omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Robot Alley. Robot Alley is an art installation by Robert B. Fortney, located in an alley off Skidmore Street in Portland, Oregon, United States. The installation started as a security system and has become an attraction. It depicts Star Wars characters including Stormtroopers, droids, and Sith lords.

Description 
The interactive installation Robot Alley is located in an alley off Skidmore Street, between Borthwick and Kerby Avenues, in the north Portland part of the Boise neighborhood. It depicts Stormtroopers, droids, Sith lords, and other Star Wars characters. The project started as a DIY security system and has become an attraction. The installation has cameras, facial recognition technology, a fog machine, LED lights, microphones, motion sensors, and a plywood AT-ST Walker by local artist Mike Bennett. Robot Alley creator Robert Fortney, who is also a film editor, sometimes appears as "alter ego" character Plastorm, wearing armor and a helmet inspired by The Mandalorian.

Reception 
Robot Alley was included in the Los Angeles Times 2023 list of twelve family-friendly activities in the Portland metropolitan area. Neighbors to the alley have reacted positively, stating that it has cut-down on crime (as originally intended), and increased the sense of community.

See also

Cultural impact of Star Wars
Keep Portland Weird
List of artists and art institutions in Portland, Oregon

References

External links
 Creator's website
 Live webcam
 , WGN

Art in Portland, Oregon
Boise, Portland, Oregon
North Portland, Oregon
Public art in Oregon
Security technology
Star Wars fandom
Tourist attractions in Portland, Oregon
Facial age estimation. Facial age estimation is the use of artificial intelligence to estimate the age of a person based on their facial features. Computer vision techniques are used to analyse the facial features in the images of millions of people whose age is known and then deep learning is used to create an algorithm that tries to predict the age of an unknown person. The key use of the technology is to prevent access to age-restricted goods and services. Examples include restricting children from accessing Internet pornography, checking that they meet a mandatory minimum age when registering for an account on social media, or preventing adults from accessing websites, online chat or games designed only for use by children.

The technology is distinct from facial recognition systems as the software does not attempt to uniquely identify the individual.

Researchers have applied neural networks for age estimation since at least 2010.

Evaluation 
An ongoing study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology entitled 'Face Analysis Technology Evaluation' seeks to establish the technical performance of prototype age estimation algorithms submitted by academic teams and software vendors including Brno University of Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Dermalog, IDEMIA, Incode Technologies Inc, Jumio, Nominder, Rank One Computing, Unissey and Yoti.

Commercial use 
Commercial users of facial age estimation include Instagram and OnlyFans. In January 2025, John Lewis & Partners announced that had started using the technology to check the age of people shopping for knives on its website, to comply with UK legislation to limit knife crime.

In the UK, several supermarket chains have taken part in Home Office trials of the technology to automate the checking of a customer's age when buying age-restricted goods such as alcohol. UK legislation introduced in January 2025 mandates robust forms of age verification hosting adult content viewable in the UK by July 2025. Allowable methods include facial age estimation.

See also 
 Age verification system
 Challenge 21
 Liveness test
 Online Safety Act 2023
 Proposed UK Internet age verification system

References 

Minimum ages
Facial recognition
Automatic identification and data capture
Video surveillance
Computer vision
Disaster restoration. Disaster restoration refers to the process of repairing and restoring property damaged by natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes. It typically involves various services such as structural repairs and water damage restoration, fire damage restoration, mold remediation, and content restoration.

The industry
The disaster restoration industry, encompassing services such as fire damage repair and mold remediation, has experienced significant growth in recent decades due to a confluence of factors. Severe natural disasters, coupled with increasing development in disaster-prone areas, have created a steady demand for restoration services. While historically dominated by local family-owned businesses, the industry has witnessed a notable consolidation trend driven by private equity firms seeking to capitalize on its recession-proof nature.

Market size
The global post-storm remediation market is projected to expand from $70 billion in 2024 to $92 billion by 2029, reflecting the enduring demand for restoration services in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges.

References

Companies
Business services companies
Cleaning industry
BYD E-Vali. The BYD E-Vali is a light commercial vehicle manufactured by BYD Auto.

History
The BYD E-Vali made its debut at the IAA Motor Show in Hanover, Germany, in September 2024. It is a large delivery van designed specifically for the European market. Sales will start in early 2025 in selected countries in Europe.

The E-Vali took the form of a large, single-body van with a large front window and a large glazed passenger compartment. The front fascia gained characteristic, low-set lighting. In the interior, the vehicle is equipped with two displays: a digital instrument cluster and a central touchscreen multimedia system display.

