator.

Costimator also includes a function known as IQ builder which customers can use to model their own manufacturing process based on historical data. The data was derived from the company’s customers in addition to various independent industry sources. Labor costs come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In 2009, MTI Systems, Inc. reached an agreement with European distributor Premier Manufacturing Solutions, LTD (Stockport, UK) to market its flagship products Costimator OEM and Costimator JS to companies throughout Europe. In February 2011, Cimtronics and MTI Systems, Inc. also agreed to terms on a distribution partnership.

References

External links 
 Homepage of MTI Systems
 Homepage of Virtual Factory Solutions Ltd.

Business software
Knölker complex. The Knölker complex is an organoiron compound, which is a catalyst for transfer hydrogenation. The complex features an hydroxycyclopentadienyl ligand bound to an Fe(CO)2H centre.  It is generated by the corresponding cyclopentadienone tricarbonyl by treatment with base followed by acidification. It is named for  The compound is related to the organoruthenium compound called Shvo's complex, a hydroxycyclopentadienyl derivative that also functions as a catalyst for hydrogenation.

References

Organoiron compounds
Carbonyl complexes
Hydrogenation catalysts
Trimethylsilyl compounds
Metal hydrides
Cyclopentadienyl complexes
Half sandwich compounds
Iron(II) compounds
Protoplane Ultra. The Protoplane Ultra is a French ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Protoplane of Bagnères-de-Bigorre. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft.

Design and development
The Ultra was designed as a highly efficient aircraft, to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from composites. Its  span wing employs a Wortmann FX 66-17All-182/26 airfoil, has an area of  and flaps that have deflections of 0°, 15° and 35° available. The standard engine provided is the  Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplant.

The Ultra achieves a fuel economy of 12L/h (43 mpg) at 220 km/h (137 mph) through aerodynamic refinements and use of composites.

Variants
Ultra
Petrol-powered version equipped with an  Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplant
Ultra-e
Electric aircraft variant under development.

Specifications (Ultra)

References

External links

2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mining software repositories. Within software engineering, the mining software repositories (MSR) field  analyzes the rich data available in software repositories, such as version control repositories, mailing list archives, bug tracking systems, issue tracking systems, etc.  to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems, projects and software engineering.

Definition
Herzig and Zeller define ”mining software archives” as a process to ”obtain lots of initial evidence” by extracting data from software repositories. Further they define ”data sources” as product-based artifacts like source code, requirement artefacts or version archives and claim that these sources are unbiased, but noisy and incomplete.

Techniques

Coupled Change Analysis 
The idea in coupled change analysis is that developers change code entities (e.g. files) together frequently for fixing defects or introducing new features. These couplings between the entities are often not made explicit in the code or other documents. Especially developers new on the project do not know which entities need to be changed together. Coupled change analysis aims to extract the coupling out of the version control system for a project. By the commits and the timing of changes, we might be able to identify which entities frequently change together. This information could then be presented to developers about to change one of the entities to support them in their further changes.

Commit Analysis 

There are many different kinds of commits in version control systems, e.g. bug fix commits, new feature commits, documentation commits, etc. To take data-driven decisions based on past commits, one needs to select subsets of commits that meet a given criterion. That can be done based on the commit message.

Documentation generation 

It is possible to generate useful documentation from mining software repositories. For instance, Jadeite computes usage statistics and helps newcomers to quickly identify commonly used classes.

Data & tools  

The primary mining data comes from version control systems. Early mining experiments were done on CVS repositories. Then, researchers have extensively analyzed SVN repositories. Now, Git repositories are dominant. Depending on the nature of the data required (size, domain, processing), one can either download data from one of these sources. However, data governance and data collection for the sake of building large language models have come to change the rules of the game, by integrating the use of web crawlers to obtain data from multiple sources and domains.

See also
 Software evolution
 Software analytics
 Software maintenance
 Software archaeology

References

Software engineering
CHI KC 518 Adventourer. The Composite Helicopters International KC 518 Adventourer is a composite fuselage, 5-6 place turbine kit helicopter.

Design
The KC 518 is a composite fuselage helicopter kit for amateur construction. The airframe uses a carbon fiber and kevlar composite fuselage with a shrouded tail rotor. An auxiliary fuel system can be installed.

Variants
Other versions with the same fuselage are KC630 with Rolls-Royce RR300 engine in 2017 (priced at US$970,000), KC640 with the RR250 in 2018, and KC650 with the Honeywell LTS101, expected to be certified by 2019. The rights to the KC630 were acquired by Innova Helicopters in 2017.

Specifications (KC 518 Adventourer)

Test flight crashes
At about 11:15am on 7 May 2013, while on a test flight Pilot Peter Maloney and his female passenger were rescued uninjured after ditching in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand.

At about 9:30am on 8 November 2014, while on a test flight Pilot Peter Maloney and his co-pilot, Norbert Idelon were uninjured after a heavy landing near Silverdale, Auckland due to suspected mechanical problems.

See also

References

External links
Youtube Interview
Composite Helicopters International Ltd Website

KC 518
Single-turbine helicopters
Homebuilt aircraft
2010s New Zealand helicopters
Aircraft first flown in 2012
Sun Yafang. Sun Yafang (; born 1955)  is a Chinese engineer and business executive. She is the longest serving Chairwoman of Huawei, a position she held  from 1999 to 2018. As of 2016, she is listed as the 38th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Background 
She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 1982.  Then, Sun started working as a technician at Xin Fei TV Manufactory.  In 1985, she became an engineer at the Beijing Research Institution of Communication Technology. Prior to joining Huawei in 1989, Sun worked for the Ministry of State Security's Communications Department.

She began her career with Huawei in 1989 and became chairwoman of the corporation in 1999.

In March 2018, Huawei switched to a rotating chairman to run the company, continuing Huawei's collective leadership system. Sun Yafang stepped down as Chairwoman of Huawei after nineteen years and was replaced by Liang Hua.

Awards
In May 2012, she received the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award from the International Telecommunication Union. In 2014, she was listed as the 81st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

See also
Meng Wanzhou, Deputy Chairwoman & CFO of Huawei

References

Living people
1955 births
Huawei people
Chinese women business executives
21st-century Chinese women engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Engineers from Guizhou
20th-century Chinese businesswomen
20th-century Chinese businesspeople
21st-century Chinese businesswomen
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China alumni
Employees of the Ministry of State Security (China)
Guinier–Preston zone. A Guinier–Preston zone, or GP-zone, is a fine-scale metallurgical phenomenon, involving early stage precipitation.

GP-zones are associated with the phenomenon of age hardening, whereby room-temperature reactions continue to occur within a material through time, resulting in changing physical properties. In particular, this occurs in several aluminium series, such as the 6000 and 7000 series alloys.

Physically, GP zones are extremely fine-scaled (on the order of 3–10 nm in size) solute enriched regions of the material, which offer physical obstructions to the motion of dislocations, above that of the solid solution strengthening of the solute components. In 7075 aluminium for example, Zn–Mg clusters precede the formation of equilibrium MgZn2 precipitates.

The zone is named after André Guinier and George Dawson Preston who independently identified the zones in 1938.

References

Further reading 

G.D Preston, Structure of age-hardening aluminium–copper alloys, Nature 142 (1938) 570, September 24

Surface science
Metal heat treatments
Strengthening mechanisms of materials
Tributylamine. Tributylamine (TBA) is an organic compound with the molecular formula (C4H9)3N. It is a colorless liquid with an amine-like odor.

Uses
Tributylamine is used as a catalyst (proton acceptor) and as a solvent in organic syntheses and polymerization (including polyurethanes).

References

Amine solvents
Alkylamines
Tertiary amines
Butyl compounds