omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Yutong U11DD. The Yutong U11DD is a battery electric double-decker bus manufactured by Yutong in Zhengzhou since 2023, launched initially for the United Kingdom bus market in right-hand drive configuration.

Design
Announced in September 2022, the Yutong U11DD was developed extensively at Yutong's Zhengzhou manufacturing plant before the first demonstrators were shipped to the United Kingdom in June 2023. Externally, the U11DD shares design similarities with the tri-axle Yutong E12DD double-decker buses produced for Singapore's Land Transport Authority bus services in 2020, and carries a maximum of up to 84 passengers. Wheelchair and buggy spaces, as well as air conditioning, are provided as standard.

The Yutong U11DD is powered by a 220 kW permanent-magnet synchronous electric motor, and can be optioned with lithium iron phosphate batteries with a maximum charging capacity of either 385 or 442kWh. The bus shares electric driveline technology used in Yutong's other electric buses, such as the UK market's Yutong E10 and E9, allowing for a projected maximum range of up to  on a single charge.

Upgrades to the design and specification of U11DDs produced for the UK market, based on operator feedback, were announced by Yutong's UK distributor Pelican Yutong in October 2024 ahead of the 2024 Euro Bus Expo. A step in the lower deck gangway was replaced with a gently sloped floor, allowing step-free access up to the rear of the bus, with more headroom additionally created for passengers seated towards the rear. In the cab area, the cab door is held closer magnetically to reduce rattling, and electrically operated sunshields, handbrakes and steering wheel adjustment systems were added. USB chargers are specified as standard in the backs of each seat, stop bell buttons were wired to light up when pressed, and wall-mounted folding seats in the lower deck pull out gently.

Operators
Two demonstrators were first shipped to the United Kingdom for evaluation by bus operators in late 2023. The first operator to take delivery of U11DDs was Welsh municipal Newport Bus, a popular operator of electric Yutongs, who took delivery of two U11DDs in April 2024.

The first major order of U11DDs was placed by the FirstGroup in July 2024, with 127 set to be delivered during 2025 with funding from the central government Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA 2) scheme to First Essex, First West of England and The Buses of Somerset for service in Basildon, Bristol, Weston-super-Mare and Taunton respectively.

Molesey independent coach operator Westway Coaches took delivery of a single U11DD, equipped with seatbelted leather seats, for private hire coaching work in September 2024.

References

External links 

 Yutong product description

Low-floor buses
Battery electric buses
Double-decker buses
Vehicles introduced in 2023
Buses of China
Transcaspian Canal. The Transcaspian Canal () was a proposed canal to divert the Amu Darya River from the Aral Sea and into the Caspian Sea. It was first proposed by Tsarist engineers and later considered by Soviet officials. Proponents argued that the project would return the Amu Darya into its supposed old bed.

Several other similar proposals were made in the early 20th century, including a Kazakh-Turkestan Canal to connect Kazakhstan with the Black Sea. The projects were not seriously considered after the late-1920s, when a campaign was launched to ridicule "fantastic" hydraulic projects. In 1928, over a dozen hydraulic engineers operating in Central Asia were tried for mismanaging the irrigation system and "devising intentionally fantastic projects".

Proposals 
Following the Russian conquest of Central Asia, multiple suggestions were put forward for the construction of a transcaspian canal. Those who supported the project had Orientalist views and believed it would return "the [Khivan] oasis to cultured life".

Glukhovskoi's proposals 
Among the initial proposals was one presented by Aleksandr Glukhovskoi in 1868. He argued that such a canal would allow ships sailing down the Volga to reach Tashkent via Bukhara. His proposal was backed by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian empire.

Many of Glukhovskoi's original reports and proposals were lost during the Russian Civil War and a 1924 flood. In June 1925, the Water Section of the State Planning Committee discussed the project. Among the plans considered was one made by Gluvoskoi in 1893.

Rizenkampf's proposals 

After the October Revolution, Georgii Rizenkampf () proposed to build a 1,600-km (1,500-verst) canal stretching from the upper reaches of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan through the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan all the way to the Caspian sea. In his 1921 book entitled "Trans-Kaspiiskii kanal (Problema orosheniia Zakaspiia)" (), Rizenkampf argued that the canal would support the growing of cotton in the region. He predicted cotton would become the "fulcrum of life in Transcaspia".

Criticism 
By the late 1920s, a media campaign was launched to ridicule large water diversion projects in Central Asia. In February and March 1928, 23 hydraulic engineers and water managers working in Central Asia, including those who had proposed a transcaspian canal, were tried in Tashkent. At the time the London Times reported that "Until recently the authorities in Moscow boasted of these 'fantastic projects,' but now apparently they need scapegoats to mollify the native population." Historian Maya K. Peterson similarly argued that the trial was aimed to "distract from Soviet failings and find scapegoats".

See also 
 Eurasia Canal

References

Citations

Sources

External links 
 Glukhovskoi's Transcaspian Canal (1921) (in Russian)

Caspian Sea
Macro-engineering
Proposed canals
B.F. Clyde's Cider Mill. B.F. Clyde's Cider Mill is a historic cider mill located in Mystic, Connecticut. It is the oldest and only surviving steam powered cider mill in the United States. It is also the oldest continuous producer of hard cider in the United States.

History 
Benjamin F. Clyde began selling apple cider in 1881, but had it pressed at other mills. He purchased his own mill in 1897. The mill itself was installed in 1898. It has all steel construction and has one of the final screw presses.

Since then, ownership of the mill has passed from generation to generation within the family, spanning six generations as of today. Visiting the mill is a local tradition.

In 1994 it was listed as a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the ASME.

References

External links 

 ASME Pamphlet

Cider mills
Grinding mills in Connecticut
Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks
Mystic, Connecticut
Buildings and structures in New London County, Connecticut
Hwinfo. HWiNFO (also known as HWiNFO64) is a system monitoring, system profiling and system diagnostics program for Windows and DOS-based systems. It is developed by Martin Malik and REALiX.

It was used by NASA during several tests of different microprocessors, including an AMD Ryzen 3 1200 and Intel i5-6600K.

Features 
 Displaying CPU, GPU and other hardware information
 Monitoring CPU, GPU and other sensors

References 

Utilities for Windows
Stichting Blauwe Lijn. The  (English: Blue Line Foundation) is an organisation based in The Netherlands focused on the preservation of biographical, technical, and historical information related to hydraulic engineering and engineers in the field. The organisation engages in public outreach and educational programmes with the stated aims of: 

 preserving and making accessible historical knowledge of Dutch hydraulic engineering;
 maintaining a repository in both digital and physical forms, and providing access through a website;
 connecting historical knowledge with contemporary and future challenges in water management, involving students, experts, and knowledge networks in the process.

The Stichting Blauwe Lijn conducts tours and events, and has published a series of booklets, including 'The Water Gives and Takes', as part of its effort to disseminate information on water management, particularly to its target audience of 8 to 25 year-olds. The organisation contributed to the unveiling of a statue of Dr. Ir. Johan van Veen in Capelle aan den IJssel, and maintains biographical information and publications on notable Dutch engineers such as Johannis de Rijke, Jan Agema, and Frank Spaargaren.

The organisation is recognised by the Dutch Tax Authorities as an Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling (ANBI) (English: Public Benefit Organisation), meaning that at least 90% of the efforts of the foundation must be focused on the general good.

See also 
 Delta Works
 Zuiderzee Works
 Rijkswaterstaat

References

External links 
 Official website of Stichting Blauwe Lijn (in Dutch)

Foundations based in the Netherlands
Phillip C.-Y. Sheu. Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu is a professor with joint appointments in electrical engineering, computer science and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He has contributed to semantic computing, robotics computing, artificial intelligence, biomedical computing, and multimedia computing.

Sheu has published more than 100 papers on object-relational data, their applications and knowledge engineering. He has also written papers in Computer Science, drug discovery, biomedical engineering, and machine learning. Additionally, he published  two books: Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems and Software Engineering and Environment - An Object-Oriented Perspective; and was co-editor of Semantic Computing (IEEE Press/Wiley).

Education 
Sheu, an American citizen originally from Taiwan has a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and an M.S. in Computer from UC Berkeley. In 1986, he completed his doctoral thesis Logic-oriented Object Bases under the guidance of C.V. Ramamoorthy.

Career and contributions 
Sheu's current research is about semantic computing. Currently, he is a professor at the University of California, Irvine.

He is known for starting the field of semantic computing; semantics addresses all the resources including data, documents, tools, devices, processes, and people. Moreover, the scope of Semantic Computing includes analytics, semantics description language and integration, interface, and its applications. The latest development of ChatGPT demonstrates the importance of semantic computing.

Sheu is also recognized for his founding role in renowned conferences and initiatives. He founded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Technical Committee on Semantic Computing (TCSEM) and the Institute for Semantic Computing Foundation. He has the vision behind the IEEE International Conferences of Semantic Computing (ICSC) and Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI).

Sheu is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC) and the Encyclopedia of Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence (ESCRI). These platforms have contributed to disseminating knowledge and advancements in the respective fields. At Systems Control Technology Inc. (SCT), he worked as a computer scientist, moreover, at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), he worked as a product planning engineer.

Awards 
Sheu received an IEEE fellow award in 2003.  He is the inaugural educator-in-chief of the IEEE AI Academy  and also the part of IEEE conferences.

Books 
He has published books on the state of the technology and future of semantic computing:

He is also a co-editor of Semantic Computing (IEEE Press/Wiley).

Research and publications 
Sheu has published more than a hundred research papers since 1986  but his recent work in the field of semantic computing, bioinformatics, and health informatics is as follows:

References

External links
at University of California, Irvine

Living people
American computer scientists
American electrical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Thorium trichloride. Thorium trichloride is a binary inorganic compound of thorium metal and chlorine with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
The compound can be prepared by reducing thorium tetrachloride at 800°C:

Also a reaction of both elements: 

Other reactions are also known.

Physical properties
The compound forms crystals of the uranium trichloride crystal system.

Chemical properties
Above 630 °C thorium trichloride dissociates into the dichloride and tetrachloride.

Uses
Thorium trichloride is supposed to be used in a dual fluid reactor as reactor fuel.

References 

Thorium compounds
Nuclear materials
Chlorides
Actinide halides
Centre for High Performance Computing SA. The Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) was launched in 2007 and is a part of the National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System (NICIS) in South Africa. The CPHC is supported by the South African Department of Science and Innovation, TENET and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.  South Africa, in 2016, joined the Petaflop Club when the fastest computer in Africa was unveiled. Dubbed "Lengau", which is a Setswana word for Cheetah; this petascale system consists of Dell servers, powered by Intel processors

High-performance computing 
High-performance computing (HPC) refers to the practice of aggregating computing power/resources of several computing nodes in a manner that delivers much higher-performance computer power.
HPC is measured in terms of floating point operations per second, or "FLOPS".  HPCs are fast and can process thousand-trillion calculations (a petaflop). HPC clusters have vast amounts of every type of resource that can bought. Every CHPC is different, as much of the configuration depends on the vendor and their budget.  Neighbouring countries, research centres, and universities can use Lengau to advance scientific discovery, while commercial firms can also improve their efficiency and competitiveness. The CHPC is a critical player in making national data-intensive research infrastructure accessible across the research and higher education sectors.     

The CHPC offers high-performance computing facilities to academic and industry researchers who need to process data and perform complex calculations. During the pandemic, this CHPC contributed to worldwide efforts to identify the South African variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Flagship projects
The CHPC supports several South African flagship projects. Including the 
 Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope 
 Student Cluster Competition, a program for undergraduate students currently enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields who are trained in high-performance computing skills.
  A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations to study galaxies and their environments 
 Advanced weather modelling with the South African Weather Service (SAWS)

Means of production 
In the global north, the private sector has access to the means of production. It can process large-scale data sets, big data analytics & algorithmic data science methods on their HPC infrastructure. HPCs act as methodological gatekeepers, prescribing what forms of educational data science and methodological capital are permitted. Unlike HPC infrastructures in the global north, where the means of production often lies with for-profit companies or well-resourced private universities like Stanford. The CHPC (https://www.chpc.ac.za/) is state-owned and prioritises computational resources and application support for any compute-intensive or machine-learning algorithms.  The CPHC collaborates and shares computational clusters with neighbouring countries in the SADC region, to develop relevant human capital.

References 

Research institutes in South Africa
2007 establishments
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (吉川弘之) is a Japanese engineer. He specialises in precision engineering and general design theory. He served as the 25th president of the University of Tokyo and the 20th and 21st president of the Science Council of Japan. He is a member of the Japan Academy and a recipient of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

Career 
After graduating from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 1956, he began his career as an engineer at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding. He later returned to academia, earning his PhD from UTokyo in 1964. He remained in academia and became a professor at UTokyo in 1978. He is known for advocating a new perspective in design and engineering, one that does not overly focus on achieving local optima in individual fields, but rather aims to achieve a global optimum and maximise the outcome of the work. He coined the term 'modern evils' to describe the unwanted outcomes that human efforts for a better world have created. He maintains that addressing this issue requires this new perspective, which bridges fragmented academic disciplines to synthesise new solutions and artificial objects.

References 

University of Tokyo alumni
Presidents of the University of Tokyo
Japanese engineers
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo

1933 births

Living people
Model 20. Model 20 may refer to:

Electronics, computing, telecommunications, office machinery
 Compaq Model 20, a luggable transportable computer; see Compaq Portable series
 DEC MicroVAX 3100 Model 20, a backoffice minicomputer; see List of VAX computers
 IBM System/360 Model 20, a mainframe computer
 IBM Model 20, a xerography machine, a photocopier; see IBM copier family
 IBM Model 20, an impact printer; see IBM hammer printers
 Teletype Model 20, a teletype machine from Teletype Corporation
 UNIVAC Model 20, a mainframe computer from UNIVAC

Transport and vehicular
 Edwards Rail Car Company Model 20, a U.S. self-propelled rail car

Automotive
 AJS Model 20, a UK motorcycle
 AMC Model 20, an automotive axle
 Bour-Davis Model 20, a U.S. automobile from Bour-Davis
 Flanders Model "20", a U.S. automobile
 Harley-Davidson Model 20, a U.S. motorcycle; see List of motorcycles of the 1920s
 Haynes Model 20, a U.S. automobile from Haynes Automobile Company
 Hudson Model 20, a U.S. automobile from Hudson Motor Car Company
 Hupmobile Model 20, a U.S. 1920 model year automobile
 Massey-Harris Model 20, a Canadian 2-plow tractor
 Norton Model 20, a UK motorcycle; see List of Norton motorcycles
 Oldsmobile Model 20, a U.S. automobile
 Winton Model 20, a U.S. automobile from Winton Motor Carriage Company

Aviation
 Consolidated Model 20, a light transport monoplane U.S. aeroplane
 Taylorcraft Model 20 "Ranch Wagon", a 4-seater monoplane U.S. aeroplane

Weaponry
 Beretta Model 20, a handgun, predecessor to the Beretta 21A Bobcat
 Daisy Model 20 "Little Daisy", a Masonic ritual water pistol from Daisy Outdoor Products
 Glock Model 20, a U.S.-market 10mm handgun
 J.C. Higgins Model 20, a U.S. pump-action shotgun from J.C. Higgins
 Marlin Model 20, a U.S. slide-action .22-calibre rifle
 Smith & Wesson Model 20, a U.S. revolver handgun
 Winchester Model 20, a U.S. breech-loading .410-bore single-barreled shotgun

Other uses
 Polaroid Model 20 "Swinger", a U.S. instant camera
 Randall Model 20, a skinning knife from Randall Made Knives
 SME Limited Model 20, a UK record player turntable

See also

 
 M20 (disambiguation)

 M2020

 M1920 (disambiguation)

 Class 20 (disambiguation)
 Type 20 (disambiguation)
 20 (disambiguation)
Abdulquawiy Abdulganiyu Olododo. Abdulquawiy Abdulganiyu Olododo is a Nigerian politician, entrepreneur, and engineer who had served Kwara State in Nigeria as the State Commissioner for Solid Minerals Development, and the acting Commissioner for Works and Transport since 2023. Olododo is from Ilorin East, Ilorin, and graduated from Kwara State University.

Career 
Olododo was the General Manager of the Kwara State Social Investment Programme (KWASSIP) between July 2022 to August 2023. He was the Technical Assistant on Agriculture to the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq between 2020 and 2022. In 2023, he was the Commissioner for Solid Minerals Development and the Supervising Commissioner for Works and Transport in Kwara State, Nigeria.

Commissioner for Works and Transport, Kwara State 
Early 2024, Abdulquawiy Olododo was appointed as the Commissioner for Works and Transport in Kwara State by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. This appointment followed a cabinet reshuffle where Olododo, who had been serving as the Commissioner for Solid Minerals, took on the role of Commissioner for Works and Transport. Prior to this, he had held the Works and Transport portfolio in an acting capacity while simultaneously overseeing the Ministry of Solid Minerals.

References 

21st-century Nigerian politicians
Kwara State politicians
Nigerian engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spinergie. Spinergie is a maritime technology company specializing in offshore market intelligence, emission reduction, vessel performance, and optimizing marine operations. The company’s digital platform offers accurate real-time operations tracking and benchmarking.

The company was founded in 2016 in Paris, France. Spinergie is headquartered in Paris, and has offices in Austin and London.  

Offshore Wind is one of the major focuses for Spinergie's data-backed intelligence. Its insights are routinely cited in reportings on the market.

Recognitions 
In 2022, Spinergie introduced an alternative method to calculate the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) for offshore vessels not involved in shipping. This method was won the Thetius:Zero challenge  and was also adopted by SEACOR Holdings for their fleet of Offshore Support Vessels.

Funding 
In 2022, the company raised €11 million in a funding round led by Iris Capital and SWEN Capital's Blue Ocean Fund, and alongside Polytechnique Ventures.

References 

2016 establishments in France