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Jacob Vollrath. Jacob Johann Vollrath (September 19, 1824 – May 15, 1898) was an industrialist in the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the United States. He founded The Vollrath Company.

Vollrath was born on September 19, 1824 in Dörrebach in the Prussian Rhineland, where he learned the trade of molding (casting of wrought iron).

He migrated to the United States in the 1840s and settled in Sheboygan in 1853. In 1874 he began to manufacture porcelain enamelware made of cast iron coated with ceramic glaze. In 1884 he founded the Jacob J. Vollrath Manufacturing Company, which grew steadily under his leadership and which he headed until his death in 1898.

Vollrath invented "gray enameling" (which describes a particular method of manufacture, not a color).

Vollrath married Elizabeth Margaret Fuchs in 1847 and had six children. He was the father-in-law (twice) of Kohler Company founder John Michael Kohler and helped him get started in business. He was succeeded as president of The Vollrath Company by his son, Carl August Vollrath, grandson Jean C Vollrath (1894–1976), and great-grandson Walter Jodok Kohler Jr.

Two other sons, Jacob Vollrath Jr. (1894–1964) and Walter J. Vollrath Sr., (1897–1964) had served as officers of the Polar Ware Co., of Kiel, Wisconsin.

The Vollrath family which he founded was long prosperous and prominent in Sheboygan affairs.

References

External links
Brief description of Jacob J. Vollrath at Vollrath Company website

People from Bad Kreuznach (district)
Prussian emigrants to the United States
People from Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
1824 births
1898 deaths
People from the Rhine Province
19th-century American businesspeople
Joplin Tundra. The Joplin Tundra is a family of Canadian, high-wing, strut-braced, pusher configuration ultralight aircraft that was originally produced by Back Forty Developments of Campbellford, Ontario, Canada and later by Joplin Light Aircraft of Joplin, Missouri and Laron Aviation of Borger, Texas for amateur construction. The aircraft is out of production.

Design and development
The initial model of the Tundra family was the two-seats-in-tandem tricycle gear Tundra for the US ultralight trainer, homebuilt and European FAI microlight categories. The aircraft features a semi-enclosed cockpit with optional doors and can be fitted with skis or floats.

The Tundra is built from a welded steel cockpit cage with a fibreglass fairing. The tailboom, tail group and wings are of aluminium construction, with the wings and tail surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. The wing incorporates a D-cell, Junkers-style ailerons and a single strut layout.

The standard engine is the  Rotax 503 twin-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine, with the liquid-cooled  Rotax 618,  Rotax 582,  Hirth 2706 or the  SuziAir three-cylinder engines optional. Reported construction time for the two-seater is 250 hours.

The two-seater Tundra was later developed into a conventional landing gear single-seat ultralight for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category, including meeting the category's stringent  empty weight limit. The resulting aircraft was introduced in 1997 and was designated the 1/2 Tun indicating it was "half a Tundra". This version had the wingspan reduced from the two-seater's  to . The cockpit steel tube structure was also reduced, along with the cockpit fairing and the fuel tank was changed to  capacity, from the two-seater's  tank. Reported construction time for the 1/2 Tun is also 250 hours. The 1/2 Tun's standard engine is the  Rotax 447 twin-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine.

Variants

Tundra
Two-seat model with tricycle landing gear and a  wingspan. Fifteen were reported flying in 1998.
1/2 Tun
Single-seat model with conventional landing gear and a  wingspan.

Specifications (1/2 Tun)

See also

References

External links

1990s Canadian ultralight aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
HP Business Service Management. HP Business Service Management  (BSM) is an end-to-end management software tool that integrates network, server, application and business transaction monitoring.  HP Business Service Management is developed and marketed by the HP Software Division.

