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# Presentation: 140358

## The Effect of the SCI Pain Clinic on Pain in Spinal Cord Injury

- Heidi K.Wennemer, D.O., M.A., Hammam Akbik, M.D., David Binder M.D., and Beth Tammaro BSN, RN, CRRN

**Abstract**
- Pain is a common problem with spinal cord injury and a significant number of these patients suffer from severe chronic pain.  Treatment of chronic pain is often difficult and pain clinics are usually referred patients who fail to respond to traditional therapies.
- We administered anonymous questionnaires to all SCI patients who visited the pain clinic over a 9 month period.  70% of patients reported improvement in their pain  after treatment in this multidisciplinary pain clinic.  The average pain score, using the numeric scale of 1-10, decreased from 7.79 (severe) to 5.74 (moderate).  70% of patients felt  improvement.
- The SCI Pain Clinic successfully utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to minimize pain and maximize function in SCI patients with chronic pain.
**Introduction**
- 69% of SCI patients have pain, and one third of those (~23%) have severe pain.  Pain is divided into three types; acute pain lasts 1 day to 3 months, subacute lasts 3-6 months, and chronic pain is defined as pain lasting for over 6 months.
- Patients with severe chronic pain are difficult to treat, and treatments that work on acute and subacute pain often fail when treating chronic pain.
- To help combat this problem, the SCI Pain Clinic was established in 2002.  The SCI Service and Anesthesia Department established a one of a kind specialty clinic to address the unique pain management needs of the SCI population.
- Under the direction of Dr. Hammam Akbik, a pain specialist, the SCI/Anesthesia Pain Clinic utilizes a multidisciplinary team of spinal cord physicians, the rehabilitation team, nursing, psychology, and pharmacy to minimize pain while maximizing function.
- This clinic offers multiple pain management modalities including medical therapy, interventional procedures, as well as implantable devices such as spinal cord stimulators, intrathecal pumps, and other therapies.

**Methods**
-  Anonymous questionnaires were given to all SCI patients who visited the pain clinic over a 9 month period.
-  55 patients completed both initial and follow up questionnaires and were included in the study.
- Statistical analysis of the before and after treatment data consisted of paired t-test.
-  Intention to treat analysis was also carried out using all 58 patients who responded to either questionnaire.
**Results**
-  70% of SCI patients with chronic pain felt better after treatment in the pain clinic
-  There was a significant reduction in pain after treatment p<0.0001, (n=55).
-  Intention to treat analysis (n=58) was also significant p<0.0001.
-  The average pain score decreased from 7.79 (Very Severe) to 5.74 (Moderate-Severe), a difference of over 2 points.
**Pain Scale**
**Conclusions**
-  The multidisciplinary SCI Pain Clinic significantly decreases pain for this patient population.
- Treatment in the SCI Pain Clinic dramatically improves quality of life for SCI patients with chronic severe pain.

- * P< 0.0001
# Presentation: 110466

## FIFRA §25(b)(2) The Administrator may exempt from the requirements of this Act by regulation any pesticide which the Administrator determines to be of a character which is unnecessary to be subject to this Act in order to carry out the purposes of this Act. 

- FIFRA §25(b)(2) The Administrator may exempt from the requirements of this Act by regulation any pesticide which the Administrator determines to be of a character which is unnecessary to be subject to this Act in order to carry out the purposes of this Act.

- 40 CFR 174.21
- A PIP is exempt from the requirements of FIFRA, other than the requirements of §174.71, if it meets all of the following criteria:

- (a) The PIP meets the criteria listed in at least one of the sections in §§ 174.25 through 174.50.

- (b) When the PIP is intended to be produced and used in a crop used as food, the residues of the PIP are either exempted from the requirement of a tolerance under FFDCA as codified at §§ 174.475 through 174.479, or no tolerance would otherwise be required for the PIP.

- (c) Any inert ingredient that is part of the PIP is on the list codified at §§ 174.485 through 174.490.

- Proposed 40 CFR 174.27
- A PIP derived from a coat protein gene from a virus that naturally infects plants (PVCP-PIP) is exempt if criteria a, b, and c are all satisfied:

- (a) Weediness (gene flow) criterion
-        (1) by self determination OR
-        (2) by Agency determination

- (b) Recombination criterion
-        (1) by self determination OR
-        (2) by Agency determination

- (c) Protein production criterion
-        (1) by self determination OR
-        (2) by Agency determination

- Proposed 40 CFR 174.477
- Plant virus coat protein portion of a PVCP-PIP (PVC-protein); exemption from the requirement of a tolerance
-        (a) by self determination OR
-        (b) by Agency determination

- Proposed 40 CFR 174.480
- The following are exempt when the inert is used in a plant that satisfies 174.27(a).
-    (a) *Beta*-D-glucuronidase (from *E. coli*)
-    (b) Neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPTII)
-    (c) Phosphomannose isomerase (PMI)
-    (d) CP4 enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate
-    (e) Glyphosate oxidoreductase (GOX or GOXv247)
-    (f)  Phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (PAT)
-    (g) Partial tetracycline resistance gene as present in papaya
-          line 55-1
# Presentation: 320543

## The Chronic Care Initiative and 

***The Chronic Care Initiative and ***
***The Readiness Call Series***
- Bob McSwain
*April 23, 2008*

## The Chronic Care Initiative

- The future of the Indian Health System will be shaped by our ability to:
- Address the challenge of chronic conditions
- Improve care in a patient-centered focus so that improvements apply across conditions and settings
- Coordinate care across all members of the care team
- The Indian Health System will reflect a culture of excellence, innovation, and improvement
- Leaders need to be knowledgeable, supportive, and remove obstacles

## Synergy“the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents”

*	****IHS**** Mission...*
- 	to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level.

