omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area. The Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area (, formerly the Rio São Pedro de Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area) is a municipal environmental protection area in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Location

The Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area (APA Jaceruba) is in the northwest of the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, on the border with the municipalities of Miguel Pereira and Japeri.
It is in an inaccessible region adjoining the Tinguá Biological Reserve to the east.
It is accessed by RJ-119, a dirt road in poor condition.
It has an area of  about .
The APA contains remnants of Atlantic Forest.
Threats include deforestation, burning and irregular occupation.

History

Before the APA was created the area was used for hunting, capture of wild animals for sale and extraction of hearts of palm.
Restaurants by the roadside freely advertised the sale of bush meat.
The area was also under pressure from real estate speculators due to the expansion of the metropolitan arc of Rio de Janeiro.

The Rio São Pedro de Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area was created by municipal decree 6.492 of 6 June 2002.
On 5 November 2002 by municipal decree 6.547 it was renamed the APA Jaceruba (Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area).
Law 3.592 of 7 July 2004 confirmed creation of the APA with an area of about  with the purpose of protecting natural resources considered essential to the local residents, encouraging environmental education and preserving the natural landscape with emphasis on protection and preservation of the forests, springs and headwaters of the São Pedro River basin.

The APA is part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic, created in 2006.
On 20 January 2010 Maria Emilia Nascimento wrote to Carlos Minc, federal Minister of the Environment, asking for help in ensuring the safety of representatives of the APA on the council of the mosaic. They had been suffering from threats and attacks in the isolated APA.

Notes

Sources

 

Environmental protection areas of Brazil
Protected areas of Rio de Janeiro (state)
2002 establishments in Brazil
Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited. The Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) is a parastatal company whose primary purpose is to distribute electric power to domestic and commercial end-users in Uganda, at and below 33 kiloVolts. This role was sub-leased to Umeme for a 20-year concession that ends in 2025.

Location
The headquarters of UEDCL are on the sixth floor of UEDCL Towers, 37 Nakasero Road, Nakasero Hill, in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The coordinates of the company headquarters are 0°19'35.0"N, 32°34'38.0"E (Latitude:0.326390; Longitude:32.577222).

History
UEDCL was established in 2001 by an act of the Ugandan parliament following the break-up of the Uganda Electricity Board. In 2005, Umeme took over the majority of assets and responsibilities of UEDCL for a period of 20 years on a concessionary basis.

In 2018, the Natural Resources Committee of the Ugandan Parliament weighed the benefits and consequences of terminating that concession earlier than 2025. The committee was informed by Joseph Katera, the UEDCL managing director, that the government needed to invest at least US$100 million on an annual basis, to maintain on-going operations. Another US$330 million break-up fee would be due to Umeme at the time of premature termination.

Operations
During the period of the concession to Umeme, UEDCL has the following operations: (a) Monitor Umeme's adherence to the terms of the concession (b) Maintain and operate the off-grid power networks in the districts of Adjumani, Moroto and Moyo  and  (c) Supervise the completion of the grid-expansion projects that were under construction by the Rural Electrification Network, a sister government agency, at the time the Umeme concession was initialized (d) Maintain, operate, and manage the electric pole treatment plant at Lugogo in Central Kampala.

Governance
UEDCL is governed by a seven-person board of directors whose chairman is Francis Tumuheirwe. Other members of the board of directors include James Banabe Isingoma, Dr May Ssengendo, Habib Zaitun, Kalanguka Kayondho, Godfrey Turyahikayo & Christopher Mugisha. The Company's managing director is Paul Mwesigwa.

Developments
In February 2021, Ugandan online media reported that the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Uganda had cancelled the electricity distribution license of Bundibugyo Energy Cooperative Society (BECS), which had been responsible for energy distribution in Bundibugyo District. That license was immediately transferred to UEDCL. The affected distribution area includes Ntoroko District and parts of Kabarole District.

See also

Electricity Regulatory Authority
Energy in Uganda

References

External links
 UEDCL Homepage
 Electricity Firms Face Staffing Challenges As of 8 September 2015.

Energy companies of Uganda
Electric power infrastructure in Uganda
Electric power companies of Uganda
Energy companies established in 2001
Electric power distribution network operators
Government-owned companies of Uganda
2001 establishments in Uganda
Retardation time. Retardation is the delayed response to an applied force or stress, which can be described as "delay of the elasticity".

Ideal elastic materials show an immediate deformation after applying a jump-like stress, and an immediate reformation after removing the stress afterwards in the jump-like form again. For viscoelastic samples, this elastic behaviour occurs with a certain time delay.

The term "relaxation time" has been described. It is used in combination with tests presetting the strain (deformation) or strain rate (shear rate), e.g., when performing relaxation tests.

On the other hand, the term "retardation time" is used for tests when presetting the stress, e.g., when performing creep tests.

See also
 Creep-testing machine

References

Rheology
Crank-sided. Crank is a condition in which a ship (especially a sailing ship) heels abnormally, and recovers slowly under the action of the wind. If a ship makes long, slow rolls and takes time resuming a vertical position, it is referred to as crank, cranky, crank-sided, tender, or tender-sided. If the ship snaps back to its vertical position when heeled, it is called ʻstiff.ʼ Stiffness refers to a ship's power to stand up to her canvas, and will offer great resistance to inclination from the upright, when under sail. Although stiff is considered good in the case of many ships, there are extreme cases in which the vessel will be too stiff and resist the tendency to heel under wind pressure, which may cause damage to masts, rigging, and structure. According to Arthur Nelson, “most new Tudor ships were affected slightly on completion, one way or the other."

The reason a ship may be crank cannot be summarized as one precise, underlying cause, but rather as anything that may affect the relationship of the centre of buoyancy and the centre of gravity to each other; essentially, anything that affects the ship's stability.

The stability of a ship will at any moment depend:

on her external form and proportions
on her immediate comparative displacement and depth of immersion
on the momentary distribution of her weights, as affecting the position of her ʻcentre of gravityʼ

The summation of all the weights is an important aspect of the stability of a ship. Fixtures, fittings, masts, rigging, crew, ballast, etc., will affect a ship's stability based on their individual movements about the centreline of the ship. These weights will exert a downward force on the vertical centreline (imagining a line drawn through the centre of the ship and the metacentre is the point in the middle). The centre of the submerged part of the hull acts as an upward force on the vertical centreline, and so these two forces have to be balanced with the sea at the waterline of the ship when it is at rest.

By looking at the various weights, distributions and contributing factors that may effect its buoyancy, remedies can be attempted to solve what has affected the ship's stability. In the case of the Gresham Ship (1574), furring was the chosen method to solve its crankness.

References 

 Wagstaffe, Cate. 2010. Furring in the light of 16th century ship design. MA thesis, SDU: Esbjerg.

Ship design
Ecozone. An ecozone may refer to:

 Biogeographic realm,  the broadest biogeographic division of Earth's land surface (referred to as ecozone by BBC)
 Biome, a large collection of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat
 Bioregion,  an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a biogeographical realm, but larger than an ecoregion
 Ecoregion, an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion
 Ecozone (Canada), one of 15 first-level ecological land classifications in Canada

Biogeography
Quikwriting. Quikwriting is a continuous stylus-based text entry system which is an alternative to Graffiti.  It was developed by Ken Perlin at the NYU Media Research Lab and presented at the ACM UIST '98 conference.

Perlin described the technique as quicker than Graffiti however the learning curve was steeper with at most people taking an hour to become moderately effective.

The technique works by keeping the stylus continuously on the screen.  A method of using the system involves thinking of screen in terms of a flower with eight petals and a stamen.  Eight characters or punctuation are allocated to each petal and the stylus is moved from petal to petal via the stamen or directly to form words.  Eventually a user learns the shape for particular words and the process becomes quicker.

Quikwriting was reported by the Economist to have gain a small following on Palm PDAs and that by 2005 Microsoft had licensed the Quikwriting and were using it as part of the XNav project.

References

External links 
 

Pointing-device text input
Kali River Bridge. Kali River Bridge was constructed over the Kali river in the city of Karwar in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. It was built in 1983. The bridge connects the state of Karnataka with Goa by road. The Sadashivgad Fort of Sadashivgad is located next to this bridge..

See also

References

Bridges in Karnataka
Buildings and structures in Uttara Kannada district
Bridges completed in 1986
Transport in Uttara Kannada district
1986 establishments in Karnataka
20th-century architecture in India
Funke Opeke. Funke Opeke (born 1961 in Ile Oluji) is a Nigerian electrical engineer, founder of Main Street Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of Main One Cable Company, a communications services company based in Lagos State, south-western Nigeria.

Education and early life
Funke Opeke attended Queen's School in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

She grew up in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State, although, she is a native of Ile-Oluji, Ondo state. Born into a family of 9, her father was the first Nigerian director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria while her mother was a teacher.

Funke Opeke obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University and Columbia University, respectively. After she graduated from Columbia University, she followed with a career in ICT in the United States as an executive director with the wholesale division of Verizon in New York City. In 2005, she joined MTN Nigeria as chief technical officer (CTO). She served as adviser at Transcorp and chief operating officer of NITEL for a brief period.

MainOne Cable
After moving back to Nigeria, Funke Opeke started MainOne in 2008, when she noticed the poor internet connectivity in Nigeria. MainOne is West Africa's leading communication services and network solutions provider. The company built West Africa's first privately owned, open access 7,000-kilometer undersea high capacity cable submarine stretching from Portugal to West Africa with landings along the route in Accra (Ghana), Dakar (Senegal) in 2019, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) in 2019 and Lagos (Nigeria). Her desire to add value to her home country birthed Africa's biggest cable company. After pledging all her savings, facing more challenges of raising capital for the start-up cable business, carrying out in-depth foundational works, feasibility studies, business plans, and technical plans, Main One Cable Company become more tangible. In 2015, her company started operations of what is reputed to be Nigeria's largest Tier III Data Center, also extending a submarine cable from Lagos into Cameroon. Her achievements are a source of inspiration to many. Funke is the inventor of Mainstreet Technologies, the developer of MainOne cable, a leading provider in West Africa.

Awards
2012, CNBC All Africa Businesswoman of the Year2013, Africa's Most Powerful Women In Technology2018, Forbes list The World's Top 50 Women In Tech''
2022, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)

References

1961 births
Living people
21st-century Nigerian businesswomen
21st-century Nigerian businesspeople
Nigerian motivational speakers
Nigerian philanthropists
Nigerian women company founders
Nigerian expatriates in the United States
Obafemi Awolowo University alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
People from Ondo State
Businesspeople from Ibadan
Nigerian women chief executives
Nigerian chief executives
21st-century Nigerian scientists
21st-century Nigerian women engineers
21st-century Nigerian engineers
Officers of the Order of the Niger
İlhan Aksay. İlhan Arif Aksay (born 1944) is an American materials scientist. He is the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering and Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

In 2010, Aksay was elected into the National Academy of Engineering for advances in ceramic processing methods, biologically inspired materials processing, and field-induced layering of colloidal crystals.

Education and academic career
Aksay earned his B.Sc. (1967) in Ceramic Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and his M.Sc. (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Joseph Adam Pask. Prior to joining Princeton in 1992, his teaching and research affiliations included appointments at the University of Washington, Seattle (1983–92); University of California, Los Angeles (1981–83); the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1975–81); and Xerox Corporation, Webster Research Center, Webster, New York (1973–75).

Research
His research activities include the processing science of materials with emphasis on bio-inspired methods of self-assembly, thermodynamics and phase equilibria, diffusion and structural studies in ionic systems. His most recent work on functionalized graphene produced through thermal reduction of graphene oxide demonstrated many advantages in technologies ranging from nanocomposites to electrochemical devices for chemical sensing, energy harvesting, and energy storage.

Awards and achievements
Aksay is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, NAE (2010), the Science Academy, Turkey (2012), and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, NAI (2014). He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Ceramic Society, and an honorary member of the Materials Research Society - Japan. He received the Richard M. Fulrath (1987) and the Edward C. Henry (2000) Awards of the American Ceramic Society, the Charles M. A. Stine Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1997), and the Turkish National Medal of Science (Tübitak) (2001). In recognition of his research and efforts in promoting technology transfer, he was named the Puget Sound (Washington State) Engineering Council's 1988 Academic Engineer of the Year.

References

External links 
Complete list of publications
Examining materials through molecules and over millennia by John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications
Vefa Lisesi 

1944 births
Living people
American expatriates in Turkey
American materials scientists
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Ceramic Society
Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Princeton University faculty
Recipients of TÜBİTAK Science Award
Vefa High School alumni
Tucano State Forest. The Tucano Sustainable Yield State Forest () is a state forest in the state of Rondônia, Brazil.

Location

The Tucano Sustainable Yield State Forest is in the municipality of Cujubim, Rondônia.
It has an area of .
It adjoins the larger Mutum State Forest to the east.
The forest is in the north east of the state in the Machado River basin, at an altitude of about .
The soils are mostly red-yellow latosols.
The forest has a resident population.

History

The forest was originally one of the "blocks" of the 1984 Cujubim settlement project.
A management plan for the project's reserves was defined in 1996 in cooperation with the Plan Agropecuario y Forestal de Rondônia (Planafloro: Rondônia Agriculture and Forestry Plan).

The Tucano Sustainable Yield State Forest was created by state decree 7.603 of 8 October 1996 with an area of about .
The Secretaria de Estado do Desenvolvimento Ambiental (SEDAM) was given administrative responsibility.
The purpose was to provide a space for sustained production of renewable forest resources with natural regeneration, to ensure productive capacity of the forest with minimal alteration of ecosystems.
The forest is part of the Southern Amazon Mosaic, recognized in 2011.

Notes

Sources

State forests of Brazil
Protected areas of Rondônia
W. P. B. Ashton. Brigadier W. P. B. Ashton, MC, CBE, (1897–1981) was a British Army officer and mechanical engineer who served in Malaya during the Second World War. Papers relating to his service are held by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London.

Early life
W.P.B. Ashton was born in 1897. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree.

Career
Ashton served in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of the British Army during the Second World War and was deputy director of ordnance services (engineering), Malaya Command, 1941–1942. His report on ordnance engineering services in Malaya, 1941–1942, written in 1946, is held in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London. He was awarded the Military Cross.

He was an associate member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1953 New Year's Honours List.

See also
Commonwealth Ordnance Services in Malaya and Singapore
List of British generals and brigadiers

References

External links
King's College London research guides.

1897 births
1981 deaths
British Army personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Military Cross
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers officers
British mechanical engineers
Collections of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
British Army brigadiers
Jeffrey P. Freidberg. Jeffrey P. Freidberg was head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2003.  He is currently Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Emeritus) at MIT, and a collaborator at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He retired as associate director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and from his academic duties in 2011. He remained involved in the research activities of the PSFC Theory Group and wrote a new textbook on magnetohydrodynamics theory called Ideal MHD that was published in 2014 (a successor to his 1987 book Ideal Magnetohydronamics). He is also author of a book titled Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy first published in 2007, that was based on a series of course notes from MIT graduate courses on plasma physics and fusion energy.

He attended the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering) earning a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1961, a M.S. in electrophysics in 1962 and a Ph.D. in electrophysics in 1964.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American physicists
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Lior Ron (business executive). Lior Ron (born March 16, 1977) is an Israeli-born businessman. He served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1997 to 2004, before attending Stanford to pursue a MBA. In 2016 he co-founded Otto, a self-driving truck company, with Anthony Levandowski, Claire Delaunay and Don Burnette. Prior to Otto he was the Product Lead for Google Maps and then the Product Lead for Motorola Mobility, which was acquired by Google in 2011.

Early life and career
In 1994 Ron entered The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He graduated in 1997 and from there joined Israeli Army Intelligence where he served until 2004. He left the Israeli Army to attend The Stanford Graduate School of Business where he earned his MBA. Then in 2007 he joined Google as the Product Lead for Google Maps. According to The New York Times, “he also worked in the company’s Motorola mobile phone business for three years and then in its secretive robotics research effort.”

Recent career
In 2016 Ron left Google to found Otto, a company that makes self-driving kits to retrofit big rig trucks. Quoted in Wired, Ron said he left Google because he “felt an obligation to bring this technology to society sooner rather than later.” Otto launched in May, 2016 and was acquired by Uber in late July the same year. The Uber partnership allowed Ron and Otto the opportunity to develop a freight marketplace for truck drivers. In March 2018, Ron left Uber but returned in August 2018.

On May 18, 2017, Ron and Uber launched Uber Freight, an app for long-haul truck drivers. The Uber Freight app is "targeted towards vetted and approved drivers, who can browse for nearby available loads, see destination info, distance required and payment upfront and then tap to book."

Controversy
Ron co-founded Otto with Anthony Levandowski, who faces a lawsuit from Google's parent company Alphabet that alleges Levandowski stole trade secrets while working for Alphabet's self-driving car division before he and Ron co-founded Otto.

References

1977 births
Silicon Valley people
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Machine learning researchers
Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area
American technology company founders
Google employees
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni