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Plymouth A-A-2004. The Plymouth A-A-2004 is a rotor aircraft inspired by the Flettner rotor, a type of rotor that uses the Magnus effect to produce lift. Built specifically for Zaparka in 1930 by three anonymous American inventors, this aircraft showcased the innovative use of the Magnus Effect in aviation, leading to successful flights over Long Island Sound.

Design and features

The Plymouth A-A-2004 rotor aircraft employs a distinct design, using rotating cylinders in place of traditional wings to produce lift. These rotors, based on the design of the Flettner rotor, spin at a rapid rate, causing air to move faster over one side than the other, resulting in a lift due to the Magnus Effect. The aircraft was equipped with a  Wright J-6 engine which powered a tractor propeller.  A second engine, an  American Cirrus, was used to spin the rotors.

History and development

The Plymouth A-A-2004 was commissioned by Zaparka and constructed in 1930 by three anonymous American inventors. The design drew inspiration from the Flettner rotor and was reported to have achieved successful flight missions over Long Island Sound. Its development and successful flights marked an intriguing chapter in aviation history, pushing the boundaries of traditional aircraft design.

Magnus effect and Flettner rotor

The Magnus Effect describes the phenomenon wherein a spinning object moving through a fluid (e.g., air or water) creates a difference in pressure on its sides, resulting in a force perpendicular to its motion. Anton Flettner, in the 1920s, conceived the Flettner rotor, a spinning cylinder that harnesses the Magnus Effect for lift or propulsion. By leveraging this principle, the Plymouth A-A-2004 managed to achieve flight without the need for conventional wings.

Safety concerns

One of the inherent safety challenges of the Plymouth A-A-2004 design is the reliance on the continuous rotation of the drums to generate lift. In situations where power to the rotating drums is lost, even if propulsion thrust remains intact, the aircraft would confront a significant risk. As the drum's rotation slows down, the Magnus Effect's lift generation would diminish, compromising the aircraft's ability to maintain altitude and potentially leading to a rapid descent.

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Unflown aircraft
Floatplanes
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Twin-engined single-prop tractor aircraft
Gwadar Coal–Power Plant. The Gwadar Coal–Power Plant represents a 300-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power facility situated in Gwadar, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Project details
The power plant is projected to meet the energy demands of approximately 150,000 residents in the Gwadar region by the conclusion of 2023, aligning with the 2050 Master Plan of Gwadar. Former Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal granted approval for this initiative and set a completion target for January 2025. The power plant holds immense importance in strengthening energy collaboration between China and Pakistan, advancing the Belt and Road Initiative, enhancing the power infrastructure in Balochistan, and propelling economic growth in the Gwadar Port locality.

Controversies
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has expressed concerns about relying exclusively on imported coal for power generation at the 300MW Gwadar coal-fired power plant. Nepra raised multiple inquiries about the decision to utilize solely imported coal instead of considering indigenous or Thar coal for the 300 MW Gwadar coal-based power facility. However, it was clarified that both the Prime Minister and the Planning Commission had instructed to proceed with the installation of the Gwadar coal-fired plant using imported coal.

References

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor
Coal-fired power stations in Pakistan
Energy infrastructure completed in 2023
2023 establishments in Pakistan
Buildings and structures in Balochistan, Pakistan
Gwadar
Toshihide Ibaraki. Toshihide Ibaraki (, born 1940) is a Japanese computer scientist and operations researcher known for his research on graph algorithms, databases, resource allocation, fractional programming, and metaheuristics. He is a professor emeritus and former dean of informatics at Kyoto University, and the former president of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics.

Education and career
Ibaraki studied engineering at Kyoto University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1963, master's degree in 1965, and doctorate in 1970.

He joined the Kyoto University faculty in 1969, taking a leave from 1983 to 1985 to work as a professor at the Toyohashi University of Technology. He eventually became dean of informatics at Kyoto University before retiring as professor emeritus. After retiring, in 2004, he became a professor at Kwansei Gakuin University. Next, he joined the Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics as a professor in 2009, and became the third president of the college in 2010, succeeding Toshiharu Hasegawa. He stepped down to become a professor and was succeeded as president by Shinji Tomita in 2023.

Books
Ibaraki is the author or coauthor of books including:
Resource Allocation Problems: Algorithmic Approaches (with Naoki Katoh, MIT Press, 1988)
Algorithmic Aspects of Graph Connectivity (with Hiroshi Nagamochi, Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Recognition
Ibaraki was listed as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1999, "for contributions to the theory and algorithms of discrete optimization, graphs and networks, and logical analysis of data with Boolean functions, as well as their applications". In 2000 he was named as a Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan, and of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Engineering Sciences Society. He is also a Fellow of the Operations Research Society of Japan and of the Japanese Society for Applied Mathematics.

He was the 1970 recipient of the Yonezawa Prize of IEICE, and the 2001 recipient of the JAMS Prize of the International Society for Mathematical Sciences.

In 2004, the International Symposium on Discrete Algorithms and Optimization in Kyoto was held in honor of Ibaraki's retirement from Kyoto University. Selected papers from the conference were published in 2006 in a special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics, also dedicated to Ibaraki.

References

External links
Interview with Ibaraki by Hiroyoshi Miwa, 2009

1940 births
Living people
Japanese computer scientists
Operations researchers
Kyoto University alumni
Academic staff of Kyoto University
1999 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Jais (language model). Jais is an open-source large language model developed in the United Arab Emirates and launched in August 2023. It was trained on both English- and Arabic-language data.

Origin 
Jais is named after Jebel Jais, the highest mountain in the United Arab Emirates. It was created in collaboration between Inception, a subsidiary of G42, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi and California-based Cerebras Systems.

Training 
Jais has 13 billion parameters, with an update for 30 billion in the works as of October 2023. It was trained for over 21 days by a team in Abu Dhabi on a subset of Cerebras's Condor Galaxy 1 supercomputer.

Its training dataset consisted of Arabic and English, some containing computer code. According to Timothy Baldwin, provost, and professor of natural language processing at MBZUAI, training the model on a diverse Arabic dataset allows it to switch between dialects.

Features 
Jais focuses exclusively on English and Arabic translations. Additional functionality for working with images, graphs and tabular data is planned for future releases.

References

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Large language models
Generative pre-trained transformers
2023 software
Open-source artificial intelligence
María García de la Banda. María José García de la Banda García is a Spanish computer scientist who works at Monash University in Australia as a professor of information technology. Her research involves constraint logic programming, programming language design and implementation, program transformation, and applications to bioinformatics.

Early life and education
García de la Banda is the daughter of a scientist, and began studying computer science because at the time it was the only engineering discipline with a high proportion of female students. She earned an engineering informatics degree from the Technical University of Madrid in 1992, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1994. Her dissertation, Parallelism in Dynamically Scheduled Constraint Logic Programming, was supervised by Manuel de Hermenegildo Salinas; it won the best dissertation award of the university.

Career
After postdoctoral research at the University of Melbourne, she joined Monash University as a Logan Fellow, a position she held there from 1997 to 2003. At Monash, she has served as head of the Caulfield School of Information Technology, deputy dean of faculty, and deputy dean of research.

She was president of the Association for Constraint Programming for 2020.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
Australian computer scientists
Australian women computer scientists
Technical University of Madrid alumni
Academic staff of Monash University
Douglas S. Clark. Douglas S. Clark (born 22 May 1957) is an American chemical engineer.

Education and career 
Clark earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Vermont in 1979, and graduated with a doctorate in chemical engineering from Caltech in 1983, where he was advised by James Edward Bailey. Clark joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1986, where he later held the Gilbert Newton Lewis Professorship, and has served as editor in chief of the scientific journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering since 1996. In 2013, Clark was named dean of the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry. He is also affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a chemical faculty engineer. 

In 1995, Clark was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. The American Association for the Advancement of Science granted him an equivalent honor in 2003. In 2014, Clark received the James E. Bailey Award for Biological Engineering from the Society for Biological Engineering, affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Clark is a 2019 member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.

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20th-century American engineers
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American chemical engineers
University of California, Berkeley faculty
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California Institute of Technology alumni
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Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
American university and college faculty deans
Department of Roads (Nepal). Department of Road () under Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Transport is the authority to for construction, development and maintenance of roads. It aims to increase the connectivity to all the areas of Nepal. Being a sector of paramount importance, the department accounts for a significant amount of National budget.

Similarly, Department of Local Infrastructure also works under the sector of road and bridge construction and mentinance specially Agricultural roads at a smaller scale.

History 
Road Department was formed along with Department of Urban Development when Public Work Department was later split in 2027 BS. During Rana Regime "Bato Kaj Goshwara" and "Chhembhadel Adda" was liable for road construction and maintenance works.

Organization 
The department is headed by officers of Nepal Engineering Service (Civil/Highway) while mechanical units are held by officers of Nepal Engineering Service (Mechanical). There are 5 branches under the Department namely:

 Maintenance branch
 Development Cooperation Implementation Unit
 Planning and Monitoring Unit
 Mechanical Unit
 Bridge Unit

Further, there are four Federal Supervision and Monitoring Offices in Damak, Kathmandu, Pokhara and Surkhet. In addition there are 33 Road Division Offices, 8 Heavy Equipment Divisions, 8 Mechanical Offices and 1 Mechanical Training Center.

See also 

 Department of Local Infrastructure
 Department of Urban Development and Building Construction

Reference 

Government of Nepal
Government departments of Nepal
Roads in Nepal
Nepal Engineering Service
Attilio Muggia. Attilio Giacomo Muggia (Venice, 2 April 1861 – Bologna, 18 February 1936) was an Italian engineer and architect.

Life and career

Muggia was born in Venice to a Jewish family.

One of his most notable projects was the monumental staircase in the Park of Montagnola, Bologna designed in collaboration with Tito Azzolini and inaugurated in 1896.

Muggia was a pioneer in Italy of the use of reinforced concrete. In 1900, he designed Villa Gini in Borgo Panigale which was the first civil building in Italy to use reinforced conrete.

From 1905 to 1925, he was general technical director of the Società Costruzioni Cementizie with offices in Bologna and Florence.

He held the chair of technical architecture at the Bologna engineering school from 1912 to 1935.

He died in 1936 and is buried in the Jewish section of Certosa di Bologna monumental cemetery in Bologna.

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1936 deaths
Engineers from Venice
Architects from Venice
Venetian Jews
Jaypee Infratech. Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL) is an Indian real estate company with its head office in Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India. JIL was formed by Manoj Gaur elder son of Indian Entrepreneur Jaiprakash Gaur, the owner of Jaypee Group. The company is majorly engaged in the development and construction of real estate, comprising expressways, and commercial and residential buildings. The company is maintaining and developing the Yamuna Expressway Project, a 165-kilometer (km) long six-lane expressway from Greater Noida to Agra. Jaypee Infratech Ltd is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

In 2023, Gaurs took over a few of Jaypee Infratech's projects.

Projects 
Yamuna Expressway  
Jaypee Greens Wish Town
Jaypee Greens Klassic
Jaypee Greens Kosmos 
Jaypee Greens Aman

Jaypee Infratech insolvency case 
In 2007, Jaypee Infratech Limited (JIL) proposed to build 32,000  housing units and plots after signing an agreement with Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA)  to collect tolls on the expressway for 36 years and was allotted 25,000 hectares of land in Noida and Greater Noida and near Dankaur.

However, the company couldn't deliver the plots and houses as the construction on these projects was stopped around 2013 to 2014. In Suraksha Group  acquired these projects from Jaypee Infratech Ltd and won the case and now over 20,000 homebuyers will get their homes which they had booked over a decade ago.

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Real estate and property developers
Real estate companies of India
Indian companies established in 2007
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Unmanned aerial vehicles in the Hellenic Armed Forces. The Greek armed forces use drones of Greek manufacture as well as those of foreign countries. For military purposes in aviation, army, navy and port. In recent years, Greece has also started its own drone production program  and, together with the purchase or rental of UAVs, has built one of the largest fleets of drones in the region.

List of drones of the Hellenic Army

List of drones of the Hellenic Air Force

List of drones of the Hellenic Navy

List of drones of the Hellenic Coast Guard

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Unmanned aerial vehicles of Greece
Greek military aircraft
Hellenic Army
Hellenic Air Force
Ursula van Rienen. Ursula van Rienen (born 1957) is a German applied mathematician and physicist whose research involves computational electrodynamics, the computational simulation of interactions between electromagnetic fields and biological tissue, and its applications in electrical brain stimulation. She is a university professor in the Institut für Allgemeine Elektrotechnik at the University of Rostock, where she holds the Chair of Electromagnetic Field Theory.

Education and career
Van Rienen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bonn, earning a vordiplom (the equivalent of a bachelor's degree) in 1979, and a diploma (the equivalent of a master's degree) in 1983, with a minor in operations research. She worked as a researcher at DESY, the German Electron Synchrotron research center, from 1983 to 1989. In 1989 she defended a doctoral thesis through the Technische Universität Darmstadt, titled Zur numerischen Berechnung zeitharmonischer elektromagntischer Felder in offenen, zylindersymetrischen Strukturen unter Verwendung von Mehrgitterverfahren [On the numerical calculation of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields in open, cylindrically symmetrical structures using multi-grid methods], supervised by .

Beginning in 1990, she worked as a research assistant at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and then a lecturer in 1995. In 1997 she completed a habilitation there, and in the same year took her current position as a professor at the University of Rostock.

At Rostock, she has been dean of the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from 2004 to 2006, and vice rector for research and research training from 2009 to 2013.

Books
Van Rienen published her habilitation thesis as the book Numerical Methods in Computational Electrodynamics: Linear Systems in Practical Applications (Springer, 2001).

References

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1957 births
Living people
German physicists
German women physicists
German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
German applied mathematicians
University of Bonn alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Academic staff of the University of Rostock
Osama Al Saadawi. Osama Hassan Saad Al-Sadaawi is a Palestinian engineer and entrepreneur who currently serves as the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in the government of Mohammed Shtayyeh.

Early life and education
Osama Al-Sadaawi was born in the refugee camps of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip. He received his education there, and his origin traces back to the destroyed village of Aqir in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He studied civil engineering at Birzeit University and obtained his bachelor's degree. Later, he earned a master's degree in civil engineering from the Islamic University of Gaza.

Career
Osama Al-Sadaawi has held several positions, including the position of General Manager of the Palestinian Housing Council in the Gaza Strip. Osama Al-Sadaawi took the legal oath before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Empowerment on April 13th, 2019, in the government of Dr. Mohammed Shtayyeh.

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Living people
1964 births
Fatah members
Government ministers of the Palestinian National Authority
21st-century Palestinian politicians
Birzeit University alumni
Islamic University of Gaza alumni
Government ministers of the State of Palestine
Palestinian Sunni Muslims
STS Young Endeavour II. STS Young Endeavour II is an Australian tall ship. Built by Birdon Group, the ship will be operated and maintained by the Royal Australian Navy.

Design and construction
Young Endeavour II is being built by the Birdon Group in Port Macquarie. The vessel was designed by Dykstra Naval Architects as a barquentine rig, utilising square-rigged sails on the foremast and fore-and-aft sails rigged on the fore, main and mizzen masts.

References

External links
 Official Young Endeavour Site

Sail training ships
Tall ships of Australia
Training ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Barquentines
2023 ships
Fleet Base East
Mahad Said Baawain. Mahad bin Said bin Ali Baawain is the Omani Minister of Labour. He was appointed as minister on 18 August 2020.

Education 
Bawaain holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Sultan Qaboos University (1998), a master's degree in environmental engineering from the Imperial College (2000) and a PhD from the University of Alberta (2007).

Career 
From 2002 until 2007, Baawain was research assistant at the University of Alberta.

In 2007, he was appointed assistant professor and in 2013 associate professor at Sultan Qaboos University. Additionally, he was managing director at the Centre for Environmental Studies and Research (CEASAR) from 2013 until 2016.

In June 2020, he was appointed dean of the college and Full Professor at the International Maritime College Oman.

On 18 August 2020, Baawain was appointed minister of labour.

Honors

Nacional honors 
:
  Second Class of the Civil Order of Oman (18 November 2024).

References 

Living people
21st-century Omani politicians
Labour ministers of Oman
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Alberta alumni
Sultan Qaboos University alumni
Alumni of Imperial College London
Academic staff of Sultan Qaboos University
The Engineer (film). The Engineer is a 2023 American action film written by Kosta Kondilopoulous, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and starring Emile Hirsch.

Plot
Follows the biggest manhunt in the history of Israel to find Yahya Ayyash, the mastermind bombmaker who oversaw a group of suicide troops in Israel in the middle of the 1990s

Cast
Emile Hirsch as Etan
Angel Bonanni as Avi
Danny A. Abeckaser as Yakov
Tzachi Halevy as Gili
Oshri Cohen
Dan Mor as Tamas
Omer Hazan as Levi
Stefani Yunger
Kyle Stefanski as Henry
Yarden Toussia-Cohen as Fanni
Adam Haloon as The Engineer
Lee Keinan as Al-Soowi
Robert Davi as Senator David Adler

Production
Hirsch's official casting as the lead was announced in June 2022.

Release
The film was released on August 18, 2023.

Reception
The film has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on five reviews.

Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "...feels very much like an American B-movie stab at turning Israeli anti-terrorist operations of 30 years ago into formulaic action fodder — without much action, even."

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Lionsgate films
American action films
Joseph D. Walter. Joseph D. Walter is a retired American tire industry mechanical engineering researcher and former Bridgestone executive.

Education 

Walter completed his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech in 1966, where he had also completed his undergraduate degree.

Career 

While employed by The Firestone Tire and Rubber company, Walter developed an approach for computing elastic properties of tire composite materials.  He also famously studied rolling resistance.  He previously served as vice president of the Bridgestone Americas Research Center in Akron and president of the Bridgestone European Technical Center in Rome. Upon retirement from Bridgestone in 1999, Walter taught vehicle dynamics and mechanics of materials as an adjunct professor at The University of Akron. Walter served on the editorial board of the scientific journal Tire Science and Technology for 35 years.  He was a member of National Academies of Science committees formed to study 1) Fuel Efficiency of Automobiles and Light Trucks (1991-92) and 2) the National Tire Efficiency Study (2005-06). He also served on the boards of Edison Polymer Innovation Corp. (1990-94) and Bridgestone Europe (1994-99).

In 2006 Walter coedited, with Alan N. Gent, a NHTSA published reference text titled 'The Pneumatic Tire', which updated Clark's popular text 'Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires'.

Awards

 2022 - Tire Society Distinguished Service Award

References 

Tire industry people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)