omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Keta Sea Defence. The Keta Sea Defence Wall in Ghana was done to defend the coastline from Keta to Hlorve. The defence was constructed to prevent chronic and occasional erosion along the coast and flooding. Also to reclaim land from the Keta Lagoon to widen human settlements and also to build a way linking settlements from Keta to Hlorve. A World Bank analysis from 2010 presents a bleak picture for the remainder of Ghana.

Construction 
The construction of the 41-million Euro sea defence began in October 2010 and was projected to be completed by December 2011 but was completed in October 2014. The quantity of the dredge was estimated at 15 million cubic meters and the vessel type used was the Cutter Suction Dredge.

The first phase for the construction of the defense also known as the Blekuso Project started in 2015 and was completed.

The second phase for the construction of the defense was expected to cover about 8 km minimum along the coastal stretch.

The amount set for the project was $100-million.

Tidal waves 
In June 2015, about 56 houses in the towns of Dzita and Fuveme in the Keta Municipality were destroyed by tidal waves leaving 627 people homeless. Also in June 2016, tidal waves destroyed the towns of Agbledomi, Fuveme, Whuti, Srogboe, Dzita, and Kporkporgbor leaving hundreds of people homeless and destroying farmlands and properties.

On 7 November 2021, tidal waves swept through human settlements in the Keta Municipality and Ketu Municipality displacing about 3,000 people. Affected communities were Kedzikope, Abutiakope, Dzelukope, Dzita, Anloga, Agbledomi, Atiteti, Agokedzi, Serakope Fuveme and Keta Central. The waves destroyed fishing equipment, farm animals and many households.

Government intervention 
The Government of Ghana allocated about 10million Ghana cedis for the communities affected by the tidal waves.

Appeal 
Togbi Edido II, the Chief of Xorvi pleaded with the government to solve the issues on the waves and also appealed to the government to make sure the Keta lagoon is dredged to reclaim lands lost for development in the communities.

Torgbi Adamah III, the paramount chief of Some Traditional Area also pleaded with the government to begin the second of the project to reduce the damage caused by the sea on settlements along the shore.

Controversies 
In December 2021, Mathew Opoku Prempeh in a video that went viral on social media was alleged to have said he would lead a demonstration in Kumasi if Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister for Finance accepts the request of the Minority in Parliament concerning the sea defence project. The public condemned him as being 'insensitive' to the plight of the Keta people. He later claimed he supports the project 100% and disputed claims his comments was not based on ethnic bias.

John Agyekum Kuffour blamed the NDC of wasting funds meant for the sea defence project whiles John Mahama also blamed the NPP for sidelining the Volta region in terms of infrastructural projects.

In the 2022 budget read by Ken Ofori-Atta, the sea defence project was not captured and Francis Asenso Boakye claimed he was disappointed.

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Xingu-Rio HVDC transmission line. The Xingu-Rio HVDC transmission line is a 2543.4 km long 800 kV high-voltage direct current transmission line in Brazil between the Xingu substation at the city of Anapu in the Pará state, 17 km from the Belo Monte Dam, and the Terminal Rio substation at the city of Paracambi in the Rio de Janeiro state. It was inaugurated 22 August 2019.

See also

 Xingu-Estreito HVDC transmission line

References

Electric power infrastructure in Brazil
HVDC transmission lines
Donald Gurnett. Donald Alfred Gurnett (April 11, 1940 – January 13, 2022) was an American physicist and professor at the University of Iowa who specialized in plasma physics.

Early life and education
Gurnett grew up in Fairfax, Iowa. In his spare time he built and flew model airplanes with a club at the airport in Cedar Rapids. There he met the German expatriate scientist Alexander Lippisch.

Gurnett received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa in 1962, and then his master's degree in physics in 1963 and his doctorate in 1965.

Career
Gurnett's research into space plasmas (and his involvement in the development of electronics and measuring devices for space missions) began while he was a student and eventually led to early studies of plasma waves in the Earth's radiation belt (via low-frequency radio waves). From 1962, he was a NASA trainee at the University of Iowa and Stanford University (1964/65). He participated to the Injun satellites program designed and built by researchers at the University of Iowa to observe various radiation and magnetic phenomena in the ionosphere and beyond.  In 1965, he became an assistant professor, in 1968 an associate professor, and in 1972 a professor at the University of Iowa.

