omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jwaneng Solar Power Station. The Jwaneng Solar Power Station is a  solar power station, under development in Botswana. Two Chinese companies and one Botswana independent power producer (IPP) formed a consortium that owns the project. Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), the national electricity utility company is the power off-taker, under a 25-year power purchase agreement.

Location
The power station would be located in the town of Jwaneng, in the Southern District of Botswana. Jwaneng is located approximately  west of Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana.

Developers
The power station is under development by a consortium comprising two Chinese companies and one Botswana IPP. The shareholders in the business formed a special purpose vehicle (SPV) company to own, design, build, operate and maintain this energy infrastructure. The SPV company is called Sinotswana Green Energy. The table below illustrates the shareholding in the SPV company.

Costs
The cost of construction is reported as US$78.3 million (ZAR 1.4 billion). The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was awarded to China Harbour Engineering Company and  
China Water and Electric Development Company. The same pair was awarded the operations and maintenance contract.

Construction timetable
Construction is expected to start during H2 2024, with commercial commissioning anticipated during H2 2025.

Other considerations
At a later stage it is expected that a 50 MW battery storage power station (BESS) will be installed at this power station to enable the station to supply power before the sun rises and after it sets.

Botswana, which depends on 96 percent fossil-fuel sources for its electricity as of 2024, intends to increase its sources of renewable energy generation to 50 percent of demand by 2036. This power station assists in attaining that goal.

See also

List of power stations in Botswana

References

External links
 Botswana Signs Agreement for First 100 MW Solar Power Station As of 15 August 2024. 

Solar power stations in Botswana
Central District (Botswana)
2020s establishments in Botswana
Stefanie Jegelka. Stefanie Sabrina Jegelka is a German computer scientist whose research in machine learning includes submodular optimization in computer vision and deep learning for graph neural networks. She is an associate professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Education and career
As a high school student from a small town in Germany, Jegelka won an award in an annual ThinkQuest competition for the design of educational web sites; her site concerned butterflies. She became a bioinformatics student at the University of Tübingen, advised by Ulrike von Luxburg and Michael Kaufmann, with an exchange year at the University of Texas at Austin, and earned a diploma in 2007. Continuing her studies jointly at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and at ETH Zurich, she completed a Ph.D. in 2012. Her dissertation, Combinatorial Problems with Submodular Coupling in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, was jointly supervised by Jeff Bilmes, Bernhard Schölkopf, and Andreas Krause.

After postdoctoral research from 2012 to 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley with Michael I. Jordan and Trevor Darrell, she became X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2022. She was awarded a Humboldt Professorship in 2022 and joined TU Munich as a Humboldt Professor in 2024.

Recognition
Jegelka received the 2015 German Pattern Recognition Award. She became a Sloan Research Fellow in 2018.

She was an invited speaker at the 2022 (virtual) International Congress of Mathematicians.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Sloan Research Fellows
University of Tübingen alumni
ETH Zurich alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
JAC Yiwei 3. The JAC Yiwei 3, also known as the EV3 or EX30 depending on the market, is a city liftback car produced by JAC Motors that was unveiled in April 2023, and has been produced since June 2023. It is the first vehicle to be sold under the Yiwei sub-brand.

Overview

On April 12, 2023 JAC announced the launch of the new Yiwei sub-brand at Auto Shanghai, and revealed a preview of its first product, the Yiwei 3. Presales for the vehicle opened a month later in May, and sales began in June 2023.

The exterior of the Yiwei 3 is available in white, beige, gray, green, and purple paint, all with a contrasting black painted roof. The circle-shaped headlight units feature daytime running lights consisting of 137 LEDs. In the Chinese market, the vehicle is badged with 'EV3' in Latin characters.

In the interior, a 6.2-inch display mounted on the steering column serves as the instrument cluster. Either a 12.8-inch or 15.6-inch touchscreen mounted on the center of the dashboard in an elevated configuration is used as the infotainment interface, and also houses most controls including HVAC settings. The center console has an open design and houses a wireless charging pad, a single retractable cupholder, and an armrest. The interior is available in several different colors, including pink with white, emerald green with grey, and lavender with black.

The Yiwei 3 has optional Level 2 advanced driving assistance functions such as autonomous parking and adaptive cruise control, along with a surround view camera system.

Markets 
On February 21, 2024, JAC Motors announced that they will export 10,000 vehicles to the GCC, Central America and South American markets.

The Yiwei 3 was launched in the UAE on July 2, 2024 badged as the EX30 and is exclusively available with the 51.5kWh battery pack and  motor.

