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# Presentation: 322627

## Thermally Robust Capacitors for the Drilling Industry

**SBIR Grant No. DE-FG02-06ER84598**
***K. K. Tikhonov, W.A. Cataldo and ***
***V. R. Koch (P.I.)***
***Covalent Associates, Inc.***
***10 State Street***
***Woburn, MA 01801***

**Thermally Robust Capacitors for the Drilling Industry**

## Drilling Industry Market for Down Hole Power Sources

**Drilling Industry Market for Down Hole Power Sources**

**Li/SOCl****2 ****battery sales >$200M/year**
**A** **Li/SOCl****2****:EDLC *****hybrid***** power source that provides pulse power from the EDLC would capture half of the market**
**At present, 95% of this market requires power sources that operate between 100****oC**** and 150****oC; 5% requires performance between 150oC and 225oC**

## Phase I Objectives

**Phase I Objectives**

**Synthesize, purify and electrochemically characterize a number of new IL electrolyte materials**
**Evaluate the new electrolytes in EDLC coin cells and in wound AA-size cells (Redox Engineering) at temps ranging from 150****o****C to 225****o****C**

## Electrolyte Specific Conductance

**Electrolyte Specific Conductance**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

## EDLC Hardware

**EDLC Hardware**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

***Redox Engineering***
***Bonita Springs, FL***

## Coin Cells: 150oC at 1.75V

**Coin Cells: 150****o****C at 1.75V**

**IL 1, 10 mA/cm****2**

**IL 2, 10 mA/cm****2**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

## Self-discharge at 150oC

**Self-discharge at 150****o****C**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

## Unoptimized Wound AA Cell Performance at 150oC

**Unoptimized Wound AA Cell ****Performance at 150****o****C**

**IL 2**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

## IL3 Cyclability to 2V at 225oC

**IL3 Cyclability to 2V at 225****o****C**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

## Ragone Plot

**Ragone Plot**

***www.covalentassociates.com***

***EDLC current  pulses: ***
***10 to 250 mA/cm******2 ***
***at 150******oC with IL2***

## Summary

**Summary**

**The new ionic liquid electrolytes have been shown to be thermo-chemically and electrochemically compatible with commercially available electrodes and cell packaging at elevated temperatures.**
**EDLC cycle life (>10****3**** cycles) and calendar life (>10****3**** hr) are more than adequate for down hole applications.**
**Safe and reliable high temp EDLCs can be manufactured and sold for less than either bobbin or wound Li/SOCl****2**** batteries.**
**Phase I objectives have been met; Phase II will advance high temp EDLC technology by testing hermetically sealed wound capacitors down hole in a pulser tool.**

***www.covalentassociates.com***
# Presentation: 696285

## Secondary Diabetes in ICD-9-CM Summary of Proposals

- ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- March 23, 2007

## Overview of C&M Proposals

- First proposal (4/04)
- Request for code to identify secondary diabetes due to cystic fibrosis
- Second proposal (10/04)
- Third proposal (3/06)
- Fourth proposal (9/06)

## April 2004

- Create new fifth digits for secondary diabetes
- 250  Diabetes mellitus
- “4”  secondary diabetes, not stated as controlled
- “5”  secondary diabetes, uncontrolled
- Comments: extremely unpopular; confusing; needs its own code(s); negative impact on statistical data; not supported by CDC Diabetes Program or NIH Diabetes Institute

## October 2004

- Create new subcategory
- 251 Other disorders of pancreatic internal secretion
- 251.6  Secondary diabetes mellitus
- 		Code first underlying disorder
- Comments: create new code for diabetes due to drugs; add note for long-term use of insulin

## March 2006

- Create new category
- 249 Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition
-  	249.0 – 249.9
- 		(Codes parallel code 250 w/o 5th digits)
- Comments:  Bring full proposal (tabular and index changes) to 9/06 C&M meeting

## Overview of 9/06 Comments

- Confusing instructional notes: code first vs. use additional depending on causal condition
- Sequencing issues
- Change code title to “Secondary diabetes”
- Controlled vs. Uncontrolled?
- Secondary diabetes as late effect?

## Overview of 9/06 Comments

- Create two new categories similar to ICD-10-CM
- 248.x Diabetes due to drug or chemical
- 249.x Diabetes due to underlying condition
- Separate category for diabetes secondary to drug (e.g., steroid use)?
- Surgically-induced secondary diabetes?

## Options

- One code (251.6, Secondary diabetes)
- One new category (249, Secondary diabetes)
- Two new categories (248 & 249)
- Other options??????
- Do nothing?????
# Presentation: 034855

## CALIFORNIA DESERT DISTRICT

## Slide 3

## Resident Burros

## Resident Mule Deer

## Evidence of Burro and Deer 

- Deer Scat

- Burro Scat

- Evidence of Burro and Deer

## EXTENSIVE BROWSE UTILIZATION, 1996

## Palo Verde, Psorothamnus floriada

- Form class 3, with moderate use

## Palo Verde

- Evidence of Heavy             Browsing

## Desert Ironwood ,Olneya tesota

- Form-class 6, Decadent below browseline, 100% utilization

- Desert Ironwood ,*Olneya tesota*

## Willow, Salix spp.

- Willow, *Salix spp.*

- Severe Browsing

## MODIFIED EXTENSIVE BROWSE UTILIZATION2002

## 	Evidence of both Deer and Burros

## Desert Ironwood

- Regrowth after severe hedging

## Palo Verde

- New regrowth

## Desert Ironwood

- New regrowth, after severe hedging

## Desert Ironwood

- Slight use

## Slide 21

## DMG WETLAND INVENTORY &PROPERLY FUNCTIONING CONDITION

## Burro trail adjacent to spring with recent scat

## THE       END
# Presentation: 776538

## Forum on Metric Only Labeling

- November 7, 2002

## Metric Conversion Act

-    Findings:
- 	- Metric system legal in the U.S. since 1866.
- 	- Since 1875 the U.S. has been a member of the “Treaty of the Meter,” which sets the measurement standards for the world.
- 	- U.S. government has a responsibility to assist industry in making the conversion.

## Declared Policy of the U.S.

- The metric system of measurement is the preferred system of weights and measure for U.S. trade and commerce.
- Continue to use inch-pound units of measure in non-business activities.

## Metric System 

-  Means the International System of Units as established by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960 and as interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce.
-  NIST SP 814 –”Interpretation of the SI for the U.S.....”

## U.S. Conversion to the Metric System

- Voluntary
- a marketplace decision.
- means we need to eliminate barriers.

## Declared Policy of U.S.

- Increase public understanding of the metric system through educational information, guidance, and in Government publications.
- Each Federal Agency must use metric system in its procurements, grants, and business related activities.

## Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

- Proposed Amendment

## FPLA amendment will - 

-   Require metric units to appear on all package labels.
-  Allow inch-pound units to also appear on package labels.

##  Amendment will:  

-   Continue to allow either unit of measure to appear first.
-  Allow inch-pound units to also appear on package labels.

##  Amendment will NOT 

- Require or prohibit any change to package sizes.
- These decisions are made by the marketplace.

## Concerns about Metric Only Labeling
# Presentation: 696286

## Overview of ACI International 

- NIST Standards in Trade Workshop on Concrete and Cement
- 9-13 December 2002

## ACI Facts

- Established in 1904.
- Detroit, Michigan area.
- Staff of 80.
- ACI is a nonprofit scientific and educational society representing the user interest in the concrete field.

## Scope of Work

- Standing ACI committees cover a wide range of concrete-related topics and applications.
- ACI committees produce over 300 reports, guides, specifications, and codes on almost all aspects of concrete technology, design, construction, and repair.

## Relevance to Codes

- ACI Committee 318 mission is to revise the code requirements for structural concrete, with major revisions on a 6 year cycle.
- ACI submits the latest revision of code requirements to US model building code bodies for adoption by reference in time for their cycle. The model code usually adopts 318 entirely.

## Membership Composition

- 16,000 active in ACI International, and another 14,000 active in US and international chapters
- 40 international chapters
- 81 US chapters
- All ACI Committee members represent themselves, and organizations are not formally recognized.

## Encouraging International Participation

- ACI Presidents and other senior officials visit international chapters on a regular basis.
- Actively seek international representation on committees. Committee rules allow participation without meeting attendance.
- New International Publication Series allows ACI to publish important technical work generated outside ACI.
- Sponsor international workshops and seminars.

## Revenue Sources

- Annual revenues: ~ $12,000,000
- Publication sales ~ 32%
- Education ~ 20%
- Membership dues ~ 27%
- Certification ~ 17%
- Other ~ 4%

## Publications

- Concrete International magazine
- ACI Structural and Material Journals
- Technical Committee reports, guides, specifications, codes, all revised or reapproved at least every 5 years.
- International Publication Series
- Symposium Publications

## ACI Certification

-    1- field technician craftsman 2- strength technician 3- laboratory technician
-    4- aggregate technician 5- inspector 6- tilt-up 7- shotcrete nozzleman

## General Contact Information

**ACI International**
- 38800 Country Club Drive
- Farmington Hills,
- Michigan 48331 USA
*Phone:*** 248-848-3700**** ***fax: ***248-848-3701**
- www.concrete.org
# Presentation: 726281

## Laser Eye Accident Emergency Procedure
If you suspect a laser eye exposure, complete the following:

Immediately call 911 (447-6880 from a cell phone). 
Notify your supervisor.
Notify others in the work area.
Do not drive yourself to the Health Services Department or a doctor. 
Remain in a sitting position during transport and examination to prevent further damage to the retina. 
Ensure that you receive an examination by an ophthalmologist to determine whether an injury exists. 
Safe the laser and leave the scene unchanged.

- If you suspect a laser eye exposure, complete the following:
**Immediately call 911 (447-6880 from a cell phone). **
**Notify your supervisor.**
**Notify others in the work area.**
**Do **_**not**_** drive yourself to the Health Services Department or a doctor. **
**Remain in a sitting position during transport and examination to prevent further damage to the retina. **
**Ensure that you receive an examination by an ophthalmologist to determine whether an injury exists. **
**Safe the laser and leave the scene unchanged**.

***NOTICE***
# Presentation: 684548

## Selecting a main injury frommultiple causes of death: Step 1 Common Pairs

**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**
**National Center for Health Statistics**

**Margaret Warner, Ph.D.**
- Office of Analysis and Epidemiology
- ICE on Injury, Vienna, June 2004

**Selecting a main injury from****multiple causes of death: ****Step 1 Common Pairs**

## Recommendation for selecting from MRG for ICD

- Eliminate trivial injuries and superficial injuries from consideration
- If obvious causal sequence, select injury which led to death
- Select from among remaining injuries using severity ranking (e.g. Precedence list)
- Select first mentioned if several at same level of severity

## Information is lost when selecting

- Rules can be established about priority, but what conclusions will be drawn from data?
- One injury may not be more important
- There may be combinations of injuries which are more deadly

## Analyze data by pairs of injuries

- To determine if certain combinations commonly occur together  (e.g. head and thorax injuries)
- If yes,
- Could a main injury be selected?
- Should a single code by used to identify combination?

## Methods

- US multiple cause mortality data 2001
- Injury as underlying cause of death
- More than one ICD-10 S or T code
- Examined unique pairs –
**Two nature of injury codes were treated  as a unique pair regardless of the order in data**
- Stratified by the number of injuries per death

## More than one injury

- In US in 2001, 157,078 deaths with external underlying cause
- Range (0-15 injuries listed, possible 20)
- 1 injury listed		65% of deaths
- 2 injuries			22%
- 3 injuries			8%
- 4 -15 injuries		4%

## Common pairs

- TRUE !!!!
- Certain injury pairs account for high proportion of deaths with two or more injuries listed

## 2 injuries listed on death certificate 

- 35,000 deaths with 3,500 unique pairs
- 18,500 deaths with 55 unique pairs
- 55 pairs are ...
- observed 100 times or more
- account for 54% of deaths with 2 injuries listed

## Results

- Most frequent pair – occurs 3,327 times
- S06.9 (Intracranial injury, unspecified) and S09.9 (Unspecified injury of the head)
- Second most frequent – occurs 2,671 times
- S09.9 (Open wound of head, part unspecified) and S29.9 (Unspecified injury of the thorax)

## Review of pairs

- We choose to review pairs based on ...
- Frequency with which pair observed
- If the pair included a
- Superficial injury
- Unspecified

## Preliminary conclusion

- Certain injury pairs account for high proportion of deaths with two or more injuries listed
- Some cases not clear choice -- some codes for multiple injuries may be used or added
- Computer algorithms easily developed for many multiple injury deaths

## Next steps

- External cause of death should be considered if indicates something about nature
- 	e.g. Poisonings, fire/flame, drowning, suffocation
- Location on death certificate –  Part’s I & II
- Unspecifieds – more specific preferred
- International replication of pairs!!!!!
# Presentation: 445849

## Resonance crossing and emittance growth

- <date/time>

- Shinji Machida
- KEK
- October 13-17, 2003 at BNL

## Lattice

- 10 FODO cell without bends.
- However, periodic boundary condition is imposed.
- Phase advance is about 90 deg. per cell.
- One inpulse gradient (or sextupole) error to excite harmonics.
- Knob to control half (or third) integer resonance strength.
- No acceleration is included.

## Method

- Tracking with independent variable of time (SIMPSONS).
- Linear change of all K1 simultaneously.
- Slope can be variable.
- By single particle tracking
- Phase space structure.
- Time evolution of amplitude.
- By multi particle tracking
- Define 68th particle amplitude out of 100 macro particles as 68% emittance.
- Same for 90% emittance.

## Half integer resonance

- Four different resonance width
- sbw (stop band width)=0.004, 0.008, 0.016, 0.038
- Tune excursion
- nux=2.37 to 2.55 linearly.
- 2nux=5 is excited.
- Crossing rate (dnu/turn)
- 0.0001/turn (slow) ~ 0.1/turn (fast)
- Horizontal only

## Single particle behavior

- Phase space (Poincare map)
- Evolution of ‘invariant’.
- > see Mathematica notebook

## Emittance growth

## Crossing speed is normalized

## 3rd integer resonance

- Four different sextupole strength
- rw (relative width)=0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0
- Tune excursion
- nux=2.40 to 2.25 linearly.
- 3nux=7 is excited.
- Crossing rate (dnu/turn)
- 0.00002/turn (slow) ~ 0.1/turn (fast)
- Horizontal only
-  (with particle loss, emittance can be decreased.)

## Emittance growth

## Crossing speed is normalized

## conclusion

- In half-integer crossing, almost no growth is observed when dnu/turn > resonance width.
- When dnu/turn < resonance width, growth becomes larger with wider resonance width.
- Similar in 3rd-integer crossing, but no clear dependence on the resonance strength.
# Presentation: 101664

## VLA Next Steps

- January, 2004

## VLA Fault Mitigation

## Challenges

- Will it scale ?
- How will the rules across multiple levels of VLA’s interact as they are activated in parallel across 2500 DSP’s ?
- How will this behavior effect other components of the system and lead to efficient fault mitigation ?

## Approaches

- ‘Expert System’ is not a good fit.
- Exponential number of system states and fault scenarios.

## Subsumption Architecture

- Rodney Brooks’ bottom-up approach for mobile robot design that relies on multiple layers of distributed sensors.
- No central control.
- Higher levels typically subsume lower levels.
- Each layer responsible for a distinct behavior.
- Layer after layer added for ‘increasing levels of competence’.

## Overall Objectives

- Evaluate characteristics of emergent fault mitigation behavior resulting from the layered subsumption approach.
- Further define how the subsumption approach may be applied to fault mitigation within large-scale, real-time, embedded systems.
- Determine expected processing rate thresholds for various system failure scenarios.

## SWARM (http://www.swarm.org)

- Multi-agent simulation of complex systems.
- Java or C++ development package.
- Assign dynamic states to each agent, which can be altered in time steps following various user-defined proactive or reactive rules.
- GNU General Public license

## Model Components

- PA
- VLA
- Local Manager
- Buffer Manager
- Random Error Generator

## Dynamic Variables

- Number of PA’s per Farmlet
- Number of Farmlets
- PA processing rate
- Rate of buffer population
- Checkbox of possible error messages
- Frequency rate of individual errors

## Tasks

- Define the distinct layers of subsumption, and the roles and responsibilities of each.
- Define a list of fault scenarios that may be triggered within the model, including associated error messages.
- Define a list of appropriate VLA rules to model based on defined fault scenarios.

