BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 390583

## One Perspective on theValue of XML Topic Maps

- Ron Daniel Jr.
- Standards Architect
- rdaniel@interwoven.com

## Agenda

- Preamble
- Categorization
- User Interfaces for Different Types of Users
- The Moral of the Story

## Preamble

- Interwoven
- Not a “Topic Map Company” (nor an “HTML Company”, ...)
- Interwoven’s view on Topic Maps
- They provide real value...
- ... to two very different populations of interest to us
- Website designers/developers/operators
- Website visitors
*What is that value?*
- How will people use topic maps?
- What will they see?

## Value Proposition In One Word:

- Categorization is a pervasive human behavior
- Friend/foe, edible/poisonous, hunter/prey, ...
- Organizational units, file folder hierarchies, ...
- Different groups see the world in different ways
- Reflected in their categorizations
- Multiple categorizations can be in effect at the same time
- Some groups have created massive standard categorizations (Dewey and LCSH in the library world, SNOMED in the medical world, DOE Thesauri, ...)
- Tools and content opportunities

**Categorization**

## So...?

- Categorization will be used to make web sites better
- Faster, easier, more interesting
- Most useful sites will follow the Five Laws*
- Books (Information, web sites, records systems) are for use
- Every book its reader
- Every reader his or her book
- Save the reader’s time
- The library is a growing organism
- Topic Maps adoption will increase as a consequence of improved usability

- * “*The Five Laws of Library Science*”, S.V. Ranganathan, Madras Library Association, ca. 1930

## How Will Site Visitors See the Maps?

- Like this:

## (With Just a Couple of Little Bugs to Work Out ...)

## ... or Like This?

## ... and This?

## Lesson So Far...

- Topic Maps will help visitors to navigate and discover information on Web sites
- (Every book its reader, every reader their book)
- User interfaces will only expose small portions of the Topics at any one time
- (Books are for use, save the reader’s time)
- Someone has to create and maintain the categories  and categorize the data
- (The library is a growing organism)

## What About The Other Populations?

- What do the catalogers need?
- Speed
- Accuracy
- Operate on a single document at a time

## What Other Populations?

- At least three:
- Creators of categorizations
- Maintainers of categories
- Analysts of categorized collections
- What do they need?
- How many of those needs does this display meet?
- What does “North” mean?

## What About Maintenance?

- Basic Tasks:
- Update a node
- Remove a node
- Add a node
- Move a subtree
- Topic Maps will bring benefits of standard tools for merging and maintaining categories
- Benefits of competition

## So Why Am I Saying This?

- Topic Maps can deliver real value
- It is not because they are ‘maps’
- Most users should not see a complex interface
- Some specialists need a very elaborate UI
- Standard XTM format and tools will bring down costs
- Costs will be affected by the relative populations of
- Site Visitors
- Catalogers, Maintainers
- Analysts
- No tool or format makes it easy to create a good classification scheme
# Presentation: 109842

## Unclassified Foreign Visits & Assignments*

- Visits and assignments must be approved by DOE
- DOE Secretarial approval required **PRIOR** to access
- 6-8 month approval process

- Visits (<30 days):  No approval required
- Assignments (>30 days):
- 1 month advance notification
- Lab Executive approval required

**Sensitive**

**Terrorist-sponsoring (T-5)**

**DOE O 142.3 includes:***
**Citizen of      ******     **Born in     ******     **Affiliated with**
***Sensitive or T-5 individuals who have become naturalized U.S. citizens are exempt**

***For additional information:  Foreign Visits & Assignments Office, **_[FVA@lbl.gov](mailto:FVA@lbl.gov)__ or 486-7572_
# Presentation: 437401

## Feature Identification

- Crary Ice Rise
- Jan. 1999

- 25 km

- 3 km

- ALI Pan Band (10 m)

- SPOT Pan Band (10 m)

- 5 DN

- 20 DN

## Ice Stream Margin

- ALI Band 5 (30 m)

- L7 Band 4 (30 m)

- ALI Pan Band (10 m)

- 9 km

- 2 km

- Ice Stream D,
- Antarctica

- fast, crevassed
-  ice flow

- slow, smooth
-  ridge ice

- 10 DN

- 100 DN

## Increased Signal on Ridge Ice

- ALI Band 5
- (30 m, 12-bit)

- L7 Band 4
- (30 m, 8-bit)

- 3 km

- 3 km

- ALI Filtered

- L7 Filtered

- Power Spectrum

- Power Spectrum

## Effect of Sastrugi

- 150 m

- 600 m

- Ice Stream D
- IKONOS Pan Band
- 1-m pixels

- 10-m average

- 600 m

- 30-m average

## Glacier Facies

**Transect from the accumulation area to the ablation area**

**Hofsjokull, Iceland**
**September 24, 2001**

## Feature

**Left - ALI Band 5 (0.775-0.890 micrometers);**
**Right - result using edge-detection filtering**

- Detection
# Presentation: 671414

## AN INVITATION 

**It is exciting times for the Renewable Energy**
** ****Sector in India.**
** **** **
**Please visit in large number and  **
**experience it first hand.**
** **
** **
**Explore the opportunities in Product Sales, Technical Collaborations, Project Investments**
** ****and R & D tie ups.**

## KEY CONTACTS 

**	****	**
**	****	****Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd**
**	****	****India Habitat Center Complex**
**	****	****Core-4A, East Court, 1****st**** Floor**
**	****	****Lodi Road, New Delhi 110 003**
**Tel: +91 11 2468 2214-21 **
**Fax: +91 11 2468 2202**
**Email: ****mdireda@rediffmail.com**
** **
**Secretary**
**Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES)**
**BlockNo.14, Public Enterprises Bhawan**
**C.G.O. Complex**
**Lodi Road**
**New Delhi 110 003**
**Tel: +91 11 2436 0707**
**Fax:+91 11 2436 1298**
**Email: ****dirmnes@ren02.nic.in**

## ABOUT US 

_***Bhoruka Power Corporation Limited***_
** **
**The Company is a leader in the Renewable Energy Sector in India.**
** **
**The Company remains the first in the post independence period to set up and operate a Hydel project in the private sector (Nov. 1992)**
** **
**The Company spearheads environmentally friendly Renewable Energy projects.  Current portfolio is mainly Small Hydel and to some extent Wind.**
** **
**By early next year the capacity will touch 80 MW  and by 2007, 100 MW.  The Company has to its credit many honours and has received the ISO 9001, ISO 9002 and ISO 14001 Certifications.  It is currently working for the ISO 18001 recognition**
** **
**The Company is backed by a unique mix of Engineering Intellect, Project Management Capability, Deep Industry experience and committed  man power.**

## SHIVAPUR

**LOCATION :SHIVAPUR – KARNATAKA  -  INDIA**
**INSTALLED CAPACITY : 2 X 9 MW**

## SHAHAPUR

**LOCATION :SHAHAPUR – KARNATAKA  -  INDIA**
**INSTALLED CAPACITY : 7.6 MW FROM 6 SCHEMES**
# Presentation: 701650

## PCOS and Hyperinsulinemia

## Metabolic Syndrome

- Constellation of metabolic abnormalities
- 	Excess weight
- 	High blood pressure
- 	Dyslipidemia
- 	Hyperglycemia
- 	Also considered:
- 	Insulin resistance
- 	Inflammation
- 	Thrombosis
- 	Hyperuricemia
- 	Renal function

## NCEP/ATP III Criteria -Metabolic Syndrome

- 	(1) Abdominal obesity
- 		Men: waist circumference > 40 inches
- 		Women: waist circumference > 35 inches
- 	(2) Fasting glucose ≥ 110 < 126 mg/dL
- 	(3) Blood pressure ≥ 130/85 mm Hg
- 	(4) Triglycerides ≥ 150 mg/dL
- 	(5) HDL-C
- 		Men 		< 40 mg/dL
- 		Women 	< 50 mg/dL
- 	Syndrome is present when three or more criteria are met.
- 		*G. Reaven, Endocrinol Metab Clin N. Am 33 (2004) 283-303*

## Obesity – Augmenting Risk

- Products of adipose tissue include:
- Non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA); influx of NEFA into liver resulting in increase influx of apB-containing lipoproteins into circulation
- Inflammatory cytokines
- PAI-1

## Prevalence Metabolic Syndrome

- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (NHANES III); 1988-1994
- Men				Women
- 24.8%	whites			22.8%
- 25.7%	African Americans	25.7%
- 35.6%	Mexican Americans	35.6%
- 19.9%	Other			19/9%

## Insulin Resistance and Hyperinsulinemia

- Associated with PCO
- Worsens with obesity
- Increased
- Triglycerides
- Atherogenic lipid profile
- Cardiovascular disease
# Presentation: 028021

## HUD TRACS Industry MeetingJune 16-17, 2004HDS TRACS Validation 

- Matt Gilson
- Housing and Development Software

- NCSHA 2002 Annual Conference  Creative Web Apps for HFA's

## HDS Markets
Housing Finance Agencies
Community Development Agencies 

- HDS Markets
- Housing Finance Agencies
- Community Development Agencies

- HDS Programs
- Section 8 Project Based
- Low Income Housing Tax Credit
- HOME, CDBG, HOPWA, ESG
- Single and Multifamily MRB

- NCSHA 2002 Annual Conference  Creative Web Apps for HFA's

## SECTION 8

**MULTI FAMILY MANAGEMENT**
** ****SYSTEM**

**SECTION 8**

**SECTION 8 WEB**

**REPORTING**

**I.B.P.S.**

**TRACS**

**ON BASE IMAGING**

** ****MAP INFO MAPPING**

**SECURITY**

**VOUCHERS**

**M.O.R.**

**HUD TRACS**

**INTERFACE**

**S8 PROJECT/CONTRACT TRACKING**

**ACH**

**ESTIMATES**

**REQUISITIONS**

**YE SETTLEMENT**

**OTHER**

**INTERFACES**

- NCSHA 2002 Annual Conference  Creative Web Apps for HFA's

## HDS Section 8 Clients: (38 CA’s)

- Alabama (Jefferson County)
- Arkansas (SWHCC)
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Connecticut (Jefferson County)
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Los Angeles County
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Missouri

**Mississippi (Jefferson County)**
**Minnesota**
**Montana**
**Nevada (Reno Housing Authority)**
**North Dakota**
**Oklahoma**
**Oregon**
**Pennsylvania (Paulhus)**
**Pennsylvania**
**Rhode Island**
**South Carolina**
**Texas (SWHCC)**
**Virginia**
**Virginia (Jefferson County)**
**Washington (City of Bremerton)**
**Wisconsin**
**Wyoming (City of Cheyenne)**

- NCSHA 2002 Annual Conference  Creative Web Apps for HFA's

**Notes:**
Because of our track record.  Even though the Contract Admin operations have been in operation for less than one year, HDS has made tremendous progress to provide our clients with a “State of the Art” Software solution.  During the implementation process of our Baseline Operation in Oklahoma City we were able to utilize our own software and improve our understanding of the process and improve the software.

