omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
River Research Institute. The River Research Institute or RRI is an autonomous national research institute based in  Faridpur, Bangladesh. It is a statutory organization that carries out research and plans in water resource management.

History
The institute traces its origin to Bangladesh Water Development Board's Hydraulic Research Laboratory which was established in 1948. The institute was established 1977 under the water development board. In July 1990 it was made a national autonomous organisation. On 20 August 1991 it was separated from the board. It assists government agencies in the management of rivers and assess impact of development on the rivers.

References

Government agencies of Bangladesh
1973 establishments in Bangladesh
Research institutes in Bangladesh
Concha d'Ostra Sustainable Development Reserve. The Concha d'Ostra Sustainable Development Reserve () is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Location

The Concha d'Ostra Sustainable Development Reserve is in the municipality of Guarapari, Espírito Santo.
It has an area of .
The area is mainly covered by mangroves but also includes some coastal forest.
Economically important fauna are crustaceans and molluscs, and fish such as sea bass and mullet.
The proximity to the city of Guarapari makes it a challenge to manage the reserve and maintain its integrity.
During the closed season the capture, transport and marketing of crabs is prohibited, and surveillance by SEMA is increased.

History

The Concha d'Ostra Sustainable Development Reserve was originally created as an ecological station in 2003.
It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002.
It was recategorized as a sustainable development reserve by state law 8464 of March 2007.
The purpose is to protect the estuarine mangroves of the Bay of Guarapari, an important breeding area for several species of fish and crustaceans, while allowing the sustainable use of these natural resources by the traditional residents.

The management council was formed in October 2010.
In December 2012 IEMA and the municipality of Guarapari agreed on a R$2 million project to build physical barriers, wooden walkways and gardens in an effort to stem the constant invasions and illegal housing construction that was threatening the reserve.

Notes

Sources

Sustainable development reserves of Brazil
Protected areas of Espírito Santo
Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest
Environment of Espírito Santo
Zdeněk Sekera. Zdeněk Sekera (3 July 1905 – 1 January 1973) was a Czech scientist who in 1966 won the American Meteorological Society's Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal for atmospheric science for his research into the dynamics of the atmosphere. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1956 and 1960 in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics. He was professor of meteorology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

References 

1905 births
1973 deaths
Czechoslovak physicists
Charles University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Masaryk University alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
Lens Technology. Lens Technology () is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Hunan that engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of lens products. It produces and sells touch panel cover glass, touch sensor modules, and touch panel covers.

Lens Technology is a member of the Forbes 2000 list with a market cap of over $22 billion as of Jan 2021.

Its founder, Zhou Qunfei, is the world's richest woman whose fortune is self made.

It supplies glass for Apple's iPhones.

In December 2020, the company was reported to be using forced labor from Uyghur Muslims in their factories. Some workers were given the choice between working at a factory or being sent to a detention center.

References

Chinese companies established in 2003
Manufacturing companies based in Hunan
Companies based in Changsha
2003 in Changsha
Keith Henry. Keith Nicholas Henry FREng (born 3 March 1945) is a British businessman, and a former Chief Executive of National Power.

Early life
He was born in Iran. He attended the independent Bedford School. He gained a BSc degree in Civil Engineering in 1967. He gained an MSc in Foundation from the University of Birmingham in 1969.

Career

National Power
In 1995 he became Chief Executive of National Power. In 1996 he was given £628,000 in remuneration. National Power was headquartered in Swindon, and is essentially now known as RWE npower, being bought by RWE in 2000. In 1998 he received £859,000 in remuneration.

In 1997, National Power had 24% market share of the UK electricity market, employed 4,300 people, and generated 17GW in the UK and 7.5GW overseas. It operated 17 UK power plants. On 25 November 1998, National Power bought the supply business of Midlands Electricity (MEB), with 2.2m customers, for £180m.

On 27 April 1999 he was sacked as Chief Executive of National Power. Later that year in November 1999, it was announced that National Power would divided into two companies.

Personal life
He married Susan Horsburgh in 1974 in the Chiltern and Beaconsfield region of Buckinghamshire. They have two daughters. He lives in north Surrey on St George's Hill.

References

1945 births
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
British chief executives in the energy industry
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
People educated at Bedford School
Living people
Nanohole. Nanoholes are a class of nanostructured material consisting of nanoscale voids in a surface of a material. Not to be confused with nanofoam or nanoporous materials which support a network of voids permeating throughout the material (often in a disordered state), nanohole materials feature a regular hole pattern extending through a single surface. These can be thought of as the inverse of a nanopillar or nanowire structure.

Uses 
Nanohole structures have been used for a variety of applications, ranging from superlenses produced from a metal nanohole array, to structured photovoltaic devices used to improve carrier extraction, and light absorption.

Nanohole structures are also extensively utilized for the creation of photonic crystals, particularly for creating photonic crystal waveguides.

See also 

Nanoporous material
Nanopore
Nanostructures

References 

Nanotechnology
Photonics
Márta Rencz. Dr. Márta Rencz is an Electrical Engineer. She is a faculty member and former Head of Department at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Career 
She received an electrical engineering degree from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1973. A Doctor of Philosophy in Microelectronics followed in 1980 with a Ph.D in 1995. She focused on microelectronic CAD development work in her early career including network and thermal simulation programs, the CELLIB cell library management program and the CELLINEX layout extractor program. Her later research interests have included the thermal investigation of ICs and MEMS, thermal sensors, thermal testing, thermal simulation, thermal model generation, electro-thermal.

Rencz was a co-founder of Microelectronics Research and Development group Ltd. (MicReD) in 1997, a spin-off company created by herself and fellow researchers, Vladimír Székely and Andras Poppe of the Department of Electron Devices at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Rencz and Szekely led MicReD to develop the Thermal Transient Tester measurement T3Ster™ equipment in 2000 as part of the EU PROFIT project. T3Ster is used for high precision thermal characterization of semiconductor chip packages and power electronics. MicReD was acquired by Flomerics Limited in 2005, a UK based electronics cooling company. Flomerics itself was acquired by Mentor Graphics Corporation in 2008 and MicReD is now part of its Mechanical Analysis Division.

She has published research results in over 350 peer-reviewed papers, the most cited being referenced over 200 times. She has been actively involved in many European consortia (including TALENT, PROFIT, SE2A, JEMSIP, THERMINATOR, PATENT, NANOPACK, NANOTHERM, SMARTPOWER) together with several educational initiatives while sitting on several industry committees including that for THERMINIC since its formation in 1995. From 2003 to 2009 she served as the secretary of EDAA.

Awards 
She was the first woman to receive a doctorate honoris causa from the Tallinn University of Technology in 2013. She also received the ASME Allan Kraus Thermal Management Medal in 2015  for her contributions to the scientific and academic world of thermal transient testing, in particular, her work on thermal metrology including thermal test, characterization, and analysis of semiconductor devices and packages.

References 

1950 births
Living people
Hungarian electronics engineers
Academic staff of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor. The Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor () is a proposed ecological corridor connecting conservation units and indigenous territories in the north of the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.

Background

The first version of the Ecological Corridors of Tropical Forests of Brazil proposal was developed by a group of consultants at the request of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and presented in the first half of 1997.
Seven major corridors were proposed: the Central Amazon Ecological Corridor, Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor, South Amazon Ecological Corridor, South Amazon Ecotones Ecological Corridor, Western Amazon Ecological Corridor, Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor and Serra do Mar Ecological Corridor.
These corresponded to about 25% of the rainforests of Brazil.
Priority was given to the Central Amazon Corridor and the Central Atlantic Forest Corridor, which would test and develop the concepts for use with the subsequent corridors.

Proposed scope
The Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor was one of five Amazon region corridors identified.
It would cover the northern Amazon border with Colombia and Venezuela.
There would be six priority areas in three main Amazon ecoregions. 
The corridor was identified as being relatively intact, globally important for its biological distinction, and high priority on a regional scale.
The corridor would have an area of .

Conservation units would include the Amazonas National Forest,  Maracá Ecological Station, Pico da Neblina National Park and Roraima National Forest.
The proposal also included the Cubaté, Cuiari, Içana, Pari Cachoeira II, Piraiauara, Tarauacá I, Tarauacá II and Uruçu national forests.
However, these were among 11 national forests created by President José Sarney on 23 November 1989 and 9 March 1990 that were revoked by his successor President Fernando Collor de Mello on 5 September 1991. 
The forests had been created without considering the claims of the indigenous people.

Notes

Sources

Ecological corridors of Brazil
Amazon basin
Environment of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
Environment of Roraima
Guayana Highlands
Rio Negro (Amazon)
Museo delle Industrie e del Lavoro del Saronnese. The Museo delle Industrie e del Lavoro del Saronnese (literally Saronno Industries and Work Museum) in Saronno is a science and technology museum, displaying industrial heritage strictly related to the industries in the area of Saronno town, north of Milan. It was opened on 25 October 1998.

The museum is hosted inside a former railway workshop owned by Ferrovie Nord Milano, a regional railway company.

Collection 
The museum owns a large collection of industrial machines, mechanical parts, products, advertising, related to the vast complex of industrial plants working in Saronno, a little commercial town which developed a large manufacturing sector since the second half of 19th century. The collection includes items from metal-mechanic industries (i.e. Isotta Fraschini,  Caproni), food industry (Lazzaroni), electronics (Phonola), textiles, typography. The museum owns also a collection of items and railway stock from Ferrovie Nord Milano, including an electric locomotive, an EMU, a 1930-passenger car, a Saxby interlocking, Edmondson tickets: as far as 1942 the city hosted the large workshop of Ferrovie Nord Milano for steam locomotives maintenance.

External links 

 Official website

Science museums in Italy
Technology museums in Italy
Buildings and structures in the Province of Varese
Museums in Lombardy
Railway museums in Italy
Saronno
Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center. The Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center, Research & Development, abbreviated as OMIC R&D, is a research facility located in Scappoose, Oregon. OMIC R&D is a collaborative environment bringing together industry, higher education, and government in partnership to develop new tools, techniques, and technologies to address near-term manufacturing challenges through applied research and advanced technical training. OMIC R&D is modeled after the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC) with Boeing in Sheffield, England.

In 2017, the Oregon Legislature approved funding of $7.5 million to develop OMIC R&D. The facility officially launched following the signing of its initial Membership Agreement among industry and higher education partners in the second quarter of 2017. Between the 2016 and 2017 Legislative Sessions, OMIC R&D has received a total of $21.5 million in state funding.

Organization 
OMIC R&D is overseen by a Board of Governors made up of industry and higher education members. Operations are overseen by its host, the Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech), a public polytechnic university, which is also the building owner and landlord. OMIC R&D is managed by the executive director, Craig Campbell.

OMIC Research and Development Center 
Located in Columbia County, Oregon, OMIC R&D focuses on applied research and advanced manufacturing for industrial companies. It works with manufacturers, metals manufacturing suppliers, and higher education partners. University and company researchers work with undergraduate and graduate student assistants on problem sets defined by OMIC R&D's industry members. The 33,800 sq. ft. facility was bought in part by the $2.5 million in Oregon Lottery Revenue Bonds and a $1.7 million investment by the Oregon Institute of Technology. Oregon R&D has also received capital bond and operating funds from the Oregon Legislature and a $3 million grant from Commerce's Economic Development Administration. It has recurring funding from OMIC R&D membership dues at varying rates based on each member's participation level. Members include national and international corporations, as well as three Oregon universities: Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, and Portland State University. OMIC R&D is an anchor for innovation, enhancing the competitiveness of the metals manufacturing industry by serving companies of all sizes through an industry-driven collaborative, and providing a critical mass of workforce and innovation assets in the region, creating both an R&D and training partnership for advanced manufacturing in Oregon.

OMIC R&D Benefits 
OMIC R&D benefits include: three to five years of industry training for college and university students and incumbent workers; the creation of new technologies through integrated applied research; and growing and strengthening Oregon's manufacturing industries. OMIC R&D has the following partners:

References

Organizations based in Oregon
South Amazon Ecological Corridor. The South Amazon Ecological Corridor () is a proposed ecological corridor connecting conservation units and indigenous territories in the southeast of the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.

Background

The first version of the Ecological Corridors of Tropical Forests of Brazil proposal was developed by a group of consultants at the request of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and presented in the first half of 1997.
Seven major corridors were proposed: the Central Amazon Ecological Corridor, Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor, South Amazon Ecological Corridor, South Amazon Ecotones Ecological Corridor, Western Amazon Ecological Corridor, Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor and Serra do Mar Ecological Corridor.
These corresponded to about 25% of the rainforests of Brazil.
Priority was given to the Central Amazon Corridor and the Central Atlantic Forest Corridor, which would test and develop the concepts for use with the subsequent corridors.

Proposed scope
The South Amazon Ecological Corridor was one of five Amazon region corridors identified.
It included eight priority areas in three main Amazon ecoregions, and was identified as vulnerable, locally important, and moderate priority at a regional level in a 1994 Miami workshop.
The proposed corridor mostly lies in the state of Pará, but extends west into Amazonas and east across the north of Tocantins into Maranhão.
The corridor would have an area of .

