omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Gigapxl Project. The Gigapxl Project, initiated late in the year 2000 under the impetus of retired physicist Graham Flint, is a large format landscape photography and ultrahigh-resolution scanning and printing technology, developed around custom-built Gigapxl cameras and modern digital scanning and printing equipment and software.  
Image size on Roll Film is 18″ × 9″ (450 mm × 225 mm), scanned at 5000 dpi giving a resolution of 4 Gigapixel (4,000 Megapixel).

Results can be described in one way as a 4 Gigapixel (4,000 Megapixel) image that has dimensions of 10 x 20 ft - with 3 Megapixel sharpness over included 4 x 6 inch areas.

The Project's near-term goal (last stated in 2007) is to "compile a coast-to-coast "Portrait of America"; photographing in detail, cities, parks and monuments of the US and Canada".

A stated longer-term goal relates to an effort to document thousands of cultural and archaeological sites around the world which cannot be preserved and which inevitably will deteriorate with the passage of time.  A prime example can be found in the city of Rome, Italy.  Rome's limestone structures, which have stood for thousands of years, have become victims of acid rain.  Until quite recently, stonemasons' tool-marks were clearly visible, yet now they have all but vanished.  Ultrahigh-resolution, documentary photography can preserve such details for future generations.

In August 2007, Google began incorporating Gigapxl photographic information into Google Earth.

Their official website is no longer operational.

References

External links
Official website (defunct)
Photographer Seeks Resolution, Wired News article
Physicist Graham Flint is working on an ultra-high-resolution portrait of America

Digital photography
2000 in technology
Guillaume Daniel Delprat. Guillaume Daniel Delprat CBE (1 September 1856 – 15 March 1937) was a Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman. He was a developer of the froth flotation process for separating minerals.

Delprat was born in Delft, the Netherlands, son of Major General Felix Albert Theodore Delprat (1812–1888), later minister of war, and his wife Elisabeth Francina, née van Santen Kolff.

Delprat attended a high school in Amsterdam and later became an apprentice engineer on the Tay Bridge in Scotland. He attended science classes in Newport-on-Tay and learned calculus from his father by post. On returning to the Netherlands, he is said to have acted as assistant to Johannes Diderik van der Waals, physics professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 1879 to 1882, Delprat worked in Spain at the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Mines.

In 1898, chairman Edward Wigg of BHP invited Delprat to Australia to become Assistant General Manager of BHP. He moved there with his wife and children. On 1 April 1899, he was promoted to General Manager, a position he held until 1921. At BHP, he pioneered the froth flotation process for refining sulphide ore. Delprat foresaw the exhaustion of BHP's mine at Broken Hill, and pushed for moving the company's smelters to Port Pirie; also construction of the BHP Whyalla Tramway. He shifted BHP from silver and lead mining to zinc and sulphur production. These moves were the basis of BHP's later success.

Delprat also pushed construction of the BHP Newcastle Steelworks. The contract was signed on 24 September 1912 and the steelworks were opened by Governor-General Novar on 2 June 1915. For Delprat's visionary judgement in the project he was made a CBE.

In 1935 Delprat was the first recipient of the medal of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.

Family
G. D. Delprat  married Henrietta Maria Wilhelmina Sophia Jas (died 5 December 1937) in Holland on 4 September 1879. Their seven children included:
Dr. Lica Delprat (–1963) married Dr. Milo Sprod (1882 – 31 December 1934) on 11 April 1916
Francisca Adriana "Paquita" Delprat (1891–1974) married (later Sir) Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) on 31 March 1914
Carmen Paquita Delprat (–) married Petrus Ephrem "Pierre" Teppema (1863–1935). She was a noted violinist; studied under Hermann Heinicke, Siegfried Eberhardt and Alexander Petschnikoff

References

1856 births
1937 deaths
Australian businesspeople
Australian expatriates in Spain
Dutch expatriates in Spain
Dutch emigrants to the British Empire
Immigrants to colonial Australia
Dutch engineers
Australian metallurgists
People from Delft
Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Ittiam Systems. Ittiam Systems is a venture capital funded technology company founded by ex-Managing Director of Texas Instruments' India Srini Rajam in 2001. It is headquartered in Bangalore, India and has marketing offices in the United States, UK, France, Japan, Mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan.

Ittiam Systems is India's first technology firm to be based on licensing of intellectual property (IP). Revenue is mainly generated through licensing of its DSP intellectual property and reference designs.

One of its early United States customers was e.Digital Corporation, a San Diego–based company that developed the digEplayer portable audio/video in-flight entertainment device under contract by Tacoma, Washington–based APS, now named digEcor.  
 
Ittiam Systems demonstrated its HEVC and VP9 implementations accelerated using ARM Mali-T600 GPU Compute technology at CES 2014 and MWC 2014.

References 

Electronics companies established in 2001
Digital signal processors
Electronics companies of India
Ittiam
2001 establishments in Karnataka
DAPPLE Project. The DAPPLE Project (Dispersion of Air Pollution and its Penetration into the Local Environment) was a four-year research project, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It involved a consortium of six universities between 2002 and 2006. Field work was based at a site at the junction of Marylebone Road and Gloucester Place in central London.

Transportation study
As part of the project a study was designed to measure exposure to air pollution during transportation and looked at five transport methods for travelling across London. It was carried out by a team from Imperial College London and the Health and Safety Laboratory, Buxton co-ordinated by Dr Surbjit Kaur.

The results, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, showed that the level of  pollution that people are exposed to differs according to the mode of transport that they use. The most risky method of transport was the back seat of a cab, followed by travelling by bus, cycling, walking, with a private car exposing people to the lowest amount of pollution.

See also
Air pollution in the United Kingdom
Air pollution dispersion terminology
Atmospheric dispersion modeling
List of atmospheric dispersion models

References

Further reading
Z.-T. Xie and I.P. Castro "Large-Eddy Simulation for Flow and Dispersion in Urban Streets", 2009.  Atmospheric Environment. 43 (13), 2174–2185. , . ISSN 1352-2310.

External links
DAPPLE Project
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Air pollution in the United Kingdom
Air pollution organizations
Atmospheric dispersion modeling
College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Imperial College London
Science and technology in Derbyshire
ANNNI model. In statistical physics, the axial (or anisotropic) next-nearest neighbor Ising model, usually known as the ANNNI model, is a variant of the Ising model. In the ANNNI model, competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions couple spins at nearest and next-nearest neighbor sites along one of the crystallographic axes of the lattice.

The model is a prototype for complicated spatially modulated magnetic superstructures in
crystals.

To describe experimental results on magnetic orderings in erbium, the model was introduced in 1961 by Roger Elliott from the University of Oxford. The model has given its name in 1980 by Michael E. Fisher and Walter Selke, who analysed it first by Monte Carlo methods, and then by low temperature series expansions, showing the fascinating complexity of its phase diagram, including devil's staircases and a Lifshitz point. Indeed, it  provides, for two- and three-dimensional systems, a theoretical basis for understanding numerous experimental observations on commensurate and incommensurate structures, as well as accompanying phase transitions, in various magnets, alloys, adsorbates, polytypes, multiferroics, and other solids.

Further possible applications range from modeling of cerebral cortex to quantum information.

References

Statistical mechanics
Lattice models
Spin models
Hermann Viets. Hermann Viets (28 January 1943 – 1 October 2017) was a German-born American astronautics engineer and president of Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He was MSOE's fourth president, assuming the position in 1991.

Early life
Viets was born in Quedlinburg, Germany on 28 January 1943.

He earned all three of his degrees from New York University's Polytechnic Institute: a B.S. in aerospace engineering in 1965, an M.S. in astronautics in 1966, and a doctorate in astronautics in 1970.

Career
Viets held seven US patents.

He was Professor of Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He was a professor and Associate Dean for Research at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. the Dean of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, before becoming president of MSOE. He was one of the co-founders of the International Engineering Program at URI.

He has also been a visiting scientist, aerospace engineer and research group leader for Wright Patterson Air Force Base Aerospace Research Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio; and a lecturer at the Von Karman Institute in Brussels, Belgium.

Viets died at his home in South Kingstown, Rhode Island on 1 October 2017.

Legacy
The athletic field at the Milwaukee School of Engineering was named in Viets's honor in 2013. In 2019, the University announced a brand new residence tower bearing his name.

References

External links
Biography of Hermann Viets at Milwaukee School of Engineering.

 

1943 births
2017 deaths
21st-century American engineers
German emigrants to the United States
Wright State University faculty
People from Quedlinburg
People from South Kingstown, Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island faculty
West Virginia University faculty
Milwaukee School of Engineering people
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
Wayne Stevens (software engineer). Wayne P. Stevens (1944 - 1993) was an American software engineer, consultant, author, pioneer, and advocate of the practical application of software methods and tools.

Life & Work 
Stevens grew up in Missouri, spent two years in India, where he attended the Woodstock School, and earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1967. He eventually became the chief architect of application development methodology for IBM's consulting group. The annual Stevens Award Lecture on Software Development Methods is named after him.  

He belonged to the IEEE and the ACM as well as the following honorary societies:  Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.

He wrote a seminal paper on Structured Design, with Larry Constantine and Glenford Myers, and was the author of a number of books and articles on application design methodologies. He also worked with John Paul Morrison to refine and promote the concepts of what is now called Flow-based programming, including descriptions of FBP in several of these references.

Publications 
Stevens published several articles and books, including:
 1982. How Data Flow can Improve Application Development Productivity, IBM System Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2.
 1981. Using Structured Design: How to make Programs Simple, Changeable, Flexible and Reusable, John Wiley and Sons.
 1985. Using Data Flow for Application Development. Byte
 1990. Software Design - Concepts and Methods, Practical Software Engineering Series, Ed. Allen Macro, Prentice Hall.

Articles, a selection
 
 1988. "Integrating Applications with SAA (Systems Application Architecture)". With L.A. Buchwald & R. W. Davison. In: IBM Systems Journal, Vol 27 No 3, pp 315–324, 1988
 1991. "Structured Design, Structured Analysis, and Structured Programming". In: American Programmer, Nov. 1991.
 1994. "Data Flow Analysis and Design". In: Encyclopedia of Software Engineering. John J. Marciniak, Editor-in-Chief, Volume 1, pp 242 – 247, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994.

References 

1944 births
1993 deaths
IBM employees
American computer scientists
American software engineers
Harold MacDowell. Harold MacDowell is a construction company executive.

Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, MacDowell graduated from high school in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and received his bachelor's degree in engineering management from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1984.  He entered the construction industry as an estimator through SMU's School of Engineering Cooperative Education Program and later became a project manager for Wallace Mechanical Corporation. He served as TDIndustries' CEO for 18 years, officially stepping down in December 2023. MacDowell now serves as a board director for TDIndustries, which was ranked 35 in FORTUNE 's 100 Best Companies to Work For 2008.

Community involvement
MacDowell currently serves as a member of the Dallas Citizen's Council, the board of the Greater Dallas Chamber, the board of trustees for the Parish Episcopal School, and the QUOIN-AGC Board.  He is a past chairman of the board for the Construction Education Foundation that provides educational opportunities to construction craftspeople who want to be masters of their trades.  MacDowell also is a member of the SMU School of Engineering executive advisory board.  He is involved in Habitat for Humanity.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American technology chief executives
Southern Methodist University alumni
Bleialf transmitter. Bleialf transmitter is a facility of the Deutsche Telekom AG on the Black Man mountain at Bleialf, Germany for FM- and TV-broadcasting. It uses as antenna tower a 224 metre tall guyed steel-tube mast.

