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Li Leishi. Li Leishi (; 26 October 1926 – 16 March 2010) was a Chinese renal specialist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

He was a member of the 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography
Li was born in Changsha County, Hunan, on 26 October 1926, to Li Putang (), a teacher, and Zhou Xia (), a housewife. He was the youngest of five children.  Both his elder brothers Li Ao and Li Jieshou were also academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Because of his father's job transfer, he successively studied in Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou. After his father died in 1937, Li studied at Guangyi Middle School () in his home-city Changsha. At the end of the year, due to the impact of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Li's family moved several times in Hunan, passing through Changsha, Anhua County, Loudi, Changning and other places. In April 1941, he returned to Guangyi Middle School with his elder brother Li Jieshou.  In 1943, he was admitted to National Zhongzheng Medical College (renamed Nanchang Medical College in 1949), where he majored in clinical medicine. After graduating in 1949, he became a resident surgeon of Nanjing Central Hospital.

In April 1963, Li rose to become vice president of Nanjing University Medical School, and held that office until April 1986. He concurrently served as director of the PLA Nephrology Institute from April 1964 to April 1986. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1981. In May 1986, he was chosen as vice president of the Clinical College of Nanjing University Medical School, a position he held until March 2010.

On the morning of 16 March 2010, Li jumped from his home on the 14th Floor of Beijing West Road in Nanjing, at the age of 83.

Honours and awards
 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the study on diagnosis and treatment of glomerulonephritis
 1988 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the immunopathological study and clinical application of glomerular diseases
 1991 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the study on immunopathogenesis of IgA nephritis
 1991 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the study on the treatment of lupus nephritis
 1993 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the mechanism and effect of rhubarb on delaying chronic renal failure
 1994 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

References

1926 births
2010 deaths
People from Changsha County
Engineers from Hunan
Changjun High School alumni
Academic staff of Nanjing University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Members of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Li Ao (academician). Li Ao (; 4 May 1917 – 21 August 1999) was a Chinese engineer specializing in burn and trauma, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Li was born in Liuyang County (now Liuyang), Hunan, on 4 May 1917, to Li Putang (), a teacher, and Zhou Xia (), a housewife. He was the oldest of five children. Both his younger brothers Li Jieshou and Li Leishi were also academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 1935, he was accepted to Shanghai Medical College (now belonged to Fudan University), but transferred to Xiangya Medical College (now Xiangya Medical College of Central South University) in 1937 due to the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1939, Shanghai Medical College moved to Kunming, and Li returned to the college to finish his studies.

After graduating in 1941, Li became a surgical assistant at Zhongzheng Medical College in Nanchang. 

In 1954, Li was transferred to the Seventh Military Medical University and worked at its First Affiliated Hospital.

He died on 21 August 1999, at the age of 82.

Honours and awards
 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) for the study of burns
 1989 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the study on the nature and pathogenesis of early pulmonary edema after inhalation injury
 1994 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1917 births
1999 deaths
People from Liuyang
Engineers from Hunan
Fudan University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
20th-century Chinese engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
Isabel Ebel. Isabel Caroline Ebel aka Isabel Caroline Hines (October 4, 1908 – November 3, 1992) was an American who was the first woman student at MIT and NYU studying aeronautical engineering.

Early life and education
Ebel was born in Kings County, New York on October 4, 1908, daughter of Arthur R Ebel, Assistant Commissioner of Public Works in Brooklyn.

She was not the first woman involved in aero engineering as one of the Wright Brothers company was Katharine Wright. Katherine was the only person in the Wright family to have a degree but it was not in engineering. Elsie MacGill gained a masters in aeronautical engineering in 1929.

Ebel gained her degree in aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1932. Ebel wanted to use her degree but she had difficulty in finding employment. One task she did take on, was to assist Amelia Earhart when she was planning one of her record-breaking flights. Ebel decided to study more and she applied to the Guggenheim School of Engineering at New York University. It was said that she was only accepted because Earhart interceded with the admission staff on her behalf.

Career 
When she qualified in 1934 she was annoyed at the attention she was getting because she was only being noted for being "a freak". Ebel asked the question "Why wouldn't a girl study aeronautical engineering?", but the reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle did not answer. Her reply was difficulty again in finding a relevant job. In 1937, she was included in an article by M. Elsa Gardner on Women Engineers in the journal of the Women's Engineering Society, alongside Kate Gleeson, Elsie MacGill, Frances Hurd Clark, Mary Olga Soroka, Marie Lurhing, Marie Reith, Olive Dennis, Margaret Ingels, Hilda Lyon and Amy Johnson. In 1939 war broke out in Europe and she gained a job at the Grumman Aircraft Corporation where she helped with several aircraft but in particular the Grumman XF5F Skyrocket.

Ebel went on to work at smaller companies before she became a research engineer for United Airlines. in 1942. In the following year she was being highlighted by the Christian Science Monitor as the only woman aeronautical engineer employed by United.

She was discriminated against when finding employment, but she noted that once she had the job then being a woman was no hindrance (or help) in doing the work.

Death and legacy
Ebel died in Santa Barbara in 1992. In 2016 MIT made a video about the contribution of MIT women to aerospace engineering. They noted that there was then 48% women aerospace graduates but the story started with Isabel Ebel - who had taken years to get a job.

References

External links 
 Aero Astro Pioneers by MIT

1908 births
1992 deaths
Engineers from Brooklyn
Aeronautical engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
New York University alumni
American women engineers
Launders Lane fires. The Arnolds Field rubbish dump in Launders Lane in Rainham, London has been the location of a large number of fires since around 2013, exposing local residents to toxic fumes.

The site was a gravel pit in the 1960s, and subsequently used for landfill from 1967 to 1971. Planning permission was granted in 2000 to convert the area to community woodland. Since that time, a large amount of waste has been deposited without authorisation. The London Fire Brigade have said that the site periodically reignites due to the build-up of rubbish on the site, which had been dumped "in excess of five metres" above council-approved levels. Between 2018 and 2022 the Fire Brigade had been called out to the site more than 70 times.

Efforts have been by Havering Council to deal with the problem, with the assistance of the London Fire Brigade and Environment Agency. Attempts to remedy the problem have been complicated by multiple issues, including decades of illegal dumping of unknown materials and previous use of the site as a cannabis farm and weapons store.

A 2012 site study found elevated levels of lead and benzo(a)pyrene in the soil.
In 2023, Imperial College's Environmental Research Group was collecting data regarding the pollution caused by the fires.

References

External links 
 Breezometer pollution map of the area around Rainham

Fires in London
21st-century fires in the United Kingdom
Landfills in the United Kingdom
2010s fires in the United Kingdom
2013 fires in Europe
Nekoite. Nekoite is a triclinic, white silicate mineral consisting of calcium, silicon, oxygen and water. Its discovery was first published in 1956.

Etymology 
Its name derives from okenite, which it was originally mistaken for.

Properties 
This translucent crystal is described as having a pearl white color. It is also said to have a vitreous (glass-like) lustre.

Media appearances 
It is featured in Stardew Valley as a minor item obtained from geodes.

References 

Calcium minerals
Minerals described in 1956
Triclinic minerals
Shouheng Sun. Shouheng Sun () is a Chinese-American chemist. He is currently Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Engineering at Brown University. Sun's research areas include nanochemistry and materials chemistry.

Sun attended Sichuan University in Chengdu, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1984. He completed a Master of Science in chemistry at Nanjing University. Sun completed his doctorate in chemistry at Brown University in 1996. Sun has taught at Brown since 2005, having previously worked at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Sun was named the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry in 2016.

References

External links 

 

21st-century American chemists
American academics of Chinese descent
Sichuan University alumni
Nanjing University alumni
Brown University alumni
Brown University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Jeanne Van Briesen. Jeanne M. Van Briesen is an American civil engineer who is Vice Provost and the Duquesne Light Company Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research considers the realization of sustainable natural and engineered water systems. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early life and education 
VanBriesen was born in Pennsylvania. She was a student at Northwestern University, where she first majored in chemistry and then civil engineering. Her doctoral research considered the computational simulation of biogeochemical processes in mixed waste systems.

Research and career 
VanBriesen worked as a high school teacher at Evanston Township High School. She joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, where she directs the Center for Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems. Her research considers the sustainability of urban water systems and water cycles in the built environment.

In 2021, VanBriesen was appointed head of the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems.

Awards and honors 
 2007 Pennsylvania Water Environment Association Professional Research Award
 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers Professor of the Year
 2009 West Chester East High School Hall of Fame 
 2009 McGraw-Hill/ AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching
 2010 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Distinguished Service Award
 2011 National Academy of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers Gilbreth Lectureship
 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers Margaret Petersen Award
 2015 Carnegie Science Center Environmental Award
 2015 Carnegie Mellon University Barbara Lazarus Award
 2016 Elected Fellow of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute
 2016 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Alumni Hall of Fame
 2018 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
 2019 Elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
 2019 PA AWWA Special Recognition Award
 2019 SIGKDD 2019 Test-of-Time paper award
 2022 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Selected publications

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Northwestern University alumni
American civil engineers
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Civil Engineers
20th-century American engineers
20th-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American women engineers
Fellows of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Goodhart Newbury Manflier. The Goodhart Newbury Manflier was a two-place human-powered aircraft designed by Nicholas Goodhart. Its most notable feature was that the two pilots were placed in separate fuselages, spaced 70 ft apart.

Design and development
The genesis of the aircraft was detailed in a paper presented at a 1974 conference hosted by the Man-Powered Aircraft Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and later published in its Journal. In the paper, after initially describing the requirements for an aircraft to win the Kremer Prize then on offer, Goodhart proposed a two-person monoplane, with a 100 ft wingspan, with each pilot being located in separate nacelles at the wingtips. This configuration would reduce the bending moments on the wing spar, and hence the overall weight. Turning radius would be in the order of 1,000 ft, and with each pilot generating 0.20 hp (or 140 watts) to maintain flight.

The design evolved, so that when construction of the Newbury Manflier commenced in November 1976, the span had increased, and the location of the nacelles moved to approximately half-way between the centre of the craft and the wingtips.  Each pilot sat in their own fuselage, sitting atop of an aluminium-framed bicycle and pedalling a two bladed pusher propeller, located at rear of a fairing.  Pitch control was achieved by all-flying elevators located at the end of tail booms. Lateral control would be accomplished by warping the outboard wings. There were no rudders, with the oversized propeller fairings acting as tailfins. Directional control was to be achieved by one pilot pedalling faster than the other. Construction was of aluminium tubing, spruce, styrofoam, balsa, with the covering being transparent plastic.  The craft was designed to be disassembled into six pieces for easy storage and transportation.

The Newbury Manflier first flew in November 1979, at RAF Greenham Common.  The project was halted soon after due to hangar space at the base no longer being available, and the success of the American Gossamer aircraft limiting what was left to achieve. A number of the aircraft components are held by the Science Museum at the National Collections Centre at Wroughton.

Documentary
A 30 minute documentary on the Newbury Manflier was produced by BBC South. Called Project Manflier, the documentary was filmed between November 1978 and April 1981, and included coverage of the aircraft's initial taxiing trials, three of the flight trials, and its disassembly. The reporter and narrator was Mike Debens, and the producer was John Frost. The programme was first broadcast on BBC Two on 15 August 1981.

Specifications

See also

References

External links
Video of the Newbury Manflier
Construction photographs of the Newbury Manflier
Flickr album of Newbury Manflier photographs

Aircraft first flown in 1979
Human-powered aircraft
1970s British experimental aircraft
Twin-fuselage aircraft
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Newbury Manflier
Aircraft with fixed quad landing gear
Twin-tail aircraft
Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Research. The Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Research is a semiannual peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by Semnan University and the editor-in-chief is Syfolah Saedodin (Semnan University). The journal covers all aspects of research on heat and mass transfer. It was established in 2014 and is indexed and abstracted in Scopus.

References

External links

Energy and fuel journals
Biannual journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2014
TF-SIF (Dash 8). Sif, also known as TF-SIF, is a Bombardier Dash 8-Q-314 turboprop-powered surveillance and rescue aircraft operated by the Icelandic Coast Guard since 2009. It is named after Sif, the golden-haired goddess from Norse mythology and is the fourth Coast Guard aircraft to bear the name.

History
In early 2005, the Icelandic government decided to purchase a new aircraft for the Coast Guard to replace the almost 30-year old Syn, a Fokker F27 Friendship 200, in collaboration with the Swedish government which was in need of similar aircraft. Its purchase price was 4.3 billion ISK (32 million USD). Four years later, in July 2009, Sif arrived and was considered one of the most technological advanced aircraft of her kind that was used for civilian tasks such as search, surveillance and rescue. 

Due to budget cuts following the 2008 Icelandic financial collapse, Sif was frequently leased to Frontex to fly border control missions. In 2010, Sif spent more than half the year on projects abroad, almost all of 2011 and more than five months in 2012. In the first years after the financial crash, the Coast Guard received a quarter of its income from abroad for leasing Sif and other assets. Despite improved economic situations, Sif was leased abroad every year through 2022, from just over a month to half a year. During its Frontex mission in 2018, Sif participated in the rescue of 900 refugees during a span of month in 2018. The following year, it participated in the rescue of 1,300 refugees during a three-month mission in the Mediterranean Sea.

In 2023, Jón Gunnarsson, the Minister of Justice, announced that the aircraft would be sold as the Coast Guard did not have the necessary funds to operate it. The decision was highly criticized, including by former Minister of Justice Björn Bjarnason, the chief superintendent of the Office of the National Commissioner of the Police Víðir Reynisson, several members of Alþingi, the Icelandic Meteorological Office and other emergency responders. On 3 February, Jón announced that the plans to sell Sif had been abandoned.

See also
List of aircraft of the Icelandic Coast Guard

References

External links
 TF-SIF at Icelandic Coast Guard

Icelandic Coast Guard
Rescue aviation
Individual aircraft
Melanger. A melanger (or melangeur, from French: mélangeur, lit. "blender") is a stone-grinder that is used in chocolate-making. It typically consists of two granite wheels, which rotate inside a metal drum on top of a granite base. Given enough time the wheels can reduce the particles to sizes measured in microns, therefore making a smooth chocolate paste from cocoa beans.

Stone grinding tools have been widely used in history to make food. In Mesoamerica, cocoa was ground using a metate. Industrialization in the late 18th century favored the use of larger and water powered machines. The first melanger prototype was invented in 1811 by a French engineer named Poincelet. It was soon adopted all over Europe. In 1819, François Pelletier powered a grinder and a melanger with a steam engine. This allowed him to produce 76 kilos of chocolate in twelve hours, a quantity which typically required 7 workers at the time. In 1826, the melanger was also adopted (and perhaps further developed) by Philippe Suchard in his chocolate factory in Neuchâtel.

Nowadays melangers tend to be used by small chocolate manufacturers only. Melangers can be both used as refiners and conches.

Tabletop wet grinders are smaller versions of the melanger.

See also
Bean-to-bar

References

Chocolate
Swiss inventions
Food preparation appliances
French inventions
Soledad.com. Soledad.com () is a 2016 Peruvian science fiction thriller film directed and co-produced by Antonio Landeo, Ítalo Lorenzzi and Martín Landeo, with a script written by Antonio Landeo. Starring Julián Legaspi and Antonio Arrué.

Synopsis 
In the computer system of the National Systems Institute, a hacker mafia has inserted a virus, the Trojan. Ángel (Julián Legaspi), a professor of New Technologies discovers the fact and trying to solve the problem, he realizes that the World Wide Web is about to collapse. All the data on the Network could disappear. There is only one possibility to eliminate that threat: Entering the NETWORK. Together with Ximena, the model and host Clelia Francesconi, a diligent student, and Alejandro (Alexis Villagra), owner of Vilsol, a leading Information Security company, who have the necessary knowledge to disable the Trojan, they immerse themselves in the virtual world.

Cast 
The actors participating in this film are:

 Julián Legaspi as Ángel
 Clelia Francesconi as Ximena
 Marcelo Rivera as Miguel
 Alexis Villagra as Alejandro
 Carlos Barraza as Hacker
 Julio Andrade as Alejandro
 Antonio Arrué
 Enrique Victoria

Release 
It was commercially released on May 12, 2016, in Peruvian theaters.

References 

2016 films
2016 thriller films
2016 independent films
Peruvian science fiction films
Peruvian thriller films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010s Peruvian films
Films set in Peru
Films shot in Peru
Films about security and surveillance
Films about technology
Spain-Morocco interconnection. Spain-Morocco interconnection is a submarine power cable between Tarifa terminal in Spain and Fardioua terminal in Morocco. The purpose of the cable is to connect energy infrastructure between Europe and Africa.

The Spain-Morocco interconnection includes two 400 kV lines, commissioned in 1997 and 2006 that have a combined power of 1,400 MW and consisting of seven cables: three for each circuit, plus one for reserve. The capacity dedicated for commercial use is equal to 900 MW in the Spain to Morocco direction, and equal to 600 MW in the Morocco to Spain direction.

Expansion
The two countries are planning to extend the network building a third 400-kV link with a 700 MW capacity. The cost of the project is expected to be $169 million, shared equally between Spain and Morocco.

See also
 Energy in Spain
 Energy in Morocco
 Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project

References

External links
REE page

Electrical interconnectors to and from the Synchronous Grid of Continental Europe
Submarine power cables
HVDC transmission lines
Electric power infrastructure in Spain
Electric power infrastructure in Morocco
Morocco–Spain relations
1997 establishments in Spain
1997 establishments in Morocco
Energy infrastructure completed in 1997