## Tasks (cont.)

- Model the expected PA processing rate.
- Model the Buffer Manager data flow.
- Determine the appropriate time step interval necessary for the model.
# Presentation: 864323

## DAQ Support (non-Run II)

- Gerald Guglielmo
- (CD/CEPA/OAA)

## Project  Drivers  & Scope

- Provide data acquisition related consultation and support, including CAMAC and hardware specific driver issues, and software support for data acquisition systems
- Proposed experiments
- Test beam experiments
- Meson Test Beam Facility
*Run II experiments are outside scope of this activity (have their own support activity)*

## Project Deliverables Status

- CAMAC support
- Support for drivers for Jorway CAMAC hardware used by experiments and the Meson Test Beam Facility
- sjyLX driver support as needed
- hardware debugging help as needed
- Recent queries few and not technically difficult
- Minerva query about CAMAC on Windows
*Only expert with recent CAMAC experience transferred to the Accelerator Division in January*
- r2dm and ODE Run Control support (ode_rc)
- MIPP (e907) support – *quiet so far in FY06*
- General support
- Amanda backup support - *closed out around 01/2007*
- Queries about potential support in DAQ setup (T955)

## Project  Milestones

- Providing timely support for DAQ related issues in accordance with Division and Laboratory priorities. All activities in this category are of an intermittent nature and there are no schedule based milestones defined at this time.
- Scope of support is expected to change as division strategies for CAMAC, test beam facilities and experiments evolves.

## Effort Profile DAQ Support (non-RunII)

- No dedicated employees in CEPA/OAA, 1 employee transferred to AD.

## Risks

- Loss of CAMAC expertise increases probability that CAMAC related issues will not be solved quickly.
- Used by Meson Test Beam Facility so issues could effect multiple test beam experiments
- Individual experiments may incur increased downtime
- New experiments may not receive enough support in getting set up and commissioned.
- ODE RC expert left years ago.
- Stable so far, but any significant issue would require ramp up in understanding system.
- New requests for support will impact other efforts for the group
*Potentially COUPP, T955, Minerva, DES, etc*
- Same small pool of people already committed elsewhere
# Presentation: 707250

## Chlamydia Among AI/AN Adolescents:The Stop Chlamydia Project

- Melanie Taylor MD, MPH
- Indian Health Service, National STD Program
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

## Background

**Across all races and ethnicities, chlamydia (CT) remains the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States (U.S.). **
**The 2004 chlamydia rate among AI/AN (705.8 cases per 100,000 population) was 2.2 times higher than U.S. rate (319.6 cases per 100,000 population).  **
**The Indian Health Service (IHS) National STD Program’s Stop Chlamydia Project is focused on enhancing chlamydia screening and treatment services for at-risk women in Indian Country. **
**The project has 66 participating sites including hospitals, clinics, and community health centers located in 15 states.   **

## Goal

**By aligning its data collection and screening evaluation efforts with the CDC National Infertility Prevention Project (IPP), the Stop Chlamydia Project has nationally and regionally comparable data that will enable programs to assess project-level screening effectiveness and better inform local-level priority setting.**

## Region IV

- People indicating one or more races including AI/AN as a percent of total population by state

- Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

## Region IV Female Chlamydia Positivity by Age-Group and Site Type - 2006

## Region V

- People indicating one or more races including AI/AN as a percent of total population by state

- Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

## Region V Female Chlamydia Positivity by Age-Group and Site Type - 2006

## Region VI

- People indicating one or more races including AI/AN as a percent of total population by state

- Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

## Region VI Female Chlamydia Positivity by Age-Group and Site Type - 2006

## Region VIII

- People indicating one or more races including AI/AN as a percent of total population by state

- Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

## Region VIII Female Chlamydia Positivity by Age-Group and Site Type - 2006

## Region IX

- People indicating one or more races including AI/AN as a percent of total population by state

- Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

## Region IX Female Chlamydia Positivity by Age-Group and Site Type - 2006

## Region X(includes AK)

- People indicating one or more races including AI/AN as a percent of total population by state

- Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

## Region X Female Chlamydia Positivity by Age-Group and Site Type - 2006

## Summary

**Young AI/AN female populations in Indian Country appear to be disproportionately affected by chlamydia.  **
**This initial examination of Stop Chlamydia data supports growing concerns regarding racial disparities among native populations, particularly in certain geographic regions.   **
**Continued project monitoring, enhanced surveillance and program evaluation are necessary to better understand contributing factors influencing CT positivity among AI/AN populations.**
# Presentation: 492840

## Predicting tree diversity across the U.S.A. as a function of Gross Primary Production

**Predicting tree diversity across the U.S.A. as a function of Gross Primary Production**

**Richard Waring****1****, Joanne Nightingale****1****, **
**Nicholas Coops****2**** & Weihong Fan****3**
**1 ****Oregon State University**
**      ****2 ****University of British Columbia**
**3 ****Richard Stockton College of New Jersey**

## Outline

**Theoretical** relationship between productivity and tree species richness
- Measures of tree species richness &              forest productivity – model / satellite
- Data quality
***Actual*** relationships between productivity and tree species richness

## Theoretical Relation between Productivity and Tree Diversity

- All but
***light*** limiting

- No factor
- entirely limiting

- Light limiting
- from competition
- with a few fast-growing species

## Theory tested in the Pacific Northwest(Swenson & Waring 2006 Global Ecology & Biogeography)

## Tree richness predictable from modeled GPP

## Measures of GPP

| 3-PGS | Temperature, Radiation, VPD,
Frost & Rainfall | Available soil water            & index of fertility |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MODIS GPP & SPOT NPP       |  Temperature, Radiation, VPD |  |
| MODIS 
EVI, NDVI, fPAR |  |  |

- Satellite data

- Climatic data

- Soils data

**Increasing complexity**

## Models of GPP (3-PGS & MODIS GPP)

## Soil Water Sensitivity

## How “good” is our Soils data anyway??

## EPA Level 1 Ecoregions

## Satellite Index

## GPP Models

## Correlations

| GPP / Tree species Richness | R2 | Form |
| --- | --- | --- |
|   MODIS NDVI (maximum) | 0.55 | Exp |
|   MODIS EVI (maximum) | 0.68 | Exp |
|   MODIS GPP (annual average) | 0.51 | Pow |
|   MODIS GPP (growing season) | 0.64 | Exp |
|   3-PGS (annual average) | 0.53 | Poly |
|   3-PGS (growing season) | 0.52 | Poly |

- Note: all models are highly correlated with 3-PGS, R2 ~ 0.7

- MODIS EVI (maximum) 			0.68

- MODIS GPP (growing season) 		0.64

- 3-PGS (annual average ) 			0.53	      Poly

## Conclusions

- NDVI & EVI saturate at high levels of productivity (GPP >15 tC/ha/yr)
- MODIS GPP (& SPOT NPP) in error with drought
- 3-PGS limited by soil & climate – but estimates *full range* of forest productivity across the USA
- If vegetation indices match changes predicted by more complex models, climate change may be inferred
# Presentation: 738196

## U.S. Department of Transportation’s DisadvantagedBusiness Enterprise Unified Certification Program Workshop 

- Date: August  14, 2008  -  Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
- The Sheraton Denver West  360 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, CO 80228
- For more information contact Ramonica Moore at  (202) 530-0551

- The Department of Transportation (DOT) requires that all direct and indirect recipients of DOT funding establish a Unified Certification Program (UCP) to provide a one-stop certification process for businesses in each state seeking certification to participate in the DBE program.  The DOT UCP Workshop will review federal laws and regulations; discuss what components are expected in a UCP; discuss recently implemented and proposed guidance; and discuss best practices in implementing an effective UCP.   This training will help practitioners better understand the requirements of the UCP and be able to apply the content learned during this workshop to their daily work activities and local environment.
# Presentation: 261108

## sweetgumLiquidambar  styraciflua L.  Synonyms:  Liquidambar  barbata,  L.  gummifera,  L.  macrophylla.  Other common names:  American sweetgum, American storax, storax, American styrax, styrax, gum-wood, star-leaf gum, sap gum, red gum, white gum, amberboom, bilsted, satin-walnut,  alligator-tree, opossum-tree, copalm balsam. 

**CULTURALLY:**
- The hardened gum, or rosin from the tree was used as a chewing gum.  A piece of bark was torn off and in a week the sap from the wound was hardened and ready to be picked.  The gum smells sweet but tastes bitter.
- 'Storax' is an aromatic resin harvested from the tree trunk.  The resin is used in a wide variety of ways including incense, perfumes, soap, medicinal and as an adhesive.

- Photo courtesy of:  ©J.S. Peterson. _[USDA NRCS NPDC](http://plants.usda.gov/)_. USDA ARS National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.. June 13, 2002. This copyrighted image may be freely used for any non-commercial purpose. For commercial use please contact _[J.S. Peterson](mailto:scott.peterson@usda.gov)_.

**MEDICINALLY:**
- The Cherokees used sweetgum tea to treat diarrhea, dysentery and anxiety.  Rosin was mixed with sheep or cow tallow and applied on itches, cuts, open sores, wounds, and cankers.  A poultice was placed on bruises and sores to act as a "drawing plaster".
- Hardened sap was rolled up and placed in a dog's nose to treat distemper.
- Colonists believed a dozen drops of the sap taken before meals reduced fever.

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 804058

## Week of November 25 to December 1 D0 Summary

- Delivered luminosity and operating efficiency
- Delivered: 5.9pb-1
- Recorded: 4.6pb-1 (77%)
- Data taking efficiency
- no major hardware/software problems
- how 23% are “allocated”
- 2% “normal” FEB
- 7%  downtime
- 14% “glitches” (known) during data taking
- typical global run efficiency is 85%-90%
- Number of events collected
- 10mln events
- Accelerator halo
- reasonable

- Dmitri Denisov

## Data Taking and Triggering

- Running physics trigger list 9.3 for the last two weeks
- stable
- designed for luminosity in the range (5-50)1030
- Trigger rates are limited by trigger/DAQ systems stability
- L1 trigger ~0.5kHz
- L2 trigger 0.2-0.3kHz
- L3 trigger (to tape) ~50 Hz
- Currently most serious issues limiting our efficiency and trigger rates
- muon readout
- mini-drift tubes issue is understood and resolved!
- PDT problem(s) are not understood yet
- calorimeter readout
- starts to limit operating efficiency at Level 2 rate of ~0.5kHz

- Dmitri Denisov

## D0 Monthly Data Taking Efficiency

- .

- Dmitri Denisov

## Statistic over last 1.5 years

- .

**Data taking**
**efficiency**

**Rate to tape, Hz**

- Dmitri Denisov

## Summary

- D0 experiment is progressing well with physics data taking
- trigger list 9.3 is running on-line
- 10 mln events collected last week
- D0 weekly data taking efficiency is steady around 75%
- no major software/hardware problems
- running in the “stability” region of the L1/L2 rates plot
- in process of attacking (currently) most serious  issues
- PDT front-end code crashes
- calorimeter readout code crashes
- downtime is on the level of ~7% for the week
- D0 will need 3 hours Controlled Access before this week Thursday store
- check smoke alarm in level 1 muon rack
- install/test Level 1 calorimeter trigger electronics
- will discuss access time with Ron Moore

- Dmitri Denisov
# Presentation: 537452

## Rapid Bacterial Detection SystemFully Automated 4 minute CFU/ml response system

- SUBC Inc.
- Rochester MN

## Principle and Sequence of Rapid Detection

**1.  Platelets and cellular debris removed from platelet concentrate sample**
**2.  Present Bacteria are isolated and immobilized in isolation chamber**
**3.  Isolation chamber rinsed with buffer, leaving isolated bacteria**
**4.  Lyse solution in combination with localized heat provide rapid bacterial membrane lyse**
**5.  Bacterial ATP containing lysate is mixed with bioluminescent firefly extract**
**6.  Generated light reaction is detected by photon counter.  Burst of light is correlated to CFU/ml**

