omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
G.V. Shivashankar. G.V. Shivashankar (born 1968) is an Indian biophysicist working in the field of Mechanobiology. His research focuses on understanding the coupling between cell mechanics and genome organization for the regulation of cell homeostasis and cell state transitions. In addition his group also developed imaging-AI based chromatin biomarkers as fingerprints for cells in health and disease. Towards this, his group employs multi-scale correlative bio-imaging methods combined with bioengineered interfaces, functional genomics, theoretical modeling, and machine learning. He currently holds a full professorship for Mechano-Genomics at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich and he also heads the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Education and career 
Shivashankar was born in 1968 in India, where he began his academic career studying Physics at Bangalore University. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1988, he was a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He then joined the NEC Laboratories America, Princeton formally known as the NEC Research Institute and Rutgers University, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering in 1994. Subsequently, Shivashankar joined the Rockefeller University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics under the supervision of Albert J. Libchaber in 1999. In his doctoral thesis, Shivashankar developed new ways to combine single-molecule micromanipulation methods, thereby enabling novel insights into DNA-protein interactions.

After obtaining his Ph.D., Shivashankar spent one year as a scientist at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, before joining the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) as an Assistant Professor and the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore as a visiting scientist. Shivashankar obtained tenure at NCBS-TIFR in 2004. In 2010, he relocated to the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he served as the Deputy Director of the Mechanobiology Institute (2011-2019) and held a chair professorship between NUS and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) (2014-2019). Since 2020 Shivashankar holds a full professorship for Mechano-Genomics jointly between ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Recognition and awards 
Shivashankar received various awards for his scientific achievements including the BM Birla Prize in 2006 and the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship in 2007. In 2010 he was elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and in 2019 as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

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A. A. B. Williams. A. A. B. "Tony" Williams (1926 - 4 February 2016) was a South African civil engineer with the National Building Research Institute and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. His primary contribution to geotechnical engineering practice was co-authoring the Revised guide to soil profiling for civil engineering projects in Southern Africa.

Background
Williams was born in 1926 in Kokstad and attended primary and high school in the Natal Midlands. After school, he served aboard a frigate on the Burma coast during World War II. After the war he completed a BSc in Civil Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand graduating in 1948.

Williams spent three years working for the then Transvaal Roads Department on road and bridge construction before returning to study at Imperial College, London. He completed a Diploma in Soil Mechanics in 1953. Upon his return to South Africa in 1954, he started working at the National Building Research Institute (NBRI) where he worked under the directorship of Jere Jennings and Tony Brink.

Williams spent 35 years working for NBRI, which later became part of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). His roles included heading up the Soil Mechanics Division of the National Institute for Road Research and Heading up the Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Division at the CSIR. During this period he also completed his PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1978.

Williams retired from the CSIR in 1989 to become an active consultant, before retiring a second time in 1993 to spend time with his family. He was married to Veronica and they had four children. He died in Johannesburg on 4 February 2016.

Contributions and award
Williams co-authored the 1973 Revised guide to soil profiling for civil engineering projects in Southern Africa with Jere Jennings and Tony Brink. This work was extended in the 1982 book Soil survey for engineering co-authored with Tony Brink and Tim Partridge.

Williams, Terry Pidgeon and Peter Day also collaborated on a 1985 paper on expansive clays. This was key to highlighting that the shear strength along existing slickensides was close to the residual strength (about 50% of the peak strength). This has importance for South African slopes assessment, in contrast to the common overseas practice of using peak strength for analysing ‘first time’ slides.

Williams received the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Best Paper Award in 1962 (with Basil Kantey), the JD Roberts Award for Building Research in 1980, the South African Geotechnical Medal in 1991, and the Gold Medal of the South African Institute for Engineering and Environmental Geologists (SAIEG) in 2005.

Williams was a Fellow of SAICE, serving on Council, the committees of the Pretoria Branch and Geotechnical Division, as well as assisting with the organising committees of several Regional Conferences for Africa on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering.

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Energy Storage Materials. Energy Storage Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal by Elsevier BV.

Abstracting and indexing 
Energy Storage Materials is abstracted and indexed the following bibliographic databases:
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
INSPEC

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 17.789.

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English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Walter Rüdorff. Walter Rüdorff (October 3, 1909 – April 1, 1989) was a German chemist known for his research on clathrates of graphite and ternary oxides.

Education and career 
Rüdorff was born in Berlin in 1909. He studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin) and graduated in 1925. His graduate study was carried out under the supervision of Ulrich Hofmann at the same university, where he graduated with a PhD thesis titled Über die Kristallstruktur der Hexacarbonyle von Chrom, Molybdän und Wolfram. He then moved to the University of Rostock along with Ulrich Hofmann and achieved his habilitation status with the thesis titled Neuartige Verbindungen mit Graphit in 1941. In 1942, Rüdorff moved to TU Wien following Ulrich Hofmann. He later took up a faculty position at University of Tübingen in 1947. He stayed in Tübingen until his retirement.

Along with his supervisor Ulrich Hofmann and his father Karl Andreas Hofmann, Rüdorff cowrote the famous textbook on inorganic chemistry that are referred to as Rüdorff-Hofmann.

Scientific research 
Rüdorff and Ulrich Hofmann's work on graphite intercalation compound and sulfuric acid became an ancestor of lithium-ion battery.

Rüdorff's team discovered the ternary oxide series (including LiVO2 and NaVO2) in 1954  with a unique structure. The compounds with the same structural type are called rudorffites for this reason.

Rüdorff's work in 1965 on hosting lithium in titanium disulfide (TiS2) inspired early efforts into using metal chalcogenides as battery cathode material.

See also 
 Ulrich Hofmann

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Oji-ike Dam. Oji-ike Dam is an earthfill dam located in Ehime Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 5.6 km2. The dam impounds about 1  ha of land when full and can store 75 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1951.

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Fırat Çeçen. Fırat Çeçen (born 1972 in Ankara) is a Turkish businessperson who takes multiple roles as a member of the board at IC İçtaş Holding. He is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at IC İçtaş Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S and a member of the Board of Directors at IC İbrahim Çeçen Yatırım Holding A.S.
Çeçen graduated from Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 1994 where he completed his bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering.

After the graduation, he took a position as the Project Manager Assistant at IC Holding. From there, he went up to General Manager, Member of the Board of Directors, and Chairman of IC İçtaş Construction Board of Directors in this order.

He is also a member of TED University in Ankara, where he conducts his academic activities.

He worked on multiple international projects in Turkey as well as Russia, the United States, Middle East, Middle Asia and Europe. He specialized in PPP projects that include complicated industrial, infrastructure and superstructure constructions. Along with the projects, they also support sustainability projects such as Green Business Summit, which was sponsored by the Holding.

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Javier Olivan. Javier Oliván López (born 1977) is a Spanish-American business executive who has been chief operating officer of Meta Platforms since 2022, having succeeded Sheryl Sandberg.

Early life and education 
Oliván was born in 1977 in Sabiñánigo, Huesca, Spain. His father Florián is a retired businessman who ran a hardware store and an arcade, while his mother María Pilar is a retired professor from the Biello Aragón Institute.

Between 1995 and 2002, Oliván studied electrical and industrial engineering at Tecnun, the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra in Pamplona. He then joined Siemens as a research and development engineer in Munich, Germany, where he patented an algorithmic system for digital image processing, before moving to Tokyo, Japan, to work for NTT Data on wireless video technologies. He later worked as product manager at Siemens Mobile where he led a team responsible for mobile device development.

In 2005, he enrolled in the MBA program at Stanford University, where he took a course that analyzed case studies of startups, including Facebook. As a student, along with several friends, he worked on creating a Spanish-language version of Facebook, called Nosuni. Though the project was a failure, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, reached out and asked Oliván to work for him. He accepted the offer after graduating in 2007.

Career

Meta Platforms 

Oliván joined Facebook (now Meta Platforms) in October 2007 as head of international growth under Chamath Palihapitiya. As a founding member of the growth team, he oversaw the company's international expansioninto new markets and languages. Between 2011 and 2018, he served as vice president of the growth team. He advocated the Internet.org and Facebook Lite initiatives during this period. He advised multiple acquisitions including that of WhatsApp and Onavo. In 2018, he took charge of the trust and safety team to tackle misinformation on its platforms. He was the vice president of Central Products between 2018 and 2022, after which he was promoted to chief growth officer.

In August 2022, Oliván replaced Sheryl Sandberg as chief operating officer after she stepped down 14years into the role.

Other activities 
He was recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute in 2014. He serves on the board of the non-profit, Endeavor Global. Previously, he was a board member of the e-commerce company Mercado Libre for six years. He was also on the board of Vy Global Growth, a special-purpose acquisition company that invested in geospatial imaging firm Satellogic before the SPAC deal completed in 2022.

Personal life 
Oliván lived in Palo Alto, California, before moving to Spain and working remotely . He is married and has two daughters. He met his wife while he was an Erasmus student in Munich. He is fluent in five languages, including French, German, and Japanese. He is fond of surfing and paragliding.

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Shantou Metro. Shantou Metro (), officially Shantou Rail Transit, is a monorail rapid transit system under planning in Shantou, Guangdong, China. Construction has started on a two-station test line between Shantou University and Xuelin Road, a route which will be part of Line 1 in the future. In the short term plan there will be three lines. The complete long-term plan for the system contains 8 lines and a total length of 230 km.

History
Plans for a metro system to be built in Shantou date back to 2008. The system was approved by the municipal council in November 2016 and on December 28, 2016 construction commenced on the test section between Shantou University and Xuelin Road. Full-scale construction on the system has yet to begin due to Shantou not meeting the criteria required for building an urban rail transit system.

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High Altitude Research Laboratory. High Altitude Research Laboratory (HARL) is a research laboratory located at Gulmarg, India.

History 
The laboratory was established in 1954, jointly by Aligarh Muslim University and University of Jammu and Kashmir to conduct scientific research in the field of ionospheric studies, cosmic ray astrophysics, radio astronomy, geomagnetism, and atmospheric neutron monitoring. It was formally opened on 4 April 1954.

In 1963, the laboratory became a constituent part of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and it is managed by BARC's Astrophysical Sciences Division (ASD).

In 1974, to assist HARL in executing different research projects in the field of nuclear physics and radiation physics, Nuclear Research Laboratory was set up in Srinagar.

Research & development

Gulmarg observatory 
Since 1977, the Gulmarg Observatory is in operation. It was established to study the geomagnetic field near the center of the ionospheric Sq current system to fill a gap in the chain of magnetic observatories between India and the erstwhile Soviet Union.

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Atomic Energy Commission of India
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Promwad. Promwad is an independent electronics design house in Eastern Europe headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is engaged in contract electronics design, software development and contract manufacturing for customers in Europe and America.

The company received media attention for some of its software and hardware designs for video streaming and digital TV, telecom, automotive, IoT and industrial automation.

History
Roman Pakholkov founded Promwad in 2004 to design mass-produced electronics devices based on System on a chip (SoC) and Linux. The company started operating from Minsk, Belarus, and gradually moved its business portfolio to the European Union. In 2016, Promwad opened an office in Vilnius, which is now the company's headquarters. 
In 2021, the company delivery office was opened in Germany, and a development centre opened  in Latvia.

Partners
In 2011, Promwad became an official partner of Texas Instruments and joined the international network of design houses that develop electronics based on TI components and solutions.

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James P. Hamilton. James P. Hamilton is a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Following a B.A. and graduate work at University of Maine-Orono, he completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Physical & Analytical Chemistry specializing in Laser Instrumentation, Coherent Nonlinear Optics, Spectroscopy & Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

He is the director of the UW System NCCRD Nano Research Center. From 2017-2021 he and his team worked on a $875k NASA SBIR research contract for polymeric contamination control that has led to new programs in planetary protection involving space telescopes and missions. His research on astronomical mirror contamination control has brought him to the summit of most of the large telescope sites in the world including Mauna Kea, Haleakala, La Palma and China. His current research specializes in contamination control on precision optical and aerospace surfaces, instrumentation development, nanoparticle thermodynamics and novel electrodes of nanocomposite materials.

He has raised $4.3 million in investment funds and founded two companies Xolve, Inc. and Photonic Cleaning Technologies the manufacturer of First Contact Polymers, which has sales in 77 countries.

He is a senior member of the American Physical Society, a Senior Member of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering and a Senior Member the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). He is also a member of the American Chemical Society,  the Coblentz Society, Sigma Xi (Honorary Research Society), and Sigma Pi Sigma (Honorary Physics Society).

Publications
Bergin SD, Nicolosi V, Streich PV, Giordani S, Sun Z, Windle AH, Ryan P, Niraj NP, Wang ZT, Carpenter L, Blau WJ. Towards solutions of single‐walled carbon nanotubes in common solvents. Advanced Materials. 2008 May 19;20(10):1876-81. DOI: 10.1002/adma.200702451
Bergin SD, Sun Z, Rickard D, Streich PV, Hamilton JP, Coleman JN. Multicomponent solubility parameters for single-walled carbon nanotube− solvent mixtures. ACS nano. 2009 Aug 25;3(8):2340-50. (Cited 377 times, according to Google Scholar.

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James B. Thompson Jr.. James Burleigh Thompson Jr. (November 20, 1921 – November 15, 2011) was an American mineralogist and geologist. He was known for his research into the thermodynamics of minerals and the relationship to structure. He introduced the term polysomatic series for describing layered structures with chemically distinct layers.

Education and career 
Thompson studied geology at Dartmouth College, graduating with an AB in 1942. From 1942 to 1946, he worked in the United States Army Air Forces as a weather forecaster. He started graduate school afterwards, studying in geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a PhD in 1950.

Thompson was hired at Harvard University as an instructor in petrology in 1949 as a successor of Esper Signius Larsen. He was promoted to assistant professor in the following year to full professorship in 1960. Thompson was named Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard in 1977.

Honors and awards 
Thompson was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.  He was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1964, the Roebling Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America in 1978, and the V. M. Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society in 1985.

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Hapur chemical plant explosion. On 4 June 2022, a major explosion and fire occurred at a chemical plant in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. At least 13 people were killed and 20 others injured.

Details of the disaster 
The explosion took place on a Saturday afternoon at the Ruhi Industries  electronic equipment manufacturing unit where 33 people were working. The magnitude caused roofs to blow off houses, with sound travelling 10 km away. The factory was owned by Dilshad of Meerut, and had been leased to Wasim of Hapur. After the explosion, Wasim fled the scene after receiving medical treatment but was later arrested. A forensic science laboratory criminal investigation was launched initiated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in order to determine the exact cause of the blast.

After further investigation 
Initial reports were of a burst boiler which had caused the explosion. However the subsequent suspected cause was gunpowder used to manufacture toy gun pellets, because police retrieved plastic pellets used in their manufacture from the scene. This was despite the factory's license obtained in 2021 to manufacture electronic equipment not toy guns.

Location 
The factory is located in Dhaluana, at the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation governed industrial district of Harpur, 60 Kilometers from New Delhi, the capital of India. Harpur coordinates:

Local response 
The local response was rapid. The Chief Minister announced a rescue and relief operation with victims to be supported. Firefighters attended for 3 hours to extinguish the fire, and forensics attended the scene to gather evidence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered his condolences to those affected, and the state government offered support for the treatment of victims.

Mortality and morbidity 
Initial reports were of 9 people dead and 19 injured. However, later reports confirmed 13 killed and 20 injured. 11 of those who died came from the areas of Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) and Bihar. Wasim, owner of the factory suffered burns and incurred stitches. Victims were taken to hospitals for medical care in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Meerut, including Safdarjung Hospital for optimal treatment.

Consequences 
The owner and operator of the factory were charged under Indian Penal Code sections 286, 287, 304, 308, 337 and 338. As a result, further investigations were carried out in neighboring factories to ensure licenses were correctly used.

See also
 2022 Sitakunda fire, on the same day
 List of explosions

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