omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Berkeley Madonna. Berkeley Madonna is a mathematical modelling software package, developed at the University of California at Berkeley by Robert Macey and George Oster.  It numerically solves ordinary differential equations and difference equations, originally developed to execute STELLA programs.

Its strength lies in a relatively simple syntax to define differential equations coupled with a simple yet powerful user interface. In particular, Berkeley Madonna provides the facility of putting parameters onto a slider that can in turn be moved by a user to change the value. Such visualizations enable quick assessments of whether or not a particular model class is suitable to describe the data to be analyzed and modeled, and, later, communicating models easily to other disciplines such as medical decision makers.

Uses
It has become a standard in the development and communication of pharmacometric models describing drug concentration and its effects in drug development

 
as well as modeling of physiological processes. 
A user community exists in the form of a LinkedIn user group with more than 750 members (February 2023).

The use of system dynamics modeling has expanded into other areas such as system physics, epidemiology, environmental health, and population ecology.

Versions
There are two versions of Berkeley Madonna: a free version with slightly limited functionality and a licensed version that is registered to individuals.

References

Further reading
 "Berkeley-Madonna Implementation of Ikeda's Model". pp. 582–585.

External links
 

Mathematical software
Vidya Vihar Institute of Technology. Vidya Vihar Institute of Technology is an engineering college established in 2009 by Vidya Vihar educational trust at Purnea, Bihar, India. It is affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna and has approval of AICTE, New Delhi.

History
The college was established in the year 2009 and was recognized by Science and Technology Department, Government of Bihar. It was inaugurated in 2009 as a follow-up endeavour of the Residential School of Bihar - Vidya Vihar Residential School. The students have consistently topped the Aryabhatta Knowledge University since inception. In 2011-15 batch 1st semester, Nidhi Kumari was state topper in overall branch, in Aryabhatta Knowledge University. In 2011-15 batch, 7th semester exams, Sumit Kumar Singh (ME) was state topper in overall branch with 9.64 SGPA.  The College was a venue of National Conference on Information Science and Technology in March 2014.

References

External links

BCECE Board website
Aryabhatta Knowledge University website
DST, Bihar website

Engineering colleges in Bihar
Purnia
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Bihar
Colleges affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University
Tail warning radar. A tail warning radar, sometimes TW for short, was a short-lived class of aircraft-mounted radar systems used to provide warning of another aircraft approaching from the rear.

They were mostly used on World War II bombers, starting with the Monica system fit to Royal Air Force (RAF) heavy bombers starting in June 1942. The set was also produced in the US as the AN/APS-13, but used primarily on late-war fighter aircraft like the Republic P-47 and North American P-51. These had to be withdrawn over Europe in 1944 when it was learned the Luftwaffe was homing in on their signals using the Flensburg radar detector. A small number were then transferred to RAF de Havilland Mosquito night fighters to attract the German fighters, and when one was seen approaching the Mosquito would perform a controlled 180 degree turn that would result in the German aircraft in front of the Mosquito and centered in their radar. During the same time, the Luftwaffe began adding additional rearward-pointing antennas to their night fighters as an ad-hoc tail warning radar to provide some protection from these dreaded "Serrate" intruder flights.

Dedicated tail warning radars were used for a relatively short time, from late-WWII through the 1950s. After that time, the increasing speeds of aircraft and the ability to shoot from off-axis angles using air-to-air missiles eroded their usefulness. One of the last major uses was the Red Steer system on the V bombers, a long-range system that was used to help the electronics warfare officer properly time the use of jammers and chaff. Today, similar tasks are generally provided by passive receiver systems that listen for the signals from the interceptor aircraft's radars; such systems do not provide range information but are still useful while not giving off any signals of their own. These systems also have the advantage of working against air and ground radars, which became important as the main anti-aircraft threat moved to surface-to-air missiles (SAMs).

A new class of tail warning radars emerged in the 1980s, primarily as a counter to SAM fire. The AN/ALQ-153 was used on the Boeing B-52 G and H and Rockwell B-1B aircraft and saw action during the Gulf War.

The Automatic Gun Laying Turret used on Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers combined tail warning with gun laying. Systems like these were found on many post-war bomber designs and are generally regarded as a separate class.

References

Bibliography
 

Aircraft radars
Military radars
Barbara E. Moo. Barbara E. Moo is an American computer scientist known for co-authoring several books on C++, working on an early product written in C++, and directing AT&T's WorldNet AT&T's Internet services business.

Biography
Moo worked at AT&T for 15 years, working on one of the first commercial products using C++. While at AT&T, she worked closely with C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup and managed the C++ development team for several years."Author Profile: Barbara Moo", InformIT. She directed the development of AT&T's WorldNet Internet service business.

Bibliography
 Moo, Barbara; E. Josée Lajoie; Stanley B. Lippman, "C++ Primer", 2012. 
 Moo, Barbara; Koenig, Andrew, Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2000. 
 Moo, Barbara; Koenig, Andrew, Ruminations on C++: A Decade of Programming Insight and Experience, Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Interview
 "Learning Modern C++: An Interview with Barbara Moo", interview with Jeff Martin on February 11, 2013, infoq.com.

Quotes
 "Abstraction is selective ignorance" —Barbara E. Moo, Andrew R. Koenig in  Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2000.  (and quoted in Hayles, N. Katherine, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, University of Chicago Press, 2005. Cf. p.58)

References

American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people
American technology writers
American computer programmers
AT&T people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
McMillans Bridge. McMillans Bridge, is a riveted wrought iron open web truss bridge, located over the Woady Yaloak River on the Rokewood-Skipton Road between Rokewood and Werneth on a historical route between Geelong and the 1850s goldfields at Ararat and Streatham.

McMillans Bridge was originally constructed in 1856 with stone abutments and timber truss, by the Victorian Central Road Board to a design of Charles Rowland, a student of prominent colonial engineer David Lennox. In 1888-9 the timber span was replaced with a riveted wrought iron truss designed be Charles Anthony Corbett Wilson by for the Shires of Leigh and Grenville.  Wilson was a particularly prolific Victorian shire engineer who was influenced in this and Pitfield Bridge by the lightweight and efficient metal truss designs of Professor W. C. Kernot of Melbourne University.

The 1889 wrought-iron spans were fabricated in Geelong at the Humble and Nicholson Vulcan Foundry and comprise two double-intersection deck-trusses, connected by iron cross bracing, and seated on the 1856 abutments of red sandstone. These abutments were originally made for a timber truss superstructure, which lasted only 33 years. The timber deck has a single layer of longitudinal planking on timber cross beams, which are bolted to the flanges of the truss top chords. The single span is 29 metres long with a deck 6.1 metres wide, later widened to 7.3 metres. The wrought-iron lattice-girder trusses are of unusually light construction.

The Bridge is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

References

Notes
  Colin O'Connor, Spanning Two Centuries, Historic Bridges of Australia. University of Queensland Press, 1985. p. 103

Road bridges in Victoria (state)
1856 establishments in Australia
Bridges completed in 1856
Bridges completed in 1889
Victorian Heritage Register
Truss bridges in Australia
Central Road Board. The Central Road Board was the first dedicated body for administering the construction of roads and bridges in Victoria, Australia. It came into being in 1853 when the Victorian Legislative Council passed An Act for making, and improving Roads in the Colony of Victoria, known as the Roads Act.

Formation

Responsibility for the construction of roads and bridges in Victoria was initially held by the Clerk of Works. In 1844 a Superintendent of Bridges was appointed, who shared responsibility with the Colonial Engineer from 1852. From separation in 1851, these colonial officials were responsible to the Colonial Secretary. The first Victorian Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe set up the Central Road Board as part of the establishment of self-governing bodies following the separation of Victoria from New South Wales. Peter Paul Labertouche was the Board's first secretary. the Board undertook some of the first major road improvements including construction of the Mount Alexander Road and St Kilda Road.

Responsibilities

The purposed of the Central Road Board was to fund improvements to roads and bridges and manage elections for District Road Boards. It replaced the previous county and parish trusts that existed between 1840 and 1842; the Act also established road districts The legislation was repealed in 1863. District Road Boards ultimately evolved into shire councils from 1869.

The Board was given authority to raise tolls, and a number of toll houses were set up under its control. It was modelled to some extent on similar authorities established in other colonies such as Alaska, Canada, South Africa, and Central Africa. Among the board's various members included military engineer Charles Pasley (1824-1890).

Abolition

With the abolition of the Central Road Board in 1863, the Board of Land and Works took over responsibility for main roads, while the District Road Boards were entrusted with local roads. A dedicated roads agency was not formed again in Victoria until the creation of the Country Roads Board in 1913.

See also 

 VicRoads
 Country Roads Board

References

Further reading
 
 Lay, Maxwell, Melbourne miles: the story of Melbourne's roads, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2003

Transport in Victoria (state)
Former government agencies of Victoria (state)
Government agencies established in 1853
Government agencies disestablished in 1863
1853 establishments in Australia
1863 disestablishments in Australia
XLAB d.o.o. XLAB d.o.o. is an IT company based in Slovenia and focused on remote desktop technology,  automation and management of hybrid infrastructure, and artificial intelligence.

Products 
XLAB experts transfer their knowledge gaind in research projects into innovative solutions such as ISL Online (remote desktop software), Steampunk Spotter (Ansible Playbook Scanning Tool), a customizable 3D visualization solution Gaea+ and MedicView (3D dental and radiology imaging solutions).

Research 

XLAB Research is among largest Slovenian private computer science research departments and 1st SME in Slovenia in terms of H2020 funded research projects. It has been involved in more than 80 research projects and has coordinated 2 of them, earning the title of the first Slovenian coordinator of a Horizon 2020 project.

References 

Remote desktop
Software companies of Slovenia
Companies based in Ljubljana
Slovenian companies established in 2001
Software companies established in 2001
Slovenian brands
Industrial Water Cooling. Industrial Water Cooling (IWC) is a manufacturer of cooling towers in South Africa. The company’s headquarters are in Isando, Johannesburg.

The company primarily supplies cooling towers to the following industrial sectors: power generation; mining; petrochemical industries; sugar; steel; food & beverage; air-conditioning and refrigeration.

The company has undertaken projects for companies such as Sasol, ArcelorMittal, Foskor, and Eskom.

History
IWC was founded in 1986. In September 2011, the South Africa-based private equity investment management company, Medu Capital, acquired a 62% equity interest in the company.

In 2013, IWC entered into an agreement with Danish plate heat exchanger manufacturer Sondex to supply its replacement plates and gaskets in sub-Saharan Africa.

In the same year IWC opened a glass-reinforced plastic manufacturing facility in Isando, Ekuhleni, one of only two GRP plants of this kind in South Africa.

Acquisitions
In August 2014, IWC announced the acquisition of Tektower, formerly known as Sulzer Cooling, a South African-based cooling tower manufacturer, to expand its African operations.  Tektower now operates as a subsidiary of IWC.

In September 2014, the company acquired the Vectus Pipe system from Fiberpipe; a pipe system manufactured from glass fibre reinforced polyester and vinylester and widely used in the oil and gas, shipbuilding and offshore industries.

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of South Africa
Manufacturing companies based in Johannesburg
Highway Safety Manual. The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a publication of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials.  It contains concepts, guidelines, and computational procedures for predicting the safety performance of various highway facilities.

The HSM was published in 2010 and is divided into four sections:
Part A – Introduction, Human Factors, and Fundamentals of Safety;
Part B – Roadway Safety Management Process;
Part C – Predictive Methods; and
Part D – Crash Modification Factors.

See also
Highway Capacity Manual

Transportation Research Board

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

References

External links
FHWA Office of Safety Highway Safety Manual page https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsm/

Crash Modification Factor Clearing House http://www.cmfclearinghouse.org/

Road transportation in the United States
Road traffic management
Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute. The Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute (romanized: Mo'asseseh-ye Tahqiqât-e Vâksan va Seromsâzi-e Râzi)  is an Iranian pharmaceutical and biological institute. It is located in the Hessarak district in Karaj, Iran. The institute was built as a national center with the purpose of countering epidemics in domestic animals during Reza Shah era. Further departments were installed, including those dedicated to human medicines. In modern years, the institute has focused primarily on nanomedicine and biotechnology.

The institute is known for its anti-venom serums derived from snake and scorpion venom. It hosts some reference pharmaceutical laboratories with regional or state scopes.

Branches
The institute has established regional branches in:
 Arak
 Ahvaz
 Kerman
 Mashhad
 Marand
 Shiraz

History

Production timeline
 1924: Institution of the institute.
 1932: Louis Delpy, a French veterinarian, drove the institute to overcome an epidemic of cattle plague in the region.
 1933: Anthrax
 1935: Sheep Pox
 1936: Livestock Gangrene
 1937: Cattle Pasteurellosis
 1941: Serums and vaccines for diphtheria and tetanus
 1970: Polio
 1987: Rubella and Measles
 1998: Aleppo Boil
 1992: Foundation of the biotechnology department.
 1997: Enhancement of the biotechnology department.
 2010: The institute produced 1.7 billion doses of 57 types of vaccines, serums, and antigens per year.
 2012: Production of transgenic animals, creating recombinant vaccines through genetic engineering, developing antigens and diagnostic kits for medical and veterinary labs.
 2021: Razi Cov Pars: a COVID-19 vaccine

History points
 The facility was used as a Soviet military base during World War II
 NATO forces used some of the institute's anti-venom products during the Afghanistan war, since Afghan native snakes had not been researched in the USA or Europe.

See also
 Pharmaceuticals in Iran

References

External links
 

Pharmaceutical research institutes
1924 establishments in Iran
Medical and health organisations based in Iran
Research institutes established in 1924
Medical research institutes in Iran
COVID-19 vaccine producers
Arges project. The Arges project was a research project in the field of metal-halide lamps, a form of electric lighting. The aim was to achieve a higher degree of energy efficiency in comparison to lamps used at the time. The project was commissioned by Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Electronics. One of the problems which had to be solved was to let the experimental lamps burn reliably and constantly. Scientists believed that this problem was related to gravity, and to ascertain this experiments had to be performed in zero gravity. Therefore, part of the research took place aboard the International Space Station ISS during the Delta Mission in 2004. Dutch astronaut André Kuipers operated the apparatus transported to the ISS aboard the Soyuz TMA-4.

Literature

 
 Kroesen: “Wetenschappelijk rendement proef in ruimte honderd procent”. Cursor 2004

Research projects
Eindhoven University of Technology
Real-time labor-market information. Real-time labor-market information (LMI) is the generation of data on labor demand from open Internet sources. Real-time feeds give an immediate view into conditions that trades precision for currency.  Because real-time labor market information is scraped from employer, industry organizations, recruiters and job boards and interpreted using natural language text interpretation, it is intrinsically subject to mis-identifications, missed information, and duplications. Nevertheless, real-time LMI has become one of the primary sources of data for researchers, corporate HR, and workforce agencies (for example, the Texas Workforce Commission) because:

 Analysis based on a near complete population of jobs
 Data that is highly indicative of current conditions across broad geographic, industry, and skill segments