**CCI**
** ****IPC/IHS**

** ****IHI**** ***Strategies*

- _Motivate_:  Build will and optimism for change

- _Innovate_:  invent new solutions, create new healthcare models with far superior value

- _Get Results_: partnerships that can leverage results for thousands; learn from and assist leaders to get results.

- _Raise Joy in Work_

- Support community and individual wellness and strength

**Notes:**
We are using our partnership with IHI to learn how to improve.
# Presentation: 758223

## New Directions in Probabilistic AssessmentHenk Roelant, LaRCJoanne Bechta Dugan, University of VirginiaKevin Sullivan, University of Virginia October 26, 2000

## ASSAP: Advanced System Safety Assessment Program

- Dynamic Fault Tree analysis: a new approach to determining the probability of failure for complex systems
- Galileo/ASSAP: a software tool for DFT analysis developed at University of Virginia under the sponsorship of LaRC
- Galileo/ ASSAP analyzes the probability of failure for complex systems (i.e. the “P” in PRA)

## ASSAP Development

- Being developed under NAS1-99098 (UVA)
- 	- 32 month effort (March 1999-November 2001)
- 	-$675,000 provided by NASA Code Q
- 	 -Builds on 10 years worth of academic research funded by NSF, NASA and industry
- Beta version of Galileo/ASSAP currently available for review.
- Integrated efforts in software engineering and reliability engineering
- Usable interoperable software environment using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint and Visio
- Demonstration of capabilities ...

## User Interface

## Textual Editing

## Rendering Graphical View

## Low-Level Editing

## Sensitivity Analysis

## High-Level Editing

## Send To New Page

## Connect Gates

## Select Subtree

## Render To Textual

## Save & Close

## Analyze Sage III

## Galileo/ASSAP

- Galileo/ASSAP is a promising new approach to probabilistic analysis of critical systems
- Sets a new standard for the “P” in PRA
- Interested in reviewing the Beta version? Looking for  beta testers (a few initially)
- Contact Henk Roelant at NASA Langley    h.a.roelant@larc.nasa.gov
-    757-864-1741
# Presentation: 491194

## DMD Time Height Trend with new graphical display enhancement

- Start D2D session
- Select WFO
- Under Scan menu, select storm DMD Icons & table
- To view the time height trend for a given attribute, position the cursor over the value of the attribute on the table for the feature you want to view and click on the mouse right button the time height trend plot appears (this is the previous version of the time height trend display.
- New Enhancement using togglable buttons:
- Draw ellipses whose big axis is proportional to diameter value (in nm) of the detected feature
- Connect all values/ellipses of same elevation angle
- Connect all values/ellipses of same volume scan
- Add legend of ellipses to help the user to approximately estimate the diameter size when viewing attributes other that the diameter attribute.

## Slide 2

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# Presentation: 848505

## Brian McInerneyHydrologistNational Weather ServiceWinter 2008 Conditions

## Last Year’s Snow

## Park City Snow 

## This Past Summer’s Temperature

## Salt Lake City July 2007Days Where Temperatures 95 Degrees or Higher

- Salt Lake City July 2007Days Where Temperatures 95 Degrees or Higher

- 2007 – New Record 24 Days

- Old Record Year 1960 – 23 Days

## Hottest Summer on RecordHighest Average June - August Temperatures on RecordSalt Lake City

- 2007		79.3 deg. F
- 1994		78.6 deg. F
- 2003		78.2 deg. F
- 1988		77.7 deg. F
- 2006		77.6 deg. F
- 1961		77.5 deg. F
- 2000		77.3 deg. F
- 1996		77.2 deg. F

- Average 73.9 deg. F

## Warm JuneHighest Average Monthly Temperatures on RecordSalt Lake City

- June 1988		75.7 deg. F
- June 1961		74.7 deg. F
- June 1994		74.3 deg. F
- June 1986		73.5 deg. F
- June 1996		73.4 deg. F
- June 2007		73.2 deg. F
- June 2006		73.2 deg. F

- Average 69 deg. F

## Record Hot July Highest Average Monthly Temperatures on RecordSalt Lake City

- July 2007		84.0 deg. F
- July 2003		83.4 deg. F
- July 2006		83.1 deg. F
- July 2002		81.9 deg. F
- July 1960		81.2 deg. F

- Average 77 deg. F

## Near Record Hot August Highest Average Monthly Temperatures on RecordSalt Lake City

- Aug 1994		80.8 deg. F
- Aug 2007		80.7 deg. F
- Aug 2003		80.0 deg. F
- Aug 2001		79.0 deg. F
- Aug 2000		78.9 deg. F

- Average 75.6 deg. F

## This Past Summer’s Precipitation

## 90 Day (May through July 2007) Observed Precipitation

## Current Conditions

## September Temperatures

## October Temperatures

## September Precipitation

## October Precipitation

## Current Conditions in the Equatorial Pacific

## Actual Temperature

## Temperature Anomalies

## Sea Surface Temperatures by Depth

## What’s up for this Winter?

## Three Month Temp and Precip OutlookNovember - January

## La Nina Precipitation ProbabilitiesNovember - January

## La Nina Temperature Probabilities November - January

## La Nina Precipitation ProbabilitiesJanuary - March

## La Nina Temperature ProbabilitiesJanuary - March

## Climate Change

## Climate Overview

## Climate Overview

## Climate Overview

## The Ultimate Goal

## Contact Information

- This presentation can be found at:
- _http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Saltlake/river/presentations_
- Additional Information
- Contact
- Brian McInerney
- Hydrologist
- National Weather Service
- 801-971-2033 c
- brian.mcinerney@noaa.gov
# Presentation: 048384

## Cascade and Flasher WorkshopWelcome!

- Logistics
- Agenda
- Goals

**Spencer Klein, LBNL**

## Logistics

- Talks Monday and Tuesday mornings
- Otherwise: Work Time
- Small groups and individuals
- Progress Reports Wed. morning and closeout Wed. afternoon.
- Monday, Tuesday in Perseverance Hall
- Wednesday in Bldg. 2, Room 100B
- Separate ‘breakout’ room available in afternoons
- Wireless in all conference rooms
- Some ethernet available.  Ask for a cable if you need one

## Talks on the web

- I will put all of the talks on the web
- Please email me your talks!

## Talks

- Monday:
- ???: A users guide to the flashers”  Mark Krasberg
- “Flashers, Brightness Calibrations and Module Orientation”  Chris Wendt
- “Flasher Analysis with AMANDA” Kurt Woschnagg
- “How to simulate cascades and flashers” Tom McCauley
- “Characteristics of Flasher data” (Sourav Mandal)
- Tuesday
- “Flashers and Hole Ice” (Doug Rutledge)
- “Analyzing flasher events with Renew” (Tom McCauley)
- “Waveform based reconstruction” (Sean Grullon)
- “String 21 flashers in AMANDA"    Dave Hardtke
- “Flasher reconstruction” (Dima Chirkin)
- TBC: “Characteristics of Cascade Simulations” Spencer Klein

## Goals

- Goals: Push forward with cascade and flasher analysis
- Produce Flasher verification plots
- What are the most appropriate plots?
- Ice properties, timing, geometry, ...
- Simulate Cascades and Flashers
- Find problems in simulations
- E.g. 1.pe. Pulses in simulation are ~ 2-3X larger than in data
- Develop cascade algorithms using flasher (& simulation) data

## Flasher Verification

- What can the flashers tell us about how well IceCube is working?
- What can the flashers tell us about ice quality?
- We are ~ 300 m from AMANDA – is the ice any different?
- What can the flashers tell us about hole ice?
- Do we need additional runs with different configurations?
- Not all LEDs?
- AMANDA lasers

## Flashers - Specific Tasks 

- Understand Flasher characteristics (nhits,...)
- Systematic Timing verification (new flasher data)
- Simulation for comparison data
- Solve for individual resolution
- Geometry verification (LLH reconstruction)
- Location of DOM 60?
- Start on inter-string geometry calibrations
- Energy/Brightness calibrations
- Ice properties
- Hole Ice (probably not)
- Orientation effects
- Photonics for flashers?
- Comparison of flasher data and cascade simulations
- AMANDA looking at IceCube flashers

## Cascade and Flasher simulation

- IceTray simulations may finally be ready for physics use
- Input/output & calibrations working
- Photonics tables
- Generate events and look at them
- Compare flasher data and flasher simulations

## Cascade Algorithm Development & Testing

- Many different cascade algorithms, in different stages of development
- What are similarities vs. differences?
- What are appropriate metrics for comparing algorithms & how should they be weighted?
- Vertex & energy reconstruction accuracy
- Background rejection
- Speed & robustness (for use at pole)
- Can we make more progress by working together?
- Common framework
- Common simulations
# Presentation: 730648

## 3- BRANE IN 5-DIMENSION UNIVERSE 

- Prof. Myrzakulov R., Prof. Singleton D., Yerzhanov K.

## 5-dimensional spacetime metrics

- Assumption:

- here:

- Solution:

- and                                  .

## Expression for scale factor

## Assumption:

- Solution:

## Scale factor of 3-brane for every    and     for 

- Scale factor of 3-brane for every    and     for

- were:

## Results:

- We are received exact solution for scale factor of five dimension bulk, contended 3-brane for             ;
- We are received expression for       , for                 .

- References
- Randall, R. Sundrum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3370 (1999)
- Binetruy P., Deffayet C., Ellwanger U. and Langlois D., Phys. Lett. B 477, 285 (2000)
- Yerzhanov K. About metrics of 5-dimensional space-time with 3-brane for non scalar 5-dimension. Modern astrophysics: tradition and perspective. – Second Pfesenkov  proceedings. Almaty, 2007.- No. 79-81.
# Presentation: 843275

## Fuel Flammability - Combustion Sphere Testing

**Fuel Flammability - ****Combustion Sphere Testing**

**International Aircraft Systems Fire Protection Working Group**
**Grenoble, France**
**June 21-22, 2004**

**Steve Summer**
**Project Engineer**
**Federal Aviation Administration**
**Fire Safety Branch, AAR-440**

## Background

- Our current method for ignition testing of Jet-A fuel vapors is extremely time consuming (up to as long as 2 hours per test).
- If a gaseous mixture was available to simulate the flammability properties of Jet A, it would allow us to perform more tests quicker.

## Background

- Availability of said mixture would also have applicability to other issues (e.g. explosion proof testing of pumps, etc.)
- Past simulants used by others include hexane and a hydrogen-propane mixture, but questions exist as to their applicability to testing at reduced pressures

## Past Simulants - Hexane

**Past Simulants - Hexane**

## Past Simulants – Caltech Mixture

- NTSB Docket No. SA-516, Exhibit No. 20O
- Volumetric Ratio of H2:C3H8 of 5:1
- Examined the effect of fuel concentration, vessel size and ignition source on pressure history.

## Past Simulants – Caltech Mixture

## Test Apparatus

- 20 L combustion vessel constructed with an adjustable spark gap and the ability to utilize various spark/arc sources.
- Tests conducted in a manner similar to the procedures layed out in ASTM flammability standards (e.g. E582, E2079, etc).
- First round of testing to be conducted with propane
- Validation of LFL, UFL and LOC to ensure test article provides accurate results

**Test Apparatus**

## Propane Test Results

## Propane Test Results

## Future Testing

- Next phase of testing to be conducted with hexane both at sea level and reduced pressures
- Will compare results to the Jet A test results previously acquired to determine its validity as a simulant at reduced pressures
- Once a suitable simulant is determined (hexane or otherwise), the goal is to generate full flammability curve data at various pressures, O2 concentrations and ignition energies
# Presentation: 794035

## Tropical forest monitoring with cloud-free image mosaics II

- Landsat Science Team Meeting
- June 12-14, 2007
- Corvallis, Oregon
- EH Helmer, TJ Brandeis, J Wunderle, C Kwit,
- T Ruzycki, M Lefsky, B Ruefenacht

## Cloud spatial patterns are irregular

- Eleuthera and Cat Islands, Bahamas – 1993-1994

## 1993-1994 mosaic from regression tree normalization

## Filling cloud gaps with models that normalize inter-date differences with mutually clear pixels overcome the irregular cloud spatial patterns

- Eleuthera and Cat Islands, Bahamas – 1999-2000

## 1999-2000 mosaic from regression tree normalization

## Helmer, EH and B Ruefenacht. 2007. A comparison of radiometric normalization methods when filling cloud gaps in Landsat imagery.  Canadian J. Remote Sensing: In Press

- - Regression tree normalization more closely matches inter-date image differences than linear normalization, linear histogram matching or DOS atmospheric correction, because it most consistently matches areas of the most phenologically variable classes

## Helmer, EH and B Ruefenacht. 2007. A comparison of radiometric normalization methods when filling cloud gaps in Landsat imagery.  Canadian J. Remote Sensing: In Press

- The main advantage of this success may be for visualization
- Observations:
*Best matches of scenes with similar sun angles*
*Slight cloud/shadow mask imperfections will not greatly degrade results*

## Fruits are important to winter diet

*Lantana* spp.

*Chiococca* spp.      *Erithalis* spp.

**N= 422 observations**

**Arthropods**

**Fruits**

**Notes:**
Fruit is an important component of the winter diet of these birds.  And, as it turns out, the fruits that they seem to prefer are from early successional woody species.

## Time series of cloud-free image mosaics based on regression tree normalization allows simultaneous mapping of forest age and disturbance history, as well as land-cover and forested wetland types8 image/mosaic dates:1984, 1988, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 (ALI)

- Hurricane Francis
- recovery

- Mangrove and
- Palm savanna wetlands

- Different ages of forest:
- -After bulldozing (greens)
- -With goat grazing (blues)

- Forest burned in
- different years

## Patch-level random samplesof secondary forest of different ages and disturbance types

- Patch-level random samplesof secondary forest of different ages and disturbance types

## Secondary forest of different ages following fire

- Secondary forest of different ages subject to goat grazing

## Kirtland’s Warbler – Eleuthera

- March 2007
- Validated forest disturbance types in type/age map
- Measured structure and frequency of target plant species at ~50 plots in randomized patches of different forest ages and disturbance types

## Kirtland’s Warbler – Eleuthera

- Upcoming:
- Patch-level community plant species composition Summer 2008
- Classifications of mosaics with regression-tree normalization, atmospheric correction, or both
- Disturbance rates
- Vegetation age, disturbance type, structure and composition of Kirtland’s Warbler capture sites and home ranges
# Presentation: 248965

## Aerosol Optical Depth Comparisons

** ****Aerosol: number, size distr., scattering, absorption (photoacoustic), extinction (cavity ring-down), hygroscopicity, aerosol optical depth **
** ****Gases: Water vapor **
** ****Cloud: liquid water, droplet size distribution, CCN **
** ****Radiation: solar and IR, up and downwelling, broadband and spectral**
** ****Stabilized platform**
** ****Flew 60.6 flight hours during 16 flights on 15 days**

**CIRPAS Twin Otter**

**ARM Aerosol IOP – May 2003**

**Elevated layer as seen from Twin Otter on May 27, 2003**
**Photo courtesy of Roy Woods**

**Aerosol Optical Depth Comparisons**

**Elevated Smoke Layers from Siberia**

**AATS-14 (354 – 2139 nm)**

- Comparing airborne AATS-14 and ground-based AERONET AODs during 18 low-altitude fly-bys

**Water Vapor Comparisons**

- Vertical profiles of aerosol extinction (525 nm) from AATS-14, lidar and model at the CART Site on May 27, 28, 29, 2003.
# Presentation: 675063

## CERTIFIED WEEKLY PAYROLLS

**CERTIFIED WEEKLY PAYROLLS**
**Streamlining Davis-Bacon**

## For many contractors, the weekly certified payroll is the only Davis-Bacon paperwork they will need to submit!

## PAYROLL BASICS

- Optional WH347 form
- Compliance statement (certification)
- Payrolls are due weekly
- Identify first and final payroll
- “No Work” payrolls optional – but all weeks must be accounted 

## PAYROLL BASICS

- Payrolls must be complete & legible
- Prime contractor must review of payrolls for completeness
- Payroll retention – three years 

## PAYROLL BASICSProject & Contractor Information

- Contractor/sub-contractor name
- Business address
- Project name & number
- Week ending date
- Day & date for each day in the workweek
- Numbering payrolls (optional – but strongly recommended) 

