omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Solardome. Solardome Industries Limited (shortened to Solardome) is a UK manufacturer of glass geodesic domes. 

The original greenhouse was an offshoot of the 1960s NATO developed early warning radar system. The Buckminster Fuller organisation designed and develop giant "golf ball" radar domes. In Europe, these were placed in Fylingdales, North Yorkshire.

These giant domes had to withstand extremes of wind and storm and yet remain unaffected. An ex German U-boat engineer, Hans Lemke, living in Hunmanby North Yorkshire was fascinated by these domes and thought, "If they can withstand these weather conditions then they would make an ideal domestic garden building, greenhouse or garden conservatory". He explored the Buckminster Fuller Geodesic domes and their principles and then designed and manufactured the first European domestic Geodesic dome, a 14' 6" Solardome.

The first glasshouse was produced in 1969 and production continues to this day, although not in Hunmanby.

Media
In 2012 a Solardome glasshouse was included as part of a project to improve facilities at The Yard, as featured on the BBC One "Big Build Children in Need Special" programme.

References

Greenhouses
Coordinated Science Laboratory. The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) is a major scientific research laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. With deep roots in information technology, CSL has invented and deployed many landmark innovations, such as the electric vacuum gyroscope, the first computer-assisted instructional program and the plasma TV. Today, research thrusts include computer vision, economics and energy systems, information trust, neuroengineering, parallel computing, robotics and more.

History 
Established in 1951 as a classified defense laboratory, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (or CSL) was originally designed to be a center for research in remote sensing and space sciences, signal, image and speech processing and thin film electronics.

Faculty and funding 
Research at CSL is conducted by more than 100 faculty members spanning 11 departments in the university. The lab also employs more than 500 graduate and undergraduate students.

CSL is funded by many federal, state and private programs. It receives the majority of its operating and research budget from DARPA, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and from private corporations. Corporate funders have included  AT&T, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Sun Microsystems.

Major centers and institutes within CSL 
 Advanced Digital Sciences Center
 Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion
 CompGen
 Health Care Engineering Systems Center
 Information Trust Institute
 National Center for Professional and Research Ethics
 Parallel Computing Institute
 Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC)

Notable research contributions 
 Electric vacuum gyroscope (the central component of inertial navigation systems, primarily used by submarines)
 Portable radar systems
 PLATO (the first computer-based education system)
 Flat panel plasma displays
 Deuterium Method for processing microchips (extends the life of microchips by 10 to 50 times normal length)
 Quantum wire lasers
 Quantum dots

See also 
 Grainger College of Engineering
 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
 Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
 National Center for Supercomputing Applications

External links 
 Coordinated Science Laboratory
 History of the Decision and Control Laboratory, a research group within CSL

University and college laboratories in the United States
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign centers and institutes
Perfluorohexane. Perfluorohexane (), or tetradecafluorohexane, is a fluorocarbon. It is a derivative of hexane in which all the hydrogen atoms are replaced by fluorine atoms. It is used in one formulation of the electronic cooling liquid/insulator Fluorinert for low-temperature applications due to its low boiling point of 56 °C and freezing point of −90 °C. It is odorless and colorless. Unlike typical hydrocarbons, the structure features a helical carbon backbone. In medical imaging it is used as a contrast agent.

Oxygen solubility
Because it is biologically inert and chemically stable, perfluorohexane has attracted attention in medicine. Like other fluorocarbons, perfluorohexane dissolves gases, including oxygen from the air, to a higher concentration than ordinary organic solvents. This effect is attributed to the weak intermolecular forces between perfluorohexane molecules, which allows "space" for gas molecules to partition into the liquid. Animals can be submerged in a bath of oxygenated perfluorohexane without drowning, as there is sufficient oxygen available in the solvent to allow respiration to continue. This effect has led to the experimental use of perfluorohexane in treating burn victims, as their lungs can be filled with either perfluorohexane vapor or in extreme cases liquid perfluorohexane, allowing breathing to continue without the problems normally seen with pulmonary edema that sometimes occur when the inside of the lungs have been burnt e.g. by inhalation of hot smoke. Research was particularly active on the topic of partial liquid ventilation (PLV) in the 1990s and early 2000s, however, perfluorohexane and other perfluorocarbons showed no significant improvement of patient outcomes in clinical trials.

Alternatives
Perfluorohexane has extremely high global warming potential (GWP) of 9,300. This leads to a need to find low GWP alternative. Novec 649 was considered a good drop-in replacement in many applications due to its similar thermo-physical properties and having a global warming potential of 1.

See also
1-fluorohexane
Novec 649/1230
Fluorinert
Liquid dielectric

References 

Perfluoroalkanes
Halogenated solvents
Coolants
Liquid dielectrics
Greenhouse gases
Paul F. Whelan. Paul F. Whelan is Professor of Computer Vision at the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis, School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing Dublin City University.

Education and career
Whelan earned his Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours from the National Institute for Higher Education before enrolling in the University of Limerick for his Master of Engineering degree. After receiving his PhD in Computing Mathematics/Computer Vision from Cardiff University, Whelan joined the Industrial and Scientific Imaging Ltd to research and develop an industrial vision system.

Selected publications
 Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation, Springer (reprinted Aug. 2001), 2000.
 Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Irish engineers
Irish computer scientists
Academics of Dublin City University
Alumni of Dublin City University
Alumni of Cardiff University
Alumni of the University of Limerick
ISEC. ISEC may refer to: 
    
Institute for Social and Economic Change in India
Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências in Portugal
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra in Portugal
International Society for Ecology and Culture, a.k.a. Local Futures
International Space Elevator Consortium
International Structural Engineering and Construction Society
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex, at Northeastern University

See also
CT510, a video game console previously known as the iSec (Sports Entertainment Center)
Qterics. Qterics (formerly Broadcast Data Corporation and later UpdateLogic Incorporated ) is a company which has developed a system for datacasting firmware upgrades to digital television devices.  It appears that UpdateTV is the only product the company, founded in 2003, has yet developed.

Products

UpdateTV
UpdateTV is a multipath worldwide distribution system which allows digital televisions to automatically receive firmware upgrades and software patches sent out via terrestrial broadcast, digital cable networks, and the Internet.  The network and technology has been under development by UpdateLogic since 2004, was completed in 2006, first shipped in TV sets in 2008 by Sony Electronics, and is now shipped in TVs from Sanyo and others.

In the terrestrial case, the UpdateTV solution which works within the ATSC A/97 (Software Data Download Service, or SDDS) protocol, will be datacast by National Datacast on PBS TV stations across the United States.  Major cable operators are required by contract to transmit the data such that the software upgrades are also passed to their customers.  UpdateLogic works with content delivery network providers, or Internet service providers, to download the software update(s) to connected devices.

TV manufacturers work with UpdateLogic to schedule the network distribution of the software patch(es) and optimize the roll-out to ensure the TVs receive it.  The upgrades are transmitted repeatedly every day over a period of many months, in part so that the update is not missed due to a power outage, being unplugged (such as to prevent lightning damage while a resident is away, or perhaps being in storage), or due to data corruption or data loss caused by interference or weak signal strength in rural areas or mountainous terrain - which only occurs in the terrestrial broadcast distribution.  UpdateTV does ask the user to give consent to install the software on their TV.  There is no charge to the consumer for installing an update.

Software updates for television sets have fixed issues with video resolution, format compatibility, channel changing speed, V-chip ratings, user interface, timer controls, and more.

UpdateTV is enabled on silicon chip set solutions from Broadcom, AMD, Zoran and others.

The UpdateTV network can deliver updates to many types of devices - not just television sets. Devices such as Blu-ray players, mobile/handheld TVs, set-top boxes and gaming consoles are capable of using the service - since they are connected to the Internet, a cable network, and/or a digital TV antenna.

Sale to Silicon Image 
On May 6, 2014, Silicon Image purchased UpdateLogic for an undisclosed price.  On December 4, 2014, Qualcomm purchased a 7% stake in the company for $USD 7 million.  Effective on that date, UpdateLogic was renamed Qterics.

Notes

External links
 

Digital television
Technology companies established in 2003
American companies established in 2003
Companies based in Plymouth, Minnesota
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Advanced silicon etching. Advanced Silicon Etching (ASE) is a deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE) technique to etch deep and high aspect ratio structures in silicon. ASE was created by Surface Technology Systems Plc (STS) in 1994 in the UK. STS has continued to develop this process with faster etch rates. STS developed and first implemented the switched process, originally invented by Dr. Larmer in Bosch, Stuttgart. ASE consists in combining the faster etch rates achieved in an isotropic Si etch (usually making use of an SF6 plasma) with a deposition or passivation process (usually utilising a C4F8 plasma condensation process) by alternating the two process steps. This approach achieves the fastest etch rates while maintaining the ability to etch anisotropically, typically vertically in Microelectromechanical Systems (microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)) applications.

The ASE HRM claims to be an improvement on previous generations of ICP design, now incorporating a decoupled plasma source (patent pending). The decoupled source generates high-density plasma which is allowed to diffuse into a separate process chamber. Using a specialized chamber design, the excess ions (which negatively affect process control) are reduced, leaving a uniform distribution of fluorine free-radicals at a higher density than that available from the conventional ICP sources. The higher fluorine free-radical density facilitates increased etch rates, typically over three times the etch rates achieved with the original process.