## Old HDS TRACS Process

- HUD TRACS Industry Meeting

## New HDS TRACS Process

- NCSHA 2002 Annual Conference  Creative Web Apps for HFA's

## Process Improvements

- More Efficient processing
- More accurate process

## HDS Validation Report

- Attachment B – Tenant Error Messages
- Attachment C – System Error Messages

## Thank-you 

## www.hdsoftware.com

- NCSHA 2002 Annual Conference  Creative Web Apps for HFA's

**Notes:**
Good Morning, I am gong to focus for about fifteen minutes on “How Software can contribute to a Successful Contract Administration Operation”.  But why should I be discussing this topic?
# Presentation: 759015

## NCOALink TM

** **

## Purpose of Today’s Briefing

**Advise You Of The Status Of NCOA****Link**** Implementation Effort**
**Outline Schedule For Retirement Of Existing NCOA Data To Licensees**
**Answer Any Questions Related To NCOA****Link**** **

## Milestones Accomplished

**Feb 04:****	****First Certified Interface Developer Product License Issued**
**Mar 04:****	****First Distributor License Issued**
**	**
**	****First Limited Service Bureau License Issued**
**Apr 04:****	****First Full Service Bureau License Issued**

## Completed Licenses 

**Certified Interface Developers:****	****	****11**
**Licensed Software Distributors:****	****	****  6**
**Full Service Bureau Licensees:****	****	****  4**
**Limited Service Bureau Licensees:****	****  5**
**(See ribbs.usps.gov for Licensee Rosters)**

## In-Progress Licenses

**In-Progress Certified Interface Developer:****	****24**
**In-Progress Software Distributor Licensees:****	****  1**
**In-Progress Full Service Bureau Licensees:****	****15**
**Pending Return Of Signed License:****	****3**
**In-Progress End-User Licensees:****	****	****	****14**

## Licensing Turnaround Performance

**Average USPS Turnaround Times:**
**Stage II Certification:****	****	****   2 days**
**Report Certification:****	****	****3.5 days**
**Avg Certifications Elapsed Time:**
**(Stage II thru License Executed)****	****2 Weeks**
**Average Number of Attempts**
**Needed By Developers To Pass:****	****	****2**

## NCOA Licensee Transition Readiness

**All NCOA Licensees Electing To Transition to NCOA****Link**** Received Full Data Release By July 1 Allowing Comparative Testing**
** **
**Out Of The 16 Current NCOA Licensees**
**	****Fully Transitioned to NCOA****Link:****	****	****4**
**	****Finalizing Internal Signatures:****	****	****3**
**	****In Coordination With Vendor(s):****	****	****6**
**	****Voluntary Resigning License:****	****	****3**

## NCOA Retirement - Scheduled Dates

**Week Of Sep 20****th****	**
**Last Date NCOA Data To Be Provided To Licensees**
**September 30****th**** **
**Last Permissible Use Date Of NCOA Clear-text Data**

## For Additional Information

**Janice E. Caldwell**
**Manager Address Management**
**202-268-5411 (HQ) **
**901-681-4650 (NCSC)**
**Jim Wilson**
**Program Mgr Change-of-Address Data Svcs**
**901-681-4676**
# Presentation: 746419

## Major Trends in Oil and Natural Gas Markets

- State Heating Oil and Propane Program Conference
- North Falmouth, Massachusetts

**Guy F. Caruso**
- Administrator
- Energy Information Administration
- August 7, 2006

## Crude Oil Prices Likely to Remain Around $70 Through 2007

**Crude Oil Prices Likely to Remain Around $70 Through 2007**

**Sources: History:  EIA;  Projections: Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006. **

## World Oil Consumption Growth

**World Oil Demand**

**Source: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006.**

## Growth in World Consumption & Non-OPEC Production

- **Includes OPEC non-crude production, MMBD= million barrels per day*

**Growth in World Consumption & ****Non-OPEC Production**

**Demand growth exceeds**
** ****non-OPEC supply growth**

**Forecast**

**MMBD change from previous year**

**$/barrel change from previous year**

**Source: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006.**

## World Oil Supply Growth(Change from Previous Year)

*Hurricane recovery*

*Hurricane damage*

**World Liquids Production 2006**

**Source: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006.**

## OECD Inventories in Normal Range, But Forward Cover Is Expected to Decline

**OECD Inventories in Normal Range, But Forward Cover Is Expected to Decline**

**Source: EIA Short Term Energy Outlook July 2006; International Energy Agency**

## Days of Supply of OECD Commercial Oil Stocks

**Previous 5-yr Min/Max Range**

**Forecast**

**Days of **
**supply**

**Source: EIA Short Term Energy Outlook July 2006; International Energy Agency**

## World Oil Surplus Production Capacity

**World Oil Surplus Production Capacity**

**Forecast**

**Million barrels per day**

**Source: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006.**

## Lack of Excess Capacity and Low Forward Cover Thrust Prices Upward

**Lack of Excess Capacity and Low Forward Cover Thrust Prices Upward**

**Sources: WTI:  Reuters; OECD Forward Cover:  International Energy Agency;  World**
**     ****Excess Production Capacity:  U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. **

## OECD Inventories and Spare Production Capacity Have Explained Most of Recent Price Variation

**Source: Reuters spot prices, EIA modeling.**

## U.S. Crude Inventories Projected to be on the High End of Normal Range

**Sources: EIA, Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006**

**History**

**Million Barrels**

## Consumer Prices and Expenditures – Heating Oil (Northeast)

|  | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-
2007 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | Actual | Actual
 | Actual
 | Forecast (est.) |
| Consumption (gals.) | 642 | 642 | 589 | 633 |
| Average Price | $1.46 | $1.93 | $2.44 | $2.50 |
| Expenditures | $935 | $1,237 | $1,438 | $1,580 |

**Sources: History:  EIA;  Projections: Short-Term Energy Outlook, July 2006.**

## World Oil Prices in Three Cases

**(2004 dollars per barrel)**

**Projections**

**History**

**Reference**

**Low Price**

**High Price**

**Source: Annual Energy Outlook 2006**
# Presentation: 732870

## Human Space Flight Study Required By Congress 

## Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-492)

- Requires DOT/FAA, in consultation with NASA, to enter into an arrangement with a **nonprofit entity** for a report analyzing safety issues related to launching humans into space.
- In designing the study, DOT/FAA should take into account any recommendations from COMSTAC and NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
- Report is to be submitted to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and House of Representatives Committee on Science by December 23, 2008.

## Report Shall Analyze and Make Recommendations About―

- Standards of safety and concepts of operation that should guide regulation of human space flight (HSF) and whether standard of safety should vary by class or type of vehicle, purpose of flight, or other considerations.
- Effectiveness of licensing and permitting regime in ensuring safety of the public and of crew and space flight participants (SFPs).
- Whether there is a need for commercial ground operations for commercial space flight and how they should be regulated.

## Report Shall Analyze and Make Recommendations About ―

- Whether ELVs and RLVs should be regulated differently, and whether either of those vehicles should be regulated differently when carrying humans.
- Whether Federal Government should separate promotion of HSF from regulation of such activity.
- How third parties could be used to evaluate qualification and acceptance of new HSF vehicles prior to their operation.

## Report Shall Analyze and Make Recommendations About ―

- How nongovernment experts could participate more fully in setting standards and developing regulations concerning HSF safety.
- Whether Federal Government should regulate extent of foreign ownership or control of HSF companies operating or incorporated in the United States.

## Status and Next Steps

**Status:**
- FAA met with NASA in March 2007 to discuss initial planning of this study.
- FAA issued market survey on April 2, 2007 seeking information on potential nonprofit entities with the capability to perform the study.
- Several responses to survey were received by May 2, 2007.
**Next Steps: **
- Consider any recommendations from COMSTAC in designing the study.
- Prepare request for proposal.
# Presentation: 427972

## Wireless E911Technology RoundtableJune 28, 1999KSI Inc.Dr. John E. Maloney

## KSI Background

**Tech staff: Development of localization & tracking (L&T) systems since 1971**
**CMRS LDS/PDE development**
**1986... IP development**
**1990... Experimental prototype demonstrations**
**1994... NPRM support with data results**
**AMPS: access/control & traffic/voice signals**
**1997 External investment/capitalization**
**Advanced data results**
**1998 DAMPS/TDMA & AMPS**
**1999 Preliminary rural**
**CMRS management: COB & CEO, COO, VP**

## Myth-Statements vs. Reality

**Misstatements re. TeleSentinelTM network/infrastructure characteristics**

## Air Interface Support

**Air Interface Support**

**TeleSentinelTM****Development**

## Network LDT Benefits

**Infrastructure-based LDTs: **
**Locate all phones, ****	****old, new, and future**
**Accommodate all air interfaces, ****	****NAMPS through 3G**
**Support all services, ****	****E911, commercial, and communications**
**Provide security, ****	****personal and public**

## Issues

**Location of AMPS handsets****(Proc'g & info. messages vs. e.g. CDMA)**
**E.g., Rural environments**
**Latency time for selective routing to the designated PSAP**
**E.g., Assisted GPS: 20 sec (goal: 6 sec)**
**High-percentage Phase II E911 service**
**CEP for 50% or 67% vs. RMS (e.g., for 90%)**

## TeleSentinelTM LDS/PDE

## Network Integration Options

**Options for integration of the LDS/PDE with the communications system:**

**BTS**

**BSC**

**BS**

**SS**

**MS**

**MSC**

**CS**

**T1 Trunk**

**Dial-up Connection**

**Client**

**PSTN**

**Autonomous**
**Overlay**
# Presentation: 279775

## NASA Grant NNG04GN01G-01A Global Model of the Effects of ELF/VLF Chorus Emissions on Energetic Radiation Belt ElectronsPI: Umran S. Inan, Stanford University

**NASA Grant NNG04GN01G-01****A Global Model of the Effects of ELF/VLF Chorus Emissions on Energetic Radiation Belt Electrons****PI: Umran S. Inan, Stanford University**

- A.

- B.

## NASA Grant NNG04GN01G-01

**A.** *Spasojevic and Inan* [2005] studied the relationship between ground based observations of chorus emissions from Palmer, Antarctica, global changes in the electron radiation belts as observed by SAMPEX during the series of storms from Oct 29 to Oct 31, 2003, collectively referred to as the Halloween 2003 storms. Intense chorus emission were observed across the morningside on Nov 1. These observations motivated *Horne et al.* [2005], to perform pitch angle and energy diffusion calculations which indicated that the observed radiation belt flux increases could be attributed to acceleration by chorus waves.
**B.** *Bortnik et al*. [2006] used a numerical ray tracing code combined with suprathermal flux measurements to calculate the path-integrated Landau damping of chorus waves, originating at the magnetic equatorial plane with wave normal angles set to the Gendrin angle.  Results show that waves are damped before they are able to magnetospherically reflect and thus are observed to propagate universally away from the geomagnetic equator, and also that there is a distinct minimum in wave power at half the equatorial gyrofrequency, which might explain the two-band structure of chorus.

- Spasojevic, M., and U. S. Inan (2005), Ground based VLF observations near L=2.5 during the Halloween 2003 storm, *Geophys. Res. Lett.,* 32, L21103, doi:10.1029/2005GL024377.
- Horne, R. B., R. M. Thorne, Y. Y. Shprits, N. P. Meredith, S. A. Glauert, A. J. Smith, S. G. Kanekal, D. N. Baker, M. J. Engebretson, J. L. Posch, M. Spasojevic, U. S. Inan, J. S. Pickett and P. M. E. Decreau (2005), Wave acceleration of electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts, *Nature*, 432, doi:10.1038/nature03939.
- Bortnik, J., U. S. Inan, and T. F. Bell (2006), Landau damping and resultant unidirectional propagation of chorus waves, *Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.*
# Presentation: 002690

## Buried InterfacesMark SchlossmanUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

***Interface scattering between solids and liquids: S/S, S/L, L/L***
***A few examples of studies of liquid/liquid interfaces***

***Absorption lengths (approximate values):***
***15 keV:******	******Light oil  2 cm   (hexane)***
***	******Water ******	******5 mm***
***30 keV:******	******Water******	******3 cm***
***	******Polar Oil******	******~5 mm  (dichloroethane)***

***High energies required to pass x-rays through bulk phases (7 to 10 cm)***

***Also studies of thin films:  μm thick water film/solid interfaces electrochemistry of solid surfaces, supported bilayers,***
***hydrated biomaterials surfaces, mineral/water interfaces***
***15 to 20 keV often used.***

***Small beams and precise mechanical motions required for liquid/liquid,***
***Total reflection Q******c****** ~ 0.007Å******-1****** to 0.012Å******-1***

**Notes:**
Early in their education, electrochemists learn about the electrical double layer, the distribution of ions in an electrolyte solution in contact with a charged planar solid electrode surface.   The Gouy-Chapman theory is often used to describe the diffuse double layer, orsimilarly the Debye-Huckel theory is used to describe the diffuse ion cloud around an ion in solution.  These ion distributions are important because they mediate or screen the electrostatic interactions between charged particles, or between the particles and a charge surface.  As a student, we learn that the Gouy-Chapman theory is limited to describing solutions of point-like ions in a uniform, continuum solvent.  Of course, we know that the situation is much more complex, the ions and solvents are not point-like, they occupy volume and have interactions that determine the structure of the electrolyte solution.  In spite of a large theoretical effort to understand the influence of the liquid structure on ion distributions, most experimentalists just use the Gouy-Chapman or Debye-Huckel theories.  This is partially due to the great complexity of these liquid state theories of ion distributions.  It may also be partially due to an intuition that these effects can be neglected.

## Some Examples of Liquid/Liquid Interface Studies

**Surfactant ordering and conformations at liquid-liquid interfaces.**
**Monolayer and multilayer phases **
**	****and phase transitions.**
**Interactions with the aqueous subphase.**
**Nanoparticle/colloid organization.**

**Techniques:**
**Reflectivity, off-specular diffuse scattering**
**	****GISAXS, GID (for very strong scatterers)**
**	****resonant anomalous reflectivity**

**Some Examples of Liquid/Liquid Interface Studies**

## Electrified Liquid/Liquid Interfaces between Two Immiscible Electrolyte Solutions

## Control of Electrical Potential Across the Interface

**Interfacial Electrical Potential can be used to**
***Alter concentration and species of ions at interface***
***Change physical properties of interface***
***Control molecular transport through interface***
***Investigate electrostatically controlled interfacial processes***
# Presentation: 216399

## People Living with HIV/AIDS 200242 million worldwide

**Latin America**
**1.5 million**

**E. Europe/Central Asia**
**1.2 million**

**E. Asia/Pacific**
**1.2 million**

**Sub-Saharan Africa**
**29.4 million**

**N. Africa/Mid-East**
**550,000**

**South/S.E. Asia**
**6 million**

**Caribbean**
**440,000**

- Source: UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update, December 2002

## AIDS Deaths in 20023.1 million worldwide

**Latin America**
**60,000**

**E. Europe/Central Asia**
**25,000**

**E. Asia/Pacific**
**45,000**

**Sub-Saharan Africa**
**2.4 million**

**N. Africa/Mid-East**
**37,000**

**South/S.E. Asia**
**440,000**

**Caribbean**
**42,000**

- Source: UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update, December 2002

## New HIV Infections in 20025 million worldwide

**Latin America**
**150,000**

**E. Europe/Central Asia**
**250,000**

**E. Asia/Pacific**
**270,000**

**Sub-Saharan Africa**
**3.5 million**

**N. Africa/Mid-East**
**83,000**

**South/S.E. Asia**
**700,000**

**Caribbean**
**60,000**

- Source: UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update, December 2002

## Global HIV Infections by Mode of Transmission

- Source: USAID

## Regional HIV/AIDS Statistics 2002

|  | People Living with HIV/AIDS | New HIV Infections in 2001 | Adult HIV Prevalence Rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 29.4 million | 3.5 million | 8.8% |
| North Africa & Middle East | 550,000 | 83,000 | 0.3% |
| South & Southeast Asia | 6 million | 700,000 | 0.6% |
| East Asia & Pacific | 1.2 million | 270,000 | 0.1% |
| Latin America | 1.5 million | 150,000 | 0.6% |
| Caribbean
 | 440,000 | 60,000 | 2.4% |
| Eastern Europe & Central Asia | 1.2 million | 250,000 | 0.6% |

- Source: UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update, December 2002

## HIV-Positive Men and Women by Region

- Source: UNAIDS, Global Epidemic Update, December 2002
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## Training of Process Facilitators    

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-1**

## Identify the next steps the Process Facilitator will take to support the Communities That Care process.

- Identify the next steps the Process Facilitator will take to support the *Communities That Care* process.

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-2**

## Participants will be able to begin helping a community progress through the Communities That Care process.

- Participants will be able to begin helping a community progress through the *Communities That Care* process.

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-3**

## Training of Process Facilitators    

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-4**

## A Process Facilitator will need to determine:
where the community is in the Communities That Care process and what actions the community has already taken
•	how well the community is achieving the milestones and benchmarks for each phase of the Communities That Care system.

- A Process Facilitator will need to determine:
- where the community is in the *Communities That Care* process and what actions the community has already taken
- •	how well the community is achieving the milestones and benchmarks for each phase of the *Communities That Care* system.

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-5**

## Turn to the Process Facilitator Preparation Worksheet. 
Answer the questions you are able to at this time.

- Turn to the Process Facilitator Preparation Worksheet.
- Answer the questions you are able to at this time.

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-6**

## Fill in future events and meetings that have been scheduled or will be scheduled in the near future. 
Fill in the times when future events and meetings will take place.

- Fill in future events and meetings that have been scheduled or will be scheduled in the near future.
- Fill in the times when future events and meetings will take place.

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-7**

## Training of Process Facilitators    

**Training of Process Facilitators    **

**7-8**
# Presentation: 217427

## Free Roaming Dog Working Group Update

## 
   A partial and preliminary draft of a report on feral and uncontrolled dogs in the desert was written with the input of members of the ad hoc working group. 

** ** ** **A partial and preliminary draft of a report on feral and uncontrolled dogs in the desert was written with the input of members of the ad hoc working group.

## Glenn Black met with the senior Animal Control officer for the desert for San Bernardino Co.
They have had a new software program that allows them to enter data from calls and their responses to uncontrolled dogs in various areas of the desert. 

- They have had a new software program that allows them to enter data from calls and their responses to uncontrolled dogs in various areas of the desert.

## Clarence generated a map for the SB Co Animal Control. 
If the map suits their capabilities to  determine with our help those areas they have received calls from then the info could be quite useful to us in our GIS mapping efforts to identify probable areas of greatest threat to tortoises. 

- If the map suits their capabilities to  determine with our help those areas they have received calls from then the info could be quite useful to us in our GIS mapping efforts to identify probable areas of greatest threat to tortoises.

## Acquiring and analyzing data to produce GIS maps depicting info on occurrences of "uncontrolled dogs" in the desert, observations of dogs on LDS transects, desert tortoise study plots and on the DTNA, as well as uncontrolled dog reports from participating county animal control agencies. 

## An effort will be made to assess the threats associated with and the proximity to desert tortoise critical habitat and DWMA's to existing and projected future development and thus "uncontrolled dogs". 
Letter to vets requesting information on dog traumas they have seen come in.

- Letter to vets requesting information on dog traumas they have seen come in.

## When the information is completed, we will rewrite the preliminary draft
Sent it out to the working group for review and comment. 
Comments will be incorporated the draft 
 A presentation will be made to the DMG. 

- Sent it out to the working group for review and comment.
- Comments will be incorporated the draft
-  A presentation will be made to the DMG.

## PACK OF DOGS KILL ALLIGATOR IN FLORIDA

**	**The alligator, even though one of the ultimate predators, can fall victim to the kind of implemented 'team work' strategy which is possible due to the pack mentality and social structure of canines.the attached and remarkable photograph courtesy of Nature Magazine -

## Slide 9

## The end
# Presentation: 221799

## Electrical Plug Incident

*Joe Kilar - April 2007*

## Summary from ORPS Report

- Researcher attempted to unplug a compressor from a 208 Volt receptacle.
- Plug housing and cable disconnected from the plug base which remained in the receptacle.
- Another researcher advised him to leave the plug as is and report it to the staff.
- Instead the researcher used needle nosed pliers to try to pry and remove the plug base from the receptacle.
- In blind reaching while doing so, the pliers shorted a phase to ground resulting in a short and subsequent arc and sparks.
- Incident occurred in the evening but staff was not informed until 0830 the next morning.

## Receptacle

- 208 VAC receptacle – on left

## Pliers	

- Needle nosed pliers used

## Plug separation	

- Separation of plug housing and cable from the base

## Plug separation

- Plug housing and cable separation from base

## Close-up of pliers 	

- Pliers close-up

## Close-up of plug base

- Plug close-up

## Comments and Lessons Learned

- Reiterate that unqualified persons are not permitted to perform electrical work, especially _energized_ electrical work.
- Reiterate that persons must suspend activity and seek assistance when encountering any problems with an electrical plug and/or receptacle.
- Blind reaching when performing energized electrical work is dangerous and prohibited.
- Instances of unauthorized energized electrical work are not only unsafe but also effect a fee measurement that financially impacts the Laboratory.
- The researcher is currently disbarred from further research at the Laboratory jeopardizing his dissertation and thereby his Ph.D.
# Presentation: 722537

## SEC’s Web Site

**Space Weather Now**** ****is a “plain language” page for the user.**
**It features the current space weather conditions using the NOAA**
**Space Weather Scales, solar images, ACE solar wind, the latest Space**
**Weather Advisory information, the Solar Cycle Update and links to**
**more detailed information.**

**SEC’s Web Site**

**Viola Raben & Michael Husler**
- NOAA Space Environment Center

**Abstract**

**Space Weather Now Page**

**  **
**SEC’s Internet Site:**
**  ****Is the primary method of**
**   ****product and data distribution         **
** ****Provides easy access to up-to-the-minute**
**  ****space weather information**
** ****Supports a broad spectrum of customers**
** ****Will continue to grow in content and usage**
**  **

**http://www.sec.noaa.gov**

**Conclusions**

**ACE Data**

**GOES Data**

**SEC’s Internet site is its primary distribution**
** ****method for Space Weather alerts, forecasts, data**
**and products, supporting over 10,000 unique**
**customers.  The newly designed web site and **
**sample web pages will be displayed, along with a**
**Profile of SEC’s customer base.**

**Real-Time Displays**

**WWW Statistics**

**Web access has tripled in**
**the past year and has increased**
**30-fold in the last 4 years.**

** ****Improved Navigation**
** ****Streamlined Organization**
** ****Professional design and art work**

**New WWW Home Page**
# Presentation: 762913

## Modeling the Rheological Properties of Concrete

- Nicos Martys
- James Sims

## Prediction

- Cement Paste
- Viscosity
- Yield stress
- Aggregates
-  grading
-  concentration

**      **Output
-   Mortar/concrete
- Viscosity
- Yield stress

## Viscosity vs. Solid Concentration

## What is Concrete?

- Aggregates: 1- 20 mm
- Sand: 0.5 - 1 mm
- Fine fillers: < 5 m
- Cement: 1-100 m
- Water
- Chemical admixtures

## Divide and Conquer

- Cement Paste: Water + Cement Particles + Admixtures + ...
- Mortar: Cement + Sand
- Concrete: Mortar + Aggregate

## Dissipative-Particle-Dynamics  

- Mesoscopic particles represent clusters of molecules.
- Interactions conserve mass and momentum, isotropic and Galilean invariant produce hydrodynamic behavior consistent with Navier-Stokes equations.
- Molecular Dynamics: Brownian motion + velocity dependent dissipation.

