omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Borneo SubOrbitals. Borneo SubOrbitals was a public-private spaceflight venture created in 2019. In 2022, the project was replaced by SPACE educational programme in collaboration with MEASAT Satellite Systems which allows students to launch rockets in virtual reality.

History 
This venture involved several tertiary institutions and a local social enterprise, which consists of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), University of Malaya (UM) and Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), with the collaboration of social enterprises such as The Learning Curve, The Hills Lifestyle Community Lifestyle Hub and a company named Strand Aerospace Malaysia. Each party will be responsible for rocket research, design, assembly and launch. UTP will be handling simulations and electronics design, while UM will be handling static and dynamic structural analysis and rocket material selection and UNIMAS will manufacture and assemble the rocket, with the supervision and consultancy of Strand Aerospace Malaysia.

Hybrid rocket suborbital project 
The project aimed to launch a hybrid-fueled suborbital rocket from Kuching to reach an altitude of 55 km by the year 2022. The rocket will be equipped with sensors and telemetry to collect atmospheric and ocean data for researchers working at MOSTI. The rocket is then projected to land in the ocean after completing its mission. The previous rocket launch was a flight test by a teenager in Kuching that reached 5 km in altitude in October 2018. The suborbital rocket will also be gradually contributed to by students through competitions.

See also
Independence-X Aerospace
Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd (ATSB)

References

External links 
 Borneo SubOrbitals Facebook

Private spaceflight companies
Rocket engine manufacturers of Malaysia
2019 establishments in Malaysia
Aerospace companies of Malaysia
Technology companies established in 2019
Aircraft engineering companies
Traveller Book 8: Robots. Traveller Book 8: Robots is a supplement published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1986 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller.

Contents
This book explains how self-aware robots can be designed and used both as player characters and as non-player characters for Traveller. The books gives details of the history of robots, types of robots, who builds them, the robot brain, a universal description system, new character skills for robots, and how to design a robot.

Publication history
GDW first published the science fiction role-playing game Traveller in 1977, and followed that with dozens of supplements and adventures, including Traveller Book 8: Robots in 1986, a 56-page digest-sized softcover book written by Joe D. Fugate, Sr., with illustrations by Steve Venters.

Reception
Marcus L. Rowland reviewed Traveller Alien Module 8: Robots for White Dwarf #85, and stated that "The rules are clear and reasonably concise, and suggest a few interesting scenario ideas. At 56 pages this isn't the most useful rules supplement for a Traveller campaign, it's more for completists and GMs."

See also
Classic Traveller Books

References

Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1986
Traveller (role-playing game) supplements
Mercury 18. The Mercury 18, sometimes just referred to as a Mercury,  is an American sailboat that was designed by Ernest Nunes as a one design racer and first built in 1939. The boat was one of the first one-design sailboat classes designed for plywood construction.

The design is sometimes confused with the unrelated Sparkman & Stephens 1940 Cape Cod Mercury design.

Production
The design was built in the United States by Ernest Nunes, W. D. Schock Corp originally in Corona, California and later in Santa Ana, California and Moore Sailboats in Watsonville, California. By 1994 a total of 1,060 boats had been completed, but it is now out of production.

W. D. Schock Corp records indicate that they built 21 boats between 1963 and 1967.

At one point plans and also unfinished fiberglass hulls were available for amateur construction.

Design
The Mercury 18 is a recreational keelboat, originally built predominantly of plywood and, starting in 1952, from fiberglass with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with wooden or aluminum spars. The single chined hull has a spooned raked stem, a raised counter transom, a keel-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast built into the keel.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

For sailing the design is equipped with two jumper stays, the topmost or which is angled forward, plus a backstay. Flotation is not required by the class rules, but Personal flotation devices, bilge pumps and additional safety equipment is required to be carried for racing.

The design is normally raced with a crew of two sailors.

Operational history
The design is supported by an active US west coast type club, the Mercury Class, that organizes racing.

In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "this classic-design, full-keel sloop is usually found in the
[United States] Northeast or on the West Coast."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Buccaneer 200
Catalina 18
COM-PAC 19
Com-Pac Sunday Cat
Cornish Shrimper 19
Drascombe Lugger
Hunter 19-1
Hunter 19 (Europa)
Naiad 18
Nordica 16
Sanibel 18
Sandpiper 565
Siren 17
Typhoon 18
West Wight Potter 19

References

Keelboats
1930s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Two-person sailboats
Sailboat type designs by Ernest Nunes
Sailboat types built by W. D. Schock Corp
Sailboat types built by Moore Sailboats
Anti-trawling device. Anti-trawling devices are a specific kind of artificial reef. Trawling is a controversial fishing practice which has attracted environmental, legal, and political objections. Anti-trawling devices have been invented, manufactured, and deployed to damage trawlers' nets and thus slow them down, force them to stop operating, or force them elsewhere. They are usually large concrete blocks with metal hooks or blades embedded in their tops. Anti-trawling devices are being used by environmental groups, fishermen, and sometimes even by governments.

