omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Michael Zyda. Michael Zyda is an American computer scientist, video game designer, and former Professor of Computer Science Practice at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2019 and an ACM Fellow in 2020 for his research contributions in video game design and virtual reality. He is also the founding director of the Computer Science (Games) degree programs at USC Viterbi. Michael received his bachelor's degree in bioengineering from University of California, San Diego, master's degree in computer science from University of Massachusetts Amherst and doctoral degree in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Zyda was an expert witness for Billy Mitchell in a lawsuit against Twin Galaxies.

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2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
University of California, San Diego alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Andrea Massa (electrical engineer). Andrea Massa is an Italian electronics engineer, researcher and a full professor at University of Trento. He was named an IEEE Fellow by the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society in 2018.

He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications and a past editorial board member for the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies. He is a past associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

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Living people
Italian electrical engineers
Academic staff of the University of Trento
Fellows of the IEEE
21st-century Italian engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Phil De Luna. Phil De Luna is a Canadian materials scientist. He is currently the chief carbon scientist and head of engineering at Deep Sky, a Canadian carbon removals project developer.

Education and career
De Luna earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Windsor (2013), a Master of Science degree from the University of Ottawa (2015) and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Toronto (2018). His doctoral research identified new electrocatalytic materials for the conversion of carbon dioxide into renewable fuels and feedstocks.
During this period, he worked as a research scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2016) and Tokyo Research Institute (2018). 

De Luna then began to serve as a director at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), heading the "Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program," a collaborative research program on Canadian-made clean energy technology (2019-2022). De Luna's research has focused on decarbonization, particularly CO2 conversion, hydrogen, and artificial intelligence for materials science. 

In 2022, De Luna was appointed an adjunct professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto. He has also served at UC Berkeley as a visiting researcher. Also in 2022, De Luna published the book "Accelerated Materials Discovery: How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Speed Up Development" about using artificial intelligence and robotics to accelerate traditional experimental discovery methods for new materials development. He was a consultant for McKinsey & Company (2022-2023) before joining Deep Sky. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. 

De Luna has published extensively in Canadian media on integrating minorities into scientific research and the need for engagement between scientists and politics. He holds a variety of board and fellowship positions and serves as the board chair at Carbon Management Canada.

Politics
De Luna ran for the Green Party of Canada in Toronto—St. Paul's in the 2021 Canadian federal election. He finished fourth, behind the incumbent Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, as well as the Conservative and NDP candidates.

Personal life
De Luna is of Filipino descent. He lives in Toronto with his partner, an operating room nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children.

Electoral record

Selected awards and recognition
 2022 Globe and Mail Report on Business Changemaker
 2021 College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30

Selected publications

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External links

 Podcast

Canadian people of Filipino descent
21st-century Canadian scientists
Canadian materials scientists
Green Party of Canada candidates in the 2021 Canadian federal election
Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament
1991 births
Living people
University of Windsor alumni
University of Ottawa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Hydroxyphenamate. Hydroxyphenamate or oxyfenamate (trade name Listica) is a sedative and anxiolytic drug of the carbamate class which is no longer marketed in the US. Like other carbamate sedatives, it is chemically related to meprobamate (Miltown). It was introduced to the US market in 1961. The dosage for adults is 200 mg 3 to 4 times daily.

Synthesis
The reaction of propiophenone (1) with cyanide gives 2-hydroxy-2-phenylbutanenitrile (2). Acid hydrolysis of the nitrile to a carboxylic acid gives 2-hydroxy-2-phenylbutanoic acid (3). The reduction by hydride of the acid to the alcohol gives 2-phenyl-1,2-butanediol (4).   For the final step in the synthesis, treatment with ethyl chloroformate followed by addition of aqueous ammonia gave the carbamate, and hence hydroxyphenamate (5).

References

Anxiolytics
Carbamates
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Tertiary alcohols
Ryan M. Eustice. Ryan M. Eustice (born 1976) is an American roboticist, and the Senior Vice President of Human-centric AI and Technology Adoption at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He is also a professor of Robotics and Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Eustice received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1998 and his Doctoral Degree in Ocean Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Ocean Engineering in 2005, and then served as Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University for a year.

Eustice is best known for his work in advancing large-scale simultaneous localization and mapping, including visual mapping of the RMS Titanic. He established the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL) in the Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He was a founding and core faculty member in the creation and launch of the UM Robotics Institute and its associated PhD and MS programs in Robotics.

Eustice has published over 160 technical papers in the field of robotics with over 9300 citations. He won the ONR Young Investigator and NSF CAREER Awards, and best paper of the year award in 2006 in IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He also was a finalist in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge with team IVS.

Bibliography
Kinsey, J. C., Eustice, R. M., & Whitcomb, L. L. (2006, September). A survey of underwater vehicle navigation: Recent advances and new challenges. In IFAC Conference of Manoeuvering and Control of Marine Craft (Vol. 88, pp. 1–12).
Eustice, R. M., Singh, H., & Leonard, J. J. (2006). Exactly sparse delayed-state filters for view-based SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1100–1114.
Wolcott, R. W., & Eustice, R. M. (2014, September). Visual localization within lidar maps for automated urban driving. In 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 176–183). IEEE.
Carlevaris-Bianco, N., Mohan, A., & Eustice, R. M. (2010, September). Initial results in underwater single image dehazing. In Oceans 2010 Mts/IEEE Seattle (pp. 1–8). IEEE.
Eustice, R., Singh, H., Leonard, J. J., Walter, M. R., & Ballard, R. (2005, June). Visually Navigating the RMS Titanic with SLAM Information Filters. In Robotics: Science and Systems (Vol. 2005, pp. 57–64).
Kim, A., & Eustice, R. M. (2013). Real-time visual SLAM for autonomous underwater hull inspection using visual saliency. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 29(3), 719–733.
Eustice, R. M., Singh, H., & Whitcomb, L. L. (2011). Synchronous‐clock, one‐way‐travel‐time acoustic navigation for underwater vehicles. journal of field robotics, 28(1), 121–136.

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Living people
1976 births
Michigan State University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Michigan faculty
American roboticists
MV Cape Hudson. MV Cape Hudson (T-AKR-5066) was originally built as a commercial ship in 1979 and sold to the Wilhelmsen Line with the name Barber Taif. She has two sister ships named  and .

Construction and career 
It served as a merchant ship until it was purchased by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration in December 1986. 

On 15 August 1990, she was reactivated for Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield until 20 May 1992.

She conducted anchor tests south of Angel Island, San Francisco Bay on 28 July 2007. 

From there it was later transferred to the Maritime Administrations Ready reserve fleet and assigned to San Francisco.

As of 2024 the vessel is still in service under the United States Maritime Administration (MARAD)

Further reading
MARAD registry entry for the Cape Hudson: https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/750
(https://web.archive.org/web/20120616101648/http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=37) Military Sealift Command Ship Inventory
(http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/545066.htm) NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

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Ships built in Norway
1978 ships
Gulf War ships of the United States
4-tert-Butylphenol. 4-tert-Butylphenol is an organic compound with the formula (CH3)3CC6H4OH.  It is one of three isomeric tert-butyl phenols.  It is a white solid with a distinct phenolic odor. It dissolves in basic water.

Manufacture 
It can be prepared by acid-catalyzed alkylation of phenol with isobutene, 2-tert-butylphenol being the major side product. It can be produced by diverse transalkylation reactions.

Uses 
It major uses are in the production of epoxy resins and curing agents and also in polycarbonate resins. It has also found use in the production of phenolic resins. Another use is in the production of para tertiary butylphenol formaldehyde resin. It has also found use as a plasticizer.

Bisphenol A is difunctional and used to produce epoxy resin and polycarbonate. 4-tert-Butylphenol is monofunctional and so in polymer science terms, bisphenol A is a polymer chain extender but 4-tert-butylphenol is a chain stopper or sometimes called endcapper. It is thus use to control molecular weight by limiting chain growth.

4-tert-Butylphenol has an OH group and so it may be reacted with epichlorohydrin and sodium hydroxide to produce the glycidyl ether which is used in epoxy resin chemistry. This molecule has the CAS Registry number of 3101-60-8.

Laboratory reactions
Hydrogenation gives trans-4-tert-butylcyclohexanol.

Controlled condensation with formaldehyde gives calixarenes.

Safety
OSHA records show it as an irritant and has developed suggested test methods for its detection. A European Union risk assessment report into the molecule dated May 2006 suggested it had potential depigmenting properties and was a potential endocrine disruptor. This was done under its EINECS number of 202-679-0. Other papers have been published showing similar findings.

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Alkylphenols
4-Hydroxyphenyl compounds
Hamad Almatar. Hamad Mohammed Jassim Al-Matar (born July 8, 1970) is a member of the Kuwaiti National 
Assembly, and holds a doctorate in industrial chemistry.

He boycotted the National Assembly elections after adjusting the number of votes from four to one, in solidarity with the Popular Action Movement in 2012. Also he is a prominent member of the Islamic Brotherhood clique in the Kuwaiti Parliament Assembly.

Memberships and achievements 

Source:

 Director of the Consulting and Training Office at the College of Science at Kuwait University.
 Faculty member at Kuwait University - Department of Chemistry.
 A faculty member at the College of Graduate Studies-Kuwait University.
 Environmental advisor to the Kuwaiti municipal council.
 President of the Arab Chemists Union in 2005.
 President of the Kuwaiti Chemical Society from 2004 to 2006.
 President of the Kuwaiti Green Peace Organization.
 Regional Director of the Arab Federation for Chemical and Petrochemical Industries.
 An internal auditor for administrative and environmental quality systems.
 Chairman of the Environmental Advisory Board in the Arab World.
 CEO of the National Project for the Development of Environmental Awareness.
 Founding member of the Association of Trainers of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
 Member of the American Chemical Society.
 Member of the British Royal Chemical Society.

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Members of the National Assembly (Kuwait)
1970 births
Living people
Daybreak (board game). Daybreak is a cooperative board game that models the technological and political response to climate change. It is designed by Pandemic creator Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace, and has been published by CMYK in November 2023.

Gameplay 

Throughout the game, the Earth's temperature begins to rise. Simultaneously, players must contend with crisis events, such as droughts, wildfires, rising sea levels, each exacerbated by Earth's rising temperature. Players assume the role of national superpowers or coalitions (the United States, China, Europe, or the Global South), which each have traits to combat the ecological circumstances. For example, the United States has research and development and China has direct economic control. Players divide their investments between carbon emission mitigation and adapting their societies to environmental changes. Based on the game's design, every country needs to contribute or players collectively lose.

Development 

Designer Matt Leacock wanted the game foremost to be fun to play and only secondarily to inform about the effects of climate change without excessive moralizing. The game's title comes from the hopefulness the designers want the game to embody, juxtaposed against the somber circumstances of coping with climate change.

Public Reception 
The game has been noted for its optimistic approach to tackling climate change, emphasizing human ingenuity and partnership to overcome environmental challenges. Despite its optimistic tone, some reviewers have pointed out that the game leans more towards fantasy, simplifying the complex realities of global climate issues.

In July 2024 it won the Spiel des Jahres Kennerspiel award for best connesuriers game, the first win for Matt Leacock after many nominations.

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Board games introduced in 2023
Climate change mass media
Kennerspiel des Jahres winners
Chinese ship Weishanhu. Weishanhu (887) is a Type 903 replenishment ship of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

Development and design 

Type 903 integrated supply ship (NATO called Fuchi-class supply ship) is a new large-scale integrated supply ship of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, designed by Zhang Wende. The later improved model is called 903A. The difference with 903 is that the displacement has increased from 20,530 tons to 23,000 tons.

All 9 ships have been built and are in service. The ship is a new generation of large-scale ocean-going integrated supply ship in China. Its supply equipment has been greatly improved compared to the earlier Type 905 integrated supply ship. It can be used for supply operations in horizontal, vertical, vertical, and sideways. It has two sides, three directions, and four stations. At the same time, the replenishment capability can complete fleet replenishment tasks in more complex situations. And the speed is higher than that of the Qinghaihu built with merchant ships as the standard, with a maximum speed of 20 knots, which can accompany fleet operations. The commissioning of this class of supply ship indicates that the People's Liberation Army Navy has a stable ocean-going combat capability, and this was proved in the subsequent Somalia escort missions. The 903 type integrated supply ship used some Russian equipment in the early stage, and later it was fully localized. This type of supply ship has undergone a comprehensive upgrade of electronic equipment, and has high formation communication capabilities, automatic statistics of materials, and the ability to report to formation command ships.

In the late 1990s, China's integrated supply ship Similan built for the Thai Navy's light aircraft carrier formation is generally considered to be an attempt by China to build a modern integrated supply ship. In the following years, China has learned experience and lessons. Improved on the basis of the Similan, and finally the Type 903 integrated supply ship was designed and finalized by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

Construction and career 
She was launched on 1 July 2003 at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai and commissioned on 18 April 2004 into the South Sea Fleet.

On 25 August 2013, USS Mason and Weishanhu conducted a joint VBSS training as part of a U.S.-China counter piracy exercise in the Gulf of Aden.

Gallery

External links 
Sinodefence.com

References

2003 ships
Qiandaohu-class replenishment ships
Ships built in China
Chinese ship Kekexilihu. Kekexilihu (968) is a Type 903A replenishment ship of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

Development and design 

Type 903 integrated supply ship (NATO called Fuchi-class supply ship) is a new large-scale integrated supply ship of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, designed by Zhang Wende. The later improved model is called 903A. The difference with 903 is that the displacement has increased from 20,530 tons to 23,000 tons.

All 9 ships have been built and are in service. The ship is a new generation of large-scale ocean-going integrated supply ship in China. Its supply equipment has been greatly improved compared to the earlier Type 905 integrated supply ship. It can be used for supply operations in horizontal, vertical, vertical, and sideways. It has two sides, three directions, and four stations. At the same time, the replenishment capability can complete fleet replenishment tasks in more complex situations. And the speed is higher than that of the Qinghaihu built with merchant ships as the standard, with a maximum speed of 20 knots, which can accompany fleet operations. The commissioning of this class of supply ship indicates that the People's Liberation Army Navy has a stable ocean-going combat capability, and this was proved in the subsequent Somalia escort missions. The 903 type integrated supply ship used some Russian equipment in the early stage, and later it was fully localized. This type of supply ship has undergone a comprehensive upgrade of electronic equipment, and has high formation communication capabilities, automatic statistics of materials, and the ability to report to formation command ships.

In the late 1990s, China's integrated supply ship Similan built for the Thai Navy's light aircraft carrier formation is generally considered to be an attempt by China to build a modern integrated supply ship. In the following years, China has learned experience and lessons. Improved on the basis of the Similan, and finally the Type 903 integrated supply ship was designed and finalized by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

Construction and career 
She was launched on 18 May 2018 at Huangpu Shipyard in Guangzhou and commissioned in March 2019 into the North Sea Fleet.

In February 2023, the support ship was deployed to the south Indian Ocean to engage in joint exercises with the South African and Russian navies that were to be held in waters off South Africa. The exercise began on 18 February and involved the frigate Admiral Gorshkov and tanker Kama from the Russian Navy along with the People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer Huainan and the frigate Rizhao. Several vessels from the South African Navy were expected to participate including the frigate Mendi as well as the Warrior-class patrol vessel King Sekhukhune I and the hydrographic survey vessel SAS Protea.

External links 
Sinodefence.com

References

2018 ships
Qiandaohu-class replenishment ships
Ships built in China
List of heritage railways and funiculars in Switzerland. This is a list of heritage railways in Switzerland. For convenience, the list includes any pre-World War II railway in the large sense of the term (either adhesion railway, rack railway or funicular) currently operated with at least several original or historical carriages.

Switzerland has a very dense rail network, both standard and narrow gauge. The overwhelming majority of railways, built between the mid-19th and early 20th century, are still in regular operation today and were electrified earlier than in the rest of Europe. The major exception is the partially rack and pinion-operated Furka Steam Railway, the longest unelectrified line in the country. However, numerous rail operators, notably SBB Historic, provide services with well-maintained historical rolling stock.

List

Blonay–Chamby museum railway (adhesion)
Brienz Rothorn Railway (rack)
Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (adhesion)
Etzwilen–Singen railway (adhesion)
 (funicular)
Furka Steam Railway (rack and adhesion)
 (adhesion)
Giessbachbahn (funicular)
Heimwehfluhbahn (funicular)
International Rhine Regulation Railway (adhesion)
La Traction (adhesion)
Les Avants–Sonloup (funicular)
Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway (rack)
Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line (adhesion)
 (adhesion)
Pilatus Railway (rack)
Reichenbachfall Funicular
Rhaetian Railway, notably on the Albula and Bernina lines (adhesion)
Riffelalp tram (adhesion)
Rigi Railways (rack)
Rorschach–Heiden railway (rack)
SBB Historic (adhesion)
 (adhesion)
Schynige Platte Railway (rack)
Sonnenberg (funicular)
 (funicular)
Vapeur Val-de-Travers (adhesion)
 (adhesion)
Zürcher Museums-Bahn (adhesion)

See also
List of railway museums in Switzerland
List of narrow-gauge railways in Switzerland
List of mountain railways in Switzerland
List of funiculars in Switzerland
Lists of tourist attractions in Switzerland
Swiss Museum of Transport ()

References

 
Switzerland