BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 922015

## SyphilisSexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2005

- Division of STD Prevention

## Syphilis — Reported cases by stage of infection: United States, 1941–2005

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Rates: Total and by sex: United States, 1986–2005 and the Healthy People 2010 target

- Note: The Healthy People 2010 target for P&S syphilis is 0.2 case per 100,000 population.

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Rates by region: United States, 1996–2005and the Healthy People 2010 target

- Note: The Healthy People 2010 target for P&S syphilis is 0.2 case per 100,000 population.

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Rates by state: United States andoutlying areas, 2005

- Note: The total rate of P&S syphilis for the United States and outlying areas (Guam, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands) was 3.0 per 100,000 population. The Healthy People 2010 target is 0.2 case per 100,000 population.

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Rates by county: United States, 2005

- Note: The Healthy People 2010 target for P&S syphilis is 0.2 case per 100,000 population. In 2005, 2,434 (77.5%) of 3,140 counties in the U.S. reported no cases of P&S syphilis.

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Cases by reporting sourceand sex:  United States, 1996–2005

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Rates by race/ethnicity: United States, 1996–2005

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Male-to-female rate ratios: United States, 1996–2005

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Age- and sex-specific rates: United States, 2005

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Age-specific rates among women 15 to 44 years of age: United States, 1996–2005

## Primary and secondary syphilis — Age-specific rates among men 15 to 44 yearsof age: United States, 1996–2005

## Congenital syphilis — Reported cases for infants <1 year of age and rates of primary and secondary syphilis among women: United States, 1996–2005

## Congenital syphilis — Rates for infants <1 year of age: United States, 1996–2005 and the Healthy People 2010 target

- Note: The Healthy People 2010 target for congenital syphilis is 1.0 case per 100,000 live
- births.
# Presentation: 816936

## Office of Technology Strategy

April Giles
15 March 2006

**April Giles**
**15 March 2006**

*FIPS 201 Evaluation Program*

## Presentation Agenda

- Card/Reader Interoperability Task
- Lab Development Task
- APL Early Applications
- ?’s

##    Card/Reader Interoperability Task

- Update
- 95% complete
- Test fixture prototype delivered
- Card/reader requirements on 6th draft

##    Lab Development Task

- Update
- 50% complete
- CONOPS, CM Plan, Approval Procedure Template completed
- Test Procedure Template completed
- Marketing Strategy completed
- 3/17 Categories completed
- Next major milestone
- Test Fixture update
- Website tool update
- New RTM in review

##  APL Early Applications

- Starting 17 March 06
- Submit applications
- FIFO
- Maximum per category
- Approval process validation
- Must be flexible

## Questions ?

- April Giles
- _Contact information:_
- Email:	_[april.giles@gsa.gov](mailto:april.giles@gsa.gov)_
- Website: _http://www.smart.gov/fips201apl_
- Phone:	1.202.501.1123
# Presentation: 697699

## ITR: Study of Complex Nanoclustered States using Novel Efficient Algorithms, Adriana Moreo and Elbio Dagotto, University of Tennessee, DMR0443144

- Manganites are materials that exhibit colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) and are used in many prototypical electronic devices.
- An understanding of the CMR mechanism is crucial to guide devices design.
- A novel algorithm has been implemented and applied to models for manganites, allowing access to previously unreachable system sizes.
- PRB73, 224430(2006); Science 309, 257 (2005); PRB 73, 224441 (2006).

- Top: Schematic representation of the
- CMR state, as obtained in simulations.
- Bottom: Phase diagram of a model for
- manganites obtained in large systems.
# Presentation: 110469

**Mr. Rainer Dombrowsky**
**NWS/Office of Services**
***December 4, 2001***

**National Weather Service**
**Observation Standards**

***Workshop on Strategy for Providing ******Atmospheric Information***

## Definition

**STANDARD - SOMETHING ESTABLISHED BY AUTHORITY, CUSTOM, OR GENERAL CONSENT AS A MODEL OR EXAMPLE : CRITERION**
**SOMETHING SET UP AND ESTABLISHED BY AUTHORITY AS A RULE OF MEASURE OF QUANTITY, WEIGHT, EXTENT, VALUE OR QUALITY.**
**syn STANDARD, CRITERION, GAUGE, YARDSTICK, TOUCHSTONE MEAN A MEANS OF DETERMINING WHAT A THING SHOULD BE.**

## Observation Standards

** ****STANDARDS ARE DEFINED FOR BOTH OBSERVATIONS AND INSTRUMENTATION**
-  STANDARDS ARE WIDELY APPLIED **BUT ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME FROM ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER**
** ****STANDARDS FOR OBSERVATIONS AND INSTRUMENTATION CAN AND DO APPLY BROADLY BUT ARE FREQUENTLY NOT MET, IN MOST INSTANCES IN THE EXTREME RANGES OF INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE**
** ****STANDARDS RECEIVE LITTLE OR NO ENFORCEMENT**
** ****NON-STANDARD DATA HAS VALUE** **AND IS USED ROUTINELY**
# Presentation: 284405

## Initial Comparisons between SBUV/2 V8 and MLS Ozone Mixing Ratios

_**C Long**_**, J Wild, S Zhou, AJ Miller** ***NOAA/NWS***
**L Flynn, S Kondragunta, T Beck** ***NOAA/NESDIS***

## Introduction:

**Preparatory research before data assimilation.**
**MLS and HIRDLS may provide higher quality ozone profile information than SBUV/2 V8.**
**MLS and HIRDLS may be available at higher resolution than SBUV/2 V8.**
**MLS never available in NRT**** **
**Eliminates use in operational forecast model**
**Usable for research and validation**
**HIRDLS ozone data available sometime in 2006(?) for NRT data assimilation.**

## MLS – SBUV/2 Comparisons

**Initial comparison between MLS and SBUV/2 V8 ozone mixing ratios.**
**Matched MLS and SBUV/2 obs in time/space for entire month of March 2005**
**Full latitudinal coverage**
**800 – 1100 match-ups per 10****° band zones**
**Produced zonal means at each instruments pressure levels.**
**Plots of zonal means, st. dev., pct differences (M-S)/M, and st. dev. of diff **
**Comparisons similar from initial comparisons by **
**	****L Froidevaux against SAGE II at some pressure levels**

## Slide 4

## Latitudinal comparisons at individual pressure levels

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Profile comparisons at latitude zones

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## Slide 19

## Slide 20

## Conclusions

**High Latitudes:**
**MLS  and SBUV/2 compare best between 30 and 5 hPa.**
**Differs by 20% at 1 hPa.**
**Agrees with MLS - SAGE II comparisons**
**Mid and Low Latitudes**
**Differ significantly (~ 20 %) at 1 and 10 hPa.**
**Which is correct needs further review**
**What to do about it? Where?**
# Presentation: 740107

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

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

***Total SARs: 60,544***

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Virginia

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

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

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

***Total SARs: 1,810***

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

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

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

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

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

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

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
# Presentation: 509456

## Rule 105 Requirements in Plant Patent Applications

- Bruce Campell
- Supervisory Patent Examiner
- Art Unit 1661
- 703-308-4205
- Bruce.Campell@uspto.gov

## Why is a rule 105 requirement for information made?

## Typically to ask when, if ever, a plant variety was placed in the public domain by offer for sale or or other public use.
This information is germane because...

- This information is germane because...

## Printed publications are usually not enabled prior art under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) if the disclosed plant variety was not available to one skilled in the art.

## A printed publication anticipates a claim if it discloses the claimed invention "such that a skilled artisan could take its teachings in combination with his own knowledge of the particular art and be in possession of the invention." 
In re LeGrice 301 F.2d 929, 133 USPQ 365 (CCPA 1962)

*In re LeGrice* 301 F.2d 929, 133 USPQ 365 (CCPA 1962)

## A printed publication can be an enabling disclosure if the disclosed plant variety is available to one skilled in the art.
Ex parte Thomson 24 USPQ2d 1618 (B.P.A.I. 1992)

*Ex parte Thomson *24 USPQ2d 1618 (B.P.A.I. 1992)

## Examples of printed publications which could trigger a rule 105 requirement

- Plant Breeder’s Right or Plant Variety Protection applications or grants disclosed in the UPOV database
- Catalogs with unclear release dates (“Fall 1998,” “1998/1999,” etc.)
- “Preview” type articles disclosing an anticipated release date

## When is a Rule 105 request utilized ?

- When there is evidence suggesting that the claimed plant variety may have been in the public domain.
# Presentation: 795475

## QUANTUM ROTATIONS IN METHYL IODIDE:

_**QUANTUM ROTATIONS IN METHYL IODIDE:**_
_**A Study Using HFBS and FANS**_

_**Group C**_
**Christopher Kitchens**
**Yifu Ding**
**Amit Kumar**
**Joon Ho Roh**

## High Flux Backscattering Spectrometer

_**High Flux Backscattering Spectrometer**_

## High Flux Backscattering Spectrometer

- energy transfers upto ±50 μeV
- motions on ns timescales
- momentum transfers from 0.25 Å-1 to 1.75 Å-1

- _High Flux Backscattering Spectrometer_

## BULK CH3I DYNAMICS

- CH3I melting point = 206 K

_**BULK CH**__**3**__**I DYNAMICS**_

- Inelastic

- Quasielastic

- Use 3-fold symmetric potential

## HFBS DATA FOR CH3I at T = 8 K

_**HFBS DATA FOR CH**__**3**__**I at T = 8 K**_

- Et = 2.3 μeV

- V3 = 42 meV

- E ~ 7.5 meV ?

- Check with FANS

## Filter Analyzer Neutron Spectrometer

- energy transfers of order 10 to 100 meV
- resolution about 1 meV

- _Filter Analyzer Neutron Spectrometer_

## FANS DATA at T = 12 K

- _Fit Results :_
- Elib = 13.2 meV

## HFBS DATA FOR CH3I at T = 40 K

_**HFBS DATA FOR CH**__**3**__**I at T = 40 K**_

## EISF Fitting for T = 40 K data 

- Rfit = 0.965 Å
- Rexp = 1.03 Å

## SUMMARY

- HFBS was used to study the rotational dynamics of CH3I.
- Tunneling energy was determined using HFBS from which the barrier height and the transition energy for libration was calculated.
- Data from FANS was used to verify the prediction of the libration transition energy.
- Radius of the methyl group was estimated by fitting the EISF data.

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

**To  NIST and NSF for the opportunity to experiment and study Neutron Spectroscopy and its applications**
**To the NCNR Summer School Coordinators and Instructors for their assistance and guidance **
# Presentation: 060010

## Human-Robot Interaction

- Jean Scholtz
- Information Access Division
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- jean.scholtz@nist.gov

## HRI compared to HCI

- What’s different in HRI
- physical interaction of robot with real-world
- tasks that the “user” is engaged in
- autonomous nature of robot
- dynamic nature of robot
- different relationships of user- robot (roles)
- What are the implications of this
- more/different types of information that need to appear in the user interface

## Introducing Roles

- Roles reflect the current and future use of robots
- Roles can support evolution of robot autonomy
- Roles can be used to simplify investigations into the information/interactions that are needed in HRI
- User interfaces can be defined by deciding what roles that particular user will play

## Roles

- Operator
- what we currently view as the HRI role
- Supervisor
- monitors a number of robots at an abstract level
- Team mate
- works along side the robot
- Mechanic
-  fixes physical aspects of the robot
- Bystander
- exists in the same environment with the robot
**All roles (except bystander) could be assumed by one person**
**All roles could be played by different people- but simultaneously**

## 7 stages of HCI - Norman

- Goals
- Intentions
- Actions
- Perception
- Evaluation

- Gulf of execution and Gulf of evaluation

## Proposed models for different roles

- Peer

- Goals
- Intentions
- Actions
- sub A
- Perception
- Evaluation

- Bystander

- Goals
- Intentions
- Actions
- Perception
- Evaluation
*Software    Hardware*

- Mechanic

- Goals
- Intentions
- Actions
- Perception
- Evaluation

- Operator

- Supervisor

## How to support HRI roles?

- Determine information needed to support different roles
- user goals, plans
- robot world model
- changing status of robot
- current status of user
- Other role interactions happening at the same time
- Develop different presentations of information
- Develop interaction modes suitable for various roles

## Example

- FTIG
- Pilot study to examine autonomous mobility
- Which also means we need to examine “operator intervention”
- Situation
- Robot was going far off of the way points specified
- Operator intervened when called by robot but kept it in teleop mode for sometime
- “I have no idea what robot will do if I put it back in autonomous mode”
- Only info available was current robot status, camera views
- What had happened was that GPS unit was malfunctioning

## Challenges

- How to design for the future
- evolution of robot autonomy should be accommodated in our interaction models
- How to evaluate
- Different missions; different roles; different domains play a role
- Can we come up with guidelines, principles and evaluation methods to guide design of systems?
- How to organize research so that it can have greater impact
# Presentation: 577518

## IRMIS PV Viewer

*The XAL-based PV Viewer*

## IRMIS PV Viewer

**Started out as PHP version of Oracle app-server viewer**
**Decided that thin-clients not sufficient**
**PV Viewer Foundation**
- Java Swing
- Subset of XAL (later topic)
- Java database access layer (later topic)

## IRMIS PV Viewer

**Application architecture follows XAL implementation of Model-View-Controller (MVC)**

**PVDocument**

**PVWindow**

**PVModel**

**C**

**M**

**V**

- xxxAction()

- modified()

- notifyListeners()

- Run SQL
- Update model
# Presentation: 317639

## TAMDAR

- Sensor and System

- ATReC/AIRS-II
- Campaign Data Review
- April 22, 2004

## TAMDAR overview

- Multi-function airborne sensor
- Aircraft meteorological data collection and reporting in the lower troposphere
- Improved spatial and temporal data collection vs. existing systems
- Richer atmospheric data sets than currently available

## The TAMDAR sensor

- Detects and determines:
- Ice presence
- Median and peak turbulence
- Static pressure and pressure altitude
- Air temperature (Mach corrected)
- Relative humidity
- Indicated and true airspeed
- Winds aloft
- Built-in GPS

## TAMDAR overview

- _Data communication requirements_
- Complete coverage (global)
- Minimal latency
- Affordability (hardware and bandwidth)
- Reliability / stability

## TAMDAR airborne equipment

## The TAMDAR system

## Aircraft datalink capabilities

- Iridium Satellite selected (AirDat is a VAR)
- Four-way cross-linked satellites provide total coverage of the Earth and minimal latency
- Satellites relay messages and need not be in same footprint as the gateway

## Network architecture

- AirDat Network Architecture

## Aircraft datalink capabilities

- Message Latency

## TAMDAR installations

**NOAA P3**

**UND Citation**

**NRL Twin Otter**

**UND Seminole**

## TAMDAR probe on Saab 340

## UND Citation II

- First fully-integrated TAMDAR system
- Sensor, SPU, transceiver, etc.
- Installed early November 2003 for participation in THORpex

## TAMDAR data / THORpex

- Three data websites set up to support the THORpex experiment
- Map display:
- _[http://thorpex.airdat.com](http://thorpex.airdat.com/)_
- Table viewer:
- _[http://](http://thorpex.airdat.com/viewer)__[thorpex.airdat.com](http://thorpex.airdat.com/viewer)__[/viewer](http://thorpex.airdat.com/viewer)_
- Data FTP site:
- _[http://](http://thorpex.airdat.com/output-files/)__[thorpex.airdat.com](http://thorpex.airdat.com/output-files/)__[/output-files/](http://thorpex.airdat.com/output-files/)_
- These URLs were forwarded to THORpex participants shortly after flights began

## THORpex map viewer

## THORpex map viewer

## THORpex map viewer

## THORpex map viewer

## THORpex map viewer

## THORpex table viewer

## THORpex FTP site

## TAMDAR – next steps

- Great Lakes Flight Experiment
- Late summer 2004
- 60 Saab 340 turboprops operated by Mesaba
- 412 daily flights to 75 airports
- We anticipate collecting approximately 25,000 TAMDAR data sets daily
- This data will be made available through an open website
# Presentation: 042984

## Research Translation

- Dan Chang,
- Core Leader

## Current Emphasis

- Getting "technologies" to the user- community
- Partner with the Graduate School of Management (GSM), to train scientists in business development, team GSM and trainees to consider commercialization opportunities
- Actively seeking opportunities to apply existing technologies
- Improving commercialization potential
- "Spinning off" into a related area, e.g., MTBE/TBA
- Work with user community on science of an "emerging contaminant" issue, e.g, biosolids
- International collaborations - graduate student exchanges
- Conventional means - journal pubs, research briefs, web sites, and contact with public agencies and NGOs through the UC Toxic Substances Research & Teaching Program
# Presentation: 387374

## UNM / Harvard PREM Remotely Powered Self-Propelling Particles and Micropumps Based on Miniature Diodes

- S.T. Chang, V.N. Paunov, D.N. Petsev and O.D. Velev
*Nature Materials* **6** (2007) p. 235

- The precise control of fluid transport in microchannels is of paramount importance for the successful design  and operation of fluidic devices.  Using miniature diodes embedded in the walls of fluidic microchannels in combination with AC field is a very simple and convenient tool to manipulate the flows in microchannels.
-  ***Mixing.***  Due to the low Reynolds number of microflows, mixing of components is a real challenge.  Using properly oriented diodes allows to generate a vortex fluid motion by simply turning on a properly connected AC field source as shown in the figure.
***Separation.***  Using diodes and a combination of AC and DC fields in a loop-shaped channel allows complete decoupling of the fluid electroosmosis from the analyte electrophoresis.  Balancing the electrophoretic and convective forces on the different analytes allows for a very easy and efficient separation in the lower part of the loop in the picture.

- Lopez, Gabriel P.

**Gabriel P. Lopez, University of New Mexico, DMR 0611616**** **
# Presentation: 356554

## FDA MDUFMA Stakeholder MeetingAMDR Presentation

- <date/time>

- FDA MDUFMA Stakeholder Meeting*AMDR Presentation*

- December 3, 2003
- Gaithersburg, MD

- .

- <date/time>

- .

- “Pre-MDUFMA” Background

- Reprocessors subject to the same regulatory requirements as OEMs
- 20+ year stellar safety record
- Reprocessing embraced by the nation’s top hospitals

- <date/time>

- .

- Why MDUFMA?

- No public health rationale
- Continued OEM frustration with economic threat posed by reprocessing
- Pressure on sales and profits

- <date/time>

- .

- Reprocessors’ Role in MDUFMA

- Active participation to ensure:
-  A vigorous FDA regulatory scheme that allows hospitals continued access to safe, effective, low-cost reprocessed devices.

- <date/time>

- .

- The Messages of MDUFMA

- Reprocessed devices play an important role in our health care system:
- “The Committee recognizes that there are cost savings associated with using devices that have been reprocessed.  Therefore, we want to ensure access to safe and effective reprocessed devices.”
- House Report 107-728, at 44.

- <date/time>

- .

- The Messages of MDUFMA

- MDUFMA must be implemented in the “least burdensome” manner:
- “In determining the type or types of [validation] data to be submitted for FDA’s review, the Secretary should be mindful of FDAMA, which obligates FDA to impose the least burdensome requirements on companies seeking premarket clearance/approval for their devices.”
- House Report 107-728, at 45-6.

- <date/time>

- .

- What’s Happening Now

- Reprocessors are complying with MDUFMA’s requirements

- <date/time>

- .

- What’s Happening Now

- Sudden emergence of anti-reprocessing “patient advocacy” groups
- Broad-based anti-reprocessing media campaign

- <date/time>

- .

- Reprocessing is Here to Stay

- Despite the enormous efforts to eliminate reprocessed devices as an option for hospitals, the third-party reprocessing industry is growing, and is continuing to provide hospitals with a safe, effective way to achieve cost savings.

- <date/time>

- .

- Benefits of Reprocessing

- Enables hospitals to save money without compromising patient care
- Savings are used to improve patient care
- Reduces the medical waste stream
- Provides competitive pressure on price of original devices
# Presentation: 499942

## FNALU STATUS July 10, 2007

## History

**VMS -> Unix**

## History

**Multi-platform**

**Notes:**
No Linux yet!

## History

**A home**
**A code repository**

## History

**Primary access to AFS**

## History

**Batch:**
**CLUBS**
**  ****FBS**
**    ****LSF**

## History

**Many UPS/UPD products**

**Notes:**
Picture of quilt

## History

**Tape**
**Access**

## History

**Mail, predating IMAP servers**

## History

**Eventually, web access**

**Notes:**
Picture of quilt

## Where are we now?

**The systems**
**  ****The users**

## Current Configuration

**4 Suns**

## Current Configuration

**2 Linux SGIs**

## Current Configuration

**24 Linux batch nodes**
**   ****18**** ****are really old**

## Current Configuration

**7 MINOS-owned batch nodes**

## Current Configuration

**4 Linux interactive nodes**

## Current Configuration

**Antique console server**

## Current Use

**MINOS batch processing**

## Current Use

**Reading mail**

## Current Use

**Small & start-up experiments**
**... ****T969 ****GammeV****, for example**

## Current Use

**Login gateway from home and**
**   ****when traveling**

## Current Use

**Node-locked applications**

## Centralized services

**Migrate services that are**
**better handled elsewhere ...**

**Notes:**
Per the FY08 FNALU Tactical Plan

## Migrating services

**IMAP for email receipt**

## Migrating services

**Direct desktop access to AFS**

## Migrating services

**Move active users & files**
**AFS -> NAS/Dcache/Enstore**

## Migrating services

**Batch -> FermiGRID**
**Condor/VDT - AFS issues**

## Hardware changes

**Linux only**

## Hardware changes

**FY07 Decommission SGIs**
**Replace with existing batch**
**nodes**

## Hardware changes

**Early FY08 Decommission Suns**
**Replace with new Linux nodes**

## Hardware changes

**Decommission the really old**
**batch nodes (most of them)**

## Hardware changes

**Equipment consolidation to FCC2**

## Application changes

**Email delivery to FNALU**
**ends Oct 1st**
**Announcements & FAQ**
**Migration issues**
**No pine support**

**Notes:**
Pine went to Colorado with Mike Stolz.

## Application changes

**Mafia support Sun -> Linux**

**Notes:**
Pine went to Colorado with Mike Stolz.

## Application changes

**LSF is frozen**
**Ends with MINOS -> FermiGRID**

**Notes:**
Pine went to Colorado with Mike Stolz.

## Application changes

**Merge the Condor submission node with FNALU?**

**Notes:**
Pine went to Colorado with Mike Stolz.

## Main users of FNALU

## For the future

**Home for small & start-up**
**experiments**

## For the future

**Remote login gateway**

## For the future

**Licensed applications on**
**Linux only**

## For the future

**Do we want every new user**
**to have an FNALU account?**** **

## Conclusions

**Leverage centralized services**

## Conclusions

**Integrate with other services**
**where beneficial**

## Conclusions

**First resort for experiments**
**with few or no resources**

## Conclusions

**Stay within the effort**
**allocated for the group**

## Questions ...
# Presentation: 700060

## A METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE DRIVER ACCEPTANCE

**Transportation Research Board **
**Annual Meeting**
**January 15, 2002**
**Mary Stearns**
**Wassim Najm**
**Linda Boyle**
**Volpe National Transportation Systems Center**

## Evaluation Goals forIntelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI)Crash Avoidance Systems (CAS)

**Understand safety benefits**
**Determine driver acceptance**
**Characterize performance and capability**
**Assess deployment potential and price**
**Address institutional and legal issues**
**Determine driver acceptance**

## IVI

**...****Designing a technology to fit the perception, cognition, and behavior of the entire citizenry, in a safety critical function**
**...****Drivers are provided with additional in-vehicle information, which might, unless carefully designed, compromise...safety and efficiency**
**Human factors conditions become a dominant consideration in design and development**
**	****	*****IVI Business Plans, 1997,2000 ***
**	****	**

## Driver Acceptance depends on:

**The degree to which drivers can use products successfully**
**Perceived usefulness to the driver**
**Potential for market acceptance, considering usability and product cost   **
**	****	****	*****NHTSA Strategic Plan 1997***** **
** **

## Driver Acceptance Methodology

**Objectives express driver acceptance elements **
**Sub-objectives specify objectives**
**Measures to r****ate each sub-objective**
**pre- and post-Field Operational Test (FOT) surveys**
**FOT vehicle data, video clips**
**focus groups**
**controlled experimentation**

## Driver Acceptance Objectives

**Ease of use**
**Ease of learning**
**Adaptation **
**Desirability – perceived value**
**Affordability (Advocacy)**

## Slide 7

## Measures - Ease of Use

- Ready Usability
- 	*“**How hard was it to use  CAS controls?”*
*	**What was the Incidence of erroneous activation of controls?*
- Support of individual variability
- Awareness of CAS state, operational thresholds
- Perceived demands on driver
- CAS use patterns
- Discriminability of alerts
- Reaction to false/nuisance alarms

## Measures - Ease of Learning

- Time to learn
- Utility of instructions, training
***Ability to retain knowledge of use***
***“******Did you feel you could easily recall CAS operation?”***

## Measures - Adaptation

- Allocation of control inputs, in-vehicle activities
***Visual accommodation***
*“**Drivers Opinion of ability to judge location of distant vehicles/objects”*
- Alertness
- Travel patterns
- Behavioral adaptation

## Measures - Desirability

- Perception of safety
***“******Willingness to drive in adverse conditions”***
***Driving skill enhancement******	***
***Measures of vehicle control; i.e., road position error***
- Seamless system integration
- Reduced workload

## Measures - Affordability/Advocacy

***Willingness to endorse CAS***
***“******Willing to recommend CAS use to family/friends?”***
- Interest in purchasing CAS
- Amount willing to pay
- Acceptance of CAS in rental vehicle

## Successful adoption of IVI CAS Technologies and attainment of anticipated benefits requires that:There is a comprehensive understanding of driver acceptance issues
# Presentation: 509474

## Counting California: A Citizen’s Gateway to Public Data

- Trisha Cruse, Project Manager, Counting California
- California Digital Library
- August 16, 2001 -- Library of California

## Counting California: in a nutshell

- One stop shopping for data and statistics about California
- Target a variety of users
- Core components:
- To provide flexible, predictable, user-friendly access
- To guarantee uniform and persistent access
- To use digital content to create tools and services to meet our community needs

## Why Counting California?

- Challenges presented by agency data
- Data discovery in a distributed environment
- Variety of formats and mediums
- CD-ROM
- HTML tables
- Spreadsheets... etc
- No mechanism for preservation or persistent access

## What data are in Counting California?

- State Data:
- California Statistical Abstract
- Historical Census
- Legal Immigration
- STAR Data
- Race/Ethnic Population
- Vital Statistics Data

- Federal Data:
- Census 2000
- 1990 Census
- County Business Patterns
- USA Counties

## Integration is the backbone

##  It is all about the user!

**Data Discovery is user focused**
- Provide multiple entry points into the data: Topic, Geography, Title, Agency, Search
- Ensure no data dead-ends – never return 0 results
**Data Delivery is user focused**
- Provide standard display regardless of original format of data
- Provide the ability to customize... geography, tables, and more

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Counting California: for more info 

- http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org
- Patricia Cruse, Project Leader
- _[patricia](mailto:Patricia.cruse@ucop.edu)__[.cruse@](mailto:Patricia.cruse@ucop.edu)__[ucop](mailto:Patricia.cruse@ucop.edu)__[.](mailto:Patricia.cruse@ucop.edu)__[edu](mailto:Patricia.cruse@ucop.edu)_
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## Run 2B CDF Silicon Upgrade

**Run 2B CDF Silicon Upgrade**

- Volume now occupied by SVX-II is entirely instrumented using identical “staves”

- Layer 00 Replacement

- 166 mm

- LBNL “stave” concept

## Readout Chip 

- 		**Run 2A**
- SVX3 chip back-end (front end and **integration** at FNAL)
- Bench testing & irradiation of SVX3 prototypes
- Probing all SVX3 wafers
- Reprobing every individual chip

- 		**Run 2B**
- SVX4 chip back end (front end at FNAL) **integration & full chip simulation**
- Bench testing & irradiation of SVX4 prototypes
- All wafer probing to be done at FNAL

- (test chip)
- First full chip run due 5/23/02

- SVX3D

## Hybrids

- 		**Run 2A**
- Design & prototype **    ** different hybrids
- Design & prototype port card
- Design & fabricate SVX-II  jumpers
- Prototype ladders & test electrically
- Fabrication at 3 separate vendors of all ~1400 hybrids
- Vendor assembly of all hybrids
- Develop test and burn-in system
- Test and repair  all  individual hybrids (**13** types)
- Burn-in all hybrids

- 		**Run 2B**
- Design & prototype **    ** different hybrids
- Prototype stave & test electrically
- Fabrication at 1 vendor of all ~1400 hybrids
- Eng. Div. Assembly & Test of all ~1400 hybrids
- All Burn-in at UC Davis

**13**

**2**

## Run 2A Hybrid Challenges Explicitly Avoided in Run 2B

| Up to 8 chips per hybrid. Yield was a problem for such large hybrids.  | Only 4 chips per hybrid maximum.  |
| --- | --- |
| Mfg. Problems with silver/gold mixed metal system | Only using gold conductor |
| 6 metal layer design. Significant substrate bowing | 4 metal layers – expect minimal bowing |
| Special “jumper” to route signals around 2-sided silicon* | Single sided silicon. No jumper.  |
| Mfg. & Assy.  issues with 2-sided hybrids for ISL.  | All hybrids single sided |
| Miniature “finger”  hybrid for signals and components between chips | No “finger” (reduced number of components required by SVX4) |
| Silver epoxy connections for some components* | All components soldered |
| Schedule  issues with assembly vendors | In-house assembly by Eng. Div. |

- * Candidates for run-time failures seed in SVX-II

**2A**

**2B**
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## Run 2 Upgrade Meeting August 13, 2003

- Agenda:
- July Status Update (Ken/Dean)
- Reviews update (Pushpa)
- List and discuss pre-shutdown studies and shutdown activities (All)
- All upgrade-related studies to be done before September shutdown
- All shutdown activities
- readiness
- Resources – dedicated? shared?
- Overlaps, conflicts with other work

- P. Bhat

- Run 2 Upgrade Meeting

## Reviews Update

- Tuesday, August 26 - Helix/separators review
-  helix step-wise plan review
- Committee:  H. Edwards (chair), Jerry Annala
-      Others suggested: Dave Finley, someone from TD
- 2nd part late September/early October?
- Thursday, August 28 (?) - Slip-stacking
- Committee:  Jim Steimel, Brian Chase, Claudio Rivetta
- Tuesday, September 30 -Wire/BBC
- Contacting a couple of CERN people
- Committee: Helen Edwards, John Marriner, Koutchouk/Zimmermann (CERN), TD-rep?
- Thursday, October 2 - 2.5 MHz acceleration
- Committee: ?
- Documents/updates to reviewers should be available about 10 days before the review meeting

- Run 2 Upgrade Meeting

## Project Status

- Slip-stacking
- Quotation from vendor for amplifiers expected this week
- Beam studies before shutdown
- Review scope, design, results, implementation plan  start this year?
- Dean needs July status updates!

- Run 2 Upgrade Meeting

## Slide 4

- Run 2 Upgrade Meeting

## Discussion:  “To do” items by Oct 8 DOE mini-review (8 weeks left!)

- (1) Shutdown plan
- Be doing:
- 	Recycler vacuum
- Sergei not present; Seems to be no issues
- 	Tev stands, align, vacuum, helix
- Work to proceed as planned.  Vladimir presented a table of planned tasks (see attached)
- 	AP2 align and movable quad stands
- Keith expressed concern over availability of surveyors for AP2 work
- 	MI dampers
- No anticipated problems
- 	various e-cool at Recycler
- No one to report
- Plan for startup and commissioning
- Paul Derwent expressed concern over study time for proton stacking studies that they would like to perform at the startup.  This means change in the polarity of the magnets in the AP2 line, Debuncher, D/A line, and the Accumulator.  These studies of proton stacking, which is  higher flux than pbar stacking, and forward 8 GeV protons through AP2  and Debuncher, will be combined.  The high flux enables comparison of measurements to simulations and calculations of cooling system behavior.

- Run 2 Upgrade Meeting

## Oct 1: 	technical review of Tevatron BPM system (10)

**Other reviews in the near-future:**
- Early Oct: IPM
- Oct: 	“did” we do Recycler vacuum and MI dampers in shutdown (7), (8)
- Oct 1: 	technical review of Tevatron BPM system (10)
- Oct 1:  	define performance parameters for the Recycler (9)

- Run 2 Upgrade Meeting
# Presentation: 356011

## CORE VALUES FOR  PEER REVIEW IN THE DETERMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC MERIT FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATIONS

- Peer Review Advisory Committee
- May 16, 2005
- Faye Calhoun

## Definitions

**Product to be reviewed**—a research grant application is a document describing a plan of performance and supporting evidence of the likelihood of success and the worth of that plan.
**Purpose of the grant application** is to gain support for a plan to contribute new knowledge to a program of research that will improve the health of the American people

## Definitions (con’t)

**Context of the Peer Review**—(as different from journal review or hospital peer review, etc.) applications determined to be of the highest quality and with program relevance/need will be funded by the federal government with taxpayer money.
**•  ****Initial Group Peer Review **—A rigorous interactive process of peers reviewing the contributions of peers in determining the merit of applications as evaluated against established criteria.

## Core Values/Objectives

-       To assure the transparency of the process that leads to funding judgments and decisions.
-       To maintain and support the credibility of and confidence in publicly funded biomedical research and the products from it (agency reputation).
-       To improve the quality of research through the discussions that occur and the feedback provided to the applicant investigator

## Core Values/Objectives (con’t)

-       To gain unprejudiced, evidence-based decisions from independent reviewers without conflicts with the applicant investigator
-       To enhance the breadth and depth of knowledge of the peer reviewers
-       To maintain an efficient and effective process
# Presentation: 005209

## Slide 1

## Slide 2

## PCOS and Insulin Resistance

- Clinical Research Centers
- Examination of parameters associated with insulin resistance
- Following correlated with insulin clamp model:
- Fasting insulin
- Subscapular skin-fold thickness
- Waist-to-hip ratio (associated with BMI)

## Insulin Resistance

- PCOS patients carefully defined
- Screened fasting glucose, 75 gm OGTT
- Incidence and prevalence NIDDM elevated
- Similar to Pima Indians
- DA Ehrmann et al, Diabetes Care 1999

## Androgens, PCOS, IR

- Review two-cell model
- Key regulatory enzymes
- Impact of elevated insulin on ovarian steroidogenesis

## PCOS and Androgens

- Enzymatic steps in androgen biosynthesis
- Cholesterol side chain cleavage (CYP11a gene)
- 17α-hydroxylase  (CYP17 gene)
- 3 β- and 17- β hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD)
- StAR (steroidogenic acute regulatory protein)

## PCOS and Androgens

- Cultured thecal cells from PCOS patients compared to cells from size-matched control follicles
-  exhibit ****testosterone, 17-OH progesterone, progesterone after 20-40 doublings
**McAllister JM, Endocrine Society 2000**

## PCOS Steroidogenesis

- cAMP activator
- Pregnenolone, cholesterol, DHEA
- Rapid metabolism to A4 and Testosterone
- Absence of pituitary or paracrine factors
-  17α-hydroxylase, scc, 3β-, 17β HSD
- Not StAR
- Conclude: Selective alteration, not global cAMP
**McAllister JM, Endocrine Society 2000**
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## TSU Automated TelescopesCenter for Automated Space Science

- Willard Smith
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- September 26, 2001

## TSU Automated Telescopes

- Eleven Automated Photometric Telescopes (APT)
- 10” to 1 meter
- Photo multiplier technology
- Certified most accurate systems of this type
- Captured first “photographed” Planetary Transit

## TSU Automated Telescopes

- Seven telescopes dedicated to TSU research
- Three telescopes for collaboration with South Carolina State Univ., Western Kentucky Univ., UNLV, The University of Charleston, Univ. of South New Zealand, Villanova, The Citadel, Vanderbilt, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
- Phoenix 10” “rent a telescope”

## TSU Automated Telescopes

- 2 meter Automated Spectrographic Telescope (AST) under construction ~ 2 years away
- Automated Imaging Telescope (AIT) to be finished soon

## TSU Automated Telescopes

- Scheduling of telescopes is individual
- Schedules of some scopes is quite static for years
- Each telescope has dedicated computer
- Full automation central scheduling worked on in past
- Schedules interruptible on demand by software

## TSU Automated Telescopes

- Data is are reduced before ftp to TSU and other sites.
- Data volume is small
- Formerly transmitted by dedicated 14kbs line
- Now transmitted by 2.6mbs microwave/radio

## TSU Automated Telescopes

- Additional Telescope
- 2.4 meter “Hubble” spare being constructed at 10,000 ft. South Baldy Mountain joint effort of New Mexico Tech and White Sands Missile Range Socorro, N.M.
# Presentation: 071057

## {

** ****New Pathways **
**to Discovery**

**Harmonization**

**Target ID & Valid.**

**Phases I-III**

**Research **
**Teams **
**of Future**

**Translational **
**Cores**

**Clinical **
**Networks**** **

**Molecular Libraries**

**Clinical and Translational Science Awards**

**R & D**

***NIH Roadmap:  A Systems Approach Across the Research Spectrum***** **

**Practice**

**Screening/ Optimization**

**Preclinical**

**Fundamental **

**Public-Private**
**Partnerships**

**PPP-Across the entire spectrum**

##  NIH Roadmap Molecular Libraries Program: Assay Development for High Throughput Screening

*** ****** ***_**http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/molecularlibraries/**_
***Mark Scheideler, Ph.D., Program Director***
***scheidelerm@ninds.nih.gov***
***Fong Wang, Ph.D., Scientific Analyst***
***wangf@ninds.nih.gov ***

##  Aims of the Program:

**Extract assays from ongoing research programs, and provide the resourcing needed to configure them for use in probe development projects.**
**Encourage the development of novel assays and assay technologies.**

## Molecular  Libraries 

**Compound Repository**

***Molecular  Libraries ***
***Screening Center Network (MLSCN )***

- HTS Assays

## Overall Capabilities of the 

***Screening Center Network***

**Complementary**
**HTS**

**Kalypsys **
# Presentation: 525703

## NASA UPN 104-07-01-2                         JPL Project # 102197-2.19.4 QUARTERLY TECHNICAL PROGRESS REVIEWTASK TITLE:		 Extreme EnvironmentQUARTER:		1 FY04 LEAD CENTER:		JPLPROGRAM AREA:		NEPP/EPAC CONTRIBUTORS:		TASK MANAGER:		Dr. Reza GhaffarianFY04 FUNDING:		$40 K

**NASA UPN 104-07-01-2                         JPL Project # 102197-2.19.4 ****QUARTERLY TECHNICAL PROGRESS REVIEW****TASK TITLE:****	****	**** Extreme Environment****QUARTER:****	****	****1 FY04 ****LEAD CENTER:****	****	****JPL****PROGRAM AREA:****	****	****NEPP/EPAC ****CONTRIBUTORS:****	****	****TASK MANAGER:****	****	****Dr. Reza Ghaffarian****FY04 FUNDING:****	****	****$40 K**

## STATEMENT OF WORK Extreme Environment

**OBJECTIVES/PRODUCTS**** ****Extreme Environment**

- Extreme temperature test could also be used as screen tool for all mission electronics when their limitation are defined. Extremely limited data by industry.
-  Body of knowledge documentation

- Guidance document will be released based on survey of  conventional leaded and newly available packages as well as bare die for use in extreme cold environment.  Survey results and data generated previously using test vehicles built by JPL-lead consortium as well as those funded by Mars project under TCRE (thermal cycling resistance electronics) will be documented.

## DELIVERABLES Extreme Environment

## SCHEDULE  Extreme Environment

## BUDGET/WORKFORCE  Extreme Environment

## MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS QUARTER Extreme Environment

**Collaboration with MSL (Mars Smart Lander).  Review of 2****nd**** test vehicle design for MSL (review was funded by TCRE of  MSL)**

**PLANS FOR NEXT QUARTER **

- Start technology status search

## PROBLEMS AND CONCERNS  Extreme Environment

- No Concerns
# Presentation: 542913

## ERC has given the NASA SBIR Program major credit for ERC's growth, starting in 1988 with its first SBIR contract for $50K and two employees to today's employment of over a hundred employees and a yearly revenue of $14M 

**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**Application of Intelligent Systems to**
**Complex Processes**
***Engineering Research and Consulting, Inc.******Tullahoma, TN***

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Combined expert systems concepts with electronic publishing for use on the World Wide Web
- Formed a spin-off company in electronic publishing rated as one of the "Top 100 Web Developers": in the country by a third party survey conducted by Lotus
- Applied neural networks and genetic algorithms to operate intelligent controls for electric power utility plants to reduce NOX emissions
** ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- On the basis of their SBIR work, ERC generated $4.9M of post-Phase II revenue from commercial and government sources.  In addition, this effort resulted in ten new jobs
- ERC has given the NASA SBIR Program major credit for ERC's growth, starting in 1988 with its first SBIR contract for $50K and two employees to today's employment of over a hundred employees and a yearly revenue of $14M

- Ames Research Center
- SS # 2-005 - Contacts:
- ERC - Dr. Susan Wu (931) 455-9915
- NASA - Alan Levin (650) 604-5878

- 1988 Phase 2, Contract No. NAS2-13203
- 1992 Phase 2, Contract No. NAS2-14062

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Development of a neural network-based automated data screening system for the Space Shuttle main engine
- Development of an integrated knowledge system for wind tunnel testing at NASA Ames
- Development of a neural network-based expert system for fault diagnosis for the Air Force Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility
# Presentation: 353720

## Energizing the Northwest

**TRANSMISSION **
**AND THE POWER SYSTEM**

**September 28-29**
**Portland, Oregon**

## PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

**The interplay of generation, demand response, conservation and transmission**

**The complexity of institutions and assignment of responsibility**

## SYSTEM PHYSICS

**What are the key factors **
**in doing **
**this well ?**

**SYSTEM PHYSICS**

**Running the existing bulk transmission system given the current status of generation, fuel supply, demand response and transmission**

## KEY FACTORS

## INSTITUTIONAL OPTIONS

##  RESOURCE ADEQUACY

**The physics of the system depend on the availability of resources including demand response.  Conservation or demand response, especially at peak times, reduces the stress on the system.**

##  RESOURCE ADEQUACY

**Generation, demand response, conservation and transmission: all have a critical role to play.**
**Each is governed by a different set of market dynamics and cost recovery principles while they are substitutes or near substitutes for each other**

## RESOURCE ADEQUACY

**Analyzing resource availability is a WECC role, determining minimum criteria for adequacy at this time is a regulatory function.  The RPIC has assigned PCC to develop recommendations for resource adequacy criteria.**

## RESOURCE ADEQUACY

**NERC has also recommended that Regions maintain and enforce resource adequacy criteria –must be done in consultation with regulatory community.**
**Balancing among the options is a public policy, governmental and regulatory issue because of their inherent roles in siting, cost recovery and market development.**

## TRANSMISSION

- Transmission siting requires both need and political will.
- Reliability and economic transmission are transitory, that  is an economic upgrade ultimately becomes a reliability upgrade.  Benefits are also transitory; e.g. beneficiaries change over time as load, generation and demand response change.
- Transmission cost recovery is rate base/rate-of-return but it has a direct effect on markets.
- Will require a multi-state, multi-project solution with wide political support.

## Transmission and the Power System

**Comments**