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# Presentation: 555765

## Development of Percolation Theory for Interface Networks in MaterialsChristopher A. Schuh, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, MET DMR-0346848

- Materials usually contain internal interfaces, some of which can be weak-links that compromise properties.  We study the connectivity among the “weak-link” boundaries at short-, medium-, and long-range through polycrystalline structures

- Monte Carlo computer simulations are used to construct microstructures and impose crystallographic constraints on the grain boundary network.

- Crystallography is used to understand the tendency for local clustering among “weak-link boundaries”...

_**Our research from the past year has been widely disseminated through:**_
- The Ph.D. thesis of M. Frary
- The M.Eng. thesis of J. Zielinski
- The B.S. thesis of C. Ng
- High-profile papers in Phil.Mag. (v85 p1123), Acta Mater. (v53 p4323) and J. Materials Science (v40 p847)
- 9 seminars and conference presentations (7 invited)

- ... and we have recently shown that these have a strong tendency to form preferred, or “magic”, cluster sizes.  This result applies to *all polycrystals*, and will be especially important for micro-systems technologies

## Development of Percolation Theory for Interface Networks in MaterialsChristopher A. Schuh, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, MET DMR-0346848

_**Our research involves education at many levels:**_

- Development of Percolation Theory for Interface Networks in MaterialsChristopher A. Schuh, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, MET DMR-0346848

**Ph.D. students**

- Megan Frary received her Ph.D. in 2005 for her work on grain boundary network science, and is now an Assistant Professor at Boise State University

- Ying Chen joined the group in 2004 and studies the structure- mechanical property relationships in grain boundary engineered materials

- Jeremy Mason joined the group in 2005 and is developing a polychromatic percolation theory for grain boundary networks

**M.Eng. student**

- Jeff Zielinski was awarded an M.Eng. degree in 2005 for his thesis analyzing the business and technology of grain boundary engineering

**B.S. students**

- Christopher Ng successfully defended his B.S. thesis in 2005, on grain boundary connectivity at quadruple nodes.  He was given the “Best Thesis Award” by the Department

- Vinay Rodrigues has been working on his B.S. thesis for 9 months and will defend it in 2006, on the development of a new crystallographic theory for triple junction statistics

**Outreach: Visiting Students**

- Soeren Mueller visited for 6 months from the Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaften und-technologien, Berlin, to study grain boundaries in magnesium

- Aoife Kelly is visiting for a 4 month period from Trinity College, Dublin, to study grain boundary connectivity in three dimensions

- Suzanne Nichols visited from University of Louisville for 3 months in 2004, and developed codes for grain boundary analysis
# Presentation: 442586

## Willow Creek - Lost Creek-Sylvania

- Paul Bolstad, Bruce Cook, Eileen Carey, Ankur Desai, Jon Martin,
- University of Minnesota
- Ken Davis, Weiguo Wang and Chuixiang Yi
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Peter Bakwin, NOAA/CMDL
- Jud Isebrands and Ron Teclaw,
- USDA - Forest Service

## 

## Upland, wetland, and

- Coniferous

- Mixed deciduous/coniferous

- Wetland

- Open water

- Shrubland

- General Agriculture

- 
**Willow Creek**

****** ****WLEF**

****
**Lost Creek**

- 

- Landcover key

- very tall flux tower. Old
- growth tower to the NE.
- High-precision CO2
- profile at each site.
- Mini-mesonet, 15-20km
- spacing between towers.

## Goals

- Provide stand-scale flux data to upscale to the large-area WLEF fluxes.  (W Creek, L Creek)
- Diagnose causes of interannual changes in WLEF fluxes.  (W Creek, L Creek)
- Compare stand-scale eddy covariance fluxes to aggregated component flux measurements.  (W Creek, L Creek, Sylvania)
- Use component fluxes to understand the processes controlling variability in the stand-scale CO2 fluxes. (W Creek, L Creek, Sylvania)
- Investigate the contrast between regrowing, managed forests and old growth.  (Sylvania)

## Update - results

- Willow Creek is a large annual sink of CO2 in 2000 (~ - 410 gC m-2 yr-1), unlike WLEF.
- Component respiration measurements at Willow Creek agree well with eddy-covariance.
- Lost Creek (wetland, initiated fall 2000) summer uptake is smaller the Willow Creek, but still larger than WLEF?
- Sylvania is collecting data (old growth, initiated summer 2001).
- Tent caterpillars!  2001 defoliation.  Aspen.

## Related projects

- Gower et al - remote sensing validation.  Interannual differences in LAI.
- MacKay et al - hydrologic system.  Identified fundamentally different physiology of aspen - important at WLEF, but not sampled by stand-level towers.
- Denning et al - regional high resolution modeling.  SiB2.5/RAMS.  LES-scale, nested to larger scales.
- Birks, Jensen et al - powered parachute profiling
- Berry, Ehleringer et al - isotopic measurements, ABL budgets.
- Wofsy et al - COBRA - airborne profiling.

## Willow Creek - Lost Creek comparison
# Presentation: 675235

## Composition of EOS Lessons Learned Working Group

_**Code**_**	**_**Organization**_**	****	****	****	**_**Representative**_
**114****	****	****Office of Human Resources****	****	****	****Don Wolford**
**292****	****	****Library Information Systems****	****	****Janet Ormes**
**300****	****	****Systems Safety and Mission Assurance****	****Jay Liebowitz**
**304****	****	****Software Assurance Technology****	****	****Al Gallo**
**400****	****	****Flight Programs and Projects ****	****	****Peg Luce**
**400****	****	****Flight Programs and Projects****	****	****Katy Mortimer**
**400****	****	****Flight Programs and Projects ****	****	****Terri Yancy**
**410****	****	****Explorers Program ****	****	****	****Don Margolies**
**420****	****	****EOS Program****	****	****	****	****Bill Schiavone**
**420****	****	****EOS Program ****	****	****	****	****Paul Brandinger **
**420****	****	****EOS Program/PAO****	****	****	****	****Lynn Chandler**
**443****	****	****NGST Program****	****	****	****	****Juan Roman-Velazquez**
**500****	****	****Applied Engineering and Technology****	****	****Madeline Butler**
**585****	****	****Computing Environments & Technology****	****Steve Naus****	**
# Presentation: 655534

