omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jean-Paul Troadec. Jean-Paul Troadec (born October 14, 1948 in Saint-Renan, Finistère, France) is a French aerospace engineer and public servant. He is the former President of the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile, the country's aviation accident investigation bureau.

Biography 
Troadec graduated from École polytechnique (X 67) and École nationale de l'aviation civile (IAC 70) and started his career in 1972 as an engineer at the certification office of the Direction générale de l'aviation civile. In 1975, he became head of the "engine and research" department. In 1980, he moved to the "approval of equipment, pollution and noise measurements" department before becoming head of the Airbus engine and CFM56 department. From 1985 till 1993, he was head of the Service d'exploitation de la formation aéronautique. In 1993, he was appointed head of the air traffic department. Then, until 2002, he was head of the human resources department. In 2002, he joined the French government's Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing.

He was nominated President of the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile in 2009, succeeding Paul-Louis Arslanian.

Aeronautical qualifications 
 Military parachute licence
 Commercial pilot licence Instrument Rating (multi engine)

Awards 
 Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur
 Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite
 Médaille de l'Aéronautique

Bibliography 
 Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. ()

References 

French aerospace engineers
École Polytechnique alumni
École nationale de l'aviation civile alumni
Corps de l'aviation civile
Corps des ponts
1948 births
Living people
Aviation in France
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal
People from Saint-Renan
Commercial aviators
USNS Millinocket. USNS Millinocket (JHSV-3/T-EPF-3) (ex-Fortitude) is the third , which is operated by the United States Navys Military Sealift Command and was built in Mobile, Alabama.

Capabilities
The EPF can transport US Army and US Marine Corps company-sized units with their vehicles, or reconfigure to become a troop transport for an infantry battalion.

It has a flight deck for helicopter operations and a loading ramp that allows vehicles to quickly drive on and off the ship. The ramp is suitable for the types of austere piers and quay walls common in developing countries. EPF has a shallow draft (under ).

Construction and career 
On 30 May 2012, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced in Fall River, Massachusetts that the third Expeditionary Fast Transport, previously having been named Fortitude by the United States Army before the transfer of the EPF program to the Navy, would be named USNS Millinocket. Since the ship will be operated by the Military Sealift Command and not the United States Navy itself, it will carry the USNS designation and not USS. The ship is the second U.S. Navy vessel to be named Millinocket (after the town in Maine), the first being a freighter sunk by a U-boat in 1942.

The ship is laid down on 3 May 2012 and launched on 5 June 2013 by Austal USA. She was commissioned on 21 March 2014.

In 2016 Millinocket will transport items to test with Fort Worth the LCS expeditionary maintenance capability.

References

External links

Transports of the United States Navy
2013 ships
Spearhead-class Joint High Speed Vessels
Riccardo Betti. Riccardo Betti is the Robert L. McCrory professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. From 2004 to 2015, he also acted as the Director of the Fusion Science Center at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He received is Ph.D. from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) in 1992.  Prior to that he studied at the University of Rome (Italy), where he graduated with honors with a degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1987.

Honors and awards

Dr. Betti was the Chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics (November, 2014-October 2015).

His awards and recognitions include:

2024 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society "for pioneering the development of statistical modeling to predict, design, and analyze implosion experiments on the 30kJ OMEGA laser, achieving hot spot energy gains above unity and record Lawson triple products for direct-drive laser fusion."

2023 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics from the European Academy of Science "in recognition for his outstanding contributions to high temperature plasma physics with applications to nuclear fusion and for the development of the novel “shock ignition” approach to direct-drive inertial confinement fusion."

2020 Landau-Spitzer Award from the American and European Physical Societies for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics.

2012 recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest O. Lawrence Award for "a series of impactful theoretical discoveries in the physics of inertial confinement fusion including seminal transformative work on thermonuclear ignition, hydrodynamic instabilities and implosion dynamics, and the development of innovative approaches to ignition and energy gains."

2010 Leadership Award from Fusion Power Associates "for the leadership he has been providing to the U.S. and world inertial fusion efforts, including his contributions to the search for efficient methods of igniting fusion targets, contributions to the emerging field of high energy density physics, and his advisory role in the DOE's Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee."

2009, The Edward Teller Medal from the American Nuclear Society "for seminal contributions to the theory and understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities, implosion dynamics and thermonuclear ignition in inertial confinement fusion."

He has been a Fellow at the American Physical Society since 2001. In 2010, he was appointed to the Board of Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences. He was Vice Chair of the Fusion Energy Science Committee of the Department of Energy.

On October 29, 2009, Dr Betti gave a statement to the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment on the "Next Generation of Fusion Energy Research."

References

1963 births
Living people
Italian mechanical engineers
University of Rochester faculty
21st-century Italian engineers
20th-century Italian engineers
Fellows of the American Physical Society
GraphExeter. GraphExeter is a material consisting of a few graphene sheets with a layer of ferric chloride molecules in between each graphene sheet. It was created by The Centre for Graphene Science at the University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of Bath.

See also
Carbon nanotubes
Graphene nanoribbons
Graphene oxide paper

References

External links
 The Centre for Graphene Science, Universities of Exeter

Aromatic compounds
Graphene
Semiconductor materials
Roger Sommer (aviator). Roger Sommer (4 August 1877 in Pierrepont, France – 14 April 1965 at Sainte-Maxime) was a French aviator. Born to Alfred Sommer, a Belgian industrialist, Roger Sommer became involved with aviation from an early age. He broke the record for flight duration in 1909. 

In 1911, Sommer experimented with the effect of different weights on various aircraft's abilities. In February 1911, he made a return journey from Douzy to Romilly carrying five friends; two of the friends were perched on the skids of the aircraft. He then went on to fly with seven, eight, and eventually twelve passengers by 24 March of the same year. At the heaviest weight of , he was able to fly just under .

After this, Sommer began working on aircraft construction. He constructed 182 aircraft, making him a pioneer in the field. Sommer was a friend of Roland Garros. Sommer's company, named Sommer, is now a part of Sommer-Allibert. 

Roger Sommer was the father of former Formula One driver Raymond, and François and Pierre Sommer.

Patents 
 1910 UK patent 13005 (Elastic mountings / shock absorbers)

See also
 Sommer 1910 biplane

References 

1877 births
1965 deaths
People from Meurthe-et-Moselle
French aviation record holders
Amakinite. Amakinite (IMA symbol: Amk) is a semi transparent yellow-green hydroxide mineral belonging to the brucite group that was discovered in 1962. Its chemical formula is written as (Fe2+,Mg)(OH)2. It usually occurs in the form of splotchy, anhedral crystals forming within a group or structure in other minerals or rocks, such as kimberlite (occurring in diamond-rich eruptive pipe). Its composition is as follows:
 
 Magnesium   5.82%  Mg    9.66% MgO
 Manganese   6.58%  Mn    8.50% MnO
 Iron       46.84%  Fe   60.26% FeO
 Hydrogen    2.42%  H    21.58% 
 Oxygen     38.34%  O

Amakinite is slightly magnetic and was named for the Amakin Expedition, which prospected the diamond deposits of Yakutia in the Russian Far East.

References

 www.handbookofmineralogy.org
 webmineral.com
 www.mindat.org

Oxide minerals
Trigonal minerals
Minerals in space group 166
University of California Center for Hydrologic Modeling. The University of California Center for Hydrologic Modeling (UCCHM) is a campus-wide hydrologic modeling research center, located at the University of California, Irvine. The models and modeling frameworks developed at the center address the urgent environmental and health issues related to water availability, such as how water availability will change in response to external factors like global climate change, how water availability will change with diminishing snow and ice, and how the frequency of hydrologic extremes (flood and drought) will affect the state of California. The UCCHM team, made up of faculty, researchers and students, is working towards creating a state-of-the-art integrated model of California water resources that can influence and inform leaders of local, state and regional governments when making water management decisions.

Much of the center's research relies on data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). This data is used to follow changes in freshwater availability in aquifers and river basins, which allows the center to track groundwater depletion throughout California. Through GRACE satellite data, the UCCHM team has found evidence of global groundwater depletion.

The center was founded in 2009 by Director Jay Famiglietti. In addition to his position as director of the UCCHM, Famiglietti holds faculty appointments at the University of California, Irvine as a professor of earth system science and civil and environmental engineering. Famiglietti is a leader in the field of hydrology, and recently starred in the film, Last Call at the Oasis, a documentary about the global depletion of water resources. The center is partnered with +H2O and Freewaters, organizations focused on water sustainability on a global scale and universal access to clean drinking water.

References 

University of California, Irvine
Hydrology organizations
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident. The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier . The aircraft, pilot and weapon were never recovered.

The accident
On 5 December 1965, 31 days after Ticonderogas departure from U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines, the attack jet was pushed backwards over the side, off the number 2 elevator during a training exercise while being rolled from the number 2 hangar bay to the elevator. The pilot, Lieutenant (junior grade) Douglas M. Webster; the aircraft, Douglas A-4E BuNo 151022 of VA-56; and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered from the  depth. The accident was said to occur  from Kikai Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Ticonderoga had aboard Carrier Air Wing Five during this cruise, with two squadrons of Skyhawks. The lost aircraft was part of Attack Squadron 56 (VA-56); VA-144 was the other.

Number of weapons
Though most sources state that a single weapon was involved, a document from Los Alamos National Lab indicates that two weapons were involved.

Revelation
It was not until 1989 that the United States Department of Defense revealed the proximity of the lost one-megaton H-bomb to Japanese territory. The revelation inspired a diplomatic inquiry from Japan requesting details.

See also
 Broken Arrow (nuclear)
 List of military nuclear accidents

References

1965 in military history
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1965
Aviation accidents and incidents involving nuclear weapons
Cold War military history of the United States
1965 in Japan
United States Navy in the 20th century
Philippine Sea
Japan–United States relations
December 1965 events in Asia
Henryk Ruder. Henryk Ruder was a Polish engineer, a long-time head and member of Warsaw-based Road Network Planning Bureau and member of the board of the "Autostrady Polskie" think-tank. A specialist in road and motorway network development, he co-authored the plan of Polish motorways network, most notably the location of A1, A2 and A4. He authored numerous works on road construction and development. In 1998 Ruder was posthumously awarded with Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta.

References

Polish engineers
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
Chamber of Computer Engineers of Turkey. Chamber of Computer Engineers of Turkey (, abbreviated BMO) was founded on 2 June 2012.

Formerly, the computer engineers in Turkey were the members of  Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey. But, on 9 March 2011 computer engineers decided to form their own chamber. The regulatory board announced that each year about 6,500 new CS engineers (including related undergraduate studies) graduate from the universities. During the general assembly of Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects (UCTEA) on the 2 June 2012, the request was approved. The chamber has become the 24th member of the union - UCTEA.

References

Engineering societies based in Turkey
2012 establishments in Turkey
Organizations established in 2012
Computer engineering
Visakan Kadirkamanathan. Visakan Kadirkamanathan (born 1962) is a professor of Signal and Information Processing at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is director of the Rolls-Royce supported University Technology Centre in Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering and is a founding member of the University Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems. From April 2009 to August 2014, he was Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. He is known for his contribution to the field of statistical signal processing applied to system identification, signal estimation, and fault detection. Kadirkamanathan is the Co-editor of International Journal of Systems Science.

Education and career
Kadirkamanathan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He is one of six children. He completed his school education in Jaffna at St John's College Jaffna before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue an engineering education. He received his graduate degree in Electrical and Information Sciences and Ph.D. in Information Engineering, both from the Cambridge University, at Christ's College.  He joined University of Sheffield in 1993 as lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. He was subsequently promoted to senior lecturer, then reader, and finally professor in 2007. From April 2009 to August 2014, he served as the Head of Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering.

Kadirkamanathan's primary area of research is in the field of signal and information processing, including signal estimation and fault detection. He also works in the area of autonomous systems and swarm intelligence.

Selected books
S. G. Fabri and V. Kadirkamanathan, Functional Adaptive Control: An Intelligent Systems Approach, Springer, 2001. 
V. Kadirkamanathan, G. Sanguinetti, M. Girolami, and M. Niranjan, Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 4th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2009, Sheffield, UK, September 7–9, 2009, Proceedings, Springer.

References

External links

Living people
People from Jaffna
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of the University of Sheffield
Artificial intelligence researchers
Systems engineers
Alumni of St. John's College, Jaffna
Sri Lankan academics
Sri Lankan Tamil people
Sri Lankan engineers
1962 births
Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Kingdom
Eagle EA-100. The  Eagle EA-100 is an American light-sport aircraft that was designed and produced by Eagle Aviation LLC of Oshkosh, Wisconsin and introduced in 2008. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The company website expired in March 2013 and was not renewed. It is likely that the company is out of business and production has ended.

Design and development
The EA-100 was designed to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed by two vertical-hinged doors, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from aluminum sheet. Its  span wing has an area of  and features electrically operated flaps. The standard engine is the  Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant while the standard propeller is a Sensenich composite ground adjustable type.

Operational history
By August 2019 two examples had been registered with the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (version)

References

External links

Light-sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mechanical pest control. Mechanical pest control is the management and control of pests using physical means such as fences, barriers or electronic wires. It includes also weeding and change of temperature to control pests. Many farmers at the moment are trying to find sustainable ways to remove pests without harming the ecosystem.

Methods

Handpicking
The use of human hands to remove harmful insects or other toxic material is often the most common action by gardeners. It is also classified as the most direct and the quickest way to remove clearly visible pests.  However, it also has equal disadvantages as it must be performed before damage to the plant has been done and before the key development of insects.

Mechanical traps
Mechanical traps or physical attractants are used in three main ways: to efficiently trap insects, to kill them or to estimate how many insects are there in the total landmass using sampling method. However, some traps are expensive to produce and can end up benefiting insects rather than harming them.

Differences from integrated pest control
Integrated pest control refers to the use of any means to control pests once they reach unacceptable levels. Mechanical pest control is but a minor part of integrated pest control. It means only the use of physical means to control pests.

See also
 Biological pest control
 Kaolin spray

References

External list
 Further Information

Pest control techniques
Sam Aircraft Sam LS. The Sam Aircraft Sam LS is a Canadian aircraft design, designed and produced by Sam Aircraft, formerly known as Haim Aviation of Lachute, Quebec. The aircraft was designed for the Canadian AULA and American light-sport aircraft rules and had its first flight on 26 February 2013.

Design and development
The Sam LS is a low-wing, tandem seat monoplane. It can be configured for conventional or tricycle landing gear. The fuselage is semi monocoque, with a welded 4130 steel tube protective cockpit cage structure and aluminum skin. Three different wing planforms for light-sport, STOL and amateur-built categories can be installed to a common fuselage. The aircraft can be flown open cockpit with the canopy removed.

Prior to its first flight a prototype was shown at the 2012 EAA airshow.

As of June 2013 the aircraft was on Transport Canada's list of accepted advanced ultralights, but has not completed US Federal Aviation Administration special light-sport aircraft approval.

In July 2013 pricing was announced for kits and sub-kits, including wings, fuselage and empennage. In a break from normal industry practice the company said that it would offer those three sub-kits for a total that was the same as if they were ordered as a single kit, US$29,000. The complete kit with a  Rotax 912ULS engine and Dynon Skyview avionics was forecast to cost US$65,000 at that time, taking a factory-estimated 900 hours to complete.

By August 2014 the company was up for sale as SAM Aircraft President Thierry Zibi indicated that he would rather develop new designs than run a production operation. Zibi was hoping to find a buyer to produce the aircraft. In November 2015 the rights to the design, parts, jigs, molds, data and the prototype aircraft were being all offered for US$100,000.

In January 2016 Zenith Aircraft announced that it had purchased the Sam design and was planning to produce kits alongside the existing Chris Heintz designs.

Specifications (Sam LS)

See also

References

External links

Low-wing aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2013
2000s Canadian sport aircraft
Land reclamation in the United Arab Emirates. Major land reclamation in the United Arab Emirates, though a relatively recent phenomenon, has significantly changed the geography of some parts of the country. Multiple land reclamation projects, both completed, under construction, and planned, have changed the appearance of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and other emirates.

History

Abu Dhabi

One reclamation method used in Abu Dhabi is filling in low-lying coastal flats. Several industrial areas have been built in these areas. Yas Island, Al Reem Island, and Al Lulu Island are a few examples.

Ajman

There have been proposals to reclaim land from the sea in Ajman. However, many have been rejected due to environmental concerns.

Dubai

It was created to boost the tourism industry creating a complex society and a great place for tourists to rest (Happy 2001). Land reclamation in the emirate of Dubai has made it one of the most recognizable areas in the world. Dubai is perhaps most well known for land reclamation projects such as the Palm Islands, the World Islands, the Dubai Marina, and the Burj Al Arab. Most major land reclamation projects in Dubai have occurred in the past fifteen years, and the Burj Al Arab hotel, which is built on a man-made island, was started in 1994 and completed in 1999.

Ras Al Khaimah

The emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has also joined the race to build new land reclamation projects. Such projects include Al Marjan Island and its Real Madrid Resort Island.

Geography

The Palm Islands are located off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf and will add 520 kilometers of non-public beaches to the city of Dubai.

Projects

 The World Islands
 Burj Al Arab
 Palm Jumeirah
 Palm Jebel Ali
 Palm Deira
 Al Marjan Island
 Yas Island
 Al Reem Island
 The Universe Islands
 Port Rashid

Issues
There have been numerous environmental and economic concerns regarding the various land reclamation projects in the UAE. For example, extraction of rock and sand harms local environments and wildlife such as birds.

See also
 Geography of Dubai
 Palm islands
 The World Islands
 Developments in Dubai
 Land reclamation
 Land reclamation in Hong Kong
 Land reclamation in Monaco
 Land reclamation in the Netherlands
 Land reclamation in Bahrain
 Land reclamation in Singapore

References

Coastal engineering
Geography of the United Arab Emirates
Land reclamation