The E-Vali is offered with two length variants. The shorter one, with a body length of less than 6 meters, gained a load capacity of  and  of transport space. The larger, 7-meter-long model gained a  payload and  of cargo space.

Specifications
The BYD E-Vali is available with a fully electric drive system in two variants. The basic 203 hp has rear-wheel drive, and the top 340 hp offers AWD. The 80.64 kWh battery has an electric range of approximately  on a single charge. The model supports up to 188 kW of DC fast charging, allowing it to replenish from 10 to 80% of the battery state in 30 minutes.

See also 
 List of BYD Auto vehicles

References

E-Vali
Cars introduced in 2024
Electric vans
CRUZEX. The CRUZEX is a series of multinational and operational exercises coordinated by the Brazilian Air Force since 2002, traditionally at the Natal Air Force Base in the Rio Grande do Norte state. The CRUZEX is the most important aerial exercises in Latin America as the largest multinational war training in the region.

List of exercises
Participant countries and respective aerial assets.

References

Military aviation exercises
Argentine Air Force
Brazilian Air Force
Chilean Air Force
French Air and Space Force
Peruvian Air Force
Military of Uruguay
Military of Venezuela
Military exercises involving the United States
Hyperpositive nonlinear effect. A hyperpositive nonlinear effect is a very specific case of a nonlinear effect. A nonlinear effect in asymmetric catalysis is a phenomenon in which the enantiopurity of the catalyst (or chiral auxiliary) is not proportional to the enantiopurity of the product obtained. These phenomena were rationalized in the mid-1980s by Henri B. Kagan, who proposed simple mechanistic models, supported by mathematical models, to model experimental curves.

In 1994, H. B. Kagan and collaborators proposed more elaborate models that more closely resembled the experimental results observed at the time. Using these models, the authors were able to make theoretical predictions about situations that had not been encountered experimentally. An example is a case “where the enantiomeric excess could take on much larger values for a partially resolved ligand than for an enantiomerically pure ligand”. The authors proposed the term “hyperpositive nonlinear effect” to characterize this situation. 

This statement may seem somewhat implausible at first glance, but the possibility was observed experimentally 26 years later: the first experimental example of a hyperpositive nonlinear effect was described in 2020 by S. Bellemin-Laponnaz and colleagues, but the mechanism of this phenomenon turned out to be different from that originally proposed. This mechanism, which explains a hyperpositive nonlinear effect, has also been validated to explain cases of enantiodivergence.

References 

Catalysis
Atmospheric station-keeping. In aeronautics, atmospheric station-keeping is keeping an aircraft in a specified region in relation to the earth. For an aerostat such as a balloon this could be achieved either by propelling the craft laterally against the wind or by utilizing altitude control mechanisms causing the balloon to go up and down in the sky where it can access different wind layers where the wind is blowing in different directions allowing the system to continually turn into or return to the region of interest allowing it to functionally stay still. 

In some cases, such as the flight of Loon LLC balloons, machine learning models were employed alongside altitude control systems with superpressure balloon technology to keep balloons floating in specified regions for as long as 39 days.

Because high-altitude balloon systems float in sky without consuming any energy, and can employ solar power for any auxiliary power needs, there is no fundamental reason they cannot persist indefinitely at float in the sky. Combining the long duration capability of high altitude flight vehicles with an ability to use altitude control for atmospheric station-keeping allows some high altitude vehicles including high-altitude balloon systems and high-altitude platform station systems to function like satellite systems in geostationary orbit while being much closer to the earth.

History 
References to aeronauts attempting to keep aircraft from flying away by propelling or guiding them to favorable winds perpetually back towards an area of interest (the earliest version of something that resemble atmospheric station-keeping) date back well over a hundred years to the first balloonists attempting to turn balloons around and steer them back towards their launch sites by venting gas out a valve on the top of the balloon to make them go down into different winds than those at higher altitudes.  The modern hot air balloon is able to perform control maneuvers in both directions by either heating the gas inside the balloon to go up, or venting air out of the balloon to go down (which can also be achieved by simply waiting, and allowing the gas inside the balloon to cool, which will also cause the balloon to go down).  Through this process it is regular practice for balloon pilots to use variable winds at different altitudes to keep balloons within a target station, often near the launch site.

See also
 Orbital station keeping

References

Aeronautics
Boa (JavaScript engine). Boa  is an open-source JavaScript engine written in Rust. Boa was introduced at JSConf EU 2019 by Jason Williams.

Williams created Boa in 2017 after working on Servo and being inspired by the "written from scratch" CSS engine. He was eager to work on a JavaScript engine using Rust to learn more about how JavaScript implementations work, since then the project has had over 100 contributors. Overtime the engine gained more prominent features such as bytecode compilation, better conformance to the specification and ergonomic API design.