## Gamma jet simulation (2)silicon meeting 2003/08/20 M.Togawa

- Blue : from recoil jet
- Red  : from others

- Black : all
- Red    : pt > 0.5
- Blue   : pt > 1.0

- Primary photon

- charged particle

- ø

- Pt(GeV)

- Recoil parton

## How to reconstruct jet axis

- Apply pt cut and
-           first cut : pt > 1.0 (GeV)
- 		Remaining particles (1~3 particles remain)
-           calculate jet axis taking average
-                      <eta> <ø>   -> first jet axis
- Second cut
-           Calculate cone radius R defined as
-            apply second cut “R<0.5 and pt >1.0”
-            and calculate jet axis
-                          -> go to “second cut” ...    iteration

## Cone R~0.5 ∆eta

- Second PtCut <1.0 (GeV)
- Recoil jet particle only

- Second PtCut <1.0 (GeV)

- Second PtCut <0.8 (GeV)

- Second PtCut <0.6 (GeV)

## Cone R~0.7 ∆eta

- Second PtCut <1.0 (GeV)
- Recoil jet particle only

- Second PtCut <1.0 (GeV)

- Second PtCut <0.8 (GeV)

- Second PtCut <0.6 (GeV)

## First : pt >1(GeV) and second R<0.5 && pt>1(GeV)
# Presentation: 555784

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# Presentation: 430432

## MSHA Individual Identification Number

- Helping to safeguard the identities of the Nation’s miners
**Beginning April 21, 2008**

## What is a MIIN?

- A MIIN is an _**M**_SHA _**I**_ndividual _**I**_dentification _**N**_umber
- MIIN’s will be substituted for the social security number, eliminating the need for miners to provide the SSN on documents submitted to MSHA
- Use of the MIIN will help protect against identity theft

## Why does MSHA collect SSN’s?

- Currently all qualifications, certifications and instructors are tracked by the SSN
- By collecting the SSN when applying for a MIIN MSHA will be able to validate that the correct qualifications and certifications are assigned to the correct individual

## Who should have a MIIN?

- Anyone who has MSHA Qualifications or Certification
- Anyone applying for a MSHA Qualification or Certification
- Anyone that is updating or receiving new Qualifications or Certifications
- Part 48 Instructors
- MSHA Approved Electrical Trainers
- Part 90 Miners

## When should a MIIN be requested?

- The Individual should request the MIIN _BEFORE_ receiving training or submitting  Dust Data  Card’s / respirable dust samples.  This will enable the MIIN number to be submitted on the training form or data card when submitted to MSHA.
- The Instructor applicant should request a MIIN when submitting their resume to be considered for instructor approval.

## How will the MIIN be used?

- The one MIIN will be used to substitute for the SSN
- The MIIN is only applicable to records submitted to MSHA
- One MIIN is all you need.  All your records will use the same MIIN number

## MIIN and Part 90 Miners

- Part 90 miners will be tracked by a MIIN
- If a miner exercises the Part 90 option and already has a MIIN, then that MIIN will be used in place of the Part 90 miner’s SSN
- If a miner exercises the Part 90 option and does not have a MIIN issued, then MSHA will issue a MIIN that will be used in place of the SSN.  MSHA will notify the Part 90 miner of the assigned MIIN.
- All respirable dust samples for Part 90 miners must include the Part 90 miner’s assigned MIIN

## How do I get a MIIN?

- MIIN’s must be requested by the individual by either:
- Filling in a MIIN Request Form and mailing or faxing it to the Q&C Office as noted on the form, or
- Calling the Q&C Office at 1-800-579-2647, or
- Going to MSHA’s website (_[www.MSHA.gov](http://www.msha.gov/)_) and using the Quick Links, Forms/Online Filing, to go to the MIIN registration form.

## How often should a MIIN  be requested?

- You only need to request a MIIN number once.

## When must a MIIN be used?

- The miner/instructor will be responsible for using the MIIN whenever contacting MSHA
- When submitting requests for qualifications and certifications
- When completing and submitting dust cards required under 30 CFR Parts 70, 71, and 90
- When submitting electrical training classes.

## Still have questions?

- Call the Qualification and Certification Unit at 800-579-2647 or Visit _[www.MSHA.gov](http://www.msha.gov/)_
# Presentation: 461050

## Changes in the tropospheric circulation and divergence (mean vertical motion) are broadly consistent with changes in the continental-scale precipitation pattern:

SW: enhanced DIV, VVEL and PRECIP
GP: suppressed DIV, VVEL and PRECIP

**SW: enhanced DIV, VVEL and PRECIP**
**GP: suppressed DIV, VVEL and PRECIP**

***H***

- CHANGE IN OBSERVED PRECIPITATION [MM DAY-1]

- CHANGE IN 200 hPA WIND [MS-1] AND DIV [10-6 S-1]

**Higgins et al. (1997)**

_**ONSET OF THE SUMMER RAINS**_**(July – June 1971-2000)**

## COMPOSITE MEAN PRECIPITATION OVER AZ AND NM FOR WET, DRY AND ALL MONSOONS (1963-2000) 

**   ****ONSET**

**Note: No signal**

**WINTER**

**SPRING**

**SUMMER**

**Higgins et al. (1998)**

**COMPOSITE MEAN PRECIPITATION OVER AZ AND NM FOR WET, DRY AND ALL MONSOONS (1963-2000)**** **

## (1) The amplitude of the diurnal cycle in the core monsoon region is larger than the amplitude of the annual cycle.

- (1) **The amplitude of the diurnal cycle in the core monsoon region is larger than the amplitude of the annual cycle**.
- (2) There are large-scale shifts in the regions of deep convection during the day from over land to over water.
- (3) There is large intraseasonal and interannual variability of the diurnal cycle, but it is not well understood.
- (4) Improved monitoring and modeling of the diurnal cycle will go a long way towards improved warm season precipitation forecasts not just for Tier 1, but for Tiers 2 and 3.

_**WHY IS THE DIURNAL CYCLE IMPORTANT?**_

- Courtesy NAME Science Working Group (2003)

## NWS Endorsement and Support for NAME

_**NWS Endorsement and Support for NAME**_
# Presentation: 591551

## Expanding Services to Meet Needs in the Finger Lakes RegionBy Michael Schaffner (WFO Binghamton, New York)Jeane Wallace and Thomas Econopouly (Northeast River Forecast Center)

_**Abstract**_
- The Finger Lakes Region is situated in north-central New York State.  Ten lakes, with seven of those within the Binghamton Hydrologic Service Area, flow through the Oswego River system and its tributary rivers prior to emptying into Lake Ontario.  Customers and partners vary widely from canal navigation, hydroelectric power generation, lakeshore residents, recreation, and waste disposal.  Lake level forecasting requires accurate observations of lake inflow, lake level, lake outflow, and precipitation gages vary widely from lake to lake.  Some lakes contain no real-time sensors while others contain a variety of sensor types.  Lake level operations are generally not coordinated between lakes.  Such disjointed lake operations can lead to backwater effects and flooding along downstream points.  WFO Binghamton along with Northeast River Forecast Center is pressing forward to identify data voids, solicit lake discharge information from local users, and expand lake and river forecast points.  This poster will provide an overview of the current state of forecasting in the Finger Lakes region and a vision for future improvements.

_**Site Specific Modeling**_
**Sites under consideration:**

_**NWS Office Responsibility**_

_**Oswego Basin Forecast Capability**_

_**Owasco Lake Watershed**__** **_

_**Owasco Lake Rule Curve**_
_**Management**_

_**Owasco Lake Enhancements**_
**Will allow City of Auburn to provide planned discharges out through 24-hours:**

_**Ongoing / Planned Work**_

_**Oswego Basin Population Density**_

- Source: NY Canal Corporation

- Source: NY Canal Corporation

- Forecast challenges include:
- Complete or partial data voids.  Ideal forecast scenario requires real-time or near-real-time data for:
- 	-Watershed rainfall and snow observations
- 	-Inflow data from largest tributaries
- 	-Lake level elevation
- 	-Lake discharge (planned)
- 	-Lake discharge (observed)
- Lack of real-time data.
- Inadequate coordination between numerous local lake regulators on lake level operation.
- Limitations of present hydraulic model inaccurately simulating complexity of canal system.

- Rule curve management:
- Can vary from year to year
- Has been influenced by local issues (e.g. in 2007, the lake was not drawn down far enough due to repairs that the City of Auburn was conducting at a given lake elevation)
- Consistent rule curve management is necessary.  Otherwise, a means is needed for the lake operators to notify the RFC and WFO of changes to lake level / outflow discharge.

- Source: NY Canal Corporation

_**Oswego Basin Radar Coverage**_

- Modeling of Onondaga Lake drainage.
-  Implement site specific at upwards to six sites
- Increase COOP and gage observations.
- Expand prototype web interface for Owasco Lake to other lake operators.
- Increase coordination along lake operators.
# Presentation: 661719

## 	SNS Wire Scanner 

**	****SNS Wire Scanner **
**   ****Preliminary Design Review**

**Heating Calculations**

- 	         **By**
**	****C.J. Liaw, BNL**
**	****  ****July 24, 2002**

## 	        Wire Heating in the HEBT

**Carbon wire size: 32 ********m dia.**
**Beam parameters:**
**	*****1 GeV H****-**** beam, Gaussian Distributed **
**	*****1 MW~ 2 MW, 60 Hz, 1 ms long**
**	***** Beam current, I = 16 ~ 32 mA over a pulse**
**Min. beam size:  1.4 mm x 1.4 mm ( ********x**** x ********y****)**
**Mean wire thk.:x= ********d/4 =.0025 [cm]**
**Power deposition:   P= [(1/******** dE/dx)****p****+ 2*(1/******** dE/dx)****e****] ********x* I****max****/2******** ********x********y**
**  ****	****             ****	****	****	****	****	****          ****[W/m****2****]**
**Heating efficiency: ******** =.82**

## 	        Wire Heating in the Ring

**Carbon wire size: 32 ********m dia.**
**Beam parameters:**
**	*****1 GeV, 1 ~ 2 MW, 60 Hz proton beam **
**	*****Injected 1000 bunches in 1 ms before extraction**
**	***** Beam current, I = from 0 to 16 A in 1 ms (1 MW case)**
**	****	****	****= from 0 to 32 A in 1 ms (2 MW case)**
**Eff. beam size:  A=6.45 x 10****-6****+3.09 *t  [m****2****], where t =time [sec]**
**Mean wire thk.:x= ********d/4 =.0025 [cm]**
**Power deposition:   P= (1/******** dE/dx)*********x* (I****max*****t/1x10****-3****)/A**
**  ****	****              ****= 1.27 x 10****8****(t/A)  [W/m****2****]  (for 1 MW case)**
**	****              ****= 2.54 x 10****8****(t/A)  [W/m****2****]  (for 2 MW case)**
**Heating efficiency: ******** =.82**

## 	        Wire Heating in the RTBT

**Carbon wire size: 32 ********m dia.**
**Beam parameters:**
**	*****1 GeV proton beam, quasi-uniform distributed**
**	*****1~ 2 MW, 60 Hz, 695 ns long**
**	***** Ave. beam current, I = 23 A over a pulse (1 MW case)**
**	****	****	****       ****= 46 A over a pulse (2 MW case)**
**	***** Max. beam current, I****max**** = I *1.25****	**
**Min. beam size:  56 mm x 68 mm ( ******** x V)**
**Mean wire thk.:x= ********d/4 =.0025 [cm]**
**Power deposition:   P= (1/******** dE/dx)****p**** ********x* I****max****/ ********V********             [W/m****2****]**
**Heating efficiency: ******** =.82**

##               = emissivity =0.8

- where ** ** T = wire temperature  [K]
-              To = beam pipe temperature = 297 [K]
-              d = diameter of the wire  [m]
-               t = time  [sec]
-               = heating efficiency
-               Stefan Boltzmann constant5.67 	x 10-8 [W/m2K4]
-                = density =2000 kg/m3
-               = emissivity =0.8

**Governing Equation**

## Heat Capacity of Carbon Material

**Heat Capacity of Carbon Material**

## Maximum Wire temperature in the HEBT, the Ring, and the RTBT

**	****	****	****(One MW Case)**

## Maximum Wire temperature in the HEBT, the Ring, and the RTBT

**Maximum Wire temperature in the HEBT, the Ring, and the RTBT**
**	****	****	****(Two MW Case)**
# Presentation: 701814

***Parker-Davis Project ***
***Small Contractor Flexibility******	******	******	******	******	******April 8, 2004***

## RECAP

- Received request to implement PDP Post 2008 allocations early for Wickenburg and Thatcher.
- Western evaluated the request
- Sent out summary to all PDP customers describing near term hydrological conditions, capacity impacts and estimated PDP generation.

## RECAP

- Provided several alternatives of how we could fulfill the request.
- Requested/Received comments
- 		Early implementation ok as long as it does not negatively impact the other PDP customers.
- 		Host a meeting to further explain hydrology projections and energy/capacity assumptions.

## Agenda

- Dennis to share his request and entertain questions
- Brian will give a synopsis of the hydrology and the probabilities of capacity/excess energy.
- Open Discussion
- Next Steps

## Capacity

- Current Contracted Capacity:  283 MW
- Additional Capacity for Rounded Allocations: 1 MW
- Total Capacity Required:  284 MW

## Capacity

- Current marketed capacity was based upon total generator capacity of 300 MW.
- Addition of 1 MW of capacity to serve the rounded up allocations would be available.

## Energy

- Current Annual Contracted Energy:
- 	1345.8 GWh
- Additional Energy for Rounded Allocations:
- 	6.1 GWh
- Total Annual Energy Required:
- 	1351.9 GWh

## Expected Generation

- By Water Year Type:
- Normal – 1338 GWh (+/- 1%)
- Partial Surplus – 1355.4 GWh (+/- 1%)
- Full Surplus - >1375 GWh

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# Presentation: 703837

## Embedded ESD Protection PCB Reliability  06-297

** **

| Cost   |   |   |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Schedule |   |   |
| Technical |   | If rel testing is not completed, knowledge would not be available. |
| Programmatic |  | Projects are discovering that EEE Parts are more sensitive than manufacturers state on data sheet. Key devices could fail from handling during assembly without this technology. |

**Description:**
- Damage due to ESD has been estimated to cost the global electronics industry as much as $84 billion in annual product losses.
- NASA is using smaller electronic devices which operate at higher frequencies and lower power levels. These devices have an increased need for increased ESD protection superior to what is currently available.
- Radiation hardened components are even more susceptible because of thinner gate oxides.
- A new generation of polymerized materials that could detect, react to and safely discharge unwanted ESD voltage spikes in nanoseconds, before any damage can occur to the device, has become commercially available.
- This task will characterize the application and reliability of these materials for use in NASA projects.

**Benefits:**

**Schedule/Costs:**

**Risks:**

- Red, Yellow, or Green

**Lead Center/PI: **JPL/Gerke
**Co-Is: **
**(Center) Funding Split: $125K**

**Non-NASA Organizations/Procurements: **
- Electronic Polymer Inc. for Characterization Studies

**Total ROM Cost (non-CS) = $ 230K**

**Products:**
- Report summarizing technology application for NASA Projects.

**Product Insertion Plan: **
-  Data Summary/Report – Upload to IMD Website

- Protecting ESD sensitive devices, particularly high cost/high performance devices is critical for the success of NASA Projects. Latent ESD failures of these devices could virtually be eliminated and could possibly reduce NASA’s redundancy requirements.
- This would also lead to decrease or elimination of board / wafer level ESD protection resulting in smaller and lighter PCB assemblies which would reduce launch costs.

- P-2
# Presentation: 684852

## MC validations on top signal MC (part II)

**U.K. Yang**
**Sep-25-04 Simulation meeting**

|  | Pythia | Herwig |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4.11.1
mean
MPV | ttopei(Mt=175)
174.7+-0.4
175.2+-0.4 | ttopli(175)
174.5+-0.6
175.8+-0.6 | ttoppk(170)

170.4+-1.0 | ttopsk(180)

179.2+-1.0 |
| 5.3.2
Mean
MPV | ttopui(Mt=178)
175.8+-0.2
177.3+-0.4 | ttopti(178) : Pt(b, W) same between 
180.2+-0.4    ttopti and ttopui
181.0+-0.2 |  |  |

- Comparison of mean (MPV) values in Top mass templates
-  at HEPG particle levels (smeared jets)

- Pythia (lower Mtop): wrong Pt(Z) tuning
- 	=> New Pythia ttopel with correct tune
- Herwig (higher Mtop): Herwig V 6.504 vs  V 6.4
- =>New Herwig V6.504 (ttopgl) with Mtop=175, no QED photon

## Comparison of Herwig v6.504 vs V6.4V6.504 (= 5.3.3) vs V6.4 (=4.9.1) :Mtop=175, no QED  

- Comparison of Herwig v6.504 vs V6.4V6.504 (= 5.3.3) vs V6.4 (=4.9.1) :Mtop=175, no QED

- Final state objects (b,W, lepton)  : they agree each other

- Pt_lep

## Comparison of Herwig v6.504 vs V6.4V6.504 (= 5.3.3) vs V6.4 (=4.9.1) :Mtop=175, no QED  

- But jets (out of final state parton): b jet, Wjets are very different.  How does this happen?

## Total energy conservation?

-  Herwig 5.3.2 and 5.3.3 top signal/various top mass/dijet samples using Toronto and CAF have same problem
-  But Herwig 5.3.1 top sample (using Toronto): ttopht is fine
-  What happened from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2?
- Linux compiler change...
- Herwig 6.500 -> Herwig 6.504 with Photos package

- V533(CAF): ttopgl

- V532(Toronto): ttopti

- Pythia V532(Toronto): ttopui
# Presentation: 487158

**National Finance Center Customer Service Initiatives**

**Mose Lindsay****Chief, Payroll Processing Branch****Government Employees Services Division**

## Customer Service Initiatives

- Streamlining to serve you better ...
- Call Center
- Customers calling variety of numbers for support
- Transitioning to one face/one voice
- Provide training/assistance
- Quality control assurance team
- Customer notification/communication
- DOTSE daily status reports
- One tracking and payment/adjustment system
- Certification for Call Center and Agents
- Customer Satisfaction Survey

## DOTSE System Overview

- Request for Information
- Recertification

## Customer Service Initiatives

- Working for you ...
- Special Payroll Processing System Web-based Version (SPPS Web)
- Agency ability to process additional pay adjustments
- Adding new functions
- Document Tracking System External
- Quick Service Request
- Indebtedness for separation only
- Death cases** **

## Customer Service Initiatives

- Established Quality Control Staff
- QA Testing
- Coordinate Payroll/Personnel System training
- Knowledge Base System
- Revitalizing content
- Requesting customer input
- Tips of the Week

## Customer Service Initiatives

- Training . . . When, where, and how you want it
- Variety of training classes
- Provides the opportunity to enhance the skill set of your employees
- Agency-specific classes can be customized** **
# Presentation: 651773

## INFRARED (IR) SIGNATURE ASSESSMENT   DAW-4103Project Manager: Dawna Marr

-   The objective of the test is to perform a thorough IR evaluation of the aircraft system and provide reduced digital data to be utilized in susceptibility modeling and simulation activities. High fidelity infrared (IR) imagery and spectral measurement systems will be utilized to acquire the detailed aircraft signature/thermography data necessary for establishment of  the platforms signature characteristics, identification of specific aircraft hot spots, and to provide high resolution imagery data required for aircraft IR signature / threat assessments.

-   Department of the Army
-   IR Measurement Project Engineer, Jerome P. Clifford

**C-37 GULFSTREAM V **

-   The IR Signature Assessment Program is being funded by the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
-   WFF support for this activity includes project management and coordination, use of the WFF airfield and airspace, and operational support.
-   Contract support for this program is provided by the DynCorp and WICC contracts
-  The Wallops budget for the program is approximately $8K per IR Signature Assessment test day.

-   Request for Support		                 3/18/2004
-   Technical Interchange Meeting	                 3/22/2004
-   Mission Readiness Review	                Waived
-   Ground & Flight Ops Window	                 On-going
# Presentation: 705561

## Assessment Panel 308 Recommendations:

**Gary L. Obenauf**
**Agricultural Research Consulting**
**(559) 449-9035**
- _[gobenauf@agresearch.nu](mailto:gobenauf@agresearch.nu)_
**Visit us at:**
**http://mbao.org/**

## NP 308 Panel

- Gary Obenauf, ARC, Panel Chair
- Mike Aerts, FFVA
- Dan Legard, CSC
- Jim Bair, NAMA
- Bill Chism, EPA-OPP
- Larry Zettler, USDA-APHIS

## Assessment Criteria

- Environmentally Acceptable
- Practical
- Economically Feasible
- Sustainable (Preplant only)
- Effective
- Outreach
- Potential Impact

## Recommendations Next 5 Years-General

- NP 308 Stand Alone Program
- Results Reported at Least Biannually at MBAO Conference
- MB Use Figures with Stakeholders Input Should Help Identify Research Priorities
- MB Beyond 2007 Likely to be Severely Limited-Short Term Research Emphasized

## Recommendations Next 5 Years-General

- 5.	Lack of Extension Service Activity Needs to be Addressed.  Additional Outreach and Demonstration Needed Because of the Lack of Extension Service Activity.

## Recommendations Next 5 Years-PrePlant

- Chemical Alternatives Most Promise for Short Term
- Under Chemical Control Need to Refocus on Emissions Reduction for all Fumigants
- Economic Evaluations Included in All Projects if Economic Feasibility is a Goal

## Recommendations Next 5 Years-PrePlant

- Biorationals Least Promising-Need to Redirect funds and move out of NP 308
- Long Term Research on Cultural Controls has Greater Potential than Biorationals.

## Recommendations Next 5 Years-Postharvest

- More Emphasis on Chemical Fumigants Including Rate Reductions
- Evaluate all Promising Alternatives i.e. Sulfuryl Fluoride
- Economic Feasibility on Commercial Scale
- Prioritize Quarantine Alternative Research and Provide Additional Funds

## Recommendations Next 5 Years-Postharvest

- Improve Recapture Technology Plus Use for Large Scale Fumigations
- Only One Fumigation Researcher-Need Additional Researchers
- Structural Research is 10% of One Project-Need Additional Emphasis
# Presentation: 831362

## GENE INDEXING

- Janice Ward
- Indexer/Reviser
- Index Section, NLM

## LocusLink

- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink/
- Developed by NCBI
- Provides single query interface about genetic loci
- Includes links to/from PubMed/MEDLINE citations

## LocusLink Content

- LocusLink presents information on:
- Official nomenclature & aliases
- Sequence accessions
- Phenotypes
- EC & MIM numbers
- UniGene clusters
- Homology
- Map locations
- Related web sites

## Organisms Included in LocusLink

- Current scope of LocusLink is five  organisms
- Fruit fly
- Human
- Mouse
- Rat
- Zebrafish

## Gene Indexing

- MEDLINE indexers assist creation of LocusLink by performing gene indexing
- Gene indexing - Creating annotated links between records in LocusLink and MEDLINE citations which contain information about a gene or protein

## Selection of Articles for Linking  Restrictions

- Restricted to the five organisms currently in LocusLink
- Restricted to genes or proteins in which an unambiguous link can be made

## Selection of Articles for LinkingCriteria

- Articles in which the basic biology of a gene or protein is a primary point
- 		Structure
- 		Isolation
- 		Function
- Most articles linked come from  the preclinical literature  -- few from the clinical

## Gene Indexing Process

- Perform subject analysis of journal article
- Recognize articles that report information about a gene or protein appropriate for linking to LocusLink
- Search LocusLink for the gene or protein and create a link between LocusLink record and MEDLINE citation
- Provide short statement describing new information about gene or protein that is reported in article

## Article to be linked

## Gene Tab in DCMS

## DCMS Gene Indexing Panel

## DCMS LocusLink Query

## LocusLink Record in DCMS

## Full LocusLink Record

## Gene Record added to DCMS

## Completed Link

## PubMed Link 

## LinkOut from PubMed

## LinkOut from PubMed

## LocusLink Record

## Gene Indexing

- In-house indexers trained at beginning of December 2001
- 417 items gene indexed in December 2001
- 438 items indexed in January 2002
- Total of 1230 items gene indexed since start of pilot project in summer 2001
# Presentation: 438027

## Consejo Nacional contra las Adicciones “National Council Against Addictions”CONADICMéxico

- Dr. Angel Prado
- Director Tecnico

## National Drug Strategy

- Mexico** **

## Demand reduction strategy

**Notes:**
La nueva dinámica en la atención del problema se verá reflejada en un impulso a la labor de las entidades federativas y los municipios

El posicionamiento del tema, el fortalecimiento del Consejo Nacional, de la coordinación y la infraestructura, serán elementos para consolidar el liderazgo de los CECA 

La participación de la sociedad a través de Redes Sociales y  de la participación con instituciones y organismos a través de alianzas estratégicas, habrá de nutrir la labor hacia este propósito

La Municipalización es uno de nuestros principales retos, pues el municipio es el orden de gobierno más cercano a la necesidades y soluciones de los problemas sociales

Cada vez son más las instituciones y organismos que se suman a la atención de las adicciones; debemos tener la capacidad de consolidar el liderazgo para contar con acciones más efectivas

## Research Committee

- Coordination of the National Institutes of Health
- NI Psychiatry (drugs & alcohol)
- NI Respiratory Diseases (Tobacco)
- NI Public Health (Tobacco, alcohol-accidents, program evaluation)
- NI Perinatology, fetal exposure
- CINVESTAV, neurobiology of addiction
- General Directorate on Epidemiology (Drug surveillance system)
- Other institutions

## Network of researchers Impact of Solvent Abuse

- Promote multidisciplinary research - link with intervention and policy
- CINVESTAV – neural bases of inhalant abuse – molecular targets, mechanisms of actions, differences in potency and efficacy
- General Directorate on Epidemiology, drug surveillance system
- National Institute Psychiatry:
- Epidemiology: prevalence, trends, Surveys - household, school and special populations, qualitative studies. Emphasis in vulnerable populations (street children and adolescents)
- Brain imagine, addiction process – impact MRI, Axial Tomography
- Intervention models
- National Institute on Public Health – Mortality???
- National Institute on Perinatology – Fetal exposure, exposure during infancy, other institutions,
- CEAA, U of Guadalajara, fetal exposure ???

- Promote collaboration with researchers from other countries .

## Challenge

- Increase collaboration

*Thank you*

## Trends in alcohol use

- 1998             2002

- 12-17 years

- Abuse/dependence

- Medina-Mora et al., 2004

## Percentages reporting past year substance abuse/dependence

- National Household Surveys in the United States and in Mexico

- SAMHSA, 2001;  ENA,  2002

- Lower rates in Mexico except among the group between 26 and 65 years of age
# Presentation: 727733

## City of Long Beach CA, LNG Fueling Station Project

**City of Long Beach CA, LNG Fueling Station Project**

**Long Beach Clean Cities Coalition**

**New LNG Fuel Station**

**Long Beach Clean Cities Coalition**

**Coordinator Contact Information**

**Old LNG Fuel Station**

**GOALS**

**City of Long Beach LNG Vehicles**

**Next Phase**

**Long Beach Clean Cities Coalition**

**Reduced petroleum use with increased use of alternative fuels like LNG, mean a cleaner and healthier Long Beach**

**City of Long Beach Department of Public Works, Fleet Services Bureau**

- Old LNG Fueling Station – 6,000 gallon

**6,000 gallons**
**2-3 days of supply**
**Supplied fuel for 52 heavy duty vehicles (20 sweepers, 26 refuge packers, 6 dump trucks**

**Meet the growing need for LNG fuel**
**Protect against interruptions to LNG fuel supply**
**Replace current LNG fueling station**

**16,300 gallons**
**7-9 days of supply**
**To support increased LNG vehicles inventory from 52 to 61 this year**
**Handle 457,000 gallons annually**
**Partially funded by SCAQMD**

**City of Long Beach Department of Public Works, Fleet Services Bureau**

- New LNG Fueling Station – 16,300 gallon

**Install 2****nd**** tank of 16,300 gallons**
**Implement public access procedure**
**Take delivers of 10 additional LNG vehicles in 2008**
**“****Grand Opening” celebration**

**Vivian Ozuna**
**City of Long Beach, Dept. of Public Works,**
**Fleet Services Bureau - Supt. of Fleet Operations**
**2600 Temple Avenue**
**Long Beach, CA 90806**
**Office Telephone (562) 570-5405**
**Email: Vivian_Ozuna@longbeach.gov**
# Presentation: 697854

## Worldwide islet transplant activity 1999-2003

- Miami (22)

- Minneapolis (18)

- NIH (6)

- Northwestern (4)

- Philadelphia (10)

- Harvard (7)

- Houston (10)

- St Louis (8)

- Geneva (21)