## Dissipative Particle Dynamics

## Suspension of spherical aggregates

**Suspension of spherical aggregates**

## Tracking of particle motion

**Tracking of particle motion**

## Relative viscosity vs. packing fraction

- de Kruif, van Lersel, Vrij, Russel

## Tumbling of an aggregate under shear

- Jeffrey’s tumble

## Ellipsoidal aggregates under shear

**Ellipsoidal aggregates under shear**

##  High solid fraction suspension under shear

** ****High solid fraction suspension under shear**

## Flow under gravity between rebars

**Rebars**

**Flow under gravity between rebars**

## Future Work

- Larger particle size distribution
- Add inter-particle interactions
- Model flow in more complex geometries
- Flow around rebars
- Multiphase flow
# Presentation: 828615

## Chimera Overview

- PDQ Meeting
- Dec 10 2002
- ANL

## Chimera Introduction

- Orientation
- Version 1.0 release plans
- Tutorial: learning VDL in a local execution context
- Next steps: running Chimera jobs on the Grid

## Running Chimera Jobs

- VDLx

- abstract
- planner

- XML
- DAG

- Condor
- DAG

- Pegasus
- concrete
- planner
- (ISI)

- shell
- planner

- shell
- DAG

**Notes:**
The essence is in the right-most flow.

## Chimera Components

- Database
- Java classes and API
- Commands
- Vdlt2vdlx, vdlx2vdlt
- insertvdc, updatevdc, deletevdc
- Searchvdc
- gendax
- shplan
- gencdag
- Grid interface mechanisms

## Transformations and Derivations

- Transformation
- Abstract template of program invocation
- Similar to "function definition"
- Derivation
- Formal invocation of a Transformation
- Similar to "function call"
- Store past and future:
- A record of how data products were generated
- A recipe of how data products can be generated

## Chimera V1.0 Release

- V1.0 Features
- Mysql and Postgresql database support
- RLS Support
- User and VDL Language Guide
- Installation test
- Runnable Examples
- Candidate release will be posted this week
- Final release by end of month
- Frequent point releases expected

## Chimera 1.x Release SeriesCandidate Features

- Find Grid resources through MDS
- Flexible data transfer and cataloging steps
- More examples, tests, and documentation
- Performance tuning and DB configs
- Transformation catalog integration with RLS, MDS
# Presentation: 150913

## Market Structure and Innovation: A Brief SynopsisFor the FTC, 2/20/02

- <date/time>

- Market Structure and Innovation: A Brief SynopsisFor the FTC, 2/20/02

- Shane Greenstein
- Kellogg School of Management
- Northwestern University

## Overview

-  A brief synopsis of the literature
- Market structure and innovative behavior
- Broad lessons for policy from academic discussion
- Main message
- Competitive behavior by dominant firms in innovative markets
- Concerns about non-innovative tactics that are not in buyer’s interest

## Motivation

-  Central Question
- Special scrutiny for large firms in innovative markets?
- Important b/c tech change  economic growth
- Difficult question in high tech markets b/c of uncertainties
- Tactical behavior for potentially ephemeral market structure
- Policy seeks robust commercial experimentation

##  Traditional approach

- Concern that monopolies don’t innovate
- Cannibalization of rents
- Contrasting view that monopolies use innovation to preserve their position
- Monopoly has more to lose than entrant has to gain
- Real contrast or “semantic” difference?
- “Protected” or “Threatened” monopolist
- “Threatened” similar to “competitive.”
- Insights awkward to put into practical policy
- Monopolies should not be protected from innovation

## Recent thinking

- Reframing the central question
- The setting for technology markets
- Widely distributed technical knowledge
- Assets held by incumbent firms raise value of invention
- Entrants either compete or contract
- Policy issues arise when assets are valuable
- Entrants commercialize inventions by cooperating with incumbent or competing against them

## Effectiveness of intellectual property shapes outcomes

- When entrants can exclude imitation
- Licensing common, JVs common
- Markets for technology arise
- When entrants can’t exclude imitation
- Bargaining influences incentives/behavior
- Wide range of behavior shape innovation
- Reputation/commitment to deal process
- Offering information as carrot/stick for cooperative behavior

##  Implications for policy

- Recent thinking focusing on both structure and conduct
- Intellectual property can contribute to use of markets
- However, where intellectual property is weak...
- Special scrutiny for incumbents? Yes, but...
- Not fully worked out
- A modest test
- Presence of market power?
- Non-innovative tactics shape innovative behavior?
- Tactics in user interest?

## Example: First screen restrictions w/OEMs

- Market power test?
- Absence of alternatives
- Non-innovative tactics?
- Diminish innovation at other firms
- Also protects Microsoft
- User gain?
- Encumbered choice w/ no apparent gain
- Conclude: A non-innovative tactics to move behavior away from innovative competition
- Scope of the principal?

## Main message reiterated

- Public policy can discourage use of non-innovative tactics
- Question arises often in IT markets
- Recent thinking examines both structure and conduct
- Policy works through two mechanisms
- Shape entry and bargaining
- Policy can discouraging powerful firms from using non-innovative tactics
- Getting closer to innovative competition
# Presentation: 285229

## IHS Area Directors/VA Regional Directors Session

- Vincent A. Berkley, D.O., M.B.A.
- Acting Chief Medical Officer
- Indian Health Service

## Background

- MOU signed between Dr. Grim and IHS for “collaborative efforts between the Indian Health Service and the Veterans Health Administration”, 2003
- Steering Committee (Joint) charged by both Directors
- Membership includes Area Director representation, James Floyd

## Steering Committee Charge

- Review progress of initiatives
- Identify new areas and adjust priorities
- Catalyze other projects
- Advise and assist in outreach and communication to constituent groups

## Purpose

- Initiate working relationships with the Area Director counterparts in the VA
- Highlight several successful IHS/VA interactions
- Review the roadmap associated with the implementation of these interactions

## Activities

- Information Sharing
- VA has significant “holes” in demographic data
- Comparison of Mission/Roles
- Review Initiatives
- Working Lunch
- Next Steps

## Expected Outcomes

- Each Area will have at least two successful ongoing activities with VA
- Each Area will:
- promote agreements
- support programs
- encourage existing interactions
- As with RPMS, “borrow” and enhance patient safety program

## Budget & Personnel

- Time Costs
- Research Costs
- Political Investment
- Apparent constituency issues
- Dollars at the local level

## VA Expectations of the IHS

- Learn how to be community-oriented
- Leverage knowledge gained from IHS to deal with other groups
- Learn how to enhance clinic-based care

## Goals (CY04) 

- 6/12 Areas involved in some IHS/VA telemedicine activity
- Participation at some level with the VA educational program (all areas)
- Professional Continuing Education
- Recorded presentations, Broadcasts, on-site
# Presentation: 684711

## Quarterly Reporting

- Region 7
- Kansas City
- August 2007
- Matt Boze
- USEPA, CAMD

## Quarterly Reporting

- The designated representative (DR) shall submit quarterly reports for each calendar quarter within 30 days following the end of a calendar quarter (CAIR: 40 CFR 96.174, 96.274, 96.374; CAMR:60.4174)
- EPA encourages sources to submit quarterly reports using Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS) starting in 2008.
- 	http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/business/ecmps/index.html
- If you are a source that is currently submitting your quarterly reports (i.e, quarterly reports for Acid Rain program or NOx SIP Call) to EPA using the ETS-FTP software you may elect to continue to submit quarterly reports for the CAIR program using ETS-FTP through 2008.
- 	http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/business/quarterly.html
- You will need to report throughout the year (2008) using either ETS-FTP or ECMPS.

## Quarterly Reporting (cont.)

- If you have not submitted quarterly reports (i.e, quarterly reports for Acid Rain program or NOx SIP Call) and are required to begin reporting for the CAIR program in 2008 you should submit your report to EPA using ECMPS
- Beginning in 2009 all sources will need to submit reports using ECMPS

## Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS)

- Desktop application which industry will use to submit monitoring plan, QA/Cert and Emissions data
- Replaces ETS-FTP, SecuRemote, ETS Mainframe, MDC
- Enable users to run checks on their desktop and make revisions, prior to submitting to EPA

## Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS)

- 2007 - ECMPS being beta tested by industry
- 2008 - ECMPS will be available
- 2009 - ECMPS must be used by all sources
- Most DAHS vendors are aware of ECMPS project
- To be added to the ECMPS Stakeholders Email group send an email to Laurel DeSantis - desantis.laurel@epa.gov
- http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/business/ecmps/index.html
# Presentation: 758358

## NCS One-Stop Shop Services

**Notes:**
The NCS is experimenting with a One-Stop Shop service to provide a single point of contact to better manage inquires or requests for support from the various NCS-sponsored programs.

At present, each program has an program office with assigned telephone numbers, web sites or e-mail addresses.

A requestor would need to know the contact information to reach a program of choice.

## Consolidate operational support for all of NS/EP telecommunications services

Establish a One-Stop Shop Service for NCS customers:

 to order priority telecommunications services

 to receive coordination/help-desk/information-sharing services and operations

**Establish a ****One-Stop Shop Service**** for NCS customers:**
** ****to order priority telecommunications services**
** ****to receive coordination/help-desk/information-sharing services and operations**

**One-Stop Shop Services Concept**

**Notes:**
The One-Stop Shop concept will
Consolidate operational support for all the telecommunications services within one Division
Provide a single contact source for requestors
Provide a variety of support services to NCS customers

## One-Stop Shop ServicesTelephone Connectivity

**One-Stop Shop Services Call Center**

**Dial into one number with announcements ****	****and multiple service selections. **
***“******For GETS... Press 1”         (703) 676-2037***
***“******For WPS ... Press 2”          (703) 676-2037***
***“******For TSP ... Press 3”           (703) 676-6338)***
***“******For Shares ... Press 4”       (703) 676-4933)***
***“******For ENS Pilot ... Press 5”  (703) 676-2350***
***“******For NCC Watch ...Press 6”***
***	******	******	******           ******(703) 607-4950***
***“******For Additional Info ...Press 0”***
***                                                 ******(703) 676-2372***

- Dial:  1-866-NCS-CALL (866-627-2255) 	        or
-                (703) 676-2255
**  *****“******Welcome to the NCS One-Stop Services Directory...”***

- INCOMING

- Rapid  re-termination
-  programming for deployments

## Slide 4

**Notes:**
Are there any questions about this new service or any of the briefings that were presented today.  

If not, we have reached the end of this seminar.  Thank you for this  opportunity to visit your Region and share information about the NCS and the programs it provides for the emergency response community.
We also thank VERIZON for providing the use of this training facility and all the other support services.

Please remember to use the Critique Sheets to provide your comments about presentations on today and yesterday.  A drop box will be positioned near the exit door to receive the Critique sheets and your plastic ID Badge.
The PowerPoint files for these briefings will be available for downloading from the NCS web site by the end of the month.  Use the instructions inside the rear cover to find the files.
Also, copies of the Point of Contact roster will be available for you to pickup as you depart.