Design
Boa is an open-source implementation of a JavaScript execution engine. The project is developed as a Rust library for embedding the JavaScript engine in Rust applications. Additionally, the authors of Boa provide a command-line interface (CLI) for users to interact with Boa as standalone JavaScript interpreter accessible from a command line.

Boa follows the common interpreter design which approximately consists of a lexer, parser, compiler and bytecode interpreter

Standards
Boa implements the ECMA-262 specification (ECMAScript). As of 6 September 2024 Boa has 88% conformance to Test262

See also

 JerryScript, an ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine
 SpiderMonkey, a JavaScript engine used in Firefox
 List Of ECMAScript engines

References

2017 software
Free software programmed in Rust
JavaScript engines
Software using the MIT license
Anne Gattiker. Anne E. Gattiker is an American electrical engineer who works for IBM in Austin, Texas, focusing on testing and variability of integrated circuits.

Gattiker is the daughter of Godfrey L. Gattiker, a scholar of Old English and Middle English at Wilson College (Pennsylvania). She has a master's degree and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University; she completed her Ph.D. in 1998 through the university's Center for Silicon System Implementation.

Gattiker was a recipient of the 2008 Mahboob Khan Outstanding Mentor Award of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, given for her work mentoring interns from Carnegie Mellon University. She was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2019, "for contributions to integrated circuit test and diagnosis".

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women electrical engineers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
IBM employees
IBM Women
Fellows of the IEEE
2023 in Alaska. The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in Alaska.

Incumbents

State government
Governor: Mike Dunleavy (R)

Events
 January 11 – The launch of an unmanned ABL Space Systems RS1 rocket fails at the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in Kodiak. The rocket crashes during the launch, damaging the launch platform and destroying the rocket and its cargo.
 January 17 – A polar bear attacks and kills a woman and her son in Wales, after charging several others, in the first fatal attack since the early 1980s. The bear is shot and killed following the attack.
 February 10 – 2023 Alaska high-altitude object: The White House's spokesperson John Kirby announces that the United States Air Force shot down a high-altitude object over territorial waters in Alaska, just days after shooting down a Chinese balloon over the Atlantic Ocean. The object was ordered to be shot down by U.S. President Joe Biden because it posed "a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight".
 April 27 – 2023 Alaska mid-air collision: Three United States Army personnel are killed and another is injured when two AH-64 Apache helicopters collide over Healy, near Fort Wainwright.
 May 29 – One person is killed and four others are missing after a chartered boat sinks near Sitka.
 July 16 – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Alaska, causing a tsunami warning to be issued for the region.
 August 10 – Alaska reports its worst air quality in recorded history after extreme amounts of smoke enter the state due to the Canadian wildfires.
 November 20 – An avalanche kills three people and leaves several others missing in Wrangell.

See also
2023 in the United States

References

 
2020s in Alaska
2023 in the United States
Years of the 21st century in Alaska
EMigrate (portal). eMigrate is an Indian digital portal developed by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in 2014. It automates emigration processes and facilitates a safety and legal support to Indian workers employed abroad, particularly blue-collar laborers.

Background 
eMigrate was launched in 2014 by the Overseas Employment Division of MEA, India.

In October 2024, External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar relaunched the portal as version 2.0 with more functionalities including a  24*7 multilingual helpline support to address workers' issues and quicker registration of feedbacks for redressal. Other digital solutions like DigiLocker were also integrated to the portal enabling emigrants to submit various documents paperless and obtain clearances faster.

Platform 
The Protector General of Emigrants (PGE) issues registration certifications to recruiting agencies who can employ Indian workers overseas. The eMigrate platform lists more than 1800 registered private agencies for transparency to safeguard workers from fraudulent hiring, as per Emigration Act 1983. The platform also lists State Manpower Export Corporations that are registered by PGE, namely in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.

References

External links 
 

Government programmes of India
2014 establishments in India
Emigration
Ministry of External Affairs (India)
Ammonium hexachlororhodate(III). Ammonium hexachlororhodate(III) is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula .

Synthesis
Evaporation of solutions of rhodium trichloride and excess ammonium chloride:

Physical properties
The compound forms red crystals. Slightly soluble in water.

Chemical properties
The compound undergoes partial hydrolysis in dilute aqueous solutions:

Uses
Ammonium hexachlororhodate(III) hydrate is a raw material and intermediate used in organic synthesis, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals.

References 

Rhodium(III) compounds
Chloro complexes
Ammonium compounds
Chlorometallates
Scientific Research Center "Stroitelstvo". Scientific Research Center "Stroitelstvo" () is a research institute in Russia active in the field of construction.

