omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Mutundwe–Entebbe High Voltage Power Line. The Mutundwe–Entebbe High Voltage Power Line is a high voltage electricity power line, connecting the high voltage substation in the Kampala suburb of Mutundwe to another high voltage substation in the city of Entebbe, in the Central Region of Uganda.

Location
The 132 kilo Volt power line starts at the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) 132kV substation at Mutundwe, in Rubaga Division, in the southwestern part of Kampala. From there it travels southwards and slightly westwards, following the direction of the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, but passing west of the expressway, through Kajjansi and Akright City, to end in Entebbe, a distance of approximately .

Overview
Entebbe is a growing city, with a population estimated at 102,600, as of July 2020. At that time, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), calculated the average population growth rate of the city at 6.7 percent annually, between 2014 and 2020. In addition, the city is home to key national installations, including State House Entebbe and Entebbe International Airport.

UETCL has decided to construct a new power line to deliver stable power to the Entebbe metropolis, to meet the energy needs of current and future residents and industry. Detailed work plans include the construction of a "double circuit 132 kV transmission line between the Mutundwe substation in Kampala and Entebbe."

Work includes the extension of the existing 132/33/11 kV Mutundwe substation. In addition, a brand new outdoor 132/33 kV substation will be built in Entebbe, with 33kV indoor switchgear.

Construction
The work on this power transmission line was scheduled to begin in 2014. Completion was initially planned for 2017. However construction was still in progress, as of 2021. Gopa-Intec, a German engineering firm was selected as Consultant, to review the feasibility study done in 2011 and revise designs, and route of power line. A three-week training course was arranged at Bad Homburg, Germany for the Owner's Engineering Team. This project received partial funding from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).

See also
Energy in Uganda
List of power stations in Uganda

References

External links
Website of the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited
Delays cited in power line construction projects As of 26 October 2015.

High-voltage transmission lines in Uganda
Energy infrastructure in Africa
Energy in Uganda
Antonia Tulino. Antonia Maria Tulino (born 1971) is an Italian electrical engineer whose research concerns information theory, multiple-input and multiple-output communication, and the applications of random matrix theory in wireless communication. She holds dual affiliations as a professor at the University of Naples Federico II and director of the 5G Academy of the University of Naples, and as a research professor in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

Education and career
Tulino earned a PhD in 1999 from the Second University of Naples, now the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. After postdoctoral research at Princeton University in the US, the University of Oulu in Finland, and the University of Sannio in Italy, she joined the University of Naples Federico II as an associate professor in 2002.

She has been a full professor at the University of Naples since 2017. From 2018 to 2019 she held the  UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence at Charles III University of Madrid. She added her research professorship at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in 2019, and was named director of the 5G Academy of the University of Naples in 2020.

Book
Tulino is a coauthor of the book Random Matrix Theory and Wireless Communications (with Sergio Verdú, Now Publishers, 2004).

Recognition
Tulino received the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize from the IEEE Communications Society (jointly with Angel Lozano and Sergio Verdú), for the best paper in communication theory.

She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2013, "for contributions to the development and application of random matrix methods in information theory".

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Italian electrical engineers
Italian women engineers
Women electrical engineers
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Descending neuron. A descending neuron is a neuron that conveys signals from the brain to neural circuits in the spinal cord (vertebrates) or ventral nerve cord (invertebrates). As the sole conduits of information between the brain and the body, descending neurons play a key role in behavior. Their activity can initiate, maintain, modulate, and terminate behaviors such as locomotion. Because the number of descending neurons is several orders of magnitude smaller than the number of neurons in either the brain or spinal cord/ventral nerve cord, this class of cells represents a critical bottleneck in the flow of information from sensory systems to motor circuits.

Anatomy 
Descending neurons have their somas and dendrites (primary input zones) in the brain. Their axons traverse the neck in connectives, or tracts, and output onto neurons in the spinal cord (vertebrates) or ventral nerve cord (invertebrates).

Mammals possess hundreds of thousands of descending neurons. They can be divided functionally into two major pathways: pyramidal tracts, which originate in the motor cortex, and extrapyramidal tracts, which originate in the brainstem (see schematic). An example of the former is the corticospinal tract, which is responsible for voluntary movement of the body. An example of the latter is the reticulospinal tract, which contributes to the unconscious regulation of locomotion and posture. Reticulospinal neurons originate in the medullary reticular formation, where they receive information from upstream locomotor centers, such as the mesencephalic locomotor region and the basal ganglia.

Insects possess only several hundreds of descending neurons. Work in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster suggests that they are organized into three broad pathways (see schematic). Two direct pathways link specific regions in the brain to motor circuits in the ventral nerve cord controlling the legs and wings, respectively. A third pathway couples a broad array of brain regions to a large integrative region in the ventral nerve cord that may control both sets of appendages.

Function 
Descending neurons play an important role in initiating, maintaining, modulating, and terminating behaviors. Several descending neurons involved in controlling specific behaviors have been identified in both vertebrates and invertebrates. These include descending neurons that can initiate and terminate locomotion, modulate locomotion speed and direction, and help coordinate limbs.

While some descending neurons are sufficient to elicit specific behaviors, most behaviors are likely not controlled by single, command-like descending neurons, but instead by the combined activity of different descending neurons.

Some descending pathways form direct connections with motor neurons and premotor interneurons, including central pattern generators. But how exactly descending signals are integrated in circuits in the spinal cord (vertebrates) or ventral nerve cord (invertebrates) during behavior is not well understood.

See also 

 Pyramidal tracts
 Extrapyramidal tracts
 Command neuron
 Reticular formation

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Spinal cord
Ilke Arslan. Ilke Arslan is a Turkish American microscopist who is Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division at Argonne National Laboratory. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2009 and appointed to the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program in 2019.

Early life and education 
Arslan was an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois Chicago, with a major in physics and a minor in Spanish. She spent several months of her undergraduate study studying in Spain. Arslan holds a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Davis. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. Arslan was supported by the Royal Society and the National Science Foundation. She eventually moved to the Sandia National Laboratories, where she worked as a Truman Fellow. Her work considered nano materials for energy and hydrogen storage. She worked on electron tomography, which she believed could help elucidate structure-property-activity relationships.

Research and career 
In 2008, Arslan joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis. After meeting Barack Obama at the ceremony for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010, she became increasingly interested in big science that could only be performed at National Laboratories. She was appointed a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2011, where she investigated the morphological changes that occur when zeolites are used in Fischer–Tropsch processes. In particular, she explored how the distribution of cobalt changes as materials are reduced. She showed that some cobalt can move several nanometers onto the outside of the alumina support.

In 2017, Arslan joined the Argonne National Laboratory. Her first job involved working as a group leader in electron microscopy, with a particular focus on 3D in situ imaging. She was made Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials in 2020.

Awards and honors 
 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
 2018 Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program
 2019 Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program

Selected publications

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University of Illinois Chicago alumni
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Yasemin Arda. Yasemin Arda (born 1978) is a Turkish-Belgian management scientist and operations researcher specializing in supply chain management. She is a professor in the management school of the University of Liège, vice-dean for education in the school, and the president for the 2021–2022 term of the Belgian Society for Operations Research.

Arda graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 1999, with a bachelor's degree in engineering, earned a master's degree in industrial engineering in 2001 at Boğaziçi University, and earned a second master's degree in industrial systems in 2003 at Paul Sabatier University in France, before completing her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse in France, under the direction of Jean-Claude Hennet.

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Belgian operations researchers
Belgian women scientists
Management scientists
Turkish operations researchers
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21st-century Turkish scientists
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Boğaziçi University alumni
Paul Sabatier University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Liège
Harayama Dam. Harayama Dam is an earthfill dam located in Toyama prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 0.5 km2. The dam impounds about 1  ha of land when full and can store 35 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1939.

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Dams in Toyama Prefecture
1939 establishments in Japan
Jatani-ike Dam. Jatani-ike is an earthfill dam located in Toyama prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is  km2. The dam impounds about 3  ha of land when full and can store 360 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1949.

