omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Canadian Biosample Repository. The Canadian BioSample Repository is a biobank facility located on the University of Alberta Campus in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The CBSR is responsible for storing samples of many studies including the Development of a National Program for Research in Severe Asthma: The Canadian Severe Asthma Network (CSAN) study.

Robotics

Liquid Handling
The CBSR is notable for its development of an innovative liquid handling robot for sample processing in the Blood Borne Pathogens Surveillance project. The Robot is based on a SCARA arm and is notable for its unique vision system. The vision system is capable of measuring the volume of liquid contained in a liquid source tube using only a web camera and open source software from RoboRealm. It is accurate to within 0.5%. The Robot can pipette onto FTA paper for dry, room temp DNA storage as well as into barcoded cryotubes for Ultra Low Temperature (ULT) storage.

Sample Storage
The CBSR is currently developing a robotic system to operate within an Ultra Low Temperature (ULT) environment. This system will be capable of handling up to 600 cryotubes an hour and will keep the samples at or below -80 °C throughout their handling and storage.

Sources

External links
 The Canadian Biosample Repository Main Website
 specimencentral.com biobank directory
 Preparation of Blood for FTA paper DNA storage and PCR
 Severe Asthma Study Banks Blood with the CBSR

University of Alberta
Biobank organizations
US Light Aircraft Hornet. The US Light Aircraft Hornet is an American two-seats-in-tandem, pusher configuration, tricycle gear, strut-braced high wing ultralight aircraft, that was produced US Light Aircraft Corporation of Ramona, California between 1994 and circa 2008 in kit form for amateur construction. It was also available as a factory-completed light-sport aircraft.

After US Light Aircraft ceased production the design was taken up by Higher Class Aviation and then later Oklahoma Light Aircraft of Blackwell, Oklahoma, which reportedly had the Hornet in production in 2011. By July 2012 Oklahoma Light Aircraft's website had been removed from the internet and the aircraft was no longer advertised as being for sale.

Design and development
The Hornet was first introduced at Sun 'n Fun in 1994. Externally the aircraft greatly resembles the Quad City Challenger II, but internally the structure is very different. When it was available the Hornet was priced considerably higher than the Challenger II.

The Hornet structure is built up from aluminium tubing, riveted together with gussets. The aircraft is then covered with doped aircraft fabric. The Hornet's wing incorporates dual bridge-section spars, with a single strut and V-jury struts. The wing was sandbag-tested to 7g without failure. The aircraft includes electric flaps and trim, dual controls and two wing-mounted fuel tanks. The landing gear incorporates pneumatic suspension on all three wheels, including the steerable nosewheel, and hydraulic brakes on the mainwheels. The Hornet can also be equipped with floats or skis. Early production aircraft experienced elevator flutter at speeds in excess of  but this was addressed by mass-balancing the elevator.

Reported construction times from the kit are 250–300 hours.

Operational history
The Hornet won Grand Champion Light Plane at both Sun 'n Fun and AirVenture in 1995.

Variants
Hornet
Base model, powered by a  Hirth 2703, or optionally the  Hirth 2706 engine.
Super Hornet
Light sport model, fully assembled and powered by an  Rotax 912UL or optionally the  Rotax 912ULS engine

Specifications (Hornet)

See also

References

External links
US Light Aircraft website archives on Archive.org
Photo of Hornet

Homebuilt aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1993
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Plasma Science Society of India. Plasma Science Society of India was founded in 1978 at Institute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad in India for the benefit of the fusion community working on plasma. This serves the thrive for knowledge towards the fusion research in the field of theoretical and experimental research, it associated with India Science, Technology and Innovation, . The devices are SST-1, SINP-Tokamak, AdityaTokamak, SST-2 (DEMO) to generate the electricity.There are over 950 life-member of this society along with number of annual members.

