omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hartmut Löwen. Hartmut Löwen (born May 23, 1963, in Hamm) is a German physicist working in the field of statistical mechanics and soft matter physics.

Career 
Hartmut Löwen studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund from 1982, where he graduated in physics in 1986 and obtained his doctorate in 1987 on phase transitions in Polaron systems with Bernd Gerlach.
He partially pointed out together with Gerlach the non-existence of phase transitions for many phonon systems and especially polaron systems, in contrast to that what was previously expected. 
Löwen then worked as a Post-Doc at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1993 with Herbert Wagner. In 1990/91 he was at the École normale supérieure de Lyon with Jean-Pierre Hansen. Since 1995 he has been a full professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Cambridge and the Sapienza University of Rome in Rome.

Research 
Löwen's fields of research include statistical physics colloidal suspensions, polymer physics, physics of self-propelled active particles and swimming micro-organisms, physics of biological macromolecules such as proteins and DNA, Glass transition, melting processes and crystal growth, liquid crystals, density functional theory, polaron systems.

In 1994, he received a Heisenberg grant and the Gerhard Hess Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2003 he received the Gentner-Kastler-Preis of the German Physical Society.

Notable publications

References

External links 
Faculty page

1963 births
Living people
Scientists from North Rhine-Westphalia
Academic staff of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Technical University of Dortmund alumni
21st-century German physicists
20th-century German physicists
People from Hamm
Irwin 23. The Irwin 23 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Ted Irwin as a cruiser and first built in 1968.

Production
The design was built by Irwin Yachts in the United States, from 1968 until 1975, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Irwin 23 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, a plumb transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel, with retractable centerboard. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the centerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.

The boat is normally fitted with a small  outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a drop-down dinette table and a straight settee in the main cabin and an aft pilot berth on the port side. The galley is located on the port side amidships. The galley is equipped with a sink. The head is located in the bow cabin on the starboard side. Cabin headroom is .

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker.

The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 252 and a hull speed of .

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club, the Irwin Yacht Owners.

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "The Irwin 23 was the smallest boat commercially produced by Irwin, who ended up building hundreds of boats and dozens of models. Best features: Among her comp[etitor]s, the Irwin is probably the fastest boat, despite her PHRF rating and maximum theoretical speed being equal to both the Sovereign [23 and Sovereign Antares], which have no centerboard for going upwind efficiently, as does the Irwin. The Sovereigns also have higher topsides and a taller cabin, which may provide better headroom but contribute 'top hamper' or windage that tends to slow the boat upwind. Worst features: Irwin's construction quality tended to be so-so at best."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Ted Irwin
Sailboat types built by Irwin Yachts
VOS Prudence. VOS Prudence is a ship originally built as an offshore supply vessel for the shipping company Vroon Offshore Services.

Description
The ship was built as the first of two identical ships for the shipping company at the Fujian South East Shipyard in China. It was delivered in May 2013. The ship sails under the Italian flag and is operated by Vroon Offshore Services in Genoa.

The ship is powered by two Niigata diesel engines (type: 8L 28 HX), each with an output of 2,206 kW, which act via two azimuth thruster propeller pods. The ship is also equipped with two bow thrusters, each with an output of 650 kW. The ship has a dynamic positioning system.

Three generator sets are available for power generation, each driven by a Caterpillar diesel engine (type: C18) with an output of 450 kW. The emergency generator is driven by a Caterpillar diesel engine (type: C4.4) with an output of 80 kW.

The deck superstructures are located in the front area of the ship. The ship is set up for 50 people: 14 crew members and 36 other people. There are six single cabins and 22 double cabins available on board.

Behind the superstructure is an open, 700m² deck. The deck can be loaded with 5.5t / m2. A total of 1,200t can be transported on deck. A deck crane that can lift 10t is available directly behind the deckhouse for moving loads.

Use as a rescue ship
The ship was temporarily used by Médecins sans frontières Belgique for the rescue of shipwrecked migrants in the Mediterranean. The ship, which was designed as a lifeboat for 600 people after being fitted out, saved over 1,400 refugees off the Libyan coast on May 24, 2017. Since ports in Sicily were closed to the reception of refugees due to the G-7 summit taking place there, the ship had to take the rescued people onwards to Naples.

In August 2017, MSF suspended rescue operations in the Mediterranean for the time being following the announcement by the Libyan Coast Guard that it would set up its own rescue zone that would be closed to aid organisations. After the number of refugees had decreased significantly, the organisation ended the operation of its own ship in October 2017, but continued to participate in the operation of the Aquarius together with the organisation SOS Méditerranée.

In May 2021, members of VOS Prudence''' crew were accused of illegally dumping rubbish into municipal waste bins in Catania in between rescue missions in 2017 and 2018.

References

Sources
 Datenblatt, Vroon Offshore Services (PDF, 266 kB)
 Mittelmeer-Logbuch: An Bord eines NGO-Schiffes, (tr. "Mediterranean logbook: On board an NGO ship") (Kurier.at'')

External links
 Aquarius Current position
 On board diary of MV Aquarius
 SOS Mediterranee - Voices from the sea

Mediterranean Sea
2013 ships
Ships built in China
Dart (commercial vehicle). Dart was a manufacturer of commercial vehicles in Waterloo, Iowa, that was established around 1910.

History 
The company began with light commercial vehicles for farmers in Waterloo. Later Liberty trucks, tractors and vehicles for the oil industry were built. In WWII there were less successful attempts with heavy army trucks as the Truck Tractor T13. Later on the company merged with Paccar and built huge mining trucks for off-highway-use. The trademark is no longer in use.

See also

 Paccar
 Liberty truck
 Class 8 Trucks
 Dump truck
 Haul truck
 Semi-trailer truck

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Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Defunct truck manufacturers of the United States
Military trucks of the United States
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1910
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Aleksandr Kharkevich. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kharkevich (; 3 February, 1904 – 30 March, 1965) was a specialist in radio engineering, electronics, acoustics and instrumentation. He was a corresponding member in 1960 and an academician in 1964 of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Biography

He was born in 1904 in Saint Petersburg. From 1922 to 1930 he studied at the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. He began his career in 1924 as a battery laboratory fitter, later as an intern, technician and supervisor at the plant. The first of his scientific and engineering was instrument engineering. He created a number of original designs of devices, many of which were kept in Soviet industry as universally recognized examples for many years. He also successfully developed a number of issues of spectral theory, the theory of nonlinear oscillations, and parametric phenomena.

In 1938 he is already a doctor of technical sciences and professor. At this time he gets a chair at the St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, where he works until 1941. In 1948 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

In the early 1950s, he moved to Moscow and, combining several disparate groups, created the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. On December 17, 1956, A. A. Kharkevich gave a speech stating that "considering the set and value of communication problems, it is time to create Institute for Telecommunications in USSR Academy of Sciences, which has already been decided in principle, but is delayed for technical reasons". He headed this institute until his death. In 2004 the institute was named after A. A. Kharkevich.

In 1962, he published an article in the journal "Communist" about a computer network for processing information and control of the economy. In fact, he proposed to make a network like the modern Internet for the needs of algorithmic governance.

In his later years, A. A. Kharkevich focused on the development of information theory and cybernetics. He died on March 30, 1965, in Moscow. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.

Awards

He was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Bibliography

A. A. Kharkevich published more than 100 scientific works and 12 books, many of which have had several editions and translated into several foreign countries (USA, France, Poland, China).

References

1904 births
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Academic staff of Lviv Polytechnic
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Acousticians
Cyberneticists
Electrical engineering academics
Government by algorithm
Internet theorists
Russian information theorists
Soviet engineers

Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Michael Wehr. Michael C. Wehr is a retired United States Army major general who last served as the 18th Director of Strategy, Capabilities, Policy, Programs, and Logistics of the United States Transportation Command. Previously, he served as the Deputy Chief of Engineers and Deputy Commanding General of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. 

He graduated from Jesuit High School Sacramento in 1981 with Honors in mathematics.  Wehr earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Santa Clara University in 1985 and later received a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Harateen. Harateen or harrateen was a woolen material of the 18th and early 19th-century produced in England. It was a furnishing material with a pattern used in upholstery.

Fabrication 
Harateen was a plain weave fabric manufactured with coarser weft than the warp yarns. Then undergoes a procedure of watering and stamping. The two layers of cloth were pressed together with a hot press. Imprinted, thicker horizontal strands produce a distinct wavy pattern.

Use 
This fabric was used for curtains and bed hangings.

References 

Woven fabrics
Ivo Felt. His career:
Ivo Felt (also written as Ivo Feldt) is an Estonian film producer and sound engineer. He was born in Tallinn, Estonia on the 31st October 1968. Since the day he started his amazing career, he has stunned the world with his magificent pieces.

Since the year 1987, he has worked at Tallinnfilm. During 1991-1995, he was a freelancer. If you were wondering, a freelancer is an independent contractor who earns wages on a per-job or per-task basis, typically for short-term work. When the year 1995 came around, he became one of the founders of film studio Allfilm.

In 2013, Mr. Feldt and Seppo Vanhatalo's film 'Rat King' got nominated 'Best Sound Design' for the Jussi Awards. In 2015, he received 2 awards those of which he shared with his other fellow producers. During 2015, Ivo Feldt, Kevin Mcann and Dermot Healy's short film 'Prison Door' received the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival award. Also during 2015, Ivo Feldt, Klaus Haro, Jorg Bundschuh, Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg's film 'The Fencer' managed to get the 'Estonian Film Award'.

Now we move on to 2016, where he also managed to receive two awards yet again but for the same film. The first award he received in the year 2016 was the 'Venice Film Week' award from his film 'Prison Door' which got selected as 'Best Narrative Short Film'. He shared this with Kevin Mcann and Dermot Healy. Lastly, his notoriously famous film 'Prison Door' got nominated 'Grand Prix International Short Film' at the 'Cork International Film Festival'.

Filmography
 2007: 'Georg'
 2010: 'Aeg on siin' / 'Oleg' / 'Burnt Mistakes'
 2013: 'Tangerines' 
 2014: 'Landscape with Many Moons
 2015: 'The Call Of Silence'/ 'Fast Eddy's Old News'
 2016: 'The Spy and the Poet'
 2017: 'The confession'
 2018: 'Portugal'/ 'Take it or leave it'
 2019: 'Truth and Justice 2022: 'Yoyogi' 2023: 'Last Sentinel'/ 'Two Men on Train and Someone Else' 2024:' 'The House'/ '8 Views of Lake Biwa'

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Living people
1968 births
Estonian film producers
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class
Film people from Tallinn
Eclipse Machine Company. The Eclipse Machine Company was an American bicycle and aircraft component manufacturer.

History 
The Steel Pulley & Machine Company was founded in 1883 in Indianapolis, Indiana by Harmon H. Fulton. It moved to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1892 and again in 1895 to Elmira, New York. Then, in 1914, the company started manufacturing automobile starter motors under license from the Bendix Corporation and in 1929 was acquired by Bendix outright. By 1939, the company had been combined with Pioneer Instrument Company under a new roof at a factory in Teterboro, New Jersey. During World War II, the company built timed anti-aircraft fuses and 20 mm aircraft cannon. It was the latter that spurred the construction of a second plant in 1940.

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Cycle manufacturers of the United States
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Bendix Corporation
Wan Runnan. Wan Runnan  (; born 29 October 1946 in Yixing, Jiangsu) is a software engineer, entrepreneur and a Chinese human rights activist who is known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement.

Life 
Wan was in college studying engineering when he had his first taste of repression. With the fanaticism of the Cultural Revolution sweeping the country, Wan was forced to interrupt his studies by the authorities and sent, without reason, to labor as a railway worker in the countryside. He eventually graduated (1970) from Tsinghua University and went on to a position with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 1984 he started Stone Emerging Industries Company, which produces computer software and English-Chinese word processors. 
The Chinese typewriter was ultimately eclipsed and made redundant with the introduction of computerised word processing, pioneered by engineer and dissident Wan Runnan and his partners when they formed Stone Emerging Industries Company () in 1984 in Zhongguancun, China's "Silicon Valley".  Stone developed software based on Alps Electric custom made 8088 based hardware with a Brother Industries dot matrix printer, distributed by Mitsui, to print Chinese characters and released the system as the MS-2400.

When the pro-democracy protests began in the spring of 1989, Wan provided material support for the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square and helped organize negotiations between the students and government. He became convinced that the Communists would crack down if the square wasn’t evacuated, but his warnings to the students went unheeded and the massacre soon followed. Wan decided to flee after the June 4 crack down and is now wanted by the Chinese authorities.

A month after the massacre Wan Runnan, along with prominent exiles such as Liu Binyan, Wuer Kaixi and Yan Jiaqi, met in Paris to call for the creation of the Federation for a Democratic China (FDC). He was the President of the FDC and lived in France during the FDC's initial stages and later moved to the United States. Wan Runnan currently lives in Paris.

Runnan is one of three subjects in the feature documentary The Exiles (2022) which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

References

External links 

 獨立中文筆會萬潤南專頁(Chinese language)

1946 births
Chinese dissidents
Chinese democracy activists
Writers from Beijing
Chinese human rights activists
Living people
82nd Drive Pedestrian Bridge. The 82nd Drive Pedestrian Bridge  is a pedestrian bridge connecting Gladstone and Oregon City in the U.S. state of Oregon. The bridge has been owned and maintained by the Clackamas Water Environment Services since 1998.

History
The bridge was closed temporarily in 2017 for "assessment and inspection". It underwent seismic retrofitting in 2019 and reopened in 2020.

References

Buildings and structures in Oregon City, Oregon
Gladstone, Oregon
Pedestrian bridges in Oregon
Awaji-class minesweeper. The Awaji class is a class of minesweepers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

Development 
The Awaji-class is the successor to the . The hulls are constructed of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) along the lines of the . Since many naval mines are of the magnetic type, it was necessary to avoid the use of metal in the hull of minesweepers that dispose of that type, and, previously, most minesweepers were constructed of wood. By making the Awaji-class FRP, the standard displacement of the ships is reduced by 30%, and the life of the hulls are extended, although - it has almost the same dimensions as the previous wooden Yaeyama-class. In the image diagram of the budget request for the 2013 government budget, stealth was improved, but, in the budget request for the following year, the Enoshima-class was enlarged.

This class of ships is one of the largest FRP ships in the world. Japan Marine United (JMU), which possesses the construction technology and equipment for large FRP vessels, handed over the third ship  to the Maritime Self-Defense Force on 16 March 2021. The Ministry of Defense and the Maritime Self-Defense Force budgeted 12.6 Billion yen for the construction of the fourth Awaji-class ship, following Etajima, in the 2020 budget.

Ships in the class

References

External links
 

Ships built in Japan
 
Minesweepers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Nanosonics. Nanosonics is a ASX-listed company in the healthcare industry which manufactures and distributes ultrasound probe disinfectors and other related technologies. It has offices in Australia, the U.S. and Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe, employing more than 300 people.

The company’s Trophon is the product used to reduce the spread of Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs). Its Trophon2 product includes AcuTrace technology, which enables digital record keeping and provides workflows for ultrasound probe high level disinfection.

History 
The company was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 2007 with the ticker NAN. In 2009, it launched Trophon, a unique, automated technology for the high-level disinfection of intracavity and surface ultrasound probes.

In 2010 Nanosonics warned that it had become aware of a substandard component being used in the production of its Tryphon EPR ultrasound disinfectant device and had moved to rectify the problem.

In March 2015, Nanosonics was included in the ASX300 Index (Australia’s top 300 companies by market capitalisation).

In 2018 investors were cautioned about Nanosonics relying too much on only one customer, which had its own financial problems, as an outlet for its products.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw Nanosonics share price drop 25 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 due to a ban on elective surgeries and drop off in demand for ultrasound cleaning devices.

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Companies based in New South Wales
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Tara Javidi. Tara Javidi is an Iranian electrical engineer and computer scientist who studies networked information, stochastic control, machine learning, hypothesis testing, network optimization, and network routing, among other topics. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she co-directs the Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security with Farinaz Koushanfar.

Education and career
Javidi graduated from Sharif University of Technology in 1996, and earned two MS degrees and a PhD from the University of Michigan in 2002. Her dissertation,  Optimal Resource Allocation: Issues and Applications, was supervised by Demosthenis Teneketzis.

She became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington in 2002 before moving to her present position at the University of California, San Diego in 2005. She was promoted to full professor in 2016.

Recognition
Javidi was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021, "for contributions to stochastic resource allocation and active hypothesis testing".
In 2020, the University of Michigan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recognized her with their Distinguished Educator Award, for her "significant and lasting impact in education".

References

External links
Home page
Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security

Year of birth missing (living people)
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Iranian computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Sharif University of Technology alumni
University of Michigan alumni
University of Washington faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
21st-century American women