omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Umar Garba. Umar Garba Danbatta, is a Nigerian author, philanthropist, administrator and professor of electrical, telecommunications engineer. He served as the executive vice-chairman and chief executive Officer of Nigerian Communications Commission since November 2015 to April 2020 and was reappointed in July 2020 to October 2023 by the confirmation from the Senate house. Prior to his appointment, he has been acting vice-chancellor of Kano State University of Science and Technology since its establishment in 2001 and became acting vice-chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission in August 2014.

Background 
He was born in Danbatta in Kano State. He earned his Bachelor's and master of sciences and engineering from the Technical University of Wroclaw and holds a PhD of science and technology from the University of Manchester.

Career 
He began lecturing at Bayero University Kano in the faculty of technology working for up to 30 years and also lectures in telecommunications engineering in the institution, he later became the head of department at electrical engineering dean of faculty science and technology. He also held various postings in the institution and was member and chaired more 50 universities committee and task forces. He was also a supervisor of many Masters, Bachelor's and philosophy doctor projects in engineering and telecommunications.

He was a member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria and the Nigerian Society of Engineers, serving as a member. He became vice president of International Centre for Advanced Communication Studies in its establishment by the Nigerian Communications Commission and Digital Bridge Institute.

Since 2013, he has been a member of the Common Wealth Nations.

He has authored several books, and has been credited in more than 50 articles in journals. He also has received many awards and honors.

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Hans van Leeuwen (physicist). Johannes Maria Jozef "Hans" van Leeuwen (5 August 1932 – 3 December 2024) was a Dutch physicist.

Life and career
Van Leeuwen was born in Heerhugowaard on 5 August 1932. In 1962 he obtained his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam under professor J. de Boer with a thesis titled: "Diagram techniques in statistical mechanics". In 1969 he became professor of physics at Delft University of Technology. He moved to the Lorentz Institute for theoretical physics of Leiden University in 1986.

Van Leeuwen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994 "For contributions to statistical physics, in particular to the understanding of static and dynamic correlations in fluids, and to real space renormalization group theory". In 1996 Van Leeuwen received the Onsager Medal.

Van Leeuwen died on 3 December 2024, at the age of 92.

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Italian Federation of Metal Mechanics. The Italian Federation of Metal Mechanics (, FIM) is a trade union representing metal and engineering workers in Italy.

The Italian Federation of Metalworkers was re-established in 1944, and affiliated to the Italian General Confederation of Labour.  However, two Christian democratic groups left, founding the Italian Federation of Free Metal Mechanic Workers, and the Italian Union of Metal Mechanic Workers.  On 30 March 1950, the two merged, forming the "Italian Federation of Metal Mechanics".  The following month, the union was a founding affiliate of the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL).

By 1954, the union claimed 137,680 members, and by 1998 this had grown to 183,446.

General Secretaries
1950: Franco Volontè
1963: Luigi Macario
1970: Pierre Carniti
1974: Franco Bentivogli
1983: Raffaele Morese
1989: Gianni Italia
1997: Pier Paolo Baretta
1999: Giorgio Caprioli
2009: Giuseppe Farina
2014: Marco Bentivogli
2020: Roberto Benaglia

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Evergreen G-class container ship. The Evergreen G class is a series of 11 container ships built for Evergreen Marine by Imabari Shipbuilding in Japan. The maximum theoretical capacity of these ships is in the range of 20,124 to 20,388 standard shipping containers (twenty-foot equivalent unit TEU).

History
The ships constitute 11 out of 13 container ships built to the Imabari 20000 TEU containership design developed by Imabari Shipbuilding. Evergreen time charters all 11 ships from their owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha, which is a leasing subsidiary of Imabari Shipbuilding. On 30 March 2018, the first ship the Ever Golden was delivered with a capacity of 20,338 TEU.

In 2019, Evergreen announced it would be putting scrubbers on many of their ships in order to lower polluting emissions. Ever Glory and all newer ships were built with scrubbers already installed. These scrubbers take up a considerable amount of space and the resulting capacity of these ships is slightly reduced to 20,160 TEU. The previous ships that did not have scrubbers when they were built had them retrofitted. This has reduced their capacity to 20,124 TEU.

Accidents and incidents 
On 9 February 2019, the Ever Given collided with the ferry Finkenwerder, which was docked at a wharf in Hamburg on the river Elbe at the time. The Finkenwerder was heavily damaged.

In March 2021, the Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for six days. The ship was freed but then held in the Great Bitter Lake over a declared 900 million dollar compensation claim by the Suez Canal Authority, which they settled with owner Shoei Kisen Kaisha for $540 million in early July.

List of ships

See also 
 Evergreen A-class container ship: Evergreen Marine's largest container ships since 30 July 2021

References 

Evergreen Group container ship classes

Ships built in Japan
Rascal 14. The Rascal 14 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Ray Greene and first built in 1961.

The Rascal 14 design was developed into the slightly modified Rascal II.

Production
The design was built by Ray Greene & Company in the United States. The company built 3,000 examples of the design starting in 1961, but production had ended by the time the company went out of business in 1975.

Design
The Rascal 14 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with black-colored, hard-coated aluminum spars and a tabernacle-mounted mast. The hull has a spooned plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard mounted in an enclosed trunk. It displaces  and can be fitted with a  spinnaker.

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 jib window and adjustable jib tracks. Foam flotation provides positive buoyancy and the boat has two storage lockers, one forward and one aft.

The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 108.9 and is normally raced with a crew of two sailors.

Operational history
Sail magazine named the Rascal a "breakthrough boat", due to its intended role for beginners and first-time boat buyers.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Photo of a Rascal 14

Dinghies
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Ray Greene
Sailboat types built by Ray Greene & Company
Kerstin Thurow. Kerstin Thurow (born October 3, 1969, in Rostock) is a German engineer specializing in automation technology. She has been Professor of Automation/Life Science Automation at the Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Rostock since 1999.

Life 

Thurow gained her Abitur in 1988, matriculating to the University of Rostock to study chemistry.  In 1992, she entered the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for her doctoral degree in chemistry and pharmacy, completing her initial doctorate in 1994 (Promotion).  She returned to the University of Rostock, where she was employed as a research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering until 1997 and as managing director of the Institute for Measuring and Sensor Systems from 1997 to 1999.

In 1999, Thurow completed her habilitation in engineering sciences, aged 29, and was appointed to Germany's first chair for laboratory automation, still at the University of Rostock.  Since 2000, she has been director of the Institute for Automation Technology at the University of Rostock. She was promoted to full professor in 2004.

Prizes and awards 

 Member acatech, 2005
 Entrepreneur of the Year, Entrepreneur Prize of the Hanseatic City of Rostock, 2005 
 Joachim Jungius Award of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences Hamburg, 2004
 Founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, 2004

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
21st-century German chemists
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Living people
21st-century German women scientists
Lower Modi-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant. Lower Modi-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant (Nepali: तल्लो मोदी १ जलविद्युत आयोजना, Tallo Modi-1 Jalbidyut Ayojana) is a run-of-river hydro-electric plant located in Parbat district of Nepal. The flow from Modi River is used to generate 10 MW electricity. The design flow is 26 m3/s, gross head is 50 m  and annual energy generation capacity is 61.01 GWh.

The plant was constructed by United Modi Hydropower Pvt. Ltd., an IPP of Nepal.

See also
Modi Khola Hydroelectric Power Plant, operated by Nepal Electricity Authority
List of power stations in Nepal

References

External links

Hydroelectric power stations in Nepal
Gravity dams
Run-of-the-river power stations
Dams in Nepal
Buildings and structures in Parbat District
Blue Origin landing platform. Blue Origin landing platform may refer to:

 Jacklyn (ship) aka "LPV" and "Landing Platform Vessel", a ship purchased by Blue Origin in 2018 to use as a landing platform ship that was scrapped in 2022
 Landing Platform Vessel 1, aka "Jacklyn" and "LPV1", a barge which was manufactured for Blue Origin in 2024 for use as a landing platform for the booster stages of New Glenn
George Jefferson (engineer). Sir George Rowland Jefferson  (26 March 1921 – 1 September 2012) was a British aeronautical engineer and businessman. He served as the first chairman of British Telecom (BT), and was largely responsible for its privatisation in 1984.

Early life
Jefferson was born in London in 1921. His father was an electrical engineer. He attended a grammar school in north-west Kent, leaving at the age of 16.

He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), later joining REME. For the latter stages of the war he worked in government research, developing automated anti-aircraft weapons.

Career
In 1952 he became head of the guided weapon division of English Electric (in Hertfordshire). BAC took over EE in 1960. British Aerospace in turn took over BAC in 1977. At British Aerospace he served as a director, managing director, and then chairman, looking after the development of the Rapier anti-aircraft missile, as head of the guided weapons division.

He was made deputy chairman of the Post Office (GPO), becoming the first chairman and chief executive of British Telecom on 1 September 1980. He saw through the company's privatisation. There was widespread hostility against its privatisation. This first privatisation of a British utility would mostly lay the ground for the subsequent privatisations of the 1980s; he largely made BT's privatisation take place. Jefferson retired in 1987.

Personal life
He married in Irene Brown 1943, having three sons; his first wife died in 1998. He remarried, in 1999, to Bridget Anne Riley. He received the CBE in the 1969 New Year Honours and was knighted in the 1981 New Year Honours. He later moved to Perth, Western Australia, but lived in the Republic of Ireland at the end of his life. He died from heart failure and complications of Alzheimer's disease at a care home in Longford on 1 September 2012, aged 91.

See also
 Colin Baron, developer of the Rapier missile

References

External links
 Telegraph obituary September 2012

1921 births
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20th-century English businesspeople
British Aircraft Corporation
British Army personnel of World War II
British Telecom people
British chief executives
Businesspeople from London
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Deaths from congestive heart failure
English expatriates in Australia
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History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
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Kelly kiloton index. The Kelly Kiloton Index (KKI) was invented by H. A. Kelly of University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 as an alternative to the logarithmic Richter scale (which dates to 1935).  Its unit of measurement is the metric kiloton of TNT, which yields a practical measurement of the seismic movement of force which is more understandable by the lay public.

References

2006 in science
2006 introductions
University of California, Los Angeles
Seismic magnitude scales
Unique formula identifier. The unique formula identifier (UFI) is a code printed on products with hazardous mixtures in the European Economic Area (EEA), meant to help calls to poison control centers to determine the contents.

The UFI is mandated in the European Economic Area for consumer, professional and industrial products containing hazardous mixtures. Use in new consumer products started on 1 January 2021 and will be required for industrial products on 1 January 2024. From 1 January 2025, existing products must include the UFI. The UFI is controlled by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

Format 
The UFI takes the form of a prefix acronym UFI:, followed by a 16-digit alphanumeric code, separated in 4 blocks with dashes. All letters are upper case and letters that are hard to discern from numerals are omitted. The UFI contains a checksum. An UFI (with prefix) looks like:
 UFI: N1QV-R02N-J00M-WQD5

The UFI must be printed on the packaging where it is easy to find, near the hazard label elements or bar code, or if it is an unpackaged product, on the safety data sheet.

Data handling 
A company preparing, modifying, or repackaging a mixture (downstream user, „manufacturer“ of mixture) submits the chemical composition with toxicological information, as well as additional information such as product trade name, packaging and colour, via the ECHA to member states‘ appointed bodies (e.g. poison control centers). Before they submit the dataset a UFI was created e.g. by using ECHA’s UFI generator webtool. Finally the company prints the UFI on the label. A UFI is always assigned to one mixture (or several very similar mixtures), but the UFI may be used in different packaging varieties or brand names. Multiple UFI's may be assigned to the same mixture.

The chemical composition of the UFI is kept secret and available only to the ECHA and connected poison centres.

UFI is mandated from January 1, 2021 for products for consumer or professional use, and from January 1, 2024 for new products for industrial use. Existing mixtures that are already notified at a national poison centre may need labeling from January 2025.

References

External links

Safety
Labels
Lyndon Smith (academic). Lyndon Neal Smith (born 26 December 1964) is an English academic who is Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision at the School of Engineering at the University of the West of England. He is also Director of the Centre for Machine Vision at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

Early life 
Smith was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 26 December 1964 to Lionel Alfred Smith and Dorothy Smith. He received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from the University of Wales in 1986, a Master of Science (MSc) from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1988, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of the West of England in 1997. His PhD thesis was entitled A knowledge based system for powder metallurgy technology. He completed a secondment at the Pennsylvania State University which lasted for a year.

Career 
Smith is Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision at the School of Engineering at the University of the West of England. He is also Director of the Centre for Machine Vision at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

He has developed a technique for the simulation of the packing densities of particles with irregular morphologies.

He helped develop 3D face recognition technology which he said was "on the verge of becoming really big" in 2017.

Smith has been involved in plans to replace turnstiles on the London Underground with a facial recognition system. He said that facial recognition technology under development could replace train tickets, and have applications in stores, train stations and banks.

Personal life 
Smith lives in Wedmore, Somerset.

Selected publications

Books

References

External links 
 

1964 births
Living people
20th-century English engineers
21st-century English engineers
21st-century English male writers
21st-century English non-fiction writers
Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
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Colin Hannaford. Colin William Barter Hannaford was a British mathematics educator, author, and advocate for education reform.

Early life, education, and career
Hannaford was born in 1943 in Plymouth, England during a bombing raid.  He joined the British Army at the age of 17, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering in 1967.

At the age of 29, Hannaford was involuntarily committed to an army psychiatric hospital.  Hannaford claims the incident was politically motivated, in response to his criticism of British policy in Ireland.  After three weeks, he was found sane and released.

After retiring from the army, Hannaford trained as a mathematics teacher at the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1976. In 1976, he began teaching  mathematics at Magdalen College School in Oxford, England. He then became the head of mathematics at the European School in Culham, where he taught for several decades, until 2004.

Education reform
Based on his experience as a mathematics teacher, Hannaford has advocated for a major shift in mathematics education to focus on critical thinking instead of memorization. He has described his teaching philosophy as an application of the Socratic method to the classroom.

In 2009, Hannaford hosted a conference for the Qatar Foundation at Windsor Castle called Giving Peace a Voice, which aimed to show that children and students can practice critical and receptive discourse in mathematics lessons.

In 2014, Hannaford published his book Educating Messiahs, a collection of essays that he had previously shared with former students on Facebook, in which he expresses his hopes to teach students to think critically and learn to respectfully debate and disagree with one another.

In 2018, Hannaford published a booklet from the point of view of his dog, Amadeus, which gained the support of Blackwell's in Oxford, who provided free copies for children. In this booklet, he outlines his wish for students to no longer be categorised by perceived academic success.

Books
 473959 (2007), 
 Educating Messiahs (2014), 
 Amadeus Teaches: Learning Together, Staying Strong (2018), 
 APE BRAINS TO COSMIC MINDS: the painful evolution of humankind (2018), 
 God is Evolution: Harvest of Souls (2019), 
 A TIDAL WAVE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS: To Stop Wars (2021),

Awards and honours
Hannaford was nominated for the Canadian Parliament Peace Prize in 1998, and won the Upton Sinclair Award for Educational Innovation in 2008.

Hannaford received the Chadwick Prize for best essay by the Oxford Philosophical Society in 1996 for a paper titled "A THESIS: That the Development of a Rational, Innovative Society, Internally Harmonious and Tolerant of Dissent, Depends on Understanding the Original Connection between Mathematics and Democracy".

References

British writers
Education reform
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers officers
British philosophers
British educators
Writers about England
Mathematics educators
Military personnel from Plymouth, Devon
20th-century British Army personnel
Edwin Samuel Crump. Edwin Samuel Crump CIE (born 6 July 1882, died 5 March 1961) was an English civil engineer specialising in hydraulics.

Early life and education 
Crump was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the youngest child of Charles Crump and Clara Annie Crump (née Gittoes). His father Charles Crump was Chief Clerk, Northern Division, Great Western Railway Company, prominent football legislator and administrator, and committed Methodist. Edwin Crump was educated as a civil engineer at the Department of Engineering, Imperial College.

Personal life 
Crump married Helen Elizabeth Jefferis in 1913 and had two sons, Anthony Jefferis Crump (born 1914) and Colin Edwin Crump (born 1916).

Career and accomplishments 
Crump joined the Indian Service of Engineers in 1906 and was based in Punjab Province, British India. Here he was engaged in irrigation projects of the Punjab Water Station. During World War I Crump served as an engineer in South Africa. Crump retired from the Indian Service of Engineers in 1937. After returning to England, Crump joined in 1949 the newly established Hydraulics Research Station at Wallingford, Oxfordshire, part of the Hydraulic Research Organisation, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1952 he was promoted to Senior Scientific Officer, retiring in 1956.

Honors and recognition 
Crump was made Companion of the Indian Empire (CIE) at the King's Birthday Honours of 1936 for his work with the Indian Service of Engineers as Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department (Irrigation Branch), Punjab Province.

Edwin Samuel Crump was the inventor of the Crump weir that is named for him. The Crump weir is a two dimensional triangular weir with a horizontal crest in the transverse direction and a triangular crest shape in the stream-wise direction. Crump weirs are used as measuring structures in open channels.

Publications 
Crump published a number of seminal papers in the field of hydraulics, including methods to accurately measure stream flow by means of the Crump weir, design of steeply graded pipelines, and vortex-siphon spillways.

Death 
Edwin Samuel Crump died at his home Blenheim House, Benson, Oxfordshire, on 5 March 1961.

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1882 births
1961 deaths
English civil engineers
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
Imperial College Faculty of Engineering
Hydraulic engineers