omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Green Frog Hybrid Buses. Green Frog Zero Emissions Transport Corp., also known as Green Frog Transport Corp. or simply Green Frog, is an intercity bus company in the Philippines that introduced the first hybrid buses in the country.

History

Company founder Philip Apostol and associates conceived the idea of Green Frog in March 2012 with the aim of safe, comfortable, reliable, environment friendly and sustainable public transportation.

Green Frog rolled out the pilot project on May 15, 2013 with 2 hybrid buses plying the route of Gil Puyat Station in Pasay to C-5/Buting via Buendia and Kalayaan in Makati and vice versa. On November 14, 2014, the route extension to SM Mall of Asia in Pasay was approved by the LTFRB. Then in March 2021, LTFRB approved the route extension to PITX in order to serve the commuters from the provinces of Cavite, Batangas and Laguna. From PITX, these commuters will only have one seamless, comfortable, environment friend ride to the CBDs of Pasay, Makati and BGC.

Fleet

In 2013, Green Frog was the first city bus company in the Philippines to operate two-door, low floor Euro 4 compliant hybrid buses equipped with GPS tracking system, CCTVs for security, and the Tap Card payment system. Now, the DOTR has mandated that all city buses look and are equipped just like Green Frog.

Units
Zhongtong Bus
LCK6101HEV “Fashion Hybrid”

Sunlong Bus
SLK6129

Operation

Green Frog buses currently traverse the three Central Business Districts of Pasay, Makati and Taguig (BGC) beginning from the Pasay Central Business District through Makati Central Business District and to Kalayaan along the Bonifacio Global City area and back. By 2025, the company plans on expanding the route further to Kalayaan Ave. Terminal as to serve the passengers of the Metro Manila Subway Line 9.

PITX
Ayala Malls Manila Bay
Bradco Avenue (DFA)
SM Mall of Asia
Seaside Boulevard
Harrison Avenue
Leveriza Street
Taft Avenue
Tramo Street
Bautista Street
Filmore Street
Osmeña Highway
Pasong Tamo
Ayala Avenue (Makati Medical Center)
Ayala Avenue (RCBC Plaza)
Reposo Street
Makati Avenue
Paseo de Roxas
EDSA (before Kalayaan Flyover, in front of Urdaneta Village (East Gate)
Palawan Street
Sgt. Fabian Yabut Circle
Commercio Street
11th Avenue (Uptown Mall)
C-5–Kalayaan Interchange

The buses cater to the needs of passengers traveling to and from Bay City, Makati Central Business District and Bonifacio Global City.

See also
 List of bus companies of the Philippines

References

Bus companies of the Philippines
Companies based in Makati
Bus transportation in Metro Manila
Richard D. Veltri. Richard D. Veltri (November 12, 1936 – January 4, 2015) was an American educator and politician.

Born in Huntington, New York, Veltri received his bachelor's and master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his doctorate degree in mechanical engineering from University of Connecticut. He then worked for United Technologies Research Center. He served on the East Hartford, Connecticut Town Board and was a Republican. Veltri served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1994 to 1998.

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1935 births
2015 deaths
People from East Hartford, Connecticut
People from Huntington, New York
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
University of Connecticut alumni
American mechanical engineers
Republican Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Engineers from New York (state)
20th-century members of the Connecticut General Assembly
Ambient air quality criteria. Ambient air quality criteria, or standards, are concentrations of pollutants in the air, and typically refer to outdoor air. The criteria are specified for a variety of reasons including for the protection of human health, buildings, crops, vegetation, ecosystems, as well as for planning and other purposes. There is no internationally accepted definition but usually "standards" have some legal or enforcement aspect, whereas "guidelines" may not be backed by laws.  "Criteria/criterion" can be used as a generic term to cover standards and guidelines.

Various organisations have proposed criteria e.g. WHO, EU, US EPA. These criteria are often similar – but not always, even if they are proposed for the same purpose (e.g. the protection of human health).

Specifying the criteria 
It is important for any numerical standard that averaging period, unit, and statistical measure are given (e.g. the 98th percentile of hourly means measured over a calendar year in micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m3)). Without these there is no common ground for a given criterion, making it confusing or even meaningless.  Criteria can be set in different units (e.g. μg/m3, parts per billion by volume (ppbv), parts per billion by mass (ppb (mass)), parts per million (ppm)) and it is possible to convert between all of these units if the molecular mass of the pollutant and the temperature are known. Different standard temperatures are used throughout the world and so it is important to state the temperature of conversion (if relevant). Most pollutants have ambient criteria in the parts per billion (ppb) or μg/m3 range. Some have smaller units (e.g. dioxins are often in picograms/m3); others have larger units (e.g. carbon monoxide (CO) in mg/m3). Particle pollution (e.g. PM10, PM1.0) is specified in units of mass (e.g. μg/m3) and not in units of volume (ppmv).

In the EU, the pollutants and their criteria are specified in Directive 2008/50/EC.

The criteria 
Below is a list of available air quality criteria around the world. There is a lot of cross referencing between organizations (e.g. the International Finance Corp (IFC)) that have their own criteria but ultimately, many criteria are based on those specified by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is important when complying with ambient air quality criteria to check the direct reference as well. Not all related caveats/controlling parameters of a criterion can be put in the table, and therefore those specified below are mostly those that most monitoring agencies specify. These agencies also list whether criteria must be monitored in a specific way to fit with compliance measures.

Footnotes 
[1] Annual arithmetic mean of a minimum of 104 measurements in a year at a particular site, such as taken twice weekly as uniform 24-hour samples.

[2] 24/8/1 hourly monitored values, as applicable, shall be complied with 98% of the time, they may exceed the limits but not on two consecutive days of monitoring.

See also 

 National Ambient Air Quality Objectives for Canada

References

Pollution in the United States
Air pollution
Active Network Management. In electricity distribution circuits, Active Network Management (ANM) describes control systems that manage generation and load for specific purposes. This is usually done to keep system parameters (voltage, power, phase balance, reactive power and frequency) within predetermined limits. ANM generally refers to automated systems.

Details
Real-time or near-real-time measurements are used with a model of the system to determine the control signals that need to be sent to users and generators. These will be requests to adjust power or other parameters. Other equipment can also be included in an ANM system that balances phases, pushes or pulls reactive power or switches circuits to achieve the desired results. The results of the requested changes are monitored and fed back into the data model.

Predictive and forecasting methods may be used to prepare the network for anticipated conditions. This may include delaying load from being connected if an increase in power generation (say from wind turbines, solar power, or tidal generators) is expected in the near future. It may also include bringing on load ahead of schedule (say water pumping or energy storage) ahead of anticipated uncontrollable load—especially domestic or industrial use.

Some systems may include an element of human intervention. This is particularly important for large and complex systems where an accurate, predictive model is impossible to produce. Anticipating human behavior is best done by humans rather than by machines and national grid companies ultimately rely on a team of experienced experts to balance the system.

One purpose of an ANM system can be to allow additional generating capacity to be attached to the existing electrical grid whilst allowing the generators to be shut off if the capacity of the infrastructure might be overloaded under certain conditions; while permitting the generators to be used more effectively if the grid is later "reinforced".

Examples
 The ANM system on the Orkney is claimed have been the first such system in the British Isles in 2009.

References

Notes

Footnotes

Sources

Further reading

See also
 Voltage control and reactive power management
 Smart grids

Electrical circuits
Smart grid
BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas. BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas () is a Portuguese aircraft manufacturer based in Pêro Pinheiro, Sintra. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft for the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.

The company is noted as one of very few light aircraft manufacturers located in Portugal, a country not known for aircraft production.

BRM's aircraft are built with aluminium sheet "all-metal" construction. The company's first light two-seat STOL design was the BRM Okavango, which was superseded by the BRM Land Africa. The BRM Citius is an improved model, with a higher cruise speed. The company also produces a low-wing design, the two-seat BRM Argos.

Chris Heintz, the designer of the Zenith STOL CH 701 considers the Land Africa an unauthorized copy of the CH 701.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Portugal
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Portuguese brands
De Gennes Prize. The De Gennes Prize (formerly known as the Prize for Materials Chemistry) was established in 2008 and is awarded biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materials chemistry. The de Gennes Prize honours the work of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

The recipient of the de Gennes Prize receives £5000, a medal and certificate and completes a UK lecture tour.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was born in Paris, France, in 1932. After graduating in 1955 from Ecole Normale, de Gennes was a research engineer at the Atomic Energy Centre (Saclay). After a brief time at University of California, Berkeley and 27 months in the French Navy, de Gennes became assistant professor at the University of Paris in Orsay. During his time at Orsay de Gennes worked on superconductors and liquid crystals.

In 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for studying the boundary lines between order and disorder in materials like liquid crystals.

After receiving the Nobel Prize, de Gennes visited roughly 200 high schools over a two-year period, from 1992 to 1994, in which he delivered talks on science, innovation and common sense to the students. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes died at the age of 74, on 18 May 2007.

Winners 
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2023: Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, University of California Santa Barbara.

See also

 List of chemistry awards

References

Awards of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2008 establishments in England
Chemistry awards
Xiaodong Wang (electrical engineer). Xiaodong Wang () is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and information theorist. He currently serves as a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He earned a BS degree in electrical engineering and applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiaotong University, an MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, and a PhD from Princeton University in electrical engineering. He formerly served as assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University before he joined Columbia as an assistant professor in January 2002.

He is an IEEE Fellow and an ISI Highly Cited author. He has won numerous prestigious awards, among them the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1999 and the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2001. He also won the 2011 IEEE Communication Society Award for Outstanding Paper on New Communication Topics. He has been an editor of journals such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He served as Associate Editor for Detection and Estimation on the publications committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2003 to 2006. He has presented at the Wireless and Optical Communications Conference.

Wang has many research interests, but chooses to focus on the areas of information theory, signal processing, and communications. Furthermore, he has influential published research in the areas of wireless communications, statistical signal processing, parallel and distributed computing, nanoelectronics, and quantum computing. In 2003 he published a book entitled Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception, published by Prentice Hall. Recently he is also working on the emerging field of genomics signal processing and information theoretic genomics.

References

External links
Publication list

Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Columbia University faculty
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Living people
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Purdue University College of Engineering alumni
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Upverter. Upverter is an electronic circuit design system delivered in a web browser, which enables hardware engineers to design, share, and review schematics and printed circuit boards. It additionally features the ability to generate a bill of materials, Gerber files, and a 3D rendering. Upverter provides web-based tools for editing schematic diagrams and for laying out printed-circuit boards. It does not require payment for open-source projects.

History 
The company was incubated through Y Combinator's startup program in 2011. In September 2013, SparkFun Electronics released their open source design library on the platform.

In March 2014, the company announced it had raised $2.3 million in seed funding. As of August 2014, the company claimed to have over 20,000 registered users.

Upverter and Altium 
In August 2017, Upverter was acquired by Altium, and was offered as a free-to-use product. Altium announced on May 14, 2018 that CircuitMaker, Altium's free maker-oriented design tool and associated web content, would become part of the Upverter product, with CircuitMaker forming the desktop client for offline editing, and Upverter.com forming both the browser based design editor along with content community and library. However, in a blog post on May 11, 2019, Altium COO Ted Pawela stated that the plans had evolved, and the products would remain separate, with interoperability features for the design files.

Features
Upverter is an integrated tool for schematic capture, PCB layout, as well as version control, issue management, and design review. It supports import from Eagle, Altium Designer and OrCAD file formats.  The tool also includes collaboration features, and a comprehensive parts library.  Since August 2015 the platform also includes a component verification service.

Awards
The company was recognized as Canada's Top 10 Up-and-Coming technology company by PwC in November 2014, and Top 20 Hottest Innovative Company by the Canadian Innovation Exchange in 2013.

Upverter was also selected as the 2013 PCB Design Tools Winner by DesignVision.

See also

 Comparison of EDA software
 List of free electronics circuit simulators

References 

Online companies of the United States
Electronic design automation software
Y Combinator companies
John Wawrzynek. John Wawrzynek is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a joint appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is the Chief Faculty Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He is currently a principal researcher in multiple large research centers at UC Berkeley including Algorithms and Specializers for Provably Optimal Implementations with Resilience and Efficiency (ASPIRE), the  Parallel Computing Laboratory (ParLab), and the TerraSwarm Research Center.

References

External links
 John Wawrzynek's Berkeley EECS webpage

American computer scientists
California Institute of Technology alumni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
Living people
University at Buffalo alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Metal–insulator–metal. Metal–insulator–metal (MIM) diode is a type of nonlinear device very similar to a semiconductor diode and capable of very fast operation. Depending on the geometry and the material used for fabrication, the operation mechanisms are governed either by quantum tunnelling or thermal activation.

In 1948, Torrey et al. stated that "It should be possible to make metal–insulator–metal rectifiers with much smaller spreading resistances than metal–semiconductor rectifiers have, consequently giving greater rectification efficiency at high frequencies." But due to fabrication difficulties, two decades passed before the first device could be successfully created. Some of the first MIM diodes to be fabricated came from Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early 1970s Brinkman et al. demonstrated the first zero-bias MIM tunneling diode with significant responsivity. When they are using tunneling transport, the MIM diode can be very fast. As soon as 1974, this diode was reportedly used as a mixer at 88 THz in a setup of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Thanks to recent researches the zero-bias responsivity of the MIM diode (15 A/W) is now very close to the one of Schottky diode (19.4 A/W).

Today MIM diode is the cornerstone of the ongoing nantenna developments. They are also used as thin-film diode by the flat-panel display manufacturers.

In contrast to MIM diodes, metal–insulator–insulator–metal (MIIM) diodes have two insulator layers.

See also

 Nantenna
 Resonant tunnelling diode
 Scanning tunneling microscope
 Superconductor–insulator–superconductor (SIS)
 Thin-film diode
 Tunnel diode
 Tunnel junction

References

External links
 New diode features optically controlled capacitance
 Optical control of capacitance in a metal-insulator-semiconductor diode with embedded metal nanoparticles

Diodes
Plasmonics
Bitrig. Bitrig was an OpenBSD-based operating system targeted exclusively at the amd64 and armv7 platforms.

It is no longer being developed, and some of the work that it had done was merged back into OpenBSD. Some of its achievements included porting FUSE/puffs support, libc++ to the platform to replace libstdc++, PIE support for AMD64 and NDB kernel support.

Bitrig focused on using modern tools such as Git and LLVM/Clang along with only focusing on modern platforms.

It aimed to have a "commercially friendly code base", with texinfo being the only GNU tool in the base system. GPT partitioning was supported by Bitrig, and future plans included support for virtualisation and EFI.

References

OpenBSD
Software using the ISC license
Daniel P. Beard. Daniel P. Beard  served as the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and as the fourth Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives.

Beard is the author of Deadbeat Dams: Why We Should Abolish the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Tear Down Glen Canyon Dam which outlines how tax dollars are being used and misused and why we are ignoring some immediate critical water problems. Deadbeat Dams advocates a unique set of policy reforms which Beard claims could save taxpayers billions of dollars and end the waste of water in a time of critical water shortages.

Career

Beard began his career with the Library of Congress in 1970 where he worked for the Congressional Research Service, and he served as an assistant director on President Jimmy Carter’s Domestic Policy Staff now known as the Domestic Policy Council in the White House (1977).

He also served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of the Interior during the Carter Administration and served as Chief of Staff for Montana Senator Max Baucus (1982-1984).

From 1985 to 1993, he worked for the United States House Committee on Natural Resources where he was the Staff Director for the Water and Power Subcommittee before becoming Staff Director of the full committee in 1991.

Beard was appointed to the position of Commissioner, United States Bureau of Reclamation by President Bill Clinton in 1993.  He served in that position until September 1995.

He was elected to the position of Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives in February 2007 and remained in that position until resigning in July 2010.  While in that position, he assisted in development and implementation of the Green the Capitol Program, an initiative to make the United States Capitol a more environmentally sustainable workplace, the mission to make the millions of square feet of Capitol infrastructure a model of sustainability.

Beard serves on the board of trustees of the American Forest Foundation.

Recently Beard has called upon the new Trump administration to eliminate The Bureau of Reclamation.

Education
A native of Bellingham, Washington, Dr. Beard earned a B.A. from Western Washington University and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

He and his wife of over fifty years have three adult children, as well as two grandchildren. They have resided in Columbia, Maryland since 1974.

External links

References

1943 births
Writers from Washington (state)
Living people
Politicians from Bellingham, Washington
Western Washington University alumni
University of Washington alumni
21st-century United States government officials
Iron roughneck. An iron roughneck is a piece of hydraulic machinery used to "handle" (connect and disconnect) segments of pipe in a modern drilling rig. The segments can be manipulated as they are hoisted into and out of a borehole. This type of work was previously performed manually by workers using tongs, and was one of the most dangerous jobs in a drilling operation. However, with iron roughnecks and modern technology, much of this can be done remotely with minimal manual handling.

Automated roughnecks became common in deep-water drilling and were later adopted by onshore rigs.

References

Oilfield terminology