omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Virtual Human Computer Interaction. Virtual Human-Computer Interaction (VHCI) laboratory is a research laboratory focused on exploring immersive technology's cognitive, affective, and behavioral implications on humans. The lab was established by Eugene Ohu, a Nigerian researcher during a visit to Gannon University.

Background 
During a visit to Gannon University in 2017, Eugene had the opportunity to explore Virtual Reality technology within Professor Ikechukwu Ohu's lab. This experience had an impact on him and inspired him to establish a VHCI lab in 2018 at Lagos Business School, setting a new course for his career. He has since been involved in several projects involving VR technology and has been invited to speak at several international conferences.

The lab was granted funding in 2020 by the Templeton World Charity Foundation to promote perspective-taking, empathy, and compassion among diverse ethnic groups in Nigeria. The project will utilize game jams as a tool to achieve this objective in public schools across the country. Nigeria, with a population of over 200 million, is home to more than 250 ethnic groups and 500 languages.

In 2022, the VCHI lab established a partnership with Meta to conduct a cross-cultural academic research study across Africa using virtual reality (VR). The research aimed to explore how participation in VR game design can increase empathy and compassion among study participants.

See also 
Lagos Business School

References

External links 
  Official website

Virtual reality
Science and technology in Nigeria
Mona Berciu. Mona Inesa Berciu is a Romanian-Canadian theoretical condensed matter physicist whose research involves electromagnetic effects in materials, including ferromagnetism, superconductivity, magnetic semiconductors, photonic band gaps, polarons, spintronics, and the quantum Hall effect. She is a professor of physics at the University of British Columbia.

Education and career
Berciu represented Romania in the 1989 International Physics Olympiad, earning an honorable mention and a prize for the best female competitor. She was an undergraduate at the University of Bucharest, where she earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1994. She came to the University of Toronto for graduate study in physics, earned a master's degree in 1995, and completed her Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation, A microscopic model for non-Fermi-liquid behavior and charge carrier pairing in a purely repulsive 2D electron system, was supervised by Sajeev John.

After postdoctoral research with Ravindra N. Bhatt at Princeton University, she joined the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor of physics in 2002. She has been a full professor since 2012.

Recognition
The Canadian Association of Physicists gave Berciu their 2013 CAP Medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics, "in recognition of for her exceptional ability to communicate knowledge and understanding and lead students to high academic achievement in physics through her own example, for her leading role in the Welcome Women (WOW) initiative to recruit female students and for her efforts to generally improve the quality of physics teaching through such work as undertaken by the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative." 

She was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for outstanding contributions to the theory of dilute magnetic semiconductors and polarons".

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Romanian emigrants to Canada
Romanian physicists
Romanian women physicists
Canadian physicists
Canadian women physicists
Condensed matter physicists
University of Bucharest alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Fellows of the American Physical Society
2023 Gao Ilyushin Il-76 crash. On 23 September 2023, an Ilyushin Il-76 military transport aircraft crashed at Gao International Airport, Mali, after overrunning the runway. The crash reportedly killed up to 140 people. If confirmed, this would make it the deadliest aircraft disaster in the history of Mali, surpassing Air Algérie Flight 5017 in 2014, as well as the deadliest plane crash in 2023, surpassing Yeti Airlines Flight 691.

Aircraft 
The aircraft involved in the accident was an Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifter. In the immediate aftermath of the crash it was unclear by whom the aircraft was operated. Speculation that the aircraft was operating on behalf of the United Nations' MINUSMA peacekeeping mission was denied by the UN in a statement given to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Local journalists initially reported that the aircraft was operated by Belarusian airline Rubystar Airways, either on behalf of the Malian Armed Forces or the Russian Wagner Group private military company, with some outlets stating that the aircraft involved in the crash was carrying the registration EW-412TH. Later reports suggested that the aircraft was operated directly by the Malian Air Force with the registration TZ-98T.

Crash 
The aircraft crashed on the  long runway 06L at Gao International Airport, after landing too far down the runway. The aircraft then broke into several parts and caught on fire.

It has not been confirmed how many passengers were on the aircraft, but it is speculated that as many as 140 people may have been on board, of them 7 crew. Though the exact number of casualties remains unclear, it is speculated that the aircraft's Russian pilot and a Malian lieutenant colonel were amongst the fatalities of the crash. It is currently unclear if an investigation is being conducted into the accident.

Affiliation with Wagner Group 
The aircraft was reportedly affiliated with the Wagner Group and was carrying Malian soldiers and members of the PMC. The Telegram account "Grey Zone", which is affiliated with the Wagner Group, denied that there were any PMC members on board at the time of the crash. It is speculated that the aircraft was previously owned by the Wagner Group and then transferred to the Malian Air Force a week before the crash.

See also 

 2023 Wagner Group plane crash
 Air Algérie Flight 5017

References 

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2023
Accidents and incidents involving the Ilyushin Il-76
2023 disasters in Mali
Aviation accidents and incidents involving runway excursions
Wagner Group activities in Mali
September 2023 in Mali
Aviation accidents and incidents in Mali
Ilyushin Il-76 crash, 2023
Italian Experimental Flight Regiment. The Italian Experimental Flight Regiment (Reparto Sperimentale di Volo) is a unit of the Italian Air Force responsible for flight tests and ground test of all airplanes and the related material that the Air Force owns or plans to acquire. Part of the Division of Aeronautical and Space Experimentation (Divisione Aerea di Sperimentazione Aeronautica e Spaziale - DASAS), under the Air Force Logistic Command.

History

The regiment was founded in 1948 as the Experimental Flight Unit (Nucleo Sperimentale Volo) and was renamed in 1949 as the Experimental Flight Regiment. It inherited purpose and materials from the Directorate of Studies and Experiences (Direzione Superiore Studi ed Esperienze - DSSE) of the Royal Italian Air Force that was destroyed during World War II. The regiment operated from Guidonia Air Base, the same as the DSSE.In 1956, the regiment was split into the 311th Flight Squadron (311º Gruppo Volo) and the Technical Group (Gruppo Tecnico). The next year, it was moved to the Pratica di Mare Air Base as longer runways were needed.During the development of the Panavia Tornado, the regiment was expanded further, and in 1983, the Software Management Group (Gruppo Gestione Software) was established.The Flight Test Center (Centro Sperimentale di Volo) was established in 1999 to unify all research and testing departments of the Italian Air Force, with the Experimental Flight Regiment becoming its main regiment.To expand the reach of the Italian Air Force beyond 100 km altitude, in 2014 the Aerospace Engineering Group (Gruppo Ingegneria per L’Aero-Spazio) was established under the command of the Experimental Flight Regiment as an armed forces start-up with a strong technological vocation.The newest component of the regiment, the Armament and Countermeasures Group (Gruppo Armamento e Contromisure) was established in 2017 to test aircraft's self-defense systems.In 2021, the Flight Test Center was reorganized in the Division of Aeronautical and Space Experimentation, and the Experimental Flight Regiment has been operating under it since.

References

External links 
 Air Force Official Website

Experimental Flight Regiment
Military units and formations established in 1948
Air force test units and formations
1948 establishments in Italy
David Pui. David You Hong Pui (; born 27 May 1949) is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer and professor.

Education and career 
Pui, a native of Shanghai, earned his bachelor's of science (1970), master's of science (1973), and doctor of philosophy degrees (1975), all in mechanical engineering, from the University of Minnesota, where he later taught as Regents Professor and LM Fingerson/TSI Chair in Mechanical Engineering. Pui has held a Presidential Chair Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

In 2016, Pui was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, "[f]or contributions to aerosol and nanoparticle science and engineering for air pollution control."

World's largest air purification tower

“Pui and his colleagues successfully installed their first air purification tower in China in 2016. As the world's first large-scale air filtration project, the tower relies on solar power to draw in polluted air ... Pui developed the technology in 2014 with the help of Ph.D. student Qingfeng Cao.”

Air cleaning towers in India

References

Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
University of Minnesota alumni
American mechanical engineers
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
Chinese emigrants to the United States
University of Minnesota faculty
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
1949 births
Engineers from Shanghai
Chinese mechanical engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
20th-century Chinese engineers
Engineers from Minnesota
Engineering academics
Kieback&Peter. Kieback&Peter GmbH & Co. KG is an internationally active family-owned company based in Berlin, which specializes in the development and manufacture of devices and systems for room and building technology and industrial applications and their networking in building automation and building management.

History 
The company was founded in 1927 by Erich Kieback and Paul Peter to produce automatic controllers for high-temperature furnaces. Increasingly, the acquired knowledge was applied to residential and commercial buildings. In this course, room thermostats, actuators and outdoor and supply temperature sensors were produced. Starting in the 1980s, the company increasingly developed digital control systems, followed in the following decade by the multi-circuit control processor (MRP). The focus was already on simple and intuitive operation and increased comfort. Among the best-known buildings that have been equipped with technologies from Kieback&Peter are the Reichstag building, the Cube Berlin, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Company structure 
The company is headquartered in Berlin and operates 50 sites internationally. Most are based in Europe, with others in the Near and Middle East and the People's Republic of China. Hardware production takes place at the Mittenwalde site in Germany. A total of around 1400 people are employed. In 2020, Kieback&Peter generated sales of just under 200 million euros, and the company is headed by managing directors Christoph Paul Ritzkat and Joachim Horst Laeger.

Products 
The product range includes more than 1300 building automation products for various requirements; the systems are flexible and scalable. The product portfolio is divided into the following main areas:

 Software for energy and building management
 Controllers with gateways, I/O modules and automation stations as well as room controllers for room automation
 Innovative products for automated fire protection
 Actuators e.g. various rotary and miniature actuators
 Sensors e.g. various transducers and room control units
 Solutions for the operation of real estate as smart buildings, e.g. through building and room automation as well as fire protection

Awards 

 2022: Employer of Choice 2022
 2019: Top 20: Medium-sized companies in Berlin and Brandenburg
 2019: Made in Germany seal, as part of a study conducted by Stern with HWWi and the Institute for Management and Economic Research
 2018: German Design Award for the Qanteon software
 2016: Brandenburg Energy Efficiency Award for the city of Prenzlau with technology from Kieback&Peter
 2016: UX Design Award for the software Qanteon, awarded by the International Design Center Berlin

References

Software companies of Germany
1927 establishments
Manufacturing companies based in Berlin
Eisenhuth GmbH & Co KG. Eisenhuth GmbH & Co KG is a German manufacturing company founded in 1945 that focuses on component manufacturing for fuel cells and electrolysers, as well as the manufacturing of rubber and silicon parts.

History 
Eisenhuth GmbH was established in 1945 by Wilhelm Eisenhuth and his son Herbert Eisenhuth in Osterode, Germany. In 1947, the company started manufacturing molds for plastic and rubber components.

In 1961, Herbert Eisenhuth's wife, Elisabeth Hickmann led the company. In 1997, Dr. Thorsten Hickmann, stepson of Elisabeth Hickmann, assumed the role of CEO. The company expanded its manufacturing capabilities to plastic, rubber, and silicone parts.

In 2006, it received Cooperation Award of the State of Lower Saxony.

In 2007 Eisenhuth GmbH acquired the Fuel Cell Plate activities of SGL Carbon. In 2010, the company started production of graphitic bipolar plates for Redox Flow batteries using injection molding techniques.

Eisenhuth GmbH expanded its focus to encompass electrolyzer components in 2015. Since 2021 the company has been producing stacks.

In 2019, the company received Innovation Award of the District of Göttingen and became co-winner (under the auspices of CUTEC) of the German Sustainability Award 2018 and winner (together with University of Halle) of the IQ-Innovation-award.

Operations 
As of 2023, Eisenhuth is mainly a supplier of bipolar plates, gaskets, and stacks for electrolyzers and fuel cells. The company's clients are predominantly located across Europe, with the largest export countries being France, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Romania, and Slovakia. Additionally, Eisenhuth operates in India, Korea, China, Japan and Australia.

The company is headquartered in Osterode and has two production facilities there.

Thorsten Hickmann (since 1997) and Toni Adamek (since 2016) are the CEOs of Eisenhuth.

Literature 

 Schafner, Katharina: Modellierung der Crossover-Prozesse und Entwicklung von Kapazitatsausgleichsstrategien zur Betriebsoptimierung von Vanadium-Redox-Flow-Batterien (2020, publisher: Cuvillier Verlag, )
 Verlag, Carl Hanser: Dünnere Bipolarplatten für Brennstoffzellen: Modifizierte leitfähige Compounds ermöglichen die Herstellung von Bipolarfolien vom Coil

References

Manufacturing companies of Germany
Companies established in 1945
German companies established in 1945
David Benko. David A. Benko is a retired Goodyear chemist and materials R&D director.

Education 

Benko holds a PhD in physical organic chemistry from the University of Delaware.  He completed his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Union College.

Career 

Benko joined Goodyear in 1978.  Before retiring as an R&D fellow, he was director of materials R&D at Goodyear. He has remained active as a consultant to the rubber industry.

Benko was the founding treasurer of the Tire Society, and he later served as president.  He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Benko's most cited work concerns the development of a bioprocess for isoprene monomer production.  He is an inventor on at least 24 patents.

Awards

 1996 - Tire Society Distinguished Service Award

References 

Tire industry people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kanatzidisite. Kanatzidisite is a mineral of the sulfosalt class with a composition of [BiSbS3][Te2]. It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system (space group: P21/m) with lattice constants a = 4.0021(5) Å, b = 3.9963(5) Å, c = 21.1009(10) Å and β = 95.392(3)°.
Its structure features very unusual van der Waals heterolayers of alternating BiSbS3 double layers and atomically thin distorted [Te2] square-net. Based on its calculated band structure, kanatzidisite may exhibit topological features characteristic of a Dirac semimetal. Associated minerals are arsenopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, gold, bismuth, bismuthinite, ikunolite, jonassonite, jaszczakite ([(Bi,Pb)3S3][AuS2]) and cosalite in a quartz matrix. A mineral specimen was detected by Luca Bindi and is currently stored in the Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence in Italy. The name of kanatzidisite is after Mercouri Kanatzidis, a distinguished chemist who holds the position of Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.

References 

Bismuth minerals
Tellurium compounds
Antimony minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Emilia Morosan. Emilia Morosan (also Moroșan, born 1976) is a Romanian-American condensed matter physicist whose research involves the synthesis of quantum materials, including quantum criticality and unconventional superconductors. She is also known for her discovery of super-strong titanium gold alloys. She is a professor at Rice University.

Education and career
Morosan was born in 1976 in Suceava, and studied physics at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași, Romania, earning a bachelor's degree in 1999. She completed a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy at Iowa State University in 2005. Her doctoral dissertation, Field-induced magnetic phase transitions and correlated electronic states in the hexagonal RAgGe and RPtIn series, was supervised by Paul C. Canfield.

After postdoctoral research in chemistry at Princeton University, Morosan joined Rice University in 2007, as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, her primary affiliation. She was promoted to associate professor in 2013, adding another affiliation in the Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering. Her promotion to full professor in 2015 added a fourth affiliation, in the Department of Electrical and Chemical Engineering. She is also a member of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials.

Recognition
Morosan was a 2009 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. She was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2018, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for experimental contributions to the understanding of correlated magnetic and superconducting materials, through the synthesis and study of unconventional magnetic systems, heavy fermion compounds and superconductors". She is also an Alexander von Humboldt fellow and a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers Fellow.

References

External links
Morosan Research Group

1976 births
Living people
People from Suceava
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Romanian physicists
Romanian women physicists
American physicists
American women physicists
Condensed matter physicists
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
Iowa State University alumni
Rice University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Donald W. Brenner. Donald W. Brenner is a Kobe Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on computational studies of materials for extreme environments, high entropy ceramics, tribology and tribochemistry, shock and high strain rate dynamics, nuclear materials, and self-assembled monolayers.

Research and career 
Donald W. Brenner is best known for his development of the reactive empirical bond order (REBO) interatomic potential, which was a precursor to ReaxFF and similar many-body reactive potentials. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry Brenner was a member of the research staff in the Theoretical Chemistry Section at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC before joining the faculty at the North Carolina State University.

His honors include the 2002 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (theory), the 2013 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award, and the 2016 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence. He is also an editor of the "Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology, three editions", W. Goddard, D. Brenner, S. Lyshevski and G. Iafrate, Eds., CRC Press (2002, 2007 and 2012).

Education 
 B.S. in Chemistry from the State University of New York in 1982
 Ph.D. in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1987

References 

Materials scientists and engineers
North Carolina State University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Dry shipper. A dry shipper, or cryoshipper, is a container specifically engineered to transport biological specimens at cryogenic temperatures utilizing the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen.

Function 
The architecture of a dry shipper encompasses two primary components: an internal canister and an external protective shell. The inner canister, designed to hold biological specimens, is positioned within the vapor phase of the liquid nitrogen. This configuration ensures that the specimens are maintained at temperatures below -150 °C for prolonged durations. A distinctive feature of dry shippers is their ability to avert direct contact between samples and liquid nitrogen, reducing risks of contamination and ensuring consistent cryogenic conditions during transit.

Applications 
Dry shippers serve various sectors in both the scientific and medical arenas. In the realm of reproductive medicine, these containers facilitate the transportation of delicate biological entities, including human ova and embryos. Within the research landscape, they are employed to carry materials such as spermatozoa or preimplantation embryos of genetically modified mouse strains, safeguarding the integrity and viability of these research assets during their journey. Moreover, biobanks, which archive diverse biological specimens for subsequent scientific exploration, utilize dry shippers to dispatch and acquire samples from researchers worldwide.

Alternative for specimen transport 
One common alternative to dry shippers is using dry ice. This method reduces package weight and costs since there's no need for return shipping, unlike with dry shippers. However, at -80 °C, dry ice might not provide a temperature low enough for all specimens. For instance, while cryopreserved mouse spermatozoa can handle this temperature for short periods without losing their fertilization capacity, cryopreserved mouse embryos require colder environments, such as those below -150 °C in dry shippers, to maintain their quality. Another method is shipping freeze-dried samples at ambient temperatures, as seen with freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa. This can be more cost-effective, but many samples, when freeze-dried, experience a notable decline in quality, limiting its applicability.

See also 

 Cryoconservation of animal genetic resources

References

External links 
 Capacities of different dry shippers illustrated by the Florida State University
Laboratory mouse strains
Transport
Cryogenics
Genetically modified organisms