omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Francisco Balzarotti. Francisco Balzarotti (born in 1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian scientist known for his work in super-resolution microscopy, particularly MINFLUX. He is a Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria.

Education
From 2002 to 2007, Balzarotti studied electrical engineering at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2012, he earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, working on research topics such as nanophotonics, optical nanolithography, superlenses, and plasmonics.

Career and research
For his postgraduate work, Balzarotti relocated to Germany to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of NanoBiophotonics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, led by Nobel Laureate Stefan W. Hell.

In Göttingen, Balzarotti played a central role in developing the super-resolution microscopy method MINFLUX which was named Breakthrough of the Year in 2017 by Physics World. The method was even described as the Holy Grail in Light Microscopy.

MINFLUX combines elements of information theory with the single-emitter nature of PALM/STORM and the beam geometries typically used in STED. During Balzarotti's time in Göttingen, they were able to show that with MINFLUX, a given localization precision can be obtained by using much fewer photons than in conventional centroid-localization techniques such as PALM/STORM. Hence, MINFLUX attains nanometer-scale resolution more quickly and with fewer emitted photons than previously possible. Subsequent work increased the application space of the technology even further. 
 
Since 2020, Balzarotti has been a Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria, supported by the European Research Council. At the IMP, he set up the Advanced Microscopy and Biophysics group.

Balzarotti's group focuses on the development of novel optical methods and instrumentation for the observation of biological phenomena with the highest fidelity. His interdisciplinary group combines expertise in physics, engineering, mathematics, and biology.

Balzarotti is a well-known microscopist and an established member of the advanced microscopy community. Hence, he is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at key conferences in the field.

Balzarotti's group in collaboration with Mark Bates, organized the Single Molecule Localization Symposium 2023, which was hosted at IMP in Vienna.

Awards and honours
2019–2024 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant "NANO4LIFE"
 2024 Frontiers of Science Award

References

External links
 Janelia & EMBL BioImaging Seminar Series
 IMP Mini Lectures
 IMP Profile

Living people
Microscopists
Optical physicists
European Research Council grantees
1983 births
University of Buenos Aires alumni
JSM Group. The JSM Group Services Limited is a UK utilities service provider specialising in the delivery of integrated power and communications projects.

The company specialisms are Utility Services, Civil Engineering, Construction, Infrastructure, and Project Management. It is a privately owned company founded in 1998. At 2023 the company had about 201-500 employees. Its Headquarters are at Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

The company has a Training Centre located in Barking, Essex which offers NPORS, EUSR, CABWI and CITB accredited training courses.

External links 
 https://www.jsmgroup.com/ Company website
 https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09763076 Companies House entry

Potters Bar
Companies based in Hertfordshire
British companies established in 1998
1998 establishments in England
Privately held companies of England
Renewable energy in French Polynesia. Approximately 6% of primary energy in French Polynesia is generated from renewable energy sources. Approximately 30% of electricity is generated renewably, primarily Hydroelectricity and solar power. Renewable generation is concentrated on Tahiti, with other parts of French Polynesia almost entirely reliant on fossil fuels. Wind power is not used, with only two small facilities, both of which became non-functional due to lack of maintenance.

In December 2013 the Assembly of French Polynesia adopted a Law on the Guiding Principles of the Energy Policy of French Polynesia, requiring that a minimum of 50% of electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2020. This was replaced in November 2015 by the 2015-2030 Energy Transition Plan (PTE), which set a target of 75% renewables by 2030. The ETP was replaced in February 2022 by a multi-annual energy plan (PPE), and the 75% by 2030 target was retained.

In July 2016 the government announced that hybrid solar PV / battery / diesel power plants would be constructed on eight remote islands. In April 2021 the government called for tenders for 30MW of solar farms with batteries for Tahiti. Winners of the tenders were announced in March 2022.

In September 2022 Électricité de Tahiti performed a test to run the island of Tahiti entirely on renewables for an hour, using hydroelectricity and photovoltaics, with the Putu Uira battery system stabilising the grid. This was followed by a longer test a week later. Following the test EDT announced that would increasingly rely on renewables to power Tahiti during periods of good weather and low demand.

In July 2021 the French government agreed to provide a 7.1 billion XPF energy transition fund to decarbonise electricity production, particularly on remote islands. An agreement to implement the fund was signed in February 2023.

References 

Energy in French Polynesia
Polynesia
Islamabad Model Special Economic Zone. The Islamabad Model Special Economic Zone (IMSEC) is a Special Economic Zone situated near Rawat, Islamabad, associated with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). This represents the initial facility of its kind in the federal capital. It was inaugurated on 18 July 2023, with the foundation stone laid by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Background
The zone covers an area of more than 1,000 acres of prime industrial area at the junction of N-5 National Highway and Islamabad Expressway. It is anticipated to attract investments amounting to $2.5 billion and create around 1,000 job opportunities. Additionally, one of its goals is to foster the growth of low-carbon footprint industries in the country.

