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THE ANALOG THING. THE ANALOG THING, abbreviated THAT, is a small universal electronic analog computer produced by anabrid GmbH in Germany.

Its production began in 2021. The system is mainly targeted at the markets of education and science.

Overview 

THE ANALOG THING is equipped with eight adjustable coefficients, five analog integrators, four summers, two multipliers, two comparators, and several inverters, resistor networks, capacitors, diodes, and Z-diodes.

It has four analog output lines that can be connected to either an oscilloscope, an analog to digital converter or voltmeters.

The computer is programmed with patch cables connecting the components on a switching board. It can, additionally, be partly controlled from a digital computer via a hybrid port.

If an application requires more computing elements than are available on a single machine, two or more THATs can be coupled via dedicated interfaces referred to as MASTER and MINION ports. The number of computers that can be linked with a MASTER-MINION chain is theoretically unlimited.

Usage 

Typical use cases in education and theory include the analog modelling of time-based dynamical systems, e.g. mass-spring systems, population dynamics, epidemiological prevalence in the evolution of diseases, mathematical attractors, radioactive decay in nuclear physics, chemical reactions and neuronal bursting.

Public Reception 

In 2024, THE ANALOG THING received both the iF Design award and the Red Dot design prize for its construction. According to Red Dot "the circuit board-like appearance, versatile use and future-focused conception" are among its outstanding design principles.

References 

Analog computers
Computers designed in Germany
Karen Ohland. Karen J. Ohland is an American biomechanical engineer and museum administrator, and the former president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Education and career
Ohland graduated from Swarthmore College with a double major in engineering and biology. Continuing her studies, she earned a master's degree in anatomy from the University of Chicago.

As a biomechanical engineer, she researched the mechanical properties and injuries to ligaments at the University of Pittsburgh's Orthopaedic Biomechanics Lab and Musculoskeletal Research Center from 1986 to 1993. She also worked on orthopedic implants for Howmedica Inc. and Howmedica Osteonics, until its acquisition in 1998.

Shifting to a career in museum administration, she worked as a finance administrator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for almost 13 years before, in 2012, moving to the Princeton University Art Museum as associate director for finances and operations. She continues to work for the museum as a senior associate director.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Ohland joined the ASME in 1983, and was named as an ASME Fellow in 2021. She became president of the ASME for the 2022–2023 term.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Riposte Alimentaire. Riposte Alimentaire, formerly Dernière Rénovation, is a French civil resistance collective created in the spring of 2022.

It is part of an international network of eleven climate projects called A22, including Just Stop Oil (United Kingdom), Återställ Våtmarker (Sweden), Renovate Switzerland (Switzerland), Last Generation (Germany).

Having become known for its peaceful outbursts, it demanded a thermal renovation plan for buildings until December 2023, the date on which Dernière Rénovation announced the end of its campaign, considering that it had gone "to the end of what [they] could hope to gain".

On January 28, 2024, the collective launched a new campaign called Riposte Alimentaire, in order to obtain the establishment of a social security for sustainable food.

The collective announced that they would stop their activities on 17 October 2024.

References

French environmentalists
Food activists
Markus Disse. Markus Disse (b. 1963) is a german hydrologist and professor of hydrology and river basin management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Disse graduated high school in 1982 and began studies in Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Hanover. From 1985, he moved to the University of Karlsruhe (TH) where he specialized in water management and hydraulic engineering graduating in 1990. His dissertation 'Modelling of evaporation and groundwater recharge in flat catchment areas' received summa cum laude in 1995.

After completing his diploma, he worked as a research assistant at the institutes for Hydraulic Engineering and Cultural Technology, and Hydrology and Water Management, at the University of Karlsruhe. From 1996 he was a scientific employee at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) in Koblenz, where he led the department of Water Morphology until 1998, specializing in Solids Transport and Solids Balance, and he was subsequently Project Manager in the department for Water Volume, Levels and Discharge Modelling. In 2003, Disse became Professor of Water Management and Resource Conservation at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, a position held until 2013 when he became head of the Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management at the Technical University of Munich.

Disse's research includes numerous international publications on topics such as flood risk management, climate impact adaptation, and sustainable water resources management. In recent years, Prof. Disse has been working on near-natural adaptation to climatic extremes (droughts and floods) through ecological water retention measures in the catchment areas.

References

External links 
German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)

Living people
1963 births
German hydrologists
Joseph Walcher. Joseph Walcher (8 January 1719 – 29 November 1803) was an Austrian Jesuit mathematician and physicist. He was involved in management and engineering of structures on the Danube river to enhance navigability and aid shipping. He also studied the glaciers of the Tyrol that fed the rivers of Austria.

