BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 388540

## ADOLESCENT WORKING GROUP

## NEXT STEPS

- Define and publish the problem(s) and imperative(s) for adolescent immunization
- Focus on the rationale and importance
- Not focus on answers or solutions (yet)
- Frame public discussion/debate/action

## NEXT STEPS (CONT)

- Define 3 “hot button” issues to frame public debate
- Build on previous work
- Gather expert opinion
- Determine needs for more information
- Not necessarily take a position for all 3

## HOT BUTTON ISSUES*

- Schools and other non-traditional venues for adolescent immunization (*prioritize based on volume of actual/potential patients and timing of venue use*)
- School mandates
- Informed consent
- *Limit work on financing to specific HB issues

## NEXT STEPS (final)

- Using the measles white paper as a guide
- Focus on systematic issues (e.g., missed opportunities)
- Frame and define parallels
- Identify future work products
# Presentation: 020729

## Magic Planet

- Define the audiences
- Type of display that is needed?
- Teacher activities, games: “show me...”
- Data demonstration
- Interactive, informative display
- Content and themes to develop
- Must be NOAA content (or operational data)
- Based on classroom curriculum?
- By concept or NOAA office/program?
- Level of screen interaction
- Number of layers
- For teachers or students to view?

## How it works...

## Preloaded Content

## NOAA Curriculum

## NOAA Theme Content

## Other Displays

## Define the Audiences
Type of display that is needed
Teacher activities, games: “show me...”
Data demonstration
Interactive, informative display
Content and themes to develop
Must be NOAA content (or operational data)
Based on classroom curriculum?
By concept or office/program?
Level of screen interaction
Number of layers
For teachers or students to view? 

- Type of display that is needed
- Teacher activities, games: “show me...”
- Data demonstration
- Interactive, informative display
- Content and themes to develop
- Must be NOAA content (or operational data)
- Based on classroom curriculum?
- By concept or office/program?
- Level of screen interaction
- Number of layers
- For teachers or students to view?

- The Questions
# Presentation: 648800

## The Solar Wind

## The Sun is not a quiet place.

## Disturbances in the Sun’s magnetic field create Sunspots

**Disturbances in the Sun’s magnetic field create Sunspots**

## The magnetic fields near sunspots produce active regions on the Sun, which can produce Solar Flares, Prominences and Coronal Mass Ejections. 

## Solar Flares are brief but bright eruptions of hot gas on the sun

## Prominences are huge plumes of glowing gas that jut out from the Sun.

## Coronal mass ejections are explosions on the surface of the Sun that shoots particles out into the solar system. 

- Coronal mass ejections are explosions on the surface of the Sun that shoots particles out into the solar system.

## The Sun also sends out a continuous flow of particles known as the Solar Wind

## The Sun also sends out a continuous flow of particles known as the Solar Wind

- The outer-most layer of the Sun (the Corona) gets so hot that gases can escape the Sun’s gravity

## The Sun also sends out a continuous flow of particles known as the Solar Wind

- The outer-most layer of the Sun (the Corona) gets so hot that gases can escape the Sun’s gravity

- The atoms in the gas become ***Ionized*** (break up into protons and electrons)

## The Sun also sends out a continuous flow of particles known as the Solar Wind

- The outer-most layer of the Sun (the Corona) gets so hot that gases can escape the Sun’s gravity

- The atoms in the gas become ***Ionized*** (break up into protons and electrons)

- The Solar Wind streams out into space at speeds of about 400 km/s (890,000 mph)

## The Solar Wind varies considerably

## What happens to the Solar Wind when it hits the Earth’s magnetic field?

- The most of the charged particles in the solar wind
- are diverted by the Earth’s Magnetic Field.

## Life could not exist on Earth without the Magnetic Field to block the dangerous particles in the Solar Wind.

## Some particles may enter the atmosphere near the poles or at the magneto tail

## The charged particles that enter the atmosphere cause the Aurora Borealis (or the northern lights)

## Other radiation particles that enter Earth are trapped in two large donut-shaped regions called the Van Allen Radiation Belts

## Variations in the Solar Wind have been known to affect:

- Communications
- Satellites
- Power Transmission
- Air Travel Safety
- Space Travel

## end

**end**
# Presentation: 216404

## December 4-5, 2007

## PIRATA Northeast Extension/AMMA
NOAA/OAR/AOML, PMEL
Christopher Meinen
Cruise focuses primarily on NOAA’s Climate goal, with some observations applicable to Weather and Water goal.
Project Objectives
Service and deploy Atlas buoys in Tropical Atlantic, to collect observations relevant to climate research and weather prediction.
Collect CTD observations in the climate-significant Tropical North Atlantic ITCZ region and the Atlantic’s oxygen minimum zone.
Collect opportunistic meteorological and oceanic observations of Saharan Dust, Saharan air outbreaks easterly wave evolution, skin temperature, air-sea fluxes, etc. aimed at improving understanding of tropical storm development and the African Monsoon.

- NOAA/OAR/AOML, PMEL
- Christopher Meinen
- Cruise focuses primarily on NOAA’s Climate goal, with some observations applicable to Weather and Water goal.
- Project Objectives
- Service and deploy Atlas buoys in Tropical Atlantic, to collect observations relevant to climate research and weather prediction.
- Collect CTD observations in the climate-significant Tropical North Atlantic ITCZ region and the Atlantic’s oxygen minimum zone.
- Collect opportunistic meteorological and oceanic observations of Saharan Dust, Saharan air outbreaks easterly wave evolution, skin temperature, air-sea fluxes, etc. aimed at improving understanding of tropical storm development and the African Monsoon.

- Service, deploy PIRATA Northeast Extension moorings at 4N, 23W; 11.5N,23W; 20.5N, 23W and 20N, 38W.  Possibly service moorings via small-boat at 0, 23W and 14S, 33W.
- Primary CTD/XBT section: 5S to 20.5N, 23W.
- Temporal Information
- Minimum at-sea days needed (Montevideo to Barbados): 32.  5S, 23W to last mooring: 19d.
- Seasonal Consideration: early to mid-summer ideal; most critical goal to avoid >12 month gaps in servicing PIRATA moorings.
- 24h CTD operations; nighttime preparations for mooring deployments

## Methods/Equipment: Atlas buoy mooring deployments, CTD operations.
Personnel Requirements: 5-6 CTD watch; 2 mooring technicians; 3 air-sea flux observation personnel; 6-8 atmospheric observation personnel.
Operational Constraints: Uruguay, Barbados, Brazilian, Cape Verde EEZ.  Mooring sites chosen to straddle Cape Verde EEZ if this is not obtained.
Additional Considerations: the PIRATA project is an international partnership between the US, France, and Brazil; we have committed in the 2006 PIRATA Memorandum of Understanding to maintain these four moorings if at all possible.

- Personnel Requirements: 5-6 CTD watch; 2 mooring technicians; 3 air-sea flux observation personnel; 6-8 atmospheric observation personnel.
- Operational Constraints: Uruguay, Barbados, Brazilian, Cape Verde EEZ.  Mooring sites chosen to straddle Cape Verde EEZ if this is not obtained.
- Additional Considerations: the PIRATA project is an international partnership between the US, France, and Brazil; we have committed in the 2006 PIRATA Memorandum of Understanding to maintain these four moorings if at all possible.

## Draft ship track and dates for PNE08 cruise, Montevideo, Uruguay to Bridgetown, Barbados.
# Presentation: 485742

**National Postal Forum**
**Mailer’s Technical Advisory Committee**
**Washington, DC**
**October 28, 2004**

**Marty Emery**
**Manager, Customer and Industry Marketing**

## NATIONAL POSTAL FORUM 

**Total attendance of 6,330**
**Symposium attendance of 839**
**Marketing****	****	****216**
**Packages****	****	****200**
**Periodicals****	****	****182**
**Remittance****	****	****122**
**Government****	****	****119**
**PCC Leadership****	****Conference attendance of 250**

**Washington, DC Results**

## NATIONAL POSTAL FORUM 

**13 business tracks (6 new for DC)**
**6 professional certificate programs (2 new)**
**Over 1,000 certificates issued**
**Redesigned USPS booths**
**Enhanced exhibit hall with product previews and learning labs (high vendor satisfaction)**
**Record attendance at Wednesday lunch with Tim Russert**
**New NPF website (record number of visits and on-line registrations)**

**Washington, DC Results**

## NATIONAL POSTAL FORUM 

**March 20 – 23**
***ONLY FORUM IN 2005!***
**Sunday – Wednesday format**
**Build on success of NPF DC symposiums**
**New Printers Symposium**
**New Mail Research & Intelligence Symposium**
**Exploring new business tracks**
**e.g., Mail Service Providers**
**Tuesday PCC gala event at Wild Horse Saloon**
**Nationally known keynote speaker**
**Top-flight country music entertainment**

**Nashville**

## NATIONAL POSTAL FORUM 

_**Mail Research & Intelligence Symposium**_
**Provide latest research and intelligence on mail and matters impacting the mailing industry**
***Example:***
**EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications**
**The Final Report of the Intelligent Document Task Force:  *****The Internet of Things***
**History of early USPS efforts in barcoding and sorting the mail by machine into the more modern encoding and sorting operations of today.**
**E-Mail suggestions to: ****marshall.emery@usps.gov**

**Nashville**

## NATIONAL POSTAL FORUM
# Presentation: 735340

## Research on Mathematics Education

- Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst, Ph.D.
- Director
- Institute of Education Sciences
- United States Department of Education

**Archived Information**

## Achievement

## NAEP 2000 Proficiency

## TIMSS Math 1995

## Declared Major

- 4-year colleges

- %

## Tracking and Grouping

## Assessment for Instruction

## Structured Peer Feedback

## The Math Wars

| Constructivist Approaches | Skills-based Approaches |
| --- | --- |
| Knowledge is constructed | Knowledge is imparted |
| Children should develop their own understanding | Children should master standard facts & concepts |
| Authentic problems | Skill-relevant problems |
| Intrinsically motivated | Extrinsically motivated |

## Conceptual Understanding

## Decimal Fractions

- 509 > 7
- .509 < .7

## Decimal Fractions

- 0.509
- ____________________

-  0

-  1

- ?

## Checks on Constructivism

- Many routes to understanding
- Limits on working memory
- Inefficiency of discovery
- Role of work in learning

## Slide 14

## Curriculum

## Constructivist Math – 3 States

## Implementation

## Slide 18

## Alignment

## 4th Grade Math Gains: 1992 to 2000

- NAEP

**Notes:**
Teachers should be evaluated based on the only measure that really matters: whether their pupils are learning. This is not pie in the sky. William Sanders of the University of Tennessee has developed a technique that uses careful statistical analysis to identify the gains that students make during a school year and then estimate the effects of individual teachers on student progress. This "value-added" technique is extremely precise and its results are statistically robust. Originally used only in Tennessee but now spreading to other locales, it allows policymakers, taxpayers, and parents to see for themselves how much teachers are helping students to learn.12The technique has proven to be a powerful tool for evaluating teachers. Sanders finds, for example, that the top 20 percent of teachers boost the scores of low-achieving pupils by 53 percentile points on average, while the bottom 20 percent of teachers produce gains of only 14 percentile points. Researchers in Dallas and Boston have found the same commonsensical link: good teachers significantly boost student achievement, even for the weakest pupils.13 

## Elements of State Math Reforms

- State-wide standards
- Linked state-wide assessments
- Accountability for results

## Putting It Together

## Slide 23

| Classroom-based assessment | + |
| --- | --- |
| Structured peer feedback | + |
| Tracking | - |
| Understanding | + |
| Direct instruction | + - ? |
| Discovery | + - ? |
| Authentic problems | + - ? |
| Work and practice | +  |
| Curriculum | ? |
| Implementation | + |
| System alignment | + |
# Presentation: 113849

## Developing Tropical System

**Briefing #5**
**5:00 am - 9/21/07**

## Summary

**Still non-tropical but could still become tropical or sub-tropical in nature**
**Satellite, observations, and recon data show that the low in the southeast Gulf continues to move slowly northwest**
**Models and weather pattern continue to suggest potential “landfall” in our region**
***Southeast LA to SW Alabama***
**“****Landfall” Timing looks to be on Saturday, but impacts will begin late tonight**

## Current Situation

**Surface low centered about 100 miles south of Apalachicola, FL**
***Central pressure approx 1004 mb***
***Thunderstorms mainly away from  the center***
***Moving NW***

- L

## Track

**Still no official forecast track from NHC**
**Track models are in decent agreement on movement just south of central Gulf Coast and then landfall between SE LA and SW AL**
**Looks good based on current trends**

**Model forecasts for system**

## Track and Timing

**Models generally show “landfall” by Saturday afternoon**
**Impacts would begin late tonight and continue on Saturday**
**Main impact along and south of Highway 84**
**Rain overspreading most of the area – locally heavy south**

## Intensity

**Positives for intensification**
***Very warm Gulf waters***
***Forecast weak wind shear over Gulf***
***NHC states a sub-tropical storm or tropical storm warning could be issued on short notice***

**Negatives for development/ intensification**
***Proximity to mid/upper level low pressure system***
***Dry air over the western/central Gulf of Mexico***
***Short length of time over water ***

- _Still uncertain_

## Potential Impacts

**Based on current projections and/or weak to moderate tropical system**
***Local heavy rainfall threat only in extreme south Saturday spreading north on Sunday***
***Risk of tornadoes south of I-20, and especially in the Highway 84 corridor***
***Wind gusts of TS force possible along/south of Highway 84***
**Greater risk the farther south in the area**
**Wind speeds obviously depends on ultimate strength of system**

## Points to Take

**Coast could get TS Warning on short notice**
**Models continue WNW movement in general direction of LA/MS**
***Expected impact in our area would be from late tonight into Saturday***
***Most impact likely to be over the southern half of our service area (I-20 south)***
# Presentation: 012308

*	*

**Accreditation of Testing Laboratories**
**And Certification Organizations**
**National Institute of Standards and Technology**
**China Workshop on Fire Protection **
**in the Built Environment**
**September 21, 2004**
**Gaithersburg, Maryland**

## Accreditation

**Procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a body (laboratory/ inspection agency) or person (signatory) is competent to carry out specific tasks (scope) - ISO/IEC Guide 2: 1996**
- International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
**Criteria: ****	****-ISO/IEC-17020 for Inspection Agencies  **
**	****	****-17024 for Personnel Certification **
**	****	****-17025 for Testing and Calibration Laboratories **
**	****	****ISO/IEC Guide 65 for Product Certifiers**
- By and large accreditation is voluntary, although many regulators have started demanding use of accredited entities

## Accreditation (cont’d.)

- Recognizes the technical competence of organization staff
- Assures the client that the results are technically valid
- Endorses the quality management system
- Ensures better support in the event of legal challenge
- Assures the client that the procedures are technically valid
- Saves money by getting it right the first time

## Standards for Accreditation Bodies (ABs)

**Laboratory ABs****	****	****	****ISO/IEC Guide 58: 1993**
**Inspection Body ABs****	****	****ISO/IEC TR 17010: 1998**
**Certification Body ABs****	****ISO/IEC Guide 61: 1996**
**All to be replaced by ISO/IEC 17011: in 2004**

## Product Certification Process – Who are the players?

## Development of Laboratory Accreditation

* *

* ***Currently IAS**
**H ****now UKAS**

-  H
# Presentation: 704385

## Thermally compensated strutsfor SNAP hexapods

**Bruce C. Bigelow**
***University of Michigan***
***Department of Physics***
**6/4/04**

## Athermal Struts

**Motivations:**
** ****Exploit hexapod geometry for support structures **
** ****Favor 2:1 geometry for zero rotational flexure**
** ****Minimize gravity deflections for ground testing**
** ****Maximize resonant frequencies**
** ****3 materials to control thermal expansion/contraction**
** ****Avoid high stresses due to CTE mismatches  **
** ****Provide integral flexures for kinematic constraints**
** ****Provide features for length adjustments (?)**
** ****Analysis requires details for particular application**

## Athermal Struts

**Candidates for athermal trusses:**
** ****Focal plane assembly**
** ****Tertiary, fold mirrors**
** ****Baffle assembly to space-craft**
** ****Instrument to space-craft**

## Athermal Struts

- EDM cross-flexure

## Athermal Struts

- EDM cross-flexure

## Athermal Struts

- Strut end

- Upper flexure

- Lower flexure

## Athermal Struts

## Athermal Struts

- Blue = Ti CP Grade 1		--- 17 PPM/K
- Light Grey = Invar		--- 1.26 PPM/K
- Dark Grey = Ti 6Al 4V	--- 6.7 PPM/K

- L1 = 156mm, L2 = 78mm, L3 =222mm(x2), 600mm long strut

## Athermal Struts

- EDM cross-flexure

- 2:1 truss geometry on focal plane assy, 600mm long struts

## Athermal Struts

- EDM cross-flexure
# Presentation: 830270

## TIME-DEPENDENT ICE FLOW IN WEST ANTARCTICA

**D.H. Elsberg**
**W.D. Harrison**
**M.A. Zumberge**
**J.L. Morack**
**E.C. Pettit**
**E.D. Waddington**
**E. Hussman**
**Universities of Alaska, Washington, California (San Diego)**
**TWO RELATED PAPERS**
**Depth- and time-dependent vertical strain rates at Siple Dome, **
**	****Antarctica (recently submitted, J. Glac.) **
**Measurement of vertical strain and velocity at Siple Dome, **
**	****Antarctica, with optical sensors  (J. Glac. 48, 161, 2002)**

## Previous related observations:	

**Time-dependence in West Antarctica:**
**Centuries to years in ice streams and margins**
**Years to hours (or less?)**

**Previous** **related observations:****	**
**Vertical strain rate**
**Seismicity**
**Seasonal modulation of seismicity**
**Basal water pressure**
**Surface velocity**

## ORIGINAL PURPOSE

**Flow law of ice at low deviatoric stress**
**Age-depth relationship (SDM) core**

## TWO TYPES OF GAUGES

**Fiber optics (170-180 m gauge length)**
**Resistance wire (1 m, continuous logging)**

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## TIME AVERAGED STRAIN RATE

**TIME AVERAGED STRAIN RATE**

## Slide 10

## SUMMARY OF TIME DEPENDENCE PATTERNS

**Multi-month **
**	****- Different depths correlated only at Divide**
**	****- 444 m at Divide a node**
**	****- 717 m at Divide slightly “off curve” of long **
**	****   ****term average**
**Discrete events**
**	****- Divide only**
**	****- Summer only**
**	****- 444 m a node**
**	****- 717 m ”anomalous”**
**Note amplitude of dime dependence ~ 10 microstrains**
***We have no explanation for the time-dependence or its patterns*****.  *****The bed and its surroundings are cold!***
# Presentation: 425552

## Pelagic Longline Research & Fishery Update 

- Highly Migratory Species Management Division
- NOAA/NMFS
- HMS Advisory Panel Meeting
- April 15 - 17, 2008

## PLL Research EFP Background

- The Florida East Coast and Charleston Bump areas have been closed to vessels fishing with pelagic longline gear since 2001
- The swordfish fishery has changed considerably since the closures went into effect (B=0.99BMSY)
- New gear requirements went into effect in 2004 throughout the pelagic longline fishery

## Objectives of Research

- To collect baseline PLL fishery data from portions of the EFC and Charleston Bump closed areas under current fishery conditions
- To evaluate the effectiveness of existing bycatch reduction measures
- Collect data necessary to examine the effectiveness of existing area closures to meet current conservation and harvesting goals.

## PLL Research EFP

- NMFS published notice of availability of Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on Nov. 5, 2007 (72 FR 62441)
- NMFS published a Final EA on Jan 3, 2008 (73 FR 450) and issued an Exempted Fishing Permit to conduct authorized activities

## Authorized Activities

- Three vessels (with only two operating at any given time and one dedicated backup vessel) are authorized to make 289 sets consisting of 500 18/0 non-offset circle hooks each (145 sets in the closed area).
- One-half of the sets to be made inside the closed area and one-half outside the closed areas.
- 100 percent observer coverage throughout the duration of the experiment

## Slide 6

## Results to Date

- 4 trips completed (2 vessels)
- 24 sets with 18/0 non-offset circle hooks
- Highest SWO CPUE in Charleston Bump
- No BFT
- 4 white marlin; 3 blue marlin; 3 sailfish (1 sailfish released dead)
- 2 turtles (1 loggerhead, 1 leatherback, both released alive with no trailing gear)

## Atlantic PLTRT Update

- Draft Atlantic Pelagic Longline Take Reduction Plan (PLRTP) was released June 8, 2006 **http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/interactions/trt/pl-trt.htm**** **
- PLTRP Proposed Rule is going through internal review at NMFS
- A PLTRT meeting is scheduled for this summer to coincide with the proposed rule comment period

## Live Bait Prohibition

- HMS issued a reminder in early January 2008 on live bait prohibition in the Gulf of Mexico. Vessels may not:
- Fish or deploy PLL gear with live bait
- Possess live bait on board
- Maintain live baitfish in a tank or well
- Set up or attach an aeration or water circulation device to any tank or well

## Upcoming/Ongoing Activities

- Based on observer program data, HMS is examining catches of sea turtles on different hook and bait combos
- NMFS is continuing to examine swordfish marketing options
- NMFS is monitoring swordfish landings and preparing for the ICCAT meeting
# Presentation: 445855

## Process for

**Program Announcements (PA’s)**

## PA Process in Brief:

- Grants Level

- Legal Level

- Final I.H.S. Combined Review

- HHS Level (as appropriate)

- Final Internal Clearance Approval

- Grants Level Application Receipt Process Begins...

## Note to Program:

- All PA’s may be composed using the MS Word format and must be double spaced.
- Concept for Program Announcement is developed in Program. This exercise includes forecasting and planning by Program Staff.

## Grants Level

- DGO and Grants Policy Review (five day turn around)
- Program incorporates comments, then sends to Policy. Program must work with DGO, directly, on comments.
- Policy will forward to DRA

## Legal Level

- DRA/OGC/Finance (seven day turn-around)
- Program incorporates comments and returns document to Policy.
- Program must work with DRA, directly, on comments (3-5 day turn-around).

## Final I.H.S. Combined Review

- Review by all to ensure accuracy (three day turn-around); DRA, DGO, and Policy.
- Send back to Program (if necessary).
- Program will make all changes (1-2 day turn-around, if necessary).
- Program will send final version back through DRA for review before Policy sends it to HHS for approval (if needed) .
- DRA will submit final to Grants Policy.

