omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Christopher Burge. Christopher Boyce Burge is Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education
Burge completed his Bachelor of Science at Stanford University in 1990, and continued graduate studies in computational biology at Stanford University, gaining his PhD in 1997 under the supervision of Samuel Karlin. During his time at Stanford he was responsible for developing algorithms for GENSCAN used in gene prediction for example the initial analysis of the Human Genome Project. His PhD thesis was titled Identification of genes in human genomic DNA.

Research
From 1997 to 1999 Burge worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Phillip Allen Sharp, working in the fields of RNA splicing and molecular evolution. Burge joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 as a Bioinformatics Fellow. He became Assistant Professor in 2002, Associate Professor in 2004, was tenured in 2006, and was promoted to full Professor in 2010. He has been an Associate Member of the Broad Institute since 2004. His current research interests include genomics, RNA splicing and microRNA regulation.

Burge has also served on the editorial boards of the academic journals RNA, PLOS Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics and ''BMC Genomics.

Awards
In 2001 he was awarded the Overton Prize for Computational Biology by the International Society for Computational Biology. He was awarded a Searle Scholar Award in 2003 for his research in the computational biology of gene expression. In 2007 he was awarded the Schering-Plough Research Institute Award (now known as the ASBMB Young Investigator Award) by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for his outstanding research contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology.

References

Stanford University alumni
Overton Prize winners
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
American bioinformaticians
1968 births
Living people
Whitehead Institute faculty
Human Genome Project scientists
Thomas Norberg Schulz. Thomas Norberg Schulz (12 July 1866 – 28 May 1950) was a Norwegian engineer.

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of attorney Laurentius Andreas Schulz and Christiane Wilhelmine Ulich. He was a brother of educator Carl Schulz. In February 1897 in Strinda he married Gustava Kielland Bachke, a daughter of Anton Sophus Bachke. He was a grandfather of architect Christian Norberg-Schulz, and thus great-grandfather of opera singer Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz. He died in May 1950 in Oslo.

He took exams at Trondhjem Technical School in 1884 and 1885, and graduated from Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) in electrical engineering in 1888. In between he worked at Elektrisk Bureau from 1886 to 1887 and 1889 to 1891. He was a manager of Kristiania Elektrisitetsverk from 1891, having been hired at the age of twenty-five, and was then the chief executive officer from 1908 to 1920. He was the director of electricity in the Norwegian Water Resources and Electricity Agency from 1920 to 1933.

He was a co-founder and first chairman, from 1901 to 1915, of Norske Elektrisitetsverkers Forening and became an honorary member there in 1926. Internationally he was an honorary vice president of the International Council on Large Electric Systems from 1921. He chaired the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1915 to 1918, wrote several technical-academical works and was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1928. He was also a board member of Freia Chocolade Fabrik from 1904 to 1939 and Statens metalcentral.

References

1866 births
1941 deaths
Engineers from Trondheim
Technische Universität Berlin alumni
Norwegian expatriates in Germany
Norwegian electrical engineers
Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian civil servants
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Masters on Photonic Networks Engineering. The Master's on Photonic Networks engineering (MAPNET) is a European Union Erasmus Mundus Master's programme.

Overview
The Master's study programme has 30 ECTS by semester and is divided into four semesters. In the programme the first three semesters are designed as courses, laboratory sessions, and the last semester is based an independent work for the Masters thesis. This program is offered by the four universities:
 Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
 Technische Universität Berlin
 Aston University
 Osaka University

Associated members

 Ericsson - Sweden
 Deutsche Telekom - Germany
 Mitsubishi Electric - Japan
 Fujitsu - Japan
 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - Japan

References

External links
 MAsters on Photonic NETworks Engineering (MAPNET) website

Education in Pisa
Osaka University programs
SunCore Corporation. SunCore Corporation is a company that produces light-powered intelligent charging systems to power today's mobile devices for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), operators (service providers) and distributors, cofounded in 2004 by The Brimmer Family  in Irvine, California.


Technology
SunCore's light-powered intelligent charging systems use proprietary photovoltaic (PV) panel technology to harvest light energy with a sensitive range of 300 to 1200 nanometers, well beyond the visible light spectrum. The SunCore light-powered intelligent charging system possesses a unique quality allowing you to recharge your devices using ambient light. For the first time this allows charging to occur indoors as opposed to being told to place your device in the hot, direct sunlight to charge.  The systems' microcontroller-based charge-management circuitry and software optimizes the absorbed  energy's high efficiency transfer from the PV panel to the battery, as the device is moved within varying light conditions.

NovaCell®  

The NovaCell® is a light-driven, handheld charger that connects to today's most popular mobile devices and increases user operating time between battery charges. The NovaCell combines proprietary technologies to harvest energy from virtually any light condition-indoor ambient and incandescent to sunlight and shade.

Photovoltaic (PV) Panel—Proprietary, monolithically interconnected back-point junction PV panel is responsible for a spectral sensitivity range of 300 - 1200 nanometers.

Charge Management—Built-in intelligence of the microcontroller-based charge-management circuitry and software optimize the absorbed energy's high-efficiency transfer rate from the PV panel to the battery, as the NovaCell is moved within and between varying light conditions. This process ensures the greatest voltage level and current output.

Battery Power Indicators—Centered on the lower faceplate, five LED lights indicate the power level of the built-in lithium battery. Each LED light represents the remaining battery power at 20% increments with an accuracy of 1%.

Light Positioning Indicators—A sun icon, also on the face plate, continuously displays charge strength under various light conditions. The icon's intensity signals when optimal exposure to light is achieved, maximizing charge output. An intense, brightly lit icon shows the ideal light level for greatest power output.

References

External links
 SunCore Corporation Website

Photovoltaics manufacturers
Solar energy companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in California
Companies based in Irvine, California
Electronics companies established in 2004
Energy companies established in 2004
Manufacturing companies established in 2004
Renewable resource companies established in 2004
2004 establishments in California
American companies established in 2004
Project Twin Streams. Project Twin Streams is an umbrella name for a number of initiatives centred on two streams (Opanuku and Oratia) in the West Auckland, New Zealand. It consists of a number of environmental and community initiatives and infrastructure. This includes wetland restoration, largely carried out through volunteer work, partly to mitigate the effects of floodwaters from the Waitākere Ranges. The intent is also to protect/reclaim the 100-year flood plain from encroaching buildings and infrastructure. The project was achieved successfully, including 156 full and partial property purchases, despite a political decision not to use the legally available option of compulsory property purchases. The project focuses on the tributaries of Te Wai-o-Pareira / Henderson Creek and the Huruhuru Creek, including the Momutu Stream, Ōpanuku Stream, Oratia Stream and the Waikumete Stream.

The conservation works, both for the streams and the wider catchment, won second place in the International Thiess Riverprize in 2007.

Walk- and cycleway 
One of the most visible initiatives is the well-received Twin Streams Walk- and Cycleway, which allows residents and visitors to wander or ride most of the length of the two streams and some of their tributaries. The specification requirements included lighting for the path (which has since been installed, and provides extended use hours in the evening and morning, though not during some parts of the night), and at the time of installation, the lighting for the paths was the largest LED lighting project in New Zealand.

The 3m wide paths, with some 2.5m wide side paths, were funded by a combination of Infrastructure Auckland and Land Transport New Zealand grants / subsidies. The construction of the paths in the 2000s at that time included 5 bridges, 11 boardwalks, 5 retaining walls and a number of property purchases, for a total of slightly more than $10 million. The project also included a variety of local artworks, from ceramic tiles to cultural markers and kinetic sculptures, with a budget of $380,000.