As with artificial reefs in general, the actual effectiveness of anti-trawling reefs is understudied. An Australian Government analysis anticipates very high costs and difficulty if they are removed. If they are removed, however, they expect:
 Increased fish abundance rather than decreased, because typically fishing increases around such devices to greater degree than the actual biological productivity does;
 Return and resurgence of finfish and other mobile organisms;
 Stabilization of prey numbers due to restored ecological balance due to the return of larger predators;
 Return of predators preventing "spill over" of predators and grazers into other areas;
 Restoration of appropriate movement and migration patterns.

They recommend changing permitting processes to account for the cost, and for whether removal is even feasible.

References

Fishing techniques and methods
Michael Ortiz (mathematician). Michael Ortiz (born August 6, 1954) is a dual American-Spanish scientist and researcher in the fields of structural, continuum and computational mechanics and is a Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. Prior to his arrival at Caltech in 1995, he was Professor of Engineering at Brown University.

Since 2020 he is a Professor Emeritus in the Engineering and Applied Science Division at Caltech, also holding positions as Research Chair in the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn and as adjunct professor and Timoshenko Distinguished Fellow in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics of Stanford University.

Awards 

 Rodney Hill Prize, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) 2008.
 Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015.
 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, 2019.
 John von Neumann Medal, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2019.

Academy Membership 

 2013 Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
 2007 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS).
 1999 Corresponding Member, Spanish Academy of Engineering.

References 

1954 births
Living people
Gracemont (microarchitecture). Gracemont is a microarchitecture for low-power processors used in systems on a chip (SoCs) made by Intel, and is the successor to Tremont. Like its predecessor, it is also implemented as low-power cores in a hybrid design of the Alder Lake, Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors.

Design 
Gracemont is the fourth generation out-of-order low-power Atom microarchitecture, built on the Intel 7 manufacturing process.

The Gracemont microarchitecture has the following enhancements over Tremont:

 Level 1 cache per core:
 eight-way-associative 64KB instruction cache  
 eight-way-associative 32KB data cache
 New On-Demand Instruction Length Decoder
 Instruction issue increased to five per clock (from four)
 Instruction retire increased to eight per clock (from seven)
 Execution ports (functional units) there are now 17 (from eight)
 Reorder buffer increased to 256 entries (from 208)
 Improved branch prediction
 Support for AVX, AVX2, FMA3 and AVX-VNNI instructions
 2 or 4MB shared L2 cache per 4-core cluster Alder Lake-S/H/P/U family has 2MB.  Raptor Lake-S/H/P/U family has 4MB.

Technology 
 System on a chip (SoC) architecture
 3D tri-gate transistors
 Thermal design power (TDP)
 10W desktop processors
 6W mobile processors

List of Gracemont processors 

The microarchitecture is used as the efficient cores of the 12th generation of Intel Core hybrid processors (codenamed "Alder Lake"), the 13th generation of Intel Core hybrid processors (codenamed "Raptor Lake") and the 14th generation of Intel Core hybrid processors (codenamed "Raptor Lake Refresh"). It's also used in the Alder Lake-N line-up as the only core cluster, intended for low-power applications.

Alder Lake-N

See also
 List of Intel CPU microarchitectures

References

Intel x86 microprocessors
Intel microarchitectures
X86 microarchitectures
Computer-related introductions in 2021
Commonwealth Railways F Class. The Commonwealth Railways F Class was a 2-6-0 tender engine built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1885 for the New South Wales Government Railways as their K.294 class and later sold to the Commonwealth Railways becoming their F class.

History 
10 locomotives designed by Mr W. Scott were ordered by the NSWGR from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1884. They were classed as 'K' and entered service in 1885 but were found to be bad at building up steam and so were put on coal trains in the Newcastle districit. Around the same time that the Commonwealth Railways had purchased their Commonwealth Railways D class they obtained a single example of the NSWGR K class. The  locomotive in question was K295 and was reclassed as the F class and numbered 55. The engine was obtained to shunt the wharf at Port Augusta. Originally the Commonwealth Railways (CR) had requested an I class (Z26 class) but K295 was the only NSWGR loco available. F55 wasn't in good condition but was needed urgently and was pushed into service at the wharf straight after being unloaded in June 1915. However F55 was unfit for the work and was taken out of service on 6 June 1916. It was then officially withdrawn in November 1921 it then stood in the scrap line for 6 years before finally being scrapped in June 1937.

Class list

References 

Railway locomotives introduced in 1915
Baldwin locomotives

Standard gauge locomotives of Australia

F class
2-6-0 locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Freight locomotives
Steam locomotives of New South Wales
Tekever. Tekever is an IT, aerospace, defence and security technologies company based in Lisbon region, Portugal. It was founded in 2001 by former students of the IST engineering school. In 2006, it initiated a process of internationalization, and now has operating branches in United Kingdom, USA, and France, among others. It is the leading company in several European technological joint ventures.

Products
Tekever manufactures the following products:
Tekever AR3 – autonomous small unmanned aerial system (UAS), for medium range maritime and land-based ISTAR missions. The AR3 can be catapult launched and parachute or net retrieved, or use its optionally VTOL capability for additional flexibility and a more reduced logistics footprint;
 Tekever AR4 – hand launched mini-UAS, for close range maritime and land-based ISTAR missions;
 Tekever AR5 – SATCOM-enabled tactical UAS for medium and long range maritime and land ISTAR missions.
 Inter-Satellite Link (ISL)

Operators

Current operators 
:

 National Republican Guard: Tekever AR3, Tekever AR4 Light Ray and Tekever AR5;
 Polícia de Segurança Pública: Tekever AR1 Blue Ray;
 Portuguese Navy: Tekever AR3 and Tekever AR4;
 Portuguese Army: Tekever AR4 during deployment in Kosovo.

:

 Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom): Tekever AR5.

:

 Brazilian Navy: Tekever AR2 Carcará

:

 Military Forces of Colombia.
:

 Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management: Tekever AR4.

:

 Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency: Tekever AR3.
Nigerian Navy: Tekever AR3.
Nigerian Air Force: Tekever AR3.
:

 Senegalese Fishing Ministry: Tekever AR3.
:

 Armed Forces of Ukraine: Tekever AR3 and Tekever AR5.
:

 National Police Corps: Tekever AR3.

 European Maritime Safety Agency: Tekever AR5.
 European Space Agency: Inter-Satellite Link (ISL)

Potential operators 
:

 Angolan Armed Forces.

References

Defence companies of Portugal
Technology companies of Portugal
Companies based in Lisbon
Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers
Marcel Zadi Kessy. Marcel Zadi Kessy (1936 – 13 October 2020) was an Ivorian politician.

Biography
Born in 1936 in Yacolidabouo, Kessy studied engineering in agricultural techniques. He began working for the Ivorian Ministry of Agriculture, then in a state agriculture company, Satmaci. In the early 1970s, Kessy left the public sector and began working for SODECI, the first private water distributor in Africa, as Ivory Coast ceded its water distribution to the private sector in 1959. He became CEO of SODECI in 1985. Kessy served as President of the Conseil national du patronat ivoirien from 1993 to 1998. The Compagnie Ivoirienne d'Electricité (CIE) was established in 1990. Kessy was appointed CEO in June 2002, simultaneously being CEO of SODECI.

Aside from his positions at SODECI and Bouygues, Kessy held multiple other positions at the international level. He was a founding member of the African Water Association, and served on the board of directors of the International Water Association. He held high positions in several other companies, including Ecobank, CIPREL, and Gras Savoye. He served as chairman of the board of directors of the Société Africaine d'Eau Minérale. He became Managing Director of Eranove in 2009. Lastly, he served as President of the Economic and Social Council of Ivory Coast from May 2011 to June 2016.

Distinctions
Grand Officer of the Ordre national de Côte d'Ivoire
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Doctorate honoris causa of RUSTA

Publications
Culture africaine et gestion de l'entreprise moderne (1998)
Développement de proximité et gestion des communautés villageoises (2004)
Responsabilité politique et développement de proximité (2007)
Renaissances africaines (2010)

References

1936 births
2020 deaths
Ivorian politicians
Knights of the Legion of Honour
People from Bas-Sassandra District
Air Squared. Air Squared is a vertically integrated research and development (R&D) original equipment manufacturing (OEM) firm headquartered in Thornton, Colorado. Its operations include the design, fabrication, and production of oil-free scroll compressors, vacuum pumps, and expanders. Organized in two divisions, Air Squared Manufacturing handles volume assembly and production whereas Air Squared Inc. handles research and development.

History 
In 1991, Robert Shaffer founded Air Squared Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio to license oil-free scroll compressors for medical device applications. Air Squared's first patent was awarded in 1997 titled Scroll compressor having a tip seal. In 2001, Air Squared Manufacturing Inc. was formed in Broomfield, Colorado. Operations were consolidated when both entities merged to form Air Squared Group Inc. in 2016. In 2022, all operations were relocated to Thornton, Colorado.

Products & Research

Compressors 

 Carbon dioxide (CO2) compressor for the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE).
 Liquid-cooled air braking compressor for heavy-duty electric vehicles.
 Fuel cell forklift air compressor.
 Oil-free bedside medical device air compressors.
 Zero-gravity vapor compression refrigeration compressor system (VCRS).

Vacuum Pumps 
 All-metal Tokamak reactor tritium roughing vacuum pump.
 Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) vacuum pump.

Expanders 
 Organic Rankie cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery generator set expander and pump.
 Integrated natural gas, fuel cell, and waste heat recovery generator set expander.

References 

Manufacturing companies based in Colorado
Science and technology in Colorado
Lionel Salem. Lionel Salem (5 March 1937 – 29 June 2024) was a French theoretical chemist, former research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), retired since 1999. He was a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science which named him its annual award winner in 1975 for his work on photochemical processes and on chemical reaction mechanisms.

He has contributed to the theories of forces between molecules, of conjugated molecules, of organic reaction mechanisms and of heterogeneous catalysis. He developed the electronic theory of diradicals, as well as the concepts of diradical and zwitterionic states. In 1968, he described the energy change for the approach of two molecules as a function of their orbitals' properties; this approach, pursued independently by Gilles Klopman, led to the Klopman–Salem equation and the theory of frontier orbitals.

He is the author of several books on chemical subjects, including The Molecular Orbital Theory of Conjugated Systems (1966), The Organic Chemist's Book of Orbitals (with William L. Jorgensen, 1973), The Marvelous Molecule (1979), and Electrons in Chemical Reactions (1982). Salem died in Paris on 29 June 2024, at the age of 87.

External links

References 

Theoretical chemists
20th-century French chemists
1937 births
2024 deaths
RMAF Subang Air Base. RMAF Subang  is a military airport operated by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (). It is located on the edge of Shah Alam, a town in Selangor in Peninsular Malaysia and shares runway facilities with the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.

History

RMAF Subang officially established in 1985. The original purpose of the establishment of this airbase was mainly for tactical airlift and maritime operation. RMAF's aircraft that operates from this airbase including airlifter such as Airbus A400M Atlas, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and CASA/IPTN CN-235. This airbase also operates RMAF's VIP aircraft such as Boeing 737, Airbus A319, Dassault Falcon 900 and Bombardier Global Express and rotorcraft Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. Due to its purpose for maritime operation, RMAF also stationed Beechcraft Super King Air maritime patrol aircraft in this airbase.

See also

 Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, the civilian airport sharing runway facilities with the Air Base
 Royal Malaysian Air Force bases
 List of airports in Malaysia

References

Airports in Selangor
Airports established in 1985
Military installations established in 1985
Ingrid Bruce. Ingrid Monica Bruce (29 April 1940 – 17 November 2012) was a Swedish civil engineer who is remembered for her contributions to the Swedish defence sector, in particular for coordinating the development of the surface-to-air missile system known as BAMSE in the 1990s. Bruce was the first woman to chair the trade union Sveriges Civilingenjörsförbund (CF), in the 1980s, while in the 1990s she headed the Swedish committee under the European organization of civil engineers FEANI.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Säffle, Ingrid Monica Bruce was the daughter of the civil engineer Karl Georg Bruce (1911–1999) and Ellen Ingrid née Hederén (1908–2006). The second of the family's seven children, she graduated from high school in 1958. Following in her father's footsteps, she was one of only three women when she started studying in the electronics department of Chalmers Technical College in Gothenburg. She graduated with her master's degree in civil engineering in 1964 and moved to Stockholm.

Career 
In 1968, Bruce was employed by the Royal Swedish Air Force Administration where she worked on robotic guidance. The following year she moved to the consultancy TUAB where she was involved in navigation technology until she moved back to the Air Force in 1993. There she became project leader of the BAMSE surface-to-air missile system. She was promoted to head the weapons centre in 1998 where she served until her retirement in 2003. 

On the trade union front, while at TUAB she was elected deputy in the local union Sveriges Civilingenjörsförbund (CF) (Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers). In 1975, she became a member of the CF commission for the labour market. After becoming a board member in 1982, she became CF's chair from 1985 to 1989, the first woman to do so. While there, she met Gerhard Raunio, also an engineer and board member; they married in 1991. Through her union activities, she strove to encourage women to gain qualifications in science and technology.

From 1985, she was active in FEANI, the European organisation for civil engineers. In addition to the heading the Swedish committee, she was the organisation's vice-president from 1991 to 1994.

Ingrid Bruce died on 17 November 2012 and is buried in Stockholm.

References

Further reading
 

1940 births
2012 deaths
People from Värmland County
Swedish trade unionists
Swedish civil engineers
Swedish women engineers
20th-century Swedish women engineers
21st-century Swedish women engineers
20th-century Swedish engineers
21st-century Swedish engineers
Women engineers