omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Fly Castelluccio Flash. The Fly Castelluccio Flash is a family of Italian paramotors that was designed and produced by Fly Castelluccio of Ascoli Piceno for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft were supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The  Flash was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single engine in pusher configuration powering a two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is .

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Variants
Flash Top 80
Model with a  Per Il Volo Top 80 engine in pusher configuration with a reverse-turning gear box reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller.
Flash Sky 100
Model with a Sky 100 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller.
Flash Snap 100
Model with a Snap 100 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller.

Specifications (Flash Top 80)

References

External links
 archive

Flash
2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Michele Rucci. Michele Rucci  is an Italian born neuroscientist and biomedical engineer who studies visual perception. He is a Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and member of the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester.

Biography
Rucci received Laurea (MA) and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Florence and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, respectively. He trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. He was then Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University.

He is primarily known for his work on active perception in humans and machines, particularly for his research on eye movements and for developing robotic systems controlled by computational models of neural pathways in the brain.

Selected works

Kuang X, Gibson M, Shi BE, Rucci M. (2012) Active vision during coordinated head/eye movements in a humanoid robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 99:1-8.

External links 
The University of Rochester page
The Active Perception Laboratory

References

University of Rochester faculty
Boston University faculty
Living people
American bioengineers
American neuroscientists
Italian emigrants to the United States
Visual perception
Year of birth missing (living people)
SS Ouse (1884). SS Ouse was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Goole Steam Shipping Company in 1884.

History

The ship was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard as one of a trio of ships including  and  for the Goole Steam Shipping Company and launched on 10 July 1884. She was described in the Shields Daily Gazette of 12 July 1884 as constructed with a topgallant forecastle fitted for the crew, long bridge house extending over the engine and boiler room, and poop which will be handsomely fitted up for the comfortable accommodation of first-class passengers. The machinery [was to be] supplied by R and W Hawthorn, and will develop 600 hp, being greatly in excess of that usually fitted. All modern appliances have been provided for the rapid dispatch in loading and unloading cargo, special winches having been prepared to the company’s own design, as also has the steering gear.

In 1905 she was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1910 she was sold to Angfartygs Aktiebolag Transito (H Wilen), Abo and renamed Goole Trader. In 1927 she was purchased by Th Kramer, Abo, and two years later in 1929 by Pargas Kalkbergs Aktiebolag, Paragas. She was renamed Tervsund.

She was wrecked on 13 September 1947 near Varberg on a voyage from Landskrona to Middlesbrough.

References

1884 ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Tyne
Ships of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Émosson Dam. The Émosson Dam () is a hydroelectric dam development located in Switzerland in the canton of Valais.

History
A company (Électricité d'Émosson SA) was created in 1954 to build the dam. The Franco-Swiss development, because of the source of capital, uses different pumping water sites and power generation plants. The construction was decided in April 1967. Previously, a border change was made so that the work was entirely on Swiss territory. Indeed, the border would have cut the dam into two. The communes concerned therefore conducted an exchange of territories, endorsed in 1963. Work began in 1967, and commissioning took place in 1975, eight years later. There was already a first dam on the course of the , the Barberine Dam, owned by Swiss Federal Railways, for which it was necessary to obtain the authorisation to immerse the earlier structure in the reservoir of the new construction.

Origin of the waters
Three collectors transport the water to the Émosson Dam.

The South Collector picks up the waters of the Argentière Glacier, the  and the Lognan Glacier, mainly by subglacial water intakes. A free flow gallery of  length leads the water by gravity to a shielded well where the water crosses the Trient Valley and then rises, always by gravity to the dam.

The West Collector picks up the waters of the French vallies of Bérard and Tré-les-eaux. These waters are channelled by free-flow in a gallery of  directly to the dam.

The East Collector captures waters of La Fouly and below the Trient Glacier and led by a gallery of more than  long to the Esserts basin, hence the water is either turbined directly at the Vallorcine power station, or pumped into the Émosson reservoir.

Location

The dam is located in the Canton of Valais, on the left bank of the Rhône above Martigny. It is fed by the waters of the Mont Blanc massif. The Émosson Dam is Switzerland's third highest dam after the Grande Dixence and Mauvoisin Dams.