His involvement with space plasmas continued through his involvement in 41 NASA missions, including Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to the outer planets, the Galileo mission to Jupiter, and the Cassini mission to Saturn. He was particularly concerned with the formation of the plasma waves observable in the radio spectrum in the plasmas of the radiation belts of planets with magnetic fields and wave-particle interactions in the plasmas, which are often easier to study in space than in the laboratory.

In late August 2012, the radio and plasma-wave instrument designed by Gurnett onboard Voyager 1 confirmed that it had crossed the heliopause.

Awards and honors
In 1998, Gurnett became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2004, he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2014 he gave the Van Vleck Lecture and in 2006 the EGU Hannes Alfvén Medal. In addition, he received the Humboldt Prize, with which he was at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching (1975/76). In 1989 he received the John Adam Fleming Medal from the American Geophysical Union and the Excellence in Plasma Physics Award from the APS and in 1978 the John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science. In 1979/80 he was a visiting professor at UCLA.

Personal life 
He was married to his wife Marie. Together they had two daughters, Suzanne and Christina.

Gurnett died on January 13, 2022, at the age of 81.

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RPI Engineers men's ice hockey statistical leaders. The RPI Engineers men's ice hockey statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the RPI Engineers men's ice hockey program in various categories, including goals, assists, points, and saves. Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. The Engineers represent the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the NCAA's ECAC Hockey.

RPI began competing in intercollegiate ice hockey in 1901.  These lists are updated through the end of the 2020–21 season.

Goals

Assists

Points

Saves

References

Lists of college ice hockey statistical leaders by team
Statistical
Silver lactate. Silver lactate is an organic chemical compound, a salt of silver and lactic acid with the formula CH3CH(OH)COOAg.

Synthesis
Silver lactate can be made by the reaction of silver carbonate with lactic acid.

Physical properties
Silver lactate forms light gray crystals.

Silver lactate is soluble in water, slightly soluble in ethanol.

Silver lactate forms a crystalline hydrate of composition CH3CH(OH)COOAg•H2O.

Silver lactate is a reagent for the precipitation of uric acid.

Chemical properties
The compound reacts with triphenylphosphine gold chloride in a mixed solvent of benzene and dichloromethane to obtain colorless triphenylphosphine gold lactate.

The compound reacts with a tetraphosphine ligand, dppbpda, to obtain a coordination polymer [(dppbpda)Ag4(CH3CH(OH)COO)4]n.

References

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Silver compounds
East Shore Seawall. The East Shore Seawall, also known as Staten Island Multi-Use Elevated Promenade, is a  long combined seawall and esplanade proposed for the eastern shoreline of Staten Island, New York. It would run along the Lower New York Bay linking sections of the Gateway National Recreation Area: Fort Wadsworth at the north, Miller Field, and Great Kills Park to the south. It will roughly parallel Father Capodanno Boulevard and the South Beach–Franklin Delano Roosevelt Boardwalk.

The coastal engineering strategy is to address climate change and sea level rise, and improve resilience along the shoreline of the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary and Port of New York and New Jersey. It will be built up to  above sea level and protect communities from coastal flooding of up to  (two feet higher than that caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012). It will includes  of buried seawall,  of earthen levee tie-in,  miles vertical flood wall, more than  of natural storage, approximately  of ponding areas and  acres of tidal wetlands. It will  also function as a linear park/greenway with recreational amenities including a boardwalk, biking and walking paths, and will provide access to public beaches.

The project, a collaboration between the US Army Corps of Engineers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, was first announced in May 2017. In 2019, the city allocated $615 million for its design and construction.

Conflicts over environmental remediation has stalled the building of the project, originally projected to be completed in 2024.

Federal legislation to expedite the construction of the seawall was passed in June 2022. It is expected to cost $1.5 billion. Construction was slated to begin at the end of that year.

See also
Billion Oyster Project
Freshkills Park
Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
Sea Bright–Monmouth Beach Seawall
New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier

References

External links
 Summary Report, Resilient Neighborhoods, East Shore Staten Island, April 2017
 Shoreline Parks Plan A Plan for the East Shore of Staten Island
South Shore of Staten Island, N.Y. Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project USCE New York District January 4, 2023

Seawalls
Redeveloped ports and waterfronts in the United States
Buildings and structures in Staten Island
Protected areas of Staten Island
Port of New York and New Jersey
Gateway National Recreation Area
Dave Opstad. David G. Opstad (born ) is a retired American computer scientist specializing during his career in computer typography and information processing (focusing on character encodings), leading to several breakthroughs. Opstad was a contributor to Unicode 1.0, together with Joe Becker, Lee Collins, Huan-mei Liao, and Nelson Ng.

Opstad spent much of his career in private industry at Apple, where he contributed to its TrueType font specifications. His work on TrueType GX, although not much used or supported in its own time, formed the basis for OpenType Font Variations as they can be applied to TrueType outline fonts—all OpenType fonts with quadratic Bézier curves.

Opstad is named on several US software patents.

Education 
Opstad has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and a Master of Library Science from University of California, Los Angeles.

Career 
Among tech companies Opstad has worked for are Xerox, and Apple; he retired from the industry in 2021, leaving Monotype after more than 16 years.

During his time at Apple, he was responsible for AAT, where he designed (for example) the OpenType  table, named after the type designer Hermann Zapf. In the 1990s, Dave Opstad worked with Tom Rickner and others to develop TrueType GX. At that time software producers like Microsoft or Adobe did not implement the necessary support for this new technology, however, TrueType GX would later become the basis of modern variable fonts, (also known as OpenType Font Variations).

Besides his work on font standards, Opstad's work on the earliest versions of Unicode—proposing the use of discrete 16-bit character codes (which was later increased, but retained via backwards compatible surrogate pairs), rather than the way that was then common and which he'd grown frustrated with, Xerox's Character Code Standard (XCCS)—led to easy exchange of messages between different computer hardware and operating systems without either mojibake or "tofu" .

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Hao Yan. Hao Yan is a Chinese-American chemist, a (bio)molecular designer, programmer and engineer.

Hao Yan graduated from Shandong University, and completed doctoral study in the subject of DNA nanotechnology at New York University, under the direction of Nadrian Seeman in 2001. Yan began his career as an assistant research professor at Duke University, before assuming an assistant professorship at Arizona State University in 2004. He was directly promoted to full professor with early tenure in 2008. In 2012, Yan was named ASU's first Milton D. Glick Distinguished Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The next year, Yan became director of ASU's Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics. In 2018–2022, Yan was ranked as a highly cited researcher by Web of Science,. He was an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science., the National Academy of Inventors and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Yan received the 2020 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for the experimental category, and the Rozenberg Tulip Award in DNA Computing in 2013. Other honors for Yan include: Humboldt Research Award (2023), Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business (2019), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2008), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006-2011), Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2007-2010), the Arizona Technology Enterprise Innovator of Tomorrow Award (2006), and the Arizona Technology Enterprise Achievement Award (2014).

The theme of Yan's research is to use nature's design rules as inspiration to advance biomedical, energy-related, and other technological innovations through the use of self-assembling molecules and materials. The objective is to create intelligent materials with better component controls at the atomic and molecular levels. Yan's interdisciplinary team is interested in designing bio-inspired molecular building blocks such as DNA, RNA and proteins and programming their higher order assembly into systems that will perform complex functions. The ultimate goals are 1) to engineer an information guided self-assembling molecular system for the finest possible interactions of molecules in a three-dimensional space; and 2) to create man-made molecular machines/molecular robotics through molecular design, molecular programming, directed molecular evolution and molecular systems engineering.

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CDK Technologies. CDK Technologies is a boat building company now located in Lorient (France) with a primary site in marine hub of Port-la-Forêt. It was founded in 1984, it specializes in the construction of prototype sailboats for offshore racing.

History and main achievements

CDK Technologies was founded in 1984 by Hubert Desjoyeaux, Jean Le Cam, Gaëtan Gouerou and architect Marc Van Peteghem of VPLP Design fame. Among the company's achievements are Formula 40 multihulls in the 1980s, as well as Olivier de Kersauson's1 trimaran Poulain, Foncia (2007), the monohull with which Michel Desjoyeaux won the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe and Maxi Banque Populaire V, a yacht designed for crewed records. And IMOCA 60 Macif, launched on August 16, 2011, winner of the 2012-2013 Vendée Globe skippered by François Gabart.

