omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Vernon Cooray. Vernon Cooray is a Sri Lankan scientist who is an emeritus professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden. As a scientist he has concentrated on solving both physics and engineering problems related to lightning physics, lightning protection and physics of electrical discharges. This research work has resulted in more than 600 research publications. He was the Ph.D. thesis supervisor of more than thirty researchers, both at Uppsala and foreign universities, who are now actively engaged in lightning research and lightning protection in different parts of the world.

Early life and career 
In 2014 he was elected as the president of the International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP) for a period of six years. ICLP is considered as the most prestigious conference in the world that addresses the problems related to lightning physics and lightning protection and attended by lightning researchers and engineers from all over the world. From 2000 to 2017, he was the professor responsible for the research and Ph.D. studies in the field of atmospheric electrical discharges at Uppsala University. Vernon Cooray has also contributed to educate the general public on lightning and lightning protection through newspapers, radio and television. Vernon Cooray has edited three books and authored two books on lightning physics and lightning protection.

Research 
He is the first scientist to show that the basic foundation of all engineering return stroke models are the same even though they are expressed in different mathematical formulations. He is also the first scientist to resolve one of the controversies that existed in 1980s between the EMC engineers and Power engineers related to the theories of interaction of lightning electromagnetic fields with power lines by showing that a model developed by Prof. Sune Rusck, and used frequently by power engineers, is identical to the model developed by Agrawal et al., frequently used by EMC engineers. He and his collaborators were the first group of scientists to show that lightning cloud flashes are as efficient as lightning ground flashes in generating nitrogen oxides. He together with Prof. Marcos Rubinstein developed the Cooray-Rubinstein approximation which is frequently used in analysing the voltages induced in power lines by lightning. Vernon Cooray and Marley Becerra developed the lightning interaction simulation program SLIM that can be used to predict the location of lightning strikes to structures. He together with Dr. Gerald Cooray illustrated a connection between classical electromagnetic fields and time energy uncertainty principle.

Awards 
He has been awarded the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) honorary degree from University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, the IEEE fellow membership, the Karl Berger award from the international scientific committee of ICLP, and the best book award from the Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI).

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1951 births
Living people
Fellows of the IEEE
Sri Lankan scientists
Swedish people of Sri Lankan descent
GIRP. GIRP is a 2011 rock-climbing simulator Flash game by Australian game developer Bennett Foddy. It is a sequel to his 2008 game QWOP. GIRP was nominated for the Nuovo award for innovative games at the 2012 Independent Games Festival, but lost out to Daniel Benmergui's Storyteller.

In the game, the player presses keyboard keys assigned to rocks on a wall to flex and ascend its surface. All the while, the water level is rising higher by the second, and if it reaches over the player's head, they will drown and have to start over. Wired described the game as "masochistically difficult" and "maddeningly compulsive", with the effect of making the player's keyboard similar to the physical skill game of Twister. Foddy designed GIRP to hijack the neurological reward-system by allowing players to set their own achievable goals in the game.

A sanctioned multiplayer version of GIRP intended for festival use was released under the name Mega GIRP by game developer Douglas Wilson.

References

External links
 GIRP on Foddy's official website

2011 video games
 Flash games
 Browser games
Climbing and mountaineering video games
Video games developed in Australia
Video game sequels
Halberstadt B types. The Halberstadt B-types of the Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke were two-seat unarmed reconnaissance/training aircraft of the German Air Force in the First World War.

Development 
In 1914, Halberstadt developed a biplane with the Oberursel U.0 rotary engine with 80 hp, which was referred to as Halberstadt B.I and was given the factory name A15. The Halberstadt B.II (B15) was built with a Mercedes D.I inline engine with 105 hp and in 1915 the Halberstadt B.III was produced with the slightly stronger Mercedes D.II (120 hp).

Halberstadt B.II was used as the base for the first armed two-seater, the Halberstadt CL.II.

