omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depot. The Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depot is a historic railroad freight depot located at 110 North Cedar Street on the southwest corner of Northwest Second Street in Abilene, Kansas. Like the passenger depot nearby, it was originally built in 1928 (though not opened until 1929), designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and was constructed by G.A. Johnson & Sons company in Chicago. The depot was in the Mission/Spanish Revival architectural style, though it also contains some Greek revival elements.

The station began to decline in the post-World War 2 era, when railroads were focusing on receiving more of their freight through yards and industrial sidings. Union Pacific sold the freight house to Abilene Iron and Metal in 1974. In 1980 it was sold to a man named Gordon Davis, Jr., who himself sold the building to painting contractor Tim Geske in 1987. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 1993. Today, the station serves as a paint and hardware store.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dickinson County, Kansas
Abilene Downtown Historic District

References

National Register of Historic Places in Dickinson County, Kansas
Abilene, Kansas - Freight
Railway freight houses on the National Register of Historic Places
Former railway stations in Kansas
Gilbert Stanley Underwood buildings
Mission Revival architecture in Kansas
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1929
Hinetics. Hinetics is a clean technology startup focused on the development of high specific power, high efficiency electric motors and generators for electrified aircraft and offshore wind turbine applications. Hinetics' product portfolio is composed of both permanent magnet electric machines as well as lower TRL superconducting electric machines. The company was spun-off from the Haran Research Group, led by Professor Kiruba Haran, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017 to commercialize a slotless motor topology developed under a NASA NRA award.

Hinetics is primarily funded through SBIR/STTR small business grants from NASA, the USAF's AFWERX, and the NSF. They have received more than $3 million from these entities to date through Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III grants. In August 2022, the company was awarded the largest contract in ARPA-E's OPEN 2021 solicitation, totaling $5.7 million, to develop a 10 MW superconducting electric motor for electric aircraft propulsion.

References 

American companies established in 2017
Electric motor manufacturers
HMS Venturer (MO8). HMS Venturer is a Venturer-class minesweeper converted from the trawler Suffolk Harvester for the Royal Navy in 1978.

Description 
Venturer is  long,  wide, and  tall. It has a gross tonnage of . It is powered by Mirrlees-Blackstone diesel engines which provided 2,000 HP and allowed for a speed of 14 knots. As a minesweeper, Venturer was not equipped with any armament and had a crew of thirty-five.

History 
The ship was built as Suffolk Harvester by Cubow of Woolwich in 1972 as a stern fishing trawler and was sold to Small & Co as the most advanced new ship in its fleet. Harvester was then chartered as HMS Venturer by the Ministry of Defence on 1 November 1978, alongside its sister ship HMS St David. It was converted into a minesweeper at Lowestoft and commissioned in Bristol in December 1978. Venturer was allocated to the 10th Mine Countermeasures Squadron out of Bristol and was equipped for deep team minesweeping.

On completion of its charter, Venturer was returned to civilian service in November 1983 and renamed back to Suffolk Harvester. In 1990, the ship transferred ownership and was renamed Britannia Harvester. It was renamed again to VOS Harvester in 2009, and finally to BPOS Harvester in 2011. In May 2020, the vessel was temporarily laid up at Lowestoft following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2022, the vessel was flying the flag of Djibouti and operating as a standby safety vessel.

References 

Naval trawlers of the United Kingdom
1972 ships
Mahakali Irrigation Project. Mahakali Irrigation Project is one of the National Pride Projects of Nepal. Water from Mahakali river at Sarada barrage is diverted to irrigate the farms in Nepal side as per the Mahakali treaty. The command area lies in Kanchanpur and Kailali districts.

The headworks of the project is Sharada Barrage, which was constructed in 1928 by the British-Indian government.

The main canal of the project was constructed in 1975 with command area of 3,400. In 1976, International Development Association agreed for financing the project and an agreement was signed on September 29, 1980, with an implementation period of 5 years. The first Stage was completed in 1988.

The second stage, was signed on November 18, 1988, between Nepal and the International Development Association. It was completed in 1997.

The third stage was proposed for development during the bilateral treaty (Mahakali treaty) between Nepal and India treaty called Treaty for Integrated Development of Mahakali Barrage including Sharada Barrage, Tanakpur Barrage and Pancheshwar Multi-purpose Project signed on February 12, 1996. As per the agreement, Nepal can draw 28.35 m3/s of flow from the Sharada Barrage during the wet season (from May 15 to October 15) and 4.25 m3/s in the dry season (from October 16 to May 14). The actual construction of the third stage was initiated by Nepal in 2006.  The third stage comprises a 151 km long canal in Nepal side, of which 28.5-km section of the has been completed as of 2023. The starting part of canal near the barrage, about 1 km long, lies inside the Indian border (in the land that was granted to British India during the treaty).

References

Irrigation in Nepal
Copper(I) telluride. Copper(I) telluride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Cu2Te. It can be synthesized by reacting elemental copper and tellurium with a molar ratio of 2:1 at 1200 °C in a vacuum. Cu2Te has potential applications in thermoelectric elements and in solar cells, where it is alloyed with cadmium telluride to create a heterojunction.

References

Copper(I) compounds
Tellurides
Copper ditelluride. Copper ditelluride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula CuTe2. It is a superconductor with a C18 structure and a transition temperature of 1.3 K. CuTe2 crystals can be synthesized by reacting elemental copper and tellurium with a molar ratio of 1:2 at a pressure of 65 kbar for 1–3 hours at 1000–1200 °C, followed by slow cooling.

References

Copper(II) compounds
Tellurides
Transition metal dichalcogenides
Poly(ethyl acrylate). Poly(ethyl acrylate) (PEA) is a family of organic polymers with the formula ()n. It is a synthetic acrylate polymer derived from ethyl acrylate monomer. The polymers are colorless.  This homopolymer is far less important than copolymers derived from ethyl acrylate and other monomers.  It has a low glass-transition temperature about -8°C (20°C).

Copolymers
Far more important than PEA are copolymers produced from ethyl acrylate and one or more of the following comonomers methyl methacrylate, styrene, acrylonitrile, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, and butadiene.

References

Acrylate polymers
Poly(butyl acrylate). Poly(butyl acrylate) (PBA) is a family of organic polymers with the formula ()n. It is a synthetic acrylate polymer derived from butyl acrylate monomer. The polymers are colorless.  This homopolymer is far less important than copolymers derived from methyl acrylate and other monomers.  It has a low glass-transition temperature of about -43°C (20°C).

Copolymers
Far more important than PBA are copolymers produced from butyl acrylate and one or more of the following comonomers methyl methacrylate, styrene, acrylonitrile, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, and butadiene.

References

Acrylate polymers
Tawnaghmore Power Station. Tawnaghmore Power Station is a 104 MW gas/oil fired 'peaker plant' situated south of Killala in County Mayo, Ireland.

Current Operations
The current power station commenced commercial operation in 2003 and is currently operated by SSE Thermal. SSE acquired the plant from Endesa along with three other operational assets (Tarbert, Great Island and Rhode) when they agreed to buy shares of Endesa Ireland for a total consideration of €320m.

The plant comprises two 52 MW gas/oil-fired open cycle unit turbines. Its principle function is to help maintain the security of electricity supply in Ireland's all-island Single Electricity Market (SEM) by being available to operate on quick response to peaks in national energy demand. Unit 1 commenced operation in December 2003. The installation of a second turbine occurred in 2008 and doubled the electrical output capacity to 104 MW.

In addition to the combustion plant itself, the main infrastructure on side includes a water treatment plant, water storage tanks, bunded steel oil storage tanks and bunded transformers.

References

External links

 SSE Thermal: Tawnaghmore Power Station

Natural gas-fired power stations in the Republic of Ireland
Innocent Kamwa. Innocent Kamwa is a Canadian electrical engineer who is a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Decentralised Sustainable Electricity Grids for Smart Communities at Université Laval. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Early life and education 
Kamwa studied applied science at the Université Laval, where he studied electronic engineering. He stayed at Laval for his doctoral research, where he modelled synchronous machines.

Research and career 
Kamwa joined the Hydro-Québec Smart Grid Innovation program, where he spent 25 years. He has worked on improving power system stability, developing intelligent algorithms for application in industry. He developed Hydro-Quebec's first Multiband Power System Stabiliser. In 2021, he was made a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, and became a full professor at the Université Laval.

Awards and honours 
 Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering 
 2005 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
 2019 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
 2019 IEEE Charles Concordia Award
 2022 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering

Selected publications

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Université Laval alumni
Canadian electrical engineers
21st-century Canadian engineers
Academic staff of Université Laval
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Mirror symbol hypothesis. The mirror symbol hypothesis is a mechanistic explanation of theory of mind
 proposed as a means of constructing empathetic artificial intelligence. It was first proposed by proposed by Michael Timothy Bennett and Yoshihiro Maruyama.

Description
The following summarizes the description given in "Philosophical Specification of Empathetic Ethical Artificial Intelligence", published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems in 2022:

A mirror neuron is a neuron that discharges both in the
execution of a specific motor act (such as grasping), and in the passive observation of that act. Likewise, neurons may discharge both in the experience of an emotion, and in the observation of another experiencing that emotion. Hence this mirror action of neurons may facilitate empathy.

The mirror symbol hypothesis posits that symbols emerge (initially formalised in terms of Lawrence W. Barsalou's perceptual symbols, and later as statements in an implementable language) may function in a similar way to facilitate empathy. There exist symbols (e.g. for grasping) that apply both in the act and in the passive observation thereof. In the Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce, symbols are made of three parts; a sign (for example the word "grasp"), a referent (the act or observation thereof) and the interpretent (that links the two, determining the effect upon one who perceives the symbol). The mirror symbol hypothesis holds that the same interpretant can be used in both action and passive observation and, if reward signals or qualia are functions of interpretants (being what determines the effect upon one who perceives), facilitate empathy. This requires a means of constructing other-directed intentionality (a means of telling one's intent apart from others), so that one does not confuse one's own experience with the observation of another's.

Applications
Later more formal descriptions integrated the mirror symbol hypothesis into a mathematical formalism (see ) to provide a mechanistic explanation of empathy. The requirement for other-directed intentionality is addressed via the emergence of symbols representing causal interventions (behaving as a "do" operator - see Causal model).

References

Philosophical theories
Pencil Code (programming language). Pencil Code is an educational programming language and website.  It allows programming using Scratch-style block coding or CoffeeScript.  Code runs directly in the web browser and can be shared with others.  The language centers on a model of a pencil programmatically drawing on a 2-dimensional screen, with the pencil cursor visually depicted as a turtle.

A 2019 study by Deng et al. in an eight-week teaching intervention comparing text-based and block-based environments found that students learning in a mixed environment had improved confidence and computational thinking.

History 
Pencil Code was created by David Bau and his son in 2013.  It was inspired by Logo, the 1967 programming language for drawing on a screen using a Lisp-like programming language.  Google has funded improvements to Pencil Code via Google Summer of Code projects.

References

External links 
 Pencil Code official website
 Common Sense Education page

Domain-specific programming languages
Educational programming languages
Free educational software
Programming languages
Zoubeida Ounaies. Zoubeida Ounaies is a Tunisian mechanical engineer,  whose research involves nanocomposites, smart materials, and piezoelectricity in polymers. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the  Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering and with the Institute of Energy and the Environment. At Penn State, she is director of the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems, and acting director of the Materials Research Institute.

Education and career
Ounaies grew up in Tunisia, the daughter of an engineer. She went to Pennsylvania State University for her undergraduate and graduate education, funded by the Tunisia Technology Transfer Program of the United States Agency for International Development, and completed her Ph.D. in 1996.

After postdoctoral research at NASA's Langley Research Center from 1997 to 2001, she returned to Penn State as a faculty member in 2001. She moved to Texas A&M University in 2005, but returned to Penn State again in 2011.

Recognition
Ounaies is an ASME Fellow, elected in 2016. She is also a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American materials scientists
Women materials scientists and engineers
American women engineers
Tunisian engineers
Tunisian women engineers
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Texas A&M University faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of SPIE
Whispers of a Machine. Whispers of a Machine is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Clifftop Games and Faravid Interactive, and published by Raw Fury in April 2019.

Plot
Whispers of a Machine is set in a futuristic Sweden. The player is an augmented government agent, Vera Englund, who arrives in a small town to investigate a murder.

Gameplay
Whispers of a Machine is a point-and-click adventure game. There are several different cybernetic augmentations that the player character can use to investigate the environment. Forensic scanner is used to scan a room for DNA and fingerprints. Biometric analyser is used to monitor suspect's heartrate. Muscle boost gives Vera super strength for a short time. Picking dialogue choices gives points to different personality traits: empathetic, analytical, or assertive. These lead to different augmentations and puzzle solutions.

Reception

Whispers of a Machine garnered generally positive reviews, and holds an average of 77/100 on aggregate web site Metacritic.

John Walker of Rock Paper Shotgun gave an overall positive review: "I really enjoyed it, I really appreciated having a methodical, forthright adventure game to play, with excellent art and animations, good music, great acting, and a story worth hearing. I just wish I'd been more of a detective as I did it."

The game was a nominee for Best Adventure and won the Reader's Choice award at the 2019 Aggie Awards.

See also
Kathy Rain, Clifftop Games' previous game

References

External links

2019 video games
Adventure Game Studio games
Android (operating system) games
Detective video games
Indie games
IOS games
MacOS games
Point-and-click adventure games
Post-apocalyptic video games
Raw Fury games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Video games about police officers
Video games developed in Sweden
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games set in Sweden
Windows games
Clifftop Games games
Beitou-Shilin Technology Park. The Beitou-Shilin Technology Park (BSTP; ) is an industrial park located in the Zhoumei area on the south side of Beitou District, Taipei City, Taiwan.

Location

Beitou-Shilin Technology Park covers an area of about . It is located at the junction of Beitou District and Shilin District, bordering on academic landmarks such as Taipei Children's Amusement Park, National Taiwan Science Education Center, and Taipei Astronomical Museum. There are several hospitals, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and other landmarks nearby. Therefore, the park is developed with the "smart health industry" as the main axis, and is regarded by Taipei City as the next emerging industry development area in the city.

Overview
The Beitou-Shilin Technology Park aims to introduce private capital and resources, attract high-end industries such as ICT, biotechnology, other emerging technologies as well as promoting the overall industrial development of the city.

Transportation

Metro
Tamsui–Xinyi line: 
Mingde metro station
Zhishan metro station

Road 
 ZhouMei Expressway

See also
 Economy of Taiwan
 Nankang Software Park
 Neihu Technology Park

References

External links
 Beitou-Shilin Technology Park

Buildings and structures in Taipei
Economy of Taipei
Industrial parks in Taiwan
Anke Blume. Anke Blume (b. 6 April 1969) is an engineering technology professor at the University of Twente known for her contributions to silica and silane chemistry for rubber applications.

Education 
Anke Blume was born in Hanover, Germany, April 6, 1969.
Blume studied chemistry at Leibniz University in Hannover, earning a master's degree in July 1993. She went on to complete doctoral studies at the German Institute for Rubber Technology (DIK), finishing in 1995 and continuing for a 9-month term as a post-doc.

Career 

Blume began an industrial career in 1996 as a chemist with the product development group at silica supplier Degussa AG (later to become Evonik).  In 2011, she managed intellectual property for silica and silane in rubber applications.

Blume's academic career began when she joined the University of Twente in 2013, as Chair of Elastomer Technology and Engineering (ETE) Group.  She has been noted for her contributions to rubber technology aimed at  reduction, in particular for automotive lightweighting and for tire rolling resistance reduction. She was invited to a jury that judged Nokian Tyres sustainability innovation challenge.  She also served on the panel that selected the Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Excellence.  Blume was elected to serve as head of the German Rubber Society's western group, DKG West, for the term 2018–2021.

Awards

 2023 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from ACS Rubber Division

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
Living people
Women materials scientists and engineers
People from Hanover
Year of birth missing (living people)
List of bridges in Mexico. 

Historical or architectural interest bridges

Major bridges 
The Baluarte Bridge held the record for the highest cable-stayed bridge in the world when it was inaugurated in 2012 with a maximum drop from the surface of the deck to the bottom of the Baluarte River of , according to the Guinness World Records, however, some diagrams of the bridge show a height of  between the axis of the central span and the river, the bridge having a regular slope of . Its clearance is largely higher than that of the previous record-holder, France's Millau Viaduct, which has a clearance of  but it was beaten by the  high Duge Bridge in China, opened in 2016.

This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges with spans greater than  or total lengths longer than .

Planned bridges

See also 

 Transport in Mexico
 Rail transport in Mexico
 List of Mexican Federal Highways
 List of Mexican autopistas
 Geography of Mexico
 List of rivers of Mexico

References 
 Notes

 Nicolas Janberg, Structurae.com, International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering

 Others references

Further reading

External links 

 
 
 
 

Mexico

Bridges
Lourdes A. Vega Acosta Montalban. Lourdes Angélica Vega Acosta Montalban (also known as Lourdes de Vargas) is a retired Mexican rheologist who, in 1986, with José Manuel Tejero Andrade, cofounded the Laboratory of Rheology and Physics of Soft Matter at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Vega Acosta Montalban earned her Ph.D. in 1979 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with the dissertation In-line elasticity measurements in polymer melts. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She retired between 2006 and 2015.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Rheologists
Mexican scientists
Mexican women scientists
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Academic staff of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
Taylor-Dunn. Taylor-Dunn is a manufacturer of industrial electric vehicles. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Anaheim, California. The vehicles manufactured there are primarily for transporting people and equipment inside warehouses, factories, and work sites. Outdoor users have included airports, college campuses, resorts, and gated subdivisions.

In 1949 an Anaheim farmer founded the company, having built an electric cart to use while feeding his chickens. Around 1990 the company was purchased by two electronics executives; by 1992 it had $25 million in annual sales, and about 60% of the market for electric utility vehicles.

In 1992 the company expanded to produce full-size trucks, with the Electruck, a larger utility vehicle still targeted for its current customers.

In 2016 Polaris Inc. purchased the company, which at the time had 150 employees. Taylor-Dunn reported that it would retain its brand and headquarters. In 2022, Polaris sold Taylor-Dunn and GEM to a group of former Polaris executives. The group would operate both brands at Taylor-Dunn's headquarters under the name Waev, Inc.

References

External links

 

Companies based in Anaheim, California
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1949
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Car manufacturers of the United States
Low-speed vehicles
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in California