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Jean-Claude Simon. Jean-Claude Simon (born 1948) is a researcher in the field of semiconductor optical amplifiers. 
Since 1998 he was permanent professor at ENSSAT / University of Rennes1. Director of FOTON, research department in Optics and Optoelectronics for Telecom, affiliated to CNRS.

Biography
Jean-Claude Simon was born in Da Lat, Vietnam, on 14 September 1948. He received the
Doctorate degree from Université d’Orsay, France, in 1975, and the Doctorate d’Etat degree from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1983.
In 1972, he joined the Centre national d'études des télécommunications (CNET), in Lannion, France, the research center of the
French PTT (later France Télécom) for his thesis work. 
Since 1973, he was employed by CNET as a research scientist on optical communication, in particular on the subject of optical amplifiers.
From 1983 to 1997, he was leader of a group in the field of semiconductor optical amplifiers and their applications for nonlinear optical devices.
From 1997 to 1998, he was responsible for the management of several research projects.

In 1999 he moved to University of Rennes 1, France, where he was appointed to professor. 
He has authored or coauthored approximately 130 papers, including about 25 invited conferences. He has been
involved in European research programs RACE, ESPRIT, and ACTS.

References

Publications

J.C. Simon, "Polarization characteristics of a TW-type Al Ga As semiconductor laser amplifier", Electronics Letters, 27 May 1982.

J.C. Simon, "Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers for single mode fiber communication systems", Journal of Opt. Commun. 2/83, p. 51-62. Invited paper.

J.C. Simon, B. LANDOUSIES, Y. BOSSIS, P. DOUSSIERE, B. FERNIER, *C. PADIOLEAU, "Gain, polarisation sensitivity and saturation power of 1.5 micron near travelling wave Semiconductor Laser Amplifier", Electron. Lett., vol. 23, n° 7, 1987, pp. 332–334

J.C. Simon, "InGaAsP semiconductor laser amplifiers for single mode fiber communications", IEEE J. of Lightw. Tech., Sept. 1987. Invited paper, selected for publication in the book: "Coherent Lightwave Communications", by P. S. Henry and Stewart D. Personick, IEEE Press, N.Y. 1989.

J.C. Simon, "Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers", Tutorial Conference, OFC 90/Optical Fiber Communication Conference 1990, San Francisco, Ca, USA, 22–26 January 1990, THJ1

J.C. Simon, L. BILLÈS, L. BRAMERIE, "All optical signal regeneration". Invited conference. LEOS Summer Topical Meetings on Broadband Optical Networks, Aventura, Florida, 24–28 July 2000.

J.C. Simon, P. DOUSSIERE, P. LAMOULER, I. VALIENTE and F. RIOU, "Travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier with reduced non-linear distortions", Electronics Letters, vol. 30, n° 1, 1994, pp. 49–50.

J.C. Simon "All Optical Regeneration" Journal de Physique IV, 12, Pr 5 (2002) pp. 93–98, editors A. ASPECT, M. BRUNEL, O. EMILE, invited article

1948 births
Living people
People from Da Lat
Laser researchers
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Argyrodite. Argyrodite is an uncommon silver germanium sulfide mineral with formula Ag8GeS6. The color is iron-black with a purplish tinge, and the luster metallic.

Discovered and named by Albin Weisbach in 1886, it is of interest as it was the material from which Clemens Winkler isolated the element germanium, 15 years after it had been postulated by Mendeleev. It was first described for an occurrence in the Himmelsfürst Mine, Ore Mountains, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany.

The Freiberg mineral had previously been imperfectly described by August Breithaupt under the name "Plusinglanz", and Bolivian crystals were incorrectly described in 1849 as crystallized brongniardite.

Isomorphous with argyrodite is the corresponding tin bearing mineral Ag8SnS6, also found in Bolivia as pseudocubic crystals, and known by the name canfieldite. There is also a related mineral, putzite, with composition (Cu4.7Ag3.3)GeS6.

Argyrodite gets its name from the Greek words that loosely translate into "rich in silver".

Argyrodite-type material 
The term argyrodite is also used for other materials with a similar crystal structure, in particular lithium based argyrodite-type materials, which have received interest from researchers as a potential solid-state electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries.

They are considered to be of the form:

With x between 0 and 1, B denoting either phosphor or arsenic, Ch for sulfur or selenium and X for chlorine, bromine or iodine. However, other forms exist and can be grouped into three main categories, halogen-based argyrodites, halogen-based argyrodites doped with additional semi-metal or metal components and halogen-free argyrodites based on Li, P, S along with a semi-metal.

References 

Attribution:

Silver minerals
Sulfide minerals
Germanium minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 33
Glances
Petrel (disambiguation). Petrel can refer to

Petrel, a type of tube-nosed seabird
The order Procellariiformes as a whole, including the true petrels and relatives

Aviation and rocketry
Percival Petrel, a 1930s British communications aircraft
Petrel (rocket), a British sounding rocket
AUM-N-2 Petrel, an antisubmarine missile used by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, later designated AQM-41A as a target drone

Ships
, a name used by four United States Navy ships
, an archaic form of "Petrel" used as a name by seven Royal Navy ships
MV Petrel, a United States Bureau of Fisheries patrol boat in service from 1919 to 1934 that previously served in the United States Navy as 
, a research vessel
Petrel (ship, 1928), a whaler, built in Oslo, left to rust after being beached in Grytviken, South Georgia

Geographic locations
Petrel Base, an Argentine base in Antarctica
Petrel Island (disambiguation)
San Antonio de Petrel, a town in Chile
Petrel, an alternate spelling for the town of Petrer in Alicante, Spain

Other uses
Petrel (reservoir software), petroleum reservoir software
Petrel (maxace knives), MaxAce Knives "Petrel" balisong knife
Rock butter. Rock butter (also known as stone butter) is a soft mineral substance found oozing from alum slates.

It consists of native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white colour, occurring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate.

Notes

References
 http://dict.die.net/rock%20butter/—has information from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Rock Butter, from the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms (1996), online at the Hacettepe University Department of Mining Engineering website.
 
 

Minerals
ACAS. ACAS or Acas may refer to:

Aviation
 Airborne collision avoidance system, an International Civil Aviation Organization standard
 Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, a senior appointment in the Royal Air Force

Other uses
 Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society, an organization in New South Wales
 Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service), an independent non-departmental public body of the Government of the UK
 Acâș, a commune in Satu Mare County, Romania
 Acas District, Ocros, Peru
 Associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society, a level of membership in the Casualty Actuarial Society
 Assured Compliance Assessment Solution, a tool that automatically identifies configuration vulnerabilities on United States Department of Defense computer systems

See also 
 Akas (disambiguation)
Jabiru (disambiguation). Jabiru is a species of stork, Jabiru mycteria, found in the Americas.  The term may also refer to:

Other birds
 Black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) of Asia and Australia, often called jabiru in Australia
 Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) of sub-Saharan Africa, sometimes called jabiru

Aircraft and aerospace
Farman F.120, a family of multi-engined airliners built by Farman Aviation in France in the 1920s suffixed "Jabiru"
Farman F.170 Jabiru, a single-engined airliner built by Farman Aviation in France in the 1920s
 Jabiru, also called Jaguar, a British sounding rocket used for research from 1960 to 1964
 Jabiru Aircraft, a light aircraft manufacturer in Australia, maker of the following models:
 Jabiru 1600
 Jabiru 2200
 Jabiru 3300
 Jabiru J160
 Jabiru J170
 Jabiru J230
 Jabiru J430
 Jabiru Fleet, former models of Australian satellite made by NewSat

Other uses
 Jabiru, Northern Territory, a town in Australia
Jabiru Airport
Town of Jabiru, a former local government area in Northern Territory of Australia
 Jabiru's Palace, the official residence of the Vice President of Brazil

See also
Emu and the Jabiru, an Aboriginal Australian myth
Jabiru toadlet, a species of Australian toad
Jabru, an Elamite god of the underworld
 Jaburu, an alternative spelling for the stork, used as a tribe name in Survivor: The Amazon
Hayward A. Harvey. Hayward Augustus Harvey (January 17, 1824 – August 28, 1893) was an American inventor and industrialist.

Biography 
Hayward A. Harvey was born in Jamestown, New York on January 17, 1824. He was educated at the Poughkeepsie Academy and the Academy of New Paltz.

He was married twice, to Matilda Winant and Emily A. Halsey. He had one son by each marriage.

He is best known for inventing the Harvey process for case hardening the front surface of steel armor plate.  The resulting Harvey armor was widely used on armoured ships in the 1890s. He invented the process while living in Orange, New Jersey, and died there on August 28, 1893.

Patents 
 , Manufacture of Steel Rails for Railroads
 , Improvement in Compositions for Super-carburizing Steel
 , Improvements in Decrementally-Hardened Armor-Plates 
 , Gun
 , Spring-washer

References

Further reading 
 Memoir of Hayward Augustus Harvey by Thomas William Harvey. T.W. Harvey, 1900.

1824 births
1893 deaths
People from Jamestown, New York
19th-century American inventors
People from Orange, New Jersey
Engineers from New York (state)
Engineers from New Jersey
Data Recall Diamond. The Data Recall Diamond One was a word processing typewriter, designed and built by Data Recall Ltd at Dorking, Surrey, England in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  The machine drove a diablo 1355  daisy wheel printer via a parallel interface at 35–55 characters per second, and used an 8-inch floppy disc drive capable of holding 250,000 characters.  It was user programmable.  Later models included the Diamond III, the Diamond Five (a.k.a. Diamond V), and the Diamond 7.

One of the names suggested for the Amstrad PCW was the Zircon, on the grounds that zircon was "a Diamond substitute".  This name was rejected.

References

Further reading

Word processors
Typewriters
FBA. FBA may refer to:
 Federal Bar Association
 Federation of British Artists
 Fellow of the British Academy
 Filsports Basketball Association
 First Baptist Academy (Houston, Texas), United States
 First Baptist Academy of Dallas, Texas, United States
 First Baptist Church (Atlanta), Georgia, United States
 Fixed-block architecture
 Florida Basketball Association
 Flux balance analysis, in chemical engineering/systems biology
 Folke Bernadotte Academy
 Fonte Boa Airport, in Brazil
 Belgian Forces in Germany (French: ) after the Second World War
 Found Brothers Aviation, Canadian aircraft manufacturer
 Foundational Black Americans
 Franco-British Aviation, British seaplane manufacturer
 French BasketBall Association
 Freshwater Biological Association
 Fulfillment by Amazon; Amazon B2B service
 Functional behavioral assessment
 Fusiform body area
 A component of FVA - one of the  X-Value Adjustments in relation to derivative instruments held by banks
Thornton Wilson. Thornton "T" Arnold Wilson (February 8, 1921 – April 10, 1999) was the Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of Boeing corporation.

Born February 8, 1921, in Sikeston, Missouri, Wilson earned his B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Iowa State University in Ames and a M.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He also attended the MIT Sloan School of Management's Sloan Fellows program, but did not graduate. While attending Iowa State, Wilson was a member of the swim team.

Wilson was awarded the NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering in 1985 from the National Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he was the recipient of the Tony Jannus Award for his distinguished contributions to commercial aviation.

Following his graduation from Iowa State, Wilson joined Boeing in 1943 and worked on bomber programs, notably the swept-wing B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress, and also led the proposal team that won the contract for the Minuteman missile. He became company president in 1968, chief executive officer in 1969, and chairman in 1972. Wilson stepped down as CEO in 1986 at age 65, succeeded by Frank Shrontz, and retired as chairman at the end of 1987. He died at age 78 at his winter home in Palm Springs, California.

The main glass gallery of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, opened in 1987, is named for Wilson.

Wilson was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio in 1983.

References

External links
Boeing Company: biography

American chief executives of manufacturing companies
Boeing people
Businesspeople in aviation
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Iowa State University alumni
Businesspeople from St. Louis
People from Sikeston, Missouri
1921 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
Falcon Framework. The Falcon Framework (or the Falcon Framework for Concurrent Design) was Mentor Graphics' second generation software environment. Whereas their original environment had been Pascal-based and ran exclusively on the Apollo/Domain platform, the Falcon Framework was written in C++ and was portable to other platforms, notably Unix.