Variants
A15Company designation of the aircraft that became the B.I
B15Company designation of the aircraft that became the B.II
B.I (Company A15) Reconnaissance aircraft powered by a  Oberursel U.0 rotary engine.
B.II (Company B15) Reconnaissance aircraft powered by a  Mercedes D.I in-line engine.
B.III (Company B15) Reconnaissance aircraft powered by a  Mercedes D.II in-line engine.

Operational history 
The B.I was used as a trainer aircraft, while the B.II and B.III briefly served as reconnaissance aircraft, but were later also used for pilot training.

Specifications (B.II)

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Further reading
 

Halberstadt aircraft
1910s German military trainer aircraft
1910s German military reconnaissance aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1915
Hans Behn-Eschenburg. Hans Behn-Eschenburg (10 January 1864 – 18 May 1938) was a Swiss engineer.

Biography
Behn-Eschenburg was born in Obertrass (now Zürich), Switzerland. His work on the AC single-phase motor was important to the electrification of railways.

He studied mathematics and physics in Zürich and Berlin between 1886 and 1890. In 1892, Behn-Eschenburg worked at Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, where he became chief electrician (1897–1911), director (1911–1913), director General Technical (1913–1928) and Administrative Counselor (1919-1938). Oerlikon was prominent in the construction of single-phase motors with commutators for traction. He died on 18 May 1938 in Küsnacht.

His work focussed on alternating current technology, including the asynchronous motor and the AC single-phase motor. which marked a major turning point in the electrification of railways.

Behn-Eschenburg gave his name to a vector diagram for synchronous reactance.

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1864 births
1938 deaths
Swiss electrical engineers
People from Zurich
Emil Huber-Stockar. Emil Huber-Stockar (July 15, 1865 – May 9, 1939) was a Swiss entrepreneur and railway pioneer. He was an instrumental figure in the electrification of the Swiss railway network and worked as lead engineer and consultant for the Swiss Federal Railways.

Life 
Huber was born on July 15, 1865, in Zürich-Riesbach, Switzerland the son of Peter Emil and Anna Marie (née Werdmüller). His father hailed from a wealthy textile manufacturer family. His father was a former chairman of Oerlikon Buehrle and a pioneer of the machinery and electric industry. He had a prosper upbringing in Zürich District 7.

After training as a mechanical engineer at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zürich) and spending some years in America, Huber took over the management of the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, founded by his father Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller, near Zürich, Switzerland. He focussed on solving the difficulties of high power, electrically powered mainline railway systems. In 1904, he electrified the Seebach-Wettingen line with high-voltage alternating current (15,000 volts) at low frequency (15 Hertz). This experimental operation was successful. The first railway to use this system (standard in several European countries today, but with a frequency of 16.7 Hertz) was the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway. In 1925, Emil Huber-Stockar received an honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich for his achievements.

Family
Emil Huber-Stockar was the son of Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller and brother of lawyer and diplomat Max Huber. In 1895, Emil married Marie Helena Stockar, daughter of Hans Julius, a lawyer.

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1865 births
1939 deaths
People from Zurich
Swiss electrical engineers
Sarah Jamie Lewis. Sarah Jamie Lewis is an anonymity and privacy researcher with published research in the fields of deanonymization and e-voting. In 2019, Lewis in collaboration with researchers from the University of Melbourne and UCLouvain published details of critical vulnerabilities impacting electronic voting systems in Switzerland and Australia.

Lewis has also researched the privacy protocols (or lack thereof) of sex toys. She has been cited in academic research regarding their security. She believes there is a lack of legal framework related to the field of onion dildonics, stating that "We are currently sprinting into this world of connected sex toys and connected sex tech without regards to what consent, privacy, or security means in that context..." and recommending "100% encrypted peer-to-peer cyber sex over Tor hidden services." More generally, due to the litigious environment in which computer security researchers operate, she has opted to build bespoke secure systems rather than fix broken systems.

In 2017, Lewis edited a collection of essays entitled Queer Privacy, focussing on the effects of technology on marginalised communities; she describes herself as a "Vegan Lesbian, Queer Anarchist" and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

See also

 Crypto-anarchism
 Tor (anonymity network)
 Dark web
 Ricochet (software)

References

External links

The law isn’t ready for the internet of sexual assault: What happens when our most intimate devices get hacked?
Tricky tech questions: Is hacking a sex toy sexual assault?

Year of birth missing (living people)
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20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people
21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
Anarchist writers
Canadian anarchists
Canadian lesbian writers
Canadian LGBTQ scientists
Canadian queer women
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Computer security specialists
Crypto-anarchists
InfoSec Twitter
Lesbian feminists
Lesbian scientists
Open source advocates
People in information technology
Privacy activists
Queer feminists
Women in computing
Women in Vancouver
Women technology writers
Writers from Vancouver
BDŽ class 75. The BDŽ class 75 is a series of Bulgarian narrow-gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives.

The first 760 mm track-side diesel locomotives of the BDŽ were built by the German company Henschel & Sohn of Kassel, and were put into operation in Bulgaria in the beginning of 1966. As soon as they arrived, they became the main narrow-gauge locomotive series at the Septemvri depot, took the passenger (from the series 81 and 82) and the freight (from the 600.76 series locomotives) service on the railway lines Septemvri - Dobrinishte and  - Pazardzhik. Moreover, due to the higher power of the locomotives, the trip from Septemvri to Dobrinishte was shortened by more than 1 hour.

The locomotives were constructed under the technical conditions of BDŽ and consisted mainly of: a diesel engine with a power of 1100 hp, a hydraulic gear and the wheelset formula is B'B'. At their creation (the 1960s), they were the world's most powerful diesel locomotives for the 760 mm gauge. For the first time in Bulgaria the concept of using the cavities in the main locomotive frame for fuel tank was applied.

The first scrapped locomotive in the series was 75 007.5, which derailed on January 16, 1991, due to a broken track on the open line to the closed stop "Dryanov Dol". The damage to the locomotive was not so great to force it to be scrapped, but due to the sufficient number of locomotives it was not required to be recovered quickly. Thus it became a "donor" for spare parts for the other locomotives of the series and eventually in 1994 it was scrapped.

Factory data and status

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760 mm gauge locomotives
Narrow gauge locomotives of Bulgaria
B-B locomotives
Henschel locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1965
Project Barbara. Project Barbara was a project by the Kriegsmarine, which was undertaken during World War II, to improve the anti-aircraft capabilities of its ships.

History
During this project, numerous  anti-aircraft guns were to be added to all surface ships, including destroyers. In 1944 a sub-project was set up, to give small ships, including destroyers, 3.7 cm Flak M42 anti-aircraft guns. In mid–1941, the decision was made to upgrade existing  guns to either  or  guns. The decision was made to use the 5.5 cm Flak Gerät 58 anti-aircraft guns, which were in development, and which were to be able to fire  at a rate of either 120 or 150 rounds per minute, and to be capable of single shot fire. It was to be gas operated and able to work on a triaxial or quad-axial mount. This project never reached fruition, and no guns of the type were ever mounted. Later on, the decision was made to replace all  with  guns, but this too was not completed.

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Bibliography

Kriegsmarine
Research and development in Nazi Germany
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205. Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 was a regularly scheduled domestic Austral Líneas Aéreas flight operating a route between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina that crashed after encountering poor weather conditions during landing on 16 January 1959, killing 51 of the 52 passengers and crew on board. At the time, the crash was the second-worst accident in Argentine aviation history and is currently the sixth-worst involving a Curtiss C-46 Commando.

Accident
The Curtiss C-46 Commando, registration LV-GED, took off from Buenos Aires at 19:50 local time with five crew members and 47 passengers aboard for an approximately 250-mile flight to Mar del Plata. The aircraft had already been delayed for 35 minutes due to poor weather conditions at its destination. The flight was uneventful and Flight 205 was cleared for landing by controllers on runway 12 as it neared Mar Del Plata Airport. At the time the airport's non-directional beacon (NDB) was not functional, contributing to issues with navigation. As the aircraft passed over the runway at an altitude of , it overshot the runway. Missing the approach, the captain decided to commence a go-around. However, in bad visibility with poor airport lighting, the C-46 stalled and crashed into the sea about  away from the airport at 21:40 local time. All members of the crew and 46 of the 47 passengers were killed. The  sole survivor, businessman Roberto Servente, endured four hours in the sea and managed to swim to shore with multiple fractures and serious injuries. He would later work with the airline itself and become the director of Austral. Roberto Servente passed away on 7 March 2014, 54 years after the accident, aged 93.

Causes
An investigation of the crash placed most of the blame for the accident on the crew. The pilot was not familiar with the airspace and had miscalculated his instrument approach, resulting in a missed approach. In addition, the crew's mental state contributed to the subsequent stall and loss of control that caused the aircraft to crash. Contributing factors were the non-functioning radio beacon and the poor visibility which made discerning the airport's lights and runway difficult.

See also
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901
1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident

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Aviation accidents and incidents in 1959
Aviation accidents and incidents in Argentina
1959 in Argentina
Accidents and incidents involving the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando
January 1959 events in South America
Escadron électronique aéroporté 1/54 Dunkerque. Escadron électronique aéroporté 00.054 Dunkerque is an electronic warfare unit of the French Air and Space Force equipped with the Transall C-160G "Gabriel"s and Beechcraft King Air 350ER "Vader"s. It was stationed at Metz-Frescaty Air Base (BA 128) until it was transférred to Évreux-Fauville Air Base (BA 105).

Designations 
 1964 : Escadrille électronique 00.054
 1985 : Escadron électronique 00.054
 1988 : Escadron électronique 01.054
 2006 : Escadron électronique aéroporté 11.054
 September 2009 : Escadron électronique aéroporté 00.054.

Aircraft 
The squadron was equipped with eight Nord 2501 "Gabriel" ; the first operational flight of a Nord "Gabriel" took place in October 1962. The last flight took place on 5 October 1989.

Since 1989, the Transall Gabriel or C160G has replaced the Nord Gabriel. Only two aircraft of the type are in service.

The first Beechcraft King Air 350ER "Vader" arrived on August 6, 2020.

See also 
 List of French Air and Space Force aircraft squadrons

References 

French Air and Space Force squadrons
Military units and formations established in 1964
Royole. Royole Corporation was a manufacturer of flexible displays and sensors that can be used in a range of human-machine interface products, including foldable smartphones and other smart devices.

History
Royole was founded by Stanford engineering graduates, including current Founder Bill Liu, in 2012.

The company, backed by investors including IDG Capital, AMTD Group and Knight Capital, produces fully flexible displays in volume from its 4.5-million-square-feet quasi-G6 mass production campus in Shenzhen, China.

Royole has offices in Fremont, California, Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Towards the end of 2020, Royole filed to go public on Shanghai's STAR Market, but withdraw their application shortly after when shareholder structure issues emerged.

Milestones
Royole produced the world's thinnest full-color flexible displays and flexible sensors (2014), the world's first foldable 3D mobile theater (2015), the world's first curved car dashboard based on flexible electronics (2016), the first smart writing pad, RoWrite, based on flexible sensors (2017), the volume production of Royole's quasi-G6 mass production campus for fully flexible displays (2018), and the world's first commercial foldable smartphone, FlexPai™, with a fully flexible display (2018).

In May 2019, Royole partnered with Louis Vuitton to launch the “Canvas of the Future” line of handbags that featured built-in flexible displays. The bags were unveiled at Louis Vuitton's Cruise 2020 runway show in New York City.

In December 2018, Airbus China Innovation Centre (ACCIC) announced a partnership with Royole to explore applications of flexible displays and sensors in aircraft development with an aim to improve cabin safety and increase energy conservation.

Awards
Royole has received international industry awards, including in the Red Dot Awards and International Design Awards, for its technological innovations and fast growth. Royole was named a 2018 VIP Award winner by TWICE Magazine.