Notes

References 

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Further reading 

 Surface Technology Systems

Semiconductor device fabrication
Microtechnology
Etching (microfabrication)
Power Management Unit. The Power Management Unit (PMU) is a microcontroller that governs power functions of digital platforms. This microchip has many similar components to the average computer, including firmware and software, memory, a CPU, input/output functions, timers to measure intervals of time, and analog to digital converters to measure the voltages of the main battery or power source of the computer. The PMU is one of the few items to remain active even when the computer is completely shut down, powered by the backup battery.

For portable computers, the PMU is responsible for coordinating many functions, including:
Monitoring power connections and battery charges
Charging batteries when necessary
Controlling power to other integrated circuits
Shutting down unnecessary system components when they are left idle
Controlling sleep and power functions (On and Off)
Managing the interface for built in keypad and touchpads on portable computers
Regulating the real-time clock (RTC)

See also 
 Power management integrated circuit (PMIC)
 System Management Unit (SMU)
 System Management Controller (SMC)

References
"Desktop and Portable Systems: Second Edition" Edited by Owen W. Linzmayer

External links
Resetting the PMU on Macbook and MacbookPro computers - contains general information on the PMU

Apple Inc. hardware
Macintosh computers
System Management Unit. The System Management Unit (SMU) is an advanced internal subsystem introduced in late 2004 with the iMac G5 and Power Mac G5 series computers. It manages the functions previously governed by the PMU (Power Management Unit) as well as additional cooling functions.

Overview

The SMU manages thermal and power conditions to optimize the power and airflow while keeping audible noise to a minimum. Power consumption and temperature are monitored by the operating system, which communicates the necessary adjustments back to the SMU. The SMU makes the changes, slowing down or speeding up fans as necessary.

Resetting the SMU may fix certain problems during troubleshooting.

See also 
 Power Management Unit (PMU)
 System Management Controller (SMC)

References

 Owen W. Linzmayer (ed.). Desktop and Portable Systems: Second Edition. .

Apple Inc. hardware
Macintosh computers
RV Oceanus. RV Oceanus is a Regional-class research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation, based in Newport, Oregon, and maintained and operated by Oregon State University. The ship was originally delivered to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for operation as a part of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet as a University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) designated operator. in November 1975. Oceanus made the first operational cruise in April 1976 and operated under WHOI for thirty-six years in the Atlantic Ocean with some operations in the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas.  The ship was scheduled to be retired in November 2011 but instead was transferred to Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, for operation, replacing sister ship, .

On January 25, 2012 the ship began transit to Newport, Oregon and the Hatfield Marine Science Center for operation by Oregon State University. Oceanus arrived in Newport, Oregon on February 21, 2012 ahead of the March retirement of sister ship Wecoma.  Oceanus was an interim replacement during the period while NSF began the design and construction of three new Regional-class research vessels, the first of which is expected to be launched in 2023 and to be operated by OSU under the name RCRV Taani for NSF.

Oceanus was built by Peterson Builders of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin to a design by John W. Gilbert Associates, Boston, completed 1975 with a mid-life refit in 1994. The ship is  in length with a  beam and  draft powered by a single EMD diesel engine of  for a cruising speed of  with a  range. She carries a crew of 12 with capacity for up to 19 project personnel with  of laboratory space.

Oceanus was described by WHOI as "the North Atlantic workhorse of the WHOI-UNOLS fleet", used extensively in Gulf Stream and ocean circulation systems.

References 

 R/V Oceanus Specifications, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (General reference for ship specifications)

External links 
 R/V Oceanus, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Research vessels of the National Science Foundation
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research vessels
1976 ships
Ships built by Peterson Builders
Oregon State University
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
RV Endeavor. {|
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|}RV Endeavor''' is a research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Rhode Island (URI) under a Charter Party Agreement as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The vessel is homeported at the Narragansett, Rhode Island at the URI Bay Campus.

The  Endeavor, built by Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, replaced RV Trident'' in 1976.

She likely was named for Captain James Cook's ship , for which the Space Shuttle Endeavour is also named.

References

External links 
 Research Vessel Endeavor
 URI Graduate School of Oceanography: Endeavor Specifications
 URI Marine Technical Services Group

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research vessels
1976 ships
Ships built by Peterson Builders
RV Point Lobos. RV Point Lobos was a research vessel operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). It was the platform of operations for the ROV Ventana.

Specifications
 

Fuel Capacity: 10,000 gal

Potable Water: 2500 gal

Ballast: 44,500 gal (bunker capacity)

Lube Oil: 350 ga; hydraulic oil: 350 gal

Sewage: 250 Gal

ENGINEERING MACHINERY

2 Detroit Diesel 16V92 main engines.	

2 Twin Disk 520 Reduction Gears

2 150 kW Northern Lights Gen Sets

1 Kaiser SM-11 rotary screw air compressor

1 Independent Hydraulic System

DECK MACHINERY

1 Hiab 290 Sea Crane

1 Jeamar Hydraulic Winch #8-3007 aft

1 Jeamar 480 Electric Winch #83007 forward

1 2500m heave compensated Tether Management System

SAFETY EQUIPMENT

1 300#  Fixed Engine Room Extinguisher

3 Fixed Sea Water Hose Stations (2 deck, 1 engine room)

1 ACR 121.5/406MHZ EPIRB

ELECTRONICS/COMMUNICATIONS

Call Sign WDE5005

3 VHF Horizon Galaxy, Horizon Titan, Icom IC M-100

1 SSB IC M-700 radio

1 Telex Ship Board Comms System, cw telex BTR 200 wireless

1 Raytheon Ray 410 Loud Hailer

1 Motorola Cellular SCN 2449A

1 Furuno FR-1510D 72 mile Radar

1 Trimble 4000DL Differential GPS + Garmin GPS with CG diff GPS 100

1 Sperry MK37 Gyro Compass

1 Furuno FCV252 Depth Sounder

References

External links 
 MBARI Marine Operations

Research vessels of the United States
Monterey Bay Aquarium
RV Tioga. RV Tioga is a coastal research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Tioga is a fast coastal vessel designed to quickly take advantage of weather windows and breaking events, such as the 2004 Harmful Algae Bloom (Red Tide) outbreak.

Currently Tioga is heavily involved in the tagging and studying of the endangered right whales and the maintenance of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory.

Tioga is capable of many missions such as education, autonomous vehicle operations, coring, water sampling, diving, whale tagging, mooring deployments and recoveries, instrument deployments and is a cost-effective way to test and troubleshoot equipment before longer cruises on larger vessels.

She is the third of the Challenger class research vessels. Her sisters include the 50 foot Gulf Challenger, operated by the University of New Hampshire, the 55 foot Fay Slover, operated by the Old Dominion University,  and the 81 foot Rachel Carson operated by the University of Maryland.

References 

 RV Tioga

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Research vessels of the United States
2004 ships
Ships built in Somerset, Massachusetts
Project Overkill. Project Overkill is a shoot 'em up game for the PlayStation, developed and published by Konami in 1996. The plot of the game revolves around a group of four mercenaries hired to eliminate a group of humans called the Viscerians.

Gameplay 
The gameplay takes on a 3D-esque isometric view, in which the player chooses one of four mercenaries to lead through the levels. The characters act as lives, and if one were killed, the player still has the choice among the remaining mercenaries (rather than having multiple lives for one character). In the levels, the player must find key-cards, destroy guards, aliens, and robots, activate laser bridges, to complete an objective. Objectives include finding the exit to the level, assassination of an officer, escorting a defect or other important official, retrieving an item (usually a memory chip or the like), or obtaining a certain percentage of kills in the area.

The four characters have very different abilities. For example, the large alien, Quogg, has a melee attack that will kill the standard human troops in just one hit (rather than the two required from the other characters). Also, each character has slight variations in weaponry that make for somewhat different combat experiences.

Development
During development the game's producer and designer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, commented, "We chose the isometric perspective because it meant you could see more of the playing area and also you could see an arrow go through the chest and you can see the result from behind too."

The soundtrack was written by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff.

Work on a port for the Sega Saturn began while the PlayStation version was still in development. However, it was never released.

Reception

Reviewers widely condemned the game's control system, in that the player aims their weapon using the four action buttons, saying it makes lining up shots frustratingly difficult and often leads to running out of ammunition. However, overall assessments of the game varied widely. GameSpots Jeff Kitts and an IGN reviewer both panned the game as a Loaded clone which lacks the enticing music, impressive graphical effects, and excitement which made that game popular, retaining only the mindless ultra-violent gameplay which had since been done to death. A Next Generation reviewer and Dan Hsu of Electronic Gaming Monthly both acknowledged that Project Overkill is just the latest in a growing pile of mindless ultra-violent shooters, but contended that it is one of the better games of its breed and is enjoyable when taken for what it is. In contrast, Hsu's co-reviewers Shawn Smith and Sushi-X asserted that unlike other violent shooters, Project Overkill is deep and challenging. GamePro took a middle ground position, calling it "flawed but engaging".

Notes

References

External links
 Youtube - Project Overkill Level 1 Gameplay

1996 video games
Cancelled Sega Saturn games
Konami games
Multidirectional shooters
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States