omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
National Infrastructure Pipeline. The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is a group of social and economic infrastructure projects in India over a period of five years with an initial sanctioned amount of . The pipeline was first made public by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi during his 2019 Independence Day speech.

Real time data and details related to NIP can be found online at the India Investment Grid website which was launched in August 2020.

Task force report 
The task force headed by Atanu Chakraborty, the economic affairs secretary in the finance ministry, on National Infrastructure Pipeline, in May 2020, submitted its final report to the Finance Minister. Important recommendations and observations made:

 Investment needed:  over the next five years (2020-2025) to build infrastructure projects and drive economic growth.
 Energy, roads, railways and urban projects are estimated to account for the bulk of projects (around 70%). 
 The Centre (39 percent) and state (40 percent) are expected to have an almost equal share in implementing the projects, while the private sector has 21 percent share. Aggressive push towards asset sales.
 Monetisation of infrastructure assets. Setting up of development finance institutions. 
 Strengthening the municipal bond market.

The task force has recommended setting up of the following three committees: Committee to monitor NIP progress and eliminate delays. Steering Committee at each Infrastructure ministry level to follow up on the implementation process. Steering Committee in DEA for raising financial resources for the NIP.

India Investment Grid 
In August 2020, the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs launched the India Investment Grid website which provides "Information on large-scale government infrastructure projects as an aid to investors, lenders and companies bidding for work. The grid is designed to give real-time updates on the implementation of the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)."

National Monetisation Pipeline 
National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) is Government of India's monetisation framework for Government assets including roadways, railways and airports, power transmission lines, energy and renewable energy related assets, warehousing and sport-related assets.

Further reading 

 National Infrastructure Pipeline (Vol 1). Report of the Task Force, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
 KPMG (25 August 2020). Catalysing the National Infrastructure Pipeline: Project India. 
 Rouhin Deb (22 September 2020). National Infrastructure Pipeline: The great Indian dream. Observer Research Foundation.

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Modi administration initiatives
Proposed infrastructure in India
Dorothy Gradden. Dorothy Anne Gradden OBE (born 1962) is a British Nuclear Engineer for Sellafield Ltd. She leads the projects to decommission the large "legacy" ponds. These are nationally important projects as part of country's nuclear clean up operation on "Britain’s biggest and most hazardous nuclear waste site". In 2017 she was given an OBE and in 2019 the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority recognised her as a role model in their Safety and Wellbeing Awards.

Life
Gradden was born in Anfield, Liverpool 1962. She was inspired to become an engineer by her physics teacher at The Belvedere Academy where she had a scholarship. She was the first of her school's students who wanted to be a professional engineer. She gained further sponsorship which enabled her to take nuclear engineering at Manchester University. There were 200 engineers on the course and Gradden and one other were the only women. Gradden's father died so her mother became her supporter and advisor.

She joined British Nuclear Fuels and became a project engineer. At one time she led the Hinckley C project but she then moved into the difficult task of decommissioning. She worked at Aldermaston's Atomic Weapons Establishment, Dounreay, Harwell's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Winfrith, and Sellafield. At the end of 2012 she became Head of Programme for the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP). 

In July 2016 she was asked to lead the decommissioning of the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP) whilst still retaining her responsibility for the PFSP. These are nationally important projects as part of country's nuclear clean up operation. The ponds are at the centre of what has been called "Britain’s biggest and most hazardous nuclear waste site". They go back to the 1950s and one of the ponds contains an estimated "1,500 tonnes of radioactive sludge" and 1,300 skips of sundry radioactive waste all submerged in a pond encased in algae encrusted concrete. 

In 2016 she was nominated for the WISE Campaign Hero Award.

In 2017 she was named in Queen's Birthday Honours list for "services to the nuclear industry". At the time she was Head of Programme Delivery, Legacy Ponds, Sellafield Limited. The following year she was able to announce that the first of the 1,200 skips of waste had been removed from the pond. They were being placed in larger containers and stored out of the pool but still on site. Removal of the skips makes it possible to deal with the remaining radioactive sludge.

In 2019 Gradden and Josephine Stabler were given role model awards during the first Safety and Wellbeing Awards organised by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

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Living people
British nuclear engineers
People from Anfield
People educated at The Belvedere Academy
Engineers from Liverpool
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
East-West Railway. The East-West Railway Line () or the Mechi-Mahakali Railway is an upcoming Trans–Asian railway project in Nepal. The railway will be the longest in Nepal, stretching  expanding from the Eastern Indo-Nepal border of Kakarbhitta to the Western Indo-Nepal border of Kanchanpur. Subsidiary lines will be added expanding the total project to .

History
The government developed the concept of the East-West Railway in 2007, forming the Department of Railways in 2011. The project started in 2008, but due to various economic, environmental and coordination challenges it was delayed until March 2020.

Features
The network is expected to grow to 4,000  km within 20 years. This railway line is important for Nepal because it has long been dependent on India for its connection with the world through the Port of Kolkata and Vizag Port.

Controversies
Lack of coordination of inter-governmental bodies and conflicts between the locals and the construction company for land acquisition and deforestation stimulated controversy. The proposed route passes through Chitwan National Park, a World Heritage site. The route was widely criticized and the proposal was rejected by UNESCO. It also was criticized for threatening rare wildlife.

Progress
More than Rs2 billion was spent for land acquisition and research and development, which will cost some Rs8 billion. The total cost is estimated to reach $3 billion. The initial track-bed has been laid across the 70 km Bardibas-Nijgadh section. The senior divisional engineer at the Department of Railways, Aman Chitrakar informed that the tracks will be laid after the construction of the track-bed from Kakadbhitta, Jhapa to Gaddachauki, Kanchanpur. A total of Rs 11.22 billion has been spent. The Government of Nepal is allocating Rs 4 billion annually for the expansion of the railway.

Under the Bardibas-Simra Railway Project, of the 108-kilometre section, track bedding work on the 70-kilometre section (Bardibas to Nijgadh) is almost completed. About 50 km of track bedding is already finished. The construction of bridges and installation of culvert along the section is underway.

Section
The railway project is being constructed in nine sections as below:
 Inaruwa–Kakarvitta Railway Project
 Inaruwa–Bardibas Railway Project
 Bardibas–Simra Railway Project
 Simra–Tamasariya Railway Project
 Tamasiya–Butwal Railway Project
 Butwal–Lamahi Railway Project
 Lamahi–Kohalpur Railway Project
 Kohalpur–Sukkhad Railway Project
 Sukhad–Gaddachowki Railway Project

References

Rail infrastructure in Nepal
Proposed railway lines in Asia
Proposed transport infrastructure in Nepal
National Pride Projects
Yael Moses. Yael Moses () is a professor in the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.

Education and career 
Moses received her Ph.D. in computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Robotics group at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 1994 and at the Weizmann Institute of Science from 1994 to 1997. Moses has been on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence since 2013.

Research 
Her major research interests are in computer vision. In particular, her research focusses on multi-camera systems.

References

External links
Yael Moses' IEEE profile

Computer vision researchers
Israeli women academics
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Academic staff of Reichman University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Kiisa Nishikawa. Kiisa Nishikawa is a biomechanist, and holds the rank of Regents' Professor of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University.

Research career 

Nishikawa is the principal investigator leading the Muscle and Motor Control Laboratory at Northern Arizona University (NAU), where her laboratory investigates muscle contraction, including the role of titin and developing bio-inspired control algorithms for motorized prostheses for lower limbs. Previously, Nishikawa's lab acquired an atomic force microscope in order to test how changes in the giant titin protein impact muscle mechanical properties (referred to as the winding filament hypothesis). Nishikawa's laboratory has also developed prosthetic software, for the BiOM T2 prosthesis, and is studying whether this provides additional advantages compared to currently available commercial software.

Nishikawa holds the position of Regents' Professor of Biological Sciences at NAU, and was the director of the NAU's Center of Bioengineering Innovation from 2014 to 2019. One of Nishikawa's prior postdoctoral fellows, Theodore Uyeno, is now an associate professor at the Valdosta State University's Department of Biology.

Nishikawa has published over 250 academic papers, resulting in over 3,000 citations, resulting in an h-index and i10-index of 39 and 79 respectively. In 2014, she received a $1 million grant for medical research from the W. M. Keck Foundation, and was one of only six researchers to do so.

Selected bibliography 

 Neuromechanics: an integrative approach for understanding motor control. Kiisa Nishikawa, Andrew A Biewener, Peter Aerts, Anna N Ahn, Hillel J Chiel, Monica A Daley, Thomas L Daniel, Robert J Full, Melina E Hale, Tyson L Hedrick, A Kristopher Lappin, T Richard Nichols, Roger D Quinn, Richard A Satterlie, Brett Szymik. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2007.
 Is titin a 'winding filament'? A new twist on muscle contraction. Kiisa C Nishikawa, Jenna A Monroy, Theodore E Uyeno, Sang Hoon Yeo, Dinesh K Pai, Stan L Lindstedt. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2012.
 Do arm postures vary with the speed of reaching? Kiisa C Nishikawa, Sara T Murray, Martha Flanders. Journal of Neurophysiology. 1999.
 Paedomorphosis and Simplification in the Nervous System of Salamanders; pp. 137–152. Gerhard Roth, Kiisa C Nishikawa, Christiane Naujoks-Manteuffel, Andrea Schmidt, David B Wake. Brain, behavior and evolution. 1993.

