BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 762914

## Electronic CAD/CAM Exchange (Ecce) Program

- Stephen C. Fortier
- Intermetrics, Inc.
- 7918 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 710
- +703 827-2606
- sf@wash.inmet.com

## State of the Practice

- Paper is the rule, not the exception
- Average of 5 days to understand and interpret design data
- Electronic product data exchange is ad hoc
- $150M problem in the United States, according to an IPC study
- Problem is persistent worldwide

## Program Overview

- Objective
- Develop and demonstrate an integrated solution to provide compatibility between design and manufacturing/test for MCMs and PWB/As
- Develop industry standards, tools and technology with a goal of rapid industry insertion

## Background

- Funded by DARPA and Industry.  Co-sponsored by IPC and EIA
- Two-year Program
- Industry Participation
- Integration of Design and Manufacturing
- Build on existing design and manufacturing standards
- Expanded Domain Coverage

## Ecce Organization

## Technical Overview

- EDIF
- 4 0 0
-  IM

- Mapping

- CAM
- IM

- Significant
-        Seven
-            Models

- S7-Format

- EDIF X 0 0

- Joint EIA/IPC
- Standard

- IPC
- Standard

- Information
- Models

- Formats

- Stable Standards
- for CAD/CAM
- Information
- Exchange

- IPC
- Standard

- IEC

- CAM-F

## System Implementation

## Tool Implementation

## Demonstrations

- CAM Experiments
- Coverage of CAM IM
- Exercise GenCAD Format
- CAD-CAM Mapping Experiments
- Import EDIF 4 0 0 into Solectron and Zycon
- Exercise Mapping Technology
- Manufacturing Demonstration

## Program Results

- Re-engineering CAD-CAM Data Exchange
- Industry Standards
- Readers, Writers, Semantic and Syntax Checkers
- Industry (OEMs, Tool Vendor and Manufacturers) Participation
- Commercial Tools
# Presentation: 209529

## Section 368 of the The Energy Policy Act of 2005 divides several federal Agencies' schedules for designating transmission corridors on public lands

- into two groups:
- (1) "Western States," consisting of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
-  Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming; and (2) all other states.
- This PEIS relates solely to **corridors in the Western States**,
-     and is for **corridor establishment only**.

## DOE, DOA, DOI and DOD have conducted Public scoping meetings

**DOE, DOA, DOI and DOD have conducted Public scoping meetings**
**DOE, DOA, DOI and DOD are analyzing way ahead to develop PEIS **
**    ****(ANL consolidating Public comments)**
**California has been granted Cooperating Agency Status **
**w/ California Energy Commission **
**California Workgroup developing Priorities to recommend in for PEIS **
**Framework **

## California Workgroup developing Priorities to recommend in for PEIS 

**California Workgroup developing Priorities to recommend in for PEIS **
**Framework **
**-Areas which are Geographically unsuitable**
**-Natural Resource Sensitive Areas **
**-Culturally Sensitive Areas Boundary Buffer Distances **
**-Detrimental impacts to Military Training Routes**
**-View shed effects **
**-Others being considered **

## http://corridoreis.anl.gov/index.cfm

**http://corridoreis.anl.gov/index.cfm**
# Presentation: 926206

## Port Financial Management Challenges

**Port Financial Management Challenges**

**Financing Freight Transportation Improvements**
**St. Louis, Missouri**
**April 29 to May 2, 2001**

## Perceived Public Benefits Declining

**More Cargo = More Trucks = Pollution, Noise, Congestion**
**Ugly Piles of Empties**
**Warehouse/Distribution Jobs Adding Value Far From Waterfront**
**Waterfront Land Demand High By Other Uses: Offices, Theme Parks**
**Host Communities See Port As Part Of Past, Not Future**

**Perceived Public Benefits Declining**

## Growth and Development

**Note: 1) Increased from current 1,500 Lifts per Acre**

**14.4MM**

**4.2% CAGR**

## Growth Issues

**Modal Split**

**Land Creation**

**Environmental Impacts**

**Return on Investment**

**Regional Market Share**

## Port Development Costs Going Up...

**Landside Access**
**Terminal Equipment**
**Land Creation (Fill)**
**Mitigation / Restoration**
**Public Access**

**Port Development Costs Going Up...**

**Terminal Facilities**
**Berth Construction**
**Railroad and Road Access**
**Channel Deepening (Local Share)**
**Land Procurement & Reclamation**
**Environmental Mitigation**
**Average Cost/Acre ($ Millions)**

**31%**
**28%**
**8%**
**5%**
**20%**
**8%**
**3.4**

**20%**
**18%**
**7%**
**15%**
**27%**
**13%**
**4.0**

**   ****Container Terminal Construction Costs:    1990     2000**

**...Prices Received For Services Going Down**

## Return on Investment Going Down

**Inter-Port Competition is High**
**Lease Rates Are Flat**
**State Funding is Drying Up**
**Competition For Federal Funding**

**2000**

**2040**

- ROI

- Millions of TEUs

**2020**

**2030**

**2010**

## Ports Change Business Model

**Maintain Market Share (Earn Market Share, Don’t Buy It)**
**Strategic Plan To Meet ROI Objectives**
**Competitive Bidding To Maximize Lease price**
**Stress Capacity Expansion By Productivity**

## Mindset Change From Landlord to Logistics Provider

**Challenge Jurisdictions**
**Entrepreneurial Risk Taking**
**Regional Logistics Service Management**

**Port Landlord**

## Advance Competitive Advantage

**Decentralize Investment and Services**
**Add Value By Integrating Cargo Handling With Distribution**
**Build Leverage to Improve Pricing**

**Demand Management**

**Strategic Mandate:  Maximize Real Economic Impact of Demand Stream On Region**

## CFC

**Proposal to Improve Financial Performance**

**Container Facilities Charge**

**NAFTA-Wide**
**Collected By Local Port Authority**
**To Be Invested in Facilities By Collecting Authority (Not on Maintenance Dredging)**
**Initiate Research to Determine Feasibility**

