omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Matthias Ballauff. Matthias Ballauff (born 13 July 1952) is a German chemist and physicist, and is a professor of physics at the Free University of Berlin. His postdoctoral research and training was directed by Paul Flory. He contributed to various areas of physical chemistry, in particular to polymer science, colloidal chemistry and nanomaterials, as well as to soft matter physics. Ballauff is particularly known for having developed new catalyst materials in the form of functionalized metallic nanoparticles dispersed in liquid phase, which can greatly speed up the reaction kinetics of organic molecules.

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1952 births
Living people
20th-century German physicists
21st-century German chemists
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
Stanford University faculty
German expatriates in the United States
Academic staff of the University of Bayreuth
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research people
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
Southern Positioning Augmentation Network. The Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) is a joint initiative of the Australian and New Zealand Governments that provides satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) for Australia and New Zealand. On 26 September 2022, SouthPAN early Open Services became live, with safety-of-life certified SouthPAN services planned for 2028. SouthPAN is the first SBAS in the Southern Hemisphere.

SouthPAN will implement the following services:

 L1 SBAS. L1 SBAS augments GPS and is an Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service (ARNS). This signal will be used for Safety-of-Life applications and therefore needs to be certified by the National Aviation Authorities—that is, the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
 DFMC SBAS. Dual Frequency Multi Constellation (DFMC) SBAS is a future ARNS that will be defined in ICAO Annex 10 Amendment 93. This service will have the potential to be certified as a safety critical system for aviation and other sectors in the future.
 PVS. Precise Point Positioning (PPP) via SouthPAN (PVS) service will provide horizontal accuracies of 15cm (95% Confidence) to a range of industries following a convergence time in the tens of minutes. The PVS service will be open access and able to be incorporated onto mass-market GNSS devices across Australia, New Zealand and their maritime zones.

Test Transmission 
Between 2017 and 31 July 2020, Geoscience Australia ran a SouthPAN SBAS test-bed project to assess the economic, social and environmental benefits of improved positioning technology through industry case study projects.

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 Positioning Australia
 LINZ

Satellite-based augmentation systems
Ben Warner. Ben Warner is a British data scientist.

Education 
Warner earned a PhD at University College London for research investigating single molecule spintronics. The research was supervised by Cyrus Hirjibehedin and was awarded the Marshall Stoneham prize.

Career
Warner was a postdoctoral research fellow in quantum physics at the centre for nanotechnology at University College London. He left to join ASI Data Science (now Faculty), a company founded by his brother Marc Warner in 2014, where he is now a commercial principal.

Warner was a key figure in the computer modelling used by Vote Leave's successful 2016 referendum campaign. He was brought in by Dominic Cummings to run the Conservative Party's private computer model for the 2019 general election, which predicted that the Conservative Party would win 364 seats (they won 365).

Warner was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Cummings and 21 others.

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British statisticians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Data scientists
Alumni of University College London
Construction robots. Construction robots  are a subset of industrial robots used for building and infrastructure construction at site. Despite being traditionally slow to adopt new technologies, 55% of construction companies in the United States, Europe, and China now say they use robots on job sites. Most of the robots working on jobsites today are designed to remove strains on humans, e.g., excavating and lifting heavy objects. Robots that survey and layout markers, tie rebar, and install drywall are also now on the market. 

Other robots are being developed to perform tasks such as finishing the exterior, steel placement, construction of masonry wall, reinforcement concrete, etc. The main challenge to use robots in site is due to limitation in workspace.

Features
General features include:
It must be able to move.
 It must be able to handle components of variable size and weight.
 It must be able to adjust with changing environment.
 It must be able to interact with its surroundings.
 It must be able to perform multiple tasks.

Capabilities
Construction robots have been tested to carry out the followings:
 Building walls
Monitor the construction progress
 Inspection robots are used to investigate the infrastructures, mainly at dangerous locations

Notable construction by robots
 30 storied Rail City Building at Yokohama, Japan was constructed by an automated system.
 Concrete floor finish robot was used by Kajima and Tokimec companies in Japan.
 Obayashi Corporation in Japan has developed and used a system to lay concrete layers in dam construction.

Social impact
Use of the construction robots in the USA is rare, mainly due to opposition from labour unions. However, in Japan, these robots are taken positively.

See also
Industrial robots

References

Robotics
List of earthquakes in Myanmar. Myanmar is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Oblique subduction, block rotation, and a transform margin has been responsible for the seismic activities of the country. The Sagaing Fault is one of the largest sources of earthquakes in the country, having produced deadly quakes in the past centuries. Along the western coast, offshore Rahkine State, the Sunda Megathrust, where the Indian plate dives beneath the Burma plate is capable of producing large events and tsunamis like the 2004 earthquake. Intermediate depth earthquakes east of the Chin Range also pose a risk to people. The Shan Plateau is another source of earthquakes, hosting many active strike-slip faults that accommodate block rotation of the Sunda plate.

Notable earthquakes in the history of Myanmar include the following:

Earthquakes

Tsunamis affecting Myanmar 

 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake
 1941 Andaman Islands earthquake
 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

See also

Geology of Myanmar

References

Sources

Earthquakes in Myanmar
Myanmar
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Fathima Michael College of Engineering and Technology. Michael College of Engineering and Technology was established in the year 2009. It is a technical institution offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various disciplines of engineering and technology. The college is located 15 km from Madurai on Madurai Sivagangai Main Road. This college is part of St. Michael Group of Institutions. The college has ISO 9001:2008 certification.

Departments
The academic departments of the college are:
Automobile Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate courses (4 years) 
Bachelor of Engineering degree in 
Automobile Engineering,
Civil Engineering,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering

Postgraduate courses (2 years) 
Master of Engineering degree in
Thermal Engineering,
Embedded System Technologies,
Computer Science and Engineering

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All India Council for Technical Education
Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Colleges in Madurai
Engineering colleges in Madurai
Science and technology in Madurai
Latha Mathavan Engineering College. Latha Mathavan Engineering College is a private reputed engineering college at Kidaripatti, Alagar Kovil, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India established in 2007. It is a technical institution offering undergraduate programs in various disciplines of engineering. The college is located in Kidaripatti, Alagar Kovil, Madurai. This college is run by Karuppiah Pillai Theivanai Ammal Educational Trust.

Undergraduate courses (4 years) 
Bachelor of Engineering degree in
Computer Science and Engineering,
Civil Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering

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All India Council for Technical Education
Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Colleges in Madurai
Engineering colleges in Madurai
Science and technology in Madurai
Scantrust. Scantrust is a Swiss company that provides an Internet of things platform for identifying products on the internet.

Scantrust offers traceability for various industries, such as  luxury goods, food products, industrial machines, water filters, cables, agrochemical products, and fiscal stamps. Nathan J. Anderson is the CEO.

History 
Justin Picard, Nathan J. Anderson, and Paul Landry founded Scantrust at the end of 2013. A seed round led by SOSV was raised in 2015, and a series A led by Credit Suisse was raised in 2017. In 2016, the company concluded a partnership with Agfa-Gevaert to integrate its technologies into Agfa's security software. In 2017, the National Seeds Institute of Argentina released a fiscal stamp printed with Scantrust secure QR Code. In 2018, the company entered into a partnership with Hyperledger and began offering services using Hyperledger Sawtooth. In 2019, the Dutch Standards organisation NEN announced they would use Scantrust secure QR codes to ensure the authenticity of their certificates. The same year, Scantrust entered into a partnership with HP Indigo for labels printed with HP commercial printers. In 2020, Scantrust entered into a partnership with SAP to deliver end-to-end traceability.

Product authentication and traceability
The company has developed a QR Code system with an additional layer of protection against copying, based on inserting a copy detection pattern or secure graphic which loses information when it is copied. The technology does not require special materials, inks, and modifications to printing equipment to implement. Related product authentication and traceability data can be stored into a blockchain.

QR codes used in Scantrust authentication and traceability systems are printed on product packaging and scanned with a smartphone to authenticate and track products. The company provides a free app to consumers which can be used to scan products with the copy detection pattern and help detect counterfeits. Scanning of a code with a smartphone can also offer a traceability feature with origin and supply chain information made about the product made available An enterprise app is also provided for employees, distributors and forensic inspections.

References 

Technology companies of Switzerland
Technology companies established in 2013
2013 establishments in Switzerland
Companies based in Lausanne
Harmony Link. Harmony Link is a planned electricity link between Lithuania and Poland. The purpose of the cable is to finish the transition of the Baltic states from IPS/UPS to the synchronous grid of Continental Europe. Total expected project cost is 923 million euros.

Details

The total investment planned for the Harmony Link project is around €680 million, of which €493 million will come from the Connecting Europe Facility.

On 21 December 2018, Lithuanian electricity grid operator Litgrid and Polish electricity grid operator PSE signed agreement in order to start planning the cable. Project was given an official name Harmony Link. In June 2023 the construction works started at the Darbėnai transmission station.

Harmony Link was originally planned to connect the Zarnowiec substation in the Pomeranian region of Poland with the Darbėnai substation in the Kretinga region of Lithuania. The key component of the interconnector was a 700 MW High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cable. The power link was to be about 330 km long, of which about 290 km will be the offshore part.

In late 2023, both countries agreed to change the project and build the link on the land along the Rail Baltica railway infrastructure, instead of the previously planned submarine power cable.

See also

 Energy in Lithuania
 List of high-voltage transmission links in Lithuania
 LitPol Link, cable between Lithuania and Poland
 NordBalt, subsea cable between Lithuania and Sweden
 SwePol, cable between Poland and Sweden

References

External links
 Litgrid

Electrical interconnectors to and from the Baltic grid
High-voltage transmission lines
Electric power infrastructure in Poland
Electric power transmission systems in Lithuania
Lithuania–Poland relations
Spaceship Earth (film). Spaceship Earth is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about the 1991 experiment that saw eight individuals spend two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem, dubbed Biosphere 2. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020, and was released in the United States on May 8, 2020, by Neon.

Premise
Using archived footage and present-day interviews, the film follows the large dome that featured a replica of earth's ecosystem called Biosphere 2, constructed in the Arizona desert. Trying to see if it is possible to establish human existence on other planets, eight "biospherians" go to live inside the vivarium, where they face ecological issues and accusations of cult-mentalities.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of  based on  reviews, with an average rating of . The site's critics consensus reads: "Spaceship Earth achieves liftoff as an engaging behind-the-scenes record of an audacious experiment -- and settles into orbit as poignant proof of the power of a shared dream." Metacritic assigned the film an average weighted score of 73 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Using both present-tense interviews and footage from the time, Wolf shows how things nearly fell apart. But he also captures the seriousness of purpose behind what some saw as a giant publicity stunt — and convinces us that this was a one-of-a-kind way to learn some of the things humanity will need to know as this world changes and others are considered for habitation."

Kate Knibbs, in Wired, wrote that director Matt Wolf's "soft-focus emphasis on the bonhomie of the Synergians" was unexpectedly touching. The review calls the film a credulous portrayal while having an incomplete narrative, omitting incidents of interpersonal drama and gliding over what transpired following the first round of the experiment. Steve Bannon, who took over Biosphere 2 in 1993, only appears in the final 15 minutes of the film despite causing the resignation of the original Biospherians and filing criminal charges against Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo after they broke into the enclosure to warn the second group about him.

References

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 Spaceship Earth at Rotten Tomatoes

2020s English-language films
2020 documentary films
2020 films
Films directed by Matt Wolf
English-language documentary films
Multidimensional Unit (IDF). The Multidimensional Unit (), designated as Unit 888 and also known as the “Refaim” Unit (), is an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Special Operations task force serving under the Ground Forces. It was established in 2019 by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kokhavi.

Role and training
The Multidimensional Unit is intended to be a highly versatile unit that combines various fields of warfare, including infantry, engineering, anti-tank warfare, aerial warfare and intelligence collection. The unit is used as a model for testing new warfare innovations intended for potential use by the rest of the IDF.

Unit 888 operators go through physical and mental selection before starting training. Due to the unit's flexible nature and its task of innovating the IDF, soldiers are tested in the fields of creativity and problem-solving, as well as undergoing regular special forces selection processes. Combat training includes enduring extreme physical and mental challenges over 14–16 months, which not all participants can complete. Those who successfully complete training may receive additional training specializing in a specific field.

In February 2020, the unit's insignia was revealed, depicting a sword within a number 8 featuring arrows flowing in different directions. The pommel of the sword features the binary code "1101111000" representing the decimal number, 888.

On 7 October 2023, Unit 888 commander Roi Levi was killed by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the battle of Re'im.

Gallery

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 Such a unit was never in the IDF – until today, on IDF website, January 2020

Special forces of Israel
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Richard Merrill. Richard Merrill may refer to:

 Richard Merrill (computer scientist), inventor of the programming language FOCAL
 Richard B. Merrill, American inventor of Foveon X3 sensor
 Richard L. Morrill, academic
 Dick Merrill, aviation pioneer

See also
 Richard Merrill Atkinson, U.S. Representative from Tennessee
 Richard Merrill Rowell, Distinguished Flying Cross recipient
 USS Richard M. Rowell (DE-403), WWII navy ship named after Richard Merrill Rowell
 Richard M. Cohen (Richard Merrill Cohen), American journalist
 Richard M. Mills Jr. (Richard Merrill Mills Jr.), American diplomat
 Dick Sudhalter (Richard Merrill Sudhalter), American jazz musician and writer
 Merrill (surname)
Adeola Olubamiji. Adeola Deborah Olubamiji is a Canadian technologist who specializes in metal and plastic additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing). In 2017, she became the first Black person to obtain a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the 112-year-old University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She went on to give a TEDx Talk on how she utilized 3D printing for recovery of damaged articular cartilage in Canada.

Background and education 
Adeola Olubamiji was born on April 3, 1985, in Nigeria, a native of Ijare area, Ondo state. She was raised in Ibadan where she attended Alafia Public Primary School and St Gabriel Secondary School, Mokola. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Physics (with Electronics) from Olabisi Onabanjo University, and later went on to obtain her master's degree at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. She received her Doctorate degree from University of Saskatchewan, becoming the first Black person to obtain a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University.

Career 

She is currently the Director of Additive Manufacturing Solutions at Desktop Metal. Prior to that, she worked as an Advanced Manufacturing Technical Advisor at Cummins Inc. Indiana, as an additive manufacturing subject matter expert, instrumental in the development of additive manufacturing technology roadmap, also improving Cummins' laser printed 316L stainless steel.

She worked as the Lead Metallurgist and Material Engineer at Burloak Technologies from 2016 to 2018. While at Burloak Technologies, she also acted as the Principal Liaison Officer for all Burloak’s and Multiscale Additive Manufacturing Lab at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

She is the Founder of STEMHub Foundation, a Canadian non-profit that empowers and teaches science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education to students and early career professionals. In addition, she sits on the board of Health Science & Innovation Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana as the Secretary of the board. She is the chief consultant at D-Tech Centrix, an education and career consulting company, located in Ontario Canada and Indiana USA

Awards and recognition
She was recognized in 2017 as 5th of the 150 Black women making Canada better, commemorating the 150th celebration of Canada.

In 2019, she was named one of the 10 L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth Honoree Canada.

In 2019, she was named as one of 27 Influential Women in Manufacturing Honoree in the USA.

In 2020, Olubamiji was awarded as one of 130 STEP Ahead Honoree and female manufacturing leaders by the Manufacturing Institute, USA.

She was selected as an awardee of Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women in 2020, under the Life Science and Technology category.

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1985 births
Living people
Black Canadian scientists
Black Canadian women
Canadian biomedical engineers
Canadian people of Nigerian descent
Canadian women engineers
Nigerian emigrants to Canada
Olabisi Onabanjo University alumni
People from Ibadan
Tampere University of Technology alumni
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Rachel Harrison (computer scientist). Rachel Harrison is a British computer scientist and software engineer whose research interests include mobile apps and object-oriented design. She is a professor of computer science at Oxford Brookes University.

Education and career
Harrison has master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Oxford and in computer science from University College London, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southampton. Before joining Oxford Brooks, she has been professor and head of the computer science department at the University of Reading, and a consultant in the computing industry. At Oxford Brookes University, she leads the Applied Software Engineering Group.

In 2009, Harrison became editor-in-chief of the Software Quality Journal, a position she still holds as of 2020.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
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Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the University of Southampton
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Academics of Oxford Brookes University
Indian locomotive class WDG-6G. The Indian locomotive class WDG-6G (GE ES57ACi) is a class of diesel–electric locomotive used by the Indian Railways for freight duty. The locomotive is a higher power variant of the WDG-4G locomotive which was also designed by General Electric. The design platform is based on the GE Evolution Series and features a 4-stroke 16-cylinder fully turbocharged engine which delivers around 6,000 horsepower (4,500 kW), making it the most powerful diesel locomotive of IR (second-most being the WDG-5 aka EMD GT50AC). It is the only 6,000 HP Diesel electric locomotive at 23t/axle weight, making it the lightest locomotive in its category in the world.

Import and manufacture
Two units were produced by Wabtec's plant in Pennsylvania, United States, and delivered to India in 2019. Initially, a few will be made in USA. Under the 'Make in India' initiative of Indian Government, GE will manufacture all remaining units at its factory in Marhowra, Bihar. GE has also built maintenance sheds at Roza in UP and Gandhidham in Gujarat.

Field trials
The first two locomotives in the series, 69001 and 69002, were recently sent to South Central Railways' Maula Ali (MLY) Diesel Locomotive Shed. The locos underwent Confirmatory Oscillograph Car Run (COCR) trials on the Vikarabad – Parli section of South Central Railway and were approved by Research Design and Standards Organisation for further field trials on the Dedicated Freight Corridor by Roza Locomotive Shed.

Locomotive sheds

See also

Indian locomotive class WDG-4G
List of diesel locomotives of India
Indian Railways
Rail transport in India

References

G-6G
Co-Co locomotives
Evolution Series WDG-6G
5 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 2019