See also
 Online employment screening test

External links
 Using Real-time Labor Market Information
 Brookings Institution - LMI Forum - Real Time Labor Market Information
 Using Real-Time LMI To Explore Green Jobs
 Credentials that Work: Innovations in Labor-Market Information

E-recruitment
Metallomesogen. Metallomesogens are metal complexes that exhibit liquid crystalline behavior.  Thus, they adopt ordered structures in the molten phase, e.g. smectic and nematic phases.  The dominant interactions responsible for their phase behavior are the nonbonding contacts between organic substituents.  Two early classes of such materials are based on substituted ferrocenes and dithiolene complexes; more recent work shows that alkoxystilbazoles have similar utility.

References

Soft matter
Optical materials
Phase transitions
Transition metals
Coordination chemistry
Schoonoord, Alverna. Schoonoord is a tower mill in Alverna, Gelderland, Netherlands, which was built in 1887 and is in working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument.

History
The first mill on the site was a post mill that was built c.1868. It burnt down in 1887. Schoonoord was built to replace it. Its first owner was A van der Heijden. In 1917, ownership passed to G Jansen. In 1923, F A Koning was the owner.

On 14 November 1940, the mill caught fire in a storm. Repairs were carried out by millwrights Adriaens of Weert, Limburg. The mill ceased working in 1944. F A Koning was followed by Carolus and Cornelis Koning in 1946 and J P J Loeffen in 1949. Restorations were carried out in 1965 and 1987, but neither of these returned the mill to working order. On 29 November 2003, the mill was again damaged in a fire. The cap was replaced in 2005 and new sails were fitted in March 2006. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, № 39639.

Description

Schoonoord is what the Dutch describe as a "Beltmolen". It is a three-storey tower mill built into a mound. The cap is covered in dakleer. The mill is winded by tailpole and winch. The sails are Common sails. They have a span of . The sails are carried on a cast-iron windshaft, which was cast by Enthoven & Co. in 1861. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel which has 64 teeth. This drives the wallower (33 teeth) at  the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft is the great spur wheel, which has 78 cogs. The great spur wheel drives two pairs of  French Burr millstones via lantern pinion stone nuts which have 33 staves each.

Public access
Schoonoord is open to the public by appointment.

References

Windmills in Gelderland
Windmills completed in 1887
Tower mills in the Netherlands
Grinding mills in the Netherlands
Agricultural buildings in the Netherlands
Rijksmonuments in Gelderland
Winooski project. The Winooski project consisted of erecting three dams on the Winooski River in Vermont. It is said to have been one of the largest Civilian Conservation Corps construction projects in America.

In November 1927, the worst flooding in Vermont history killed 120 people; 55 of the deaths occurred in the watershed of the Winooski River, convincing the state of the need for flood control projects in that watershed. State officials made unsuccessful attempts to build dams using state funds or private companies. Finally in 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps, under the guidance of the Corps of Engineers, was tasked with flood control on the river. This was the first U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control project in New England. It was undertaken least in part by the newly formed Veterans Division of the CCC.

It was decided the Winooski River required the construction of three major dams. Two of them (the Wrightsville Dam and the East Barre Dam) were completed in 1935. The Wrightsville Dam stood over 1,200 feet long, 70 feet high with 100-foot spillways, utilized in excess of 1.5 million cubic yards of earth fill and rock, 5,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 2,500 tons of steel. It controlled the flow from 71 square miles of watershed.  The East Barre Dam was only slightly smaller and controlled the flow from 38 square miles of watershed.

The third dam was at Waterbury, and though completed later it was larger than Wrightsville and East Barre combined. The earth-filled Waterbury Dam required more than 2 million cubic yards of earth, 5 million cubic yards of selected gravel, and the labor of more than 3,000 men to complete.  When finished, the Waterbury Dam controlled the runoff from 109 square miles of watershed.

Little River State Park exists today thanks to the CCC as well.

References

History of Vermont
Civilian Conservation Corps in Vermont