omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 2009 by the American Chemical Society. Originally published monthly, the journal became biweekly in 2013 and weekly in 2015. The current editor-in-chief is  Xing Yi Ling (Nanyang Technological University). The journal covers research on advanced active and passive electronic/optical materials, coatings, colloids, biomaterials and bio-interfaces, polymers, hybrid and composite materials; and friction and wear.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: CAS, MEDLINE/PubMed, Current Contents, and Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 9.5.

See also
ACS Applied Energy Materials

References

External links
 

Applied Materials & Interfaces
Academic journals established in 2009
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Materials science journals
Amherst Villiers. Amherst Villiers (1900–1991) was an English automotive, aeronautical and astronautic engineer and portrait painter.
He designed a land speed record-breaking car for Malcolm Campbell, and developed the supercharged "Blower Bentley", driven by Henry Birkin and (in fiction) by James Bond.

Early life
Charles Amherst Villiers was born in London on 9 December 1900, the son of Ernest Amherst Villiers and the Hon. Elaine Augusta  Guest.

He was educated at Oundle School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Career
Villiers began his automotive career modifying Brescia Bugattis and supercharging a Vauxhall for racing driver Raymond Mays.
He designed the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird which Malcolm Campbell used to break the land speed record in 1927 with an average speed of 174.88 mph.

The 'Blower Bentley' was developed in 'Bentley Boy' Henry 'Tim' Birkin's workshop in 1929, using an Amherst Villiers supercharger bolted to the front of a Bentley 4½ Litre, to boost its maximum power in the production version to . The first of five racing specials was the Brooklands-designed Bentley Blower No.1, which had an output of . The Blower Bentley's never won a major race, but it set new lap records at Brooklands. Apart from the racing specials, fifty production blower Bentleys were built in order that the car could be entered at Le Mans.

In 1930 he bought from the Air Ministry one of the Gloster IV biplanes which had been used by the RAF High Speed Flight as practice machines for the Schneider Trophy. He was planning to install an unsupercharged geared Napier Lion racing engine and remove the floats for an attempt to break the world air speed record, but the plans did not come to fruition.

In 1936 Villiers developed a 120/130 hp four-cylinder aero engine, the Amherst Villiers Maya I (named after his wife).
The engine was first tested in a B.A. Eagle and later in Villiers' own Miles Whitney Straight, but did not go into production.

During the Second World War he served as a ferry pilot.

After the war he joined the "Brain drain" of scientists and engineers moving to the United States to work on the space programme. He became a portrait painter in New York, and his portraits of his friends Ian Fleming and Graham Hill hang in the National Portrait Gallery in London. In Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, Bond drives a 4.5-litre Bentley with the Amherst Villiers supercharger.

Personal life
Charles Amherst Villiers married, first, Maya de Lisle Adam.  After they were divorced he married Juanita Lorraine Brown.  Juanita Lorraine Brown Villiers and Charles Amherst Villiers had two children, Charles Churchill Villiers and Veronica Jane Villiers.

He died on 12 December 1991.

References

Bibliography

 Official Author Website

1900 births
1991 deaths
Amherst Villiers
People educated at Oundle School
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
British automobile designers
Land speed record people
Superchargers
Jerry L. Bona. Jerry Lloyd Bona (born February 5, 1945) is an American mathematician, known for his work in fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, and computational mathematics, and active in some other branches of pure and applied mathematics.  

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation. He is probably best known for his statement about equivalent statements of the Axiom of Choice: “The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the Well–ordering theorem is obviously false; and who can tell about Zorn’s Lemma?"

Jerry Bona has worked at University of Chicago, Pennsylvania State University, University of Texas at Austin and is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2013 he became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Quotes

This is a joke: although the three are all mathematically equivalent, many mathematicians find the axiom of choice to be intuitive, the well-ordering principle to be counterintuitive, and Zorn's lemma to be too complex for any intuition.

Selected publications
with S. M. Sun and Bing-Yu Zhang:

See also
Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation

References

External links
Jerry Bona Web-site at University of Illinois at Chicago.

1945 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Harvard University alumni
University of Chicago faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematicians from Arkansas
Eigencolloid. Eigencolloid is a term derived from the German language (eigen: own) and used to designate colloids made of pure phases, also known as intrinsic colloids.

Eigencolloids are metal oxyhydroxide colloids on the nanometer scale formed by aggregation of hydrolyzed metal ions. They are characterized by a very large specific surface area (up to 2000 m2/g) and a high reactivity. They hold promise for the development of new industrial catalysts.

Many such colloids are formed by the  hydrolysis of heavy metals cations or radionuclides, such as, for example, Tc(OH)4, Th(OH)4, U(OH)4, Pu(OH)4, or Am(OH)3.

