omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Floriane Soulas. Floriane Soulas (born 1989 in Paris), is a French fantasy and science fiction novelist and short story writer, particularly in the steampunk and space opera subgenres. She began publishing in 2014, and has won several awards since 2018.

Biography
Born in Paris in 1989, Floriane Soulas attended a preparatory class and then an engineering school, the École des Mines de Carmaux. She then completed a thesis in mechanical and material engineering in 2016. Alongside her career as a mechanical engineer, she writes science fiction short stories. Her childhood reading and inspirations include Émile Zola, Victor Hugo and Albert Camus, as well as fantasy works by J. R. R. Tolkien and David Gemmell, and science fiction by Isaac Asimov and George Orwell.

She published her first novel, Rouille in 2018. The book follows a prostitute's investigation into a series of murders in steampunk Paris. It was awarded the ActuSF award for uchronia in the Literature category, the Imaginales award for high school students, and a Chrysalis award from the European Science Fiction Society.

Her second novel, Les Noces de la renarde, was published in 2019 and takes place in medieval fantasy Japan. The novel was nominated for the Elbakin award and won the Ouest Hurlant – Livre de poche award 2022.

In 2020, Floriane Soulas was awarded the ‘Coup de Coeur’ at the  festival,  in recognition of a promising young author. As the festival did not take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was named again Coup de Coeur for the 2021 edition.

Her third novel, the space opera Les Oubliés de l'Amas, was published in 2021. The plot takes place in a kind of pirate city built from waste orbiting Jupiter. The novel draws inspiration from Asimov's robots, Star Wars' racing cars and Mass Effect's stations. The novel was nominated for the Prix Rosny-Aîné 2022 and won the Prix européen Utopiales des pays de la Loire 2022. While this book was published in paperback in 2023 by Pocket Imaginaire, under the ‘Rising Stars of the Imaginary’ label offered by publisher Charlotte Volper, Floriane Soulas also published the same year Tonnerre après les ruines, a post-apocalyptic novel, by Argyll.

Awards 

 Prix Imaginales des Lycéens 2019
 Prix Chrysalis – European Science Fiction Society 2019
 Prix ActuSF 2018
 Prix utopiales 2022

Works

 Rouille, 
 Les Noces de Renarde, Scrineo 2019
 Les Oubliés de l'Amas, 2021
 Tonnerre après les ruines, 2023

References 

1989 births
Living people
21st-century French novelists
21st-century French short story writers
21st-century French women writers
French fantasy writers
French science fiction writers
Steampunk writers
Writers from Paris
2024 Ankola (Karnataka) landslide. On 16 July 2024, at approximately 08:30 IST, a landslide occurred in Shirur, Ankola in Uttara Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka. The landslide was caused by construction work and heavy rains, and resulted in at least nine deaths, with two missing in the debris or nearby Gangavali River.

Incident 
According to a preliminary report by a team from the Geological Survey of India, the landslide was caused by construction work being carried out by the National Highways Authority of India, along with recent heavy rainfall. The landslide closed a portion of National Highway 66 between Ankola and Kumta, and on 1 August, the road was reopened to traffic.

Deaths and missing
Nine people, all natives of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu died in the landslide and two more are missing. One victim, a lorry driver Arjun from Kerala, was hit by the landslide while he was resting in his truck on the side of the road. Arjun was driving a truck owned by Manaf, a native of Kozhikode, Kerala Extensive search operations were conducted for his recovery.

On 29 July, the government of Karnataka decided to suspend active search operations until the Gangavalli River is suitable for diving again, or until new rescue machinery can be brought in. Search operations were later restarted in September and lorry driver Karan's body was found in the same month.

Response
Many groups were involved in relief efforts, including the Indian Army and Navy, the National Disaster Response Force, the State Disaster Response Force of Karnataka, Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services, and the Karnataka Police. Efforts resumed on the morning of 18 July after being halted on 16 July due to heavy rainfall.

Siddaramaiah, the chief minister of Karnataka, visited the site, and announced payments of  to families of the victims. 

A. K. M. Ashraf, member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Manjeshwara, and MLA of Karnataka Satish Krishna Sail camped in the area.

References

Notes

2024 disasters in India
July 2024 in India
Landslides in 2024
Landslides in India
Uttara Kannada district
2024 meteorology
2020s in Karnataka
Renault Twingo E-Tech. The Renault Twingo E-Tech is a small battery electric car announced by the French manufacturer Renault. It was previewed in November 2023 by the Twingo Legend concept car.

Overview

The styling is heavily inspired by the first generation Twingo.

The model will be built on the "AmpR Small" platform and set to be assembled in Slovenia from 2026.

Awards
In January 2024, the Twingo E-Tech Electric Prototype won the special jury prize at the 31st L'Argus Trophies ceremony.

References

External links

 

Twingo E-Tech
Cars introduced in 2023
Subcompact cars
Production electric cars
Retro-style automobiles
Marta Martínez-Vázquez. Marta Martínez-Vázquez (born 1973) is a Spanish electrical engineer known for her work on the design of antennas, especially for personal electronics.

Education and career
Martínez-Vázquez is originally from Santiago de Compostela, where she was born in 1973. She studied telecommunications engineering at the Technical University of Valencia, earning an engineering diploma (the equivalent of a master's degree) there in 1997 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003. Her doctoral dissertation won the 2004 best dissertation award of the university.

She came to work for the Institut für Mobil- und Satellitenfunktechnik in Germany in 1999, as a postdoctoral researcher with the support of the Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation, and continued there as a permanent research staff member from 2000 to 2021. In 2021 she moved to Renesas Electronics as a senior marketing and applications engineer, focusing on antennas for vehicular radar.

Book
Martínez-Vázquez is an editor of Handbook on Small Antennas (with Lluis Jofre Roca and Raquel Serrano, Brussels: EurAAP AISBL, 2012).

Recognition
In 2013 the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society gave Martínez-Vázquez their inaugural Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award, "for contribution to the development of antenna systems for practical applications from UHF to mmwaves and giving visibility to women engineers".

Martínez-Vázquez was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2017, "for leadership in integrated signal-aware technologies for antennas and global navigation satellite system arrays".

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
People from Santiago de Compostela
Spanish electrical engineers
Spanish women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Technical University of Valencia alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
Blue Origin NS-26. Blue Origin NS-26 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, launched on August 29, 2024, using the New Shepard rocket.

Crew

Details 
The flight's crew included NASA-funded scientist Rob Ferl who is a professor at the University of Florida. During the flight, he performed experiments studying the change of gene expression in one type of plant when the plant was exposed to microgravity and other different phases of flight. Professor Ferl was the first NASA-funded researcher flying aboard New Shepard (or indeed aboard any of the commercial suborbital space vehicles of the 21st century). His flight and experiments were funded by NASA's Flight Opportunities program.

Nicolina Elrick is an entrepreneur. She is a British citizen from Scotland and also a permanent resident of Singapore, and intends to become a Singapore citizen.

Eiman Jahangir's flight was sponsored by the cryptocurrency spaceflight accelerator organization MoonDAO.

Karsen Kitchen became the youngest woman and youngest American to cross the Kármán line (100 km) at 21 years old.

References

Space tourism
2024 in spaceflight
Suborbital human spaceflights
2024 in Texas
New Shepard missions
Neodymium monosulfide. Neodymium(II) sulfide is a binary inorganic chemical compound of Neodymium metal and sulfur with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
Fusion of stoichiometric amounts of pure substances:

Physical properties
Neodymium monosulfide forms crystals of the cubic system, space group Fm3m, cell parameter a = 0.5691 nm, Z = 4.

References

Neodymium compounds
sulfides
George H. Markstein. George H. Markstein was a combustion scientist, who has made pioneering contributions to flame theory and detonations.

Biography and research
George H. Markstein was born in Vienna, Austria io 22 June 1911. He completed his master's degree in Engineering and Applied Physics in 1935 and a doctorate degree in Technical Science in 1937, both at Technische Universität Wien. After Anschluss in 1938, his family fled Austria, moved to Switzerland, to Portugal and then to Bogotá, Colombia. In Colombia, George worked for Shell as a surveyor, exploring Colombian jungle.

After World War II, George and his family emigrated to the United States in 1946. George then started working for Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) in Buffalo, New York. It is here he started working on premixed flame problems and explained, for the first time in 1951, that the flames can be stabilized at short wavelengths due to diffusion and heat conduction, thereby correcting the Darrieus–Landau theory. He also introduced the notion of parametric instability in the context of thermo-acoustic instability in 1950. Here, he also studied the interactions between shock waves and premixed flames. After 25 years at CAL, in 1971, he moved to Factory Mutual Research Corporation and worked on problems for fire spread and radiative transfer.

He retired from Factory Mutual in 1993 and moved to Hawaii with his wife Hedi. He stopped his scientific career after his retirement. He died on 21 March 2011.

Books

Awards and honours  
He was the recipient of the Silver Combustion Medal (1976) and Bernard Lewis Gold Medal (1986) from The Combustion Institute. The Eastern US States Section of The Combustion Institute issues the award in George's name.

References

1911 births
2011 deaths
TU Wien alumni
Fluid dynamicists
State and Experimental Aviation Point Location Index. State and/or Experimental Aviation Point Location Index () is a four-letter unique identifier assigned to the location of Russia's state aviation points (air bases, commandant's offices of airfields and airports, points of deployment of aviation units at joint-use airports, aviation control points, aviation training grounds and sports airfields), as well as experimental aviation points (experimental airfields, aviation factories).

These indices are used to transmit aeronautical information about state airfields, airspace use requests, designation of military and sports airfields on air navigation maps. Indices are assigned by the Ministry of Defense and are not ICAO airport codes, although they use a similar format. If a state airfield has an ICAO index, a joint use by civil aviation is permitted.

Indices of state airfields are intended only for internal use within Russia. They have an external resemblance to ICAO codes for the location of Russian airports, but unlike them, they begin with the letter "Ь" when using Cyrillics or with the letter "X" when using Latin alphabet (letter "X" is not used as ICAO prefix and ICAO codes for Russia start with letter "U"). Indices cannot be used outside Russia via AFTN.

See also
 Location identifier
 ICAO airport code
 List of airports by ICAO code: U

Sources

Aircraft operations
Geocodes
Location codes
Navigational aids
Leyuan Shi. Leyuan Shi is a Chinese-American industrial engineer, and a professor in the 
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on the modeling, simulation, and optimization of large-scale systems for smart manufacturing, supply chains, and communications.

Education and career
Shi studied mathematics at Nanjing Normal University, graduating in 1982. After a second master's degree in applied mathematics in 1985 from Tsinghua University, she went to Harvard University for continued study in applied mathematics. She earned a second master's degree there in 1990, and completed her Ph.D. in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation, Optimization of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, was supervised by Yu-Chi Ho.

After joining the University of Wisconsin, Shi founded a spinoff company in 1995 named LS Optimal. In 2010 she took a leave from Wisconsin to join the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Peking University. In 2020 she was named as director of Wisconsin's Center for Quick Response Manufacturing.

Books
Shi's books include:
Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Systems (edited with Weibo Gong, Springer, 2003)
Nested Partitions Method, Theory and Applications (with Sigurdur Ólafsson, Springer, 2009)
Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Innovative Strategies and Practical Solutions (edited with Zhe Liang and W. Art Chaovalitwongse, CRC Press, 2016)

Recognition
Shi was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American industrial engineers
American women engineers
Chinese industrial engineers
Chinese women engineers
Women industrial engineers
Nanjing Normal University alumni
Tsinghua University alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Academic staff of Peking University
Fellows of the IEEE
Tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) tetrafluoroborate. Tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) tetrafluoroborate is a complex compound of copper with acetonitrile as the ligand and tetrafluoroborate as the counterion.

Preparation 
Tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) tetrafluoroborate can be prepared starting from nitrosyl tetrafluoroborate, which is obtained from dinitrogen tetroxide and tetrafluoroboric acid. The nitrosyl salt is then reacted with metallic copper in acetonitrile, initially producing a green-blue copper(II) complex. This complex is reduced to the copper(I) complex by further reaction with metallic copper. By boiling with additional copper powder until decolorization, the copper(I) complex is obtained.

Properties 
Tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) tetrafluoroborate forms colorless crystals in the orthorhombic crystal system in the space group Pna21 with the lattice parameters a = 23.882 Å; b = 8.3285 Å; c = 20.338 Å, and twelve unit cells. The compound is isomorphous with tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) perchlorate and tetrakis(acetonitrile)silver(I) perchlorate.

Use 
Tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) tetrafluoroborate can be reacted with methoxyisobutyl isonitrile to produce Tetrakis(methoxyisobutyl isonitrile)copper(I) tetrafluoroborate. This compound is used to produce technetium(99mTc)-sestamibi.

See also 
 Tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) hexafluorophosphate

References

Copper complexes
Tetrafluoroborates
Shapez 2. Shapez 2 (stylized as shapez 2) is a factory simulation video game developed by tobspr Games.

Gameplay 

Similar to its predecessor Shapez, players extract and process various resources in a procedurally generated world to supply a central hub called the "Vortex". Different types of buildings are available, such as balancers, cutters, and extractors. There are no victory conditions, and all buildings are free of cost, so factories can theoretically expand infinitely.

As more shapes are supplied and the factory expands, players need to make more complex shapes composed of many layers of cut and dyed shapes. Each shape contains up to four layers of four quadrants. In later stages of the game, players will need to supply thousands of copies of such shapes to the Vortex.

A major difference was the switch from 2D to 3D graphics, which allows the player to build on multiple layers. Shapes remained 2D, and most buildings are still limited to one per layer.

Shapez 2 also adopted a new theme, switching from a plain white background to outer space. Modular islands and space trains were introduced along with the new theme, allowing the player to easily copy-and-paste sections of factories. Players are also given the ability to adjust the game's difficulty, which determines the size of resources and position of islands.

Development and release 
The first trailer for Shapez 2 was released on August 16, 2023. An open demo was made available on Steam on January 25, 2024, which received positive reviews from critics. Shapez 2 was released for early access on August 15, 2024.

The game was developed by German indie developer tobspr Games using the Unity engine. The studio received partial funding with a grant of €537,833 from the German government via the "Computerspielförderung des Bundes".

Unlike its predecessor, which was free and open source, Shapez 2 requires a purchase.

Reception 
Shapez 2 received positive reviews upon release. Ollie Toms from Rock, Paper, Shotgun described the game as "peerlessly satisfying", while Lawrence Scotti from PCGamesN said that the game "maintains a zen-like atmosphere."

References

External links 

 

Factory simulation games
Linux games
MacOS games
Sandbox games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Germany
Video game sequels
Windows games
2024 video games
Lanthanum monosulfide. Lanthanum monosulfide is a binary inorganic chemical compound of lanthanum metal and sulfur with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
Lanthanum monosulfide can be prepared from the effect of sulfur vapor on metallic lanthanum:

It can also be prepared from the reduction of  with metallic La.

Physical properties
Lanthanum monosulfide forms golden crystals of the cubic system, space group Fm3m, cell parameters a = 0.586 nm, Z = 4, structurally isomorphous with NaCl.

References

Lanthanum compounds
sulfides
Monosulfides
Rock salt crystal structure
Giorgio Diana. Giorgio Diana (born 27 September 1936) is an Italian engineer, writer, and professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Biography

In 1961, Diana graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.

Career
Diana designed aspects of the Strait of Messina Bridge related to aeroelastics and the bridge's proposed road-rail functionality. He has carried out Aerodynamic and aeroelastic analysis for the projects of the Stonecutters Bridge (Hong-Kong), Talavera (Spain), Adige (Italy). He carried out analyses of wind-induced vibrations and design of damping systems for some of the largest overhead power lines in the world, including the Orinoco Crossing (Venezuela), Lake Maracaibo Crossing (Venezuela), Gheshm Strait Crossing (Iran), Yangtze River Crossing (China). He has also carried out analyses of wind-induced vibrations on cables and design of damping systems for the British Airways London Eye (UK), Beijing Great Wheel (China), and Great Berlin Wheel (Germany) projects.

In sport, Diana worked on optimization of sail plans for the Oracle America's Cup team (USA), 2008–2009.

Books
Diana has written several books, most often on the subject of the Messina Bridge.

Awards
During his career, Diana received the following awards.

 ICARO Award (2007), by University of A Coruña, Spain
 Robert H. Scanlan Medal (2009) by American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia, USA
 The CIGRE SC B2 Technical Committee Award (2012) by International Council on Large Electric Systems, Paris, France
 The European Railway Award (2014) by Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, Brussels, Belgium

See also
 Claudio Borri
 Bill Brown

References

External links
 Giorgio Diana at Polimi

1936 births
Living people
Academics from Lombardy
Academics from Milan
21st-century Italian engineers
21st-century Italian writers
Writers from Lombardy
Writers from Milan
Dayananda Sagar University. Dayananda Sagar University (DSU), is a private university in Bangalore, India.  It offers various undergraduate and postgraduate Engineering, Basic and Applied Science, Arts & Humanities & Designing, Commerce, Health Science, Law courses

Overview 
Dayananda Sagar Institutions founded in the 60s by late Sri Dayananda Sagar. Beginning Academic Year 2015–16, Dayananda Sagar University would offer courses in Engineering, Computer Applications, Sciences, Arts and Management in the Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. levels. Admissions to DSU are through KCET, COMEDK, and Dayanand Sagar Admission Test(DSAT).

References

External links 
 Official website

Universities in Karnataka
2014 establishments in Karnataka
Private universities in India
Timothy E. Chupp. Timothy E. Chupp is an American scientist and educator and is currently a Professor of Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at Princeton and Harvard.

Chupp is fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1993 he was awarded the I. I. Rabi Prize. In 2020 he was named the Los Alamos National Laboratory  LANSCE Rosen Scholar.

He has broad-ranging interests in experimental physics, precision measurement in particle physics, and applications in metrology and biomedicine. He is also the founder of Michigan Magnetometry LLC.

Education 

Chupp earned his A.B. in physics from Princeton in 1977, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1983.

Research 

Chupp has broad research interests in experimental physics, including particle physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. His applied work includes precision magnetometry, nuclear magnetic resonance and MRI with laser polarized xenon. He has co-authored over 170 papers.

His most recent work uses precision measurement techniques and symmetry principles in particle physics investigations, applied to a wide variety of research questions, including measurement of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment (g-2) of muons at Fermilab, as well as atomic and neutron electric-dipole-moment measurements. The results of this latest research challenge the Standard Model with new precision measurements that deviate from Standard Model predictions well beyond experimental error.

Public lectures 
Chupp has given a number of lectures to the public, including for the University of Michigan Saturday Morning Physics program and Sloan Foundation Science and Film Series and other channels, on topics including on muons, solar neutrinos, the physics of vision, and the physics of baseball and basketball.

Select publications

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people