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# Presentation: 115009

## Funding StatusGAANN Program

- Technical Assistance Workshop
- Washington, DC
- September 29, 2006

- U.S. Department of Education

## Program Funding History	

**FY 2002**
**	****Appropriation:  $31,000,000**
**	****No competition held**
**	****Average Continuation Award:  $173,502**
**FY 2003**
**	****Appropriation:  $30,798,000**
**	****New Awards:  94**
**	****Applications Received:  261**
**	****Average Award:  $211,000**

- U.S. Department of Education

## Program Funding History	(cont’d)

**FY 2004**
**	****Appropriation:  $30,616,000**
**	****New Awards:  51**
**	****Applications Received:  266**
**	****Average Award:  $207,555**
**FY 2005**
**	****Appropriation:  $30,371,000**
**	****No competition held**
**	****Average Continuation Award:  $209,110**

- U.S. Department of Education

## Program Funding History	 (cont’d)

- FY 2006
- 	**Appropriation:  $30,067,290**
**	****New Awards:  116**
**	****Applications Received:  317**
**	****Average Award:  $211,120**

- U.S. Department of Education

## FY 2006 Funding by Discipline

| Discipline | Applications Submitted | Number of Awards |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biology | 26 | 10 |
| Chemistry | 40 | 15 |
| Computer Science | 24 | 5 |
| Engineering | 78 | 33 |
| Geological Science | 8 | 1 |
| Interdisciplinary | 49 | 9 |
| Mathematics | 26 | 14 |
| Multidisciplinary | 6 | 2 |
| Nursing  | 34 | 14 |
| Physics | 26 | 13 |
| Total | 317 | 116 |

- U.S. Department of Education

## Competition Highlights

- Those applications that received an average raw score of 95 or higher received funding.
- Funding range: 95 to 100
- The highest number of fellowships awarded was 7 and the lowest number of fellowships awarded was 3.

- U.S. Department of Education

## Program Funding (cont’d)

- FY 2007
- 	**Estimated Appropriation:  $30,067,290**
**	****Estimated Number of New Awards: 45**
**	****Estimated Average Award:  $216,111**
***The Department is not bound by any of these estimates**
- FY 2008
- A GAANN competition will not be held.

- U.S. Department of Education
# Presentation: 731993

## Can you spare a few minutes for some questions?  

- National Laboratory, doing research on office equipment.
- Can you spare a few minutes for some questions?
-    I would like to ask you about how _colors and symbols_       can be used to make office machines easier to use.
-     I will record only your answer—not information about you.
-     The information will help improve the design of future products.
- If you have any questions, see:    http://eetd.LBL.gov/Controls or contact Bruce Nordman, 510-486-7089, BNordman@LBL.gov
- 	Thank you.

## Do you recognize this symbol?

- Do you know what it means?

## Do you recognize this symbol?

- Do you know what it means?

## Power Buttons

- One of these is for devices that use _*no electricity*_* when off*,and the other is for ones which use _*some electricity*_* when off*.

## Power Indicators

## Power Indicators

- What do you associate with the light off?

## Power Indicators

- What do you associate with Red?

## Power Indicators

- What do you associate with Flashing Green?

## Power Indicators

- What do you associate with Yellow?

## Power Indicators — 

- On

- Sleep

- Off

- Power Indicators —
-     What would be best for “Sleep” for future products?

- Last Question!

- What do you _like_ or not like about each design?  Which are _OK_ or _not OK_?

## Thank you!
# Presentation: 919827

## What kinds of atmospheric temperature variations can the current observing system detect? => satellite

- Tier 1 – AIRS since 2002 – CRiS, IASI
- Tier 2 – AMSU A (1998), HIRS (1978), VTPR (1973-1978)
- Tier 3 – MSU (1978), GEO and LEO split windows (1980)

## Calibration and intercalibration principles – systematic error must be minimized

- Physical radiative transfer pre and post launch
- Overlap of similar instruments
- Vicarious correlative observations
- Bootstrap via LEO and GEO
- Re-analysis feedback files

## Retrieval strategy – minimize bias

**Retrieval strategy – minimize bias**

- Application of the forward and inverse radiative transfer equation to climate studies emphasizes the need to minimize systematic bias in the raw data and retrieval method

## Data Analysis

- All results must be interpreted in terms of physical processes of the climate system including dynamics and water and energy cycle
- Apply multiple robust analysis techniques and realistic confidence intervals

## HIRS lower troposphere trends
# Presentation: 726424

## Integrated FedDebt ProjectUpdate

- Presented by:
- Larry White
- FedDebt Communications Manager
- August 24, 2006

## Original FedDebt

**replace old DMSC Cross-Servicing System ONLY**
**automatically move debts through the collection strategy and report collections**
**provide web based access to agency users**

## Current Integrated FedDebt

- incorporate debt collection systems utilized by Debt Management Services
- employ a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and incorporate a datamart
- utilize a Web-based application w/single sign-on

## FedDebt’s Cross-Servicing Application

- Implemented October, 2005 for batch submission ONLY.

