omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ray Baughman. Ray Baughman is an American chemist and academic, currently holding the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry and serving as the Director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned his B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Harvard University.

With more than 100 issued U.S. patents and over 450 refereed publications, he has made notable contributions to the field of nanotechnology. Baughman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.

In 2005, Discover magazine ranked Baughman's carbon nanotube yarns and carbon nanotube sheets as the eighth-most important scientific discovery of the year. The sheets and yarns were noted in the Scientific American 50.

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Samantha Daly. Samantha (Sam) Hayes Daly is an American mechanical engineer whose research topics include the failure analysis of novel materials including shape-memory alloys and ceramic matrix composites, and the calibration of the scanning electron microscopes used in this analysis. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Education and career
Daly was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, where she earned a double bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and mathematics in 2001. She went to the California Institute of Technology for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2007, under the joint supervision of Kaushik Bhattacharya and Guruswami Ravichandran.

She became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan in 2008, and in 2011 added a courtesy appointment in Michigan's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She was promoted to associate professor there in 2014. In 2016, she moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara as an associate professor, and in 2020 she was promoted to full professor.

Recognition
Daly was the 2011 recipient of the Orr Early Career Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the 2015 recipient of the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty, the 2016 recipient of the James W. Dally Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, and the 2022 recipient of the Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award of the ASME.

She was named as an ASME Fellow in 2021.

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Samantha Daly Lab
Alumna Profile: Samantha (Sam) Daly (MS '02, PhD '07), Caltech Engineering and Applied Science

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Green metals. Green metals is a term used to describe a set of metals that are utilized in clean energy applications and can help achieve net zero emissions targets. These metals include copper, nickel, silver, zinc, cobalt, neodymium, graphite, lithium, manganese, and molybdenum.

Uses
Copper is used in technologies such as wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, and geothermal, as well as in electric vehicles and batteries. Manganese and molybdenum play roles in wind, hydro, and geothermal energy generation.

Aluminum and steel are components of panels and turbines. Copper is utilized in various items, including cables and vehicles. Cobalt, lithium, and nickel are used in components of EV battery cathodes, with graphite serving as the primary anode material. Neodymium, a magnetic rare earth metal, is used in certain EV motors and turbine generators.

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James W. Mar. James Wah Mar (March 10, 1920 – March 4, 2017) was an American aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who served as the 17th Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force. Of Chinese-American heritage, he was the first person of color to serve in this position.

Early life
Mar was born on March 10, 1920, to Fook Wah Mar and Mabel Chin Mar of Oakland, California. He moved to Seattle, Washington with his family at an early age and attended Garfield High School before enrolling at the University of Washington in 1938. However, he dropped out and applied to MIT, transferring in as a sophomore. He received his Bachelor of Science from MIT in Civil Engineering in 1941 and began working for Curtiss-Wright as an aeronautical engineer. At Curtiss-Wright, he worked on the planes such as the P-40 Kittyhawk, Curtiss C-46 Commando, and the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. From 1944 to 1946, Mar served in the United States Navy and was trained in radar maintenance; however, the war ended before he was able to see any combat. In February 1946, Mar was discharged from the Navy and he returned to MIT, where he earned a master's degree in civil engineering in 1947 and a PhD in 1949.

Career
Mar joined the faculty of MIT's Aeronautics Department after completing his doctorate. His research focused on the disciplines of structures, aeroelasticity, and materials. In 1970, Mar took leave from MIT to become Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force. During his time as chief scientist, Mar was involved in helping the Air Force understand the structural problems facing aircraft, such as the B-1, F-111, and C-5. After serving as chief scientist, he resumed his work at MIT, becoming the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aerospace Education and the head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1981 to 1983. He retired in 1990.

Honours
Mar was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981 for "Leadership in research and education in aerospace structures and composite materials, and for service to his country". For his work in the United States Air Force, he was twice awarded the Department of the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service.

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Sadi Evren Seker. Sadi Evren Seker is a Turkish computer scientist and data scientist. He is the first person to introduce the concept of "Computerized Argument Delphi Technique" in the literature, which is an enhancement to the Delphi method originally developed on Project RAND.

Career and research 
After obtaining a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Yildiz Technical University in 2010, Seker joined the faculty at Istanbul University in 2011 as an assistant professor. He also served as a visiting scholar at the Data Mining Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas from 2012 to 2014. In addition, he held a visiting professorship at Smith College in Massachusetts, within the Department of Computer Science from 2016 to 2017  In recognition of his achievements, he was promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Computer Engineering in 2020.

He is the inventor of several data science methods and holds patents for:
 A method and system for clustering performance evaluation and increment 
 Computer-implemented methods for selection of features in predictive data modeling 
 A machine learning based prediction system and method 

He currently serves as the Dean of the Computer and Information Technologies Faculty at Istanbul University. His researches involves the implementation of data science algorithms in various industries, including banking, geology, natural language processing and big data analytics He has published more than 200 scientific journals and books  and he is among the top 5k scientist in Turkey. His work has been covered by local news agencies on several occasions.

Seker's research focuses on Responsible AI, Automated machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence.

Publications 
 Seker, wrote the book Business Intelligence and Data Mining with Weka (Turkish: ) (Cinius, 2013).
 Seker, is the Turkish editor of the book Algorithms, originally written by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne  
 GISQAF: MapReduce guided spatial query processing and analytics system, funded by the National Science Foundation under Award No. CNS 1229652 and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA-9550-09-1-0468 

 Recurring and Novel Class Detection Using Class-Based Ensemble for Evolving Data Stream, in  which is based on work supported by the AFOSR under awards FA9450-08-1-0260 and FA9950-10-1-0088 and by NASA under award 2008-00867-01.
 Computerized Argument Delphi Technique (2015) from  
 His full profile of publications and background can be access from 
 His author profile with his publications on IEEE is available on IEEE Xplore and his DBLP profile is available for online access.
 There are some news about his works on democratization of artificial intelligence for SMEs

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Yingli Tian. Yingli Tian (also published as Ying-li Tian) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer known for her research applying image processing to the analysis of facial expressions and their meanings. Her more recent research has focused on assistive technology including the automated recognition of sign language. She is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York.

Education and career
Tian studied precision instrument and opto-electronics engineering at Tianjin University, graduating in 1987. After a master's degree in thermophysical engineering from the same university in 1990, she went to the Chinese University of Hong Kong for doctoral study in electrical engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 1996.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, and then worked for IBM Research beginning in 2001, before moving to the City College of New York in 2008.

Recognition
A 2000 paper by Tian on facial expression analysis, with Takeo Kanade and Jeffrey F. Cohn, received the 2019 Test of Time Award at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.

Tian was named to the 2018 class of IEEE Fellows, "for her work in automatic facial expression analysis and human activity understanding and monitoring". In 2020, Tian was elected as a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, "for contributions to automatic facial expression analysis and human activity understanding".

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Electrical Engineering named her as a distinguished alumnus in 2020, one of eight alumni so honored, as part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the department. She was listed "for her pioneering in automatic facial expression analysis, human activity understanding, and assistive technology and being a top scholar in image understanding".

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Abrar Hassan. Abrar Hassan is a German-Pakistani biker and vlogger, known for his travel and adventure content. His YouTube channel, Wild Lens by Abrar, documents his extensive biking tours across various Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Early life and career
Hassan is an aerospace engineer with over 12 years of experience in the automobile industry.

He moved to Germany in 2008 for further studies after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from IST university (Institute of Space Technology) in Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his Master's in computational mechanics and worked in the automotive sector in Frankfurt. It was during this time that his interest in travel grew.

In 2019, he decided to leave his job and fully commit to vlogging from Germany to Pakistan and started career in travelling  . He learned motorcycle riding and commenced his motorcycle travels in 2020.

Travels and adventures
Abrar has traveled to over 90 countries, with motorcycle journeys in at least 24 of them. His travel journey started in 2020 when he travelled from Germany to Pakistan on his motorbike and he gained popularity during that time. He values connecting with locals, sharing stories, meals, and experiences.

Friendship tour of India
In 2023, he undertook a ‘friendship tour’ across India, covering 7,000 kilometers in 30 days. Despite the historical tensions between India and Pakistan, he was warmly welcomed throughout his journey. He interacted with local residents and introduced his fellow countrymen to India’s diverse culture, languages, cuisine, and landscapes.

Journey to Saudi Arabia
In the same year, Abrar embarked on a 50-day motorbike journey to Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage. Starting from his hometown Nankana Sahib in Pakistan’s Punjab province, he traveled across three continents before reaching Madinah. He then proceeded to Makkah, where he fulfilled his dream of performing the Umrah pilgrimage.

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Bendo (knife). The Bendo is a traditional bladed tool from Java, Indonesia. Betawi people would regard the Bendo as a domestic household tool and sometimes it is also called golok dapur, which means a "kitchen golok".

Description
The Bendo has a short, single-edged, heavy blade. The blade is narrow at the hilt and becomes significantly wider after a few centimeters. The back of the blade is straight, the blade is bulbous and has a deep hollow grind that runs just below the back. The handle is usually made of wood and is decoratively carved and slightly curved on the pommel. The scabbards are made of wood and are artfully decorated with carvings. They consist of two halves connected by rattan straps. The Bendo is used to harvest the sugar palm.

See also
Blakas
Wedung

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Kikot Hydroelectric Power Station. The Kikot Hydroelectric Power Station (KHPS), is a planned 500 megawatt run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station under development in Cameroon across the Sanaga River. The development rights were granted to Kikot Hydro Power Company (KHPC), a special purpose vehicle company (SPV), owned by Électricité de France and the Government of Cameroon. A long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) is yet to be signed between Eneo Cameroon S.A. and KHPC.

Location
The dam lies across the Sanaga River, about , as the crow flies, north-west of Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon. The road distance is about . The power station would straddle Sanaga River across the border between the Littoral Region and the Centre Region of the country.

Overview
In November 2019, EDF signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Cameroon (GOC), to jointly build a power station, across the Sanaga River, downstream of the Nachtigal Hydroelectric Power Station with generation capacity between 450 and 700 megawatts. In June the MOU was upgraded to a development agreement between EDF and the GOC.

According to EDF, the period between 2022 and 2024 is being used to form the SPV company, carry out environmental and feasibly studies, source funding and reach financial close and related milestones including signing the PPA. Construction would then start in 2025, with commercial commissioning expected in 2030.

Ownership
The power station is owned by the special purpose company named Kikot Hydro Power Company (KHPC). The table below illustrates the shareholding in KHPC.

Construction costs
The estimated costs for the dam and power plant is CFA 650 billion (approx. US$1.050 billion) also (approx. €991 billion) in October 2023. The World Bank Group, particularly the International Finance Corporation (IFC) are expected to be major funders in this project.

Timeline and commissioning
According to EDF construction is expected to commence in 2025. Commercial commissioning is expected in 2030.

See also
 List of power stations in Cameroon
 Nachtigal Hydroelectric Power Station

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Tales of the Neon Sea. Tales of the Neon Sea is an adventure video game developed by Chinese studio Palm Pioneer. It is a retro-styled pixel-art game in a cyberpunk setting.

Gameplay
The goal of Tales of the Neon Sea is to walk around in search of clues and solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers. 

Players assume the role of Rex, a hard-boiled detective, to investigate a case. The protagonist is forced to use mechanical prosthetics due to injuries. He can use electronic eyes to scan objects and analyze corpses during investigation.

In some scenes, players will control the protagonist's assistant, William the black cat, to enter areas inaccessible to Rex to explore or collect items.

Plot
Set in a neo-noir metropolis where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust, the storyline follows Rex, formerly a veteran police detective accepting random jobs as a private investigator to make ends meet.

Development

The game was successfully crowd-funded through Kickstarter in 2018.

Reception

Upon release, Tales of the Neon Sea received mixed reviews by users and critics. 

On review aggregate OpenCritic, Tales of the Neon Sea had an average 61 out of 100 review score with 13% approval rating based on 8 reviews. The game received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Accolades 
In 2018, Tales of the Neon Sea won the award for "Excellence in Visual Art", and was nominated for "Excellence in Narrative" and "Best Game Grand Prize" at IndiePlay China Independent Game Competition. The game won the awards for "Most Innovative Game" and "Best Game Design" from Indie Prize at Casual Connect Asia 2018. In 2019, the game was nominated for "Visual Excellence" award at BitSummit.

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Shoksha quartzite. Shoksha quartzite, Shoksha porphyry, or crimson quartzite (, literally "raspberry quartzite") is quartzose sandstone of deep red color variously described as purple or crimson resembling true porphyry. It is named after , a village in Prionezhsky District, Karelia, Russia, close to its deposits. Currently it is mined mostly in the nearby miner's settlement of  by Lake Onega. Its shades of red color is due to iron oxides. 

This durable and expensive material was used for decoration of many Russian palaces, cathedrals and sculptures.

Scrap crimson quartzite is of various utility in Russia. Due to its high heat resistance it is used for fireplaces in banyas and saunas. Its durability makes it suitable for pavements. Due to its aesthetic qualities it is used minor decorations, etc.

In Soviet times the major usage of Shoksha quartzite was in glass industry, for grinding balls and linings used in grinders for grinding mineral components for glass.

In 1981 the estimated volume of the Shiksha quartzite field was over 1.3 million cubic meters.

Notable uses

 Napoleon's tomb
Decorations of the lift hall of Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya, one of "Stalinist skyscrapers"
Several elements of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, including details of the bust to the cathedral's architect Auguste de Montferrand 
Friezes in the main façade of Saint Michael's Castle
Pedestal of the Tsar Nicholas I monument
Letters "LENIN" and some other elements of Lenin's Mausoleum

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Further reading
A detailed description of Shoksha quartzite, its varieties and quarries may be found in the 1927 Soviet book Stone Construction Materials of the Onega Region (Каменные строительные материалы Прионежья), Part I: Quartzites and Sandstones, pp. 28-33 by  (public domain)
Александра Валентиновна Рахманова, Alexandra Rakhmanova, "Малиновый кварцит в историко-культурном наследии России и зарубежья", Серия «Геология докембрия» Трудов Карельского НЦ РАН , no.2,  2021, pp. 62-73, 

Karelia
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Empire of Dust. Empire of Dust is a 2011 documentary film directed by Bram Van Paesschen. The film documents the workers of China Railway Seventh Group (CREC-7), a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited (CREC), as they are contracted to construct a road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film follows two employees of CREC-7, head of logistics Lao Yang and interpreter Eddy, as they struggle to work with the locals due to their cultural differences.

Awards 
The film won Best Belgian Documentary at the 7th edition Docville.

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Stephen Roberts (academic). Stephen Roberts (born March 1965) FREng is a British academic and scientist. He is a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford and leads the Machine Learning Research Group, a sub-group of the Department of Engineering Science.

In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry, an artificial intelligence company, along with his colleague professor Michael Osborne.

Education 
Roberts received a first-class degree in physics and a DPhil in machine learning. He also completed a PhD in Signal Processing at Imperial College London.

Career 
In 1994, Roberts was appointed to the faculty at Imperial College London. Roberts has been faculty at the University of Oxford since 1999 and a professor of machine learning since 2004.

Honours, advisory roles, and fellowship 
Professor Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the IET, and the ELLIS Society. He was Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (2014-2021) and is co-lead of the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship Program (2022-).

He is a professorial fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford.

He was a founding director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.

He is also a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

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