omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
National Wind Tunnel Facility. The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF), is an initiative in which 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities (host institutions) are made open access (for up to 25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university and industry based.

NWTF is intended to be as inclusive as possible while still  supporting the best science. The scheme was announced on 9 January 2014 by David Willetts, Minister for Science and Universities. The total funding for the Facility is £13.3 million, £10.7 million coming from EPSRC and £2.6 million from the UK Aerospace Technology Institute.

The EPSRC and ATI decided to fund the NWTF in order to match the UK talent base to world-class wind tunnel facilities. The enhanced UK capability in experimental aerodynamics is available to all UK-based researchers.  The stated aim was to create nodes of excellence attracting young researchers. Another aim was to establish a closer tie with industry, creating a pull-through environment and an intended spill-over of the collaboration and benefits to other sectors.

The NWTF programme was to have a duration of five years. A mid-term review was to review the progress made during the first two and a half years. The current end date is December 2018,

Wind tunnels available

Governance 
The NWTF has a management board (MB) that meets approximately every 3 months. This is composed of a Principal Investigator from each of the current host institutions and the NWTF Project Manager. The current MB members are Professor Holger Babinsky (University of Cambridge), Professor Chris Atkin (City University), Professor Kevin Garry (Cranfield University), Dr Richard Green (University of Glasgow), Professor Jonathan Morrison (Imperial College), Professor Peter Ireland (University of Oxford), Professor Bharathram Ganapathisubramani (University of Southampton) and Dr Kevin Gouder (NWTF Project Manager). 

An advisory board (AB) oversees the broader aims of the NWTF, monitors the running of the NWTF and reviews progress versus Key Performance Indicators. The AB is composed of representatives from EPSRC, ATI, senior academics (from the UK and abroad), representatives from industry, an existing National Facility Manager and is chaired by an independent senior UK-based aerodynamicist.

Key Dates

References

Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom
College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Engineering research institutes
Research institutes in the United Kingdom
Wind tunnels
Top (tool). A top is a hand tool with an iron loop and hook used in the creation and splicing of rope. A Top is used to simultaneously hold a piece of rope while providing a hole to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing. A variation of a Top, the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding. The gripfid has a jamming cleat to pull a cord back through the cord split by the fid's point.
A variation of a Top can also be used as a rope wrench, rope separator or rope tool can be used in the manufacture of laid rope. The top is used to prevent the strands of a rope twisting together prematurely, which would lead to the rope being loose, allowing it to untwist. The amount of pressure applied to the top determines the stiffness of the final product; more pressure forces the strands together more tightly, making a rope that is harder to bend.

Tops come in a variety of forms for use on different types of rope. The simplest is a forked stick, used to create three strand rope, however more elaborate grooved bullet-shaped and cast iron types are available. Depending on the gauge of rope being made, the top can either be handheld or mounted on a trolley that moves along the ropewalk.

Usage 

A rope is pushed into the curved hook to hold the rope securely. A Fid is then pushed through the loop to create an opening to prepare for splicing.

History 
Invented in 1822 in Dudley by Alexander Adams the Top was first used to braid and weave rope or twine together.

By the 1900’s the tool was refined to aid specifically with splicing large ropes over 1 inch (25.4 mm) diameter – such as those used on ships.

See also 
 Marlinspike

References

External links 
 ANTIQUE DORHAM BRONZE FID SAILOR'S ROPE SPLICING TOOL NAUTICAL FISHING
 How to Eye Splice in Old, Hard, Rope Using a Swedish Fid

Tools
Ropes
List of Daimler cars. The following is a list of motor cars manufactured by the Daimler Company and its successors.

Veteran (prior to 1904)
All Veteran Daimlers had side valves and chain drive except the Critchley Light car, which had belt drive.

Edwardian (1905–1918)
During the Edwardian era, Daimler licensed and developed the Knight sleeve-valve system. Also during this era, Daimler switched from chain to shaft drive, first using conventional bevel gears, and then, from 1909, using worm gears.

Vintage (1919–1930)
All Vintage Daimlers had sleeve valves and worm final drive.

1930s
Daimler had introduced their patented Daimler Fluid Flywheel matched with Wilson preselector gearboxes across the range by the beginning of this decade. New engines returned to poppet valves, worm final drive continued throughout the decade into the 1950s.

Military vehicles

Post-WWII BSA (1945–1960)
Daimler returned to bevel gear final drive with the big cars of 1946 and later replaced their fluid flywheel and epicyclic gearbox with Borg-Warner automatic transmissions.

Owned by Jaguar (1960–1966)
BSA sold Daimler to Jaguar in 1960. Development of Daimler cars continued, but some "Daimler-ised" Jaguars were introduced as well.

Owned by BMC/BMH/British Leyland/Austin Rover (1966–1984)

Owned by Jaguar (1984–1989)

1986–1994 Daimler XJ40 new car and new engine as prescribed by British Leyland, the 1986 XJ40 Jaguar body could not accept Jaguar's V12 engine
1993–1994 Daimler Majestic XJ40 wheelbase extended by ; 3.2- and 4-litre engines available
1993–1994 Daimler Double-Six XJ81 6-litre engine, intended to take 75% of group V12 sales

Owned by Ford (1989–2007)

1994–1997 Daimler Six and Double-Six X300/X330 body returns to a more recognisable shape
1996 Daimler Century limited edition: 100 straight 6, 100 V12; marking 100 years of Daimler Coventry
1997–2002 Daimler Eight and Super V8 X308 the latter comes with the supercharged V8 engine otherwise found only in the XJR
2005–2009 Daimler Super Eight X350

Notes

References

Citations

Sources

Daimler Company
British Leyland
Jaguar Cars
Jaguar Land Rover
Daimler automobiles, List of
Bosarge Family Education Center. The Bosarge Family Education Center in Boothbay, Maine, United States is an 8,200-square-foot facility at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens built in 2011. It has attained LEED Platinum certification, the highest level that USGBC offers, and has become known as Maine's "greenest building." A 45 kW photovoltaic panel array provides 100% of the energy required to run the building. The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's (NESEA) awarded it the 2013 Net Zero Energy Building Award. The building was designed by Scott Simons Architects of Portland, Maine and Mclay Architects of Waitsfield, Vermont.

The center is named after benefactors Marie and Ed Bosarge.

Energy usage can be tracked publicly online.

Awards 
 2013 AIA Maine Institutional/Commercial Citation Award
 2013 NESEA Zero Net Energy Award
 2012 AIA Vermont Award for Design Excellence

References

External links 
 Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Buildings and structures in Lincoln County, Maine
Boothbay, Maine
Education in Lincoln County, Maine
International Association for Pattern Recognition. The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), is an international association of organizations dedicated to computer vision or pattern recognition. It only admits one organization per country or territory. Individual people participate in the IAPR through their own country or territory's organization.

The IAPR was founded by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu in 1978.

Publications
The IAPR publishes four main academic publications of record:
The IAPR Newsletter, which is published quarterly
Pattern Recognition Letters, which is published monthly by Elsevier (ISSN 0167-8655) 
Machine Vision and Applications, which is published bimonthly by Springer Verlag
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, which is published quarterly by Springer Verlag

Conferences
Conferences run by the IAPR include:
 The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
 2014—Stockholm, Sweden
 2016—Santiago, Chile
 2018—Beijing, China
 2020—Milan, Italy
 2022—Montreal, Canada
 2024—Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata, India
 The International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics  (PRIB)
 The International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA)
 The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
 2013—Washington, DC, USA
 2015—Nancy, France
 2017—Kyoto, Japan
 2019—Sydney, Australia
 2021—Lausanne, Switzerland
 2023—San Jose, California, USA

The IAPR Fellow Award has been awarded biennially since 1994 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition.

References

External links
 

Computer science organizations
Information technology organizations
International organizations based in the United States
International learned societies
Organizations established in 1976
Computer science-related professional associations
Advanced Arresting Gear. The Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) is a type of arresting gear developed by General Atomics for the U.S. Navy's newest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. It was deployed in 2017 on the lead ship of the class, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

It replaces the MK 7 hydraulic arresting gear which is in use on the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.  The AAG is designed for a broader range of aircraft, including UAVs, while reducing manpower and maintenance. Rotary engines which use simple energy-absorbing water turbines (or twisters) coupled to a large induction motor provide finer control of the arresting forces.

Design and development
On March 31, 2016, GA-EMS, in collaboration with the U.S. Navy, conducted the arrestment of an F/A-18E Super Hornet at the Runway Arrested Landing Site (RALS) located at Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst, New Jersey. Previously, AAG tests had only involved inert loads simulating the weight of aircraft at a jet engine testing track installed at the base. The first inert load arrestment was March 27, 2011 and the first fly-in arrestment was October 13, 2016.

That site has executed more than 1,200 inert load arrestments. Testing was delayed four and a half years due primarily to a serious problem with the water twisters, discovered early in 2012.  Existing water twister systems are fixed in their capacity to absorb energy. For AAG there is a variable energy dissipation by the water twister. There is an actual moving plate inside the water twister that adjusts how much resistance to the water is generated. Initially there was an underestimation of the forces involved inside the water twister because it is a three-dimensional flow field. Internal plates that take the force of the water weren't strong enough, and finding a solution proved difficult.  In 2016 the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense found that the AAG remained unproven.

On 28 July 2017, Lt. Cmdr. Jamie "Coach" Struck of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23) performed the first arrested landing and catapult launch from Gerald R. Ford in an F/A-18F Super Hornet.

On August 2, 2019 the Navy cleared the AAG for use with "all props and jets".

See also
 Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System
 Modern United States Navy carrier air operations
 Naval aviation

References

External links
 Qinetiq-na.com
 Apsd.cwfc.com
 Ga.com
 www.navair.navy.mil

Naval aviation technology
Aircraft carriers
Electromagnetic components
Linear induction motors
USS Tulsa (LCS-16). USS Tulsa (LCS-16) is an  of the United States Navy. She is the third ship to be named for Tulsa, second-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Design
In 2002, the United States Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships. The Navy initially ordered two trimaran hulled ships from General Dynamics, which became known as the  after the first ship of the class, . Even-numbered U.S. Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Independence-class trimaran design, while odd-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the conventional monohull . The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Independence-class design. On 29 December 2010, the Navy announced that it was awarding Austal USA a contract to build ten additional Independence-class littoral combat ships.

Construction and career 
Tulsa was constructed by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama. A keel laying ceremony, which usually signifies the startìng of ship construction, was held at the Austal shipyards in Mobile on 11 January 2016, but because the ship was assembled from prefabricated modules, Tulsa was already 60 percent complete at the time. Kathy Taylor, former mayor of Tulsa, served as ship's sponsor.

Tulsa was christened on 11 February 2017, launched on 16 March 2017, and commissioned on 16 February 2019. She has been assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron One

Tulsa returned to San Diego on 30 July 2022 following deployment.

References

External links

 

Independence-class littoral combat ships
2017 ships
Gypsum Recycling International. Gypsum Recycling International A/S (GRI) is a recycling company based in Nærum, Rudersdal Municipality, Denmark. GRI offers a system for the recycling of gypsum and plasterboard/drywall waste.

The company started its operations in Denmark in 2001. It originated from the largest demolition company in Scandinavia and based on these experiences developed a unique gypsum recycling system.  Within a few years, GRI increased the recycling rate for gypsum waste in Denmark up to a world record of 80%.5

Recycling system
The gypsum recycling system from GRI is a complete system with all the necessary elements for taking the waste from the place of generation to the processing facility, where the waste is transformed into a reusable raw material that is delivered to the plasterboard plant nearby at a cost lower than virgin gypsum. The system encompasses: a collection system/containers, a logistics system, mobile recycling units and end-users that can use  the recycled gypsum. The recycling unit is designed to be mobile and very compact. Hereby, multiple small processing plants/facilities located close to where the waste is generated and the recycled gypsum used can be serviced using the same recycling unit.

Markets
Nowadays, Gypsum Recycling operates in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany and, furthermore, its technology is used in the US and Japan.

EU projects

GtoG
As the leading gypsum recycling company, GRI is currently, participating in the EU funded so called GtoG project  (Gypusm to Gypsum). The GtoG project is co-financed by the Life+ programme of the European Commission. It started in January 2013 and will finish in December 2015. The consortium is co-ordinated by Eurogypsum, the European Plaster and plasterboard manufacturers association and consists of 17 partners (2 universities- 5 demolition companies-1 consultant in deconstruction- 5 gypsum manufcaturers-1 laboratory- 2 recyclers). The overall aim of this project is to transform the gypsum demolition waste market to achieve higher recycling rates of gypsum waste, thereby helping to achieve a resource efficient economy.

Awards and certificates
Gypsum Recycling International and its sister companies have won several awards within Cleantech, Recycling, and Environmental Technology, honoring the company's efforts for a greener future and reducing the global CO2 emissions with its recycling efforts.

Awards include: Cleantech Prisen 2007, Swedish Recycling Award 2010, Climate Cup 08, and Environmental Gazelle of 2007.

References

Recycling organizations
Service companies of Denmark
Service companies based in Copenhagen
Companies based in Rudersdal Municipality
Danish companies established in 2001
Flight plan (disambiguation). Flight plan is the plan for a flight filed with aviation authorities.

Flight plan may also refer to:
 Flightplan, 2005 thriller film starring Jodie Foster
 Flight planning, planning a flight plan
 Flight-Plan, Japanese video game developer
 Flight Plan (film), a 1950 Australian documentary
 "Flight Plan", a season 2 episode of The Casagrandes

See also
 Flight progress strip
 Flight traffic mapping
 Flightpath (disambiguation)
Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics. The Regius Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1840 by Queen Victoria.

In 1872 the endowment was increased by the bequest of Isabella Elder in memory of her husband, John Elder. The name of the chair was shortened to Regius Chair of Civil Engineering on the appointment of William Marshall in 1952, but the original name was restored upon the appointment of René de Borst in 2012.

De Borst left the chair in 2015 towards Sheffield and left it vacated for six years. In 2021, Margaret Lucas became the eleventh incumbent and first female Regius Professor of engineering in Glasgow.