- Zurich (2)

- Cincinnati (6)

- U. Maryland (1)

- Uppsala (9)

**As of April 2003,**
**> 258 patients transplanted**

- Seattle (6)

- Edmonton (51)

- Milan (34)

- Giessen (20)

- Brussels (15)

- (total patients transplanted)

- Emory (1)

- Tennessee (3)

- Worcester (2)

- Sydney  (1)

- London (1)

## JDRF Islet Distribution Site

**JDRF Islet Distribution Site**

**JDRF Islet Transplantation Center**

**JDRF/ NIH Islet Cell Resource**

**JDRF/ NIH Islet Transplantation Site**

**Edmonton**

**Seattle**

**UCLA / Beckman**

**Minnesota**

**Wash U**

**Northwestern**

**UIC**

**Tennessee**

**Colorado**

**Miami**

**NIH**

**Penn**

**Columbia**

**Harvard**

**Montreal**

**Giessen**

**Geneva**

**Brussels**

**Milan**

**Emory**

**Birmingham**

**Worcester**

## Slide 3
# Presentation: 178168

## ILCTA_MDB Horizontal Test StandAndy Hocker, Fermilab

- ILCTA_MDB Horizontal Test StandAndy Hocker, Fermilab

**The ILCTA_MDB Horizontal Test Stand (HTS) is a facility for testing ”dressed” superconducting RF cavities at 1.8 K with high power pulsed RF.  A cavity’s performance is characterized and validated in order to qualify  it for assembly into a cryomodule. **

**The Horizontal Test Stand is**
**currently completing commissioning**
**with cavity C22, a 1.3 GHz TESLA-**
**style cavity from DESY.  After**
**commissioning, the HTS will be**
**prepped for testing a series of**
**3.9 GHz cavities built by FNAL for**
**an upgrade to DESY’s free electron**
**laser facility FLASH, followed by**
**testing of 1.3 GHz cavities for the**
**first US-built ILC-style**
**cryomodules**

- High power RF system: 300 kW klystron, charging supply, modulator, and wave guide

- Test cryostat and cryogenic distribution system for cooling dressed cavities down to 1.8 K (superfluid helium)

- Cavity C22 fully dressed and ready to install into the test cryostat to begin commissioning of the HTS

- C22’s fast piezo tuner system.  High power pulsed RF can detune the cavity via Lorentz forces; fast tuner systems are used to compensate for this effect

- C22 and its input coupler installed in the test cryostat and connected to the cryo system

- R&D at HTS: Testing the performance of geophones as mechanical vibration instrumentation in a cold environment

- Conditioning the C22 input coupler with high power RF of increasing pulse length at HTS

- Cooldown of C22 to 1.8 K (helium vapor pressure of 12 Torr --- black trace)
# Presentation: 423173

## GLAS Instrument Support Facility

- MOWG
- Peggy Jester
- Raytheon ITSS
- January 30, 2002

## Instrument Support Facility Interfaces

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02

## ISF Software Status

-  Version 1.0
-  Implemented and tested September 2001
-  I-SIPS interface
-  Version 1.1
-  Mid February 2002
-  Science team interface for pointing requests
-  Web page for instrument status and trend analysis output
-   Version 2.0
-  Mid April
-  MOC interface
-  GPSSS interface
-  GSEF interface
-  Version 3.0
-  Late August
-  Trend analysis
-  Update calibration equations

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02

## ISF Hardware Status

-  ISF located in Building 22, Room 101
-  Instrument Support Terminal (IST) 1
-  Provided by MOC
-  Available; used for testing
-   IST 2 and IST2B7
-  Currently in GSFC Building 7
-  Supporting instrument testing
-  IST 2 will go with the instrument and BCE; IST2B7 will move to Building 22
-  IST 3
-  Located at WFF
-  Currently being used for software development and testing support
-  All computers are compliant with NASA IT security for mission operations

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02

## ISF Testing Status

-  Supported IGST 3, IGST 6.1
-  ISF specific tests are scheduled for mid February (IGST 5.1) and late April (IGST 5.2)
-  Need to add IGST 5.3 to test software version 3.0 - late August

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02

## ISF Staffing Plans

-  Instrument Operations team
-  IOT Lead/Programmer - Peggy Jester
-  Operator - To be hired
-  Operator - Margaret Russell
-  Programmer - Jim Golder
-  Training will be provided by IOT lead and Programmer

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02

## ISF Documentation

-  GLAS Science Data Management Plan
- NASA/TM-1999-208641/Version 4/Volume 2, July 1999
-  GLAS Science Software Management Plan
- NASA/TM-1999-208641/Version 3/Volume 1, August, 1998
-  GLAS Science Software Requirements Document
- NASA TM-2001-208641/Version 2.1/Volume 3, November 2000
-  Interface Control Document Between I-SIPS/ISF and CSR
- (current PDF version October 2001 - Version 0.10)
-  ISF External ICD
- Needs update
-  ISF Software User’s Guide / Operations Procedures Manual
- TBD

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02

## ISF Risk Areas/Mitigation

-  Tight schedule
-  Test software is near completion; programmers can move to development for mission operations
- ISF Technical Issues and Concerns
-  Need final formats for command requests to MOC
-  Documented in MOC EICD?
-  Trend analysis requirements not finalized
-  Trend analysis software and products are based on what is developed for ground testing

- Peggy L Jester/RITSS

- 01/30/02
# Presentation: 691697

## FACILITY OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT CONTRACT (FOSC)PROCUREMENTWHITE SANDS TEST FACILITY

- Evaluation of Ostensible Subcontractor Criteria

- Delene Sedillo
- Deputy Manager,
- JSC Projects Procurement Office

## FOSC SOLICITATION Section L – Instructions 

- Discuss the benefits and rationale for any teaming partner(s), subcontracts or other arrangements.
- Include specific detail in the following areas so that the Government can determine that the prime contractor making the offer will be performing the primary and vital requirements for the contract:
- Which party will be managing the contract.
- Which party possesses the requisite background and expertise to carry out the contract.
- Which party pursued the contract award.
- What degree of collaboration was there on the proposal.
- The allocation of tasks to be performed by each party or whether there will be commingling of personnel or material.
- What is the amount of work to be performed by each party (reference FAR 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting).
- Which party will perform the more complex and costly contract functions.
- The business size of the other parties.
- Which of the parties possess the qualifications relevant to the contract requirements.

## FOSC SOLICITATIONSection M – Evaluation Criteria

_**An evaluation will be made of the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the offeror’s management approach, including**_:  WBS and Dictionary Plan; Management Plan; Environmental Compliance Plan; customer relations; business and information systems; cost and price tracking; Project Reporting plan; Overall Program Reporting Plan; _**allocation of labor skills into the proposed organization; local organizational structure; corporate organizational structure, including lines of communication, local autonomy, span of control, and corporate support;**_ _**benefits and**_ _**rationale for any teaming partners, subcontractors, or other arrangements, and the impact, if any, on the offeror’s status as a small business;**_ identification and mitigation of management risks; acceptance of contract terms and conditions; and Conflicts of Interest Avoidance Plan.

## Analysis of Data

- SEB relied upon data provided by the offerors and other data available, e.g.:
- Section K – Representations & Certifications
- All Proposal Data
- Management, Technical, Past Performance & Cost Volumes
- Past Performance Information
- SBA ProNet
- Discussions

## Analysis of Data (cont.)

- FAR 52.219-14 Limitation on Subcontracting
- Verified that the % of work proposed to be performed met FAR 52.219-14:
- (1) *Services (except construction)*. At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern.
- SBA Seven Factors Test
- As part of the initial evaluation, the SEB analyzed the data submitted and evaluated whether the offerors met the criteria for small business.
# Presentation: 512463

## TXMon Fitter Update

**Richard Ruiz**
**2007 September 5****th**** **
**US CMS**

## In Today’s Story...

- Global Run End of August
- How did it go
- TXMon Fitter
- Updates and Upgrades
- TXMon Project
- Timeline

- Richard Ruiz

## GREA

- Global Run End of August was success
- Web Based Monitoring (WBM) has some bugs but works mostly
- Run data is still flowing from CMS detector to Tier 0 to Fermilab
- Files being transferred contain nontrivial histograms of Cosmic/ Drift Tube events

- Richard Ruiz

## TXMon Fitter

- Fitter can now:
- ... copy input root files to a defined directory
- ... use TXMon_txsec123456.root as input
- Renamed XMon_xsec123456.root files
- ... display Lumi values different from 1030cm-2s-1
- New Fitter upgrades will be uploaded to CVS shortly

- Richard Ruiz

## TXMon

- CMS internal note writing will begin tomorrow
- Note will describe TXMon as
- Source (subscriber)
- Client (user/interpreter)
- Fitter (fitter)
- Authors include:
- Kaori Maeshima and Peter Wittich

- Richard Ruiz

## TXMon Timeline

- September
- (S,C) Will be assigned and imported from CDF
- (F) Will be idealized
- October
- (S,C,F) Will be integrated
- November
- TXMon (S,C,F) to be used in Cosmic Challenge
- End of November/ Beginning of December

- Richard Ruiz

## Summary

- Limericks are great!
- Root is really great!
- Scripts are gifts to man!
- GREA success is owed to the man!
- TXMF output has boomed
- TXMS&C will start being worked on soon
- TXMon to be used during the November moon?

- Richard Ruiz

## XKCD

- Richard Ruiz
# Presentation: 742110

## Examining Student Work: A Protocol for Improving Reading InstructionArchived Information 

- Cheryl Krehbiel
- and
- Chris Jones

## Outcomes

**Understand the intent of the standards**
**Identify the rigor needed to meet mastery**
**Learn how to unpack the standard **
**Examine student work supportively and critically**
**Discuss instructional implications**

## Agenda

**Review the standard (Maryland)**
**Align rigorous task: unpack the standard**
**Take the task**
**Unpack the task**
**Examine student work samples at different levels of proficiency**
**Discuss implications for instruction**

## The Standard

**Maryland Outcomes**
- Grade Bands 3, 5, 8
**Montgomery County, Maryland**
- Indicators at every grade level

## The Task

**Write a summary of the story, *****Saved by a Fly***

## Scoring Guide	

**0  Completely off topic, completely incorrect**
**1   Minimal understanding**
**2   General Understanding**
**3   Complete; Fully addresses the question**
*	**	**	**                        **Maryland State Department of Education*
# Presentation: 803914

## Status of Current programs (agenda item G1.3)

## Agreements (SUAs) versus “programs”

- Argos processing data base now organized by
- Agreements  Users
- Programs
- Platforms

- Argos 2001 SUA database operational and accessible via Internet

-  « Current » means :
-  active (i.e. with transmitting platforms) and / or
- approved or being renewed.

## Argos current agreements, programs and id numbers in 2002/2003

-  Total number of current agreements is 1029 (versus 1085 «programs » last year)

-  Argos users are from 73 different countries (+1 since last year)

-  With 3508 programs and 39043 Id numbers.

## Categories of current SUAs - May 2003

**Categories of current SUAs - May 2003**

## Categories of current programs - May 2003

-  E/G slightly increased (+ 0.8 %)
-  E/NG/GI decreased (-2.1 %)
-  NE/G increased (+0.6 %)

**Categories of current programs - May 2003**

## « ID numbers » allocated by categories  - May 2003

**« ID numbers » allocated by categories  - May 2003**

## Applications of current SUAs - May 2003

**Applications of current SUAs - May 2003**

-  Oceanography and Earth sciences stable

-  Wildlife still first and growing.

-  % of Fishing and NE in reduction (programs <>SUAs)

## Number of programs and ID numbers per SUA

**Number of programs and ID numbers per SUA**

## « ID numbers » allocated by applications  - May 2003

**« ID numbers » allocated by applications  - May 2003**

## Slide 10