Conservation units would include the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve, Urariá Sustainable Development Reserve, Xingu National Forest (now part of the Terra do Meio Ecological Station), Tapajós National Forest, Maués State Forest, Amazônia National Park, Itaituba II National Forest, Tapirapé-Aquiri National Forest, Gurupi Biological Reserve, Tapirapé Biological Reserve and Carajás National Forest.

Notes

Sources

Ecological corridors of Brazil
PRS Pilot One. The PRS Pilot One is a German single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Pilots Right Stuff (PRS) of Brannenburg. It is now out of production.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed as a simple and safe to fly DHV Level 1 glider. The models are each named for their relative size.

Variants
Pilot One S
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of , 56 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.8:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Pilot One M
Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of , 60 cells and the aspect ratio is 5:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Pilot One L
Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of , 60 cells and the aspect ratio is 5:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Pilot One XL
Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its  span wing has a wing area of , 64 cells and the aspect ratio is 5:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.

Specifications (Pilot One M)

See also
PRS Peak

References

Pilot One
Paragliders
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos. Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos is currently the Susan Dod Brown Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Princeton University.

Education and academic career
Prof. Panagiotopoulos received his undergraduate degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982 and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, both in Chemical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow in physical chemistry at the University of Oxford (1986–87) and a faculty member at Cornell University (1987–97) and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology of the University of Maryland (1997-2000).

Research
Research in the Panagiotopoulos group focuses on development and application of theoretical and computer simulation techniques for the study of properties of fluids and materials. Emphasis is on molecular-based models that explicitly represent the main interactions in a system. These models can be used to predict the behavior of materials at conditions inaccessible to experiment and to gain a fundamental understanding of the microscopic basis for observed macroscopic properties, utilizing large-scale numerical computations. The group emphasizes development of novel simulation algorithms for free energies and phase transitions. An example of such a methodology is Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo, which provides a direct way to obtain coexistence properties of fluids from a single simulation.

Publications and books
Prof. Panagiotopoulos is the author of more than 250 technical papers and of the undergraduate textbook Essential Thermodynamics: An undergraduate textbook for chemical engineers (2011).

Awards and achievements
He has received numerous awards and honors, including the AIChE Colburn Award, and the Prausnitz Award in applied chemical thermodynamics. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2004, as a Fellow to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, and as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 2014.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Princeton University faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Cornell University faculty
American physical chemists
Fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Pilots Right Stuff. Pilots Right Stuff (often called just PRS) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Brannenburg and founded by Hans Bausenwein. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.

The company was a division of Aerosport International, a company that acted mostly as a paraglider importer, representing manufacturers such as Paratech, Ozone Gliders and Sup'Air.

PRS seems to have been founded about 2000 and gone out of business in 2009. The company's aim was to build gliders for specific applications where market gaps were apparent, not to field a complete line of paragliders. As such the company did not establish a design team, but contracted design assistance as required, in particular from Ozone Gliders.

PRS's first glider was the PRS One, introduced in 2000 and designed with outside assistance. The Peak set new standards for a mountaineering descent glider and was followed by the Pilot One in production.

In 2003 the company was developing an advanced and competition glider design with light handling, to be capable of being flown from unprepared sites.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft built by PRS:
PRS One
PRS Peak
PRS Pilot One

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Paragliders
SC Scorpion. The SC Scorpion is a Ukrainian single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by SC Paragliding of Kharkiv. It is now out of production.

Design and development
The Scorpion was designed as an advanced cross country glider. The models are each named for their wing area in square metres.

Variants
Scorpion 22
Extra small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its wing has an area of , 67 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.5:1. The pilot weight range is .
Scorpion 25
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its wing has an area of , 67 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.5:1. The pilot weight range is .
Scorpion 27
Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its wing has an area of , 67 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.5:1. The pilot weight range is .
Scorpion 30
Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its wing has an area of , 67 cells and the aspect ratio is 5.5:1. The pilot weight range is .

Specifications (Scorpion 25)

See also
SC Discovery

References

Scorpion
Paragliders
SC Paragliding. SC Paragliding was a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer based in Kharkiv. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.

The company seems to have been founded in the early 2000s and gone out of business before 2016.

In 2002, the company had introduced two models of paragliders, with just one size each. A year later, in 2003, they had a line that included the Discovery in seven sizes including two sizes for two-place flight training and the Scorpion in four sizes.

Reviewer Noel Bertrand in 2003 noted that the company was one of very few in that year offering a paraglider design for sale under €1,000.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft built by SC:

SC Discovery
SC Scorpion

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Ukraine
Companies based in Kharkiv
Paragliders