BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 794168

## Numbering Optimization and IP-Enabled Services

- The VON Coalition
- Todd D. Daubert
- FCC Numbering SymposiumNovember 2004

## Telephone Numbers are the Means By Which Consumers Access Services via the PSTN

- Consumers have always used telephone numbers to access both telecommunications and information services via the Public Switched Telecommunications Network
- Local and Long Distance Voice Services
- Fax Services
- Voicemail Services
- Weather, Sports and Information Services
- Dial-up Internet Access
- Consumers should continue to be able to use telephone numbers to access all types of services, including IP-Enabled Services
- The FCC should ensure that telephone numbers are available on a timely, non-discriminatory basis, to all service providers.

## Numbers are the Fuel of Competition

- The FCC has ruled that “[u]nder no circumstances should consumers be precluded from receiving telecommunications services of their choice from providers of their choice for want of numbering resources.  For consumers to benefit from the competition envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, it is imperative that competitors in the telecommunications marketplace face as few barriers to entry as possible.” *California PUC Petition for Delegation of Additional Authority Pertaining to Area Code Relief and NXX Code Conservation Measures*, 14 FCC 17486 (1999).
- The same reasoning applies to the IP-enabled services marketplace.

## Telephone Numbers Must Be Used As Efficiently As Possible

- The FCC’s optimization measures should continue to apply to all numbering resources regardless of the type of service consumers use the number to access.
- The best way to optimize numbering utilization is to ensure that any single number can be used to access the maximum type of services possible (*e.g*., wireline, wireless, IP-enabled, telecommunications, information) across the greatest geographic area possible (*e.g*., overlays are preferable to area code splits).
- Reduces the chances that numbering resources will be stranded due to changes in the marketplace
- Ensures that numbering resources can be allocated where needed
- The inherent mobility of IP-enabled services should not preclude consumers from using geographic telephone numbers to access them.

## For Questions Relating To This Presentation, Please Contact

**Todd D. Daubert**
**Kelley Drye & Warren LLP**
**1200 19th Street, N.W., Suite 500**
**Washington, D.C.  20036**
**(202) 955-9788**
**tdaubert@kelleydrye.com**

## VON Coalition Members
# Presentation: 253718

## Slide 1

## Differences persist from analyses to 5 day forecasts

- Largest differences near tropopause

## Slide 3

## Do changes in humidity reflect changes in temperatures or cause changes in temperature?

## Less systematic error in prz

## 10-200 hPa

## Colder tropopause in tropics, but vertical level changes little in tropics

## Slide 8

## equator

- 10-200 hPa

## 10-1000 hPa

- 10-300 hPa

## Operational less rms wind error near 300, more near 850 in NH

- Operational great rms wind error in SH

- RMS wind error 3 day forecasts

## Operational more wind error in tropics; pry slightly less than prz

## Slide 13

## Operational more rms error in height in 1 day forecasts

## Slide 15

## Operational less error in NH, more in SH, tropics

***Operational less error in NH, more in SH, tropics***

## Slide 17

## Prz has less error at day 1, but loses ground after day 1.

***Prz has less error at day 1, but loses ground after day 1.***

## Slide 19

## Prz reduces rms wind errror at day 1, particularly in tropics at 850

## Prz has less rms height error at day 1, particularly in east Pacific, where peculiar behaviour is apparent in the operational analysis.  Prz has less error over Antarctica and Himalayas.

## Slide 22

## Prz generally colder over oceans, warmer over land

## Slide 24

## Slide 25

## Slide 26

## Are changes in high cloud in tropics related to changes in temperature?

## Z-op

## Slide 29

## Slide 30

## Slide 31

## Tropical precip not as concentrated.

## Stratus cloud regions show less cloud in prz, perhaps in better agreement with forecasts and model
# Presentation: 516995

## Routinely Inspect Couplers For:

- Cracks
-   Excessive Corrosion
-   Broken Parts
-   Bent or Distorted Parts Which Hinder Operation
-   Proper Coupling and Uncoupling Operation less than 2 mph

## Gages can be obtained from *

-  Matrix Metals (281) 342-5511
-  www.railroadgage.com
-  Winchester Industries (860) 379-5336
- * These are provided for your information only, MSHA does not endorse their products.