References

External links
 https://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=50.254722,6.359167&spn=0.001468,0.003616&om=1

Radio masts and towers in Germany
Communication towers in Germany
Klocwork. Klocwork is a static code analysis tool owned by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software developer Perforce. Klocwork software analyzes source code in real time, simplifies peer code reviews, and extends the life of complex software.

Overview
Klocwork is used to identify security, safety and reliability issues in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript and Python code. The product includes numerous desktop plug-ins for developers, metrics and reporting.

History
Originally Klocwork’s technology was developed to address requirements for large-scale source code analysis to optimize software architecture for C code inside Nortel Networks and spun out in 2001. 

In January 2012, Klocwork Insight 9.5 was released. It provided on-the-fly static analysis in Visual Studio, like a word processor does with spelling mistakes.

In May 2013, Klocwork Cahoots peer code review tool was launched.

Awards and recognition
In 2007, Klocwork was awarded the 2007 InfoWorld Technology of Year award for best source code analyzer.

In May 2014, Klocwork won the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award, in the software sector.

Original developer

Klocwork was an Ottawa, Canada-based software company that developed the Klocwork brand of programming tools for software developers. The company was acquired by Minneapolis-based application software developer Perforce in 2019, as part of their acquisition of Klocwork's parent software company Rogue Wave. Klocwork no longer exists as a standalone company, but Perforce continues to develop Klocwork branded static code analysis software.

Company history
The company was founded in 2001 as a spin-out of Nortel Networks. Its initial investors were Firstmark Capital, USVP, and Mobius Ventures.

In January 2014, the company was acquired by Rogue Wave Software.

In January 2019, Rogue Wave was acquired by Minneapolis-based application software developer Perforce.

References

External links

Static program analysis tools
Development software companies
Software companies established in 2001
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Heartland Corridor. The Heartland Corridor is a public-private partnership between the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and the Federal Highway Administration and three U.S. states to improve railroad freight operations. 

The $150 million plan was developed to facilitate more efficient travel on NS rail lines between the Norfolk, Virginia port region and two Midwest destinations—Chicago, Illinois and Columbus, Ohio. One of the project goals was to increase clearances in tunnels to permit the operation of double-stack intermodal trains, increasing the capacity of rail lines, shortening rail journeys and reducing tractor-trailer traffic. New shipping terminals for intermodal connections are also planned for key locations.

Construction began in 2007, and the route opened for double stack service on September 9, 2010.

The project involved raising clearances in 28 tunnels and 24 other overhead obstacles. A total of around  of tunnels were modified. When completed, the new routing was expected to reduce travel times from port facilities in Virginia to Chicago to three days, improving on the previous four-day travel time and to reduce the distance traveled by .

In June 2010, NS announced that it had reached an agreement with Ohio to extend a leg of the Heartland Corridor southwesterly from Columbus to Cincinnati, which is located on the Ohio River near the border where Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana converge. The $6.1 million cost will be funded with federal economic stimulus funds and the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments, plus money from NS.

See also 

 National Gateway – railroad improvement project by CSX Transportation
 Norfolk Southern Crescent Corridor – proposed railroad project running between Louisiana and New Jersey
 Virginia Port Authority operator of three major port terminals on the harbor of Hampton Roads
 Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program (CREATE)

References

External links
 NS Photos of Heartland Corridor Tunnel Expansion Projects

Norfolk Southern Railway
Rail freight transportation in the United States
Rail infrastructure in Illinois
Transportation planning
Rail infrastructure in Virginia
Arkansas Highway 321. Highway 321 (AR 321, Ark. 321, Hwy. 321) is a designation for two north–south state highways in central Arkansas. One route of  runs from Interstate 57 (I-57) in Cabot north to Highway 38 east of Austin. A second route of  begins at AR 31 north of Beebe and runs north to Highway 267.

Route description

Cabot to Austin
Highway 321 begins near an interchange with I-57/US 67/US 167 at Highway 5 and Highway 367 in Cabot. The route intersects Highway 89 in south Cabot before exiting the city and running due east. Near Oak Grove, the route turns due north, with Highway 321 Spur (AR 321S) continuing east to Highway 31. A 2010 study of annual average daily traffic (AADT) by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) reveals that about 19,000 vehicles per day (VPD) use the route between its southern terminus and Highway 89/Highway 367, with the traffic count dropping to 7,000 VPD between that junction and the Cabot city limits. Traffic counts continue around 2,500 VPD until the Highway 321S junction, then drop to 2,100 VPD for the remainder of the route.

Beebe to Essex
Highway 321 begins north of Beebe at Highway 31. The route runs north, having a junction with Highway 321 Spur and passing through Essex. The highway continues north and terminates at Highway 267. An AHTD traffic count from 2010 reveals that the average annual daily traffic never exceeds 640 vehicles per day anywhere on the route.

Major intersections

Special routes

Lonoke County spur

Highway 321 Spur (AR 321S, Ark. 321S, and Hwy. 321S) is an east–west state highway spur route in Lonoke County. The route of  serves as a connector between Highway 321 and Highway 31.

Major intersections

White County spur

Highway 321 Spur (AR 321S, Ark. 321S, and Hwy. 321S) is an east–west state highway spur route in White County. The route of  serves as a short connector between Highway 321 and Highway 31.

Major intersections

See also

 List of state highways in Arkansas

References

External links

321
Transportation in Lonoke County, Arkansas
Transportation in White County, Arkansas
BBL Pipeline. The BBL Pipeline (Balgzand Bacton Line, BBL) is a natural gas interconnector between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

History
Laying the pipeline between the compressor station at the Balgzand Gas Plant at Grasweg in Anna Paulowna (province of North Holland) and Bacton Gas Terminal started on 14 July 2006.  The pipeline became operational on 1 December 2006.

Technical description
The overall length of pipeline is  of which around  is offshore.  The pipeline's diameter is  and working pressure is .  The initial capacity is 16 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year, which will be increased to 19.2 bcm by the end of 2010 by installing a fourth compressor at the compressor station at Anna Paulowna. The pipeline has a regulatory exemption from the two-ways gas flow until October 2018. Until this, the direction of gas flow is from the Netherlands to the UK.  The overall cost of the project was around €500 million.

Operating company
The BBL was developed and operated by the BBL Company.  The main shareholder of the company is Gasunie with 60% of the shares, and Enagas and Fluxys both own 20%.  Russian Gazprom had an option for 9%, in exchange for a 9% share of Nord Stream AG. The BBL Pipeline would allow Gazprom to supply additional gas to the British market through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

See also
Interconnector (North Sea)

References

External links
 BBL Company website

Energy infrastructure completed in 2006
Natural gas pipelines in the Netherlands
Natural gas pipelines in the United Kingdom
Netherlands–United Kingdom relations
North Sea energy
Pipelines under the North Sea
Uniper
2006 establishments in England
2006 establishments in the Netherlands
Takatsuki-class destroyer. The Takatsuki-class destroyer was a series of four destroyers constructed for and operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Built between 1964 and 1970, the destroyers were mainly used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) duties and were designed to operate the DASH unmanned ASW drone system. The system did not work and was removed from all four ships in 1977. In the mid-1980s, the first two ships of the class were modernized, receiving surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles. The final two ships were scheduled to be modernized, but the program was cancelled.

Modernization
From 1985 to 1988, Takatsuki and Kikuzuki were upgraded with Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile launchers, Harpoon missile anti-ship missile launchers, Phalanx CIWS systems (Kikuzuki only), new FCS (FCS-2-12) fire control radar and TASS. Mochizuki and Nagatsuki were in the upgrade program, but were eventually not upgraded.

Ships

References

Citations

Bibliography

Further reading
The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.57 Takatsuki class escort vessels, Ushio Shobō (Japan), November 1981
The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.78 Electronics weapons, Power Plants and Helicopters, Ushio Shobō (Japan), August 1983

Destroyer classes