BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 483992

## Drift Chamber Track Model Status -- April

- Reminders:
- track is curving in physical space
- transform to a space in which the measured hits fall along a straight line
- fit to this function gives slope (1/p) and intercept ()
- similar (though not identical) procedure in the ‘non-bend’ plane.
- Plan:
- extend this to the exterior detectors

## DC pointing to exterior detectors with UV wires

- Current studies focused here
- The point:
- p determined in main bend plane
- not shown here
- zed determined rather well by DC while  is poorly determined
- mirror and mis-associated hits
- However:
- Therefore, utilize field integrals to determine  from zvtx, p, and zed rather than relying on DC points for pointing in z direction (eventually bootstrap points)
- Current progress shows x4 improvement in DC pointing
- Working out bugs ... to be initially committed within ~2 weeks

- What we showed last time (March computing...)

## After model

- Being realistic:
-  through real tracker (imperfect hit association)
-  150 m hit resolution
-  perfect zvtx information

- Before model

- zed

- 

- zed

- 

- Single tracks...

## Pad chamber pointing

- In muon single track events:
- Project to pad chambers
- compare to pad chamber point along surface of pc

## Drift Chamber Evaluating:

- Several methods for determining drift chamber efficiency:
- Dominant Contributor (got most of the hits)
- Pointing good enough to point to PC3 and find point (10cm x 10cm square)
- Pointing within expected drift chamber resolution.
- Momentum resolution within CDR p/p
- etc.
- Ongoing discussions and progress in task force meetings/work

- Single tracks

- Hijing

- p

- p

## Drift Chamber Track Model Efforts

- DC Track Model to address:
- Fitting to curve in drift chamber to
- determine wire resolution for curved tracks
- reject outlying hits
- not implemented yet
- bonus: independently determine momentum without systematic errors associated with fitting a straight line to points on a curve
- Improve DC pointing to exterior detectors
- especially in r-z plane, utilizing UV wires
- aiding in global hit association and track reconstruction

## Future plans:

- More systematic analysis of pc pointing.  Does it jive with expected multiple scattering/dc pointing/pc resolution results?
- In progress ... today was only a taste of the first results.
- Some fraction of ‘lost’ tracks from drift chamber are still from hit mis-associations.
- Next on agenda: utilize Tom’s robust fitting algorithm to clean up these tracks
- Study systematics/array sizes/speed
- etc. etc.
# Presentation: 330214

## The Case for a National Catalysis Center

- Catalysis continues to be vital to the fuels and chemical industries, and to the development of pollution abatement technologies
- The sharp decline in industrial research has led to a decline in the extent of long-range, fundamental research conducted in industry
- Fundamental research conducted at universities and national laboratories has been impeded by flat federal budgets
- The net result is a decrease in the supply of researchers educated in catalysis within the U.S.

## The Vision for a National Catalysis Center

- Conducts fundamental research on themes that facilitate and accelerate the discovery and development of catalysts for industrial application
- Develops state-of-the art experimental and theoretical methods for the study of catalysts and catalyzed reactions
- Works with industry on themes related to
- Energy security
- Environmental protection
- Sustainable production of chemicals, polymers, pharmaceuticals
- Educates graduate students, postdocs, and industrial and academic researchers

## Center Capabilities and Facilities

- Facilities for the synthesis and preparation of model and real catalysts
- Facilities for catalyst characterization and the study of elementary processes occurring at active centers
- Access to unique facilities (e.g., x-ray or neutron sources, high-field NMR, high-resolution TEM)
- Facilities for simulation and modeling of catalysts and catalyzed processes
- Critical mass of researchers with skills in the areas of experimental and theoretical aspects of catalysis

## Center Organization

- Center
- Core group of researchers with skills in:
- Catalyst synthesis
- Catalyst characterization
- Investigation of reaction mechanisms and kinetics
- Theoretical simulation and modeling
- Satellite Groups
- Specialized facilities (e.g., x-rays, neutrons, NMR, TEM)
- Focused project groups (e.g., photocatalytic splitting of water)
- Advisory Board (industrial and academic members)
- Advises on directions of industrial and societal interest
- Advises on needed capabilities and skills

## Center Funding

- BES/DOE
- Core funding for Center and Satellite activities
- Commitment for 10 years
- Sufficient to achieve critical scale efforts
- Science and level of support reviewed on a regular basis
- Industrial
- Funded on a project by project basis and targeted to the specific interest of a given company
- IP issues are resolved by having an industry-friendly policy and templates for handling patent and royalty issues
# Presentation: 113875

## Boise WFO

- Diurnal T from Observations

## Diurnal T from Obs – How it works

- We generally use 10 (configurable) days of MaxT & MinT  obs grids (minimize effect of any outlier data) On the fly user selectable days.
- Diurnal range of past days is applied to forecast diurnal ranges such that:
- Percent of past diurnal range per hour applied to forecast diurnal range that hour.
- Curve shape retained for example
- Sharper morning rise at some points vs. others
- Leveling off towards MaxT time
- Sharper evening falls and leveling off towards MinT time
- Run for each point on the grid
- Accounts for some grid points cooling down (sheltered spots e.g. Pole Creek, farther east spots e.g. Twin Falls) while some still rising (Boise, Ontario)
- Changes hourly T grids
- Configurable:
- Hour at which  MaxT (top right) and MinT (bottom right) occur.
- Hourly percent of diurnal range.