## The following five (5) examples show when the couplers 

- need to be removed from service, repaired according to
- manufacturer specifications, or replaced.

- To check the lock operation, depress the spring-activated lock
- until the lock retracts fully into the coupler body and lines up with
- the coupler contour surface.  If the lock does not fully retract in
- the coupler body or return to its normal position the lock and
- spring may need replaced.

- Check lock levers for binding.  Any binding that occurs can
- prevent the lever from returning to the nominal position and
- the coupler needs to be removed from service.

## Pulling Lug Wear Test

**Pulling Lug Wear Test**

**Must not seat**

**Must not seat on any surface of pulling lug.  If gage seats, casting is to or beyond**
** ****1/4” wear limit.**

## Lock Thickness Wear Test

**Lock Thickness Wear Test**

**Must not seat**

**Must not seat.  If gage seats, casting is to or beyond 1/8” wear limit.**

## Guard Arm Wear Test

**Guard Arm Wear Test**

**Must not**
**seat**

**1/8” maximum allowable wear limit.**

## Guard Arm Distortion and Lock Wear Test

**Guard Arm Distortion and Lock Wear Test**

**Must not pass through.  If gage does pass, apply new lock and check again.  **
**If gage still passes through, body is rejected.**

## Guard Arm Distortion Test

**Guard Arm Distortion Test**

**Must not pass through contour.  If gage does pass through body is rejected.**
# Presentation: 075989

## Reco Cert

- Beaune Workshop Agenda
- Future Weeks: Punch List, Run Quality Database, Online Monitoring

- All DZero Meeting
- May 9th, 2003

- Tom Diehl

## “RecoCert”

- “RecoCert”: Part of the “Offline”-of-defense for data quality. Developed by Harry M.
- A Framework Package presently used to determine stability/suitability of the event reconstruction software.
- Runs on DST’s (TMB’s soon)
- Produces Root-Tuples.  “MakePlots” produces .ps
- RecoCert_x, MakePlots_x “go into release”
- My intent is that offline shifters use this every day
- Monitor most recent Reco output
- Monitor a large fraction of Reco output
- Use it as a routine “Data Quality Follow-up” Tool

## “RecoCert”

- Some progress in development work was done (HM&HTD&helpers)
- Improved the histograms
- Finished documenting the new histograms
- Still need to improve procedures for
- operating the release
- reporting results, whether good or suggestive of problems
- generally available location and format
- follow-up mechanism for problems
- Coordination, Call List, *Resolution* ...
- PUNCH LIST

## RecoCert Plots

- Follow “Plots and Figures” on the DQ web page
- An item is one page of plots & one txt file of description
- Considerable help has already been received from experts.
- Some tweaks yet required
- Electrons is broke.
- Too much muons?
- Another round of updates!

- www-d0.fnal.gov/computing/data_quality/figures...

## Summer Workshop

- A product of the Beaune Workshop is Plans and Goals for improved DZero data quality.
- 2/3 of agenda is devoted to this issue.
- We have already contacted the physics group leaders and Det./Algo./ID Group leaders
- Asked the P.G.L.’s to provide names of speakers outlining “specs” for certain key analyses in their physics groups.
- Asked the others to share their good ideas & see how to meet the specs required by the physics.
- Very little feedback from you leaders. We assume it’s because you are still busy making detailed plans.

## Draft Agenda

## Summary

- We need to have the best quality data so that we get the best quality results.
- “Offline”-of-defense RecoCert will be an available tool for monitoring data quality, hopefully in the gears of one of our shift machines.
- The Beaune Workshop is sooner than you are planning-for.  Preliminary agenda is available and it’s designed to be a workshop.

## Points of Monitoring & Quality Control

- Data-
- Taking

- Recorded
- Data
- Online

- Alarms & SES

- Examine

- Reco
- Farms

- Analysis
- Samples

- Recorded
- Data
- Offline

- Good Runs List
- Detector

- Good Runs List
- Reco Version Dep.

- Event Check
- And Marking

- Could be
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## bitternut hickoryCarya  cordiformis  (Wangenh.) K. KochSynonyms: Carya  amara,  Hicoria  cordiformis, H.  minima,  Juglans  alba,  J.  amara, J.  coarctata,  J.  cordiformis,   J.  sieboldiana,  J.  subcordiformis. Other common names;  bitternut, swamp hickory, pignut hickory, pignut, pig hickory, white hickory, red hickory, bitter walnut, bitter pecan, bow wood.

**FOOD:**
- Nuts from this species of hickory taste too bitter to be eaten on purpose.  Hence the name, bitternut.  The nutmeats were pulverized and brewed into a tea, which was used as a beverage.
**CULTURALLY:**
- The wood was used in making bows.  The stripped inner bark is very tough and was used as lashing.
- Seed oil either alone, or mixed with bear fat, was used both as a hair treatment and to repel mosquitoes.
- Colonists used the seed oil as an illuminant in oil lamps.
**MEDICINALLY:**
- The seed oil was rubbed on aching joints for rheumatism.  A tea made from the bark was used as a diuretic and laxative.
- Chippewa Indians treated convulsions by inhaling the fumes of freshly cut shoots, which were placed on hot stones in a sweat lodge.

- Photo courtesy of:  Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA SCS. 1991. *Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth, TX. Courtesy of _[USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute](http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/WLI/)_. This image is not copyrighted and may be freely used for any purpose. Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database.

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 510653

## Independent Verification and Validation SC Child Support Enforcement System

- Thomas G. Brewer, PMP, CCP
- Computer Services
- University of South Carolina
- Columbia, SC

## CSES Project Background

- SC CSES Project began in the early 1990’s but ran into problems that resulted in four years of litigation with a vendor
- In May 2001 the SC Department of Social Services entered into an interagency agreement with the University of South Carolina to provide IV&V services

## CSES Project Background

- The interagency agreement focuses on four main areas
- Project Management Oversight 
- Quality Assurance Oversight 
- Development Oversight
- Post-Development Oversight

## CSES Project Status

- Working toward resolution of final issues delaying the release of solicitations for development services
- Request for Qualifications *(RFQ)* to be released soon; followed by release of the Request for Proposal *(RFP)*

## Areas of Positive Impact

- Value of Project Management
- Standards and Best Practices
- “Big Picture” Analysis
- Stakeholder Acceptance

## Formal Project Management

- Project management versus software development management
- Raised awareness of formal disciplines for managing project scope, cost, schedule, and quality
- Illustrated and emphasized the importance of project communications
- IV&V recommendations used in the establishment of the Project Management Office *(PMO)*

## Standards and Best Practices

- IV&V has been able to point the project team to resources
- Relevant standards and best practices
- Emerging standards
- Project management tools
- Free seminars

## “Big Picture” Analysis

- Independent third-party can generally be more objective regarding the larger view of the project
- Diversity of contacts has provided insight not readily available through other sources
- Analysis of broad set of observations has led to identification of important issues
- IV&V reports provide historical documentation of the project over time

## Stakeholder Acceptance

- Stakeholder participation and acceptance monitored and noted in IV&V reports
- Attendance at stakeholder meetings
- Interviews with stakeholders
- Observing interactions at project meetings
- Many stakeholders value third-party oversight
- Stakeholder communications issues often identified first in IV&V reports

## Conclusion

- Acceptance of the IV&V team has evolved
- Initially: *“The only reason you are here is because OCSE requires it”*
- Currently*:  “We are glad you are here”*
- So long as the *Independent Verification and Validation* provider remains *“independent”* it can and will provide valuable services to CSE system projects
# Presentation: 688326

## Southeast RegionRecurring CostsFY 2004 HPCC Funded ProjectREC/SE/04May 31, 2005

- Principal Investigator: Robert E. Kohler
- Phone: (305) 361-4307
- E-mail: _[Robert.E.Kohler@noaa.gov](mailto:Robert.E.Kohler@noaa.gov)_
- Proposal Theme: (REC)
- Funding Received: $ 47,697

## Southeast Region Recurring Costs

-  Connection to UM/RSMAS:                $ 41,197.00
-    Travel to Annual Review Meeting:    $   1.299.42
-    Not charged (travel):                         $      200.58
-                                                                  --------------
-                                                              $ 42,697.00
-     Recurring costs for FY 2004 COL/SE/01
- Near Real-Time Wireless Video Monitoring of Coral  Reef Events
- Principal Investigator: Jim Hendee
-           (Transferred to FIO/University of South Florida for Maintenance)
- 	Camera maintenance	                  $ 3.4K
-      Rent, Communications, Utilities      $ 1.6K
-                                                    --------
-                                                  $ 5.0K
# Presentation: 354832

