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Michael Laughton. Professor Michael Arthur Laughton FREng (born 18 December 1934) is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, and currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at Imperial College.

Early life
He attended King Edward VI Five Ways, a grammar school in Birmingham, then moved to Canada. Laughton attended Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario. At the University of Toronto, he gained a BASc in 1957. From the University of London, he gained a PhD in 1965 and a DSc (Eng) in 1976.

Career
Laughton was formerly Pro-Principal of Queen Mary and Westfield College and Dean of Engineering of the University of London. Together with D. F. Warne, Laughton coedited a book, Electrical Engineer's Reference Book, by M. G. Say that is presently in its 16th edition.

As a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Laughton is currently the UK representative on the Energy Committee of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (EuroCASE), a member of the energy and environment policy advisory groups of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society and the Institution of Electrical Engineers, as well as the Power Industry Division Board of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Laughton has acted as Specialist Adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees in both upper and lower Houses on alternative and renewable energy technologies and on energy efficiency. He put great emphasis on the fact that the United Kingdom is an island and therefore cannot rely significantly on imported energy.

Apart from participating in many international forums and writing many technical papers relating to the field of energy, Laughton has spent the last decade informally scouring Britain for out-of-the-way inventors. Part of Laughton's motivation is sheer Christian charity, but there's also a more fundamental message he wants to convey to his academic colleagues. He says, "The industrial revolution happened because of craftsmen-inventors... It did not spring from the minds of university-educated people. For too long have we worshipped at the altar of paper qualifications to the exclusion of a wider view. We must recognise the enormous value of the true innovator in effecting the technical changes in society which create real wealth."

Personal life
He married Margaret Coleman in 1960. They divorced in 1994 and have two daughters and two sons.

Academic qualification
 Royal Academy of Engineering BASc, PhD, DSc (Eng), FREng, CEng, FIEE

References

External links
 World Energy Council
 Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London 
 The Scientific Alliance

Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Living people
1934 births
University of Toronto alumni
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
Alumni of the University of London
Electrical engineering academics
British electrical engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
People educated at King Edward VI Five Ways
Eurisol. The EURISOL project is aimed at the design and eventual construction of a 'next-generation' European ISOL radioactive ion beam (RIB) facility capable of extending current research in atomic and nuclear physics by providing users with a wide variety of exotic ion beams at intensities far greater than those presently available. The first phase of the project, completed in 2003, set out to determine the feasibility of the project. Phase 2, the EURISOL Design Study, is currently underway and is scheduled to last 4 years. Meant to identify the technological challenges facing the construction of the EURISOL facility, the Design Study has been divided into 12 sub tasks each focusing on a particular aspect of the facility's creation.

Task 9 – Beam Preparation

A central goal of the new EURISOL facility is to produce a variety of exotic ions which yield orders of magnitude above those currently available at RIB installations around the world. To fully utilize such high intensity beams and avoid overwhelming (and dangerous) isobaric contamination, accompanying efforts are needed in the new field of beam preparation and purification. In order to use high-resolution mass separation to eliminate isobaric impurities, a reduction of the beam emittance by an RFQ coolers is necessary to minimize transmission losses. As a result, a key feature in next generation RFQ beam coolers will be their ability to handle beam currents in the microampere range. Task 9's main objective will be to determine the ability of these next-generation devices to accumulate, cool, bunch and purify EURISOL's high intensity radioactive ion beams.

See also
On-Line Isotope Mass Separator
Radioactive Ion Beam Optimization

References

External links
Eurisol Project
Eurisol Design Study

Particle experiments
Viktor Bolkhovitinov. Viktor Fyodorovich Bolkhovitinov (Виктор Фёдорович Болховитинов) (4 February 1899 – 29 January 1970) was a Soviet engineer and team-leader of the developers of the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 aircraft. He was also the lead designer of the Bolkhovitinov DB-A bomber named after him.

Bolkhovitinov was one of the first graduates of the Zhukovsky Academy. In 1934, he designed a modernized version of the Tupolev TB-3 bomber called the DB-A (long-range bomber of the academy). On August 12 of 1937, a DB-A attempted to fly over the North Pole to the USA, but the crew perished.

In 1937, he designed the "S" or "Spartak", a small, sleek, high-speed bomber with a long greenhouse canopy. Two contra-rotating props were driven by a pair of Klimov M-103 V-12 engines. Development of the aircraft and its planned variants was discontinued when the war began.

In 1940, Bolkhovitinov became head of his experimental design bureau OKB-293. Based on a plane design by Bereznyak and Bolkhovitinov a few years earlier, and inspired by the attempt of NII-3 to build a ramjet powered plane, Bolkhovitinov decided to build a rocket-powered short-range interceptor. This was the BI-1.

In 1944, A.G. Kostakov, head of the State Institute of Reactive Technology (GIRT) was arrested. GIRT and Bolkhovitinov's OKB-293 were merged into the 'Scientific-Research Institute 1' (NII-1), a new jet propulsion research institute. Bolkhovitinov was head of research in NII-1. In 1946, his division was turned over to Matus Bisnovat, forming Zavod 293.

Bolkhovitinov received a doctorate in 1947 and became a full-time professor at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in 1949.

See also

Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1
Bolkhovitinov DB-A

Bibliography and further reading
 Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875–1995”. London, Osprey. 1995. 
 Taylor, Michael J.H. . " Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions. London. 1989. 

1899 births
1970 deaths
20th-century Russian engineers
Military personnel from Saratov
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Aircraft designers
Russian aerospace engineers
Russian major generals
Soviet aerospace engineers

Soviet major generals
Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
Marcel Loncin Research Prize. The Marcel Loncin Research Prize was established in 1994. It is awarded by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in even-numbered years to fund basic chemistry, physics, and/or engineering research applied to food processing and improving food quality. It is named for Marcel Loncin (1920-1995), a Belgian-born, French chemical engineer who did food engineering research while a professor at the Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches des Industries Alimentaries (CERIA) and afterwards at the Food Engineering Department of the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. It was the third and final IFT award as of 2006 that has been named for a then-living person.

Award winners receive USD 50,000 in two annual installments and a plaque from the Marcin Loncin Endowment Fund of the IFT.

Winners

References
Mermelstein, N.H. "The Man Behind The Prize." Food Technology. December 2006. p. 23.

External links

Marcel Loncin Research Prize - Official site

Food technology awards
Transmissibility. Transmissibility may have several meanings:

 Transmissibility (vibration)
 Transmissibility (electromagnetism)
 Transmissivity, fluid flow in porous media
 Transmissibility (structural dynamics)

In most contexts, transmissibility is related to permeability.

In medicine, transmissibility is a synonym for basic reproduction number and refers to transmission.

See also
 Transmitter, a device for propagating electronic signals
 Transmittance, in optics, the propagation of a light wave through a medium
 Transmissivity in hydraulics
SABR (disambiguation). SABR is the Society for American Baseball Research.

SABR may also refer to:
 Sabr, an Islamic term that roughly translates to patience
 Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), an American travel technology company
 SABR volatility model, in mathematical finance
 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (AN/APG-83), a fire control radar for the F-16 Fighting Falcon and other aircraft
 Selectable Assault Battle Rifle, an alternative name for the XM29 OICW
 Sneak Attack By Roger, a tennis acronym for a playing tactics pioneered by Roger Federer
 Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy
Akebono (satellite). Akebono (known as EXOS-D before launch) is a satellite to study aurora and Earth's magnetosphere environment.
It was developed by Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and launched by M-3SII rocket on February 21, 1989.

After 26 years of successful observation, operation was terminated on April 23, 2015, due to the degradation of solar cells and the decay of orbit.

See also

International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative

Notes

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20061023123528/http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/akebono/

Earth observation satellites of Japan
Spacecraft launched in 1989
Derelict satellites orbiting Earth
BR Standard Class 7 70048 The Territorial Army 1908–1958. 70048 The Territorial Army 1908–1958 was a British Railways BR standard class 7 (also known as Britannia class) steam locomotive, named after the Territorial Army, a part of the British Army.

Career
It was built at a cost of £23,445 at Crewe Works, being completed on 8 July 1954. It was allocated a BR1D 'high sided' tender number 982 and allocated to Holyhead depot.

Initially unnamed, it was not until 23 July 1958 when it was given its title by the Duke of Norfolk. It was probably no coincidence that the engine's driver on the day was Fred Brookes, himself a former Territorial. At the naming ceremony, David Blee, general manager of the London Midland Region, recognised that with the increasing use of diesel haulage it was likely that 70048 would not remain in service for much longer and suggested that the name The Territorial Army 1908–1958 would be transferred to a diesel-electric locomotive, although it never happened.

During its life it was allocated to various depots including Chester, Willesden, Newton Heath, Annesley, Aston, Carlisle Upperby and finally Carlisle Kingmoor. It was from this shed that it was finally withdrawn from service on 6 May 1967 and scrapped on 12 September 1967.

