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Aharon Kapitulnik. Aharon Kapitulnik (Hebrew: אהרון קפיטולניק; born 1953) is an Israeli-American experimental condensed matter physicist working at Stanford University. He is known primarily for his work on strongly correlated electron systems, low dimensional electronic systems, unconventional superconductors, topological superconductors, superconductivity and magnetism, transport in bad metals and precision measurements.

Education and career

Kapitulnik studied physics at Tel Aviv University in Israel (BA 1978, PhD 1983). After completing his doctoral studies under supervision of Guy Deutscher on the physics of disorder he moved to United States to work on polymers as a postdoc scholar in the group of Alan Heeger at UC Santa Barbara. In 1985 he joined the faculty of the Department of Applied Physics of Stanford University where he became a Professor Applied Physics and Physics in 1994.

At Stanford, Kapitulnik formed a close collaboration with Theodore Geballe and Malcolm Beasley known collectively as the "KGB group". Many of its graduates went on to establish successful academic careers in US and around the world.

Awards
Kapitulnik is the Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor in Applied Physics at Stanford University and the Sackler Professor by Special Appointment at Tel Aviv University. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was awarded the 2015 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society for the "discovery and pioneering investigations of the superconductor-insulator transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions" and 2009 Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize for "seminal studies of time-reversal-symmetry breaking effects in unconventional superconductors using magneto optics".

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Raphael Haftka. Raphael T. Haftka (February 22, 1944 – August 16, 2020) was an American engineer, a Distinguished Professor at University of Florida and an Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Raphael T. Haftka was born on February 22, 1944, in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He earned his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1965 and his M.Sc. in 1968 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 1971, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

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Thomas D. Larson. Thomas D. Larson (September 28, 1928 – July 20, 2006) was an American administrator, who was sworn in as the Federal Highway Administrator on August 10, 1989. A native of Pennsylvania, Larson came to the FHWA after a career as a researcher, Professor of Civil Engineering, and administrator at the Pennsylvania State University. He was Pennsylvania's Secretary of Transportation for eight years, and a leader in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Transportation Research Board.

Larson led the preparation of the National Transportation Policy in March 1990 and played a strong role in molding the landmark Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). To match this first major restructuring of the Federal-aid Highway Program and rethinking of the Agency's mission since the Interstate era began in 1956, Larson oversaw an FHWA reorganization and established the agency-wide strategic planning initiative (FHWA 2000) that prepared FHWA to better meet State and local needs in implementing ISTEA for the Nation's ever-increasing mobility needs.

Additional highlights during his tenure included a continuing decline in the highway fatality rate to an all-time low, a dramatic increase in the research, technology, and intelligent Vehicle Highway System programs, and continued support for university transportation centers. During his service, Larson emphasized innovation and partnerships, renewed the commitment to environmental sensitivity as embodied in the FHWA Environmental Policy Statement of April 1990, reinvigorated motor carrier safety enforcement, and expanded diversity education and training for all employees.

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John S. Hassell Jr.. John S. Hassell Jr. (May 3, 1943 – October 11, 2011) was an American civil engineer. He became Associate Administrator for Planning in 1977, Deputy Federal Highway Administrator in 1978, and Administrator on July 11, 1980. Prior to his federal career, Hassell served the public as an engineer and planner for the Georgia Department of Transportation. He also had a bachelor's and master's degree in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Under Hassell's tenure, the Federal Highway Administration:

Resolved controversial highway projects consistent with Administration policy so that major sections of the Interstate System could move toward completion.
Improved highway safety by emphasizing the importance of safety in all Agency programs.
Increased energy conservation by greatly enhancing the ridesharing program, developing and implementing measures to encourage use of high occupancy vehicles, and improving traffic operations through expanded use of Transportation System Management measures.
Achieved significant gains in furthering career opportunities for women and minorities throughout the Agency and substantially increased the accomplishments of the Minority Business Enterprise Program.
Developed and implemented a management-by-objectives program and implemented the 1979 Civil Services Reform Act to improve the Agency's management and efficiency.

On October 10, 2011, Hassell died at the Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Rex Marion Whitton. Rex Marion Whitton (August 7, 1898 – July 7, 1981) was an American administrator. He retired as Federal Highway Administrator on December 30, 1966, after a career of public service that spanned nearly the entire history of modern highway construction in the United States. At his retirement, he had completed more than 46 years of continuous highway work, 40 of which were spent in his native Missouri.

Whitton rose through the ranks in the highway industry, from a member of a highway survey crew in 1920 to chief engineer for the State of Missouri in 1951. He also held the positions of assistant resident engineer, resident engineer, chief of survey party, plans designer, assistant district engineer, district engineer, and engineer of maintenance.

During his tenure as Federal Highway Administrator, the Bureau of Public Roads was reorganized to increase operational efficiency and instill new confidence. In 1960 he was named one of the top ten public works men of the year by the American Public Works Association in cooperation with Kiwanis International.

He was also  resident of the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO), now the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).

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Martin Dodge. Martin Dodge (May 27, 1851 – April 23, 1931) was an American administrator. Dodge was appointed Interim Director of the Office of Road Inquiry in August 1898 when his predecessor, General Roy Stone, vacated the office to serve in the Spanish–American War. General Stone resumed his duties as Director on January 31, 1899. He resigned on October 23, 1899, and Dodge was reappointed and served until 1905.

Dodge was a zealous road builder and an advocate of free roads in the United States. As a member of the Ohio State Roads Commission, he was the leading exponent of the first brick surface rural road in the US. The road was laid on the Wooster Pike near Cleveland. Four miles of brick pavement were built in the fall of 1893 at a cost of $16,000 per mile.

During Dodge's tenure, he recommended and implemented an information office to furnish advice about road-building techniques to State and local officials; established a post-graduate school for civil engineer graduates to receive advanced road-building training; and created the Bureau of Chemistry to study, evaluate, and test road-construction materials.

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Sanskriti University. Sanskriti University is a private university located in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Academics
Like all private universities in India, the university recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and by the local government.

Campus 
The university in Mathura is spread across 40 acres of land, including a library, computer lab, faculty rooms, seminar hall and centre of excellence (robotics & automation) in collaboration with MSME. Considered by industry experts as one of the most well-staffed and equipped with resources university in Mathura, Sanskriti is an excellent breeding ground for young entrepreneurs.

Schools and institutes
The university includes the following schools and institutes:
 School of Engineering & Information Technology
 School of Agriculture
 School of Tourism and Hospitality
 School of Management & Commerce
 School of Education
 School of Fashion and Fine Arts
 School of Rehabilitation
 School of Humanities & Social Science
 Sanskriti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital
 Sanskriti Unani Medical College & Hospital
 School of Pharmacy & Research Centre
 Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
 School of Medical & Allied Sciences
 School of Basic & Applied Sciences
 School of Yoga & Naturopathy
 School of Law and Legal Studies
 University Polytechnic

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Albion metal. Albion metal is a form of metal foil produced by rolling tin onto a lead base, or sandwiching lead between two sheets of tin.

An alternative method of production was to cast tin onto an ingot of recently-cast, congealing, lead.

Albion metal is used for decorative rather than load-bearing purposes, such as coffin adornments, toys, and costume jewellery,  and for protecting foodstuffs and drinking water from contact with lead.

It was introduced and patented in 1804, by Thomas Dobbs, an inventor from Kings Norton who was also a comic actor at the Theatre Royal in Birmingham, England.

The patent was the subject of a legal dispute in 1857, when a failed attempt was made to use it to invalidate another later patent.