References

External links

Hydroelectric power stations in Switzerland
Dams in Switzerland
Dams completed in 1972
Arch dams
Valais
20th-century architecture in Switzerland
Fly Castelluccio Mach. The Fly Castelluccio Mach is a family of Italian paramotors that was designed and produced by Fly Castelluccio of Ascoli Piceno for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft were supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Mach was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration powering a two-bladed or four-bladed wooden propeller through a reduction drive.

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Variants
Mach 1 Light
Model with a  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , with an additional  optional.
Mach 2
Model with a  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is .
Mach 2 4BL
Model with a  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter four-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , with an additional  optional.
Mach 3
Model with a  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , with an additional  optional.
Mach 3 4BL
Model with a  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter four-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , with an additional  optional.
Mach 4
Model with a  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , with an additional  optional.
Mach 4C
Model optimized for endurance competition flying, with a  Solo 210 EVO engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , with an additional  optional.

Specifications (Mach 1)

References

External links
 archive

Mach
2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Fly Castelluccio SMN. The Fly Castelluccio SMN is an Italian paramotor that was designed and produced by Fly Castelluccio of Ascoli Piceno for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft were supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The SMN was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single Simonini Racing engine in pusher configuration powering a two-bladed  wooden propeller through a reduction drive. The fuel tank capacity is .

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Specifications (SMN)

References

SMN
2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Jacques-Guillaume Legrand. Jacques-Guillaume Legrand (9 May 1753 – 10 November 1807) was a French architect and critic.

Early years
Jacques-Guillaume Legrand was born on 9 May 1753 in Paris.
He studied at the Louis-le-Grand College, then entered the National School of Bridges and Roads (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, ENPC), where his ability caught the attention of Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, the founder of the school.
While still at the ENPC he also took lessons from Jacques-François Blondel at the Royal Academy of Architecture (Académie royale d'architecture).
It was here that he met Jacques Molinos, with whom he would often work in the future.
Molinos was ten years older.
Legrand learned neoclassical concepts from Blondel.
After Blondel died he took lessons from Charles-Louis Clérisseau, whose daughter he married.

Legrand and Molinos visited Italy together, where Legrand examined the monuments using the book by Antoine Desgodetz as his guide.
He made notes in this book, and corrected some errors.
He planned to use the notes for a revised edition, but he unwisely entrusted them to another man who passed them off as his own.
The two friends visited the temples of Paestum, and were going to visit Magna Graecia when they were recalled to France.

Career

In 1783 Legrand and Molinos built a dome over the courtyard of the Corn Exchange (Halle aux blés, Paris), which Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721–1789) had built in 1763 with a circular rotunda and open courtyard colonnade.
The dome was of pine planks sheathed in copper and lead and topped by a lantern of iron.
The design was based on the principles of Philibert de l'Orme.
They used glazed panels to introduce light into the courtyard.
The dome had a diameter of , but did not require changes to the existing structure, and became a visitor attraction.
Thomas Jefferson commented on the ingenious design.

Legrand undertook public and private commissions, and also wrote as an art critic.
The Minister of the Interior gave Legrand the task of restoring the monuments of Paris.
The prefect of the department assigned him to the committee charged with supervising buildings.
Legrand and Molinos built the Cloth Hall in 1786, destroyed in 1855.
The cloth market vault was supported on terracotta tubes, and the roof was covered with copper.
In its day the cloth market roof was almost as well known as the dome of the corn market.
Legrand and Molinos worked on developing the Paris markets, and also designed the Théâtre Feydeau in the rue de Richelieu.

Legrand was charged with restoring the Église de Saint-Denis and the sepulcher of the kings, and moved to the site to supervise the work.
He became ill from overexertion, and died in Saint-Denis on 10 November 1808.
He was buried in the cemetery of Auteuil.

Publications

Legrand began work on a huge General History of Architecture, but it was not completed or published.
He published:

Notes

Sources

1753 births
1807 deaths
Architects from Paris
18th-century French architects
19th-century French architects
French architectural historians
Marsden Manson. Marsden Manson ( February 14, 1850, 1850 – February 21, 1931) was an American civil engineer.