References

Special economic zones of Pakistan
Economy of Pakistan
China–Pakistan Economic Corridor
Geography of Islamabad
Marc Murtra. Marc Thomas Murtra Millar (born 1972), better known as Marc Murtra, is a Spanish engineer and businessman, current executive Chairman of Telefónica since January 2025. Formerly, he has been President of Indra Sistemas from 2021 to 2025. He is also a board member of  Fundació Bancaria "la Caixa" and independent conselor of Ebro Foods, S.A.

Biography 
The son of a cardiothoracic surgeon, he was born and raised in Blackburn, England. He moved to Barcelona and studied industrial engineering and specialized in Machine Mechanics at Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Afterwards, he completed his studies with an MBA in New York, at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he learned from economists such as Paul Krugman and Paul Samuelson, among others.

He started working as a nuclear industry engineer at British Nuclear Fuels Ltd in the UK, and continued as a strategy consultant at DiamondCluster, where he worked for large technology companies.

In 2003 he was appointed director of the local radio station Ràdio Estel and later manager of Barcelona Televisió, Barcelona's local public broadcasting agency.

Between 2006 and 2011, he held various positions in the public sector: manager of social services at Barcelona City Council, general director of Red.es (2006) and chief of staff of Joan Clos while he was Minister of Industry (2006-2008).

In 2011 he went back to private sector and created an investment company, Crea Inversión, and later in 2020 he started working as a managing partner of the investment company Closa Investment Bankers. On the other hand, since 2017 he has been working as an assistant professor of economics and business at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona.

Throughout his career he is or has been a board member of several organizations, including the Fundación la Caixa, Paradores de Turismo de España or Inteco, (currently Spanish cibersecurity Institute, Incibe). Since 2018 he regularly publishes a monthly op-ed column at La Vanguardia.

In 2021 he was appointed Chairman of Indra Sistemas at the proposal of the Government of Spain. Since 2022 he is also an independent advisor of Ebro Foods. In January 2025 he was appointed executive chairman of Telefonica, in substitution of José María Álvarez-Pallete, to adapt the company to its new shareholding structure. In Indra he was replaced by Ángel Escribano.

He is the father of three children.

References 

Spanish businesspeople
Spanish engineers
1972 births
Living people
385 series. The  is a tilting electric multiple unit (EMU) train type on order by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central).

Overview 
Details of the 385 series were first announced by JR Central on 20 July 2023. The 385 series is intended to replace the  383 series fleet on Shinano limited express services. They will feature an improved pendular tilt system, which will allow for faster speeds on curves. A pre-production 8-car set is scheduled to be completed in 2026, with full production scheduled to commence in 2029.

References 

Electric multiple units of Japan
Tilting trains
Periscope lens. A periscope lens, sometimes called a folded lens, is a mechanical assembly of lens elements that uses a prism or mirror to redirect the light through the lenses with a 90° angle to the optical axis, as in a periscope.

Uses 
The Kenworthy/Netman Snorkel Camera System, introduced in 1967 by Norman Paul Kenworthy and Bob Nettman, uses periscope lenses to allow filming very small scale models and objects from a very close distance.

Smartphones use periscope lenses to allow larger zoom ratios without increasing (too much) their thickness. The increased optical zoom range is aimed to improve macro photography. With a periscope lens, the zoom lenses are turned by 90° and are aligned along the length or the width of the smartphone instead of its depth. The Sharp 902, released in 2004, is sometimes credited to be the first mobile phone to feature a (2x variable zoom) periscope lens camera. The Asus ZenFone Zoom smartphone, released in 2015, used an Hoya dual-periscope lens mechanism to achieve a 3x zoom. In 2019, the Huawei P30 Pro featured a 5x zoom periscope lens. In 2020, the Huawei P40 Pro+ introduced a 10x zoom periscope lens camera.

See also 
 List of longest smartphone telephoto lenses

References 

 
Telescopes
Film and video terminology

See also 

 Folded optics
 List of longest smartphone telephoto lenses
Washington Xe-100 reactor site. A number of Xe-100 small modular reactors designed by X-energy are planned to be installed for nuclear electric power production near the Columbia Generating Station in Washington by the 2030s. It would be X-energy's second power plant after one in Texas due to be finished by 2030. The operator will be Energy Northwest, the operator of Columbia Generating Station, the only nuclear power station in the Pacific Northwest.

Amazon.com involvement
In late October, 2024, Amazon.com announced it would fund construction of four X-Energy reactors at Hanford.

Opposition
The site is opposed by environmental groups including Columbia River Keeper, and the Oregon Conservancy Foundation who oppose new small modular reactors in general. Columbia River Keeper states that Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation opposed X-energy's application for a Department of Energy license to operate at the Hanford Site.

References

Sources

Further reading

External links
Energy Northwest projects

Proposed nuclear power stations in the United States
Beneteau 44 CC. The Beneteau 44 CC (Centre Cockpit), also called the Oceanis 44 CC, is a French sailboat that was designed by Bruce Farr as a cruiser and first built in 1994. The interior was designed by Armel Briand.

The design is a centre cockpit version of Farr's aft cockpit Beneteau 440 design.

Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France, from 1993 to 2002, with about 150 boats built, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Beneteau 44 CC is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of hand-laid glassfibre, with wood trim. It uses vinylester resin for the outer skin and polyester resin for the interior. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a keel-stepped mast, two sets of 18° swept spreaders and aluminium spars with discontinuous stainless steel wire standing rigging. Mainsail in-mast furling was factory standard. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom with steps to a swimming platform, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel with a weighted bulb. It displaces  and carries  of cast iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo or Japanese Yanmar  diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for four to six people, with two and three cabin interior layouts. The two cabin interior is typical and has a double island berth in the bow cabin, a U-shaped settee and two additional seats in the main salon and an aft cabin with a central double island berth. The galley is located on the starboard side just aft of the companionway ladder. The galley is of straight configuration and is equipped with a three-burner stove, a refrigerator, freezer and a double sink. A navigation station is forward of the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one in the bow cabin on the starboard side and one on the port side in the aft cabin. Cabin maximum headroom is .

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of .

The design has a hull speed of  and a PHRF handicap of 126.

Operational history
In a 2009 review, Yachting Monthly reported, "she is a heavy boat, and takes a fair bit of wind to get going."

A 2017 SpinSheet review noted, "personally, I don't find many center cockpit sailboats aesthetically pleasing. To my eye, Beneteau's 440 aft cockpit version of this model is more handsome, but this is purely personal taste and has nothing to do with the merits of this design. To their credit, the design team did an admirable job with a difficult design task".

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Bruce Farr
Sailboat type designs by Armel Briand
Sailboat types built by Beneteau
Bobby Fogel. Bobby Fogel (born Betsalel Hillel Fogel, 21 May 1974) is a Belgian architect, founder, and creative partner of Antwerp-based architecture firm BF Architecture.

Biography 
Bobby Fogel was born in Elsene, Brussels in 1974.  

From 1993 to 2000, he completed his studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB; 'Free University of Brussels'), where he earned a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Science Engineering of Architecture.

In 1995 Fogel Started his career as an intern at Rem Koolhaas’ Architecture firm OMA in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1999, he assisted as an intern at the Oscar Niemeyer Studio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He undertook an internship at Eisenman Architects in New York from 2000 to 2001.  In 2001, he served as an advisor architect at Richard Meier & Partners Architects in New York. From 2002 to 2007, Fogel assumed the role of a junior architect at Montois Partners Architects in Brussels, Belgium.

Fogel founded BF Architecture in 2008.

His architecture is distinguished by implementing the Genius Loci resulting in an “architecture parlante”. His firm works as a post-academic institutional workshop where accommodation is often offered in the in-house dormitory for passionate interns. The remarkable results of the progress of the students have built a great reputation among universities.

In 2014, his project took second place in the Liget Budapest Museum of Ethnography Competition.

He participated in the Venice Performance Art Week and Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016 in a collateral exhibition.

In 2017 Fogel received the Build Architecture Award: Best Multi-Family Architecture Practice – Europe as well as Best Residential Building Project: 1621-building.

In 2018, he was published in the book “30 of the Most Relevant World Architects” and his company won EU Business News Magazine's EU Business Awards 2018, as well as Leading Adviser Awards as a Leading Architecture and Design Firm of the Year in Belgium. Also in 2018, BF Architecture was listed in Lawyer International Legal 100 – Best Architect in Optimizing Codex in Architecture.

In 2019, he was awarded the Arte Firenze Premio Leonardo da Vinci. In the same year, his company received the Global Business Insight Awards as Most Innovative Architecture Company 2019 in Belgium and was acclaimed as one of the top Flemish Master Architect from Discover Benelux magazine.

He is an active guest speaker and participant in jury panels, including A’ Design Award, Frame Awards, Eurasian Challenge, AICA Artists In Concrete Awards, India Mumbai.

Works 

 The New Athletic Stadium of Brasilia.
 The Crystal Forest Landmark in Antwerp 
 Fort Intemporal – a redevelopment project of a former 19th-century fortress a few miles from the centre of Venice. Together with artist Wendy Krohmal.

