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Forecasting (heating). Forecasting is a method of controlling building heating by calculating demand for heating energy that should be supplied to the building in each time unit. By combining physics of structures with meteorology, properties of the building, weather conditions including outdoor temperature, wind power and direction, as well as solar radiation can be taken into account. In the case of conventional heating control, only current outdoor temperature is considered.

The starting point for developing the method of forecasting was the ENLOSS mathematical energy balance model developed by Prof. Roger Taesler
 from Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in cooperation with Thorbjörn Geiser and Stefan Berglund, who are currently both employed at eGain Sweden AB. Forecasting method began to be introduced to use in the late 1980s.

Until 2010 inclusive, forecasting method has been introduced in nearly seven million square metres of floorage of residential buildings and commercial premises. Forecasting method is offered and developed by many companies and organizations. Estimated data indicate 10 - 15 kWh/m2  reduction of average annual heat energy consumption. Since forecasting method contains information about future demand and is not in conflict with other methods of increasing energy efficiency, it is always a good foreground solution.

Forecasting in practice
As far as practical use of forecasting method is concerned, usually remote control forecasting receivers are used to send and receive data by means of GPRS or GSM network. Then, the forecasting receivers manage the operation of control panels installed in buildings which adjust distribution of heat energy in the heating system of a given property.

Recently, special remote control weather loggers have started to be used in combination with forecasting receivers. The weather loggers measure air temperature and humidity with high accuracy and the measurements are sent in real time to forecasting receivers to which they are connected. Such a turning point in technology indicates even higher precision of forecasting method.

Notes

References
Sasic Kaligasidis, A et al. (2006) "Upgraded weather forecast control of building heating systems". p. 951 ff in Research in Building Physics and Building Engineering. Paul Fazio (Editorial Staff), 
Taesler, R. (1990/91) "Climate and Building Energy Management". Energy and Buildings, Vol. 15-16, pp 599 – 608.
United States Patent 6098893 "Comfort control system incorporating weather forecast data and a method for operating such a system" (Inventor Stefan Berglund)

Heating

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Mainair Blade. The Mainair Blade is a British ultralight trike that was designed and produced by Mainair Sports and later P&M Aviation. The aircraft was supplied as a completed aircraft.

In the early 2000s Mainair was merged with rival Pegasus Aviation into P&M Aviation, but production of the Blade continued. As the company rationalized the two aircraft lines, Blade production ended. By 2012 the manufacturer indicated, "This aircraft is no longer in production...Full spares and support are still available and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Complete aircraft can still be manufactured but by special request only."

Design and development
The aircraft was designed as a high-end touring trike, to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of  and is also certified to comply with UK BCAR Section "S". The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar. The occupants are accommodated in tandem seating, with a fibreglass cockpit fairing that includes a small windshield. Engines factory supplied include the  Rotax 503 twin cylinder, two-stroke, air cooled powerplant as well as the twin cylinder, two-stroke, liquid cooled  Rotax 582 and the four cylinder, four-stroke  Rotax 912UL and  Rotax 912ULS.

Operational history
Blades have been used for a number of microlight record distance flights, including a flight to Australia by Colin Bodill and Simon Reeve and a flight around the world by Bodill.

The Blade 912 set the record for London to Sydney by microlight of 49 days (175 hours of flying) at an average speed of .

Variants
Blade 582
Version powered by a  Rotax 582 engine. Price in 2003 was £16,450.
Blade 912
Version powered by a  Rotax 912UL or the  Rotax 912ULS. In 2003 it was reported that the Blade 912 accounted for the majority of customer orders. Price in 2003 was £21,800.

Specifications (Blade 912)

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Mainair Blade
1990s British ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Mainair Rapier. The Mainair Rapier is a British ultralight trike that was designed and produced by Mainair Sports and later P&M Aviation. The aircraft was supplied as a completed aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction, followed by a factory inspection prior to flight.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed as a lower-cost touring trike than the Mainair Blade. It complies with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of  and is certified to UK BCAR Section "S". The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of . It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar. The occupants are accommodated in tandem seating, with a fibreglass cockpit fairing that includes a small windshield. To keep costs down, the factory supplied engine was the  Rotax 503 twin cylinder, two-stroke, air cooled powerplant. The twin cylinder, two-stroke, liquid cooled  Rotax 582 was an available option.

Specifications (Rapier)

References

Mainair Rapier
1990s British ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
North Wing Maverick. The North Wing Maverick is an American single-seat ultralight trike designed and produced by North Wing Design of East Wenatchee, Washington. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a "top-less" strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is supported by streamlined struts, in place of the more commonly used cables and kingpost. The Maverick is controlled with a conventional weight-shift "A" frame control bar. In 2008 the aircraft was improved with a  folding wing pylon and increased baggage space. In 2009 it received a higher gross weight from .

The strut-braced wing provides a number of advantages over the traditional cable braced wing, including reduced overall height for hangaring, reduced drag and improved appearance.

Older Maverick models may be brought up to Maverick 2 standards with a factory-supplied conversion kit.

Variants
Maverick 103
Model with Rotax 447 twin cylinder, two-stroke powerplant of , cockpit fairing, gross weight of , designed for the US FAR 103 Ultralight vehicles category, circa 2000.
Maverick Mustang
Model with Rotax 447 twin cylinder, two-stroke powerplant of , cockpit fairing, Mustang wing, gross weight of , designed for the US FAR 103 Ultralight vehicles category, circa 2003.
Maverick 2 Legend
Model with Rotax 447 twin cylinder, two-stroke powerplant of , cockpit fairing, improved stowage space, spring-assisted mast raising/lowering, Maverick 3 14.9M wing and gross weight of . The empty weight of this model exceeds US ultralight category weights. Optional engines include the Kawasaki 340 and the Verner JCV-360.
Maverick 2 RT
Model with Rotax 447 twin cylinder, two-stroke powerplant of , Maverick 2 14.9M wing, but with no cockpit fairing. The empty weight of this model meets US ultralight category requirements. Optional engines include the Kawasaki 340 and the Verner JCV-360.

Specifications (Maverick 103)

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Maverick
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
North Wing ATF. The North Wing ATF (Air Time Fix) is an American single-seat ultralight trike designed and produced by North Wing Design of East Wenatchee, Washington. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The ATF is a nanotrike intended for use as a motorglider, taking off under power and then shutting down the engine for soaring flight.

The aircraft was designed to comply with US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a minimalist design, cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span Stratus XP wing is supported by cables and kingpost and is weight-shift controlled by an "A" frame control bar. The original wing offered by the manufacturer was the Stratos, but this was replaced by the improved Stratus XP in 2010. The Stratos XP features fiberglass wingtips, a different shaped sail providing a better glide ratio and lower sink rate. It is available in two sizes,  and .

The aircraft was originally powered by the  Zenoah G-25 single cylinder, two-stroke engine. Engines available in 2012 are the  Simonini Mini2,  Zanzottera MZ 34,  Vittorazi 185 and the  Bailey V4-200 powerplants.

The ATF can be folded up to 27" x 30" x 55" (69 x 76 x 140 cm) for storage or ground transport.

Specifications (ATF with Stratus XP 17.5 wing)

References

External links

ATF
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
North Wing Apache. The North Wing Apache is an American two-seat ultralight trike designed and produced by North Wing Design of East Wenatchee, Washington. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . It features a "topless" strut-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double-surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is supported by streamlined struts, in place of the more commonly used cables and kingpost. The Apache is controlled with a conventional weight shift "A" frame control bar. Standard features include a fiberglass cockpit fairing, wheel pants, nosewheel brakes and stowage bags. Dual control steering and throttle are optional for flight training use. The supplied engines include the Rotax 503 twin-cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled powerplant of  and the Rotax 582 twin-cylinder, two-stroke, liquid-cooled powerplant of .

The strut-braced wing provides a number of advantages over the traditional cable braced wing, including reduced overall height for hangaring, reduced drag and improved appearance.

A total of 72 examples had been delivered by February 2005.

Variants
Apache 582 Contour
Model with Rotax 582 twin-cylinder, two-stroke liquid-cooled powerplant of , Contour strut-braced wing, cockpit fairing, gross weight of , circa 2003-05. Price was US$$18,950 in 2005.
Apache 582 Mustang
Model with Rotax 582 powerplant of , Mustang strut-braced wing, cockpit fairing, gross weight of , circa 2003.
Apache ST
Model with Rotax 582 powerplant of , stripped down for off-airport operations, with no cockpit fairing, circa 2003.

Specifications (Apache 582 Contour)

References

Apache
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Halsted BH-1 Saffire. The Halsted BH-1 Saffire is a homebuilt aircraft design introduced in the early 1990s.

Design and development
Barry Halsted is an aircraft engineer who has also been an author for R/C Modeler Magazine, developing model aircraft plans. While Saffire was originally concepted in 1972, the actual design began in 1980 and construction started in 1982. First flight occurred in November, 1990.

Saffire is a two-place, tandem seat, low-wing, retractable tricycle gear monoplane. The wing is aluminum and the fuselage features a steel tube structure forward of the rear seat. The canopy is mounted on tracks allowing it to slide open.

Operational history
Testing identified flutter in the elevator and rudder at higher speeds. Increasing the radius of the leading edge of the elevator and adding an internal stiffener in the rudder  corrected the issue. Saffire won a Silver Lindy award at AirVenture in 1991 and the Paul H. Poberezney award for best homebuilt aircraft over 20 years old in 2011.

Specifications (BH-1 Saffire)

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Blocks That Matter. Blocks That Matter is a 2D puzzle-platform game developed by French independent studio Swing Swing Submarine. It was released on August 19, 2011 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Xbox 360. The game was inspired by one of the developer's earlier works, Tuper Tario Tros.

Gameplay

The player takes the role of "Tetrobot", a robot which is able to collect blocks by hitting them from under (Mario reference) or drilling them, and can then construct shapes in a "puzzle mode" using four blocks at a time. Blocks That Matter heavily references the games Minecraft and Tetris through the main characters, in-game mechanics and concepts such as "Pajitnovian physics".

The game's name comes from special blocks hidden in the story mode levels. They are unusable blocks that initially appear in levels as treasure chests, which serve no purpose other than to unlock bonus levels. The blocks are direct references to famous blocks in games that inspired the developers, such as a ?-block from Super Mario Bros., an Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube from Portal, Rubik's Cube, and a die, hence the "blocks that matter".

Release
Blocks That Matter was made available as a bonus during the Voxatron Humble Indie Bundle along with The Binding of Isaac. In June 2018 the game was ported to the OpenPandora, an ARM processor-based Linux handheld.

Reception

Blocks That Matter received generally favourable reviews, with an aggregated score of 76 on Metacritic. Blocks That Matter was the Dream Build Play 2011 Challenge "Grand Prize" Winner, earning $40,000 and the opportunity for an XBLA publishing contract.

Legacy
The Tetrobot appears as a playable character in UFHO2, Cook, Serve, Delicious!, and Bounty Battle.

References

External links

 Official website 

2011 video games
Linux games
Indie games
MacOS games
Puzzle-platformers
Single-player video games
Video games with Steam Workshop support
Video games developed in France
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Indie games
P&M Aviation. P&M Aviation was a British aircraft manufacturer, specializing in ultralight trikes, founded in 2003. The company was purchased by Albatross Flying Systems in 2019.

History 
The company was formed in 2003 by Keith Duckworth's purchase of two rival British trike manufacturers, Pegasus Aviation and Mainair Sports, hence the name of the new company.

P&M retained both the Mainair factory at Rochdale and the Pegasus plant at Manton near Marlborough, Wiltshire, the former carrying out production and the latter research and development. The Rochdale factory was closed in March 2016.

On 7 May 2019 the company was put into administration, with T A Close of Milsted Langdon LLP appointed as its Administrator. Subsequently, its assets were bought by Albatross Flying Systems of Bangalore, India.

Solar Wings

Solar Wings was the hang glider division of Pegasus Aviation prior to its merger with Mainair. After the merger, Solar Wings gliders were produced in the new combined production facility for a short time. The division produced a wide range of hang gliders from 1980 until it was wound up some time after 2002. Gliders produced include the Solar Wings Breeze and the Solar Wings Scandal series.

Aircraft 

P&M also imported and sold the John Pendry-Evans designed Ace Magic from India.

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Wiltshire
Ultralight trikes
Companies that have entered administration in the United Kingdom
British companies established in 2003
British companies disestablished in 2019
North Wing Design. North Wing Design is an American aircraft manufacturer, specializing in hang gliders, light-sport aircraft and ultralight trikes. The company was based in East Wenatchee, Washington and later moved to Chelan, Washington.

The company makes its own sails and wings, and supplies more wings to other North American trike manufacturers, such as Wettrike, than any other manufacturer.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight trikes
Sanjay Rastogi. Sanjay Rastogi is a polymer physicist and professor of polymer technology in the department of materials at Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

External links
 Sanjay Rastogi's profile at Loughborough University 
Sanjay Rastogi's profile at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Living people
Polymer scientists and engineers
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Academics of Loughborough University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Applied Science Private University. Applied Science Private University (Arabic: جامعة العلوم التطبيقية الخاصة) is a private university located in the Shafa Badran suburb of Amman, in Jordan. It was established in 1991 as the largest private university in Jordan in terms of campus area and number of students' enrollment. It is ranked among top universities in Jordan, it was the first private university in Jordan to provide Marketing major, its English programs in engineering and physical sciences are considered one of the best in Jordan and the Middle East.

In the academic year 2009/2010 there were 7866 students of whom 2991 (38%) were international students. It has a variety of ways to hold vehicles within the campus, with a parking lot and an organized place to charge electric cars. The campus includes faculties that are embedded with different majors, that are offered in both English and Arabic curriculum.

Faculties 
Faculty of Arts & Science 
Faculty of Art & Design
Faculty of Business
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Nursing
Faculty of Information Technology
Deanship of Research & Graduate Studies
SHARIA AND ISLAMIC STUDIES

Notable faculty
 Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (born 1946), Palestinian professor and peace activist

See also 
List of Islamic educational institutions

References

External links
 Applied Science Private University website

 
Universities and colleges established in 1991
Applied Science Private University
1991 establishments in Jordan
Universities in Jordan
John Tiffin Stewart. John Tiffin Stewart (18 November 1827 – 19 April 1913) was a notable New Zealand civil engineer and surveyor and mapper. He was born in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland, in 1827 and was married to the social activist Frances Stewart.

Career in New Zealand
Much of Stewart's early surveying work was in Palmerston North. Stewart and his family later moved to Wanganui. The home they built in Campbell Street Wanganui was later the Karitane home, "Stewart House", and also a hostel for Whanganui City College.

He worked as engineer for the Whanganui River Trust helping clear channels on the river.

References

1827 births
1913 deaths
New Zealand civil engineers
New Zealand surveyors
People from Whanganui
Scottish emigrants to New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand engineers
New Zealand city councillors
SPARK (rocket). SPARK, or Spaceborne Payload Assist Rocket - Kauai, also known as Super Strypi, is an American expendable launch system developed by the University of Hawaii, Sandia and Aerojet Rocketdyne. Designed to place miniaturized satellites into low Earth and Sun-synchronous orbits, it is a derivative of the Strypi rocket which was developed in the 1960s in support of nuclear weapons testing. SPARK is being developed under the Low Earth Orbiting Nanosatellite Integrated Defense Autonomous System (LEONIDAS) program, funded by the Operationally Responsive Space Office of the United States Department of Defense.

Configuration
SPARK is designed as a three-stage all-solid carrier rocket, with a spin-stabilized first stage known as LEO-46 and an active attitude control system on the second and third stages.  It is launched using a new rail-guided system. It is expected to have a payload capacity of  to a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of approximately . Launches will be conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands. Aerojet Rocketdyne will produce the motors for all three stages and Sandia is the prime contractor for the rocket's systems. The United States Air Force has provided launch support.

History

ORS-4

The first launch of SPARK, named ORS-4, took place on November 3, 2015 and was carrying HiakaSat (formerly called HawaiiSat-1) and several secondary payloads, including the Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks. The mission was supposed to test the rocket at its full payload capacity. However, telemetry showed the rocket tumbling soon after liftoff, and the U.S. Air Force released a statement, saying that the "experimental Super Strypi launch vehicle failed in mid-flight shortly after liftoff".

References

Space launch vehicles of the United States
University of Hawaiʻi
2015 in spaceflight
Vehicles introduced in 2015
Microsatellite launch vehicles