omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Estelle Brachlianoff. Estelle Brachlianoff (born 26 July 1972) is a French businesswoman and has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Veolia since 1 July 2022. She is an engineer.

Early life and education 
Estelle Brachlianoff was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to a Bulgarian father and a French mother. Her mother, an engineer at Aérospatiale (which later became Airbus Group), instilled in her the belief that she should choose her own path and pursue her ambitions. As a child, she dreamt of becoming an astronaut or an astrophysicist.

After completing her preparatory classes for higher education, she gained admission to École polytechnique in 1992. She continued her studies at École nationale des ponts et chaussées, earning her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering & Public Management in 1997.

Career 
Estelle Brachlianoff started her career in 1998 as the head of the Val-d'Oise department, where she worked on infrastructure projects, within the Val-d’Oise region of Greater Paris. In 2002, she was appointed as a special advisor for the Greater Paris Île-de-France Prefecture, and was in charge of public transportation and urban planning.

In 2005, she joined Veolia Environmental Services in the waste solutions department as an advisor to the CEO. She served as the CEO of Veolia Environmental Services Cleaning and Multiservices from 2007, and CEO of Veolia Environmental Services Greater Paris region from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, Brachlianoff moved to the United Kingdom  to lead as the CEO of Veolia Environmental Services, UK region. In 2013, she was appointed as the CEO of the UK and Ireland zone, and to the management and executive committees.

In September 2018, she became COO of Veolia, and a member of the group’s management and executive committees.  On 10 January 2022, she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Veolia, succeeding Antoine Frérot. She took charge of her CEO duties on 1 July 2022.  During that time, Brachlianoff was only the third female at the helm of a Paris CAC 40 company, following Engie's Catherine MacGregor, and Christel Heydemann of Orange S.A..

She is an ardent proponent of the concepts, "circular economy" and "ecological transformation".

Other appointments
 President of the French Chamber of Great Britain, June 2016 to July 2018
 Non-Executive Director of Zodiac Aerospace, January 2016 - February 2018
 Non-Executive Director of Hermès, May 2019 - present
 Vice-Chairwoman of the French association of Enterprises for the Environment (EPE), 2022 - present

Awards and recognitions
 She was awarded the Knight of the National Order of Merit in 2014
 She was awarded the "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in 2020

Personal life
She is married, and a mother to a girl and a boy. Her passions include reading and contemporary dancing.

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1972 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Neuilly-sur-Seine
20th-century French engineers
French civil engineers
French women chief executives
École Polytechnique alumni
École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
Corps des ponts
Knights of the Legion of Honour
HNLMS Orion (1912). HNLMS Orion was a steamship of the Dienst der bebakening en kustverlichting. The ship was built in the Dutch East Indies and served as an inspection vessel (Dutch: inspectievaartuig). Later the ship was rebuilt and transferred to the Government Navy, which used it as a hydrographic survey vessel.

Design and construction
Orion was ordered in 1911 at the Marine Etablissement te Soerabaja in the Dutch East Indies. The ship was launched on 9 March 1912 and commissioned into the Dienst der bebakening en kustverlichting on 1 August 1912. The Dutch engineer R.G. Leegstra was responsible for the design of Orion. The cost of building Orion was estimated at 271.700 Dutch guilders.

Orion was frequently repaired throughout its career because of various defects.

Service history
In 1916 Orion was used to experiment with a different type of coal by testing if it could be used to power steam boilers.

Government Navy
On 1 October 1920 Orion was taken out of service of the Dienst der bebakening en kustverlichting  and rebuild at the Marine Etablissement te Soerabaja. After being rebuild the ship was transferred to the Government Navy and stationed in 1921 at Tandjong Priok.

In 1924 two ship's boats of the Orion collapsed near Koeaia Peudada.

In 1926 Orion was extensively repaired at the Droogdok Maatschappij Tandjong Priok.

In December 1929 Orion searched in the Java Sea for a reef that had been spotted a month earlier by a captain of the KPM. During the search the ship was joined by two Dornier Do J Wal flying boats.

In 1934 the commander of the Orion, Ph.A.C.Th. Knijff, was awarded the De Ruyter Medal for his service. Under his command a better waterway had been found near Samarinda and he successfully used a new method to do hydrographic research.

Second World War
At the start of the Second World War Orion had already been decommissioned and was used as a light ship at Balikpapan.

On 22 January 1942 Orion was sunk by the Dutch submarine K XVIII in the Bay of Balikpapan to make access to Balikpapan more difficult for the invading Japanese.

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Survey vessels of the Government Navy
Ships built in the Dutch East Indies
1912 ships
Marcus McCraven. Marcus McCraven (December 27, 1923 – May 5, 2021) was an electrical engineer, nuclear scientist, World War II veteran; revolutionary in the creation of nuclear weapons. He was a committee member on various high level projects.

Life and education 
Marcus R. McCraven was born on December 27, 1923, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Marcus and Buena McCraven. McCraven graduated from high school, and enrolled at Howard University. During his freshman year of college, McCraven was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II, serving as a supply clerk in the Army Engineering Regiment in Papua, New Guinea.

Career 
After McCraven's Army Engineering Regiment service, McCraven returned to Howard University and became an electrical engineer, working at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. Here McCraven became the project leader of the Nuclear Systems Branch. Later, McCraven moved to work at the University of California. McCraven was the only African American engineer on the team to test and build the hydrogen bomb as part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  He served as group leader of nuclear systems development with an expertise on diagnostics, being one of five workers to remain near Bikini Atoll during nuclear testing. He also worked with the California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as part of their research staff. 

Around the late 1960s, McCraven moved from California to Connecticut where he began to work at Phelps Dodge. Up until the early 1970s, he joined the United Illuminating Co. being the senior vice president of environmental engineering. 

In addition to his work in nuclear development, McCraven served as a trustee at Quinnipiac University, was former Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute Environmental Committee, and also served on the US Environmental Protection Agency National Air Pollution Control Techniques Advisory Committee and the Executive Science Advisory Committee. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Albertus Magnus College in 2011, ten years prior to his death. 

McCraven's story as a nuclear scientist working on the Hydrogen bomb was a part of the Emmy-nominated documentary, "No Barriers Too High."

Personal life and death 
McCraven married Marguerite McCraven and had three children of their own. McCraven died on May 5, 2021, at the age of 97.

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Wikipedia Student Program
1923 births
2021 deaths
People from Des Moines, Iowa
Howard University alumni
20th-century African-American scientists
21st-century African-American scientists
Circular fashion. Circular fashion is an application of circular economy to the fashion industry, where the life cycles of fashion products are extended. The aim is to create a closed-loop system where clothing items are designed, produced, used, and then recycled or repurposed in a way that minimizes waste and reduces the environmental impact of the fashion industry. It involves moving away from the traditional linear model of take-make-use-and-dispose towards a circular model of reduce-reuse-recycle-and-regenerate. This model not only helps in reducing environmental impact but also promotes economic growth through innovative business models and sustainable practices.

According to the definition of The European Parliament, this involves "sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible." As suggested by The European Commission report, circular fashion encompasses a range of practices and strategies such as designing clothes for longevity, using sustainable materials, implementing recycling programs, and promoting secondhand markets. It also involves reducing the environmental impact of the production process by using sustainable energy sources and reducing the use of chemicals and water. Garments used in circular fashion are designed for longevity and durability with eco-friendly materials to encourage longer lifespans and methods that minimize waste and environmental impact. 

Pioneering work and terminology on circular fashion, reached the mainstream through a 2017 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation titled "A New Textile Economy: Redesigning Fashion's Future". So far, the EU has been the main proponent for developing frameworks around circular fashion on a policy level, such as the Circular Economy Action Plan, part of the European Commission's "EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles," launched in March 2022.

References

Further reading 
 Can clothes ever be fully recycled?; BBC

Fashion industry
Environmental economics
Sustainable business
Clothing and the environment
Recycling
Reuse
2014 neologisms
1947–48 Lehigh Engineers men's ice hockey season. The 1947–48 Lehigh Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 5th season of play for the program. The Engineers represented Lehigh University and were coached by Charles W. Simmons in his 5th season.

Season
When Lehigh opened their season, they had agreed to participate in a 3-game tournament in Clinton, New York. Unfortunately, as most of the team were new additions who had only 4 practices to get used to one another, the Engineers performed rather poorly. After getting stomped by the hosts 3–17, the squad was throttled by Middlebury 0–22, setting numerous program records on both sides. While the results of the final match with Union were comparatively much better, the Dutchmen were very weak competition.

As if to drive the point home about just how much ground the Engineers had to make up, a further game with Hamilton shortly thereafter ended 0–15. In fact, Lehigh would be shutout in five consecutive games, an NCAA record (since broken), and would not score again until their meeting with Georgetown on February 14. After a further pair of lopsided losses, the Engineers played probably their best game of the season when they took on the Harrison Maple Leafs. While their comeback ultimately fell short, it was the closest the team came to a victory all year and showed that the offense did have some fight in them.

Roster

Standings

Schedule and results

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† Both Pennsylvania and Penn State fielded club teams at this time.

References

Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's ice hockey seasons
Lehigh
Lehigh
Lehigh
Humanitarian drone. Humanitarian drone refers to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for humanitarian purposes. The term is broadly used to describe the use of drones in disaster relief, search and rescue operations, medical deliveries, and environmental protection, among other applications.

In 2010, following the earthquake that struck Haiti, drones were used for the first time in a humanitarian context to help search for survivors and assess the extent of the damage. Since then, the use of drones in humanitarian settings has grown, particularly in response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

Applications 
Humanitarian drones are increasingly being used in disaster relief efforts to help search for survivors, assess the extent of the damage, and deliver aid and supplies to affected communities. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drones were used to assess the damage and locate people in need of assistance. In Nepal, following the 2015 earthquake, drones were used to create 3D maps of the affected areas, which helped aid organizations in their response efforts. Drones are also used in search and rescue operations to help locate missing persons in difficult-to-reach areas. In 2017, drones were used in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Texas to help locate people who were stranded by the flooding.

Drones are also being used to deliver medical supplies and equipment to remote areas where traditional transportation methods are limited or unavailable. In Rwanda, drones are being used to deliver blood and medical supplies to rural health clinics.

Challenges 
One of the biggest challenges is regulatory issues, as many countries have restrictions on the use of drones. Additionally, there are concerns around privacy and data protection, as well as the potential for drones to be misused, specially in the warfare context. Some other important questions about the humanitarian drones that have been address by academics, are the costs, political agendas, and ethical considerations involved in the use of drones for humanitarian purposes, and underscores the need for careful regulation and oversight of these technologies.

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Unmanned aerial vehicles
Anne-Christine Hladky. Anne-Christine Hladky-Hennion (born 1965) is a French researcher in acoustic metamaterials. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and scientific deputy director of the CNRS  (INSIS).

Education and career
Hladky is originally from Lille, where she was born in 1965. After earning a diploma in 1987 from the Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique in Lille, she continued her education at the Lille University of Science and Technology, where she earned a doctorate in 1990, in materials science. Her doctoral dissertation, Application de la méthode des éléments finis à la modélisation de structures périodiques utilisées en acoustique, was supervised by Jean-Noël Decarpigny.

She joined CNRS in 1992, and became a director of research in 2015.

Recognition
Hladky was the 1990 winner of the Young Researcher Prize of the French Acoustical Society. In 2018 she received the CNRS Silver Medal.

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1965 births
Living people
Scientists from Lille
French materials scientists
Women materials scientists and engineers
Metamaterials scientists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Acousticians
Momiki Tameike Dam. Momiki Tameike  is an earthfill dam located in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 1 km2. The dam impounds about 19  ha of land when full and can store 167 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1914.

See also
List of dams in Japan

References

Dams in Miyazaki Prefecture
Seiroku Tameike Dam. Seiroku Tameike  is an earthfill dam located in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 4.9 km2. The dam impounds about 9  ha of land when full and can store 907 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1959.

See also
List of dams in Japan
List of dams in Miyazaki Prefecture

References

Dams in Miyazaki Prefecture
Takanabe Bosai Dam. Takanabe Bosai Dam  is an earthfill dam located in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control and irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 13.4 km2. The dam impounds about 14  ha of land when full and can store 1194 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1968.

See also
List of dams in Japan

References

Dams in Miyazaki Prefecture
Krisp. Krisp (or Krisp Technologies Inc.) is an Armenian AI-based audio processing software company that offers real-time noise and voice suppression technology. The company was founded in 2017 in Yerevan, Armenia, by Davit Baghdasaryan and Artavazd Minasyan, and is based in Berkeley, California.

Krisp's main product is a software application that can remove background noises and voices from audio in real-time. The software uses machine learning algorithms to analyze the audio signal and separate the speech from background noise, allowing the speech to be output in clear, noise-free audio. This technology has a wide range of applications, including teleconferencing, remote work, podcasting, and video production.

The software can be used as a standalone application, or it can be integrated into existing audio applications such as Skype, Zoom, and Slack. This allows users to enjoy noise-free audio without having to switch between different applications. Additionally, the software can be trained to recognize specific types of noise, such as traffic noise or dog barking, which makes it more effective in suppressing noise in specific environments.

Krisp was on the list of Forbes’ America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies of 2020. Additionally, Krisp was on the TIME List of The 100 Best Inventions of 2020. It has also won two Webby Awards.

In July 2020, Discord added noise suppression into its mobile app using the Krisp audio-filtering technology.

References 

Software companies established in 2017
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Audio software
Conservative morphological anti-aliasing. Conservative morphological anti-aliasing (CMAA) is an antialiasing technique originally developed by Filip Strugar at Intel. CMAA is an image-based, post processing technique similar to that of morphological antialiasing.

CMAA uses 4 main steps which are image analysis for color discontinuities, locally dominant edge detection, simple shape handling, and lastly symmetrical long edge shape handling.

A couple of years after CMAA was introduced, Intel unveiled an updated version which they named CMAA2.

See also
 Multisample anti-aliasing
 Fast approximate anti-aliasing
 Temporal anti-aliasing
 Supersampling
 Spatial anti-aliasing

References

Image processing
Computer graphic artifacts
Anti-aliasing algorithms
Eagle 69. The Eagle 69, also known as the Eagle Mark 7, was an open-wheel race car developed and built by Dan Gurney's All American Racers team, designed to compete in USAC IndyCar racing, starting in the 1969 season. In its most powerful form, It was powered by a small-displacement turbocharged Ford V8 engine, capable of producing over .

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Open wheel racing cars
American Championship racing cars
Eagle racing cars
Viaduct Gardens. The Viaduct Gardens, initially marketed as the Viaduct Urban Garden, is an elevated park and garden in Leeds, England. The garden or park is located on top of the Grade II listed viaduct called Monk Bridge Viaduct, which is also sometimes used when referring to the gardens.

The park was completed in 2023, after it was converted from a disused railway viaduct. In 2024, it was shortlisted for Architects' Journal's annual award in the Landscape and Public Realm category.

Background
The Monk Bridge Viaduct on which the park is located was opened in 1884, providing the approach to the new Leeds Central railway station. British Rail opted to close two of Leeds’ three main railway stations in 1961 and concentrated all passenger traffic in Leeds railway station. Leeds Central was then demolished, eventually becoming the business district and public square, Wellington Place.

The viaduct was partly demolished, leaving around 200 meters of what would have been around half a kilometre long when the station was in use. Leeds's south is dotted with railway viaducts, both in use and abandoned. Following completion of New York City's High Line, a greenway was suggested on another viaduct, but construction is yet to start on that project. Meanwhile, a nearby developer purchased the much shorter Monk Bridge Viaduct, which has now become the Viaduct Urban Garden.

The design of the new Viaduct Garden was carried out by Ares Landscape Architects, alongside the adjacent residential development, The Junction.

Work on converting the viaduct began in 2022 and the first phase of the park opened in 2023, when it became the first elevated park in the county of Yorkshire.

Location
The garden is accessed to the west of Wellington Place, a public square in Leeds' west end. A new stairwell and lift were constructed on the end of the viaduct for access. Other access points are likely to be available in the future as nearby developments reach completion.

The Viaduct Gardens aren't to be confused with the Holbeck Viaduct Project, which is a much longer viaduct where proposals for over a decade have suggested the creation of a greenway running over a 1 mile in length.

The old railway station was located a few hundred meters from the current viaduct park as you look towards central Leeds, with the viaduct serving as the main entrance and exit to the terminus railway station.

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Urban public parks
Gardens in England
Parks in England
Lanthanum stearate. Lanthanum stearate is a metal-organic compound, a salt of lanthanum and stearic acid with the chemical formula . The compound is classified as a metallic soap, i.e. a metal derivative of a fatty acid.

Physical properties
The compound forms a white powder that is soluble in benzene.

Uses
Lanthanum stearate is mainly used as a nucleating agent for plastics degradation and heat stabilizer for PVC.

References

Stearates
Lanthanum compounds
Karel Hirman. Karel Hirman (born 1 June 1970) is a Slovak engineer, manager and politician. Since September 2022 he has served as the Economy minister of Slovakia.

Early life 
Hirman studied oil and gas extraction and transport at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and mining at the Technical University of Košice.

Professional career 
After graduation, Hirman worked as a journalist for the Czech Press Agency as well the Slovak Economic weekly Trend, covering the Commonwealth of Independent States and energy topics.

Since 2005, Herman managed several energy companies in Slovakia, including Košice public heating provider Tepláreň Košice, state-owned oil transportation company TRANSPETROL as well as nickel distributor ENERGY-METAL. 

Herman was in charge of implementation of a large-scale energy consumption optimization project funded by the European Investment Bank in the Prešov region. Between 2007 and 2014 he headed the energy department of the Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency. He is also a regular contributor to the outputs of the think tank Slovak Foreign Policy Association.

Political career 
Hirman served as an advisor to multiple politician, including the Foreign Affairs minister Miroslav Lajčák and the Prime Minister Iveta Radičová. He also advised the Christian Democratic Movement and the Progressive Slovakia parties on their energy policies. He also served in the team of Ivan Mikloš advising the Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Groysman.

Following the abdication of Richard Sulík, Hirman was included in the government as a Minister of the Economy on 13 September 2022.

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1970 births
Living people
Economy ministers of Slovakia
Slovak engineers
Drawing tower. A drawing tower produces a fine glass filament by drawing a glass preform. The tip of the preform is heated to melting temperature and then a strand of molten material is pulled downward.  Industrial drawing towers range in height from 30 to 45 meters.  A drawing tower is used in the production of optical fiber, for example for fiber-optic communication cables.  The preform is a multi-layered cylinder typically 20 cm in diameter, and 2 m long.

References

Fiber optics