- MII Inc. Confidential

## Slide 3

## Fluidic Analysis for Detection of Bacteria

- Sampling

- Sample Processing

- Detection

- Carrier Stream

- Dilution
- Mixing
- Enrichment
- Chemistry

- Waste

## Sequential Injection Analysis for Bacterial Detection

- Pump

- Reagent

**SIA**

**Sequential Injection Analysis for Bacterial Detection**

## Rapid Fluidic Engine  Sequence

**3 Minute Result**

- Bioluminescent
- Reagent

## Firefly Luciferace Reaction

- ATP +D-luciferin + O2

- AMP+pyrophosphate+oxyluciferin+CO2 + Light

**The** **quantum efficiency is very high resulting in almost one photon per ATP molecules consumed in the reaction**
**Intensity of the emitted light is proportional to the ATP concentration**
**If the luciferase level is low the intensity will be essentially constant**
**If the luciferase level is high the light will decay rapidly since ATP is consumed in the reaction (the initial peak light is proportional to the decay rate)**
**If decay rate t ****1/2 ****= 139 minutes sensitivity range 10****-15**** - 10****-9**
**If decay rate t ****1/2 ****= 235 minutes sensitivity range 10****-14**** - 10****-18**

## Prototype Device #1

**Prototype Device #1**

## BPAC December 2002 Bacterial Required for Detection

## Bacteria verified and validated for bead isolation

## GloBacTM

## GloBacTM

- Fully Automated
- Touch Screen Display
- Microprocessor Driven
- Internal Reagent cartridge
- Top loading sample port

## University of Minnesota Field Evaluation Testing

- Dr. McCullough
- Dr. Bowman
- Dr. Gundu Rao
- Mary Clay: Project Manager
- Shelley Pulkrabek:  Blood Bank Coordinator
- Debbie Cocking Johnson:  Related lab support
- Nancy Ward: Technical Supervisor

## Slide 14

## India Study

- Bangalore Rotary Blood Bank Study
- Expected contamination rate of over 6%
- Study size 2000 units
- Expected positives greater than180
- Discussion with FDA on accepting data

## Slide 16
# Presentation: 105176

## New IR Imaging System on Alcator C-MODLANL/C-MOD collaborationR. J. Maqueda, G. A. Wurden, and J. L. Terry

**Issues*** Measure heat loads on divertor surfaces* Search for hot spots, possible sources of molybdenum
**Approach: IR imaging*** IR periscope in Section A* View from top down* Mid IR range: 3-5 mm* Standard video or 12-bit digital acquisition
**Outline**1. Brief description of IR system and capabilities2. Other aspects of LANL/C-MOD collaboration:	Kodak visible fast framing camera3. Summary and conclusions

## Amber Radiance 1 Infrared Camera

- Gated from <10 ms to 16 ms.
- Full remote control through RS-232 link.
- Filter wheel with CO2 narrowband or 10%, 1% , and 0.1 % neutral density.
- NTSC, S-Video or digital output.

## Observations with Kodak visible fast framing camera in TFTRClips can be seen through the WWW at:http://wsx.lanl.gov/ricky/disrupt.htm

- Moving, coherent, light emission filaments observed on the inner wall armor during current ramp-up that are associated to rational q-surfaces.
- Lithium pellet material recycling into the chamber walls (Li+ filter).
- “Locked-modes” and “MARFEs”.
- Disruption precursor activity on the edge.
- Post-disruption phenomena such as localized toroidal structures, flying debris and wall radiation produced by runaways.

## Summary

- A new IR imaging system will be operational at C-MOD during the 1997 campaign.
- This periscope/camera system is able to image the divertor and in this way study heat loads at different operating conditions (attached-detached plasmas) and during disruptions.
- The system can be used to image the ICRF antenna (with the correct line of sight).
- LANL personnel will participate of the 1997 campaign, coordinating the results from the IR and visible cameras with other diagnostics and overall plasma operations.
# Presentation: 252528

## Chunhui Luo

- Inclusive J/ψ Production at DØ

## Outline

**D0 detector elements crucial for the J/****ψ**** cross section measurement**
**Summary of Run I Results****	**
**J/ ****ψ**** signal in Run II**
**Cross Section Determination**
**Future Polarization Measurement****	**
**	**
**Aims**
**Test of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)**
**Test of the Detector performance**

## The Run II DØ Detector

**antiprotons**

**The Run II DØ Detector**

## DØ Tracker 

**125 cm**

## Muon System

- _Fully commissioned_

-  Central and Forward regions, coverage up to  = ± 2
-  Three layers: one inside (*A*), two outside (*B*, *C*) the toroid magnets
-  Consists of scintillators and drift tubes
-  Central Proportional Drift Tubes (PDT’s)
-  6624 drift cells (10.1  5.5 cm) in 94 three- and four-deck chambers
-  Central Scintillation Counters
-  360 “cosmic ray” counters outside the toroid ( = 22.5)
-  630 “A” counters inside ( = 4.5),  = 0.1
-  Forward Mini Drift Tubes (MDT’s)
-  6080 8-cell tubes in 8 octants per layer on North and South side, cell cross-section 9.4  9.4 mm
-  Forward Scintillation Counters (Pixels)
-  4214 counters on the North and South side
-   = 4.5 matches the MDT sector size

## Muon System Performance

- Muon stand alone system

- Muon plus central tracking

- J/ invariant mass

- Matching of central tracks to ’s
- improves momentum resolution

***CHEP02 – 31******st****** International Conference on High Energy Physics, Amsterdam, 24 – 31 July, 2002***

## DØ’s First J/ Candidates

**~5 pb****-1**
**J/******** vertex**
**p****T****(track)>2 GeV/c, matched to a muon**
**Positive decay length**

## Run I J/ψ production cross section

## σ(J/ψ) =

- N(J/ψ)

*L* εkine εaccept εtrigger εreco εtrack-match

* **L* :       Luminosity 4.8 pb-1

-  εtrigger: di-muon trigger.

- εreco:     muon system only

- εtrack-match: muons matched to central track

- εkine:   only simulate muons which reach muon chamber

- εaccept: inactive material, etc.

- Run II J/ψ production cross section

## ~30% systematic 

- ~30% systematic
- uncertainty

- 4.8 pb-1 of data

- region not measured in Run I

**Run II J/******** production cross section**

## Jpsi Signal

**By January 2003, 129K J/****ψ**** ‘s are collected**
**Integrated Luminosity: **
**    ****50 Pb****-1**

- σ(J/ψ) = 78 ± 3 MeV

- N(J/ψ) = 129,024

**Invariant Mass (GeV)**

**J/**ψ :    129K
- Upsilon:17K

## α = (σT -2σL)/(σT +2σL)

- I(θ) = 3/2/(α+3)
-           (1+ α *cos*2 θ)

- α = (σT -2σL)/(σT +2σL)

**Future measurements: J/******** polarization**

**MC**

- This distribution is Monte template to use to find J/ **** polarization.

## Conclusion

**First measurement in the new kinematic range. **
**Rapidity Range: 0.0-1.8**
**Energy of Central Mass: 1.98 TeV**
**Consistent with Run I measurement**
**Near Future**
**Cross Section measurement using full statistics and improved reconstruction software  for Jpsi and upsilon states**
**Reconstruct  ********c**** -> ****J/******** ******** ****decay **
**J/********, upsilon**** Polarization measurement will be measured**** **
# Presentation: 373535

## An Automatic System for CME Detectionand Source Region Identification

-   Jie Zhang (jiez@scs.gmu.edu)
-   Art Poland,
-   Harry Wechsler
-   Kirk Borne
**George Mason University**

- Solar and Space Physics Virtual Observatories Conferences
-                                                     Oct. 27 – 29, 2004             Greenbelt, MD

## Introduction

- CME is the major driven force of severe space weather that have technology and societal impacts
- An automatic event detection system is needed, because
- Timely detection of events, which is crucial for space weather forecasting
- Reducing human cost, overcoming the limitation of human performance; growing amount of data, e.g., SOHO, STEREO and SDO
- Objective event characterization, by imposing a uniform event processing standard, providing consistent data for users
- Flexibility and scalability, allowing further in-depth applications added on later.

## Three computational components

- Image Processing
- Event/pattern recognition
- Machine Learning
- Developing robust and efficient image analysis and pattern recognition algorithms
- Statistical Learning Theory (SLT), e.g., Support Vector Machine (SVM)
- Transductive Inference, locality aspect of objects
- Data Mining
- Case Based Learning (CBL)
- Memory-based Reasoning (MBR)

##  Six major tasks in the system

- T5: Associate CME events with dimming events
- T6: Performance Evaluation and Enhancement, iterative task 1 to task 5

##  CME Detection/Tracking and Characterization

- Find a faint moving object against a cluttered background
- CME, like other astrophysical objects, is optically thin; no hard surface
- CME, no fixed shape, an expansion flow

##  CME Detection/Tracking and Characterization

- Preprocessing
- Calibration
- Filtering and relaxation
-  polar transformation
- Detection
- Morphology analysis
- Boundary detection
- Region Growing
- Tracking
- CONDENSATION (CONditaional DENSity propagATION)
- Use temporal relations between frames

##  EIT dimming Detection and Characterization

- EIT or coronal dimming, the most reliable observations to locate CME disk source region
- Characterization
- Heliocentric coordinate
- Timing
- Size
- Intensity

##   Data Mining, CME Source Regions

- Find out Spatial and Temporal association rule
- CME
- Timing
- Position angle and size
- Velocity
- Coronal dimming
- Timing
- Heliocentric coordinate
- Size and dimming intensity

##   Performance Evaluation

- Understanding the applicability of the proposed methods
- Achieving the best performance for different needs
- Building catalogs
- Neal real time detection for forecasting
- In depth research
- Find true error rate from apparent error rate
- ROC (Receiver Operator Characteristics) curve, tradeoff between false alarm and detection rate
- Cross-validation
- Bootstrapping
# Presentation: 370851

## “It’s Not Just About Us”

- Building External Relationships

- Brig. Gen. D.L. Johnson, USAF (Ret.)NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services
- November 30, 2005

- Dr. Bill HogarthNOAA Assistant Administrator for Fisheries

## What is the Challenge?

- How do we build and maintain relationships?
- Long-term Relationships
- New Relationships
- The “Right Relationships”
- Gain Support and Establish Trust
- Environmental Enterprise

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

## How Did We Get Here?

- Changing Roles between Government and Private Sector
- 24-Hour News and Information Explosion
- New Appropriations Committee Structure
- Different Offices Took Different Roads

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

## What is the Current State?

- Evolving NOAA
- Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?  Both!
- Local vs. National Relationships
- Communication Constraints
- Competing Federal Dollars
- Lacking Coordination Across NOAA
- One Stop Shopping
- New Communications Office on Horizon

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

## Case For Change...

- Public demands more of Government
- We are not a “Big Budget” agency with big contracts

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

## Moneyball:

*The Art of Winning an Unfair Game*
- Michael Lewis

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

**Notes:**
How did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?
At the opening of the 2002 season, the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $126 million while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A’s and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls of less than a third of that, about $40 million How did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?

Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics took a team of undervalued players and created strength through partnerships and a new perspective...

He looked at “winning” in a new way...

And realized that trying to win the same way the Yankees do would never work for the A’s...

## Breakout Tables

- What barriers stop us from having stronger relationships with these groups?
- What opportunities do we have to build strong relationships with these groups?
- What does the future look like and what must we do to get there?
- Tables:
- Government/Academia/ NGO
- Private Sector
- Media
- Congress

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

## The Way Ahead...

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships

## NOAA:  Little Fish—Very Big Pond!

- It's Not Just About Us: Building External Relationships
# Presentation: 695036

## Infrastructure

- Leadership Computing Facility**Oak Ridge National Laboratory****U.S. Department of Energy**

## Network

**Shifting to a hybrid InfiniBand/Ethernet network**
**InfiniBand based network helps meet the bandwidth and scaling needs for****the center**
**Wide-Area network****will scale to meet****user demand using currently deployed routers and switches**

- 100 TF***60 GB/s LAN******3 GB/s WAN***

***2007***

- 250 TF***140 GB/s LAN******4 GB/s WAN***

- 1000 TF***240 GB/s LAN******5 GB/s WAN***

***2008***

***2009***

## Archival Storage

**HPSS Software has already demonstrated ability to scale to many PB**
**Add 2 Silos/Year**
**Tape Capacity & Bandwidth, Disk Capacity and Bandwidth are all scaled to maintain a balanced system**
**Utilize new methods to improve data transfer speeds between parallel****file systems and archival system**

**100 TF*****4 PB (Tape Cap)******4 GB/s (Agg. BW)***

***2007***

**250 TF*****10 PB (Tape Cap)******10 GB/s (Agg. BW)***

**1000 TF*****18 PB (Tape Cap)******19 GB/s (Agg. BW)***

***2008***

***2009***

## Center-Wide File System (Spider)

**Increase scientific productivity by providing single repository for simulation data**
**Connect to all****major LCF****Resources**
**Connected to both InfiniBand and Ethernet networks**
**Potentially becomes *****the***** file system for the 1000 TF System**

- 100 TF***250 TB******10 GB/s***

***2007***

- 250 TF***1 PB******60 GB/s***

- 1000 TF***10 PB******240 GB/s***

***2008***

***2009***

## Operations Infrastructure SystemsNow and Future Estimates

| Archival Storage | FY07 | FY08 | FY09 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capacity (PB)
Bandwidth (GB/s) | 4
4 | 10
10 | 18
19 |
| Resources ($M) | 3.6 | 6.0 | 3.2 |

| Viz/End-to-End | FY07 | FY08 | FY09 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IO B/W
Memory (TB) | 10
0.5 | 20
20 | 60
69 |
| Resources ($M) | 0.15 | 0.82 | 0.35 |

| Central Storage | FY07 | FY08 | FY09 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capacity (PB)
Bandwidth (GB/s) | 0.22
10 | 1.0
60 | 10.0
240 |
| Resources ($M) | 3.4 | 11.4 | 4.0 |

| Networking | FY07 | FY08 | FY09 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| External B/W (GB/s)
LAN B/W (GB/s) | 3
60 | 4
140 | 5
240 |
| Resources ($M) | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.1 |

**Notes:**
Need to update this
Capacity (PB)	.5	1 (7)	10
Bandwidth (GB/s)	10	60 (200)	240

## Contacts

- Richard S. CanonTech IntegrationCenter for Computational Sciences(865) 574-2028canonrs@ornl.gov

-    Canon_Infrastructure_0611
# Presentation: 223107

## BTeV raw data format – towards a proposal

- David Christian
- January 29, 2005

## Context

- Serious DCB design is underway.
- A new round of trigger simulation is starting.
- All detector elements are well enough understood so that we can make intelligent decisions about data format.

## Motivation

- Want a uniform format for data in the Level-1 buffers and at input to Level-2 trigger.
- Want a simple format that will make debugging as easy as possible.
- Want a flexible format that can evolve.

## The heart of the proposal

- Pack all information into 16-bit words.
- Use 1 of 16 bits to distinguish between two types of words:
- Data word
- Header or Trailer word

## Some detail

- Header/trailer words have a “1” in the msb.
- Header/trailer words have a fixed length field that labels the type of word.
- Header/trailer words may contain information in the remaining bits.
- Data words have a “0” in the msb.

## Example Header/Trailer Words

- Store #
- Run #
- Extended BCO #
- Word Count Record
- Pixel Half Plane ID
- Pixel Chip ID

## More detail & examples

- Pixel data format proposed 4/28/03:
-  Half-plane header:
- Chip header:
- Hit data:

## Sample data stream

- BCO header
- BCO data...
- Half plane header
- Chip header
- Hit data
- Hit data...
- Chip header
- Hit data
- Hit data...  ...
- Half plane header
- Chip header
- Hit data... ...
- Pixel word count trailer
- Word count (data)?
- BCO header...

## Features

- Simple; facilitates hardware debugging.
- Facilitates error detection (via word counts) & recovery.
- Merging data streams is trivial.
- Easy to add diagnostics or alarms to normal data stream if desired.
- Unnatural for floating point – does not accommodate IEEE floating point format.

## A possible modification

- Define a procedure to suspend the format.
- Escape the format _**header**_
- Word count
- Unformatted data...(32 or 64 bit IEEE floating point numbers, for example)
- Re-enter the format _**trailer**_

## My Hope

- Reach consensus in favor of the basic idea.
- Establish a small group to assign header/trailer word identifiers.
- Establish guidelines (or rules) for the use of word counts.
- Use this data format starting as close to the front-end modules as practical... maybe at the output of the DCB’s.

## Next Steps

- Do we need a series of meetings with one big group including representatives of each subdetector group as well as trigger & daq?
- Or maybe just trigger & daq?
- Then a presentation to the tech board?