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Eva Olsson (scientist). Eva Olsson (born 12 October 1960) is a Swedish physicist who is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and part of the selection committee for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Early life and education 
Olsson was an undergraduate student in Gothenburg at the Chalmers University of Technology, where she specialised in engineering physics. She worked on mirror furnaces for her undergraduate diploma. After graduating, she remained at Chalmers and started a doctoral research project studying the interfacial structures of zinc oxide varistor materials. She moved to the United States as a researcher with David R. Clarke at IBM. She returned to the Chalmers University of Technology in 1991, where she was eventually awarded her docent degree.

Research and career 
Olsson was appointed associate professor at Chalmers in 1996. She was appointed professor at Uppsala University a year later, where she worked for four years before returning to Chalmers as a full professor. At Chalmers, Olsson has served as Director of Material Analysis, Head of Microscopy and Head of Applied Physics.

Olsson develops novel characterisation techniques for materials. She is mainly interested in materials for emerging technologies, including catalysis, photovoltaic and quantum devices. In particular, Olsson works with electron microscopy. In 2013, Olsson was awarded  from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, with which she developed soft microscopy. Soft microscopy involves developing ways to use electron microscopes to study soft and semi-hard materials, creating new avenues for advances in material science.

When characterising gold using an electron microscope at the highest level of magnification, it was discovered that they could force gold to melt at room temperature. The initial discovery was made by Ludvig de Knoop who was a researcher in her group. He noticed that the surface of gold lost its bonds under the bombardment with electrons within an electron microscope. Knoop and Olsson were among those who wrote the paper for the journal Physical Review Materials in 2018. Olsson could see applications of this phenomenon for sensors and transistors. In 2018, she was awarded a further  to study plasmon-exciton coupling.

Olsson is a member of the Nobel Prize in Physics Selection Committee. When men won all of the science Nobel prizes in 2021, Olsson said "We want to have more women nominated".

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Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology
Swedish women physicists
1960 births
Living people
Wicat Systems. Wicat Systems, Inc., was an American computer and software company founded in 1980 in Orem, Utah. Originally a branch of WICAT, the World Institute for Computer-Assisted Teaching (later the Wicat Education Institute), the company manufactured multi-user systems for educational institutions before focusing their efforts on educational software development in the early 1990s. The company was among the first to use the Motorola 68000 microprocessor in a computer with the introduction of the Wicat System 100 in 1980. Both Wicat Systems and its parent institution were founded by Dustin H. Heuston, originally of New York.

History
At its peak in the mid-1980s, Wicat Systems employed 500 and had an annual budget of US$40 million. The company formed a joint venture with Control Data Corporation in early 1985. Named Plato/Wicat after Control Data's Plato educational software, the venture was intended to "address the entire educational process, including computer-based instructional courseware, testing and evaluation, and classroom management and administration".

In 1992, the company was acquired by Jostens in a stock swap valuated at roughly $111 million. Jostens, who had a rival educational software division Jostens Learning which was aimed at preschools, planned to use the Wicat Systems repertoire to increase their presence in high schools and higher education.

During the period from the late 1980's to 1996, Wicat Systems also operated a UK branch in Camberley in Surrey. During this period, Wicat produced CBT (computer based training - the forerunner of eLearning), and partial cockpit simulations for aviation clients. These included many of the then-leading airlines and aircraft manufacturers and training covered pilot, cabin crew and ground crew training. Norfolk Southern Railway  was another of many non-aviation clients.

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Perpetual Motion Machine (album). Perpetual Motion Machine is an album by the Canadian band 13 Engines, released in 1993. It was the band's fourth album, and the second one released by a major label. The album's first single was "More".

Production
The album was produced by frontman John Critchley, with help from Glen Robinson. It was recorded at Le Studio, in Morin-Heights, Quebec. Compared to sessions for their previous albums, the band spent a longer period of time in the studio, exploring overdubbing and trying different mixes. The cellist Anne Bourne contributed to the album. "Saviour" is about the Second Coming.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the unpretentiously arty album lacked only a marketing gimmick (or a transcendent single, although 'Smoke & Ashes' comes mighty close) to get 13 Engines onto the alt-hit parade." Billboard also praised "Smoke & Ashes", calling it "the perfect two-minute rock song." The Philadelphia Inquirer called the album "much-improved," writing that 13 Engines displayed a "willingness to adapt elements of grunge to their songwriting." The State considered the album "a 14-track trip through the subtlety and simplicity that was once rock 'n' roll."

The Washington Post deemed the album "unadorned folk-rock that suggests, without slavishly imitating, Neil Young and Crazy Horse." The Calgary Herald thought that "ambiguous lyrics are delivered in a Morrison monotone style and then sung in wavering half-whispers, buoyed by guitars that slide from grungy psychedelia to hard-rock backbeats." The Edmonton Journal chose Perpetual Motion Machine as the fourth best Canadian album of 1993, describing it as "energetic, original guitar rock with sneaky hooks and sometimes confusing lyrics."