A lot of boats it produce are moulded by other companies with CDK specialising in the final assembly and fitout of the boats. The yard has had several success notably won the Vendée Globe and Oceanic World Records.

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French companies established in 1984
Yacht building companies
 
Companies based in Brittany
Janet Allen. Janet Katherine Allen is an American biochemist and industrial engineer whose research concerns uncertainty in the engineering design process and its quantification and control through robust design processes, statistical methods, simulation of alternative designs, and the use of the design of experiments to systematically explore alternatives in large design spaces. She is a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Oklahoma, where she holds the John and Mary Moore Chair of Engineering.

Education and career
Allen earned a bachelor's degree in life sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. She completed a Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California, she moved in 1975 to the University of New South Wales in Australia, as a professional officer in the department of biochemistry, part-time lecturer in the Centre for Biomedical Engineering, and scientist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She returned to the US in 1981, as a researcher in biochemistry at Rice University and, for the next several years, at Baylor University.

After leaving academia for industry in 1987, she returned in 1992 to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, initially as a senior research scientist. Eventually becoming a regular-rank faculty member there, she retired in 2009 as professor emerita. In the same year, she took her present position as John and Mary Moore Chair at the University of Oklahoma.

Books
Allen's books include:
Integrated Design of Multiscale, Multifunctional Materials and Products (with David L. McDowell, Jitesh Panchal, Hae-Jin Choi, Carolyn Seepersad, and Farrokh Mistree, Elsevier, 2010)
Architecting Networked Engineered Systems: Manufacturing Systems Design for Industry 4.0 (with Jelena Milisavljevic-Syed, Sesh Commuri, and Farrokh Mistree, Springer, 2020)
Architecting Robust Co-Design of Materials, Products, and Manufacturing Processes (with Anand Balu Nellippallil, B. P. Gautham, Amarendra K. Singh, and Farrokh Mistree, Springer, 2020)

Recognition
Allen was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2005. She was the 2019 winner of the ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award, in part recognizing her work creating and administering an ASME program funding students to travel and present their work at ASME conferences.

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21st-century American women scientists
ICGS Sankalp. ICGS Sankalp (Literally means Resolution) is the first ship of her class. The vessel is classified as Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessels. She was built was Goa Shipyard Limited. and commissioned by A. K. Antony on 20 May 2008.

Construction
The keel of ship was laid on 17 July 2004 and launched on 28 April 2006. The ship was commissioned on 20 May 2008 by then Defence Minister A. K. Antony.

Operational history
In December 2014, Sankalp had undertaken a goodwill visit of 32 days to Singapore, Australia and Indonesia as part of international cooperation through exchange of information and bilateral exercises.

She has participated in many rescues, fire fighting missions.
 She has also deployed oversea in various countries such as Sri Lanka, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Australia, Singapore.

See also

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Ships of the Indian Coast Guard
Ships built in India
Paola Vega Castillo. Paola Vega Castillo is the Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica. Prior to her appointment as Minister of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications in June 2020, Vega Castillo was in the same ministry as Vice Minister of Science and Technology since May 2018.

Prior to her political career, Vega Castillo was a professor at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica. She obtained her doctorate at the Technical University of Hamburg in Microelectronics.

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Kathryn Huff. Kathryn D. Huff is an American engineer who served as the assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy from 2022 to 2024. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.

Early life and education 
Huff attended high school in Bellville, Texas before graduating from the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. During high school, she also took mathematics and science courses at the University of North Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from the University of Chicago and a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Huff has a twin sister.

Career 
In 2003 and 2004, Huff worked as a research assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She also worked as a research assistant at the University of Chile and Kavli Institute for Cosmology. In 2010, she was an intern at the Idaho National Laboratory, specializing in advanced nuclear energy systems integration. From 2011 to 2013, Huff was a graduate researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. After finishing her PhD, she was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium. Since 2016, Huff has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. In May 2021, Huff was selected to serve as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy. In January 2022, Huff was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, for the Department of Energy. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 5, 2022 by a 80–11 vote and sworn in on May 11, 2022. She resigned on May 3, 2024, returning to the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor.

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Biden administration personnel
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