omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Healy (bioresonance device). The Healy is a pseudoscientific device that claims to function via bioresonance, designed by Marcus Schmieke and Nuno Nina. The device has been promoted via influencer marketing and multi-level marketing, while sellers make extreme healing claims without any proven benefits.

Description 
Energy medicine devices are a class of pseudoscientific devices that originated with the work of Royal Rife, claiming to work via transferring energy to a person's energy field. The Healy claims to work using electricity to find a user's "personalized frequencies", an idea that has no scientific backing or mechanism.

Criticism

Lack of scientific evidence 
Critics of the Healy device, such as David H. Gorski, have highlighted the lack of scientific rigor behind the machine. Gorski argues that there is no good evidence to support the claim that injured tissue takes on a “different vibrational characteristic.” He strongly criticizes the belief in a mystical “life energy” that does no work and is undetectable by scientific instruments.

Disclaimers and misleading claims 
Stephen Barrett has noted that many of Healy’s marketing materials carry disclaimers stating that “Healy and its applications are not acknowledged by orthodox medicine due to a lack of scientific proof in accordance with scientific standards.” However, Barrett points out that the claims for the Healy are not just unproven, but there is no logical reason to believe that the “frequencies” described are actual physical forces.

Marketing tactics 
The Healy has been criticized for its marketing tactics, particularly the use of influencer marketing and multi-level marketing schemes. These strategies have been seen as a way to promote the device despite its lack of proven benefits. The Office for Science and Society describes the Healy as a “triumph of marketing” due to its claims of using personalized frequencies, which make its claims “unfalsifiable.”

Placebo effect 
David R. Stukus, in an interview with Rolling Stone, commented that any research conducted by the company supporting Healy’s efficacy is likely the result of the placebo effect.

References 

Pseudoscience
Energy therapies
Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum. The Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located at Gilmer Municipal Airport in Gilmer, Texas.

History 
The museum was founded by Steve Dean, the owner of Dean Lumber Company, in 1994. The  museum hangar was originally built mainly to house the company's aircraft and provide an example of how its products could be used.

A T-37 was added to the museum in 2010. The following year, it planned to purchase an F-100F. In 2013, a L-26C that was used as an Air Force One was flown to the museum.

Exhibits 
Exhibits at the museum include a Link Trainer.

Collection 

 Aero Commander L-26C
 Beechcraft D18S
 Cessna T-37B Tweet
 de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth
 Great Lakes Sport Trainer
 North American T-6G Texan
 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser
 Stearman PT-17

Events 
The museum holds an annual Veterans Day airshow.

Programs 
The museum offers rides in three of its aircraft.

See also 
 List of aviation museums

References

External links 
 

Aerospace museums in Texas
Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory. The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, also known as ASO-S, is a satellite mission aimed at improving observations of solar activity. The satellite was launched using the CZ-2D rocket at 07:43:55 local time on October 9, 2022 (8 October 2022 at 23:43 UTC). The satellite is a part of the Kuafu project, and is also unofficially known as Kuafu-1 (夸父一号).

ASO-S was first proposed by the Chinese solar physics community in 2010 or 2011, and was formally approved by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. The mission is aimed at studying the Solar Magnetic Field, Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar flares.

The Chief Scientist is Weiqun Gan of the Purple Mountain Observatory, while the chief designer and the chief administrator are both associated with the , which is part of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Instruments

Source:

Full-Disc Vector Magnetograph (FMG); to observe the vector magnetic field of the sun's photosphere
Hard X-ray imager (HXI); to observe non-thermal physical processes in solar flares
The Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope (LST); to observe the formation and early evolution of coronal mass ejections

References

Astronomical observatories in China
Chinese space probes
SigmaPhi International Conference on Statistical Physics. The SigmaPhi International Conference on Statistical Physics is a triennial conference series on statistical physics organized by the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, chaired by Giorgio Kaniadakis. The conferences, which take place every three years in Greece, are an influential forum for discussing the foundations and theoretical aspects of classical, quantum, and relativistic statistical physics and thermodynamics, as well as their applications to physical and non-physical systems. The number of participants has increased recently, coming from 52 countries in the last conference. The esteemed SigmaPhi Prizes are presented during this conference, and numerous satellite workshops and special sessions are typically conducted alongside the main event.

The SigmaPhi Prize 

The SigmaPhi Prize was established in 2011 by the SigmaPhi Conference to recognize outstanding achievements in the field of statistical physics. The award ceremony takes place every three years at the beginning of the conference, and each awardee receives a certificate. This prize is primarily an honorary title and has so far been awarded to individuals of the highest scientific standing, including Ralf Metzler, David Mukamel, Stefano Ruffo, Itamar Procaccia, Eugene Stanley, Amnon Aharony, David K. Campbell, Hartmut Löwen, Chandan Dasgupta, Jürgen Kurths, Giorgio Parisi and John Michael Kosterlitz, the latter two being Nobel laureates.

Topics covered 

The SigmaPhi conference encompasses a diverse array of subjects, which are divided into three broad areas.

Area A: Foundations and Theoretical aspects 

This area explores the foundations and theoretical aspects of classical, quantum, and relativistic statistical physics and thermodynamics, including mathematical methods, formalism, rigorous results, and connections with high energy physics, string theory, mathematical statistics, and information theory.

Area B: Applications to Physical Systems 

This area covers applications in physical systems such as quantum systems, soft condensed matter, liquid crystals, plasmas, fluids, surfaces, interfaces, critical phenomena, and chemical reactions.

Area C: Applications to non-Physical Systems 

This area covers interdisciplinary applications in statistical physics, networks, biophysics, genomics, environment models, seismology, linguistics, econophysics, social systems, traffic flow, algorithmic problems, and complex systems.

References 

International conferences
Physics conferences
High Bridge, Mavesyn Ridware. High Bridge spans the River Trent between Mavesyn Ridware and Handsacre (near Lichfield) in Staffordshire, England.

Design
The bridge is a single cast-iron arch cast by the Coalbrookdale Company in Shropshire, famous for the Iron Bridge (the first substantial cast-iron bridge in the world). The same company had previously cast Potter's 1824 Chetwynd Bridge over the River Tame at nearby Alrewas.

The bridge has a span of . is  wide, and rises to  above the river. The arch is made from five ribs, themselves made up of seven segments bolted together. Each rib is  deep and  thick. Circular tie rods provide lateral support and the spandrels (the space between the top of the arch and the bridge deck) decorative X-shaped cross-bracing. The abutments are of rusticated ashlar and . The original iron parapet is no longer in place and the current version is more modern. The abutments sweep forward and terminate as semi-octagonal piers. They have a dentilled cornice (a protruding ledge with decoration on the underside) and are topped with large stone caps. On each riverbank, behind the bridge, is a flight of steps.

History
The bridge was completed in 1830. It was built by Joseph Potter, the county surveyor for Staffordshire, who had previously worked with Thomas Telford. It stood in largely its original condition until it was threatened by mining subsidence in 1982. The bridge was closed to traffic and the bridge was lightened by removing the road surface and parapets. Temporary concrete pillars were built in the river to support the bridge, then a steel arch was built underneath the cast iron to take its weight, after which the pillars were removed. A new bridge was built to the west to carry road traffic and High Bridge now carries pedestrians and cyclists only.

See also
Listed buildings in Mavesyn Ridware
Grade II* listed buildings in Lichfield (district)

References

Bibliography

Citations

Cast-iron arch bridges in England
Grade II* listed bridges in England
Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire
Bridges in Staffordshire
1830 establishments in England
Bridges completed in 1830
Lichfield District
Wanda Peters. Wanda Peters is an American administrator at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a member of the Senior Executive Service of the United States of America. She is currently the Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs in the Science Mission Directorate.

Personal life and education
Peters received both a Ph.D. in systems engineering and a master's degree in engineering management from George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from The Catholic University of America with a major in biomedical engineering in 1989. She is a graduate and Senior Executive Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 2023, she was awarded Catholic University's Alumni Achievement Award.

Her father was a mechanic in the United States Air Force and she has two brothers. She is married and has two daughters.

Career
In the 1980s, Peters worked at the Naval Research Laboratory as a research scientist. There, she worked in the chemistry division testing material sciences.

She started her career at NASA in January 1990 as a support contractor and converted into the government in 2005. At NASA, Peters worked at the directorate, division, and branch levels, with experience in the areas of program, project and business management, institutional operations, mechanical systems engineering, space technology development, and safety and mission assurance. Peters is a mentor and advocates for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace.

Presently, Peters serves as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs in the Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters. She is responsible for overseeing and assessing SMD's multi-billion dollar portfolio of over 100 missions. Previously, she served as the deputy director for Planning and Business Management in the Flight Projects Directorate (FPD) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, responsible for strategic planning, policy development, personnel management, and programmatic oversight of the FPD portfolio consisting of approximately 80 missions.

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Living people
George Washington University alumni
University System of Maryland alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Catholic University of America alumni
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Ben-Borujen water supply. Ben-Borujen water supply is an Iranian government project to supply 100 million cube meter of Zayanderud Dam water to the Borujen steel factory in Sefid Dasht with  tunnel. Its budget was more than 990 billion toman.

Background 

It was opened November 20, 2023. Iranian Ministry of Energy administration has approved this, yet it is criticized by people. Asriran called it the death blow to the dry river. The water transfer has effectively ended the water sharing by the 400 year old Sheikh Bahai scrolls. It was stopped by the previous government in 2020 for a full year. Several people were arrested for bribery in the approving project. Esfahan today called it crossing recline.

 The government has said they will replace the transferred water with future water project Kohrang 3 tunnel and also a proposed new dam by 2025, it received criticism also for being yet another false promise. Esfahan Today called out the governor saying the government does not allow women musicians in concert but does allow this. The project is in conflict with  that brings water in the opposite of it.

References

Water in Iran
Hamed Haddadi (computer scientist). Hamed Haddadi (, ) is the Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing in Imperial College London, a Fellow of UKRI, and the Chief Scientist at Brave Software, leading the Brave research team. He is known for establishing the field of Human-Data Interaction, a sub-field of HCI concerned with the issue of increasingly pervasive data collection and how this is opaque to end users of digital systems. He began the HDI Network, with subsequent adoption by BBC R&D for developing technologies that support digital rights in relation to personal data.

Education
Haddadi graduated from University College London with a BEng in 2003 and his PhD in 2008 for research into Internet topology and routing protocols supervised by Miguel Rio, Andrew Moore, and Richard Mortier.

During his undergraduate studies, Haddadi spent two summers at Sony Semiconductors working on ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Limited for Sony devices. During his PhD, he spent time working at Intel Research in Cambridge and the University of Adelaide.

Research and teaching

Haddadi is an editor of Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things published in 2021 by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The book draws on interdisciplinary research to delineate the challenges of building accountability into the Internet of Things and explores solutions for improving the state-of-the-art ranging from distributed data analytics to accountability and data protection by design.

At Imperial College London, Hamed teaches at the Department of Computing as well as the MSc in Security and Resilience course in the Institute for Security Science and Technology as a Security Science Fellow.

During his time as a postdoctoral researcher, Haddadi worked with the CHDI Foundation on a sheep model of Huntington's Disease, leading to the discovery of leadership and selfishness in sheep flocks.

Haddadi primarily researches privacy. security, and computer networking. In 2013, Haddadi co-authored the open source ACM SIGCOMM eBook on Recent Advances in Networking. In 2015 he established the Human-Data Interaction interest group.

Since 2021, Haddadi has been the Chief Scientist of Brave after a period there as a visiting professor. He publishes papers on the privacy risks of search engine advertising and new approaches to preventing tracking in web browsers. He also has been investigating the use of federated learning as an alternative to the advertising-driven economy.

See also
 Cha Meeyoung
 Pablo Rodriguez

References

External links 
 Personal website
 Imperial College London faculty page

Living people
British computer scientists
Academics of Imperial College London
1981 births
Basima Abdulrahman. Basima Abdulrahman (born 1986/1987) is a Kurdish Iraqi structural engineer and the founder of KESK (meaning Green in Kurdish), an Iraqi company specialized in eco-friendly architecture.

Early life and education 
Abdulrahman's parents moved to Baghdad, Iraq from southern Turkey; she was born in Iraq, and has both Turkish and Kurdish heritage. In 2006, the Iraqi conflict drove her family to relocate to the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As a result, Abdulrahman learned more about and became closer to her Kurdish heritage.

As a child, Abdulrahman's family encouraged her to become a doctor, but she disliked biology, instead preferring math and physics.

In 2011, Abdulrahman applied for a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States. Abdulrahman attended Auburn University in the United States, where she earned a master's degree in structural and civil engineering, graduating in 2014. She returned to the United States in 2016, where she completed a program by the US Green Building Council to become an accredited professional.

Career 
When she returned to Iraq in 2015, Abdulrahman initially worked as a structural engineer for the United Nations.

In 2017, Abdulrahman founded KESK Green Building Consulting, the first Iraqi company to focus on "green" architecture. It took Abdulrahman nine months before she was able to find her first client. KESK combines modern environmentally-friendly building techniques with ancient techniques, such as building dome-shaped homes from clay bricks. The company also seeks to provide alternative energy sources to communities, particularly solar energy, in response to Iraq's unstable power grid. The company was also founded in part to assist with reconstruction following the war against the Islamic State, which began in 2014. 

Abdulrahman also works for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization as a national consultant and project manager, and as vice curator for the Global Shapers Erbil Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.

Recognition 
In 2021, Abdulrahman was one of eight entrepreneurs who won the Cartier Women's Initiative Award, with Abdulrahman representing the "Middle East & North Africa" category. She received $100,000 in prize money.

In November 2023, Abdulrahman was named to the BBC's 100 Women list.

Personal life 
As of 2019, Abdulrahman is based in Erbil.

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1980s births
Living people
21st-century businesswomen
21st-century engineers
21st-century Iraqi people
21st-century Iraqi women
21st-century women engineers
Auburn University alumni
Iraqi businesspeople
Iraqi civil engineers
Iraqi environmentalists
Iraqi Kurdish people
Iraqi Kurdish women
Iraqi people of Turkish descent
People from Baghdad
People from Erbil
Structural engineers
Women environmentalists
National Laboratory of Scientific Computation (Brazil). The National Laboratory of Scientific Computation or the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC; Portuguese: Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) is a Brazilian institution for scientific research and technological development linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), specialized in scientific computing. It was created in 1980 and since 1988 it has been headquartered in the city of Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The institution is known for its participation in the arrival of the internet in Brazil in the 1980s, as a result of joint work with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). It is also known for the Santos Dumond Supercomputer, the largest in Latin America.

The institution has a postgraduate program (master's and doctor's degree) in computational modeling. Some of the laboratory's lines of research focus on interdisciplinary areas such as biosystems, bioinformatics, computational biology, atmosphere and oceans, environment, multiscale science, among others. In addition to its academic role, it participates in some processes related to meteorology, computer modeling and is used by some companies, such as Petrobras.

References 

1980 establishments in Brazil
Research institutes in Brazil
Science and technology in Brazil
Santos Dumont (supercomputer). Santos Dumont is a Brazilian supercomputer that in 2022 ranked 178th on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest computers. It is housed in the state of Rio de Janeiro, at the base of the National Laboratory of Scientific Computation (LNCC) in Petrópolis. It has a capacity of 5.1 petaflops.

History and impact 
The supercomputer was developed in France and acquired by the Brazilian government in 2015 for R$50 million. When the machine arrived at LNCC in 2015, it took the position of the largest computer in Latin America. In 2019, it underwent an upgrade, increasing its processing capacity from 1.1 to 5.1 petaflops. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it assisted researchers in sequencing the coronavirus.  a new upgrade was planned for 2024, boosting its capacity to 23 petaflops.

Since its installation in 2016, it has contributed to the publication of over 900 articles in scientific journals, 42 books and chapters, over 300 theses and dissertations, and generated 11 patents.

Access 
The machine is available to Brazilian public or private institutions to support teaching, research, and development activities. Any researcher affiliated with a Brazilian institution can submit proposals to use its computational resources.  256 projects were using Santos Dumont, with over two thousand active users, running an average of about 200 simultaneous applications daily.

References 

Buildings and structures in Petrópolis
Petascale computers
Science and technology in Brazil
Lucia Specia. Lucia Specia is a British computer scientist, professor of natural language processing at Imperial College London and Chief Scientist at Contex.ai. She holds a joint position in language engineering at the University of Sheffield. Her research investigates data-driven approaches to natural language processing (NLP).

Early life and education 
Specia earned her PhD in computer science at the University of São Paulo in 2007 supervised by  from the Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC).

Research and career 
After earning her PhD, Specia moved to Xerox Research Centre Europe, where she worked as a research engineer. In 2010 Specia joined the University of Wolverhampton as a senior lecturer. She moved to the University of Sheffield in 2012, and Imperial College London in 2018. She took up a joint appointment at the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University.

Specia specialises in natural language processing using multi-modal input data, quality estimations in machine learning and the intersection of language and vision. She developed QuEst, an open source software tool used for quality estimation for machine translation. Specia was awarded an Amazon Research Award in 2016, using which she investigated the quality of machine translation for product reviews. In 2016 Specia was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to use multi-modal information as an input for machine learning algorithms.

Select publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of São Paulo alumni
Academics of Imperial College London
British women computer scientists