omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Andy Long (academic). Professor Andy Long FREng  is the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University, the fifth person to hold this role in the institution’s history.

Prior to becoming Vice-Chancellor, he was a member of staff at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Previously he was Dean and then Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Engineering from 2011 to 2018.

Research areas and career 
Professor Long’s research interests are on the design and manufacture of polymer composites for demanding applications particularly in the aerospace, automotive and energy sectors.  

Professor Long was also Chair of the Executive Management Group for Midlands Innovation a partnership between Central England universities  
He has over 350 publications including around 130 refereed journal papers, co-authored/edited three textbooks on polymer composites, supervised over 30 successful PhD students, and been principal investigator for research grants totalling around £33million.

Awards 
 In 2006, Professor Long was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoMMM) Rosenhain Medal in recognition of distinguished achievement in materials science.  
 In 2020, he was awarded the IoMMM Leslie Holliday Prize for significant contribution to the field of composite materials. 
 In 2019, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2014 he was inducted as a SAMPE Fellow  for significant contributions in materials and process engineering technology.

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Jisr Isdud. Jisr Isdud or Isdud Bridge, also known as the Ad Halom Bridge, was a 13th century Mamluk bridge built over the Lakhish River (Wadi Sukrir/Wadi Fakhira). It is located approximately 1.5 km north of the Ad Halom junction. The bridge is similar in style and history to the nearby Jisr Jindas and Yibna Bridge.

The bridge is used today by pedestrians and cyclists.

Description
It is made of dressed kurkar stones, with three lancet arches. According to the Archaeological Survey of Israel, the south arch "reveals earlier masonry work, perhaps from the Mamluk period, if not earlier. Flooding in the wadi exposed remains of ancient buildings, built of dressed kurkar stones, near the NW section of the bridge."

History
The bridge was a tactical location in the 1917 Battle of Mughar Ridge. It was blown up in 1946 by the Haganah in the Night of the Bridges, and again in 1948 by the Golani Brigade in early stages of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. 

It was subsequently reconstructed and upgraded, and carried heavy traffic for many years. In 2010 it was upgraded with archaeological support led by preservation architect Saadia Mendel. The concrete middle arch was dismantled and rebuilt using Mamluk-era techniques.

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Bridges in Israel
Buildings and structures in Ashdod
Mamluk architecture in Israel
Bridges completed in the 13th century
Milford Hydro. Milford Hydro is the name given to a hydro-electric power plant built on the River Derwent in Milford, Derbyshire.

The original electrical power plant was installed between 1907 and 1908 by John McDonald and Company of the Bridge Turbine Works, Pollockshaws to power the English Sewing Cotton Company works at Milford Mills. The previous water wheels were replaced by two turbines described as centre discharge horizontal Achilles of the American pattern which each generated 340 h.p. They operated off a  fall of water and were of double wheel type with a diameter of . Each turbine discharged  of water per minute. The first turbine provided power for the operation of mill machinery, and the second turbine was used for lighting. The total cost of the works was £5,500 ().

The power plant was refurbished by Derwent Hydro in 2020 with a new turbine of the same capacity as the old one.

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Hydroelectric power stations in England
River Derwent, Derbyshire
Riachuelo-class submarine. The Riachuelo class are a Brazilian class of diesel-electric and nuclear-powered attack submarines developed by the state-owned shipyard Itaguaí Construções Navais, based on the French  as part of the Submarine Development Program.

History
In 2008, the Presidents of Brazil and France, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Nicolas Sarkozy, signed a strategic partnership to the construction of four conventionally-powered submarines, and the support for the development of the first Brazilian nuclear submarine, in a program called PROSUB.

The project was initiated in 2010 with the Madeira Island base in Rio de Janeiro as the submarine development and manufacturing point. Between 2010 and 2012, a group of 31 engineers, 25 officers and 6 civil employees, received theoretical training by the DCNS in Cherbourg, France. In 2018, more than 400 Brazilian engineers worked only on the nuclear submarine project staff, originally formed by the group that received training in France. The first stage of construction of the conventionally-powered Riachuelo took place in France, with the cutting of the first steel plates of the structure. At this point, technology transfer from French technicians to Brazilians began.

The conventional Brazilian boats are larger in length, tonnage and cargo capacity compared to the French Scorpène class they are derived from. The Brazilian version are  and 1,900 tons, compared to the original Scorpènes that are  and 1,565 tons.

Nuclear submarine
As part of the program, a fifth submarine, named Álvaro Alberto, will be powered by nuclear propulsion. This unit has many similarities to its diesel powered predecessors of the Riachuelo class. The first Brazilian nuclear submarine will have a beam of  to accommodate the pressurized water nuclear reactor (PWR). Its  length and 6,000-ton displacement will be propelled by a  fully-electric propulsion system. 

The advantages of an SSN over a conventionally powered SSK are much longer endurance (a nuclear submarine can stay submerged for months and does not need refueling), and higher speed. Furthermore, nuclear propulsion does not cause carbon dioxide emissions and once the vessel is completed no fuel imports are needed. Brazil – while not a major producer of uranium – has large resources of thorium which could in the future provide a domestic source of energy. The use of thorium in a pressurized water reactor – in fact one derived from a naval reactor – has been successfully demonstrated at shippingport nuclear power plant in the 1970s.

Boats
The names of the conventional boats were selected to represent key Imperial Brazilian Navy's military operations during the Paraguayan War and the Platine War, and former Admiral Alfredo Karam. The nuclear boat honors the former Vice Admiral and scientist Álvaro Alberto da Motta e Silva.

See also

 History of submarines
 Brazilian Submarine Force Command
 Future of the Brazilian Armed Forces
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Attack submarines
 
Scorpène-class submarines
Submarine classes
Proposed ships
Ships built in Brazil
Stephen Heister. Stephen Douglas Heister is an American aerospace engineer.

Heister earned his bachelor's and master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He then completed a doctorate in the subject at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1988. Heister subsequently held the Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professorship for Engineering and Technology Integration at Purdue University.

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20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
Purdue University faculty
University of Michigan alumni
American aerospace engineers
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Flying Tiger 7.5. The Flying Tiger 7.5 is a Chinese trailerable sailboat that was designed by American naval architect Robert Perry as a one design racer. It was first built in 2009.

Production
The design has been built by Hansheng Yachtbuilding in Xiamen, China, since 2009 and remains in production.

Design
The Flying Tiger 7.5 is a scaled-down version of Perry's Flying Tiger 10M design, with more of a design emphasis on family sailing, as the 10 M requires a heavy crew to sail. The 7.5 hull uses aft chines to add stability and make planing easier. The rig was developed with input from sailmaker Bob Pattison of Neil Pryde Sails and the spars were designed by CST Spars of Sydney, Australia. Like the 10 M, this design received a lot of feedback and suggestions via internet forums.

The design is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of E-glass resin infusion process. It has a fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, two sets of 28 degree swept spreaders that eliminate the need for a backstay and carbon fiber spars. The hull has a plumb stem with a retractable bowsprit, a slightly reverse transom, a removable transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a lifting keel with bulb weight. The keel is made from fiberglass and carbon biber over a foam core. The rudder is made from carbon fiber and E-glass. The boat displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the keel extended. With it retracted, the boat can be operated in shallow water or ground transported on a trailer.

The boat is normally fitted with a small transom-mounted outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The design has an unfinished interior, but does have two settee berths for sleeping accommodation.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker flown from the bowsprit.

The design has a PHRF handicap of 84 to 93.

See also
List of sailing boat types

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Keelboats
2000s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
One-design sailing classes
Sailboat type designs by Robert Perry
Sailboat types built by Hansheng Yachtbuilding
Decabromodiphenyl ethane. Decabromodiphenyl ethane is a chemical compound used as a brominated flame retardant. It was commercialised in the 1990s as an alternative for decabromodiphenyl ether, following safety concern over that compound. The two molecules are chemically very similar, which gives them a similar application profile. Decabromodiphenyl ethane is now also coming under regulatory pressure.

Uses
Decabromodiphenylethane is used as a flame retardant in a wide variety of materials including high-impact polystyrene (HIPS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polyolefins and elastomers. Antimony trioxide is often included as a synergist. Its use in epoxy resins (used for circuit boards), HIPS and ABS (casings), wire and cable means that it is common in electronic devices. The amount manufactured in China between 2006 and 2016 was 230,000 tons, of which 39,000 tons were exported from China in electrical appliances. Under the REACH Regulation, it is registered for the manufacture in and/or the import to the European Economic Area in the tonnage band between 10 000 and 100 000 tonnes per year. In e-waste, an average concentration of 340±200 ppm was found in a study conducted in 2011, confirming the widespread occurrence of the chemical in electronic equipment.

Environmental occurrence
Decabromodiphenylethane was first detected in the environment in 2004. It has been found in biota, air, sediments, sewage sludge, and house dust.

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Flame retardants
Organobromides
1,2-Ethanediyl compounds
William J. van Ooij. William J. van Ooij is a retired University of Cincinnati professor known for elucidating the mechanisms of brass-rubber adhesion in tires, and as the founder of corrosion resistant coatings company Ecosil Technologies

Education 

van Ooij completed his graduate education at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, earning his MS in chemical engineering in 1964 and his PhD in physical chemistry in 1971. He held a two-year post-doctoral position at Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University.

Career 

He returned to The Netherlands to work as a senior research chemist for Akzo Research Laboratories (now Akzo Nobel). \ After 12 years in this role, van Ooij returned to the United States first as a visiting professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and later at the Colorado School of Mines as a professor of chemistry. He then was employed for 4 years at Armco Research & Technologies (now AK Steel) as head of the Corrosion Group. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering faculty in University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering in 1993. During his career, he published approximately 350 scientific and technical publications, and he obtained 30 U.S. and 38 European patents.

in 1987, van Ooij was a founding editor of the scientific journal Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology.

He was the Chief Technology Officer for Ecosil Technologies, a startup founded with Max Sorenson and David Fairbourn that has become a leader in the application of silane surface treatments for corrosion protection of metals. His inventions enabled the replacement of chromate and phosphate systems in metallic surface treatment lines, and were recognized by the US EPA for their significant impact on eliminating toxic and cancer-causing processes.

Awards

 2009 - Established Entrepreneur award from University of Cincinnati
 2010 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from Rubber Division of the ACS
 2010 - Ohio Patent Award from the Ohio Academy of Science

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Polymer scientists and engineers
Living people
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Tire industry people
Mini JOD. The Mini JOD is a French trailerable sailboat that was designed by Daniel Andrieu as a one design racer and first built in 1994.

The boat is a scaled down development of the Andrieu 1991 JOD 35 (Jeanneau One Design 35).

Production
The design was built by Jeanneau in France, starting in 1994, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Mini JOD is a very small and light racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, with two sets of unswept spreaders and aluminum spars with continuous stainless steel wire rigging and a roller furling jib. There is a retractable aluminum bowsprit. The hull has a nearly plumb stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a lifting keel with a weighted bulb. It displaces  and has a maximum crew weight of  allowing crewing by one adult and one child.

The boat has a draft of  with the keel extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of , flown from the retractable bowsprit.

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
One-design sailing classes
Sailboat type designs by Daniel Andrieu
Sailboat types built by Jeanneau
Hornucopian dronepipe. The hornucopian dronepipe is a 3D printed wind instrument. It was developed by Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg of MONAD Studio together with musician and luthier Scott F. Hall.

Background 
MONAD Studio was created by Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg in 2002. They are an architectural company. In April 2015, MONAD unveiled their "Multi" project, which they describe as a "Sonic Art Wall Installation". Originally consisting of a cello, violin and bass guitar, the instruments in the series are all fully 3D printed. The hornucopian dronepipe is the fourth item in the project and was also released in 2015. A fifth instrument exists, which is a didgeridoo.

Design 
The hornucopian dronepipe's design was inspired by pythons and strangler fig trees (species that are native to MONAD's home state Florida) as well as the didgeridoo. It was prototyped in wood and then modeled digitally. The design process took under a year.

The hornucopian dronepipe is printed in black colored polylactic acid; the printing process takes ten days. The instrument encircles its player with numerous tubes; MONAD used measurements of Scott F. Hall's body to ensure a good fit.

Sound 

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The instrument produces a continuous drone when played. Being a large instrument, the hornucopian dronepipe produces low tones. Its sound has been likened to that of a didgeridoo or a low horn. According to CNET, the hornucopian dronepipe "is simultaneously somber and stately" while being "a little on the eerie side".

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 MONAD Studio's website
 Scott F. Hall

3D printed objects
Brass instruments
Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering. The Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by Semnan University and the editor-in-chief is Ali Kheyroddin (Semnan University). The journal covers all aspects of rehabilitation engineering. It was established in 2012 and is indexed and abstracted in Scopus.

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Academic journals established in 2012
Civil engineering journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Nancy Arana-Daniel. Nancy Guadalupe Arana–Daniel is a Mexican computer scientist specializing in machine learning approaches including support vector machines and artificial neural networks applied to robot motion planning, computer vision and related problems. Her research has included the development of methods for robots working in disaster response to distinguish human victims from rubble.

Education and career
Arana-Daniel studied computer science at CINVESTAV in Guadalajara, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2007.
She is a professor and researcher in the Department of Computational Sciences at the University of Guadalajara.

Recognition
Arana-Daniel is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

Books
Arana-Daniel is the coauthor of books including:
Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering (with Alma Y. Alanís and Carlos López-Franco, Elsevier, 2018)
Neural Networks for Robotics: An Engineering Perspective (with Alma Y. Alanís and Carlos López-Franco, CRC Press, 2019)
Neural Networks Modeling and Control: Applications for Unknown Nonlinear Delayed Systems in Discrete Time (with Jorge D. Ríos, Alma Y. Alanís, and Carlos López-Franco, Academic Press, 2020)

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Mexican computer scientists
Mexican women computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Guadalajara
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
Zhang Jinlin. Zhang Jinlin (; 16 October 1936 – 9 January 2023) was a Chinese engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Zhang was born in Luan County (now Luanzhou), Hebei, on 16 October 1936. In 1955, he was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology, where he majored in turbine.

After graduated from university in 1960, Zhang became an engineer at the No. 9 Research Office of the Naval Scientific Research Department. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1974. In 1971, he was transferred to the 719 Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, where was promoted to deputy director in 1983 and to director in 1992. In 1996, he was appointed as the chief designer of China's nuclear submarine project.

Zhang is the third chief designer of China's nuclear submarine project (the first chief designer is Peng Shilu, and the second one is Huang Xuhua), and he made great contributions to develop and build the Type 094 ballistic missile submarine. Zhang once said that he was deeply influenced by Peng Shilu.

On 9 January 2023, Zhang died in Wuhan, Hubei, at the age of 86.

Honours and awards
 1989 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 1996 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special)
 December 2007 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 2016 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)

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1936 births
2023 deaths
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
People from Luanzhou
Engineers from Hebei
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program. Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), launched in 2015, is Sweden’s largest individual research program.

The total funding is 6,2 billion SEK, whereof 4,9 billion SEK is donated by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Since January 2020, Sara Mazur is the chair of the program, and program director is Anders Ynnerman.

Research 
The aim of the program is academic basic research in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and software. The goal is recruitment of 80 leading researchers and examination of 600 PhD students

Collaboration partners 
WASP has five partner universities: Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University, Lund University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Umeå University. In addition, there are affiliated research groups at Örebro University, Uppsala University and Luleå University of Technology that are also included.

Collaboration with Swedish industry is crucial, and, at present (January 2023) 60 companies are engaged in the program.

References

External links 

 Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program:
 WASP-HS The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society
 WASP-ED The Wallenberg AI and Transformative Technologies Education Development Program.

Companies related to the Wallenberg family
Research
Artificial intelligence associations
Research projects
Linköping University
Fort Munro Steel Bridge. Fort Munro Steel Bridge (Ur:فورٹ منرو فولادی پل) also known as Rakhi Gaaj Project is a road bridge, located in the Punjab region of Pakistan, on the route to Fort Munro. It is the 2nd largest steel bridge in Asia. It was engineered in collaboration with Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Steel Bridge is the part of 32 kilometre portion of N-70 starting from Bahawalpur Chowk in Multan to Kila Saifullah in Balochistan.

Construction 
Eight steel bridges are inter-connected with each other to make a single bridge that is spread over 1.5 kilometres in Rakhi Gaaj. The project made the hilly portion of the road wide for Gwadar-bound cargo traffic with the installation of eight steel bridges, connecting south Punjab to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor via N-70.

History 
The project was first announced by National Highway Authority of Pakistan along with Japan International Cooperation Agency in 2016. It was constructed to provide safe and wide road for the cargo trucks and connecting South Punjab to China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe inaugurated the steel bridge in April 2020.

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Steel bridges
Steel bridges in Pakistan

Bridges in Punjab, Pakistan