omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
International Quiet Ocean Experiment. The International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE) is a global scientific research program aimed at improving understanding of the distributions of sounds in the ocean, and studying the effects of underwater noise pollution on marine life. The program has worked on promoting research, observations, and modelling to advance understanding of ocean soundscapes and the effects of sound on marine organisms. The IQOE was launched in 2015 by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO). The program comprises an international consortium of scientists, industry partners, and governmental organizations working together to further understanding of the impact of underwater noise on the ocean environment.

History 
The idea for the IQOE first took shape in 2011 during a workshop hosted by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO). This workshop brought together scientists from various disciplines and countries who recognized the need for a coordinated global effort to understand the effects of underwater noise.

Products 

IQOE groups have produced a variety of products to accomplish the goals of the project:
 IQOE Science Plan--Published in 2015, the IQOE Science Plan provides the scientific and societal rationales for the project and lays out actions designed to accomplish project goals. The plan is based on an open science meeting held in Paris, France in 2011 at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission headquarters.
 IQOE Newsletters--IQOE documents its activities and progress in 2-3 newsletters released each year.
 Guidelines for Observation of Ocean Sound--This workshop report compiles the work of several IQOE-endorsed projects, as well as the IQOE WG on Standardization to recommend standards for passive ocean acoustic observations.
Listening forward: approaching marine biodiversity assessments using acoustic methods--This paper was produced by the IQOE Working Group on Acoustic Measurement of Ocean Biodiversity Hotspots to document the state of the science on using bioacoustic metrics to estimate marine biodiversity.

References 

Noise pollution
Ocean pollution
Dhaka Tower. Dhaka Tower is a  tall, 38-storey skyscraper, currently being constructed at Dhaka’s Tejgaon Industrial Area, on the shores of Hatirjheel Lake. The building is a project of the Dhaka-based real estate firm, Shanta Holdings, with the help of the Netherlands’ OMA. Once completed, the high rise will stand 150 metres, making it one of the tallest buildings in both the city and the country. It will feature 180,000 square metre of office space.

OMA partner Iyad Askala designed the skyscraper, with him claiming that Bangladesh's rapidly growing economy was the inspiration for the design.

References

Proposed buildings and structures in Bangladesh
Buildings and structures in Dhaka
Skyscrapers in Bangladesh
Iron Sting. The Iron Sting (, Oketz Plada) is a 120 mm guided mortar munition developed by Elbit Systems of Israel, currently in use by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Iron Sting is designed for use with the "Keshet" and "Hanit" mortars in service with the IDF's Infantry Corps. It features dual guidance: laser and GPS, allowing for precise strikes, including in urban areas, minimizing the risk of collateral damage.

Background 
Development of the Iron Sting began in the early 2010s and continued after Elbit Systems acquired the military industry. In March 2021, the Iron Sting completed a successful series of tests, marking the end of its development phase and indicating its readiness for delivery to the IDF. The IDF procured the Iron Sting during 2021–2022, and it is operated by reconnaissance platoons.

The Iron Sting saw its first operational use during the 2023 Israel-Hamas War.

References 

Mortars of Israel
Infantry mortars
120 mm mortars
Military equipment introduced in the 2020s
Siwoloboff method. The Siwoloboff method is used to determine the boiling point of small samples of liquid chemicals. A sample in an ignition tube (also called a fusion tube) is attached to a thermometer with a rubber band, and immersed in a Thiele tube, water bath, or other suitable medium for heating. A sealed capillary, open end pointing down, is placed in the ignition tube.

The apparatus is heated. Dissolved gases evolve from the sample first, and the air in the capillary tube expands. Once the sample starts to boil, heating is stopped, and the temperature starts to fall. The temperature at which the liquid sample is sucked into the sealed capillary is the boiling point of the sample.