References

External links

Nuclear fusion
Scientific organisations based in India
Alfred de Pischof. Alfred de Pischof (17 May 1882 – 12 August 1922) was an Austrian aviation pioneer. From 1901 to 1907, he attended the Collége Chaptal and École Speciale des Travaux Publics in Cachan (near Paris), France and studied road and railway engineering; his grandfather had been a railway specialist. De Pischof had also been interested in aircraft technology, and he often visited Charles and Gabriel Voisin. By 1906, Alfred had created his own glider and by 1907, his first biplane. In 1909, De Pischof returned to Austria, and worked as designer for Werner & Pfleiderer. He designed the Pischof-Autoplan; this aircraft first flew in March 1910, flying for 400 metres. On 24 April 1910, he earned his pilot's certificate.

After the First World War, De Pischof returned to France and focused on small aircraft. He died when he crashed an aircraft during testing.

Notes

References
R. Keim: Pischof, Alfred von. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Volume 8, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1983, , p. 98.
Alfred Ritter von Pischof in Wiener Zeitung of June 15, 1910
Le nouvel Appareil de Pischof in L'Aero-Méchanique of September 10, 1910
Der Pischof-Eindecker in Flugsport, 1912. p. 929f.
  (Describes the 1920 de Pischoff avionnette.)

1882 births
1922 deaths
Austrian aviators
Eduardo Bayo. Eduardo Bayo is a professor in the Department of Structural Design and Analysis at the University of Navarra.  He graduated with honors in civil engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1976. After 2 years of consulting as a structural engineer with Gibbs & Hill, he attended U.C. Berkeley receiving his master's degree in Engineering in June 1980 and his PhD in January 1983, in the field of structural mechanics. He specialized in structural analysis, finite element technology and computational dynamics. After completing his PhD he led a research group at INITEC, one of the largest engineering-consulting firms in Spain, responsible for the solution of specialized problems in structural analysis and design.

Career 
He initiated his academic career as assistant professor of structural mechanics and computational dynamics at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in January 1986. He became Associate Professor in 1989 and Full Professor in 1994. While at UCSB his research contributions focused on the dynamics and the control of flexible multi-body systems and articulated structures. His ideas on the non-causal inversion (inverse dynamics) of non-linear non-minimum-phase systems have had a growing influence in robotics and in non-linear control theory. The influence of Professor Bayo's inverse dynamics work in flexible multi-body systems has grown and continues to be evident in ongoing research at NASA-JPL, and within Medicine, Automation and Robotics to name just a few.

Since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Navarra, where he leads a research team working on the analysis and design of steel and composite structures, steel connections, stability analysis, nonlinear behavior and plastic structural steel design. He received the Arcelor-Mittal endowed Chair granted to the University of Navarra from 2003 to 2008.

He is a member of the ECCS (European Convention for Constructional Steelwork) Committee TC-10 on Steel Connections, the Spanish Committee in charge of the Structural Steel Code, and the AEN/CTN140/SC3 Committee Eurocode 3: Structural Steel Design. He provides technical review to the Journal of Engineering Structures, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. He is a charter member of the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute.

He has participated in the analysis and design of different civil works and building projects, has developed new methods of analysis and contributed to the creation of state of the art finite element computer codes. He has been a consultant to several American as well as European engineering companies.  He is married and lives with his family in Navarra, Spain.

References

External links 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
Polytechnic University of Madrid alumni
Spanish engineers
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Academic staff of the University of Navarra
Fokker Technologies. Fokker Technologies is a Dutch aerospace company owned by British aerospace supplier GKN. The company has production companies which design, develop and produce structures, landing gear and electrical systems for the aerospace and defense industry. Additional to the production capabilities, it also supplies integrated maintenance services to aircraft owners and operators.

Operations 
Fokker Technologies designs, develops and produces advanced structures and electrical systems for the aerospace and defense industry and supplies integrated maintenance services and products to aircraft owners and operators.

The company consists of four business units:
 Fokker Aerostructures (Lightweight structures)
 Fokker Elmo (Wiring harnesses)
 Fokker Landing Gear (Landing gear)
 Fokker Services (Aerospace services provider)
 Tiemen

History 
After the bankruptcy of the former aircraft manufacturer Fokker in 1996, Stork B.V. acquired the Fokker companies specialized in the building of aircraft components and aircraft maintenance services which were named as Stork Aerospace. The group has had many names until in 2010, the Fokker name was reintroduced.

In July 2015, the British aerospace supplier GKN announced that it intention to acquire Fokker Technologies from Arle Capital, at the value of €706 million. Fokker was acquired in the same year by GKN.

References

External links
Official website

Companies based in South Holland
Dutch companies established in 2011
Aerospace companies of the Netherlands
Papendrecht
Manufacturing companies established in 2011
Defence companies of the Netherlands
Just Knut Qvigstad. Just Knut Qvigstad (20 December 1902 – 6 May 2001) was a Norwegian engineer.

He was born in Tromsø as a son of educator and politician Just Knud Qvigstad (1853–1957) and Margrethe Antonette Aagaard (1859–1949). In 1933 he married Gunvor Wefring (1909-1963). He enrolled as a student in 1921, and graduated in electrical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1928. He worked in AEG from 1928, and as an assistant at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1929. He took the dr.techn. degree in 1937 with the thesis Zur Theorie des Arbeitsdiagrammes der einphasigen Induktionsmaschine. He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

He worked as an engineer in Glommens Træsliberi from 1936, and chief engineer from 1945. He was a chief engineer in A/S Kykkelsrud, a hydroelectric power plant company, from 1955 before being technical director in the company Hafslund from 1962 to 1969. He was also a member of the Norwegian Electrotechnical Committee from 1943 to 1965 and a board member of Samkjøringen from 1966 to 1969.

He died in May 2001 and was buried in Ullern.

References

1902 births
2001 deaths
Norwegian electrical engineers
20th-century Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
People from Tromsø
Jeeves Information Systems. Jeeves Information Systems, commonly known as Jeeves, is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and software developer in Sweden. Jeeves was founded at the beginning of the 1990s by a number of Swedish entrepreneurs. The head office is located in Stockholm. Jeeves was publicly traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange from 1999 until 2012, when U.S.-based Battery Ventures acquired the company for $32.46 million. Their most famous product is Jeeves ERP, a business system (ERP system), which in 2004 was the most used business system in Sweden for companies with over 50 employees.

The ERP system is designed for companies within the retail, manufacturing and service sectors and has more than 30.000 users in over 40 countries. It was ranked Sweden’s most popular ERP System by the analysis and consulting firm Exido’s IT barometer in 2009. In 2015, the company had sales of SEK 444 million.

References

Software companies of Sweden
ERP software companies
Swedish brands
Software companies established in 1992
Companies based in Stockholm
Swedish companies established in 1992
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Chen Xuejun. Chen Xuejun (; 5 March 1919 – 4 July 2017) was a Chinese physicist. He was a thermal power engineering scientist, professor and former vice president of Xi'an Jiaotong University. He graduated from National Central University with a bachelor's degree in engineering. He studied in the graduate school of Purdue University in the United States. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of The World Academy of Sciences.

References

External links

1919 births
2017 deaths
Educators from Anhui
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
National Central University alumni
People from Chuzhou
Physicists from Anhui
Purdue University alumni
TWAS fellows
Academic staff of Xi'an Jiaotong University
Ion-beam shepherd. An ion-beam shepherd (IBS) is a concept in which the orbit and/or attitude of a spacecraft or a generic orbiting body is modified by having a beam of quasi-neutral plasma impinging against its surface to create a force and/or a torque on the target. Ion and plasma thrusters commonly used to propel spacecraft can be employed to produce a collimated plasma/ion beam and point it towards the body.
The fact that the beam can be generated on a "shepherd" spacecraft placed in proximity of the target without physical attachment with the latter provides an interesting solution for space applications such as space debris removal, asteroid deflection and space transportation in general. 
The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) is exploring this concept by developing analytical and numerical control models in collaboration with the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency. The concept has also been proposed independently by JAXA and CNES.

How it works
The force and torque transmitted to the target originate from the momentum carried out by the plasma ions (typically xenon) which are accelerated to a few tens of kilometer per second by an ion or plasma thruster. The ions that reach the target surface lose their energy following nuclear collision in the substrate of the target material.
In order to keep a constant distance between the target and the shepherd spacecraft the latter must carry a secondary propulsion system (e.g. another ion or plasma thruster) compensating for the reaction force created by the targeted ion beam.

Applications
The concept has been suggested as a possible solution for active space debris removal, as well as for accurate deflection of Earth threatening asteroids.
Further in the future the concept could play an important role in areas such as space mobility, transportation, assembly of large orbital infrastructures and small asteroid capturing in Earth orbit.

Control
Beam divergence angles of  ion and plasma thrusters, typically greater than 10 degrees make it necessary to have the shepherd flying not more than a few target diameters away if efficient beam overlap is to be reached. Proximity formation flying guidance  and control as well as collision avoidance are among the most critical technological challenges of the concept.

References

External links
 http://www.aero.upm.es/ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
 http://sdg.aero.upm.es/ Space Dynamics Group at UPM
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120426091458/http://web.fmetsia.upm.es/ep2/page.php?page=index&lang=en Equipo de Propulsión Espacial y Plasmas (UPM)
 http://www.esa.int/act, ESA Advanced Concepts Team
 http://leosweep.upm.es/en, LEOSWEEP project

Aerospace engineering
Planetary defense
GL Noble Denton. GL Noble Denton is one of the oil and gas businesses of DNV GL, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany and London, UK. The company is an independent technical advisor to industry operators across the world.

GL Noble Denton provides advice and services for upstream operations, such as onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration, production and delivery storage; midstream import, storage and processing; and downstream distribution.

GL Noble Denton provides services and software to design, develop, operate, execute, and assure oil and gas industry assets across the world. The company employs more than 3,600 people, and operates in more than 80 countries.

GL Noble Denton's technical experience covers fixed platforms, mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs), mobile offshore production units (MOPU), subsea and risers systems, offshore support vessels, tankers and shipping, onshore production, onshore and offshore pipelines, storage, import terminals, LNG facilities, refineries and petrochemical plants, transmission and distribution networks.

Recent Awards

In December 2010, GL Noble Denton received a Gas Industry Safety Group (GISG) Award for safety-related research.

In May 2010, GL Noble Denton was awarded with an International Business Development Award, presented by the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM) and the Society of British Gas Industries (SBGI). The Award was presented in recognition of new safety and city gas projects commissioned to GL Noble Denton in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, India and Thailand.

Timeline 

1867: Germanischer Lloyd (GL) founded as a maritime classification society.

1904: Noble Denton founded by Captain Pedder to undertake technical assurance and project execution of complex marine operations in London.

1961: Captain David Noble and Dr Tony Denton successfully expand the Noble Denton business  offering combined of seafaring and gas engineering services to companies operating in the North Sea.
  
1970s: Noble Denton expands its global reach by opening offices in the Far East, Brazil, US, UAE and Norway.

1976: GL diversifies its business offering to include technical services in the oil and gas industry.

2003: Noble Denton acquires Martech Unlimited Inc (USA).

2004: Noble Denton acquires BOMEL Ltd. (UK) 

2007: Noble Denton acquires Intelligent Decisions (Norway), Poseidon Maritime Ltd. (UK), and Lowe Offshore International Inc (US)

2007: GL acquires Advantica (UK), Materials Consulting Services (US), and PVI Inspection (Canada)
 
2008: GL acquires Trident Consultants (Malaysia)

2008: Noble Denton acquires Standard Engineering AS and Brevik Engineering AS (Norway)

2009: GL acquires International Refinery Services (Singapore) 

2009: GL merges with Noble Denton 

2010: GL Noble Denton is launched, combining Noble Denton and the oil and gas division of Germanischer Lloyd.

2013: GL merges with DNV, forming DNV GL.

References 

Energy engineering and contractor companies
International engineering consulting firms
DNV GL
Buzzman L'il Buzzard. The Buzzman L'il Buzzard is a Canadian, two seat side-by-side configuration, high wing, strut-braced, conventional landing gear, tractor configuration, ultralight aircraft, originally manufactured by Buzzman ARVS and later by L'il Hustler Ultralight Aviation of Holland Landing, Ontario. The aircraft is sold mostly assembled, less only paint, engine and instruments.

The aircraft is unusual in that the manufacturer offers the airframe for sale without any warranty and without shipping insurance.

Design and development
A development of the 1982 vintage Anglin J6 Karatoo, the L'il Buzzard was introduced in 1990. The design goals included low-cost, durability in the trainer role, fast construction time and ease of maintenance. Because it is not on the list of approved advanced ultralights and, being delivered fully assembled is not eligible for registration as an amateur-built aircraft, Canadian registered L'il Buzzards are basic ultralights.

The aircraft is constructed with a welded 4130 steel tube fuselage and aluminium wings, built up from a D-cell on an I-beam spar. The aircraft is covered with painted aircraft fabric. The wing is braced by a V-strut with jury struts. The landing gear is of taildragger configuration, with bungee suspended main wheels and a sprung, steerable tailwheel. The aircraft has standard dual controls, adjustable left hand control stick, adjustable seats and a  wide cabin. Flaperons are optional and reduce the stall speed to  from .

The aircraft comes with float fittings welded onto the airframe and can also be operated on skis. The standard engine is the  Rotax 582, but engines up to  can be fitted.

The company claims a 40-hour assembly time from the supplied completed airframe to install the engine and paint the aircraft.

Operational history
The manufacturer claimed that by 2002 one hundred aircraft had been delivered to customers. In November 2016 there were 19 L'il Buzzard variants registered in Canada, comprising 15 L'il Buzzards, two L'il Hustlers and two L'il Hustler SS models.

Variants
L'il Buzzard
Basic version with a  Rotax 582 engine.
L'il Buzzard TWS 582
Improved version with a  Rotax 582 engine.
Lil Hustler
Equipped with an  Rotax 912UL engine.
Lil Hustler SS
Equipped with a  Rotax 912ULS engine.
L'il Hustler TR
Tricycle gear version

Specifications (L'il Buzzard)

See also

References

External links

1990s Canadian ultralight aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
GNR Class L1. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class L1 (LNER Class R1) was a 0-8-2T side tank steam locomotive designed by Henry Ivatt. It was originally designed for suburban passenger traffic on the Metropolitan City Lines.

A prototype was built in 1903, but it was overweight, so it was rebuilt with a smaller boiler and shorter side tanks.  Ten more engines were then built to this modified design.  During the "small boiler" era, the cylinders were lined to 18" to match the boilers.

In 1905 and 1906, thirty more engines were built for working goods trains in the West Riding of Yorkshire.  The original eleven engines were not a great success on passenger services so, in 1907, they were moved to the West Riding for goods work.

Condensing apparatus
The first eleven locomotives were fitted with condensing apparatus for working in tunnels. The thirty built for the West Riding were probably not so fitted, but this is subject to confirmation.  It is not known whether the condensing apparatus was removed from the original eleven when they were moved to the West Riding.

Modifications
Between 1909 and 1926 the locomotives were gradually rebuilt with larger boilers to the original specification.  Seven locomotives had superheaters fitted and, on these, the working pressure was reduced to 170 psi.

Proposed diesel conversion
In 1932 there was a proposal to convert some of the locomotives to diesel power.  The prime mover would have been an 8-cylinder diesel engine of 400 horsepower, driving a 4-cylinder air compressor to charge an air reservoir.  Compressed air from the reservoir would have been heated, both by the diesel exhaust and by steam from an oil-fired steam generator, and would then have entered the locomotive's original cylinders at about 150 psi. The use of steam to heat the air is reminiscent of the Mekarski system.  This diesel-pneumatic proposal never became a reality but a German one of 1929 did.

Withdrawal
The class was all withdrawn and scrapped between 1927 and 1934.

References

L1
0-8-2T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1903
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
D1′ n2t locomotives

Passenger locomotives