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Shady Attia. Shady Attia is an Egyptian-Belgian academic and architectural engineer. He is a professor of Sustainable Architecture and Building Technology at the University of Liège, where he leads the Laboratory of Sustainable Building Design.

Education 
Attia completed his undergraduate studies in architectural engineering at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in 2002. He then pursued a Master of Science in Landscape Design and Urban Planning at Wageningen University, specializing in urban climate. In 2009, he began a PhD in building physics at Texas A&M University and later completed it at UCLouvain, where his research focused on zero-energy buildings, later worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

Career 
He began his career in 2014 and joined the University of Liège's School of Engineering as a faculty member, becoming an associate professor in 2016 and a Full Professor in 2020. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 100 conference papers, books, and technical reports. He is actively involved with the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) and several International Energy Agency (IEA) committees. He is an active member of different ISO committees representing the Belgian Bureau of Normalization with a focus on Circular Economy in the Construction Sector.

He is also a member of the Society of Building Science Educators and co-founder of the Doctoral Seminar for Sustainability in the Built Environment in Belgium.

Attia is ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University, and his book Regenerative and Positive Impact Architecture has been widely used and recognized for its relevance to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Publications 
 Attia, S. (2018). Regenerative and Positive Impact Architecture: Learning from Case Studies. Springer International Publishing. .
 Attia, S. (2018). Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB): Concepts, Frameworks, and Roadmap for Project Analysis and Implementation. Elsevier.

Accolades 
He has received recognition for his contributions in solar energy and architectural design, including the Best Paper Award for "Sizing Photovoltaic Systems During Early Design: A Decision Tool For Architects" and the SBSE ASES Solar Conference Scholarship at ASES Solar 2010 in Phoenix, AZ. He also received the ASES Best Paper Award at the same conference.

References 

Belgian engineers
Alumni
Alumni by university or college in Belgium
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Liège
21st-century Belgian engineers
Belgian scientists
Department of Forest Biomaterials. The Department of Forest Biomaterials at North Carolina State University (NC State) is an academic department specializing in the study and development of forest-based materials, bioenergy, and sustainability. The department is part of the College of Natural Resources.

Research Areas 
 Bioenergy 
 Sustainable Biomaterials 
 Forest Products 
 Environmental Sustainability

Education 
Undergraduate and graduate programs (#1 in Wood Science & Wood Products/Pulp & Paper Technology in 2024 in the United States), including Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees. Courses cover topics such as wood science, bioenergy, sustainable biomaterials, and environmental sustainability.

 Master of Science in Forest Biomaterials 
 Master of Forest Biomaterials (non-thesis) 
 Distance Master of Forest Biomaterials (online-only) 
 Ph.D. in Forest Biomaterials

Collaborations and Partnerships 
The Department of Forest Biomaterials collaborates with various institutions, organizations, and industries:

 University of British Columbia
 Aalto University
 Auburn University
 Georgetown University
 USDA
 Department of Energy
 WestRock
 Valmet
 Cascades
 Adidas
 Unilever
 Kimberly-Clark
 Rayonier Advanced Materials
 Procter & Gamble
 CMPC (company)
 Suzano
 Eastman
 Essity
 International Paper
 Andritz AG
 Nalco Water

Faculty 

 Dimitris S. Argyropoulos
 Ali Ayoub
 Medwick Byrd Jr
 Edward Funkhouser
 Ronalds W. Gonzalez
 Martin Hubbe
 Hasan Jameel
 John Kadla
 Bo Kasal
 Frederik Laleicke
 Kai Lan
 Nathalie Lavoine
 Lucian Lucia
 Marian McCord
 Lokendra Pal
 Sunkyu Park
 Melissa Pasquinelli
 Joel Pawlak
 Perry Peralta
 Ilona Peszlen
 Richard Phillips
 Rico Ruffino
 Daniel Saloni
 David Tilotta
 Richard Venditti
 Jingxin Wang
 Yuan Yao

Faculty Emeritus 
 Hou-min Chang
 John Heitmann Jr
 Stephen Kelley
 Adrianna Kirkman
 Michael Kocurek
 Philip Mitchell
 Elisabeth Wheeler

Postdoctoral Scholars 
 Nelson Barrios
 Sharmita Bera
 Seong-Min Cho
 Karthik Ananth Mani
 Raman Rao
 Md Imrul Reza Shishir
 Song Wang
 Saurabh K Kardam

Staff 
 Shelley Barry
 Brittany Hayes
 Olivia Lenahan
 Shannon Lora
 Ronald Marquez
 Beverly Miller
 Julie Paradiso
 Melissa Rabil
 Jessica Rogers
 Angela Rush
 Elisha Swartz
 Loi Tran

External links 
 Department of Forest Biomaterials at NC State

References

North Carolina State University
Biomaterials
Paper
Bioenergy
Sustainability
Anne Silverman. Anne Katherine Silverman is an American biomechanical engineer whose research focuses on the mechanics of walking, and the design and analysis of prosthetics for prosthetics for amputees. She is Rowlinson Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where she heads the Functional Biomechanics Laboratory, and is a co-PI of the NSF Integrative Movement Sciences Institute.

Education and career
Silverman is originally from Des Moines, Iowa, but moved to Ahwatukee, Arizona as a child, and graduated from Mountain Pointe High School in Ahwatukee in 2001. She majored in mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, graduating summa cum laude in 2005. She continued her studies at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a master's degree in 2007 before completing her Ph.D. there. Her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Compensatory Mechanisms in Below-Knee Amputee Walking and Their Effects on Knee Joint Loading, Metabolic Cost and Angular Momentum, was supervised by Rick Neptune.

She joined the Colorado School of Mines in 2011.

Recognition
Silverman was named an ASME Fellow in 2020.

References

External links
Functional Biomechanics Laboratory

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Des Moines, Iowa
American biomedical engineers
American women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
Arizona State University alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Colorado School of Mines faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Brigitte Tsobgny. Brigitte Tsobgny (born 1961) is a Cameroonian author of literature primarily for young readers, as well as an educator.

Biography 

Brigitte Tsobgny was born in 1961 in Dschang, in the West Region of Cameroon. She studied physics and pursued research and development of new materials for manufacturing industries. She also obtained a PhD in Sciences under the supervision of Jean-Jacques Videau, presented in 1989 at the University of Bordeaux, titled: "New thiohalogenide vitreous materials transparent in the infrared". In the preface of one of her works, she states: .

She then taught at the University of Réunion for three years, followed by positions in Belgium and France, all while dedicating herself to literature

As an author, she initially wrote tales and stories for children and adolescents, including Quand la forêt parle, Ponok-Ponok, Drôles d'histoires mathématiques, and Fotakou, un petit mensonge de rien du tout. Quand la forêt parle depicts the initiatory journey of a teenager in the African rainforest, questioning African traditions and offering cultural insights. Fotakou, un petit mensonge de rien du tout is also set in the rainforest. Ponok-Ponok, Drôles d'histoires mathématiques is a collection of educational stories

She later turned to writing for adults in a style that combines realism and poetry. Her first novel for adults, Rats, is a fable on human behavior, free will, and destiny, blending science and literature humorously. Two researchers observe and analyze the behavior of laboratory rats, imposing a rhythm of life regulated by their experiments. One day, a sewer rat infiltrates the laboratory. He tells his fellow rats about other possible lives outside and reveals that they are test subjects, prisoners of the researchers. Her second novel, Amours tyranniques, explores non-exclusive love, infidelity, and the sincerity of feelings candidly and implicitly. Some love scenes are quite explicit, as seen in the opening of the novel. Structured as a nested novel, the narrative gradually reveals unsuspected lives. In L'Afro-Parisienne et la suite arithmétique du Saigneur de Paris, an Afro-Parisian biophysicist attempts to decrypt the rituals of a serial killer. It indirectly analyzes French society, which makes life difficult for a quadragenarian of African origin, feeling marginalized due to her gender and Cameroonian origins.

Selected works for young readers 
 1999: Quand la forêt parle, Acoria Jeunesse.
 2002: Ponok-Ponok, Drôles d'histoires mathématiques, illustrated by François Warzala, Odin Éditions.
 2004: Fotakou, un petit mensonge de rien du tout, illustrated by Augustin Détienne, Odin Éditions.

Short story collection 
 2005: Face à pile: Mensonges, horreurs et splendeurs, illustrated by François Warzala, Odin Éditions. Eleven stories and a fable in the introduction.

Selected novels for adults 
 2004: Rats, Odin Éditions.
 2006: Amours Tyranniques, Odin Éditions.
 2013: L'Afro-Parisienne et la suite arithmétique du Saigneur de Paris, Odin Éditions.

References 

Cameroonian novelists
1961 births
People from Dschang
University of Bordeaux alumni
Living people
Indo-Nepal Border Road. Indo-Nepal Border Road (Hindi: भारत नेपाल सीमा सड़क) is a highway approximately parallel to the international borders between India and Nepal which connects the border outposts (BOP) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in India near the lines of the international border.

Description 
The project for Indo-Nepal Border Road was conceived by George Fernandes who was the Defence Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. This road was initially planned during the Vajpayee Government. After that in November 2010, Central Government of India decided to construct a road parallel to the Indo-Nepal international border from Bihar to Uttarakhand having a length of . The project is known as Indo-Nepal Border Road Project. The foundation stone of the project was laid on 25 June 2013 in Supaul district of Bihar by the then Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde of Manmohan Singh government, in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of Bihar Government. It covers the length of  in Bihar,  in Uttar Pradesh and  in Uttarakhand.  It is a strategic border road for the easy mobility of SSB troops. The cost of the project was initially estimated to Rs 3,853 crore. But due to the delay in completion of the project, the cost of the project is enhancing with the time. The executive agencies of the project are Public Works Department (PWD) and Road Construction Department (RCD) in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The cost of the construction of the road is to be paid by the central government and the costs of the acquisition of lands are to be paid by the respective state governments. In Bihar the road starts at Galgalia in Kishanganj district near Bihar–West Bengal border and ends at Madanpur in West Champaran district near the Bihar–UP border. The road passes through seven districts of Bihar. These districts are West Champaran, East Champaran, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Supaul, Araria and Kishanganj. Similarly in Uttar Pradesh also the road passes through seven districts, they are Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar and Mahrajganj.

Objective  
Since Indo-Nepal borders are open and porous in nature, it has become sensitive for anti-national and anti-social activities. The border areas are surrounded by problems including illegal infiltration, drug trafficking, counterfeit currencies, human trafficking and other criminal activities. For the safety of the borders the government of India designated SSB near these borders line. But due to lack of road connectivity in these areas, SSB forces were facing difficulties in the movements of their vehicles and military transportations. Therefore the central government of India initiated the construction of the highway to connect the BOPs of the SSB forces in these areas. Apart from security prospective, the road is also beneficial for economic activities around the areas connected to the highway.

References 

India–Nepal relations
Roads in India
National Institute of Post and Information and Communication Technologies. The National Institute of Post and Information and Communication Technologies (acronym: INPTIC) or  is an Algerian university institution offering training in the fields of telecommunications engineering, computer networks, information technologies, and management. It also offers parallel training for Cisco and Oracle certifications and the European Computer Competence License. The institute is located in the town of Les Eucalyptus, east of Algiers. Administratively, it falls under the Ministry of Post and Information and Communication Technologies and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The institute is a member of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.

Programs 
INPTIC offers high-level, professional, and degree-awarding university programs that combine technological expertise with interactions between networks, services, and applications. These include:

Bachelor's Degrees (BAC+3)
 Telecommunications and Computer Networks (TRI)
 Communication Services and Networks (SRC)

Specialized Master's Degrees (Bac+5)
 ICT Management
 System and Network Security

References

External links 
 Official website of INPTIC

Universities in Algeria
Education in Algiers
Telecommunications in Algeria
Nicola Pecile. Nicola Pecile (born March 11, 1973, Udine) is an Italian commercial astronaut who works for Virgin Galactic.

He graduated from the Accademia Aeronautica and served with the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) flying Panavia Tornado combat aircraft. Selected to train as a test pilot, he qualified at the EPNER school in 2003.  As a test pilot, he tested new armament integrations for the Tornado and AMX International AMX He completed a master's degree in Astronautical Engineering at the School of Aerospace Engineering of La Sapienza, Rome.

In 2011, he retired from the air force and migrated to the United States. There, he taught at the National Test Pilot School in Mojave, California. In 2015, he joined Virgin Galactic to work on the SpaceShipTwo program.

As of 2023, he had logged 8,000 flying hours on 170 different aircraft.

References

Sources
 
 
 
 

Italian test pilots
People from Fagagna
People from Udine
Italian Air Force officers
Virgin Galactic
Living people
Commercial astronauts
People who have flown in suborbital spaceflight
American test pilots
1973 births
Barium hexafluorogermanate. Barium hexafluorogermanate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
Barium hexafluorogermanate can be prepared by reacting hydrofluoric acid with germanium dioxide and then with barium chloride.

Chemical properties
The compound decomposes to germanium tetrafluoride when heated to about 700 °C.

References 

Fluoro complexes
Germanates
Barium compounds
Fluorometallates
Pavol Šajgalík. Pavol Šajgalík (born 30 June 1955) is a Slovak physicist, specialized in materials science. He has served as the president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 2015 and his current term will end in 2025.

Biography 
Pavol Šajgalík was born on 30 June 1955 in Bratislava. He studied physics at the Comenius University, graduating in 1979. Šajgalík was awarded the candidate degree by the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1987. Since graduation, he has worked at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Between 1999 and 2013 he was the director of the institute.

Awards 
In 2015, he was awarded the Ľudovít Štúr Order, 3rd class by the president of Slovakia Andrej Kiska.

Personal life 
Šajgalík is married and has two daughters.

References 

1955 births
Living people
Slovak physicists
Scientists from Bratislava
Comenius University alumni
Unitree Robotics. Hangzhou Yushu Technology Co., Ltd. (), trading as Unitree Robotics, is a Chinese robotics company based in Hangzhou, China. It specializes in quadruped robots aimed on individual consumers. The company was founded by Wang Xingxing in May 2016.

History
In 2013, Wang Xingxing developed quadrupeds during his postgraduate studies at Shanghai University. His first quadruped device, XDog, was developed in 2016 for his master's thesis. The robotic dog became an Internet sensation which attracted buyers and investors. After Wang started to work at the Chinese company DJI, he decided to resign and start his own company, Unitree.

In 2021, Unitree released Unitree Go1, a quadruped robot similar to Boston Dynamics' Spot. It is fitted with twelve motors; each can generate a maximum torque of  and can spin at speeds of up to 30 rad/s (about ). According to an article by The Wall Street Journal, the Unitree robotic dog can navigate to different surfaces including sand, rocks, and soil.

In April 2024, Unitree released a video showcasing the humanoid robot H1. In August 2024, Unitree released Unitree G1, an upgraded version of the H1 robot, for mass production with a price tag of 16,000 USD.

Products
Unitree also received backing from venture capitals such as HongShan, Matrix Partners, and Shunwei Capital.

Controversies

In August 2022, Unitree denied the allegations about reports of their Go1 robot being used by the Russian Armed Forces.

In September 2023, the United States Marine Corps used an M72 LAW anti-tank rocket launcher fixed to a Go1 robotic dog during tactical training at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California.
 
In May 2024, The Guardian reported that the Unitree Go2 robot has been used during China's joint military drills with Cambodia, having an automatic rifle on its back. According to the newspaper, this was based on footage broadcast by China Central Television. Unitree, on the same month, stated that they do not sell their products to the People's Liberation Army.

See also 

 Boston Dynamics
 AgiBot
 Fourier Intelligence
 UBtech Robotics

References

External links

 

Chinese companies established in 2016
Manufacturing companies based in Hangzhou
Manufacturing companies established in 2016
Privately held companies of China
Robotics companies of China
Technology companies established in 2016
Lithium hexafluorosilicate. Lithium hexafluorosilicate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
Lithium hexafluorosilicate can be obtained by reacting hexafluorosilicic acid with lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate or by reacting silicon tetrafluoride with lithium fluoride.

Physical properties
Lithium hexafluorosilicate is a white, odorless solid that is soluble in water and methanol. When heated above 250 °C, it decomposes into lithium fluoride and silicon(IV) fluoride. It has a trigonal crystal structure with the space group P 321 (space group no. 150) and three formula units per unit cell, isotypic to sodium hexafluorosilicate.

Uses
Lithium hexafluorosilicate is used as an intermediate in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical compounds. It is also an intermediate in the preparation of lithium chloride from lithium-containing minerals by reacting with hexafluorosilicic acid.

References 

Hexafluorosilicates
Lithium compounds
Smart 5. The Smart #5 (stylised as "smart #5") is a battery electric mid-size crossover SUV developed and produced by Smart Automobile, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz Group and Geely Holding. It will be the third vehicle produced by the joint venture. The model is based on the Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) electric vehicle platform developed by Geely.

Concepts

Smart Concept #5
The #5 was first previewed by the Smart Concept #5 concept car at Auto China in April 2024.

Overview

The #5 was unveiled on 13 June 2024.

Specifications
The #5 offers four powertrain options.

References

5
Production electric cars
Mid-size crossover sport utility vehicles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 2024
VanGrunsven RV-5. RV-5 is a one-off proof-of-concept prototype airplane designed by Richard VanGrunsven. Although the designation is the 5th in the Van's Aircraft "RV" series, the RV-5 was never intended as a production aircraft but as a project for VanGrunsven and fellow members of his Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) chapter.

The RV-5 has a single seat, a shoulder-mounted wing, full-span flaperons, fixed landing gear in a conventional configuration, and all-metal structure – mostly  aluminum. The airplane originally flew in the summer of 1976 with a 30 hp half-VW engine, and was later re-engined with a 41 hp Rotax 447. The straight, untapered wings use a flat-bottomed NACA 4414 airfoil. The canopy was initially designed and fabricated for the RV-2.

For storage and ground transportation, the front spar can be disconnected from the fuselage, then the "scissor-wing" can pivot 90 degrees about a bolt on the rear spar, at which point the flat bottom of one wing will rest on the flat upper surface of the fuselage. This is similar to the storage configuration later used on the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.

The airplane was designed in light of the 1970s energy crisis, to explore how much performance could be achieved with the use of an engine with very low fuel burn. A member of EAA Chapter 105 developed the first "half VW" airplane engine - i.e. an engine that uses two of the four cylinders of a Volkswagen air-cooled engine – and wanted to test it on a light airframe. Richard VanGrunsven, a member of Chapter 105, designed the airplane and led the chapter in its construction and testing from 1975 to 1976.

In 1984, Richard's brother Jerry VanGrunsven borrowed the airplane and took it to his airpark home near Seattle. Most of the subsequent hours on the airplane were flown by Jerry and his two sons.

From 2017 to 2019, the RV-5 was restored and then displayed at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. It is currently on display, hanging from the ceiling beams of the hangar that houses Van's Aircraft's factory-demo fleet of airplanes.

Specifications

75%-power cruise speed: over 100 mph
Fuel consumption, economy cruise: 3 gph

See also
Colomban Cri-cri
Hummel Bird

References

Homebuilt aircraft
1970s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
RV-5
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
VanGrunsven RV-2. RV-2 is Richard VanGrunsven’s designation for a proposed single-seat tailless glider with all-wood structure and a 40-foot wingspan. The airplane has same configuration as the Backstrom EPB-1C and Marske XM-1D, although with a swept vertical stabilizer similar to that of the Marske Pioneer.

Fabrication and assembly of the wooden wings were almost completed. However, the project did not progress beyond this point, being indefinitely paused in the early 1970s in favor of the development of the RV-3 and the founding and running of Van's Aircraft. The canopy originally fabricated for the RV-2 was later used on the RV-5.

See also
Backstrom EPB-1C
Marske XM-1D

References

External links
Whittaker MW9

Homebuilt aircraft
Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United States
1970s United States sailplanes
Tailless aircraft