## HHS Level (as appropriate)

- As appropriate Policy will send announcement  to HHS for review and approval.
- Single Source Awards
- Limited Competition

## Final Internal Clearance Approval

- CGMO will give grants clearance and sends back to DRA.
- DRA works with Program Staff to begin FRN process which includes signature by OMS Director and Director, I.H.S.
- Announcement is published in FRN and within three days, Grants Policy Staff publishes the PA onto Grants.gov

## Slide 9
# Presentation: 698803

## 2008 Network Open Season:Update and Next Steps

- August 6, 2008

## NOS Results (as posted July 7)

| NOS Detail	 | Summary of 
Offers 
(May 15) | Preliminary PTSA
Summary
(June 16) | Final PTSA 
Summary
(June 27) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Number of PTSA | 316 | 160 | 153 |
| Number of Total MW | 14,464 MW | 6,905 MW | 6,410 MW |
| Participating Customers | 38 | 29 | 28 |
| PTSA Service Breakdown | 5,819 MW (142 PTSA) for PTP
591 MW (11 PTSA) for NT |  |  |
| Total Security | $83,238,144 
Escrow @ $22,398,288 
Letter of Credit @ $57,506,592 
Direct Deposit @ $3,333,264  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |

## 2008 NOS Restack Results

| Type | # of PTSA | MW |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pre NOS Authorization (TSR received before 4/16/08) | 11 | 356 |  |
| NOS Authorized (TSR received by 5/15/08) | 22 | 781 |  |
| NOS TOTAL | 33 | 1,137 |  |
| Non-NOS Restack TSR Authorizations | 25 | 1,551 |  |
| TOTAL AUTHORIZATION | 58 | 2,688 |  |
| Post-NOS TSR (submitted after 5/15/08) | 42 | 2,638 |  |
|  |  |  |  |

## 2008 NOS Restack Authorizations

## 2008 NOS Restack Authorized and Confirmed

## 2008 NOS Next Eight Months (Phase II through V Overview)

|  | Key Deliverables | Customer Engagement |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Phase II | PTSA Acceptance
Identify PTSAs that can be ACCEPTED
Planning completes sub-grid analysis
OASIS conformance and AE counter-sign | August 13 Customer Meeting |
|  | Cluster Study
Identify TSRs (PTSA groups) requiring system reinforcements
Identify study areas for cluster study
Develop alternatives for reinforcements
Preliminary Study Results
Complete cost estimates and determine schedule for construction
Determine TTC increase or TSRs enabled with the new projects
Deliver final cluster study information | July/August Columbia Grid
August 13 Customer Meeting
Sept/Oct Columbia Grid
Sept/Oct Customer Meeting 
Oct/Nov Columbia Grid
Oct/Nov Customer Meeting |
| Phase III | Commercial Infrastructure Financial Policy Analysis
Determine Net Present Value of projects in several different scenarios
Rate pressure for the identified capital projects together and individually | Nov/Dec Customer Meeting |
| Phase IV | Internal Agency Decision on Proposed Capital Projects
Agency Decision Framework with a cross-agency team to identify the business case the agency impacts for the proposed capital projects
Develop business case
Agency approval (revision to transmission capital program as required) | January Customer Meeting |
| Phase V | Close-out letter
Create a close-out letter with the decision on the NOS
Post final close-out letter with the decision on the NOS | Feb 2009 - Final close-out letter |
# Presentation: 881375

## System-level Common Criteria

**Murray G. Donaldson**
**Presented to:**
**NIST Process Control Security Requirements Forum**
**February 18, 2004**

## Objective of Presentation

**Summary of the current work on developing the Common Criteria, related Common Evaluation Methodology, and how it applies to a “system”**

- NIST - PCSRF

## Outline of Presentation

**Goals**
**Scope of work**
**End Point**
**Questions ?**
**Contact Information**

- NIST - PCSRF

## Goals

**Achievable and effective guidance for systems**
**Specification framework for system security**
**Criteria for specifying operational and management security controls**
**Criteria for specifying assurance for the evaluation of operational and management security controls**
**Supporting common evaluation methodology**
**Revisions and additions to the current **
**Common Criteria**
**Common Evaluation Methodology**

- NIST - PCSRF

## Scope of work

**Expand on the CC key concepts and constructs**
**Address risk assessment and management**
**System interfaces both external and internal**
**Integration of security controls**
**Technical**
**Operational**
**Management**
**Revise and extend the Common Criteria “catalogue”**

- NIST - PCSRF

## CC V2.1 

- Threats

- OSPs

- Assumptions

- Security Environment

- IT Security Objectives

- IT Environment Security Objectives

- Non-IT Environment Security Objectives

- Specified and assessed

- NIST - PCSRF

## System CC Approach

**Security Management**

- NIST - PCSRF

## Questions ?

**Thank you for your attention**
**Any questions ?**

- NIST - PCSRF

## Contact Information

**Ron Melton – Decisive Analytics Corporation**
_**[ron.melton@dac.us](mailto:ron.melton@dac.us)**_
**301-591-1635**
**Murray Donaldson – Decisive Analytics Corporation**
_**[murray.donaldson@dac.us](mailto:murray.donaldson@dac.us)**_
**410-884-7000 x225**
**Keith Stouffer – NIST**
_**[keith.stouffer@nist.gov](mailto:keith.stouffer@nist.gov)**_
**301-975-3877**

- NIST - PCSRF
# Presentation: 677611

## SPC Discussion Items

- Watch Probabilities Experiment
- Enhanced Thunder Experiment
- Status report by counties
- Graphical Day 4-8 Convective Outlook
- Graphical Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook

## Probability of Type and Intensity of Weather within a Watch

**Probability of Type and Intensity of Weather within a Watch**

## SPC General thunder Forecast 

**SPC General thunder Forecast **
**1300UTC 18 May – 1200Z 19 May**

## Enhanced General Thunder

**1300UTC 18 May – 0000Z 19 May**

## Enhanced General Thunder

**Enhanced General Thunder**
**0000UTC 19 May – 1200Z 19 May**

## Status report by counties

**WWASPC  **
**SPC WW-A 080740  **
**MNZ000-SDZ000-WIZ000-LSZ000-080840-  **
** **
**STATUS REPORT ON WW 407  **
** **
**SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 40**
**ENE BKX TO 30 NE  AXN TO 10 NNW ELO.  **
** **
**FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1138**
**ISSUED AT 0709  UTC.  **
** **
**..JPR..06/08/04  **
** **
**ATTN...WFO...DLH...MPX...ABR...  **
**&&  **
** **
**SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS:  **
** **
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**Status report by counties**

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**&&  **
** **
**SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS:  **
** **
**MNC001-009-017-023-025-031-035-059-065-067-075-085-093-095-097-**
**115-129-137-141-145-171-080840-  **
** **
**MN   **
**.    MINNESOTA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE  **
** **
**AITKIN                     BENTON              CARLTON**
**CHIPPEWA              CHISAGO            COOK**
**CROW WING            ISANTI                 KANABEC**
**KANDIYOHI              LAKE                   MCLEOD**
**MEEKER                  MILLE LACS        MORRISON**
**PINE                         RENVILLE           ST. LOUIS**
**SHERBURNE          STEARNS             WRIGHT**
**$$  **
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## Requested Enhancement – Indicate Watch Type

**---PREVIOUS TEXT---**
**&&  **
**STATUS REPORT ON WS 407**
** **
**SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS:  **
** **
**MNC001-009-017-023-025-031-035-059-065-067-075-085-093-095-097-**
**115-129-137-141-145-171-080840-  **
** **
**MN   **
**.    MINNESOTA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE  **
** **
**AITKIN                     BENTON              CARLTON**
**CHIPPEWA              CHISAGO            COOK**
**CROW WING            ISANTI                 KANABEC**
**KANDIYOHI              LAKE                   MCLEOD**
**MEEKER                  MILLE LACS        MORRISON**
**PINE                         RENVILLE           ST. LOUIS**
**SHERBURNE          STEARNS             WRIGHT**
**$$  **
** ****---NEXT STATE--- **

**Requested Enhancement – Indicate Watch Type**

## Extended Convective Outlooks – Days 4 through 8

**Extended Convective Outlooks – Days 4 through 8**
**&**
**Extended Fire Weather Outlooks – Days 3 through 8**

## Please send any additional thoughts to:

**joseph.schaefer@noaa.gov**
# Presentation: 162921

## Keys to Success: Utilizing Student-focused Strategies

- Carol L. Cwiak
- North Dakota State University

***Minard Hall,  North Dakota State University***

**Notes:**
An amateur photographer in Minot pointed a camera out his kitchen window about 2 a.m. Jan. 18 and captured the white mist caused by an anhydrous ammonia spill 

*** ***

** ****Program **
**     ****Ideology**
** ****Educational **
**     ****Model**

**Keys to Success**

##  “A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.”
               ~ Carolus Linnaeus 
                            (1707-1778 )

*** ******“*****A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.”**
**               ****~ Carolus Linnaeus **
**                            ****(1707-1778 )**

## Program Ideology

-  **Encourage student   **
**     ****growth in the areas that  **
**     ****are of interest to the  **
***     ******student*****;**
** ****Focus on building in  **
**     ****scholarly skill sets and  **
**     ****filling gaps;**
** ****Build excellence one **
**     ****student at a time.**

## Emergency Management Educational Model

**Curriculum**

**Internships**

**Functional**
**Application**

## Curriculum

** ****Interdisciplinary;**
** ****Emergency Management & Sociology – primary;**
** ****Anthropology, Communication, Natural Resource  **
**     ****Management, Criminal Justice, etc. – secondary; **
** ****Mix of traditional and seminar offerings;**
** ****Guest lecturers and visiting professors utilized; and,**
** ****Focus on research & writing.**
**     **

## Functional Application

** ****Course assignments emphasize utilization of **
**     ****critical skill sets;**
**     **
** ****Focus on real world EM assignments, issues, and   **
**     ****evaluation;****  **
** ****Provide wide variety of hands-on opportunities **
**     ****that allow for knowledge application and service to **
**     ****the community;****  **
** ****Focus on building a “scholar”.**** **

## Internships

** ****Program requirement; **
** ****Typically three credits – approximately 150 contact  **
**     ****hours;**
** ****Tailored to individual student’s interests & goals; **
** ****Build relationships for students & credibility for **
**     ****program;**
** ****Contribute to and innovate the field incrementally  **
**     ****without being threatening;**
** ****Bring education to life.**

## Final Thought 

*** ******“******Coming together is a beginning. ***
***   ******Keeping together is progress. ***
***   ******Working together is success.”*** ***	******	******	******                                       ***
***                   ******~ Henry Ford***

## Contact Information

**Carol L. Cwiak**
- Department of Sociology, Anthropology,
- and Emergency Management
- North Dakota State University
- P.O. Box 5075
- Fargo, ND 58105
- (701) 231-5847
- _[carol.cwiak@ndsu.edu](mailto:carol.cwiak@ndsu.edu)_
- _www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/em_
# Presentation: 799556

## Emergence of Shashoujian as a Priority for PRC National Defense

**PLA officers of increasing rank and political stature support President Jiang’s call for *****shashoujian*****.**
**Discussion of***** shashoujian***** exists in a traceable chronology of statements from senior military officers (beginning in 1995-96).**

**Notes:**
Central Military Commission Chairman (former President) JIANG Zemin.
Former Minister of National Defense, CHI Haotian.
Former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, FU Quanyou.
Deputy Chief of General Staff, XIONG Guangkai.
Former Chief of the PLAN East Sea Fleet, Admiral YANG Yushu

Other senior leaders not pictured include: former PLA service commanders and Miltary Region commanders.

## The 998 State Security Project Leading Group.

**(from Left to Right)**
**Jiang Zemin** – Former PRC President, CMC Chairman.
**Hu Jintao** – PRC President, CPC General Secretary, CMC Vice Chairman.
**Wu Bangguo** – Chairman, Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
**Cao Gangchuan** – CMC Vice Chairman, Minister of National Defense.
**Guo Boxiong*** *– Member, Political Bureau-CPC Central Committee, CMC Vice Chairman.
**Liu Jibin** – Director, Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND).

**Notes:**
This group of men are those that I believe are currently leading China’s shashoujian development efforts.

## PLA Major General Wang Baocun’s10 Defining Characteristics of Future Warfare

**PLA Major General Wang Baocun’s****10 Defining Characteristics of Future Warfare**

- Limited Goals
- Short Duration
- Less Collateral Damage
- Larger Battlefields, Less Density of Troops
- Battlefield Transparency
- Intense Struggle for Information Superiority
- Unprecedented Force Integration
- Increased Demand for C**2**
- Dependency Upon Precision, not Mass
- Attacks on the Weaknesses of Combat Systems.
# Presentation: 318172

## GoMiner:    (Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

**GoMiner:    **(Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

_**For Tour of GoMiner:**_
- Advance using forward arrow

## GoMiner:    (Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

**GoMiner:    **(Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

- GoMiner is a tool for biological interpretation of 'omic' data – including data from gene expression microarrays. Omic experiments often generate lists of dozens or hundreds of genes that differ in expression between samples, raising the question, “What the h-ll does it all mean biologically?”

- To answer that question, GoMiner leverages the Gene Ontology (GO) to classify the genes into biologically coherent categories and assess those categories statistically.

- For biological interpretation of a microarray experiment, the user enters the list of genes on the array and has the option of flagging them as up-regulated, down-regulated, or neither with respect to some index standard.

## GoMiner:    (Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

- This animation presents a tour of the highlights of GoMiner’s functionality and user interface.

**GoMiner:    **(Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

## GoMiner:    (Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

- An Unchanged Gene

- An Overexpressed Gene

- An Underexpressed Gene

- Total Genes in Category

- Fisher’s Exact p-Value for All Changed Genes in Category

- Relative Enrichment of
- Underexpressed Genes In Category

- Relative Enrichment of All
- Changed Genes in Category

- Relative Enrichment of
- Overexpressed Genes In Category

**GoMiner:    **(Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

## GoMiner:    (Zeeberg et al., Genome Biology, March 2003)

**NCBI-Structures**

**Entrez Genome @ LocusLink**

**PubMed**

**GeneCards**

**MedMiner**

**BioCarta @ CGAP **

- Click on a gene to link
- Out to Major Molecular
- Biology Databases

- Results can also be exported for further analysis with other tools

## GoMiner has an additional visualization based on a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) view of your experiment results and GO

## Categories with a depletion of changed genes

- Mouse over a category to see the genes that have been assigned there

- The relationships between the GO categories

- Categories with an enrichment of changed genes

## Visit http://dicover.nci.nih.gov/gominer to download and start using GoMiner
# Presentation: 951066

## NTM research opportunities

- Presented by D. A. Gates
- At the MHD SFG meeting
- August 25, 2005

## Motivation

- Neoclassical tearing modes are recognized as potentially performance limiting for ITER
- ITER Physics Basis, Chapter 3.2 Nucl. Fusion **39** (1999) 2251-2389
- 2/1 NTMs have can lock and cause disruptions
- 3/2 NTMs degrade confinement.
- There is not a demonstrated ability to predict mode onset from first a first principles theory
- Most existing analysis is based on high aspect ratio circular cross-section theory (even for STs!)

## NTM modeling developments

- Real geometry
- Rosenberg, AL,  Gates, DA,  Pletzer, A,  et al.   **Modeling of neoclassical tearing mode stability for generalized toroidal geometry **PHYS PLASMAS 9 (11): 4567-4572 NOV 2002
- Also see work by D. Brennan
- Onset criteria
- Calculate ’
- Evaluate threshold models (e.g. ion polarization current model and *****/ ****||* model)

## New research opportunities

- Include effects of rotation (and shear) on stability
- Non-linear effects
- FIR (Frequently interrupted regime) (S. Gunther, et al.)
- effect of NTMs on confinement
- Effect of island size on rotation
- Mode coupling
- Kinetic models for mode onset

## JET-ITER collaboration

- The arbitrary geometry code developed by Adam Rosenberg would be a useful contribution to JET-ITER
- This would require ~1 man-year of effort to develop the code as a more robust tool
# Presentation: 071066

## Centers Management

**Group leaders**** ****and participants**
**	****-Dr. Steve Katz****	****	****   ****	****  **
**	** • Director, NIAMS
**	****-Dr. Susana Serrate-Sztein**
**	**** **• Director, Division of Skin and Rheumatic Diseases, NIAMS
**	****-Dr. Louise Rosenbaum**
**	**** **• Science Policy Analyst, Office of Science Policy and Planning, NIAMS
**	****-Ms. Justine Buschman**
**	**** **• Research Program Analyst, Division of Skin and Rheumatic Diseases, NIAMS
**Overarching question**
**	**How can the NIAMS  manage its centers awards to enhance
- 	success, productivity, cost-savings, and efficiency?

-  2008 NIAMS Scientific Retreat

##  NIAMS Centers

**Purposes of NIAMS Centers Grants**
**	**-Funding for infrastructure, translational, and clinical research projects which are not
-        easily supported through investigator-initiated funding mechanisms
- 	-Initiatives to induce the development of projects in areas that the NIAMS is not receiving in
-        investigator-initiated proposals
**Types of NIAMS Centers**
**	**-Research Core Centers (P30:  infrastructure support for research in an NIAMS mission
-        area)
- 	-Centers of Research Translation (P50:  disease-specific, multi-project awards in
-        translational research)
- 	-Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Centers (P60:  generally, outcomes or epidemiology
- 	  studies)

-  2008 NIAMS Scientific Retreat

## Points of Consideration

**Evaluation of centers**
**	**-Instead of publication citations, the evaluation criterion is whether the effort is moving the
- 	 field forward
**Centers communications and interactions**
**	**-Face-to-face meetings and regular teleconferences are valuable
- 	-Institutional distribution of pilot grants helps new investigators and formation of
-        collaborations
** **
**Management of collaborative activities**
- 	-Consortia develop around common scientific interests, shared resources, and funding
- 	-Investigators and institutions sometimes balance priorities between individual interests
- 	 and collective efforts
**Centers advisory committees**
**	****-**External advisory boards provide critical guidance to centers and NIH science officers
- 	-Decision-making power enhances engagement and effectiveness of advisory board
- 	 members

-  2008 NIAMS Scientific Retreat
# Presentation: 865271

## Imaging a Fault with Magnetotellurics

- By Peter Winther

## Outline

- Science of Magnetotellurics
- Instrumentation
- MT data
- TEM Static Shift
- Conclusion

## Magnetotellurics

- Record natural occurring EM fields
- Sources are lightning and solar wind
- Currents are then induced within the Earth
- Apparent resistivity is calculated
- Depth of exploration is related to the skin depth

## MT Theory

- Helmholtz Equation
- Quasistic Approx.
- Characteristic Impedance
- Apparent Resistivity
- Skin Depth

- 2**E + (**2** **- i)**E** = 0
- d2**E**x/dz2 + k2**E**x = 0
-   
**Z** = **E**x/**H**y = 0/k
******a** = (1/0)** ****E**x/**H**y2
**** = (2/)1/2
-     0.5(T)1/2   (km)

## Imaging with MT

**MT theory assumes incident plane waves**
**Need an apparent resistivity contrast**
*Structures located within layers of the same resistivity can not be imaged!*

## Stratagem

- Up to **~**500 m depth (based on skin depth)
- Frequency range: 10 Hz – 100 kHz

## MT Line

- 100m

## MT raw data

- TEM

- MT

- Log a ()

- Log T (s)

- Phase

- 100

- 10

- 0.0001

- 90

- -90

- 0.001

- 0.01

## TEM Static Shift

- TEM

- MT

- Log a ()

- 100

- 10

- Log T (s)

- Phase

- 90

- -90

- 0.0001

- 0.001

- 0.01

## 1D Modeling

- Depth (m)

- Log a ()

- 10

- 100

- 10

- 100

- 1000

## MT Cross section

- Elevation (m)

- 1700

- 1600

- 1500

- 100 m

- Resistive

- Resistive

- Conductive

- Conductive

## TEM Cross section

- Elevation (m)

- 1700

- 1600

- 1500

- Resistive

- Conductive

- Conductive

- Resistive

- 100 m

## 2D Inversion Model

- 1700

- 1600

- 1500

- Elevation (m)

- Resistive

- Conductive

- 100m

## Conclusion

- Large conductive layer in canyon related to saturated clays in the Santa Fe Group.
- Resistive layer further out due to dry basin fill with a more conductive layer underneath.
- Fault is imaged between Station 500 and Station 600.
# Presentation: 018419

## Large Discrepancy Between Calculation and Experimental Result for Partially Reflected Critical Assemblies of Highly Enriched Uranium Metal

**J. Blair Briggs**
**Idaho National Laboratory (INL)**
** ****Nuclear Data Advisory Group (NDAG) and Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG)**
**Brookhaven National Laboratory**
**7 – 10  November 2005**

## Three Series of Very Precisely Measured Critical Assemblies of Highly Enriched Uranium Metal

**Top layer**

**Diaphragm**

**HEU-MET-FAST-051: Uranium (93.2) Metal Cylinders (7-inch, 9-inch, 11-inch, 13-inch, and 15-inch Diameter) and Two 11-Inch-diameter interacting Uranium (93.2) Metal Cylinders   **
**2. HEU-MET-FAST-071:  Uranium (93.14) Metal Annuli with One- and Two-Inch Graphite Reflectors**
**3. HEU-MET-FAST-076: Uranium (93.14) Metal Annuli and Cylinders with Thick Polyethylene Reflectors and/or Internal Polyethylene Moderator **

- 05-GA50001-241

## HEU-MET-FAST-051

- 05-GA50001-241

## HEU-MET-FAST-071

- 05-GA50001-241

## HEU-MET-FAST-076Uranium (93.14) Metal Annuli and Cylinders with Thick Polyethylene Reflectors and/or Internal Polyethylene Moderator

- 05-GA50001-241

## Geometry of Uranium Metal Annulus with Internal Polyethylene Moderator for Experiments 1-3

**Geometry of Uranium Metal Annulus with Internal Polyethylene Moderator for Experiments 1-3**

**Top layer**

**Bottom layer**

**Diaphragm**

- Polyethylene parts

- Uranium parts

- 05-GA50001-241

## Geometry of Uranium Metal Cylinder with Infinite Polyethylene Reflector for Experiments 4-8

**Geometry of Uranium Metal Cylinder with Infinite Polyethylene Reflector for Experiments 4-8**

**Top reflector**

**Bottom**
**reflector**

- Polyethylene parts

- Uranium parts

**Side reflector (Part A)**

**Side reflector (Part B)**

- 05-GA50001-241

## Geometry of Uranium Metal Cylinder with Infinite Polyethylene Reflector on One Flat Surface for Experiments 9-13

**Geometry of Uranium Metal Cylinder with Infinite Polyethylene Reflector on One Flat Surface for Experiments 9-13**

**Top reflector**

**Bottom layer**

- Polyethylene

- Uranium parts

- 05-GA50001-241

## Geometry of Uranium Metal Annulus with Infinite Polyethylene Reflector and Void in the Center of the Annulus for Experiments 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, and 24

**Geometry of Uranium Metal Annulus with Infinite Polyethylene Reflector and Void in the Center of the Annulus for Experiments 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, and 24**

**Top reflector**

**Bottom**
**reflector**

- Polyethylene parts

- Uranium parts

**Side reflector (Part F)**

**Side reflector (Part E)**

- Void

- 05-GA50001-241

## Experiment 19

**Experiment 19**

**Top reflector**

**Bottom**
**reflector**

- Polyethylene parts

**Side reflector (Part F)**

**Side reflector (Part E)**

- Uranium parts

**Middle layer)**

- 05-GA50001-241

## HEU-MET-FAST-076

**Five Cylinder or Outer Annuli Diameters**
**15-inch, 13-inch, 11-inch, 9-inch, and 7-inch**

- 05-GA50001-241

## HEU-MET-FAST-076

- 05-GA50001-241