BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 358610

## 8. Conclusions

**8. Conclusions**
- Significant differences in both latitude variation and the exponential diminution in height of IWM suggest that saturation processes may play a greater role than previously thought. Even so, a **significant seasonal cycle** is seen in both model and HIRDLS data, indicating background filtering from underlying windshear.
- Large valued IWM in the southern extratropics is **not captured** by the model. This is especially apparent during the southern winter, most likely due to unrepresented sources in the model.
- Future work: mask the model data to better compare waves represented in HIRDLS.

**7. Boreal Summer Gravity Wave IWM**

***Figure 7****: Climatological JJA IWM at 10hPa for HadGEM2-A L60 1975-2000. Units are 10**-4** Pa*

***Figure 6****: Climatological JJA IWM at 10hPa for HIRDLS 2005-2007. Units are 10**-4** Pa*

- The summer subtropical maxima can be identified more clearly in figure 6 which shows IWM as a function of longitude and latitude at 10hPa during boreal summer. These features occur over North Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Central America and have been previously identified in UARS MLS data (Jiang et al., 2002). The timing may be linked to the Asian summer monsoon or to the position of the ITCZ. The southern maximum is clearly evident and appears not to be restricted to the southern part of South America. Large valued IWM also occurs about the southern ocean, perhaps linked with the wall of the polar vortex.

- Significant differences can be seen in HadGEM2-A L60 at 10hPa (figure 7). Shown here is the contribution to model IWM from spectral sources only. High latitude maxima can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere with lower values seen at mid-latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere. This is contrasted with global mimima at high northern latitudes in the HIRDLS data. This would be expected from filtering by upper tropospheric westerlies and low-mid stratospheric easterlies. Also seen is a tropical maxima about the Asian subcontinent. This likely to be associated with differential filtering from circulation anomalies set up about the Tibetan High.
# Presentation: 787284

## PMAT - Phased Microphone Array Technology

**Quiet Aircraft Technology Planning Workshop**
**April 10-11, 2000**
**Jim Ross**
**NASA Ames Research Center**

## PMAT - Phased Microphone Array Technology

**Collection of sensors that selectively measure a propagating wave field (i.e.; antenna)**
**Signal processing of the phase information creates a directional response with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio**
**Applications in aeroacoustics**
**Noise source location during wind tunnel or flight tests**
**Detection of weak noise in the presence of background noise**
**Frequency and coherence analysis of sources**
**Noise sources studied to date**
**Rotor noise**
**Airframe noise**
**Jet noise **
**Automobile drive-by noise**

**PMAT - Phased Microphone Array Technology**

## Current Technology Goals - IT Base & AST

**Current Technology Goals - IT Base & AST**

**•  ****High speed data acquisition, analysis, and source integration **
**•  ****Improved graphic models for complex model views. **
**•  ****Improved signal-to-noise ratio.****  **
**•  ****Operate PMAT during the STAR landing gear noise test in the 7x10.**** **
**•  ****Operate PMAT during the STAR airframe test in the 40x80.**

**data acquistion**

**data analysis**

**data processing**

**calibration**

**100 microphone**
**array**

## 7x10 Ft Wind Tunnel Studies of Airframe Noise

**7x10 Ft Wind Tunnel Studies of Airframe Noise**

**simple hinged**
**flap tip noise**

**model end plate **
**support noise**

**flush array on side wall**
**two-dimensional wing/flap**
**model**

**recessed array with Kevlar cover**

**slat noise**
# Presentation: 268045

## All Done with Mirrors: Smart Substrates for 3D Views

**All Done with Mirrors: ****Smart Substrates for 3D Views**

- Dr. J. Alexander Liddle
- Dr. Matthew McMahon, Dr. Andrew Berglund, Dr. Peter Carmichael, Dr. Jabez McClelland

## Benefits/Advantages

*Microfabricated substrates can be combined with most other optical microscopy techniques*
*Simple*
*Easy to make*
*Add lots of information*
- Function:  Resolve ambiguity
- Same positions when viewed from above, but different heights
- Application:  Put cell inside sample well
- Rapid screening of cell height
- Modest-resolution, high-throughput 3D information

## What Motivated the Research?

**What Motivated the Research?**

- Cui, Björk, Liddle, Sönnichsen, Boussert & Alivisatos
*Nano Lett.* **2004**, 1093

**Solution-Based Nanoparticle Assembly**

## 3D Imaging in Optical Microscope

- Goal: Monitor/Measure Dynamics by Seeing in 3D
- Track assembling particles in as close to real-time as possible
- The smaller they are, the faster they move
- How?

## 2D Track from 2D Images

- 2D tracks easily constructed from 2D video
- Special software needed to get accurate particle positions
- Some codes available free

## The ideal would be...

- Oh well...hmmm....

## Orthogonal Tracking Microscopy

**Orthogonal Tracking Microscopy**

*Reduce the problem of tracking in 3D**to the problem of tracking in 2D twice*

- MICROFABRICATED SAMPLE CHAMBER WITH INTEGRATED REFLECTIVE OPTICS

- Si

## New algorithms developed that are fast and can handle complicated shapes

**Software Enhances Technology**

- Easy

- Difficult

## Demonstration

**Demonstration**

- All-silicon substrate
- Squares defined by photolithography
- Anisotropic etch of Si by KOH: 54.7° sidewalls
- Pyramidal indentations

- Movie: 190 nm fluorescent polystyrene sphere in water

## Future Development

- Hardware:
- Integrate more complex optical elements
- Better mirrors (i.e. gold)
- Filters
- Polarizers
- Diffractive elements
- Software
- Explore asymmetry
- Asymmetric objects: rotational motion
- Asymmetric radiation patterns

## Summary

*Microfabricated substrates can be combined with most other optical microscopy techniques*
- Resolve ambiguity
- Same positions when viewed from above but different heights
- Put cell inside sample well
- Rapid screening of cell height
- Modest-resolution, high-throughput 3D information
*A patent application covering the concept of using microfabricated optics to permit imaging in 3D is pending.*
# Presentation: 691142

## NASA LaRC FORESITE (NAW-4381)

-   The objectives of the Follow-on Radar, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) Integrated Technology Evaluation (FORESITE) program are to eliminate low visibility induced aircraft accidents. FORESITE will continue research and technological development to replicate the safety and operational benefits of clear-day operations for all weather and daylight conditions. SVS to be utilized include a fusion of Millimeter Wave Radar (MMWR) and Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) sensors to test terrain awareness and runway incursion detection.