Controversies
In December 2021, 10 months after failing to go public on Shanghai's STAR Market, it was reported that Royole has delayed salary payments to employees for months after the money-losing company suffered from tight cashflow. Founder and CEO Liu Zihong held an all-hands meeting on Nov. 30 to update the company's financial situation. Liu said at the meeting that the company was in the process of obtaining financing, and expected to receive funds in December, according to some employees. All back salaries would be paid at the end of December or in January, but there was still uncertainty, Liu said.

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American companies established in 2012
Flexible electronics
Electronics companies established in 2012
Companies based in Shenzhen
Companies based in Fremont, California
Chinese brands
2012 in Shenzhen
Main code page (Russian). The Main code page () is an 8-bit code page used in DOS. It was devised in 1986 by a research group at the Academy of Science of the USSR. The other code page by the same group is known as the "Alternative code page" () which is nearly identical to code page 866. Unlike the latter, the "Main code page" does not preserve the code points of the pseudographic symbols of code page 437. However, the majority of software at that period were made to be compatible with code page 437, as a result the Main code page has never gained any wide use. With the introduction of the Russian version of MS-DOS in 1990 which by default uses code page 866, the Main code page has become obsolete. Neither IBM nor Microsoft have ever supported this code page, so it has not been given its code page number by any vendor.

The Main code page was hardwired in some Soviet IBM PC clones such as ES PEVM or Iskra-1030 (however, other Soviet computers such as UKNC generally used KOI-7 or KOI-8).

The cells B0–EF seem to be the origin for the same rows in ISO/IEC 8859-5.

References 

DOS code pages
Yewande Akinola. Yewande Akinola (born 1984) is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies. She works as Principal Engineer for Laing O'Rourke and hosts television shows about engineering for Channel 4 and National Geographic.

Education 
Yewande Akinola was born in 1984 in Nigeria. As a child she designed model-sized houses. Her father, J. M Akinola, was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works of the old Western Region in Nigeria. Yewande Akinola studied Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology at the University of Warwick, which she completed in 2007. During her degree she was a mechanical engineer for Thames Water, where she worked on clean water treatment sites. In 2007 she was employed by Arup Group as a Design Engineer designing water supplies and water management systems. Whilst working for Arup, she earned a master's degree from Cranfield University in 2011.

Career 
Yewande Akinola is interested in developing water and sanitation for underdeveloped countries. She has worked on projects in the UK, Africa, Middle East and East Asia. She is the founder of the Global Emit Project, which mentors young people who are interested in engineering.

In 2010 Yewande Akinola presented Titanic: The Mission for Channel 4 and National Geographic Society. In 2012 she judged the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering competition to create a trophy. That year, she was shortlisted and won the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award. She has also presented for CBeebies and Yesterday TV. Yewande Akinola has appeared on BBC Radio 4. In 2014 Yewande Akinola designed a Rainwater Harvesting System.

In 2013 Akinola worked with Girl Guiding UK to encourage more young women into engineering. She featured in a Royal Academy of Engineering campaign "Designed to Inspire". She was featured on the QEPrize 2014 campaign "Create The Future". She delivered a keynote talk at the 2016 Ada Lovelace day celebration. She featured in the Institution of Engineering and Technology 2017 campaign "Portrait of an Engineer". In 2021 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Awards 
1998 - Nigerian National Mathematics Award

2009 - UK’s Society of Public Health Engineers Award for Young Rising Star

2012 - Exceptional Achiever Award by the Association for Black Engineers (AFBE-UK)

2012 - Young Woman Engineer of the Year from the IET

2013 - Management Today’s top 35 women under 35

2014 - PRECIOUS Award for Outstanding Woman in STEM

See also 
 Omolabake Adenle
 Ozak Esu
 Omobola Johnson
 Joana Maduka

References 

Living people
Nigerian women engineers
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Alumni of Cranfield University
Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom
21st-century women engineers
Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
1984 births