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Dixie Garr. Dixie Tyran Garr (born 1956) is an American computer engineer who served as Vice President at Cisco Systems and Head of Software Engineering at Texas Instruments.

Early life and education 
Garr was born in Dubach, Louisiana. She was the youngest of her eight brothers and sisters, and graduated top of her class. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in computer science from Grambling State University in 1975. During her college degree she interned at General Motors. She was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked as a Hughes Aircraft Company Fellow. She earned a PhD in computer science and engineering, before joining Hughes Aircraft Company as an engineer.

Career 
Garr moved to Texas Instruments in 1981.

Garr worked at TI for almost twenty years. She held several leadership positions at TI, including advanced development manager, manager of the Information Technology group and manager of digital imaging. She was the first African-American Level 3 Director of software engineering at TI. At TI Garr launched a minority leadership program that included guest speakers, a sponsorship scheme and professional development for people from minoritised backgrounds. In 1997 Garr was named the "Black Engineer of the Year in Industry" by the council of engineering deans at historically black colleges and universities. She attended the Stanford University Executive Program. Garr returned to TI to lead the engineering teams working on programmes in defence and communications.

In 1998 Garr was recruited by Cisco Systems. At Cisco Garr led teams that looked after customer satisfaction and corporate quality.

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Geopolymer bonded wood composite. Geopolymer bonded wood composite (GWC) are similar and a green alternatives to cement bonded wood composites. These products are composed of geopolymer binder, wood fibers/ wood particles. Depending on the wood and geopolymer ratio in the material, the properties of the wood-geopolymer composite material vary.

Function
The main functions of wood in the composite material are weight reduction, reduction of thermal conductivity and the fixture function whereas the main functions of geopolymer are bonding of wood particles, improvement of fire resistance, providing mechanical strength, improvement of humidity resistance and protection against fungal and insect damages.

They serve similar functions and purposes like all other mineral bonded wood composites. The fact that the binder agent (geopolymer) are mostly produced from industrial residue and waste puts these materials at a greater advantage over other mineral bonded wood composites. However, most of the works under this topic remains at the research and development phase. Some of the core difficulties in production and commercialization of standardize product is the variation in the sources of the aluminosilicate binder and the cost involve in activating the binder. Currently, metakaolin binder remains as the one key source to produce or bind these products with huge variations in other sources of the binder such as slag, fly ash etc.

Uses
The inherent properties and the incorporation of wood fiber and particles in this composite, has made it possible to produce GWC building materials that are light weight and has a variety of uses due to its heat storage capacity, for example in areas of thermal insulation, fire and noise protection. The wood-geopolymer composite material in the building walls can serve as a microclimate regulator absorbing the moisture when the air humidity is high and returning the moisture when there is a low air humidity period, thus improving the hygrothermal comfort in the building.

Commercialization
Currently, there is no commercialization of these products. More research is still ongoing on these composite materials as to ascertain the properties and how best to utilize these materials.

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Oskar Painter. Oskar Painter is a Canadian born (1972) experimental physicist who works on nanoscale optics, nanomechanical devices, and superconducting qubits. He is the John G. Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics at Caltech. Since 2019, he is also Head of Quantum Hardware at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Painter received his PhD from Caltech in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Axel Scherer.  After graduation, Painter helped found Xponent Photonics along with Pete Sercel and Caltech colleagues Kerry Vahala and Amnon Yariv.  Painter joined the Caltech faculty in 2002, as an assistant professor of Applied Physics. In 2012, he became Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and was awarded a Humboldt Professorship in 2013. In 2014, he returned to Caltech.  Painter has also served as the co-director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute and co-PI of the Institute of Quantum Information and Matter during his time at Caltech.

Painter's research has covered many topics, including photonic crystals and silicon photonics, to solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum optomechanics. More recently, he has shifted his research towards superconducting quantum circuits, with a particular emphasis on hybrid circuit architectures involving the integration of optical and nanomechanical devices.

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Kira Radinsky. Kira Radinsky (; born July 28, 1986) is a Ukraine-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining.

Biography 
Radinsky gained recognition after being selected by the MIT Technology Review to the "35 Innovators Under 35" list.  Her work was described in the popular press as  predicting the first in 130 years outbreak of cholera in Cuba, based on the pattern identified by mining of 150 years of data from various sources: in poor countries, floods within a year after a drought often follow by a cholera outbreak.

While working on her Ph.D. she co-founded a company, SalesPredict, based on similar ideas, but with different algorithms (the intellectual property of her work belongs to Technion). It was acquired by eBay in 2016, where Kira Radinsky worked as chief scientist and the director of data science during 2016–2019.

Radinsky is a member of the World Economic Forum. In the year 2021, she was declared among its 'Young Global Leaders' to be part of the proactive multistakeholder community of the world’s next-generation leaders to inform and influence decision-making and mobilize transformation". 

Since the end of 2021, Radinsky also is the Chief Executive Officer at Diagnostic Robotics, Tel Aviv, which she co-founded in 2019. She is also a visiting professor at Technion teaching the applications of predictive data mining in medicine. She has co-authored over 10 patents and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.

Awards and recognition
 2016 selected as the "Woman of the Year" by Lady Globes  magazine.

2015 Included into the Forbes "30 under 30" young innovators and entrepreneurs list 

2013: Included into the MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" list

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External links

Kira Radinsky personal website

1986 births
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Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
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Sha Qinglin. Sha Qinglin (; May 7, 1930 – February 23, 2020) was a Chinese highway engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Biography
Sha was born in Yixing, Jiangsu, on May 7, 1930. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1951. In 1952 he graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree from  in 1957. After returning to China he worked in the Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport. He died of illness in Beijing, on February 23, 2020, aged 89.

Honors and awards
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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Jiang Yiyuan. Jiang Yiyuan (; November 17, 1928 – February 24, 2020) was a Chinese agricultural engineer and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He was a member of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery and Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering.

Biography
Jiang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, on November 17, 1928. His father was a merchant. He attended Zhengheng High School (). In 1946 he enrolled at the University of Nanking, where he graduated in 1950. After university, he was hired as a teacher at Northeast Agricultural University, where he successively served as lecturer, associate professor, and professor. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. In 1957, he was sent to the Soviet Union to study at , studying mechanical theory under M. H. Ledoshniev. In 1982, he became a senior visiting scholar at Michigan State University. He died of illness in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on  February 24, 2020, aged 91.

Honours and awards
 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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Hurel-Dubois Miles HDM.105. The Hurel-Dubois Miles HDM.105 was a transport aircraft fitted with very high aspect ratio wings for research purposes, building on research carried out with the Hurel-Dubois HD.10, and a stepping point to the planned production HDM.106 Caravan. The HDM.105/HDM.106 provided the starting point for the design of the Short SC.7 Skyvan.

Design and development
, a French aircraft designer, became a champion of very high aspect ratio wings in a bid to significantly reduce induced drag, similar to the "Davis wing" of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, but with much higher aspect ratios. After testing his wing design on the diminutive HD.10, Hurel was ready to progress to a full size transport aircraft, a joint venture between F.G. Miles Ltd. and , fitting a Miles Aerovan with a very high aspect ratio wing and carrying out comparison tests.

The HDM.105 utilised the fuselage, tail unit and engines from Miles Aerovan Mk.4 G-AOJF, fitted with a Hurel designed  span 20.5:1 aspect ratio wing of NACA laminar flow sections, supported on aerofoil section lifting struts. The wings were fitted with double-slotted flaps actuated by Miles electric actuators from the original Aerovan. Roll control was by differential ailerons and inter-connected upper-surface spoilers. With no room for fuel in the slender wings,  fuel tanks were fitted in the vertical undercarriage strut fairings.

Operational history
The HDM.105, with B-class registration G-35-3 (subsequently re-registered G-AHDM), was first flown on 31 March 1957 by I.A. Forbes, but was later damaged beyond repair in a landing accident at Shoreham on 28 June 1958 and dismantled.

Variants

HDM.106 Caravan
Following the successful testing of the HDM.105 the joint company H.D. et M (Aviation) Ltd, was established to exploit derivatives. The HDM.106 Caravan was to have been an all-metal transport aircraft, with  span wings, powered by 2x  Lycoming GO-480, 2x  Lycoming GSO-480B or 2x  Turbomeca Astazou I engines, but the HDM.106 did not progress beyond the drawing board with H.D.
et M (Aviation) Ltd.

The design for the HDM.106 was sold to Shorts who developed it into the very successful Short SC.7 Skyvan, but with a much reduced, moderately high, aspect ratio of 11:1.

HDM.107 Aerojeep
The H.D.M.107, known as the Aerojeep, was a military version of the HDM.106 to a STOL light transport requirement of the US Army, to be powered by two  Lycoming T53 turboprop engines.

HDM.108
An enlarged HDM.106 designed by Hurel-Dubois.

Miles M.111
The Miles M.111 was proposed as a light single-engined transport utilising the outer wings and struts of the HDM.105, powered by a single  Turbomeca Astazou turboprop engine.

Specifications (HDM.105)

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Limor Fix. Limor Fix is an Israeli electronic design automation engineer and executive,  senior principal engineer and director of academic programs and research at Intel. Her research interests include formal verification languages. 

She has Ph.D in computer science from Technion. After that she did post-doc research at the Cornell University. In 1994 she joined Intel in Israel.   Limor led the development of a new formal specification language, ForSpec, later donated by Intel to Accellera/IEEE.  ForSpec influenced the IEEE 1850-Property Specification Language standard. 

She is among the authors of the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits handbook.

Awards and recognition
2011: Marie Pistilli Award "... recognizes Dr. Fix's lengthy set of contributions to EDA, including the development of the ForSpec formal specification language, donated by Intel to Accellera and an important factor in the IEEE-1850 standard, and her work in the areas of SAT solvers and model checking for both hardware and distributed software systems".

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H.-S. Philip Wong. H.-S. Philip Wong (Chinese: 黃漢森, pinyin: huáng hàn sēn) is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell professor in the School of Engineering, He is professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Chinese-American electrical engineer whose career centers on nanotechnology, microelectronics, and semiconductor technology.

Biography
H.-S. Philip Wong completed his B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering at University of Hong Kong in 1982. He received his MS (1983) in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York, Stony Brook, and his PhD (1988) in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, under the tutelage of Professor Marvin H. White.

After completing his doctoral degree, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1988. At IBM, he held various positions from Research Staff Member to Senior Manager. He joined Stanford University as Professor of Electrical Engineering in September 2004.

In 2019, he received the IEEE Electron Devices Society J.J. Ebers Award, the Society’s highest honor to recognize outstanding technical contributions to the field of electron devices that have made a lasting impact.

In 2018, he took a leave of absence from Stanford to serve as Vice President of Corporate Research at TSMC (NYSE: TSM, Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2330), the largest semiconductor foundry in the world.

Other academic appointments
Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Visiting Chair Professor of Nanoelectronics
Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China: Honorary Professor
Peking University, Beijing, China: Visiting Professor
IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble, France: Chair of Excellence (Chaire d’Excellence de la Fondation Nanosciences)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong: Visiting Professor

Awards and honors

 2012, Honorary Doctorate Degree (Docteur Honoris Causa), Grenoble Institute of Technology (Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble), France 
 2001, Fellow, IEEE
 2019, IEEE Electron Devices Society, J. J. Ebers Award

Published
 H.-S. P. Wong and D. Akinwande, “Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics,” Cambridge University Press, 2011.  ().

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Thermoneutral voltage. In electrochemistry, a thermoneutral voltage is a voltage drop across an electrochemical cell which is sufficient not only to drive the cell reaction, but to also provide the heat necessary to maintain a constant temperature. For a reaction of the form

The thermoneutral voltage is given by

where  is the change in enthalpy and F is the Faraday constant.

Explanation

For a cell reaction characterized by the chemical equation:

at constant temperature and pressure, the thermodynamic voltage (minimum voltage required to drive the reaction) is given by the Nernst equation:

where  is the Gibbs energy and F is the Faraday constant. The standard thermodynamic voltage (i.e. at standard temperature and pressure) is given by:

and the Nernst equation can be used to calculate the standard potential at other conditions.

The cell reaction is generally endothermic: i.e. it will extract heat from its environment. The Gibbs energy calculation generally assumes an infinite thermal reservoir to maintain a constant temperature, but in a practical case, the reaction will cool the electrode interface and slow the reaction occurring there.

If the cell voltage is increased above the thermodynamic voltage, the product of that voltage and the current will generate heat, and if the voltage is such that the heat generated matches the heat required by the reaction to maintain a constant temperature, that voltage is called the "thermoneutral voltage". The rate of delivery of heat is equal to  where T is the temperature (the standard temperature, in this case) and dS/dt is the rate of entropy production in the cell. At the thermoneutral voltage, this rate will be zero, which indicates that the thermoneutral voltage may be calculated from the enthalpy.

An example 

For water at standard temperature (25 C) the net cell reaction may be written:

Using Gibbs potentials ( kJ/mol), the thermodynamic voltage at standard conditions is

 1.229 Volt (2 electrons needed to form H2(g))

Just as the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen generates heat, the reverse reaction generating hydrogen and oxygen will absorb heat. The thermoneutral voltage is (using  kJ/mol):

 1.481 Volts.

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Linda Zou. Linda Zou is a professor of Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering from Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Prof. Zou has received contribution to her work on nanotechnology to accelerate water condensation from the National University of Singapore and the University of Belgrade. Zou has developed a new aerosol material for use in cloud seeding: salt crystals coated in titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

The technique developed by Prof. Zou was used in the January 2020 Cloud Seeding experiment in the UAE.

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Allison Littlejohn. Allison Littlejohn, FHEA, is Professor of Learning Technology at University College London. She is a director of University College London's knowledge lab and an expert in learning sciences, specialising in professional and digital learning.

Education 
Littlejohn received her PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Chemistry in 1988. Her thesis was titled A Comparative Examination of the Mechanical Properties of Sodium Nitrate and Calcite and the Influence of Defects On Their Reactivity.

Career and research

Littlejohn was appointed as Professor within the School of Education and Dean of Learning and Teaching at the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow in April 2019. In November 2019 she was appointed director of University College London's knowledge lab.

Publications 
She has published on open-access learning, digital resources, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and Wikipedia editing within education:

 Allison Littlejohn and Carol Higgison, A guide for teachers (York: Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), 2003)
 
 
 Allison Littlejohnn and Anoush Margaryan, Technology-enhanced professional learning : processes, practices, and tools (New York: Routledge, 2013)
 Allison Littlejohn and Chris Pegler, Reusing open resources : learning in open networks for work, life and education (London: Routledge, 2015)
 
 Victoria Murphy, Allison Littlejohn, Bart C. Rienties, (2020) 'Social network analysis and activity theory: A symbiotic relationship', Dominik E. Froehlich, Martin Rehm, and Bart C. Rienties (eds.) Mixed methods social network analysis: Theories and methodologies in learning and education (London, United Kingdom: Routledge) pp. 113–125
 Vasudha Chaudhari, Victoria Murphy, and Allison Littlejohn, (2020) 'The Educational Intelligent Economy – Lifelong Learning – A vision for the future', Tavis D. Jules, and Florin D. Salajan (eds.) The Educational Intelligent Economy: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things in Education. International Perspectives on Education and Society (In Press), 38. Emerald, pp. 109–126
 
 Varga-Atkins, T, Sharpe, R, Bennett, S, Alexander, S and Littlejohn. (2021). The choices that connect uncertainty and sustainability: Student-centred agile decision-making approaches used by universities in Australia and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(16), pp. 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.649

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SS James Gunn. SS James Gunn was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after James Gunn, a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States senator from Georgia.

Construction
James Gunn was laid down on 6 April 1942, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 44, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; she was sponsored by Mrs. James Ross, the wife of Captain Ross, the manager of the Baltimore office for the ABS, and was launched on 8 June 1942.

History
She was allocated to Seas Shipping Co., Inc., on 24 June 1942. On 6 September 1949, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas. On 7 November 1969, she was sold for scrapping to Southern Scrap Material Co., Ltd. She was withdrawn from the fleet on 23 March 1970.

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