The Falcon Framework was marketed as a key technology for concurrent engineering in the EDA realm. However, it was better characterized as a software application framework. The key components of the Falcon Framework were:

UIMS - The User Interface Management System. Later dubbed the CUI for the Common User Interface, this component was built on the X Window System and featured an OSF/Motif-like interface.
AMPLE - Advanced Mentor Programming LanguagE or Advanced Multi-Purpose LanguagE. A C-Like scripting programming language.
DSS - Decision Support System. A spreadsheet-like programming environment featuring many graphical widgets.
DME - The Design Management Environment. A graphical tool known as The Design Manager for managing design components and The Registrar for editing the Falcon Frameworks registry.
BOLD - An online documentation system. The primary application was the Bold Browser.
EDDM - The Electronic Design Data Model. A connectivity-based data model for use with Mentor Graphics' IDEA Station suite of tools.
DDMS - The Design Data Management System. The underlying component management system providing object facilities for managing references, persistence, and versioning.

Another key part of the Falcon Framework was the Open Door program. This program provided partners and customers with access to the software libraries and integration services. Open Door was an attempt to eliminate Mentor Graphics' reputation for proprietary products.

The Falcon Framework was the key feature of Mentor Graphics' 8.0 release and was initially released in 1991. Later developments included LMS (Library Management System) and iDM (integrated Design Manager). Subsequently, it has been ported to Windows NT.

A particularly eccentric feature introduced in the Falcon Framework was mouse gestures using the middle mouse button. For example an operator could delete a CAD symbol by highlighting it with a left mouse button click, then pressing and holding the middle mouse button and drawing a large "D" across the screen. The gesture would appear in red color on top of the drawing and window system and disappear and get interpreted once the user released the middle mouse button again.

Well Mouse gestures were present in the first generation software on Apollo Domain as well

References 

Electronic design automation software
LNER Class A1. Class A1 in the London and North Eastern Railway's classification system may refer to any of the following British steam locomotives :

 The GNR Class A1 or "Gresley A1", a class of 52 Pacific locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, including Flying Scotsman 
 The LNER Thompson Class A1/1, a single Pacific locomotive designed by Edward Thompson and rebuilt from a Gresley A1 
 The LNER Peppercorn Class A1, a class of 49 Pacific locomotives designed by A. H. Peppercorn
 LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado, a new locomotive completed in 2008, officially considered to be the 50th member of its class.

See also
 LNER Pacifics

References

A1
4-6-2 locomotives
Pitt–Greenville Airport. Pitt–Greenville Airport  is a public airport located two miles (3 km) north of the central business district of Greenville, North Carolina, and East Carolina University. The airport covers  and has two runways. It is mostly used for general aviation but is also served by American Airlines, which operates commuter service to Charlotte. The airport manager is Kim W. Hopper.

History

The Works Progress Administration constructed the Greenville Airport in 1940 on land that was jointly owned by the city of Greenville and Pitt County.  A Civil Pilot Training Program operated from the airport until it was leased by the United States Navy on May 1, 1942, to be an outlying field of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.  The field was underutilized until November 30, 1942, when it was announced that it would be upgraded by the Civil Aeronautics Administration.

The first Marine Corps flying squadrons to arrive were scout bombing squadrons VMSB-343 and VMSB-344 in January 1944. July saw the arrival of fighter squadrons VMF-913 and VMF-914 and October brought the photo reconnaissance squadrons VMD-354 and  VMD-954. During the war, Outlying Field Greenville was the busiest of MCAS Cherry Point's outlying fields. PGV used to service Delta Airlines to Atlanta

2011 Expansion
The airport officially opened the renovated air terminal on February 24, 2011.  The $7.9 million expansion was funded by the federal stimulus.  It took two years of planning and 18 months of construction.

Runway expansion and safety improvements
The Airport Authority decided to extend Runway 2/20 by 670 feet.  It will receive $2.5 million from the FAA to help buy out the affected houses.  The groundbreaking occurred in August 2013, and was completed in 2014.   The lengthening will allow the current critical aircraft to operate at full payload service capabilities, including during hot weather. For years, Pitt-Greenville had been hampered by its short runways. Teams playing games against East Carolina University had to fly into nearby Kinston because the runways were not long enough to handle modern charter jets.

This expansion will also bring this runway up to current runway safety area standards.  Also included will be the clearing of tree obstacles and the installation of a new GPS RNAV vertically guided approach for Runway 2.

Airline and destination

Passenger

Top destinations

See also
 List of airports in North Carolina

References

Books

External links
 Pitt–Greenville Airport, official site
  at North Carolina DOT airport guide
 
 

Airports in North Carolina
Works Progress Administration in North Carolina
Transportation in Pitt County, North Carolina
Buildings and structures in Pitt County, North Carolina
Octafluoropropane. Octafluoropropane (C3F8) is the perfluorocarbon counterpart to the hydrocarbon propane. This non-flammable and non-toxic synthetic substance has applications in semiconductor production and medicine. It is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas.

Manufacture
Octafluoropropane can be produced either by electrochemical fluorination or by the Fowler process using cobalt fluoride.

Applications
In the electronics industry, octafluoropropane is mixed with oxygen and used as a plasma etching material for SiO2 layers in semiconductor applications, as oxides are selectively etched versus their metal substrates.

In medicine, octafluoropropane may compose the gas cores of microbubble contrast agents used in contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Octafluoropropane microbubbles reflect sound waves well and are used to improve the ultrasound signal backscatter.

It is used in eye surgery, such as pars plana vitrectomy procedures where a retina hole or tear is repaired. The gas provides a long-term tamponade, or plug, of a retinal hole or tear and allows re-attachment of the retina to occur over the several days following the procedure.

Under the name R-218, octafluoropropane is used in other industries as a component of refrigeration mixtures.

It has been featured in some plans for terraforming Mars. With a greenhouse gas effect 24,000 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2), octafluoropropane could dramatically reduce the time and resources it takes to terraform Mars.

It is the active liquid in PICO-2L dark matter bubble detector (joined PICASSO and COUPP collaborations).

Gallery

References

External links
 Red Planet Turning Green?
 Compressed Liquid Densities for octafluoropropane R218

Perfluoroalkanes
Refrigerants
Greenhouse gases
Octafluoropropane (data page). This page provides supplementary chemical data on octafluoropropane.

Material Safety Data Sheet  

The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source  such as SIRI, and follow its directions.
 SDSdata.org index

Structure and properties

Thermodynamic properties

Spectral data

References

Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup
Robert B. Flowers. Lieutenant General Robert B. Flowers was born in Pennsylvania and resided in several areas of the world as his family moved during his father's military career. Following graduation and commissioning from the Virginia Military Institute in 1969, he completed Airborne and Ranger training and began his career as an Engineer Officer. He holds a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Prior to his selection as Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he served as the Commanding General of the Engineer School and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. On April 16, 2018, the Best Sapper Competition was named in honor of LTG Flowers for his contributions to the Sapper Leader Course and his efforts in getting the Sapper Tab approved by General Peter Schoomaker on  June 28, 2004.

His other commands include an Engineer Company in Germany;
307th Engineer Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division;
20th Engineer Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps;
Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Operational deployments include 
command of an expanded brigade of 10 battalions (7,700 soldiers) during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm;
Task Force Engineer for the Joint Task Force in Somalia;
Deputy Chief of Staff for Engineering (Forward), U.S. Army Europe in Bosnia.

Other assignments include 
Assistant Division Commander, 2nd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Eighth U.S. Army, South Korea
Deputy Commanding General and Assistant Commandant, U.S. Army Engineer Center and School, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Branch Chief, Counter-narcotics Operations Division, Washington, D.C.
Combat Developer, Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Field Engineer and Research Project Manager for the Portland Engineer District;
Staff Engineer in Thailand for the Udon Detachment and Northern Thailand.

After retiring from the Army, he joined Dawson & Associates in Washington, DC as a federal permitting advisor.

References
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