omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Guangtong–Dali railway. The Guangtong–Dali or Guangda railway (), is a single-track electrified railroad in Yunnan Province of Southwest China.  The line branches off from the Guangtong station, near Kunming on the Chengdu–Kunming railway and runs west to Dali City.  The line is  in length and was built from May 1992 to June 1998.  Major cities and towns along the route include Chuxiong City, Nanhua, Xiangyun County, Midu County and Dali. 

Construction of a new, 175-km dual-track electrified line, the Guangtong–Chuxiong–Dali railway, paralleling the line began in September 2010.  Difficulties in construction included 110,000 cubic meters of water inundation of the tunnels. The new electrified line opened for traffic in July 2018, upping speeds from 60 to 200 km/h and doubling the track.

Rail connections
 Guangtong: Chengdu–Kunming railway to Kunming
 Dali: Dali–Lijiang railway, Dali–Ruili railway

See also

 List of railways in China

References

Railway lines in China
Rail transport in Yunnan
William L. Melvin. William L. "Bill" Melvin is the deputy director of Sensors and Intelligent Systems at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is a former director of the GTRI Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL).

Early life and education
Melvin earned a BS, an MS, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from Lehigh University.

Career
Melvin served in the United States Air Force at the Rome Laboratory (currently known as the Air Force Research Laboratory), where he worked on airborne surveillance radar.

He joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1998, where his research resulted in three patents on adaptive radar. He also took an adjunct faculty position in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2006, he became the director of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL), replacing Robert N. Trebits. He remained director of the lab until 2014, when he was named deputy director of the Sensors and Intelligent Systems Directorate, which oversees SEAL as well as the Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory and the Applied Concepts Laboratory.

Memberships and awards
Melvin is an active IEEE member, and is an IEEE Fellow. Melvin received a "Best Paper" award at the 1997 IEEE Radar Conference. In spring 2006, Melvin was named "Young Radar Engineer of the Year" by the IEEE Radar Systems Panel of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.

References

Living people
Georgia Tech Research Institute people
Lehigh University alumni
United States Air Force officers
Fellows of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Pong Dam. The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, just upstream of Talwara. The purpose of the dam is water storage for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation. As the second phase of the Beas Project, construction on the dam began in 1961 and was completed in 1974. At the time of its completion, the Pong Dam was the tallest of its type in India. The lake created by the dam, Maharana Pratap Sagar, became a renowned bird sanctuary.

Background
The idea for a dam on the Beas at the Pong site was first proposed in 1926 and subsequent surveys of the Indus River and its tributaries were ordered by the Punjab Government in 1927. Interest in the dam declined after the report deemed the project difficult because of flood waters. In 1955, geological and hydrological studies were carried out on the Pong site and an embankment design was recommended. In 1959, extensive studies were carried out and recommended an embankment dam with a gravity section. A final design was issued and construction began in 1961 on the dam which was called Beas Project Unit II - Beas Dam. The Pandoh Dam  upstream being the Beas Project Unit I. It was completed in 1974 and the power station was later commissioned between 1978 and 1983. About 150,000 people were displaced by the dam's large reservoir under a poorly planned and executed relocation program.

Design
The Pong Dam is a  tall and  long earth-fill embankment dam with a gravel shell. It is  wide at its crest and  wide at its base. The total volume of the dam is  and its crest sits at an elevation of  above sea level. The dam's spillway is located on its southern bank and is a chute-type controlled by six radial gates. Its maximum discharge capacity is . The reservoir created by the dam, Maharana Pratap Sagar, has a gross capacity of  of which  is active (live) capacity. The reservoir has a normal elevation of  and catchment area of . The reservoir reaches from the dam to  upstream in length and covers a surface of . Located at the base of the dam is its power house. It is supplied with water via three penstocks which each meet a 66 MW Francis turbine-generator located inside the Bhatoli phakorian. The dam's elevation to the power house provides a maximum of  in hydraulic head.

Displacement of people 
The large reservoir created by this dam resulted in a major displacement of people from the state of Himachal Pradesh. A total of 90,702 people were displaced and 339 villages affected. The displaced people were to be resettled in Rajasthan. However, as of February 2014, 9732 requests for land allotment were still pending. Himachal Pradesh threatened Rajasthan that they will file a contempt of court in Supreme Court if land is not allotted.

See also

Bhakra Dam
Pandoh Dam

References

Dams in Himachal Pradesh
Hydroelectric power stations in Himachal Pradesh
Earth-filled dams
Dams completed in 1974
Dams on the Beas River
Embankment dams
Buildings and structures in Kangra district
1974 establishments in Himachal Pradesh
20th-century architecture in India
Warren CP-1. The Warren CP-1, also called Miss Poly, Miss Polytechnic and the Warren Monoplane, was the second aircraft built by engineering students at California Polytechnic College, after their first project the Mason Greater Meteor.

Design and development
The CP-1 was built for Cal Poly instructor Martin C. Martinsen and completed in August 1929. It was a high-wing conventional landing gear equipped monoplane using dual airfoil-shaped lift struts. The fuselage is made of fabric-covered welded steel tubing, with wooden wing spars and ribs. The red, yellow and blue paint scheme was taken a from an earlier Berrylold Paint advertisement. An exhaust collector ring, larger rudder and low-pressure wheels and tires were added after construction.

Operational history
The CP-1 was licensed as an experimental aircraft and test flown from E.W. Clark Field in September 1929. It won a silver cup and two blue ribbons at the California State Fair, and on 29 June 1930 reached a height of 18,200 ft to win a record for student-built aircraft. In 1932 the aircraft was sold back to Cal Poly to be used for aerial photographic survey and tail modifications. In 1934 its license expired with fuselage and wing modifications planned. The disassembled aircraft was left in storage in the rafters of a building at Cal Poly.

Specifications (CP-1)

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References

High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1920s United States sport aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929
Music Kit. The Music Kit was a software package for the NeXT Computer system. First developed by David A. Jaffe and Julius O. Smith, it supported the Motorola 56001 DSP that was included on the NeXT Computer's motherboard. It was also the first architecture to unify the Music-N and MIDI paradigms. Thus it combined the generality of the former with the interactivity and performance capabilities of the latter. The Music Kit was integrated with the Sound Kit.

First demonstrated in 1988 at Davies Symphony Hall, the 1.0 release shipped in 1989 with the NeXT computer and included an Objective-C library for creating music and sound applications, a score language that included expression evaluation, MIDI, sound and DSP drivers, several command-line utilities and a simple score-playing application called ScorePlayer. The Music Kit was integrated into a variety of music applications, including Finale and Creation Station. It was also used in video games and even document processors.

The 2.0 release of the NeXT computer included additional bundled applications, including Ensemble, a fractal-based improvisation tool developed by Michael Mcnabb. Others involved in the NeXT Music Kit project included Douglas Fulton (documentation and demos), Doug Keislar (third-party support), Greg Kellogg (drivers), Lee Boynton (drivers, Sound Kit) and Dana Massie (development.) In addition, consultants brought in early on included Andy Moorer (DSP software architecture), Roger Dannenberg (data structures) and John Strawn (DSP software).

In 1992 (NeXT 3.0 release), the Music Kit was un-bundled from the NeXT software and was released as a copyrighted open source package to the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where Julius O. Smith was a professor. Stanford University hired David A. Jaffe as a consultant to continue to develop the Music Kit. Among the additions at that time were support for the Airel QuintProcessor, a five-DSP board for the NeXTcube, support for audio directly via the DSP56001 serial port (which was brought out to the back of the NeXT cube), and support for NextSTEP and the use of DSP processing using the Turtle Beach DSP56001 card. A set of eight Motorola evaluation boards were combined into a chassis for the prototype "Frankenstein" platform, used by the Sondius program of the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing to develop physical models of musical instruments. In addition, Jaffe was hired by a third party to add MIDI time code support to the Music Kit. (The Sondius group was later spun off into an independent company, Staccato Systems, Inc., with funding from Yamaha and Stanford University. Staccato Systems, Inc. was acquired by Analog Devices in 2000.)

The Music Kit was described in numerous articles in NeXTWorld and other periodicals, and in books such as The Complete Guide to the Nextstep user environment.

More recent ports of the Music Kit were done by Leigh Smith and Stephen Brandon.

References

External links

NeXT
Warren CP-2. The Warren CP-2, also called the Warren Taperwing, or the Kinner Taperwing was the third and last aircraft built by engineering students at California Polytechnic College in the 1930s

Design
The aircraft is a side-by-side open cockpit biplane with conventional landing gear, powered by a Kinner K-5 radial engine. The wings used wooden spars and ribs with fabric covering. The fuel tank is mounted against the firewall. The fuselage was acquired from the liquidation of Arrow Aircraft in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Operational history
The aircraft was registered in the experimental category and several attempts were made to register it in the restricted category for aerial photography. New owner Clifford Bryant flew the aircraft from Fresno, California until a partial motor mount failure caused the engine to nearly fall off in flight. The aircraft was sold to Madonna Inn partner Arthur Madonna, and was later destroyed in 1941 when a shed collapsed on it in a storm.

Specifications (Warren CP-2)

See also

References

Biplanes
1930s United States sport aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
Shirish B. Patel. Shirish B. Patel (1932 – 20 December 2024) was an Indian civil engineer and the founder of Shirish Patel & Associates (SPA), a company which designs, manages and inspects structural engineering projects.  Patel was a writer and speaker in the media on the topic of urban planning and urban density.

Patel also helped to form the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He was also a founding member of the Housing Development Finance Corporation.

Biography 
Patel was born on 7 March 1932. He obtained a degree in engineering from University of Cambridge before returning to India. He started his career working on infrastructure projects including the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi river, a work that he did for a French engineering firm, and the Koyna Dam in Maharashtra.

Patel founded his engineering firm in 1960.

Work on Navi Mumbai 
Patel and two other authors, Charles Correa and Praveena Mehta, created a plan in 1965 to create a new city across the harbour from Bombay.  When the project was accepted by the government, Patel was appointed the Technical Director of the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra, the state government outfit charged with implementing the project. Patel co-ordinated the implementation of the plan in its initial years between 1970 and 1974 as head of the planning team.

Other Projects 
Patel was the main designer of the Kemp’s Corner Flyover, the first in India, using new construction technology which had not been tried in India before.

As well as planning and designing, Patel and his company were often called upon to perform infrastructure inspections, data collection and analysis, and other consulting work.

Research 
Patel also wrote several research papers on various topics related to housing and urban planning. Some of his papers are:

 
 Patel, S. B. (2005). Housing policies for Mumbai. Economic and Political Weekly, 3669-3676.
 Phatak, V. K., & Patel, S. B. (2005). Would decentralisation have made a difference?. Economic and Political Weekly, 3902-3905.
 Patel, S. B. (2011). Analyzing urban layouts–can high density be achieved with good living conditions?. Environment and Urbanization, 23(2), 583-595.
 Tandel, V., Patel, S., Gandhi, S., Pethe, A., & Agarwal, K. (2016). Decline of rental housing in India: the case of Mumbai. Environment and Urbanization, 28(1), 259-274.

He also innovated on an efficient cooker with researchers including Jyeshtharaj Joshi at the Institute of Chemical Technology.

Death 
Patel died on 20 December 2024, at the age of 92.

References

External links 
 Indian Institute for Human Settlements
 Shirish Patel and Associates Consultants Private Ltd.
 Larsen and Toubro, Engineering Construction & Contracts Division
 India Habitat Centre
 Housing Development Finance Corporation 
 The Institution of Engineers, India
 American Concrete Institute
 Consulting Engineers Association (India) 
 American Society of Civil Engineers  
 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering  
 International Association for Shell & Spatial Structures

1932 births
2024 deaths
Indian civil engineers
CryptoVerif. CryptoVerif is a software tool for the automatic reasoning about security protocols written by Bruno Blanchet.

Supported cryptographic mechanisms
It provides a mechanism for specifying the security assumptions on cryptographic primitives, which can handle in particular 
 symmetric encryption,
 message authentication codes,
 public-key encryption,
 signatures,
 hash functions.

Concrete security
CryptoVerif claims to evaluate the probability of a successful attack against a protocol relative to the probability of breaking each cryptographic primitive, i.e. it can establish concrete security.

References

External links
 

Cryptographic software
The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of engineering, especially modeling and simulation as it relates to the military and defense. The editor-in-chief is Jerry M. Couretas (Lockheed Martin Corporation). It was established in 2004 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Abstracting and indexing 
The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation is abstracted and indexed in:
 Biostatistica
 CompuMath Citation Index
 Current Contents/Engineering, Computing, & Technology
 Current Index to Statistics
 Engineering Citation Index
 Scopus

External links 
 

SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Engineering journals
Military journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2004
British Amphibious Airlines. British Amphibious Airlines was a British airline that operated a seaplane service between Blackpool and the Isle of Man in 1932 and 1933.

History
The airline was formed on 4 February 1932 in Blackpool to exploit an agreement to use the sea and foreshore at Blackpool for conducting flight in amphibious flying boats.

During the summer of 1932 the airline operated a service between Blackpool and the Isle of Man using a Saro Cutty Sark named Progress which could carry four passengers. The aircraft was based at Squires Gate Airport but picked up passengers on the foreshore and alighted in Douglas harbour on the Isle of Man, if the sea conditions were bad they used Ronaldsway Airport. Although the first to operate a service to the Isle of Man they were in competition with the Isle of Man Air Services who operated from Liverpool.

The first year they carried 348 passengers on the service, during 1933 the service was only operated on three days a week and carried only 130 passengers. The airline tried to acquire a larger Saro Cloud aircraft but were thwarted by the owners of Saunders-Roe who wanted to run their own service to the Isle of Man so British Amphibious stopped operating the service.

See also
 List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
Ronald Monk bought a seaplane and went from London to Blackpool to give rides to people on the beach at one of the first British holiday place Someone approached him about taking people to the TT races in the Isle of Man, which he did then someone asked him to take a group to Liverpool.  This became the first internal airline in the UK.  Ronald Monk did not have the money to cope with the
 demand so Saunders came and took over.  Ronald Monk then went to Egypy with Misr Airlines until the war broke out, when he returned to the UK and rejoined the RAF.  Ronald Monk was then 36 and was sent to South Africa to train pilots.  I believe his licence to do this was no 8.
After the war he started up Gibraltar Airways for BEA, and then became controller of Aviation for the Iraq Petroleum Company.

References

Defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
Airlines established in 1932
Airlines disestablished in 1933
Defunct seaplane operators
Simmtronics. Simmtronics Infotech Pvt. Ltd is a multinational technology company, headquartered in India, operating in the segments of computer hardware manufacturing and development. It sells and supports computer related products such as laptop RAM, desktop RAM, pen drives, and Micro SD cards.

Simmtronics also processes, tests and resells hard disk drives under its label, originally manufactured by other suppliers (e.g. Western Digital, Seagate). The company was founded in Delhi, India
Simmtronics has sales and subsidiary offices  in Algeria, France, Mauritius, Macedonia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam and U.A.E.

History

In December 2010, VIA Technologies tied-up with Simmtronics as Exclusive Manufacturing and Distribution Partner for 'VIA pc-1' Mainboards in India, covering 15 other countries in SAARC, Middle East and Africa.

Products
The company's products include:

 Desktop RAM
 Laptop RAM
 Pen Drive/Flash Drive
 Micro SD cards

References

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Computer companies of India
Computer hardware companies
Computer memory companies
Electronics companies of India
Mobile phone manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Delhi
Computer companies established in 1992
Electronics companies established in 1992
Software companies established in 1992
Indian brands
Mondo Minerals. Mondo Minerals,  nowadays part of Elementis,  is a leading globally active producer of talc products. Its main brands are Finntalc, Plustalc and Microtalc. The company develops and markets specialized products for paints and coatings, plastics, cordierite ceramics, consumables, pharmaceutical and paper applications. In July 2011 Mondo Minerals has become a subsidiary of Advent International.  In October 2018, Elementis, a global specialty chemicals company, acquired Mondo Minerals from Advent International.

History
A process for separating magnesite from talc in talc ore was developed in Finland in the 1960s; the company Suomen Talkki Oy was founded in 1967 to commercialise this invention. Following several production expansions and developments such as rotogravure paper coating talc, Mondo Minerals was established as a joint venture between Omya AG and Western Mining Ltd in 1998. This joint venture included the former Finnminerals Oy, Westmin BV Amsterdam and the talc business of Norwegian Talc AS. Ownership of Mondo Minerals was transferred to Omya AG in 2001. In 2007, Mondo Minerals was acquired by Hg Capital. The company received patents for highly delaminated talc and for talc use in beverage filtration the following year. Recent developments include the first commercial paint talc slurry production, the introduction of compacted talc for the plastics industry,  the launch of talc for pharmaceuticals, and a patented exfoliant in personal care formulations. 
In July 2011, Mondo Minerals has been acquired by Advent International.  In October 2018, Elementis, a global specialty chemicals company, has closed the acquisition of Mondo Minerals from Advent International.

Operation
Mondo Minerals owns talc mines in Sotkamo and in Vuonos in central Finland. The company’s headquarters is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Further part of the Mondo group are Mondo Minerals Deutschland GmbH, located in Germany and Mondo Trading (Beijing) Co., Ltd., located in China.

Corporate Citizenship
Mondo Minerals sponsors the Pesäpallo club Sotkamon Jymy, the most successful Finnish baseball team over the last two decades and home team of the company’s Sotkamo site.

References

Mining companies of the Netherlands
Mining in Finland
Private equity portfolio companies