HP introduced HP Business Service Management 9.0 as a common single platform for managing complex applications, including those supported by both private and public cloud computing, outsourced IT,  software-as-a-service (Saas) and traditional IT service delivery. 
The 9.0 release was made generally available in June 2010 and was part of a portfolio of applications developed by HP to aid businesses and government organizations with the management of cloud computing as well as traditional IT service delivery.

Business service management is an area of Information Technology that focuses on management of software tools, methods and processes that help the IT department manage technology in a way that supports the business through the services they provide.  The BSM methodology connects key IT components to the goals of the business so that the IT department can forecast how technology will affect the business and how business will impact the IT infrastructure.

Components

HP Business Service Management includes operations intelligence, operations bridge, application performance management, systems and virtualization management, network management and storage management.

See also
 Business service management
 Cloud computing
 Software as a service

References

Business software
Business Service Management
Network management
Helowerks HX-1 Wasp. 

The Helowerks HX-1 is an American ultralight homebuilt helicopter designed by Helowerks based at Hampton in Virginia.

Design and development
The Wasp is a traditional pod and boom helicopter with a twin-blade rotor powered by a 90shp (97 kW) Garrett JFS-100-13A turboshaft engine. It has a fixed skid landing gear and enclosed cabin with two-seat side-by-side seats. The Wasp design was started in 2001 and was exhibited unflown in 2005, it first flew around March 2006 after receiving FAA approval in the experimental category.

Specifications

See also

References
Notes

Bibliography

2000s United States helicopters
Homebuilt aircraft
2000s United States civil utility aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2006
Ian Beausoleil-Morrison. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison is a full professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and a past adjunct associate professor at both Dalhousie University and the University of Victoria. He holds a Bachelor's of Applied Science and a Master's of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Research interests
Professor Beausoleil-Morrison's research interests are focused around the co-generation of heat and electricity, alternative cooling approaches, and maximizing solar energy utilization.

Associations
He is past President of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).

Previous employment
Prior to his employment at Carleton in 2007, Beausoleil-Morrison worked at Natural Resources Canada for 16 years as an energy researcher and simulator.  He led Annex 42 International Energy Agency's Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme (IEA/ECBCS). He helped develop the University of Stratchclyde's ESP-r building simulation tool and is currently the archivist for the organization. He initiated and led a research project on micro-cogeneration for the International Energy Agency, is Vice-President of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), and has acted as scientific chair for numerous conferences on the topic of energy use in buildings.

Papers
He has authored or co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed papers and was the recipient of IBPSA's Outstanding Young Contributor Award in 2001.

References

Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American aerospace engineers
Academic staff of Carleton University
Dalhousie University
Academic staff of the University of Victoria
University of Waterloo alumni
Brass (board game). Brass is a board game set in Lancashire, England during the Industrial Revolution. It was developed by Martin Wallace. The goal of the game is accrue the most victory points by building mines, cotton factories, ports, canals and rail links, and establishing trade routes. The game is divided into two historical periods: the canal period and the rail period. Victory points are scored at the end of each.

Details
The game supports 3-4 players, with a playing time of 1-2 hours. The games suggested age range is 14 and up. Brass was followed by Age of Industry, which is basically a simplified (no canals), shorter (2 hours) and more accessible (minimum 2 players instead of 3) version of Brass.

Publisher
The game was published in 2007 by Warfrog (now Treefrog) Games, Wallace's publishing company. It was later published by Pegasus Spiele as Kohle - Mit Volldampf zum Reichtum ('Coal - Full Steam Ahead to Riches') with additional artwork by Eckhard Freytag, and under its original name by Eagle Games and FRED Distribution (USA), White Goblin Games (France) and Wargames Club Publishing (China)

2018 reprint and successor 
In 2017 Canadian publisher Roxley Games launched a Kickstarter campaign to realize a reprinting of the game under the new name Brass: Lancashire with new artwork and components as well as slightly modified rules. At the same time the successor, Brass: Birmingham, was introduced, adding Gavan Brown and Matt Tolman to the design team and featuring new mechanisms while keeping the same core rule-set. The campaign succeeded reaching 1.7m CAD given only 80.000 CAD was pledged and both games hit retail in 2018.

In February 2023, Brass: Birmingham reached the  spot as the top rated board game on leading website BoardGameGeek.

Honours
2007 Jogo do Ano Winner
2007 Jogo do Ano Nominee
2007 Meeples' Choice Award
2008 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game Nominee
2008 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
2008 Tric Trac Nominee
2010 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
Brass: Birmingham

 2018: Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game
 2018: Board Game Quest Awards Best Production Values
 2018: Meeples’ Choice Award
 2018: The Golden Elephant Award Best Heavy Board Game
 2018: The Golden Elephant Award People's Choice
 2020: Gra Roku Advanced Game of the Year
 2020: Gra Roku Game of the Year

References

External links
 

Board games introduced in 2007
Martin Wallace (game designer) games
The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering experimental thermodynamics and thermophysics including bio-thermodynamics, calorimetry, phase equilibria, equilibrium thermodynamic properties and transport properties. It is published by Elsevier. The editors-in-chief are W.E. Acree Jr., N. Kishore, B. F. Woodfield.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts, Chemistry Citation Index, Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Physics Abstracts, Reaction Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Scopus.

External links 
 

Monthly journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 1969
English-language journals
Chemistry journals
DCD Group. DCD Group Ltd. (formerly DCD-Dorbyl Ltd.) is a South African manufacturer and engineering company focusing on the rail, mining, energy, defence, and marine sectors. It is based in Vereeniging, South Africa.

History
DCD Group specializes in engineering projects, including rail and military vehicle engineering, roller manufacturing, marine engineering, and mine engineering.

DCD Protected Mobility manufactures the Husky VMMD, a counter-IED MRAP currently in use with the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, and the South African Defence Force.

DCD Group was originally established in 1946 as DCD-Dorbyl Ltd., a merger of Dorman Long and Vanderbijl Engineering Corporation. It rebranded in 2012 as DCD Group Ltd.

In February 2010, Westinghouse and DCD-Dorbyl announced cooperation on creating a plant for building modules for AP1000 reactors.

The current CEO of DCD Group is Digby Glover.

References

External links
 Official website

Engineering companies of South Africa
Defence companies of South Africa
Companies based in Gauteng
Vereeniging
Issue tree. An issue tree, also called logic tree, is a graphical breakdown of a question that dissects it into its different components vertically and that progresses into details as it reads to the right.

Issue trees are useful in problem solving to identify the root causes of a problem as well as to identify its potential solutions. They also provide a reference point to see how each piece fits into the whole picture of a problem.

Types
According to professor of strategy Arnaud Chevallier, elaborating an approach used at McKinsey & Company, there are two types of issue trees: diagnostic ones and solution ones. Diagnostic trees break down a "why" key question, identifying all the possible root causes for the problem. Solution trees break down a "how" key question, identifying all the possible alternatives to fix the problem.

Rules
Four basic rules can help ensure that issue trees are optimal, according to Chevallier:
 Consistently answer a "why" or a "how" question
 Progress from the key question to the analysis as it moves to the right
 Have branches that are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive (MECE)
 Use an insightful breakdown

The requirement for issue trees to be collectively exhaustive implies that divergent thinking is a critical skill.

Applications

In management interviews
Issue trees are used to answer questions in case interviews for management consulting positions. A quantitative type of question, the market sizing question, requires the interviewee to estimate the size of a data group such as a specific segment of a population, an amount of objects, a company's revenues, or similar. The candidates are expected to use a structured and logical method of arriving at their answer, and using an issue tree provides a diagram to aid the candidate's logical reasoning. Issue trees are used for other types of case interview questions as well.

See also
 Fault tree analysis
 Five whys
 Horizon scanning
 Ishikawa diagram
 Root cause analysis
 Why–because analysis

References

Further reading
 
 
 
 
 

Diagrams
Knowledge representation
Management consulting
Problem solving methods
Futures techniques
Matelassé. () is a weaving or stitching technique yielding a pattern that appears quilted or padded.
Matelassé may be achieved by hand, on a jacquard loom, or using a quilting machine. It is meant to mimic the style of hand-stitched quilts made in Marseilles, France. It is a heavy, thick textile that appears to be padded but actually has no padding within the fabric.

References

Figured fabrics
Textile techniques
AeroKuhlmann Scub. The AeroKuhlmann Scub is a single engine, high wing utility aircraft built in France in the 1990s.

Design and development

The Scub is a high wing light utility aircraft, capable of cargo, medical, mapping, agricultural and surveillance work. It is powered by a single 62.5 kW (83.3 hp) JPX 4TX75A flat four engine and seats two in tandem with dual control. It has a conventional layout, with a straight edged wings carrying 2° of dihedral. The short span ailerons extend to the squared-off tips. The wings are of mixed construction, based on a single 3-ply birch spar with a carbon fibre cap combined with glass fibre ribs. The leading edge is plywood, the rest covered with Dacron. The wings fold for storage.

The fuselage of the Scub is a chrome-molybdenum steel tube structure, Dacron covered and flat sided. The tapered, square topped vertical stabilizer has a horn balanced rudder. The starboard elevator carries a trim tab.  The Scub has a conventional, fixed undercarriage without wheel fairings. Floats or skis may be fitted instead; the conversion takes about 2 hours. Floats add 50 kg (110 lb) to the empty weight.  For agricultural work, Micronair 7000 atomisers are fitted on underwing bars, fed from a bulbous ventral tank. Surveillance cameras can be mounted underwing.

The Scub first flew on 5 May 1996. It was certified to JAR-VLA standard in France. In 2000, it was available either as an Ultralight, with maximum take-off weights (MTOW) of 450 kg (992 lb) in Europe or 544 kg (1.200 lb) in USA, or with a MTOW of 598 kg (1,320 lb).

Operational history

The Scub had its first public outing at the 1997 Paris Airshow and by mid-1999 17 had been built. Several have been used in Madagascar for crop spraying. In mid-2010, 8 were on the European civil registers.

Specifications (MTOW, landplane)

References

1990s French civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1996
Javier Gil Sevillano. Javier Gil Sevillano is the current professor of materials engineering at the Tecnun School of Engineering of the University of Navarra in Spain, and head of the Materials Department at CEIT Research Institute.

A graduate in metallurgical engineering from the University of Navarra, Professor Gil Sevillano obtained his PhD in at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 1978. The recipient of several awards, Spanish national newspaper El Mundo has described him as "one of the leading scientists in materials research in the country".

Sevillano's research has focused on the mechanical stress–strain response, structural evolution, texture development and fracture of materials undergoing large plastic strains. He has participated in more than 40 national and international research projects, has directed doctoral theses and is the author or co-author of about 130 scientific papers in refereed journals in the areas of materials science and technology.

Sevilliano received the Spanish Association of Scientists Plaque of Honor in 2005.

He received a 2000 Medal from the Spanish Fracture Group and the 2010 Mordica Memorial Award from the Wire Association International (WAI).

References

External links

Professor Gil Sevillano receives Europa Award
Javier Gil Sevillano receives Spanish Scientists Association Award
http://www.ceit.es/index.php?lang=en&ch=1/ CEIT Official Website

Living people
Academic staff of the University of Navarra
Spanish engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Pitcairn PA-1 Fleetwing. The Pitcairn PA-1 Fleetwing  (Pitcairn Aviation - One)  is the first biplane designed for air racing and commercial airmail service by Pitcairn Aircraft Company.

Design
The Fleetwing biplane featured three cockpits capable carrying four revenue sightseeing passengers. The fuselage used (square and round) steel tubing with fabric covering. The squarish fuselage featured a slanted radiator on the front of the lower cowling

Operational history
The prototype PA-1 crashed after a flight with the control cables rigged backwards. A second aircraft was built shortly afterward.

Specifications (Pitcairn PA-1 Fleetwing)

References

PA-01
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1920s United States mailplanes
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1925
Astroganger. is a Japanese Super Robot anime series created by Knack Productions. It consisted of 26 episodes and originally aired from October 4, 1972, to March 28, 1973.

Plot
An alien woman named Maya crash-lands on Earth. Her homeworld was destroyed by the Blasters, a cruel alien race who steals the natural resources from other planets. She falls in love with a human scientist and gives birth to a hybrid boy named Kantaro. When the Blasters invade the Earth, Kantaro must defeat them by fighting with Astroganger, a sentient robot made from living metal.

Production
This was the first Super Robot show in color, beating Mazinger Z to the air by two months.

Astroganger is very different from most of the robots of the genre. He is a sentient being who can talk, think, and feel pain. He has no special abilities and must rely on his strength to win battles.

Staff
 Series composition: Tatsuo Tamura
 Script: Tatsuo Tamura, Mitsuru Majima, Reiko Imano, Toyohiro Ando, Hiromichi Mogaki
 Storyboards: Taku Sugiyama, Masayuki Akehi
 Episode directors: Yoshikata Nitta, Kenjiro Yoshida
 Animation Director: Eiji Tanaka
 Animation Cooperation: Tama Production
 Production: Knack,

Reception
Astroganger was very popular in the Middle East as Jonker (جونكر), and was also shown in Italy as Astroganga and in Spain as Astro Gungar.

The same staff would go on to create the notorious Chargeman Ken!. Like that show, Astroganger has sometimes been referred to as "so bad it's good."

References

External links

1972 anime television series debuts
Knack Productions
Nippon Television original programming
Super robot anime and manga
Television about alien invasions
Guo Zengyuan. Zeng-Yuan Guo (), born 20 February 1936 in Jiangsu Province, is a professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics (School of Aerospace) in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997) and a ASME fellow (1998).

Academic contributions 
Guo's work has been focused in thermofluid mechanics, heat transfer processes at the micro and nano scales, optimization of thermodynamic systems, and more efficient thermal transport. In 1994 he introduced the concepts of thermal drag, thermal drive, thermal displacement, and thermal instability, which use analogies to mechanical systems to describe properties in thermal systems.

Thermomass theory 

Thermomass theory models heat transfer as a gas-like flow from heat carriers, caused by a pressure gradient. In this framework, heat has a dual nature, acting as mass during transfer and as energy during transformation. This approach has been applied, for example, in modeling heat conduction in nanosystems, where non-local, non-linear effects not fully accounted by Fourier's law heat equation and by the Maxwell-Cattaneo-Vernotte equation are more significant.

In 2013, Prof. Guo's group was granted major project funding by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for their work in developing thermomass theory.

Entransy 
The concept of entransy, developed by Guo's group, is based on an analogy between electrical conduction and heat conduction. Their work in "Entransy dissipation in heat exchangers" was included in the top 10 research fronts in mathematics, computer science and engineering by Thomson-Reuters in 2014.

The concept of entransy has been accused of plagiarism as well as criticized for being incorrect and a hoax, by Adrian Bejan and others, with Milivoje Kostic writing a critical perspective on the issue.

Awards 
Early in his career, Guo received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation to work in the Technical University of Munich between 1979 and 1981. One of the first Chinese members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was named a Fellow in 1998. In 2017 he received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering for his life-time dedication to the area.

References

External links
 Zengyuan Guo's faculty page at Tsinghua University

1936 births
Living people
Physicists from Jiangsu
Tsinghua University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Scientists from Wuxi
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Educators from Wuxi
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Humboldt Research Award recipients