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Northern Arizona University faculty
American biomechanists
Women biomechanists
ATILGAN PMSS. The ATILGAN Pedestal Mounted Air Defense System, designated ATILGAN PMAD is a Turkish self-propelled surface-to-air missile system which provides mobile, short-range air defense protection for ground units against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, low-flying fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters. and for every short range air defense.

The ATILGAN was originally developed for the Turkish Armed Forces and is currently used by the Turkish Land Forces. The ATILGAN system was also used by the Turkish Naval Forces.

History 
The ATILGAN Pedestal Mounted Air Defense System, was developed over a period of 12 years. PMAD project, which started needs analysis and conceptual design in 1989; Following the feasibility, configuration determination and development studies, it was launched with a serial production contract signed in 2001. PMAD Systems, which have undergone challenging tests and field trials within the scope of prototype development period and serial production line qualification approval, has achieved great success in all the shots made until today. The PMAD system eliminated two German companies in the tender opened in 2005 and in addition became the choice of the Dutch army. PMAD System was launched in two different configurations, ATILGAN and ZIPKIN.

Serial production is still continuing by Aselsan and Roketsan companies. There are 100+ systems in the Turkish Land Forces inventory.

Overview 
The ATILGAN Pedestal Mounted Air Defense System air defense turret mounted on a modified heavy armored/tracked  M113A2 vehicle. The turret has two Stinger missile launcher pods, each capable of firing up to 4 fire-and-forget infrared/ultraviolet guided missiles in rapid succession.  It is operated with a three-man crew the driver, the gunner and the commander. The main mission of Low Level Air Defense System ATILGAN, is the low level air defense of stationary and moving forward troops, convoys and tactical bases in the battlefield.

General features 
 Short Reaction Time.
 High Hit Capability.
 Coordinated use with the Command and Control System.
 8 km Range.
 3 crew.
 Fire on-the-move capability.
 8 ready-to-fire Stinger missiles.
 Integrated  automatic machine gun despite self-protection and near air threats.
 Passive target search and tracking sensors, consisting of thermal and daylight TV cameras.
 Multi-pulse Laser Range Finder for target distance measurement. 
 Two-axis stabilized turret providing target search, diagnostic tracking and shooting target on the move.
 Firing Control Computer that provides automation of all system functions.
 Target identification by IFF providing friendly / unknown distinction for the target.
 Operable under all weather conditions.
 Detachable operating panel for remote operation up to .
 Can be mounted on different carrier platforms, high speed, light and modular turret.

References

Turkish inventions
Post–Cold War weapons of Turkey
Surface-to-air missiles of Turkey
Military vehicles introduced in the 2000s
Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons
Aselsan products
Jennifer Li (neuroscientist). Jennifer M. Li is a Systems Neuroscience & Neuroengineering researcher who is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the RoLi lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. She records and manipulates neural activity in larval zebra fish to research motivation and attention. and has been published in the journal Nature for her work on how the zebra fish brain switches between internal states when foraging for live prey. The RoLi lab has developed a revolutionary microscopy systems that enable whole-brain imaging of freely swimming larval zebra fish. With this technology, Li and Robson aim to investigate natural behaviors in the zebra fish, including spatial navigation, social behavior, feeding, and reward.

Background and education 
Jennifer Li received her B.A. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, where she worked on host-parasite symbiosis and embryonic development in the Wieschaus lab. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she worked on operant learning and brain-wide neural imaging in the Schier and Engert labs. During her graduate education at Harvard University, Li was a Rowland Junior Fellow in the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. At the Rowland Institute, Li, along with Drew Robson, led their experiment on zebra fish before finishing the project at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Career 
Jennifer Li and Drew Robson combined brain tracking with a variant of HiLo microscopy to build Differential Illumination Focal Filtering (DIFF) microscopy

Publications
Her most cited publications are:
Misha B Ahrens, Michael B Orger, Drew N Robson, Jennifer M Li, Philipp J Keller, "Whole-brain functional imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy" Nature Methods 10 (5), 413-420	(2013)
MB Ahrens, JM Li, MB Orger, DN Robson, AF Schier, F Engert, ... "Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish" Nature 485 (7399), 471-477 (2012)
HM Frydman, JM Li, DN Robson, E Wieschaus, "Somatic stem cell niche tropism in Wolbachia" Nature 441 (7092), 509-512 (2006)
 PM Ferree, HM Frydman, JM Li, J Cao, E Wieschaus, W Sullivan "Wolbachia utilizes host microtubules and Dynein for anterior localization in the Drosophila oocyte" PLOS Pathog 1 (2), e14 (2005)

Honors and awards 
2009 Harvard University Derek Bok teaching award

2005 Excellent thesis award, Princeton University

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Neuroscientists
Women neuroscientists
Biomedical engineers
Women bioengineers
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Harvard University alumni
Lynn M. Russell. Lynn Russell is a professor of atmospheric chemistry at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography a division of the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.

Education and career 
Russell has a B.S. in chemical engineering and an A.B. in international relations from Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1995. She was a postdoctoral investigator at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). From 1997 to 2003, Russell was on the faculty at Princeton University; she unsuccessfully sued the trustees of Princeton for sex discrimination after her 2002 tenure application was denied. Russell moved to Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2003.

In 2017, Russell was appointed a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for "pioneering contributions to the fundamental science of organic aerosols through innovative theory, instrumentation, measurements, and modeling".

Research 
Russell's research is on how particles in the atmosphere effect climate, particularly aerosols from pollution sources such as automobiles. While Russell was at Princeton she developed the use of remote-controlled aircraft to collect atmospheric data. She has examined the factors controlling the production of organic aerosol particles in the atmosphere and the impact of aerosols on global warming. Russell's research has defined the composition of organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols and linked the presence of aerosol particles in the atmosphere to the underlying seawater.

Russell has examined dust particles at multiple locations. Yang Yang and Russell used the Community Earth System Model to study aerosols above eastern China and observed that variability in the dust particles impacted the level of haze in the region. Within the United States, Russell has tracked aerosol particles from Las Vegas, Nevada into California. Russell has also demonstrated the feasibility of using biofuels during research cruises by replacing the diesel fuel with biofuel on the research vessel R.V. Robert Gordon Sproul and examining the resulting production of NO compounds, particulate material, and hydroxy radicals.

Selected publications

Awards and honors 
 Innovator under 35, MIT Technology Review (1999) 
Kenneth T. Whitby Award, American Association for Aerosol Research (2003)
Fellow, American Association for Aerosol Research (2013)
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2017)

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Living people
Atmospheric chemists
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty
Women atmospheric scientists
Michal Irani. Michal Irani () is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Education 
Irani received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subsequently, she was a member of the Vision Technologies Laboratory at the Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton).

Research 
Irani's research is in the area of computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence. In particular, she has done work on understanding the internal statistics of natural images and videos, the space-time analysis of videos, and on visual inference by composition.

Selected awards 
 2020 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering
 2017 Helmholtz Prize for the paper "Actions as space-time shapes"
 2016 Maria Petrou Prize (awarded by the International Association in Pattern Recognition) for outstanding contributions to the fields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
 2003 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Mathematics 
 2000, 2002 ECCV Best Paper Awards

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Computer vision researchers
Israeli women academics
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Pamela Thomas. Pamela Anne Thomas is a British condensed matter physicist, and former Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick, where she leads the Ferroelectrics & Crystallography group. Her work focuses on the structure and related properties of ferroelectric, piezoelectric and nonlinear optical crystals, ceramics and thin-films. From September 2020 to April 2024, she served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Faraday Institution, an organisation which advances energy storage science and technology.

Education 
Thomas studied at Physics at the University of Oxford. She completed her DPhil, 'Optical activity in crystals' at the University of Oxford in 1987 under Professor Mike Glazer.

Career 
In 1992, Thomas was awarded the Physical Crystallography Prize of the British Crystallographic Association.

From 2009–2012, Thomas was the Director of the Science City Research Alliance (SCRA) for the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. SCRA was a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick, intended to provide world-leading research and knowledge support across three major platforms: advanced materials, energy futures and translational medicine. Set up in Warwick & Birmingham, with support from the European Regional Development Fund and by Advantage West Midlands, it provided a £58 M investment in state-of-the-art equipment, housed in purpose-designed buildings with dedicated technical support and HEFCE funded (£10 M) research fellows.

In 2011, Thomas was appointed the Chair of the Faculty of Science at the University of Warwick. Thomas was the Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick, and served as a Pro Vice Chancellor from 2014 to 2021. She served as a trustee of the Faraday Institution before being appointed its chief executive in September 2020, and was previously on the board of the Alan Turing Institute where she represented the University of Warwick. Thomas chaired the UK's Open Research Data Task Force, which was established by Jo Johnson in 2016.

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Living people
21st-century British physicists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
British women physicists
Condensed matter physicists
Academics of the University of Warwick
Alumni of the University of Oxford