omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Alexander Macmillan (engineer). Frederick Alexander Macmillan (born 1927) is a Canadian engineer best known for the Macmillan Correction, the most widely used mathematical correction to account for errors in the calculation of velocity of an object moving along a gradient due to viscous effects and wall proximity.

Originally from Canada, Macmillan received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering physics in 1950 from Queen's University. He later attended the University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1955, where he was a member of Gonville and Caius College, and earned a Master of Science degree. During his studies, he published several papers: in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, "Viscous effects on Pitot tubes at low speeds"; in the Aeronautical Journal, "Viscous effects on flattened Pitot tubes at low speeds"; and in the Journal of Scientific Instruments, "Liquid manometers with high sensitivity and small time-lag".   Following completion of his degree, Macmillan took employment helping development of the AIM-7 Sparrow in California. By the early 1960s he had left the aeronautical industry and moved to Ontario where he began working in the pulp and paper sector. Upon his retirement he moved to British Columbia.

In 2004, while web surfing at his home, Macmillan learned for the first time that the papers he had published a half-century before had been cited hundreds of times in the decades past and elements of them were now being referred to as the "Macmillan Correction" in scientific publications. Upon learning this, Macmillan contacted Dame Ann Dowling, chair of fluid mechanics at the University of Cambridge. Dowling suggested Macmillan apply for a Doctor of Philosophy degree by Special Regulation, a special procedure by which a holder of a lower degree at the university can be awarded a doctorate by documenting a contribution to human knowledge in lieu of a dissertation. In consideration of Macmillan's then-advanced age, special dispensation was granted to conduct his viva voce via telephone. He was made Doctor of Philosophy by publication on July 20, 2009, at Senate House, Cambridge.

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Canadian engineers
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
1920s births
Possibly living people
Isodiazomethane. In organic chemistry, isodiazomethane, also known as isocyanamide, aminoisonitrile, or systematically as isocyanoamine, is the parent compound of a class of derivatives of general formula R2N–NC. It has the condensed formula H2N–N+≡C–, making it an isomer of diazomethane.  It is prepared by protonating an ethereal solution of lithiodiazomethane, LiCHN2, with aqueous NaH2PO4 or NH4Cl.  The parent compound is only marginally stable at room temperature and is isolated by removal of solvent at –50 °C.  Derivatives are generally prepared by dehydration of the corresponding substituted formylhydrazine with COCl2 and Et3N.

Earlier, the compound was misidentified as the isomeric nitrilimine, HN––N+≡CH.  However, this structure was disproven by 1H NMR studies, which show a compound with a single signal at δ 6.40 ppm in (CD3CD2)2O instead of two signals expected for nitrilimine.  Moreover, an infrared band at 2140 cm−1 was assigned to the isocyano group.  Transition metal complexes of isodiazomethane have been prepared. In bulk form isodiazomethane is a liquid which decomposes when the temperature exceeds 15 °C. If it is heated to 40 °C, the substance explodes. A solution of isodiazomethane in diethyl ether at –30 °C gradually isomerizes to diazomethane upon exposure to sodium hydroxide for 20 min.

Microwave spectroscopy indicates that unlike diazomethane, isodiazomethane is not completely planar, with the amino nitrogen undergoing inversion.  An ab initio study indicated that there is some N–N double bond character in H2N–N≡C, although less so than in the N–C bond of H2N–C≡N. Like other isocyanide derivatives and carbon monoxide, its primary resonance form carries a negative charge and lone pair on carbon, a comparatively rare situation for neutral molecules.  A resonance form with zero formal charge on all atoms also has some importance; however, the carbon atom only has a sextet of electrons and is formally a carbene.

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Functional groups
Don Bosco College of Engineering. Don Bosco College of Engineering is an institute of technical education in Fatorda, Goa. It was established in 2011, and is run by the Fatorda Salesian Society. The college campus was designed by civil engineer Olavo Carvalho.

Affiliations
The college is affiliated with Goa University and approved by the AICTE.

Courses offered
 B.E. Civil Engineering: The civil engineering department undergraduates undertook a flood management solution project in 2018.
 B.E. Computer Engineering
 B.E. Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
 B.E. Electronics and Computer Science
 B.E. Mechanical engineering: The mechanical engineering department had conducted a programme on industrial automation in the year 2018. Undergraduates of the department also undertook a project related to mechanical beach cleaning. In 2018, the department increased the intake for their B.E. course by an additional 60 seats.

Sports
The college has several sports facilities and takes part in football, cricket, chess, cycling and other sports.

FiiRE
Don Bosco college has a Business Incubation Center called Forum for Innovation, Incubation Research and Entrepreneurship (FiiRE). This center has a partnership with the state agriculture department, and has even signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Manovikas School's Manovikas Public Charitable Trust to guide students from a young age.

Cultural and non-academic activities
DBCE organizes a project exposition called Kshitij. The Civil Engineering department organizes a national-level technical festival called Sankriti. The ETC department organizes inter college competition called technova. The college also has an active students' chapter of the Goa Technology Association (GTA).

Gallery

See also
 Goa Engineering College
 Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bangalore
 Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai

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Engineering colleges in Goa
Educational institutions established in 2011
Education in South Goa district
2011 establishments in Goa
Atmospheric Reentry Experimental Spaceplane. Atmospheric Reentry Experimental Spaceplane (ARES) is a robotic spaceplane concept. The project merged with the French Dassault Aviation VEHRA programme to produce a concept called Dassault Ares Spaceplane.

Overview

The initial concept study was produced by Aerospatiale in 1998, called Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator (ARD). ARES envisioned a delta wing spaceplane with a mass of  and a wingspan of . Aerodynamic studies in wind tunnels were performed between 2005 and 2009 when engineers tested some phases of the reentry trajectory at several Mach numbers and angles of attack. The results obtained characterized the drag, lift, and pitching moment coefficients as functions of the angle of attack and Reynolds number.
  
The ARES design was merged with the Dassault VEHRA project to produce a single French proposal, called Dassault Ares Spaceplane, which was proposed to the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle technology demonstrator of the ESA Future Launchers Preparatory Programme. This was to be a  reusable winged rocket-powered atmospheric demonstrator capable of reaching speeds of Mach 4 to 10 and was aimed at building up experience between 2003-2007 in reuse operations and high-speed atmospheric flight for landing on a runway.

After reviewing several European submissions, ESA officials chose in 2010 an Italian design now known as the Space Rider, which is now in development and expected to be dropped from a balloon in 2019 and will have a first flight atop a Vega-C rocket in 2020 or 2021.

See also

 Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, ESA spaceplane prototype tested once in 1998
 Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, an ESA Programme
 IXV, prototype tested in 2015
 OREX, equivalent Japanese demonstrator from 1994
 Space Rider, spaceplane to be tested in 2022

References

External links
  Video of a 1996 concept of VEHRA by Dassault
  Presentation in 2006 of the VEHRA-VSH project (Acrobat Reader format)

Spaceplanes
Space program of France
Proposed spacecraft
Hartmut Bärnighausen. Hartmut Bärnighausen (born 16 February 1933 in Chemnitz) is a German chemist and crystallographer. He is known for establishing the Bärnighausen trees which describe group-subgroup relationships of crystal structures.

Life 
Bärnighausen studied Chemistry at Leipzig University and received his diploma after a diploma thesis with Leopold Wolf in 1955. In May 1958, he flew from East Germany to University of Freiburg, where he worked with Georg Brauer. He finished his doctorate in the group of Georg Brauer in 1959. In 1967, he received his habilitation. From 1967 to 1998, he was a professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe.

Research 
His research focused on the following topics:

 crystallographic group theory in crystal chemistry (Bärnighausen trees)
 synthesis and characterization of new compounds in including rare earth metals
 structure refinements of twinned crystals

Awards 
He was awarded the Carl Hermann Medal of the German Crystallographic Society in 1997.

References

Living people
20th-century German chemists
Crystallographers
1933 births
People from Chemnitz
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Leipzig University alumni
University of Freiburg alumni
Inorganic chemists
Nabtesco. is a Japanese engineering company that specializes in gearboxes, rotors, motors and robotics.

History 

The company was founded in 2003 and has several subsidiaries.

In 2010, the company acquired the Business Segment Door Automation division of the Swiss company Dormakaba.

Management 

Since 2017, Kazuaki Kotani has served as chairman and Katsuhiro Teramoto has served as president of Nabtesco.

Products 

The company manufactures cycloidal drives, railway brakes and platform screen doors.

References

External links

Official Website 

Companies of Japan
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japanese companies established in 2003
Manufacturing companies established in 2003
Robotics companies of Japan
Industrial robotics
Japanese brands
Drone Dome. Drone Dome (, ) is a counter unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) anti-aircraft system developed by Israel-based miltech Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The system was first displayed in 2016, and joins similar protection systems developed by Rafael such as the Iron Dome.

The Drone Dome hosts different sensors including a RADA Electronic Industries RPS-42 radar, a CONTROP Precision Technologies imaging system, and radio signal detectors.

The Drone Dome was thought to have been used during the disruption at Gatwick Airport during December 2018 however it found out that a different system was used.

The system was reported to have been deployed in Argentina during the 2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit and the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.

See also

 Indrajaal Autonomous Drone Defence Dome
 Iron Beam

References

Counter unmanned air systems
Israeli inventions
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Weapons countermeasures
Military equipment introduced in the 2010s
Swadhin Kumar Mandal. Swadhin Kumar Mandal (Bengali: স্বাধীন কুমার মন্ডল) is a Bengali Indian organometallic chemist and a professor at the department of chemical sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. Mandal, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, is known for his studies in the fields of catalysis, new drug development and material chemistry. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to chemical sciences in 2018.. In 2020, he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/friedrich-wilhelm-bessel-research-award)by Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation, Germany in recognition of his outstanding research accomplishments.  In 2022, he was awarded the Erna and Jakob Michael visiting professorship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. In 2021, he was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) and in 2024, he was elected as a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (FNA).

Biography 

Swadhin Kumar Mandal, born on 15 August 1973 in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated with honors in chemistry from the University of Kalyani in 1993 and followed it up with a master's degree from the same university in 1996. Subsequently, he enrolled for doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science under the guidance of 
Setharampattu Seshaiyer Krishnamurthy and after securing a PhD in 2002, he moved to the US to do the post-doctoral studies, under Robert C. Haddon of the University of California at Riverside (2002–2006); later, he worked at the laboratory of Herbert W. Roesky of the University of Göttingen (2006–2007), holding an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. During his stay in the US. he also worked at Carbon Solutions, Inc. California, and on his return to India, he joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (IISER Kolkata) where he holds the position of a professor. At IISER, he heads a laboratory, Swadhin K. Mandal's Sensitive Lab where he hosts several doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.

Mandal focuses his research on designing dual catalyst for hydroamination and has published a number of articles. ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 85 of them. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2018.

Selected bibliography

See also 

 Drug development
 Catalysis

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Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science
Living people
Scientists from West Bengal
Academic staff of the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research
1973 births
University of Kalyani alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
University of California, Riverside alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
Scientists from Kolkata
70's Robot Anime Geppy-X. 70's Robot Anime Geppy-X is a 1999 Japanese video game released for the Sony PlayStation console. Developed and published by Aroma, it is a horizontally scrolling shooter set in a world that is an homage to mecha anime of the 1970s.

Gameplay 

70s Robot Anime Geppy-X is a 2D side scrolling shooting game. Stages in the game are presented as if they were episodes of a fictitious episodic anime series named Geppy-X. Following the anime episode format, stages play the format of opening theme, Part A, Eye Catch, Part B, ending theme, and ending on a next episode preview. The stages even include fake commercials and its own theme music. For example, one such commercial in the game promotes a fictitious series which is a parody of Ashita no Joe, and another for merchandise related to the show such as shampoo.

The game is set in the year 197X. In the game, the protagonists use the Geppy-X giant robot to fight the invading forces of the Space Devil Empire.

The titular robot, Geppy-X, can transform into three different robot forms, each modeled after famous 70s robots. The game only has nine actual stages despite taking up four compact discs.

Development and release 
The game was developed by Japanese game developer Aroma, and is an affectionate parody of mecha anime series from the 1970s, such as those created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, such as Grendizer, Mazinger-Z, and particularly Getter Robo. The game's soundtrack features Japanese singers Isao Sasaki, Akira Kushida, Hironobu Kageyama who sing the opening and ending themes songs in the game. The game takes up a total of four compact discs, and makes heavy use of full motion video, and game music. For comparison, the game Final Fantasy VIII also used that many discs. In total, there are 8000 video clips used in the game.

The game was released on May 27, 1999, for the Sony PlayStation and was published by the Aroma Corporation. The game was never released outside of Japan, and it has never been re-released on the PlayStation Network's Game Archives.

Reception 
Upon release, four reviewers for Famitsu gave the game a total score of 26/40. Reviewers appreciated the thoroughness of the dedication to recreating a 1970s mecha anime in game form, including even commercials and songs. They said that anyone familiar with those series would find it rather nostalgic. Spanish gaming magazine Superjuegos said the game would be a rather unremarkable shooting game with graphics that looked like it came from the Super Famicom, if it weren't for the replication of a 70s anime series. The presentation was so thorough, that the author spent weeks searching on the internet to see if there was a real Geppy-X anime series. Despite that however, the writer said that there were other better shooting games for the PlayStation.

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1999 video games
Horizontally scrolling shooters
Japan-exclusive video games
Parody video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Single-player video games
Video games about mecha
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in the 1970s
Shobhit University (Gangoh). Shobhit University is a private university located in Gangoh, Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in July 2012 under the Shobhit Vishwavidhaylaya, Uttar Pradesh Adhiniyam, 2011.

History
Shobhit University began its way in July 2000, with the establishment of Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology (SIET) by the NICE Society, which was itself established in July 1989. The institute included two engineering colleges, at Gangoh and Meerut, the latter better known as Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology, Saharanpur. The college was affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University and later to Gautam Buddh Technical University, both now Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University.

In July 2006 the NICE Society established the Adarsh Vijendra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AVIPS), now a constituent college of the university. In November 2006 the Meerut college received deemed to be university status, and became popularly known as Shobhit University, Meerut, officially Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology.

In July 2012 the Gangoh college became a university under the Shobhit Vishwavidhaylaya, Uttar Pradesh Adhiniyam, 2011. The School of Law and Constitutional Studies (SLCS) was established in July 2013, followed by the Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra Ayurved Medical College and Research Centre in July 2014, the School of Education in July 2015 and the Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra Medical College of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences in January 2016.

Academics
The university offers graduate, postgraduate and professional degrees through the following schools and departments:
 School of Engineering & Technology
 School of Biological Engineering & Sciences
 Department of Computer Science & Applications
 School of Business Studies & Entrepreneurship
 School of Ayurveda
 School of Pharmacy
 School of Law & Constitutional Studies
 School of Naturopathy 
 School of Education
 School of Basic & Applied Sciences
 School of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences

Accreditation 
Like all universities in India, Shobhit University is approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The education programmes are recognised by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). Shobhit University Gangoh is ranked 57th by India Today 2023 under the University (Private) category, 101-125 by NIRF 2023 under the Pharmacy category, and 119 by Outlook 2023 under the Engineering (Private) category.

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Saharanpur district
Educational institutions established in 2012
2012 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Private universities in Uttar Pradesh
Snecked masonry. Snecked masonry has a mixture of roughly squared stones of different sizes. It is laid in horizontal courses with rising stones projecting through the courses of smaller stones. Yet smaller fillers called snecks also occur in the courses.  The mixture of stone sizes produces a strong bond and an attractive finish. Large amounts of planning for bricklaying process should be considered, as the corners cannot mould perfectly into every size stone. Additional stonecutting and on-the-scene stonecrafting skills may be required.

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Masonry
Building materials
Stonemasonry
Building stone
John Murray (professor of robotics). John Christopher Murray  (born June 1978) is Professor of Robotics and the Academic Dean for the Faculty of Technology at the University of Sunderland, he was previously Professor of Autonomous Systems and Head of Computer Science at the University of Hull. He was previously at the University of Lincoln. He received his BSc from Aberystwyth University and his PhD from the University of Sunderland.

Murray has spent the majority of his academic career working in the field of robotics, notably in Human–robot interaction where he has developed several models of interaction processes to allow for Humans and Robots to work alongside one another, particularly in how Cognitive bias play a role in this interaction.

Selected publications
 Atanbori J, Dickinson P, Duan W, Murray J, Appiah K and Shaw E, "Automatic classification of bird species using Computer Vision techniques", Pattern Recognition Letters (2016)
 Biswas M and Murray J, "The Effects of Cognitive Biases and Imperfectness in Long-term Robot-Human Companionship: Case Studies using Five biases on Humanoid Robot", Cognitive Systems Research (2016)
 Biswas M and Murray J, "Can Cognitive biases in Robots make more ‘Likeable’ Human-Robot Interactions than the Robots without such Biases: Case Studies using Five Biases on Humanoid Robot", International Journal of Artificial Life Research (2017)
 Frohnwieser A, Pike T, Murray J and Wilkinson A, "Lateralised eye use towards video stimuli in bearded dragons", Animal Behaviour and Cognition, ISSN 2372-5052 (2017)
 Frohnwieser A, Pike T, Murray J and Wilkinson A, "Perception of artificial conspecifics by Bearded Dragons (Pogona Vitticeps)", Integrative Zoology (2018)

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Living people
1978 births
Academics of the University of Hull
Roboticists
21st-century British scientists
Academics of the University of Lincoln
Alumni of the University of Sunderland
Alumni of Aberystwyth University
Fellows of the Higher Education Academy