References 

21st-century Belgian architects
1974 births
Living people
Vrije Universiteit Brussel alumni
Texas Aircraft Stallion. The Texas Aircraft Stallion is a Brazilian and American special light-sport aircraft under development by INPAER of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, for production by its sister company, Texas Aircraft Manufacturing of Hondo, Texas. The chief designer is Caio Jordão. Intended for personal use and flight training, the design is expected to be first publicly shown at Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Florida in April 2024. The aircraft is intended to be supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

 one prototype had been built and flown by INPAER in Brazil.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Brazilian and American light-sport aircraft rules as expected to be modified under the Federal Aviation Administration's proposed Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certificates (MOSAIC) rules. These new rules are expected to allow four seat LSAs up to a gross weight of , with a maximum  stall speed to be allowed in the US. Since Brazil has already approved the new regulations, the company expects to have the aircraft approved under the new rules in Brazil by mid-2024 and then in the US later.

The design features a strut-braced high-wing; a four-seat, enclosed cabin, accessed by extra-wide doors; fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from aluminum sheet over a welded 4130 steel cabin space frame. Standard engines available will be the  Lycoming IO-360 and  Lycoming IO-540 air-cooled, four-stroke powerplants.

Flight testing of the first prototype was underway in July 2023, at INPAER's plant in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Specifications (Stallion SLSA)

See also
Texas Aircraft Colt

References

External links

Texas Aircraft Manufacturing aircraft
2020s United States sport aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Reversible Hill equation. The classic Monod–Wyman–Changeux model (MWC) for cooperativity is generally published in an irreversible form. That is, there are no product terms in the rate equation which can be problematic for those wishing to build metabolic models since there are no product inhibition terms. However, a series of publications by Popova and Sel'kov derived the MWC rate equation for the reversible, multi-substrate, multi-product reaction.

The same problem applies to the classic Hill equation which is almost always shown in an irreversible form. Hofmeyr and Cornish-Bowden first published the reversible form of the Hill equation. The equation  has since been discussed elsewhere and the model has also been used in a number of kinetic models such as a model of Phosphofructokinase and Glycolytic Oscillations in the Pancreatic β-cells or a model of a glucose-xylose co-utilizing S. cerevisiae strain. The model has also been discussed in modern enzyme kinetics textbooks.

Derivation 

Consider the simpler case where there are two binding sites. See the scheme shown below. Each site is assumed to bind either molecule of substrate S or product P. The catalytic reaction is shown by the two reactions at the base of the scheme triangle, that is S to P and P to S. The model assumes the binding steps are always at equilibrium. The reaction rate is given by:

 

Invoking the rapid-equilibrium assumption we can write the various complexes in terms of equilibrium constants to give:

where . The  and  terms are the ratio of substrate and product to their respective half-saturation constants, namely  and  and 

Using the author's own notation, if an enzyme has  sites that can bind ligand, the form, in the general case, can be shown to be: 

The non-cooperative reversible Michaelis-Menten equation can be seen to emerge when we set the Hill coefficient to one. 

If the enzyme is irreversible the equation turns into the simple Michaelis-Menten equation that is irreversible. When setting the equilibrium constant to infinity, the equation can be seen to revert to the simpler case where the product inhibits the reverse step. 

A comparison has been made between the MWC and reversible Hill equation. 

A modification of the reversible Hill equation was published by Westermark et al where modifiers affected the catalytic properties instead.  This variant was shown to provide a much better fit for describing the kinetics of muscle phosphofructokinase.

References

Enzyme kinetics
Pharmacology
Chemical kinetics
Catalysis
Kohsar Tourism Expressway. The Kohsar Tourism Expressway, also known as the Tourism Expressway, is a multi-million rupee project in Pakistan aimed at promoting tourism in the country. The expressway project is planned to connect Rawalpindi to Murree and extend further up to Muzaffarabad in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). This expressway is intended to offer an alternative route for travelers between significant destinations in the region, particularly catering to tourists.

The project involves the reconstruction and expansion of a  road, with an estimated cost of approximately PKR 4.5 billion. Once completed, the road will be widened to . The Punjab government has assigned the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to undertake this significant project, and they have already received PKR 1.75 billion for commencing the work during the current fiscal year.

This new expressway is expected to have investment and commercial opportunities for both local and international tourists in the region. Alongside the road, plans include constructing high-rise buildings, restaurants, rest stops, and motels, which will contribute to strengthening the local economy and create employment opportunities also.

References

Roads in Pakistan
Expressways in Pakistan
Transport in Rawalpindi
Transport in Azad Kashmir
Proposed roads
Tourism in Islamabad
Tourism in Pakistan