Powertrain 
The Yiwei 3 is the first vehicle built on the JAC DI platform, which will underpin following Yiwei vehicles as well. The platform uses a cell-to-body battery pack using 46mm diameter cylindrical format battery cells, and battery safety system both developed by JAC. It also uses a '9-in-1' powertrain unit, which consists of a drive motor, reduction gearbox, differential, and various high-voltage power electronics integrated into a single unit. This allows the components to occupy 40% less space, allowing for more interior space and an improved  turning radius.

The JAC Yiwei 3 is powered by a 34.5, 41 or 51.5kWh LFP battery pack using cylindrical 46-format battery cells supplied by either Gotion or JAC Huating. A version using a sodium-ion battery pack was announced at the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show, but has not yet entered production.

A variant with  CLTC range rating is expected to be released in the future.

References

External links
 

Cars of China
Cars introduced in 2023
JAC Yiwei 3
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
City cars
Production electric cars
Palazzo Netti, Orvieto. Palazzo Netti is a Neo-Renaissance architecture palace located on Via Lorenzo Maitani #9, the alley that leads west from the central portal of the Duomo of Orvieto in the region of Umbria, Italy. The palace originally belonged to the family of Vincenzo Durante, bishop of Orvieto from 1529 to 1541, then to the Vespi family. The present palace with its elaborate sgraffito facade was refurbished in the 19th-century by the Florentine professor Giuseppe Smerrini under commission by the engineer Aldobrando Netti. Netti became known for opening the first electrical hydropower plant in Orvieto, allowing for the town theater, Teatro Mancinelli, to be one of the first buildings in town with electricity. The Officine Netti was built in 1893, and are located north-west of Orvieto in the neighborhood of Sugano and Rocca Ripesena (circa 42.71751 and 12.06515); the ruins provide an immage of the luddite victory of nature over early industrialism.

Netti appears to have wanted to embody in his palace's facade an allegorical vision of the fruits of industrial progress, but using a vocabulary of classicism. The first floor of the palace is made with rusticated stones, pierced in the center by an alleway. The upper floors are densely decorated with the sgrafitto decoration: from left to right are depictions of an allegorical female above a vase or fountain.
The first column has "air" above "fire"; the second "labor" above "study"; the third "science" above "knowledge"; the fourth "water" above "energy"; and the fifth, "earth" over "life".

The palace was briefly requisitioned by the German occupying army during 1944.

References

Palaces in Orvieto
Renaissance architecture in Umbria
Hybrid Designs PLC. Hybrid Designs PLC is an Ethiopian software development company founded by entrepreneur and computer scientist Samrawit Fikru in 2014. The company supplements mobile app to RIDE share taxi company with the aim of improving the transportation system safe and convenient. In 2022, the company signed agreement with Ethio-telecom to enable users access its service and product through telecom system.

History
Hybrid Designs was founded by Samrawit Fikru in December 2014 and entered RIDE market in 2017 with the aim of improving the transportation system safe and convenient with assistance of mobile app. In 2022, Ethio telecom and Hybrid Designs PLC signed agreement to enable its customers use Ethio-telecom product and services through RIDE transport service. In that year, Hybrid Designs market entered Djibouti with its subsidiary.

References

2014 in Ethiopia
Taxi companies
Companies based in Addis Ababa
Soyang-class fast combat support ship. The Soyang-class fast combat support ship (AOE-II)  are fast combat support ships in service in the Republic of Korea Navy.

Development and design 
They have a length of  and a width of . The vessels are capable of embarking a helicopter on her helipad. She carriers a single Phalanx CIWS and MASS decoy launchers. They have a displacement of about  and a crew of 140. She runs on both hybrid diesel and electric engines with two shafts. The ship has a maximum speed of  and a range of .

Construction 
ROKS Soyang was laid down on 13 July 2015 and launched on 29 November 2016 by Hyundai Heavy Industries. Commissioning followed on 18 September 2018.

A second vessel was announced, to be built by Hanwha Ocean 26 July 2024. She is planned to be commissioned in December 2028.

List of ships

See also 
 Den Helder class

References 

Auxiliary ships of the Republic of Korea Navy
Auxiliary replenishment ship classes
Huijia (Rachel) Lin. Huijia (Rachel) Lin is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose research in cryptography includes work on indistinguishability obfuscation and non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. She is an associate professor and Paul G. Allen Career Development Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.

Education and career
Lin has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Zhejiang University in China, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, completed in 2011. Her dissertation,  Concurrent Security, was supervised by Rafael Pass.

After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, she became an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013. She took her present position at the University of Washington in 2018.

Recognition
Several of Lin's conference papers have won best paper awards. She was an invited speaker at the 2022 (virtual) International Congress of Mathematicians.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American cryptographers
American women computer scientists
American women cryptographers
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese cryptographers
Chinese women computer scientists
Zhejiang University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
University of Washington faculty
Mechanomorphism. Mechanomorphism is the tendency of humans to see the machine-like behavior in other humans, animals, and other non-machine entities (like universe). It is considered to be one face of the man-machine duality (the "human-as-machine" side), the other being anthropomorphism of an intelligent device, like a computer (thinking of the "machine-as-human"). When the reflection goes on in both directions, with real life engaged in machine-like behavior that in turn imitates real life, a term mechanthropomorphism is sometimes used, for example, to describe a ballet where human dancers are performing as machines that engage in a human-like behavior.

R. H. Waters proposed to use the term in behavioristic psychology in the 1948 as a label for "the ascription of mechanical characteristics to the [...] individual, and the interpretation of human behavior in terms of concepts and processes [...] of machines", an opposite of anthropomorphism.

The use of the term to describe the mechanical metaphor of the neoclassical economics dates to K. H. M. Mittermaier (1986).

In the visual arts, the mechanomorphism was used by the adherents of machine aesthetic to define the complexity of human behaviors and social interactions through the mechanistic symbols (electric spark power, spinning wheel inertia, confined movements of a mechanical joint), as in the works of Marcel Duchamp or Francis Picabia. The view of women as "love machines" was used for their sexual objectification. Picabia commented on his Voilà Elle, "Here she is, an incomplete tubular machine: “she” is simply the HOLE of the target, whose reaction to the shot wad of fire from the gun initiates her own continual penetration".

In human-animal studies anthropomorphism and mechanomorphism sometimes are used in opposition to each other. The mechanomorphic views date back to the beast-machine theory of Descartes. Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637) declared that, unlike a human with his conscious actions, the behavior of an animal can be completely described by the laws of physics, and thus an animal shall be considered a machine lacking the soul.

References

Sources 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Descriptive technique
Claude Jobert. Claude Jobert, born on  in Dijon and died on  in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, was a French mechanical engineer and inventor, and one of the pioneers of aeronautics.

Biography 
He studied kite flying from 1870 onwards and explored the possibility of using them for aerial navigation. As vice-president of the Academy of Aeronautics, he built mechanical birds with two or four wings in 1873. In 1875, he flew with Théodore Sivel, Joseph Crocé-Spinelli, and the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier aboard the balloon Zénith from La Villette to the Landes in nearly 23 hours. He also conducted meteorological studies during the flights and served as an instructor at the Industrial School.

Jules Verne mentioned him in Chapter III of his novel Robur the Conqueror.

References 

19th-century French engineers
19th-century French inventors
Aviation pioneers
French balloonists
1829 births
People from Dijon
1903 deaths
Uroš Desnica (scientist). Uroš Desnica (25 July 1944 – 17 November 2021) was a Croatian physicist. In 1968, he graduated experimental physics from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb and started to work at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in the materials research and electronics department. He received his doctoral degree from the Zagreb University in 1978 for his research of the physics of semiconductors. In late 1980s, Desnica was a visiting scientist at the State University of New York and the Scientific Center of the Cabot Corporation in Boston.

References

Sources

1944 births
2021 deaths
Croatian physicists
String line. A string line is a tool made for the purpose of marking a straight line, level, or corner for construction purposes. when building foundations, string lines are hung on batter boards

Functions 
 When tiling it is used to mark a straight line where the tiles are to be laid
 In bricklaying it is used for the same purpose of finding a straight line
 In foundation building it is used to find the center of the foundation

See also
Batter board
Chalk line
Skirret (tool)
Level

References 

Construction
Exercise Indus Shield. Exercise Indus Shield is a large-scale international aerial warfare exercise held by the Airpower Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Sargodha, Pakistan. The aim of the exercise is to simulate various military tactics by enabling participating air powers to maximise their warfighting potential in air operations through synergistic employment of multi-domain capabilities in an integrated training environment. It consists of a traditional "Blue force" vs. "Red force" scenario with participants engaging each other in simulated battles.

Background 
Exercise Indus Shield is organised by the PAF Airpower Centre of Excellence (ACE) at PAF Base Mushaf in Sargodha. It has hosted many other exercises including ACES Meet, Shaheen and Falcon Talon. ACE facilitates the participants of these exercises with simulating systems and by exposing them to battlefield environments in order to enhance decision making and strategic planning.

2023 
The first Exercise Indus Shield was held from 6-25 October 2023 in which 14 countries participated. These included Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Oman, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Morocco, Uzbekistan, China and Hungary. The Pakistani Air chief and Army chief along with the airforce chiefs of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Hungary also witnessed the execution of the wargames.

Dissimilar air combat training, SEAD, BVR combat along with many other strategies were practiced during the exercise.

See also 
 Pakistani military exercises
 Exercise Red Flag
 Red Flag – Alaska
 Exercise Pitch Black

References

External links 
 Exercise Indus Shield 2023 Official Video

Pakistan Air Force education and training
Pakistani military exercises
Military aviation exercises
2023 establishments in Pakistan
Recurring events established in 2023
Pakistan Air Force exercises
High-pressure torsion. High-pressure torsion (HPT) is a severe plastic deformation technique used to refine the microstructure of materials by applying both high pressure and torsional strain. HPT involves compressing a material between two anvils while simultaneously rotating one of the anvils, inducing shear deformation. HPT is widely used in materials science to create ultrafine-grained and nanostructured metallic and non-metallic materials, control phase transformations, synthesize new materials or investigate mechanisms underlying some natural phenomena. This process leads to significant grain refinement, resulting in materials with enhanced mechanical properties such as increased tensile strength and hardness. It was introduced in 1935 by P.W. Bridgman, who developed early methods to apply extreme strain under high pressures in material processing.

HPT also has applications in producing metals with enhanced superplasticity, improving the toughness of alloys, and creating materials with unique properties like high wear resistance. Researchers use HPT to study fundamental aspects of deformation and phase transition under extreme conditions. Additionally, HPT is being explored for potential applications in the energy field. Progress in HPT science and technology opens new possibilities in the development of advanced materials with superior properties.

References 

Metallurgy
Industrial processes
State Service of Special Communications and Information Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan. State Service of Special Communications and Information Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan - provides organization, functioning, security and development of special-purpose information and communication systems and networks for state bodies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, interdepartmental electronic document circulation, connection of state bodies to the Internet network, placement of information resources in the information and resource center, implementation of special technical measures for the purpose of security of state protection objects and protected objects.

History 
First, on October 1, 1994, the institution was established as a "Communication and Technical Division" within the Material and Technical Supply Department of the General Protection Department of the Supreme State Power and Management Bodies of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Later, its activities as an independent department, department and department were carried out by the Special State Protection Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan. continued in the structure. According to the Decree No. 708 of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated September 26, 2012, the State Agency for Special Communication and Information Security of the Special State Protection Service was established, and with the Decree No. 957 dated March 16, 2020, the Special Communication and Information Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan was established at the base of the Agency. The Civil Service was created. By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated July 15, 2022, he adopted a decision "On the appointment of I.A. Musayev as the head of the State Service of Special Communication and Information Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan".

Activity 

 Cyber Security
 Special Communication
 AzStateNet Network
 Electronic document circulation
 Electronic Signature
 Hosting Service
 DNS service
 Cryptography
 TETRA Radio Communication
 Data Service
 Electronic Mail Service
 24/7 Monitoring
 Feldyeger Communications

See also 
Special State Protection Service of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Government CERT

References

Government agencies of Azerbaijan
2012 establishments in Azerbaijan
Jiji Hydroelectric Power Station. The Jiji Hydroelectric Power Plant () is a hydroelectric power station in the Bururi Province of Burundi.
As of 2024 it was nearing completion.

Location

The Jiji Hydroelectric Power Plant is a run-of the river hydroelectric power plant in the Songa Commune of Bururi Province in southern Burundi.
It is on the Jiji River, near the point where the Jiji River joins the Murembwe River.
The Jiji dam is upstream, directing water along a supply conduit to a tunnel which leads to the forebay.
From there a penstock carries the water down to the power station.

The power station is being built as part of the Jiji and Murembwe Hydroelectric Project.
It will be owned and operated by REGIDESO Burundi, part of the Ministry of Hydraulics, Energy and Mines.

Technical

The Jiji Hydroelectric Power Plant will exploit a head height of  with a capacity of 32.5 MW.
The Jiji dam is upstream, and creates a water storage reservoir.
Water is routed from this reservoir through a grit trap to remove solid matter, then through a  tunnel to the head of the penstock.
From the forebay the penstock carries the water down to the power station.

A 110 kV power line runs  north from the Jiji station up the Mulembwe River to the Murembwe Hydroelectric Power Plant, where it is joined by a 110 kV power line from that station. The two lines run east  to the Horezo switchyard on RP 403 highway.
From there, lines run north towards Kabezi and Bujumbura, and southeast towards Bururi.

See also

List of power stations in Burundi

References

Sources

Bururi Province
Hydroelectric power stations in Burundi