Manson was born in Virginia. He received a bachelor of science and civil engineering degrees in 1873 at the Virginia Military Institute and received his Ph.D. in engineering at University of California in 1893. Manson worked as a civil engineer for several institutions in California, in particular in the San Francisco area.  He died in Berkeley.

Books and publications
 "The Evolution of Climate", 1922

References

External links

 

1850 births
1931 deaths
American civil engineers
Virginia Military Institute alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Paul Drechsler. Paul Drechsler,  (born 16 April 1956) is an Irish businessman. He is the former Confederation of British Industry President. He serves as the Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce and BusinessLDN. He has been President of the Society of Chemical Industry since 2022.

Early life
Drechsler graduated with a bachelor of science in engineering from Trinity College, Dublin.

Career

Drechsler worked for Imperial Chemical Industries for twenty-four years. He joined the Wates Group, a private construction firm, in 2004. He served as its chairman and chief executive officer from April 2006 until 2014. He served as the chairman of Bibby Line from 2014 to 2020. He served as senior independent director of Essentra Plc from 2005 until 2015. He serves as non-executive director of Greencore Plc and Schroders & Co. Ltd.

Drechsler was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the construction industry in February 2015.

Drechsler served as the Chairman of the Skills Funding Agency until September 2015. He served on the Board of Trustees of Business in the Community until December 2017. He served as the President of the Confederation of British Industry, a pro-business organisation in the United Kingdom, from June 2015 until June 2018.

Drechsler served as the Chair of Teach First from 2013 until 2019. He also serves on the Provost’s Council of Trinity College Dublin and on the Advisory Council of the Foundation for Education Development. He is Chairman of the Board of ICC (UK) and London First.

In 2018, Trinity College Dublin awarded Drechsler with an honorary doctorate.

In 2019 he was honoured with the Irish Presidential Distinguished Service Award.

In July 2022, it was announced Dreschler will step down from the board of BusinessLDN. He was Chancellor of Teesside University until July 2022.

Personal life
Drechsler is married.

References

Living people
1964 births
Businesspeople from Dublin (city)
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Irish chief executives
Irish chairpersons of corporations
Honorary commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences. The Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences is a Biomedical Engineering and Sciences School affiliated with Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University. In 2003, the School of Biomedical Engineering & Science was established as a joint partnership. The school offers Masters and Doctorate degrees in biomedical engineering as well as a joint DVM-PhD degree in collaboration with the Virginia–Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

Future growth
Both universities are expected to increase the biomedical research.  Recently, the school has taken ownership of three new research facilities over the past year for a total of over 80,000 square feet of dedicated biomedical engineering research and teaching space at both Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University.

Faculty and research
Currently the school has 76 tenure track faculty (25 primary and 51 joint) as well as an additional 68 affiliate faculty appointments in the biomedical program. The school has a growth plan that has added 45 faculty in the past 3 years. Over the past academic year, the biomedical engineering faculty have published 200 journal papers and an additional 200 conference papers.

References

External links

Public universities and colleges in Virginia
Wake Forest University schools
Virginia Tech
Biohacking. Biohacking, biohacker, or biohack may refer to:

 Biohackers, 2020 German techno-thriller streaming television series

Science and medicine
 Body hacking, the application of the hacker ethic to improve one's own body
 CRISPR gene editing, genetic engineering technique in molecular biology by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified
 Do-it-yourself biology, movement in which individuals and small organizations study biology
 Gene knockout, genetic engineering technique that involves the targeted removal or inactivation of a specific gene within an organism's genome
 Quantified self, measuring various biomarkers and behaviors to try to optimize health
 Performance psychology, improving ones mental and behavioural capabilities to boost performance
 Synthetic biology, field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities

See also
 Nootropic, drugs, supplements, and other substances to improve cognitive function in healthy individuals
 Nutrigenomics, study of the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health
 Self-experimentation in medicine, scientific experimentation in which the experimenter performs the experiment on themselves
Behdad Esfahbod. Seyed Behdad Esfahbod MirHosseinZadeh Sarabi (; born September 27, 1982) is an Iranian-Canadian software engineer and free software developer. He is best known for creating HarfBuzz. He was a software engineer at Facebook from February 2019 until July 1, 2020; before that he was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google since 2010, and before that at Red Hat.

