omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Allen L. Anderson. Allen Latham Anderson (1837-1910) was an American brigadier general and civil engineer who commanded the 8th California Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. He was also known for being the nephew of Robert Anderson and the cousin of Nicholas Longworth Anderson.

Biography

Before the war
Allen was born on March 18, 1837, at Dayton, Ohio as the son of Charles Anderson and Eliza Jane Brown Anderson. He gained his early education around the local schools at Dayton before entering the United States Military Academy in 1854 as a cadet and graduating in the Class of 1859, ranking 16th. Initially, there were few vacancies for captains but he was eventually made Brevet 2nd Lieutenant of the 2nd Infantry Regiment before being transferred to the 5th Infantry Regiment and stationed at California after a long trip through Cape Horn.

American Civil War
Anderson was promoted to first lieutenant on May 14, 1861, when the American Civil War broke out. He was initially stationed at New Mexico due to the advances of Henry Hopkins Sibley heading for Fort Union and proceeded to participate at the Battle of Valverde. His actions at the battle earned him a promotion to brevet major for "gallant and meritorious services". He was promoted to captain on December 3, 1862, and stationed at Prescott. Anderson was then sent on an expedition into Western Arizona, where he began a campaign against Apache generals Cochise and Victorio. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier general for "meritorious and gallant services during the War." Around the same time, Anderson held command of the 8th California Infantry Regiment during the formation of the unit.

Later years
Anderson was honorably discharged on November 10, 1865, but continued military service due to a military commission until January 7, 1867, when he resigned to pursue civil engineering and then became the Chief Engineer of the New Mexico Mining Company until 1869. Anderson returned to Ohio to become the Chief Engineer of Public Works in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1870 to the fall of 1879. He continued his engineering career as a private consultant until 1894 when his health began to fail him and moved to Southwestern Kentucky. Due to being a member of the U.S. Soldiers' Home at Santa Barbara, California, he resided there in his final years until June 9, 1910, from a pneumonia outbreak and was buried at Kuttawa Cemetery.

See also
List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)

References

1837 births
1910 deaths
People of California in the American Civil War
Union army colonels
Union army generals
Military personnel from Dayton, Ohio
United States Military Academy alumni
Military personnel from California
American civil engineers
19th-century American engineers
Marcia O'Malley. Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley is an American mechanical engineer, the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering and associate dean for research and innovation for the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Her research concerns "systems for enhancing the human sensorimotor control system", including work on exoskeletons, neuroprosthetics, haptic technology, and brain–computer interfaces.

Education and career
O'Malley is a 1996 graduate of Purdue University, where she majored in mechanical engineering. She went to Vanderbilt University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001.

She has been on the Rice University faculty since 2001, and holds courtesy appointments in electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Rice, and in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Before being named the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor, she was Stanley C. Moore Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Recognition
O'Malley was named an ASME Fellow in 2014. In 2019 she was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to rehabilitation robotics and haptic systems", and in 2022 she was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for her "outstanding contributions to rehabilitation robotics, haptics and robotic surgery".

In 2019, Purdue University gave her their Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award. In 2020 she was named the ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division Nyquist Lecturer.

References

External links
Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces lab

Living people
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Purdue University alumni
Vanderbilt University alumni
Rice University faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the IEEE
1975 births
Engineers from Ohio
Volobe Hydroelectric Power Station. The Volobe Power Station is a  hydroelectric power project under construction in Madagascar.

Location
The power station is constructed in Ambodilazana across the Ivondro River, Toamasina Rural District, near Toamasina. The village of Volobe which will host the power station is located approximately , by road, west of Toamasina, the second-largest city in Madagascar.

Overview
Volobe HPP is a run of river plant with six  Francis type generating turbines, each rated at 20 megawatts. Andritz Hydro will supply and install the turbines, for total generating capacity of 120 megawatts.

The consortium that is developing the power station will also build the high voltage evacuation power line that will transmit the energy from this power plant to a point where the energy will enter the national electricity grid. In addition, access roads and other infrastructure will be constructed for the neighboring communities.

Developers
The consortium that owns the power station and is developing it has four shareholder companies as illustrated in the table below. They formed a special purpose vehicle company (SPV) to own, design, build, finance, operate and maintain the power station. The SPV company is called Compagnie Générale d'Hydroélectricité de Volobe (CGHV) (English: General Hydroelectricity Company of Volobe).

Construction costs and funding
It is estimated that construction will cost approximately €350 million (approx. US$372 million), funded by loans and equity.

Other considerations
The energy generated at this station will supply an estimated 360,000 Madagascan households, with about 2 million inhabitants. During the construction phase, an estimated 1,000 jobs are expected to be created. This power station will increase the population of Madagascar that is connected to grid electricity and propel the country towards the goal of 70 percent nation electrification by 2030.

In June 2023, the Compagnie générale d'hydroélectricité de Volobe (CGHV), which owns the power station signed a 35-year power purchase agreement with Jiro sy rano Malagasy (Jirama), the electricity public utility company of Madagascar.

See also

 List of power stations in Madagascar
 Sahofika Hydroelectric Power Station

References

External links
Map Showing Volobe, Madagascar And Thomasina, Madagascar As of 30 April 2022.

Proposed renewable energy power stations in Madagascar
Proposed hydroelectric power stations
Toamasina Province
Hydroelectric power stations in Madagascar
Bosing (archaeology). Bosing is an unsophisticated method for the discovery of buried archaeological features such as pits and ditches dug into a thin substratum of rock, such as limestone or chalk. The technique involves hitting a block of wood laid over the ground surface with a weighty hammer and assessing the sound given out. For example, if the wood gave out a heavy thudding sound, then this would indicate that the underlying bedrock had been disturbed while undisturbed bedrock would emit a thinner and sharper tone.  Methodically repeating the process across an area and noting the sound pattern will reveal the extent of the underground features.

References

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Geological techniques
Archaeological science
 Methods in archaeology
BEAST 2. BEAST 2 is a cross-platform program for Bayesian analysis of molecular sequences. Using MCMC, it estimates rooted, timed phylogenies using a range of substitution and clock models, and a variety of tree priors. There is an associated tool, called BEAUTi, for setting up standard analyses (which are specified using XML). BEAST 2 is a complete re-write of the earlier (still actively developed) BEAST program and as such draws on a large body of work. A notable feature of BEAST 2 is the packaging system which has simplified the process of implementing novel models.

Taming the BEAST is a community driven resource which teaches the use of BEAST 2 and related phylogenetic software.

BEAUti 
BEAUti stands for "Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Utility." It is a graphical user interface (GUI) that is used to create the input files for BEAST 2. It allows users to easily specify the various options and settings for their phylogenetic analysis, such as the data file, the model of molecular evolution, and the prior distributions of model parameters. BEAUti also allows users to specify the parameters for the MCMC analysis, such as the chain length and the sampling frequency. This makes it a user-friendly way to run BEAST 2, as it eliminates the need for users to manually edit XML input files.

BEAUti allows users to easily install and manage different packages, such as models of molecular evolution or coalescent models. These packages can be installed directly from within BEAUti. This makes it easier to add new functionality to the analysis without needing to manually download and install the packages.

CBAN 
The Comprehensive BEAST Archive Network (CBAN) is the official repository for BEAST 2 packages. Packages in CBAN can be installed via BEAUti out of the box.

LinguaPhylo 
A related project is LinguaPhylo (LPhy). LPhy is a probabilistic programming language for defining phylogenetic analyses with a syntax similar to OpenBUGS. It provides a way to generate BEAST 2 XML files (and similar model specifications for other phylogenetics packages) without needing to write the XML by hand.

MASTER/remaster
A particularly important package in the BEAST 2 ecosystems is remaster (formerly MASTER). Remaster is a tool for simulating population trajectories and phylogenies from birth-death and coalescent models. It is used in simulation studies to validate novel methodologies.

References

External links 
 

Phylogenetics software
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics. Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, ICMMG SB RAS () is a research institute in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1964.

History
On January 1, 1964, the Computing Center was established in Novosibirsk, later it was transformed into the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics. In 2004, the institute has created an Expert Database on Tsunami Observations in the Pacific Ocean containing information on 1500 tsunamigenic events that have occurred in the Pacific region between 47 BC and 2003.

Activities
Research in the field of mathematical modeling of oceanic and atmospheric physics, environmental protection, geophysics, telecommunication systems and software for supercomputers etc.

References

External links
 Институт вычислительной математики и математической геофизики СО РАН. Портал СО РАН.
 Official website.

Research institutes in Novosibirsk
1964 establishments in the Soviet Union
Research institutes established in 1964
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Computer science institutes
Geophysics organizations
Weiss WM-16. The Weiss WM-16 Budapest was a reconnaissance/bomber aircraft developed by the Manfréd Weiss company in 1933.

It was developed from the Fokker C.V, of which 76 served in the Hungarian Air Force. Two major versions were built: The WM-16A, which used a 410 kW (550 hp) Gnome-Rhône 9K Mistral (9 built) and the WM-16B, which used a 641.3 kW (860 hp) Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major (9 built). The WM-16A was considered to be unsuitable for operational service, so the WM-16B was developed as a bomber instead of a reconnaissance aircraft. The WM-16 was used as the basis for the Weiss WM-21 Sólyom. Aircraft were built at the Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works in Csepel, the MÁVAG factory in Budapest, and by the Rába (company) in Győr. Starting in 1941 these aircraft were relegated to secondary duties.

Specifications
WM-16A
Range = 800 km
Engine = 1 × 410 kW (550 hp) Gnome-Rhône 9K Mistral 9-cylinder air-cooled radial engine
Maximum speed = 215 km/h
Ceiling height = 6,800 m
Crew = 2

WM-16B
Length = 9.55 m
Wingspan = 15.3 m
Engine = 1 × 641.3 kW (860 hp) Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine
Maximum speed = 300 km/h
Empty weight = 2,150 kg
Offensive Armament = 2 × 7.92 mm Gebauer 1926/31.M machine guns (chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser)
Defensive Armament = 1 × 7.92 mm Gebauer 1934.M machine gun (chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser)
Payload = 300 kg of bombs
Crew = 2

See also

References

Fokker aircraft
Reconnaissance aircraft
Bomber aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Weiss Manfred aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Principles of Guided Missile Design. Principles of Guided Missile Design is a textbook and reference book written by E. Arthur Bonney, Maurice J. Zucrow, and Carl W. Besserer in 1956. The book is a glossary of rocket and space flight terms, an introduction to rocket design, parametric studies and student instruction. The book is written in English and was published by Van Nostrand.

References 

1958 non-fiction books
M. Sinthanai Selvan. Mahimainathan Sinthanai Selvan is an Indian politician who is a Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He was elected from Kattumannarkoil as a Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi candidate in 2021.

Biography 
Sinthanai Selvan was born to A. Mahimainathan on 12 December 1966.

He got his Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) from Government Higher Secondary School, Rishivandiyam in March 1981.

In April 1984, he obtained a Diploma in Mechanical engineering (DME) at Thanthai Periyar EVR Government Polytechnic College, Vellore.

Before entering politics, he worked as an Executive Engineer at Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Limited (NLCIL) from February 1989 to April 2006.

He is married to Thangam. The couple has two sons.

Electoral performance

References 

Tamil Nadu MLAs 2021–2026
Living people
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Acquisition of Land Act 1967. The Acquisition of Land Act 1967 (ALA) is an Act of the Parliament of Queensland. The ALA establishes authority for the Queensland Government to acquire land for specific purposes including the creation of roads, railways, and other essential infrastructure. The acquisition of land in this way is referred to in Australian legal jurisdictions as ‘compulsory acquisition’, known internationally as eminent domain. The ALA does not allow such acquisition for a private purpose, only by the State for one of the purposes specified.

The Coordinator General of Queensland is responsible for acquiring land for the completion of infrastructure projects. Any land or property can be acquired under the Act.

History 
Compulsory acquisition in Queensland was originally regulated by the Public Works Land Resumption Act 1906. The ALA inherits much of its substance from this legislation, particularly its compensation provisions.

Process 
The ALA provides for a variety of specific purposes under which land can be acquired. Examples include transportation, the environment, health, water, planning, and essential public infrastructure and services. The State of Queensland may acquire land for these specific reasons under the ALA, private acquisition is not provided for. Where the government plans to acquire land for a specific purpose, the owner is notified through a Notice of Intention to Resume. An owner can object, however if the relevant Minister is satisfied the acquisition is appropriate then their landholder right is converted to a right to claim compensation for loss of land. There is no possibility to appeal a decision of compulsory acquisition.

The acquisition of land under the ALA can be controversial. Moreton Bar Regional Council in 2020 sought to acquire privately owned land under the ALA in order to create a retarding basin.

Provisions

Part I - Preliminary 
Sets out an introduction of the Act, including definition of terms and its relationship with other acts. The part also deals with the Act's relationship with native title.

Part II - Taking of land 
Enables ‘constructing authorities’ to acquire land for public purposes. Sets out the processes by which this occurs, including with or without agreement of the title holder.

Part III - Discontinuance of taking of land 
The process by which a constructing authority can discontinue the resumption of land.

Part IV - Compensation 
Relates to a number of issues regarding compensation including:

 Who can claim compensation
 Assessment of compensation
 Costs, interest, mortgages, and rent
 Taxes, rates and charges

Amendments

Acquisition of Land and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2008 
This amendment, passed in 2009, made numerous and substantive changes to the ALA. It codified the need for a body corporate to be served with appropriate notice if common property is to be acquired. This amendment also introduced a requirement to provide advice of rights to compensation.

References

Bibliography 
Academic literature

Legal cases

Queensland legislation
Project Natick. Project Natick was an experimental data center that underwent research and development by Microsoft. Microsoft deployed its first undersea data center prototype in August 2015. It subsequently deployed and retrieved a "shipping-container" sized data center off the coast of the Northern Isles in 2018. Microsoft subcontracted Naval Group to spearhead the design and manufacture of the vessel. In 2024, Microsoft stated that Project Natick was no longer active.

History 
In 2013, a Microsoft employee with previous experience in the US Navy suggested that an underwater farm server could cut on cooling costs and increase environmental sustainability. A white paper written by employees began to circulate to promote the idea.

Phase I 
In late 2014, the project was launched with a meeting in Redmond, Washington. The first prototype was named Leona Philpot (named after a character from the Xbox Halo video game series) and was deployed off the coast of California on August 10, 2015. The prototype was placed 30 feet underwater. The trial lasted 105 days and the prototype was successfully lifted out of the water for further testing. Following the initial experiment, Microsoft wanted the next prototype to be larger in size, deployed in harsher conditions, and powered with renewable energy.

Phase II 
Microsoft invited a group of marine organizations to submit proposals to realize the second phase of the project. Naval Group, a French defense contractor, was selected to lead in the design and deployment of the project. The Natick Phase 2 vessel was deployed in June 1, 2018 off the coast of Orkney. The vessel stayed underwater for over two years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the undersea data center was employed to process workloads for vaccine research via Folding@home. In July 2020, the vessel was successfully lifted out of the water and retrieved for analysis.

Termination 
By 2024, Project Natick had been inactive for several years, though it was referenced in media as though it was ongoing. That year, Microsoft confirmed that the project was inactive and that it had  no servers underwater.

Impact 
Scottish Renewables awarded Microsoft the Carbon Reduction Award in 2018. Additionally, the project showed that 864 servers could run reliably for two years with cooling provided by the natural sea temperature. A United States Department of Energy report used Project Natick as an example that "marine energy combined with storage and potentially other renewable energy sources could provide the power or partial power for [data centers]."

References 

Data centers
Microsoft buildings and structures
Buildings and structures in Orkney
2018 establishments in Scotland
2020 disestablishments in Scotland
Sustainability in Scotland
Andrew H. Marcus. Andrew H. Marcus (born 1967) is a physical chemist  whose multidisciplinary research on the faculty at the University of Oregon explores macromolecular dynamics in biological environments.

Early life and education 
In 1987, Marcuse received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego. He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Stanford University in 1994 with advisor Michael D. Fayer. His dissertation was titled, Probing the structure of bulk polymers and alloys using electronic excitation transport. His postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago, James Franck Institute, was advised by Stuart A. Rice.

Career 
Marcus held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Chicago before joining the department of chemistry and biochemistry faculty at the University of Oregon in 1996.

His research interests are interdisciplinary among the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, and the Oregon Center for Optical Molecular & Quantum Science. His group examines "the structure and dynamics of macromolecules in biological environments", and he collaborates with faculty in Chemistry and Physics departments, "studying the ultrafast dynamics of excited electronic-vibrational states in coupled molecular networks, which are structurally ordered in DNA".

Selected publications

Awards, honors 

 1997 Research Corporation Innovation Award
 1999 NSF CAREER Award
 2001 Innovative Polymer Research Lecturer, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
 2014 University of Wisconsin John L. Schrag Memorial Lectureship
 2014 Fund for Faculty Excellence Award
 2014 Interdisciplinary Research Award, UO Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education
 2014 Elected Fellow of American Physical Society. Citation: For his contribution to the development of linear and nonlinear fluorescence correlation spectroscopies, and their application to the study of the structure and dynamics of biochemical systems.

References 

1967 births
American physical chemists
Living people
University of Oregon faculty
University of California, San Diego alumni
Stanford University alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Darja Lisjak. Darja Lisjak is a Slovenian material scientist and professor at the Department for Material Synthesis at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work focuses on materials chemistry, nanotechnology, and solid-state chemistry.

Education and career 
Lisjak earned her PhD in chemistry and chemical technology from the University of Ljubljana in 1999.

Selected publications 

 Mertelj, Alenka, et al. "Ferromagnetism in suspensions of magnetic platelets in liquid crystal." Nature 504.7479 (2013): 237-241.
 Lisjak, Darja, and Alenka Mertelj. "Anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles: A review of their properties, syntheses and potential applications." Progress in Materials Science 95 (2018): 286-328.
 Mertelj, Alenka, et al. "Magneto-optic and converse magnetoelectric effects in a ferromagnetic liquid crystal." Soft Matter 10.45 (2014): 9065-9072.

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Women materials scientists and engineers
University of Ljubljana alumni
Slovenian women scientists
21st-century Slovenian women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Vilnius Biofuel Power Plant. Vilnius Biofuel Power Plant is a waste-to-energy plant in Vilnius, Lithuania. The plant produces 40% of all annual heating requirements for the city of Vilnius.

It was built next to decommissioned Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant and utilises some of the infrastructure.

References

External links 
 Official website

Energy infrastructure completed in 2021
2021 establishments in Lithuania
Cogeneration power stations in Lithuania
Power stations in Vilnius
Biofuel power stations in Lithuania
Waste power stations in Lithuania