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Peter Annan. Alexander Peter Annan is an engineer whose research focuses on near-surface geophysics. He has made significant contributions to the development of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology. Annan is the CEO of Sensors & Software, a company he founded to commercialize GPR technology. He has been working on the development of GPR since the 1970s and was one of the lead researchers on the surface electrical properties experiment conducted on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.

Early life and education 
Annan graduated from University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in engineering science in 1968 and a Master of Science degree in geophysics in 1970. In 1972, Annan was one of the researchers on the surface electrical properties (SEP) experiment on the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. SEP was the subject of Annan's graduate school research and used radio waves to scan as far as a few kilometres below the surface of the Moon.

In 1974, he earned his PhD in engineering science from Memorial University of Newfoundland. In his thesis, The Equivalent Source Method for Electromagnetic Scattering Analysis and Its Geophysical Application, Annan developed the PLATE program used in transient electromagnetics to mathematically model the electromagnetic response of finite thin conducting plates.

Career 
After earning his PhD, Annan began working as a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada. He then served as chief geophysicist at Barringer Research and senior engineering geophysicist at Golder Associates. During this time, he developed methods for the use of radio frequency to measure soil water content. In 1981, Annan founded A-Cubed to develop ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and airborne electromagnetic systems.

When the Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research was founded at the University of Waterloo in 1987, Annan joined the centre as a part-time researcher and adjunct professor. Annan commercialized GPR systems by later forming Sensors & Software, a supplier of equipment for underground or subsurface surveying. He serves as CEO of Sensors & Software based in Mississauga, Ontario.

Annan has been a member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) since 1969 and has received the SEG's Cecil Green Enterprise Award. At SEG, he served as chair of the Mining Committee, president of the Near-Surface Geophysics Section (NSGS), which he founded, and as editor of NSGS's newsletter Near Surface Views. In 1996, SEG awarded him the Hal Mooney Award for “scientific and technical excellence and innovation" in near-surface geophysics. He also served as second vice-president, and director-at-large for SEG. Annan is also a member of the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society and lectured about near-surface geophysics in the society's KEGS Special Lecture program in 2015.

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Michal Parnas. Michal Parnas () is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist known for her work on property testing and sublinear-time algorithms. She is a professor of computer science at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel, where she was a founding faculty member and was also the dean of the school of computer science from 2011 to 2016. Since October 2022 she is the vice president of academic affairs of the college.

Parnas is the daughter of neurobiologist  (1935–2012). She was a master's student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working with Avi Wigderson on a 1990 master's thesis on Approximate Counting, Almost Uniform Generation and Random Walks. She completed her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University in 1994. Her dissertation, Robust Algorithms and Data Structures for Information Retrieval, was jointly supervised by Danny Dolev and Noam Nisan. She is the co-author of a book in Hebrew on discrete mathematics, with Nati Linial.

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Lionel Briand. Lionel Claude Briand (born on November 21, 1965 in Paris, France) is a software engineer, and professor at the University of Ottawa and University of Luxembourg. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance and a European Research Council Advanced grantee. His research foci are testing, verification, and validation of software systems; applying machine learning and evolutionary computation to software engineering; and software quality assurance, among others. He was vice-director of the University of Luxembourg's SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust from 2014 to 2019, and editor in chief of Empirical Software Engineering (Springer) from 2003 to 2016.
In 2012, he was the recipient of the Harlan D. Mills Award.
In 2022, he was the recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

Selected research
Arcuri, Andrea, and Lionel Briand. "A practical guide for using statistical tests to assess randomized algorithms in software engineering." 2011 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). IEEE, 2011.
Andrews, James H., Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche. "Is mutation an appropriate tool for testing experiments?." Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. ACM, 2005.
Briand, Lionel C., John W. Daly, and Jurgen K. Wust. "A unified framework for coupling measurement in object-oriented systems." IEEE Transactions on software Engineering 25.1 (1999): 91–121.
Basili, Victor R., Lionel C. Briand, and Walcélio L. Melo. "A validation of object-oriented design metrics as quality indicators." IEEE Transactions on software engineering 22.10 (1996): 751–761.

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Richard M. Murray. Richard M. Murray is a synthetic biologist and Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech, California.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for "contributions in control theory and networked control systems with applications to aerospace engineering, robotics, and autonomy". 
Murray is a co-author of several textbooks on feedback and control systems, and helped to develop the Python Control Systems Library to provide operations for use in feedback control systems.   He was a founding member of the Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Advisory Board as of 2016.

Education
Murray received a BS in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1985. He received a MS (1988) and PhD (1990) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
Murray joined Caltech in 1991 as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He became an associate professor in 1997, a professor in 2000, and the Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems in 2006. He was named the Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering in 2009. He has served as Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (2000–2005) and Director of Information Science and Technology (2006–2009).

Research 
Murray is a pioneer of the field of biological engineering, synthetic biology and control theory
including feedback in networked control systems, biomolecular feedback, engineered biological circuits, and novel architectures.

Murray is a founder and steering group member of the Build-a-Cell Initiative, an international collaboration investigating creation of synthetic live cells.
He is a co-founder of Tierra Biosciences, for cell-free synthetic biology.

Books

Awards and honors
 2019, John R. Ragazzini Award
 2017, IEEE Control Systems Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
 2013,  National Academy of Engineering for "contributions in control theory and networked control systems with applications to aerospace engineering, robotics, and autonomy".
 2007,  honorary doctorate, Lund University
 2005–2006, Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech
 1997, Donald P. Eckman Award, American Automatic Control Council
 1995, NSF Early Faculty Development Award

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 Lab webpage
 Control Theory and Methods - Richard Murray KISSCaltech lecture
 History of robotics interview

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Freweini Mebrahtu. Freweini Mebrahtu () is an Ethiopian chemical engineer and inventor who won the 2019 CNN Hero of the year award for her activism in improving girls' access to education.

Early life

Freweini was born in Ethiopia and educated in the United States, studying chemical engineering at Prairie View A&M University. In 2005, she patented a reusable menstrual pad that can be used for up to 2 years with proper care. As of 2019, she employs hundreds of locals in Tigray region of Ethiopia, and makes more than 700,000 of the reusable pads that are mainly provided to non-governmental organizations.

Contribution
Her menstrual product plus her educational campaign has helped in removing the stigma surrounding menstruation and stopped girls from dropping out of schools due to the stigma. The non profit organization Dignity Period has distributed more than 150,000 free menstrual supplies purchased from Freweni's factory. It was reported that attendance among girls improved by 24% due to this effort.

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SS Benjamin F. Coston. SS Benjamin F. Coston was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Benjamin F. Coston, a US Navy officer and scientist. Coston was the chief scientist at the Washington Navy Yard, and is credited with inventing the Coston Signal Flare.

Construction 
Benjamin F. Coston was laid down on 31 July 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2318, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida; and launched on 6 September 1944.

History
She was allocated to Union Sulphur & Oil Co., Inc., 23 September 1944. On 27 October 1945, she struck a mine while sailing to Genoa, Italy. On 14 May 1946, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Hudson River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York.

She was reallocated to Union Sulphur & Oil Co. Inc., 10 July 1946, 28 March 1947, and 15 August 1947, before being placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Wilmington, North Carolina, 21 September 1947.

She was sold for scrapping, 9 July 1964, to Imperial Salvage Corp., for $48,620. She was withdrawn from the fleet, 8 October 1964.

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SS Stepas Darius. SS Stepas Darius was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Steponas Darius, a Lithuanian American pilot, who died in a non-stop flight attempt with Lituanica from New York City to Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1933.

Construction 
Stepas Darius was laid down on 14 August 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2320, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. Harley Ferguson, wife of assistant general manager JAJCC; and launched on 25 September 1944.

History
She was allocated to William J. Rountree Company, 9 October 1944. On 27 June 1946, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in James River Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, Virginia.

She was sold, on 10 January 1947, to Compania de Navegacion Phocena de Panama, for $562,854.89 and commercial use, she was renamed Mando. She was withdrawn from the fleet on 15 January 1947.

On 21 January 1955, while sailing from Hampton Roads to Rotterdam, with  of coal, she ran aground off the Round Island, Scilly Islands, when her engines failed. She was declared a total loss.

Wreck located at:

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SS Samuel G. Howe. SS Samuel G. Howe was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Samuel G. Howe, a nineteenth century American physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind.

Construction 
Samuel G. Howe was laid down on 7 September 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2324, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. Jimmy Mann, wife of plant superintendent, and launched on 17 October 1944.

History
She was allocated to Isbrandstsen Steamship Co. Inc., 30 October 1944. On 8 September 1948, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama.

She was sold for scrapping, 17 January 1969, to Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation, for $40,125. She was withdrawn from the fleet, 27 January 1969.

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Shin-Keisei 80000 series. The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Shin-Keisei Electric Railway since December 2019. It shares a common design with the Keisei 3100 series.

Design
The trains were jointly designed with Keisei Electric Railway and feature Shin-Keisei's "gentle pink" corporate design.

Formations
The 80000 series is formed as follows, with four motored cars and two trailer cars per set.

Technical specifications
The trains use SiC–VVVF inverters which control 3-phase AC motors. The motor inverters used on the 80000 series offer a 19% reduction in power consumption over the IGBT–VVVF inverters used on the N800 series.

Interior
Seating accommodation consists of longitudinal seating throughout, providing a seating capacity of 43 in the end cars and 49 in the intermediate cars. A wheelchair space is provided near the crew compartment of the first car, and intermediate cars feature a free space for wheelchairs and strollers.

The seats are of a high-back design; their backs are  higher than those of the N800 series. They are also thickened for improved passenger comfort. The seat partitions and vestibules are made of tempered glass to create a sense of openness. Unlike the Keisei 3100 series's seats, those of the 80000 series do not feature a foldable portion for storing luggage. 

The interior also includes 17-inch passenger information displays, security cameras, and ceiling-mounted Plasmacluster ion generators.

History
In April 2019, Shin-Keisei announced its plans to introduce a new six-car train in Winter 2019.

Delivery from the Nippon Sharyo plant in Toyokawa began in October 2019.

A public trial run was to be held on 21 December 2019, and the first unit entered service on 27 December. A second set was built in October 2021 to replace 8000 series set 8512, and  five 80000 series sets have been introduced into service.

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Andrea Morello. Andrea Morello (born 26 June 1972, in Pinerolo, Italy) is the Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales, and a Program Manager at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T). Morello is the head of the Fundamental Quantum Technologies Laboratory at UNSW.

Education 
Morello completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy in 1998. His research career began at the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory where he investigated the magnetic phase diagram of high  superconductors. He obtained his PhD in experimental physics from the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden in 2004, during which he explored the quantum dynamics of molecular nanomagnets at low temperatures. Morello spent two years at the University of British Columbia before joining UNSW Sydney in 2006.

Research 
Morello's research is primarily focused on designing and building the basic components of a quantum computer using the spins of single atoms in silicon. His team were the first in the world to demonstrate the coherent control and readout of the electron and nuclear spin of an individual phosphorus atom in silicon, and for many years they held the record for the longest quantum memory time for a single qubit in the solid state (35.6 seconds). Morello's research also focuses on using highly coherent spin systems to study the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Outreach 
Outside of his research Morello is actively engaged in science outreach and education. He has produced a series of YouTube videos 'The Quantum Around You' and 'Quantum Computing Concepts' to bring the fundamental concepts of quantum physics to a wider audience. Morello also starred in a series of videos produced by YouTuber Derek Muller on his channel Veritasium, explaining the fundamental concepts of quantum computing, with the highest viewed video in this series being watched over 4.4 million times.

Honours 

 2011. Eureka Prize for Scientific Research
 2013. Malcolm Macintosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year (Prime Minister's Prizes) and the David Syme Research Prize
 2014. NSW Science and Engineering Award for Emerging Research
 2017. Fellow of the American Physical Society (FAPS) and the inaugural  recipient of the Rolf Landauer and Charles H Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
 2017. Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW and winner of the Pollock Memorial Lectureship
2019. Walter Boas Medal
2024. Australian Laureate Fellowship

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ElabFTW. eLabFTW is a web application written by Nicolas Carpi in PHP which can be used to create personal and common logbooks. It has been developed at the Curie Institute originally. Besides there, it is used on universities around the world 

eLabFTW is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License as free software. It is translated into seven languages.

Description 

eLabFTW is a free and open-source lab book. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. Docker containers are also available. Among the various features are

 Secure. Entries and transmission are encrypted
 Timestamps. RFC 3161 compliant timestamping of experiments.
 Inventory management. Apart from experience logs, it also can manage the inventory
 Import and export. Entries can be imported and exported

Platforms 

eLabFTW is a PHP package with Mysql database. Therefore, it can be executed on most servers. Furthermore, the docker containers allow to run it almost everywhere.

Usage 

eLabFTW is used by various universities, like University of Alberta, Berkeley University, Hanover Medical School, Cardiff University and UMC Utrecht

External links 
 
 Online demo logbook

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Richard Garin. Oscar "Richard" Serag Garin Jr. (born December 11, 1967)  is a Filipino politician and civil engineer serving as the mayor of Miagao since 2022. He was previously the Representative of Iloilo's 1st district, Vice Governor of Iloilo, member of Iloilo's provincial board, and Mayor of Guimbal.

Education 
Richard Garin is a civil engineer by profession. He finished his studies at the University of San Agustin in 1990 and passed the Board Examinations for Civil Engineers given that same year.

He's also an alumni member of Central Philippine University.

Political career 
His career in politics started in 1982 when he was elected as Guimbal Municipal Federation President of the Kabataang Barangay, the precursor of the present day Sangguniang Kabataan. At 24 years old, he was elected in 1992 as Provincial Board Member, representing the First District of Iloilo and was re-elected to the same position in 1995. In 1998 he opted out on his last term as Board Member to become the Municipal Mayor of Guimbal, Iloilo which he served until 2007.

He returned to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan as a Senior Board Member and Floor Leader in 2007. He was elected Vice Governor of the Province of Iloilo in 2010 elections with a margin of about 180,000 votes.

He authored legislations providing social pensions for indigent senior citizens who are at least 70 years old, and the establishment of independent high schools in the country. He has filed several bills in Congress, among the most significant and important are House Bills 2147, 3417, 3418 and 3420. When he was Vice Governor of Iloilo from 2010 to 2013, he also promoted similar social legislations, like the Senior Citizens Ordinance of 2012, Person with Disability Ordinance of 2012 and the Solo Parents Ordinance of 2013.  

In 2021, he transferred his voter's registration to Miagao, where outgoing mayor Macario Napulan is his political ally. In the 2022 election, he was elected mayor of Miagao.

Personal life 
He is the son of Oscar Garin Sr. and Ninfa Serag Garin. He is the older brother of Sharon and Christine Garin.

He is married to Janette Garin of Leyte, a doctor by profession, a former Secretary of the Department of Health (Philippines) and the incumbent Congresswoman of the First District of Iloilo. She was a Member of the House of Representatives for three terms, from 2004 to 2013. They have a daughter.

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