AllMusic called Perpetual Motion Machine "a record that, while perhaps a bit cleaner sonically than their debut, finds the band still creating a glorious racket."

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13 Engines albums
1993 albums
EMI Records albums
Atlantic Records albums
Seyrig. Seyrig is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

 Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), Lebanese-born French actress and film director
  (1927-1979), French composer
 Henri Seyrig (1895–1973), French archaeologist, numismatist, and historian of antiquities
 Théophile Seyrig (1843–1923), German engineer, best known for designing bridges
Susan Bernal. Susan Andrea Bernal López (born 1982) is a Colombian materials scientist who is Professor of Sustainable Construction Materials at the University of Bath. Her research considers design, development and characterisation of novel cements and concretes. She was awarded the 2020 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal and Prize.

Early life and education 
Bernal was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the University of Valle, where she worked on alkali-activated cements (so-called geopolymers). Specifically, her doctoral research considered the carbonation of concretes that are based on alkaline activated slag. She worked with Ruby Mejía de Gutiérrez, a Professor of Materials Science, on a number of papers and they registered a patent together. During her doctorate she carried out two internships, one supported by the United States Department of Energy to work at the Argonne National Laboratory, and one at the University of Melbourne.

Research and career 
After graduating, Bernal moved to Aarhus University, where she spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the iNANO Instrument Center of the University of Aarhus (INANO).

In 2010, Bernal moved to the University of Melbourne, where she continued to work on geopolymers. Bernal was appointed as research fellow at the University of Sheffield in 2012, where she invetigated alternatives to conventional cements and concretes. Concrete is one of the world's most popular building materials, and contributes to five to eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. She was made a lecturer in 2015. 

In 2018, Bernal moved to the University of Leeds, where she continued to develop novel cements and concretes that are more sustainable and durable. In particular, she made use of natural clays and industrial waste. She joined the University of Leeds as an academic fellow and she became a professor there in 2019. In 2024 she relocated to the University of Bath, as a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Awards and recognitions 
 2005 Colombian Innovation Agency (COLCIENCIAS) Scholarship
 2008 Walter Mangold Trust Fund scholarship 
 2016 University of Valle Distinguished Graduate Award
 2016 RILEM (Réunion Internationale des Laboratoires et Experts des Matériaux, systèmes de construction et ouvrages) Gustavo Colonnetti medal
 2019 Institution of Civil Engineers Advances in Cement Research Prize
 2020 IOM3 Rosenhain Medal and Prize
 2021 Materials Research Society Kavli Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science
 2022 RILEM Robert L'Hermite Medal
 2024 RILEM Fellow

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21st-century Colombian scientists
21st-century Colombian women scientists
Colombian women scientists
University of Valle alumni
Academics of the University of Leeds
1982 births
Living people
People from Bogotá
Audrey Powers. Audrey Powers is the vice president of mission and flight operations of American aerospace and spaceflight company Blue Origin. On October 13, 2021, Powers accompanied William Shatner along with two other space tourists on a New Shepard rocket as part of the Blue Origin NS-18 mission into space.

She received a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from Purdue University and worked then as an engineer. As a guidance and controls engineer, she was a flight controller for NASA with 2000 hours of console time in Mission Control for the International Space Station Program. While supporting government satellite programs for Lockheed Martin, Ms. Powers received a Juris Doctor in 2008 from Santa Clara University School of Law. She currently works as a lawyer.

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American women business executives
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21st-century American businesswomen
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space tourists
Ghabir Dam. Ghabir dam is located on the border of Talagang District and Mianwali District of Punjab, Pakistan. Grabh Dam is a relatively new dam, having been constructed in 2014, but it has quickly become a popular tourist destination due to its stunning scenery and serene atmosphere. Grabh Dam is located about 150 kilometers from Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

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Dams in Pakistan
Mianwali District
Dams in Punjab, Pakistan

Talagang District
Gliders India. Gliders India Limited (GIL) is an Indian state-owned defence company, headquartered at Ordnance Parachute Factory in Kanpur, India established in 2021 as part of the restructuring and corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board into seven different Public Sector Undertakings. GIL primarily manufactures military parachutes for the use of the Indian Armed Forces and foreign militaries and parachutes for aero-sport and emergency services.

GIL's main manufacturing facility is the Ordnance Parachute Factory in Kanpur.

See also
Other PSUs formed from Ordnance Factory Board:-
Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited (AWE), Kanpur
Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVANI), Chennai
India Optel Limited (IOL), Dehradun
Munitions India Limited (MIL), Pune
Troop Comforts Limited (TCL), Kanpur
Yantra India Limited (YIL), Nagpur

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Companies based in Kanpur
Defence companies of India
Government-owned companies of India
Indian companies established in 2021
Manufacturing companies established in 2021
Project Dantak. Dantak, also known as Project DANTAK, is an overseas project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India. Project DANTAK was established on 24 April 1961 as a result of an agreement between Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, the third king of Bhutan and then Prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru. Colonel T.V.  Jaganathan was appointed as the first Chief Engineer of DANTAK. The project is involved in identifying the most important aspects of connectivity and in spurring the socio-economic development and growth of Bhutan, It is tasked to construct and maintain roads suitable for motorised transportation in Bhutan. and was established under the provision of the Indo-Bhutan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1949.

Works and involvement 

The project also constructs infrastructure in adjoining Indian districts, some of the important ones include Sherbathang–Nathu La road, Gangtok–Sherbathang road and Sevoke–Gangtok road.

The medical and education facilities established by DANTAK in outlying areas were the first in those regions. The Takthi Canteen, commonly known as the DANTAK canteen midway between Phuentsholing and Thimphu is a major stop for travelers.

The project recruits local workers from Bhutan as well as Indian workers from adjoining districts like Jaigaon, Alipurduar and other parts of Eastern and North-Eastern India under a basic monthly wage. It posts officials from India for the supervision of work.

In 2022, Dantak resurfaced  of the Phuentsholing-Thimphu Road with shredded plastic as part of a special campaign to conduct trials of using recycled plastic in road construction.

Controversies and incidents

Tricolour themed reflectors

The Bhutanese Government said that DANTAK has installed Indian tricolour themed raised pavement marker or reflectors on the highway railings. After DANTAK confirmed their presence, those reflectors were immediately replaced. Later, the Chief Engineer of DANTAK stated that no tricolour themed reflectors were sanctioned to be installed and ground labourers had installed those reflectors enthusiastically.

Wangchhu bridge collapse

A 204 metres long bridge in Haa along the Damchu-Haa road collapsed in February 2021, leaving 3 workers dead and 6 missing. The bridge was pending load testing when the incident happened. The bridge was handed over to Project DANTAK by the contractor. Rescue operations were initiated but were soon ceased due to low visibility and risk from the fragile structures.

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Bhutan–India relations
Bhutan–India border
Border Roads Organisation
Tony Babu. Tony Babu (born 11 July 1990) is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor, sound mixer and mixing engineer. He has worked in various Indian language films and web series including Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Punjabi. He is a member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Sound Designer for The Great Indian Kitchen. He co-founded Sonic Drop Studio, a sound post-production studio in Mumbai.

Career
After completing the sound engineering course from Neo Film School, Ernakulam, Tony moved to Mumbai and assisted Boby John for four years. He then works as independent sound editor and designer for various films including C/O Saira Banu, Udaharanam Sujatha, Joseph, Kilometers and Kilometers and The Great Indian Kitchen.

Selected filmography

Accolades
 2020 - Kerala State Film Award for Best Sound Designer for The Great Indian Kitchen

References

External links
 Official website
 

Indian sound designers
Indian sound editors
People from Kollam district
Living people
1990 births
Kerala State Film Award winners
Malayali people
Carla Meledandri. Carla J. Meledandri is a New Zealand chemistry academic, and in 2020 was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Otago.

Academic career

After a 2009  PhD titled  'NMR studies of membrane-bound nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies'  at the Dublin City University, Meledandri moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

The American-born, Irish-educated Meledandri won the 2017 Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize, which came with $200,000 in prize money.

Meledandri's work on nanoparticles includes applications in dental health and energy storage.

Selected works 

 Corr, Serena A., Stephen J. Byrne, Renata Tekoriute, Carla J. Meledandri, Dermot F. Brougham, Marina Lynch, Christian Kerskens, Laurence O'Dwyer, and Yurii K. Gun'ko. "Linear assemblies of magnetic nanoparticles as MRI contrast agents." Journal of the American Chemical Society 130, no. 13 (2008): 4214–4215.
 Porter, Gemma C., Donald R. Schwass, Geoffrey R. Tompkins, Sharan KR Bobbala, Natalie J. Medlicott, and Carla J. Meledandri. "AgNP/Alginate Nanocomposite hydrogel for antimicrobial and antibiofilm applications." Carbohydrate Polymers 251 (2021): 117017.
 Meledandri, Carla J., Jacek K. Stolarczyk, Swapankumar Ghosh, and Dermot F. Brougham. "Nonaqueous magnetic nanoparticle suspensions with controlled particle size and nuclear magnetic resonance properties." Langmuir 24, no. 24 (2008): 14159–14165.
 Meledandri, Carla J., Jacek K. Stolarczyk, and Dermot F. Brougham. "Hierarchical gold-decorated magnetic nanoparticle clusters with controlled size." ACS nano 5, no. 3 (2011): 1747–1755.
 Corr, Serena A., Yurii K. Gun’ko, Renata Tekoriute, Carla J. Meledandri, and Dermot F. Brougham. "Poly (sodium-4-styrene) sulfonate− iron oxide nanocomposite dispersions with controlled magnetic resonance properties." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112, no. 35 (2008): 13324–13327.

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Living people
New Zealand women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
New Zealand chemists
Alumni of Dublin City University
Academic staff of the University of Otago
American emigrants to New Zealand
Alan Bernard. Alan Bernard (January 30, 1934 – December 11, 2011) was an American sound engineer. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for eight more in the category Outstanding Sound Mixing for his work on the television programs The Winds of War, Crime Story, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager and also the television films The Savage Bees, Having Babies II, Baby Comes Home and The Jesse Owens Story. 

Bernard died in December 2011 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 77.

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1934 births
2011 deaths
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Canadian audio engineers
Canadian emigrants to the United States
People from Windsor, Ontario
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MTU/Pratt & Whitney RTF-180. The MTU/Pratt & Whitney RTF-180 was a planned turbofan aircraft engine that was to be jointly developed by Motoren-und Turbinen Union (MTU) and Pratt & Whitney in the early 1990s. It was to be the first civil engine program where MTU would be the prime contractor. The name of the engine, RTF-180, combined the initials for "Regional TurboFan" with the engine's nominal thrust of .

A November 1990 internal briefing showed that the RTF-180 was one of the engines on offer for the 90-115 seat MPC 75, a regional airliner requiring  of static thrust. In March 1991, the RTF-180 engine was proposed as a possible powerplant for an 80-130 seat airliner from a consortium of Germany's Deutsche Aerospace (DASA), France's Aérospatiale, and Italy's Alenia. The design of the RTF-180 for that airliner initially included a  fan, three-stage low-pressure compressor, eight-stage high-pressure compressor, one-stage high-pressure turbine, and four-stage low-pressure turbine.

At the 1993 Paris Air Show, MTU and Pratt & Whitney announced that they would abandon the RTF-180 in favor of a joint project with General Electric and SNECMA.

Specifications

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Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines
High-bypass turbofan engines
Linda Jones (engineer). Linda Ellen Jones is an academic in the field of chemical engineering, and known for her work in high temperature chemistry. She is a professor at Western New England University and an elected fellow of the American Ceramic Society.

Education and career 
Jones has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Mary Washington College (1980) and then moved to Pennsylvania State University where she earned her master's (1984) and doctoral degrees. She also worked at Atlantic Research Corporation serving as materials engineer and chemist. In 1991, Jones joined the faculty at Alfred University, where she was promoted to professor in 2001. 

In 2005, Jones moved to Smith College where she was the Rosemary Bradford Hewlett ’40 Professor of Engineering at Smith College, and was the director of the college's engineering program. While at Smith, Jones worked to integrate engineering students with non-science majors.

Jones subsequently moved back to Alfred University, and from 2010 to 2014, she was the first woman to serve as Vice President and Head of the New York State College of Ceramics. She served as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs from 2014 to 2020 at Western New England University. As of 2021, she is a professor of materials science and engineering at Western New England University.

She has a patent for improving plasticizers needed for solid propellants.

Selected publications

Honors and awards 
From 1996 to 1997, Jones was the Graffin lecturer of the American Carbon Society. In 2008, Jones was named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and delivered the McMahon lecture at Alfred University. In 2013 she received the Outstanding Educator Award from the American Ceramic Society. Jones was profiled in the 2016 book on successful women in ceramic and glass science. In 2021, Jones was named one of the University of Pennsylvania's 125th Anniversary Fellows.

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Western New England University faculty
Smith College faculty
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Living people
1958 births
Ursula Goltz. Ursula Goltz was a German computer scientist, professor emerita at the Technical University of Braunschweig, formerly affiliated with the Institute for Programming and Reactive Systems there, and former coordinator of a German Research Foundation program on long-lasting software systems. Her research concerns the theory of concurrent computing, including the use of Petri nets to model concurrent systems.
Goltz earned her Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen University in 1988, with the dissertation, Über die Darstellung von CCS-Programmen durch Petrinetze.

In the theory of concurrent systems, she is known for introducing the concept of action refinement, an analogue of Niklaus Wirth's concept of stepwise refinement in the development of software systems, together with Rob van Glabbeek. She is also one of the developers of Arden2ByteCode, a compiler for the Arden syntax for representing medical knowledge.

Ursula Goltz died on 30 October 2024.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig