omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Una-May O'Reilly. Una-May O'Reilly is a Canadian computer scientist and leader of the Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA) group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Early life and education 
O'Reilly earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary. She was a graduate student at the Carleton University, where she studied computer science. During her doctorate O'Reilly worked as a graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Her dissertation was one of the first to explore genetic programming.  She joined the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 1996.

Research and career 
O'Reilly is a principal research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where she leads a team focusing on scalable machine learning. Her research group, Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA), conducts research in cybersecurity, rapid intelligent data analytics and the modelling of medical data. O'Reilly has designed computational models for a variety of different problems, including calculating the financial risk of renewable energy investments and creating a flavor algorithm that replaces taste testers. O'Reilly has developed statistical models to inform the design of renewable energy systems, including predicting wind speed.

In 2013 she was awarded the EvoStar award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe. O'Reilly has received various awards and honours for her work in genetic programming; including being elected to the Executive Board of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, SIGevo (formerly International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation).

Select publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
Carleton University alumni
University of Calgary alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
21st-century American women
EA202 series. EA202 series, colloquially known as KfW i9000 after its financial backer the KfW, is an electric multiple unit train type produced by Industri Kereta Api (INKA) which operates across the KAI Commuter Yogyakarta Line and formerly in Greater Jakarta. EA202 series was purchased by Ministry of Transportation for 40 units (10 sets). KA Magazine June 2014 Edition 

INKA collaborated with Bombardier Transportation to build EA202 series and it was completed in 2011. A total of 40 units (10 series) of 4 cars began to be brought in from the INKA factory in Madiun to Jakarta and went through a series of trials to see the performance and reliability.

In early 2013, EA202 series, which is similar in shape to EA201 series, underwent a trial operation before it is currently operating.

Formation

History 
EA202 basically has a formation of 4 cars in one series. Because there are only 4 cars in one series, the 2 circuits (TS) are finally combined into one so that they become 8 cars in one series. The first series to operate were the combined TS1 + TS2 and TS9 + TS10 on 19 February 2013, followed by TS3 + TS4 and TS5 + TS6 on 7 March 2013, and TS7 + TS8 on 27 March 2013.

EA202 series was also operated in a single circuit (1 TS), for Feeder before it was operated in combination with 2 TS to fulfill the formation of 8 trains in 1 series. At the beginning of the operation trial, EA202 series only served in –, Tanah Abang–Maja, as well as feeder cross Kampung Bandan–Jakarta Kota and Manggarai–Tanah Abang–Kampung Bandan–Jakarta Kota. However, EA202 series eventually operates on other routes in Greater Jakarta.

Even though EA202 series is the EMU with the coldest AC, EA202 series was withdrawn to INKA due to several reliability problems such as breaking down, but eventually returned to operation, even though it was only a Feeder (eject) and rarely served in crowded traffic. In addition, due to lack of maintenance, many of these EMUs have hot air conditioners.

Several EA202 series sets not brought to INKA were also stored at the Depok depot, but in the end the EA202 series was pulled to INKA Madiun to undergo refurbishment.

EA202 series sets have undergone refurbishment at INKA, both on the electrical system and on the exterior and interior, and now EA202 series uses a red and white batik livery and chairs which are now brown. Right now EA202 series are currently used for the KRL Commuterline on the Solo–Yogyakarta route. EA202 series started service on the route on early 2021.

References 

Electric multiple units of Indonesia

1500 V DC multiple units
Bombardier Transportation multiple units
UBtech Robotics. UBTECH Robotics Inc. is a Chinese manufacturer of robots based in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

History 

Ubtech was founded in 2012 by Zhou Jian. Ubtech specializes in humanoid robots. Ubtech exhibited at IFA Berlin in 2017 and showed its latest innovations.

In 2018, the Italian mobile communications provider Telecom Italia Mobile set a Guinness world record for simultaneous dance for robots with 1,372 Alpha S1 robots from Ubtech. The old record was 1,069 robots. In 2020 its robots were used to help medical workers treating COVID-19 patients in Shenzhen.

After a Series-C funding round by Tencent and ICBC it was valued at $5 billion. It was planning an IPO as of 2019.

In December 2021, the company delivered pint-sized robots to 300 pre-schools in Seoul, South Korea.

In January 2022, Ubtech launched a mobile robot that emits UV rays to disinfect. The robot was commercially launched in USA.

The company had its Initial public offering (IPO) in December 2023, raising HK$1 billion on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

References 

Manufacturing companies based in Shenzhen
Robotics companies of China
Manufacturing companies established in 2012
Engineering companies of China
Chinese companies established in 2012
2023 initial public offerings
2012 in Shenzhen
Precision 16. The Precision 16 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Stephen Seaton and first built in 1982.

Production
The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States, starting in 1982, but it is now out of production. A total of 64 examples of the type were reported as having been completed by 1994.

Design
The Precision 16 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The double hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom and a retractable centerboard. The a transom-hung, kick-up rudder has an aluminum head that is controlled by a tiller. Both the rudder and centerboard are made from foam-cored fiberglass. The boat is open and has no foredeck, although it has two stowage compartments. It displaces  and is equipped with  of foam for flotation.

The boat has a draft of  with the centerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

For sailing the design is equipped with a self-bailing cockpit. The mainsail boom has the mainsheet rigged for mid-boom sheeting.

The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 100.1 and is normally raced with a crew of two sailors.

Operational history
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood noted that the boat was only sold in Florida. He also remarked on its planing capabilities.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Dinghies
1980s sailboat type designs
Two-person sailboats
Sailboat type designs by Stephen Seaton
Sailboat types built by Precision Boat Works
Ora (marque). Ora (; stylised in all caps) is a marque of battery electric cars established in 2018 by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor (GWM).

According to GWM, Ora stands for "open, reliable and alternative", while also paying homage to Leonhard Euler, a notable Swiss mathematician whose surname is phonetically translated as "Oula" in Mandarin Chinese.

History

Great Wall Motors announced the creation of the new Ora brand, dedicated to a new line of electric cars, in May 2018. At the time, the brand was launched with two initial models: the crossover iQ5 (later iQ) and city car R1 (later Black Cat). Sales of the iQ officially kicked off the brand in August 2018. The third Ora model R2 (later White Cat) was first previewed in June 2019, with production officially beginning in July 2020. 

The Ora brand entered Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa and Australia in late 2022, Brazil in 2023, and Brunei in 8 December 2023. Ora was unveiled at Indonesia International Auto Show 2023 and is planned to be marketed in Indonesia in 2024.

The naming of the "Cat" series vehicles is reportedly based on a Deng Xiaoping's famous quote: "No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat."

Vehicles

Current 
 Ora Good Cat/Funky Cat/03  — electric compact hatchback
 Ora Ballet Cat — electric mid-size hatchback
 Ora Lightning Cat/07 — electric sport fastback
 Mecha Dragon — electric sedan

Discontinued 
 Ora iQ (2018–2020)
 Ora R1/Black Cat (2019–2022)
 Ora R2/White Cat (2020–2022)
 Ora Cherry Cat (2022–2023)

Concept 
 Ora R2 Concept
 Ora Futurist
 Ora Punk Cat
 Ora Lightning Cat
 Ora Big Cat

Gallery

Discontinued

See also 

 Automobile manufacturers and brands of China
 List of automobile manufacturers of China

References

External links 

 Ora at Great Wall Motors' global website
 Ora's Chinese website

Great Wall Motors
Car brands
Chinese brands
Cars of China
2018 establishments in China
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Sahofika Hydroelectric Power Station. Sahofika Hydroelectric Power Station, also referred to as Sahofika Power Station, is a  hydroelectric power station under construction in Madagascar.

Location
The power station is located across the Onive River, approximately , outside of the capital city of Antananarivo.

Overview
The power station is the largest electricity generation project in Madagascar. The dam will be  high, creating a reservoir with a surface area of . From the reservoir, water will flow through a pipeline that measures  long to arrive at the power house. The power house comprises seven turbines, each rated at 29.3 megawatts, for a total output of 205 megawatts. The power generated at this power plant will be evacuated via a new 220 kiloVolts high voltage transmission line to a location where Jirama, the national electricity utility, will integrate it into the national electricity grid. A 25-year power purchase agreement has been signed, between NEHO and Jirama.

This power station is expected to supply power to an estimated 8 million people and help Madagascar avoid the emission of 900,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year.

Developers, ownership and funding 
The project is a public private partnership (PPP), between (a) the Government of Madagascar and (b) a consortium called Nouvelle énergie hydroélectrique de l’Onive (NEHO) or
New Onive Hydroelectric Energy Consortium, comprising the French companies Eiffage and Eranove and the company Themis. The government of Madagascar will contribute €30 million towards the development of this power station.

The African Development Bank, through the African Development Fund, lent €4.02 million to the government Madagascar towards this project. In addition, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the European Union, are expected to provide further funding for this project.

Cost and construction
The total cost for the power station is US$895 million (approx. €836 million). The NEHO consortium was selected to carry out the feasibility studies, provide financing, construct the power station, operate the station when completed and maintain it in future. The government of Madagascar will contribute €30 million towards the project and will be a shareholder in the power station when completed. Construction began in December 2019 and commissioning of the completed project is expected in 2024.

Associated infrastructure
The construction work involves (a) the new power station (b) a new 220kV transmission line, measuring approximately  and (c) rehabilitation of approximately  of access roads. It is expected that the power station will come online in 2024.

See also

 Africa Dams
 Madagascar Power Stations
 Volobe Hydroelectric Power Station

References

External links
AfDB to provide $100m guarantee for 205MW Sahofika hydropower project in Madagascar As of 19 December 2019.
 Major construction companies line up to rebuild road to Sahofika dam, Africa Intelligence, 18 September 2024 (requires free registration)

Hydroelectric power stations in Madagascar
Buildings and structures in Madagascar
Dams under construction
Sea Power (video game). Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age or Sea Power is a tactical simulation video game developed by Triassic Games and published by MicroProse on November 12, 2024. One of the developers was also the former head developer of the Killerfish Games game Cold Waters in 2017. It is seen by many to be the spiritual successor to Jane's Fleet Command (1999).

Development 
Development began back in 2019 with Unity as the development tool being used. The game was announced in December of that year on the company's Facebook and Twitter pages. At some point in 2023 the game switched from Unity 2018 to the Unity 2021 LTS version of the engine. All developers are from different countries (Sweden, Germany and Poland respectively). The game was released in Early Access on November 12, 2024.

Gameplay 
The game is set in the Cold War between the 1960s and 80s, mainly focusing on Naval Combat between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in the North Atlantic. The game will also include scenarios based on the War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War, Vietnam War, Tanker War, Operation Praying Mantis and Bangladesh Liberation war. According to the developers, the gameplay style will be inspired by Janes's Fleet Command and EA's Strike Fleet. The game shares many features with Fleet Command including 3D graphics, real time gameplay, time compression and the inclusion of carrier and land based aircraft. Civilian air traffic will also be simulated in the gameplay. The game also includes vessels and aircraft that were cancelled before completion or being built (ie. the Orel-class Aircraft Carrier/Project 1153).

See also 
 Cold Waters

References

External links 

 Steam page
 Twitter page
 Facebook page
 YouTube channel
 Official website

2024 video games
Cold War video games
Naval video games
Real-time strategy video games
Ship simulation games
Video games developed in Germany
Video games developed in Poland
Video games developed in Sweden
Video games set in the 1960s
Video games set in the 1970s
Video games set in the 1980s
John La Roche. John Charles La Roche  (born 2 April 1937) is a New Zealand engineer and author. As an engineer he specialised in design work for water treatment plants and in waste management.

Biography
La Roche was born in Howick, New Zealand. After secondary education at Auckland Grammar School, he studied engineering at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering in 1962.

Engineering career 

After graduation, La Roche worked in London for Ove Arup & Partners, later returning to New Zealand, working on Auckland engineering projects. In 1968, he began working for water treatment company Paterson Candy International, working on plants in Hamilton and New Plymouth. In 1975, La Roche began working at the Auckland Regional Authority, where he designed the region's water treatment plants. La Roche worked in a variety of civil engineering roles related to water supply, particularly at Auckland Regional Authority where he was involved in major expansions of chemical handling equipment and the development of a greatly improved system for mixing flocculation chemicals with the water to be treated. He promoted the use of declining rate filtration as opposed to constant rate filtration as a means to provide additional flow capacity. From 1988, and especially following his retirement in 1992, he and his wife Sue were heavily involved as voluntary administrators of Water for Survival, a charity that provided safe drinking water and basic sanitation to 500,000 people in developing country village communities.

Awards

La Roche was recognised as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Auckland in 1999. In 2018 La Roche was recognised for his contributions to the engineering heritage of Auckland with the Centennial Excellence in Engineering Heritage Award. In the New Year Honours list, 2003, La Roche was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to engineering.

Selected publications

Books authored

References 

1937 births
Living people
Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
People educated at Auckland Grammar School
University of Auckland alumni
New Zealand civil engineers
2-Ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate. 2-Ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate (Octicizer) is an organophosphate compound. It acts as both a plasticizer and flame retardant in PVC, its wide liquid range also makes it suitable as a flame retardant in hydraulic fluids. It has low acute toxicity in feeding experiments, but has been implicated as a potential hormone mimetic.

References

Organophosphates
Flame retardants
Plasticizers
2-Ethylhexyl esters
Phenol esters
Steve Haake. Stephen John Haake  ( ) is a British sports engineer. He is professor of sports engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, England and is founding director of the university's advanced wellbeing research centre.

Education
Haake studied physics and the University of Leeds, and went on to do a PhD at Aston University in Birmingham where he was sponsored by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. His thesis investigated methods for measuring the impact of golf balls on turf.

Career and research
Haake worked at the University of Sheffield, building a sports research group there, before moving to Sheffield Hallam in 2006. He founded the journal Sports Engineering, the International Sports Engineering Association and the International Conference on the Engineering of Sport. He served as director of research for the Sheffield section of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine from 2014 to 2016, when he was succeeded by Elizabeth Goyder.

Haake is chair of the research board of parkrun, and has said that "useful fitness exercise might just be a 10-minute walk every day". In 2019 he was appointed chair of  Sheffield City Region's Active Travel Advisory Board. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and has included research on football, cycling, tennis, and olympic sports.

Selected publications

Awards and honours
In 2014 the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recognised him as a RISE Leader ("Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers").

In September 2020 he was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific.

Haake was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to sport.

Personal life
 his personal best time for the marathon is 3 h 17 m; in 2015 he completed the Greater Manchester Marathon in 3 h 15 m 19 s but the course was found to have been 380m short for three years, invalidating the times for 2013-2105.

References

External links
 Sheffield Hallam site
Personal website

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Sports scientists
Academics of Sheffield Hallam University
Academics of the University of Sheffield
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Alumni of Aston University
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Sports Engineering. Sports Engineering is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering "the application of engineering to sport".  It is the journal of the International Sports Engineering Association,  published for them by Springer. It was founded in 1998 by Steve Haake, then at University of Sheffield. It is published quarterly and is a hybrid open-access journal. The contents and abstracts are available online for volumes 6- (2003-).   It is indexed in services including Ei Compendex, Inspec and Scopus.

References

Sports technology
Engineering journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1998
Hybrid open access journals
Raffaella Buonsanti. Raffaella Buonsanti (born 1981 in Matera, Italy) is an Italian chemist and material scientist. Her research is at the interface between materials chemistry and catalysis as she focuses on the synthesis of nanocrystals to drive various energy-related reactions, such as CO2 reduction. She is currently an associate professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and director of the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy located at EPFL's Valais campus.

Career 
Buonsanti received in 2006 her Master's degree in chemistry from the University of Bari, Italy, with a thesis supervised by Pantaleo Davide Cozzoli and Angela Agostiano. She then joined the research group of Pantaleo Davide Cozzoli at University of Salento, Italy, and graduated in 2010 with a PhD in nanoscience. In 2010, she moved as a postdoctoral researcher to the Molecular Foundry of the Materials Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she became project scientist in 2012. In 2013, she gained a position as tenure-track staff scientist at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was appointed as a tenure-track assistant Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2015 and has since lead the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy located at EPFL's Valais campus in Sion, Switzerland. She was promoted to associate professor in 2022 and is an Editor of ACS Catalysis since 2021.

Research 
Buonsanti’s research focuses on the interface of materials sciences and catalysis. Her interdisciplinary approach encompasses chemistry, material chemistry and chemical engineering, and aims at rendering energy technologies more sustainable. She is interested in the synthesis of novel colloidal nanocrystals that can be used as controlled and adaptable electrocatalysts for the value-added conversion of small molecule. In particular, Buonsanti's research group is keen to gain an understanding of the mechanisms of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction.

Distinctions 
2024	ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award
2024	Russel Lecture (Queen’s University, Canada)
2023	Eastman Lectures in Catalysis (UC Berkeley, along with Marc Koper, William Mustain, Henry Sheldon White)
2021	Swiss Chemical Society Werner Price
2019	Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
2019	European Chemical Society Lecture Award
2019	Royal Chemical Society ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
2018	Endowed Chair from the Sandoz Family Foundation

Publication 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cWUMss8AAAAJ&hl=en

External links 
 Website of the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy
 
 Raffaella Buonsanti's profile on Scopus

References 

Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
University of Bari alumni
Living people
Italian materials scientists
1981 births
Italian women scientists
Sea to Sky. Sea to Sky may refer to:

 Sea-to-Sky Highway, a highway in Western Canada, the portion of highway 99 from Horseshoe Bay to Pemberton
 Sea-to-Sky Corridor, the region around the Sea-to-Sky Highway which includes Whistler
 Sea to Sky University, a university in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, opened in 2007
 Sea to Sky Transit, a division of Pacific Western Transportation, which operates service in Whistler and the Pemberton Valley area of British Columbia, Canada 
 Sea to Sky School District, a school district covering Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton in British Columbia, Canada
 Sea to Sky (sculpture), public art at the Washington State Capitol, Olympia, Washington