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Dariusz Bugajski. Dariusz Rafał Bugajski is a Polish Navy officer, scholar and professor of public international maritime law specializing in the law of the sea, law of naval operations, naval warfare, and international security, including climate challenges.

Education 

Bugajski earned a Master of Engineering from the Polish Naval Academy and thereafter, a Master of Arts in Law from the University of Gdańsk. He received a Doctorate of Security from the Polish Naval Academy, and a habilitation in international law at the Faculty of Law at Szczecin University in 2009, and graduated from postgraduate security studies too.

Career 

Bugajski served in the 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla in Świnoujście and thereafter, as a commanding officer of an Anti-submarine Warfare Naval Ship (fast attack craft) in Kołobrzeg. While in Gdynia among others, he was a vice dean of the Faculty, and vice-rector of the Polish Naval Academy for education (2016-2019). He is a member of the Maritime Law Commission of the Polish Academy of Science, the Shipbuilding Council Society, the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, national expert of the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (International Hydrographic Organization) and expert of the Polish Navy Hydrographic Office.

Publications and editorial work 
Bugajski authored and co-authored numerous publications regarding various aspects of international law, the law of the sea, international humanitarian law, and international security. His works have appeared in the “Revista Europea de Derecho de la Navegación Marítima y Aeronáutica” published by the University of Málaga.
He is editor-in-chief of the “International Humanitarian Law” journal published by the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia. He serves on numerous editorial boards, including the “Maritime Security Yearbook”. His books were 
nominated for the  Mountbatten Award for Best Book by the Maritime Foundation.

 D.R. Bugajski, The Polish Naval Academy. In the Centenary of Regaining Access to the Baltic Sea, Gdynia 2019, pp. 185.  (POLISH NAVAL ACADEMY);  (REGION)
 D.R. Bugajski, Navigational Rights and Freedoms in the International Law and Practice, Polish Naval Academy, Gdynia 2021, pp. 353
 D.R. Bugajski, The legal protection of the RMS Titanic, "Santander Art and Culture Law Review", 1/2022 (8), pp. 41-60; https://www.ejournals.eu/SAACLR/2022/1-2022/art/22225/.

Awards and decorations
  Maritime Cross of Merit
  Silver Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland
  Gold Medal of Merit for National Defence
  Medal of the National Education Commission

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1970 births
 International law scholars
Polish Navy officers
Polish lawyers
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Living people
University of Gdańsk alumni
Alef Aeronautics. Alef Aeronautics is an automotive and aviation company based in the United States. Since 2015, it has been developing and promoting a proposed flying car intended to take off vertically and tilt sideways to fly like a biplane.

History 
Alef Aeronautics is a US company founded on April 6, 2015, by Jim Dukhovny, Constantine Kisly, Pavel Markin and Oleg Petrov.

The company initially relied on financing by its founders. It obtained further seed investment from Draper Associates in 2017, followed by further investment rounds in 2018 and 2020. Notable investors include Draper B1, Impact Venture Capital, Strong VC, and Luis Scola.

Model A flying car 

The Alef Model A is a proposed novel design for a flying car. It is intended as a personal ground vehicle which would also be capable of vertical takeoff and forward flight. Envisaged as all-electric (eVTOL), type, the planned flight range is approximately 110 miles (180 km), and almost twice that at 200 miles (320 km) as a ground vehicle.

The Alef design utilizes hub motors for land travel, while for flight it incorporates eight motor-controller-propeller systems providing distributed electric propulsion, covered by a continuous mesh upper surface to allow airflow during vertical flight.

The Model A employs an unusual transition between vertical and forward flight modes. Once airborne, the vehicle tilts sideways, such that the right and left sides of the car become the top and bottom wings of a biplane for forward flight. At the same time, the spherical cabin rotates and swivels sideways so that the occupants are still sitting upright and facing forward in the direction of travel.

Alef intends to have the Model A certified for road use as a “low speed vehicle”, limited to 25 miles per hour.

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Automotive companies of the United States
Aerospace companies of the United States
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American companies established in 2009
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Urban air mobility
FEVE 3500 series. The FEVE 3500 series (formally since 2014 the Renfe Class 435) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Renfe Feve in Spain. The first units entered service in the Basque Country in 1977, these trains were later transferred to Euskotren, where they were known as the Euskotren 3500 series. Euskotren retired its last 3500 trains in 2013, but some units are still in service in Asturias.

History
A total of 30 trains were ordered FEVE in 1977, half of them intended for use in the Basque Country, while the other half would be assigned to Asturias and Cantabria. The first seven trains, originally consisting of two cars, entered service on 8 May 1978 in the Bilbao-San Sebastián line. The other eight trains entered service on 1 March 1980. Already in 1978, fifteen intermediate cars were ordered for the trains in service in the Basque Country. Only the first eight cars were delivered before the narrow-gauge railways were transferred to the Basque Government, while the other seven were built in 1980. Shortly afterwards, another four intermediate cars were ordered by Basque Railways. Units 3501 and 3508 were destroyed during the 1983 floods, and were subsequently replaced by two new units with the same numbers. The remaining seven units were acquired by FEVE in 1984.

In 1988, three of the trains in service in the Basque Country (3504, 3506 and 3515) had their interior adapted for the Bidexpress, a combined passenger and mail service operating between Bilbao and San Sebastián. Two years later, the new 300 series trains entered service in the Topo line, with the 3500 series trains operating in that line being transferred to services in the Urdaibai and Bilbao-San Sebastián lines. At around the same time, the trains with four cars had one of their cars removed. The Euskotren units had their interiors reformed in the 1990s and were substantially modernized in the early 2000s. Euskotren gradually retired its 3500 units after the introduction of 900 series trains in 2011. The last train in Euskotren service made a farewell trip on 6 July 2013.

Between 2007 and 2009, twelve of the 3500 trains operated by FEVE were reengined and reformed, becoming the . As of 2016, eight 3500 units remain in service with FEVE.

Formations

Originally, each trainset was formed by two cars, one of which was motored. The trains in service in the Basque Country had a third non-powered car added shortly after their introduction. In the 1980s, a fourth car was added to four of these. These four cars were numbered 5516 to 5519.

See also

 Ferrocarriles Españoles de Vía Estrecha

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CAF multiple units
Electric multiple units of Spain
3500 series
Renfe multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1978
1500 V DC multiple units
Sofía Calero. Sofía Calero Diaz is a Spanish chemist who is a professor and Vice Dean of the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research considers computational modelling of functional materials for applications in renewable energy. She was awarded the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Scientific Excellence in 2018.

Early life and education 
Calero was born in Spain. She attended the Complutense University of Madrid and remained there for her doctoral research, which considered the thermodynamic properties of liquids of complex molecules. She moved to the University of Amsterdam as a Marie Curie Fellow.

Research and career 
Calero moved to the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) in 2003, where she was named a Ramon y Cajal Fellow, and established a group who studied nanomaterials for applications in technologies. She was part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action on Computational materials sciences for efficient water splitting with nanocrystals from abundant elements. The programme looked to developed highly efficient energy converting devices (e.g. electrochemical cells for water-splitting). Calero was responsible for the development of Monte Carlo simulations of the project, and contributed to the software RASPA. RASPA is a simulation package that allows the study of adsorption and diffusion in nanoporous systems.

Calero moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2020. She was made Vice Dean of the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education. She focuses on the simulation of materials for renewable energies and the development of force field to predict the functional properties of materials.

Awards and honours 
 2005 Marie Curie Award for Excellence
 2011 European Research Council Consolidator Award
 2018 Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Scientific Excellence
 2020 TU/e Irene Curie Grant

Selected publications

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Living people
Spanish women chemists
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Samarthak-class Multi Purpose Vessel. Samarthak-class Multi Purpose Vessel is a series of under construction Multi Purpose Vessels for the Indian Navy. Under the programme the Indian Navy is acquiring two advanced ships. MPVs will be the first of its kind platform, constructed to provide a cost-effective solution to meet a variety of requirements of Indian Navy. These vessels, to be built by Larsen & Toubro's at Kattupalli Sipyard near Chennai, will perform multi-role support functions such as maritime surveillance and patrol, launching and recovery of torpedoes, and operation of various types of aerial, surface and underwater targets for Gunnery/ASW firing exercises. These vessels would also be capable of towing ships and rendering humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) support with limited hospital ship capability. The ship will also act as trial platform for naval weapons and sensors under development, support platform for ISV & salvage operations, and to provide logistics support for India island territories.

Ships of the Class

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Indian Navy
Larsen & Toubro
Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership. The Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership is a 20 billion dollar agreement to decarbonise Indonesia's coal-powered economy, launched on 15 November 2022 at the G20 summit. This Just Energy Transition Partnership comes after the first such agreement, the South Africa JET-IP was announced in 2021 as a partnership with Germany, France, the UK and US. The agreement with Indonesia involves all G7 countries as partners, including Canada, Italy and Japan. It also includes Denmark and Norway. The JETP aims to develop a comprehensive investment plan (the JETP Investment and Policy Plan) to achieve Indonesia's decarbonisation goals.

Under the JETP, Indonesia aims to reach net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases from electricity production by 2050, bringing forward its target by a decade, and reach a peak in those emissions by 2030. According to two think tanks, the $20bn allocated under the programme are insufficient for these goals.

On the sideline of the same conference, the Asian Development Bank signed an agreement with Cirebon Electric Power to open discussions on accelerated retirement of the Cirebon Steam Power Plant.

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2022 in international relations
Just Energy Transition Partnership
2022 G20 Bali summit
COP27
Wolfgang Heidrich. Wolfgang Heidrich (born November 3, 1968) is a German-Canadian computer scientist and Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), for which he served as the director of Visual Computing Center from 2014 to 2021. He was previously a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he was a Dolby Research Chair (2008-2013). His research has combined methods from computer graphics, optics, machine vision, imaging, inverse methods, and perception to develop new Computational Imaging and Display technologies. His more recent interest focuses on hardware-software co-design of the next generation of imaging systems, with applications such as high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, compact computational cameras, hyper-spectral cameras, wavefront sensors, to name just a few.

Heidrich is best known for his work in developing the high dynamic range (HDR) imaging and displays, which served as the basis for the technology behind Brightside Technologies, which was acquired by Dolby in 2007, and then later on (as part of the Dolby vision) turned into one of the core technical solutions for commercial displays.

In 2010, Heidrich, along with Erik Reinhard, Paul Debevec, Sumanta Pattanaik, Greg Ward, and Karol Myszkowsk, published the book High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting, that later on became an essential resource for people working with images.

Heidrich was elected a fellow of NAI, AAIA, IEEE, and Eurographics  in 2024, 2023, 2021, and 2013, respectively. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award (2023), the Humboldt Research Award (2014), the Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (2011), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2010), and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Award (2002).

Biography 
Heidrich received his Diplom informatiker from University of Erlangen (1995), an M.Math in computer science from University of Waterloo (1996), and a PhD (with honours) in computer science from University of Erlangen (1999). Before joining UBC, he was a Research Associate at Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science (1999-2000). Then, he became a faculty member at the University of British Columbia (UBC) computer science (2000-2018). Since 2014, he has been affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) CS and ECE.

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1968 births
Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler. Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler (June 1, 1856 – November 19, 1920) was a Swiss-Austrian pioneer of electrical engineering. He is notable for building Austria's first electric generator, introducing a fully electric kitchen at the 1893 Chicago World Fair, and patenting an early form of the electronic cigarette lighter.

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1920 deaths
20th-century Swiss inventors
19th-century Swiss inventors
German trawler V 313 Eifel. Eifel was a German fishing trawler that was built in 1929 as Marie Richardson. Renamed Eifel in 1936, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War for use as a Vorpostenboot, serving as V 313 Eifel. Returned to her owners post-war, she was scrapped in 1955.

Description
The ship  long, with a beam of . She had a depth of  and a draught of . She was assessed at , . She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of ,  and  diameter by  stroke. The engine was built by C. D. Holmes & Co., Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It was rated at 96nhp. It drove a single screw propeller. It could propel the ship at .

History
Marie Richardson was built by NV IJsselweft, Gorinchem, South Holland, Netherlands for Deutsche Fischerei Gesellschaft AG, Germany. She was launched in 1929 and completed in March 1930. The fishing boat registration PG 392 was allocated, as were the Code Letters KRSF. Her port of registry was Wesermünde In 1934, her Code Letters were changed to DFBE. 
In 1936, she was sold to the Norddeutscher Hochseefisherei.

She was scheduled to have participated in Unternehmen Seelöwe in 1940. On 20 April 1941, Eifel was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine for use as a vorpostenboot. She was allocated to 3 Vorpostenflotille as V 313 Eifel. In 1945, she was returned to her owners. She arrived at  W. Ritscher, Hamburg for scrapping on 28 December 1954.

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Steamships of Germany
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Steamships of West Germany
Fishing vessels of West Germany
Anastatic lithography. Anastatic lithography is a method of printing developed by 1840 in Erfurt.  The technique provided a means for facsimile reproduction, which was developed and promoted by Werner and William Siemens. The reproduction of the four pages of the 25 September 1841 issue of The Athenaeum, a London scientific and literary  journal, was so true to the original that it caused concerns expressed in an article "Printing and Piracy–New Discovery" which was published in the issue No. 736 published December 4, 1841.

See also
 Bibliography of early American publishers and printers

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History of printing
LinkUS. LinkUS is a transportation initiative in Central Ohio, United States. The project aims to create approximately five rapid transit corridors to support the metro population of Columbus, the capital and largest city in Ohio.

The initiative was announced in 2020 to create high-capacity rapid transit in Central Ohio. The initiative is a collaboration between the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), the City of Columbus, and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission. The initiative will also aim to create jobs as well as transit-oriented developments. It will begin its focus on Columbus's northwest corridor, and then to an east–west corridor consisting of Broad and Main Streets. City officials aim for projects like Indianapolis's Red Line (a bus rapid transit line).

Northwest Corridor
The first bus rapid transit line, the Northwest Corridor, will be built on Olentangy River Road, which follows the Olentangy River northwest from the Arena District and Downtown Columbus. In Downtown Columbus, it will follow Long and Spring Streets to the COTA Transit Terminal on Rich Street. The route connects numerous medical offices, corporate buildings, and entertainment centers. Notable among these are OhioHealth, the Ohio State University, Lennox Town Center, and the Astor Park development by Lower.com Field. The route may also connect to Dublin, Ohio.

As opposed to the CMAX bus service, the bus line will aim for "true" bus rapid transit amenities, including dedicated traffic lanes, pedestrian-friendly features, and shelters with fare machines for fast boarding.

Federal funding was announced for the northwest and east–west corridors in November 2020, to be released in 2023 and 2024.

In February 2021, after considering light rail and BRT for the rapid transit route, LinkUS chose BRT. It cited a lower construction and operation cost while maintaining many benefits of light rail.

In June 2021, the design process started as the city approved a $4.5 million contract to TransSystems Corp.; $3.75 million of this is from COTA and the rest is contributed by the city. COTA and city officials want construction on the line to start by the end of the decade; first they will apply for federal funds, a process that can take years.

See also
 List of bus rapid transit systems in the Americas
 List of transport megaprojects

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Bus rapid transit in Ohio
Central Ohio Transit Authority
Transportation in Columbus, Ohio
Qian Minggao. Qian Minggao (; 11 December 1932 – 23 September 2022) was a Chinese scientist who was a professor at the China University of Mining and Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Qian was one of the main founders of the discipline of mine pressure and strata control in China.

Biography
Qian was born in Wuxi County (now Wuxi), Jiangsu, on 11 December 1932, to a coach driver. In 1954, he graduated from Northeast Institute of Technology (now Northeastern University) majoring in mining engineering before gaining a master's degree in coal mining from Beijing Institute of Mining (now China University of Mining and Technology). After graduation, he stayed and taught there.

In January 1970, Qian became director of Mine Pressure Research Office, Sichuan Institute of Mining, a post he kept until January 1980, when he returned to China University of Mining and Technology as associate professor of the Department of Mining Engineering, and was later promoted to full professor in January 1984 than head of Department of Mining Engineering in January 1987. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1983.

On 23 September 2022, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 89.

Honours and awards
 1989 State Natural Science Award (Third Class) for the activity law of overlying strata in stope
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1996 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the roof and support quality monitoring system in fully mechanized coal face
 1998 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the surrounding rock control of coal mines in China

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2022 deaths
People from Wuxi
Engineers from Jiangsu
Northeastern University alumni
China University of Mining and Technology alumni
Academic staff of China University of Mining and Technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Linda Schmidt. Linda Catherine Schmidt (November 27, 1958 – March 12, 2021) was an American mechanical engineer whose interests included the engineering design process, the use of formal grammars in design, and engineering education. She was a faculty member in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Life
Schmidt was born on November 27, 1958, in Blue Island, Illinois. She studied industrial engineering at Iowa State University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1989 and a master's degree in 1991. Her master's degree research concerned queueing theory, under the mentorship of John Jackman. She next went to Carnegie Mellon University for doctoral study in mechanical engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 1995. Her dissertation, An Implementation Using Grammars of an Abstraction-Based Model of Mechanical Design for Design Optimization and Design Space Characterization, was supervised by Jonathan Cagan.

She joined the University of Maryland as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 1995, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2001. At the University of Maryland, she founded and directed the Designer Assistance Tool Laboratory, and the DesignME Suite, a group of three student engineering design laboratories.

She died on March 12, 2021.

Recognition
Schmidt was the 2008 winner of the Fred Merryfield Design Award of the American Society for Engineering Education. She was named as an ASME Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014, "for her influential role in the development of the field of engineering design and her lasting contributions to these fields".

Books
Schmidt was the author or coauthor of books including:
Product Engineering and Manufacturing (with Cunniff, Daily, Dieter, Hermann, Zhang, and Cunniff, College House, 1998; 2nd ed., 2002)
Engineering Design (with George E. Dieter, McGraw Hill, 4th ed., 2009)

She was coeditor of:
Decision Making in Engineering Design (with Chen and Lewis, ASME Press, 2006)

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1958 births
2021 deaths
People from Blue Island, Illinois
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Iowa State University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
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