omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Francesca Verones. Francesca Verones (born 30 May 1984 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Italian environmental engineer and Professor at the Industrial ecology programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her areas of research are life cycle analysis, life cycle impact assessment and biodiversity analysis, and she is especially interested in aquatic and marine areas.

Rewards 
In 2013 Verones was granted the Otto Jaag Gewässerschutzpreis (Otto Jaag's water protection prize) for an outstanding thesis on water protection/hydrologi from ETH Zurich for the PhD thesis  Methodologies for the evaluation of water use related impacts on biodiversity within Life Cycle Assessment.

In 2019 she received the Laudise medal from the International Society for Industrial Ecology, for outstanding efforts in industrial ecology by a researcher under 36 years. In the nomination, Verones was described as "a brilliant young scholar who is pioneering the assessment of biodiversity effects in Life Cycle Assessment."

Francesca Verones received an ERC Starting Grant in 2019 for the project: ATLANTIS – Whales, waste and sea walnuts: incorporating human impacts on the marine ecosystem within the life cycle impact assessment.

References

External links 

Verones' profile page, NTNU

Living people
1984 births
Swiss engineers
ETH Zurich alumni
Scientists from Bern
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21st-century Swiss engineers
LAK-14. The LAK-14 Strazdas () was a 1980s primary glider designed and built by the Lithuanian Aircraft Construction factory. Like other LAK designs it developed the aeronautical use of glass fibre, foams and other novel materials. It was in production from 1981 to 1985.

Design and development

The LAK-14 was designed at LAK by Antanas Paknis, one of the organization's original design team. It was intended to succeed the Oskinis BRO-11M, also known as the LAK-2. It was therefore in competition with the Oškinis BRO-23KR Garnys. It first flew in 1981.

The two Oškinis designs were simple, open frame fuselage primary gliders in the SG 38 Schulgleiter tradition. In contrast the Strazdas had an externally more conventional fuselage, though its construction was more advanced. One of LAK's founding goals was to develop the aeronautical use of plastics and composites, so the forward fuselage of the Strazdas, apart from a wooden nose fairing which held the launch towing hook, was built from three-ply glass fibre with foam filling. The pilot sat in a long, open cockpit with the seat back against a pedestal that supported the wing. This pedestal was part of the enclosed, round-sectioned rear fuselage structure which also included an integral fin. The tailplane, mounted high on the fuselage, had foam ribs and two-ply glass cloth skin.

The two part, rectangular plan wing of the Strazdas was mounted high on its pedestal with 5° of dihedral. It was built around  single spars, each braced to the lower fuselage with a single strut. Early development aircraft had wooden spars and ribs with glass cloth covering. Slotted, broad chord ailerons filled the whole trailing edge.

Operational history

Production began early in 1981. The first production aircraft had wooden spars but this was later replaced by integrated glass fibre reinforced polyester resin structures. Production continued until 1985, though numbers are not known.

Specifications

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The Blobjob. The Blobjob is an educational adventure video game developed by Detonium Interactive, released by insurance company Sampo in November 1998 for Microsoft Windows.

Plot and gameplay 
The player is Joe Ridley, a security officer of the NanoBlob Corporation who needs to prevent an intruder from stealing a piece of technology that will adversely harm the world.

During the game, the player is given a device that minituarises items in their pockets, which Finnish Video Games: A History and Catalog argues is one of the only times the endless inventory space is justified in-game.

The game features a series of static screens, has live actors, and does not allow the player to save.

Critical reception 
Richard Cobbett of PC Gamer deemed it "the strangest edutainment game I've ever played". Muropaketti felt the clumsy full-motion video product would bring new appreciation to  hand drawn pixel art. Michał Czajkowski felt its desire to appeal to the lowest common denominator made it lack challenge 

The game won the Grand Prize of the Mindtrek Multimedia Competition in Tampere.

References

External links 
 The Blobjob at MobyGames
 Article in Skrolli (page 42), a Finnish computer magazine

1998 video games
Adventure games
Educational video games
Full motion video based games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Finland
Windows games
Windows-only games
Alfred Ofosu-Ahenkorah. Alfred Kwabena Ofosu-Ahenkorah is a Ghanaian energy bureaucrat who from 2005 to 2020, served as the Executive Secretary of the Energy Commission in Accra, Ghana.

Biography 
Ofosu-Ahenkorah trained as a research engineer in Ghana and the Soviet Union and is a certified energy manager. After obtaining a Master of Science in engineering, he received his doctorate in Technical Sciences with a specialty in Energy Efficiency from the Volgograd State Technical University. He received an Executive MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Ghana Business School. From 1992 to 1998, he headed the Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Fuel Substitution Unit at the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Accra. Between 1998 and 2005, he was the founding executive director of the Ghana Energy Foundation, a public-private partnership dedicated to the promotion of energy efficiency where he worked from 1998 to 2005. He has been instrumental in the roll-out of energy efficiency standards and labelling for household appliances in Ghana and other African countries. He was appointed the Executive Secretary of the Energy Commission in May 2005. In addition, he has served as the Deputy Chairperson of the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). He was the Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Power.

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The Mineralogical Record. The Mineralogical Record is a mineralogy magazine, published in the United States by The Mineralogical Record Inc., a non-profit organization, with a periodicity of six issues a year, totaling approximately 700 pages. Published in English, it carries articles on topographic mineralogy, including locations around the world, and articles on specimen-oriented mineralogy. It also publishes details of the main mineral fairs and, occasionally, articles on the history of mineralogy and on museums and mineral collections. In addition to the regular editions, it occasionally includes supplementary numbers, distributed at no additional cost to subscribers, on mineral collections from specific geographical areas. The publication of the magazine is maintained by the payment of subscriptions, advertising, publication and sale of books and through donations.

History 
The Mineralogical Record was first published in 1970, on the initiative of John S. White, a curator in the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Mineralogy, with the aim of filling the gap between scientific mineralogy journals (which began at that time to look more like solid state physics and chemistry than conventional descriptive mineralogy) and purely amateur magazines. In the first year, only four numbers were published, without color photographs, with the financial support of Arthur Montgomery. In issue 2 of 1976, Wendell E. Wilson joined as and remains as such today.

The magazine is considered among the best in the world, both for the scientific quality of its contents and for the formal aspect, which includes the quality of the photographs and their reproduction. The work of The Mineralogical Record magazine in the promotion and dissemination of mineralogy has been recognized by giving a mineral the name of minrecordite. The role of its editor, Wendel E. Wilson, has been recognized by giving another mineral the name of wendwilsonite. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Prize for Mineralogy, the only time it has been awarded to a magazine.

Axis
Axis: An Eclectic Journal of Mineralogy is a peer-reviewed online-only journal published by The Mineralogical Record since 2005. It covers a wide range of mineralogy-related topics such as the history of mineral collecting, social and cultural aspect of mineralogy and mineral-related travelogs.

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Mineralogy journals
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals
Škoda 32Tr SOR. The Škoda 32Tr SOR is a full-sized low-entry trolleybus produced in cooperation of Škoda Electric (subsidiary of Škoda Transportation) (electrical equipment and assembly) and SOR, which supplies the body based on the bus SOR NS 12.

Construction features 
The Škoda 32Tr is derived from the SOR NS 12 rigid bus. Electric motor is located in the rear of the bus. Plastic Ster seats are used inside. Rear axle is VOITH brand, the front axle is its own production with independent wheel suspension. Only rear axle is driven. Body of the vehicle is welded from steel-voltage profiles, flashings from the outside and interior are lined with plastic sheeting. The floor of the bus is at a height of  above the ground. On the right side of the bus, there are three passenger doors.

Production and operation 
Production started in 2018. In Czech cities they replaced old high-floor trolleybuses Škoda 14Tr or old low-floor trolleybuses Škoda 21Tr. Opava became the first to operate these trolleybuses.

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Buses of the Czech Republic
Buses manufactured by SOR
Škoda vehicles
Single-deck buses
Full-size buses
Low-floor buses
Low-entry buses
Trolleybuses
Jill Slay. Jill Slay  is a British-Australian engineer and computer scientist. Her work has attracted international attention and she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the information technology industry through contributions in the areas of forensic computer science, security, critical infrastructure protection, and cyberterrorism."

Career
Slay completed a B.Sc. degree with honours in mechanical engineering from the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, in 1975. After working as a professional engineer she returned to university to undergo a Doctor of Philosophy in science education, at Curtin University: Perth, WA, AU, which she completed in 2000.