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1949 establishments in Japan
Emile Nguza Arao. Emile Nguza Arao is a Kenyan Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and corporate executive, who was appointed as the next executive director of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), effective 22 April 2022. He will be based in Nairobi, Kenya. Before that, from 20 October 2018 until 22 April 2022, he served as the executive director of the East African Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (EAC-Cassoa), based in Entebbe, Uganda.

Background and education
Arao is Kenyan by birth. He attended local elementary and secondary schools. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aircraft Engineering Technology, awarded by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. His degree of Master of Business Administration, with focus on Aviation Systems Management, was also awarded by Embry-Riddle University.

Career
Arao is described as a "highly talented and accomplished aviation professional".., by James Macharia, his appointing authority and line Cabinet Minister. Arao has spent the years before the KCAA docket, as the Head of the EAC-Cassoa, an institution of the East African Community. Before his appointment as the executive director of EAC-Cassoa, he was the deputy director of that institution.

At KCAA, Arao replaces Gilbert Kibe, who has served two consecutive three-year terms at the head of the government-owned institution.

See also
 Allan Kilavuka
 Liz Aluvanze

References

External links
 Website of Kenya Civil Aviation Authority
 Meet New Aviation Authority Boss Emile Arao

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Kenyan aviators
Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University
Kenyan expatriates in Uganda
Ofinno. Ofinno is a research and development lab based in Reston, Virginia. It develops and patents technologies for 5G wireless networking, next generation WiFi, integrated circuit, and video compression. It was founded by Esmael Hejazi Dinan in 2011.
 

Ofinno have sold more than 500 patents to companies in the consumer electronics, automotive, and telecommunications industries including Honda, Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Comcast—its biggest client. As of August 2021, Ofinno has 313 active patents in its portfolio. 

In November 2020, Samsung Electronics acquired 40 US patents and 31 US patent applications pertaining to wireless technologies from Ofinno.

In May 2021, Honda bought 37 patents from Ofinno. The purchase comprised more than 100 assets pertaining to wireless technologies.

In July 2021, Xiaomi bought 46 patents pertaining to wireless technologies from Ofinno.

In 2022, Ofinno received the Stevie American Business Awards.

As of October 2022, Ofinno is ranked as the first patent producer based on "Patent Quality Scores" of the seventy-four patents issued by the company during the first quarter of 2022 calculated and assigned by Patent Bots.

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François Peeters. François M. Peeters is a Belgian physicist.

Peeters obtained his doctorate at the University of Antwerp and completed postdoctoral research at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore. He subsequently returned to Belgium and joined the Antwerp faculty. In 2005, Peeters was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, which recognized him "[f]or his sustained, important contributions to theoretical solid state physics, in particular to the areas of mesoscopic superconductivity and nanostructured semiconductors." Peeters' election as a member of Academia Europaea took place in 2010. In 2020, Peeters succeeded Aron Pinczuk as editor-in-chief of the journal ''Solid State Communications.

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Fellows of the American Physical Society
20th-century Belgian scientists
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20th-century physicists

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Walter Voit. Walter Voit is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the CEO of Adaptive 3D, a company that was acquired by Desktop Metal in May 2021, and specialized in producing polymers for additive manufacturing. He was also inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is currently the head of the Advanced Polymer Research Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his research into shape memory polymers allowed for the creation of flexible bioelectronic devices that passed an in vivo study in lab rats.

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21st-century American scientists
Robert Rennaker. Robert LeMoine Rennaker II is an American neural engineer. He is a full professor of neuroscience and holds the Texas Instruments distinguished chair in bioengineering University of Texas at Dallas as of January 2015.

Rennaker served in the United States Marine Corps from 1988 to 1993 at the Marine Corps Air Station New River. He completed an A.A. in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida in 1995. Rennaker earned a B.S.E. (1997), M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2002) in bioengineering from Arizona State University. His dissertation was titled Learning-induced auditory cortical plasticity. His doctoral advisor was Daryl R. Kipke.

He was the head of the Department of Bioengineering from 2013-October 2018 at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founding director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center, which specializes in the development of Targeted Plasticity Therapy (vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitation) to improve neurological impairments such as spinal cord injury, tinnitus, and stroke.

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Zed Factor Fellowship. The Zed Factor Fellowship is a non-profit program in the United States that provides paid internships and executive mentorship to underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students seeking careers in aerospace. The fellowship was founded in 2020 and is closely modeled on programs such as the Brooke Owens Fellowship.

History 
The Zed Factor Fellowship Program was founded in 2020 by Tanya Harrison, planetary scientist at NASA JPL and Planet Labs, Carie Lemack, CEO of DreamUp, and Karina Perez, Director for Unmanned and Emerging Aviation Technologies at the Aerospace Industries Association. The fellowship program was awarded "Most Intriguing Newcomer" to the commercial spaceflight industry by Forbes in 2020.

The program provides students paid summer internships at space companies including Relativity Space, Planet Labs, and The Planetary Society, zero-g flight opportunities, and mentorship from aerospace leaders including CEOs, directors, and test pilots. Fellows are invited to the annual Future Space Leaders summit in Washington D.C. to network and meet industry officials. Fellows also engage in a community service project of their design with support from the program.

As of 2023, the fellowship program is partnered with the Brooke Owens Fellowship and the Future Space Leaders Foundation.

Alumni 
As of 2023, the Zed Factor Fellowship has 60 alumni across three cohorts associated with more than 40 different national universities.

In 2023, nearly 250 students from 115 universities around the United States applied. Approximately 20 are selected annually.

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Internship programs
Mentorships
Fellowships
Xiaodong Zou. Xiaodong Zou (born 1964) is a Chinese-Swedish chemist who is a professor at Stockholm University. Her research considers the development of electron diffraction for the three dimensional characterisation of materials. She is a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. She was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Early life and education 
Zou was an undergraduate student at Peking University, where she majored in physics. She moved to the Beijing University of Technology for graduate studies, where she specialised in the physics of metals. At Beijing, she worked alongside K.H. Kuo, a chemical engineer. She moved to Sweden as a doctoral researcher, where she worked in structural chemistry at Stockholm University. Her doctoral research considered electron crystallography and how it could be used to understand inorganic and biological structures. After earning her doctorate, she joined Lund University, where she worked alongside David Veblen.

Research and career 
In 1996, Zou joined the faculty at Stockholm University, where she was made professor in 2005. Her research involves uncovering the atomic structures of nanosized crystals using electron crystallography. She has demonstrated that transmission electron microscopy can be used to determine the structure of zeolites and mesoporous crystals, as well as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks and protein microcrystals. She has developed quantitative analysis software to facilitate the analysis of electron microscopy images, with a particular focus on three-dimensional electron diffraction.

Zou launched the Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials in 2006, and served as director for 6 years.

Awards and honours 
 2002 Tage Erlander Prize
 2008 Stockholm University Göran Gustafsson Prize
 2010 K.H. Kuo Award
 2012 Swedish Chemical Society Arrhenius medal

Selected publications

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Living people
1964 births
Chinese emigrants to Sweden
Chinese chemists
Swedish chemists
Peking University alumni
Beijing University of Technology alumni
Stockholm University alumni
Academic staff of Lund University
20th-century women scientists
21st-century women scientists
Surveyor General of Malaysia. The surveyor general of Malaysia was the head of the Federated Malay States Survey Department, now known as Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia.

The first surveyor general, Colonel Hugh Milbourne Jackson, took up the role on 25 September 1908, and on 1 January 1909 his responsibility was expanded to include the four State Revenue Survey Departments (Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang) with the Trigonometrical Survey Department. The Topographic Branch was formed in 1910, and the organisation expanded to five other unfederated states (Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu) between 1910 and 1926. The organisation added the Straits Settlement Survey Department (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) in 1920. The department continued to operate until Malaysia was formed in 1963, when it became the Department of Survey and Mapping headed by a director general. There were eleven surveyors general from 1908 until 1963.

List of surveyors general

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