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Mathias Kolle. Mathias Kolle is a German physicist specializing in bio-inspired optics, optoelectronics and materials science and head of the Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He currently holds the Rockwell Career Development Professorship and is Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department (MECHE) at MIT.

Education 
Kolle graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Gera in 2000.  He then completed his trinational physics studies with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He also studied at the Henri Poincaré University in Nancy and at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. After completing his studies, Kolle moved to the University of Cambridge in Cambridge in 200 d did his doctorate in 2010 under Ullrich Steiner on the subject of "Photonic structures inspired by nature". As a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kolle conducted research from 2010 to 2013 at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University before being appointed Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts in 2013.

Teaching 
At MIT, in addition to seminars, Kolle holds the basic course on measurement and instrumentation.

Memberships and expert work 
Since 2016, Kolle is also a consultant for the International Scientific Committee for the Living Light Conference

Publications 
Kolle is (as of April 2024) the author or co-author of over 140 scientific articles in international journals. According to the Web of Science, his work has been cited over 5,000 times, resulting in an h-index (according to Google Scholar) of 40.

His most cited publications include the articles "A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet" (Nature Communications), "Multifunctionality of Chiton Biomineralized Armor with an Integrated Visual System" (Science), "Bio-inspired band-gap tunable elastic optical multilayer fibers", or "Structural Color in Animals", which he published in collaboration with researchers such as Joanna Aizenberg or Eric Mazur.

His dissertation on “Photonic Structures Inspired by Nature” was published as a book by Springer Verlag.

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DEC741. The DEC741 is a diesel-electric multiple unit (DMU) departmental train operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is Japan's first route inspection train to incorporate artificial intelligence.

Overview 
Details of the DEC741 were announced on 27 October 2021. The train incorporates artificial intelligence (AI), being the first route inspection train in Japan to do so; it is scheduled to begin commercial operation in 2025, replacing the KuMoYa 443 dual-voltage electric multiple unit. JR West intends to use AI as a means to cover labor shortages, which is a growing issue for the railway industry.

The DEC741 is able to run on the entirety of the JR West conventional line network. It will also be able to run on and inspect rail networks from other operators, including the JR Kyushu and JR Shikoku networks, the IR Ishikawa Railway, and the Echigo Tokimeki Railway.

Design 
The body and underframe are made of steel. Each car is  long and  wide. The train type has a maximum speed of .

Livery 
The DEC741 series carries a livery with a blue base and a yellow stripe, which makes the train more visible at night.

Equipment 
The trainset is equipped with 64 cameras, 44 infrared lights for nighttime use, and a diamond-shaped pantograph to inspect overhead wires. It also uses the same traction system as the DEC700 railcar.

Formation 

DEC741-1 has 50 roof-mounted cameras. DEC741-101 is equipped with a diamond-shaped pantograph.

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External links 

 Press release (in Japanese)

Diesel multiple units of Japan
Non-passenger multiple units
Kinki Sharyo multiple units
Raif Nagm. Raif Nagm (; 1926 – 24 November 2021) was a Jordanian civil engineer and politician.

Biography
He served as Minister of Public Works and Housing from 1984 to 1985 and was also Minister of Awqaf Islamic Affairs and Holy Places.

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Elizabeth Topp. Elizabeth Murphy Topp is an American pharmaceutical scientist and educator known for her work in solid‐state chemical stability of proteins and peptides. In 2000s Topp introduced solid-state hydrogen-deuterium exchange as the method for stability characterization of lyophilized biopharmaceutical formulations. She is the Chief Scientific Officer at National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin, Ireland since September 2019. Topp was on the faculty at the University of Kansas Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from 1986 to 2009. She has been the Head and Dane O. Kildsig Chair at the Department of Industrial and Physical Chemistry at Purdue University College of Pharmacy from 2009 to 2017. Topp has been elected a fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2010 for "making sustained remarkable scholarly and research contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences". In 2015 Topp co-founded, with Alina Alexeenko, an industry-university consortium LyoHUB for advancing pharmaceutical lyophilization technology.

Topp earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering form the University of Delaware, M.E. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from University of Michigan.

