omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Debasis Mitra. Debasis Mitra (born November 3, 1944, in Kolkata) is an Indian-American mathematician, known for his numerous contributions to the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory.

He got his B.Sc. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) in electrical engineering from University of London, on an Atomic Energy Research fellowship (1965–67), while he was simultaneously affiliated with the Control systems center at the University of Manchester.  His work focused on control of nuclear power systems.
He then  joined Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff (1968), 
working on semiconductor networks, diffusion models for service adoption and
traffic modeling.  Mitra was head of Mathematics of Networks and Systems research division (1986–99),  and was vice president of the math and algorithmic science center.  Mitra has served as editor and as part of  the editorial board of numerous scientific publications, and was visiting professor at University of California (1984).

In 2003, Mitra was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his "contributions to the modeling, analysis and design of communication networks." He retired from Bell Labs in 2013 and joined the Columbia University Electrical Engineering department.  His current research interests are in the scientific foundations of policy that impact engineers and engineering systems, especially in models, analyses and syntheses of organizational and individual interactions. Instances are network neutrality, network economics, and the science and management of innovations and knowledge-creation.

He holds 21 patents, and, as of November 11, 2015, his publications have been cited 11,332 times. His h-index is 55.

Awards
 Premium award for best publication (IEEE, England, 1967)
 IEEE Fellow (1988)
 Steven O. Rice Prize Paper (1992)  for his paper Asymptotically Optimal Design of Congestion Control for High Speed Data Networks.
 Bell labs fellow (1998)
 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for the contributions to echo cancellation (1998)
 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to communications systems (2003)
 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award for his fundamental contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of communication networks (2012)

References

Queueing theorists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellows of the IEEE
Alumni of the University of London
1944 births
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Scientists from Kolkata
Non-smooth mechanics. Non-smooth mechanics is a modeling approach in mechanics which does not require the time evolutions of the positions and of the velocities to be smooth functions. Due to possible impacts, the velocities of the mechanical system are allowed to undergo jumps at certain time instants in order to fulfill the kinematical restrictions. Consider for example a rigid model of a ball which falls on the ground. Just before the impact between ball and ground, the ball has non-vanishing pre-impact velocity. At the impact time instant, the velocity must jump to a post-impact velocity which is at least zero, or else penetration would occur. Non-smooth mechanical models are often used in contact dynamics.

See also
Contact dynamics
Unilateral contact
Jean Jacques Moreau

References
Acary V., Brogliato, B. Numerical Methods for Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems. Applications in Mechanics and Electronics. Springer Verlag, LNACM 35, Heidelberg, 2008.
Brogliato B. Nonsmooth Mechanics. Models, Dynamics and Control. Communications and Control Engineering Series, Springer-Verlag, London, 2016 (3rd Ed.)
 Demyanov, V.F., Stavroulakis, G.E., Polyakova, L.N., Panagiotopoulos, P.D.  "Quasidifferentiability and Nonsmooth Modelling in Mechanics, Engineering and Economics", Springer 1996.
 Yang Gao, David, Ogden, Ray W., Stavroulakis, Georgios E. (Eds.) "Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Methods", Springer 2001
Glocker, Ch. Dynamik von Starrkoerpersystemen mit Reibung und Stoessen, volume 18/182 of VDI Fortschrittsberichte Mechanik/Bruchmechanik. VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1995
Glocker Ch. and Studer C. Formulation and preparation for Numerical Evaluation of Linear Complementarity Systems. Multibody System Dynamics 13(4):447-463, 2005
Jean M. The non-smooth contact dynamics method. Computer Methods in Applied mechanics and Engineering 177(3-4):235-257, 1999
 Mistakidis, E.S., Stavroulakis, Georgios E. "Nonconvex Optimization in Mechanics Algorithms, Heuristics and Engineering Applications by the F.E.M.", Springer, 1998
Moreau J.J.  Unilateral Contact and Dry Friction in Finite Freedom Dynamics, volume 302 of  Non-smooth Mechanics and Applications, CISM Courses and Lectures. Springer, Wien, 1988
Pfeiffer F., Foerg M. and Ulbrich H. Numerical aspects of non-smooth multibody dynamics. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg 195(50-51):6891-6908, 2006
Potra F.A., Anitescu M., Gavrea B. and Trinkle J. A linearly implicit trapezoidal method for integrating stiff multibody dynamics with contacts, joints and friction. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng 66(7):1079-1124, 2006
Stewart D.E. and Trinkle J.C. An Implicit Time-Stepping Scheme for Rigid Body Dynamics with Inelastic Collisions and Coulomb Friction. Int. J. Numer. Methods Engineering 39(15):2673-2691, 1996

Mechanics
Dynamical systems
Government College of Technology, Faisalabad. The Government College of Technology, Samanabad, Faisalabad (GCT Faislaabad) is a public college located in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established in 1966 as Government Polytechnic Institute and upgraded as Government College of Technology in 1981.

Academics

Diploma of Associate Engineering (DAE) programs
The college offers following three-year Diploma of Associate Engineering (DAE) programs:

 Civil technology
 Electrical technology
 Food technology
 Instrumentation technology
 Mechanical technology
 Mechanical (power) technology specialization in auto and farm machinery technology
 Textile dying and printing technology
 Two years diploma in culinary arts

Bachelor's program
The college also offers following bachelor's degree program:

BSc Electrical engineering technology

See also
Jinnah Polytechnic Institute, Faisalabad

References

External links
 GCT Faisalabad official website

Universities and colleges in Faisalabad District
Universities and colleges established in 1966
1966 establishments in Pakistan
Vocational education in Pakistan
Faisalabad
Paige Compositor. The Paige Compositor was an invention developed by James W. Paige (1842–1917) between 1872 and 1888. It was designed to replace the human typesetter of a lead type-composed printing form with a mechanical arm. In the early 1890s, a group of inventors signed a contract with Towner K. Webster in Chicago to produce 3,000 compositors. However, the machine was not nearly as precise as it should have been and never turned a profit because of its complexity and continual need for adjustment based upon trial and error. As a result, it was the Linotype typesetting machine, which composed in a hot metal typesetting process, that became the new popular typesetting machine.
 
Writer Mark Twain made a substantial investment into the failed endeavor: $300,000 (~$ today). Twain, a former printer, invested not only the bulk of his book profits but also a large portion of the inheritance of Olivia Clemens, his wife. Many point to his over-investment in the Paige typesetting machine and other inventions as the cause of not only his family's financial decline but also the decline of his wit and humor.

Webster Manufacturing made fewer than six machines costing $15,000 apiece, over three times as much as the initial production estimates.  One was donated by Cornell University for a scrap metal drive during World War II. The only surviving machine is displayed at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.

References

External links
 Page at ERIC
  Precursor by Paige (patent application filed 1872)
  Paige Compositor patent (application filed 1882)

Typesetting
Live Communications Server 2003. Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 provides real-time communications platform allowing for voice, video, and instant messaging.

Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 (LCS), provided many capabilities that were notably absent from the company's earlier Exchange IM solution, including encryption, logging, and standards-based protocols. While LCS delivers a compelling glimpse of the future of corporate IM, we expect it will truly come into its own only after companies roll out Windows Server 2003 and the Office 2003 suite.

Other versions
Live Communications Server 2005

References
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 Overview

Instant messaging server software
Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System. The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, otherwise known as (CT2WS), is a brain–computer interface designed to analyze sensory data and then alert foot-soldiers to any possible threats, passive or direct. CT2WS is part of U.S. Department of Defense's effort to produce an efficient and working Network-centric infantryman.

Project

Proposal
Proposed in early 2007, DARPA came to believe that a visual warning system could be produced and developed via an integration of technology and artificial intelligence. By combining discoveries in flat-field, wide-angle optics, large pixel-count digital imagers, ultra-low power analog-digital hybrid signal processing electronics with cognitive visual processing algorithms, and neural network-based target detection signatures, DARPA felt a breakthrough was possible, but not likely to be achieved by independent researchers. CT2WS further requires that human brain activity must be integrated with the technology.

Selection of research partners is currently open to potential researchers, including: non-traditional defense contractors, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, small businesses, etc.

It was anticipated that funding for CT2WS will continue until 2011.

Funding
Budget for the project will be determined based upon the scope of the independent proposals.
There have been many research and technology contributors to the project including HRL and Advanced Brain Monitoring which contributed the B-Alert wireless-EEG headsets.

Technical details
Criteria for project includes: soldier portable, sensory-data collect for a 120 degree field of view (FOV), artificial analysis of data, threat analysis and prioritizing "brain-in-the-loop" integration, and real-time processing of neural and artificial cognitive data.

Related projects
The DARPA Grand Challenge is another project designed to attract independent researchers to study AI for application to network-centric warfare. The Grand Challenge has tested autonomous driving ability in both urban and rough terrain settings.

See also
 Future Combat Systems
 Future Force Warrior
 Transformation of the United States Army

References

Military equipment of the United States
DARPA projects
Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works. The Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works is a historic foundry building in Hastings, Minnesota, United States.  Located at 707 First Street East, it was built by A. R. Morrell, an ironsmith from Vermont, in 1859. The building is historically significant as the location where the first steam engine in Minnesota was built (1860). In 1861 the engine for the Stella Whipple was manufactured there as well. Iron for bridges and engines for railroad elevators, automobiles, and river boats were manufactured in this earliest surviving industrial site in the state.

References

Buildings and structures in Hastings, Minnesota
Foundries in the United States
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Ironworks and steel mills in the United States
1859 establishments in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places in Dakota County, Minnesota
Robots Have No Tails. Robots Have No Tails is a 1952 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of American writers Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1952 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding Stories.

It has been reprinted in 1973 by Lancer books with an introduction by C.L. Moore; in 1983 in the UK by Hamlyn Books as The Proud Robot with an introduction by Peter Pinto; and lastly in 2009 in the US by Paizo Publishing LLC's Planet Stories line of books, with an additional introduction (to the one of Catherine Moore) by F. Paul Wilson. Both later editions credit Henry Kuttner as being the author, as does the introduction by C.L. Moore in the 1973 and 2009 editions.

Contents
 "The Proud Robot"
 "Gallegher Plus"
 "The World Is Mine"
 "Ex Machina"
 "Time Locker"

Reception
Groff Conklin wrote in his Galaxy review column that Robots Have No Tails was not good science fiction, but "zany imaginings of a rather anti-scientific sort." Boucher and McComas praised the collection as "a great joy.". P. Schuyler Miller praised the stories as "pure entertainment, lavishly applied."

References

Sources

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1952 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Works published under a pseudonym
Gnome Press books
Aircraft Repair Plant No 405. Aircraft Repair Plant No 405 (Авиационный ремонтный завод, ARZ-405), in Kazakhstan, was established as an aircraft maintenance facility in 1939 and is situated next door to Almaty International Airport. The plant occupies over 70,000 square metres of land with production facilities of 10,000 square metres. It employs over 200 well-trained specialists.

Services 
ARZ-405 is a leading aircraft repair enterprise in Central Asia certified for performing overhaul, modernization, repair and technical maintenance of the Mi-8 helicopter and its modifications including fuselage and its systems. Up to twelve Mi-8 helicopters can be overhauled at a fully equipped hangar simultaneously.

See also 
 :ru:Список авиационных заводов России - List of aircraft factories in Russia

External links 
 Burundaiavia official website

Aviation in Kazakhstan
Kazakh Air Defense Forces
Air force logistics units and formations
Engineering companies of Kazakhstan
Aerospace companies
John and Jennie Dyke. John and Jennie Dyke are an American husband-and-wife team who created unusual delta-wing aircraft in the 1960s. They flew the JD-1 in 1964, and followed it two years later with the JD-2, which became known simply as the Dyke Delta. This aircraft was marketed for homebuilding for many years, with some 360 known to be under construction or flying by 1992.John Dyke has been nominated for consideration as a candidate for enshrinement into the National Aviation Hall of Fame as of September 2024.

References
 
 

Aircraft designers
Future Office System. FOS (Future Office System) is a workflow and case management system developed by Anite and used by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for the processing of criminal cases in Scotland, United Kingdom.

From 43 offices throughout Scotland, 1,300 Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service staff use FOS to streamline the complex procedures required to handle in excess of 300,000 reports of crime and sudden deaths per year.

Anite created the FOS system at their Glasgow office with development starting in the year 2000. Over 150-man years later, work continues to this day extending and enhancing FOS to meet the evolving business and legislative demands of COPFS and Scottish Government.

References

External links
 Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service 
 Anite
 Law Society of Scotland magazine article on FOS

Legal organisations based in Scotland
Sundt Air. Sundt Air is a Norwegian operator of corporate jets based in Oslo. It has four aircraft used for corporate and private charter. Two Beechcraft Super King Airs are used to carry out flight inspection duties as well as charters.

Fleet

The Sundt Air fleet is:
 1 x Beechcraft B350ER (maritime patrol)
 2 × Beechcraft Super King Air 200 (charter and flight inspection duties)
 1 × Bombardier Challenger 604
 1 × Bombardier Challenger 350
 1 × Cessna Citation Sovereign

External links

Airlines of Norway
Airlines established in 1997
1997 establishments in Norway
Sawtooth Software. Sawtooth Software, Inc. is a computer software company based in Provo, Utah, United States.  The company provides survey software tools, and specializes in conjoint analysis.

According to the American Marketing Association, Sawtooth Software was ranked fourth in 2005 among software used in market research (after SPSS, Microsoft Excel, and SAS System).

History

In the late 1960s, Rich Johnson, who was then an employee of Market Facts, Inc., developed a technique they called "Tradeoff Analysis".  It consisted of questioning respondents about various concepts composed of multiple attributes and comparing their responses to the different concepts.  In 1971, Paul Green published an article titled "Conjoint Measurement for Quantifying Judgmental Data".  When Johnson became aware of Green's research, he identified his technique as a variety of conjoint analysis.

In the mid 70's, Johnson co-founded the John Morton Company in part to apply computer technology to Tradeoff Analysis.  Johnson purchased an Apple II and began to program interviews for use on client projects.  Each project was programmed custom for the client.  During this time Johnson was fascinated by the ability of the computer to facilitate the collection of respondent data.

In 1982 Johnson left the John Morton Company and founded Sawtooth Software to pursue creating generalized software for use in marketing research.

Products

Sawtooth Software has created products for traditional conjoint analysis, as well as discrete choice analysis and other forms of conjoint.  In addition there are non-conjoint products involving interviewing, perceptual mapping, and cluster analysis.

Conjoint Techniques 
 Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA)
 Adaptive Choice Based Conjoint (ACBC)
 Choice Based Conjoint (CBC)
 Conjoint Value Analysis (CVA)
 Maximum Difference Scaling (MaxDiff)
 Menu-Based Choice (MBC)

Analysis Techniques 
 Hierarchical Bayes (HB)
 Latent Class (LC)
 Logit
 Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)
 Convergent Cluster & Ensemble Analysis (CCEA)
 Composite Product Mapping (CPM) (retired)

General Interviewing Packages 
 Lighthouse Studio
 Discover
 Ci3 (retired)

Relationships

Sawtooth Software maintains relationships with academics and market research organizations such as the American Marketing Association and ESOMAR. Researchers developing new interviewing techniques such as Maximum Difference (Best Worst) have used Sawtooth Software to assist in constructing their projects.

In addition to producing products, Sawtooth Software has also hosted a research conference every 18 months in the United States since 1987. The conference is not a sales event, and speakers with contrary opinions or competing products attend and present.

References

External links
Sawtooth Software Homepage

Companies based in Utah
1983 establishments in Idaho
Market research organizations
Market research companies of the United States
Software companies based in Utah
Statistical survey software
Software companies of the United States
Decision-making software
Phenylsilane. Phenylsilane, also known as silylbenzene, a colorless liquid, is one of the simplest organosilanes with the formula C6H5SiH3.  It is structurally related to toluene, with a silyl group replacing the methyl group.  Both of these compounds have similar densities and boiling points due to these similarities.  Phenylsilane is soluble in organic solvents.

Synthesis and reactions
Phenylsilane is produced in two steps from Si(OEt)4.  In the first step, phenylmagnesium bromide is added to form Ph−Si(OEt)3 via a Grignard reaction. Reduction of the resulting Ph−Si(OEt)3 product with LiAlH4 affords phenylsilane.

Ph−MgBr + Si(OEt)4 → Ph−Si(OEt)3 + MgBr(OEt)

4 Ph−Si(OEt)3 + 3 LiAlH4 → 4 Ph−SiH3 + 3 LiAl(OEt)4

Uses
Phenylsilane can be used to reduce tertiary phosphine oxides to the corresponding tertiary phosphine.

P(CH3)3O + PhSiH3 → P(CH3)3 + PhSiH2OH

The use of phenylsilane proceeds with retention of configuration at the phosphine.  For example, cyclic chiral tertiary phosphine oxides can be reduced to cyclic tertiary phosphines.

Phenylsilane combines with caesium fluoride to give the ate complex [PhSiFH3]−.  This species functions as a hydride donor, reducing 4-oxazolium salts to 4-oxazolines.

Phenylsilane has been used as a hydride donor in synthetic enzymes.

References

Carbosilanes
Phenyl compounds
Nazar Al Baharna. Nizar Al Baharna (Arabic: نزار البحارنة) (born 1950) is a Bahraini academic,  entrepreneur and politician.

Early life and education
Baharna was born in 1950. He is a graduate of the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering there. He also obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Wales in 1979.

Career
He gained the position of the head of the Engineering Department at Gulf Technical College soon after earning his doctorate. Then, Baharna began to work at the University of Bahrain in different capacities until 1995. The last academic post he held was the vice president for academic programs and scientific studies at the University of Bahrain. After leaving academia he established a consulting firm in Bahrain. He is a founding member of the Al Wefaq National Islamic Society which he left in 2004. However, one year later he rejoined the society. In November 2005 he became deputy chairman of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He was appointed minister of state for foreign affairs on 11 December 2006. Baharna, a Shia, remained in the post until February 2011. Then he returned to work as chairman at his company, Technology Consulting Group. He is also a visiting scholar researcher at Georgetown University. He is a member of the advisory board of the Iman Foundation.

In 2013, Baharna published a book, A Universal Human Rights Model.

References

1950 births
Living people
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals alumni
Alumni of the University of Wales
Academic staff of the University of Bahrain
Bahraini engineers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Bahraini Shia Muslims
Government ministers of Bahrain
Durand Mk V. 

The Durand Mk V was a two-seat sports biplane aircraft developed in the United States in the 1970s and marketed for home building. The design was distinctive due to a large negative stagger on the wings, but was otherwise conventional. The single-bay wings were braced with I-struts, and while both upper and lower wings were equipped with full-span flaps, lateral control was by spoilers on the lower wing rather than ailerons. Flight testing revealed that the aircraft was impossible to stall. The pilot and single passenger sat side by side beneath an expansive canopy, and the undercarriage was of fixed, tricycle type.

Durand sold 75 sets of plans by 1987, and by that time, at least five aircraft (including the prototype) were known to be flying. By 1998 the company said 91 sets of plans had been sold and nine aircraft flown.

Specifications (typical)

References

External links

 Durand Mk V at the Museum of Flight, Seattle The Durand Mark V has disappeared from the Museum of Flight and they do not know where it went.

1970s United States sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Mark V
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes with negative stagger
Aircraft first flown in 1978