References 

Laboratory techniques
Light pollution (disambiguation). Light pollution is the presence of unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting in the visible spectrum. It may also refer to:
 Radio spectrum pollution
 Polarized light pollution, the form of light pollution specific to polarized light
 Ecological light pollution, the effect of artificial light on individual organisms and on the structure of ecosystems as a whole
 Light pollution in Hong Kong
 Light pollution in Hawaii
 Light pollution in China
 "Light Pollution", a song from the album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

See also 
 New England Light Pollution Advisory Group
Gaza Power Plant. The Gaza Power Plant is a fossil fuel power station in Gaza Strip, Palestine.

History
The power plant was built in 2002. On 28 June 2006, the six transformers of the power plant were destroyed by missile attacks by Israeli Air Force. In 2007, the power plant was rebuilt and it operated at a maximum capacity of 80 MW. On 29 July 2014, the power plant was attacked again by the Israel Defense Forces. On October 11, 2023, the plant reportedly stopped working after it ran out of fuel due to the blockade on Gaza imposed by Israel during the Israel-Hamas war.

Technical specifications
The power plant has a total of four generating units with an installed capacity of 140 MW.

See also
 Gaza electricity crisis

References

2002 establishments in the Palestinian territories
Buildings and structures in the Gaza Strip
Energy infrastructure completed in 2002
Oil-fired power stations
Power stations in the State of Palestine
S R Mahadeva Prasanna. S. R. M. Prasanna, a Senior Member of the IEEE, presently holds the position of director at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India.

Career 
Prior to his current role, he served as a professor, an associate professor, and an assistant professor within the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at IIT Guwahati in Guwahati, India. His work has garnered more than 5800 citations, with a H-Index of 38.

Awards 
 President of India National Award for Teachers (2023).

Books authored 
 Speech, Audio, Image and Biomedical Signal Processing using Neural Networks. Publisher: Springer (2008)
 Advances in Communication and Computing (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering). Publisher: Springer (2016)
 Speech and Computer. Publisher: Springer (2023)

References

Living people
Indian academic administrators
Indian academics
Indian educators
Indian scholars
Educators from Karnataka
21st-century Indian educators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Crenotherapy. Crenotherapy is the set of techniques and knowledge implemented during a thermal cure in a medical spa.

A thermal cure is a medical treatment prescribed by a doctor (general practitioner or specialist) which takes place in a thermal establishment over three weeks (in France), during which the patient is treated for his condition with the natural mineral waters of thermal springs and by their derived products, such as (CO₂-)gas, peloid mud, etc.

Heir to a practice dating back several centuries, the therapeutic effectiveness of some thermal treatments remains of low level of proof and divides the medical profession.

References 

Bathing
Medical treatments
Tama Te Ra'a Photovoltaic Plant. The Tama Te Ra'a Photovoltaic Plant is a photovoltaic power station in Easter Island, Chile. It is the first photovoltaic power station in Easter Island.

History
The power plant was commissioned in 2018 as the first photovoltaic power station in the island. It was inaugurated by Chile Energy Minister Susana Jiménez Schuster on 9 November 2018.

Technical specifications
The power plant has a generation capacity of 100 kW. It produces 200 MWh of electricity annually. It consists of 400 polycrystalline silicon panels. The outgoing transformer converts the electricity from 0.42 kV to 13.2 kV which will be distributed through 100-meter-long distribution line to Mataveri Substation.

See also
 List of power stations in Chile

References

2018 establishments in Chile
Buildings and structures in Easter Island
Energy infrastructure completed in 2018
Photovoltaic power stations in Chile
Solar power stations in Oceania
Nikolay Kucherskiy. Nikolay Ivanovich Kucherskiy (; 21 July 1937, Melitopol – 13 December 2018, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian industrialist and the General Director of the Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combine from 1985 to 2008. He had been working at the Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combine since 1961. He was awarded the title of Hero of Uzbekistan in 1996.

Biography

Nikolay Kucherskiy was born on 21 July 1937, in Melitopol. In 1961, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute with a degree in mining engineering. He started his professional career in 1961 as a mining master in Uchkuduk and went on to work as a section chief, quarry manager, chief engineer, and later as the director of the Central Ore Department.

Throughout his career, Kucherskiy was closely involved with the uranium and gold mining industry in Uzbekistan. In 1985, he was appointed as the General Director of the Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combine. Kucherskiy held a Doctor of Technical Sciences degree and was recognized as an Honored Engineer of Uzbekistan. He was a professor at the Navoi State Mining Institute and the Tashkent Institute for the Design, Construction, and Operation of Roads. He conducted scientific research during his career. Kucherskiy also served as a member of the Oliy Majlis (parliament) and the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He passed away on 13 December 2018, in one of the clinics in the Moscow region and was buried in Moscow at the Khovanskoye Cemetery.

Awards
  Hero of Uzbekistan (26 August 1996)
  "El-yurt hurmati" ordeni (Order of "Respected by the People and the Homeland") (25 August 2000)
  "Order of Outstanding Merit" (20 July 2007)
  "Doʻstlik" ordeni (Order of "Friendship") (25 August 1994)
  Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (17 July 2000, Ukraine).
  Order of Merit, 3rd class (16 December 2002, Ukraine).
  Order of the October Revolution (1983)
  Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1970)
  Order of the Badge of Honour (1966)
  Two USSR State Prizes (1980 and 1987)

See also
Elmira Bosithonova
Hasan Normurodov

References

1937 births
2018 deaths
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Members of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan
Members of the Senate of Uzbekistan
27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Uzbekistani people of Ukrainian descent
People from Melitopol
Heroes of Uzbekistan
Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company or Kharkiv Aviation Factory (KSAMC or KhAZ; ) is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing company. During the Soviet era, the plant was known as Aircraft Production Plant 135 and the Central Intelligence Agency classified it as Kharkiv Airframe Plant 135.

History 
KhAZ was established on September 17, 1926, following the foundation of Kharkiv aircraft repair facilities, which had been established in 1923. These facilities were originally constructed by the German aviation company Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG prior to Adolf Hitler's rise to power. This undertaking was part of Weimar Germany's strategy to conceal its military cooperation with the Soviet Union, aiming to circumvent the limitations imposed on the German Armed Forces by the Treaty of Versailles.

The manufacturing facility has its own aerodrome, known as Kharkiv North Airport (ICAO: UKHV), alternatively recognized as Kharkiv Sokilnyky Airport.

Notable aircraft

Fighters 

 Grigorovich I-Z
 Grigorovich IP-1
 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
 Sukhoi Su-2

Trainer 

 Yakovlev Yak-18

Transport 

 Antonov An-72
 Antonov An-74
 Antonov An-140

Passenger 

 Kalinin K-2
 Kalinin K-3
 Kalinin K-4
 Kalinin K-5
 Tupolev Tu-104
 Tupolev Tu-124
 Tupolev Tu-134
 Tupolev Tu-141

Ultralight 

 KhAZ ViS-3

Experimental 

 Kalinin K-7
 Kharkiv KhAI-1
 Kharkiv KhAI-4
 Kharkiv KhAI-5

See also 

 National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute

References 

Aircraft manufacturing
Soviet aviation task force articles
EEVE. EEVE is a Belgian company that develops and produces personal robots. 

Since its foundation in 2017, EEVE has used two alternative names: AIRobots (2017) and The Toadi Order (2018–2020).

EEVE's  flagship product, the perimeter-free lawn robot Willow, is a robot capable of mowing lawns and conducting surveillance, with the ability to equip additional tools and operate solely on computer vision and artificial intelligence. Willow was introduced in the United States via a Kickstarter campaign in 2020 with object recognition and security features. The first test robot deliveries in the US occurred in 2023.

See also

 Robotic lawn mower

References

External links 
 

Domestic robots
Lawn mower manufacturers
National Maritime Heritage Complex. National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) is an under construction tourism complex near Lothal in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India which will present the maritime heritage of India. The complex will have museums, amusement parks, educational institute, hotels and resort. It will also recreate Dholavira and Lothal cities in the complex.

History 
The NMHC is being constructed near Lothal, an ancient maritime port city of Indus Valley Civillisation. The construction is being done under the Sagar Mala scheme of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways of Government of India. The masterplan was finalised in March 2019. The foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 March 2019. The project is being built in phases.

The NMHC is estimated to cost  to . The Government of Gujarat allocated land; built road, water supply and electricity lines; and contributed  for internal infrastructure. The major ports funded .

Architecture firm Hafeez Contractor served as the principal management consultant. The Indian Port, Rail and Ropeway Corporation Limited was awarded the implementation work. The Phase 1A is being built by Tata Projects. The Phase 1A is expected to complete by March 2024.

Features 
The NMHC will be spread over an area of  including  for the complex and  for the staff residential facilities. The National Maritime Heritage Museum will have 14 galleries depicting maritime history of India from the Harappan era to present.

Phase 1 
Under Phase 1A, the National Maritime Heritage Museum with 5 galleries and a naval gallery will be built at cost of . It will be spread over a area of . Under Phase 1B, the rest of the National Maritime Heritage Museum galleries, Light House Museum, 5D dome theatre, gardens and other infrastructure will be built.

Phase 2 
State pavilions depicting maritime heritage of each coastal state and union territory of India will be built. The Maritime Institute; four amusement parks including Maritime and Naval Theme Park, Monuments Theme Park, Climate Change Theme Park, Adventure and Amusement Theme Park; hotels and resort will be built under this phase. It will also to recreate Dholavira and Lothal cities as they were in ancient times.

References

External links 

 NMHC Website

Museums in Gujarat
Local museums in India
Tourist attractions in Bhavnagar district
History museums in India
Maritime history of India
HAL HLFT-42. The HAL HLFT-42 (Hindustan Lead-in Fighter Trainer – 42) is a design for an Indian lead-in fighter trainer proposed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Designed as a next-generation supersonic trainer jet, serving as an advanced trainer for upcoming HAL Tejas Mk2 and HAL AMCA fighter jets. Notably, the HLFT-42 will also be used as a fully-fledged fighter jet to perform combat missions. HAL unveiled the design of the scale model of the HLFT-42 at the 14th edition of Aero India (2023), which was held in Bangalore. 

The Indian Air Force has expressed its intent to use the HLFT-42 in the future to replace the existing BAE Hawk 132 jet trainers.

Development 
The concept for the HLFT-42 was initiated in 2017, and officially unveiled at Aero India 2023 by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). As of February 14, 2023, HAL reported that the HLFT-42 development project had reached an advanced stage of development and was expected to progress to the final design stage within the next four to five years. Its primary role is to replace the Indian Air Force's current BAE Hawk jet trainers and serve as the trainer for future fighter jets, including the HAL Tejas Mk2 and HAL AMCA. Additionally, it will be capable of performing combat missions.

Design 

HLFT-42 is designed as a single-engine, conventionally swept-wing aircraft with a bubble canopy. It is anticipated that maximum take-off weight of HLFT-42 will be around 16,500 kilograms. This aircraft will feature advance  avionics, including an active electronically scanned array radar, infrared search and track sensor and electronic warfare (EW) suite, all complemented by a FBW system. The HLFT-42 mock-up displayed at Aero India (2023) showcased three hardpoints under each wing, three under the fuselage, and one on each wing tip, totaling 11 hardpoints for integrating weapons. These weapons may include close-combat-missiles (like ASRAAM) and beyond-visual-range missiles (such as Astra), which effectively transform the HLFT-42 into a fully-fledged fighter jet.

Specifications (Projected)

See also

References

External links 
HAL Official Website for details of Media Releases about HLFT-42

Indian military aircraft procurement programs
Proposed military aircraft
HLTF-42
Single-engined jet aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Edward Karavakis. Edward Karavakis (; born October 29, 1983) is a Greek computer scientist working as a Senior Applications Engineer  at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) stationed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland.

Early life and education
Karavakis completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 2005 from the University of East London and his master's degree in Data Communication Systems in 2006 from Brunel University. He was then awarded a three years of funding for his PhD research from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in UK. In 2008, Karavakis started collaborating with the IT department of CERN for his doctoral research. He completed his doctorate degree  in 2010 from Brunel University.

Career
Upon completing his PhD, Karavakis was hired as a post-doctoral researcher in the IT department of CERN in 2010  and then hired as a CERN staff in 2013. In May 2022, Edward joined Brookhaven National Laboratory. Based at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, he is a core member of the PanDA (Production and Distributed Analysis) Workload Management System project team. PanDA is a high-performance, scalable system designed to manage and distribute computational tasks across large-scale, distributed computing environments. This project plays an important role in supporting the ATLAS experiment at CERN, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, and sPHENIX at BNL.

Before joining Brookhaven National Laboratory, Karavakis was the project leader  of the File Transfer Service  (FTS), the grid data transfer service used at the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The WLCG project is a global computing infrastructure of more than 180 data centres in 42 countries scattered around the world that produce a massive distributed computing infrastructure with about 1,000,000 CPU cores, providing more than 10,000 physicists around the world with near real-time access to the LHC data, and the power to process it. Other projects that Karavakis was involved with include the Experiment Dashboard Monitoring System  for the WLCG and the MONIT  monitoring project at CERN.

Edward Karavakis has been a supporter of the CERN & Society Foundation since 2019. His commitment to the charitable branch of CERN is exemplified by his active involvement in promoting its mission. In an internal campaign  aimed at raising awareness among CERN personnel, Edward was invited to share his insights about the Foundation through a video interview. This initiative sought to highlight the Foundation's pivotal role in extending the reach and impact of CERN's activities beyond its core research, benefiting the wider public.

References

External links

Edward Karavakis's publications indexed by INSPIRE HEP

Living people
Greek computer scientists
Computer scientists
21st-century Greek scientists
Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
Alumni of Brunel University London
Scientists from Thessaloniki
1983 births
People associated with CERN
Stoke Space Nova. Nova is a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle being developed by Stoke Space. Announced in October 2023, Stoke Space plans to use two stages with an expected payload capacity of 5 tons (5,000 kg) to low Earth orbit (LEO), with the first stage performing a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landing. The company plans to use 7 full-flow staged combustion rocket engines, burning methalox. The second stage will use a hydrolox (liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen) engine with 30 thrust chambers ringing a regeneratively cooled heatshield, eliminating the need for thermal tiles. A center passive bleed in the second stage aims to create an aerospike engine-like effect for improved efficiency.

The vehicle was selected as part of the Space Force's Orbital Services Program.

Design 
Prior to the company's unveiling of the rocket's name, Nova, in October 2023, Stoke Space noted various developments with the booster and second stage's design. 

The rocket's booster will consist of seven Zenith full-flow staged combustion cycle engines, designed and manufactured by the company. The rocket's second stage will measure 13 feet in diameter and will stand at a height of 20 feet. The second stage, in order to survive entry, will consist of a metallic heat shield and a "ring" of 30 thrusters. The thrust chambers and nozzles are 3D-printed, with second-stage engines being fueled by cryogenic hydrogen. The rocket, when fully stacked, will measure 4 meters in diameter and reach a height of approximately 30.5 meters.

Operations 
Stoke Space in March 2023 announced that it will launch Nova from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 14. The company also owns and operates a test launch facility in Moses Lake, Washington, from where it conducted various tests of Nova.

Development 
An engine designed to be implemented on Nova's booster underwent its first test in June 2024, 18 months after the start of its development, and is designed to produce over 100,000 pounds of thrust upon lift-off. Hopper tests of Nova's reusable second stage were conducted in September 2023, with an engine test being conducted in February 2024. A proof-test of a shortened first stage test tank was conducted in December 2023.

Stoke Space says it plans to develop the rocket and reach orbit by 2025, with some independent estimates projecting a timeframe of 2026.

Applications 
Stoke Space says that Nova can be used for a variety of functions, including deploying satellites to space, performing manufacturing and science experiments in space, collecting and returning satellites, and removing space debris.

References 

VTVL rockets
Proposed reusable launch systems
Reusable spaceflight technology
Reusable spacecraft
Reusable launch systems
Cargo spacecraft