omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jacques Lamarre. Jacques Lamarre, OC is a Canadian businessman and civil engineer. He became the CEO of SNC-Lavalin, one of the largest engineering corporations in the world, in 1996 and left his post in 2009. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Arts and Science in civil engineering from Université Laval in Quebec City. He also attended Harvard University's Executive Development Program.

In November 1994, he was appointed executive vice-president, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. In May 1996, Jacques Lamarre was named president and chief executive officer.

Jacques has an older brother, Bernard Lamarre, who controlled Groupe Lavalin in the early 1990s, and was the president of the Board of the École Polytechnique de Montréal from 2002 to 2012.

Jacques Lamarre is a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada and l'Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec

On November 12, 2009, Mr Lamarre was appointed to the board of directors of Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's largest energy company.

On January 1, 2010, Mr. Lamarre joined the Canadian law firm of Heenan Blaikie as counsel, where he provided strategic counsel to clients on major infrastructure projects and finance. The firm is now defunct.

References

 Building the World, Canada Style, Globe and Mail

Living people
Canadian chief executives
Directors of Royal Bank of Canada
Businesspeople from Montreal
Université Laval alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Officers of the Order of Canada
DCMP. DCMP may refer to:

DC Motema Pembe, a football club of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Described and Captioned Media Program
Deoxycytidine monophosphate
 Disaster Case Management Program, a federally funded program administered by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, also known as the Silver Line (Washington Metro)
Magnetic developer. Magnetic developer is a fluid which makes the magnetic information written on magnetic tape or the magnetic stripe of a credit card or ATM card visible to the naked eye.

Magnetic developer can be found in liquid or aerosol form. When applied to a magnetic stripe, suspended metal particles will be attracted to the magnetically charged regions of the stripe as the liquid evaporates. The particles can be made of carbonyl iron.

Magnetic developer can be used to troubleshoot problems with magnetic stripes and the equipment that encodes and reads them. By making the encoding visible, one can see how encoding head alignment affects the position of the data tracks, and observe any possible magnetic damage that has occurred on the magnetic stripe.

See also 
Magnasee

References

Magnetic devices
Liquid logistics. Liquid logistics is a special category of logistics that relates to liquid products, and is used extensively in the "supply chain for liquids" discipline.

Standard logistics techniques are generally used for discrete or unit products.  Liquid products have logistics characteristics that distinguish them from discrete products.  Some of the major characteristics of liquid products that impact their logistics handling are:

 Liquids flowing from a higher level to a lower level provide the ability to move the liquids without mechanical propulsion or manual intervention.
 Liquids' adaptation to the shape of the container they are in provides a great deal of flexibility in the design of storage systems and the use of “dead” space for storage.
 The level of a liquid as it has settled in a tank may be used to automatically and continuously know the quantity of liquid in the tank.
 Liquids provide indications through changes in their characteristics that may be sensed and translated into measures of the quality of the liquid.
 Many security and safety risks are significantly reduced or eliminated using liquid logistics techniques. Tools such as liquid level sensors and flow meters can be useful in reducing security risk by providing directly, near real-time and accurate measurements of  product's movement and balance along the supply-chain flow. The safety risk is reducing as product movement through the process of supply stream is independent and controlled.
 Liquids may in some cases be "processed" well downstream from the original production facility and thus offer the opportunity for improved efficiencies throughout the supply stream together with more flexibility as to the nature of the product at the point of final usage.

Each of these points represents a differentiation of liquid logistics from logistics techniques used for discrete items.  When properly planned for and handled these points of differentiation may lead to business advantages for companies that produce, process, move, or use liquid products.

See also
 Document automation in supply chain management & logistics

References 
 Klatch, Wally. "RFID Twist: Liquid Logistics Equals Reduced Risk", Manufacturing.Net, 2006-10-11. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.

Logistics
Edward Charles Howard. Edward Charles Howard FRS (28 May 1774 – 28 September 1816) the youngest brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, was a British chemist who has been described as "the first chemical engineer of any eminence."

Career
In January 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1800 awarded their Copley medal for his work on mercury. He discovered mercury fulminate, a powerful primary explosive. In 1813 he invented a method of refining sugar which involved boiling the cane juice not in an open kettle, but in a closed vessel heated by steam and held under partial vacuum. At reduced pressure, water boils at a lower temperature, and so Howard's development both saved fuel and reduced the amount of sugar lost through caramelisation.  The invention, known as Howard's vacuum pan, is still in use.

Howard also was interested in the composition of meteorites especially those of "natural iron".  He found that many of these contained an alloy of nickel and iron that was not found on Earth, and thus might have fallen from the sky.  One type of meteorite is now known as Howardite.

Personal life
Howard married Elizabeth Maycock, a daughter of William Maycock, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth (died 1835) and 
Julia Barbara (died 1856), and one son, Edward Gyles Howard (1805–1840). Their son was the father of Edward Henry, Cardinal Howard (1829–1892). Their daughter Julia married Henry Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford, but did not have children.

See also
 Glossary of meteoritics

References

Further reading
 
 
 

1774 births
1816 deaths
British chemists
Recipients of the Copley Medal
18th-century British chemists
19th-century British people
Sugar technologists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Meteorite researchers
Kremasta (lake). Lake Kremasta () is the largest artificial lake in Greece.  The construction of Kremasta Dam was completed in 1965 concentrating waters from four rivers: Acheloos, Agrafiotis, Tavropos and Trikeriotis.  The water that is accumulated in the artificial lake is about . In addition to supplying energy to the national grid during times of high demand, it avoids flooding of the Acheloos. The power station at the dam is the biggest hydroelectric plant in Greece (rated power: 437.2 MW). It was constructed in 1966 and is owned by the Public Power Corporation of Greece (DEH A.E.). At the time of its construction, it was the largest earth-filled hydroelectric project in Europe.

The lake is located on the borders of Aetolia-Acarnania and Evrytania. There are two bridges over the lake (at Tatarna and Episkopi). The water of the lake penetrates along the beds of the rivers mentioned above, and forms a lot of fjords and small islands. The municipalities with shores on the lake are Agrinio and Amfilochia in Aetolia-Acarnania, and Agrafa and Karpenisi in Evrytania.

References

External links

Canoe-Kayak στην λίμνη
Natura 2000
limnikremaston.gr

Reservoirs in Greece
Landforms of Aetolia-Acarnania
Landforms of Evrytania
Nickelodeon Robot Wars. Nickelodeon Robot Wars is a game show that aired on Nickelodeon from August 25, 2002, to October 6, 2002. Hosted by Dave Aizer and Vivianne Collins, the show was Nickelodeon's take on Robot Wars, the popular and long-running robot-fighting game show. The show was canceled after one season, and subsequently aired on Nick GAS.

The series of six shows was filmed at Shepperton Studios in England in January 2002, at the same time as the second season of Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors, which aired on TNN in the U.S. (now Paramount Network). Both shows featured American teams and robots flown to England for the filming.

Tournaments

Seven different tournaments took place over the six show series. Most of the tournaments aired within a single show, but a few spread out over multiple shows.

Adjustments and changes
The show featured robot competitors familiar to fans of the American series of Robot Wars, such as "Rosie The Riveter" and "The Revolutionist," but the robot operators were all children associated with the teams.

To suit the younger audience, a few adjustments and changes were made to the arena and House Robots.
 All flame hazards, including the flame pit, fire jets and Sgt Bash's flamethrower, were disabled.
 Sir Killalot was renamed "Sir K," a name he was commonly referred to in the official UK Robot Wars magazine.
 The Pit Release Bumper was moved further down the arena wall, closer to the bottom-right CPZ.
 The language used was changed, with rougher language being disallowed.

See also
 Robot Combat
 BattleBots

References
 

2002 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2000s American children's game shows
2000s Nickelodeon original programming
American English-language television shows
Robot combat competitions
Robotics competitions
Television series about robots
Sports entertainment
Television shows filmed in England
Mohammadreza Ghadiri. M. Reza Ghadiri is an Iranian-American chemist who studies nanoscale science and technology.

Ghadiri holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1987) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently a Professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.

The 1998 Feynman Prize was awarded to Ghadiri for  work in constructing molecular structures through the use of self-organization. His lab also pioneered the development of peptide self-replication.

Awards 
Searle Scholars Award 1991-1994;
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, Beckman Young Investigators Award, 1991-1993;
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993-1995;
Eli Lilly Grantee 1994-1995;
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 1995;
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society 1999;
Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology 1998;
Merck-Frosst Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia 2001;
Belleau Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 2001.

See also 
Iranian science

References

External links
Faculty profile at The Scripps Research Institute

Iranian chemists
 University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
American people of Iranian descent
Living people
Scripps Research faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bumble Ball. The Bumble Ball is a motorized  toy made by Ertl toys. The toys were popular in the mid 1990s and come in varied colors, including a see-through light-up one and a mini version. Some are available in key clip form under the name Bumble Ball Jr. Variations were produced by Ertl such as the Bumble Ball Bolter, a colorful insect-like toy with several long legs, a head with synthetic blue hair, and a Bumble Ball torso.

The toy is powered by a motor box with batteries mounted eccentrically. Its power switch consists of a knob that starts the motor when pushed in and stops the motor when pulled out. This causes it to vibrate and bounce about, . The core of the Bumble Ball is hard plastic while the knobs are a softer rubber texture.

Silver Bumble Balls were seen in Michael Jackson's 1995 music video for his single, "Scream".  Despite fan requests, this special ball was never made available to the public.

Since their early popularity in the 1990s, the Bumble Ball concept has been used by Fisher-Price. This has led to products more directly aimed toward toddlers such as a Mr. Potato Head-like toy and animal variations. These small versions use a pull-string to activate the vibration rather than a switch as featured on larger models.

In 2006 on Animal Planet, footage of a dog (possibly an Irish Setter) with a Bumble Ball in its mouth has become a running gag where the host Keegan-Michael Key or the announcer would call it a "Jowl Jiggler".

References

Balls
1990s toys
Ertl Company
Albatros L 84. The Albatros L 84 was a German tandem two-seat, single-bay fighter sesquiplane first flown in 1931. Four of the five examples produced were built by Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau, into which Albatros Flugzeugwerke was amalgamated in that year.

Powered by a water-cooled 490 kW (660 hp) BMW VIu 7.3Z V12 engine, the L 84 had a fabric-covered fuselage constructed of welded steel tubes, and wooden wings skinned with plywood. Its armament comprised three 7.92 mm (.312 in) machine guns, two in fixed forward-firing positions and the third ring-mounted in the aft cockpit. Only the first prototype was completed before Albatros became part of Focke-Wulf, and this was destroyed during flight testing. A second example was flown in February 1933 by Focke-Wulf under the designation L 84C, using a modified cooling system.

The Reichswehr initially ordered twelve L 84s but cancelled the order after only three had been completed. Of these, one was designated L 84E and was tested with the Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIIS engine; another, L 84F, was fitted with a fuel-injected version of the BMW VIu. At least one L 84 was delivered to China.

Variants
 L 84
 L 84C - Focke-Wulf produced version with revised cooling system
 L 84E - example with Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine
 L 84F - example with fuel-injection

Specifications (L 84)

See also

References

 Green, W. & Swanborough, G. (1994). The Complete Book of Fighters. London: Salamander Books. 
 German Aircraft between 1919–1945

Sesquiplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1930s German fighter aircraft
L 084
Single-engined piston aircraft
Phenylglyoxal. Phenylglyoxal is the organic compound with the formula C6H5C(O)C(O)H.  It contains both an aldehyde and a ketone functional group.  It is yellow liquid when anhydrous but readily forms a colorless crystalline hydrate.  It has been used as a reagent to modify the amino acid, arginine. It has also been used to attach chemical payload (probes) to the amino acid citrulline and to peptides/proteins.

Properties
Like some other aldehydes, phenylglyoxal polymerizes upon standing, as indicated by solidification of the liquid.  Upon heating, this polymer "cracks" to give back the yellow aldehyde.  Dissolution of phenylglyoxal in water gives crystals of the hydrate: 
 C6H5C(O)COH  +  H2O   →   C6H5C(O)CH(OH)2
Upon heating, the hydrate loses water and regenerates the anhydrous liquid.

Preparation
Phenylglyoxal was first prepared by thermal decomposition of the sulfite derivative of the oxime:
 C6H5C(O)CH(NOSO2H)  + 2 H2O  →   C6H5C(O)CHO  +  NH4HSO4
More conveniently, it can be prepared from methyl benzoate by reaction with KCH2S(O)CH3 to give PhC(O)CH(SCH3)(OH), which is oxidized with copper(II) acetate.  Alternatively, it can also be prepared by oxidation of acetophenone with selenium dioxide.

References

Aldehydes
Aromatic ketones
Phenyl compounds
CAWS. CAWS or Caws may refer to:

 Caws (surname), a list of people with the name
 Central aural warning system, a voice warning system on McDonnell Douglas aircraft and the Boeing 717
 Chicago Area Waterway System, administered by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
 Common Arrangement of Work Sections, a construction industry working convention in the UK
 Continuous Automatic Warning System, a cab signalling and train protection system used in Ireland 
 AAI CAWS, a Close Assault Weapon System
 Heckler & Koch HK CAWS, a Close Assault Weapon System

See also
 CAW (disambiguation)
 Cause
N.U.D.E.@ Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment. N.U.D.E.@ Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment is a life simulation video game released exclusively for the Xbox in Japan. In this simulation-style game, the player assumes the role of tester for a new product: a female humanoid robot called P.A.S.S. (Personal Assist Secretary System). The robot starts with minimal functionality and must be taught language and tasks by the player. This is achieved through voice commands issued using the included headset, the Xbox Communicator. 

The game incorporates the Xbox's internal clock to track time, which influences gameplay in various ways. Its concept is similar to the Sega Dreamcast game Seaman, where the player interacts with an avatar via voice.

N.U.D.E.@ Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment was announced on 19 September, 2002, and a promotional video was showcased at the 2002 Tokyo Game Show.

References

External links
 Xbox.com product page (archived) 
 Game information at Softbank Games 
 

2003 video games
Bishōjo games
Japan-exclusive video games
Life simulation games
Microphone-controlled video games
Microsoft games
Red Entertainment games
Single-player video games
Video games about mecha
Video games developed in Japan
Xbox games
Xbox-only games
Pilot Software. Pilot Software, Inc. is a long-time United States business intelligence vendor that now focuses on operational performance management. 
SAP AG acquired Pilot Software in February 2007 and Pilot Software's product, PilotWorks, has been rebranded SAP Strategy Management.

History
In 1986, Pilot built the first client/server EIS system.  The next year, the company's technologies were adapted by Analog Devices to form the first “Balanced scorecard” implementation.  Pilot has garnered the largest deployments of performance management in both commercial organizations and in the United States federal market.

From its founding in the 1980s until 1994, Pilot was an independent software company. In 1994 Pilot was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet corporation. Over time D&B began to break itself apart, and as part of that reorganization Pilot was sold in 1997 to Platinum Equity Holdings. In 2000 Pilot was again sold, this time to Accrue Software. Accrue later went through significant business challenges, and in 2002 the assets of Pilot were purchased by Pilot management and Pilot again became an independent software company.

On February 20, 2007, Pilot announced that it was being acquired by SAP AG. The deal price was not disclosed.

References

Business intelligence companies
Sunchime. A sunchime is a device analogous to a windchime but which uses sunlight instead of wind. A number of embodiments are documented, including:

 an architectural sculpture by Jeff G. Smith in Sandcastle Retreat, Clearwater, Florida using glass and steel elements suspended in a  skylight
 a large public work of art in AZ Mills Mall, Tempe, Arizona by Zischke Studio

References

Solar-powered devices
Hybrot. A hybrot (short for "hybrid robot") is a cybernetic organism in the form of a robot controlled by a computer consisting of both electronic and biological elements. The biological elements are typically rat neurons connected to a computer chip.

This feat was first accomplished in 2003 by Dr. Steve M. Potter, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology:

What separates a hybrot from a cyborg is that the latter term is commonly used to refer to a cybernetically enhanced human or animal; while a hybrot is an entirely new type of creature constructed from organic and artificial materials. It is perhaps helpful to think of the hybrot as "semi-living", a term also used by the hybrot's inventors.

Another interesting feature of the hybrot is its longevity. Neurons separated from a living brain usually die after only a couple of months. However, a specially designed incubator built around a gas-tight culture chamber selectively permeable to carbon dioxide, but impermeable to water vapor, reduces the risk of contamination and evaporation, and may extend the life of the hybrot to one to two years.

See also
Animat
Artificial intelligence
Biorobotics
Brain–computer interface
Neurorobotics
Semi-biotic systems
Xenobot

References

Sources

 
 Shkolnik, A. C. Neurally Controlled Simulated Robot: Applying Cultured Neurons to Handle and Approach/Avoidance Task in Real Time, and a Framework for Studying Learning In Vitro. In: Potter, S. M. & Lu, J.: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science. Emory University, Atlanta (2003).

External links
 Georgia Tech Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Control Robotic Device
 Georgia Tech researchers use lab cultures to control robotic device
 A hybrot, the Rat-Brained Robot
 Multielectrode Array Art – A hybrot artist.
 Rise of the rat-brained robots
 FuturePundit: Hybrot Robot Operated By Rat Brain Neurons 
 How to Culture, Record and Stimulate Neuronal Networks on Micro-electrode Arrays (MEAs)

Biocybernetics
Cybernetics
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Williams V-Jet II. The Williams V-Jet II was designed and built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites for Williams International as a test bed and demonstrator aircraft for Williams' new FJX-1 turbofan engine.

Development 
Williams International had been building small turbofan engines for cruise missile applications since the 1950s, and had successfully entered the general aviation market in the late 1980s with the FJ44 engine. In 1992, NASA initiated a program, Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) to partner with manufacturers and help develop technologies that would revitalize the sagging general aviation industry. In 1996, Williams joined AGATE's General Aviation Propulsion (GAP) program to develop a fuel-efficient turbofan engine that would be even smaller than the FJ44. The result was the FJX-2 engine, which produced  thrust.

Williams then contracted with Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites to design and build the V-Jet II, considered a Very Light Jet (VLJ), to use as a testbed and technology demonstrator to showcase the new engine. At Scaled, the aircraft was known as the Model 271. The aircraft and engine were debuted at the 1997 Oshkosh Airshow. Scaled's test pilot Doug Shane received the Iven C. Kincheloe Award from the Society of Experimental Test Pilots for his flight test work on the plane.

The V-Jet II was an all-composite structure with a forward-swept wing, a V-tail, each fin of which was mounted on the nacelle of one of the two engines. The overall design was quite reminiscent of the LearAvia Lear Fan, although much smaller.

Williams had not intended to produce the aircraft, but it attracted a lot of attention, and Eclipse Aviation was founded in 1998 to further develop and produce the aircraft. The airframe was significantly redesigned as an all-metal structure sporting a T-tail, and the name Eclipse 500. The prototype flew with a pair of EJ-22 engines, a variant of the FJX-2. However, performance was not satisfactory, and the design was changed to use two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F engines, which had been specifically designed by Pratt for the Eclipse.

The prototype and only V-Jet II aircraft was obtained by Eclipse Aviation along with the program, and was donated to the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 2001.

Specifications (V-Jet II)

References

Notes

Bibliography
EAA Museum page on prototype
Eclipse Aviation website

Rutan aircraft
Scaled Composites
1990s United States experimental aircraft
V-tail aircraft
Eclipse aircraft
Twinjets
Forward-swept-wing aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1997