omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Nano So Phobia. Nano so Phobia (Gujrati: નેનો સો ફોબિયા; ) is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language drama film written by Yogesh Chandekar and directed by Rakesh Bajaj. A Flipkart Video original, it is a part of the anthology film Zindagi inShort produced by Sikhya Entertainment. Starring Swaroop Sampat, Nidhi Singh and Arun Kushwah, the film has music by Daniel B. George, cinematography by Pratham Mehta and edited by Dnayananda Samarth. The film was released on Flipkart Video on 19 February 2020.

Plot 
Mrs. Balsara (Swaroop Sampat), an elderly Parsi lady suffering from dementia, stays alone, while her daughter Meru lives in Boston. One afternoon, Mrs. Balsara sees her servant Rancho (Arun Kushwah) entering her house with a mask and a big knife. While the lady is in a state of shock and fear, Rancho tries to rob her of money. When he is busy counting the cash, Mrs. Balsara hits him with a potted rose plant and rushes to get help. A young tenant (Nidhi Singh) finds her in a state of panic and calms her down, reminding her that Rancho had robbed her 6 months back. She tells her that she is having another flashback of the incident, of which she has developed a deep fear. Still confused, Mrs. Balsara heads back home, as the girl walks towards her car. Suddenly, Rancho lands on the car, who Mrs. Balsara threw off her balcony. The film ends with Mrs. Balsara smiling peacefully as she waters the wilted rose plant, she hit Rancho with. In its essence, the story talks about how a fragile woman threw out the fear resting in her mind and emerged a stronger person.

Cast 

 Swaroop Sampat as Mrs. Balsara
 Arun Kushwah as Rancho
 Nidhi Singh as Young Tenant

Reception 
According to Pratishruti Ganguly of Firstpost, the short film became one of the most remarkable films of the anthology with the "story and its life-affirming ending aside, its sharp editing (masterfully done by Dnyanada Samarth) and Daniel B George's booming operatic background score". Rahul Desai of Film Companion wrote "Rakesh Sain’s Nano So Phobia, is too satisfied with its light-hearted gaze and theatrical punchline instead of aiming to examine the cultural epidemic of lonely pensioners through the lens of full-blown black comedy."

References

External links 

 
 Zindagi inShort on Flipkart

Indian drama short films
Indian thriller films
2020s Hindi-language films
2020 films
2020 short films
2020 thriller films
Sendai Thermal Power Station. is an LNG-fired thermal power station operated by Tohoku Electric in the town of Shichigahama, Miyagi, Japan. The facility is located on Matsushima Bay along the Pacific coast of Honshu.

History
The Sendai Thermal Power Station was built in 1959 to supply power to the Sendai metropolis and surrounding Miyagi Prefecture. Unit 1 came online in October 1959. Unit 2 was completed in November 1960 and Unit 3 in June 1962. Initially, all three units burned coal; however, Unit 1 was subsequently modified to burn heavy oil instead. 

Unit 3 was abolished in March 2004 and Units 1 and 2 in August 2007, and replaced by the single combined cycle Unit 4, in order to reduce carbon emissions and lower operating costs, which came on line in July 2010.

Operations were temporarily suspended due to damage caused by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, but test operations were resumed on December 20 and full output was restored by February 8, 2012.  From April 1, 2017, the rated output of Unit 4 was upgraded from 446,000 kW to 468,000 kW due to operational experience and software modifications.

The site of Units 1, 2 and 3 are now occupied by the 2 MW capacity Sendai Solar Power Plant, which started operation on May 25, 2012.

Plant details

See also 

 Energy in Japan
 List of power stations in Japan

External links

Tohoku Electric list of major power stations

1959 establishments in Japan
Natural gas-fired power stations in Japan
Shichigahama, Miyagi
Energy infrastructure completed in 1959
Buildings and structures in Miyagi Prefecture
Vega EVX. The Vega EVX is an all-electric battery-powered two-seater AWD sports car developed by Sri Lankan automobile manufacturer Vega Innovations and is planned to enter production in 2022. This car is the first sports car to be manufactured in Sri Lanka and the first all electric sportscar to be manufactured in South Asia.

Development

In 2013 Vega Innovations was founded by Dr. Harsha Subasinghe. By 2015 Vega Innovations introduced the first prototype of Vega EVX capable of generating over  and reaching  in 3.5 seconds. In 2017 the first Vega EVX prototype was built with the company expecting commercial production to begin over the coming years. The Production is only limited to 25 units.

Introduction

The serial version prototype of the Vega EVX was to be presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2020 but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the car was unveiled in a live stream at the Geneva Motor Show in 2020.