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IEEE 1855. IEEE STANDARD 1855-2016, IEEE Standard for Fuzzy Markup language (FML), is a technical standard developed by the IEEE Standards Association. FML allows modelling a fuzzy logic system in a human-readable and hardware independent way. FML is based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The designers of fuzzy systems with FML have a unified and high-level methodology for describing interoperable fuzzy systems. IEEE STANDARD 1855-2016 uses the W3C XML Schema definition language to define the syntax and semantics of the FML programs.

Prior to the introduction of FML, fuzzy logic practitioners could exchange information about their fuzzy algorithms by  adding to their software functions the ability to read, correctly parse, and store the results of their work in a  form compatible with the Fuzzy Control Language (FCL) described and specified by Part 7 of IEC 61131.

FML lets people code fuzzy systems through a collection of correlated semantic tags that model the components of a classical fuzzy controller—such as knowledge base, rule base, fuzzy variables and fuzzy rules. Therefore, the FML tags used to build a fuzzy controller represent the set of lexemes used to create fuzzy expressions. To design a well-formed XML-based language, an  a XML schema describes an FML context-free grammar that defines name, type, and attributes that characterized each XML element. However, since an FML program represents only a static view of a fuzzy logic controller, the so-called eXtensible Stylesheet Language Translator (XSLT) changes this static view to a computable version. Indeed, XSLTs modules can convert the FML-based fuzzy controller in a general purpose computer language using an XSL file containing the translation description. At this level, the control is executable for the hardware. In short, FML is essentially composed by three layers:

 XML to create a new markup language for fuzzy logic control

 An XML schema to define the legal building blocks

 eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to convert a fuzzy controller description into a specific language

IEEE 1855 was the first standard sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

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 (https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1855/5418/)

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Koutecký–Levich equation. The Koutecký–Levich equation models the measured electric current at an electrode from an electrochemical reaction in relation to the kinetic activity and the mass transport of reactants.  

The Koutecký–Levich equation can be written as:

where
 im is the measured current (A).
 iK is the kinetic current (A) from the electrochemical reactions.
 iMT is the mass transport current (A).
Note the similarity of this equation to the conductance of an electrical circuits in parallel.

The Koutecký–Levich equation is also commonly expressed as:

The kinetic current (iK) can be modeled by the Butler-Volmer Equation and is characterized by being potential dependent. On the other hand, the mass transport current (iMT) depends on the particular electrochemical setup and amount of stirring.

Koutecký–Levich plot   
In the case a rotating disk electrode setup is used and the electrode is flat and smooth, the iMT can modeled using the Levich equation. Inserted in the Koutecký–Levich equation, we get:

where:
 BL is the Levich Constant.
 ω is the angular rotation rate of the electrode (rad/s)
From an experimental data set where the current is measured at different rotation rates, it is possible to extract the kinetic current from a so-called Koutecký–Levich plot. In a Koutecký–Levich plot the inverse measured current is plotted versus the inverse square root of the rotation rate. This will linearize the data set and the inverse of the kinetic current can be obtained by extrapolating the line to the ordinate. This y-intercept corresponds to taking the rotation rate up to infinity, where the reaction is not mass-transport limited. Koutecký–Levich analysis is therefore used to determine the kinetic constants of the reaction such as the kinetic constant  and the symmetry factor .

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ARGOS Challenge. The ARGOS Challenge was a robotic competition sponsored by Total between 2013 and 2017 and co-organized with Agence nationale de la recherche. The acronym ARGOS stands for Autonomous Robot for Gas and Oil Sites.

After a gas leak occurred at the Elgin-Franklin fields and resulted in a months long shut down of production and evacuation of personnel, Total decided to apply an open-innovation approach to develop robots for increasing the safety of oil and gas production sites.

The competition was won by an Austrian-German team called "Argonauts", consisting of members from Austrian robot maker Taurob GmbH and TU Darmstadt with a variant of the taurob tracker robot.

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Taurob. Taurob is an Austrian robotics company best known for its Taurob Tracker and Taurob Inspector robots and for winning Total Energies' ARGOS Challenge (together with TU Darmstadt) in 2017.

History 
Founded in 2010 by Lukas Silberbauer and Matthias Biegl with the aim of developing robots for fire fighters the company has since expanded to other domains such as police, civil-defence, military and the oil and gas industry.

In 2012 Taurob introduced the world's first ATEX certified robot with the Taurob Tracker.

Forming a collaborative team named ARGONAUTS with TU Darmstadt, Taurob participated in Total Energies' ARGOS (Autonomous Robots for Oil and Gas Sites) challenge between 2014 and 2017. The ARGONAUTS team was ultimately victorious, making the final shortlist of 5 teams out of 31 international entries. This victory resulted in the robot being chosen to start operating on Total Energies industrial sites by 2020.

Between 2018 and 2020 Taurob was part of the OGRIP (Offshore Ground Robotics Industrial Pilot) project, funded by Total Energies and the Oil and Gas Technology Center (OGTC) which formed the foundation of the Taurob Inspector robot - a refinement and development of the platform that won the ARGOS challenge and the existing Taurob Tracker robot.

In August 2020 the Taurob Inspector performed the world's first offshore deployment of an ATEX certified robot with its week-long mission on a platform in Total Energies' K5 gas field 110km off the coast of the Netherlands. The mission focused on robotically surveying the platform for corrosion and on teleoperation from an on-shore control room.

Two Taurob Inspectors were handed over to TOTAL in November 2020 for a year-long deployment at the Shetland Gas Plant. The robots will be focused on conducting autonomous inspection rounds of an MEG (gas dehydration) unit, with tasks such as valve reading, corrosion identification and frequency monitoring of valves and other components.

The company is currently designing the first OWCR (Offshore Work Class Robot) with a heavy duty arm as part of a joint industry project with Total Energies, Equinor and SAFT. This robot will be ATEX and IECEx certified and allow a much higher degree of modularity. The first trials were performed in Q3 2023 in Lacq, France.

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Stephen W. Keckler. Stephen William Keckler is an American computer scientist and the current Vice President of Architecture Research at Nvidia.

Keckler received a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and an MS and PhD in computer science from MIT in 1992 and 1998, respectively. He then joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served from 1998 to 2012. He joined NVIDIA in 2009. In 2003, he received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in leading the TRIPS architecture research group. He became an ACM Senior Member in 2006 and an ACM Fellow in 2011.

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Robert Tranquillo. Robert T. Tranquillo is an American bioengineer, focusing in cardiovascular tissue engineering, currently the Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, formerly the Shell Land Grant Chair, and is an Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

Early life and career
Bob Tranquillo had obtained his Bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University in chemical engineering in 1979 and next year got his Master's from Stanford University in the same field. Four years later he completed his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and immediately became NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Mathematical Biology at Oxford University. In 1987 he worked at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota and in 2000 was the head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the same place.

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Douglas Noll. Douglas C. Noll is an American bioengineer currently the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Professor of Bioengineering at University of Michigan, where he also is professor of radiology and co-director of the Functional MRI Laboratory.    

He graduated from Bucknell University (B.S., 1985)  and did graduate work at Stanford University, where he earned an M.S. (1986) and  Ph.D. (1991) in electrical engineering. 

Prior to working at the University of Michigan he worked at the University of Illinois, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh.  

He is an Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Society.

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Walter G. May. Walter G. May (November 28, 1918 – February 18, 2015) was a Canadian engineer who held a distinguished professorship at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Early life and education 
May was born in Saskatchewan. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering and Master of Science in chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan. He later earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career 
In 1943, May returned to the University of Saskatchewan as a professor of chemical engineering. He joined the Exxon Research and Engineering Company in 1948 and worked as a senior science advisor from 1978 to 1983.

May was elected to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and National Academy of Engineering in recognition of his contributions to engineering theory and practice in fluidization, high-energy propellants, LNG technology, and centrifugal isotope separation.

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Herman Krier. Herman Krier is an American engineer currently Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and formerly the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor from 1998 to 2008.

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