Commemoration

On 8 November 2008 preserved sibling loco No. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' was temporarily re-numbered as 70048 and temporarily renamed 'Territorial Army 1908–2008' as part of a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Territorial Army. The new name was carried on the left-hand-side smoke deflector, with the original 'Territorial Army 1908–1958' nameplate on the right. The naming was performed by the Duke of Gloucester at Quorn station on the preserved Great Central Railway.

References

70048
4-6-2 locomotives
Individual locomotives of Great Britain
Railway locomotives introduced in 1954
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Task Force 1942. Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific is an MS-DOS video game released by MPS Labs (MicroProse) in 1992.  

The game is a surface naval simulation which allows the player to operate single ships or a task force made up of ships, from the United States Navy (USN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), or the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the South Pacific during WWII. It was designed to run under PC DOS or MS-DOS, version 5.0 or higher. The specific historical setting was the series of ferocious naval engagements fought around the largest island in the Solomon Islands chain, Guadalcanal, in 1942.

Gameplay

The player can fight either for the US Navy and its ANZAC allies, or the Imperial Japanese Navy. The player can start a single engagement (historical battle or battle made from the editor) or play in the campaign mode. Campaign mode takes place on the Guadalcanal campaign. The player is given full control over the naval forces of either side based in Espiritu Santo for the Allies, or Rabaul for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The player's goal is to capture Guadalcanal providing its ground forces with sufficient reinforcements and supply, while trying to disrupt the other side's own efforts.

Apart from ships, the player has control over land-based air assets which can be used as real-time reconnaissance.

Reception
Task Force 1942 was mentioned in 1993 in Dragon #193 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers normally gave a game from 1 to 5 stars, but instead gave this game an "X" for "Not recommended". This was due to the installation of the game not functioning properly on the reviewer's own PC, and thus not enabling them to actually boot-up and play the game. A 1993 Computer Gaming World survey of wargames gave the game three-plus stars out of five, approving of the graphics and depth of gameplay but criticizing the user interface and tactical-level AI.

References

External links

1992 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
MicroProse games
Ship simulation games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Jeff Briggs
World War II video games
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is an academic journal published by Annual Reviews. In publication since 1999, this journal covers the significant developments in the broad field of biomedical engineering with an annual volume of review articles. It is edited by Martin L. Yarmush and Mehmet Toner. As of 2024,  Journal Citation Reports gave the journal has an impact factor of 12.8 ranking it fourth out of 122 journals in the category "Biomedical Engineering". As of 2021, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open model.

History
The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering was first published in 1999 by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews. The inaugural editor was Martin L. Yarmush; Yarmush remained editor until 2021, at which point he was co-editor along with Mehmet Toner. Though it began with a physical edition, it is now only published electronically.

Scope and indexing
The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering defines its scope as covering significant developments relevant to biomedical engineering. Included subfields are biomechanics; biomaterials; computational genomics; proteomics; healthcare, biochemical, and tissue engineering; biomonitoring; and medical imaging. As of 2022, Journal Citation Reports lists the journal's impact factor as 11.324, ranking it seventh of 98 journal titles in the category "Biomedical Engineering". It is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Inspec and Academic Search, among others.

Editorial processes
The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is helmed by the editor or the co-editors. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. Peer review of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.

Current editorial board
As of 2022, the editorial committee consists of the co-editors and the following members:

 James S. Duncan
 Martha L. Gray
 Todd P. Coleman
 Frances Ligler
 Wendy M. Murray
 Yaakov Nahmias
 Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis
 Erkin Şeker
 Marjolein C. H. van der Meulen
 Jennifer L. West
 George R. Wodicka

See also
 List of engineering journals and magazines

References 

 

Biomedical engineering journals
Biomedical engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Academic journals established in 1999
Annual journals
English-language journals
Alternate frame rendering. Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) is a technique of graphics rendering in personal computers which combines the work output of two or more graphics processing units (GPU) for a single monitor, in order to improve image quality, or to accelerate the rendering performance. The technique is that one graphics processing unit computes all the odd video frames, the other renders the even frames. This technique is useful for generating 3D video sequences in real time, improving or filtering textured polygons and performing other computationally intensive tasks, typically associated with computer gaming, CAD and 3D modeling.

One disadvantage of AFR is a defect known as micro stuttering.

Parallel rendering methods
AFR belongs to a class of parallel rendering methods, which subdivide a four-dimensional image frame sequence (x,y,z and time) into smaller regions, each of which is then assigned to a different physical processor within a multi-processor array. Note that the regional boundaries may be defined in space or in time. Also, the multiple processors can be implemented within a single video card or separate video graphics cards can be combined, subject to the motherboard and I/O slot limitations. When separate video cards are used, they must be specifically designed to allow a "cross-link" between them.

If a computer has two video cards that combine their outputs into a single video monitor, then one of four methods could be used to create the images.

Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR): One graphics processing unit (GPU) computes all the odd video frames, the other renders the even frames. (i.e. time division)
Split Frame Rendering (SFR): One GPU renders the top half of each video frame, the other does the bottom. (i.e. plane division)
Checkerboard rendering: As the name implies, the image is split into smaller squares, which are assigned to different cards
Scan-Line Interleave: The origin of the SLI trademark, as employed by the 3dfx Voodoo2, which renders a frame's even scan-lines on the first GPU and its odd scan-lines on the second.  The SLI trademark passed to Nvidia upon its acquisition of 3dfx in 2000 and now stands for Scalable Link Interface.

See also
AMD CrossFireX
NVIDIA SLI

References

3D rendering
Transnet Engineering. Transnet Engineering is a rolling stock manufacturer and maintenance company. It was established when the engineering workshops of Transnet were transferred to a separate division as Transwerk. It was rebranded Transnet Rail Engineering, and then again to Transnet Engineering after it began assembling port equipment such as straddle carriers. It operates seven workshops.

See also
 2021 Transnet Cyberattack

References

External links
Transwerk's Operational Report at Transnet

Railway companies of South Africa
Rolling stock manufacturers of South Africa
Organisations based in Pretoria
Transnet
List of Vietnam War flying aces. The claimed flying aces of the Vietnam War, pilots who shot down five or more enemy aircraft, include 19 Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) pilots, (six MiG-17 and 13 MiG-21 pilots), and five Americans.

United States' aces
All the American aces flew as members of two-man crews on F-4 Phantoms, reflecting the emergence of air-to-air missiles as the primary weapons of aerial combat; both crewmen were awarded a kill for each VPAF aircraft shot-down. The F-4 Phantom II crew consisted of a pilot and a radar intercept officer (RIO) in the United States Navy (USN) or a weapon systems officers (WSO) in the United States Air Force (USAF). This crew configuration allowed for effective multi-role combat capabilities and improved coordination in air-to-air engagements. The pilot primarily focused on flying the aircraft and managing the missile systems, while the RIO or WSO operated the radar, navigational systems, and weapon targeting systems. Two American aces were pilots, two USAF WSOs, and one USN RIO.

List 

One source reported that the North Vietnamese claimed to have shot down 218 U.S. manned aircraft in air to air combat in Vietnam, of those kills, 85 are not supported by U.S. records, while another 37 were attributed by the U.S. to surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft fire. Another source claims that the U.S. attributed losses to surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft fire because it was considered "less embarrassing". Estimates of North Vietnamese losses range from 131, as documented in North Vietnamese records; to 195, as claimed by U.S. records.

William A. Sayers writing in 2019 asserted that North Vietnam only had three aces in the war including Phạm Thanh Ngân, with the other "aces" being creations of North Vietnamese propaganda that included claimed "kills" on days where no U.S. losses occurred, crediting VPAF pilots with kills that had actually been achieved by surface to air missile or antiaircraft artillery units and shootdowns of drones. He also stated that there were no MiG-17 aces.

See also 
 List of United States aerial victories of the Vietnam War
 Colonel Tomb, a high-ranking VPAF fighter-ace whom the Americans claimed to have killed

References

External links
 Toperczer, Istvan, MiG-21 Units of the Vietnam War, Osprey Combat Aircraft #29, 2008; 
 Michel III, Marshall L, Clashes, Air Combat over North Vietnam 1965-1972, Naval Institute Press, 1997; 
 

Flying aces
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Hadley Airport. Hadley Airport  is a public use airport owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Round Mountain, a town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.

History 
In the 1930s, American World War I flying ace Kenneth R. Unger ran a flying school and air shows from the airport.

Facilities and aircraft 
Hadley Airport covers an area of . It contains one runway designated 17/35 which has an asphalt surface measuring 6,776 x 60 feet (2,065 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2005, the airport had 2,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 166 per month.

See also
 List of airports in Nevada

References

External links 
  from Nevada DOT
 Aerial image as of October 1999 from USGS The National Map
 

Airports in Nevada
Transportation in Nye County, Nevada
Buildings and structures in Nye County, Nevada
Bureau of Land Management