Specifications and Performance
The car weighs  out of which, the battery is responsible for . Vega EVX prototype has two  electric motors each positioned on the front and rear axles, providing it with all-wheel drive and allowing it a cumulative power of  and  of torque. The EVX initially receives a small LiFePo4 (lithium iron phosphate) battery with a capacity of , placed in the rear center position, allowing it a range of , before the arrival of a larger battery of  increasing its autonomy to . and from  in 3.1 seconds with a top speed of .

VEGA Innovations has described the production version of the Vega EVX can accelerate from  in less than two seconds, and achieve a top speed of  with a  battery range.

References 

Electric sports cars
First car made by manufacturer
Cars introduced in 2020
Vehicles of Sri Lanka
Department of Science and Technology (Bihar). The Department of Science, Technology and Technical Education is a department of Government of Bihar. It is the administrative body for all technical institutions established by Government of Bihar. The department is responsible for the development and policy decision in the field of science and technology. It regulates scientific and technical education in colleges and universities of Bihar. DST was established a Bihar Engineering University in 2021.Bihar Engineering University (BEU), Patna has been established by the Government of Bihar vide Bihar Engineering University, ACT, 2021 (Act No. 20 of 2021), published in the Bihar Gazette No.-677 date 09/08/2021.Chief minister of Bihar is the chancellor of Bihar Engineering University.

The Department of Science, Technology, and Technical Education (DSTTE), Bihar, maintains an active presence on various social media platforms to engage with the audience, disseminate information, and promote educational initiatives. The official social media handles of the Department are regularly updated with news, events, policies, and opportunities related to science, technology, and technical education in the state. You can follow the Department on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Through these platforms, the Department aims to foster a vibrant community of learners, educators, and innovators, while encouraging public participation in the development and implementation of its programmes. Additionally, the Department seeks to promote the exchange of science and technology knowledge, empowering the community to actively contribute to advancements in these fields.

History 
The department was originally called Industry and Technical Education Department and was controlled by Department of Industry, Bihar. It became an independent department in 1973. In 2007, the Department of Information Technology was split from the Department of Science and Technology to become an independent department.

References

External links 
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Government Departments of Bihar
Bihar-related lists
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former chair of the Computer Sciences department.
He co-leads a research group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau.
He and Andrea have co-written a textbook on operating systems, "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" (OSTEP), that is downloaded millions of times yearly and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide.
His research been cited over 15,000 times and is one of the leading experts in the area of data storage.

Education 
Arpaci-Dusseau received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993, then proceeded to earn his Master's in 1996 at the University of California, Berkeley.
He later earned his Ph.D at the same institution, with a thesis titled Performance Availability for Networks of Workstations.

Honors and awards 
 Mark Weiser Award (2018)
 ACM Fellow (2020)
 AAAS Fellow (2022)
 Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor (2022) 
 UW-Madison Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (2016)
 UC Berkeley Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award (2023)
 SACM Student's Choice Professor of the Year Award (the COW award) (2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018)
 USENIX FAST Test of Time Award (2022)
 USENIX FAST Best Paper Award (2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020)
 SOSP Best Paper Award (2011)

References

External links  
 Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau's Professional Website

Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
American computer scientists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Shannon 38. The Shannon 38 is an American sailboat that was designed by Walter Shultz, plus George Stadel III and George H. Stadel Jr. of G, H. Stadel & Son as a cruiser and first built in 1975.

The Shannon 38 can be confused with the Shannon 38 HPS an unrelated, 2013 motorsailer design.

Production
The boat was built by Shannon Yachts in the United States and was the company's first design. The boat was produced from 1975 to 1988, with 100 examples completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Shannon 38 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wooden trim. It has a cutter rig or optional ketch rig with aluminum spars, a raked stem, a raised counter transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel or stub keel and centerboard. The design includes a teak bowsprit and cockpit coamings. It displaces  and employs lead ballast. A small number were constructed with a pilothouse.

The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of , while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of  with the centerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.

The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of  for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The interior design was semi-custom, but a typical layout could include sleeping accommodation for six people. An aft port quarter berth also serves as the navigation station seat. The drop-leaf dinette table folds and has two settee berths, plus a raised pilot berth on the port side. The bow cabin berth is a double on the starboard side, and has a work bench and sail locker opposite. The galley is located at the foot of the companionway steps on the starboard side and includes a three-burner propane stove and a  icebox. The head is aft of the bow cabin and on the starboard side. Interior trim is of teak.

Ventilation is provided by four dorade vents, 12 bronze ports and two deck hatches, one over the bow cabin and one over the main cabin.

There is an aft vapor-proof propane locker, with external, overboard venting.

For sailing there are eight winches fitted for the halyards, staysail, mainsheet, genoa and reefing. There also are mainsail and staysail travelers provided.

The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 181.5.

Operational history
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "this Shannon has been designed for long-range offshore cruising. The keel is long and full. Basic options include either a cutter or a ketch rig and either a standard or a pilothouse design. Cabin layout is semi-custom and will depend upon the choices above."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Alajuela 38
C&C 38
Catalina 38
Columbia 38
Eagle 38
Farr 38
Hunter 380
Hunter 386
Landfall 38
Sabre 38
Yankee 38

References

Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Walter Shultz
Sailboat type designs by George H. Stadel Jr.
Sailboat type designs by George Stadel III
Sailboat type designs by G, H. Stadel & Son
Sailboat types built by Shannon Yachts
Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR)  is based on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the purpose of Eco-DRR is to prevent and reduce disasters by utilizing ecosystems. 
Eco-DRR is to maintain ecosystems and ecosystem services, to use them as buffer zones and buffers for dangerous natural phenomena, and to provide humans and local communities with functions such as food and water supply. Eco-DRR is closely related to Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), approaches to adapt to climate change. They all involve the management of ecosystems and their services to reduce the vulnerability of human communities to the impacts of climate change.

Evidence suggests that many ecosystems can benefit from sustainable, multi-factored strategies for Eco-DRR. However, disaster risk reduction research has tended to focus on urban areas of the Global North. More research  is needed in coastal, dryland and watershed areas and the Global South.

See also
 Climate change adaptation
 Climate change mitigation
 Disaster risk reduction
 Emergency management
 International Day for Disaster Reduction
 Natural disasters
 Nature-based solutions
 Risk management

References

Further reading 
 
 

Disaster preparedness
Sustainability and environmental management
Monobenzyl phthalate. Monobenzyl phthalate (MBzP) also known as 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, 1-(phenylmethyl) ester is an organic compound with the condensed structural formula C6H5CH2OOCC6H4COOH. It is the major metabolite of butyl benzyl phthalate(BBP), a common plasticizer. BBP can also be metabolized into monobutyl phthalate (MBP). Like many phthalates, BBP has attracted attention as a potential endocrine disruptor.

References 

Phthalate esters
Endocrine disruptors
Morris H. Baslow. Morris H. Baslow (born 1933) is a co-recipient of the 1982  AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility for his role as Whistleblower in a dispute between the EPA, Consolidated Edison and Con-Ed's consulting firm.

In 1974 Baslow was a senior scientist at the engineering and consulting firm of Lawler, Matuusky & Skelly. In 1978 Baslow  investigated whether there were any significant relationships between the population of different species of fish in the Hudson River and the characteristics of the river, including temperature of the water. This research led to a serious disagreement between Baslow and his supervisor.  Baslow's research indicated that temperature was the main factor that determined fish growth rates and population size, while LMS and their client Con Edison, said that population density was the key factor controlling the fish population in the Hudson. If Baslow was right, the utility company would need to install costly cooling towers. Baslow tried to persuade his superiors for two years to tell the whole truth about his data. In October 1979 Baslow was fired from his job at LMS. A short time later he sent seventy-one company documents to the EPA, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Justice Department. LMS sued Baslow for stealing documents, and Baslow counter-sued, citing the Clean Water Act. One year later all charges were dropped.

In 1982 Baslow wrote a book publishing the results of his research: "The Hudson River Ecosystem: A Case Study."

References 

1932 births
Scientists from New York City
American marine biologists
Living people
Olga Sorkine-Hornung. Olga Sorkine-Hornung (Hebrew: אולגה סורקין-הורנונג, Russian: Ольга Соркин-Хорнунг; born 1981)  is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. She has received multiple awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2011.

Personal life and career
Sorkine-Hornung was born in 1981 in the Soviet Union to a mother who is a mathematician and a Jewish father who is a physicist. They emigrated to Israel when she was twelve. She learnt the QBasic programming language when she was 13. She then studied math and computer science at Tel Aviv University graduating at the age of 19. She did her master's degree in parallel to her two-year military service, and completed her doctorate degree in 2006. Subsequently, she worked at Technische Universität Berlin as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, before being appointed to ETH Zurich in 2011 at the age of 30 as the youngest professor at the time, where she leads the Interactive Geometry Lab. Since 2018, Sorkine-Hornung is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

She is married to a computer scientist, and in 2015 they became parents of twins.

Awards
2024: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
2024: Test of Time Award at SIGGRAPH 2024
2023: Elected as member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
2022: Test of Time Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing
2021: Golden Owl (awarded for excellence in teaching at ETH Zurich)
2020: Fellow of the  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2017: Rössler Prize (accompanied by  in research funds)
2017: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
2016: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016
2015: Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award for libigl, a C++ geometry processing library
2015: Fellow of the Eurographics Associationlibrary
2014: Best Paper Award at Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2014
2013: Intel Early Career Faculty Award
2012: ERC Starting Grant
2012: Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich
2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
2008: EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award
2006-2008: Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship
2003: Excellence award, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
1999-2000: Dean’s List of Excellence, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University

References

Living people
1981 births
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academics from Moscow
2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Anne Davaille. Anne Davaille is a French geophysicist and director of research at the CNRS, France in the field of Earth Sciences.  Davaille is known for her innovative experiments using thermochemical convection in fluids to simulate the mantles of planets. She uses these experiments to analyze fluid mechanics that create a new understanding of convective regimes in Earth and other planets.

Education and career 

Anne Davaille states that her interest in Earth Science was sparked in her childhood by the project FAMOUS scientific exploration. Davaille graduated from ESPCI in 1988. She defended her PhD thesis, Thermal convection in a variable viscosity fluid. Applications to the Earth in 1991, under the supervision of Claude Jaupart at University Paris VI and IPGP.

Davaille is a director of research at the FAST laboratory (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) of the Université Paris-Sud. Her work focuses on the understanding of fluid mechanics in the mantle of planets, with an emphasis on laboratory experimentation. She has worked extensively on the physics of mantle plumes on Earth  as well as on other rocky planets.

Awards and honors 

Davaille is the recipient of the 2019 Augustus Love medal of the European Geosciences Union for her innovative experiments and analysis of fluid mechanics to understand convective regimes in the mantle and magmatic systems of the Earth and other planets.

In 2019 Anne Davaille was awarded the Augustus Love Medal of the European Geosciences Union “for her experiments and analysis of fluid mechanics to understand convective regimes in the mantle and magmatic systems of Earth and the solar system”. The Augustus Love Medal is “awarded to a distinguished scientist in the field of geodynamics, comprising mantle and core convection, tectonophysics, post-glacial rebound and Earth rotation.”

Research
As a Senior Researcher and Director of Research of the FAST lab at Paris-Sud University, Anne Davaille’s work is centered around fluid mechanics. Her research emphasizes unique laboratory experimentation through innovative and creative ideas. She has done extensive work on the physics of mantle plumes on Earth and other rocky planets (planetary dynamics). Her research has led to new interpretations for the origin of hot spots and superswells as well as isotopic anomalies within the Earth’s mantle.

Some of her highlighted work include studying the onset of small-scale convection beneath the lid of layers with strongly temperature dependent viscosity. Anne has also detailed the existence of a doming regime in fluids above a lower density layer at the base of mantles in rocky planets. She has also introduced new techniques to accurately measure temperatures, compositions, and velocities within fluid masses like that of the mantle Earth. Anne’s work with other rocky planets has contributed to a greater understanding of the onset of subduction on Venus.

References 

French women physicists
French geophysicists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
ESPCI Paris alumni
Marcy Zenobi-Wong. Marcy Zenobi-Wong is an American engineer and professor of Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She is known for her work in the field of Tissue Engineering.

Education and career
Zenobi-Wong completed her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a graduate degree at Stanford University. She completed her PhD on the role of mechanical forces in skeletal development in 1990. After this, she first worked for a year as a postdoc in the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, University of Michigan, before moving to the University of Bern as group leader Cartilage Biomechanics in 1992, where she habilitated in 2000. In 2003, she moved to ETH Zürich, first to the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, and later to the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, where she became an associate professor in 2017.

Work
Zenobi-Wong works in the area of tissue engineering, in particular for cartilage regeneration. She develops functional biomaterials which mimic the extracellular matrix. The biofabrication techniques used to develop these materials include electrospinning, casting, two-photon polymerization and bioprinting.

Zenobi-Wong holds four licensed patents in the fields of tissue engineering, tissue engineering techniques, and gene expression assays. She was one of the originators of the MSc Biomedical Engineering program at ETH Zürich, and developed several graduate level courses in tissue engineering and biomedical engineering. Zenobi-Wong currently serves as President of the Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine, and as secretary general of the International Society of Biofabrication.

References

External links
 ETH Zürich Department of Health Sciences and Technology - Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication Group
 

Living people
Biomaterials
Tissue engineering
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
1963 births
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American educators
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Stanford University alumni
American women engineers
American women academics
21st-century American women