History
The organization began as the State Scientific and Experimental Institute of Civil, Engineering and Industrial Structures established in accordance with a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Soviet Union issued on 2 April 1927. with one of its founders was Nikolai Streletsky. In 1931 the institute was renamed the Central Scientific Research Institute of Industrial Constructions (TsNIIPS).

In accordance with a resolution issued by the Government of Russia, since 1994 the current organization includes three institutes:

Kucherenko Central Research Institute of Structures Construction (;
Gvozdev Research Institute of Concrete and Reinforced Concrete;
Gersevanov Research, Design and Survey, Design 
Technological Institute of Foundations and Underground Structures

In 2009 the company was transformed from unitary enterprise into an open Joint-Stock company, as a result of which 100% of the voting shares belong to the Government of Russia represented by the Federal Agency for State Property Management with its subordinated institutes lost their legal status and all their rights and obligations were transferred to JSC Scientific Research Center "Stroitelstvo".

In 2014 Scientific-Research Center "Stroitelstvo", became one of the coordinators of the technological platform "Construction and Architecture", approved by the decision of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Modernization of the Economy and Innovative Development of Russia. The Kucherenko Institute is directed by Ivan Vedyakov.

References

External links
НИИЖБ им. А. А. Гвоздева
НИИОСП им. Н.М. Герсеванова
Kucherenko Central Research Institute of Structures Construction

Urban planning in Russia
Companies based in Moscow Oblast
Construction and civil engineering companies of Russia
Research institutes in Russia
Kairos Power. Kairos Power is an American nuclear energy company which develops nuclear reactor technology. Founded in 2016, the company is known for its small modular reactors (SMRs) for sustainable power generation.

Products
Kairos Power's main product is its small modular reactors that use molten fluoride salt as a coolant, as opposed to conventional water-cooled reactors.

History
Kairos Power was founded in 2016 by a team of engineers and scientists. Kairos Power operates in the nuclear energy sector.

In 2023, Kairos Power received a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build its Hermes demonstration reactor in Tennessee, becoming the first permit in 50 years to be issued for the building of a new type of nuclear reactor. In July 2024, Kairos Power started construction of the demonstration reactor in Tennessee.

In 2024, Kairos Power signed an agreement with Google to use small nuclear reactors to generate energy to be used to power its artificial intelligence data centres. Google has ordered six to seven small nuclear reactors, with the first due to be completed by 2030, and the remainder by 2035. The plans are pending approval by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as local agencies.

References

External links

2016 establishments in California
Companies based in Alameda, California
Companies established in 2016
Nuclear power companies of the United States
Nuclear reactors
Thomas A. Lipo. Thomas A. Lipo (February 1, 1938 – May 8, 2020) was an American electrical engineer and a pioneer in the field of power electronics and electric machines.

Early life and education 
He pursued his early education at Marquette University, where he earned both his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) degrees. He then completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968.

Career and contributions 
Lipo's career began with a decade-long stint at General Electric's Research and Development Center. In 1979, he joined the faculty at Purdue University. In 1981 he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

At University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lipo co-founded the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC) in 1981.

Awards and honors 

 Life Fellow of the IEEE
 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
 Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering
 Hilldale Award in Physical Sciences from UW-Madison

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1938 births
2020 deaths
American electrical engineers
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Purdue University faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
People from Milwaukee
Elisa Facio. Elisa Facio became Uruguay's Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay in November 2023.

Life
Facio attended the University of the Republic where she studied computer engineering. She graduated and then went on to take a master's degree at the same university before she became a computer engineer.

She was the general director of the Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining before she became the minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay in November 2023. She joined President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou's Cabinet, replacing Omar Paganini who was promoted to foreign minister. The cabinet reshuffle was required because of the scandal associated with the sudden resignation of Francisco Bustillo.

Facio's responsibilities are in her job title but she is also responsible for intellectial property and the medical use of nuclear technology. She has spoken about the opportunities to develop alternative energy sources including wind, solar, and hydrogen. Uruguay is working in these areas but they have only exploited a small fraction of what is possible. They are hewld back by lack of finance and she sees other countries including those in Europe as potential investors. In November 2023 she went to China.

In May 2024 she was with a large delegation from Uruguay at the World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam. She explained her ambitionsin support of decarbonisation by 2050. An  Innovation Hub program had been established to deliver these ambitions.

In October 2024 she declared amethyst to be Uruguay's national stone. She noted that the country's exports included $60m obtained from amethyst export and the industry created 2,000 jobs.

References

Living people
Uruguayan politicians
Uruguayan computer scientists
Software engineers
Government ministers of Uruguay
Year of birth missing (living people)