omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Paola Lettieri. Paola Lettieri is a British-Italian chemical engineer who is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Pro-Provost of UCL East at University College London. Her research considers fluidisation and life-cycle assessment. She has developed novel, sustainable fluid-bed processes.

Early life and education 
Lettieri is from Italy. She attended the Sapienza University of Rome, where she graduated Laurea in 1994. Lettieri then moved to the United Kingdom, where she completed graduate research at University College London. Her research considered the impact of temperature flow behaviour in a gas fluidised bed. Lettieri joined BP Chemicals after graduating.

Research and career 
In 2001 Lettieri joined the chemical engineering faculty at University College London. On starting her academic career, she was funded by a research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. She was the first woman engineer to be awarded such an honour. She was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 2007.

Lettieri's research considers fluidisation and life-cycle assessment. She was initially interested in waste gasification. She worked with Advanced Plasma Power on the combination of gasification and plasma conversion, producing a versatile synthetic gas from its waste. The process collects waste, separates metals, plastic and glass and converts it into refuse-derived fuels. When these refuse-derived fuels are pumped into the gasifier vessel, synthetic gas in produced. The gas, which is composed of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and steam, is passed through a plasma converter. The resulting gas can be used for heating and electricity generation.

At University College London, Lettieri worked as vice dean of strategic projects. In that capacity, she oversaw the development of UCL East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In 2021 Lettieri was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Selected publications

References 

Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
Living people
21st-century Italian women scientists
Italian chemical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Joseph DeCarolis. Joseph F. DeCarolis is an American scientist and academic who currently serves as the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration in the Biden administration.  His nomination was sent to the United States Senate for consideration on October 4, 2021, and confirmed on March 31, 2022.

Education 

DeCarolis earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and environmental science and policy from Clark University, followed by a PhD in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Career 

From 2004 to 2008, DeCarolis served as an environmental scientist in the United States Environmental Protection Agency. From 2005 to 2008, he was also a part-time instructor at Duke University. He joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in 2008 as an associate professor and has since worked as a full professor. DeCarolis specializes in civil engineering, energy systems, and public policy.

Appointment to Department of Energy 

On September 22, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated DeCarolis to be the administrator of the Energy Information Administration. His initial nomination was returned without hearings held on his nomination on January 3, 2022. President Biden renominated DeCarolis the following day and hearings were held for his nomination by the Senate's Energy Committee on February 8, 2022.

See also 

 TEMOA  Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis, an open source energy system modeling framework

References 

Living people
United States Department of Energy officials
Clark University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Duke University faculty
North Carolina State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Biden administration personnel
Solid-phase reversible immobilization. Solid-phase reversible immobilization, or SPRI, is a method of purifying nucleic acids from solution. It uses silica- or carboxyl-coated paramagnetic beads, which reversibly bind to nucleic acids in the presence of polyethylene glycol and a salt. A common application of SPRI technology is purifying samples of DNA amplified by PCR for sequencing reactions:.

Use in nucleic acid purification 
SPRI beads are paramagnetic beads coated with silica or carboxyl groups. When the beads are resuspended in solutions with high concentrations of polyethylene glycol and salts, they are capable of binding reversibly to nucleic acids. This binding is size selective, in that longer polymers of nucleic acids bind more efficiently than shorter ones. A SPRI purification typically includes the following steps:

 SPRI beads in a solution of polyethylene glycol and sodium chloride are mixed with a sample of nucleic acids. The nucleic acids bind to the beads.
 The mixture is placed in a magnetic field, which separates the nucleic-acid bound beads from the solution.
 The solution is removed and the beads are washed multiple times with 80% ethanol in water.
 The beads are allowed to dry to remove residual ethanol.
 The beads are removed from the magnetic field and resuspended in water or an elution buffer, which releases the nucleic acids from the beads.
 The mixture is once again placed in a magnetic field, separating the beads from the solution.
 The solution, which now contains the purified nucleic acids, is removed and used for downstream applications.

See also 
 Nucleic acid methods
 DNA sequencing
 Solid-phase extraction

References 

Nucleic acids
Andrew Crowther Hurley. Andrew Crowther Hurley (1926–1988) was a quantum chemist and mathematician who was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1972.

He was a student of the University of Melbourne  and obtained First Class Honours B Sc in Theoretical Physics and theory of Statistics. He received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 1947 and his Bachelor of Science in 1948.

He received his Master of Arts degree in March 1949 for his thesis 'Finite Rotation Groups and Crystal Classes in Four Dimensions', receiving First Class Honours and first place.

In 1950 he moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied for his PhD in theoretical physics under the supervision of Paul Dirac. After one term, he transferred to the Department of Theoretical Chemistry under the supervision of John Lennard-Jones, and also interacted with S. Francis Boys, George G. Hall and John Pople. He worked on Moffitt's method of atoms in molecules and 
introduced the method of 'intra-atomic correlation correction' using the rather poor computational facilities available, which limited the calculations to small molecules.

In 1953 he joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Chemical Physics Section, and remained there until his death in 1988. He was an expert on group theory and its uses in quantum chemistry.

In 1963, he wrote a monograph on the 'Electronic Theory of Small Molecules' for the series 'Theoretical Chemistry' published by Academic Press.

References

1926 births
1988 deaths
20th-century Australian chemists
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Computational chemists
CSIRO people
Australian mathematicians
University of Melbourne alumni
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Tianshui–Pingliang railway. The Tianshui–Pingliang railway is a railway line in Gansu, connecting Tianshui and Pingliang. The line is jointly funded by the Ministry of Railways, Gansu Province, and China Huaneng Group Gansu Energy Development Co., Ltd. The line is primarily used for coal transportation, while also carrying local passenger trains and cargo other than coal.

The line has a maximum slope of 13‰ for the direction of loaded trains and 18‰ for the direction of unloaded trains. The minimum curve radius is 1200 meters, 800 meters in the mountainous section. The total length of bridges and tunnels is 78 kilometers, accounting for 68.14% of the line length. Among them, the Guanshan Tunnel passing through the Guanshan section of the Liupan Mountain is 15,600 meters long, and the Liupanshan Tunnel is 16,390 meters long, which is the longest single-track and non-main line railway tunnel in China. There are a total of nine stations along the line.

The design speed is 120km/h, it is expected that the freight volume transported will be 16 million tons in the near future and 18.2 million tons in the long term.

History 
The railway line was a key project of the Eleventh five-year plan in Gansu province.

The project investment amount was 5.4 billion yuan, and the construction period was estimated to be 42 months. Surveying and design was performed by the China Railway First Survey and Design Institute. The construction was officially started on 4 December 2008 and  the line was completed and opened to traffic on 30 December 2015.

References 

Transport in Gansu
Railway lines in China
Liu He (engineer). Liu He (born 25 March 1961) is a Chinese engineer who is deputy chief engineer of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and honorary dean of School of Economics and Management, Northeast Petroleum University.

Biography 
Liu was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on 25 March 1961. After graduating from Daqing Petroleum Institute (Northeast Petroleum University) in 1982, he was despatched to Daqing Oilfield as a technician. He earned a B.S. degree from Daqing Petroleum Institute and a Ph.D degree in engineering from Harbin Engineering University. In March 2018, he was engaged by Harbin Engineering University as a part-time professor.

Honours and awards 
 2005 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2010 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special Prize)
 2014 Guanghua Engineering Technology Award
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References 

1961 births
Living people
People from Harbin
Engineers from Heilongjiang
Northeast Petroleum University alumni
Harbin Engineering University alumni
Academic staff of Harbin Engineering University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Wang Jinnan. Wang Jinnan (; born 14 July 1962) is a Chinese engineer who is president of Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and director of State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Planning and Policy Simulation, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography 
Wang was born in the village of Shanghuang in Jinhua County, Zhejiang, on 14 July 1962. He has five siblings. His younger brother Wang Yonghua () is the leader of his home-village. He secondary studied at Baoshan High School () and Wuyi No. 2 High School (). He earned a bachelor's degree in 1986, a master's degree in 1988, and a doctor's degree in 2002, all from Tsinghua University.

In May 1994, he became deputy director of the Institute of Environmental Management, China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, rising to party secretary in July 1997. In February 2002, he joined the Environmental Planning Institute of State Environmental Protection Administration (now Ministry of Ecology and Environment), becoming chief engineer in June 2003 and dean and vice-president in August 2017. In December 2006, he was recruited by Nanjing University as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of the Environment. He was appointed director of State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Planning and Policy Simulation in February 2010. In December 2017, he was elected a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party. In March 2018, he became a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress. In July 2019, he was engaged by Zhejiang University as a chair professor. In July 2022, he was appointed as chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, succeeding Yu Luming.

Personal life 
Wang married Liu Yaming (), who was his classmate at Wuyi No. 2 High School. She graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University) and was deputy dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Science and Technology, currently serving as president of Confucius Institute of De Montfort University.

Honours and awards 
 2012 Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award (Second Class)
 2014 Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award (First Class)
 2015 Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award (First Class)
 2016 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References 

1962 births
Living people
People from Jinhua
Engineers from Zhejiang
Tsinghua University alumni
Academics of De Montfort University
Academic staff of Zhejiang University
Academic staff of Nanjing University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress
Lu Chunfang. Lu Chunfang (born 15 May 1956) is a Chinese engineer who is deputy general manager of China National Railway Group Limited, a former vice minister of railways, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography 
Lu was born in Li County, Hebei, on 15 May 1956. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in January 1975 and was assigned to the First Division of Mechanical battalion of Railway Corps as a repairman. After resuming the college entrance examination, he entered Southwest Jiaotong University, where he majored in railway engineering. He also earned a master's degree from Tsinghua University in 2007.

After university in 1982, he became an engineer at the Ministry of Railways. He moved up the ranks to become Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and general manager of China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. in June 2001 and vice minister in March 2005, which was reshuffled as China National Railway Group Limited in March 2013. In January 2017, he became chairman of China Railway Society. In March 2018, he became a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Honors and awards 
 2015 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special Prize)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References 

1956 births
Living people
Engineers from Hebei
Southwest Jiaotong University alumni
Tsinghua University alumni
Members of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Prológica Indústria e Comércio de Microcomputadores. Prológica Indústria e Comércio de Microcomputadores, commonly shortened to Prológica, was an influential Brazilian microcomputer company that reached its peak in the mid-1980s, when it ranked third among national companies in the sector.

History 

Founded in 1976, the company initially commercialized machines for accounting use, namely the MCA-100 and Alpha Disk. The first models had an Intel 8080 processor, and in the early months the company even managed to get a partnership with Olivetti.

The company later specialized in producing products similar to the American TRS-80 series of microcomputers, under the general name of "CP" (for "Computador Pessoal" in Portuguese, "Personal Computer" in English).

One of its biggest successes in the professional field was the CP 500, compatible with the TRS-80 Model III.

In 1990, the company was sued by Microsoft for creating SO16 ("Sistema Operativo 16"), an operating system based on MS-DOS.

Line of products 

A not extensive list of Prológica's products:

Home computers 

NE-Z80 (Sinclair ZX80 clone)
NE-Z8000 (1982, Sinclair ZX81 clone)

CP 200 (1982, Sinclair ZX81 compatible)
CP 200 S (1982, Sinclair ZX81 compatible, alternate case)
CP 300 (1983, TRS-80 Model III compatible)
CP 400 COLOR (1984, Color Computer 2 compatible)
CP 400 COLOR II (1985, better keyboard)

Personal computers 
Sistema 600
Sistema 700 (1981, DOS-700 - CP/M-80 compatible)
CP 500 (1982, TRS-80 Model III compatible)
CP 500/M80 (1985)
CP 500/M80C (1986)
Solution 16  (1986, SO16 - MS-DOS 2.11 compatible)
CP 500 Turbo (1987, faster CPU)
SP 16
AT SP 286
AT SP 386
AT SP 486

Peripherals 
CP 450 (floppy disk drive interface) 
Printer P 500
Printer P 600
Printer P 700
Printer P 720
Printer Antares 400

References 

Electronics companies of Brazil
Defunct computer companies of Brazil
Defunct manufacturing companies of Brazil
Manufacturing companies based in São Paulo
Brazilian brands
Brazilian companies established in 1976
1995 disestablishments in Brazil
Electronics companies established in 1976
Electronics companies disestablished in 1995
Bugatti Atlantic (concept car). The Bugatti Atlantic is a modern version of the Bugatti Atlantic Type 57. It remained as a prototype and was built in Wolfsburg, the headquarters of Volkswagen. It is also nicknamed the Bugatti Pebble.

Overview

The Atlantic incorporates several elements of the Volkswagen Group, which would have made the car less expensive than the other Bugattis marketed at the time, and therefore make it its entry-level.

The Volkswagen emissions scandal, which implicated the parent company put an end to the project, as it did to others. This prevented a presentation of the Atlantic at the Geneva Motor Show in 2016 and at Pebble Beach in 2015.

A 4-liter V8 engine  was intended for it, as well as a carbon chassis. Two models were planned for sale, namely the coupe and roadster versions, with thermal or electric engines. The vehicle was also to benefit from technological research intended for the Porsche Taycan. A chrome backbone runs from the hood to the rear, recalling and therefore paying homage to the 1936 modern car.

References

External links

Atlantic
Coupés
Cars introduced in 2015
Arsenal do Alfeite. Arsenal do Alfeite, SA is a company with an area of 36 hectares of implantation included in the Lisbon Naval Base. It is mainly dedicated to satisfying the needs of shipbuilding, maintenance, modernization and repair of the Portuguese Navy, other NATO and commercial navies, using advanced technologies, namely in the areas of electronics, optronics, armament, mechanics and electrical engineering. Alfeite's arsenal has already built more than 150 boats. Arsenal do Alfeite has a close relationship with Royal Moroccan Navy, repairing and modernizing ships since 2012.

Installations 
Arsenal do Alfeite SA facilities have a quality management system, certified according to the ISO 9001:2008 standard, and a set of testing and calibration laboratories accredited by the Portuguese Institute of Accreditation, according to the NP EN ISO/IEC standard 17025. Of note is its capacity for studies and projects for new vessels, modifications and conversions, as well as consultancy and the provision of specialized industrial services.

Arsenal do Alfeite includes:

 35 technological areas for building and repairing ships;
 672meters of mooring pier;
 3 inclined planes of 150m, 120m and 53m, respectively;
 1 floating dock 60m long and 12m wide;
 1 dry dock 138m long and 18m wide;
 1 Crane 40.0 tons x 20m - Dockable Pier 1;
 1 Crane 3 tons x 20m - Dockable Pier / Floating Dock;
 1 Crane 12 tons x 20m - Inclined Plan 1;
 1 Crane 5.0 tons x 27m - Dry Dock.

Repairs and constructions

Repairs and overhauls 

 Tridente-class submarines (Type 214 submarines);
 Vasco da Gama-class frigates (MEKO 200);
 Bartolomeu Dias-class frigates (Karel Doorman-class frigates);
João Coutinho-class corvette;
Baptista de Andrade-class;
 Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessels;
 Tejo-class patrol vessels (Flyvefisken-class patrol vessels);
Moroccan frigate Hassan II (Floréal-class frigate);
Osprey 55-class gunboat (El Tawfiq)
OPV-64-class patrol vessels (Raïs Charkaoui and Raïs Maaninou);
Ad Dakhla CLS-class (Daoud Ben Aicha);
Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship.

Constructions 

 s;
s;
Albatroz-class patrol boat;
 Bolina-class;
 Vigilante-class;
 Andrómeda-class;
 Levante-class;
NRP Schultz Xavier;
Bombarda landing craft-class

Weapons repair 
Arsenal do Alfeite can repair and replace the following weapons:

 French 100 mm naval gun;
 OTO Melara 76 mm;
 Bofors 40 mm gun;
 RIM-7 Sea Sparrow;
 Harpoon (missile);
 Phalanx CIWS;
 Goalkeeper CIWS;
 Mk 32 torpedo launcher;
 Mark 46 torpedo;
 Black Shark torpedo;
 MK55 Mines;
 Mark 36 SRBOC.

Gallery

References

External links 

 

Shipbuilding companies
Defence companies of Portugal
Shipyards of Portugal
Elterwater Bridge. Elterwater Bridge is a Grade II listed single-arch bridge spanning Great Langdale Beck in Elterwater, Cumbria, England. The structure dates to 1702.

The bridge, which has subsequently been widened, has a level parapet.

See also
Listed buildings in Lakes, Cumbria

References

Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
Bridges in Cumbria
Stone bridges in England
Road bridges in England
Bridges completed in 1702
1702 establishments in England
Edisoft. Thales Edisoft – Thales Edisoft Portugal, S.A. is a company of Thales Group that offers software development and engineering solutions, systems integration and technological consulting for critical systems in land, maritime, space or cyberspace for the defense and civil markets. Edisoft has currently partnerships with two portuguese shipbuilders, Arsenal do Alfeite and with West Sea Shipyard, the buider of Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessels.

This company currently carries out projects in several business areas:

 Defense and Security
 Space systems
 Air Systems
 Integrated business solutions
 Geographical based decision systems

Products

Naval Defense Systems  

 C4SEA;
 INIMIG;
 OceanEye;
 SAFEPORT;
 CYBER.

Air Systems 

 TOPSKY TOWER;
 TOPSKY AMHS;
 TOPSKY FLOW MANAGER;
 TOWER ONE;
 NAVAIDS.

Space Systems   

 ESA tracking Station;
 Earth Observation Station;
 Galileo Sensor Station (GSS);
Real Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems' (RTEMS).

References 
Defence companies of Portugal

Aerospace companies of Portugal
Thales Group divisions and subsidiaries
Electronics companies of Portugal
Starship Command (play-by-mail game). Starship Command is a play-by-mail game that was published by Elite Simulations.

Development
The game was designed by Brian Hansen. It was a computer-moderated game published by Elite Simulations with turn-around times every two weeks.

Gameplay
The game's format is "tactical naval combat in space". Elements of gameplay include races and traits as well as starship design. Diplomacy and combat are part of gameplay. Games end when a player's fleet achieves a set number of points. Various medals were available for player accomplishments, which remained on a player's record for future games.

Reception
B.E. Wright reviewed the game in the November–December 1996 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine. He stated that, while it was not his favorite game, it was "the best tactical space game ever designed for PBM", predicting a bright future if it caught on with players.

Starship Command won the Origins Award for Best New Play-by-Mail Game of 1996.

References

Origins Award winners
American games 
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Tactical wargames 
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1990s