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Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies. Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies (VISTAS) is an institute of higher education located in Pallavaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
It was established in 1992 and granted deemed university status in 2008 by University Grants Commission under section 3 of UGC Act 1956.

Schools
VISTAS has established following schools:

 School of Engineering
 School of Pharmacy
 School of Hotel & Catering Management
 School of Management & Commerce
 School of Maritime Studies
 School of Ocean Engineering
 School of Computing Sciences
 School of Law
 School of Physiotherapy
 School of Life Sciences
 School of Basic Sciences
 School of Mass Communication
 School of Languages
 School of Education
 School of Music & Fine Arts
 Department of Aviation
 Vels Medical College and Hospital

Campus & infrastructure

Campus
Campus is located in the heart of the city in Pallavaram with about 29.13 acres. It is the only university campus which has its main campus within the city.

Hostel
There are separate hostels for men and women on the campus. A laundry facility is also available to the students for a charge. A qualified medical attendant is available at the campus. Medical and hospital facilities are available at Pallavaram and the cost is met by the students. Mess and canteen facility are also available.,

Research centres
The following research centres are established at VISTAS to conduct research.

 Centre of Advanced R&D
 Centre for Fish Immunology
 VISTAS Technology Business Incubation Centre
 Central Instrumentation Laboratory
 Centre for Energy Alternative Fuels
 Centre IOT Road Safety Healthcare
 Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
 Centre Automation Power Conservation
 Centre for Materials Research
 VISTAS SPS lab
 Elephant Research Centre

Rankings

Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies was ranked 64 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) pharmacy ranking in 2024.

Notable alumni
 Anjali Rao, actress
 Abinash Ganapathi, model, Mr. Chennai 2018

References

Chennai
Educational institutions established in 1992
Maritime colleges in India
Dental colleges in India
Dentistry education
Business schools in Tamil Nadu
Universities in Chennai
Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Madras
1992 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Extractive reserve. An extractive reserve ( or RESEX) is a type of sustainable use protected area in Brazil.
The land is publicly owned, but the people who live there have the right to traditional extractive practices, such as hunting, fishing and harvesting wild plants.

Definition

In the broad sense, an extractive reserve is an area of land, generally state-owned where access and use rights, including natural resource extraction, are allocated to local groups or communities.
Extractive reserves limit deforestation both by the local residents, preventing deforestation within their reserve, and by acting as a buffer zone to keep ranching and extractive industry out of the forests beyond.

"Extractive reserve" is among the types of sustainable-use, protected area defined by Law No. 9.985 of 18 July 2000. This established the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC).
The extractive reserves are of public domain but the use of the land is allowed for traditional extractive populations, largely indigenous. They are areas used by traditional extractive populations whose livelihood is based on extraction, subsistence agriculture and small-scale livestock raising.

The reserves are created to protect the livelihoods and culture of these people, and also to ensure sustainable use of natural resources.

Public visits are allowed where compatible with local interests and the provisions of the management plan for the unit. Research is permitted and encouraged, subject to prior authorization with the responsible agency.

On land

Extractive reserves in Brazil include:

At sea

Marine extractive reserves in Brazil include:

References

Sources

 Regulates article 225 of the Federal Constitution and institutes the National System of Units of Conservation and other provisions.

Further reading

 

Types of protected area of Brazil
Isostructural. Isostructural chemical compounds have similar chemical structures. "Isomorphous" when used in the relation to crystal structures is not synonymous: in addition to the same atomic connectivity that characterises isostructural compounds, isomorphous substances crystallise in the same space group and have the same unit cell dimensions. The IUCR definition used by crystallographers is:

Examples include:
I-Gold(I) bromide is isostructural with gold(I) chloride
Borazine is isostructural with benzene
Indium(I) bromide is isostructural with β-thallium(I) iodide and has a distorted rock salt structure.

Many minerals are isostructural when they differ only in the nature of a cation.

Compounds which are isoelectronic usually have similar chemical structures. For example, methane, CH4, and the ammonium ion, NH4+, are isoelectric and are isostructural 
as both have a tetrahedral structure. The C-H and N-H bond lengths are different and crystal structures are completely different because the ammonium ion only occurs in salts.

References 

Crystallography
Molecular geometry
Michael Stal. Michael Stal (born 1963 in Munich) is a German computer scientist. He received a Ph.D. title  from the University of Groningen which appointed him an honorary professorship for software engineering in 2010. 
Stal is currently working for the corporate technology department of Siemens AG and as a professor at University of Groningen. He is editor-in-chief of the Java programming language magazine JavaSPEKTRUM.

Stal co-authored the book series Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture.

Volume 1 ”A System of Patterns”  book introduced Architecture Patterns, classified different categories of Design Patterns, and a method how to use Pattern Systems.

Volume 2 addresses “Patterns for Concurrent and Distributed Objects”.

In addition to software architecture, his research fields comprise distributed computing middleware, systems integration, programming languages, and programming paradigms.
Stal has been member of the Object Management Group and participated in the standardization of C++.

Works 
 Michael Stal Understanding and Analyzing Software Architecture (of Distributed Systems) using Patterns, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2007, 
 Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, Michael Stal Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - A System of Patterns, Wiley & Sons, 1996, 
 Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects,  Wiley & Sons, 2000,

References

External links
 website of Michael Stal
 blog of Michael Stal

German computer scientists
Scientists from Munich
1963 births
Living people
Technical University of Munich alumni
University of Groningen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
ISO 8691. ISO 8691:1994 Petroleum products — Low levels of vanadium in liquid fuels — Determination by flameless atomic absorption spectrometry after ashing is an ISO standard covering petroleum products, developed by ISO's Technical Committee (TC) 28: Petroleum products and lubricants. According to ISO's abstract, the standard "specifies a method for determining the vanadium content in the range of 0,4 mg/kg to 4,0 mg/kg in gas turbine fuels and domestic fuel oils by means of flameless atomic absorption spectrometry".

External links
 ISO 8691:1994 - Petroleum products at ISO.org

08691
Virtual Human Markup Language. The Virtual Human Markup Language often abbreviated as VHML is a markup language used for the computer animation of human bodies and facial expressions. The language is designed to describe various aspects of human-computer interactions with regards to facial animation, text to Speech, and multimedia information.

Format 
VHML consists of the following so-called "sub-languages":

 Emotional Markup Language (EML)
 Gesture Markup Language (GML)
 Speech Markup Language (SML)
 Facial Animation Markup Language (FAML)
 Body Animation Markup Language (BAML)
 Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
 Dialogue Manager Markup Language (DMML)

See also
 Rich Representation Language

Sources

External links

 VHML.org

Markup languages
Darren Dalcher. Darren Dalcher is a British engineer and senior academic. He is Professor in Strategic Project Management at Lancaster University Management School and Director of the National Centre for Project Management (NCPM) in the UK.

Early life 
He earned a PhD in Software Engineering from King's College London.

Career 
He is involved in organising international conferences, and has delivered many keynote addresses and tutorials, including PMexpo, BIS conference and others. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, and Editor of Routledge Frontiers in Project Management. He is the Academic Advisor and Editor of the APM Body of Knowledge, 7th Edition.

Honours
Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management, awarded for outstanding contributions to the practice and discipline of project management
Chartered Fellow, British Computer Society
Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
Fellow, Chartered Management Institute
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Senior Member, IEEE
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Member, INCOSE
Member, Project Management Institute
Member,  Academy of Management
Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
Member of the PMI Advisory Board responsible for the David I. Cleland project management award and of the APM Professional Development Board.
Named Academic of the Year by Project magazine,
Named one of the top 10 "movers and shapers" in project management in 2008 by the Association for Project Management

Published books 

 Successful IT Projects, Thomson Learning, 2007.
 Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Uncharted Territory, Routledge, 2016.
 Further Advances in Project Management: Guided Exploration in Unfamiliar Landscapes, Routledge, 2017.
 The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change, Routledge, 2017.
 Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change, Routledge, 2018.
 APM Body of Knowledge, 7th Edition, Association for Project Management, 2018.
 Leading the Project Revolution: Reframing the Human Dynamics of Successful Projects, Routledge, 2019.
 Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World, Routledge, 2022.

References 

British computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of Middlesex University
Alumni of King's College London

Academics of Lancaster University
Aeroprakt A-20 Vista. The Aeroprakt A-20 Vista is a family of Ukrainian tandem two-seat high-wing, strut-braced, pusher configuration conventional landing gear, ultralight aircraft, produced by Aeroprakt. The A-20 was introduced into the North American market at AirVenture 1999.

Design and development

Design of the A-20 began in 1990, with the first prototype making its maiden flight on 5 August 1991, with the first production aircraft flying on 15 August 1993. The A-20 is constructed with a fiberglass forward fuselage and cockpit with aluminium wings and tail surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. The wing is fitted with half-span ailerons and flaps. The flaps are quite effective and lower the landing speed to . Flaperons are available on some models. The conventional landing gear has steel sprung main gear legs.

The A-20 was originally designed for the  Rotax 503 two-stroke aircraft engine. The low drag airframe produces acceptable performance on this low power output. Optional engines include the  Rotax 582 and  Rotax 912ULS

Operational history
An A-20 won the European Microlight Championship in 2002.