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Tad Czapski. Tad Czapski (born 27 May 1957) is a British Formula One engineer.

Career 
From childhood, Czapski's passion was electronics. After graduating from school, he became a student of the Electronics Department of Bangor University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree. Then he decided to research a relatively new digital signal processing system, which won him many awards and a master's degree. In the mid-1980s, he worked in Birmingham for the automotive company Lucas Industries mainly on improving fuel injection. After a few years, Czapski founded an electronics design consultancy, and for the next eight years he specialized in electronic control systems in the aerospace industry.

In June 1991, Tom Walkinshaw became chief engineer for Benetton in Formula One. He quickly began searching for a new generation of engineers to meet the new challenges imposed by Benetton in Formula 1. In the fall of 1992, Czapski joined Benetton, working in advanced electronic systems such as active suspension, automatic transmissions, ABS and traction control. Czapski was responsible for the control systems in the Benetton B193 drive train. However, in October 1993, the FIA imposed a ban on the use of any electronic aids.

The 1994 season began with many suspicions that some bands were using electronic systems despite the ban. The dispute reached its peak in August, when the FIA announced that an analysis of Michael Schumacher's Benetton B194 software at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix showed that it contained a launch control system that exploited the maximum power of the propulsion system and allowed for a fully automated start. This system could be activated from a laptop by selecting the thirteenth option (out of 10 visible on the screen). However, in the absence of evidence of the use of this system, the FIA did not penalize Benetton with the exception of $100,000 due to significant delays in the delivery of the engine management systems.

In 1996, Czapski moved with Schumacher to Scuderia Ferrari, but after winning the title by Schumacher in 2000, Czapski returned to Great Britain, where he resumed working for Benetton. In 2002, he became head of research and development at the Renault F1 team. In 2009, he became an employee of Mercedes GP. Czapski no longer works in Formula One and is currently a trustee at a charity based in Cheltenham.

The monthly F1 Racing described Czapski as "the Polish wizard of electronics". The weekly Auto Świat suggested that the successes of Schumacher or Renault largely depended on Czapski.

References

External links
 Profile at grandprix.com

Living people
1957 births
British motorsport people
Formula One engineers
Alumni of Bangor University
Galați–Brăila Expressway. The Danube Expressway or Galați–Brăila Expressway () is an expressway under construction in the south-eastern part of Romania, that will probably be labelled as the DEx6. It will link the cities of Galați and Brăila, be  long and serve as an alternative to the existing two-lane DN22B  () road.

Under construction as of 2021, the expressway is being built by the Romanian company Spedition UMB with scheduled opening in 2024, costing 371 million lei. It is part of the series of major infrastructure projects planned within the proposed Danube metropolitan area, which includes a bridge over the Danube river in Brăila.

See also
Roads in Romania
Transport in Romania

References

Proposed roads in Romania
Expressways in Romania
Friction Acoustics. Solid bodies in contact that undergo shear relative motion (friction) radiate energy. Part of this energy is radiated directly into the surrounding fluid media, and another part radiates throughout the solid bides and the connecting boundary conditions. The coupling of structural vibration and acoustic radiation takes is rooted in the mechanism of atomic oscillations, by which kinetic energy is translated to thermal energy. 

This field involves principles of acoustics, solid mechanics, contact dynamics, and tribology.

Coupling and Stick-Slip
Vibrational energy induced by either kinetic or breakaway friction can cause modal excitation of a subset of the contacting bodies or the vibratory coupling of the multiple bodies, depending on the strength of coupling. 

Friction noise can be the product of multiple distinct dynamic processes, sliding and stick-slip. Sliding generally leads to stick-slip under a decreasing friction-velocity relation, or other unstable oscillations.

Weak Contact 
When normal forces are low, the solid bodies vibratory modes are weakly excited. The resulting noise generated is known as roughness noise. This noise is largely broad-band near the surface, and radiation efficiency and material geometry dictates which frequency content is radiated into the far field. 

Surfaces that are relatively smooth, or well-lubricated, low normal forces, and low relative velocities are prone to set conditions for this regime, and avoid stick-slip.

Strong Contact 
Under some conditions, the radiated energy is high at the mechanical eigenmodes of the coupled system. This  conditions is more likely under higher roughness, higher normal loads, and higher relative sliding velocities.

Empirical Relationships 
A review of observed relationships between sound pressure due to friction and parameters such as normal force, roughness, and sliding velocity is provided by Feng et al.

References 

Friction
Acoustics
Volker Markl. Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher.

Career
In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral research led to the development of the UB-Tree. From 1997 to 2000, he was research group leader at FORWISS, the Bavarian research center for knowledge-based systems. From 2001 to 2008, he was project leader at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley. Since 2008, he has been full professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at Technische Universität Berlin. Since 2014, he is head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin. From 2014 to 2020, he was director of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC). From 2018 to 2020, he was co-director of the Berlin Machine Learning Center (BZML). Together with Klaus-Robert Müller he became director of the new Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), after both BBDC and the BZML merged into BIFOLD in 2020.

From 2010 through 2019, he led the DFG funded Stratosphere project, which led to the establishment of Apache Flink. In 2018, he was elected president of the VLDB Endowment.

Research
Markl’s research interests lie at the intersection of distributed systems, scalable data processing, and machine learning.

Awards and honors
Markl was elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2021.

His work was honoured with several awards, including:
 2021 ICDE Best Paper Award
 2021 BTW Best Paper Award
 2020 ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award
 2020 ACM Fellow
 2019 EDBT Best Paper Award
 2017 BTW Best Paper Award
 2017 EDBT Best Demonstration Award
 2016 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
 2014 VLDB Best Paper Award
 2012 IBM Faculty Award
 2012 IBM Shared University Research Grant
 2010 Hewlett Packard Open Innovation Award
 2005 IBM Outstanding Technological Achievement Award
 2005 IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award

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Machine learning researchers
Database researchers
2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin
German computer scientists
Living people
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1971 births
Duminda Wijesekera. Duminda Wijesekera is an American computer scientist of Sri Lankan descent. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University and acting chair of Cyber Security Engineering Department. He is also a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1997) and another PhD in Mathematical Logic from Cornell University (1990). He has a Bachelors in Mathematics from University of Colombo. He also holds a courtesy appointments at the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, NIST. He has published more than 100 research papers in the area of cybersecurity. He was also part of the team that investigated Metro Blue Line derailment in Washington DC.

Wijesekera also leads the Laboratory of Radio and RADAR Engineering (RARE) which is a collaboration between academia, industry and government. In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is also considered to be an expert in identifying money laundering using mathematical models and has done research on linking organ trafficking to terrorist networks.

Publications 
 Michael, James Bret, Doron Drusinsky, and Duminda Wijesekera. "Formal Methods in Cyberphysical Systems." Computer 54, no. 09 (2021): 25–29.
 Wang, Lingyu, Duminda Wijesekera, and Sushil Jajodia. "A logic-based framework for attribute based access control." In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Formal methods in security engineering, pp. 45–55. 2004.
 Ammann, Paul, Duminda Wijesekera, and Saket Kaushik. "Scalable, graph-based network vulnerability analysis." In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 217–224. 2002.
 Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia and Duminda Wijesekera, Preserving Privacy for OnLine Analytical processing, Springer-Verlag, 2006.

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Numerica Corporation. Numerica Corporation is an air and missile defense company.

History 
Numerica was founded by Aubrey B. Poore, an applied mathematics professor at Colorado State University, in 1996. It is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with a second office in Colorado Springs, and a third also in Fort Collins. It has around 70 employees.

In 2022, the Space Division of Numerica was acquired by Slingshot Aerospace.

Facilities 

Numerica has a worldwide network of around 20 ground-based optical telescopes to track satellites, with around 130 optical sensors. These include telescopes with apertures of ,  and , which operate both at night and during daylight. Originally targeted at geostationary satellites, they were upgraded in 2021 so that they could be used to track low Earth orbit satellites. The use of optical telescopes is aimed at complementing existing radar tracking facilities to provide surveillance and tracking data. It has been contracted by the UK Space Agency to provide information about UK-licensed satellites in orbit, and is also contracted by the United States Air Force.

In November 2021 it imaged the debris cloud from the destruction of Kosmos 1408 by a Russian anti-satellite missile.

It also sells short-range radar systems, including to the United States Army.

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Space organizations
1996 establishments in Colorado
Fort Collins, Colorado
Guantang LNG Terminal. The Guantang LNG Terminal () is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal under construction in Datan Borough, Guanyin District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

History
The terminal design was originally drafted in 2015. In 2018, the government considered relocating the terminal but rejected this idea because the new proposed site was reserved for a planned offshore wind farm. On 8 October 2018, the terminal project passed its environmental impact assessment. The construction of the terminal is expected to be completed by 2025.

Architecture
The terminal will span an area of 9 km2. The original location of the terminal was proposed to be 455 meters from the coastline. However, due to pressure from environmental activists over to the existence of a sensitive coral reef in the nearby area, the terminal was redesigned to be 750 meters further away, with a total distance of around 1.2 km out to the sea from the shoreline. The relocation design was expected to add NT$15 billion to the cost of the project, for an estimated total cost of NT$75 billion.

See also
 List of LNG terminals

References

Buildings and structures in Taoyuan City
Buildings and structures under construction in Taiwan
Liquefied natural gas terminals in Taiwan
Engineering information management. Engineering information management (EIM) is the business function within product development and specifically systems engineering that allows engineers to collaborate on a single source of truth of engineering data.

Contrary to product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM), its main purpose is not storage of CAD-related drawings and files, but rather the full execution of the V-model for hardware development, complementing and integrating to the above mentioned systems.

Scope 
EIM systems enable collaboration on all important aspects of the engineering lifecycle, such as: 

 Requirements management
 Functional design
 Product architecture
 Detailed systems design and simulation 
 Verification and validation 
 Documentation 

EIM systems implement the activities on both sides of the engineering V-model. Instead of being purely a data storage, it focuses also on the human interaction with the models and data, thus enabling concurrent engineering.  

EIM therefore enables the optimization of products and engineering processes, where traditional methodologies have become ineffective in keeping up with rising product and process complexity.

Interactions with the other engineering management systems 
EIM systems do directly and indirectly interact with other tools in the engineering information infrastructure, such as:
 Computer simulation tools
 Automated hardware testing tools
 Product lifecycle and product data management systems
 Enterprise resource planning tools
 Manufacturing execution systems
 Computer-aided design (MCAD) and electronic design automation (ECAD) tools

References 

Product development
Systems engineering
Information management
Eric Franklin Wood. Eric Franklin Wood (1947 – 3 November 2021) was a Canadian-American hydrologist.

Wood was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1947. He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1970, and completed a doctor of science degree in the subject at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1976, was later named Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and retired in 2019 with emeritus status. He was a fellow and 2010 awardee of the American Meteorological Society's Jule G. Charney Award. The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering also granted Wood fellowship in 2010. Wood was selected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013, received the European Geosciences Union's  in 2014, elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015, "[f]or development of land surface models and use of remote sensing for hydrologic modeling and prediction," and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017. The American Geophysical Union awarded fellowship, and in 2017, the Robert E. Horton Medal to Wood.

Wood died of cancer on 3 November 2021.

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Indian Airlines Flight 403. Indian Airlines Flight 403 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad to Bangalore. On 17 December 1978, the Boeing 737-2A8 crashed during takeoff, killing one passenger and causing three additional ground casualties.

Aircraft 
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 737-2A8 with serial number 20485 and construction number 277, registered as VT-EAL. The plane was seven years and ten months old at the time of the crash. It was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A turbojet engines.

Accident 
During takeoff from Runway 09 at Begumpet Airport, the aircraft entered a stall. The flight crew aborted the takeoff and attempted a wheels-up landing. The aircraft skidded , overshooting the runway and breaking the airport's perimeter fence before coming to a stop in flames. One passenger was killed, along with three more people who were cutting grass near the airport fence at the time of the accident.

Investigation 
Investigators determined that the leading edge devices were not extended during rotation due to a technical fault.

See also 

 China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119

References 

History of Telangana
Transport in Telangana
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1978
Aviation accidents and incidents in India
Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737 Original
Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure