omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ajay Dalai. Ajay Kumar Dalai (born April 13, 1959) is an Indian-Canadian chemical engineer. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair of Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing at the University of Saskatchewan.

Early life and education
Dalai was born on April 13, 1959, in Orissa, India. He completed his Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Technology degree from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology before earning his Master of Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology. Following this, Dalai moved to North America and completed his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) in Chemical Engineering in 1990.

Career
As an associate professor of chemical engineering at USask, Dalai was awarded the 2000 Petro-Canada Young Innovator award to further his research into developing safer materials for gasoline production in oil refineries. While conducting this research, he was asked to develop a Canada Research Chair (CRC) application focused on bioenergy renewable energy generated from organic matter. His application was accepted in 2001 and he became one of USask's CRC of Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing. A few years later, he received funding through a joint venture between the BIOCAP Canada Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to create a biodegradable lubricating additive for diesel engines.

As a chemical engineering professor and Canada Research Chair, Dalai was awarded $525,000 to develop a method to produce biodiesel from low-cost raw materials. He was also granted a Fulbright Scholarship Award to conduct research at the University of California, Davis to develop an integrated process for the complete conversion of biomass to alcohols, phenols and methane using supercritical technology. As a result of his research, Dalai was elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2011. A few years later, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

In January 2020, Dalai was granted the title of Distinguished Professor by USask, recognizing that his research has significantly enhanced his field of knowledge. Following this, he was awarded RSC’s Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for outstanding contributions to environmental science. Dalai also became the 2021 winner of the J.W. George Ivany Award for Internationalization during the People Around the World Conference.

Personal life
Dalai and his wife Debasmita have children together.

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Canada Research Chairs
Conductor (software). Conductor is a free and open-source microservice orchestration software platform originally developed by Netflix.

Conductor was developed by Netflix to solve the problems of orchestrating microservices and business processes at scale in a cloud native environment.  It was released under the Apache License 2.0 and has been adopted by companies looking to orchestrate their processes at scale in a cloud native environment.  

Conductor belongs to a set of software products that allows developers to build resilient, high-scale, cloud-native stateful applications using stateless primitives.

Architecture 
Conductor server is written in Java with APIs exposed over HTTP and gRPC interfaces making it possible to do language agnostic development. A set of client libraries are made available by Netflix and community in Java, Python and Go. 

Conductor uses a lightweight JSON based schema with rich programming language constructs such as fork/join, switch case, loops and exception handling to define the flows. 

At the heart of Conductor is a queuing system that is used to schedule tasks and manage the process flows.  Conductor leverages a pluggable model allowing different implementations of the queuing system.  Open source version uses Dyno-Queues developed at Netflix for queuing as default implementation.

The workflows are defined as the orchestration among the tasks which can be a system level construct such as fork, join, switch, loop, an external HTTP endpoint implementing business logic or a task worker running outside of Conductor servers and listening for work to be scheduled by the server.  The workers communicate with the server using pre-defined APIs over HTTP or gRPC.  Conductor provides lightweight libraries to manage worker states in Java, Python and Go and additional languages can be used to implement logic using provided APIs.  

Conductor uses pluggable architecture model allowing for different databases to store its states. The current version has support for Redis (Stand-alone, Sentinel, Cluster and Dynomite), Postgres, Mysql, Cassandra and uses Elasticsearch as indexing mechanism.

The UI is written in ReactJS and provides ability to search, visualize and manage the workflow states.

Cloud Hosted Services 
Orkes - was founded by the creators of Netflix Conductor and provides cloud managed offering of Netflix Conductor in various clouds and in data center.

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Elsa-Karin Boestad-Nilsson. Elsa-Karin Boestad-Nilsson (25 November 1925 – 27 March 2020) was a Swedish computing pioneer who programmed the first and second computers in Sweden, BARK and BESK.

Boestad-Nilsson was born on 25 November 1925 in Stockholm, the daughter of mechanical engineering professor . After earning a degree in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1948, she joined the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA) in the same year, as the only degreed woman there at the time. Her initial work involved using mechanical calculators from the Facit company to solve problems in aerodynamics, and although she found novel methods to speed up these calculations, she did not dare to publish them.

By 1952, these calculators, and the women operating them, had been made obsolete by new analog computers imported from the US and operated by male civil engineers. Instead, she took a course in computer programming and began working as a programmer. Her initial work in this area was on BARK, a programmable electromechanical computer that became the first programmable computer in Sweden. BESK, Sweden's second computer, was based on vacuum tube technology instead of relays, and began operations in 1954, with  Boestad-Nilsson as one of its initial programmers. Among other projects, the BESK computer, and Boestad-Nilsson's calculations on it, were used in the Swedish nuclear weapons program. It was through this work that she met Per-Olof (Olle) Nilsson, a scientist in the program, whom she married in 1956.

In 1957, Boestad-Nilsson was named head of the scientific calculation group at FOA. She became head of the department of mathematics and data processing in 1974. At around this time, she became an activist for women's rights, through the Fredrika Bremer Association, in reaction to a 1975 FOA personnel memo that recommended paying all women employees (including managers such as her) equal low rates of pay, in order to prevent them from becoming jealous of each other. She left FOA in 1981 to work for an organization promoting the use of the Ada programming language, and retired in 1990. She died on 27 March 2020.

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Arsenide nitride. Arsenide nitrides or nitride arsenides are compounds containing anions composed of nitride (N3−) and arsenide (As3−). They can be considered as mixed anion compounds or mixed pnictide compounds. Related compounds include the arsenide phosphides, germanide arsenides, arsenide carbides, and phosphide nitrides.

Arsenide and nitride are quite different in size, so alloys are challenging to produce. They can be produced by heating an arsenide compound with a nitride, under pressure so that nitrogen does not escape.

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Demosthenis Teneketzis. Demosthenis Teneketzis (Greek: Δημοσθένης Τενεκετζής) IEEE is a Greek-American electrical engineer specializing in Systems Science and Engineering. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His works are in the fields of control, decentralized systems, and networks. His main research publications are in stochastic control (centralized and decentralized), scheduling and resource allocation in networks with strategic and non-strategic users, and fault diagnosis in discrete event systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE for contributions to the theory of decentralized information systems and stochastic control.

Research 

Demosthenis Teneketzis’ research is on Stochastic Control, Decentralized Decision-Making with non-strategic decision-makers (teams) or strategic decision-makers (games), resource allocation in networks with centralized or decentralized information and strategic or non-strategic agents, and fault diagnosis in discrete event systems. In 2015 he received the George S. Axelby Award  from the IEEE Control Systems Society for his paper "Decentralized Stochastic Control with Partial History Sharing: A Common Information Approach".

Selected publications 

Nayyar A, Mahajan A, Teneketzis D. Decentralized stochastic control with partial history sharing: A common information approach. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2013 Jul 10;58(7):1644-58.
Agrawal R, Teneketzis D, Anantharam V. Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation schemes for controlled Markov chains: Finite parameter space. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 1989 Dec.:1249-1259.
Sampath M, Sengupta R, Lafortune S, Sinnamohideen K, Teneketzis D. Diagnosability of discrete-event systems. IEEE Transactions on automatic control. 1995 Sep;40(9):1555-75.
Andersland MS, Teneketzis D. Information structures, causality, and nonsequential stochastic control I: design-independent properties. SIAM journal on control and optimization. 1992 Nov;30(6):1447-75.
Washburn RB, Teneketzis D. Asymptotic agreement among communicating decision makers. Stochastics: An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes. 1984 Jan 1;13(1-2):103-29.
Farhadi F, Golestani SJ, Teneketzis D. A surrogate optimization-based mechanism for resource allocation and routing in networks with strategic agents. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2019 Feb;64(2):464-79.

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Chloroanion. A chloroanion is an anion that contains an element and chlorine atoms. They are also known as complex chlorides. They can occur in salts, or in solution, but not as pure acids. They mostly can be considered as chlorometallates which are a subclass of halometallates.

The maximum number of chlorido- ligands around a central atom may not be as many as for fluoroanions, as the chlorine atom is bigger than the fluorine. Some chloroanions are dimeric, where there is a bond between a pair of metal atoms, or some of the chloro ligands are in a bridge position, connected to two atoms.

Some chloroanions are stable in a solution in water, whereas others are decomposed. They may be stable in a molten salt, such as an ionic liquid. In the solid form some are only stable with large cations, as when there are small cations they may form two separate chloride salt phases.

Chloroanions include many transition metal chloride complexes, but there are also chloroanions for main-group elements, including some non-metals.

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Tetrachloroberyllate 
Tetrachloromagnesate 
Tetrachloroborate 
Tetrachloroaluminate 
Hexachloroaluminate 
Tetrachlorogallate(III) 
Hexachlorothallate(III) 
Hexachlorogermanate(IV) 
Hexachlorophosphate(V) 
Hexachloroarsenate(V) 
Hexachlorochromate(III) 
Nonachlorodichromate(III) , contains two chromium atoms linked via three chloride bridges
Octachlorodimolybdate(II) , contains  quadruple bond
Tetrachloroferrate(II) 
Tetrachloroferrate(III) 
Tetrachlorocobaltate(II) 
Tetrachloronickelate(II) 
Hexachloroplatinate(IV) 
Tetrachlorocuprate(II) 
Hexachlorocuprate(II) 
Tetrachloroaurate(III) 
Tetrachlorozincate(II)

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Isabel Cruz. Isabel Cruz (aka  Isabel F. Cruz, Maria Isabel Cruz) (died 2021) was an American Portuguese computer scientist known for her research on databases, knowledge representation, geographic information systems, AI, visual languages, graph drawing, user interfaces, multimedia, information retrieval, and security. She was a University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor  and a Professor Computer Science in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Life 
Cruz was born in Lisbon. completed a MS (1987) and PhD (1993) in computer science at the University of Toronto advised by Alberto O. Mendelzon.  She conducted her postdoctoral research at Brown University advised by Paris Kanellakis. She was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1996. Cruz joined the University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering in 2001. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019 and was appointed UIC Distinguished Professor  in 2020. Cruz's research focused on databases, big data, geographic information systems, Semantic Web, and knowledge representation.

She died on September 19, 2021.

Recognition
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected "for her distinguished contributions to visual query languages, information integration and visualization, geospatial computing and for professional leadership in the data management community".  

University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor

University of Illinois Faculty Scholar Award

University of Illinois Chicago Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar Award

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering Faculty Research Award

University of Illinois Chicago Teaching Recognition Program Award

Association for Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award

National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Personal life
Cruz was married to Roberto Tamassia, also a noted computer scientist.

See also 

 Women in computing

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University of Toronto alumni
Russian corvette Samum. Samum (former MRK-17) is a  in the Soviet Navy and later the Russian Navy. In Soviet and later Russian classification, it is considered a "small missile ship" (). Like the rest of the class, it is a surface effect ship armed with anti-ship missiles.

Construction and career 
MRK-17 was laid down in September 1991 and launched on 12 October 1992 at the A.M. Gorky Shipyard, Zelenodolsk and commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on 26 February 2000.

On 19 March 1992, the vessel was renamed Samum, after the Russian word for the simoom desert wind.

On 25 July 2002, Samum was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet.

On 14 September 2023, while stationed in Sevastopol during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ship was the target of a Sea Baby sea drone attack by Ukraine. According to Ukrainian intelligence sources, afterwards the ship was towed away for "extensive damage" on one side. The Russian defense ministry claimed however that the attack was repelled.

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David Perry (civil servant). Sir David Howard Perry, KCB, FRAeS (born 1931) was an English civil servant and engineer. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he became a chartered engineer and entered the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1954, eventually becoming head of the Dynamics Division (1971–73) and the Systems Assessment Department (1975–77). Moving to the Ministry of Defence in 1978, he was the Controller of Aircraft in 1982, Chief of Defence Procurement from 1983 to 1985 and Chief of Defence Equipment Collaboration from 1985 to 1987.

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Stereokinetic stimulus. Stereokinetic stimulus, stereokinetic depth, stereokinetic illusion is an illusion of depth induced by moving two-dimensional stimuli.
 
A stereokinetic stimuli generates 3D perception based on 2D rotational motion. 
A stereokinetic effect is created when flat displays are rotated in the frontal plane and are perceived as having three-dimensional structure.

History 
Ernst Mach first reported a depth effect produced by motion in the frontoparallel plane in 1886.
Marcel Duchamp first experimented with stereokinetic depth in 1935.

References 

Visual perception
Applied Sciences (journal). Applied Sciences is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering all aspects of applied physics, applied chemistry, applied biology, and engineering, environmental, and earth sciences. It was established in 2011 and is published by MDPI. The editor-in-chief is Takayoshi Kobayashi (University of Electro-Communications).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.679.

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Jeci Lapus. Jeci Aquino Lapus (April 13, 1953 – July 11, 2021) was a Philippine engineer and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing Tarlac's 3rd congressional district from 2007 to 2013. Prior to his death, he had been the acting administrator of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) since 2017.

Early life and education 
Lapus was born on April 13, 1953, in Tarlac to Jesus Lapus and Estrella Aquino. He was the younger brother of Jesli Lapus and a member of the Aquino family, being a cousin of former President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III.

He graduated from the Mapúa University with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. In 1975, he passed the civil engineering board examination administered by the Professional Regulation Commission. He held an honorary doctorate from the Tarlac Agricultural University and also studied business management at the Asian Institute of Management.

Career 
A civil engineer by profession, Lapus worked for various private construction companies and government offices early in his career including at the United Coconut Planters Bank, National Irrigation Administration, and Philippine Tourism Authority. From 1998 to 2000, he was vice president of the National Agri-Business Corporation under the Department of Agriculture. He was president of TODO Foundation, Inc. from 1998 to 2005. He also served as a director of the PNOC Exploration Corporation.

During the 2004 general elections, Lapus ran as mayor of Concepcion, Tarlac, but lost. In 2007, he was elected to the House of Representatives succeeding his brother who earlier resigned to become Secretary of Education. He was endorsed by then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ran under Lakas–CMD. He won a second term during the 2010 elections, serving until 2013. In the 14th Congress, he was vice chairman of the Committees on Good Government and Public Accountability, Information and Communications Technology, and Public Information.

In 2014, Lapus was elected as director of the BDO's leasing and finance subsidiary. He previously served as independent director of the PCIBank Group's leasing and finance subsidiary from 2005 to 2006.

In 2017, he was appointed trustee and acting administrator of the LWUA. He also became a director of the Philippine Water Works Association due to his position.

Personal life and death 
Lapus was married to Felycette Gay Martinez, an oncologist, and had one child. He was an avid sportsman with interests in golf and horse breeding.

He died on July 12, 2021, at the St. Luke's Medical Center – Global City due to heart failure. His body was cremated and interred in Davao.

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Vympel Shipyard. JSC Vympel Shipyard is a Russian shipbuilding company located in the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region. The enterprise is part of United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC).

It is a dynamically developing shipbuilding company specializing in the production of medium and low-tonnage sea and river vessels and boats for military and civil purposes from steel and aluminum-magnesium alloys. Products are supplied to the domestic market and for export.

At present, Vympel serially manufactures new-generation combat missile and patrol boats, high-speed search and rescue, firefighting, hydrographic, tug and other specialized vessels, providing warranty and service maintenance for its products.

Background 
The company was founded in 1930 and initially specialized in the production of motor boats. During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced long-range torpedo boats. These are the first large steel-hulled torpedo boats in the country. 

After the end of the war, the enterprise carried out the construction of road minesweepers with a displacement of 100-300 tons and fire boats. In the 60s, marine hydrographic boats were produced, motor ships T-63M were in a large series.

In 1963, the first missile boat of Project 205 was commissioned. Over the next 12 years, 64 units were built. These boats, equipped with P-15 cruise missiles, have shown themselves vividly in local conflicts in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean and led to a boat boom in world shipbuilding.

In 1973, the head boat of the new Project 205ER was built at the plant. Within 12 years, 86 boats were produced, which were delivered to the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

In 1980, the lead missile boat of Project 1241RE was commissioned. In the 80s, this boat was at the level of the best world standards in terms of its armament, and surpassed the best foreign models in terms of driving performance and power plant, but by the beginning of the 2000s it was very outdated, while retaining, however, significant opportunities for modernization.

Over the long history, the plant has built more than 30 thousand boats of various types. For almost 40 years, the main products have been exported, during which time more than 1800 boats have been exported to 29 countries of the world.

Naval ships 
Naval ships built by Vympel Shipyard include:

 Project 12421 corvettes
Project 12418 corvettes
Project 14310 patrol boats 
Project 12150 patrol boats
Project 21850 patrol boats
Project 19910 hydrographic vessels
Project 19920 hydrographic survey vessels
Project 21980E anti-saboteur ships
Civil service ships built by Vympel Shipyard include:

 Project 12150M patrol boats
 Project 1496M1 patrol boats
 Project 23160 hydrofoils
 Т30В fishing trawlers
 Pleasure boats made of composite materials

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