-   NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC).

-   The FORESITE project is part of NASA’s goal to develop breakthrough concepts and technologies for aircraft, airspace systems, safety, and security.  The WFF portion of this activity includes project management and coordination, use of the WFF airfield and airspace, and operational support.
-   Contract support is provided by NENS, CSC and
-     WICC.
-   The Wallops budget for the project is approximately 72K.

-   Introductory Briefing/Site Visit			03/07/2005
-   LaRC Aviation Safety Review Board	07/14/2005
-   WFF Range Readiness Review			07/28/2005
-   Checkout Flights	08/10/2005 – 08/23/2005
-   Flight Ops Window                	08/24/2005 – 09/24/2005
# Presentation: 436818

## FRAMES-2.0 Workshop
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Bethesda, Maryland
November 15-16, 2007

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington

- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Bethesda, Maryland
- November 15-16, 2007
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Richland, Washington

** ****FRAMES Constituent****Database Editor (CDBE):****Create a New Database**

## Purpose

- Develop a constituent database specific to user’s needs

## Procedure

- Create a new constituent database
- Start
- All Programs
- FRAMES
- Launch Constituent Editor or run C:\FramesV1\ContSel.exe
- Register the new database in FRAMES

## Create a New Constituent Database(outside of FRAMES)

**Two Options (choose one):**
- Use the Windows Start button
- Start
- All Programs
- FRAMES
- Launch Constituent Editor
-  Run C:\FramesV1\ContSel.exe

## Database Editor User Interface appears

- Choose File and Open
- Choose an Exiting database:  FUI.MDB

**2**

**1**

**3**

## Save as a new DB

- From the File menu, choose Save As
- Rename: FUI_TCE.mdb
- From the File menu, choose Exit
-        (no need to save again)
- From the File menu in the FRAMES Constituent Database Editor, choose Exit

**1**

**2**

## Register the New Database(in FRAMES) 

- Unlock the Domain
- Register the ModuleImporter function in the Tools menu, if ModuleImporter is not already registered.  This tool allows the user to automatically register a function in the Tools menu.

## Unlock the Domain 

- Under the File menu, choose Unlock System
- Enter the password

**1**

**2**

## Register the ModuleImporter

- using the Module Editor

- Under the Editors menu, choose the Module Editor
- Under System, System, choose “Open and Register Module”

**1**

**2**

## Browse C:\Program Files\FramesV2\1xImport,

- and choose ModuleImporter.mod

- The ModuleImporter is now registered here and under the Tools menu

## Under the Tools menu, choose ModuleImporter.

- Under Source Files, browse and choose FUI_TCE.des (name of new user-defined DB)
- Under Destination Directory, choose 1xImport.
- For the Installation Name, define a name similar to but not the same as, the DES file name (e.g., FUI_TCE_Script).
- Press the Import Modules button.
- Press the Close button

**1**

**2**

**6**

**5**

**4**

**3**

- FUI_TCE_Script is now registered as a function under the Tools menu.

## Under the Tools menu, choose FUI_TCE_Script.  The new database is now registered and available.

- Enter the Simulation Editor, choose a simulation, and check the General Info of the Database Icon.
- The FUI_TCE Constituent Database is now a choice.

**1**

**2**

**3**

## Summary

- A user can set up and register a database specific to an Agency’s or site’s needs.
- The data within the new database can be modified without impacting the original database.
- Other Agencies have developed their own databases with data specific to their Agency’s needs [e.g., military relevant compounds (MRCs), unexploded ordinances (UXOs), etc.]
# Presentation: 334755

## Accessing MODIS Data Products

***Perspective from MODIS Atmospheres Research Community***
**Bill Ridgway**
**MODAPS Processing Representative for Atmospheric Discipline**
**Science Systems & Applications, Inc.**
**NASA GSFC Code 913**
**24 July 2002**

## Archive to Desktop: A Simple Process?

**Selection**
**What product?**
**What time or location?**
**Product file “as is” or subset or image?**
**Staging + [ subsetting, processing, reformatting, etc ]**
**Delivery **
**pull, push, tape, etc**
**Help**
**software tools, delivery failures, etc.**

## Conclusions

**Selection**
**EDG & No-Frills tools have perhaps 50% of desired functionality**
**Search-and-wait interface is not adequate for serious research**
**Geographic searches include excessive near misses**
**MODIS product packaging remains a big issue**
**Staging**
**Can take  5 minutes or 48 hours**
**Failures have come down a lot in the past year**
**Demand on system resources limits orders**
**Delivery **
**FTP pulls are most reliable**
**Product volume is probably the greatest obstacle**
**Help**
**Better tools, better examples, better images are still needed**

## Selection Roadblocks

**For the novice:**
**Navigating the ESDT and collection number maze**
**Products packaged with too many parameters**
**Selecting data with the right time and/or location**
**No useful browse images**
**For the repeat/experienced user:**
**Order size limits**
**EDG has useful functionality, but is torture to use**
**No Frills GDAAC interface can’t always do what I need**
**Both are painful for repetitive ordering**
**Acquiring multiple products should be easy, but isn’t**
**Geographic searches produce many near misses**

## EOS Data Gateway: The Carpal Tunnel GUI

**EDG Login**
**Select ESDT(s)  and Granule search criteria**
**Click to Start Search  ****& Wait for search...**
**Click to Select All**
**Click to Add to Cart**
**Click to Accept Data Quality Statement**
**Click to Accept Quality Assurance Disclaimer**
**Click Order Options**
**Click to Select Native Granule FTP Pull**
**Click to Accept my Choice**
**Click Go to Step 2**
**Click Go to Step 3**
**Click Go to Step 4 ****& Wait for search...**

## Wish List of Most Requested Changes

**Streamline EDG and No Frills for repeat customers**
**If I already know what I want, please just send it!**
**MOD021KM.A2002187.1550.003.xxxx**
**Ditto for MOD03, MOD35_L2, MOD04_L2, etc.**
**Data pool with FTP interface for machine data acquisition**
**A geographical search tool that really works**
**Easy ordering of many products for a single 5-minute granule**
# Presentation: 664057

## Welcome to the 

- December 2000 ZIG Meeting
- at the Library of Congress,  Washington

## Wednesday, December 6

- 11:30 - 4:30 Opening Plenary
- lunch break  1:30 -2:15
- 5:00 - 6:00 Profiles
- 6:00 - 6:30 Breakout meeting on U.S. National Profile

## Opening Plenary

- Welcome and Overview :20
-  Register of Implementors :05
-  Introductions :45
-  Current Status :20
-  Review of Survey Responses :45
- Provocative Presentations 2:00
-  Next Meeting :15

## Provocative Presentations

- John Kunze
- Poul Henrik Jørgensen
- Matthew Dovey
- Discussion

## Thursday, December  7

- 9-10:30 XML Query Language
- 10:45-12:45 Z39.50 and XML
- 1:45-3:45 Virtual Library Services
- 4-5:30 Digital Libraries

## Friday, December 8

- 9-10:30 Z39.50 URL
- 10:45-12:15 Explain
-  1:15 - 5:00 Closing Plenary
# Presentation: 064969

## Adult Immunization 2006
Satellite Broadcast
December 7, 2006

Zoster Vaccine Segment

**Satellite Broadcast**
**December 7, 2006**
**Zoster Vaccine Segment**

**Graphics subject to change**
**This material in the public domain**

## Herpes Zoster (shingles)

**Caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus**
**Can occur years or decades after illness with chickenpox**
**Generally associated with normal aging and with anything that causes reduced immunocompetence**
**Lifetime risk of 20% in the United States**
**Estimated 500,000 to 1 million cases zoster diagnosed annually in the U.S. **

## Herpes Zoster Vaccine(Zostavax®)

**Contains the same live attenuated varicella virus but at a much higher titer than regular varicella vaccine**
**Must be stored at freezer temperature at all times**
**Use within 30 minutes of reconstitution**
**Administered by the subcutaneous (subQ) route**

## Zostavax Clinical Trial

**Compared to the placebo group the vaccine group had: **
**51% fewer episodes of zoster**
**Less severe disease**
**66% less postherpetic neuralgia**
**No significant safety issues were identified **

***NEJM***** 2005;352(22):2271-84.**

## ACIP Recommendations* for Zoster Vaccine

**Single dose of zoster vaccine for adults 60 years of age and older whether or not they report a prior episode of shingles**
**Persons with a chronic medical condition may be vaccinated unless a contraindication or precaution exists for their condition**

***provisional (as of December 2007)**
# Presentation: 537202

## Catalytic Methods Using Molecular Oxygen Treatment of PMMS and ECLSS Waste Streams Umpqua Research CompanyMyrtle Creek, OR

**Innovation**
- Catalytic Oxidation System (COS)

**Accomplishments**
- Used to destroy most waterborne organic contaminants.  Soluble alcohols, ketones, amides, amines, aromatics, and halocarbons levels have been oxidized using dissolved elemental oxygen to form carbon dioxide, water, and constituent inorganic species.
- Used to destroy oxygen containing inorganic aqueous contaminants including nitrate, nitrite, and perchlorate.  The oxidation of an organic reductant such as ethanol or acidic acid using nitrate or perchlorate as oxidant results in conversion to nitrogen gas or chloride, respectively.
- The system operates at temperatures between 60o and 150oC under sufficient temperature to prevent a phase change.  The degree of contaminant destruction depends primarily on operation temperature and catalyst contact time, and generally, ug/L levels can be achieved.
- System is energy efficient due to excellent heat recovery.
- The prototype system has the capability to lower 50 mg/L of ethanol to less than 50 ug/L after a 1 to 3 minutes catalyst contact time.
**Commercialization**
- Company sales of the Catalytic Oxidation System have been approximately $44K.
- Marketing efforts have been concentrated on the production of ultrapure water for the semi-conductor and pharmaceutical industries and the treatment of a variety of contaminated aqueous streams.
- A marketing consultant has been retained in order to facilitate the commercialization of the technology in the private sector.

**Government/Science Applications**
- Design of the Catalytic Oxidation System focused on the stringent water quality requirements for long-term manned space flight with the manufacture of light hardware as the primary Phase II commercialization goal.
- The primary target for near-term commercialization of the Catalytic Oxidation System is the International Space Station.  Continued sales are expected for long-term missions to the Moon and Mars.
- Both the Air Force and National Science Foundation have funded this technology for the destruction of environmental contaminants.  These include aviation fuel, solvents, and soluble propellant and munition by-products for the Air Force; and phenol, trichlorethylene, methylene blue, and benzene for NSF.

- Catalytic Oxidation Test Unit
- a) Front View  /   b) Rear View

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Denise Swain; 256/544-8112)
-    -  Umpqua Research Co. (James R. Akse; 541-863-7770)
- 1988 SBIR Phase 2; NAS8-38490

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Date of Update:	9/21/98
- Success Story #:	8-016

- a)

- b)
# Presentation: 774763

## GSA Missing Children Alert

- GSA Missing Children Alert

**Concerned about America’s Children**

**U.S. General Services Administration**

##  Shekinah Barber

-  Shekinah Barber

- _Last Seen_:   Miami Gardens,  FL         06/28/2008
- _Age_:           12 years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Heather Carolann Bryant

-  Heather Carolann Bryant

- _Last Seen_:   McAlester,  OK             06/10/2008
- _Age_:           17 years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Mayra Zueima Carrillo

-  Mayra Zueima Carrillo

- _Last Seen_:   Houston,  TX                06/20/2008
- _Age_:           12 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

## GSA Missing Children Alert

- GSA Missing Children Alert

**Concerned about America’s Children**

**U.S. General Services Administration**

##  Haley Elizabeth Carter

-  Haley Elizabeth Carter

- _Last Seen_:   Jacksonville,  FL            07/22/2008
- _Age_:           13 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Keturah Leah Crawford

-  Keturah Leah Crawford

- _Last Seen_:   Brandon,  FL                 07/13/2008
- _Age_:           13 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Michael Donald Dinicola

-  Michael Donald Dinicola

- _Last Seen_:   Tampa,  FL                  06/29/2008
- _Age_:           14 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Veronica Deanna Figueroa

-  Veronica Deanna Figueroa

- _Last Seen_:   Los Angeles,  CA          07/04/2008
- _Age_:           13 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

## GSA Missing Children Alert

- GSA Missing Children Alert

**Concerned about America’s Children**

**U.S. General Services Administration**

##  Alysa Marie Foster

-  Alysa Marie Foster

- _Last Seen_:   Lakewood,  CO              07/12/2008
- _Age_:           13 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Destiny Jewell Moczygemba

-  Destiny Jewell Moczygemba

- _Last Seen_:   San Antonio,  TX           06/21/2008
- _Age_:           13 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**

##  Rinequa Porter

-  Rinequa Porter

- _Last Seen_:   Fort Lauderdale,  FL       06/18/2008
- _Age_:           13 Years

**ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT****:**
**The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children**
**1-800-The-Lost**
# Presentation: 513484

## The International Polar Year 2007-2008 (http://www.ipy.org/)

**An international program of coordinated, interdisciplinary scientific research and observations in the Earth's polar regions**

**To explore new scientific frontiers **
**To deepen our understanding of polar processes **
**To increase our ability to detect changes **
**To attract the next generation of polar scientists**

## IPY History & Organization

**First International Polar Year (1882-1883) **
**Second International Polar Year (1932-1933) **
**The International Geophysical Year (1957-58)**
**Third International Polar Year (2007-2008)**

**Secretariat is functioning**
**IPY Committee has asked for Expressions of Intent**
**Accepted activities will be endorsed by the IPY as the“official”IPY program**
**Funding has to be sought nationally**

## POLARCAT steering committee:
Hajime Akimoto, Japan  
Boris Belan, Russia  
Jack Dibb, U.S.A.  
Mike Fromm, U.S.A.  
Ewa Krawczyk, Poland  
Lauri Laakso, Finland  
Kathy Law, France (co-chair)  
John Methven, U.K.  
David Parrish, U.S.A.  
Laurier Poissant, Canada  
Phil Rasch, U.S.A.  
Hans Schlager, Germany  
Hanwant Singh, U.S.A.  
Andreas Stohl, Norway (chair) 

- Hajime Akimoto, Japan
- Boris Belan, Russia
- Jack Dibb, U.S.A.
- Mike Fromm, U.S.A.
- Ewa Krawczyk, Poland
- Lauri Laakso, Finland
- Kathy Law, France (co-chair)
- John Methven, U.K.
- David Parrish, U.S.A.
- Laurier Poissant, Canada
- Phil Rasch, U.S.A.
- Hans Schlager, Germany
- Hanwant Singh, U.S.A.
- Andreas Stohl, Norway (chair)

- POLARCAT_**Pol**_**ar Study using **_**A**_**ircraft, **_**R**_**emote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of **_**C**_**limate, Chemistry, **_**A**_**erosols, and **_**T**_**ransport**

## POLARCAT overview

**role of long-range poleward transport of  aerosols and trace gases for climate change in the Arctic**
**Two integrated campaigns: winter/spring 2007/8 and summer 2008 **
**Summer campaign will focus on boreal forest fires influences to the Arctic**
**Winter/spring campaign will target arctic haze & anthropogenic pollution from Eurasia**
**Investigative tools: Aircrafts, satellites, surface networks, lagrangian balloons, models**
**White paper at **http://zardoz.nilu.no/~andreas/POLARCAT/

## DC-8 anticipated payload

## WB-57 anticipated payload

## March April 2008

**YAK**

**NOAA G4**

**NASA DC8**

**NOAA WP3B**

**Balloons**

**ASTAR**

**OASIS**
**Ship**

**CNRS**

**NOAA  Ron Brown**

**March April 2008**

## Summer 2008

**YAK**

**NCAR**

**DLR**
**Swiss**

**DC8**
**WB57**

**U York**

**NOAA**

**Summer 2008**

## What Next?

**Development of interest & resources from institutions in several countries**
**NASA HQ Interest**
**Aura Validation would nicely augment POLARCAT activities. **
**There are lots of plans to use satellite data in POLARCAT**
**Review DC-8 and WB-57 deployment location**
# Presentation: 710848

## Media Bureau

- January 15, 2003

## Cable High-Speed Internet Access
Available to 75 million US homes
More than 10 million subscribers
Clarifying regulatory treatment
What is an “Information Service” anyway?

- Available to 75 million US homes
- More than 10 million subscribers
- Clarifying regulatory treatment
- What is an “Information Service” anyway?

- Broadband

## Applications Reviewed:

**Applications Reviewed**:
**DBS**
**Cable Operators**

**Digital Radio Authorized:**
**I****n-****B****and ****O****n ****C****hannel**

## Contributing to the Spectrum Policy Task Force

- Expanding eligibility for Spectrum licensing (Including other MVPDs)
- Opening spectrum to public safety users

## Momentum is Building!

-  800 DTV Broadcast Stations
-  50% increase in Primetime HD
-  Cable and DBS offering HD Programming
-  Cable and CE agree on “Plug and Play”

## 12 Studies Examining Media Marketplace

Broadcast Ownership Rules Under Review:
National Television Multiple Ownership –  Remanded by court
Local Television Multiple Ownership – Remanded by court
Radio-Television Cross-Ownership
Dual Network
Local Radio Ownership
Newspaper – Broadcast Cross-Ownership

**12 Studies Examining Media Marketplace**
**Broadcast Ownership Rules Under Review:**
- National Television Multiple Ownership –  Remanded by court
- Local Television Multiple Ownership – Remanded by court
- Radio-Television Cross-Ownership
- Dual Network
- Local Radio Ownership
- Newspaper – Broadcast Cross-Ownership

- Media Ownership

## Representatives include: 
Broadcast
Cable
Manufacturers
Public safety officials
Satellite
Trade associations

- Broadcast
- Cable
- Manufacturers
- Public safety officials
- Satellite
- Trade associations

- Homeland Security

## Online Data Bases
Consolidated Data Base System (CDBS)
Cable Operation And Licensing System 

90% of items acted upon within the disposal goal
Including:
• TV assignments and transfers	 	• Political complaints & inquiries 
• AM and FM major modifications		• Cable system registrations

Backlog Reduced
Appeals of Local Rate Orders ↓
Flagged Radio Transactions ↓

Public comments easily filed online (ECFS)

- Modernizing the FCC

- Online Data Bases
- Consolidated Data Base System (CDBS)
- Cable Operation And Licensing System 
- 90% of items acted upon within the disposal goal
- Including:
- • TV assignments and transfers	 	• Political complaints & inquiries
- • AM and FM major modifications		• Cable system registrations
- Backlog Reduced
- Appeals of Local Rate Orders ↓
- Flagged Radio Transactions ↓
- Public comments easily filed online (ECFS)

## Any Questions? 

- Any Questions?

- Media Bureau
# Presentation: 807246

## Plamon Resonance in Nano Particles and Liquid CrystalsPaul F. Nealy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NSEC, DMR 0425880 Gary M. Koenig Jr., Maria-Victoria Meli, Joon-Seo Park, Juan J. de Pablo, and Nicholas L. Abbott

- Plasmons, electromagnetic waves that propagate along the surface of metallic materials, have been used before to detect the presence or binding of biological molecules, thereby providong the basis for biological sensors. Thrust 3 researchers have now discovered that the properties of plasmons can be manipulated by exposing the metal to a liquid crystalline fluid. In a recent paper in *Chemistry of Materials*, Thrust 3 graduate student Gary Koenig and co-workers report that surface-induced ordering of liquid crystals in the vicinity of chemically functionalized gold nanoparticles leads to changes in the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of the gold nanoparticles. Gold nanoparticles, with sizes between 10 and 40 nm, were prepared on surfaces and chemically functionalized with organic monolayers that are known to lead to planar and perpendicular (homeotropic) orientations of micrometer-thick films of nematic 4-pentyl-4'cyanobiphenyl (5CB) supported on continuous gold films. The Figure below shows a schematic representation of the system employed by Thrust 3 researchers. By measuring the absorption of light caused by the LSPR of the nanoparticles as a function of surface chemistry of the nanoparticles and temperature, they observed changes in the LSPR caused by surface-induced, localized ordering of the 5CB in the vicinity of the nanoparticles. Comparison of the far-field orientation of the liquid crystal and the LSPR behavior of the nanoparticles provides insights into the nanoscopic origins of the bulk anchoring behaviors of the liquid crystal. These results indicate that the LSPR properties of nanoparticles can be exploited to investigate how the chemical functionality of nanoparticles changes the local ordering of liquid crystals.
- Gary M. Koenig Jr., Maria-Victoria Meli, Joon-Seo Park, Juan J. de Pablo, and Nicholas L. Abbott , *Chem. Mater.*, 19 (5), 1053 -1061, 2007.
# Presentation: 285224

## Research Translation CoreUNC SBRP Advancing the scientific bases required to understand and reduce risks to human health associated with high priority Superfund chemicals, specifically PAHs and chlorinated hydrocarbons

- Frederic Pfaender, Kathleen Gray

## Research TranslationComponents

- Communicate research results to the scientific community and governmental agencies
- Inform local government, community-based organizations, and educators about our research and respond to their needs
- Catalyze the commercialization of research findings

## Communicate ResearchResults

- Publications, web site, seminars
- Partner with Superfund Section in NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
- Internship Program
- Seminar Series
- Region 4 EPA – in development
- Participate in NC Formerly Used Defense Sites Working Group - USACE, EPA, DENR

## Inform and AssistCommunities

- Develop materials for communities impacted by Superfund sites
- Conduct educational activities for teachers, students and community-based organizations
- Workshops on water quality and hazardous waste
- Partnerships with science centers/museums
- Research effective methods of communicating with local governments, community-based organizations and citizens
- Web site and newsletter for lay audiences

## Catalyze Research Commercialization 

- Technology Development Boot Camp
- Joint with Training Core and Office of Technology Development
- Commercialization of patents and copyrights
- Remediation technology
- Spatial analysis software
- Local venture capitalists
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## Current Areas of Space-Related Health Research

**Skeletal Tissue Engineering**
- 	-  Adult mesenchymal stem cells
- 	-  Nanobiomaterial scaffold
- 	-  Bioreactor requirement

***Presenter:  Rocky S. Tuan, Ph.D., Chief, Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch***
***Agency/Organization: NIAMS, NIH, DHHS***

## Application of Electrospun Nanofibrous Scaffold for Cell-Based Tissue Engineering

**Application of Electrospun Nanofibrous Scaffold for ****Cell-Based Tissue Engineering**

**Notes:**
A nanofibrous scaffold is fabricated using biodegradable polymers, by means of a process known as electrospinning, originally developed in the textile polymer industry.  The polymer solution is injected into a high power electric field, causing the jet stream to spray (because of high surface charge) and, as the solvent evaporates, ultrafine fibers are produced and are collected on a plate. 

## Tissue-Engineered Cartilage Using Nanofibrous Scaffold, Human Adult Stem Cells, TGF-, and Bioreactor

**Tissue-Engineered Cartilage Using Nanofibrous Scaffold, Human Adult Stem Cells, TGF-********, ****and Bioreactor**

**Notes:**
Cell-seeded constructs are then placed into a horizontal axis rotating bioreactor, which rotates at a speed such that the large constructs are maintained in a pseudo-stationary manner because their sedimentation is balanced by the rotation, to allow efficient nutrient perfusion and to promote optimal cell-cell interaction within the construct.  After 7 weeks culture, a substantial, smooth-surfaced construct is produced, several cm in diameters and from 1-3 mm in thickness, with a stiffness approximating 75% of native articular cartilage.  Histologically, the construct is made of large chondrocytes producing abundant alcian blue stained cartilage matrix.

## Promising Areas for Space-Related Health Research Collaborations

- Understand the mechanisms responsible for randomized gravity mediated enhancement of stem cell-based cartilage formation
- Design novel bioreactors based on microgravity related principles for improved tissue engineering applications.

## Existing Resources to Facilitate Space-Related Health Research

**Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch**
**NIAMS, NIH**
- • Human resources - a unique consortium of biologists, engineers and surgeons
- • Physical resources - instrumentation design and prototyping, mechanoactive bioreactors, biomaterial scaffold production, adult stem cell technologies, mechanical testing
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## SOO/STRC WRF Environmental Modeling System

- Robert Rozumalski
- National SOO Science and Training Resource CoordinatorNOAA/NWS/OCWWS/Training Division/FDTB

- WRF EMS on a local cluster

## Local Clusters

- The WRF EMS is easily configured to run on a local “cluster”
- Sometimes referred to as a “Beowulf Cluster”
- A Beowulf Cluster is simply a group of computers connected together over a network

## Local Clusters

- Local Cluster

## Local Clusters

- Why build a Beowulf cluster?
- Performance - achieve “super-computer” levels
- Cost – hardware and switches are relatively inexpensive
- Scalable – add additional nodes over time to improve performance
- WRF EMS is easily configured to run on clusters

**Notes:**

Accepted definition of a Beowulf cluster is a scalable performance cluster that is  based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure. 

## Local Clusters

- What do you need to create a Beowulf cluster?
- Two or more workstations running Linux
- A multi-port Gigabit switch (~$100 current cost)
- MPICH – Provided with the WRF EMS
- Chapter 15 of WRF EMS User’s Guide

- Relatively simple!

**Notes:**

Accepted definition of a Beowulf cluster is a scalable performance cluster that is  based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure. 

## SOO/STRC WRF Environmental Modeling System

- The End

- WRF EMS on a local cluster
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## National Association of County and City Health Officials

- Local Biosurveillance Capacity – Survey Results
- April 26, 2006

## Survey Methodology

- Collaborated with ASTHO to modify questions received from Workgroup
- 344 LHDs with populations over 200,000 invited to participate in web survey
- Survey in field for 1 week
- 27% response rate (n=93)

## Overview

- Majority LHDs have capacity for initial event detection, situational awareness, and outbreak management
- Approximately half have response management support capabilities
- Virtually all have a relationship with local providers for preparedness planning
- Most have on-going relationship with local providers for routine disease surveillance
- 72% receiving syndromic surveillance data from clinical care setting in any format,
- 56% currently have the capability to receive initial event detection data in standard electronic formats, or plan to have the capability within the next six months
- Interest in participation in a national initiative: 24% somewhat interested; 26% interested; 41% very interested

## Respondents

## LHD Biosurveillance Capacity

## Applications in Use for Biosurveillance

## Applications in Use for Biosurveillance

## Type of Biosurveillance Data Being Collected

## Responsibility for Managing Biosurveillance Systems

## SHA/LHD Relationship for Biosurveillance

## Resources

## Funding

## Routine Surveillance

## LHD Relationships

## LHD Relationships

## Provider Participation

## LHD Capacity – Clinical Data

## LHD Plans for Additional Data

## LHD Interest in National Program

## Barriers to Participation

## LHDs and RHIOs

## Conclusions

- Desire to participate and capacity of larger LHDs is strong
- Many barriers can be overcome by a solid, transparent plan with appropriate safeguards for privacy and security
- Funding, technical infrastructure and workforce continue to be a struggled for LHDs
- Opportunity to demonstrate different data stream options with state and local participation
- Pick the low-hanging fruit

## Contact Information

- Paula Soper, MPH
- Program Manager,
- Public Health Preparedness
- (phone) 202-783-5550 ext 248
- psoper@naccho.org
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## Can Discrepant Estimates Be A Good Thing?

- Renee Miller and Lawrence Stroud
- Statistics and Methods Group, EIA
- October 20, 2005

## 14.2%

**14.2%**

**12.5%**

## Directory of Topics for Petroleum Consumption/Sales

_**P**__[roduct Supplied](http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_wpsup_k_w.htm)_ Measures the disappearance of petroleum products from primary sources
**Prime Supplier Sales Volumes** Sales of petroleum products by refiners, gas plant operators, importers and large inter-state distributors into the final local markets of consumption (monthly, annual).

## Slide 4

## Directory of Topics for Petroleum Consumption/Sales (continued)

**Sales of Fuel Oil and Kerosene:**   **Distillate and Kerosene by End Use**** **
**Adjusted Sales of Fuel Oil and Kerosene:**   **Distillate and Kerosene by End Use**** **

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Forecasts

- STEO produced monthly; AEO produced annually
- Different units
- STEO is in nominal dollars; AEO is in 2003 dollars

## Discrepant Estimates: Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em

- Income and Poverty Estimates from Household Surveys - Charles Nelson, Census Bureau
- Estimating Disability: Numbers to Make Your Head Spin – Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics
- Estimates of Jobs from Household and Payroll Surveys – Philip Rones, Bureau of Labor Statistics

## Can Discrepant Estimates be a Good Thing?

- How do we help the public?
- Do we restrict what we show?
- Do we concentrate on developing better caveats?
- We welcome the Committee’s thoughts on these and other related issues.
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## MTAC Workgroup 104List Certification

- MTAC MeetingAugust 1, 2007

## List Certification Criteria for List Administrators

- A certification program administered by the USPS National Customer Support Center
- Certified List Administrators are posted on RIBBS and represent trusted sources for quality data processing and list rentals
- A Certified List Administrator
- Leverages best practices in address quality
- Performs both a pre-mailing and a post-mailing move update process
- Can include a number of solutions such as NCOALink, OneCodeACS, and timely updates from the Corrective Action Required List (CARL)

## Our Final Report

- Contributions from over 40 participants
- 36 page report
- Pre-mailing opportunities
- Suggestions to facilitate performance based validation
- Innovative post-mailing update solution

## Final Recommendations

- Recommend the USPS consider implementing the List Certification program
- Establish an application form for List Administrators to begin the process of becoming certified
- Carefully review the suggested Corrective Action Recommended List (CARL) and implement the technology
- Establish a list of certified List Administrators and post it on RIBBS

## Conclusion of Workgroup 104

- Shawn Baldwin
- Terri Biasi
- Rich Bobic
- Adam Collinson
- Ed Conrad
- Barry Elliott
- Mark Gundersen
- Sharon Harrison
- Charles Hunt
- Christopher Lien
- Steve Lopez
- Joe Lubenow
- Bill McGlynn
- Dale Miller
- Peter Moore
- E. C. Nix
- Chris Slauter
- Kurt Smallhoover
- James West
- Jim Wilson
- Ed Gleiman
- Jim Schemmel

- Dan Goodkind
- Charles Howard
- Nicholas Wolf
- David Hursh
- Robert O'Brien
- Joyce Bagby
- Sue Panella
- Karen Magazino
- Kaz Jaszczak
- Paula Stoskopf
- Mark Pawlos
- Roger Holmes
- Deborah Sanders
- Lloyd Moss
- John Langer
- Ray Chin
- Michelle Billmann
- Wendy Thomas
- Benjy Uhl
- Carmen Diquollo
- David Dufford

- We would like to thank the many members of workgroup 104
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## Working Successfully with FDA/OIVD

- IVD Roundtable
- 510(k) Workshop
- April 20, 2004

## What You Will Hear Today

- It’s not rocket science!
- Almost everything you need to know you learned in kindergarten
- Apply common sense, respect, and good manners; remember you are dealing with people

## When Do You Interact with OIVD?

- Submissions
- Phone calls
- Meetings
- Postmarket issues
- Impromptu events

## Submission Planning

- Know your device/IVD and its intended use
- Review OIVD’s website for similar devices, guidances, and cleared or approved submissions
- Identify the analytical/clinical studies needed to support the submission
- If straightforward, additional interaction may not be needed

## Preparing a Submission

- It maybe a first impression
- It should be clear, neat, well-organized
- Proofread!!
- Have an objective third party review before sending
- How to send/deliver

## What if You Need to Meet?

- Never meet just to ask questions (FDA is not your consultant)
- Have a plan or outline prepared in advance; provide to FDA sufficiently in advance of the meeting
- Have your questions ready
- Do a dry run (practice presentation)
- Be clear about your goals and willing to compromise

## Meeting Management

- Be prompt
- Have designated presenter/s and a note-taker
- Stay within time limits; allow time for questions
- Offer to follow up on questions you cannot answer; then do it!

## After the Meeting

- Provide any requested information
- Send a letter summarizing the meeting and addressing questions and responses
- Follow up with OIVD to assure no miscommunications
- What about changes?

## How to Disagree

- Don’t insult the alligators until you’re across the river
- Respect the chain of command; talk first directly to the person with whose opinion or decision you disagree
- If not resolved, go to the next level; let the first person know in advance; offer to keep him or her involved

## How to Disagree (cont’d)

- Science questions are resolved within the division (or office)
- Only policy questions are typically elevated beyond the division
- When to involve the ombudsman and what he can do for you
- Clarification
- Resolution

## How to Disagree (cont’d)

- When to call your lawyer
- NOT when you have a problem
- When to sue
- When to call your Congressman
- Be careful what you ask for
- When to seek divine intervention

## Phone calls

- For submission follow-up, wait an appropriate time; do not nag
- Prepare for phone calls as thoroughly as for meetings
- Have all the right people available
- Document as for meetings
- Need I say-try to avoid cell phones???

## Postmarket Issues

- Includes inspectional issues, product problems
- Inspectional issues handled initially at district level
- When and how to involve OIVD
- Product problems handled by OIVD and the district
- When and how to involve OIVD

## Impromptu Events

- Don’t wait until you have a problem to develop a relationship
- Be respectful of occasion and time

## Final Thoughts
# Presentation: 487615

## STDs Among Men Who Have Sex with MenSexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2000

- Division of STD Prevention

## MSM Project   —   Median STD clinic test positivity for chlamydia,gonorrhea, HIV and syphilis prevalence among MSM, by race/ethnicity, 2000

## MSM Project   —   Median STD clinic test positivity for chlamydia,gonorrhea, and syphilis prevalence among MSM, by self-reportedHIV status, 2000

## Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP)   —   Percent of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates obtained from MSM for STD clinics in 14 cities, 1998, 1999 and 2000

- Note: In 2000, these 14 clinics reported 91.7% (633/690) of GISP gonorrhea cases in men who have sex with men (MSM). In 1998 ALB reported 0.0% MSM. Clinics include: ALB=Albuquerque, NM; ANC=Anchorage, AK; ATL=Atlanta, GA; CHI=Chicago, IL; DEN=Denver, CO; HON=Honolulu, HI; LBC=Long Beach, CA; MIA=Miami, FL; ORA=Orange County, CA; PHX=Phoenix, AZ; POR=Portland, OR; SDG=San Diego, CA; SEA=Seattle, WA; and SFO=San Francisco, CA.
# Presentation: 496315

## ?

**SCOREKEEPER**

- What DO
- I Do

**?**

**1.  Set up**
**  ****Set up score sheet on flipchart**
**2.  Understand where to place points**
**  ****Use a cumulative tally**
**3.  ****Toss up questions**** = 4 points**
**4.  ****Bonus questions**** = 10 points**
**5.  If a competitor interrupts the Moderator while a question**
**     ****is being read, and if the competitor answers incorrectly,**
**     ****the opposing team:**
**  ****Is awarded 4 points**
**  ****Has a chance to answer the toss up question**
**    ****(for an additional 4 points)**
**  ****Has a chance to answer the bonus question**
**    ****(for an additional 10 points)**
**(This is also true for unrecognized answers or “blurts.”)**
**6.  At halftime**
**  ****Draw a double line with a total.**
**  ****Announce scores for teams A and B.**
**7.  At end of game**
**  ****Announce the final scores.**
**  ****Sign the Official Score Sheet.  Leave the flipchart score sheet in the comp room.**
**  ****Do NOT call in the scores.**

**Team A**

**Team B**

**4**

**14**
**18**

**4**
**4**

**4**

**10**

**4**
**12**

**4**
# Presentation: 030719

## New Mexico WIC

- Considerations Affecting Affordability

- Presenter: Sid Golden
- Prepared By: John.Weathersby@jrwservicecorp.com
- Director, WIC Program

## Agenda

**1. ****30,000 feet**

**2. ****System**

**3. ****Contract Support**

**4. ****General Considerations**

## Factors Impacting Affordability (30,000 ft)

- Costs of contractor support.
- Equipment to manage (printers, ink, check, check stock).
- Expandability of rebate.
- Cost of EBT specific hardware.
- Technology (maturity & implementation of).
- Cost of transactions.
- Grocer readiness.
- Staff knowledge and training.

## System Cost Considerations

- Development of a WIC application
- Settlement
- Clinic
- Food management
- Maintenance, Operations, Upkeep
- Unique Equipment/Hardware/Software
- Database
- Terminals
- Cards

## Contract Support

- System maintenance
- Ongoing support of systems may be contracted
- Payment processing
- Payment processor/federal bank (?)
- Card Development
- On price agreement or contracted (?)

## Questions?

- State Director- Sid Golden
- _[Sidney.Golden@state.nm.us](mailto:Sidney.Golden@state.nm.us)_
- State Deputy Director- Deanna Torres
_*Deanna.Torres@state.nm.us*_
- State IT Manager- Boguslaw Malecki
*Boguslaw.Malecki@state.nm.us*
- State Data Base Manager- Yvette Quintana
*Yvette.Quintana@state.nm.us*
- State Vendor Manager- Georgia McGovern
*Georgia.McGovern@state.nm.us*
- State Project Manager- John Weathersby
_*John.Weathersby@state.nm.us*_
# Presentation: 545578

## Sensitivity of short-range trio interactions to lateral relaxation

**of adatoms: Challenges for detailed lattice-gas modeling**
- Rajesh Sathiyanarayanan, T.J. Stasevich, T.L. Einstein
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

- When characterizing the equilibrium shapes of small clusters/islands on surfaces in terms of the standard lattice gas models, we found significant relaxations at edges.  Failure to account for this effect can–and has for Cu(001)–lead to apparent contradictions between theoretical models and experimental data.  Since location-dependent lateral interactions are inconsistent with the lattice-gas model, we account for this phenomenon using trio (3-atom, non-pairwise) and even quarto (4-atom generalization) to describe this behavior [1].  These relaxational effects are important in closely packed overlayers, where direct interactions between adatoms have strengths comparable to those distinguishing adsorption sites, so that there is complex interplay between adatom-adatom and adatom-substrate interactions.  To compute such interactions requires state-of-the-art first-principles techniques such as VASP or ABINIT.
- [1] Rajesh Sathiyanarayanan, T.J. Stasevich, T.L. Einstein, surf. sci. 602, 1243 (2008)

## Slide 2