Variants
A-20 Vista
Initial version with a  Rotax 503 engine.
A-20 Vista STOL
STOL version with a  Rotax 582 engine and standard slotted flaperons.
A-20 Vista SS
Higher cruise speed version with a reduced span  wing and a  Rotax 582 engine.
A-20 Cruiser
Higher cruise speed version with a reduced span  wing and a  Rotax 912ULS engine.
A-20 Cruiser-S
Higher cruise speed version with a reduced span  wing, a  Rotax 912ULS engine and standard slotted flaperons.
A-26 Vulcan
A highly modified twin engine pusher.
A-30 Vista SpeedsterA high performance derivative of the A-20.

Specifications (A-20)

References
Notes

Bibliography
Jackson, Paul. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. Coulsdon, UK:Jane's Information Group, 2003. .

External links

1990s Ukrainian ultralight aircraft
Vista
Single-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Arrow cresting. A cresting machine (also called an arrow-cresting machine, an arrow-crester, or simply a crester) is a machine that aids in the adding of coloured lines called cresting to arrows in order to identify the fletcher. Cresting machines are small lathes that consist of a chuck and an engine attached to a board. Cresting machines do not paint the arrows themselves but are rather jigs that rotate the arrows uniformly so that a separate steadily held paintbrush can paint the cresting accurately.

References

Archery
Lathes
Woodworking jigs
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems or AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and multiagent systems. It is annually organized by a non-profit organization called the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

History 
The AAMAS conference is a merger of three major international conferences/workshops, namely International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS), International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), and International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). As such, this highly respected joint conference provides a quality forum for discussing research in this area.

Current and previous conferences 
 2024: Auckland, New Zealand (May 6-10)
 2023: London, United Kingdom (May 29-June 1)
 2022: Auckland, New Zealand (May 9–13)
 2021: London, United Kingdom (May 3-May 7)
 2020: Auckland, New Zealand (May 9–13)
 2019: Montreal, Canada (May 13–17)
 2018: Stockholm, Sweden (July 10–15)
 2017: São Paulo, Brazil
 2016: Singapore City, Singapore 
 2015: Istanbul, Turkey 
 2014: Paris, France 
 2013: Saint Paul, USA 
 2012: Valencia, Spain
 2011: Taipei, Taiwan
 2010: Toronto, Canada
 2009: Budapest, Hungary
 2008: Estoril, Portugal
 2007: Honolulu, USA
 2006: Hakodate, Japan
 2005: Utrecht, The Netherlands
 2004: New York, USA
 2003: Melbourne, Australia
 2002: Bologna, Italy

Activities 

Besides the main program that consists of a main track, an industry and applications track, and a couple of special area tracks, AAMAS also hosts over 20 workshops (e.g., AOSE, COIN, DALT, ProMAS, to mention a few) and many tutorials. There is also a demonstration session and a doctoral symposium. Finally, each year AAMAS features a bunch of awards, most notably the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. It publishes proceedings which are available online.

See also 
 The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

References

External links
 

Artificial intelligence conferences
Electronic design automation conferences
Color Robot Battle. Color Robot Battle is a programming game developed by Glenn Sogge and Del Ogren for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Radio Shack in 1981.

Robot Programming

The aim of the game is to write a computer program that controls a (simulated) robot. Two programs are selected to do battle in an arena with the last robot standing being the winner. One of the examples from the manual follows:

 *OMEGA
 ROB> =R:XM
 WAL> =W:T-2
 START> CROB:CWAL:F8:=?:T1
 GSTART

The robot controlled by this program follows the wall of the arena making an occasional random turn to break the movement pattern. The program scans for an opponent and attacks if one is found.

See also
RobotWar

References

External links 
 Color Robot Battle on the Programming Games Wiki
 Core Robot Battle: Adventures in Programming
 Tandy/TRS-80 Color Computer Robot Battle
 

1981 video games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
TRS-80 Color Computer-only games
Programming games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States
Albatros C.IX. The Albatros C.IX was a two-seated German military reconnaissance biplane from 1917. It was built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke. It did not have a central strut between the upper wing and the fuselage, which was uncommon during the time. Also unusual was that the top wing was swept,  while the lower wing was straight.
Only three of these aircraft were built.

Manfred von Richthofen used one for personal transport, including going to meet Kaiser Wilhelm II in May 1917.

Specifications

Notes

References

(German) Kroschel/Stützer. Die deutschen Militärflugzeuge 1910-1918. 1977. .

C.09
1910s German military reconnaissance aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1917
GT-1 (missile). The GT-1 (Glide Torpedo 1) was an early form of stand-off weaponry developed by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Intended to deliver an aerial torpedo at a safe range from the launching aircraft, the weapon proved successful enough in testing to be approved for operational use, and the GT-1 saw limited use in the closing stages of the war.

Design and development
The GT-1 was derived from the GB-1 series of glide bombs, developed by Aeronca for the United States Army Air Forces. The weapon's airframe was inexpensive and simply designed, with a basic wing and twin tails attached to a cradle for carrying the payload. The flight path of the GT-1 was determined by a preset autopilot that kept the weapon on a steady course after release.

The GT-1 was usually released from its carrier aircraft at an altitude of ; this provided a standoff range of as much as  under ideal conditions. The GT-1's warload consisted of a Mark 13 Mod 2A aerial torpedo. The GT-1 was fitted with a paravane, trailing  below the main body of the craft; upon the paravane's striking the surface of the water, explosive bolts would fire to release the torpedo, which would then execute a preset search pattern to locate and destroy its target.

Operational history
Initially tested during 1943, the GT-1 proved to be successful, and was issued to a single operational unit for service. Launched from North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, the GT-1 saw brief operational service late in the war; three missions are known to have been flown using the weapon from Okinawa in late 1945. On one mission, against Kagoshima, eleven of thirteen GT-1s launched successfully entered the water; three hits were recorded, against a fleet carrier, a light carrier, and a freighter.  The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was also capable of carrying the GT-1.

Following the end of World War II, the aerial torpedo rapidly fell out of favor as a weapon of war against surface ships, and the 'GT' category of weapons was abolished in 1947.

See also
Project Kingfisher

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

World War II guided missiles of the United States
Aerial torpedoes
Anti-ship missiles of the United States
GT-001
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1944
Institute of Applied Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Institute of Applied Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was established by the Decree of the Presidium of NAS Ukraine from 21.11.1991 No. 299 on the base of the Sumy branch of the Institute of Metallophysics to enlarge the fundamental and applied investigations in nuclear technology. The initiative belongs to Volodymyr Yu. Storizhko, the current director of the IAP NAS Ukraine, academician of NAS Ukraine and co-scholars from the National Scientific Center “Khar’kov Physical-Technical Institute”, NAS Ukraine. The idea of the first academic institute in Sumy region was industriously supported by B.Ye. Paton, the President of NAS Ukraine and V.G. Barjakhtar, the first Vice-President NAS Ukraine, academician of  NAS Ukraine. The IAP NAS Ukraine is a part of the Department of Nuclear Physics and Power Engineering, NAS Ukraine.

Main areas of research 

 Experimental and theoretical studies of low-energy ion-, electron-, and photon interactions with matter, including biological materials;
 Design and construction of electrostatic accelerator-based instrumentation for analysis of material structure and composition with submicron lateral resolution;
 Development of nanotechnologies using focused charged-particle beams;
 Development of physical techniques for tracing small ore components and examining their rare-element microsystems.

Scientific schools 

 Basic and applied research into nuclear reactions at low energies (Volodymyr Yu. Storizhko, professor, academician of NAS Ukraine);
 Quantum electrodynamics (Petro I. Fomin, professor, corresponding member of NAS Ukraine);
 Charged particle physics (Valentin I. Myroshnichenko, corresponding member of NAS Ukraine); 
 Mass spectrometry of biological objects (Leonid F. Sukhodub, professor, corresponding member of NAS Ukraine).
 Quantum electrodynamics in the external field (Sergey P. Roshchupkin, professor).
 Statistical physics (Alexandr I. Olemskoj, professor).

The investigations are being performed by 116 researchers including 1 academician of NAS Ukraine, 3 corresponding members of NAS Ukraine, 12 Doctors of Science and 36 PhDs.

Structure of the Institute 

 Department of electrostatic accelerators
 Department of biophysics and mass spectrometry
 Department of nuclear and physical research
 Department of theoretical science
 Interagency Department of Physical methods of ore analysis
 Research Center of Equipment for Education and Research

Much work is being done in skilled experts training.  Together with Sumy Pedagogical Institute the IAP has established an IAP profile chair of advanced physical sciences for young skilled experts to be trained. A specialized Board of Studies on theses defence is created and the Interagency Board of Studies on Scientific Instrument Making led by academician V.Yu. Storizhko is working on the basis of the IAP.

References

External links 
 

Physics research institutes
Research institutes in Ukraine
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
1991 establishments in Ukraine
Wedge Group. Wedge Group is a British Galvanizing Company that operates 14 facilities within the United Kingdom, and has several other interests internationally. It operates the largest Zinc bath in Britain and is one of the largest Galvanising companies in the UK. The company has been active since the 1850s. It currently services approximately 35% of the UK steel industry.

Steelwork galvanized by Wedge Group can be found on motorway networks, including road sign gantries, lighting columns, foot-bridges and safety-barriers, as well as, trackside railway equipment.

References

Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the West Midlands (county)
Companies established in 1876
1876 establishments in the United Kingdom