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Sudan International University. Sudan International University (SIU),  is a private university founded in 1990, and located in Khartoum, Sudan. The university has been accredited by the Sudan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

History
Founded in 1990s and it has more than 20 college

Schools and colleges 
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Nursing
Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences
Faculty of Engineering
The college awards a bachelor's degree in the following majors:-
Medical Engineering - Electronic Engineering - Network and Communication Engineering - Computer Systems Engineering - Civil Engineering - Electrical Engineering (Power Systems - Control Systems) -  Architecture Engineering - Mechatronics Engineering - Mechanical Engineering 
Faculty of Computing and Information Systems
Faculty of Management Sciences
Faculty of Economics, Financial and Banking Studies
Faculty of Tourism & Hotel Management
Sudan International Language Center (SILC)
Department of Quality Assurance and Self-Evaluation

Libraries 
The university has one big library that contains approximately 6000 books from various interests of the humanities, medical and health sciences that help students to obtain information in an easy and comfortable way. The university also has an electronic library with computers that has access to internet.

Campuses
The buildings of Sudan International University are located in the state of Khartoum, where the buildings are distributed in the cities of Arquette and Al-Azhari. City of Al-Azhari has the Medical and Engineering Complex, where the buildings of Arquette include the Faculties of Tourism and Hotel and the Faculties of Computer Science and Economics, etc.

Accreditation 
Sudan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research currently provides accreditation to the university.

See also 

 Education in Sudan

 List of universities in Sudan

References

Universities and colleges in Sudan
Science and technology in Sudan
Scientific organisations based in Sudan
List of Samsung systems on a chip. Samsung has a long history of designing and producing system-on-chips (SoCs) and has been manufacturing SoCs for its own devices as well as for sale to other manufacturers. The first Samsung SoC, the S3C44B0, was built around an ARM7 CPU which operated at 66 MHz clock frequency. Later, several SoCs (S3C2xxx) containing an ARM9 CPU were produced. For more information on Samsung's current SoCs, see Exynos.

List of historical Samsung SoCs

References

Lists of computer hardware
System on a chip
Artificial pancreas (disambiguation). Artificial pancreas may refer to any of the various technologies that seek to replicate the endocrine functions of the pancreas: 

 Automated insulin delivery systems, the most common meaning of "artificial pancreas" as diabetes mellitus is the most common disease of pancreatic dysfunction
 Pancreatic islet cell replacement technologies, including those designed to eliminate the requirement for immunosuppression in patients who receive islet cell transplants
 Automated glucose clamps
Graeme Ackland. Graeme John Ackland FRSE is the Professor of Computer Simulation at the University of Edinburgh.  

His research concerns quantum mechanical modelling of materials including Density functional theory of metallic hydrogen and other materials under high pressure.  He also worked on Radiation material science designing radiation-resistant steels.
He has also applied simulations to non-physical problems including Neolithic migration and producing predictions of the spread of COVID-19 for the UK Health Security Agency.

He has also served three times as planner (course setter), for the 
2015 World Orienteering Championships in relay and middle distance and 2024 World Orienteering Championships in sprint relay.

Ackland's mother was South African, he is the first physics professor of African origin at University of Edinburgh.

References

External links 
ResearchGate page for Graeme J. Ackland

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish computer scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Msikaba Bridge. The Msikaba Bridge is a cable-stayed steel deck bridge, currently under construction, spanning the Msikaba River, near Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
The Msikaba Bridge forms part of the N2 Wild Coast road (N2WC) project, which aims to improve the travel time between Durban and East London for heavy freight vehicles.

The making of this epic bridge was shown in the National Geographic show "Building Impossible With Daniel Ashville" in Episode 2 of Season 1.

Bridge design
Designed by the Danish firm Dissing+Weitling, the bridge when complete will have a main span of 580m supported from a pair of 127m-tall pylons. The deck will be 194m above the valley floor, making it the third highest bridge in Africa.

Contract award
In 2017 the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) awarded the tender for the bridge's construction to the Concor Mota-Engil Joint Venture (CMEJV), which comprises Concor, a South African-based construction company, and Mota-Engil, a Portuguese construction company at a cost of US$118 million.

Construction timeline 
It is estimated that 28 000 cubic metres of concrete, 2 700 tons of structural steel and 2 500 tons of cables will be needed during construction. The balance of works contained in the contract which includes construction of 1,5 km of approach roadworks on either side of the bridge. Expressed in quantities, this will include 650,000 m³ of bulk earthworks of which 430,000 m³ is hard rock, a conventional three span bridge and four in-situ concrete culverts crossing some of the tributaries.  A temporary gondola lift system will reduce travel time between opposite sides of the bridge during construction.

See also 
List of bridges in South Africa
List of highest bridges in the world

References 

Bridges in South Africa
Bridges under construction
N2 road (South Africa)
Cable-stayed bridges
Argo (Russian spacecraft). Argo (Russian: Арго) is a proposed Russian reusable cargo spacecraft being developed by Reusable Space Transport Systems (MTKS), a private company.

Its first flight is expected in 2024.

On September 1, 2020, the Russian space agency signed an agreement with MTKS about cooperation in the development of a new spacecraft.

Design 
The spacecraft is designed to serve as a reusable cargo vehicle for Russian spaceflight. It will be able to deliver up to 2,000 kilograms of cargo to the ISS and return with 1,000 kilograms of cargo. The full spacecraft mass is 11.5 tons. Cargo compartment volume - 11 m³, spacecraft diameter - 4.1 m, height - 5.6 m.

The tanks of the combined propulsion system (provides maneuvering in orbit, separates before descent) hold up to 1200 kg of fuel, the same capacity as the tanks of the united propulsion system (provides control of descent and landing). 52% of the total mass of the ship's hull will consist of composite elements.

The chairman of the board of directors of MTKS clarified that the post-flight servicing after 10 Argo flights could be carried out directly at the cosmodrome, without transportation of spacecraft to the plant for major refurbishment. The spacecraft will be able to fly and return no less than 20 times.

Production 
MTKS plans to produce 4 Argo spacecraft for $136 million. This cost will include their manufacturing, autonomous testing of spacecraft, and all the work before launch, but not the launches.

RSC Energia and TsNIIMash, as well as several other companies, will be involved in the production.

Flight Profile 
The cargo spacecraft will be launched on the Soyuz-2.1b rocket, with the potential to launch on the Soyuz-7 or Soyuz-5 rockets in the future.

It will carry up to 2000 kilograms of payload to the ISS, including (according to RBC source) no less than 500 kg of fuel. The RBC source also reported that the company plans to start servicing the ISS no later than 2025, with up to 3 launches per year. Flight time as part of an orbital crewed station - up to 300 days. The ship provides for the possibility of an autonomous flight up to 30 days for research, experimental development, performing applied tasks with the possibility of returning the customer's equipment and cargo to Earth.

It will return 1000 kg of payload from the ISS. The descent is carried out by a ballistic scheme with braking by landing engines which are switched on at a height of 250 m. Landing is carried out on a retractable shock-absorbing shield extended at a height of 100 m.

One full mission with Soyuz-2.1b launch will reportedly cost $69 million.

See also 

 Comparison of space station cargo vehicles

Comparable vehicles 

 SpaceX Dragon - Reusable cargo spacecraft
 SpaceX Dragon 2 - Reusable cargo spacecraft

References 

Russian spacecraft
Cargo spacecraft
Reusable spacecraft
International Test Pilots School. The International Test Pilots School Canada (ITPS Canada) located in London, Ontario, is one of the eight test pilot schools recognized globally by the international Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Society of Flight Test Engineers. The school trains test pilots and flight test engineers. It is the first civilian test pilot school in Canada. ITPS Canada is registered as an Authorized Training Organization by the European Aviation Safety Agency.  It shares some facilities with and neighbours the Jet Aircraft Museum at London International Airport.