## FedDebt’s Cross-Servicing ApplicationOn-line access was granted to Federal Program Agency (FPA) users in January, 2006.

## Current FedDebt Users

**38 Creditor Agencies**
**448 on-line users**

## Prioritize Current Efforts

- stabilize
- organize, test and implement
- support

## Integrated Agency Interface (IAI) File Formats

- Currently testing formats with creditor agencies with plans for full pilot in early 2007.

## What’s Next?

- Administrative Wage Garnishment (AWG) early 2007
- 1099C summer of 2007
- TOP Client – Fall 2008

## Email Questions To:

- LARRY WHITE
- @
- BDMOC
- Or call (205)-912-6115

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# Presentation: 716139

## Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Texas                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

**Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Texas                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

***Total SARs: 211,379***

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Texas

- Note:  The pie chart represents the top nine characterizations plus additional characterizations in total.
-            An individual SAR may cite more than one characterization.  Hence, the number of characterizations detailed here significantly exceeds the total number of SARs.

**Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Texas**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Texas Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filing Trend For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 4,015***

- Note:  Suspicious Activity Report statistical data is continuously updated as additional reports are filed and processed.  For this reason, there may be minor discrepancies between the statistical figures contained in this report and those in previous FinCEN reports.  Annual numbers for this exhibit are calculated by ***Subject Address*** and not filer address; therefore, the annual totals appearing in the above graph do not match those in Section 1, Exhibit 8 (Characterization of Suspicious Activity by State & Territory by Year).

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Texas

**For the Period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Texas

**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
# Presentation: 204088

## meadow garlic Allium  canadense  L. Other common names; wild garlic, wild onion.

**Food:**
- This was a valuable food source.  The bulbs and leaves were eaten raw or fried with grease and greens.  Onion was also used as a seasoning.
**Medicinally:**
- Tea  was made from the bulbs to control coughing, vomiting, colds, scurvy, ‘dropsy’, asthma, to remove deafness, as a stimulant, diuretic, flatulence reliever, expectorant and mild cathartic.  A tincture was used on children to prevent worms, treat colic, on bee or wasp stings and as a croup remedy.  The onion was rubbed on the body to protect it from lizard, scorpion, tarantula and snakebites, as well as insect bites and stings.  As a smudge, it was used to treat colds, headaches and clear up sinuses.  Nursing mothers drank a tea in order to pass its medicinal properties onto their babies.  Dairy cows, which eat wild onions, have milk that tastes like onions.  Frontiersmen ate wild onions to prevent scurvy.

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

- Photo courtesy of:  ©Thomas G. Barnes. T.G. & S.W. Francis. 2004. *Wildflowers and ferns of Kentucky*. University Press of Kentucky. This copyrighted image may be freely used for any non-commercial purpose. For commercial use please contact _[Thomas G. Barnes](mailto:tbarnes@uky.edu)_.   Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated:   **Thomas G. Barnes** @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / **Barnes, T.G. & S.W. Francis. 2004. *****Wildflowers and ferns of Kentucky*****. University Press of Kentucky.**
# Presentation: 047251

## GOAL

**To determine the most efficient designs of  clinical trials in TrialNet for **
** ****(1) preservation of pancreatic beta cell function in new-onset Type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients **
** ****(2) the prevention of the disease in at risk subjects   **

## OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERVENTIONS TRIALNET

**INSULIN RESPONSE*****    ***

**TIME**

**OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERVENTIONS TRIALNET**

**BETA CELL MASS**

**DIABETES**

**“****PRE”-DIABETES**

**GENETIC**
**PREDISPOSITION**

**INSULITIS**
**BETA CELL INJURY**

**NEWLY DIAGNOSED DIABETES**

**GENETICALLY AT-RISK**

**MULTIPLE ANTIBODY POSITIVE**

## CURRENT DESIGN

**Large sample sizes (~60/group) **
**	****	****~50% difference in treatment effect**
** ****	****	******** ****=  5% (2-tailed) **
**	****	******** ****=  20% **
**Studies are of relatively long duration (4+ years)**
- 	**PROBLEM**: **limited ability to implement multiple  simultaneous studies **

## WHY (1)?

-  **RECRUITMENT & ENROLLMENT CHALLENGING **
**Limited number of newly diagnosed T1D patients**
**	****-  ****Incidence ~ 20 new cases/100,000 **
**	****- `15-20,000 new cases in childhood/yr**
**Trialnet sites have access to just small # **
**	****-  O****ther sites reluctant to join **
**	****	****limited reimbursement**
**	****	****Time commitment (IRB, regulatory demands, ****	****clinical duties)**
**Demanding nature of treatment regimens **
**	****-   ****#/intensity of visits**
**	****-   Concerns about safety- most immunosuppressive. **
**Limited success of past intervention studies**
**Treatment effect unlikely to be long-lasting  **
**Burden of diabetes at onset overwhelming **
**Current treatment quite good**
**	****-  B****eta cell preservation (c-peptide) for at least some period of time **

## WHY (2)

- ENDPOINT LIMITATIONS
- 	-  C-peptide is only valid endpoint
- 	-  variable levels at diagnosis
- 	-  initial levels ∞ to age
- 	-  Rate of fall 1/∞ to age
- 	- with current standard treatment, not a dramatic decline in c-peptide at 1-2 years

## QUESTIONABLE TRANSLATION

- Routine clinical practice
- Prediabetic studies
-  	? more of a clinical rather than statistical , i.e., what is the minimal clinically significant difference required for translation?

## SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

**Can we design smaller and more shorter studies?**
**Can phase 1 studies be done and responses determined? **
**Can larger numbers of treatments be compared simultaneously with aggressive curtailment for futility?**
**Can short term trials be grafted onto long term trials – roll phase 2 patients into phase 3 studies?**
**Should trials be powered for large effect sizes or for more moderate effect sizes with monitoring guidelines that could terminate early for an unexpected large effect?**
**Should trials be powered to rule out adverse effects? **
# Presentation: 025820

##  Near Field InfraRed Experiment(NEAR)  DRW 3741)

-   The Missile Defence Agency is sponsoring a mission called NFIRE (Near Field InfraRed Experiment)which is an experimental satellite to be launched on a Minotaur rocket in June, 2004 from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Is. Virginia.  The experiment is designed to distinguish between a ballistic missile’s fiery plume and the rocket itself.

-   MDA	         **●**   Navy (SCSC)
-   OSC	         **●**   VSFA
-   Raytheon	         **●** Aerospace
-  Spectrum Astro

-   Primary support is from the Range and Mission Management Office (RMMO/840).
-   Contract support is requested of  Virginia Space Flight Center support for use of Pad 0B.
-    The overall budget for the project is under $1,615K.

-   Project Initiation and Requirements Definition	8/2002
-   Mission Design Review   		4/2003
-   Path Finder			12/2003
-   Vehicle/PayLoad Received @  WFF	6/2004
-   Range Readiness Review		6/2004
-   Mission Readiness Review		7/2004
-   Launch Window	                  	         Summer/2004
# Presentation: 605461

## The Wind from the Sun

**Why did you like or dislike this story?**
**Is it scientifically valid/truthful?**
**Could there be such a solar yacht race?  How soon?**
**Bonus question: why are the ships named as they are?**

## How might you use stories and art in a science class?	

- Pre-assessment
- Post-assessment
- Inject some fun -- throw them off of their expectations
- Opportunity for library and web research
- Chance to connect science to history and  culture

## Why do such interdisciplinary activity?

- Break down the walls between science and other subjects
- Involve and energize some students who are not typically interested in science
- Writing stories or creating art/music usually requires a deeper understanding of what is going on
- Way to make the science relevant, personal

## Ideas for Interdisciplinary Science

- Writing short stories -- require that they be scientifically correct -- or news stories
- Create a myth or legend
- Poetry and song lyrics
- Critique a work of art or literature
- Create a mission to Mars, Mercury, etc.
- Develop a game
- Create a piece of art -- Sun-Earth system
- Video -- commercials, weather-cast

## Cool facts from “Wind”

- Woomera: Stick used by Aborigines to throw spears.  Also: rocket and missile testing at the Woomera Range
- Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev -- Russian physicist who demonstrated experimentally the minute pressure that light exerts on bodies
- Captain Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone
- Arachne
- Story written in 1963