BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 462281

## Salt River Project

**PERA CLUB**
**1 East Continental Drive, Tempe, AZ**

- 64th St.

- 44th St.

- 52nd  St.

- McDowell Rd.

- Sky Harbor Blvd.

- College** **Ave.

- Priest Dr.

- 56th St.

- Center Pkwy.

- Weber Dr.

- Center Pkwy.

- Pkwy.

- Curry Rd.

- Rio Salado Pkwy.

- Galvin

- 52nd  St.

- 68th St.

- Continental Dr.

- Scottsdal Rd.

- McKellips Rd.

- Project     Dr.

- Van Buren St.

- Washington St.

- Mill Ave.

***HOHOKAM   EXPWY.***

**PERA CLUB**

- Papago
- Park
- Municipal
- Golf
- Course

- Rolling
- Hills
- Golf
- Course

***RED MTN. FRWY.***

**TEMPE**

_*Tempe*_
_*Mission Palms*_

_*Doubletree*_

_*Wyndham*_

_*Fiesta Inn*_

- Phoenix
- Sky Harbor
- Airport

*****

*****

*****

_*Holiday Inn*_

_*Traveler’s Inn*_
# Presentation: 532335

## Launch and Test Range Activities Update

**Maj John Tieken**
**HQ AFSPC/A5FG**

***Launch and Test Range Activities Update***

***October 2006***

## Overview

**GPS Metric Tracking Policy**
**Responsive Launch Traffic Control**

## GPS Metric Tracking Policy

**USECAF has directed that all DoD, Civil, and commercial launches from Vandenberg AFB and Cape Canaveral AFS use GPS Metric Tracking by 1 January 2011**
**A step toward “predominately space-based range architecture” directed by US Space Transportation Policy**
**Using COMSTAC and RUCB as forums to notify range user communities**
**Minor work needed to allow capability on ranges**
**Wings have established procedures for user notification**
**Wing XP representatives work with new users to 30 SW and 45 SW using the Universal Documentation System (UDS) process**
**Wing Program Support Managers (PSMs) will notify existing users about changed interfaces via the formal UDS process**

## GPS MT Clarification

**SAF/USA clarification ****(14 Jul 2006 coordination SSS for USECAF GPS Metric Tracking policy memo)**
**Background: “...The concept of GPS MT originated as a means to replace tracking radars and reduce their significant operations and maintenance costs....”**
**Discussion. “Implementation of GPS MT is ****no longer viewed as essential to shutting down radars****, but as an important operational enhancement.  Recent studies recognize GPS MT as a key to operationally responsive ranges, given its wider coverage, expanded capacity, and greater accuracy and responsiveness.  Meanwhile, ****upgrades to eleven mission-essential radars will enable shutdown of six redundant radars ****now being retained to overcome reliability, maintainability, and availability problems.  As the same time, GPS MT will add operational flexibility as a third source to complement radar tracking and inertial guidance data.”**

## Responsive Launch Traffic Control (RLTC)

**Currently on hold – allows more time**
**Leadership working to establish strategic framework and mature the CONOPS**
**Significant Congressional interest – OSD, AF, and AFSPC working together to determine appropriate structure of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) joint program office**
**Discussing proper focus of ORS**
**HQ AFSPC continues push toward responsive range**
**Advocating launch vehicle autonomy compatibility for responsive capability in the mid-term**

## Summary

**GPS Metric Tracking Policy**
**Responsive Launch Traffic Control**
# Presentation: 523331

## WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY DESIGN: ENHANCING RECRUITMENT AND PRODUCTIVITYBPW FOUNDATION AND DOL WOMEN’S BUREAU WEBINARWORKPLACE DESIGN: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGESOCTOBER 18, 2007

- Linda Roundtree
- Roundtree Consulting LLC

## Workplace design enhances recruitment and productivity when it provides...

- Wide **range of flexibility **in organizing when, where and how work gets done
- Formal and informal options
- Reorganization of work time
- Career flexibility pre-hire to retire and beyond
- Team involvement in finding the best ways to work

## Workplace design enhances recruitment and productivity when it provides... (cont’d)

- Flexibility as a **strategic tool **to expand the recruitment pool
- Geographically
- To include people who traditionally face barriers into the labor force
**Culture of trust **evident in how people and work are managed
- Access to flexibility without jeopardy
- Focus on expectations and results
- Rewards consistent with results-oriented culture

## Workplace flexibility design encompasses a wide range of options...

## Examples of workplace designs that meet business needs and the needs of...

- Highly skilled workers looking for complex, temporary projects — **The Business Talent Group **
- Experienced nurses seeking work-at-home — **McKesson Health Solutions**
- New entrants into the workforce — **Jet Blue**
- Parents with school-aged children — **Dow Corning**
- Employees desiring career breaks — **Accenture**
- Older workers looking for snowbird programs — **CVS/Pharmacy**
- Employees with children who have special needs — **Ernst and Young **

## Wondering how to get started? Flex-Options has the resources...

- A *free *program offered by the U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau to:
- Build national awareness of the benefits of flexible workplace solutions
- Encourage business owners and leaders to consider work redesign and develop or expand a culture of workplace flexibility
- Positively impact bottom line for business owners
- Enhance ability to manage work and life responsibilities for employees

## Flex-Options is making it happen by...

**Bringing together** business owners, entrepreneurs and managers interested in flexibility with peer mentors who have successfully implemented flexible workplace cultures
**Facilitating sharing **of information and best practices at national and local events featuring panel presentations, breakout activities and networking
**Providing tools **including Web site resources, national teleconferences, Webinars, and discussion groups

## Flex-Options’ numbers highlight its reach

- Since 2005, Flex-Options has:
- Partnered with 675 employers
- Actively worked with more than 450 employers
- Helped employers implement or enhance 721 flexibility practices
- Potentially impacted more than 410,000 employees

## For more information on Flex-Options and workplace flexibility design...

- Visit _[www.we-inc.org](http://www.we-inc.org/)_ for *free* resources including:
- Flex news and articles
- Tips for employees and managers
- Best practices
- Teleconference transcripts
- And the new 37-page **Flex-Options Guide**
# Presentation: 514184

## Quantum Mechanics on a Macroscopic Scale

**Quantum Mechanics on a Macroscopic Scale**
**Siyan  Han, University of Kansas****, DMR 0325551**

-  A ‘flux’ qubitwith readout (top) and controlcircuitry, using super-conducting loops fabricatedon a Si wafer at Stony Brook University.

- Equivalent potential for the qubit showing quantized energy levels

- Equivalent circuit withreadout magnetometerand potential controls

**Notes:**
We have advanced our demonstration of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale by demonstrating coherent oscillations in the time domain between two quantum states of a “qubit” formed by a loop of superconducting niobium film over 0.1 mm on a side with a Josephson junction coupling the two sides of the loop. This system can be described quantum mechanically using Schrödinger's equation for the equivalent potential shown in the lower left of slide 1. This potential has two wells separated by a barrier that can be raised or lowered in situ by a control flux. The symmetry (or tilt) of the potential can also be controlled in situ by the application of another flux. 
The experiment consists of preparing the system in the lowest energy level of a well, then turning on a coupling—in this case using a microwave pulse—that causes the system to undergo a coherent, periodic oscillation between the two quantum states. At some point during this oscillation, the state of the system is read out (and thus the coherence is destroyed) to determine the probability that it was in one state or the other. These results are shown in slide 2. This effect has been know for decades in atomic systems. The importance of this work is to show that this can be pushed far into the macroscopic world. Interactions with this world ultimately result in a loss of quantum coherence as seen by the decay of the amplitude of the coherent oscillation shown on slide two. To help reduce this interaction the measurement are carried out at a temperature on 10 mK.

## Demonstration of Coherence in Time Domain“Rabi Oscillations”

**Demonstration of Coherence in Time Domain****“Rabi Oscillations”**
**Siyan Han, University of Kansas, DMR 0325551**

**Notes:**
The figure shows that the quantum state of this superconducting electronic circuit can be manipulated with microwave pulses. This is a key requirement for the realization of a quantum computer that can be built with advanced integrated circuit technology. If one can be built successfully, a quantum computer will be a revolutionary breakthrough in computing technology  Our result also shows that quantum coherence in this electronic circuit is rather fragile due to fluctuations of magnetic flux. We have done extensive experiments to show that the flux noise is originated from area less than a thousandth of an inch from the ring and that defects in the substrate and surrounding insulating materials are most likely the sources of flux noise. Hence, improving the quality of the materials used for quantum electronic circuits holds the key to the success of superconducting quantum computation. The data shown here were measured by Prof. J. E. Lukens’ group at Stony Brook University.
# Presentation: 110474

## OUTLINE

**What States Are Doing Now**
**What Is Available Now**
**Mechanisms to Influence Quality**
**Choosing a Strategy**
**What Should Be Available in ‘99 & ‘00**
**Next Steps**

## WHAT STATES ARE DOING NOW

**Use of Quality Measures in Medicaid**
**Collection of measures**
**Use of measures**
**Proposed Approaches in SCHIP Plans**
**Quality in separate programs**
**Performance measures **

## STATE USE OF PERFORMANCE DATA, 1996-97

- Landon BE. Et al. Jan. 1998.* JAMA* 279 (3)

## WHAT IS AVAILABLE NOW

**HEDIS**
**Childhood immunizations**
**Adolescent immunizations**
**Well child visits in 15 months**
**Well child visits in 3rd to 6th year**
**Adolescent well care**
**CAHPS for 0 - 12 years**

## MECHANISMS TO INFLUENCE QUALITY

**Value-Based Purchasing**
**Consumer Information & Choice**
**Quality Improvement**
**Public Health Monitoring**
**Regulation**

## CHOOSING A STRATEGY:USE OF MEASURES

**Level of Accountability**
**Short Versus Long Term**
**Standardization Vs. Innovation**
**QMAS**

## Level of Accountability

## CHOOSING A STRATEGY:STATE CHARACTERISTICS

**Target Population**
**State Goals**
**Types of Plans Available**
**Market Share**
**Data Available**

## CHOOSING A STRATEGY:DATA AVAILABLE

**Health Plan Data**
**State Specific**
**Models From Other States**
**National Data**

## CHOOSING A STRATEGY: CRITERIA FOR MEASURES & MEASURE SETS

**Relevance**
**Scientific Soundness**
**Feasibility**
**Comprehensiveness**
**Balance**

## CRITERION: RELEVANCE

**Important **
**Meaningful**
**Potential for Improvement**
**Variation**
**Controllability**

## CRITERION: SCIENTIFIC SOUNDNESS

**Clinical Evidence**
**Process-Outcome Link**
**Reproducible**
**Valid**
**Accurate**

## CRITERION: FEASIBILITY

**Precisely Specified**
**Reasonable Cost**
**Logistically Feasible**
**Auditable**
**Confidentiality**

## WHAT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE IN 1999 AND 2000

**Adolescent Survey Instrument**
**CAHPS Chronic Illness Instrument**
**RAND Global Quality Assessment Tool**
**Adolescent Mental Health**
**Avoidable Hospitalizations**
**Functional Status Measures**
# Presentation: 487025

## Philippines: Information Technology

- U.S. Commercial Service
- U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines

- www.buyusa.gov/philippines

## Industry Overview

- Boom in Business Process Outsourcing: 40% expansion (financial services, animation, medical transcription)
- US$4 billion imports (hardware & software) in 2006
- 7.8 million Internet users; Computer gaming – renewed “Internet Café” business

## Market Trends

- Continuous growth of the BPO industry. Goal is to reach over US$ 40 billion in investments and 1 million jobs in 2010.
- Some government initiatives on ICT development:
- The CyberServices Corridor
- Inter-Agency Committee on ICT Statistics
- Computer for All Initiative
- Community eCenters
- e-University Network in Human Resource Development

##  Best Sales Prospects & Buyers

- Best sales prospects are:
- VoIP
- Workforce Management
- Call Recording Systems
- Networking Systems/Solutions (servers, LAN, WAN)
- Enterprise Software (CRM, ERP)
- Broadband Solutions
- Wireless Applications
- Innovative Applications
- Buyers:
- BPOs/Call Center Companies
- Corporations (local or multinational)
- SMEs
- Education sector

##  Market Entry 

- Partner with a reputable Philippine distributor
- Assist Philippine distributor develop the market by:
- Technology / knowledge transfer through adequate training
- Support marketing efforts to introduce new product / technology (i.e. participate in exhibitions, advertising in yellow pages, sponsoring industry association’s events)
- Provide reliable after-sales support

##  Market Challenges  

- Low PC penetration rates (estimated to be around 5% for a population of 87 million in 2006)
- Slow adoption of e-business practices among consumers and businesses
- Lack of reliable IT statistics/indicators
- Price sensitivity of the market

## Philippine Trade Event

- Cebu ICT 2007                                                        June 26- to 28, 2007                                             Cebu International Convention Center
- Systems Integration Philippines 2007                            August 16-18, 2007                                                   World Trade Center, Manila, Philippines  http://www.globallinkph.com/2007events

**Thank you &****See you in the Philippines! **

**Judy Reinke **
- Judy.Reinke@mail.doc.gov
- Commercial Counselor

**Aida Miranda**
- Aida.Miranda@mail.doc.gov
- Senior Commercial Specialist

**U.S. Commercial Service**
**U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines**
# Presentation: 425549

## MTAC Workgroup 116Great Addressing toIncrease the Value of Mail

- MTAC MeetingAugust 1, 2007

## Issue Statement for Workgroup 116

- Mail is an important communication tool for businesses
- Cost effective way to promote goods and services
- Value is lost when the mail never arrives, arrives late, or to the wrong recipient
- Poor addressing
- Inaccurate address information
- Individuals have moved or are deceased
- Message is unwanted

## Initial Meeting – Identification of Opportunities

- Identified the types of “unwanted” addresses
- Discussed some of the current industry and USPS available tools
- Noted legal restrictions for some of these tools
- Considered a best practices approach to improving address value
- Presort optimization; record merging and selection
- Environmental benefits of mail
- New tools and technologies to assist with communicating undeliverable or unwanted mail
- Workgroup 97 and 104 recommendations

## Other Issues / Barriers Identified

- Larger Mailers Versus Smaller Mailers
- Larger mailers tend to have access to more suppression lists and advanced targeted marketing resources
- Smaller mailers may be unaware of these suppression lists, or have concerns with cost and complexity
- Diminishing Returns
- Some mailers may simply view the extra efforts as too costly and are willing to take their chances
- Mailing Quotas
- It was noted that some industries have quotas for their direct mail campaigns based on total pieces mailed, not necessarily actual responses

## Knowing Our Audience

- Creating multiple value propositions
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Chief Information Officer
- Mailroom Manager
- Mail recipient
- Taking the report beyond a traditional white paper
- Exploring other venues for promoting great addressing
- Can we leverage local Post Offices
- PCC events
- Industry associations

## Moving Forward

- Identified a rough meeting schedule
- Series of face-to-face and teleconferences
- Some of the meetings to coincide with major industry events
- Possibly create subgroups to focus on identified areas of interest
- Education and Marketing
- Outreach to the Mail Moves America organization
- Environmental Benefits of Mail and Other Facts
- Tools / Technologies
- Best Practices for Advanced Address Quality

## Interested Parties Should Contact Co-chairs 

- USPS Co-chairs
- Charles Hunt
- Charles.Hunt@usps.gov
- James Wilson
- james.d.wilson@usps.gov

- Industry Co-chairs
- Jody Berenblatt
- Jody.Berenblatt@bankofamerica.com
- Chris Lien
- chris.lien@businessobjects.com

- To join workgroup 116, please contact the workgroup co-chairs:
# Presentation: 054654

## Ocean Data Assimilation Meeting: Oct 26, 2005

- Validation of GFDL Annual Mean Forcing Using:
-  NCEP Reanalysis
-  Physics of Climate
-  GEOS-5

## GFDL  : Lower Values

- _GFDL_  : Lower Values
- 60S/60N Poleward: less than 100
- Arabian Sea: 200
- EQ Atlantic: 175-00
- EQ Pacific: 200-225
- West Aust. 30S: 200

- _Physics of Climate_
- 60S/60N Poleward: 100
- Arabian Sea: 325-335
- EQ Atlantic: 325-350
- EQ Pacific: 325-350
- West Aust. 30S: 250

- _Positive Down_
-  Incoming solar rad.
-  Always positive
-  Highest in tropics
-  Decreases towards poles

## GFDL  : Smaller Values

- Along equator: -40 to -50
- Doesn’t increase toward poles
- Range: -140 to -30

- _Physics of Climate_
- Min along equator: -223 to -275
- Increases toward poles to -140
- Range: -280 to -140

- _Positive Down_
-  Outgoing terrestrial rad.
-  Always negative
-  Lowest in subtropics
-  Increase toward poles

## GFDL  :

-  Off Japan -180 to -250
-  Off W. Australia, -175 to-200
-  Gulf Stream, -200 to -250
-  Eq. 80W-130W, -25 to -75
-  45N/S Poleward:0 to -50

- _GEOS-5_
-  Off Japan, -180 to -270
-  Off W. Australia, -120 to -210
-  Gulf Stream, -210 to -270
-  Eq. 80W-120W, -60 to -90
-  45N/S Poleward: 0 to -75

- _Positive Down_
- .Indirect outgoing flux from evaporation
-  Generally negative

## GFDL  :

- _GFDL_  :
-  Off Japan -50 to -100
-  Gulf Stream, -50 to -100
-  Eq. 80W-130W, -25 to -75
-  Poles: 25 to 100
-  Open Ocean: -20 to 0

- _GEOS-5_
-  Off Japan, -60 to -140
-  Gulf Stream, -60 to -120
-  Eq. 80W-120W, -60 to -90
-  Poles: 0 to 20
- Open Ocean: -20 to 0

- _Positive Down_
- .Outgoing flux from ocean
-  Neg. over land
-  Neg. off east coast areas

## Slide 6

## Positive Down

- _Positive Down_
- .Water into the ocean
-  Pos. in the ITCS (just north of EQ)
-  Neg. in subtropics (23.5N/S)
-  Max  Value 1 to 2 e-4

## Slide 8

## GFDL  :

- _GFDL_  :
- Mid-lats, positive
- Equator, negative
-  Range, -0.3 to 0.3

- _GEOS-5_
-  Mid-lats, positive
-  Equator, negative
-  Range, -0.2 to 0.2

- _Positive Down_
- .Stress from atm. onto ocean
-  Pos. in mid-lats (30-60N/S)
-  Zero at Equator

## GFDL  :

- _GFDL_  :
-  Equator, positive
-  10Nr, negative
-  Range, -0.15 to 0.15
-  Pos.: 30S/N W. of land
-  Neg.: N. Hem. Land boundaries
-  Neg.: 60S SE Afr. & Aust., SW SA

- _GEOS-5_
-  Equator, positive
-  10N, negative
-  Range, -0.12 to 0.12
-  Pos.: 30S/N W. of land
-  Neg.: N. Hem. Land boundaries
-  Neg.: 60S SE Afr. & Aust., SW SA

- _Positive Down_
- .Stress from atm. onto ocean
-  Pos. at Equator
-  Neg. at 10N

## GFDL  :

- _GFDL_  :
-  Jan. Range, 0 to 0.33
-  Jan. Max: Off Japan, New England, 45-60S
-  Jul. Range, 0 to 0.45
-  Jul. Max: Arabian Sea, 45-60S Indian/Atlantic

- _Physics of Climate_
-  DJF Range, 0 to 0.25
-  DJF Max: Off Japan, New England, 45-60S
-  JJA Range, 0 to 0.4
-  JJA Max: Arabian Sea, 45-60S Indian/Atlantic

## GFDL  :

- _GFDL_  :
-  Mid Lats: Eastern Flow
-  Tradewinds: Western Flow

- _Physics of Climate_
-  Mid Lats: Eastern flow, 0.1
-  Tradewinds: Western flow, 0.06
# Presentation: 783693

## Runway Length Design	

- A/C 150/5325-4A “Runway Length Requirements for Airport Design” – January 1990
- New “4B” version due within one year
- Will refer to Manufacturers Sources (Websites) for Performance Data / Length Requirements

## Slide 2

## Runway Length Design

- Telluride Regional Airport
- Constrained Site
- Field Elevation 9,078 feet
- Runway Length 6,870 feet
- Significant Business Jet Activity
- Warm Summertime Temps

## Runway Length Design

- 450 foot Extension results in:
- Beechjet 400A
- 50 NM range increase w/full passenger load
- Canadair CRJ200
- 6 additional passengers at 200 NM Range
- Learjet 35A
- 70 NM range increase w/full passenger load

## Runway Length Design

- Takeoff Length usually critical
- Part 121 – Part 135 – Part 91.K can require full stop landing in 60%-80% of effective landing length for Commercial Service, Charter and Fractional Ownership operations
# Presentation: 407292

## ME-MC comparison

- Standard Inputs so far
- ALPGEN
- GRAPPA
- MadGraph
- Generated processes
- ALPGEN (xs by mlm)
- W,Z,DY + nj, n=0..5
- Wbb,Zbb,DYbb + nj, n=0..3
- GRAPPA
- W,Z + nj, n=0..2
- W+3j available, xs by S. Tsuno
- Wbb + 0j, xs by S. Tsuno
- MadGraph
- W,Z + nj, n=0..3
- Wbb,Zbb + nj, n=0..1

## Summary of Results

- W+n jets
- MG<AL by (0.5,3,5,6) %  n=0..3
- GR & AL agree
- Z+n jets
- Everything ~OK
- Wbb+n jets
- MG>AL by (6, 2) % n=0..1
- GR & AL agree for n=0
- Zbb+n jets
- MG>AL by (8, 6) % n=0..1

## Conclusions

- Need to understand differences between ME-MCs
- Study relative fractions by subprocesses
- Compare kinematic distributions
- Communication with authors
- Work in progress
- Generate remaining processes
- CompHEP tunning
- Shower -> Ntuples->kinematic distributions
- Get NLO rates from MCFM
# Presentation: 519064

## Electrophysiological Tests Used in the Evaluation of Peripheral Neuropathy and Neuropathic Pain

- David R. Cornblath, MD
- Johns Hopkins

## Outline

- Electrophysiological Tests
- Natural History in Diabetes
- Correlation with Outcomes
- Use in Clinical Trials
- Practical Issues
- Summary

## Neurophysiological Tests

- Nerve conductions: sensory and motor and F waves
- Electromyography
- Quantitative sensory testing
- Autonomic function testing
- QSART

## Natural History of EDx Studies in Diabetes

- Most comprehensive data is the RDNS which shows a gradual worsening in neuropathy over time: -0.34 NIS(LL)+7 points/year in diabetes and -0.85 NIS(LL)+7 points/year in DPN.
- Depending on the treatment study examined, the data vary somewhat but all show worsening over time.

## Correlation of Edx Tests with Outcomes

- The best data comes from Dr. Dyck and colleagues who suggest that a clinically detectable and meaningful change in neuropathy is a 2 point change in NIS which is equal to a 2.9 m/s or 1.2 mV change for avg. of median, ulnar and peroneal nerves or 2.2 m/s or 0.7 mV change for peroneal nerve alone.

## EDx Tests in Clinical Trials

- Frequently used in neuropathy clinical trials as either primary or secondary endpoint.
- NCS show improvement when the change in diabetes is dramatic such as with transplantation, intensive control, or in children.
- NCS have not shown improvement in most clinical trials, but that may be a related to the lack of therapeutic successes or the parameter chosen.

## Practical Issues

- What is the desired outcome?
- Which fiber population will be affected?
- What parameter of NCS will be affected?
- How fast will intervention work?
- Which test to use?
- What is hypothesized to occur from the intervention?
- Can this be done in multiple sites given the need for standardization, reproducibility, and reliability?
- Yes for NCS (see recent multi-center Japanese data)

## Summary

- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Of the many tests, nerve conductions are the best studied and most accepted tests and correlate with clinical measures. A change over time is real. NCS can detect improvement or worsening.
- The other electrophysiological tests may be used in selected cases, but more data is needed on many of the practical issues.
- Nerve conductions are useful as part of composite measures of neuropathy such as NIS(LL)+7 and TNS.

## Summary

- Neuropathic Pain
- Electrophysiological tests are valuable as a monitoring tool for toxicity.
- Nerve conductions should not be used as outcome criteria as they measure large fiber function, not small fiber function.
# Presentation: 938797

## Weather Service Provider Coordination

**Presented by**
**Tim Dye**
**Sonoma Technology, Inc.**
**Petaluma, CA**
**(707) 665-9900**
**www.sonomatech.com**
**tim@sonomatech.com**
**Presented at EPA’s National Air Quality Conference:**
**Mapping and Forecasting**
**San Francisco, CA**
**February 4-6, 2002**

- 2144

## Outline

- Background
- Activities this year
- Plans for 2002
- What “we” can do

## Background

- Weather Service Providers (WSPs) are companies that supply
**Weather data **
**Images**
**Forecasts**
-     ...to TV stations, newspapers, private industry, and the public
- Five major WSPs
**AccuWeather**
**Meteorlogix (formerly Kavouras)**
**The Weather Channel**
**Weather Central, Inc.**
**Weather Service International (WSI)**

## Background - Data Flow and Coordination

## Activities During 2001

- Exhibited at AMS Broadcasters Meeting
- Improved web page for WSPs
- www.sonomatech.com/info/wsphelp
- Worked closely with WSPs to meet their needs
- 4 out of 5 WSPs currently distributing ozone maps to their clients
- Improved distribution and reliability

## Example Ozone Map

*Courtesy of WSI*

## Activities - What’s New This Year

- Distributed data in GRIB format
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sanctioned format
- Allows for full image customization
- Created AIRNowStatus.com page

*News and events*

*Real-time polling status*

## WSP Comments

- Weather Central, WSI, and Meteorlogix
- Experienced few problems - reliability continues to improve
- Preferred hourly updates and quicker delivery
- Emphasized that customers want a reliable and timely product
- Want year-round product and more coverage

## Plans for 2002

- Continue work with WSPs and provide education to WSPs
- Improve reliability and quicker delivery (new DCC will help)
- Exhibit at Radio Television News Director’s Association meeting in Las Vegas in April
- Further customize AIRNow status web page

## Still Some Issues.... What “We” Can Do

- Coverage
- Spatial:  	U.S. map
- Seasonal: 	Wintertime pollutants
- Timeliness
- Quicker turnaround at EPA; depends on
- State agencies submitting data as early as possible
- EPA’s DCC processing speed
- Hourly polling
- Education (TV station and public)
- Continue to work with local TV weathercasters to get the maps “on air”
# Presentation: 084126

## HPD HV System 

**CMS HCAL ESR**
**December 3-6, 2002**
**S. Los**
**Fermilab**

## Outline

**HPD power requirements**
**HV system architecture **
**HV power supply**
**HV rack**
**HV cable**
**HV distribution in RBX**
**HV safety box**
**Tests**
**Summary**

## HPD Power Requirements

**HPD versus PMT:**
**Needs very low common / differential noise**
**Tolerant to DC voltage stability**
**High voltage****	****	****	****	****12 kV**
**HV current****	****	****	****	****400pA**
**Bias voltage****	****	****	****	****200 V**
**BV current****	****	****	****	****2 ********A**
**Noise floor ****	****	****	****	****< 3 pA/(Hz)****1/2**

## HV System Outline

**Individually regulated HV and BV for each HPD**
**HV power supplies are in the counting room**
- No radiation (Si high voltage components)
- Easily repairable
**Cable distribution network (1 RBX - 1 Cable)**
- Cable near / far end filters
- Incorporates safety elements (bleeder resistors and discharge current limiters)
**Differential/Common mode filter is on the HPD**
- Decreases pickup noise

## HV System Architecture

**HPD power distribution diagram**

## HV Power Supply

**Modular PS designed in INRNE, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences**

## HPD HV Rack

**Organization**
**5 racks in control room**
**4 HV 6U crates per rack**
**6 HV modules per crate**
**1 HV module supplies up to 4 HPDs in a RBX**
**HV cable connects to the rear end connector**
**There is a slow control system console in one of the racks**

## HV Cable

**Kerpen Special, part # PE 296 901**
**Composition: 5********12 kV, 7 ********200 V wires, shield.**
**Complies with CERN IS-23/IEC 60332-3**

## HV Cable

**2002 Test Beam HV Cable**

## Stored Energy

**At 12 kV stored energy is below CERN safety limit**

## HV Distributor

**HV/BV distribution within RBX**

## HV Unit

**HV Unit connects a HV cable to a HV distributor**
**High voltage components are potted on one side of the PCB**
**Units are assembled in the lab, and can be attached to the cables at the spot**

## HV Safety Box

**Uses the same HV PCB as the HV Unit (with different components installed)**
**Connects HV cable to the HV and BV power supplies **
**Provides ground separation (100 Kohm), cable discharge (bleeder resistors), and preliminary voltage filtering**
**Most of the problems came from the HV connector pigtail – finally we decided to fix that connector directly on the Safety Box**

## Tests-1

**2 HV Units were thermo cycled  as they include all the components used in the HV distribution**
- +25 to +105C
- 50 cycles

## Tests-2

**Accelerated aging test is under its way**
- 2 HV Units
- HV Cable at 25 mm bending radius
**“****Simplified Protocol” ********2/10********C**
- Accumulation is 317 days so far
- No visual or detectable leakage current changes in the Cable at 18 kV DC
- HV Units were not tested yet as they are of a much smaller concern

## Summary

**All components of the HV System were successfully prototyped and tested both in the Lab and at the Test Beam**
**Internal technical issues has been resolved**
**Safety issues are O.K.**
**Our main concern is about the small bending radius along the cable tray**
# Presentation: 097216

## In-situ Diagnostics of Universal Plasma Processes

***In-situ***** Diagnostics of Universal Plasma Processes**

**      **_**Science Objective:    **_
**    ****To use the Earth’s local plasma laboratory to diagnose universal plasma processes**

_**Associated Research Focus Areas:**_
**F2 ****Understand plasma processes that accelerate and transport particles**
**F3 ****Understand the role of plasma and neutral interactions in nonlinear coupling of regions**
_**Measurement Strategy:**_
**High temporal resolution plasma measurements with high spatial and temporal imaging**
**Large satellite memory allowing interesting data periods to be selected for downloading**
**Integrated sensors for optimal operation and science return**
_**Enabling and Enhancing Technology Development:**_
**Robust, in-expensive, light weight, de-spun imager**

_**Mission Implementation Description:**_
**Number of spacecraft:****	****     2      **
**Attitude control: ****	****     Spin stabilized  **
**Orbit: ****	****	****     350 x 5000 km , Incl.  80****o**
**Orbit phase 1: ****	****     String of pearls **
**Orbit phase 2: ****	****     Magnetic conjunctions **
**Each satellite has full complement of fields- and particle- sensors and imagers ****(in-situ and remote)**
**Payload resources required ****(per spacecraft)****:                      ****Mass 75 kg     Power    45 W     Telemetry 2.0 Mbps**
**Science team with Astrophysical  and Plasma physics expertise**

***Problems to solve: ***
** ****resolve spatial and temporal ambiguities in plasma processes **
** ****understand plasma dynamics and evolution **
** ****understand how processes of different scale sizes  interact with each other**

***Processes to study:***
**Alfvén waves, double layers, electron and ion phase space holes, two stream instabilities, AKR-radiation, pitch angle scattering, surface waves, filamenation, flow shears, Langmuir waves, etc.**
# Presentation: 548087

## Update on H4l analysis

- A. Khodinov* and K. Assamagan**
- 	* State University of New York at Stony Brook
- 	** Brookhaven National Laboratory

## Data set (signal only)

- Z(*)e+e-
- Z(*)+-

- hZZ(*)
- mh = 130 *GeV*

- h4e	
-  	h4
- 		h2e2

## Framework details

-  Number of Events 		100.000
-  Generator			Pythia 6.217 (6.5.0)
-       no filters
-  Fully simulated with 		ATLSIM (6.5.0)
-  VDC dataset 		simul_000033
-  geometry level		dc1 ()
- Reconstructed with		ATHENA (7.0.2 and 7.5.0)
- Job Options file		RecExCommon_jobOptions.txt
- Additional MC Truth		Spcl_MC (F.Paige and I.Hinchliffe)

## Kinematical cuts as in TDR

- e1+ e2- or +- with pT>20 GeV (leading pair)
- 	e3+ e4- or +- with pT>7 GeV  (following pair)
- 2. Calculate invariant Z mass
- m12  = mZ ****** **15** **GeV**  **or ( 6 GeV)
- m34  >        20** **GeV

## Additional requirements (Our own)

-   TRD + combinatorial treatment
- Instead of taking just the 2 hardest leptons as
-  the leading pair, we look though all the possible
- 4 lepton combinations for the leading and following
- pairs but retain the combination where the leading pair
- is best reconstructed (we do not require hardest pTs):
**e****1****+**** ****e****2****- ****or ************+************-**** with p****T****>20 GeV  ****min(M****z****-**** ****M****ld****)**

##    Z-mass constraint

- Assuming the leading lepton pair come from an on-shell Z of mass mZ, rescale 4-momentums of the 2 leading leptons so that:
-        **p ******** pm****0****/m****ll**
-   Where mll is the measured (reconstructed) invariant mass of the 2 leading leptons
- Do this before reconstructing the H mass
- To find m0, on event by event basis we convolute detector resolution with the Breit-Wigner shape for Z:
-      m0 = max ( Gaussian(mll, 0) * BW(mZ,Z) )
-   where 0 is the detector resolution (by fitting mll
-    without the mass constraint )

## 7.0.2 + FORTRAN (PAW)

- Leading Mll cut = Mz+-6 GeV
- Mass constraint applied

- 2.7
- Norm ECAL factor =1/0.9845

- mean  129.9
- 

- mean  129.9
- 

- mean  129.9
- 

- mean  130.2
- 

- h4

- h4e

- h2e2

## single muon reconstructionFortran 7.0.2 				AOD 7.5.0

## AOD 7.5.0

- No mass constraint!
- Muid Combined
- Leading Mll cut = Mz+-6 GeV

- h4

## Summary and plans

- Work on the example of analysis hl using AOD. Our old-fashioned fortran analysis is used as the pattern.
- we are awaiting for STACO (MuonBox+XKalman) to implement into the h analysis.
- h4e and h2e2will be added to AOD Analysis
# Presentation: 034843

##  Ground and surface water interactions in karst terrains:Some observations from along the Cody Scarp

- Jon Martin
- Liz Screaton, PJ Moore
- Acknowledgements: NSF, DEP, SRWMD
- O’Leno State Park, Ichetucknee State Park
- Sheryl Gordon, Randy Dean, Brooke Sprouse, Jennifer Martin

##  How does flow in conduits and matrix interact?- What can be learned from chemistry of spring discharge?

-  How does flow in conduits and matrix interact?- What can be learned from chemistry of spring discharge?

- Modified from White, 2002

## Karst aquifers have two distinct ground water reservoirs: 

- Karst aquifers have two distinct ground water reservoirs:
- Conduits (> 1 cm2)
- Matrix (fracture and intergranular porosity)
- Flow unimportant in low porosity matrix, e.g. Paleozoic aquifers
- High porosity matrix important flow path and for storage, e.g. Floridan aquifer

## StudyArea:Cody Scarp

## Mill Pond Spring, Ichetucknee River

- Martin and Gordon, 1997

- ~21 cm of rain

- Dye return

## Santa Fe RiverSink/Rise area

- Santa Fe RiverSink/Rise area

- Sink Well

- Rise Well

## Travel time: Sink  Rise

## Flow velocity, two “floods”

- Velocity constant through conduits
- Velocity depends on stage and discharge
- Discharge can be used to determine conduit size
- Determine residence time – chemical sampling

## Discharge at sink and rise:evidence for conduit-matrix exchange

## Cl- concentrations vs. distance and through time following 1998 El Nino floods

## Seawater Sr Isotopes Through Time

## Mixing: Ocala Ls and seawater + radiogenic Sr?Some wells have more Ocala Sr than othersRadiogenic Sr from Hawthorn Gp? 

- Modern Seawater
- 0.70917

- Mixing: Ocala Ls and seawater + radiogenic Sr?Some wells have more Ocala Sr than othersRadiogenic Sr from Hawthorn Gp?

## Noble gas; non-reactive in inorganic or organic reactions.

-  Loss from evasion to atmosphere.

## Rn input and decay

- Excess
- Rn

- Rn
- Deficit

- Distance from sink (m)

- 9.78 masl

- 10.53 masl

- ~12.2 masl

- N = 222Rn activity
- N0 =initial 222Rn activity
-  = decay constant
- t = time

- 222Rnmeas.-222Rncalc.

## Conclusions and Questions

-   Several sources of recharged water from confined region (Sr and Rn isotopes)

-  What roles do diffuse recharge and epikarst have in flow in conduits and matrix?

-   Water exchanges between conduits and matrix (T, physical models, Cl concentrations)
# Presentation: 860137

## Presentation of National Newspaper Association

- To Mailers Technical
- Advisory Committee
- May 19, 2005

## About NNA

- 1885
- 2,500 newspaper members; primarily weeklies
- Primarily family owned
- Headquarters: Columbia, MO
- Washington office: Arlington, VA

## NNA’s presence in Washington 

- Postal policy
- Postal rates
- The business of publishing
- First Amendment and Open Government
- NNA’s Congressional Action Team has members in every state and virtually every Congressional district
- PL 108-18: 19 co-sponsors in a day

## NNA’s Mailing Profile

- Heavy within county mailers –NNA’s primary focus
- Often the largest customers of entry post office
- Outside county mail for outer delivery zone
- ECR for shoppers

## In County Mail

- “It is well known that post roads and post offices have increased rapidly within a few years and that almost every person can have convenient access to papers by mail; and the printers know that the New York papers are made up from the daily papers, and hence they can afford them at a lower price than we can...(T)he circulation of our country papers is rapidly diminishing and ere long many of them must be consigned to oblivion.”  A New York editor, 1827

## Numbers of Titles 

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| Year | Total Dailies | Total Weeklies |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1996 | 1520 | 6580 |
| 1997 | 1509 | 6581 |
| 1998 | 1489 | 6642 |
| 1999 | 1480 | 6646 |
| 2000 | 1480 | 6579 |
| 2001 | 1468 | 6476 |
| 2002 | 1457 | 6699 |
| 2003 | 1456 | 6704 |

## Circulation(in millions) 

|  | Dailies | Weeklies  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1996 | 56.9 | 45.9 |
| 1997 | 56.7 | 47.3 |
| 1998 | 56.1 | 48.7 |
| 1999 | 55.9 | 49.1 |
| 2000 | 55.7 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 55.5 | 47.7 |
| 2002 | 55.1 | 50 |
| 2003 | 55.1 | 50.2 |

## How we work

- Mail.dat – nada
- No scholarly studies
- No studies period, except a rare member survey
- No PAC
- No former Congressmen
- How do we do it?

## Teaching tools

- Monthly column Pub Aux
- Troubleshooting
- Case work
- Numerous seminars a year

## Advocacy

- MTAC membership since
- Periodicals Service Improvement Team
- POAC
- Flats Automation Work Group
- Flats Presort Optimization Work Group
- Package Integrity Work Group
- ePub Watch Work Group, etc. etc.

## Concerns and Anxieties

- CSRS
- The cost of rates—and rate cases
- FSS, maybe
- The future for service
- NNA: a majority of One.  In County mail is less than 1% of domestic mail volume.
- But it brings people to the mailbox!

## Tonda Rush

- 703 465 8808 –NNA in Washington
- _[Tonda@nna.org](mailto:Tonda@nna.org)_
- President, American PressWorks, Inc., _[trush@americanpressworks.org](mailto:trush@americanpressworks.org)__. _
# Presentation: 682109

## Dr. Brent Ridge  |  V.P., Healthy Living

## Engaging Leaders for a Healthier Nation

- Three tenets for engaging a leader

## Engaging Leaders for a Healthier Nation

- Three tenets for engaging **the right** leader

- Take advantage of every situation and put
-       yourself in the right situations

- 2.  What do you need them to do for you?

- 3.  What can you do for them?

## The Power of the Martha Stewart Brand

***Unaided***, the first person that over **50 million** women and **40 million** men say they think of when looking for ideas and information on the home, home decorating, cooking, gardening, and crafts is Martha Stewart.
- Over **75 million** women say Martha Stewart influences the way they think about, organize, and manage their homes.
**43%** of women are more likely to consider purchasing a product or service that has been endorsed by Martha Stewart.

- Source: Public Strategies Research 2005-2006.

## Martha Stewart Brand Reach

- Products at **~6,500** retail locations

## Martha Stewart Brand Reach

- MSLO delivers **610 million** media impressions annually

## Martha Stewart Brand Reach

- Each month, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia reaches
**37 million** adults
-  82% female
-  46.6 years old
-  MHHI  $61,642
-  64% work outside the home
-  63% are college educated
-  72% own their own home
-  They are married...with children

## How the media influences consumer health

## How the media influences consumer health

## How the media influences consumer health

- You can “learn a lot from a dummy” about what?

## How the media influences consumer health

- What cold breakfast cereal will reduce your cholesterol if you eat it every morning?

## How the media influences consumer health

## How the media influences consumer health

- What cosmetics company do you think of when you think of the fight against breast cancer?

## How the media influences consumer health

- What brand is responsible for the “Campaign for Real Beauty”?

## Thank You
# Presentation: 692336

## Incredible Solar Activity19 October – 5 November, 2003RHESSI Observations

- Brian Dennis
- RHESSI Mission Scientist
- Presentation to Dick Fisher
- 12 November 2003

## 	First Gamma-Ray Image of a Solar Flare	23 July 2002

## Gamma-Ray Spectrum23 July 2002

## X-Ray Spectrum

## GOES Time Line18 October – 6 November, 2003

## Event Summary

## 28 October 2003X17

## 28 October, 2003

## 28 October, 2003

## 28 October, 2003Positron Annihilation Line - 511 keV

## 28 October, 2003Neutron-Capture Line – 2.223 MeV

## 28 October, 2003

- Energy (MeV)	2.0

- Counts cm-2 s-1 keV-1

- 2.223 MeV Neutron-capture Line

- Compton Edge

## 29 October 2003X10

## 29 October 2003

## 29 October 2003

## 29 October 2003

## 29 October, 2003

## 2 November 2003X8

## 4 November 2003X28

## Meeting Plans

- Special Topical Session
- Joint AAS/SPD meeting - Denver, May 2004
- Special Topical Session
- Spring AGU meeting - Location, Date?
- RHESSI Workshop
- Paris, July 2004
- RHESSI/SOHO/TRACE Workshop
- Bay Area, December 2004
# Presentation: 172064

## Image Segmentation of Bone Density Images

- Rebecca Kamins

## Quick Overview

- Trying to find a deconvlution algorithm that will give us the real image.
- g(x,y)= f(x,y)*h(x,y)+n(x,y)
- We took a PSF (represents blur in a micro CT scanner) and altered it 3 ways.
- Deconvolved the images using each PSF and analyzed the results

## Results

- Symmetrically rotated Gaussian PSF yielded the best results
- Circular PSF good too- not the best

## Future

- Create 3D volume estimates of the mouse bones
- Use pattern recognition to determine genetic trends in mice with bone loss
- Write a code to be implemented in a micro CT scanner

## Acknowledgements

- Dr. John Daponte
- Megan Damon
- Michael Clark
- Thomas Sadowski
- Charles Tirrell
- NASA SHARP
- NASA GISS
- SCSU
# Presentation: 206657

## DRAFTTreasury Property and Fleet Managers Workshop

**DRAFT****Treasury Property and Fleet Managers Workshop**

**March 24, 2004**

## Where and When

**Wednesday, March 24, 2004**
**09:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. **
**Metropolitan Square Building**
**655 15****th**** St. NW**
**6****th**** Floor Board Room**
**Use the G. Street Elevator Lobby **

## Agenda

**Agenda**

-   **9:00 a.m.****	**	**Welcome and Sign-In**
** **
**9:15 a.m.****	****	****GSA Personal Property Center Process  **
**	****	****	****[Invited Staff], GSA**
**	**
**10:00 a.m. ****	****	****Updates on Personal Property Policy and Property News**
**	****	****	****[Reporting Requirements, JFMIP Property Management System] **
**10:15 a.m. ****	****	****Break**
**	****	****	**
**10:30 a.m. ****	****	****FAST Reporting Issues/Concerns  **
**	****	****	**
**10:45 a.m. ****	****	****Asset Management System**
**	****	****	****  **
**11:00 p.m. ****	****	****Fleet  Management Plan**
**11:30 p.m. ****	****	****Scheduling of Next Meeting and Adjournment**

## Upcoming Training Opportunities

- 10th National Clean	May 2-5, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
-     Cities Conference
- FedFleet 2004		July 20-22, New York, NY

## Upcoming Meetings

- Natural Gas Fueling Stations Technology Forum
-    Las Vegas, Nevada
-    March 23,-24, 2004
# Presentation: 255777

- Emergency Response Planning Committee

- Richard D. Thomas
- Chair, ERP Committee
- May 8, 2008

## ERP Committee Membership 

**Richard D. Thomas, PhD, DABT, ATS, BCFM - Chair** INTERCET, Ltd.
**Susan D. Ripple, MS,CIH - Vice Chair**
- 	The Dow Chemical Company
**Laurie E. Roszell, PHD - Secretary **US Army CHPPM **Elizabeth L. Pullen, CIH - Board Coordinator** Clariant Corporation**Patrick Brady, CIH,CSP **BNSF Railway**Gail D. Chapman, PhD, RM **US Navy**Bryan D. Hardin, PhD (Ret. Asst. Surg. General) **Veritox, Inc.**Michael G. Holland, MD, FACMT, FACOEM **Glens Falls Hospital
**	****David P. Kelly, MS, DABT**
**	**DuPont **R. Everett Langford, CIH CSP CPEA PhD PE **Huntsman LLC**Michael W. Lombardi, CIH **Rohm & Haas Company**Glenn C. Millner, PhD **Ctr for Toxicology & Environmental Health**Achille J. Petrocchi, CIH **Washington Division, URS Corporation**Scott D. Phillips, MD **
**	**Denver Medical - Poison Control Center**George M. Rusch, PhD, DABT **Honeywell**Juergen Pauluhn **Bayer Healthcare AG, Germany**Marc Ruijten, PhD **CrisisTox Consult, The Netherlands

## ERP Committee Status Report

- The Committee Held Four Meetings in 2007
- The ERP Committee will change to a new legal status in 2008 (501c3).
- The Following Nine Substances were completed:
- Acetic Anhydride
- N-Butyl Isocyanate
- 2-Chloro-1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane
- Epichlorohydrin
- Fluorosulfunic acid
- 1-Hexene
- Methylene Chloride
- Triethoxysilane
- Uranium Trioxide