## Diurnal Curve at Pole Creek RAWS

- Obs Data Curve
- High on Saturday 4 October 79
- Time of High 19Z

## Diurnal Curve at Boise ASOS

- Obs Data Curve
- High/MaxT Saturday 4 October 85
- Time of High 22Z

## Diurnal Curve at Pole Creek RAWS

- Forecast and recent observed  Data Curves with Diurnal T curve from Obs

- Fcst  Data Curve
- 18-19Z Sat 11 October 61F

## Obs and Norman Curves at Boise ASOS

- Largest contributor of hourly T forecast  error?

- Forecast (Orange – Norman) and recent observed  (yellow) Data Curves

## Boise DiurnalFmObs /Norman Cycle Curves 

- Diurnal fm obs warms up faster

- Diurnal Curve fm Obs T – purpleNorman Curve T – salmonNFDRS 13L implication

## Diurnal from Obs /Norman Procedure Diurnal Curves

- T(18Z)  too cool O(8F) a Common Error
- Pole Creek
- Diurnal from obs 61
- Diurnal (Norman Procedure) 53
- Observed 60
- Variability / Quality
- forecast errors in maxT minT (actually Tmean)
- Spatial variability for times of exrema (fm Obs)

-  T at 18z Valley Diurnal from obs and Normal Curves Closer match October (Norman curve T were  too cool this summer most valley locations ) Observed within 2F.
-  Boise 52 - 54
- Ontario Oregon 48F each method
-  Mountain Home Idaho 50F each method

- Tan is Diurnal from obs
- Red T are Norman curve

**Notes:**
Time of max varies on grid in Diurnal fm obs procedure based on recent observations

## Diurnal Hour with Fropa

## Burns Oregon Fropa Observations

**Notes:**
Burns 8 z max temp but a few spots still had maxes around 19z.
# Presentation: 771543

**Canadian Site **
**Advantages and Issues**
**FLARE Workshop**
**Fermilab**
**November 4, 2004**
**Scott Menary**

## Possible Sites

**- There are a **
**number of **
**possible sites.**
**- The 14 mrad **
**off-axis NuMI **
**beam (E=2 GeV)**
**results in an**
**oscillation max**
**at L=850-900 km**
****** ****Canada**

**775 km**

**810 km**

**850 km**

## “Mine Centre Site” Offers the Most Advantages

**- Rail access**
**- Close to**
**national hwy**
**- geologically stable**
**- choice of **
**off-axis angles**
**- far, but not**
**too far, from**
**populated**
**areas**

## Detector Construction and Infrastructure

## Canadian Sources of Funding

- December 1, 2003 - CFI Invests $38.9 Million to Expand World-Renowned Underground Science Facility (SNOLab)

- _Provincial_

- _Federal_

## The Process

**Submit a work permit application to the Ministry of Natural Resources.**
**Application includes complete description of the project including proposed methods to make it a secure site (fencing, etc.).**
**Part of the review process includes an environmental assessment as well as a 60 day public review and comment period. **
**Typically it takes 3 to 6 months to then get a land use permit.**

## Conclusions

**The site 50 km east of Fort Frances, Ontario, is ideal for the off-axis aspect of FLARE.**
**There is a nearby rail line, major 24/7 highway, power line, i.e., infrastructure.**
** ****Fort Frances (and International Falls just across the border) are close to the site and there are plenty of housing opportunities, restaurants, etc., available for both visiting and semi-permanent scientific and technical staff. **
**Larger cities like Winnipeg and Thunder Bay are a 4 hour drive away. There is no shortage of local manpower for construction at the site.**
**It is NOT the middle of nowhere!**
# Presentation: 749932

## TEMPERATURE COMPARISON AURA/RADIOSONDE

**TEMPERATURE COMPARISON AURA/RADIOSONDE**
- F. J. Schmidlin, E. T. Northam, B. Morrison, G. Brothers
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Wallops Flight Facility
- Code 614.6
- Tel: 757 824 1618
- E-mail: fjs@osb.wff.nasa.gov

## Radiosonde temperature profiles are from thermistors on the ECC ozonesonde. The thermistor used with the Sippican, Inc. MK-2a radiosonde is a small fast-responding metallized chip. 

- However, **THERMISTOR ACCURACY SUFFERS FROM MANY INFLUENCES:**
-  EXPOSURE ON SONDE
- CLOUDS-WATER AND ICE CLOUDS AFFECT THERMISTORS DIFFERENTLY
- ALBEDO
- SURFACE (SKIN) TEMPERATURE
- TIME CONSTANT
- CALIBRATION
- VERTICAL TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE
- PROCESSING
- REPORTING METHODS

## Accurate Temperature Measuring Radiosonde

- ATM radiosonde developed at GSFC/Wallops Flight Facility to measure true Temperature
- Requires three thermistors daytime; two thermistors nighttime
- Each thermistor must have a different reflective coating
- Assumes thermistor mass, dimensions, and orientation are identical (dimensions measured)
- Three heat balance equations solved simultaneously

## ATM and chip thermistors compared. Illustration indicates that elapsed time always should be used. Comparison of radiosondes launched on the same balloon platform should be compared using time as the independent variable (left panel). Comparison using pressure as the independent variable results in apparent errors because of vertical offset from pressure measurement differences (right panel).

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## SUMMARY

- Although accuracy of measurements** **are a prime concern, differences  between MLS and radiosonde temperatures are from spatial and time differences, as well as the difference in  the measurements process.
-  AURA measurement levels (37) give a very good representation of the temperature profile between 300 hPa and 7-8 hPa that agrees well with the radiosonde profile. A greater number of levels, capable of describing the structure better, would be useful.
- Tropopause levels do not always agree.
- The actual time (t) of the sonde release provides Δt at 100 hPa of a few minutes. Largest errors between AURA and the sonde is mostly at pressures lower than about 50 hPa. Validation measurements with minimal Δt between 50 and 10 hPa would capture the agreement at  higher levels.

## Slide 11

## Slide 12
# Presentation: 047927

## Modeling Geospace Plasma Mass Density 

- Modeling Geospace Plasma Mass Density
- Based on the Frequency of ULF Waves

## Standing Alfvén waves are routinely observed by spacecraft. The waves often consist of multiple harmonics as demonstrated by the example from the CRRES spacecraft shown on the left. The perigee-to-perigee dynamic spectra of the electric (second panel) and magnetic (third panel) fields show a band structure of the fundamental to third harmonics. Since the frequency of the harmonics is related to the plasma mass density, it is possible to estimate the density from the observed harmonics. The plasma mass density (top panel), obtained by the plasma wave instrument, does not provide direct information on the mass density.
The spacing of the harmonic frequency is related to the mass density variation along the magnetic field.  Observed spacing in turn can be used to determine the density variation. Histograms of the spacing obtained from the CRRES data, normalized to the fundamental frequency, are on the right for the the high density and low density regions. The spacing is in the range 1.5 to 1.7, which implies that the mass density decreases approximately as 1/R, where R geocentric distance along a field line.
This proves that standing Alfvén waves are a powerful tool in specifying the density in the magnetosphere.  

- The spacing of the harmonic frequency is related to the mass density variation along the magnetic field.  Observed spacing in turn can be used to determine the density variation. Histograms of the spacing obtained from the CRRES data, normalized to the fundamental frequency, are on the right for the the high density and low density regions. The spacing is in the range 1.5 to 1.7, which implies that the mass density decreases approximately as 1/R, where R geocentric distance along a field line.
- This proves that standing Alfvén waves are a powerful tool in specifying the density in the magnetosphere.
# Presentation: 346032

## What Does Research Tell Us About the Effectiveness of Respite Services

- Steven H. Zarit
- Gerontology Center
- Penn State University

## Framework for Evaluation of Respite Services

**In home**

**Adult Day Care**

**Overnight**

**Mixed**

**  ****Type of Respite**

**Cognitively**
**Intact**

**Cognitively**
**Impaired**

**Mixed**

** ****Type of Clients**

**To Caregivers**

**Costs & Cost**
**Savings**

**Prevent Insti-**
**tutionalization**

**To Clients**

**Type of Benefits**

## What Do We Know About Respite Services?

- Results are mixed
- Positive findings are associated with:
- Providing adequate amounts of help
- Reasonable goals
- Delivery of respite as planned
- Use of an appropriate control group

## Medicare Alzheimer’s Disease Demonstration Evaluation--MADDE

**Care managers worked with families to assess needs, arrange services and help manage the community services**
**Caregivers were eligible for $300-$600 in services per month**
**The intervention increased use of community services**
**The intervention had no effect on caregiver outcomes or nursing home placement**

**Source:  Newcomer, Fox & Harrington, in press.**

## Zarit, S.H., et al., (1998).  Stress reduction for family caregivers: Effects of day care use.  Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 53B, S267-S277.

_**Experimental Group**_:
**Regular Use of Adult Day Care**

_**Control Group:**_
**No Use of Adult Day Care--**
**Minimal Use of Other Respite**

## The Stress Process Model of Caregiving

**Objective**
**Subjective**

**Role Strain**
**Intrapsychic**
**Strain**

**Outcomes: **
**Health &**
**Well-being**

**Primary**
**Stressors**

**Secondary**
**Stressors**

**Adapted from Pearlin et al. 1990**.

**Adult Day Care**

## The Adult Day Care Collaborative Study

_**Primary Stressors**_:
-  **Overload**
-  **Strain**
-  **Feeling trapped**

_**Caregiving Well-Being**_
** ****Depression**
** ****Anger**
** ****Positive Feelings**

## Benefits to the Client

- Client is less agitated after attending ADS
- Client is easier to handle after attending ADS
- Client sleeps better at night after attending ADS
- Client benefits from being around other people at ADS
- Client functions better mentally because of ADS
- Client looks forward to going to ADS

## Benefits to the Caregiver

- Caregiver has time to relax
- Caregiver can do things for him/herself when client is at day care
- Caregiver has time for chores when client is at day care
- Caregiver has more time for his/her family when client is at day care

## Who Does Not Benefit From Adult Day Care?

**Spouses who are caregivers**
**Caregivers with less formal education**
**Caregivers assisting someone with more behavior problems**
**Caregivers who feel trapped in their role (role captivity)**

## Conclusions

**Respite is effective in helping caregivers when provided in sufficient amounts (adequate dosage!) **
**Less is known about benefits to the elder**
**Respite may not affect placement **
**A major issue is that many people do not use respite services, even when cost is not an issue**
**There is a great need for more research**
# Presentation: 093407

## The U.S. and World Situation:  Hops

## Major Hop Producers

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## Major Hop Exporters

**Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

**Calendar Years**

## Major Hop Importers

**Calendar Years**

**Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## U.S. Trade in Hops

**Calendar Years**

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**

## U.S. Hop Exports: Value and Export Value Share

**Million Dollars**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## U.S. Hop Export Market:Top Destinations

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## U.S. Hop Import Market:Top Suppliers

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## Composition of U.S. Hop Exports

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## Composition of U.S. Hop Imports

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**Calendar Years**

## U.S. Hop Production and Stocks

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA**
**Note: 2005 production and September data not yet available.**

## U.S. Hop Producing States

**Source:  National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA**

**2004 SHARE**
**ID – 9%**
**OR – 16%**
**WA - 75%**

## U.S. Hops: Season Average Prices and Yield

**Source:  National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA**

**Marketing Year November - October**

## U.S. Monthly Hop Imports

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**
# Presentation: 778709

## FedDebt ProjectUpdate

- Scott Spell and Juanita Franklin
- Customer Relations Branch
- Birmingham Debt Management Operations Center
- August 16, 2007

## What is FedDebt?

- Current Debt Management Services (DMS) cross-servicing system
- Web-based application
- Update debt and debtor information
- Monitor financial transactions

## Initial Strategy

- Improve functionality of previous
- 	cross-servicing system
- Enable automated processing and monitoring throughout the entire debt life cycle
- Provide web based access to creditor agency users

## Current Operating Status

- Batch submission implemented October 2005
- Incorporated all collectible debts from Debt Management Services’ debt collection systems
- Creditor agency users granted on-line access January 2006
- 831 on-line users

## Daily Operations

- Optimize system performance
- Incorporate user-requested modifications
- User and system support

## Latest Release

- Administrative Wage Garnishment (AWG)
- 1099C
- Integrated Agency Interface (IAI) file formats

## Future Enhancements

- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and datamart
- Single sign-on interface for TOP and FedDebt

## Keeping Agencies Informed

- FedDebt Training
- Technical Bulletins
- Creditor Agency Conference Call
- Agency Liaisons

## Questions

- Creditor Agency Liaisons
- 1-800-858-0725
# Presentation: 827125

## Group Think

**Group Think**

- Mark Hydeman, P.E., FASHRAE Taylor Engineering, LLCmhydeman@taylor-engineering.com

## Scenario

- New four story classroom and office building with:
- Water-cooled chilled water plant with 2 each chillers, towers CHW pumps and CW pumps.  All components have VSDs so they are efficient at part-load.
- Central built up VAV air handling unit with 2 supply fans, 6 relief fans and air-side economizer.
- PBX rooms on each floors located near the shaft.
- Small data center on the first floor (3,000 ft2 <100w/sf).
- The PBX rooms and data center need 24X7 cooling, the rest of the space operates ~3,000 hrs/yr.

## Design options

- VAV boxes from the central AHU
- Dedicated CHW fan coils
- Dedicated split-system air-cooled DX units
- Dedicated water-cooled DX units

- As a group consider the following design alternatives for serving the PBX rooms and data center:

## Chilled Water Plant

## 1: Variable Air Volume with Reheat

- Data Center or PBX room

## 2. Chilled Water CRAC Units

- 2-WAY!

- CHWS&R to chillers on roof

## 3. Split System Air Cooled CRAC Units

## 4: Water Cooled CRAC

## Consider the following attributes

- Energy
- First cost
- Maintenance impact
- Spatial impact
- Redundancy and reliability

## Score Sheet

- Relative importance of attributes

- Score for that system and attribute

- Sum of the product of all weights and scores for that system.  Higher is better.
# Presentation: 112822

##     Nanotechnology    FDA Public Meeting    September 8, 2008    Cosmetic Color Additives

- Jane Hollenberg
- 					                       Director JCH Consulting

- J. Hollenberg

## “Nano” and Color Additives

- Common use of the word “Nanotechnology” is new
- Submicron, “nano” particles are not new
- Safety is addressed under FDA’s existing authority

- JCH Consulting
- FDA Public Hearing  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## “Nano” and Color Additives

- “Nano” particles have been addressed by FDA
- Extensive information is available:
- 9/96 FDA Public Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Sunscreens
- 10/06 FDA Public Workshop Nanotechnology
- Current Workshop

- JCH Consulting
- FDA Public Hearing 9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Intended Utility of Nanotechnology

- Design materials at the atomic or molecular level to achieve novel properties
- Electrical
- Physical
- Chemical
- Biological
- Optical
- Color additives are not designed at the molecular level

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Hearing  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Reported “Nano” Color Additives 

- Iron Oxides
- Titanium Dioxide
- Zinc Oxide
- Carbon Black (D&C Black #2)

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Hearing  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Color Additives – primary particle size

- Iron Oxides: 20-300 nm
- Titanium Dioxide: 10-250 nm
- Zinc Oxide: 20-250 nm
- D&C Black #2: 20-30 nm; the _only _carbon black approved by FDA for cosmetic use

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Hearing  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Metal Oxide Particle Size Distribution in Actual Use

- Accurate particle size _distribution_ measurement is difficult
- Accurate assessment of particle or agglomerate size limits by SEM or TEM is performed
- Agglomerates and aggregates of “nano” particles are on the order of minimum 10X the primary particle size1
- 1 Schlossman et al, FDA Nanotechnology Workshop 10/06

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Meeting  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Utility of ultrafine particles: Optical properties

- Scattering of electromagnetic radiation by particles is reduced when diameter is below λ/2
-  Wavelength of visible light is 400-700 nm
- Colored particles below 350 nm become more transparent to visible light

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Meeting  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Chemical properties

- 20 nm particles behave as bulk, not molecules
- Empirical formula
- Solubility
- Density
- Refractive Index

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Meeting  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Biological Interactions

- Even 0.02 micron particles do not penetrate the skin
- Theoretically, above 10 nm, intercellular transport is no longer possible
- In vivo tests show no uptake of titanium dioxide through human skin

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Meeting  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg

## Properties of  “Nano” Color Additives vsConventional Pigments 

- Optical properties : greater transparency
- Chemical properties: unchanged
- Biological activity: unchanged
- Regulatory Status: covered by existing FDA authority

- J. Hollenberg
- FDA Public Meeting  9/08/08

- J. Hollenberg
# Presentation: 676666

## Tenant Reporting Optimum Compliance Initiative 

## Optimum Compliance	Overall Status as of October 2004	Modifications Currently Underway

- <date/time>

## Example of “Under Count” SituationContract: RQ123495679Household ID:  123-45-6789

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_**Process Date**_**	**_**Eff. Date**_**	****   **_**Type**_**	****      **_**Move Out Dt**_**	**_**Term Dt**_**	****    **
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## “Over Count” SituationContract: RQ223495679Household ID:  223-45-6789

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**Thank you ...**
# Presentation: 681808

## USDA Forest Service National Aerial ImageryStatus Report

- Bill Belton
- Assistant Remote Sensing Program Manager
- USDA Planning Meeting
- December 2, 2008

## Forest Service Organization

- - National Headquarters in Washington, DC
- - 9 Regional Offices
- - 155 National Forests and 20 Grasslands
- - 600 Ranger Districts
- - ~ 193,000,000 acres

- - Research
-      5 stations
-      50 field offices
- - State and Private Forestry
-      Fire & Aviation Mgt.
-      Forest Health      Protection
- - International Programs

## Forest Service National Aerial Photography Program

- Funded as Information Asset by the Information Resources Board (IRB)
- Annual Funding $1,650,000 through FY 2009
- Requesting $2,000,000/year starting in FY 2010
- Partnership with National Agriculture Imagery Program
- Contracts for National Forests in Alaska
- Completed 5-year cycle for CONUS and Alaska in FY 2007

## Forest Service Response to IFTN Survey

- 107 Respondents
- Resolution (Not Useful, Acceptable, Ideal)
- 1 meter:  0,        37.8%    62.2%
- 1⁄2 meter:  4.3%  32.3%    63.4%
- 1 foot:    14.3%  38.5%    47.3%
- 6 inch:    29.8%  36.9%    33,3%
- 3 inch:    38.6%  28.9%    32.5%
- Repeat cycle
- 5 years:  8.5%     48.9%    42.6%
- 3 years:  4.4%     56.7%    38.9%
- 2 years:  5.7%     37.9%    56.3%
- 1 year:  10.3%     26.4%    63.2%

## Forest Service Resource Photography - 2008

- FY 2008 - $670,869
- Compare to previous average of $1,250,000 - $1,500,000
- California – 10-year cycle (was 5-year)
- Pacific NW – NAIP buyups to higher resolution

## Future Funding Outlook

- Forest Service funding for fire suppression is based on the current ten-year average of fire expenditures, adjusted for inflation.
- The rising cost of fires means the ten-year average is rising dramatically.  The funds to cover this ten-year average must be identified within the total funding available to the agency when it makes its annual budget request.  To meet firefighting funding needs, all other Forest Service activities have experienced a steady decline in funding.
- These rising costs have resulted in a 35% reduction in funding for non-fire programs and USFS staffing has been reduced by 5,900 positions from 1991 levels
- -	The proportion of the USFS budget devoted to fire increased steadily from 13% of the total budget in 1991 to 48% in the FY2009 President’s request.

## FY 2009 President’s Budget

- Overall a 9% decrease from FY 2008
- Fire Suppression – increase of $148,327,000  (18% increase)
- All other programs – decrease of $394,140,000
- National Forest System - $103,862,000
- Inventory & Monitoring - $20,118,000
- NFIM – 12% decrease from FY 2008
# Presentation: 142976

## Lunar Research Station

-                       Mrs. Gragert’s Class
-                      Holman Middle School

**Notes:**
Final station

## Location

- Our research station will be built in the Tycho Crater on the moon.  Being below ground level will help because that will protect the scientists from the radiation.  We will use probes to determine where we can find Titanium to build the station.  We think the crater is a good choice for our location because it is 54 miles across and will give us lots of space to work with.  It is also near the south pole.  Our station will be developed to research how human beings react to living on the moon for a long time and to study the minerals on the moon.

## Slide 3

## Energy and Life Support

- The form of energy we will use is solar energy with back-up batteries. We will circulate oxygen and nitrogen through the tunnels of the station from the green house in the center. We will manage our solid waste by turning it into fertilizer.  We will purify our liquid waste and use it for water.   We will store excess waste in a separate building on the site.  This will protect the crew from being contaminated by the waste.

## Human Factors

- The crew will stay health and fit by exercising daily in the recreation room.  The recreation room also has games and computer equipment.  There will be first aid kits and fire blankets in every hallway for emergencies.  There will be food and water in the kitchen, which is also in the recreation room.  The crew will communicate using headphones, computers, and walkie-talkies.  We will bounce communication signals off of satellites, so we can always communicate with earth.

## Recreation Room

## Exploration and EVA Activities

- The crew will enter and exit the station through two capsules.  In one capsule, the astronauts will change in and out of their space suits.  In the other capsule, the air is purified so they won’t contaminate the rest of the station.  We will use beakers, scales, tongs, graduated cylinders, and eyedroppers in our experiments.  We will also use computer equipment.  To travel around the moon we will use rovers with GPS equipment.

## Architecture and Materials

## Floor Plan

## Bedrooms

## Model

- Our model was made to a 1/4 scale.  We used rubber tubing for the foundation and dowel rods for support.  Our wall were made from plastic sheeting.  We also made scale models of equipment using cardboard, clay, duct tape, and cardstock.

## Measuring sheeting

## Tunnel Work

## Left view

## Full view

## Contamination

- We will protect the crew from contamination in many ways.  The entrance capsule will prevent dangerous materials from coming into the station.  We will be protected from some of the radiation by building our station in the crater.  We will also protect the crew and the moon from our own waste by storing it in a separate building.
# Presentation: 538278

## Relative Attitude and Position Estimation Program Integrated Sensors, Inc.Utica, NY

**Innovation**
- A unique Kalman filter that enhances the ability to perform the proximity sensing phase of the Automated Rendezvous and Capture (AR&C) mission.

**Accomplishments**
- This technology enables a robot supply vehicle to automatically dock with and service Earth-orbiting satellites or the International Space Station.
- Integrated Sensors, Inc. (ISI) successfully developed the system and then used the sensing/tracking technology as the basis of a commercial Object Position and Attitude Determination (OPAD) system that simultaneously tracks an object’s linear and angular movement in all six degrees of freedom.
- ISI extended this technology as the basis for *ImageExpress*TM Motion Analysis Workstation, simplifying the end-to-end process of video motion analysis.
**Commercialization**
- ISI has been extremely successful in drawing upon the VGS/OPADS technology and transferring portions into a product called *“ImageExpress”* which is a Motion Analysis Workstation for the video non-destructive testing industry.  ISI has formed a separate commercial company - Sensors Applications, Inc. (SAI) for the expressed purpose of commercialization of the *ImageExpress*TM Motion Analysis Workstation and related technologies.  SAI’s total sales now equal that of ISI and is growing at a rate of 35% per year.
- Through 1997 ISI has shipped over 100 systems internationally.
- With a follow-on high end product for Automotive Air Bag analysis in 1996 and a 3-D Motion Analysis in 1998, an additional $2M in sales is projected.

**Government/Science Applications**
- Filter can be used for any application that measures resolvable angle data from known targets that must estimate relative position and attitude.
- Applications include automatic collision avoidance, automated supertanker docking, automated aircraft landing, robot control, machine vision, and others.

- Commercially Available - *ImageExpress*TM Motion Analysis Workstation

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Denise Swain; 256/544-8112)
-    -  Integrated Sensors, Inc. (Mgr. Business Development; 315/798-1377)
-    -  For ImageExpressTM/John Cappelli; 315/798-9444 at SAI)
- 1991 SBIR Phase 2; NAS8-39903

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Date of Update:	9/15/98
- Success Story #:	8-018
# Presentation: 489087

## Emerging/Niche Technologies

- WIRELESS STEAM TRAPS

## Introduction

- Wireless Steam Traps
- Approximately 23 Percent of Steam Traps are in some Mode of Failure
- Instant Notification of Failure Modes:
- Blow Through
- Leaking/Rapid Cycling
- Plugged

## Description

- Provides Near Real Time Assurance the Steam Distribution System is Working as Designed
- Batteries on 900 MHz Sender will need Replacement every 3-5 Years
- Can be Integrated into the EMS/DDC Alarms and/or Alarm Screen or Stand Alone Software.

## Product Cost

- Cost: Some Equipment Under GSA Schedule ($1200 - $1500/trap Installed)
- Implementation Cost: Steam Trap/Condensate Audit; Equipment; Connection to EMS/DDC
- Variables: Funding, Condition of Steam and EMS/DDC Systems, Size, Steam Cost & Expectations

## Savings

- Savings: _**Totally**_ Dependant on Your Steam/Condensate Costs
- Payback: 3.5 – 4.0 Years Overall;  Condensate Alone – 1-2 Years

## Vendor Information

- Armstrong International – _www.armstrong-intl.com_
- BiTherm – _www.bitherm.com_
- Yarway – _www.yarway.com_
# Presentation: 715496

## CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS

## POLLUTION PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP 

- Office of Community Outreach at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

## EDUCATION / OUTREACH

- For 300,000 people

## EDUCATION / OUTREACH

- On $120,000 yr.

- $100,000 Small Business Outreach
- $20,000 Public Education Outreach

## EDUCATION / OUTREACH

- Done by 1

## PRESSURES

## PRESSURES

## PRESSURES

## THE PERCEPTION AND REALITY OF OUTREACH

- _The Perception_
- Lots of t-shirts, mugs, and flyers given away at events
- Expendable fluff
- Not science based
- Not quantifiable
- Not measurable
- 	_The Reality_
- Difficult to fund
- Difficult to sustain

## Small Business Outreach

- Site Visits
- Workshops
- Policy and procedure development

-  Over 400 businesses assisted
- Over 750 tons of emissions reduced annually

## Public Education / Outreach

- School Visits
- Briefings
- Conferences
- Presentations
- Special Events

**Smog Frog**

## Vehicle Emission Sensing

- Van
- Trailer
-  Computers
- Electronic sign
- = $375,000

- Stop at the Click campaign
-  600 pump decals
-  200 gas stations
-  3 television spots
-  2 newspaper articles
- = $10,000

## 4 Billboards 

- 4 Billboards
- 3 Years
- 6 Months
- = $72,000

- Bus Wrap
- Wrap
- Space
- = $30,800

## = $25,000

- Lawn Mower Exchange
- $80 rebates
- 312 electric mowers

- Clean Air Fair
- Lung Function Testing
- Sedgway, Alt Fuel Demos
- 500 hot dogs, popcorn, colas
- = $25,000 yr.

## Teacher Workshops
Stipend
Lab supplies
Curricula
Workbooks
Free Re-Orders

= $10,000

- Teacher Workshops
- Stipend
- Lab supplies
- Curricula
- Workbooks
- Free Re-Orders
- = $10,000

- TTI, TCEQ, TxDOT
- State-wide campaign
- Television
- Radio
- Bus Wrap
- Billboards
- = $1.2 million statewide

## THE PERCEPTION AND REALITY OF OUTREACH

- _The Perception_
- Visible, interactive, hands-on activities that reduce emissions
- Addresses a critical need
- Science based
- Quantifiable
- Measurable
- _The Reality_
- Outreach for 300,000 done by over 500 for $737,800

##                 Got it ?

- What I get
- $100,000 yr.
- _$  20,000 yr._
-    $120,000.00

- What I really get
- $ 10,000          Stop at Click
- $375,000         AutoCheck
- $ 72,000          Billboards
- $ 30,800	  Bus Wrap
- $ 25,000          Lawn Mower Rebate
- $ 25,000          Air Fair
- $ 10,000          Teacher Workshops
- $ 40,000          DCAT campaign
- $ 10,000          Book covers
- $   5,000	  Utility Bill Inserts
- $ 10,000          Briefings
- _$   5,000__	__  World Asthma Day_
- = $617,800

## Corpus Christi Got It !

## State regulatory SEPs
Public transportation
State transportation
Sedgway
Convenience / Gas stores
Utility providers
Black and Decker
Home Depot
Lowes Home Improvement
Municipality
Exxon Clean Air Challenge
Industry
Small businesses (printers, dry cleaners, auto paint and body)
Universities

- Public transportation
- State transportation
- Sedgway
- Convenience / Gas stores
- Utility providers
- Black and Decker
- Home Depot
- Lowes Home Improvement
- Municipality
- Exxon Clean Air Challenge
- Industry
- Small businesses (printers, dry cleaners, auto paint and body)
- Universities
# Presentation: 727420

## Community TB Control

**This is an archived document.**

## Preventing and Controlling TB

- Three priority strategies:
- Identify and treat all persons with TB disease
- Identify contacts to persons with infectious
- 	TB; evaluate and offer therapy
- Test high-risk groups for LTBI; offer therapy
-  	as appropriate

## Health care providers should work with health department 

- in the following areas:
- Overall planning and policy development
- Identification of persons with clinically active TB
- Management of persons with disease or TB suspects
- Identification and management of persons with LTBI
- Laboratory and diagnostic services
- Data collection and analysis
- Training and education

## Overall Planning and Policy

- Develop overall TB control strategy
- Review local laws, regulations, and policies
- Guide and oversee TB control efforts of local institutions and
- practitioners
- Provide consultations in TB treatment, contact investigations,
- and infection control practices
- Seek out necessary funding and resources
- Educate policymakers

## Identification of Persons Who Have Clinically Active TB

- Health department has ultimate responsibility for
- ensuring TB patients do not transmit TB

- Contact Investigation

- Purpose of a contact investigation is to find persons who

- Have TB disease so treatment can be given, and further
- 	transmission stopped
- Have LTBI so treatment can be given
- Are at high risk of developing TB disease and require
- 	treatment until LTBI excluded

## Management of Persons Who Have TB 

- Disease or TB Suspects

- Management involves range of services, which include
- Developing a treatment plan
- Promoting and ensuring adherence
- Providing a referral system for other medical problems
- Providing clinical consultation services
- Providing inpatient care when necessary
- Providing appropriate facilities to isolate and treat
- 	patients with infectious TB
- Maintaining an infection control program

## Identification and Management 

- of Persons with LTBI

- Establish working relationships with other health
- care providers
- Target testing to well-defined high-risk groups
- Flexibility needed in defining high-priority groups

## Laboratory and Diagnostic Services

- Readily accessible
- AFB results within 24 hours of specimen collection
- Clinicians promptly report all TB cases and
- suspected cases
- All TB smear and culture results reported by
- laboratories

## Data Collection and Analysis

- TB reporting required in every state
- All new cases and suspected cases promptly
- reported to health department
- All drug susceptibility results sent to health
- department

## Training and Education

- TB control programs should
- Provide training for program staff
- Provide leadership in TB education to the community
- Ensure community leaders, clinicians, and
-        policymakers are knowledgeable about TB
- Educate the public
# Presentation: 139903

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend

***Total SARs: 417***

**Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend**
**State of Washington **
**For the Period August 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend

**Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend**
**State of Washington**
**For the Period August 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

- Note:  The pie chart does not include those categories of suspicious activity for which data queries returned no results (i.e., no filers reported these activities).
- An individual SAR-C may cite more than one suspicious activity.  Hence, the number of activities detailed here exceeds the total number of SARs.

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trendby Type of Gaming EstablishmentState of WashingtonFor the Period January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2007

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs

**Geographic Reporting Locations**
**State of Washington**
**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Casino Address**

- Davenport

- Chewelah

- Deming
# Presentation: 265052

## Fits to the time-intensity profiles of 15-44 Mev protons observed at Earth by the GOES satellite. The red and blue lines are simulation results with and without adiabatic energy loss, respectively.

- Dangerous Solar Energetic Particles Dissipate From the Near-Earth Space Mainly Through Adiabatic Cooling Mechanism

##    When a solar flare or CME shock event occurs on the sun, energetic particles up to 10 GeV are injected into the interplanetary space. Within a few minutes to a few hours, the space surrounding the Earth is filled with these dangerous high-energy radiations from the sun. The high radiation level can persist for many days to over a month depending on how fast the particles dissipate through the interplanetary medium. 

-    When a solar flare or CME shock event occurs on the sun, energetic particles up to 10 GeV are injected into the interplanetary space. Within a few minutes to a few hours, the space surrounding the Earth is filled with these dangerous high-energy radiations from the sun. The high radiation level can persist for many days to over a month depending on how fast the particles dissipate through the interplanetary medium.
-    For most of us, we used to think solar energetic particles dissipate by a diffusive transport process out of the heliosphere, which we commonly call leakage. Recent results from this project found that the leakage is not the main dissipation mechanism for large graduate events that last more than one day. The main dissipation mechanism is the prevailing adiabatic energy loss experienced by particles in the expanding solar wind plasma.  By inclusion of the effect of adiabatic energy loss into the traditional focused transport equation of energetic particle, the team is able to fit the time profile of long-duration solar energetic particle event (Figure).  The huge difference of particle intensity after one day into the event between the two models suggests that the adiabatic energy loss is the far most important dissipation mechanism of solar energetic particles.
- 							        Contributors: M. Zhang and G. Qin
# Presentation: 061404

## Trace Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Sensor Spectral Sciences, Inc.Burlington, MA

**Innovation**
- An instrument for long-term monitoring of trace concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) in inhabited environments.

**Accomplishments**
- Spectral Sciences built two sensors utilizing the design, but modified it for detection of hydrogen chloride in the exhaust of solid propellant rocket motors.
- These sensors have been used to monitor hydrogen chloride concentrations in airborne rocket motor exhaust clouds.
**Commercialization**
- Outstanding purchase order from ABB Process Analytics to deliver a version of the light source for their evaluation.
- This technology has been used in an ongoing measurement program performed jointly with Thiokol Corporation for the U.S. Air Force.
- Used to measure HCl released into the air by Titan rocket motors for the U.S. Air Force

**Government/Science Applications**
- Monitoring of CO levels on the Space Station
- Measurement of HCl gas released into the environment by solid propellant rocket motors

- Spectral Sciences, Inc. Trace Atmospheric CO Sensor (TACOS)

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Denise Swain; 256/544-8112)
-    -  Spectral Sciences, Inc. (Steven Adler-Golden; 781/273-4770)
- 1988 SBIR Phase 2; NAS8-38491

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Date of Update:	8/13/98
- Success Story #:	8-017