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Schmutzhart SCH-1. The Schmutzhart SCH-1 is an American high-wing, single-seat, T-tailed glider that was designed and built by Berthold Schmutzhart.

Design and development
Schmutzhart had already built one glider when he lived in his native Austria. When he moved to the United States in 1958 he decided to design and build a new glider, but was constrained by the dimensions of his small Washington, DC townhouse. As a result, he built a small aircraft that still achieved good performance for its size.

The SCH-1 has a  wingspan and employs a Nickel 17% airfoil, with flaps for glidepath control. The flaps can be set to 0, +4, +45 and +70 °. The basic structure of the SCH-1 is aluminium with some fiberglass fairings. The leading edge wing ribs are made from dense Styrofoam cut with a bandsaw, with the ribs aft of the spar fabricated from cold-formed sheet aluminum. The fuselage was constructed by bending the outside skin onto a jig and then riveting the bulkheads and stringers to the skin from the inside. The wings were built in a similar manner in a jig that held the wing skins, with the ribs then fitted to the skins. Schmutzhart says that the wing skins were formed by being "pressed between the floor, a long board, two lawyers, one architect, a federal bureaucrat and a White House aid". The wing spar is a 6061-T6 aluminum milled I-beam, with the outer spar sections built up from bent flat aluminum stock. The aircraft was originally fitted with an all-flying tail, but this was later modified to a conventional tailplane and elevator.

The aircraft is registered with the Federal Aviation Administration in the Experimental - Amateur-Built category. Only one SCH-1 was built.

Operational history
In June 2011 the SCH-1 was still registered to Schmutzhart, some 34 years after its completion.

Specifications (SCH-1)

See also

References

1970s United States sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1977
OKB Gidropress. OKB Gidropress () is a Russian state construction office which works on the design, analysis, development, and production of nuclear power plant reactors, most notably the VVER range. OKB stands for experimental design bureau (опытно-конструкторское бюро, opytno-konstruktorskoe bjuro).

History
The company was established by the decree of Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on January 28, 1946 by the order of the People’s Commissar of the USSR heavy engineering on February 1, 1946.

Reactors
A list of some reactors under her flagship or participation:
VVER and its variants
VKT-12
SVBR-10
SVBR-100
Angstrem
VT-1 reactor
BM-40A reactor
BREST-OD-300
BN-800 reactor
BN-1200 reactor

References

External links

OKB Gidropress home page (english)

Nuclear technology companies of Russia
Technology companies established in 1946
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
Rosatom
1946 establishments in the Soviet Union
Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union
Companies based in Moscow Oblast
Design bureaus
Elk City Regional Business Airport. Elk City Regional Business Airport  is a city-owned public-use airport located one mile northeast of the central business district of Elk CIty, a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States.

There is also an airport in Elk City, Idaho.  The FAA LID for that one is S90.

Facilities and aircraft 
Elk City Regional Airport covers an area of 364 acres at an elevation of 2,013 feet (613.6 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway: 17/35 is 5,399 by 75 feet (1,646 x 23 m) with an asphalt surface.  

For the 12-month period ending April 25, 2008, the airport had 2,000 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per week: 100% general aviation. At that time there were 23 aircraft based at this airport: 20 single-engine, 1 multi-engine and 1 helicopter and 1 ultralight.

See also 
 List of airports in Oklahoma

References

External links 
 
 

Airports in Oklahoma
Transportation in Beckham County, Oklahoma
Vadodara Institute of Engineering, Kotambi. Vadodara Institute Of Engineering, Kotambi. {established in June 2009, with approval (LOA No. 06/01/GUJ/ENGG/2009/23, dated 30-06-2009) from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi.} is a newly established engineering college in Kotambi, Gujarat, India, affiliated to Gujarat Technological University in order to provide education to Engineering aspirants. It was established in 2009 with four primary engineering branches, Electronics and Communication, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information technology.

Vadodara Institute of Engineering is located at Halol toll road, 19 km away from Vadodara railway Station.  It has a large campus of around 31 acres. The college aims to be short listed in top institutions of country. This College also offers GD/PI training to students in order to make them employable. All the faculties from this college are post graduated from renowned institutes like MSU and NITs.

The college is controlled by The Vadodara Institute of Education & Research Trust.

Principal
Dr.Jayesh Kumar Patel is principal of the institute. He obtained his Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2007. He did his post graduation & graduation in Civil Engineering at Water Resources Engineering and Management Institute, M. S. University of Baroda in 1995 and 1993 respectively. He was invited to deliver an Expert Lecture on "Managing Irrigation Potential - Issues & Challenges” at Wessex Institute of Technology in 2005. Dr. Patel was appointed as an expert for developing Waste Management Tool by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2001. He presented research papers in conferences organized by I.I.T (Bombay), I.I.T. (Rookee), CBIP (New Delhi), WALMI (Bhopal), GWP (Pune), WIT (Portugal), CWWA (Canada), IIT (Kanpur) and other renowned organizations.

Degree programmes offered
 Computer Engineering   (120+6* seats)
 Electrical Engineering (120+6* seats)
 Information technology (060+3* seats)
 Mechanical Engineering (120+6* seats)
 Civil Engineering      (060+3* seats)

- Mechanical Engineering-2nd Shift (60+3* seats)
- Electrical Engineering-2nd Shift (60+3* seats)

{*Additional intake Tuition Fee Waiver scheme (TFWS)}

External links 
 Official website

Universities and colleges in Vadodara
Engineering colleges in Gujarat
Research and Development Array. The Research and Development Array (RDA) is a research and development effort related to the Pierre Auger Observatory. It consists of a set of water tanks and communication towers near Lamar, CO.

Goals 

The goals are to study potential upgrades to the existing Auger South ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observatory as well as develop technology for the proposed Auger North observatory. The RDA investigates modifications to the Pierre Auger Observatory surface detectors (SD) and to the communications system by which the SDs transmit their data to the central data acquisition.

Overview 

The RDA is located in an area of several square miles just South of the city of Lamar, Colorado, in the United States, part of the area proposed for Auger North. It consists of surface detectors (water tanks instrumented with photomultiplier tubes and readout electronics), communication towers, and a building housing the data concentrator and computing. The ten water tanks are instrumented with one photomultiplier tube each to detect the Cherenkov radiation generated by particles in cosmic ray air showers. (The water tanks currently used in the southern Pierre Auger observatory use three photomultiplier tubes each.) The communication towers will test a new way to transport data from the water tanks to the data concentrator. A higher bandwidth will benefit many possible upgrades to the southern site. A new communication system is also needed to allow the proposed northern detector array to cover a larger area than the existing southern observatory. In the existing system all surface detectors directly transmit to a single point. In a larger array this would not be feasible. Surface detectors would communicate with their nearest neighbors and surface detectors close to the single data concentrator station would relay the data from surface detectors that are further away.

References

External links 
 Auger North at Case Western Reserve University
 Auger North Proposal

Research and development in the United States
Project Iron Boomerang. Project Iron Boomerang is a proposal, originated in 2006, to build a multi-user rail corridor spanning northern Australia and to facilitate placement of five steel-making plants at each end, owned and operated by steel mill companies. A key element of its projected feasibility was the elimination of inefficient, unproductive and environmentally damaging empty return train-loads. The termini of the railway line were projected to be Newman, Western Australia and Abbot Point, Queensland, about 3000 km (1860 mi) apart.

The proponent  is a private  company, East West Line Parks Pty Ltd. , Shane Condon was stated as being the founder and managing director. 

An Australian Broadcastion Corporation report in 2011 stated that acquisition of land had begun. It also reported a Western Australian resources expert as saying the plan was extremely unlikely to succeed because Australia's "high wage, high dollar environment" made the cost of producing steel too high to develop a new project, and in the environment at that time it was hard to find a business case.

In 2019, the company reported to a mining and metallurgy conference that pre-feasibility and project design phases had been completed; the initial aim of the next stage was to obtain commitment of engagement from at least three global steel companies before completing an environmental impact statement and obtaining government approvals. The company's schedule anticipated that design and construction of the railway would be completed, and steel production would commence, in 2025.

In 2020, a news article outlined the project's potential economic feasibility and national benefits.

In February 2022, a plan for an optical fibre cable system along the route of the railway, to be laid when the project started, was reported. At the same time, the company's website stated that the three-year bankable approval stage would be reached by 2018 and the 3-year commissioning and construction stage would be complete by 2022. , however, no announcement had been made by the company to indicate that either event has occurred.

Parliament inquiry
On 5 September 2022, the Australian Senate passed a motion to establish an inquiry into the project. The motion was sponsored by One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts. The project was referred to the Senate Standing Committees on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport. A report was due on 11 May 2023, but the deadline was extended, and the report was tabled on 10 August 2023.

References

External links
 Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Project known as the Iron Boomerang

Proposed railway lines in Australia
Rail transport in Queensland
Rail transport in Western Australia
Rail transport in the Northern Territory
Muhammad Ali Shaikh. Mohammad Ali Shaikh  is the vice-chancellor of Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Education 
Muhammad Ali Shaikh was born in Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali Shaikh graduated with a degree in engineering from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro in 1985 and holds a PhD degree in Mass Communication from the University of Karachi.

Career

Academic career
On 21 July 1994, he was appointed Principal, Sindh Madressatul Islam College, when the college needed a lot of attention and even lacked some basic facilities. After 24 years of heading this college, he has transformed it from a typical public sector college to a quality university. He saw to it that it was upgraded from a college to a university in 2012.

Positions held
 Director-General, Sindh Environmental Protection Agency
 Chairman, Sindh Textbook Board, Jamshoro
 Director-General, Sindh Coastal Development Authority

Publications 

Muhammad Ali Shaikh has written books on the subjects of education and communication as well as biographies of leading personalities of South Asian origin.

Satellite Television & Social Change in Pakistan: A Case Study of Rural Sindh. The book discusses the role of satellite television in bringing social change in Pakistan through a case study of rural Sindh.
Benazir Bhutto: A Political Biography. Published by Orient Books Publishing House as an international edition in 2000, the book traces Bhutto's life as well as the past of the Bhutto family, The book has been translated into many languages.

References

1961 births
Living people
Sindhi people
Pakistani educators
University of Karachi alumni
People from Khairpur District
Vice-chancellors of universities in Pakistan
Mehran University of Engineering & Technology alumni
Academic staff of Mehran University of Engineering & Technology
Vice-chancellors of Sindh Madressatul Islam University
Horn Lil' Trouble. The Horn Lil' Trouble is a single-seat low-wing, homebuilt aircraft designed by Mark Horn.

Design and development
The wings and reversed struts were sourced from a Monocoupe. The fuselage is a modified Aeronca Defender. Landing gear and tail section is from a Piper Cub. The aircraft features dual controls with a jump seat in the baggage compartment that can accommodate a  or lighter co-pilot.

Specifications (Horn Lil' Trouble)

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Peer-led team learning. Peer-led team learning (PLTL) is a model of teaching undergraduate science, math, and engineering courses that introduces peer-led workshops as an integral part of a course. Students who have done well in a course (for instance, General Chemistry) are recruited to become peer-leaders. The peer-leaders meet with small groups of six to ten students each week, for one to two hours, to discuss, debate, and engage in problem solving related to the course material.

History 

PLTL originated at the City College of New York in the early 1990s as part of an effort to address the low success rate of students in General Chemistry.  Peer-led Workshops were incorporated into the teaching of General Chemistry by reducing the amount of lecture to three hours from four hours. Preliminary results at City College of New York and other collaborating institutions indicated improved student attitudes and performance in General Chemistry and other courses. 

These early results led to further study and development of PLTL by a national team, which produced a Guidebook for PLTL. An extensive national dissemination effort resulted in more widespread adoption of essential components of PLTL in a variety of science, mathematics, and engineering coursework. A recent review of research on PLTL and closely related peer-led learning formats found that published studies representing courses at over twenty institutions have demonstrated an average increase of 15% ABC as a fraction of the initially enrolled students, compared to traditional lecture. See for instance key studies in Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, and in multiple disciplines.  The PLTL leadership was recognized by the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Chemistry in 2008.

Theory 
PLTL can be understood in the context of cognitive science. It is consistent with social constructivism and ideas of Vygotsky in that students are asked to construct their own understanding with guidance from a more capable peer. They can be said to be learning within the zone of proximal development.

Evaluation of successful implementations of suggest  that PLTL has six critical components: 

 PLTL is integral to the course.
 Peer-leaders are trained in leadership skills.
 Faculty are involved.
 Materials for workshops are challenging and promote collaborative effort.
 Space and noise level acceptable for group discussion and work.
 PLTL is integrated into the institutional structure.

See also
 Peer education
 Peer feedback
 Peer learning
 Peer mentoring
 Peer tutor
 Peer-mediated instruction

References

External links 
 

Peer learning
Undergraduate education in the United States
ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences. The award, sponsored by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, was instituted in 1993 with the intention of recognizing "significant accomplishments by individuals who have stimulated or fostered the interest of women in chemistry, promoting their professional development as chemists or chemical engineers." Recipients receive $5,000, a certificate, up to $1,500 for travel expenses, and a grant of $10,000. The deadline for nomination is 1 November every year.

Recipients
Awardees are listed here along with their affiliation at the time of the award.

See also

 List of chemistry awards
List of science and technology awards for women

References

External links 
 
 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation   Official Website

Awards of the American Chemical Society
Clinical biophysics. Clinical biophysics is that branch of medical science that studies the action process and the effects of non-ionising physical energies utilised for therapeutic purposes. 
Physical energy can be applied for diagnostic or therapeutic aims.

The principle on which clinical biophysics is based are represented by the recognizability and the specificity of the physical signal applied:
 recognizability: the capacity of the biological target to recognise the presence of the physical energy: this aspect becomes more important with the lowering of the energy applied.
 specificity: the capacity of the physical agent applied to the biological target to obtain a response depending on its physical characteristics: frequency, length, energy, etc. The effects do not necessarily depend on the quantity of energy applied to the biological target.

Definition 
Several papers show that the response of a biological system when exposed to non-ionizing physical stimuli is not necessarily dependent on the amount of energy applied.
Specific combinations of amplitude, frequency and waveform may trigger the most intense response. For example, cell proliferation or activation of metabolic pathways.
This has been demonstrated for:
a) mechanical strains directly applied to the cells or tissue;
b) mechanical energy applied by ultrasound;
c) electromagnetic field exposure;
d) electric field exposure.

Several pre-clinical experiences have laid the foundation to identify exposure conditions that may be used in humans to treat diseases or to promote tissue healing.
The identification of the best parameters to apply in any particular circumstance is the current goal of research activities in the field.

Medical applications 
 Orthopaedics
 PEMF
 LIPUS
 CCEF
 Direct current
 Neurology
 Plastic surgery
 Oncology

References 

Biophysics
Medical physics
Lawhorn Kee Bird. The Lawhorn Kee Bird is a high-wing, conventional landing gear homebuilt aircraft designed for bush flying.

Design and development
The Kee Bird is the second design from Jerry Lawhorn. It was designed as a low-cost hunting, camping and fishing transport in high-altitude rough landing strips.

The key feature of the aircraft are the oversized  tires for tundra operations. The fuselage is of steel tube construction with doped aircraft fabric covering with round porthole windows. It features upward opening doors, removable seats and overhead mounted wheel controls. The windscreen uses 1/8" safety glass. The aluminium wings were sourced from a Boeing YL-15.

Aircraft construction started in September 1954 and completed in July 1957.

Specifications (Lawhorn Kee Bird)

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Midwest MU-1. The Midwest MU-1 was an American single-seat, high-wing, strut-braced utility glider that was designed by Arthur B. Schultz in the 1930s.

Design and development
The MU-1 was designed by Schultz prior to the Second World War and was used by the United States Army Air Corps for glider training and designated as the Midwest TG-18.

The MU-1 was constructed with a welded steel tube fuselage and a wooden-framed wings, all covered in doped aircraft fabric covering. The wing was of  span, employed a NACA 4412 airfoil and was supported by two parallel struts with jury struts. Landing gear was a fixed monowheel.

The aircraft was type certified on 13 October 1944 and about six were completed by Midwest Sailplane and possibly also by the Motorless Flight Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Operational history
In 1983 Soaring Magazine reported that two MU-1s were still in existence, but in October 2015 only one was on the Federal Aviation Administration registry.

Variants
MU-1
Standard model with  wingspan and  wing area
MU-1 long-wing
Version with a longer span, double-tapered wing of similar wing area. This model may have been a proposal only as completed examples have not been confirmed.
Schultz ABC
Developed from the MU-1, the ABC has a longer wingspan and higher glide ratio. It won the 1937 Eaton Design Competition
TG-18Military designation for impressed MU-1 gliders used for glider pilot training.

Operators

Military
United States Army Air Corps

Specifications (MU-1)

See also

References

External links
NACA 4412 airfoil

1930s United States sailplanes
TCI College of Technology. Technical Career Institutes, also known as TCI College, was a private, for-profit college in New York City that offered two year associate degrees and certificates for education in technology, business, engineering, healthcare and other career paths. It was dually accredited from the New York State Board of Regents and by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. TCI's curricula offered training at the associate degree level taught by more than 190 faculty.

History 
The school was founded in 1909 by Guglielmo Marconi as the Marconi Institute. By 1919 the school changed its name to RCA Institutes and then in 1974 it became Technical Career Institutes.

In 2009–2010 TCI had a 24% graduation rate and a 34.9% loan default rate, earning it the title from USA Today news as a "red flag school". It is not uncommon -profit colleges to have high rates of student loan default, which prompted a New York City Department of Consumer Affairs investigation in 2015.

On December 31, 2012, TCI was brought under the corporate control of EVCI Career Colleges Holding Corporation.

In May 2016, TCI named Dr. George Santiago, Jr. the president and CEO, he served until the schools closure in 2017.

A 2017 research study "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility" done by Equality of Opportunity project on income mobility rates for low-income students named TCI the fourth top college in the United States for mobility. However additional research studies will need to be completed in order to better understand how and why some schools are performing better than others.

Closure 
TCI's website states "On September 1, 2017, TCI College closed its doors". According to the New York State Department of Labor, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) submission the close was based on economic factors.

Notable people

Alumni 
 Martin A. Armstrong, creator of the Economic Confidence Model
 Iran Darroudi, artist, studied television direction and production.
 Ronny Lee, American guitarist and arranger.
 Prince (Omubiito) Solomon Michael Okwiri Adyeri Ishagara (son of Rukidi III of Toro), royalty in the Kingdom of Toro in Uganda.

Faculty 
 Rivka Bertisch Meir, 2005–2012 visiting professor of Health Sciences

References

External links 
 Video: TCI: The First Hundred Years on YouTube

Universities and colleges in New York City
Technological universities in the United States
Defunct private universities and colleges in New York City
1909 establishments in New York City
2017 disestablishments in New York (state)