omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
HMCS Max Bernays. HMCS Max Bernays (AOPV 432) is the third  for the Royal Canadian Navy. The class was derived from the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship project as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy and is primarily designed for the patrol and support of Canada's Arctic regions.

Design and description 
The s are designed for use in the Arctic regions of Canada for patrol and support within Canada's exclusive economic zone. The vessel is  long overall with a beam of . The ship has a displacement of . The ship has an enclosed foredeck that protects machinery and work spaces from Arctic climates. The vessel is powered by a diesel-electric system composed of four  MAN 6L32/44CR four-stroke medium-speed diesel generators and two electric propulsion motors rated at  driving two shafts. Max Bernays is capable of  in open water and  in  first-year sea ice. The ship is also equipped with a bow thruster to aid during manoeuvres and docking procedures without requiring tugboat assistance. The ship has a range of  and an endurance of 120 days. Max Bernays is equipped with fin stabilizers to decrease roll in open water, which can be retracted during icebreaking.

Max Bernays is able to deploy with multiple payloads, including shipping containers, underwater survey equipment or landing craft. Payload operations are aided by a  crane for loading and unloading. The ship is equipped with a vehicle bay which can hold pickup trucks, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.  The ship also has two  multi-role rescue boats capable of over . The ship is armed with one BAE Mk 38  gun and two M2 Browning machine guns. The patrol ship has an onboard hangar and flight deck for helicopters up to the size of a Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone. Max Bernays has a complement of 65 and accommodation for 85 or 87.

Construction and career
The patrol vessel's keel was laid down on 5 December 2018 by Irving Shipbuilding at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The ship was launched on 23 October 2021, and was delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy 2 September 2022.  The naming ceremony was conducted on 29 May 2022 in conjunction with that for sister ship . The ship began sea trials in July 2022. The ship was delivered to the RCN in September 2022 for post-acceptance trials and it was indicated that she would be the first vessel of her class to be based in the Pacific region, starting in 2023.

On 11 March 2024, Max Bernays left Halifax for its new homeport at Esquimalt, British Columbia, with Canadian Fleet Pacific. The vessel was commissioned on 3 May 2024 in the presence of Anne, Princess Royal. In mid 2024, Max Bernays took part in the multi-national exercise RIMPAC 2024 along with the supply ship  and the frigate .

References

2021 ships
Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessels
Ships built in Nova Scotia
HMCS Robert Hampton Gray. Robert Hampton Gray (AOPV 435) will be the sixth  for the Royal Canadian Navy. The class was derived from the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship project as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement and is primarily designed for the patrol and support of Canada's Arctic regions. It is expected to be the last naval AOPV to be built and will be followed by two more non-armed vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Design and construction 
The option to build the sixth ship in the series was taken up in November 2018 when the vessel was ordered. She is named for Royal Canadian Navy Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, the last Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II. The first steel for Robert Hampton Gray was cut in August 2022, starting ship construction. The keel was laid down on 21 August 2023 and the ship was launched in December 2024.

References

Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessels
Ships built in Nova Scotia
Niess 2-100. 

The Niess 2-100, was a civilian two-seat high-wing sport aircraft built in Brazil during 1952.

Design and development
It was developed and manufactured by Marc Niess, a Brazilian aeronautical engineer, while the certification tests for the Niess 1-80 were still underway. With a similar fuselage to its predecessor, it was distinguished by its tricycle landing gear and its negative-glare wings with forward-facing tips, which gave it advantages over stall. After some tests at the Parque Aeronáutico de São Paulo, some stability problems were noted, which were solved by increasing the rudder's vertical surface.

Operational history
The first prototype was sent to the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology in São José dos Campos, where it underwent further tests with pilots from the Brazilian Air Force, where it was approved. The National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil bought two airplanes, including the prototype. The first (PT-GLI) was deactivated after flying for five years.

Some years later, the second (PP-ZPE) was returned to Marc Niess, who took it to São Paulo, where it was stored until it was destroyed in an accident that occurred in the building it was in.

Specifications

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Notes

Bibliography

Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
1950s Brazilian sport aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1952
EMIC. EMIC may refer to:

 Central Emergency Operation Center, Taiwan
 Eagle Mountain International Church, Texas, United States
 Earth systems model of intermediate complexity, a class of climate models
 Emergency Maternity and Infant Care Program, a medical program set up under the New Deal in the United States
 Team EMIC, a racing team in the Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship

See also 
 Emic, a type of field research in the social sciences
Binoy Kumar Saikia. Binoy Kumar Saikia is a principal scientist at North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (NEIST), Assam, India. He is also the head of Coal & Energy Division of NEIST. His research interests span energy and environment in general and in particular chemistry and technology of coal, carbon and nano-materials, atmospheric aerosols, and air pollution. He has developed different chemical processes towards alternative applications of coal feedstocks leading to value addition and possibility for minimizing conventional coal combustion in the future. He has developed and patented, both in India and the US, a technology for the production of blue-fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Indian coal.

Saikia earned his MSc degree in inorganic chemistry from Gauhati University in 2001 and PhD degree from Dibrugarh University in 2008 for a thesis titled “Some aspects of the structural investigation of Assam coal”.

Honours and awards

The honours and awards conferred on Saikia include:

 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2021 for his contributions to earth, atmosphere, ocean and planetary sciences
 Prof (Dr) MP Singh Memorial Coal Science Award (2019) from the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI)
 IIME Coal Beneficiation Award (2015) by Indian Institute of Mineral Engineers
 MESA Award (2014) by Mineral Engineering Science Association of India
 Achiever Awards 2021 in Science and Innovation by Asomiya Pratidin
 Associate member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)
 Fellow of Geological Society of India (FGS)
 Member of International X-ray Absorption Society, Italy
 Member of Indian Science Congress Association
 'Assam Sourav' Award (2022) by the Government of Assam

References

External links

Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Golaghat district
Gauhati University alumni
Dibrugarh University alumni
Idra Group. Idra Group (Idra S.r.l.; originally Idra Presse S.p.A.) is a manufacturer of die casting machinery, founded in 1946 in Brescia, Italy.  The company is notable for producing the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world.

History 
The company was originally founded by Adamo Pasotti in 1944 or 1946 with the factory located on via Triumplina in Brescia.

By 1956, Idra was seeking to export its die-casting machines outside Italy.

By 1971, an Idra  machine was being used to cast motor components weighing  for Porsche cars.

In March 2024, Riccardo Ferrario retired as general manager of Idra, with the role being taken over by John Stokes.

Hot years 
During Italy's Years of Lead in the 1970s, Giovanni Maifredi worked at Idra as a warehouse worker, having been provided with a job without having any qualifications.
Following the Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia on 28 May 1974, Idra factory workers organised a fifteen-day strike action and picket line outside the Idra factory.

Original site 
The original factory site at via Triumplina 43 in the north of Brescia was developed into the Triumplina Retail Park, requiring construction of new roundabout junctions.

Ownership 

, Idra was 30% owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, with 70% of the remaining shares acquired by , a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

For the year 2015, Idra employed 161 people, and had a turnover of , with a profit of .

By 2016,  had acquired the remainder of the outstanding shares.

Development 

In 2000, Idra filed a patent application for die casting machine designed to produce two separate castings simultaneously from a single injection of liquid metal.

References

Further reading

External links 

 

Companies based in Brescia
Manufacturing companies established in 1946
Idra Group
Italian companies established in 1946
List of Kia electric vehicles. Kia electric vehicle may refer to one or more of the following electric vehicles produced by Korean automobile manufacturer Kia:

 EV3, 2024–present
 EV4, production version unveiled in 2025
 EV5, 2023–present
 EV6, 2021–present
 EV9, 2023–present
 Niro EV (e-Niro in Europe), 2018–present
 Ray EV, 2011–2018; 2023–present
 Soul EV (e-Soul in Europe), 2014–2023
1,4-Bis(trichloromethyl)benzene. 1,4-Bis(trichloromethyl)benzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H4(CCl3)2.  A white solid, it is prepared industrially by chlorination of para-xylene.  It reacts with terephthalic acid to give terephthaloyl chloride, a precursor to Kevlar. It also reacts with sulfur dioxide to give the same acid chloride and thionyl chloride. It reacts with hydrogen fluoride in 1,2-dichloroethane to form 1,4-bis(chlorodifluoromethyl)benzene in a yield of 79%.

See also
Benzotrichloride

References

Trichloromethyl compounds
Benzene derivatives
Lizardite. Lizardite is a mineral from the serpentine subgroup with formula , and the most common type of mineral in the subgroup.  It is also a member of the kaolinite-serpentine group.

Lizardite may form a solid-solution series with the nickel-bearing népouite (pure end-member: ). Intermediate compositions  are possible, with varying proportions of magnesium and nickel. However, the lizardite end-member is much more common than pure népouite, a relatively rare mineral most often formed by the alteration of ultramafic rocks.

Extremely fine-grained, scaly lizardite (also called orthoantigorite) comprises much of the serpentine present in serpentine marbles. It is triclinic, has one direction of perfect cleavage, and may be white, yellow or green. Lizardite is translucent and soft, and may be pseudomorphous after enstatite, olivine or pyroxene, in which case the name bastite is sometimes applied. Bastite may have a silky lustre.

Name 
Lizardite was named by Eric James William Whittaker and Jack Zussman in 1955 after the place it was first reported, the Lizard Peninsula, (from the ) in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. 

Scyelite is a synonym of lizardite.

Characteristics

Chemistry 
Antigorite and lizardite commonly coexist metastably; lizardite may also be able to turn into antigorite at over 350 degrees.

Lizardite contains H2O in excess of the nominal formula, as does chrysotile. It has a high amount of Fe2O3 and a low amount of FeO.

One study found that lizardite has a high amount of SiO2 and a low amount of Al2O3.

Formation 
Lizardite is commonly a result from the hydrothermal metamorphism or retrograde metamorphism of mafic minerals such as olivine, pyroxene or amphibole, in ultrabasic rocks.

Occurrence

Geological occurrence 
Lizardite is commonly found in ophiolite and is often intergrown with brucite. It is also found with magnetite and the other serpentine minerals.

Locations found

Canada 
As of 1989, only a single specimen of lizardite had been found in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec where it may occur in altered pegmatites.

United States 
Lizardite can be found in the United States. In Pennsylvania It was discovered in the 1960s. With it being the most abundant mineral in Nottingham County Park.

In Minnesota it can be found on the north shore of Lake Superior.

In Montana, the Stillwater igneous complex is a prominent location for the mineral.

United Kingdom 
Lizardite has a type locality at Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.

Scotland is a notable source of lizardite. Lizardite has been reported in Wales. At Holy Island, Anglesey lizardite has been found to be associated with antigorite.

South Africa 
In the Frank Smith mine located in South Africa, lizardite was the dominant serpentine mineral.

Orange lizardite has been found at the Wessels mine.

Other 
It can also be found in Japan, Italy, and Australia.

References

Serpentine group
Cicely Ridley. Elizabeth Cicely Ridley (née Taylor, September 26, 1927 – December 23, 2008) was a British-American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical quantum chemistry and in climate modeling. The Roble–Dickinson–Ridley code that she and her collaborators created at the National Center for Atmospheric Research was the first general circulation model of the thermosphere.

Life
Ridley was born in Leicester on September 26, 1927, the older of two sisters. She became head girl at the Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls, now incorporated into Regent College, Leicester, and went up to Newnham College, Cambridge on a scholarship in 1947. She earned a master's degree in physics in 1951, with first-class honours, in 1951, and remained at Cambridge as a doctoral student of Douglas Hartree, completing her Ph.D. in 1955. Her dissertation was Some Studies of Atomic Structure.

After finishing her doctorate, she became a researcher at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, at what is now the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus; her work there involved computing the electron configuration of uranium, and applied mathematician John P. Boyd has called her "a pathfinder in numerical quantum chemistry" for this work. Her husband, Brian Ward Ridley, also came to work at Harwell; they had four children beginning in 1957, and Ridley retired from her work in 1958 to become a housewife.

In 1964, Ridley and her family moved to Colorado, following her husband, who became a professor of physics at the University of Colorado. She joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1968, working for them on computer codes for climate modeling of both the Earth and Venus. Before 1972, when Margaret Anne LeMone joined NCAR, she was one of only three doctoral-level women researchers at NCAR, together with Joan Feynman and Sue Anne Bowling. It was in her work at NCAR that Ridley created the Roble–Dickinson–Ridley code for general circulation modeling of the thermosphere.

She retired in 1995, and died in Louisville, Colorado on December 23, 2008.

Selected publications

References

1927 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century British mathematicians
British women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
American climatologists
British climatologists
Scientists from Leicester
Women climatologists
21st-century American women
20th-century American women mathematicians
Railway node. A railway node is a location in a railway network where various routes intersect due to the presence of infrastructure or operational features. These features can range from simple junctions or crossings of rail routes, to stations, all the way to large nodes that span many switches and operational links. These links can also include connections to other modes of transport such as road, sea, or air. The function of the node is to maintain the flow of traffic by routing from the various connecting routes as quickly and efficiently as possible.

References

Rail transport
Weber W-151. 

The Weber W-151 was a light aircraft built by the Brazilian manufacturer Campanhia Nacional de Aviões.

Development
Willibald Weber began work on the W-151 in 1962, which flew for the first time in November 1962. The original plan was to build three prototypes. Although the aircraft was superior compared to the Cessna aircraft, series production was not started for cost reasons. 

The W-151 was a strutted shoulder-wing aircraft with conventional tailplane and non-retractable nose wheel landing gear. The aircraft was powered by a Continental IO-520C with 210 kW and was made entirely of metal. The enclosed cabin for up to six people could be entered through a door on the left side.

Specifications

References
Notes

Bibliography

Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
1960s Brazilian aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1962
1960s Brazilian civil utility aircraft
W-151
Volodymyr Nykyforov. Volodymyr Nykyforov is a Ukrainian biologist, ecologist and biotechnologist, Doctor of Science, Professor. He serves as first vice-rector of Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University.

Patents
 Method for biological wastewater treatment / Declaratory patent UA 63719 A. − Bul. № 1, 2004
 The method of obtaining biogas from blue-green algae / Declaratory patent UA 24106 U. − Bul. № 9, 2007
 Method of methane and fertilizer production / Utility model patent 104743 № u201509476. − Bul. № 3, 2016 
 Electromagnetic compatibility of electromechanical and biological systems / Certificate of registration of copyright for a work № 69235 from 19.12.2016
 A method for producing biogas from blue-green algae / Utility model patent 105896, № u201509295. − Bul. № 7, 2016
 Computer program «Automated thesaurus formation system based on online translation services» / Certificate of registration of copyright for a work № 66298 from 24.06.2016
 Method for extracting lipids from cyanobacterial biomass using a laser / Utility model patent 137244 № u201903571. − Bul. № 19, 2019

References 

Living people
Ukrainian ecologists
1964 births
Kathi Vidal. Katherine "Kathi" Kelly Vidal (born 1968) is an American intellectual property lawyer and former engineer who served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 2022 to 2024.

Education 
Vidal earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Binghamton University, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Syracuse University, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Career 
Vidal began her career as an engineer for General Electric and Lockheed Martin, working in the areas of artificial intelligence, software engineering, and circuitry. From 1996 to 1997, she served as a law clerk for Judge Alvin Anthony Schall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 1997 to 2017, she was a litigator at Fish & Richardson. From April 2017 to April 2022, she was the Silicon Valley managing partner and patent litigator at Winston & Strawn.

USPTO
On October 26, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Vidal to be the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). On December 1, 2021, a   hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On January 13, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 17–5 vote. On April 5, 2022, the United States Senate confirmed Vidal by voice vote. She was sworn in as the director of the USPTO on April 13, 2022, and was sworn in as under secretary on April 19, 2022.

On December 13, 2024, Vidal left the USPTO and rejoined the Winston & Strawn law firm.

References 

1968 births
Living people
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American women lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American women lawyers
Biden administration personnel
Binghamton University alumni
California lawyers
Intellectual property lawyers
Syracuse University alumni
Under Secretaries of Commerce for Intellectual Property
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
Iveco Vision. The Iveco Vision is an plug-in hybrid compact panel van concept revealed by Italian commercial vehicle manufacturer Iveco at the 2014 International Mobility Show Germany.

Overview
The Iveco Vision concept was revealed at International Mobility Show Germany on September 24, 2014 in Hanover, Germany. It is a 2-door (single sliding door on passenger side, one liftgate in the back) plug-in hybrid compact panel van designed to be an eco-friendly door-to-door delivery van.

In December 2015, the concept won the 2016 Europäischer Transportpreis für Nachhaltigkeit (European Transport Award for Sustainability).

Specifications

Technical specs
The Iveco Vision concept is powered by a hybrid engine and an electric motor.

Features
The Vision features a fully-automatic load management system, which uses sensors to identify objects and indicate where they should be placed inside the van. When an item is in its location, the system triggers a containment mechanism to hold it in place to prevent damage during delivery and improve space inside the vehicle.

Design
The van is finished in an electric blue paint and has plastic cladding on the side and bumpers. Also featured are LED headlights as well as other LED lights throughout the vehicle, see-through A pillars to eliminate blind spots, a glass roof, and a retractable step in the rear for easier cargo access.

References

Vans
Concept cars
Snapdragon 747. The Snapdragon 747 is a British trailerable sailboat that was designed by Thames Structural Plastics, a division of Thames Marine, as a cruiser and first built in 1964.

The Snapdragon 747 is a development of the Snapdragon 24, with a modified rig and a new skeg-mounted rudder design.

Production
The design was built by Thames Marine in the United Kingdom, starting in 1964, but it is now out of production. By 1976 over 350 boats had been completed.

Design

The Snapdragon 747 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and fixed twin keels or an optional fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard twin keels and  with the optional fin keel.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar YS 8 diesel engine for docking and manoeuvring.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee in the main cabin and an aft quarter berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the starboard side just aft of the bow cabin. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club, the Snapdragon, Mirage and Invaders Association.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Thames Structural Plastics
Sailboat types built by Thames Marine