History 
ITPS first offered flight test training in 1986, when established by a previous senior staff member of the Empire Test Pilots School in the United Kingdom.  The school was first located in Cranfield in England, working alongside the prestigious College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University.

In 2001, the school moved its operations to the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment located at CFB Cold Lake before moving to its current location at  London International Airport, Ontario in 2005.  The school was recognized by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots in 2017 and by the Society of Flight Test Engineers in 2018. In 2022, ITPS Canada hosted the international 10th Annual Flight Test Seminar. Operations include a 10,000 square foot modern offices and classrooms and a 27,000 square foot hangar.

Training 
The curriculum includes both long and short courses focusing on flight tests. Flight test graduate, diploma and certificate courses are offered, the former typically for military students. Test planning, test flying, data analysis and report writing are all part of the training. Students from around the world are trained using various military fighters, training jets, light airplanes, helicopters and flight simulators. One of Australia's first RAAF female pilots, Robyn Clay-Williams, trained at ITPS

Staff 
ITPS Canada has staff members from multiple countries including academics, military veterans, maintenance personnel and test pilot graduates (test pilots and flight test engineers). Notable staff over the years included retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut and pilot Bjarni Tryggvason who flew on Space Shuttle Discovery.

Aircraft 
As of November 2023, ITPS Canada has the following aircraft registered with Transport Canada and the FAA and operate as Nav Canada airline designator SA, and telephony STALLION.

See also 

 List of test pilot schools

References 

Test pilot schools
Educational institutions established in 1986
Education in London, Ontario
1986 establishments in Ontario
Oceanbird. Oceanbird is a concept for wind-powered cargo vessels under development by Wallenius Marine. The concept aims to lower emissions by up to 90 percent and the design was developed in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish maritime technology company SSPA. Financial backing for the development was provided by the Swedish Transport Agency. In 2021, Wallenius announced a partnership with Swedish heavy industry company Alfa Laval to further develop the concept's wingsail design. Construction of a full-scale prototype wing was commenced in 2023, to be installed ashore at Landskrona to test the concept and to develop the crew operation and automation aspects. Meanwhile, Wilhelmsen's car carrier Tirranna has been prepared to receive the second prototype wing, which is planned to be fitted in early 2025.

The concept features expandable wingsails that can rotate 360 degrees and tilt down if needed. The masts will measure  for a total height above the waterline of . The rigging will be made from steel and composite materials and resemble airplane wings. An auxiliary engine will be used to navigate harbors and provide emergency power.

While the design is meant to be usable for different types of ships and even retrofitted to existing vessels, the first vessel from the Oceanbird concept is planned to be a  long roll-on/roll-off ship with a capacity of up to 7,000 cars. Such ships are optimized for transatlantic routes. The first vessel based on the concept is planned to set sail in 2026.

In February 2021, shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen announced their intention to order a vessel of the Oceanbird concept, tentatively named Orcelle Wind.

Partnership with ABBA Voyage 
In May 2022, Wallenius was confirmed as the official partner to the concert residency ABBA Voyage in London. In this partnership, Wallenius will act as the exclusive logistics provider for ABBA Voyage, in addition to providing support and consultation around sustainability. The partnership also allows for future Oceanbird vessels to be named after ABBA songs. Inside the ABBA Arena in London, the VIP lounge section is named The Oceanbird Departure Lounge, as an homage to the namesake wind-powered concept.

See also
Wind-assisted propulsion

References 

Proposed ships
Alexander Efros. Alexander Lwowitsch Efros () is a Russian physicist. Efros is the co-discoverer of semiconducting nanocrystals known as quantum dots.

Efros graduated as a physical engineer in 1973 from the Leningrad Technological Institute and received his doctorate there in 1978. He was a scientist at the Ioffe Institute in Leningrad from 1981 to 1990, at which time he moved to the West.

In the 1980s, Alexey Ekimov, Alexei A. Onuschenko and Efros, discovered semiconductor nanocrystals while studying doped glasses. They correctly determined the quantum mechanical origin of the size-dependent optical properties of nanocrystals.

He was at the Technical University of Munich from 1990 to 1992, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as visiting scientist from 1992 to 1993. Since 1993 he has been an advisor at the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

In 2001, Efros became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the R. W. Wood Prize in 2006 along with Ekimov and Louis E. Brus. In the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in 2008 for his work on quantum dots. In 2013, he received the E. F. Gross Medal of the Russian Optical society for pioneering nanocrystal research.

References 

Russian physicists
Quantum dots
Living people
Technical University of Munich alumni
Humboldt Research Award recipients
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Year of birth missing (living people)
Soviet physicists
BCJ (algorithm). In data compression, BCJ, short for branch/call/jump, refers to a technique that improves the compression of machine code by replacing relative branch addresses with absolute ones. This allows a Lempel–Ziv compressor to identify duplicate targets and more efficiently encode them. On decompression, the inverse filter restores the original encoding. Different BCJ filters are used for different instruction sets, as each use different opcodes for branching.

A form of BCJ is seen in Microsoft's cabinet file format from 1996, which filters x86 CALL instructions for the LZX compressor. The 7z and xz file formats implement BCJ for multiple architectures. ZPAQ calls its x86 BCJ as "E8E9", after the opcode values.

bsdiff, a tool for delta updates, circumvents the need of writing architecture-specific BCJ tools by encoding bytewise differences. This allows it to be much better than the "match and copy" type tools such as VCDIFF, giving an output size of only 6% for Google Chrome. However, Google's courgette, which adds a layer of explicit disassembly, is able to produce 9× smaller diffs.

Effect 
For a squashfs image of a Fedora Linux 31 live image, using x86 BCJ saves an extra 30 MB out of the ~1.7 GB compressed size, but doubles the installation time.

References 

Data compression software
Algorithms on strings
ANB (glider). The ANB-M is a Soviet, single-seat, aluminum ultralight glider that was designed by Peter Almurzin (Петра Альмурзина), Nikitin, and Bogatov whose surnames make up the A, N, B in the glider name (Cyrillic:АНБ).

Design and development
The ANB-M first flew on 1 May 1983. The aircraft was designed as a primary glider of aluminum construction and its design team was headed by Peter Almurzin (Петра Альмурзина) in Kuibyshev (Куйбышева) in the Soviet Union. Websites still sell plans for the ANB-M glider as a United States FAR 103 compliant ultralight glider which requires unpowered vehicles to weigh less than 155 lbs (70.3 kg).

Operational history
The ANB-M won first prize at the Soviet Ministry of Aviation Industry SLA-84 competition in 1984 at Koktebel

Variants
ANB-M
Initial version, first flown 1 May 1983, single seat primary glider with an 8.75 meter wingspan.
ANB-I
Developed as a double ANB-M model that was a two place glider that had the occupants separated in parallel by 2.2 meters apart and utilized an 11 meter wingspan with a twin boom tail.

Specifications

See also

References

1980s Soviet sailplanes
Pavan Ramdya. Pavan Ramdya (born 1979) is an American and Swiss neuroscientist and bioengineer. His research centers on understanding the cognitive and neuromechanical control of behavior toward applications in robotics and artificial intelligence. He holds the Firmenich Next Generation Chair in neuroscience and bioengineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and is head of the Neuroengineering Laboratory at EPFL's School of Life Sciences.

Career 
Ramdya studied neuroscience at Drew University, where he received his bachelor's degree with honors (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 2001. He continued his studies at Harvard University and in 2009 received a PhD for his work in the group of Florian Engert. He then went on to perform postdoctoral work in neurogenetics and robotics in the laboratories of Richard Benton at University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Dario Floreano at EPFL, respectively. There he studied locomotor control and collective behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. In 2015, he moved to the California Institute of Technology to work as a visiting postdoctoral fellow with Michael Dickinson where he developed a means for imaging motor circuit activity in behaving Drosophila.

Since 2017 he has been a professor of neuroscience and bioengineering at EPFL, and head of the Neuroengineering Laboratory located in both the Brain Mind Institute and at the Institute of Bioengineering in EPFL's School of Life Sciences.

Research 
Ramdya's research is focused on reverse-engineering biological neuromechanical control to inspire the development of artificial systems that can mimic the flexibility and agility of animal behaviors. Specifically, he studies limb-dependent behaviors in the adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on genetic manipulations, neural and behavioral recordings, physics simulations and artificial neural networks.

His research has been featured in National Geographic, IEEE Spectrum, Nature, Quanta Magazine, and Le Monde.

Distinctions 
He is a member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence. He has been the recipient of HFSP Long-term and Career Development Awards, as well as the UNIL Biology and Medicine, Young Investigator Award in Basic Science. In 2019, he was awarded an SNSF Eccellenza Grant.

Selected works

References

External links 
 
 Publication listed on Publons
 Website of the Neuroengineering Laboratory

1979 births
Living people
Drew University alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Lausanne alumni
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
American neuroscientists
American bioengineers
Kai Hormann. Kai Hormann (born 1974) is a German computer scientist. He is professor of the faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. Hormann is the co-author of Efficient clipping of arbitrary polygons which describes the Greiner–Hormann clipping algorithm co-developed by him. The algorithm is known for being more performant than the Vatti clipping algorithm, but it cannot handle degeneracies. His research interests are inherent to the field of computer graphics. One of his notable collaborators in his researches is Vladimir Anisimoff's son Dmitry. He was Dean of the faculty of Informatics at USI from 2015 to 2017.

References

External links 

Hormann
Hormann
Academic staff of the University of Lugano
German computer scientists
German academics
Russian hospital ship Svir. Svir is a Russian Navy hospital ship of the Ob-class. Svir is part of the Northern Fleet.

Development 
The four Ob-class hospital ships were designed to provide medical and recreational facilities. They were also employed as personnel transports. They have civilian crews but carry uniformed naval medical personnel. The ships are fully equipped with surgical equipment. Later two units are Project B-320 II, implying a modification to the basic design; the external differences are minor.

Construction and career
She was laid down in 1987 and launched in 1988 by Adolf Barsky shipyard. Commissioned in 1989 as a hospital ship.

Svir participated in long voyages to Cuba in 1990, Angola in 1992, and a serious fire occurred aboard Svir which resulted in 3 deaths and damages to the ship on 10 March 1999 as she was moored in Murmansk.

Svir took journalists to the wreak site of the sunken Kursk submarine between 24 and 29 September 2000. She provided medical support during the expedition to raise the sunken Kursk in 2001.

References 

Ships built in Poland
1988 ships
Hospital ships of the Soviet Union and Russia
Auxiliary ships of the Russian Navy
Ob-class hospital ships
Shakuntala Bhagat. Shakuntala Bhagat  (née Joshi 6 February 1933 – 14 October 2012), was the first woman civil engineer in India.

Early life 
Shakuntala Joshi was the daughter of bridge engineer S. B. Joshi (1906–1991).

In 1953, she became the first woman to earn a civil engineering degree at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai. She earned a master's degree in civil and structural engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career 
Bhagat was assistant professor of civil engineering and head of the Heavy Structures Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai for much of the 1960s.  In 1970, she and her husband founded their own firm, Bhagat Engineering; they also founded Quadricon, a bridge construction firm specializing in a patented prefabricated modular design. She worked on design and construction of hundreds of bridges around the world, including projects in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. She worked on concrete research for the Cement and Concrete Association of London. 

Bhagat was a member of the Indian Road Congress and a fellow of India's Institute of Engineers. In 1972, the Bhagats received an award from the Invention Promotion Board, for their Unishear connectors. In 1993, she was recognized as the Woman Engineer of the Year.

Personal life 
Shakuntala Joshi married fellow civil engineer Anirudha Shivprasad Bhagat. She died in 2012, aged 79.

References 

1933 births
2012 deaths
Indian civil engineers
Indian women engineers
Bridge engineers
Academic staff of IIT Bombay