## PAYROLL BASICSEmployee Information

- Employee name, address, SSN
- Employee work classification
- Rate of pay
- Straight/Overtime hours worked per day, per week on THIS project 

## PAYROLL BASICSWages & Deductions

- Gross wages earned
- Deductions from wages
- Net pay
- Statement of compliance – one for each weekly payroll

## WORKING SUBCONTRACTORSPayroll Reporting Requirement

- They are covered!
- May not certify to payment of own wages (may not sign own payrolls)
- Exception:  Owners of business working with their crew
# Presentation: 063397

## ELECTRONIC DISBURSEMENT IN GEORGIA

- EASIER, FASTER, FRIENDLIER SERVICE

## Payees may choose either Direct Deposit or MasterCard Debit Card
Ability to Offer Exceptions
Primarily a Budget Issue
Debit Card Overwhelmingly Chosen – 82% versus 17%

- Payees may choose either Direct Deposit or MasterCard Debit Card
- Ability to Offer Exceptions
- Primarily a Budget Issue
- Debit Card Overwhelmingly Chosen – 82% versus 17%

## No Lost or Stolen Checks
Funds Available Within 48 Hours
Access Points
Ability of Payee to Keep Track of CS Funds Separately if Desired
Ease of Use
Dignity and Self Esteem

- No Lost or Stolen Checks
- Funds Available Within 48 Hours
- Access Points
- Ability of Payee to Keep Track of CS Funds Separately if Desired
- Ease of Use
- Dignity and Self Esteem

## Reg E – the Old Nemesis

Access to / Ownership of Accounts

Deposit Protection

- Reg E – the Old Nemesis
- Access to / Ownership of Accounts
- Deposit Protection

## Anticipate More Customer Service Issues Than Ever Before for a Few Months
Manage Closely – Vendors Want to Make Money
TEST! TEST! TEST!
Be Very Specific 
Make Your Vendor Like Working for You

- Anticipate More Customer Service Issues Than Ever Before for a Few Months
- Manage Closely – Vendors Want to Make Money
- TEST! TEST! TEST!
- Be Very Specific
- Make Your Vendor Like Working for You

## Virtually No Complaints on Service
Staff Are Able to Direct Inquirers to On - Line Information
Staff Formerly Used to Track Money Are Engaged in Higher Level Work

- Virtually No Complaints on Service
- Staff Are Able to Direct Inquirers to On - Line Information
- Staff Formerly Used to Track Money Are Engaged in Higher Level Work

## You May Lose Track of the CPs if They Choose the Card
Frequent Bank Changes with Direct Deposit

- You May Lose Track of the CPs if They Choose the Card
- Frequent Bank Changes with Direct Deposit

## September 2004
Active Cards – 127,000
Balance Inquiries – 70,441
Average Deposit - $901,425
# of Deposits – 27,042,748
IVR Calls – 902,308

**September 2004**
- Active Cards – 127,000
- Balance Inquiries – 70,441
- Average Deposit - $901,425
- # of Deposits – 27,042,748
- IVR Calls – 902,308

**July 2006**
- Active Cards – 170,000
- Balance Inquiries – 72,604
- Average Deposit - $975,543
- # of Deposits – 30,241,824
- IVR Calls – 1,366,762

## The Beautiful Georgia Card
# Presentation: 676972

## Air Quality Forecast Models...

**What Do State & Local Forecasters Need?**

**NOAA – EPA Air Quality Forecast Model Discussion**
**San Antonio, Texas**
**February 2, 2003**

## Panel

**NOAA**
**Paula Davidson**
**Nelson Seaman**
**Paul Stokols**
**EPA**
**Chet Wayland**
**John White**

## Draft AQ Forecast Product Requirements

**To be used in Summer 2003 for development, testing & evaluation**
**Options testing by 6/1/04**
**Operational Summer 2004 (experimental product leading to operational deployment in FY-04)**
**Forecast system (CMAQ linked to Eta-12)**
**1-day time-resolved ozone levels**
**1x day, next day forecast for NE Domain**

## Forecast Domain

**Horizontal resolution: NCEP’s mesoscale NWP model resolution  12km)**

**Northeast US (north of 36.5N and east of -82.5W)**

## Experimental Products Distribution

**Pushed to EPA’s AIRNOW website for further distribution by EPA**
**Posted on an NWS/NCEP server where they will be available for research use**
**Posted on a server at NWSTOC from which external users can pull data**

## Experimental Products Delivery Times / Forecast Range

**Provided in gridded format to EPA by 1730 UTC for the forecast interval extending through the next calendar day (4UTC); optionally available through 12 UTC**
**Optional update: delivered by 1300 UTC for the forecast interval extending through the next calendar day (4UTC); optionally available through 12 UTC.**

## Customer Test Products

**NWSTOC server (GRIB format)**
**Forecasted 1-hour and 8-hour ozone (forward) averages, in hourly intervals; for forecast range indicated previously.  Optional 3-hourly intervals – showing max values only.  Optional 2 additional vertical levels.**
**EPA server (GRIB format)**
**Provide in categorical form: Eight categories, with binning structure**
**Predicted hourly-average ozone levels for each hour**
**Predicted 8-hour average (avg. stated for 8 forecast hours forward) for each hour**

## Proposed Bins

|  | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1-hr
(ppb) | <60 | 61-84 | 85-99 | 100-114 | 115-124 | 125-144 | 145-164 | 165-184 | 185-204 | >205 |
| AQI |  |  |  |  |  | 125 |  | 165 |  | 205 |
| 8-hr
(ppb) | <50 | 51-64 | 65-74 | 75-84 | 85-94 | 95-104 | 105-114 | 115-124 | 125-134 | >135 |
| AQI |  |  | 65 |  | 85 |  | 105 |  | 125 |  |

## Summary

| Domain | Northeast U.S.  |
| --- | --- |
| Resolution | 12km |
| Delivery Times | 1730 UTC primary next-day forecast valid through 4UTC (next day)
Optional 1300 UTC update forecast through 4UTC (next day) |
| Products | Forecasted surface 1-hr & 8-hr averages
Optional 3-hourly intervals
Optional 2 vertical layers |
| Distribution | GRIB format on NWSTOC servers
GRIB format on EPA servers in bin structure |
# Presentation: 738193

## Interface Detection and Easy, Rugged Compliance Testing

*Buster Brown*
*Colonial Pipeline Company*
*EPA Workshop Presentation*
*November 20, 2002*

## Product Batching Multiple Origins and Destinations

**Shipper A**

**Colonial delivers 90 different products for 85 customers to **
**270 terminals and more than 1,000 storage tanks. **

- Product Batching Multiple Origins and Destinations

**Shipper B**

**Shipper C**

**Shipper A**

**Shipper A**

**Shipper C**

**Shipper B**

**Shipper A**

**Notes:**

 This schematic shows the pumping of 3 products from 3 shippers to 3 destinations. 
 Colonial Pipeline currently delivers 90 different products for 85 shippers to 270 terminals and more than 1,000 storage tanks.   - In any given month, we may ship 30 different grades of      	    gasoline! 
 Product pipeline systems have become extremely complex.

 As state and local governments impose different standards on gasoline and distillates to meet air and water standards, it significantly increases the product types which takes away flexibility and ultimately reduces a pipelines effective capacity.

## Oversight Testing

- Acceptance (Certificate of Analysis)
- Origin
- Pre-shipment Tank
- Lifting
- Lab
- On line (gravity, flash)
- Delivery Oversight

## Slide 4

## Origin Testing

- Pre-shipment Tank Sampling
- Stratification
- Test Reproducibility
- Lifting Verification
- Mainly lab equipment
- On line detects ‘spots’

## Delivery

- Assure compliance (Good in = good out)
- Determination of cut point
- Interface size
- Flow rate
- Valve travel time
- Allowable commingling

## On Line Measurement Requirements

- Sensitive
- gives response to small changes
- Cycle Time
- Pipeline flow rate and interface size
- Location of installation (How far upstream)
- Accuracy
- Strictly cut point or oversight

## How fast does the next product arrive?

## How much commingling can be accepted?

- 2,500 barrel batch at 10 ppm
- 6.2 barrels of 2000 ppm will raise batch sulfur to 15 ppm

## Where do we cut?

- For 12” – 254 mile pipeline with interface size of 530 barrels
- 25% cut = 4% of Product B in 25% of total interface
- 530 * .25 *.04 = 5.3 bbls
- 8 minute interface arrival would require decision and switch in 2 minutes

## Field Testing Equipment

- Fast – verification and action must be made quickly
- Accurate – basis for origin and delivery testing, used for pipeline acceptance
- Simple – complexity leads to errors in measurement

## Bart Harvard – Typical Pipeline Operator

## Conclusions

- Pipelines will attempt to eliminate all pipeline interface from ULSD
- Fast on-line detection is the best method – only other method is over protection
- On-line sensitivity and cycle time is critical
- Field equipment should be simple, fast, and accurate
# Presentation: 379434

## Oncologic Drugs Advisory CommitteeonMTP for Osteosarcoma

**IDM Pharma, Inc.**
**May 9, 2007****Silver Spring, MD**

**2001.01**

## Bonnie Mills, PhD

**Vice President, Clinical Operations**
**IDM Pharma**

**2002.01**

## MTP Sponsors

- Ciba-Geigy	1988-1996
- 	Non-clinical and Phase 1/2 studies
- NCI	 1993-1997
- 	Cooperative Group Phase 3 trial
- Jenner Biotherapies	1996-2003
- IDM 	2003-present
- 	Completed Phase 3 primary final analysis	2004
- 	Submitted NDA 	2006

**2008.01**

## Phase 3 Trial

- Large, well conducted, multi-center study in osteosarcoma (NCI/COG)
- Clinically meaningful effect
- DFS (primary):	p = 0.0245, HR = 0.76, 95% CI (0.58, 0.98)
- Survival: 	p = 0.0183, HR = 0.68, 95% CI (0.49, 0.95)
- Subset analyses support internal consistency
- Confirmatory study “practically or ethically  impossible”

**2107.01**

## Agenda

**2011.02**

| Unmet Need | Ian Lewis, MB ChB, FRCP, FRCPCH
Paediatric and Adolescent Oncologist
St James University Hospital, Leeds |
| --- | --- |
| Product Characteristics | Bonnie Mills, PhD
IDM Pharma |
| Efficacy/Safety | Paul Meyers, MD 
Vice-Chairman, Dept of Pediatrics
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Statistical Interpretation | Brent Blumenstein, PhD
Trial Architecture Consulting |
| Benefit/Risk | Eugenie Kleinerman, MD 
Professor and Head, Division of Pediatrics
MD Anderson Cancer Center |

## Resources and References

- Clinical
- Curt Scribner, MD
- Cheryl Graham, MD
- Statistics
- Mark Munsell
- Neby Bekele, PhD

- Nonclinical
- Olivier Faure, PhD
- Regulatory
- Tung Koh
- COG Statistician
- Mark Krailo, PhD

**2117.03**

- Software Citation: Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute SEER*Stat software (www.seer.cancer.gov/seerstat) version 6.3.5.
- Data Citation: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program
- (www.seer.cancer.gov) SEER*Stat Database: Incidence - SEER 9 Regs Limited-Use, Nov 2004 Sub (1973-2002), National Cancer Institute, DCCPS, Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch, released April 2005, based on the November 2004 submission.
# Presentation: 430448

## Implementing NRCS Pest Management

**Posting**** “No Spray Zone” ****signs in all environmentally sensitive areas!**

## Targeting Pest Management

- High Priority Areas
- Environmental Monitoring
- USGS, State Agencies, Agrichemical Companies
- Modeling
- NAPRA
- Regulatory Requirements
- TMDL
- SMP
- SDWA

## Targeting Pest Management

- The scope of NRCS pest management activities will vary widely across the country
- Variance based on:
- natural resource needs
- agency resources available
- state or local regulations

## Targeting Pest Management

- Environmental Monitoring
- Modeling Results
- Vulnerable/Sensitive Resources
- Special Use Resources
- Rarity of Resource
- District Priorities
- State Technical Committee Priorities
- State Government Programs

## Targeting Pest Management

- Cost Share or Incentive Programs
- Availability of Technical Assistance
- Areas of Low IPM Adoption
- Pest Outbreaks
- Expanding Commodities
- Commodity Group Support
- Crop Protection Industry Support

## Partnerships

- We cannot succeed alone. We need to _***develop and maintain***_ very close ties to:
- Extension
- Crop Consultants
- State Agricultural Agencies
- Commodity Groups
- Agrichemical Dealers
- Anyone else who influences recommendations

## Partnerships

- “They” focus on _***Efficacy***_ and _***Economics***_.
- “We” focus on _***Environmental risks ***_and appropriate mitigation strategies.
- But _***all three***_ of these must be _***integrated***_ into final pest management decisions.
_***Together***_, we must deliver an integrated message and provide appropriate incentives for implementing reduced risk alternatives.

## Pest Management Certification (NRCS)

- Anyone can _***develop***_* *the pest management component of a conservation plan.
_***Certification***_ is only _***required ***_to _***approve***_ the pest management component of a conservation plan.
- NRCS certification is for _***Conservation Planners***_ not Pest Advisors, although there may be some overlapping requirements.
# Presentation: 384551

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-      has an attributable interest in more than three mass media facilities, as defined
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## Slide 1

## Hanford Site

**Hanford Site**

## Slide 3

## AW Tank Farm under Construction

**AW Tank Farm under Construction**

## Double-Shell Tank Farm under Construction

## Inside a U Tank

**Inside a U Tank**

**U Tank Farm under Construction**

## Tank

**Tank**
**Contents**

## Crew for Sampling of Tank

**Crew for Sampling of Tank**
**Contents**

## Slide 9

## AZ Mixer Pump

**AZ Mixer Pump**

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Liquid Composition

**OHF**

**1%**

**OHB**

**13%**

**NA**

**35%**

**PO**

**4**

**1%**

**CO**

**3**

**11%**

**NO**

**3**

**21%**

**NO**

**2**

**12%**

**CO****2**

**4%**

**Al**

**2%**

**OHF**

**8%**

**OHB**

**13%**

**NA**

**32%**

**Al**

**5%**

**CO**

**3**

**2%**

**NO**

**2**

**16%**

**NO**

**3**

**22%**

**K**

**1%**

**TOC**

**1%**

**Liquid**** Composition**

**AN-105 Tank**

**Solid**** Composition**
# Presentation: 580615

## Lifetime Measurements using theJLab Load-Lock GunJoe GramesSeptember 22-26, 2003Polarized Sources and Targets WorkshopNovosibirsk, Russia

## Preface

- the bad news is that she kept most of my talk.

## Outline

- Lifetime studies: purpose and parameters
- Load-Lock Gun Testbed
- Lifetime vs. vacuum level
-                vs. anodization
-                vs. laser spot location
- 4. Trends from Data (preliminary)
- 5. Planned Improvements
- 6. Conclusions

## Lifetime Studies

- Our job at JLab is to provide the nuclear physics program
- with 200 A CW of polarized electrons (this amounts to 5-20 C/day).

- The electron gun photocathode quantum efficiency degrades with the amount of charge extracted.  If the cathode QE were very high to begin with, or laser power were unlimited the degradation would be tolerable, but neither are so.
- Strong evidence indicates the QE degradation results due to ion back-bombardment.
- The purpose of these studies is to quantify (and qualify) the manner by which the QE degrades while operating the gun.

## Experimental Test Bed:100 kV Load-Lock Electron Gun 

## Load-Lock Diagnostic Beamline

- Cathode:
- Bulk GaAs w/ Cs-NF3
- Laser:
- 780 nm diode, DC
- 500 m spot size
- Beam:
- 150-180 A @ 100keV
- Optics:
- Copy of CEBAF injector

## Versus: Vacuum, Anodization, Beam Location

- Unanodized (11 mm)

- Anodized (5mm)

## Versus Vacuum

- >15.0E-11 Torr

- ~5.0E-11 Torr

- ~2.5E-11 Torr

## Versus Spot Location

- Center

- 0.8 mm

- 1.6 mm

- 2.4 mm

## Versus Anodization

- 5mm (red)
- anodized

- 11 mm (green)
- unanodized

## Versus Something Not Understood...

- Fast Lifetime Fit

- Slow Lifetime Fit

- Data

## Analysis Plans

- Include QE surface and ion-pump nA-meter data to improve interpretation.

## Improvements to Load Lock Gun

- Cathode Handling
- Improve transfer between chambers (dropped, mis-aligned holder)
- Provide capability to store multiple cathodes (one at a time)
- Load Chamber
- Increase ion pump capacity to 20+ L/s (11 L/s capacity too small)
- Replace H cleaner (inefficient SS resonator, large H plumbing volume)
- Add N2 vent port toTurbo pump (bleeds to atmosphere)
- Prep Chamber
- Add heating/cooling (now done in less clean load chamber)
- Ground cathode holder (cathode can float during activation)
- High Voltage Chamber
- Improve handling and between chambers (dropped, mis-aligned)
- Provide capability to store multiple cathodes (one at a time)

## Conclusions

- We are performing a series of measurements to study photocathode lifetime vs. operating parameters in our 100 kV load-lock gun and beamline.
- We have “learned” and added the diagnostics to now make a good series of measurements at typical HV chamber vacuum level.
- Results of the measurements will be summarized this Fall and prepared for publication.
- Improvements to the load-lock gun will begin shortly after returning to JLab.  The product of that work is planned to be installed in the accelerator in summer, 2004.
# Presentation: 414364

## Crossroads: Education through Spherical Projection Systems 

***Crossroads: Education through Spherical Projection Systems***

## Overview

- Content
- Format
- Module Details
- Advisory Group
- Kiosk
- Other Spherical Displays
- Evaluation

## Content

- Global Climate Change
- Restless Earth
- Exploring Weather & Climate through Time
- Real-Time Planet Earth

## Format

- Live public program
- 20 minute program for the general public
- Live school program
- 25-minute program for school children for grades 5 – 12
- aligned to national & Hawai‘i science content standards
- Pre/post visit lessons working in partnership with DOE
- Automated program
- 4 to 8 minutes
- Audio narration and music
- Kiosk mode

## Global Climate Change

- Science and impacts of climate change
- Mitigation and adaptation efforts
- 2007 IPCC climate models (different scenarios)
- temperatures
- precipitation
- sea level rise
- Environmental decision making

## Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis
Historical and current
Tools and technology
Seismics
Buoys
Satellites

- Historical and current
- Tools and technology
- Seismics
- Buoys
- Satellites

- Restless Earth

## Exploring Weather and Climate through Time

- Weather vs. climate
- Time scales
- Daily weather
- Seasons
- El Nino
- Global Warming
- Glacial/ Interglacial

## Real-Time Planet Earth

- Updated view of the planet in near real time
- Weather, precip, surface temp, sea surface temp
- NEW: wind speed and direction, ocean currents, degree-heating weeks, volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunami propagation (more info at Imiloa).

## Advisory Group (NOAA, UH)

- NOAA
- Bill Thomas, Director of Pacific Services Center
- Eileen Shea, Director of Integrated Data and Environmental Applications Center
- Donald Kobayashi, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Island Fisheries Center
- Robert Ballard, National Weather Service, Central Pacific Hurricane Center
- Dr. Nathan Becker, National Weather Service, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
- Dr. John Barnes, Mauna Loa Observatory
- University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Dr. Fred Mackenzie (Department of Oceanography)
- Dr. Malia Rivera (Institute of Marine Biology)
- Dr. Axel Timmermann (International Pacific Research Center)
- Dr. Jim Potemra (International Pacific Research Center)

## Kiosk

- Visitor choice
- Sphere can be manipulated
- Global vs. local
- Mission-oriented
- Statistics compiled

## Output to Other Spherical Displays

- Google Earth
- NASA Worldwind
- Magic Planet

## Evaluation

- Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
- Formative and summative at Bishop Museum and Imiloa Astronomy Center
- Clicker feedback
- Kiosk statistics
- pre/post program surveys
- Auto-run vs. live programming vs. kiosk-mode

## Questions?

- Leon Geschwind
- _[lgeschwind@bishopmuseum.org](mailto:lgeschwind@bishopmuseum.org)_
- 808-848-4165
# Presentation: 186713

## Issues Associated with Use of the L2C Signal for Aviation

**Daniel O’Laughlin**
**10 March 2004**

## Potential Aviation Benefits of L2C

**In 2003, MITRE assessed L2C benefits to both the WAAS ground system and airborne user**
**Study found that there were potentially significant benefits to both**
**Ground**
**More robust carrier and code tracking than current L2 semi-codeless receivers (especially in scintillation)**
**Airborne**
**More robust carrier and code tracking**
**Permits direct ionospheric delay estimates**
**High availability of LPV service (availability of GLS service is also improved)**
**Backup in the case of interference on L1 or L5**

## Carrier Tracking Error for the L2C and L2SC Ground Receiver at Different Amplitude and Phase Scintillation Levels 

**L2C**

**L2SC**

## Availability of Dual Frequency (L1/L2C) LPV Vertically Guided Approach Service

## Spectrum Issues

**International Telecommunications Union (ITU) allocations for 1215 – 1240 MHz are (all Primary):**
**Earth Exploration Satellite (active)**
**Radiolocation**
**Radionavigation Satellite (s > E)**
**Space Research (active)**
**Footnotes add Fixed/Mobile and Radionavigation as Primary allocations in 34 and 73 countries, respectively**
**Mobile allocations in India and Japan can be expected to migrate to most of the Asia-Pacific region in the next few years**
**Due to spectrum issues, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) decided in April 2002 *****not***** to develop international aviation standards for L2C**

## Summary and Recommendations

**L2C could provide important benefits to both the WAAS ground system and the aviation user**
**Most of these benefits will be provided by L5, but later**
**Due to spectrum issues, safety-of-life aviation uses of L2C are not recommended**
**L2C may have a limited role as a supplemental navigation signal (to L1 and L5)**