Education 
Esfahbod holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management and a Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Sharif University in Computer Engineering, Software.

While at high school Esfahbod won a silver in the 1999 International Olympiad in Informatics and then gold in 2000.

Notable projects 
Esfahbod was among the founders of Sharif FarsiWeb Inc. which carried out internationalization and standardization projects related to open source and Persian language.
He was a director at GNOME Foundation from 2007 to 2010, serving as the president from 2008 to 2009.

Esfahbod is an expert on font engineering and internationalization, a frequent speaker at workshops and conferences. He has contributed to many open-source projects. Among the projects he has led are the Cairo, fontconfig, HarfBuzz, and Pango libraries, which are standard parts of the GNOME desktop environment, the Google Chrome web browser, and the LibreOffice suite of programs. He received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for his work on HarfBuzz.

Detention in Iran
Esfahbod was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps intelligence echelon during a 2020 visit to Tehran. He was then moved to Evin prison, where he was psychologically pressured and interrogated in solitary confinement for 7 days. They downloaded all his private data from his devices. Iranian security forces let him go based on his promise to spy on his friends once he was back in the United States.

Personal life 
He has a brother and a sister. He is pansexual.

References

External links 
 Behdad Esfahbod's personal homepage
Behdad Esfahbod's Twitter

1982 births
Living people
Open source people
Free software programmers
GNOME developers
People involved with Unicode
Canadian engineers
Iranian engineers
Canadian people of Iranian descent
People from Sari, Iran
University of Toronto alumni
Sharif University of Technology alumni
Facebook employees
Google employees
Red Hat employees
Iranian software developers
Pierre Massé. Pierre Benjamin Daniel Massé (; 13 January 1898 – 15 December 1987) was a French economist, engineer, applied mathematician, and high official in the French government.

Education and career
After graduation from l'École polytechnique, Massé became an engineer at l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées and a Doctor of Science. From 1928 he worked in the electrical industry and became at Électricité de France in 1946 the director of electrical equipment and operations and in 1948 the deputy general manager. In 1957 he became president of l'Électricité de Strasbourg. In 1959 Charles de Gaulle named him Commissaire général du Plan (General Commissioner of Planning) and he held this position until 1966. Massé was chairman of the board of directors of Électricité de France from 1965 to 1969 and an associate professor of la Faculté de Droit de Paris from 1965 to 1967. He was the first president of the Fondation de France from 1969 to 1973. He was elected a member of l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1977.

Pierre Massé did research in economics on the theories of economic depreciation, dynamic programming, and total factor productivity and in mathematics on Pontryagin's minimum principle. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna.

Selected publications
 
 
 
 
 Le Plan, ou l'Anti-hasard (1965; 1991)
 Les Dividendes du progrès (1969)
 La Crise du développement (1973)
 
 Aléas et progrès: entre Candide et Cassandre (1984)

References

External links
 Pierre Massé (1898–1987) – Author – Resources from the BnF

1898 births
1987 deaths
École Polytechnique alumni
Corps des ponts
Engineers from Paris
Civil servants from Paris
20th-century French economists
French civil engineers
20th-century French mathematicians
Électricité de France people
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Fresh Breeze Airbass. The Fresh Breeze Airbass is a family of German paramotors that was designed and produced by Fresh Breeze of Wedemark for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Airbass was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Solo 210 or  Hirth F33 engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed composite propeller, depending on the model. The fuel tank capacity is . The aircraft propeller cage can be folded into four parts and the aircraft rigged with low or high hang points.

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Variants
Airbass 96
Model with a  Solo 210 engine with a 2.57:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed composite propeller. Empty weight is .
Airbass 110
Model with a  Solo 210 engine with a 2.57:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed composite propeller. Empty weight is .
Airbass 122
Model with a  Solo 210 engine with a 2.57:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed composite propeller. Empty weight is .
Airbass Monster
Model with a  Hirth F33 engine with a 2.65:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed composite propeller. Empty weight is .

Specifications (Airbass 110)

References

Airbass
2000s German ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors