omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
BLS RABe 528. The BLS RABe 528, also known as MIKA, is a class of passenger electric multiple unit manufactured by Stadler Rail for BLS AG. It is a derivative of the Stadler FLIRT and began entering service in 2021. It is comparable to the Traverso of Südostbahn.

History 
BLS AG ordered 58 trainsets from Stadler Rail in 2017 at a cost of . BLS planned to use the trains on Bern S-Bahn services and on longer RegioExpress services. The RABe 528 will replace locomotive-hauled  coaches and the  and  multiple units. The first trains entered service on 10 May 2021 on the InterRegio 66 between  and .

Design 
Each formation is composed of six cars, with a maximum seating capacity of 275. They can accommodate another 200 standees. Altogether the formation is  long. Cars are  wide and  tall. The design speed is . There are different internal layouts for longer-distance trains compared to S-Bahn trains but they are mechanically identical.

Naming 

It is common customs for Swiss railway companies to name their locomotives (e.g.  SBB Re 620, BLS Re 465) and MUs (e.g. SBB RABe 501, SOB RABe 526, BLS RABe 515, BLS RABe 525). Ten BLS RABe 528 are named after communes in the Swiss cantons of Bern, Lucerne and Neuchâtel, while two additional ones are named after communes in the Italian state of Piedmont. Each train bears the commune's coat of arms (COA) below the driver's window. The list below contains only named trainsets with their respective number (№). , RABe 528 110 has a special livery of Kambly.

Notes

References

External links 
 
 RABe 528 – «MIKA» – The future has begun
 Technical drawing

Stadler Rail multiple units
Multiple units of Switzerland
Train-related introductions in 2021
15 kV AC multiple units
Buick Electra E5. The Buick Electra E5 is a battery electric mid-size crossover SUV manufactured by SAIC-GM under the Buick brand.

History
The Buick Electra E5 is the first product of the Buick Electra electric vehicle series and was introduced during 2023 Auto Shanghai. It will be produced by SAIC-GM joint venture in China in the first half of 2023. It is equipped with GM Ultium batteries shared with other GM battery electric vehicles, and will be equipped with the Super Cruise driving assistance system.

It is the first vehicle under the Electra sub-brand of Buick electric vehicles, a name reused from the Buick Electra produced between 1959 and 1990.

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Electra E5
Cars introduced in 2023
Compact crossover sport utility vehicles
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Production electric cars
Athina Anastasaki. Athina Anastasaki (; born 1988) is a Greek chemist who is a professor at ETH Zurich. Her research considers chemical synthesis and radical polymerisation. She was awarded the 2022 Ruzicka Prize in recognition of her research in chemistry.

Early life and education 
Anastasaki was born in Athens, Greece. Her parents are from Crete. She completed her undergraduate studies in chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she studied polymer chemistry, with a particular focus on poly(methyl methacrylate). She moved to the University of Warwick where she worked with David Haddleton. She was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Jon Weaver Award for the UK's best PhD in Polymer chemistry. Her doctoral research considered copper mediated living radical polymerisation. After completing her doctorate, she was made a research fellow in pharmaceutical sciences. Anastasaki was awarded an Elings Fellowship and a Global Marie Curie Fellowship to work with Craig Hawker at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Research and career 
Anastasaki joined the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich in 2019. She became an associate editor of Polymer Chemistry in 2021. Her research considers polymer synthesis and green chemistry.

Anastasaki developed a new approach to control the disparity of polymeric materials that preserved the ends of polymer chains. This strategy, which involved a switchable RAFT (Reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer) agent, permits the synthesis of complex, multi-block polymers. She has also shown it is possible to regenerate the monomors of Plexiglass (poly(methyl methacrylate)) up to a 90% yield.

Anastasaki wrote a perspective on applying for a European Research Council Starting Grant for Angewandte Chemie. She outlined her "first two unsuccessful attempts to secure an ERC Starting Grant and how the lessons learned during the process led [her] to ultimately secure a grant upon [her] third attempt".

Awards and honours 
 2020 Hanwha-Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award
 2020 ERC Starting Grant
 2022 ETH Zurich Ruzicka Prize
 2022 EuChemS Lecture Award

Selected publications

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Living people
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Irene Gargantini. Irene Antonia Gargantini (born 1934) is an Italian-Canadian retired computer scientist and numerical analyst, known for her research on root-finding algorithms and quadtrees and octrees, and in particular for introducing the use of hash tables in place of pointer-based structures for representing quadtrees and octrees. In her retirement as a professor emerita at the University of Western Ontario, she has also become a self-published novelist under the pseudonym René Natan.

Early life and education
Gargantini was born in 1934 in Milan, the daughter of a railroad engineer. With the encouragement of her parents, she studied physics at the University of Milan, and after earning a doctorate there, she became a researcher at the university, where her work involved the calculation of electron trajectories in synchrotrons, using a computer from the Computer Research Corporation.

Career and later life
She continued her work on computer-assisted physics calculations at the European Atomic Energy Community beginning in 1958, and at IBM Research in Switzerland beginning in 1965. There, her interests began shifting to the newly established field of numerical analysis.

After seeing an announcement in the Communications of the ACM for a new computer science program at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, headed by John Hart (whose research she had used at IBM), she took a faculty position in the program, beginning in 1968. She became department chair from 1986 to 1991, becoming the first female chair of a computer science department in Canada. She retired in 2000.

Selected publications
Gargantini's research publications include:

References

External links
Réne Natan official website

1934 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Numerical analysts
University of Milan alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Volkswagen Group MMB platform. The Volkswagen Group MMB platform (Modularer Mittelmotor Baukasten) is the company's strategy for shared modular design construction of its rear mid-engined or rear-engined sports cars. It was developed by Porsche and it has been in use since 2016, having been introduced with the Porsche 982.

MMB-based models

Models 
Porsche 982 (2016–present)
Porsche 992 (2019–present)

See also
 Volkswagen Group MSB platform
 List of Volkswagen Group platforms

References

External links
Volkswagen Group corporate website

Volkswagen Group platforms
Porsche
Egyptian Space Agency. The Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) is an Egyptian space program founded on 17 January 2018, succeeding the National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS) as the premier space authority in Egypt. The EgSA headquarters are housed in the Egyptian Space City, which also houses the African Space Agency (AfSA) headquarters, after Egypt won a bid to the African Union for its hosting in 2019. The EgSA operates under the scope of the Egyptian Government and sees many of its executive decisions made at a presidential level. EgSA is currently responsible for satellite launches and monitoring, as well providing a platform for affiliated STEM fields to further develop in Egypt. The EgSA and its predecessor have administered 13 satellites as of August 2024, with the first one being EgyptSat 1 in 2007, and the most recent being NEXSAT-1 launched on the 3rd of February, 2024.

History

Establishment of EgSA 
After drafting a law facilitating the founding of an Egyptian Space Agency, the Egyptian Council of Ministers had deferred the action to the Parliament of Egypt, which soon approved the law on 14 November 2017, and finally it was ratified by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi as Law no.3 of 2018, officially establishing EgSA on 17 January 2018. To house this agency, a 5,000 square meter "space city" is being constructed consisting of twenty-three buildings, located in-between the fifth settlement of New Cairo and the country's New Administrative Capital (NAC). The EgSA has already begun operations in the space city, though it likely will not be fully operational for years.

Management 
The Egyptian Space Agency is (at a basic level) headed by a Chief Executive Director, the current head is Prof. Dr. Sherif Sedky (19 August 2022–present), who was preceded by Prof. Dr. Mohamed El-Qousi (January 2018-August 2022), the first to hold the position. All two of the Chief Executive Directors of the EgSA have been selected through Presidential Decree. The EgSA is altogether headed by a Board of Directors established by presidential decree in 2019, members of which include the Chief Executive Director of EgSA, the prime minister of Egypt, the minister of higher education, the minister of communications and information technology, and several representatives from multiple other ministries.

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Space agencies
Government agencies established in 2018
Government agencies of Egypt
Space program of Egypt
2018 establishments in Egypt
Firebolt Analytics. Firebolt Analytics is a data software company, operating globally. Its main product is a cloud data warehousing platform for data engineers. Firebolt was founded and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Overview 
Firebolt Analytics was founded on January 1, 2019, by Eldad Farkash, developer of databases, and Saar Bitner, marketing strategist, who worked previously together in Sisense. Firebolt has developed a cloud data warehouse for quick analyzing of high volumes of information.

On December 9, 2020, it launched its data warehousing platform after raising $37 million in a Series A round of funding.

On June 24, 2021, Firebolt Analytics the Series B round was led by Dawn Capital and K5 Global and the company received $127 million. It became a unicorn according to Forbes Israel.

According to ZDNet Mosha Pasumansky joined the company as the CTO.

In January 2022, Firebolt became a unicorn by completing a $100 million Series C financing round at a company valuation of $1.4 billion.

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Zhao Yijun. Zhao Yijun (; 26 November 1930 – 21 December 2022) was a Chinese engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Zhao was born in Peiping (now Beijing), on 26 November 1930, to , a physicist. He had a younger brother named Zhao Yisun () who died from an illness at an early age. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in order to escape the war, his family relocated to Chongqing, where he attended the School Affiliated to Central University in 1944. In 1950, he was admitted to Peking University, where he majored in physics.

After graduating in 1953, Zhao was dispatched to Harbin Institute of Military Engineering, where he worked at the Department of Naval Engineering from 1953 to 1962 and the Department of Atomic Engineering from 1962 to 1970. In January 1970, he moved to National University of Defense Technology, and taught at the Department of Physics. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1984.

On 21 December 2022, Zhao died in Beijing, at the age of 92.

Honours and awards
 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1997 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)

References

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Zhang Guocheng. Zhang Guocheng (; 12 October 1931 – 21 December 2022) was a Chinese engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Zhang was born in Kunming, Yunnan, on 12 October 1931. 

He entered the Arts and Crafts Corps of the Logistics and Political Department of the Fourth Corps of the PLA Second Field Army in January 1950, and worked for a year. In January 1952, he was accepted to Yunnan University, majoring in the Department of Metallurgy. Two years later, he went on to attend Kunming Institute of Technology (now Kunming University of Science and Technology), where he majored in the Department of Metallurgy. After graduating in January 1956, he was assigned to the General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, where he worked until retirement.

On 21 December 2022, Zhang died in Beijing, at the age of 91, from COVID-19.

Honours and awards
 1987 State Technological Invention Award (Third Class)
 1990 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class)
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1997 Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 1999 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)

References

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People from Kunming
Engineers from Yunnan
Yunnan University alumni
Kunming University of Science and Technology alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in China
Hafnium(III) iodide. Hafnium(III) iodide is an inorganic compound of hafnium and iodine with the formula Hf I3. It is a black solid.

Preparation
Like other group 4 trihalides, hafnium(III) iodide can be prepared from hafnium(IV) iodide by high-temperature reduction with hafnium metal, although incomplete reaction and contamination of the product with excess metal often occurs.

3 Hf I4 + Hf → 4 Hf I3

Other metals can be used as the reducing agent, for example aluminium. The product is often nonstoichiometric, with the compositions Hf I3.2–3.3 and Hf I3.0–3.5 reported.

Structure and bonding
Hafnium(III) iodide adopts the same crystal structure as zirconium(III) iodide. This is very similar to the β-TiCl3 structure. The structure is based on hexagonal close packing of iodide ions with one third of the octahedral interstices occupied by Hf3+ ions. It consists of parallel chains of face-sharing {HfI6} octahedra.

Hafnium(III) iodide has a lower magnetic moment than is expected for the d1 metal ion Hf3+, indicating non-negligible Hf–Hf bonding. The Hf–Hf separation was originally reported to be 3.295 Å, but a subsequent study of nonstoichiometric hafnium(III) iodide indicated a lower symmetry structure.

Reactivity
Like the chloride and bromide, hafnium(III) iodide is a powerful enough reducing agent to reduce water and therefore does not have any aqueous chemistry.

References

Hafnium compounds
Iodides
Metal halides
Sheila Lopez. Sheila Lopez (born ) is an American electrical engineer and LGBT rights advocate. She cofounded and serves as president of the Native American PFLAG chapter in Phoenix, Arizona.

Life 
Lopez was born  in Winslow, Arizona to a Navajo mother from Greasewood, Arizona and a Mexican father from Winslow. Her maternal grandfather was a medicine man. Lopez was pregnant in high school before starting college. She completed an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Northern Arizona University. After graduation, Lopez joined HP Inc. as a manufacturing engineer. She worked in software testing, validation, and semiconductor fabrication. She joined Intel where she serves as the veterans and LGBTQ program manager.

Lopez joined PFLAG in 2009 after her two oldest children came out. In June 2011, she cofounded and serves as president of the Native PFLAG group supporting tribes in the Arizona area. In 2015, Lopez received a VH1 Trailblazer Honor for her LGBT rights activism. In 2019, she organized the first pow wow for the Phoenix Native LGBT and two-spirit community. She won the 2019 American Indian Science and Engineering Society Blazing Fame award.

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21st-century American women engineers
Hispanic and Latino American women scientists
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Native American activists
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Nicholas Coops. Nicholas Charles Coops  is an Australian-Canadian researcher. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing at the University of British Columbia's Department of Forest Resources Management. In 2020, Coops received the Marcus Wallenberg Prize in recognition of his work in with satellite imagery in order to make predictions about forest growth and the ability of forests to store carbon.

Early life and education
Coops was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1968. He completed his PhD at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1995 and began working with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. During his time in Australia, Coops developed satellite and airborne remote sensing technologies to aid in forest management and conservation activities.

Career
Coops left his native Australia in 2004 to become a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia's Department of Forest Resources Management. In this role, he undertakes a range of research projects which apply remote sensing data to forest growth and biodiversity issues. Recently he has focused on the integration of LIDAR and optical remote sensing for forest growth, vegetation / forest classification and the use of drones for high spatial resolution forestry operations and applications. In 2012, Coops was promoted to a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing to continue his research into using remote sensing technologies to improve forest structure and function. After serving for seven years, Coops was renewed as a Tier 1 chair in 2019. 

During his second term as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Coops' research of expanding conceptual advancements to geospatial modelling was recognized on an international scale. In 2020, Coops was the co-recipient of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize in recognition of his work with satellite imagery in order to make predictions about forest growth and the ability of forests to store carbon. Coops was also awarded the silver and gold medals of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) in 2014 and 2020 respectively for his service and leadership in remote sensing in Canada. Coops was recognised by UBC with their 2020 UBC Killam Research Prize in the Applied Science, Medicine and Sciences senior category. Nationally, in 2022 Coops was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for being "a global leader in the application of remote sensing technology for the management and monitoring of forest ecosystems." He was also named the 2022 Canadian Institute of Forestry Scientific Award recipient.

References

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Living people
1986 births
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Seleninyl fluoride. Seleninyl fluoride is an oxyfluoride of selenium with the chemical formula SeOF2.

Preparation
Seleninyl fluoride can be produced by the reaction of selenium oxychloride and potassium fluoride.
2 KF + SeOCl2 → 2 KCl + SeOF2

It can also be produced by the reaction of selenium tetrafluoride with water or selenium dioxide.
SeF4 + H2O → SeOF2 + 2 HF
SeF4 + SeO2 → 2 SeOF2

The reaction of selenium dioxide and sulfur tetrafluoride also produces seleninyl fluoride.
SeO2 + SF4 → SeOF2 + SOF2

Reactions
Seleninyl fluoride reacts with xenon difluoride to form Xe(OSeF5)2.
3 XeF2 + 2 SeOF2 → Xe(OSeF5)2 + 2 Xe

It reacts with fluorine gas and potassium fluoride to form pentafluoroselenium hypofluorite.
SeOF2 + KF → K+[SeOF3]− —F2→ K+[SeOF5]− —F2→ KF + SeOF6

Uses
Seleninyl fluoride have been used as specialty solvents.

References

Selenium(IV) compounds
Oxyfluorides
7th Engineer Brigade (United States). The 7th Engineer Brigade of the US Army was activated at Fort Belvoir in 1948.
Starting in 1951, while redesignated as the 7th Engineer Aviation Brigade, the brigade was responsible for all United States Aviation construction in France, Germany, and Italy. Starting in 1956, renamed back to 7th Engineer Brigade, the unit managed construction for NATO, to build up Western Europe from the disaster of World War 2. 

The brigade served for many years as the corps engineer formation for VII Corps. In the late 1980s the brigade reportedly was made up of headquarters at Kornwestheim; Headquarters and Headquarters Company; 9th Engineer Battalion, Aschaffenburg, (M60 AVLB, M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles, M88 Recovery Vehicles, MAB bridge modules); 78th Engineer Battalion, Ettlingen, (M60 AVLB, M728, M88, MAB bridge modules); 82nd Engineer Battalion, Bamberg, (M60 AVLB, M728, M88, 1MAB bridge modules); 237th Engineer Battalion, Heilbronn. All four of these engineer battalions may have had a Table of organization and equipment calling for 8x M60 AVLB, 8x M728, four M88s, and 12 MAB bridge modules. The last of the brigade's battalions was reportedly the 565th Engineer Battalion (Bridge), at Karlsruhe.

7th Engineer Brigade was inactivated in Germany in 1991. Throughout the early 1990s, the 130th Engineer Brigade would continue to see units come and go from its command as they were transferred from the restructuring 18th Engineer Brigade and the deactivating 7th Engineer Brigade.

The 21st Theater Command has listed on their official site that the 7th Engineer Brigade is going to return to Germany in the summer of 2023. The Stars and Stripes also reported in November 2022 that 7th Engineer Brigade was returning to Germany later in 2023.

Organization 2023 
 7th Engineer Brigade, in Ansbach
 15th Engineer Battalion, in Grafenwöhr
 Headquarters and Headquarters Company
 500th Engineer Company (Combat)
 902nd Engineer Company (Construction)
 Forward Support Company

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Engineer Brigades of the United States Army
Military units and formations established in the 1940s
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992
Military units and formations established in 2023