omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Rodingite. Rodingite is a metasomatic rock composed of grossular-andradite garnet, calcic pyroxene, vesuvianite, epidote and scapolite. Rodingites are common where mafic rocks are in proximity to serpentinized ultramafic rocks. The mafic rocks are altered by high pH, Ca2+ and OH− fluids, which are a byproduct of the serpentinization process, and become rodingites.  The mineral content of rodingites is highly variable, their high calcium, low silicon and environment of formation being their defining characteristic. Rodingites are common in ophiolites, serpentinite mélanges, ocean floor peridotites and eclogite massifs. Rodingite was first named from outcrops of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt in the Roding River, Nelson, New Zealand.

An obsolete name for rodingite is granatite.

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Metamorphic rocks
Decoy-class cutter. The Decoy class was a class of three cutters of the Royal Navy. William Rule designed the class. Two were lost in wartime; they grounded, enabling the French to capture them. One was lost to bad weather.

  participated in the capture of several small French privateers, captured or recaptured a number of merchant vessels, and captured a number of smuggling vessels. The French captured her in 1814.
  was wrecked on 3 March 1824.
  stranded on the French coast on 28 October, which enabled the French to capture her.

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1810 ships
Cutters of the Royal Navy
ESTIA Institute of Technology. The École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA), translated as "Institute of Advanced Industrial Technologies", is a French engineering and research graduate school (Grande Ecole). Founded in 1996, it is a general engineering school training trilingual versatile engineers, to undertake positions such as product engineer, supply chain planner/manager, quality manager, production manager, and project manager.

Student engineers, through their internships and projects, work closely with the local companies.

Trainings 

The school offers courses in the following disciplines: 
Digital Design & Innovation: mechanical, electronic and computer development
Electronics, Automation & Embedded systems: image processing, mobile robots, renewable energies
Industrial Management & Organisation: industrialization, global logistics, performance management

There are different qualifications available: a French engineer's degree with a Master of Science, an advanced master's degree, or a doctorate.

Postgraduate Partnerships 

The school created special partnerships with several institutes of technology worldwide to offer integrated double-degree programs to the students :

United Kingdom:
University of Salford Manchester for the MSc Robotics and Automation.
University of Wolverhampton
Cranfield University

Spain:
School of Engineering of Bilbao

Notable Teacher 
 Jean Michel Larrasket, French professor and engineer

References 

Universities in France
Educational institutions established in 1985
1985 establishments in France
Educational institutions established in 1995
1995 establishments in France
French submarine Joessel. The French submarine Joessel was a Joessel-class diesel-electric attack submarine built for the French Navy between 1913 and 1919. Joessel was built in the Arsenal de Cherbourg from 1913 to 1917, entered the French Marine Nationale in February 1920 and served until 1936.

Design
Joessel was ordered in the French fleet's 1914 program as part of a two ship class. The ships were designed by Jean Simonot, as a modification of his previous project, Gustave Zédé, using two Parsons steam turbines with a power of . During construction, though, the idea was abandoned and the ships were instead equipped with diesel engines.

The submarine had a surfaced displacement of  and a submerged displacement of . The dimensions were  long, with a beam of  and a draught of . She had two shafts powered by two diesel engines built by  Schneider-Carels for surface running with a combined total of  and two electric motors which together produced  for submerged propulsion. Her maximum speed was  on the surface and  while submerged with a surfaced range of  at  and a submerged range of  at . The boat's complement was 47 men.

Joessel was armed with eight 450 mm torpedo tubes (four in the bow, two stern and two external trainable mounts), with a total of 10 torpedoes and two  guns.

Service
Joessel was built in the Arsenal de Cherbourg. She was laid down in November 1913, launched on 21 July 1917, and completed in February 1920. She received the pennant number Q 109.

Joessel was refitted during the 1920s when she received a new conning tower, bridge and two periscopes of 7.5 m (at the conning tower) and 9.5 m (at Headquarters).

Joessel served in the Atlantic until the early 1930s when she was transferred to Indochina. She was stricken in May 1936.

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World War I submarines of France
Joessel-class submarines
1917 ships
Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors. The Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors (POEM) is DARPA program. It should demonstrate photonic technologies that can be integrated within embedded microprocessors and enable energy-efficient high-capacity communications between the microprocessor and DRAM. For realizing POEM technology CMOS and DRAM-compatible photonic links should operate at high bit-rates with very low power dissipation.

Current research 
Currently research in this field is at University of Colorado, Berkley University, and Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory ( Ultra-Efficient CMOS-Compatible Grating Coupler Design).

References

External links 
 University of Colorado, Photonically Optimized Embedded Microprocessors
 MIT Photonic Microsystems Group, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory
 Berkley ,  Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 
 DARPA , News and events Electricity, Light, Join Forces to Advance Computing
 Chen Sun RISC-­‐V Microprocessor Chip with Photonic I/O

Computer hardware
America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA) is a United States federal law, enacted during the 115th United States Congress, which provides for water infrastructure improvements throughout the country in the areas of:
 flood control
 navigable waterways
 water resources development
 maintenance and repair of dams and reservoirs
 ecosystem restoration
 public water systems
 financing of improvements
 hydropower development
 technical assistance to small communities.

The law also reauthorizes the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (WIFIA) which provides expanded financial assistance to communities under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. These programs are administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Summary of current EPA actions 
 Modifications to the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
 Community Water System risk and resilience assessments
 Implementation of amendments to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
 Administration of funding for the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act grant programs
 Development of infrastructure asset management and capacity development strategies for state agencies and public water systems.

Upcoming EPA actions 

 Water System Restructuring Rule
 Small System Report to Congress

SWIFIA
Section 4201 of the Act authorised the creation of the state infrastructure financing authority WIFIA (SWIFIA) program. This is a loan program established to support State infrastructure financing authority borrowers, administered by EPA.

Minneapolis Courthouse
Also included in the law is the designation of the United States courthouse located at 300 South Fourth Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the "Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse".

References

External links 
 America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (PDF/details) as amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection
 America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (PDF/details) as enacted in the US Statutes at Large

Acts of the 115th United States Congress
2018 in the environment
United States federal environmental legislation
Water law in the United States
Water pollution in the United States
Shenzhen Metro MOVIA EMU. Shenzhen Metro MOVIA EMU (also known as Movia 456 or "01A2206龐") is the first electric multiple unit of Shenzhen Metro. It is assigned for the service of Shenzhen Metro Line 1. 132 cars were ordered, built by Bombardier Transportation and CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd.

Features 
Shenzhen Metro Group ordered it in November 2001 for Line 1. The 22 sets each consist of 6 cars. The first train was manufactured by Bombardier in Germany, and delivered in Shenzhen on April 23, 2004. The remaining 21 sets were manufactured in Changchun. Compared with the A2 and A3 of Guangzhou Metro and Shanghai Metro AC04, this model of rolling stock uses Faiveley plug doors to reduce noise.

References 

Electric multiple units of China
1500 V DC multiple units
Bombardier Transportation multiple units
Train-related introductions in 2004
Chris Piche. Chris Piche is a Canadian computer scientist and technology entrepreneur who specializes in peer-to-peer networking, streaming, and computer vision technologies.

Piche pioneered the technology behind online multiplayer gaming and formed a joint venture with Stanley Ho and Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau (STDM) to create the first Internet-based, real-time casino platform.  Piche then built Eyeball Chat – an early instant messaging, Voice over IP, and video telephony service with over 7 million active users in 2012.

Education

Chris Piche was born in Vancouver, Canada.  He began programming computers at age 11, entered university at the age of 13, and later graduated in computer science from the University of British Columbia.

Career

Online multiplayer gaming
Beginning in 2000, Piche pioneered the technology behind online multiplayer gaming and formed a joint venture with Stanley Ho and Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau (STDM) to create the first Internet-based, real-time casino platform.

Piche and Ho later defeated patent trolls in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, where Piche was awarded US$1,361,418.79 in fees, costs, and damages.

Video telephony
Piche created Eyeball Chat, a popular instant messaging, Voice over IP, and video telephony service with over 7 million active users.  Eyeball Chat was awarded as Best Communication Product of Internet World.

In a joint venture with Nifty, a Japanese ISP and Fujitsu subsidiary, Piche created Eyeball Lite and Eyeball Pro, video telephony services for the Japanese market.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Piche was Canada's representative to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Information and Communications Technology Forum in Shanghai in 2001.

Awards and recognition
 Canada's Top Young Leader, The Globe and Mail, 2000
 Top 40 under 40, Business in Vancouver, 2000
 Best of Internet World, 2001
 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist, 2006

References 

1973 births
Living people
Hunter 23.5. The Hunter 23.5 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by the Hunter Design Team and first built in 1992.

Production
The design was built by Hunter Marine in the United States between 1992 and 1997, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Hunter 23.5 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with a full batten mainsail and a 110% genoa, a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a metal tiller and a centerboard. It displaces  and carries  of flooding water ballast. The ballast is drained for road transport.

The boat has a draft of  with the centreboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

The boat is normally fitted with a small  outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The fresh water tank has a capacity of .

Factory standard equipment supplied included a stove, sink, cooler, portable head, a dinette table that can be fitted in the lower deck and the cockpit, outboard motor mount, life jackets, an anchor and a fog bell. Optional equipment included a galvanized highway trailer, a  outboard motor and a canvas companionway cover.

The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settee berths in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a double berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the port side abeam the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a single-burner stove and a sink. Cabin headroom is .

The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 243 with a high of 249 and low of 231. It has a hull speed of .

Operational history
In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "the Hunter ... uses water ballast, which automatically pours in as the boat is launched and drains out when the boat is pulled from the water and placed on its trailer. The water is supposed to lighten the hull for easier trailering (which it does), while preserving the boat's stiffness under sail which it doesn't, at least not very well). The water ballast just isn't heavy enough. Best features: There's lots of space compared to comp[etitor]s. Worst features: One disillusioned owner said it all: 'I love Hunter sailboats, but this model heels so rapidly [a result of the water ballast design] that it scared my wife right out of sailing, so I'm out of this sport altogether now.' The same owner pointed out that the handrails were 'weak and easily broken.' One may wonder, after his bad experience with the 23.5, why he 'loves' Hunters. He didn't tell us."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Hunter 19-2
Hunter 240
Hunter 260
Hunter 27 Edge
MacGregor 26

References

External links
Official brochure

Keelboats
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Hunter Design Team
Sailboat types built by Hunter Marine
Cyanostar. A cyanostar (pentacyanopentabenzo[25]annulene) is a shape-persistent macrocycle that binds anions.

Synthesis 
The cyanostar structure is synthesized in a one-pot process among five equivalents of a benzaldehyde bearing a meta-cyanomethyl substituent. A series of Knoevenagel condensation reactions catalyzed by various bases stitches them together to make the C5-symmetric structure.

Anion binding 
Cyanostar binds anions through hydrogen bonding from the C–H bonds, as the hydrogen has a positive electrostatic potential. It is the first binder to make use of cyanostilbene's electropositive CH groups. The CH bonds create an electropositive region in the center of the macrocycle, creating a binding pocket. Cyanostar strongly binds anions that usually can only be bound weakly. The increased binding arises from the formation of a 2:1 complex, with two cyanostars sandwiching the anion on each side. An extended version of this structural pattern is a 4:3 alternating stack of cyanostar molecules complexing a hydrogen-bonded chain of dihydrogen phosphate units.

Rotaxanes 
Two cyanostars can be threaded onto a phosphate diester structure, forming a rotaxane. Because they have a high affinity for the central phosphate group only when it is in its anionic form, there is a substantial and reversible structural change in response to acid–base changes in solution.

References 

Macrocycles
Alexander Kerr (disambiguation). Alexander Kerr (1892–1964) was an English marine engineer and wholesale newsagent known for his service in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Alexander Kerr may also refer to:

 Alexander Kerr (banker) (1838–1909), Scottish banker
 Alexander Kerr (professor) (born 1970), American violinist
 Alexander Robert Kerr (1770–1831), Royal Navy officer

See also
 Alex Kerr (disambiguation)
French submarine Armide. Armide was a submarine ordered by the Japanese Navy from the Schneider-Creusot shipyard before World War I but was requisitioned by the French government before it was launched. Armide operated in the Mediterranean during the course of World War I and was stricken from the Navy list in July 1932.

Design

Armide had a surfaced displacement of  and a submerged displacement of . Her dimensions were  long, with a beam of  and a draught of . Propulsion while surfaced was provided by two diesel motors built by the Swiss manufacturer Schneider-Carels producing in total  and for submerged running two electric motors producing in total . Her maximum speed was  on the surface and  while submerged with a surfaced range of  at  and a submerged range of  at .

Armide was armed with six  torpedo tubes and a  L/50 M1902 Hotchkiss deck gun. The crew of the submarine consisted of 31 officers and seamen.

Service 

Armide was ordered in 1911 by the Imperial Japanese Navy and was designed by Maxime Laubeuf. The ship was to receive the number 14 in Japan (第 14 号艦) but it was requisitioned by the French government on 3 June 1915, after which the Japanese themselves built a replacement No 14 to the same design, ordering the diesel engines from France.

The Armide was built in the Schneider shipyard in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. The keel was laid down in 1912, it was launched in July 1915, and was completed in June 1916.

Armide operated in the Mediterranean during the course of World War I and was stricken from the Navy list in July 1932. Armide was given the pennant number of SD 2.

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References

 

World War I submarines of France
Armide-class submarines
1915 ships
Große Isar (Landshut). Große Isar is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a branch of the Isar in the city of Landshut. Since the 19th century, human activity, such as hydroelectric projects and urban expansion, altered the river's natural dynamics. In recent years, projects like the EU-funded  Nature initiative have aimed to rehabilitate sections of the Isar.

See also
List of rivers of Bavaria

References 

0Große Isar
Rivers of Bavaria
Rivers of Germany
Heinrich Wohlwill. Heinrich Wohlwill  (7 February 1874 – 31 January 1943) was a German-Jewish engineer of electrochemistry.

Early life 
Wohlwill was born in Hamburg, in the German Empire, on 7 February 1874, the third of five children of well-known engineer of electrochemistry, Emil Wohlwill. Heinrich Wohlwill had two older siblings: Marie Wohlwill and Sophie Wohlwill, and two younger siblings: Gretchen Wohlwill and Joachim Friedrich Wohlwill.
Heinrich Wohlwill served as the technical director of Norddeutsche Affinerie and as a member of the board until he was removed from the company, due to the Jewish discrimination in Germany.

Patent 
Wohlwill invented an industrial process for recovering copper, which was in used until WWII. The patent resulted in the formation of Norddeutsche Affinerie, presently Aurubis AG. He improved upon the Wohlwill process (having previously been invented by his father in 1910), which is the method for extracting pure gold and silver throughout industry with the use of electrochemical electrolysis

Death 
Wohlwill received the deportation letter in Hamburg on 17 July 1942, during the widespread Jewish discrimination in Germany during the Holocaust. Three days later, on 20 July 1942, Wohlwill and his wife Henriette Wohlwill were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Terezín. On 31 January 1943, Wohlwill died during his placement in Theresienstadt camp.

References

External links
 Death certificate in the holocaust
 Photocopy of patent for improving Wohlwill process
 Biography

Engineers from Hamburg
1874 births
1943 deaths
German chemical engineers
Jewish engineers
German people who died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.. Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. or VHB is a multidisciplinary American civil engineering consulting and design firm headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts with offices throughout the country. The company was founded in 1979 by Bob Vanasse (1979 – 1990), Rich Hangen (1979 – retirement), Robert S. Brustlin (1979 – retirement), William J. Roache (1979 – retirement), John Kennedy (1979 – retirement) and James D'Angelo (1979 – 2001). The company primarily focuses on transportation and land development. VHB was a finalist in the US DOT Safety Visualization Challenge. VHB works on a variety of transportation civil engineering projects in the Northeast and along the east coast.

VHB was the lead designer and project manager for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's South Coast Rail project. In 2018, VHB received a Bronze Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies for their work on South Coast Rail bridges. VHB also is developing the permitting and environmental review for the Brooklyn–Queens Connector.

VHB also worked on the rebuild of the Washington Bridge in Providence; a company engineer spotted the sheared pins that results in an emergency closure in December 2023.

Expansions
In 2009 VHB opened an office in Albany, New York. In 2010 VHB acquired New York based Saccardi & Schiff and Orlando based MSCW. In 2011 VHB acquired New York–based Eng-Wong, Taub & Associates. In 2012 VHB opened an office in South Portland, Maine. In 2013 VHB acquired Raleigh, North Carolina–based Martin/Alexiou/Bryson. In 2015 VHB acquired Orlando based GMB Engineers & Planners Inc. In 2019 VHB acquired Burlington, VT based The Johnson Company.

Awards

In 2018 VHB ranked 69th on the Engineering News-Record ranking of the Top Design Firms. In 2019 they ranked 62nd. In the Engineering News-Record 2019 top design firms by sector, VHB ranked #5 in Massachusetts, No. 3 in New Hampshire, No. 2 in Rhode Island and No. 1 in Vermont. 

In 2018 VHB was named as the Women in Transportation Employer of the Year.

See also 
Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge

References 

Companies based in Massachusetts
Privately held companies based in Massachusetts
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Ligiron. Ligiron (Visayan word for “to roll”) is a 4-wheeled cart made of wood with bamboo flooring serving as its framework. Originally, it is utilized by farmers to bring their home-grown products from the mountains to the town's market or to the city market of Dumaguete 9 kilometers west of Valencia (Negros Oriental, Philippines).

Contraption design 
Like a scooter, the ligiron is a medium of transportation made from hardwood such as tugas, tisa, bamboo, mahogany and other sturdy wood that can be found in Negros Oriental. The rider sits and places his feet on the bamboo flooring and maneuver the four-wheeled vehicle using the scooter-like handles. The ligiron devise needs to start from the top of any downward terrain because the descending force is the only power that keeps the ligiron rolling. The wood and bamboo utilized in the devise are fastened together using rubber from second-hand or worn-out tires, nails and wood glue to keep them in one piece. The brakes are made of rubber. The ligiron does not use gas or battery. The lubricant used on it is from shredded cocoa seeds. The original models do not have any braking mechanism making the driver rely only on foot brakes.

Racing 
The first ligiron competition was organized by Nicky Dumapit which took place in 2013 in Camp Lookout, Barangay Bongbong, Valencia, Negros Oriental. In the 2018 race, there were 20 participating racers competing in three divisions, namely, beginners, elite/experts, and the long jump. With the launching of the first Ligiron Race in 2013, the annual event has currently acquired an international following as the novel “King of the Downhill Trail”  caught the attention and fascination of global extreme sport enthusiasts.

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Carts
Transportation in the Philippines