omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Rokkō Arima Ropeway. The  is a Japanese aerial lift line in Kōbe, Hyōgo, operated by Kōbe City Urban Development. Opened in 1970, the line links Mount Rokkō and Arima Onsen hot spring. The aerial lift consisted of two lines,  and . The latter, however, is currently out of service, because users shifted to cars and buses.

Basic data
This is the data of Ura-Rokkō Line.
System: Aerial tramway, one track rope, two haulage ropes
Cable length: 
Longest span: 
Spans: 7
Vertical interval: 
Passenger capacity per a cabin: 61
Cabins: 2
Main engine: 200 kW DC motor
Operational speed: 5 m/s
Time required for single ride: 12 minutes

See also

Maya Ropeway
Shin-Kōbe Ropeway
Maya Cablecar
Rokkō Cable Line
List of aerial lifts in Japan

References

External links
 Rokkō Arima Ropeway official website
 Kōbe City Urban Development official website

Aerial tramways in Japan
1970 establishments in Japan
Valuation-based system. Valuation-based system (VBS) is a framework for knowledge representation and inference. Real-world problems are modeled in this framework by a network of interrelated entities, called variables. The relationships between variables (possibly uncertain or imprecise) are represented by the functions called valuations. The two basic operations for performing inference in a VBS are combination and marginalization. Combination corresponds to the aggregation of knowledge, while marginalization refers to the focusing (coarsening) of it. VBSs were introduced by Prakash P. Shenoy in 1989 as general frameworks for managing uncertainty in expert systems.

Applications
VBS are used for knowledge representation in expert systems and data fusion.

Bibliography
 Shenoy, Prakash P. A valuation-based language for expert systems. Int. Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 3, no. 2, pages 383–411, 1989.
 Shenoy, Prakash P. Valuation based systems: A framework for managing uncertainty in expert systems. In L. A. Zadeh and J. Kacprzyk, editors, Fuzzy Logic and the Management of Uncertainty, chapter 4, pages 83–104. Wiley, New York, 1992.
 Shenoy, Prakash P. and Shafer, G. Axioms for probability and belief-function propagation. In J. Pearl G. Shafer, editor, Readings in uncertain reasoning, pages 575–610. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.

External links
Application of VBS to a threat assessment problem

Logic
Remote Application Platform. Remote Application Platform (RAP, formerly Rich Ajax Platform) Project is an open-source software project under the Eclipse Technology Project which aims to enable software developers to build Ajax-enabled rich Internet applications by using the Eclipse development model, plugins and a Java-only application programming interface (API). It can be considered a counterpart for web development to the Rich Client Platform (RCP). The API is very similar to RCP so developers who know RCP can reuse extant knowledge. RAP encourages sharing source code between RCP and RAP applications to reduce the development effort for business applications that need both desktop-based and web-based front ends.

References

Bibliography

External links 

Software using the Eclipse Public License
Eclipse technology
Eclipse software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Anthony Cleaver. Sir Anthony Brian Cleaver (born 10 April 1938) is a British  engineer and executive. He started his career as a systems engineer with IBM UK Ltd in 1962. He was later Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and steered AEA Technology through its privatisation. He has also chaired the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the Medical Research Council.

Biography
Cleaver studied Literae Humaniores at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating in 1962.

He has served on the boards of Smith & Nephew, Lockheed Martin UK and IX Europe. In the field of education, Cleaver has chaired the Governors of Birkbeck, University of London and the Royal College of Music. In August 2007, he was appointed Chairman of EngineeringUK (formerly the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB)). In this role, Cleaver was a driving force behind the founding of the UK's Big Bang Fair which was first run in 2008 and by 2015 had become one of Europe's largest science, engineering and technology fairs for young people. Cleaver retired from his role at EngineeringUK in 2011 and as Patron of the Big Bang Fair a few years later.

He is chairman of recruitment company SThree and financial wrap provider Novia Financial.

References 

1938 births
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
British technology chief executives
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
English chief executives
Computer systems engineers
Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford
Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
IBM employees
Knights Bachelor
Living people
People associated with Birkbeck, University of London
Programmable Cricket. Programmable Crickets, known commercially as PicoCrickets, are robotic toys in the form of programmable bricks.  They are used to construct artistic projects.

Crickets were developed at MIT Media Lab, and were launched commercially in Montreal in 2006.

Playful Invention Company (PICO), co-founded by Mitchel Resnick, Brian Silverman and Paula Bonta, was formed with financial support from Lego Group, the Danish construction toy manufacturer, to commercialize the toy.
, PICO also markets a toy for use with the Scratch programming language, another MIT Media Lab development.

References

External links
 PicoCricket commercial site
 MIT Spectrum, Winter 1998 "Smart Toys - Mitch Resnick builds a toy chest of learning tools".

Educational hardware
Construction toys
Educational toys
Robot kits
MIT Media Lab
Companies based in Montreal
Thermo (comics). Thermo is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Fictional character biography
Dr. Walter Michaels, as Thermo, was a costumed criminal who absorbs energy from other humans on contact, and can use it for superhuman strength, superhuman speed, or for projecting powerful bio-electric blasts. He fought Spider-Man and Paladin in his first appearance. They later teamed up with the Dazzler to defeat him.

Thermo later tried to rob the Baxter Building only to be beaten up by Quasar who had an office there.

Thermo was attending an A.I.M. weapons expo and betting against Sunstroke and Captain America (who was posing as Crossbones). When Thermo and the other villains there found out that Crossbones was Captain America in disguise, he and the villains present were defeated.

In the World War Hulk storyline, Thermo was revealed to have been lying low during the Civil War and was robbing evacuated buildings. He was confronted by Warbound member Korg when he and Detective Danny Granville regarding the murder of fellow Warbound member Arch-E-5912. He was left unconscious when he had no information about who murdered Arch-E-5912.

Powers and abilities
Thermo had the ability to extract anyone's energy by touch to increase his strength and speed. He can also fire powerful bio-electric blasts after extracting one's energy.

References

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Comics characters introduced in 1981
Fictional criminals
Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
Marvel Comics mutates
Marvel Comics scientists
Marvel Comics supervillains
Syndite. Syndite is a composite material which combines the hardness, abrasion resistance and thermal conductivity of diamond with the toughness of tungsten carbide.

Applications

 cutting tools for machining 
 a wide variety of abrasive materials
 wear part applications

Advantages

 improved life of the tool, or wear part 
 improved process reliability 
 improved frictional behaviour

Grades

Syndite is produced in five standard grades:

 CTB002
 CTC 002
 CTB010
 CTB025
 CTH 025 

The numbers refer to the average dimensions in micrometres of the starting diamond material. The designation CTB indicates standard Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) products, whereas CTC and CTH indicate modified PCD grades.   Syndite CTB010 may, in most cases, be regarded as the general-purpose grade.

Sources 
 Syndite

Superhard materials
Shell scrape. A shell scrape is a type of military earthwork dug at a shallow but sufficient depth in the ground where a soldier can take shelter from weapons fire. While similar to a defensive fighting position in that the purpose is to shield a single soldier from artillery, mortar and direct small arms fire, it is not intended to be used for fighting from.

Shell scrapes are generally hastily excavated manually, with immediately available means such as the entrenching tool, and are temporary constructions. They are shallow, and large enough to accommodate at least a single soldier lying down or kneeling.  In some situations they can be dug to accommodate two soldiers and their equipment.  For protection from the elements a poncho is often tied off or staked out at the edges, or bungeed to a nearby tree.  This way a soldier can sleep in the shell scrape more comfortably with cover overhead.

Shell scrapes offer better concealment than traditional tarp bivouacs because the majority of the soldier's body mass is below ground level. This catches their body heat, making them harder to spot with thermal imagers.

A properly prepared shell scrape should be deep enough that the soldier's entire body is beneath the level of the surrounding ground, thereby offering protection from both direct- and indirect-fire weapons. However, it provides little protection against indirect fire that bursts in the air or among the trees.

References

Fortifications by type
Kennington Railway Bridge. Kennington Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over the River Thames near Kennington, Oxfordshire between Sandford Lock and Iffley Lock. It carries the freight railway branch line that serves the BMW Mini factory at Cowley. The freight railway is part of the former Wycombe Railway that linked  and  via  and .

The current bridge was built for the Great Western Railway in 1923. It is a steel bowstring bridge of three equal spans, each  long. The railway on the bridge is on a curve with a radius of . The bridge crosses the river askew.

Earlier bridge and replacement
The current bridge replaces a five-span plate girder bridge built for the Wycombe Railway in 1863. In 1914 Great Western Railway engineers noted that some of the screw piles of the old bridge had settled slightly. They wanted to replace the bridge but were prevented by the First World War. Therefore, with the consent of the Thames Conservancy, the GWR shored up the bridge with wooden trestles resting on foundations of bagged cement until the end of wartime restrictions would allow the bridge to be replaced.

In 1923 the new bridge was built parallel to the old one. The GWR had it designed in-house, but contracted its construction to George Palmer of Neath, Glamorgan. The Horseley Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd of Tipton was subcontracted to make the six bowstrings for the three new spans. Each span is  long and weighs 23 tons.

The GWR transported each completed bowstring from Tipton to Kennington by rail on a pair of Pollen C four-wheeled wagons. At the bridge site each bowstring was lifted into place by two rail-mounted 36-ton cranes. When the new bridge was completed, the railway was realigned for a distance of  either side to cross the new bridge. The old bridge was then dismantled and its piers and temporary trestles demolished.

Halt
At the western end of the bridge is the site of the former Iffley Halt railway station.

See also

Crossings of the River Thames

References

Sources

Bridges across the River Thames
Bridges completed in 1923
Bridges in Oxford
Railway bridges in Oxfordshire
1923 establishments in England
USS Ivy. USS Ivy was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

She was assigned by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Ivy also was assigned the role of tugboat and dispatch boat; towards the end of the war she was assigned the role of coal barge tender.

Built in St. Louis, Missouri in 1862 

Ivy, a screw tug, was built as Terror by the Army at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1862; transferred to the Navy 30 September 1862 and renamed Ivy.

Civil War operations

Assigned to the Mississippi Squadron 
 
Assigned to the Mississippi Squadron, Ivy took part as tugboat and dispatch boat in the winter operations around Vicksburg 1862–63. In the important attack on Fort Hindman 9–11 January 1863, she served as Rear Admiral David D. Porter's flagship.

As the more powerful gunboats pounded the fort in support of General William Tecumseh Sherman's attack, Ivy came alongside both  and  to help quench fires started by shore fire. In a memorandum in the office of Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles noted:

The officers and crew behaved with great coolness, though under a brisk fire of musketry.

The naval attack, directed from Ivy, resulted in Sherman's capture of the fort, a severe blow to the Confederate cause in the West.

Passing under the lethal Vicksburg batteries on the Mississippi 
 
Ivy was also present for the passage of the Vicksburg, Mississippi, batteries by Admiral David Dixon Porter's ships 16–17 April 1863. Lashed to the side of the powerful , Ivy steamed boldly past Vicksburg, opening operations south of the city to Porter and contributing importantly to the fall of Grand Gulf and eventually to the capture of Vicksburg.

In May the tug accompanied the gunboats up the Red River. The ships reached abandoned Fort De Russy 5 May and 2 days later took Alexandria, only to be forced back downstream by low water. The fort was partially destroyed and Porter returned to Grand Gulf to continue the assault on Vicksburg.
 
The tug remained near Vicksburg, often as Porter's flagship, until after its fall 4 July 1863, and subsequently acted as a dispatch boat and tug on the river and as a receiving ship for prisoners of war. Ivy entered the Red River again in 1864 when the major part of Admiral Porter's fleet was caught by low water above the rapids at Alexandria. She assisted gunboat Ozark over the rapids 13 May 1864 and returned to the Mississippi River with the fleet amid frequent Confederate attacks from shore.

Final operations of the war and decommissioning 
 
For the remainder of the war Ivy was used to tend and pump coal barges at Donaldsonville, Louisiana. She was sold at Mound City, Illinois, 17 August 1865 to W. G. Priest.

References 

Ships of the Union Navy
Ships built in St. Louis
Steamships of the United States Navy
Gunboats of the United States Navy
Tugs of the United States Navy
Dispatch boats of the United States Navy
Colliers of the United States Navy
American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States
1862 ships
Ion-attachment mass spectrometry. Ion-attachment mass spectrometry (IAMS) is a form of mass spectrometry that uses a "soft" form of ionization similar to chemical ionization in which a cation is attached to the analyte molecule in a reactive collision:
{M} + {X+} + A -> {MX+} + A

Where M is the analyte molecule, X+ is the cation and A is a non-reacting collision partner.

Principle
This technique is applicable to gases or any materials that can be vaporized. It uses a non-fragmenting non-conventional ionisation mode, by attachment of a lithium (or alkaline) ion to the gas to be analysed with a more traditional mass filter. This instrument is more dedicated to analysis of moderately-sized molecules such as organic or aromatic compounds.

Applications
Currently, it is used industrially to verify, with a high throughput, the concentrations of brominated flame retardants (BFR) in plastics in compliance with European RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) regulation in place since 2006. The banned molecules include PBB and PBDE, whose concentration should not exceed 0.1% w/w.

IAMS has also been used to analyze diesel exhaust particles, in ceramic processing  and in critical silicon etching during semiconductor manufacturing.

References

Bibliography

External links

Mass spectrometry
Ion source
Douglas L. Jones. Douglas L. Jones is the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Biography
Jones received the BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University in 1983, 1986, and 1987, respectively. During the 1987–1988 academic year, he was at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany on a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship. Since 1988, he has been with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

In Spring 1995 and 2002 Jones was on sabbatical leave at the University of Washington, and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. In July through September 1998 he was a participant in the Programme on Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal Processing at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, England. In the Spring semester of 1999 he served as the Texas Instruments Visiting Professor at Rice University. In December 2005 he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Melbourne.

In 2002, Jones was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to adaptive and statistical time-frequency analysis. Jones served as a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors 2002-2005. He teaches courses in the general area of signal processing, and is an author of the laboratory textbooks A Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Using the TMS32010 and DSP Laboratory with TI TMS320C54x. In 2006, he received the UIUC ECE Ronald W. Pratt Award for Teaching Excellence. He is committed to the emerging open-source textbook movement and was the Connexions Author of the Year in 2003. His research interests are in digital signal processing and communications, including non-stationary signal analysis, adaptive filters and beamforming, OFDM and DMT optimization, biologically inspired signal processing, and various applications including low-power wireless communication, MEMS sensory systems, and advanced hearing aids.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Rice University alumni
International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems. The International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) is an academic conference covering distributed systems design and development, particularly with properties such as reliability, availability, safety, security and real time. The symposium is traditionally a single track event held over three days with a number of associated workshops staged a day before the symposium starts. SRDS is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.

SRDS was first organised in 1981; since then, the symposium has been organised in 1982, 1983, 1984, and annually from 1986.

See also
 The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in distributed computing.
 The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

References

 "Message from the Symposium Chair," SRDS 2006, .
 SRDS proceedings information in DBLP.
 SRDS 1981 in DBLP.

External links
 SRDS web sites: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.

Distributed computing conferences
USNS Wyman. USNS Wyman (T-AGS-34) was an oceanographic survey vessel laid down on 18 July 1968 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company of Bay City, Michigan. Launched on 30 October 1969, sponsored by Mrs. Francis J. Blouin, wife of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Admiral Francis J. Blouin; she was accepted by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) on 19 November 1971 at the Boston Naval Shipyard.

Wyman, designed and built to conduct hydrographic and oceanographic studies and operated by a civilian crew, served with MSC under the technical direction of the Oceanographer of the Navy.  In addition to the MSC crew, who operated and maintained the ship, there was a complement of civilian technicians and scientists aboard who were part of Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). Initially assigned to MSC Atlantic, the Wyman made several cruises in the North Atlantic, visiting such ports as Reykjavik, Tromso, Bergen, Rota, Lisbon, and Glasgow during the early 1970s. One of the first women to serve MSC at sea came aboard as the ship's Medical Officer in early 1974.  The Wyman was transferred to MSC Pacific on 16 November 1974 for a brief tour of duty that lasted into the summer of 1975. She was returned to MSC Atlantic at Port Canaveral, Florida, on 21 August 1975 and remained active with that fleet into 1979.

The ship's original echo sounding equipment and Hydrographic Data Acquisition System (HDAS) consisted of a very early seagoing data processing system made up of two Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-9 computers that shared a central 'drum' disk drive.  KSR-35 TTYs were used as the primary system consoles and a Calcomp flatbed plotter kept a real-time track of the ship's position.  This equipment was all replaced in the mid-1970s by a new narrow beam swath system. The swath array, replacing the single beam system, was the Bottom Topography Survey Subsystem (BOTOSS) and the processing system, replacing HDAS, was the Bathymetric Survey System (BASS). The initial BOTOSS hull mounting was subject to air bubble interference so that a new arrangement on a fairing and foil mounted on the keel was required to house the array elements during a 1974-1975 period in a West Coast yard.

Wyman was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 3 May 1999, and transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), laid up at the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) at laid up 21 March 2001 at the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) at Suisun Bay, CA, California. The ship was under contract for scrapping by ESCO Marine, Inc. with scrapping completed 1 October 2014.

References

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Ships built in Bay City, Michigan
1969 ships
Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Survey ships of the United States Navy