omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
SPOLD. Society for the Promotion of LCA Development (SPOLD) was the association of multiple companies that wanted to create a file format that would help mold Life-cycle assessment (LCA) software into a better management tool. The  SPOLD format, which was created for this task, was meant to be implemented in LCA software so that it could exchange more reliable data in inventories.
The original SPOLD format was created in 1997, but was later replaced in 1999 with a newer version. The SPOLD format was then replaced by the ecoSPOLD, which was later integrated with LCA software, replacing the original SPOLD format. SPOLD was discontinued in 2001.

References

Environmental impact assessment
Industrial ecology
Sustainability organizations
Friedrich Haag. Friedrich Haag (20 August 1856 – 8 December 1941) was a pioneering German crystallographer.

An article written by Haag in the :de:Zeitschrift für Kristallographie (a German crystallography journal) was used by M. C. Escher in his study of tessellation.

References

External links
 :de:Friedrich Haag (Kristallograph) (on German Wikipedia)

Crystallographers
1856 births
1941 deaths
Vincent E. Lally. Vincent E. Lally (October 13, 1922 – September 20, 2005) received a B.S. in Meteorology from the University of Chicago in 1944. After service in the Pacific as a meteorologist and radar officer in the Army Air Corps, Lally returned to M.I.T. where he received the degrees of B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1948 and M.S, in Engineering Administration in 1949. From 1951 to 1958, he worked at the Geophysics Research Directorate of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center where he was the leader of the meteorological equipment development program for the Air Force. From 1958 to 1961, he was manager of research at Teledynamics, Inc., and then accepted appointment at the newly formed National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as Director of the National Scientific Balloon Facility. In 1965, he established the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) to develop long-duration balloons.

Scientific achievements 

In addition to leading the national program to develop facilities for scientific ballooning, Lally made a number of major contribution to the use of balloons as a vehicle for atmospheric measurements. The demonstration of the capability to fly superpressure balloons on multiple orbits of the globe was the critical experiment which triggered international support for the Global Atmospheric Research Program. In 1966, NCAR scientists launched a globe-circling balloon from Christchurch, New Zealand. This was one of a series of global horizontal sounding technique (GHOST) balloons tested in order to collect meteorological data from all of the Earth's atmosphere and predict global weather on a long-range basis. The Rocket-Balloon-Instrument sphere (ROBIN), designed in 1955, was the principal vehicle for rocket soundings of the atmosphere. Lally also developed the technique for reliable erection of space-inflatables. The Radiation-Controlled Balloon (RACOON) demonstrated in 1980 that the radiation-environment rather than ballast could achieve long-duration flight for zero-pressure balloons. It became the standard technique for global flight and recovery of heavy scientific payloads.

Publications 

Lally authored over 30 papers on instrumentation, ballooning, and navigation techniques. he wrote the definitive publication on superpressure-ballooning as well as chapters in several handbooks on ballooning and atmospheric sounding systems.

References

External links 
 Vincent Lally Papers NCAR Archives

1922 births
2005 deaths
American meteorologists
University of Chicago alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Harvard University alumni
User Electronic Signature. The User Electronic Signature (UES) is a bitfield with user-defined content in a programmable logic device (PLD). It is usually used for the storage of the ID and/or version number of the PLD, suited for serial identification. Examples for PLD's with a UES are the industry standards GAL16V8 and GAL22V10. The size of the UES is device-dependent.

References 

Bit data structures
Versum Materials. Versum Materials, Inc. is an American company that manufactures chemical-mechanical planarization slurries, ultra-thin dielectric and metal  precursors of film, formulated cleans and etching products, and delivery equipment for the semiconductor industry. It is a subsidiary of Merck Group.

History
On October 3, 2016, Air Products & Chemicals completed the corporate spin-off of the company.

In 2017, the company acquired Dynaloy from Eastman Chemical Company  for approximately $13 million to expand its Surface Prep and Cleans business.

In October 2019, Merck Group acquired the company.

References

Merck Group
Companies based in Tempe, Arizona
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Manufacturing companies based in Arizona
Chemical companies of the United States
American companies established in 2016
Chemical companies established in 2016
2019 mergers and acquisitions
2016 establishments in Arizona
Corporate spin-offs
American subsidiaries of foreign companies
Flywhale Aircraft Flywhale. The Flywhale FW650 was a two-seat amphibious sports aircraft designed and built in Germany by Uniplanes GmbH. It is now owned and built by Dornier Seawings under the name DS-2C.

Design and development

The Flywhale, built mainly from carbon fibre composite materials, is a flying boat style amphibian, with a single step hull and sponsons rather than wing tip floats. It accommodates two in side-by-side seating fitted with a single control between both seats. The design also provides room for two people to sleep in the fuselage. A large, one-piece canopy hinges forward for access. Behind the seats is a  baggage area. The Flywhale has short-legged, tricycle landing gear with mainwheels retracting backwards into the sponsons. It can operate on land and water.

Its high cantilever wings are trapezoidal in plan and can be removed for transport. Its empennage is cruciform, with the horizontal tail part-way up a triangular fin and rudder. A  Rotax 912 iS flat-four engine is mounted on a necked pylon over the wing in tractor configuration.  This originally drove a two blade propeller but more recently a three-bladed one has replaced it.  A BRS ballistic parachute is an option.

The Flywhale flew for the first time on 13 September 2013.  A second airframe has been completed, including modifications suggested by the flight trials of the first, and this flew in the summer of 2015.

On 19 January 2022, Dornier Seawings announced that they had acquired all intellectual property and production assets of the Flywhale project, which would henceforth by known as the Dornier Seawings DS-2C, alongside the larger Dornier Seastar.

Variants
Adventure Standard version as in Specifications

Specifications (Adventure)

References

External links

Amphibious aircraft
2010s German sport aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2013
Flying boats
Global Change Information System. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) develops and curates the Global Change Information System (GCIS) to establish "data interfaces and interoperable repositories of climate and global change data which can be easily and efficiently accessed, integrated with other data sets, maintained and expanded over time."  The initial focus of GCIS is to support the United States Third National Climate Assessment (NCA3), which is to publish reports that enhance the transparency and ability of decision-makers to understand the conclusions and use of the underlying data for their own purposes.

Scope of work
The project scope includes analyzing alterations in climate, land use and land cover, natural resources including water, agriculture and biodiversity, atmospheric composition, chemical composition and ecological systems that may alter the Earth's capacity to sustain life.

Global change research includes activities aimed at describing and understanding the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the Earth system; the unique environment that the Earth provides for life; changes that are occurring in the Earth system; and the manner in which such systems, environments and changes are influenced by human actions.

Provenance and semantics
GCIS has developed information models and ontology to represent the content structure of the NCA3 and its associated provenance information and has been extending its models to incorporate more global change information. Records of objects and relationships within the GCIS are represented in a database for the Semantic Web, which can be queried using the SPARQL language. GCIS assigns globally unique persistent identifiers to all of the entities, activities, and agents relevant to provenance. Each identifier is mapped to a uniform resource identifier (URI) in the GCIS namespace, allowing use of those identifiers for the Semantic Web and other linked data systems. By categorizing, annotating, and linking provenance information, the GCIS becomes capable of answering provenance-tracking questions about global change research.

GCIS ontology
The GCIS Ontology promotes representation and documentation by incorporating the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s recommendation on provenance modeling (PROV) into the design. The ontology uses the namespace prefix GCIS. A conceptual map of the GCIS Ontology version 1.2 is accessible on the Web.

References

Climate change organizations based in the United States
Information systems
PAS 777. PAS 777:2013 is a Publicly Available Specification published by the British Standards Institution in October 2013 entitled “Specification for the qualification and labelling of used automotive engines and any related transmission units”.

The PAS777 uses a five-level assessment for six items of a used engine including compression, overheating, mileage, internal and external status.

PAS 777 was sponsored by Sun Partners Company Limited and Kaiho sangyo Corporate.

 PAS 777:2013,

References

Automotive engine technologies
Automotive industry in the United Kingdom
Automotive standards
British Standards
Robert V. Kohn. Robert V. Kohn (born in 1953) is an American mathematician working on partial differential equations, calculus of variations, mathematical materials science, and mathematical finance. He is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Biography 

Kohn studied mathematics at Harvard University, obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1979, as a student of Frederick Almgren.

Work 

Kohn is best known for his work on non-linear partial differential equations, including work with Louis Nirenberg and Luis Caffarelli in which they obtained partial results about the regularity of weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations.

Honors

He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1984. In 2006, he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Madrid (Energy driven pattern formation). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is an elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected publications 
with L. Caffarelli and L. Nirenberg: "Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, n. 35 i. 6, pp. 771–831.
with L. Caffarelli and L. Nirenberg, "First order interpolation inequalities with weights", Compositio Mathematica n. 53 i. 3, pp. 259–275.
with Gilbert Strang, "Optimal design and relaxation of variational problems, I", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, n. 39 i. 1, pp. 113–137.

References

External links 
Robert V. Kohn website

20th-century American mathematicians
1953 births
Sloan Research Fellows
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Harvard University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Living people
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
NST Minimum. The NST Minimum is a German powered hang glider that was designed and produced by NST-Machinenbau of Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Minimum features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, single-place or two-place accommodation, wheel-launching and landing and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft uses a standard hang glider wing, made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar. The engine is a two-stroke, single cylinder Solo 210 of , depending on the model. The engine is mounted behind the pilot, while the fuel tank is mounted above. The landing gear consists of two wheels mounted below the control bar and a single tail wheel mounted on a vertical strut. A folding propeller is a standard feature.

As it takes-off and lands on wheels, the Minimum can only operate from smooth hard runways.

Operational history
The single-place version was reported in 2003 as having sold in substantial numbers.

Variants
Minimum
Single-place version powered by a Solo 210 engine of . The fuel tank capacity is .
Minimum 1+1
Two-place version powered by a Solo 210 engine of . The fuel tank capacity is .

Specifications (Minimum)

References

Minimum
2000s German ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered hang gliders
Parasu Ram Mishra. Parasu Ram Mishra (died 2001) was an Indian soil conservationist and environmentalist, credited with efforts for the transformation of Sukhomajri, a small village in Chandigarh in the valley of Shivalik Hills. He was the head of the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI) at its Chandigarh centre. He was a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of the Padma Shri.

Contributions 
A decade after the Sukhna Lake, conceptualised by Le Corbusier was built, it was detected that sedimentation through the Kansal choe, a seasonal stream, was causing reduction in the depth and size of the lake. In order to find a solution to the problem, CSWCRTI deputed a team in 1975, with Mishra as the project director to Sukhomajri, an arid village at the foothills of Shivalik Hills, in Panchkula district of the Indian state of Haryana. He worked for three years with the local villagers, educating them about the seriousness of the situation and urging them to abandon goat farming which was causing denuding of the forests and shift to cattle farming. He built two check dams across the seasonal stream for rain water harvesting, made water available to villagers for agriculture and was successful in implementing social fencing programme, where the villagers erected fences protecting the forests from cattle grazing. With assistance from the Forest Department of Haryana and the Ford Foundation, he is reported to have transformed the village into a prosperous one. It is reported that the bare slopes of Shivalik Hills were covered with vegetation, the milk production increased nine-fold, the rate of sedimentation was reduced to 1/15th of earlier levels, crop yield increased manifold, and a corpus fund was put in place, under the care of a society, for development activities in the village. A 1992 study by S. K. Dhar, the then Chief Conservator of Forests, confirmed that the tree density also increased from 13 per hectare to 1272 per hectare.

Mishra introduced a new concept of cyclical investment, Chakriya Vikas Pranali, where a part of the returns from a scheme becomes the capital of the next project, which is noted to have assisted in increasing rural employment and making the village self-reliant. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) acknowledged the success of the Sukhomajri project by publishing a case study report, by P. R. Mishra and M. Sarin under the title Social Security Through Social Fencing. The article was included in the 1988 book, The Greening of aid: sustainable livelihoods in practice, published by IIED. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 2000, for his services in the fields of ecology and environment.

See also 
 Sukhna Lake
 International Institute for Environment and Development

References 

Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
Indian conservationists
Indian ecologists
2001 deaths
Scientists from Jharkhand
20th-century Indian biologists
1926 births
ISO/IEC 33001. ISO/IEC 33001 Information technology - Process assessment - Concepts and terminology is a set of technical standards documents for the computer software development process and related business management functions.

ISO/IEC 33001:2015 is a revision of ISO/IEC 15504, also termed Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE).

The ISO/IEC 330xx family superseded the ISO/IEC 155xx family.

Further reading
 ISO/IEC 33001:2015 Information technology - Process assessment - Concepts and terminology
 ISO/IEC 33002:2015 Information technology - Process assessment - Requirements for performing process assessment
 ISO/IEC 33003:2015 Information technology - Process assessment - Requirements for process measurement frameworks
 ISO/IEC 33004:2015 Information technology - Process assessment - Requirements for process reference, process assessment and maturity models
 ISO/IEC 33014:2013 Information technology - Process assessment - Guide for process improvement
 ISO/IEC 33020:2015 Information technology - Process assessment - Process measurement framework for assessment of process capability
 ISO/IEC 33063:2015 Information technology - Process assessment - Process assessment model for software testing
 ISO/IEC TR 29110-3-1:2015 Systems and software engineering - Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities (VSEs) - Part 3-1: Assessment guide

References

Software engineering standards
Software development process
33001
Ace Embilipitiya Power Station. The Ace Embilipitiya Power Station (also sometimes referred to as the Embilipitiya Power Station) is a  thermal power station in Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka. The heavy fuel oil-run power station was commissioned in March 2005, and was operated by Aitken Spence (sometimes shortened to Ace). The power station consisted of fourteen  generation units of  each, which consumed approximately  of fuel oil per day. The Ministry of Power and Energy discontinued purchasing power from the private power station after its license expired in 2015, and hence was subsequently decommissioned.

In March 2016 Ceylon Electricity Board decided to recommission the plant due to high electricity demand in the country.  The facility cost approximately Rs. 8 billion to develop, and is built on a  land on a 33-year lease.

See also 
 Heladhanavi Power Station
 List of power stations in Sri Lanka

References

External links 
 
 
 
 
 

Oil-fired power stations in Sri Lanka
Buildings and structures in Ratnapura District
Encapsulin nanocompartment. Encapsulin nanocompartments, or encapsulin protein cages, are spherical bacterial organelle-like compartments roughly 25-30 nm in diameter that are involved in various aspects of metabolism, in particular protecting bacteria from oxidative stress. Encapsulin nanocompartments are structurally similar to the HK97 bacteriophage and their function depends on the proteins loaded into the nanocompartment. The sphere is formed from 60 (for a 25 nm sphere) or 180 (for a 30 nm sphere) copies of a single protomer, termed encapsulin. Their structure has been studied in great detail using X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy.

A number of different types of proteins have been identified as being loaded into encapsulin nanocompartments. Peroxidases or proteins similar to ferritins are the two most common types of cargo proteins. While most encapsulin nanocompartments contain only one type of cargo protein, in some species two or three types of cargo proteins are loaded.

Encapsulins purified from Rhodococcus jostii can be assembled and disassembled with changes in pH. In the assembled state, the compartment enhances the activity of its cargo, a peroxidase enzyme.

Use as a platform for bioengineering
Recently, encapsulin nanocompartments have begun to receive considerable interest from bioengineers because of their potential to allow the targeted delivery of drugs, proteins, and mRNAs to specific cells of interest.

References

Metabolism
Cell biology
Biological engineering
Bacterial proteins
Tam Van Tran. Tam Van Tran (born 1966) is a visual artist born in Vietnam who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His primary materials for paintings and sculptures include clay and paper, and extend to chlorophyll, glass, algae, staples, crushed eggshells, Wite-out eraser liquid, beet juice, gelatin, and other diverse ingredients which lend texture and intricacy to his organically-molded abstractions.

Exhibitions featuring the work of Tam Van Tran have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, and is in numerous public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, The Broad Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Blaffer Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the Neuberger Museum of Art. He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and the Film and Television Program at UCLA.

References

Further reading
Notes on Looking. Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter: http://notesonlooking.com/2012/03/tam-van-tran-at-susanne-vielmetter/
Art Review; Tam Van Tran: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/art-review-tam-van-tran-vielmetter.html
Artsy. Three Things You Should Know About Tam Van Tran: https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-three-things-you-should-know-about-tam
Unframed, LACMA: https://unframed.lacma.org/2015/07/27/artists-respond-tam-van-tran-ed-moses-4
New York Times Art In Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/art-in-review-tam-van-tran.html
Artillery Magazine: http://artillerymag.com/tam-van-tran/

1966 births
Vietnamese artists
Living people
Thongchat Hongladarom. Thongchat Hongladarom (born 1937) is Chairman of the Board and Independent Director of Samart Corporation PCL.

Life 

Thongchat Hongladarom  received a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and a Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He graduated as Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University in Illinois, United States.

He is Chairman of the Board and Independent Director of Samart Corporation PCL since 13 March 2008 and also Chairman of its Nominating and Remuneration Committees and a member of the Audit Committee. He also serves on the boards of several companies, including Thai Industrial Gas PCL as Chairman of the Board and Sahaviriya Steel Industry PCL. He is Advisor to PTT Chemical PCL, whose first governor he was, when it was still a state enterprise.

References 

1937 births
Living people
Thongchat Hongladarom
Thongchat Hongladarom