**CFC**
# Presentation: 712516

## Backgrounds, determination, systematic errors - update

- Background subtraction, systematic errors, required precision
- Measuring the ‘NC’ background
- Nue component of the beam

## Typical results: L = 735 km, R = 10 km

| Electron ID efficiency | Beam e | Beam antie
 | NC rejection | NC 
 | NC anti
 | CC anti
 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0.354 | 25.8 | 1.50 | 0.00198 | 13.7 | 1.3 | 0.015 |

| m223 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Signal events | 126.9 | 178.1 | 224.4 | 260.0 | 280.9 | 285.1 |
| CC 
 | 13.2 | 9.6 | 6.2 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Total background | 55.6 | 51.9 | 48.5 | 45.9 | 44.2 | 43.7 |
| FOM | 17.0 | 24.7 | 32.2 | 38.4 | 42.3 | 43.1 |

- m2 dependent !

## How well do we need to know the ‘NC’ background? Now

- If we know the expected background levels, then the experiment sensitivity is limit by statistical fluctuations of the background subtraction
- If the background in not known perfectly – additional systematic error
- Only neutrinos, antineutrino statistical error dominates

## How well will we have to know the ‘NC’ background in the proton ‘driver era’?

## How will the systematic error affect the measurement? 

## Near detector? Sure, but where?

## Background composition at different near detectors?

## Scaling from the near to far detectors

## Background as a fraction of the ‘observed NC candidates’

## Nue component of the beam?

- Conjecture:
- Nue component of the beam is primarily due to neutrinos from muon decays.
- Muon decays produce nues and numubars, hence a measurement of numubars (‘wrong sign muons’) in the near detector will provide a constrant on the nue flux.
- Mark Messier: This is wrong.

## Nue events, far detectors

- Histogram: muon decays only

## Numubar events

- Histogram: muon decays only

## Nue events, near site

- Histogram : muon decays only

## Numubar events, near sites

- Histogram: muon decays
# Presentation: 018425

## RADIUM DISPOSITION OPTIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

- Standards

**RADIUM DISPOSITION OPTIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY**
**David L. Parks, Elizabeth C. Thiel; Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory **
**Bob Seidel; Argonne National Laboratory-West **

**Radium Facts**
- 	Madam Curie discovered radium in 1898 in the pitchblende or uraninite of North Bohemia, where it occurs. There is about one gram of radium in seven tons of pitchblende. Radium is present in all uranium minerals, and could be extracted, if desired, from the extensive wastes of uranium processing. Large uranium deposits are located in Ontario, Canada, New Mexico, Utah, Australia, and elsewhere.

**Potential Beneficial Use**
**Treatment of Cancer**
**Early in development**
**Experimental testing**
**Leukemia – U.S.**
**Prostate – Australia**
**Other techniques further developed**

**Curie**, unit of measurement of radioactivity. The amount of a substance in which 37 billion atoms per second undergo radioactive disintegration. A curie was originally defined as the amount of radon in equilibrium with 1 g of radium, or the amount of any radioactive substance that undergoes the same number of radioactive disintegrations in the same time as 1 g of radium. So defined, the unit is still used as a measure of radiation dosage in medicine. In the International System of Units, (SI) the becquerel is the preferred unit of measure for radioactivity. One curie equals 3.7 x 1010 becquerels.

**Disposal Options**
**Fernald by-product to Nevada Test Site**
**Private sector disposal for small sources**
**Potential reuse/recycle for large sources**

**DOE Radium Inventory**
**654 items in inventory**
**22.5 Curies**
**Common forms**
**Sources**
**Standards**
**Samples**
**By-product material**

**Sources of Radium**
**Daughter Product**
**U-235 ******** Ra-234**
**Th-232 ******** Ra-244**
**U-238 ******** Ra-226**
# Presentation: 899785

## Fermilab and SPIRES

- Heath O’Connell
- Fermilab Information Resources Department Manager

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## Slide 2

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## SPIRES Jobs

- Introduced in November 2002.
- Began by collecting print and web job ads.
- Added them into database, posted a list.
- Started a mailing-list, today 700+ people!
- 94,000 searches Dec. 2006.
- 2007: 210 jobs, 86 sent to us.
- Since 2002
- 3,700 jobs, 550 institutions represented

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## SPIRES Jobs (cont.)

- Nothing worse than out-of-date job ads.
- Each job: deadline (or “open until filled”)
- Every week: expired jobs mailed to owners asking if they are still open.
- Of 500 “active” jobs, 300 are current within 30 days.
- Institution HR sites scanned every 2 weeks.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## HEPNAMES

- Directory of physicists world-wide
- Stores: email, affiliation, research interest, PhD advisor/affiliation/year, undergrad, url.
- Gives a way to standardise a name: can tell in HEP between David Nathan Brown and David Norvil Brown (both hep-ex!).
- Even trickier: Denis Bernard (T), Denis Bernard (E) and Bernard Denis (E)!

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## HEPNAMES cont.

- 68,000 records (duplicates a problem).
- 10,000 verified records.
- Annual mailout to people to check records.
- Add people from author names in HEP.
- 30,000 searches (Dec. 2006).
- Advisor element can create “family tree”
- Ginsparg (1981)  Gauss (1799)

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## ASTRO-PH

- Fermilab processes astro-ph eprints in HEP.
- 16,000 hits to “astro-ph” in Dec. 2006.
- 34,000 to hep-th and 26,000 to hep-ph.
- 6 astro-ph of the10 topcited papers in 2006.
- Tagged for experiment.
- 136 astro experiments in SPIRES experiments database.
- Link from SPIRES to ADS for astro records.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## JACoW

- Adding all JACoW accelerator conference proceedings to SPIRES.
- Linking to full-text on JACoW server.
- Have to be carefully checked.
- Many papers already in HEP (though do not always have the conference tag).

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit

## Cross-Ref

- Check for DOIs using SPIRES publication note.
- Added 170,000 DOIs in this manner.
- Provides SPIRES-HEP users with access to full-text on journal servers.

- Heath O'Connell - Fermilab

- 9-12 May 2007 - HEP Information Summit
# Presentation: 671576

##  Trigger Table test

-  Test L2 Muon triggers for future implementation
-  test run : run n. 179314
-  Stntuple generated against  cdfsoft version 5.3.1pre2
-  number of events in the ntuple : **21843**
-  First Step
-  evaluation of the scaler efficiency:
-  Second step
-  muon selection (upsilon)

**N(L1&L2&L3)** = nev passing  L1, test L2, L3

**N(L1&L2&L3)** = nev passing  L1, auto L2, L3

- Purdue Meeting

##   PHYSICS_2_02_v2 TEST

| L2 |  | nev | L3 | nev | ε(%) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 92 | CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMU6_PT4 | 2183 | 21 | 2682 | 81.4 |
| 93 | CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMX6_PT4_CSX | 351 | 25 | 412 | 85.2 |
| 94 | CMU1.5_PT1.5_CMX1.5_PT2_DPHI120_OPPQ | 30 | 101 | 36 | 83 |
| 97 | CMUP6_PT8 | 252 | 133 | 261 | 96.5 |
| 98 | CMX6_PT8 | 38 | 137 | 38 | 100 |
| 99 | PEM8_CMU6_PT4 | 4285 | 31 | 5280 | 81 |
| 100 | PEM8_CMX6_PT4_CSX | 581 | 34 | 699 | 83 |
| 101 | TWO_CMU1.5_PT1.5_DPHI120_OPPQ | 152 | 102 | 165 | 92 |
| 102 | TWO_CMU6_PT4_DIMUON | 2875 | 57 | 4250 | 67.6 |
| 103 | TWO_CMUP1.5_PT3_DIMUON | 358 | 1 | 366 | 97.8 |

- Purdue Meeting

##   L2 :CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMU6_PT4

**L1_CEM4_PT4_&_CMU1.5_PT1.5_v-1/[0(2)] **
**L2_TEST_CEM4_PT4_CES2_&_CMU6_PT4_v-1/[92] **
**L3_CEM4_CMU4_v-1**** **

**Trigger** L2_TEST_CEM4_PT4_CES2_&_CMU6_PT4_v-1 Bit: [92]
**Specific option** L2_TEST_CMU6_PT4_v-1
**Instance** of Muon.
- NUMBER = 1
- XFT_PT = 4.09 GeV/c
- MUON_TYPE = 1
- CALOR_TYPE = 0
- XFT_LAYERS = 4
**Trigger** L3_CEM4_CMU4_v-1
**L3 Instance:** muonCMU4_v1, of **class** L3MuonFilterModule_v-1
- cmuDx = 15
- minPt = 4.0
- nMuon = 1
- selectCMU = true

- Purdue Meeting

##   L2 :CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMU6_PT4

-   L2 :CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMU6_PT4

- ε = 82.5 %

- Purdue Meeting

##   L2 :CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMU6_PT4

-   L2 :CEM4_PT4_CES2_CMU6_PT4

- Cosmic removing
- Opposite sign requirements
- L3 =21 && L2 = auto

- Cosmic removing
- Opposite sign requirements
- L3 =21 && L2 = test

- ε = 72.9 %

- Purdue Meeting
# Presentation: 514947

- Rule of Thumb
- When in doubt, favor lower monitor height:
- 	If you lean forward (many of us do), there is
- 	less “kink” in the neck to view the screen
- 	(backward bending of the head)

- High Screen = Neck Kinked

- Low Screen = Neck Straight

**Computer Monitor Height Guidelines**
**2 of 2**

- For more information, contact the Ergo Team x5818 or ergo@lbl.gov

**Notes:**
Specifically, Managers, supervisors and PIs have some key duties.  In a few moments you will work in pairs to discuss how you comply or conduct these:

Review and update employee Job Hazard Questionnaire (JHQ) when scope of work changes and annually.  This is 
Conduct On Job Training (OJT) and maintain documentation of it. 
   The reference manual contains a template that can be used as a form of OJT Documentation 
Conduct Workspace Inspections Quarterly:
Use the Walkaround Inspection Guide pamphlets
Comment on good work practices (behaviors)
Enter deficiencies
Observe work processes and make improvements where feasible
Ensure your employees have the correct PPE.
Review formal Authorizations (AHDs, etc.) annually.
Update the HEAR database annually.
Exercise Stop Work Authority when necessary.
Be familiar with the Lab’s incident reporting system. (ORPS, SAAR, Compensation,etc...)
Report all incidents and near misses

Turn to your neighbor and take the next 5 minutes to review what you think each task entails and/or how you conduct the following.
# Presentation: 418562

## NSAIDs:  practices and concerns of pediatric subspecialists

- Deborah M. Levy MD MS,  Assistant Clinical Professor; Lisa F. Imundo MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Columbia University Medical Center
- Poster presentation at ACR 2006 (Arthritis Rheum 2006:54:S170)
- Presented by Brandt Groh MD, Associate Professor, Penn State Children’s Hospital
- Supported by an independent research grant from Pfizer, Inc.

## NSAIDs:  practices and concerns of pediatric subspecialists: Methods

- Internet-based survey of US/Canadian physicians (338 respondents/1289 invitations) May 2005
- 165 pediatricians
-  99 pediatric rheumatologists
-  42 pediatric orthopedists
-  24 pediatric surgeons

## Slide 3

| Side Effect | Traditional (n=99) | COX-2 (n=95) | Chi-squared | p-value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abdominal Pain | 80 | 22 | 64.6 | <.001 |
| Gastric/duodenal ulcer | 6 | 2 | 1.9 | NS |
| Hematuria | 4 | 1 | 1.7 | NS |
| Hypertension | 3 | 3 | 0 | NS |
| Thrombocytopenia | 1 | 0  | .96 | NS |
| Epistaxis | 13 | 2 | 8.26 | <.01 |
| Easy Bruising | 63 | 8 | 63.7 | <.001 |
| Headache | 21 | 1 | 19.6 | <.001 |
| Fatigue | 12 | 1 | 9.5 | <.01 |

| Side Effect | Traditional (n=99) | COX-2 (n=95) | Chi-squared | p-value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abdominal Pain | 80 | 22 | 64.6 | <.001 |
| Gastric/duodenal ulcer | 6 | 2 | 1.9 | NS |
| Hematuria | 4 | 1 | 1.7 | NS |
| Hypertension | 3 | 3 | 0 | NS |
| Thrombocytopenia | 1 | 0  | .96 | NS |
| Epistaxis | 13 | 2 | 8.26 | <.01 |
| Easy Bruising | 63 | 8 | 63.7 | <.001 |
| Headache | 21 | 1 | 19.6 | <.001 |
| Fatigue | 12 | 1 | 9.5 | <.01 |

## NSAID prescribing frequency for specific indications

- grey   = never
- green = rarely (>1x/yr)
- red = occasionally(>1x/mo)
- blue = frequently (>1x/wk)

## Side effects reported >1x/month by pediatric rheumatologists

| Side Effect | Traditional (n=99) | COX-2 (n=95) | Chi-squared | p-value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abdominal Pain | 80 | 22 | 64.6 | <.001 |
| Gastric/duodenal ulcer | 6 | 2 | 1.9 | NS |
| Hematuria | 4 | 1 | 1.7 | NS |
| Hypertension | 3 | 3 | 0 | NS |
| Thrombocytopenia | 1 | 0 | 0.96 | NS |
| Epistaxis | 13 | 2 | 8.26 | <.01 |
| Easy Bruising | 63 | 8 | 63.7 | <.001 |
| Headache | 21 | 1 | 19.6 | <.001 |
| Fatigue | 12 | 1 | 9.5 | <.01 |

## Prescribing habits by specialty

- 164/330 (50%) of physicians surveyed NEVER prescribe COX-2s
- 119/165 (72%) pediatricians (81 primary care physicians, 38 specialists)
- 19/24 (79%) pediatric surgeons
- 22/42 (52%) pediatric orthopedic surgeons
- 4/99 (4%) pediatric rheumatologists

## Slide 7

## Summary

- Traditional NSAID and COX-2 use perceived as safe by most pediatric physicians
- Few non-rheumatologists prescribe COX-2 specific NSAIDs for their pediatric patients
- Fewer side effects reported with COX-2 specific NSAIDs
- Barriers to prescribing COX-2 specific NSAIDs exist
- No significant cardiac side effects noted in this limited sample
# Presentation: 471242

## Advancing Our Understanding of the Caribbean Mid-Summer Drought

**Advancing Our Understanding of the Caribbean Mid-Summer Drought**
**with TRMM , QuikSCAT, Gauges, and GPCP**
**Dr. Scott Curtis (East Carolina University),  Dr. Doug Gamble (UNC-Wilmington), Christy Swann (ECU), Teddy Allen (ECU)**
**Contact: **_[curtisw@ecu.edu](mailto:curtisw@ecu.edu)_
**Third NASA/JAXA International TRMM Science Conference, Las Vegas, NV, February 4-8, 2008**

- Future work:
-   Differences between “wet” and “dry” MSD
-   Index to quantify magnitude of MSD in the vicinity of Jamaica
-   Regional to global near-surface and upper-air winds and pressure from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis
-   MODIS-based NDVI of Jamaica to assess crop stress
-   Interviews with Jamaican farmers

- TRMM has advanced regional precipitation climatologies in the tropics, especially in oceanic or unpopulated regions.  The present research project focuses on the MSD or Mid-Summer Drought (Dry spell) in the Caribbean.  The MSD is defined as a bimodal rainy season or relative  minimum in rainfall in July-August.  Key previous results are:
** ****The timing, magnitude, and duration of the MSD vary throughout the Inter-American seas, being generally stronger in the northwest and appearing earlier in the east and later in the west (see Curtis and Gamble 2008)**
**  ****The Caribbean MSD appears to be forced primarily by the westward expansion of the North Atlantic High (see Gamble et al. 2008)**
**  ****Surface moisture divergence at the northern edge of the Caribbean Low Level Jet may enhance the MSD locally (see Wang 2007; Curtis and Gamble 2008)**
**  ****ENSO and the gradient of pressure at the southwestern flank of the North Atlantic High may be predictive for the Caribbean MSD (see Curtis 2002; Gamble et al. 2008)**
**Here we perform a wavelet analysis on the TRMM 3B42 V6 (daily) to further “downscale” the MSD, present a synthesis of the MSD with gauge, GPCP, QuikSCAT, and TRMM, and look to the future**

- Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation

**Figure 1:  Regional PCA analysis of  GPCP pentad precipitation climatology (1979-2006) **

**Figure 2:  Individual GPCP grids of pentad precipitation climatologies matched **
**with long-term gauge climatologies in the A1 region**

**Figure 5: (left) QuikSCAT wind climatology (1999-2005) for May 11 to June 14 (period 1) and June 15 to July 19 (period 2), representing the onset of the MSD in region C9;  (right) sea surface wind divergence differences (x10****-6**** s****-1****) for period 2 minus period 1 **

**Figure 3:  Difference between wavelet power at the 0.3-year period for the TRMM climatology (1998-2006) and the corresponding global wavelet spectrum.  Positive differences (black circles) indicate significance at the 5% level.**

**Figure 4:  Relative phasing of the wave power from Fig. 3**
# Presentation: 461063

## Cr:LiSAF Crystals

-   Development of Chromium doped Lithium Strontium-Aluminum 		Flouride ( Cr:LiSAF) crystals
-   High-quality, damage-resistant laser material
-   High performance Cr:LiSAF materials feature high reflector, anti-	reflection and dichroic optical coatings
-   LiSAF well-suited for generation and amplification of femtosecond 	pulses
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Interacting with laser companies to provide Cr:LiSAF crystals
-   Applicable to noninvasive surgical techniques
-   Three full-time positions supported by the technology
-   Annual sales expected to exceed $250,000

**Cr:LiSAF Crystals**

***VLOC***
***Port Richey, Florida***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
**  **Lidar Systems for orbiting platforms
-   Remote sensing of the atmosphere for monitoring water 	vapor and pollution
-   Crystal growth and materials characterization research
-   Injection seeders for mode-locked Ti:Sapphire systems
-   Tunable near infra-red medical devices
-   Oscillators for terawatt systems

- 1993 Phase II
- Greg Quarles, PhD  727-375-8562

- Langley Research Center

*Custom Manufacturing of laser crystals and optical components*
*satisfy expanding industrial, medical, environmental and research markets*
# Presentation: 768909

## Slide 1

## Why Use GIS?

## Family Preservation - Outcomes 

## Point Attribute Geocoding

- Range - Tiger (Topographically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing)

- Point Attribute

## Geocoding Data - Confidentiality

## Decision Support

## Healthy Start - Data Layering

## Potential Office Sites 

## Transportation Concerns 

- <date/time>

- Transportation Concerns

- Coalinga 8:00 AM

## Fresno Lessons 

- Confidentiality, Confidentiality & Confidentiality
- 70% of GIS Projects do not Produce a Map
- Know Your Data
- Progress not Perfection
- 85% of Time Spent in GIS is in Defining the Problem
- Local Data becomes State and Federal Data

## Slide 11
# Presentation: 688180

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- Koochiching
-         0

- Carlton
-   7

- Pine
-  9

- Kittson
-     1

- Roseau
-      21

- Lake of
- the Woods
-      1

- Beltrami
-      38

- Marshall
-     5

- Pennington
-       15

- Red Lake
-      3

-  Mahnoman
-      5

- Clay
-   11

- Becker
-     42

- Hub-
- bard
-    25

- Cass
-   11

- Crow
- Wing
-    74

- Otter
- Tail
-  42

- Wad-ena  22

- Morrison
-     27

- Kanabec
-     6

-  Mille
- Lacs
-   17

- Stearns
-      55

- Benton
-     7

- Douglas
-     60

-   Grant
-     6

-    Rock
-    32

- Nobles
-   55

- Jackson
-    14

- Martin
-     22

- Faribault
-     20

- Freeborn
-     90

- Mower
-    15

- Fillmore
-    17

- Houston
-    12

- Stevens
-     22

- Pope
-   21

- Swift
-   23

- Yellow Med.17

- Chippewa
-         31

- Kandi-
- yohi
-  109

- Meeker
-     39

- Wright
-   50

- Sherburne
-     31

-    Pipestone
-          26

- Murray
-     15

-    Lincoln
-        8

-  Lyon
-   49

-  Redwood
-     18

- Renville
-      27

- Mc-
- Leod 65

- Sibley
-    9

- Nicollet
-        22

- Waton-
- wan 34

- Blue
- Earth
-    11

- Isanti
-    11

- Chisago
-  8

- Carver
-    13

- Scott
-    4

- Dakota
-    0

- LeSueur
-      12

-   Rice
-    34

- Goodhue
-    7

- Waseca
-     22

-    Steele
-      67

- Winona
-    4

- Olmsted
-   48

- Wabasha
-     22

- Dodge
-    14

- Brown
-    38
# Presentation: 379432

## EED Report for the PPD Engineering Customers Meeting

- August 14, 2006
- Bob DeMaat

## Electrical Engineering Department
Job Category Distribution
July 2006

22 Engineers
  4 Engineering Physicists
  1 Physicist
  1 Computing Professional

12  Monthly Technicians
16  Weekly Technicians

- Job Category Distribution
- July 2006
- 22 Engineers
-   4 Engineering Physicists
-   1 Physicist
-   1 Computing Professional
- 12  Monthly Technicians
- 16  Weekly Technicians

- PPD Engineering Customers Mtg     Bob DeMaat

- August 14, 2006

## Slide 3

- PPD Engineering Customers Mtg     Bob DeMaat

- August 14, 2006

## Slide 4

- PPD Engineering Customers Mtg     Bob DeMaat

- August 14, 2006

## EED effort on Beam Loss Monitors

- Timing Card (Qty 43)
- Kelly Knickerbocker
- Abort Controller Card (Qty 43)
- Mike Utes
- Control Card (Qty 43)
- Jinyuan Wu / Alan Baumbaugh
- System design and software development
- Alan Baumbaugh with Rod Klein on software

- PPD Engineering Customers Mtg     Bob DeMaat

- August 14, 2006

## Beam Loss Monitors (cont.)

- Digitizer Card (Qty 200)
- Craig Drennan of AD did design
- Handed over to Jinyuan Wu for additional development work
- Production checkout managed by Lou DalMonte. Checked out by Lou, Zonghan Shi, Albert Dyer
- Chassis & PS (Qty 43) prod. checkout
- Curt Danner, Yolanda Echavarria, Paula Lippert, Lupe Rodriguez

- PPD Engineering Customers Mtg     Bob DeMaat

- August 14, 2006

## Beam Loss Monitors (cont.)

- Commissioning in Main Injector is presently taking place
- Many channels reading out fine
- Many channels are too noisy
- Mostly 720 Hz (and harmonics)
- Tevatron
- E1 is instrumented
- Cards for A Sector have been delivered

- PPD Engineering Customers Mtg     Bob DeMaat

- August 14, 2006
# Presentation: 265063

## MNM Fatal 2004-22-23

- Falling Material
- December 5, 2004 (Nevada)
- Copper
- Mechanic - 31 years old - 11 years experience
- Welder - 23 years old - 3 years experience

## Overview

- The victims were changing the bolts on the latching mechanism insert on the bucket (dipper) of a loading shovel.  They were working between the dipper door and the dipper when the weld on a steel support that was blocking the dipper door failed, causing the door to close and strike them.

## Slide 3

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The accident occurred because safe work procedures had not been established for blocking the shovel dipper door.

## Bucket (Dipper) Assembly for the Electric Shovel

## Causal Factors

- A risk assessment to identify possible hazards and establish safe procedures was not conducted with the crew prior to performing the task of changing the bolts on the shovel dipper latching mechanism.

## Causal Factors

- Management policies, standards, and controls were inadequate.  Procedures had not been established to ensure miners were protected while working to repair the door latching mechanism.  The dipper door was not properly blocked against motion to prevent the door from closing.

## Best Practices

- Before any work begins, miners should conduct a Risk Assessment to evaluate all tasks to identify and correct potential hazards, ensuring that the task can be safely performed.
- Before working under a raised bucket door, ensure that the material used for blocking against hazardous motion is adequate and properly installed.

## Best Practices

- Examine work areas during the shift for hazards that may be created as a result of the work being performed.
- Consult equipment manufacturers for guidance before repairs begin.
# Presentation: 504937

## Understanding Contaminant Sources, Ground-Water Residence Times, and Flow Patterns in a Karstic Springshed

***Understanding Contaminant Sources, Ground-Water Residence Times, and Flow Patterns in a Karstic Springshed***

***Brian Katz, Rick Copeland, Tom Greenhalgh,***
***   ******Warren Zwanka, and Sam Upchurch***

***Suwannee River and Estuary Science Workshop***
***Cedar Key, Florida, ***
***September 23, 2004***

## NITRATE IN SPRING WATERS, 

***NORTHERN FLORIDA***

## SOURCES OF NITRATE IN SPRING WATERS 

***SOURCES OF NITRATE IN SPRING WATERS****** ***

***Fannin Springs***

## Fannin Springshed Study

## TYPICAL SPRING 

*TYPICAL SPRING *
*SYSTEM*

**Spring-water chemistry****– *****reflects the temporal, spatial, ***
***and vertical integration of water from the aquifer system. ***
***Can provide important clues about ***
***geochemical and hydrologic ***
***processes.***

**Notes:**
Hydrogeology and land use in contributing area for a spring

##     CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113; 3H/3He; SF6

- <date/time>

_***MULTIPLE CHEMICAL ***__***TRACER***__*** APPROACH***_

- SOURCES OF NITRATE CONTAMINATION:
-     15N/14N (15N and 18O of NO3)

- GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS IDENTIFICATION:
- 18O, 2H, 13C, major ions, nutrients,
-      dissolved gases, DOC

- AGE OF SPRING WATERS:
-     CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113; 3H/3He; SF6

## Fannin Springs Study--Source Identification

- <date/time>

_***Fannin Springs Study--Source Identification***_

_*Cropland farming:*_
*Herbicides and degradates (36 compounds)*
- 	*Triazines, phenylureas, acetanilides, *
*        **degradates*
*Pesticides and degradates (66 compounds)*
_*Animal wastes*_
*Antibiotics (37 compounds)*
*	**Beta lactams, macrolides, quinolines, *
*       **sulfonamides, tetracyclines*

## Human wastewater compounds (67):

_***Fannin Springs Study--Source Identification***_

_*Human wastewater compounds (67):*_
*Alkylphenol ethoxylate nonionic surfactants and their degradates, food additives, fragrances, antioxidants, flame retardants, plasticizers, industrial solvents, disinfectants, fecal sterols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, high-use domestic pesticides*

## Nitrate Concentration, mg/L 

## 15N/14N of Nitrate, per mil 

## Potassium Concentration, mg/L 

## Pesticides, emerging contaminants detected: 

_***Pesticides, emerging contaminants detected:***_*** ***

## Ground-Water Age (yrs), 

_***Ground-Water Age (yrs),***_*** ***
***3******H/******3******He, CFCs, SF******6 ******methods***

## Conclusions

_***Conclusions***_

*** ******Predominant sources of nitrate contamination in the Fannin springshed appear to originate from agricultural activities, based on the detection of elevated potassium, herbicides and their degradates, and nitrogen isotope ratios.***
*** ******However, other sources such as animal wastes, and or septic tank effluent may account for elevated nitrogen isotope ratios in some wells and Fannin Springs.***
# Presentation: 724501

## Industry Advisory Committee and Subcommittees

## IAC – Industry Advisory Council

## NITAAC IAC

- Charter:
*To support and promote the partnership between the NIH and its Prime Vendors representing the NITAAC contract vehicles.  *
*The primary function of the Council is to serve as a communication and information exchange on issues related to the overall improvement and performance of the contracts. *
*The Council will also participate in promoting the contracts through outreach and educational programs, and by recommending new mechanisms as the need and opportunity presents.*

## IAC Structure

- Membership:
-  The Council comprised of NITAAC personnel and prime vendors.  Members are selected from volunteers via random drawings.  Members represent the voice of the entire vendor community and work towards the improvement of all the contracts.
- Subcommittees comprised of volunteers from NITAAC prime and subcontractors.  Subcommittees include:
- Marketing
- Programs
- Government Affairs
- Government Chair
- David R. Ramos, Acting Director for Administration, Acting Director, OLAO: 301.435.3651
- Industry Chair
- Esther Burgess: STG, Inc.: 703.749.0868

## Marketing Subcommittee

- Charter:
- to promote the use of NITAAC contract vehicles to Government end users and the vendor community.  This will be accomplished through the development, creation, and management of programs that establish, promote, educate and communicate the brand and value of NITAAC in a cost-effective manner.
- Subcommittee Chair
- Tom White: igov: 703.749.0868

## Program Subcommittee

- Charter:
- to analyze, develop, field ideas and create initiatives to maximize programs and processes. These initiatives must either maintain or enhance the acceptance, use and growth of the NITAAC vehicles. Upon defining a program, the subcommittee will support the definition, recruitment and facilitation of the logistics for program execution.
- Subcommittee Chair
- Kathy Monaco: Netstar-1: 301-908-8808

## Government Affairs Subcommittee

- Charter:
- The NITAAC-IAC Government Affairs Subcommittee has been established and chartered to provide objective information and options to help NITAAC maintain currency to changing government and industry requirements that impact the procurement environment.
-  The activities of this subcommittee include, but are not limited to:
- Monitor legislation, regulatory requirements, government and industry standards that impact NITAAC, vendors, or their potential customer agencies;
- Forecast and recommend actions in response to proposed rules/regulations;
- Promote dialogue between NITAAC, industry, legislators and rule makers.
- Subcommittee Chair
- Open
# Presentation: 869280

## Senior Management 
Quarterly Meeting

Bet Zimmerman, Environmental Services Division
June 22, 2000

**Quarterly Meeting**
- Bet Zimmerman, Environmental Services Division
- June 22, 2000

**ENVIRONMENTAL PRIORITIES**

## AGENDA

- Overview of environmental priorities
- Phase II (Process Evaluation) Project Closeout
- Facility Review Project
- Groundwater Protection Integration and Implementation Project (GPIIP)
- Article 12 Project
- Underground Injection Control Project
- EMS Project Status Update
- HENP
- EENS
- ER

## FY00 Environmental Priorities

**Environmental Management System**

**Compliance**

**Pollution Prevention**

**Groundwater Protection**

**Process Evaluations**

**Disposition Facility Review Issues**

## How are we doing?

- Critical Outcome (9) Performance Measures:
- Expected Rating  -

- EXCELLENT

## How are we doing?

- Environmental Management System
- Labwide EMS deployment complete 7/00
- Self declare conformance to ISO 14001 9/00
- Reactor, C-AD, BLIP, EM Directorate achieve ISO registration 9/30/00

## How are we doing?

- Compliance
- Article 12
- Underground Injection Control
- Meet SPDES Discharge Permit Limits
- Legacy Waste
- RCRA (Hazardous Waste) Compliance

## How are we doing?

- Integrate Pollution Prevention into all we do
- Waste reduction goals
- Eliminate significant spills
- Establish Pollution Prevention Council
- Conduct Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessments
- Reduce releases of tritium to Sewage Treatment Plant, eliminate spikes

## How are we doing?

- Process Evaluations
- Complete process evaluations
- Issue final Project report
- Demonstrate environmental expertise is involved in 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 planning
- Close out >90% of corrective actions from FY99 process evaluations

## How are we doing?

- Groundwater Protection
- Integrated Environmental Information Management System (EIMS)
- Optimize groundwater monitoring network using Data Quality Objective (DQO) Process

## How are we doing?

- Disposition Facility Review issues in a prioritized manner
- 1533 issues
- 75 had potential to impact groundwater

## Environmental “Health”

- Tremendous progress
- Stakeholder concerns/skepticism
- Enforcement actions
- Environmental vulnerabilities
- Must keep moving forward
- Fully implementation
- Institutionalize
- Sustainable
# Presentation: 486186

## VistA Office EHR UpdateContract Status

- Completed CCHIT related development, enhancements including: document scanning, lab integration, prescription finishing
- Final software quality assurance will be completed CCHIT components by March 23rd
- Processes and infrastructure established to simplify ongoing maintenance and software updating
- VOE now available on Linux/GT.M platform, providing zero cost operating system, database and application option (AMA’s CPT Code License, single application purchase cost)

## VistA Office EHR UpdateRelease Plans

- WorldVistA will distribute software as open source on Linux and Windows platforms via free Sourceforge download
- A growing community is being established to collaboratively improve and assist in the adoption of VOE
- WorldVistA has submitted VistA Office for CCHIT certification, attestation phase nearly complete
- VOE will likely be first CCHIT certified open source solution

## VistA Office EHR UpdatePlanned Operations

- First regular vendor/user training events successfully run; plans to continue training opportunities
- Qualification process will focus on “individuals” in response to experience with beta test and evaluator's report
- WorldVistA will partner with experienced vendors to accelerate successful adoption
- Focus for the future is on developing innovative, cooperative models for implementation and support
# Presentation: 207434

## Estimation of Smoke Emissions from MODIS measurements of Fire Radiative Energy (FRE)

**Terra-MODIS measurement of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) on 26-Oct-2003.**

- Knowledge of the impact of biomass burning smoke on climate, air quality, and public health, requires efficiency and accuracy in estimating smoke emissions from large fires.
- Fire Radiative Energy (FRE) rate of release per unit time or Fire Radiative Power (FRP), which is a measure of the fire strength is being observed from satellite, and currently, only MODIS (on Terra & Aqua) is able to measure FRP globally, 4 times daily.
- Smoke emission rates have been found to be directly correlated with FRP in different parts of the world, as illustrated by the  scatter plot on right (for Canada), demonstrating for the first time the ability to estimate smoke emissions directly from satellite fire data.
- This new capability has significant implications for improving our knowledge of the impacts of smoke on public health, air-quality, weather, and climate.

**Notes:**
Author: 	Charles Ichoku
		UMD/ESSIC at NASA/GSFC, Code 613.2
		Phone: 301-614-6212
		Fax: 301-614-6307
		E-mail: ichoku@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov

Data Source: MODIS (on Terra & Aqua) 

Reference:  Ichoku and Kaufman, 2005, IEEE-TGARS, vol. 43, No. 11, Nov. 2005

Figure Description: 
Left Figure: Terra-MODIS measurement of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) on 26-Oct-2003, showing how intense the California fire was relative to those measured in other parts of the world that same day. As the color scale shows, on that day, the California fire had spots with intensities (i.e. FRP values) on the order of 1660 MW per square kilometer (i.e. the size of the resolution cell), while the fires everywhere else in the world had intensities below 300 MW. 

Right Figure: Measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) from MODIS on Terra and Aqua were extracted over fires, and subjected to spatial analysis in order to determine the proportion of the AOD due to smoke. Then, using assimilated wind field data from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis project, this AOD smoke fraction was re-analyzed to determine the rate of emission of smoke particulates per unit time (in kg/s). Such smoke emission rates were calculated over Canada for all MODIS overpasses from Terra and Aqua throughout 2002, and plotted against corresponding FRP data (in MW or MJ/s). A least squares linear fit on the resulting scatter plot gave a simple zero-intercept linear equation with a very good correlation both for Terra and Aqua. The slope of the equation is the FRE-based smoke particulate emission coefficient (Ce), which when multiplied by FRP directly yields the rate of emission of smoke particulates or aerosols (even in near real time). Although the example shown is for Canada, the methodology has been implemented successfully in various parts of the world, and is currently being adapted for use in global estimation of smoke emissions.
# Presentation: 714150

## Highway Runoff Water Quality Research 

- Patricia Cazenas
- Water and Ecosystem Team
- Office of Natural and Human Environment
- (202)-366-4085
- patricia.cazenas@fhwa.dot.gov

## Stormwater Issues

- Highway Runoff
- Impacts
- Erosion and Sediment Control
- Permits
- Research Areas

## Water Quality Research Priorities

- Watershed techniques
- Impact Assessment
- Mitigation and BMPs

## Research

- With other Federal Agencies
- Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
- Joint research with State DOTs

## Federal Highway’s Water Quality Research

- Determining Components of Infrastructure to Stormwater Runoff
- Evaluation and Update of FHWA Pollutant Loadings Model for Highway Stormwater Runoff

## NCHRP 25-20

- Management of Runoff from surface Transportation Facilities – Synthesis and Research Plan
- Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Highway Runoff Control (01)

## Regulatory Issues

- Total Maximum Daily Loads
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- Effluent Guidelines

## Road Salt

- NCHRP Project 6-13  Guidelines for Snow and Ice Control Materials and Methods
- Snow and Ice Cooperative Program _[www.sicop.net](http://www.sicop.net/)_
- NCHRP Project 6-16  Guidelines for the Selection of Snow and Ice Control Materials to Mitigate Environmental Impacts

## Publications and Reports

- Management of the Discharge & Quality of Highway Runoff in Karst Areas
- National Highway Runoff and Water Quality Data & Methodology Synthesis
- Guidance Manual for Monitoring Highway Runoff Water Quality
- Assessments of Impacts of Bridge Deck Runoff on Receiving Waters

## Publications and Reports

- Environmental Impact of Construction and Repair Materials on Surface & Ground Waters
- Evaluation and Management of Highway Runoff Water Quality
- Stormwater Best Management Practices in an Ultra-Urban Setting:  Selection and Monitoring

## Training/Courses

- Design and Implementation of Erosion and Sediment Control (NHI #13454)
- Water Quality Management of Highway Runoff (NHI #142047)

## Where to Get More Information

- FHWA website
- www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/index.htm
# Presentation: 864541

## Universal Access to All Human Knowledge

## ...is within our grasp

**Notes:**
In this talk I will try to answer 3 questions and leave 1...  next slide

## Should we?

**Notes:**
 dream of the ancients in alexandria
    dream of the enlightenment
    dream of the founders of the United States

     the last century can be remembered for the destruction of world wars OR
     for a man walking on the moon

      this century can be remembered for the closing of information access OR
      for the greatest gift ever given from one generation to the next:

       Digital Dark Age   or    Universal Access to All Human Knowledge

## Can we?

## May we?

## Will we?

## Texts

## Book picture

**Notes:**
 Books:   "only" 100million titles ever, 26M in LC,
	almost all out of print, most out of copyright.
bookmobile

## Scanner picture

**Notes:**
million books, france with 200k, japan with 300k
$10 to scan, $100 to buy, scan, match with a catalog, and endow for future format changes

## Bookmobile picture

**Notes:**
Ballou High School

$1/book
$15k to make the bookmobile
$3k-5k if you have the internet and a computer already

$1/book means you don’t have to get the book back.
10-20 minutes/book means every child can get the books they can read
$5k/print on demand station means every school, library, retirement home can have a million book library

## Audio

## Orchestra

**Notes:**
30k CD’s in print
Maybe 3million commercial releases of music performances ever

## Field band

## Rock band

## Moving Images

## Movie posters

**Notes:**
100k theatrical releases ever, most indian   (ref prelinger)
Maybe 2 million movies for other reasons from the 20th century

## Prelinger page

## Tv archive page

**Notes:**
Maybe 400 channels worldwide
Tvarchive is collecting 20 worldwide channels in a dark archive

## Software something

**Notes:**
Software: 10k cdroms, 19k titles at stanford.  need clarification on DMCA

## Web pages

**Notes:**
Mother of all media

“Internet is the information resource of first resort for millions of readers” lyman
Exciting and horrifying

## yahoo

## Computers (lib of alex)

**Notes:**
100TBs, 10billion pages, hundreds of countries, over 200 languages
Growing at 10TB/month

Preservation through replication:   Lib of Alexandria

## Will we?

**Notes:**
Will we?
        looking unlikely
        Web grows with little financial support from libraries
        Web may wither by getting little financial support from libraries

Positive possibilities

        LC gets $100m, but will this be the turning point: ask the advisors
        Library of Alexandria: universal library dedicated to digital
        Internet Archive dedicated to the goal

## Universal Access to All Human Knowledge...can be our greatest achievement

## Gift