Regius Professors of Civil Engineering and Mechanics
1840 - Lewis Gordon
1855 - William Rankine
1873 - James Thompson
1889 - Archibald Barr
1913 - John Dewar Cormack
1936 - Gilbert Cook
1952 - William Marshall
1977 - Alexander Coull
1994 - Nenad Bicanic
2012 - René de Borst
2021 - Margaret Lucas

See also
 List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
 Professor of Civil Engineering (Dublin)

References

Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Professorships at the University of Glasgow
Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Brain painting. Brain painting is a non-invasive P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows painting without the use of muscular activity. The technology combines electroencephalography, signal processing algorithms and visual stimulation on a monitor to detect where the user focuses his attention, allowing him to voluntarily trigger commands to a painting software. The research project aims at assisting people afflicted with the Locked-in syndrome due to neurological or neuromuscular disease (e.g. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS), who are severely restricted in communication with their environment, and therefore cut off from the possibility of creative expression.

History
Brain painting was co-developed by Andrea Kübler from the University of Würzburg (Germany) and Adi Hoesle. After development and testing, Brain Painting first appeared in 2010 to general press and to scientific press with a report of evaluation on healthy and locked-in participants

Supported since 2012 by the EU project "BackHome" (FP7-ICT-288566), the BCI has been adapted for independent home use, and installed at locked-in artist's home: Heide Pfützner in 2012 and Jürgen Thiele in 2013. Long-term evaluation by a locked-in end user showed good satisfaction towards the system.
After successful crowdfunding support, the artist Heide Pfüztner had an exhibition in summer 2013 in Easdale, Scotland, and from July to December 2014 in Würzburg (Germany)

References

External links 
  

Brain–computer interface
Human–computer interaction
Painting techniques
Nanospray desorption electrospray ionization. Nanospray desorption electrospray ionization (nano-DESI) is an ambient pressure ionization technique used in mass spectrometry (MS) for chemical analysis of organic molecules. In this technique, analytes are desorbed into a liquid bridge formed between two capillaries and the sampling surface. Unlike desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), from which nano-DESI is derived, nano-DESI makes use of a secondary capillary, which improves the sampling efficiency.

Principle of operation 
The typical nano-DESI probe setup consists of two fused silica capillaries – primary capillary which supplies solvent and maintains a liquid bridge, and secondary capillary which transports the dissolved analyte to the mass spectrometer. High voltage (several kV) is applied between the inlet of the mass spectrometer and the primary capillary, creating a self-aspirating nanospray. The liquid bridge is maintained by continuous flow of the solvent and the contact area between the solvent bridge and sample surface can be controlled by changing the solvent flow rate, varying the diameter of the utilized capillaries and regulating the distance between the sample and the nano-DESI probe. In this way, the spatial resolution in mass spectrometry imaging applications can be improved, with typical resolution ranging between 100–150 μm.

Applications 
Nano-DESI has been applied for localized analysis of complex molecules and imaging of tissue sections, microbial communities and environmental samples.

References 

Mass spectrometry
Spatial analysis
Yseop. Yseop (pronounced 'Easy-Op') is a French software company, specializing in no code intelligent report automation, using natural language generation (NLG). Established in 2000 with offices in Paris, New York, Lyon and Bogota. Yseop was a pioneer in NLG which laid the groundwork for Chat GPT and Generative AI. Yseop's original founding team sold their stake in the company to Next Stage, a French Private Equity Company.

History 
Yseop was established in 2000 by Alain Kaeser, based on his research at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (formerly ENS Cachan). Research and development for Yseop's technology began in the mathematical lab École normale supérieure de Cachan.  The company was co-founded with John Rauscher, after he sold his start-up called Sunopsis to Oracle in 2006.

Yseop first commercialized its product as a middleware at the end of 2008, and opened up its American subsidiary in Dallas, Texas in 2012.

The Yseop Team 
Former and current Yseop executives include Emmanuel Walckenaer (current CEO), John Rauscher (former CEO), Matthieu Andre (former CFO and currently at Groupe PSIH), Maxine Azoulay (former US CTO and formerly of Meero and now at Airship) and Arden Manning (formerly at the DNC and currently cofounder of Nituno). Alain Kaeser, Yseop's founder, has been with the company since 2000 and continues to lead its strategic planning.

Products 
Yseop commercializes natural language generation (NLG) software, which reasons on data and turns it into written recommendations and reports.

Yseop's software writes in English, Spanish, French and German. 

Yseop has worked with Société Générale.

Recognition 
In 2014, Tom Austin, vice president and fellow at Gartner, cited Yseop, Narrative Science and Automated Insights as part of the Smart Machine, technological revolution that "has the promise to be one of the most disruptive changes ever".

See also 
Natural language generation
Natural language processing

References

External links 

Software companies of France
French companies established in 2000
Natural language generation