The term 'eigencolloid' or 'intrinsic colloid', is often used in distinction to a pseudocolloid. A pseudocolloid is one in which elements (colloids or cations) become adsorbed onto pre-existing groundwater colloids due to their affinity to these colloids or to the hydrophobic properties of the dispersing medium.

In environmental chemistry, enhanced migration of heavy metal and radioactive metal contaminants in ground and surface waters is often facilitated by eigencolloid formation.

Actinide eigencolloids 
Eigencolloid formation occurs readily in groundwater upon storage of radioactive waste. Colloid-facilitated transport is a mechanism responsible for the mobilisation of radionuclides into the wider environment, causing radioactive contamination. This is a public health concern since elevated radioactivity in the environment is mutagenic and can lead to cancer.

Eigencolloids have been implicated in the long-range transport of plutonium on the Nevada Test Site.

See also
 Cations hydrolysis
 Colloid-facilitated transport

References

 

 

 Breynaert E. (2008). PhD Thesis. Catholic University of Leuven. Formation, stability and applications of eigencolloids of technetium.
 

 

Actinides
Colloids
Colloidal chemistry
Rasi Salai Dam. The Rasi Salai Dam (, , ) is a dam in Rasi Salai District, Sisaket Province, Thailand, constructed in 1992. It was constructed by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) with assistance from the World Bank ( the dam does not appear on EGAT's website.) The 17 m high dam was projected to cost 140 million baht. Its final cost was 871 million baht, not including compensation payments to affected residents.

Background
The Rasi Salai Dam was constructed by the Department of Energy Development and Promotion (DEDP) as part of the Khong-Chee-Mun Water Diversion Project. The project envisioned the building of 13 dams on the Chi and Mun Rivers over 42 years. It was thought that the diversion of water from the Mekong into the two rivers would end water shortages in northeastern Thailand. The entire diversion project was estimated to cost 228 billion baht. 

Villagers claim that DEDP did not release any information to the public before or during the dam's construction. DEDP claimed it was building a 4.5-metre rubber weir that would not raise water levels above the riverbank. In reality, the state agency was building a nine-metre concrete dam. No environmental assessment was ever conducted given that the DEDP claimed it was a small-scale project.  

Living River Siam, a Thai NGO, helped villagers document the effects of the dam on their lives. EGAT promised that the dam's waters would be used to irrigate local fields, but the dam flooded the ancient salt dome on which it was constructed. The result was non-potable brackish water that made nearby fields toxic to cultivation. Angry villagers occupied the dam site for two years and petitioned the government to close it down. The dam's gates were opened in 2000 pending a permanent resolution of the issue. The water management system decided upon involves opening the dam's gates for four months every year, June to September.

Compensation
After on-going demonstrations by villagers, in 2000 the DEDP paid compensation to private property owners only. Those who toiled on common land were not compensated. As a result of 18 demonstrations against the Rasi Salai Dam, the Chavalit government paid compensation to 1,154 of the 3,000 affected families. Squabbles over compensation divided families and communities.

In April 2019, almost 30 years after the dam's construction, the Royal Irrigation Department (RID), which took over the project from the Energy Ministry in 2002, agreed to make a final compensation payment of 600 million baht. RID will pay 32,000 baht per rai over the next two years to those impacted by the dam. From 1997 to 2017, up to 1.927 billion baht has been paid in compensation to farmers for 60,000 rai (9,600 hectares) of affected land. This final package will cover a remaining 8,469 rai (1,355 hectares) of land affected by the dam.

References

External links 

 Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) report (Thai)

Hydroelectric power stations in Thailand
Dams in Thailand
Dams completed in 1994
Energy infrastructure completed in 1994
1994 establishments in Thailand
Buildings and structures in Sisaket province
Colloid-facilitated transport. Colloid-facilitated transport designates a transport process by which colloidal particles serve as transport vector
of diverse contaminants in the surface water (sea water, lakes, rivers, fresh water bodies) and in underground water circulating in fissured rocks
(limestone, sandstone, granite, ...). The transport of colloidal particles in surface soils and in the ground can also occur, depending on the soil structure, soil compaction, and the particles size, but the importance of colloidal transport was only given sufficient attention during the 1980 years.
Radionuclides, heavy metals, and organic pollutants, easily sorb onto colloids suspended in water and that can easily act as contaminant carrier. 

Various types of colloids are recognised: inorganic colloids (clay particles, silicates, iron oxy-hydroxides, ...), organic colloids (humic and fulvic substances). When heavy metals or radionuclides form their own pure colloids, the term "Eigencolloid" is used to designate pure phases, e.g., Tc(OH)4, Th(OH)4, U(OH)4, Am(OH)3. Colloids have been suspected for the long range transport of plutonium on the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. They have been the subject of detailed studies for many years. However, the mobility of inorganic colloids is very low in compacted bentonites and in deep clay formations
because of the process of ultrafiltration occurring in dense clay membrane.
The question is less clear for small organic colloids often mixed in porewater with truly dissolved organic molecules.

See also

 Colloid
 Dispersion
 DLVO theory (from Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey and Overbeek)
 Double layer (electrode)
 Double layer (interfacial)
 Double layer forces
 Gouy-Chapman model
 Eigencolloid
 Electrical double layer (EDL)
 Flocculation
 Hydrosol
 Interface
 Interface and colloid science
 Nanoparticle
 Peptization (the inverse of flocculation)
 Sol (colloid)
 Sol-gel
 Streaming potential
 Suspension
 Zeta potential

References

External links
 Colloidal transport in porous media

 BELBar European project on the role of clay colloids in the transport of radionuclides for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste

Software programs for modeling colloid-facilitated transport
The Geochemist's Workbench
Hydrus

Actinides
Colloids
Colloidal chemistry
Transport by mode
Physical chemistry
David J. Brown (computer scientist). David James Brown (born 1957) is an American computer scientist. He was one of a small group at Stanford University that helped to develop the computer system that later became the foundational technology of Sun Microsystems, and  was a co-founder of Silicon Graphics.

Education
Brown received his primary and secondary school education in Delmar, New York, and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Electrical Engineering where he received a B.S.E. degree in 1979 and an M.S.E. under advisor Ruzena Bajcsy in 1980.

In 1984, Brown was introduced to David Wheeler, who invited him to join the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as a doctoral candidate. In October 1986, he matriculated at St John's College, University of Cambridge, England to pursue a Ph.D. degree. His dissertation introduced the concept of Unified Memory Architecture. This idea has subsequently been widely applied — such as by Intel in their processors and platform architecture of the late 1990s and onward.

Career
Brown became a member of the research staff in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 1981, where he worked on the SUN workstation research project with Andreas Bechtolsheim, prior to the establishment of Sun Microsystems.

In 1982, Brown was one of the group of the seven technical staff from Stanford (along with Kurt Akeley, Tom Davis, Rocky Rhodes, Mark Hannah, Mark Grossman, and Charles "Herb" Kuta) who joined Jim Clark to form Silicon Graphics.

Brown and Stephen R. Bourne formed the Workstation Systems Engineering group at Digital Equipment Corporation. Together they built the group responsible for the introduction of the DECstation line of computer systems.

In 1992, Brown joined Sun Microsystems. He helped to establish the process used for the company's system software architecture, and then went on to define the application binary interface for Solaris, Sun's principal system software product.
Later, Brown worked on Solaris's adoption of open-source software and practices, and then its technologies for energy-efficient computing.

In 1998, Brown was elected to the Council of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2003 became a founding editor of the ACM Queue magazine, producing several articles through 2010.

References

1957 births
Living people
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
American computer scientists
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Silicon Graphics people
Digital Equipment Corporation people
Sun Microsystems people
Solaris people
American magazine editors
Anhui Polytechnic University. Anhui Polytechnic University (AHPU; ) is a provincial public university in Wuhu, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Anhui Provincial Government.

The university provides programs in the fields of science and technology, engineering, management and economics.

History 
Anhui Polytechnic University (AHPU) is located in the national open city: Wuhu city in Anhui province, with an easy access to Nanjing (about 40 minutes by fast train) and Shanghai (about 2 and a half hours by fast train). AHPU is a provincial, multi-disciplinary university with strength in engineering and one of the universities for priority development in Anhui. The schooling can be traced back to 1935 when the Spanish Catholic Church founded Anhui Neisi Technical School, which, thereafter, renewed its name as Wuhu Electrical Motor Manufacture School, Wuhu Mechanical School, Anhui College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering , Anhui University of Technology & Science and Anhui Polytechnic University since 2010.

AHPU covers an area of 140 hectares ,with a total construction area over 500,000 square meters , a total asset for teaching and research equipment 258 million RMB and a collection of over 1.5 million books in the library. Its faculty totals approximately 1300, with over 1000 as full-time teachers, of which 85% have doctorate or master degrees. Besides, AHPU employs renowned scholars both at home and abroad as its guest professors, including academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and introduces some high-level talents, including “The Yangtze River Scholars”, to be its leading scientists of disciplines. Currently, with disciplines covering engineering, science, humanities, management, economy, law and arts etc., AHPU comprises 14 schools, offering 74 undergraduate programs, among which 14 are national or provincial featured programs, 15 are national or provincial comprehensive reform programs and 12 are national or provincial “Excellent Talents Programs”. AHPU runs the master programs in 12 major disciplines and 7 professional master programs ,of which 5 are in engineering fields. Nowadays, AHPU is jointly constructing “School of international engineers” with Wuhu municipal government and thus initiates a new talent cultivation pattern characterized by a combination of “Industry, School, Research and Application” and an integrity of “Internationalization, Engineering, Industrialization and Diversity”. AHPU has established partnership with about 20 renowned universities from USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan Region to carry out joint-education programs, talent cultivation and scientific researches.

References

External links
 Anhui Polytechnic University Official Website 

Universities and colleges in Anhui
Universities and colleges established in 1977
Universities and colleges established in 1935
1977 establishments in China
1935 establishments in China
Anhui Jianzhu University. Anhui Jianzhu University (AHJZU,  ) is a provincial public university in Hefei, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Anhui Provincial Government, and co-sponsored by the Anhui Provincial Government and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

The university has 14 teaching departments (schools), There are now 50 undergraduate majors, covering seven disciplines including engineering, management, science, art, literature, law, and economics.

History 
Anhui Jianzhu University was founded in 1958.

In September 1958, in support Anhui province, 324 teachers and students of Suzhou Construction Engineering School and four teachers from Shenyang Planned Economy School came to Hefei. Jointly with 179 teachers and students in the Cadre training class of the Anhui Provincial Construction Department, The Anhui Construction Engineering School was formed in DongChenGang of Hefei city.

In September 1960, The department of civil engineering of Hefei University of Technology was incorporated into the school, and the Anhui Institute of Architecture and Industry was founded.

In 1961, Anhui Institute of Architecture and Industry was revoked, Anhui Construction Engineering School was reserved.

In August 1964, Anhui Construction Engineering School moved to Lingdatang, Hefei. In 1971, The school moved to Jinzhai Road.

In March 1983, the construction branch of Hefei University of Technology was established.

On 30 December 1986, Anhui Institute of Architecture and Industry was restored.

In 2003, a new campus was built in the Hefei Economic & Technological Development Area (HETDA).

In 2013, Anhui Institute of Architecture and Industry was renamed Anhui Jianzhu University.

Schools
School of Architecture & Urban Planning
School of Arts
School of Civil Engineering
School of Continuing Education
School of Environment & Enengy Engineering  
School of Economics & Management
School of Electronic & Information Engineering
School of Foreign Languages
School of Materials & Chemical Engineering
School of Mathematics & Physics
School of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
School of Marxism
School of Public Administration

Research
AHJZU has eight provincial key disciplines, one national engineering laboratory, four provincial key laboratories, 10 national and provincial engineering (technology) research centers.

External links
 

Universities and colleges in Hefei
Universities and colleges established in 1958
1958 establishments in China
1958 in Hefei
Public Construction Commission. The Public Construction Commission (PCC; ) is an independent government agency of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) which is responsible for planning, reviewing, coordination, and supervision of public construction projects such as roads, bridges, highways in Taiwan. The agency follows national goals such as sustainability, high-quality, efficient, reliable and competitive national infrastructure.

History
The agency was established in 1995 to oversee public works in Taiwan.

Administrative structure
The agency is organized into the following departments.
Department of Planning
Department of Technology
Department of Technology Management
Secretariat
Personnel Office
Accounting Office
Legal Affairs Committee
Petitions and Appeals Committee
Complaint Review Board for Government Procurement
Engineering Technique Corroboration Committee 
Professional Engineers Disciplinary Retrial Committee
Central Procurement Supervision Unit
Congressional Liaison Unit
Private Participation Unit

Ministers

 Arthur Y. Chen (20 July 1995 – 8 June 1996)
 Ou Chin-der (8 June 1996 – 25 December 1998)
 Lee Chien-chung (25 December 1998 – 27 January 1999) (acting)
 Tsay Jaw-yang (27 January 1999 – 20 May 2000)
 Lin Neng-pai (20 May 2000 – 1 February 2002)
 Kuo Yao-chi (1 February 2002 – 15 January 2006)
 Wu Tze-cheng (15 January 2006 – 20 May 2008)
 Fan Liang-shiow (May 2008 – April 2011)
 Lee Hong-yuan (April 2011 – February 2012)
 Chern Jenn-chuan (February 2012 – 1 August 2013)
 Yan Jeou-rong (1 August 2013 – 21 October 2013) (acting)
 Chen Shi-shuenn (22 October 2013 – 30 June 2014)
 Hsu Chun-yat (1 July 2014 – 19 May 2016) 
 Wu Hong-mo (20 May 2016 – 23 November 2017)
 Wu Tze-cheng (23 November 2017 – 20 May 2024) 
 Chen Chin-te (20 May 2024 – incumbent)

See also
 Executive Yuan
 Transportation in Taiwan

References

External links

Public Construction Commission

1995 establishments in Taiwan
Executive Yuan
Government agencies established in 1995
Independent government agencies of Taiwan