omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
James F. Bandrowski. James F. Bandrowski is an author, global keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant.

Career
James F. Bandrowski earned his BE in chemical engineering from Villanova University, and went on to attain an MS in management science/industrial engineering from New Jersey Technical Institute, as well as an MBA from NYU. His career began with various research and engineering positions at Becton-Dickinson.

Research and Books
As an R&D and manufacturing engineer at Becton-Dickinson in the early 1970s, he was awarded two patents and published an article in the Clinical Chemistry journal about advancements in using fluorometry in measuring blood chemistry.  He began researching how other scientists and other types of innovators conceived new ideas, and created new products and business concepts. Paralleling this work, he also researched how top athletes achieved higher levels of performance. In 1978 he published three audio programs, one each on the mental side of tennis, golf, and skiing. The programs were sold by Psychology Today magazine, and the Athletic Achievement Corporation. The tennis program received the endorsement of World Team Tennis in San Francisco.

While researching and infusing creativity and imagination into strategic planning at DiGiorgio Corporation in the early 1980s, he wrote a monograph entitled Creative Planning Starts at the Top, published by the Presidents Association of the American Management Association in 1983. In 1985, The American Management Association commissioned him to write a second monograph, entitled Creative Planning throughout the Organization, and distributed it to all 85,000 of its members at that time.

Published books
 Creative Planning Throughout the Organization (Amacon Books, 1986) 
 Corporate Imagination Plus (Free Press, 2000) 
 Tennis: The Mental Game (Audio Cassette)

Works
 Bandrowski, James, and Hayden Curry narrating, Improving Your Tennis Game (#20200), Improving Your Golf Game (#20201), and Improving Your Golf Game (#20202), Psychology Today Cassettes, New York, 1978.
 Bandrowski, James, Creative Planning Starts at the Top, Presidents Association of the American Management Association, New York, monograph, 46 pages, 1983.
 Bandrowski, James, Creative Planning throughout the Organization, American Management Association, New York, monograph, 80 pages, 1985.
 Bandrowski, James F., Corporate Imagination Plus: Five Steps to Translating Innovative Strategies into Action, Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990, 313 pages.
 Bandrowski, Jim, Twelve Steps to Leadership Greatness, Vistage, San Diego, website, June 2009.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Splay (plastics). Splay is a term used in the manufacture of injection molded plastics to refer to off-colored streaking along the surface of a molded part. A cosmetic defect, it is often silvery in color and is sometimes called 'silver streak'. The most common cause of splay is moisture, which is caught in the resin inside the injection molding machine during the heating process. The moisture turns to steam when heated in the barrel of the machine, and becomes tiny gas bubbles that streak across the plastic as injection occurs. This causes the silvery pattern, or streaks, to appear on the surface of the plastic. 

Splay can be avoided by keeping moisture out of plastics and injection molding machines. Non-hygroscopic plastics that do not absorb moisture are less likely to suffer from splay. Mold leaks, improper drying of materials, incorrect material throughput, and non-functional dryers are other causes of moisture-related splay.

Other causes of splay are sheer and heat.

References

Plastics
Pseudowollastonite. Pseudowollastonite is a high-temperature mineral phase of CaSiO3 and is polymorphous with wollastonite.  Its formula can alternatively be written as Ca3Si3O9. Other names include ß-Wollastonite, and  cyclowollastonite.

It occurs in high temperature (pyrometamorphic) environments such as the Hatrurim Formation of the Negev Desert and the graphite mine at Pfaffenrenth near Hauzenberg, Bavaria. It also occurs in slags and cement.

References

Calcium minerals
Cyclosilicates
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 15
Brennan. Brennan may refer to:

People
 Brennan (surname)
 Brennan (given name)
 Bishop Brennan (disambiguation)

Places
 Brennan, Idlib, a village located in Sinjar Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib, Syria
 Rabeeah Brennan, a village located in Sinjar Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib, Syria
 Electoral division of Brennan, an electoral division of Australia's Northern Territory

Other uses
 Brennan Award (disambiguation), various awards
 Brennan Helicopter, an experimental helicopter flown in the 1920s
 Brennan Motor Manufacturing Company of Syracuse, New York, a manufacturer of automobile engines from 1897 to 1972
 Brennan torpedo, a torpedo patented in 1877
 Brennan's, a creole restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana
 Brennan Family Restaurants, a group of restaurants operated by the Brennan family of New Orleans

de:Brennan
ru:Бреннан
Egil Taule. Egil Taule (born 31 October 1934) is a Norwegian businessperson.

He took his degree in civil engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1958. He worked in both Germany and the United States, but spent the years 1974 to 2001 as a senior executive in Norway. He was president of Strømmen Stål and Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri, vice president of Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, then president of Norsk Jetmotor and TiTech Visionsort. He was a board member of SINTEF, S.D. Cappelen and the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries (TBL).

He resides in Østerås.

References

1934 births
Living people
Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Information technology architecture. Information technology (IT) architecture is the process of development of methodical information technology specifications, models and guidelines, using a variety of information technology notations, for example Unified Modeling Language (UML), within a coherent information technology architecture framework, following formal and informal information technology solution, enterprise, and infrastructure architecture processes. These processes have been developed in the past few decades in response to the requirement for a coherent, consistent approach to delivery of information technology capabilities. They have been developed by information technology product vendors and independent consultancies, such as for example the Open Group, based on real experiences in the information technology marketplace and collaboration amongst industry stakeholders. Best practice information technology architecture encourages the use of open technology standards and global technology interoperability. Information technology architecture can also be called a high-level map or plan of the information assets  in an organization, including the physical design of the building that holds the hardware. 

Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh are accredited with developing the first Unified Modeling Language (UML), a widely used technology modeling language.

IBM was an early developer of formal solution and infrastructure architecture methodologies for information technology.

Further reading

References

External links
 The IEEE association for advancement of technology
 Institute for Enterprise Architecture Developments
 What is IT Architecture and types of architecture

Enterprise architecture
Software architecture
Katsunori Wakabayashi. is a physicist at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He is an authority and leading researcher in nanotechnology in the area of energy states of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCN).
His research is notable for the edge effects of the nanographene materials, which is a part of the single layer graphene. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2000 from University of Tsukuba in Japan. From 2000 to 2009 he was an assistant professor at Department of Quantum Matter in Hiroshima University, Japan. From 2009, he is an Independent Scientist at International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan. Beside the above primary research position, he was a visiting scholar at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland from 2003 to 2005, also had a concurrent position as PRESTO researcher in Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Representative publications
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Katsunori Wakabayashi, "Low-Energy Physical Properties of Edge States in Nano-Carbon Systems", in Springer Series in Solid State Physics, vol. 156, S.N. Kamakar et al. eds., 
 Katsunori Wakabayashi, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Nanographite, p. 279–304, Carbon-based Magnetism – An overview of the magnetism of metal free carbon-based compounds and materials edited by T. Makarova, F. Palacio, (Elsevier, 2006). .

Award
The original paper of graphene edge state and graphene nanoribbons was awarded the JPS Best Paper Award in March 2003 from the Physical Society of Japan. He has been awarded the commendation of ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology (MEXT), Japan in 2010 for the contribution of pioneering works on theoretical research of nanoscale effect on electronic properties of graphene. In 2017, he has been awarded the JSPS Prize from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

See also
Graphene oxide paper
Carbon nanotubes
Mitsutaka Fujita

References

External links
English website

Japanese physicists
Japanese nanotechnologists
Living people
University of Tsukuba alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Blayais Nuclear Power Plant. The Blayais Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear plant on the banks of the Gironde estuary near Blaye, France operated by Électricité de France.

Description
The power plant has 4 pressurized water reactors – producing 951 MW gross and 910 MW net each. They were commissioned from 1981 to 1983. The plant has 1200 EDF employees and 350 permanent workers.

The four reactors produce about 25 TWh per year which is about 5% of the total electricity consumption in France (2015: 476 TWh). Since its commissioning, the Blayais nuclear power plant has produced more than 800 TWh. 

In its 2016 annual report, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) finds that "the nuclear safety and environmental protection performance of the Blayais NPP on the whole matches ASN's general assessment of EDF and that it's radiation protection performance stands out positively", but asked for "more effective management of the nuclear waste produced during reactor outages".

Selected incidents

1999 flooding

On the evening of 27 December 1999, a combination of the incoming tide and high winds overwhelmed the sea walls at the plant and causing parts of the plant to be flooded. The event resulted in the loss of the plant's off-site power supply and knocked out several safety-related backup systems, resulting in a 'level 2' event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

At the time, units 1, 2 and 4 were at full power, while unit 3 was shut down for refuelling. The operation of units 1 and 2 were affected by flood damage to a number of water pumps and distribution panels, all four units lost their 225 kV power supplies, while units 2 and 4 also lost their 400 kV power supplies. Diesel backup generators were employed to maintain power to plants 2 and 4 until the 400 kV supply was restored. Over the following days an estimated  of water was pumped out of the flooded buildings.

On 5 January, the regional newspaper Sud-Ouest ran the following headline without being contradicted: "Very close to a major accident", explaining that a catastrophe had been narrowly avoided.

The flooding resulted in fundamental changes to the evaluation of flood risk at nuclear power plants, and in the precautions taken.

In Germany the flooding prompted the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety to order an evaluation of the German nuclear power plants.

Opposition

The continued operation of the Blayais plant is opposed by the local anti-nuclear group 'TchernoBlaye' (a portmanteau of the French spelling of Chernobyl and Blaye, the nearest town), formed by Stéphane Lhomme on 15 December 1999.

References

External links

 website (with environmental survey link)

Nuclear power stations in France
Civilian nuclear power accidents
Électricité de France
Dry glue. Dry glue is an adhesion product based upon the adaptations of geckos' feet that allow them to climb sheer surfaces such as vertical glass.  Synthetic equivalents  use carbon nanotubes as synthetic setae on reusable adhesive patches.

Background

A gecko can hang on a glass surface using only one toe.  This ability is attributed to van der Waals force,  although a more recent study suggests that water molecules of roughly monolayer thickness (present on virtually all natural surfaces) also play a role.

Developments
In 2007, researchers from the University of Akron and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced they had developed a form of flexible, reusable gecko tape using carbon nanotubes to create microscopic synthetic setae and spatulae capable of supporting a shear stress of 32 N/cm2, which is four times the strength of a gecko's foot.  

In 2008 researchers from the University of Dayton reported a gecko glue capable of supporting 100N/cm2, ten times the strength generated by a gecko's foot.  The research also used carbon nanotubes, but included a curled end which allowed stronger binding but easy removal.  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a project called "Z-Man" that is attempting to develop a fabric allowing soldiers to scale vertical walls while carrying a full combat load.  In February 2012 Nitto Denko developed a version of gecko tape capable of sticking at temperatures between -150 and 500°C.

See also
 Gecko adhesion
 Gecko tape
 Synthetic setae

References

External links
Semiconductor Adhesives

Adhesives
IGB. IGB may refer to:
 Inner German border, the former frontier between West Germany and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
 Integrated Genome Browser, a genome browser
 Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, a genomics research facility at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, United States
 Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, a research facility at the University of California Irvine, United States 
 igb: Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver software
 Irish Greyhound Board, the English language name for the Bord na gCon
 Gas Interconnector Greece–Bulgaria, is a natural gas pipeline between Greece and Bulgaria
 Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischere, also known as the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Boeing 929 Jetfoil. The Boeing 929 Jetfoil is a passenger-carrying, waterjet-propelled hydrofoil by the Boeing Company.

Boeing adapted many systems used in jet airplanes for hydrofoils. Robert Bateman led development. Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoil in April 1974. It could carry from 167 to 400 passengers. It was based on technology developed for the U.S. Navy patrol hydrofoil Tucumcari, and shared technology with the Pegasus-class military patrol hydrofoils. The product line was licensed to the Japanese company Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

Operational history
Boeing launched three Jetfoil 929-100 hydrofoils that were acquired in 1975 for service in the Hawaiian Islands, which were operated by Honolulu-based operator Seaflite. Seaflite operated three Boeing 929-100 Jetfoils between 1975 and the company's demise in 1979. When the service ended, the three hydrofoils were acquired by Shun Tak Holdings' Far East Hydrofoil (now TurboJET) for service between Hong Kong and Macau. About two dozen Boeing Jetfoils saw service in Hong Kong–Macau, Japan, South Korea, the English Channel, the Canary Islands, the Korea Strait, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.

In 1979, the Royal Navy purchased a Boeing Jetfoil, HMS Speedy, to provide the Royal Navy with an opportunity to gain practical experience in the operation and support of a modern hydrofoil, to establish technical and performance characteristics, and to assess the capability of a hydrofoil in the Fishery Protection Squadron.

In 1980, B&I shipping lines opened a Jetfoil service from Dublin to Liverpool with the Jetfoil Cú Na Mara (). The service was not a success and was discontinued at the end of the 1981 season.

The Belgian Regie voor Maritiem Transport (RMT) operated the Jetfoils Princesse Clementine and Prinses Stephanie on the Ostend–Dover route from 1981 until 1997.

In North America, the Boeing Jetfoil saw regularly scheduled service between Seattle, Washington and Victoria, British Columbia during the summer tourist season of 1980. Leased from Boeing, a single Jetfoil, the Flying Princess, was operated by the non-profit Flying Princess Transportation Corp., with the close co-operation and assistance of the B.C. Steamship Company. Regularly scheduled service ran from Seattle to Victoria to Vancouver from April to September 1985 by Island Jetfoil. Boeing reclaimed the Island Jetfoil boat and sold it for service in Japan.

Vessels

Boeing Marine Systems

Kawasaki Heavy Industries  
Built under license by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. in Kobe, Japan

Shanghai Simno Marine  
Built under license by Shanghai Simno Marine Ltd. CSSC, China

See also
Boeing hydrofoils
Pegasus-class hydrofoil

References

Bibliography

External links

Kawasaki Jetfoil homepage
Boeing history page JETFOIL Historical Snapshot.

Boeing hydrofoils
High-speed craft
Ferry classes
Ne-XVP. Ne-XVP was a research project executed between 2006-2008 at NXP Semiconductors. The project undertook a holistic approach to define a next generation multimedia processing architecture for embedded MPSoCs that targets programmability, performance scalability, and silicon efficiency in an evolutionary way. The evolutionary way implies using existing processor cores such as NXP TriMedia as building blocks and supporting industry programming standards such as POSIX threads. Based on the technology-aware design space exploration, the project concluded that hardware accelerators facilitating task management and coherency coupled with right dimensioning of compute cores deliver good programmability, scalable performance and competitive silicon efficiency.

Research

Ne-XVP's research subjects and corresponding publications:
 Asymmetric multicore architecture with generic accelerators 
 Hardware multithreading in VLIWs 
 Low-complexity cache coherence
 Hardware accelerators for task scheduling and synchronization:
 A Hardware Task Scheduler 
 Hardware Synchronization Unit to sync threads 
 Task Management Unit 
 Instruction cache sharing 
 Design Space Exploration with Performance Density as the optimization function 
 Technology modeling for embedded processors 
 Parallelization of complex multimedia algorithms (H.264, Frame Rate Conversion) 
 Auto-parallelizing compilers
 Time-aware programming languages in cooperation with the ACOTES project 
 Visual programming
 Task-level speculation
 Porting GCC to Exposed Pipeline VLIW Processors 
 Multiprogram workload for embedded processing
 A 1-GHz embedded VLIW processor

Project members

 Ghiath Al-Kadi
 Zbigniew Chamski
 Dmitry Cheresiz
 Marc Duranton (project leader)
 Surendra Guntur
 Jan Hoogerbrugge
 Anirban Lahiri
 Ondrej Popp
 Andrei Terechko
 Alex Turjan
 Clemens Wust
 ...

References 

NXP Semiconductors
Very long instruction word computing
Birdman Project 102. The Birdman Project 102, also known as Windsoar, was an experimental high wing, single engine, pod-and-boom, conventional landing gear-equipped, ultralight motor glider originally intended for production by Birdman Enterprises.

Development
Project 102 was intended to result in a production lightweight motor glider and was designed in 1981 by David Marsden from the University of Alberta with assistance from Birdman Enterprises' designer Vladimir Talanczuk. The production aircraft was tentatively named the Birdman Windsoar.

The Project 102 aircraft was built from aluminum and foam. The all-metal wing was cantilever, stressed to +6/-6 g and featured full-span reflexing ailerons that could be raised to increase cruise performance, as well as winglets. The wing centre was covered with aircraft fabric. The cockpit included a windshield, with the sides left open, although a full enclosure was intended to be optional. The conventional low tail was mounted on a long aluminum tail boom.

The single engine was in pusher configuration and was planned for .

The Windsoar was planned to be delivered to buyers as an assembly kit that would take about 100–200 hours to complete. The major structural assembly would be completed at the factory and the builder would have been required to complete the bolting and riveting, as well as installing the fabric.

Project 102 was supposed to fly in the summer of 1982, with kit production commencing the following autumn and winter and customer deliveries in the spring of 1983. The aircraft never entered production.

Specifications (Project 102)

References

1980s Canadian sailplanes
Canadian experimental aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1982
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paolo Rocca. Paolo Rocca (born 1952) is an Argentine-Italian businessman, CEO of the Techint Group, which owns Tenaris, Ternium and other companies in the engineering, construction and energy sectors. He is also chairman and CEO of Tenaris, and chairman of Ternium. As of July 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$5.0 billion.

Early life
Paolo Rocca was born in Milan, Italy, in 1952. He is the son of Roberto Rocca, who was Honorary Chairman of Techint, and grandson of Agostino Rocca, founder of this industrial group.  Paolo Rocca earned a degree in political science from the Università degli Studi di Milano. In 1985 he attended the PMD at Harvard Business School.

Career
After having been an assistant to the executive director of the World Bank, in 1985 Paolo Rocca began his career at Techint Group as assistant to the chairman of the board of directors. In 1990 he assumed as executive vice-president of Siderca.

Techint
Since 2002, he is the CEO of Tenaris and Techint. In addition, he is chairman of the board of directors of Tamsa and of the board of directors of Ternium, and director of the Techint Financial Corporation. Rocca led Techint in a series of acquisitions in Latin America and the world, which led to the development of operations in more than 20 countries.

Notebook case 
In November 2018, Rocca was indicted by the Argentine judge overseeing an investigation into the so-called notebook case as part of a graft case. The charges resulted from testimony that a company executive had paid bribes to speed up the compensation to Rocca's group that resulted from the nationalization of SIDOR by the Venezuelan government.

In April 2019, the Argentine court of appeals dropped all the charges against Rocca pending further investigation.

Boards and awards
Paolo Rocca is a member of the executive committee of the World Steel Association and was the chairman of this association during the 2009–2010 period. He was a member of the International Advisory Committee of New York Stock Exchange, and of the advisory board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) private sector. In 2004 within the "Argentina-México: Visión y Perspectivas” forum, he was awarded with the Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca. In 2008 he was recognized by Fundación Konex with the “2008 Platinum Konex Prize: Industry businessmen”; and in 2011 he was chosen “Steelmaker of the Year” by the Association of Iron and Steel Technology (AIST). In 2013 the Columbia Business School honored Paolo Rocca with the "Deming Cup" in recognition to the impact of his leadership on Tenaris's competitiveness.

References

1952 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Milan
Argentine businesspeople
University of Milan alumni
Italian billionaires
Argentine billionaires
Techint
Italian emigrants to Argentina
Argentine manufacturing businesspeople