Upon receiving her Ph.D. Slay began her academic career as an information security researcher at the University of South Australia. During this time she was approached by South Australia Police to assist with cases involving computer devices. After 12 years at the University of South Australia, Slay moved to Namibia where she served as the Dean of IT at the Polytechnic of Namibia (now known as Namibia University of Science and Technology). Slay returned to Australia in 2014 where she was the Founding Chair and Director of the Australian Cyber Security Centre as a professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy through the University of New South Wales in Canberra.

Honors and awards
Slay was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2011 Australia Day Honours. She is a Fellow of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium and also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. In 2015 Slay was awarded the Australian Information Security Association InfoSec Educator of the Year.

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20th-century Australian women engineers
John H. Dye. John Henry Dye (September 9, 1833 – April 8, 1906) was an American civil engineer and surveyor based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His 1869 city map, made with printer Henry J. Toudy, has been described as "a major milestone in the urban mapping of Philadelphia."

Early life 
John H. Dye was born in Kensington, Pennsylvania, the son of William Dye and Christiana Eggleston (or Egglington) Dye. He studied civil engineering with his uncle, James P. Davis.

Career 
Dye worked under the Chief Engineer of Philadelphia, Strickland Kneass, and signed as a witness on Kneass's patent application for a sewer valve in 1861.  He served as a lieutenant in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1865, he was appointed to create the Registry Bureau of the Philadelphia Survey Department, and he ran the bureau as registrar until 1896. In an 1880 letter, Dye criticized a humorous map his office had received, joining in on the joke: "I claim to be able, in a general way, to make a map; but the map of Delaware Bay which you send me, is a huckleberry above my persimmon; I may have seen worse maps, but if I did, the time has slipped my memory."

In 1885 he was elected chairman of the city's Engineers' Club. He was also on the board of directors of the Danville and Riverside Street Railway Company that year, and served on the board of directors of the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad Company. He had an office in the Girard Building in Philadelphia in 1896. 

Dye and Henry J. Toudy created a large-scale city map of Philadelphia in 1869, considered a major production in the history of the city's maps. Few copies of this map are known to survive; one is in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, one is at the Huntington Library, and one is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Personal life 
John H. Dye married twice. His first wife was Emily deCamp Dye; they had four children (Strickland, Horatio, John, and Emily) before she died in the spring of 1872. At the end of that year, he married Civil War nurse and schoolteacher Clarissa F. Dye.  John H. Dye died in 1906, aged 72, in Germantown.

Selected maps and surveys by Dye 

 Dye's 1887 survey of the Schuykill River and Shawmont Pumping Station, online at the Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network website.
 A historical map of Philadelphia city lots, by John H. Dye, based on records from 1781 and 1803, is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the society also holds an 1859 survey by Dye for a street railroad.
 An original copy of Dye's Plan of lots laid out for John Pitcairn at Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery Co., PA (1897) is in the Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn Archives, Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

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Kim K. Baldridge. Kim K. Baldridge is an American theoretical and computational chemist who works to develop quantum mechanical methodologies and apply quantum chemical methods to problems in life sciences, materials science, and general studies. She is professor and vice dean in the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology of Tianjin University in China, where she also directs the High Performance Computing Center.

Education and career
Baldridge is originally from Minot, North Dakota, and graduated from Minot State University in 1982. She earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from North Dakota State University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Wesleyan University until 1994. After becoming a scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, she became a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1995, and continued to work at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and hold an adjunct professorship at the university before becoming a professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 2004. She moved to Tianjin University in 2014, following her husband Jay S. Siegel, who became dean of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology at Tianjin in 2013.

Research
Much of Baldridge's research involves finding better ways to use quantum mechanical methodologies to study complex molecules. For example, she used quantum mechanical approaches to study reaction paths and rates, inclusion of solvent effects, and evaluation of DFT functionals with dispersion correction for studying large polynuclear aromatic molecules.

Baldridge has contributed to quantum mechanical computer programs such as GAMESS (US), QMView, and GEMSTONE. GAMESS stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic System, and is an advanced chemistry program for calculations including generalized valence bond, the Hartree-Fock method, and density functional theory.

Awards and recognition
Minot State University named Baldridge to their Academic Hall of Fame in 2013. Baldridge is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science Chemistry Fellow in 2001. She was given a 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the only winner from Asia. The award was won for her work in developing and applying quantum chemistry programs in molecular science, for pioneering women-in-science symposia, and for championing for chemical safety in China.

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Kelvin (surname). Kelvin is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
 Arthur Kelvin (born 1869), Scottish footballer 
 Ray Kelvin (born 1955), British businessman
 Rob Kelvin (born 1944), Australian newsman
 Kris Kelvin, a fictional character, the protagonist of the novel Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and in three films based on the novel

See also
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, 1824–1907), British engineer and physicist, the namesake of the kelvin temperature unit 
Kelvin (given name)
S5-class submarine. S5 is the code name for a planned class of Indian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines currently being developed for the Indian Navy. S5 will weigh around twice as much as the preceding . It is expected to start production by 2027.

Design 
The S5-class of submarines are planned to weigh around . The submarines are planned to be armed with up to twelve or sixteen K6 Submarine-launched ballistic missiles, each armed with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles.

Development 
The Government of India made an assessment of India's capability to design and construct a class of three new ballistic missile submarines codenamed S5 in 2006 when it was realised that the reactor and payload capacity of the Arihant-class submarines was limited. These submarines were initially planned to be operationalised beginning in 2021 but were later delayed. This delay had prompted the Indian Government to sanction an additional Arihant-class submarine in 2012 to avoid the idling of the production line.

As of 4 December 2022, S5-class submarine is to enter production by the year 2027.

As of September 2024, the design phase of the submarine is nearing completion and project sanction is expected soon.

See also 
 Arihant-class submarine
 Indian Navy SSN programme
 Future of the Indian Navy

References

External links 

Ballistic missile submarines
Nuclear-powered submarines
Submarines of India
Proposed ships
Baryshev AVB-7.62. AVB-7.62 is a battle rifle designed by Anatoly F. Baryshev that is derived from his weapon operating system. It is characterized by significantly reduced recoil.

Variants

AB-7.62 and AB-5.45 
The rifle shares nearly 2/3s of its common parts with the AKM and AK-74. The 5.45 version was not developed due to the futility of already low-powered 5.45 cartridges that are not needed to reduce recoil.

The weapon externally differs from the AKMS only in the absence of a gas tube (a carrying handle is installed instead) and a different stock design. Due to such small differences, their balancing is almost the same, although the folding butt is undoubtedly more convenient than AKMS's, but the difference in shooting is significant: the recoil is almost not noticeable, the barrel isn't thrown up, its point of impact is maintained, and the direction of shooting is maintained without effort. Because the 7.62 mm assault rifle cartridge is a softer shooting cartridge, the advantages of the new design become apparent to the shooter after more than one hundred rounds.
According to its tactical characteristics, the AB-1(AB-7.62) has almost no difference from the AKM, but it allows the user to perform much more accurate automatic firing at a greater distance.

Derivatives

KPB-12.7 and ARGB-85

The ARGB-85 is a 30mm automatic grenade launcher which uses standard VOG-17 grenades. 
The KPB-12.7 is based on the ARGB-85 and chambered with 12.7×108mm cartridge. It was not to be interested due to its constructive analogy with the ARGB-85.

Test results showed great recoil reduction, making it easily usable as a small arm with half of weight of the pre-existing AGS-17.

Because of Baryshev recoil-reducing operation, this weapon can be fired from the shoulder, but it still has drawbacks that are common with all other Baryshev weapons – insufficient reliability and inferior accuracy when performing single shots more so than conventional weapon mechanisms.

RAG 30 is an (unlicensed) prototype, with ammunition feeding supplied from the magazine located on top of the receiver, thus it is possible to replenish the magazine without removing it.

See also 
 AEK-971
 AK-107
 Kord machine gun
 AGS-30
 List of Russian weaponry
 List of firearms

References

External links
Modernfirearms
Baryshev rifle video
 Still with no recoil - Baryshev Weapon Systems (in Russian).
 Demonstration tests in military unit 68665 by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan (in Russian)

Assault rifles of the Soviet Union
Trial and research firearms of the Soviet Union
Butyl methacrylate. Butyl methacrylate is the organic compound with the formula C4H9O2CC(CH3)=CH2. A colorless liquid, it is a common monomer for the preparation of methacrylate polymers. It is typically polymerized under free-radical conditions.

Health hazards
In terms of the acute toxicity of butyl methacrylate, the LD50 is 20 g/kg (oral, rat). It is an irritant to the eyes and can cause blindness.

See also
 Methacrylic acid
 Methyl methacrylate
 Tert-Butyl methacrylate

References

Methacrylate esters
Monomers
Commodity chemicals
Butyl esters