BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 753060

## High Temperature Foil Thrust Bearing

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Performance of MiTi® oil-free compliant foil thrust bearings 	measured at greater than 1000F and 1800 ft/sec
-   A development test rig has been delivered to NASA
-   Totally oil-free operation at 80,000 rpm speeds under 	thrust loads to 700 lbs and elevated temperatures exceeds 	any existing thrust bearing development rig

***Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc.***
***Albany, NY***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Supports NASA’s General Aviation Revitalization 	Initiative and Oil-Free Turbomachinery Program
-   Interest by US Army and Air Force for helicopter, 	UAV and Expendable Turbine Engine Concepts
- 	SBIR technology will support reduced fuel 	consumption and maintenance costs through 	reduced parts counts and elimination of oil  	lubrication system in aviation gas turbine engines

- Glenn Research Center
- Structures
- 3-095

**High Temperature Foil Thrust Bearing**

***Development Rig and Patented Thrust Foil Fearing***

**INNOVATION**

- 1996 Phase II, NAS3-98089, 9/02
- NASA Contact – Mark Valco
- Company Contact – James Walton

- A totally oil-free, high-temperature and high-speed test rig for developing advanced foil thrust bearings

**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   MiTi® Compliant Foil Thrust Bearing has  sales to date; 	$794,637 	including both a development test rig and 	compliant foil thrust bearings
-   MiTi® holds a total of eight compliant foil bearing patents
-   $3.4M in Phase III contracts with NASA GRC for  	fabrication and delivery of a thrust bearing rig and aircraft 	engine test bearings
# Presentation: 370003

## NMWG Schema Abstractions

- Martin Swany
- Merten Leupolt
- Dan Gunter

## Top-down view of data and metadata

- Operation

- Data

- Subject

- 1

- 0..1

- 1

- 0..*

- Subject

- Values

- Operation

- +

- Metadata

- Generation of values:

- Parameters

## NO ‘Raw’ Data

- Subject

- Values

- Operation

- +

- Subject

- Values

- Operation

- +

- ..etc..

- Initial “subject” is arbitrary point in derivation chain (more generally, graph).

## Example

- Etc..

## What goes where

- Three top-level abstract elements: “subject”, “operation(parameters)”*, “data”
- Requests will have a subject and operation
- Reports will have data and, optionally, a copy of the subject and operation from the request
- But if the requestor is the same as the reportee, then just use identifiers

- * Henceforth, abbreviated “operation”

## Subject and Data

- Subject

- Network entity

- Operation

- Data

- Proposal: Current “result” schemas be used as a source of standard names for the data values.

- Path.delay.roundTrip

- Path.bw.achievable

- mean

## Operation

- Keep current ones for requesting live tests
- Just inherit from an abstract “operation” type and add an identifier attribute
- Add a set of database-friendly ops for querying archived results
- Projection (select), selection (where), grouping (group by), sorting (order by)
- Could these two be gracefully joined?
# Presentation: 014185

## Compact, Efficient, Visible Laser

**                               ****ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Resonant frequency-doubling of infrared output of 		Nd:YAG
-   Visible output at 532 nm (green)
-   Excellent conversion efficiency (>70% cw) with a		monolithic resonant doubling stable structure.
**                             **
**   ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Sales volume of this product line is growing
- 	World-wide sales are >50% international
-   SBIR Contracts have enables the company to take a 		leadership role in its area of technology, expanding it’s 		market from specialized scientific users to commercial 		OEM users.

**Compact, Efficient, Visible Laser**

***Lightwave Electronics***
***Mountain View, CA***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
**  **NASA - molecular and aerosol density 			measurements
-   NASA - narrow linewidth, Fraunhofer laser for 	reduced background
-   NASA - pump Ti:Al2O3 for remote sensing of 		H2O

- 1992 Phase II NAS1-19103
- NASA Contact
- Company Web Address:
- _[http://www.lwecorp.com](http://www.lwecorp.com/)_

- Langley Research Center

**Photograph of LIGHTWAVE Series 140 laser head and power supply**

- All-solid-state laser with highly stable visible output that will not tax limited satellite resources
# Presentation: 047242

## Background error and their estimation

- Multivariate relation
- Background error covariance
- Covariance with fat-tailed power spectrum
- Estimate background error

## Multivariate relation

- Balanced part of the temperature is defined by
- 			Tb = G 
- 	where G is an empirical matrix that projects increments of stream function at one level to a vertical profile of balanced part of temperature increments. G is latitude dependent.
- Balanced part of the velocity potential is defined as
- 			b = c 
- 	where coefficient c is function of latitude and height.
- Balanced part of the surface pressure increment is defined as
- 			Pb = W 
- 	where matrix W integrates the appropriate contribution of the stream function from each level.

## Multivariate relation

- U (left) and v (right) increments at sigma level 0.267, of a 1 m/s westerly wind observational residual at 50N and 330 E at 250 mb.

## Multivariate relation

- Vertical cross section of u and temp 		global mean fraction of balanced 					temperature and velocity potential

## Background error covariance

- The error statistics are estimated in grid space with the ‘NMC’ method. Stats of  are shown.
- Stats are function of latitude and sigma level.
- The error variance (m4 s-2) is larger in mid-latitudes than in the tropics and larger in the southern hemisphere than in the northern.
- The horizontal scales are larger in the tropics, and increases with height.
- The vertical scales are larger in the mid-latitude, and decrease with height.

## Background error covariance

- Horizontal scales in units of 100km	       vertical scale in units of vertical grid

## Fat-tailed power spectrum

- Psfc increments with homogeneous
- Scales with single recursive filter: 			Cross validation
- Scale c

## Fat-tailed power spectrum

- Psfc increments with inhomogeneous scales with single recursive filter: scale v (left) and multiple recursive filter: fat-tail (right)

## Estimate B from regional forecasts

- Spectral calculation of stream function and velocity
-  potential from forecast differences of wind fields.
- U & V : e 2 a grid
- Fill to FFT grid number: taper & zero
- FFT: both X & Y directions
- Vor + Div
- Del-2
- FFT back to for Psi & Chi
- Derivatives of Psi & Chi to find  U2 & V2

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## B of central 8 Km NMM

- For statistical robustness, the scales of the structure function are no longer latitude dependent.
- Deviation of horizontal scales
- Old: estimate from derivatives
- New: estimate with auto-covariance

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Background error and their estimation

- Multivariate relation
- Background error covariance
- Covariance with fat-tailed power spectrum
- Estimate background error
# Presentation: 042986

## Single Mode Tunable Diode Lasers From 1.9 to 2.3 MicronsFocused Research, Inc.Santa Clara, CA

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Tunable diode lasers providing greater than 1 milliwatt of narrow linewidth (less than 1 MHz, full width half maximum) infrared light for spectroscopic and molecular sensing applications.
- Rapid single-mode scanning (greater than 6 nanometer per second) over the greater than 80 nm tuning range.
- In cooperation with the High Temperature Gas-Dynamics Laboratory at Stanford University, one laser is currently being used to analyze CO2 and H2O for combustion diagnostics.
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Press releases in Laser Focus World and NASA Tech Briefs.
- New laser system is available as a commercial product and has been highlighted at the Spring Topical meeting of the Optical Society of America and at CLEO.
- Commercial orders in excess of $100K have been received.
- Estimated product revenue of $1M over 4 years.

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation**
**R****esearch**

- 1994 Phase II; SS5-025; 1/25/99

**GOVERNMENT SCIENCE/APPLICATIONS**
- Tunable lasers from 1.8 to 2.3 microns can monitor gaseous molecular and transient species such as CO2, CO,  NH3, CH4, and CN, which are not amenable to probing with standard diode lasers (0.6 to 1.6 microns).
- Rapid tuning and narrow-linewidth facilitate direct absorption spectroscopy.
- Used at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for laboratory spectroscopy e.g., low temperature linewidth and linestrength measurements of CO2 transitions.
- New laser is used as a calibration source for ongoing work with tunable acousto-optic filters.

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**INNOVATION**

- External-cavity diode laser that emits single-mode
- radiation tunable from 1.87-2.06 and
- operates at room temperature

- Points of Contact:
- 	-  NASA - John Allen; 301-286-5896
- 	-  Focused Research - Timothy Day; 408-980-8088

***Tunable Diode Laser***
# Presentation: 729801

## Advanced, Diode-Pumped, Cavity-Dumped Laser for Space-Based AltimetryFibertek, Inc.Herndon, VA

**INNOVATION**
- Diode-pumped short pulse laser transmitter for space-based lidar measurements of earth topography, weather and biomass

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Conductively cooled diode-pumped slab oscillator provides short pulse width (6 ns) and high beam quality.
- Two-pass amplifier provides power gain to 40 mJ output at 100 pps repetition rate.
- Robust mechanical configuration and packaging provides stability under launch environment and long operating life in space.

**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Technology developed forms basis for commercial WindSat and WeatherSat Instruments.
- Department of Geography, University of Maryland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, Fibertek, Inc., CTA Space Systems, and Omitron, Inc. have formed a team to propose the Vegetation Canopy Lidar mission.  A major Phase III contract is eminent.

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Short-Pulse laser forms the basis for the Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) Instrument transmitter selected for Earth Systems Science Pathfinder Program.
- Provides technology base for short pulse terminal guidance lidar on BMDO Ground Based Interceptor Program.

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation**
**R****esearch**

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

- 1992 Phase 2, SS5-001,  4/22/97

***Space-Based Laser Transmitter***

- Points of Contact:
- 	-  NASA - Jack Bufton; 301-286-8591
- 	-  Fibertek -  Ralph Burnham; 703-471-7671
# Presentation: 065302

## eastern redcedar 

_*Juniperus*_* * _*virginiana*_  L.
- Other common names;  cedar, cedar tree, red cedar, Virginia redcedar,
- pencil cedar, juniper, red juniper, evergreen, savin.

**Culturally:**
- The tree was said to be red from the blood stains of an evil magician.
- Smoke from the leaves was used as incense in purification, ceremonies and in sweat lodges.
- Cedar was used for lance shafts, bows and other tools.
- The wood was split into planks and used to line birch bark canoes.
- Inner bark strips were peeled and split into lacings and twine.  They were also used to weave baskets and floor mats.

- Photo courtesy of:  _[Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany](http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/index.html#?collections)_. This image is not copyrighted and may be freely used for any purpose. Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated:@ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database.

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 528247

## Global Measures of Disability:Statistics Canada’s experience so far...

- Renée Langlois
- Survey Manager,
- Participation and Activity Limitation Survey,
- Statistics Canada

## Outline

- New strategy in Statistics Canada to measure disability
- Objectives of global indicators
- Desired criteria of disability indicator
- Development process used in STC
- Selected indicator
- Relationship to ICF
- Next steps

## 2001 Strategy

- 1986 and 1991:  filter questions on census
- post-censal disability surveys used a sample of false-negative respondents
**for 2001 and beyond**:
- use improved filter questions
- use common disability indicators in all surveys

## Objectives of global indicators

**Describe**:  to provide broad information on a specific characteristic in the population
**Screen** (or filter):  to identify the population of interest for a follow-up survey

## Desired Criteria of Disability Indicator

- Reference to long-term conditions
- Applicability to entire population
- Brevity
- Clarity of language
- Intuitiveness to respondents
- Inclusiveness (all severity levels)

## Global Disability Indicator: development process

- Two-phase research project:
- Qualitative testing
- Quantitative testing

## Qualitative Research

- linguistic analysis of “old” filter questions
- development of alternatives
- testing “old” against “new” questions in terms of correlation with 1991 HALS screening questions

## Results of Qualitative Research

- _Main causes of non-reporting_:
- negative vocabulary:
- long-term
- disabilities
- handicaps
- “is this person limited”
- restrictive answer categories

## Quantitative Evaluation

- 1998 National Census Test:
- approximately 35,000 households
- PALS 2001 pilot test, fall 2000:
- 14,000 individuals
- PALS 2001, fall 2001:
- 43,000 individuals (adults, children)

## Selected indicator

- 1. Does this person have any difficulty hearing, seeing, communicating, walking, climbing stairs, bending, learning or doing any similar activities?
*Answer categories*:
- Yes, sometimes
- Yes, often
- No

## Selected indicator (cont’d)

- 2. Does a physical condition or mental condition or health problem reduce the amount or the kind of activity this person can do:
- At home?
- At work or at school?
- In other activities, for example, transportation or leisure?

## Selected indicator (end)

*Answer categories*:
- Yes, sometimes
- Yes, often
- No

## Relationship to ICF

- focus on activity limitation and participation restriction
- “difficulty”:  covers quality, quantity, time and assistance required
- assistance:  confounding issue
- environment:  multiple-item response scale
- applicability to children:  more research

## Next Steps

**Upcoming sources of analysis**:
- 2001 census:  6,000,000 records
- 2001 PALS:  43,000 records
- 2000 Canadian Community Health Survey:  130,000 records
- Aboriginal Peoples Survey:             120,000 records

## Next Steps (end)

- Research on possible effect of data collection mode
- Research on applicability to children
# Presentation: 035244

## Priscilla Arnold, MD FACS

- American Society Of Cataract & Refractive Surgery

## Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome

- A newly described clinical entity

## What is IFIS?

- This syndrome was identified in 2004, and published in April 2005 (JCRS) by Drs. David Chang and John Campbell
- IFIS is especially associated with tamsulosin (Flomax) - the most commonly used drug for BPH, but has been reported to occur with other similar drugs.

## Pharmacologic neuropathy

- Alpha – 1 blockers are used for BPH (and to treat urinary retention in women)
- Tamsulosin is an _Alpha – 1 A_ specific blocker—the identical receptor found in the dilator muscle of the iris
- Even short-term use can lead  to nonreversable iris dilation dysfunction in some patients

## Normal iris features

- Pupil dilates widely preoperatively
- The iris maintains its integrity throughout the surgical case
- Manipulation does not cause loss of dilation

## Distinctive IFIS features

- Pupil dilates poorly
- Surgery begins & pupil constricts more
- Flaccid iris billows around instruments & out of incision
- Increased difficulty of case & probability of complications

## IFIS in action

## Pupil expansion devices

- Several types of devices can maintain adequate exposure
- These add time and cost to the procedure
- They must be utilized at the beginning of the surgery

## Surgical precautions

- Maximal pharmacologic dilation
- High-retention viscoelastic
- “Slow-motion” procedure
- Pupil expansion devices
- _Most critical_ – surgeon’s prior knowledge of the condition, in order to prepare adequately for this complex situation

## Responses to IFIS

- Identification of syndrome
- FDA warning label
- Joint statement with ASCRS & AUA
- Multicenter surgical study
- Patient education
- Presentation for code

## Summary

- Newly described, specific entity
- Drug-related denervation with resultant abnormal iris function
- Significant increased risk of cataract surgery, especially if not known pre-operatively by the surgeon
- Special planning and devices can usually allow surgery to proceed successfully
# Presentation: 209195

## Nuclear Science Division

- Business Manager (Acting)
**E. Saucier**
- Resource Manager
**J. B. Lofdahl**

- Institute for Nuclear and
- Particle Astrophysics
**R. G. Stokstad**
*Program Head*

- Low Energy
- Nuclear Science

- Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
**H. G. Ritter**
*Program Head*
**G. Odyniec**, *Deputy*

- Nuclear Theory
**X.-N. Wang**
*Program Head*

- Weak Interactions
- KamLAND
**S. J. Freedman**
*Group Leader*

- Neutrino Properties
**K. T. Lesko**
*Group Leader*

- Exotic Nuclei
**J. Cerny**
*Group Leader*

- Heavy Elements
**H. Nitsche**
*Group Leader*

- Nuclear Reactions
**L. G. Moretto**
*Group Leader*

- Nuclear Structure
**P. Fallon**
*Group Leader*

- Isotopes Project
**C. Baglin**
*Group Leader*

- Detector Development
**H. H. Wieman**
*Group Leader*

- RNC Computing
**E. L. Hjort**
*Group Leader*

- Hard Probes
**P. M. Jacobs**
*Group Leader*

- Soft Hadronic Physics
**N. Xu**
*Group Leader*

- STAR
**H. G. Ritter**
*Group Leader*

- Weak Interactions
**S. J. Freedman**
*GroupLeader*

- NUCLEAR SCIENCE DIVISION
- Division Director: **James Symons**
- Deputy for Low Energy Nuclear Science: **Volker Koch**

- 88-Inch Cyclotron
**C. M. Lyneis**
*Program Head*

- Operations
**J. Morel**
*Crew Chief*

- Accelerator ECR Physics
**D. Leitner**
*Group Leader*

- Research Coordination
**M. A. McMahan**
*Group Leader*

- Mechanical Engineering
**S. P. Virostek**
*Group Leader*

- GRETINA
**I. Y. Lee**
*Project Head*

- Electrical Engineering
**TBD**
*Group Leader*

- Safety Coordinator
**K. L. Hardy**
- Chair ES&H Committee
**K. T. Lesko**
# Presentation: 800065

## The Connecticut 

- SBIR Office

***NIH Presentation ***
***July 29, 2005***

*Adapted 6.23.05*

## Who we are

***What we do***
***How we do it***
***Who we serve***

*The Connecticut SBIR  *

*Adapted 6.23.05*

## Established in July 2004
Services are at NO CHARGE
Part of a non-profit – CCAT

***Services are at ****NO CHARGE*
***Part of a non-profit – CCAT***

*Who We Are*

*We succeed when **you succeed.*

*Adapted 6.23.05*

## Meet with small business owners to determine eligibility
Explain how the entire program works and describe what assistance is available
Review business plans and offer insights
Produce proposal guideline sheet to help write proposals
Review draft proposals and offer critique and edits
Provide contacts for accounting assistance, literature searches, etc.

**Meet with small business owners to determine eligibility**
**Explain how the entire program works and describe what assistance is available**
**Review business plans and offer insights**
**Produce proposal guideline sheet to help write proposals**
**Review draft proposals and offer critique and edits**
**Provide contacts for accounting assistance, literature searches, etc.**

*What We Do*

*Adapted 6.23.05*

## 	Networking

**  ****Referrals – first 4 hours FREE**

*Our Business Model*

*Adapted 6.23.05*

##                                 Who We Serve

**Small Businesses**
**Large Business **
**Universities/Community Colleges**

*Adapted 6.23.05*

## For more information...

*For more information...*

*Adapted 6.23.05*

***Deb Santy***
***Email: dsanty@ccat.us***
***111 Founders Plaza, Suite 1002***
***East Hartford, CT 06108***
***(860) 282-4209***
***Website: ******http://www.ccat.us/sbir/index.htm***
# Presentation: 485892

## The National Vaccine Plan Process - UpdateOctober 22, 2007

- Raymond A. Strikas, MD
- National Vaccine Program Office
- Department of Health and Human Services

## Planning Process Summary

- Process to date
- March 20 and June 5, 2007 interagency meetings
- Discussions with Assistant Secretary for Health
- One-on-one discussions with agencies, Departments:  CDC, FDA, NIH, HRSA, AHRQ, ASPR, USAID, DoD
- Priorities’ development by agencies, Departments

##  Four Categories (1994 Plan’s Goals)

- Develop new and improved vaccines
- Ensure optimal safety and effectiveness of vaccines and immunization
- Better educate the public and members of the health professions on the benefits and risks of immunizations
- Achieve better use of existing vaccines to prevent disease, disability, and death

## Top Ten Priority Areas(really 11)

- Vaccine research and development: Enhance
- Adult Immunization:  Improve immunization rates for vaccines recommended for widespread use among adults to achieve coverage targets
- Adolescent Immunization:  Achieve 90% coverage for ACIP recommended vaccines
- Barriers to vaccination:  Reduce or eliminate financial barriers to access for recommended vaccines for all populations
- Childhood vaccination:  Maintain high coverage
- New Vaccines:  Develop, such as
- HIV
- TB
- Malaria

## Top Ten Priority Areas(really 11) - continued

- 7. Vaccine Supply:  Enhance security
- 8. Vaccine Safety:  Enhance current infrastructure to better monitor adverse events and determine risk factors and mechanisms for adverse events
- 9. Compensation:  Assure the National Vaccine Injury Program continues to compensate persons truly injured by vaccines
- 10. Global Health:  Advance global disease reduction and eradication goals
- 11. Surveillance:  Assure systems are in place to adequately monitor the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization coverage

## Priorities

- Received from many, but not all, agencies and offices.
- Limited prioritization within lists offered
- Few milestones and dates for achievement listed
- Differences of emphasis to be resolved

## Our Tasks for the Priorities

- Review categories, areas, issues in particular
- Are all listed appropriate?
- What is missing?
- Propose actions as appropriate (to be completed by lead, contributing agencies)
- Review proposed lead and contributing agencies
- To follow:
- Prioritization within areas by lead agencies
- 2012-15 milestones
- NVAC review, beginning with Vaccine Supply and Development subcommittee today

## Stakeholder Involvement Approach

- Complete priorities’ table
- Review with National Vaccine Advisory Committee
- Engage other expert stakeholders through Institute of Medicine expert committee (discussion to follow)
- Engage broader groups of stakeholders, including the general public
- Focus groups’ trial October 30, 2007
- “Deliberation Day” town-hall style meeting(s) to follow
# Presentation: 792568

## White House Conference on AgingListening Session

**White House Conference on Aging****Listening Session**

** ****January 8, 2005****	****	****	****	****                     Washington, DC**

- A Senior Friendly Transportation Environment:
- The Consumer Perspective
**T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH****National Director, Traffic Safety Policy AAA ****(American Automobile Association)**

## Senior MobilityWe All Know the Facts 

**Senior Mobility****We All Know the Facts **

-   People 65+ are the fastest growing age group in the United States.
-   By 2020, there will be more than 40 million licensed drivers 65+
-   Seniors made up 12% of all traffic fatalities in 2002

##  Senior Mobility: A Quality of Life Issue

** ****Senior Mobility: ****A Quality of Life Issue**

**Seniors want:**
**To extend their safe driving years**
**To have options for continued mobility when they can no longer drive**

## Seniors’ Top Three Concerns

**Seniors’ Top Three Concerns**

**	****	****	*****Age 55 and ******	******      Age 65 and ******Issue******	******	******	******         Older                 Older*****Access to affordable****health care ****	****	****	****41%****	****	****     33%**
**Financial security****	****	****29%****	****                25%**
**Ability to drive  or****	****	****	****	****     ****otherwise get  around****	****25%****	****	****    25%**
**Affordable housing****	****16%****	****	****     13%**

**Senior Mobility Omnibus Survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for AAA Market Research, December 2004.**

## SOLUTIONS – 3 elements of traffic safety

**Road**
**(senior-friendly **
**road design)**

**Vehicle**
**(better crash protection, **
**seat belt design, add-ons)**

**Driver**
**(training, screening, supplemental transportation)**

**SOLUTIONS – ****3 elements of traffic safety**

##  Action Needed

** ****Action Needed**

**  ****Agenda for White House Conference on Aging must elevate attention to issues associated with transportation and mobility. **** **
**  ****Designation as a principal category allows broad-range discussion of all elements of the mobility experience. **

** **

**  ****The ability to drive as long as safely possible and continued mobility thereafter is tied to an individual’s:**
**  ****Confidence**
**  ****Independence**
**  ****Overall happiness. **
**  ****The White House Conference on Aging can facilitate the objective. **

** ****Senior Mobility: ****A Quality of Life Issue**

##  Collaborative Effort

** ****Collaborative Effort**

**Together we can create safer transportation options for seniors that will:**
**Extend their safe driving years**
**Ensure options for continued mobility when they can no longer drive**
**A reality which ensures **
**lifelong safe mobility. **

## White Conference on AgingListening Session

**White Conference on Aging****Listening Session**

** ****January 8, 2004****	****	****	****	****                     Washington, DC**

**Thank you. **
- T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH
- AAA National Office, Washington, DC
- dinhzarr@national.aaa.com
- (202) 942-2060
- www.aaapublicaffairs.com
- www.seniordrivers.org
# Presentation: 179420

## New Research at the USDA ARS on Detection of Crude Botulinum Neurotoxin in Food

_**John Mark Carter**_**, Ron Binder, Larry Stanker, David Brandon**
**USDA Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA **(www.ars.usda.gov/pwa/wrrc/fcr)

- Toxin complex includes surrogate analytes.

- Zhou, et al, 2005, FEBS J, 272:2717

- Assay validation for crude toxin in food matrices

- Non-toxic accessory proteins  provide surrogate analytes.

- Compared to BoNT (150kDa), these surrogates may exhibit increased  immunogenicity, improved stability in food, enhanced assay sensitivity, and simplified sample preparation.

- Rodent model
- for standardization

- Development and validation of novel assays

- Toxin (ng/ml)

- Fluorescence
# Presentation: 155419

## Ways to live healthy while being Diabetic

- Project produced by: Erica V., Jessica W.,
- Shaniqua  B., and
-  Donta G.

## Introduction: What Is Nutrition?

-   Nutrition is what you eat each day in order to gain energy throughout the day. We will guide you through a healthy diet for a 16 year old diabetic.

## Sample Diabetic Menu

- Lunch
- Snack
- Dinner
- Breakfast

## Breakfast

- 1 pack Regular oatmeal (1/2 cup-72 cal.)
- Low- fat milk(1 cup-120 cal.)
- Sliced canned peaches(1/2 cup-100 cal.)
- Orange juice (1 cup-105 cal.)
- Butter (1tablespoon-cal.300)
- Total caloric intake:697

##           Lunch 

- Two slices of wheat bread
- (140 cal.)
- Sliced turkey without skin(2 ounces)
- Reduced fat mayo(2 table spoons-200 cal.)
- Two Slices of tomato (30 cal.)
- A cup of skim milk (120 cal.)
- Total caloric intake:490

## Mid Day Snack

- 1 rice cake (40 cal.)
- One tablespoon of peanut butter (95 cal.)
- Total caloric intake:135

##             Dinner 

- 1 Chicken Breast, roasted (without skin- 193 cal.)
- Macaroni and cheese(cal.320)
- Rice, brown (cooked)- (120 cal.)
- Cooked green beans(1/2 cup-22 cal.)
- 1 diet coke(2 cal.)
- Total caloric intake:555

## Introduction 2:An Exercise Plan

- 		The exercise plan is designed to keep a 16 year old diabetic in good health. It is also designed to work around her school schedule. This plan will give her time to relax in between school and becoming fit.

## Morning Exercise Plan

- 	Starting time: 7:00 am ;Ending Time: 7:35 am
- Dance Exercise (10 minutes) Cal. 105
- Walking (15 minutes) Cal. 61
- Weight lifting (muscular strength) Cal. 60
- Total caloric lost:226

## After School Exercise          Plan

- Starting Time: 5:00 pm Ending Time: 5:30 pm
- Swimming Practice (20 minutes ) Cal. 255
- Break (5 min. Drink water) Cal. 28
- Total caloric lost:283

##            Credits

- _[www.bddiabetes.com](http://www.bddiabetes.com/)_
- _[www.coolnurse.com](http://www.coolnurse.com/)_
- Microsoft Clip Art

## Acknowledgments

- We would like to thank Ms. Amanda Morris, Ms. Erika Johnson, Mr. Enrique Seale, Mrs. Greene for making this project possible.
# Presentation: 425274

## Peer Insight

- A Four-Year Study of the Discipline of Service Innovation
- Presented at:
- AHRQ Annual Conference
- September 27, 2007

## There is a natural progression of knowledge acquisition

- mystery

- heuristic
- (rules of thumb)

- algorithm

- binary code

*QUALITY*

- Adapted from Roger Martin, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto

## We are fortunate to have some great companies as our research partners

## Those companies are adopting innovation at different rates

- Source: Peer Insight analysis of 115 recent service innovation projects

## There are 5 key lessons firms learn along the innovation journey

- M&A +
- Six Sigma

- No Man’s Land

- Innovation 1.0

- Innovation 2.0

- Innovation 3.0

* “**If”*

* “**How”*

* “**How it scales”*

* “**Why”*

*leading edge*

*early adopters*

*early majority*

*laggards*

*late majority*

- What does it mean to our customers? To our employees? To the
- world?
*cultural transformation*
*(cultures)*

- Is innovation the way to grow profitably in the post-Six Sigma era?
*search for organic growth*
*(experiments)*

- How do we find big ideas and get them off the ground?
*methods and protocols*
*(projects)*

- How do we make innovation easier, more systematic, so it doesn’t rely on heroic acts?
*innovation operating model*
*(programs)*

- Source: Peer Insight analysis of 115 recent service innovation projects
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## Freeze-out Dynamics at RHICAu+Au collisions @  62 and 200 GeV

**Olga Barannikova **
***(Purdue University)***
***For the STAR Collaboration***

## Outline

**Motivation**
**Spectral shapes:**
- kinetic freeze-out properties
- transverse radial flow
**T****kin **** **@  kinetic freeze-out
- different behavior?
**Flavor composition: ****	**
- chemical freeze-out properties
**T****ch**** **@ chemical freeze-out
- strangeness production
**Conclusions and Outlook**

**Outline**

*Partonic collectivity*

*Thermalization*

## Motivation

**T****c**

**T****ch**** ?**

**T****kin**** ?**

**QCD predicts  phase transition from hadronic matter to QGP at high energy density**

*Lattice QCD*

**Search for QGP signals in**

**Bulk properties of the collision        **

**Motivation**

## Spectral shapes

- E.Schnedermann et al,  PRC48 (1993) 2462.

- Blast-wave model:

******, K, p  ********  T= 90MeV, ******** **** **
** ******** ****T=160MeV, ******

**STAR Preliminary**

## Kinetic Freeze-out @ 200 GeV

**Kinetic Freeze-out @ 200 GeV**

**Radial flow velocity**

**Kinetic  FO  temperature**

- ,K,p: Tkin decreases with centrality
-  Tkin = const
- ,  and flow

## Particle Spectra & Yields

- Extended PID up to 4.5GeV/c
- ToF and TPC spectra match within ~ 10%

********

*62 GeV Au+Au*

**_**
**p**

**STAR Preliminary**

**STAR Preliminary**

## Kinetic Freeze-out @ 62 GeV

- Nch scaling?

**STAR Preliminary**

**STAR Preliminary**

**STAR Preliminary**

**STAR Preliminary**

## Statistical Model

*200 GeV pp*

*200 GeV Au+Au*

-  In *pp* particle ratios are well described
-  In *Au+Au*  only stable particle ratios are well described

**STAR Preliminary**

## Chemical Freeze-out @ 200 GeV

*200 GeV Au+Au*

- ,K,p** **

- ,K,p,** **

- Close to chemical equilibrium !

- Close to net-baryon free

## Chemical Freeze-out @ 62 GeV

**Chemical Freeze-out @ 62 GeV**

*62 GeV Au+Au*

*62 GeV Au+Au*

- Close to chemical equilibrium

**STAR Preliminary**

**STAR Preliminary**

- Close to Tc

**STAR Preliminary**

**STAR Preliminary**

## Freeze-out Evolution

- Lattice QCD:
**T****c** = 17010 MeV

- Chemical FO close to hadronization
- Strong flow at hadronization

## Conclusions and Outlook

**Chemical freeze-out at RHIC**
- Particle ratios suggest equilibrium
**Invariant *****T******ch***** ~160 MeV ~ *****T******C***
**  ****Kinetic freeze-out at RHIC:**
** **** ****,**K,p vary with centrality :  ***T******kin**** ***,* *********
- Collectivity (strong flow) builds up very early
****Multistrange baryons:** *****T******kin*****  ~ *****T******ch***
**Systematic study of the freeze-out dynamics:**
- More spectra measurements at 62 GeV
- 19 GeV Au+Au data
- Phase diagram
**To do:**
- Extended PID  hydro applicability
- Looking forward new data with smaller system
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## Slide 1

## I was going to use this as a good example of contained SAA storage, but then I noticed the electrical junction box on the left.  This is not a good example? 

**I was going to use this as a good example of contained SAA storage, but then I noticed the electrical junction box on the left.  This is not a good example? **

## Accurate labeling

**Accurate labeling**

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## A better electrical installation

**A better electrical installation**
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## Travel Briefing

- Travel Database
- Matt Arena
- Griselda Lopez

## Travel DB Request

- Requirements:  An easy method to
- Manage travel event data
- Determine if an event is a conference
- Allow travelers to indicate which events they plan to attend
- Keep everyone notified
- Need it yesterday
- 2 FTE days to code

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Travel DB Features

- Met all requirements plus
- Automated emails notify appropriate personnel of travel plans
- Supports Domestic & Foreign
- Auto calculation all due dates
- Reports total attendees and estimated costs with subtotal by organization
- Integrated with ESHTRK organization data
- Open to everyone at Fermilab

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Travel DB Usage

- Rolled out in early March
- Good feedback from Computing Division users and administrators
- Expanded to accommodate various new features and requests

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Travel DB Promotion

- Vicky offered system to Bruce Chrisman
- Demonstrated system to Marilyn Dixon in the Directorate and Elaine Phillips in PPD
- Responded to questions from Business Systems during their analysis phase
- Informed Business Systems the DB can be used by anyone at Fermilab
- Offered to expand application to meet any additional requirements
- No feedback from Directorate or Business Services
- Travel database demo
- _[http://appora.fnal.gov/pls/default/conf_db.html](http://appora.fnal.gov/pls/default/conf_db.html)__ _

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Slide 6

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Slide 7

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Slide 8

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Slide 9

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## Slide 10

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006

## FNAL’s Conference Database	

- BSS is working on a conference database
- Domestic Conference travel only
- Travelers will not be able to sign up for a conference
- Designated personnel will be authorized to enter a conference, traveler, and view data

- Travel Briefing

- August 31, 2006
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## Research PrioritiesGenetic Resources – International Perspective

**Ken Richards**
**Research Manager**
**Canadian Genetic Resource Program**
**Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada**
** ****Saskatoon, SK**

## Functions common to all conservation programs

- Acquisition
- Regeneration
- Characterization
- Evaluation
- Documentation

## Acquisition

**Primary gene pool**: crop species subject to genetic erosion – emphasis countries in transition and developing countries
- FAO id. as greatest loss to genetic diversity   when modern cultivars replace landraces
**2****nd**** & 3****rd**** gene pools**** **
- Source of genes for future plant breeding
- Complement wide crosses, transgenic work
- Useful in future as new techniques developed

## Regeneration

- Basic pollination requirements for major crop  species known
- Most other species poorly known
- extent of self fertile vs cross pollination
- isolation distance; needs revisiting
- primary pollinator; 2nd and 3rd ; unknown
- pollinators / area; needs revisiting
- Identified at recent EU grain legume workshop as highest priority for future research to aid conservation of GR;  only about 8-10% (n=~600) of grain legumes with pollination requirements known

## Regeneration

- How much pollen transfer among accessions is currently occurring?
- Methods to detect unintentional presence of transgenes in collections
- issues:
- sampling strategy
- how much testing to do

## Characterization

- Molecular:  Research to address concern that modern plant breeding reduces crop genetic diversity
- Is genetic shift, erosion, drift taking place within existing US breeding programs?
- address issue: are breeding programs reducing the genetic diversity and making crops increasingly susceptible to biotic and abiotic stresses??
- 23 studies worldwide; only 2 from USA (university, private industry)
- OECD indicators on crop genetic diversity

## Microsatellite variation of 96 Canadian oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivars developed 

- over the last century

**1950**

## Characterization

- Increase characterization (descriptors) for abiotic stresses in response to future needs (global warming, salinization)

## Documentation

- Linkage of genetic resource databases to genomics databases – EU
- Need a complete on-line internet accessible database for microbial genetic resources which includes _all_ the material in the national collections; similar to GRIN
- Linkage of GRIN with other world data bases (SINGER, EURISCA, etc) to ease search of available germplasm

## Evaluation

- Seek more than basic evaluations for oil content, protein, etc
- Important for human diet – newer characters, like antioxidants
- Disease and insect resistance effort needs to be increased

## Example of evaluation of germplasm for disease resistance

**Anthracnose resistance of lentil**

**Sclerotinia resistance of *****B. napus***** **
**(canola)**

## Microbial collections

- Where is the public plant virus collection?
- reluctance to rely on ATCC
- Best preservation techniques for sensitive organisms
- Taxonomic verification of GR quickly (ie. molecular, micro arrays)
- High throughput culturing for collections
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## Transport Phenomena in Trivalent Ion Tungstates 

- Transport Phenomena in Trivalent Ion Tungstates
- and Related Systems
- Doreen Edwards, Alfred University, DMR 0602881

**Batteries, fuel cells, and sensors rely on materials that conduct charge through the movement of ions.  In most ionic conductors, the mobile species are singly or doubly charged ions, like lithium (Li****+****) or oxygen (O****2-****) ions for example. We are investigating ionic conduction in trivalent cation tungstates, which appear to conduct electricity through the movement trivalent ions like aluminum (Al****3+****) and indium (In****3+****) or through the movement of polyatomic tungstate ions (WO****4****2-****).   Understanding how these materials transport charge may lead to the development of new ionic conductors for energy applications. **

- The picture shown above is a representation of the crystal structure of the high-temperature form of the trivalent ion tungstate In2(WO4)3, which can be viewed as consisting of layers of In3+ cation (green spheres) and tungstate (WO43-) groups (blue tetrahedra).

## Transport Phenomena in Trivalent Ion Tungstates 

**One US graduate student is currently participating in this project.  The international team presented a joint paper at the International Conference of Solid State Ionics in Shanghai China.  This conference provided the faculty and student researchers an opportunity to meet and discuss the research project and to make plans for future laboratory visits and exchanges.**
**    **

- Transport Phenomena in Trivalent Ion Tungstates
- and Related Systems
- Doreen Edwards, Alfred University, DMR 0602881

- Shown above are Associate Professor Doreen
- Edwards and Alfred University graduate students
- Brian Riley and Jake Amoroso at the Solid State
- Ionics conference.
# Presentation: 489839

## Make movie

## Experimental paths through phase space

## Experimental paths through phase space

**Experimental paths through phase space**

**50μm**

**Short pulse (~100 fs) isochoric heating has achieved KeV temperatures **

## Experimental paths through phase space

**Experimental paths through phase space**

**Short pulse (~100 fs) isochoric heating has achieved KeV temperatures **

## Experimental paths through phase space

**Experimental paths through phase space**

**Short pulse (~100 fs) isochoric heating has achieved KeV temperatures **

- Mackinon, Patel

## Experimental paths through phase space

**For very slow compression as P-> infinity,********/********o**** -> infinity**

**Precompressed **
**single shock**

**Experimental paths through phase space**

**Cream pie**

**Sample**

**P[GPa]**

**10**

**10****2**

**10****3**

**10****4**

## Experimental paths through phase space

**For single shock, as P-> infinity,********/********o**** = ********where **********************
******/********o   ****=>****	****4 for ideal monatonic gas**
**	****8 for diatomic gas with vibration and rotation excited**
**	****7 for radiation dominated pressure**

**Precompressed **
**single shock**

**Experimental paths through phase space**

- Bullet

**P[GPa]**

**10**

**10****2**

**10****3**

**10****4**
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## Weather in the EOC and the Incident Command Post

- Incorporating and Managing Weather Data in the Emergency Operations Center and the Forward Incident Command Post

## Introduction

- About me:
- Randall Roby – Regional Emergency Preparedness Manager for Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department
- Previously the Planning Officer for Memphis/Shelby County EMA
- Ten years in Emergency Management
- Purpose for this session
- Encourage the use of NWS resources by emergency managers

## Available Information and Services

- Satellite and radar data
- Real-time and Near-real-time observations
- Site-specific forecasting
- Modeling
- NOAA Weather Radio

## August 2006 Chemical Plant Explosion and Fire

- Overview
- Complex hazardous materials incident occurring from 2-AUG-06 through 9-AUG-06 on Brooks Road in Memphis, TN
- Involved release of hazardous materials, fire and explosions
- No people were injured or killed as a result of the incident

## Slide 5

## August 2006 Chemical Plant Explosion and Fire

- Weather Information
- EMA weather station on scene
- National Weather Service meteorologist assigned to EMA in the Incident Command Post

## August 2006 Chemical Plant Explosion and Fire

- Lessons Learned
- Notify NWS as soon as possible about your incident
- Make specific requests
- Remember NOAA Weather Radio
- The on-scene incident commander and the planning section must be willing to accept input from meteorological sources
- Best Practices
- National Weather Service meteorologist on-scene
- Weather monitoring equipment available and on-scene

## TNCAT’07 Exercise

- Overview
- Tennessee Catastrophic Event Exercise
- Based on a 7.7 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid Fault
- Coincided with the SONS’07 Exercise (Spill of National Significance)
- Occurred 19-JUN-07 through 21-JUN-07
- Emergency Operations Center Exercise conducted 19-JUN-07

## Slide 9

## TNCAT’07 Exercise

- Weather Information
- EMA weather station at the EOC
- National Weather Service meteorologist assigned to ESF-5 – Information and Planning

## TNCAT’07 Exercise

- Lessons Learned
- Weather data should be incorporated into every briefing
- Ensure the NWS is aware of the EOC activation
- Make specific requests
- Best Practices
- National Weather Service meteorologist in the EOC
- Utilization of weather data in operational period planning by ESF-5

## Summary

- As a practice, involving National Weather Service or other meteorologists in on-scene and EOC operations is encouraged to the extent possible and practical
- Not everyone can have a meteorologist on-scene or in the EOC
- Make regular phone contact at the least
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## PeDALSPersistent Digital Archives & Library System

- Richard Pearce-Moses
- Deputy Director for Technology & Information Resources
- Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records

## Formerly known as BAGELSS

- Beginning an
- Aggregated
- Government
- E-Records and
- Library
- Service
- Solution

## Project Partners and Supporters

- Funding from
- Library of Congress/NDIIPP
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Partners
- Arizona
- Florida
- New York
- South Carolina
- Wisconsin
- Kudos to the Washington State Archives

## Concerns

- Scale work to meet the growing number of digital publications and electronic records in time of limited resources
- Ability to preserve those materials so that we could demonstrate authenticity and protect integrity

## Technical Goals

- To develop a curatorial rationale that can be implemented in software to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications and records

## Curatorial Rationale

- Transformation of traditional, paper-based practices into the digital arena
- Appraisal
- Acquisition
- Arrangement and description
- Housing and storage
- Reference and access
- Preservation

## Curatorial Rationale

- Logical, systematic basis for our work
- Evolutionary (reactionary) v. Designed (intentional)
- Integrate work done in different, narrowly defined areas
- Focus on the rules, not the records
- Automate the rules

## Technical Goals

- To develop a curatorial rationale that can be implemented in software to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications and images
- To build “digital stacks” – storage that has appropriate controls for preservation and disaster preparedness

## Digital Stacks

- More than storing the data (CD, tape, disk)
- LOCKSS
- Automatic integrity checking and error correction
- Secure
- Geographically distributed

## Additional Goals

- To build a community of shared practice that meets the needs of a wide range of repositories
- For best practices
- For resource sharing
- To remove barriers by keeping costs as low as possible

## Assumptions

- Consistency of government records makes it possible to simplify processing by focusing on common traits
- Volume of records – especially at the series level – make it reasonable to automate processing

## Consistency & Volume

- Bride’s Name
- Groom’s Name
- Marriage Date
- Recording Date
- License Number

- Office of Origin
- Series name
- Location (county)
- OOO Identifier
- Documentary form

## Data Flow

## Project Tasks

- Design system (hardware, software)
- Develop Curatorial Rationale
- Identify core metadata
- Descriptive standards (content, data values)
- Functional specs for administration, discovery, preservation
- Create Accessions Register database
- Develop schemas for AIPs, SIPs, and DIPs
- Implement rules in middleware
- Create website for public access

## For more information

- _[http://rpm.lib.az.us/PeDALS/](http://rpm.lib.az.us/PeDALS/)_
- Principal Investigator
- Richard Pearce-Mosesrpm@lib.az.us
- Project Coordinator
- Sara Muthsmuth@lib.az.us