Life and work 

Walcher was born in Linz and joined the Society of Jesus in 1737. After studying theology and mathematics, he became particularly interested in mechanics and hydraulics. He was ordained priest in 1748. He taught Hebrew at Graz and then studied mathematics and physics in Vienna and Linz. From 1756 to 1773 he taught mechanics at the Theresian Academy in Vienna. After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, he was put in charge of navigation on the Danube by Maria Theresa because of his expertise in hydraulics. He helped direct improvements in shipping and navigation based on the management of the Rhine. Under his direction several whirlpools in the Strudel rapids and dangerous rocky sections of the Wolfskügel and the Meisenkügel were cleared up. In 1771 he went to study the glaciers in the Oetzthal Alps which had threatened to break and cause damage. He published Nachrichten von den Eisbergen in Tyrol in 1773. In 1783 he designed a canal between the Vltava and the Danube by diverting the Rodl. The canal would start from the Moldau at Hohenfurth through the Haselgraben and reach Linz. This plan was however never realized. In 1797 he was in charge of the mechanical museum of the Theresian Academy. His 50 years of priesthood was celebrated in Vienna in 1798. He became director of mathematics and physical sciences at the University of Vienna in 1802. The Walcherstraße in Vienna was named after him in 1897.

References

External links 
 Nachrichten von den Eisbergen im Tyrol (1773)
 Nachrichten von den bis auf das Jahr 1791 an dem Donau-Strudel zur Sicherheit der Schiffahrt fortgesetzten Arbeiten (1791)

1719 births
1803 deaths
Jesuits
Katana Engine. Katana Engine (formerly known as KTGL (Koei Tecmo Game Library)) is an in-house game engine developed by Koei Tecmo. It has been used for the development of several of the company's games, such as Wild Hearts and Rise of the Rōnin.

Features 

Katana Engine supports modern 3D features such as automatic LOD generation and fluid simulation. It has a built in world environment system that automatically changes lighting based on the time of day and latitude and longitude and supports various weather conditions such as rain, sun, snow, etc. The environment system can also be used to dictate the ambient sound. The engine uses Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows along with a proprietary reflection probe system for its shadows. It also includes a physically based material editor, as well as a procedural foliage placement system. Aside from physically based parameters, materials contain other parameters that affect its appearance; for example, a material can be set to accept a parameter that allows it to become dusty depending on the local environment. The engine supports PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S.

History 
Development of Katana Engine began in the early 2000s as a collection of individual production tools. Beginning in the 2010s, it started to develop into a full featured engine, and has since grown in usage internally.

Director Ryota Matsushita stated that the engine is updated with new features for each new game that uses it. For example, 2D shading of 3D characters was improved for the release of Fate/Samurai Remnant.

Yasunori Sakuda, producer of Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme, said that Katana Engine will replace the Yawaraka Engine used in previous games in the series due to features such as its superior environment system; the developers were not able to implement rain in Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation due to constraints of the engine.

Games 
This list only includes games that have been confirmed to use Katana Engine.

See also 
 :Category:Katana Engine games

References  

Video game engines
Silvia Lenaerts. Silvia Lenaerts (Bree, 1966) is a Belgian chemist. She has been rector magnificus of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands since 11 May 2023. Before that, she was the first vice-rector of valorisation & development at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Lenaerts is the first female rector of a technical university in the Netherlands. She is a strong advocate of cooperation between universities, government, and industry in finding solutions to societal problems.

Education and early career 
Lenaerts studied chemistry at KULeuven. She was the first chemist to obtain a PhD at IMEC. IMEC is the Flemish research centre for nanoelectronics and digital technology. In the following years, Lenaerts was involved in a startup to develop gas sensors. This technology was acquired by Bosch.

University of Antwerp 
In 2007, Lenaerts left for the University of Antwerp. There she became head of the Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology (DuEL) research group she founded. At the same university, Lenaerts became vice-rector with the Valorisation and Development portfolio in 2016.

As vice-rector, Lenaerts dedicated herself to connecting the Antwerp university with Flemish business, society and (European, federal and Flemish) government, focusing on three areas: digitisation, sustainable chemistry and materials, and infectious diseases. She held several directorships, including at Lantis (Livable Antwerp through Innovation and Cooperation).

Rector magnificus TU Eindhoven 
Lenaerts has been rector magnificus (president) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven) in the Netherlands since 11 May 2023. She was the first female rector of a technical university in the Netherlands.[5][6] She also leads Eindhoven University's Future Chips flagship, focused on semiconductor technology, in collaboration with strategic research and innovation partners in the Netherlands and elsewhere.

Work for Europe 
Since 2002, Lenaerts has worked for the European Commission as an expert, reviewer, adviser on framework programmes and member of the expert groups of the European University Association (EUA) on research and innovation strategy, and on innovation ecosystems. In 2022, she joined the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as a board member.

References

Living people
Belgian women chemists
KU Leuven alumni
Rectores Magnifici of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kratos MQM-178 Firejet. The Kratos MQM-178 Firejet is a subsonic aerial target drone for use in training against surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles. It was developed by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, and is currently in service with several operators worldwide.

Operational history
Pre-production MQM-178As were first used by QinetiQ during the 2017 Formidable Shield exercise; in July 2018 a production contract was signed by QinetiQ for delivery of MQM-178s over a ten-year period. In November 2018 a three-year contract, with an option for another six years, was signed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration for MQM-178A deliveries.

Specifications

References

MQM-178
2010s United States special-purpose aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Mid-wing aircraft
Twinjets
V-tail aircraft
Beechcraft BQM-126. The Beechcraft BQM-126A, also known by the company designation Model 997, is a subsonic aerial target drone developed by Beechcraft for use by the United States Navy. No production of the type was undertaken.

Design and development
The Beechcraft Model 997 was proposed in response to a 1983 United States Navy requirement for a target drone to replace the BQM-34 in service. Based on the Army's MQM-107 Streaker in design, the Model 997 was a low-wing pilotless aircraft, with a twin-tail configuration to reduce its height to assist in carriage by launching aircraft. A Microturbo J403 turbojet provided propulsion. Launch was from a carrier-based aircraft, although it could also be land- or ship-launched through the use of a solid rocket booster; landing, if the drone was not shot down, was by parachute.

Operational history
The first flight of the Model 997 took place in March 1984; in 1985, the Navy ordered the drone into full-scale development, designating it BQM-126A. The first launch of a pre-production BQM-126A took place at the Pacific Missile Test Center on March 30, 1987; testing was delayed due to issues with subsystem designs, as well as Congressional cuts to the program's budget.

The BQM-126A was considered superior to the BQM-34S with regards to threat replication, and was intended to be significantly lower in cost as well. Orders for up to 700 aircraft were planned; however due to budgetary constraints, production of the BQM-126A was cancelled.

Survivors
One surviving drone is on display at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.

Specifications

References

BQM-126
1980s United States special-purpose aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined jet aircraft
Aircraft with auxiliary rocket engines
Twin-tail aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1984
XMC (company). Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing, Co., Ltd. (XMC; ) is a Chinese semiconductor integrated device manufacturer. It produces logic chips, contact image sensors and NOR flash memory.

It is a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies (YTMC) and plays an integral part in its 3D NAND memory production.

Background 

Wuhan Xinxin was originally founded by the Wuhan Government in 2006 as one of the first semiconductor foundries in Wuhan.

In October 2010, the Donghu New Technology Development Zone Administrative Committee and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) jointly invested in Wuhan Xinxin. SMIC also struck a deal with the Wuhan Government to manage Wuhan Xinxin for a management. Industry critics sated SMIC managed it "half-heartedly".

In March 2013, Wuhan Xinxin acquired SMIC's shares to become an independent company and rebranded itself as XMC shifting focus from foundry services for mainstream products to producing flash memory via an expanded partnership deal with Spansion.

In July 2016, Tsinghua Unigroup acquired a majority stake in XMC with the deal being brokered by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund.Tsinghua Unigroup would merge XMC with its memory chip-making operations to form YTMC with XMC being a subsidiary under it.

In April 2018, Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited the facilities of XMC as part of an inspection tour.

On 3 December 2018, XMC announced the successful development of its three-dimensional wafer stacking technology based on its three-dimensional integration technology platform.

In March 2024, it was reported that XMC initiated a project focused on developing and manufacturing High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).

In May 2024, XMC filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market. On 30 September, the China Securities Regulatory Commission approved XMC's IPO application.

In December 2024, XMC was targeted in a new round of US export controls and added to the United States Department of Commerce's Entity List.

See also
Yangtze Memory Technologies
Semiconductor industry in China

References

External links
 

2006 establishments in China
Companies based in Wuhan
Computer memory companies
Computer storage companies
Manufacturing companies based in Wuhan
Semiconductor companies of China
VASP Flight 141. On September 4, 1964, VASP Flight 141, a Vickers 701C Viscount, was operating a domestic passenger service between Recife, Brazil, to São Paulo, Brazil, with two stopovers. During the second flight of the day, the aircraft impacted mountainous terrain, killing all 39 occupants onboard.

Background

Aircraft 
The aircraft involved was a Vickers Viscount 701C, registered as PP-SRR with serial number 66. It had logged a total of 17165 airframe hours and was manufactured in 1955. This accident was the 49th hull-loss accident of the same aircraft at the time, the 32nd fatal accident of this type, the 16th worst accident of the type and the 6th at the time.

Passengers and crew 
There were 34 passengers and 5 crew members. Of the 34 passengers, 18 originated from Vitoria and 6 from Recife. The pilot in command had 6787 total flight hours, with 428 flight hours on this type, while the copilot had 5945 flight hours, with 433 on this type.

Flight 
The aircraft took off from the Vitória-Goiabeiras Airport at 6:45 p.m., GMT, and immediately climbed to . The last contact of the plane was when the crew asked Rio de Janeiro airport control for emergency landing preparations. At 7:33 p.m., the aircraft reported over Rio Bonito when the aircraft was actually over Nova Friburgo,  from Rio Bonito. One minute later, the aircraft crashed into the west slope of the Pico da Caledônia mountain at an altitude of . Eyewitnesses saw the plane bursting and on flames. The probable cause determined by the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) was unknown.

Aftermath and legacy 
The accident was found by a Brazilian Air Force search plane. After the discovery, a large rescue operation was initiated. Villagers were told to donate blood if any survivors were found. Helicopters stood by parachute rescuers to find survivors. Approximately nine ambulances were sent to the location. Rains swept the mountains with heavy fog. Only a few trails lead up the mountain. The local air ministry said that the accident was "erroneous and ruinous".

See also 

 VASP Flight 234
 VASP Flight 168

References 

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1964
Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers Viscount
141
Adela Ben-Yakar. Adela Ben-Yakar is an Israeli biomedical engineer who is the Harry Jr. L. Kent Endowed Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research uses the tools of photonics to address challenges in medical diagnostics and therapeutics. She is a Fellow of SPIE, Optica and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Early life and education 
Ben-Yakar has always been interested in space exploration, and wanted to be an astronaut as a child. Ben-Yakar studied aeronautical engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she earned a master's degree. She moved to the United States for graduate research, embarking on a doctoral program at Stanford University. Her research studied transverse jets in supersonic crossflows, a critical aspect to the design of hypersonic air-breathing propulsion engines. During her PhD she combined space studies with photonics. She combined planar laser-induced fluorescence and ultrafast framing rate schileren imaging, and propose improved injection schemes for flame holding. After earning her doctorate, she remained at Stanford as a postdoctoral researcher.

Research and career 
In 2005, Ben-Yakar moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where she was made a professor in 2016. She works in optics and photonics for medical diagnostics and therapies. She has created systems for nonlinear brain imaging, endoscopies and ultrafast laser microsurgery. Her endoscopes were proposed to replace traditional scalpels, using powerful laser pulses to penetrate living tissue, and minimize collateral damage.

Ben-Yakar is the co-founder of vivoVerse, which uses AI-powered data analytics and microfluidics to test drugs and molecules.

Awards and honors 
 Elected Fellow of SPIE
 Elected Fellow of Optica 
 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
 Zonta Amelia Earhart Award
 NIH Director’s Transformative Award

Selected publications

References 

Living people
Stanford University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Director-class tugboat. The Director class was a class of diesel-electric paddle tugboats ordered by the British Admiralty's Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service and constructed in 1957–1958. Each paddle wheel was driven by an individual electric motor, giving outstanding manoeuvrability. Paddle tugs were able to more easily make use of the inherent advantage of side wheel paddle propulsion, having the option to disconnect the clutches that connected the paddle drive shafts as one. This enabled them to turn one paddle ahead and one astern to turn and manoeuvre quickly.

The class was principally designed to assist the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers when manoeuvring in port. The masts were designed to fold to allow the tugs to operate under the overhang of the flight deck. They were also equipped for fire fighting and salvage as well as combatting oil spills.

List of ships

References

Bibliography

Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service
Tugboats of the Royal Navy
Merlin (missile). The Merlin, also known as Bozdoğan, is a short-range air-to-air missile developed by the Turkish company TÜBİTAK SAGE. The missile is developed from the GÖKTUĞ program. The missile uses an off-boresight capable IIR (Imaging infrared) seeker with all aspect engagement capability and counter-countermeasure capability. The missile has High thrust reduced smoke solid propellant technology and an electronic rocket motor aiming and firing system. According to the manufacturer, it will has advanced agility due to use of thrust vectoring, a unique warhead for maximum probability of kill and a reliable fuze. It missile is  compatible with MIL-STD-1553 and MIL-STD-1760 and is designed for use with the LAU-129 guided missile launcher.

History
On 14 April 2021, Merlin conducted a live firing test from a Turkish Air Force F-16. The missile successfully destroyed a TAI Şimşek target drone. Merlin reaches a speed of greater than Mach 4.

User

Current operators 
  Turkish Air Force

Future operators 
  Azerbaijan Air Force

See also
Peregrine
 ASRAAM

References

Short range air-to-air missiles
Military equipment introduced in the 2020s
Air-to-air missiles of Turkey