The walk- and cycleways and its lighting won several awards, including:

 2010 Illuminating Engineering Society - Lighting Design Award
 2010 Royal Astronomical Society of NZ (RASNZ) - Dark Sky Award for Lighting
 2009 NZTA and Living Streets Aotearoa Golden Foot Award - Best Practice Walking Facility
 2009 Cycling Advocate Network (CAN) Avanti Award - Best Cycle Facility

References

External links 
Project Twin Streams

Waitākere Ranges Local Board Area
Cycleways in Auckland
Conservation projects in New Zealand
Environment of the Auckland Region
Henderson-Massey Local Board Area
West Auckland, New Zealand
Action language. In computer science, an action language is a language for specifying state transition systems, and is commonly used to create formal models of the effects of actions on the world.  Action languages are commonly used in the artificial intelligence and robotics domains, where they describe how actions affect the states of systems over time, and may be used for automated planning.

Action languages fall into two classes: action description languages and action query languages. Examples of the former include STRIPS, PDDL, Language A (a generalization of STRIPS; the propositional part of Pednault's ADL), Language B (an extension of A adding indirect effects, distinguishing static and dynamic laws) and Language C (which adds indirect effects also, and does not assume that every fluent is automatically "inertial").  There are also the Action Query Languages P, Q and R. Several different algorithms exist for converting action languages, and in particular, action language C, to answer set programs. Since modern answer-set solvers make use of boolean SAT algorithms to very rapidly ascertain satisfiability, this implies that action languages can also enjoy the progress being made in the domain of boolean SAT solving.

Formal definition 
All action languages supplement the definition of a state transition system with a set F of fluents, a set V of values that fluents may take, and a function mapping S × F to V, where S is the set of states of a state transition system.

See also 
 Linear temporal logic
 GOLOG
 Fluent calculus
 Situation calculus
 Event calculus

References

Programming language classification
Automated planning and scheduling
 
Transition systems
Daniel B. Luten. Daniel B. Luten also known as Daniel Benjamin Luten (Dec. 26, 1869-July 3, 1946) was an American bridge builder and engineer based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Career
He designed and patented the Luten arch, a type of concrete arch bridge.  He obtained more than 30 patents eventually, including various refinements of design that used transverse and other reinforcement which allowed bridges to be lighter.
"By 1919, Luten claimed to have designed some 17,000 arches, and stated that examples of his designs could be found in all but three states of the Union. Indiana alone had some 2,000 Luten arches."
He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1869.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1894, in civil engineering. He was an instructor, in architectural and sanitary engineering, for Purdue University from 1895 to 1900.  He resigned in 1900 to conduct the bridge company work.

List of Bridges
A number of historic bridges, some of which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places are credited to him, including (with specific attribution):
Beck's Mill Bridge, Carries Beck's Mill Road over Mill Creek, Salem, IN (Luten, Daniel B.), NRHP-listed
Canyon Padre Bridge, Abandoned grade of US 66 over Padre Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. (Luten, Daniel B.), NRHP-listed
Carrollton Bridge, Carrollton Rd. across Wabash R., Delphi, IN (Luten, Daniel B.), NRHP-listed
Dr. George S. Smith Memorial Bridge, 3rd St. across Lehigh R., Easton, PA. (Luten, Daniel B.)
Dumbarton Bridge (Washington, D.C.), Q Street across Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.
Holbrook Bridge, Abandoned grade of US 70 over the Little Colorado River, 4.2 mi. SE of Holbrook, AZ. (Luten, Daniel B.), NRHP-listed
Kelvin Bridge, Florence-Kelvin Hwy. over the Gila River, Kelvin, AZ. (Luten, Daniel), NRHP-listed
Putnam County Bridge No. 159, Co. Rd. 650 W. over Big Walnut Cr., Reelsville, IN. (Luten, Daniel B.), NRHP-listed
 Moores Creek Bridge, Fort Pierce, Florida
Winkelman Bridge, Old AZ 77 over the Gila River, Winkelman, AZ. (Luten, Daniel), NRHP-listed
Wolcott Bridge, CO 131 at milepost 0.07, Wolcott, CO.(Luten, Daniel B.), NRHP-listed
Miami Bridges, Miami, Arizona five identical bridges across the town Bloody Tanks wash canal, 1921, Luten, Daniel, NRHP-listed

Additional Luten arch bridges are NRHP-listed that are attributed to the Luten Bridge Company or to Topeka Bridge & Iron Co., two firms which had use of Luten's patented designs.

References

External links
 
 Daniel B. Luten papers, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library

American civil engineers
People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Purdue University faculty
People from Indianapolis
 
1869 births
1946 deaths
Versatile Service Engine. Versatile Service Engine is a second generation IP Multimedia Subsystem developed by Nortel Networks that is compliant with Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture specifications. Nortel's versatile service engine provides capability to telecommunication service provider to 
offer global System for mobile communications and code-division multiple access services in both wireline and wireless mode.

History

The Versatile Service Engine is a joint effort of Nortel and Motorola. The aim of collaboration was to develop an Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture compliant platform for Nortel IP Multimedia Subsystem applications. Nortel joined the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group in 2002 and the work on Versatile Service Engine was started in 2004.

Architecture

A single versatile service engine frame consists of three shelves, each shelf having three slots.
A single slot can have many sub-slots staging a blade in it. Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture blades can be processors, switches, AMC carriers, etc. A typical shelf will contain one or more switch blades and several processor blades. The power supply and cooling fans are located in the back pane of the Versatile Service Engine.

Ericsson ownership

After Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, Ericsson telecommunications then acquired the code-division multiple access and LTE based assets of then Canada's largest telecom equipment maker, hence taking the ownership of Versatile service engine.

References

External links 
 Official Nortel website

Computer networking
Computer buses
Telecommunications equipment
Nortel products
Rhizotron. A Rhizotron (from , "root" as a verb – see :wikt:rhizo-)  is a laboratory constructed underground in order to study the soil and its interactions with plants and animals. Rhizotrons are typically equipped with a central corridor with viewing windows into the soil profiles on either side. On the outside, separate bays are constructed to enable specific experiments to be carried out by varying the soil composition and the plant and animals contained therein.

Rhizotrons are in use at Kew Gardens, at the USDA Northern Research Station at Houghton, Michigan, at Treborth Botanic Garden, near Bangor, Gwynedd, U.K. and at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.

References

Soil science
British Aerospace P.125. The British Aerospace P.125 was a British supersonic STOVL multirole combat aircraft being developed in the 1980s. The project was cancelled in the 1990s. The existence of the project was revealed by BAE Systems in 2006.

Development

The British Hawker P.1154 was one of several solutions submitted by European countries to the 1960 NATO NBMR-3 requirement for a supersonic strike fighter.  1960 also saw the first flight of the subsonic VSTOL Hawker P.1127.  The P.1154 was cancelled in 1965, but studies continued into the possibility that the Harrier or Jaguar could be replaced by a supersonic STOVL aircraft.

In the 1980s the British MoD and the US DoD both conducted studies into lift jet solutions. The US studies eventually led to the F-35 Lightning II. In 1988 the Tornado-sized P.125 design was intended to meet the requirements for a supersonic stealthy STOVL interdictor. There were to be non-STOVL and STOVL variants of the P.125. Both had a single reheated (afterburning) turbofan with a vectorable rear nozzle. The STOVL variant would have maintained vertical flight using three jet lift nozzles. The pilot of the P.125 would have sat highly reclined supine position in a synthetic display cockpit with an array of cameras and would not have had direct sight of the outside world. The have not glass cockpit was enclosed but would increase stealth characteristics and would block out the potential Soviet threat of dazzling laser weapons. In the 1990s the UK government decided to join the JSF (now F-35) programme rather than continue the P.125.

See also

Notes

References

 

P.125
Shoulder-wing aircraft
VTOL aircraft
Supine cockpit aircraft
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United Kingdom
1990s British fighter aircraft
Single-engined jet aircraft
V/STOL aircraft by thrust vectoring
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Concrete float. A concrete float is a tool used to finish a concrete surface by making it smooth. A float is used after the surface has been made level using a screed. In addition to removing surface imperfections, floating will compact the concrete as preparation for further steps.

A float can be a small hand tool, a larger bull float with a long handle, or a power trowel (also called a power float) with an engine. Concrete floats are generally made of magnesium, aluminum, or wood.

Gallery

External links
Bull floats and darbies. Concrete Network.

Tools
Concrete
CASA III. The CASA III was a 1920s Spanish two-seat monoplane, designed by Luis Sousa Peco and built by Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) at Getafe near Madrid.

Design and development
In 1929 using experience from the production of licence-built aircraft the company built the CASA III. It was originally designed as a light bomber monoplane for the Aeronáutica Naval air arm of the Spanish Navy, but since its performance was poor the prototypes were used as touring aircraft, ending up as trainers at Pollensa´s Naval Air School.

The CASA III was a parasol wing monoplane with a fabric-covered steel tube fuselage. It had two tandem open cockpits and wide track fixed conventional landing gear with a tail skid. The wings were hinged at the rear spar and they could be folded for storage or transport.

The M-CAGG registered prototype first flew on 2 July 1929 and was powered by a  Cirrus III piston engine. Within a few weeks the aircraft took part in a handicap air race between Madrid and Burgos and on 25 December 1929 it became the first light aircraft to land in the Canary Islands. The second aircraft was fitted with a  Isotta Fraschini Asso 80A engine but it was not a success. In 1930 three CASA III aircraft entered the 1930 Aerial Tour of Europe, but only two actually competed; the prototype which retired with a broken landing gear, and the de Havilland Gipsy I powered third-aircraft (M-CMAM) which arrived too late for the start although it completed the course. A total of nine aircraft were built, all with different engines, including the de Havilland Gipsy III and the Elizalde A6 radial engine. The last aircraft built was delivered to the Spanish Navy.

Suitable power plants included:- de Havilland Gipsy I, de Havilland Gipsy II, de Havilland Gipsy III, Isotta Fraschini Asso 80 R., Lorraine 5P, Walter Venus and Elizalde D V.

Operational history
During the Spanish Civil War all the remaining CASA IIIs were operated by the Republican forces and none of them survived.

Operators
 (Kingdom)
Aeronáutica Naval

 Spanish Republican Air Force

Specifications (Gipsy I-powered)

See also

References

Further reading

1920s Spanish military aircraft
III
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929
Nuclear power in Kenya. In 2017, the Kenya Nuclear Electrification Board (Kneb) estimated that a 1,000 MW nuclear plant could be operational by 2027 and cost Ksh500-600 billion (US$5-$6 billion), to be located near a large body of water, such as the Indian Ocean, Lake Victoria or Lake Turkana.

Background
In September 2010 Former Energy and Petroleum Ministry PS Patrick Nyoike announced that Kenya aimed to build a 1,000 MW nuclear power plant between 2017 and 2022. 
The projected cost using South Korean technology was US$3.5 billion.
Nuclear and renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar and geothermal plants could play a major role in helping Kenya achieve middle income status, as the reduction of carbon emissions becomes a higher priority.

Nuclear energy programme
Kenya has embarked on a programme to see the country generate 1 GW (1,000 MW) from nuclear sources between 2020 and 2022. It was planned that by 2030 Kenya would have installed a capacity of 4 GW of nuclear energy, generating about 19% of Kenya's energy needs, meaning that nuclear power would be the second-largest source of energy in Kenya coming second after geothermal power, a clean form of energy.

The Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (NuPEA) is in charge of spearheading this sector in the country.

See also 
 Geothermal power in Kenya
 Wind power in Kenya

References

External links
 Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board
 Renewable Energy Portal (Kenya)
 Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (Kenya)
 Energy Regulatory Commission (Kenya)
 Geothermal Development Company (Kenya)
 Kenya Power
 KenGen

Kenya
Kenya
Nuclear technology in Kenya
 
Infrastructure in Kenya
Energy companies of Kenya