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Robert Boyle Lecture. The Robert Boyle Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club) at the University of Oxford, England. The first lecture was delivered in 1892.

The lectures
 1 - The place in science and the character of Robert Boyle
 2 - Molecular Tactics of a Crystal
 5 - Argon and Helium, the Two Recently Discovered Gases
 8 - Magnetism in Growth
 9 - The rise of the experimental method in Oxford
 13 - The Pressure of Light
 14 - The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics
 17 - The Fertility of the Soil
 18 - The Growth of a Crystal
 21 - Nationality and Race (delivered by Arthur Keith)
 22 - Anthropology and history
 23 - Electrons and Ether Waves
 27 - The Geological Age of the Earth
 28 - Recent Developments in Atomic Theory
 33 - The Problems of Specificity in Biochemical Catalysis
 39 - The structure of alloys
 49 - Anatomical pattern as the essential basis of sensory discrimination
 50 - Science and International Relations
 53 - A Hundred Years of Spectroscopy...

Lecturers 
In 1998, the lecture was presented by Kevin Warwick.

References 

Boyle
Recurring events established in 1892
Lists of events
1892 establishments in England
Science lecture series
Icejet. Icejet was a charter airline based in Iceland. Icejet operated Fairchild Dornier 328JET business jets and was the only business jet operator based in Iceland. Icejet was a JAR-OPS (Joint Aviation Requirement) operator. It was founded in 2005 and ceased flights in August 2010.

Fleet

Icejet operated the following fleet:
3 Fairchild Dornier 328JET
2 in a 14-seat VIP (Envoy) configuration which had extended range modifications
1 in a 19-seat (Corporate Shuttle) configuration

References

External links

Official website (archived)

Defunct airlines of Iceland
Airlines established in 2005
Airlines disestablished in 2010
Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology. The Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology (commonly known as RGCET) is a private engineering institute located in Puducherry, India under Sri Balaji Educational and Charitable Public Trust, and affiliated to Pondicherry University.

Location 

The college is constructed in an area of  at Kirumampakkam, 13 km from Pondicherry toward Cuddalore. Pondicherry is 150 km from Chennai. It is well connected by road and rail. The nearest airport is Pondicherry Airport and the railway station is Pondicherry. The Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville and Manakkula Vinayagar Temple are located in the Union Territory, which is known for its weather and conducive learning atmosphere.

Departments 

Courses offered include:
 Undergraduate
 Engineering & Technology
 Bio Medical Engineering
 Computer Science & Engineering
 Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Information Technology
 Mechanical Engineering
 Post Graduate
 Master of Business Administration
 Master of Computer Applications
 M.TECH(Wireless Communication)
 M.TECH(Computer Science)

External links 
 Official website of RGCET
 Official website of SBECT

All India Council for Technical Education
Engineering colleges in Puducherry
Chikugo River Lift Bridge. The  is a vertical lift railway bridge across the Chikugo River in Kyūshū, Japan. It was completed in 1935. The bridge has a total length of , with a moveable span of  long and a vertical rise of . It links Ōkawa, Fukuoka with Morodomi, Saga, and used to be part of the Saga Railway Line. When that line ceased operation in 1987 the bridge was closed to traffic. In 1996 it was reopened for pedestrians in response to requests from the public.

A precision miniature model of the bridge, which describes its structure, was exhibited at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937). Today this model is on display at the Railway Museum (Saitama).

The bridge was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2003, and in 2007 it was included in the Mechanical Engineering Heritage as item No. 23.

References

External links

Railway bridges in Japan
Vertical lift bridges
Tourist attractions in Fukuoka Prefecture
Tourist attractions in Saga Prefecture
Important Cultural Properties of Japan
Bridges completed in 1935
Transport buildings and structures in Fukuoka Prefecture
Transport buildings and structures in Saga Prefecture
Saul Griffith. Saul Griffith (born 1974) is an Australian–American inventor and renewable electricity advocate. He is the founder or co-founder of multiple companies, including Otherlab (where he is currently CEO), Makani Power, and Instructables.

Education
In 2000, Griffith graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Engineering degree. He won a scholarship to MIT Media Lab to study towards a PhD that he completed in 2004. The subject of his PhD thesis was "self-replicating machines". They were one of the first instances of artificial replication being demonstrated using real physics.

Projects
Griffith is the co-founder and CEO of OtherLab, a research and development company working on computational manufacturing and design tools and applying those tools to projects such as inflatable pneumatic robots and prostheses, novel approaches to heliostat design, and applications of computational origami to the design of pressure vessels (e.g. for compressed natural gas) in arbitrary shapes. Otherlab's R&D is guided by a vast map of energy flows in the US economy, which they use to identify key leverage points in building a more sustainable energy economy.

Griffith used this energy flow mapping for Rewiring America, a nonprofit organization working on electrification. He argues that the United States can create 30 million jobs, save consumers money, boost energy resiliency, and accelerate achievement of a net zero economy.

Previously, he was a co-founder of Squid Labs, and its spinout companies and projects Makani Power, Instructables, Wattzon, HowToons, OptiOpia, Potenco, Sunfolding, Other Machine Company and Monkeylectric.

Personal life
Griffith used to live in San Francisco. As of 2022, he has relocated to Australia, living in Wollongong.

He is married to Tim O'Reilly's daughter Arwen. He has two children.

Griffith's mother is a wildlife artist, early Greenpeace activist and printmaker, while his father is a retired professor. 

A portrait of Griffith by artist Jude Rae was highly commended in the 2022 Archibald Prize.

Publications 

 Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future (2021). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT University Press. ISBN 9780262046237 (Hardcover edition).

References

External links
 
 The big switch

1974 births
Living people
Australian emigrants to the United States
MacArthur Fellows
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Businesspeople from Sydney
Sustainability advocates
University of New South Wales alumni
University of Sydney alumni
Wind power
21st-century American inventors
Marvin Simon. Marvin Kenneth Simon (September 10, 1939 – September 23, 2007) was a telecommunication engineer who worked extensively for 35 years in the area of modulation, coding,  and synchronization for space, satellite, radio, and military communications and also performance evaluation of wireless telecommunication systems over fading channels.
Simon got his PhD from New York University in 1966, and worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the subsequent four decades of his life. The fruits of his research have been successfully applied to the design of many of NASA's deep space and near-earth missions for which he has been earned 11 patents, 25 NASA Tech Briefs, 4 Space Act awards, and over 200 technical papers. He died of brain cancer in September 2007.

He was a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Iowa Academy of Education (IAE), and winner of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal both in recognition of outstanding contributions in analysis and design of space communications systems. In addition, he is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America and other similar compilations.

In 1997 he was the recipient of the IEEE Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award for seminal contributions spanning three decades in the design and analysis of novel coherent digital communication systems, including synchronization and tracking, differential modulation and signal design, spread spectrum techniques, and trellis-coded modulation for fading channels. Most recently he was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal for outstanding contributions to communications technology.

He was also the co-recipient of the 1986 Prize Paper Award in Communications of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology for his work on trellis coded differential detection systems and the 1999 Prize Paper Award of the Vehicular Technology Conference for his work on generalized selection combining performance evaluation over fading channels.

His paper on multiple-symbol differential detection of M-PSK was included in the IEEE Communications Society's 50th Anniversary Journal Collection – as one of the 50 key papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, over the past 50 years.

Books 
 Probability Distributions Involving Gaussian Random Variables: A Handbook for Engineers and Scientists, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
 Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1973 and Dover Press, 1991.
 Phase-Locked Loops and Their Application, IEEE Press, 1978. * Spread Spectrum Communications, Vols. I, II, and III, Computer Science Press, 1984 and McGraw-Hill, 1994.
 An Introduction to Trellis Coded Modulation with Applications, Macmillan, 1991.
 Digital Communication Techniques, Prentice-Hall, 1994.
 Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2nd ed., November 2004.
 Bandwidth Efficient Digital Modulation with Application to Deep Space Communications, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003.

Footnotes 

20th-century American engineers
1939 births
2007 deaths
Pallet (disambiguation). Pallet is a portable platform used in the transportation of goods.

Pallet may also refer to:
 Pallet inverter, a machine that is used to turn over pallets
 Pallet jack, a tool used to lift and move pallets
 Pallet racking, material handling storage aid system
 Pallet Rack Mover, a device that makes it possible to move pallet racks
 Palletizer, a machine for placing materials onto pallets
 Pallet crafts, art projects using discarded wooden pallets
 Pallet (furniture), a bed that is made of straw or is of a makeshift nature

In horology:
 Pallet fork, an integral component of the lever escapement of a typical mechanical watch
 Pin-pallet escapement, an inexpensive, less accurate version of the lever escapement

Others:
 Pallet, a diminutive of Pale (heraldry)
 Pallet, a GUI for the software MacPorts
Pallet, a case of bottled water (colloquial)
Pallet (shelter), tiny home system by a social benefit company
Pallets Project, organization maintaining several projects in the Python programming language, including Flask and Jinja

See also
 Palette (disambiguation)
 Palate, roof of mouth
Antec. Antec, Inc. () is a Taiwanese manufacturer of personal computer (PC) components and consumer tech products. Antec's principal products are computer cases and power supplies. Antec also offers PC cooling products, notebook accessories, and previously offered a line of Antec Mobile Products (A.M.P.) which included Bluetooth speakers, headphones, portable batteries, and charging hubs.  Antec joined the handheld PC gaming market globally with the CORE HS which is a 32GB/2TB AMD 7840u based Windows 11 device with a 1080p screen and gaming controller built into the device.  Originally founded in 1986 in Fremont, California, the company is now headquartered in Taipei City, with additional offices in Rotterdam, Beijing, and Fremont, California. Antec pioneered a number of innovations in the PC case industry, including the switch from beige to black exterior color, and first cases specifically designed for noise reduction with the Sonata and P180. In 2011, Antec was purchased by Ming-Jong Technologies Ltd. of Taiwan, and the combined company adopted the Antec name. Antec products are sold in over 40 countries through its online retail platform, Amazon, and distribution partners. The company is publicly traded on the Taipei stock exchange under ticker 6276.

Products
Computer enclosures
Computer power supplies
Computer cooling products

Antec Mobile Products (a.m.p)
In October 2012, Antec launched the now-defunct Antec Mobile Products (A.M.P.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Antec. The product range included a line of Bluetooth audio devices, USB-powered battery packs and mobile chargers.

Console Gaming
Antec entered the console gaming sector with the X-1 Cooler for the Xbox One in 2015 which received positive reviews. The cooler prevented the console from over-heating while in use and helped preserve the lifespan of the console.

References

External links
Official website
Antec Mobile Products website

Manufacturing companies established in 1986
Computer companies of Taiwan
Computer enclosure companies
Computer hardware companies
Computer power supply unit manufacturers
1986 establishments in California
Computer hardware cooling
Companies listed on the Taipei Exchange
Quad Quandary. In the 2007-2008 FIRST Tech Challenge robot competition, Quad Quandary is the first challenge theme replacing the former FIRST Vex Challenge, with similar general rules regarding the specifications of the robot and the game play. Unlike the previous challenge, Hangin'-A-Round, Quad Quandary makes use of small rings and movable goal posts.

Robot rules
The largest acceptable size for the robot is 18"x18"x18". The teams may not introduce a new robot during any time of the match. No two identical robots are allowed on the match. Upon entering the match, all robots must pass inspection, and if modified immensely, must be reinspected. The robots must only contain Vex parts (however not all parts from Vex are competition legal) and not be potentially damaging to the playing field, other robots, and the players.

The Challenge
The main characteristic of the Quad Quandary challenge is defined by its field, which is a 12' by 12' square divided into four equal quadrants. Each alliance (red and blue) are given two quadrants, of their color, on opposite sides of the field. The field is split using two diagonal lines. The challenge uses rings (placed on the opposite color's quadrants and mixed on the quadrant division line) and two different kinds of posts — two  high posts (atop the single goals), and two  posts connected by a  bar, which rest atop the paired goals. The bar rests  off the ground but during the match, can be raised up to .  The rings may also be placed on a  high base, known as a goal (single or paired), that holds the posts. The goals are on casters and thus can be moved. There are also four,  low goals centered along the edges. The rings used have a  inner diameter and are  thick. There are 50 rings total; 25 for red and 25 for blue.  There are 44 total rings on the field, and three available to each alliance to load on their robot before the match starts.

Scoring
 One ring in the low (ground) goal is worth one point. 
 One ring on a single or paired goal is worth two points (the ring must be placed completely on the inside of the goal's outer edges). 
 One ring "rung" on an  post is worth three points.
 One ring "rung" on a  post is worth five points.
(All rings scored award points for their corresponding colored alliance.)
 A single or paired goal that is in an alliance's quadrant at the end of the match awards that alliance 7 points (determined not by the area of the goal in the quadrant but by where the goal's post lies).
 The winner of the autonomous period is given a 10-point bonus.

References

External links

 FTC Challenge
 Quad Quandary Downloadable PDF Rules

2007 in robotics
Peter Shann Ford. Peter Shann Ford is the Australian Founder of Control Bionics [ASX: CBL],  a neural systems technology company, and the inventor of NeuroSwitch, a patented  EMG (electromyograph) and EOG (electroocculography) based communications and control system for people with profound disabilities including Locked in Syndrome.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Australian company founders
Australian inventors
Micellar solution. In colloid science, a micellar solution consists of a dispersion of micelles (small particles) in a solvent (most usually water). Micelles are made of chemicals that are attracted to both water and oily solvents, known as amphiphiles. In a micellar solution, some amphiphiles are clumped together and some are dispersed. Micellar solutions form when the concentration of amphiphile exceeds the critical micelle concentration (CMC) or critical aggregation concentration (CAC), which is when there are enough amphiphiles in the solution to clump together to form micells. Micellar solutions persist until the amphiphile concentration becomes sufficiently high to form a lyotropic liquid crystal phase.

Although micelles are often depicted as being spherical, they can be cylindrical or oblate depending on the chemical structure of the amphiphile. Micellar solutions are isotropic phases.

History
Micellar originates from France, with its usage in skincare dating back to 1913. Its popularity boomed internationally when French pharmaceutical company Bioderma released their product Sensibio H2O micellar water in 1991, which is said to be sold every two seconds worldwide today.

Commercial uses
Micellar water is used to remove makeup and oil from the face.

References

Colloidal chemistry
Hexagonal phase. A hexagonal phase of lyotropic liquid crystal is formed by some amphiphilic molecules when they are mixed with water or another polar solvent. In this phase, the amphiphile molecules are aggregated into cylindrical structures of indefinite length and these cylindrical aggregates are disposed on a hexagonal lattice, giving the phase long-range orientational order.

In normal topology hexagonal phases, which are formed by type I amphiphiles, the hydrocarbon chains are contained within the cylindrical aggregates such that the polar-apolar interface has a positive mean curvature. Inverse topology hexagonal phases have water within the cylindrical aggregates and the hydrocarbon chains fill the voids between the hexagonally packed cylinders. Normal topology hexagonal phases are denoted by HI while inverse topology hexagonal phases are denoted by HII. When viewed by polarization microscopy, thin films of both normal and inverse topology hexagonal phases exhibit birefringence, giving rise to characteristic optical textures. Typically, these textures are smoke-like, fan-like or mosaic in appearance. The phases are highly viscous and small air bubbles trapped within the preparation have highly distorted shapes. Size and shapes of lamellar, micellar and hexagonal phases of lipid bilayer phase behavior and mixed lipid polymorphism in aqueous dispersions can be easily identified and characterized by negative staining transmission electron microscopy too.

See also
Lamellar phase
Lipid polymorphism
Micelle

References 

Surfactants
Liquid crystals
Colloidal chemistry
Biophysics
Solar Mesosphere Explorer. The Solar Mesosphere Explorer (also known as Explorer 64) was a 1980s NASA spacecraft to investigate the processes that create and destroy ozone in Earth's upper atmosphere. The mesosphere is a layer of the atmosphere extending from the top of the stratosphere to an altitude of about . The spacecraft carried five instruments to measure ozone, water vapor, and incoming solar radiation.

Mission 
Explorer 64 studied the processes that create and destroy ozone in the Earth's mesosphere. Over its 7.5 years mission, SME measured ultraviolet solar flux, ozone density, and the density of other molecules important to the understanding of ozone chemistry. During the mission over one hundred undergraduate and graduate students were involved in nearly every aspect of SME operations, including planning and scheduling spacecraft and science activities, controlling the spacecraft and its ground support system, and analyzing spacecraft subsystem performance.

Spacecraft 
Managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Solar Mesosphere Explorer was built by Ball Space Systems and operated by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Characteristics:
 Mass: 437 kilograms;
 Power: Solar panels and nickel-cadmium batteries;
 Configuration: Cylinder 1.25 meter diameter by 1.7 meter high;
 Science instruments: Ultraviolet ozone spectrometer, Micrometre spectrometer, Nitrogen dioxide spectrometer, Four-channel infrared radiometer, Solar ultraviolet monitor, Solar proton alarm detector.

Launch 
Launched on 6 October 1981, on a Thor-Delta 2310 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, the satellite returned data until 4 April 1989.

Atmospheric entry 
The spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere on 5 March 1991.

See also 

Explorer program

References

External links 
 JPL - Solar Mesosphere Explorer
 Launch video 
 Solar Mesosphere Explorer: Nitric oxide measurements results
 Daily Solar Irradiance results

Earth observation satellites of the United States
NASA satellites
Explorers Program
Spacecraft launched in 1981
Spacecraft which reentered in 1991
Spacecraft launched by Delta rockets
EPB (disambiguation). EPB is an American electric power distribution and telecommunications company.

EPB may also refer to:

Organisations
 Boricua Popular Army (Spanish: ), a clandestine organization based in Puerto Rico
 Euro Pacific Bank, a bank; see Perth Mint
 Export Promotion Bureau (Bangladesh)
 Export Promotion Bureau of Pakistan, now the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan

Science and technology
 Earth pressure balance, a machine used in mining
 Electronic parking brake, of a vehicle
 Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
 Extensor pollicis brevis, a muscle of the thumb

Other uses
 EPB, class designation for rail coaches used by Reading electric multiple units on its Philadelphia, US commuter rail lines