## Offline Computing Cost Evolution

| Item | Description | Jan 2005
 |  |  | Feb 9th 2005

 |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  | Materials
$K | Labor
$K | Total
$K | Materials
$K | Labor
$K | Total
$K |
| 1.2.9  | Offline Computing | $1095 | $1461 | $2556 | $578 | $980 | $1555 |
| 1.2.9.1 | Hardware | $1071 | $176 | $1247 | $551 | $176 | $628 |
| 1.2.9.2 | Software | $24 | $1285 | $1309 | $24 | $1285 | $927 |

## Scrubbing status

**Configuration of the hardware farm set to 168 processors with the capability to reconstruct fully 1000-2000 ev/s**
**Some more potential cost reduction after coordination of network and tape peripherals with George (DAQ). This could decrease the materials cost somewhere between $10K to $100K.**
**Sacrificial lamb : two computer professionals are planned; one would be located at BNL and paid BNL rates ($564K) and the other one would be located at TRIUMF and paid at TRIUMF rates ($339K).  These two people are deemed essential by the software experts.  At worst, the one at BNL could be replaced by a series of student hires ( $564K ******** $200K )**

## Dictionary and basis of estimate

**Preliminary discussions of the dictionary have been discussed by scrubbing team reviewer and updates have been done on private copy of dictionary**
**Information for basis of estimate has been given to the scrubbing team and discussed at length.  Entry of this information in the excel file is almost complete. **
# Presentation: 728309

## Education & Outreach

_**Education & Outreach**_

**Inspiring Future Scientists**
**SeeS****: ****S****ooner ****E****lementary ****S****cience and ****E****ngineering Club**
**&**
***Science Zone***
*"I never knew I was so good in science.  I'm going to be a research scientist when I grow up!"*

**Matthew B. Johnson, University of  Oklahoma,  MRSEC **
**DMR 0520550**

- SeeS SOUND MODULE Echo Location

- Our mission is simple.  By sparking the interest of children in science activities, we hope to attract more young people into careers in science and to encourage a more scientifically literate public.  We offer after-school, inquiry based learning modules that small children can touch, feel, and manipulate themselves.  They experience the wonders of physical science by mixing, measuring, connecting, and discovering under the guidance of volunteers drawn from the Society of Physics Students at OU.
**ACCOMPLISHMENTS:**
- Consistently draws 60-65% female participation
- Repeat attendance averages >75%
- School administrators requested expansion of program from monthly to weekly presentations.

**Volunteer describes an atom, **
**4 & 5****th**** graders  become an atom**
** – ****electrons in motion**

**Stomp & balloon rockets and levitating balls**
# Presentation: 898130

## ICOADS & Surface Pressure Improvements

- Scott Woodruff
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
- Boulder USA

*AOPC/OOPC Surface Pressure WG*
*UK Met Office, Exeter*
*21 October 2005*

## ICOADSInternational Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set

- Release 2.2: 1784-2004
- completed: October 2005
- 2003-2004 new (1998-2002 reprocessed)
- GTS plus delayed-mode buoy sources:
- MEDS drifting
- TAO/TRITON and PIRATA moored
- NDBC moored
- Annual GTS updates planned

## Recent in situ data compositionJCOMM2: Might Argo floats be fitted w/ barometers?

- VOS data in decline

## Release 2.2 early national composition:K reports/year versus Release 1

- Release 2.2 early national composition:K reports/year versus Release 1

## Blend candidates:red (undigitized), yellow (partly), green (fully)

- est. resources: >3 person-years translation & blending

- Auxiliary

## US Logbook Status red (undigitized), yellow (not blended), green (blended)

**US Logbook Status**** **red (undigitized), yellow (not blended), green (blended)

## USN Submarine Devilfish, 1945

## US Maury SLP problems1=gravity, 2=& temp correction (attm T)

## CLIMAR-III: Third JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine ClimatologyPlanned for 2007
# Presentation: 042703

## Valuing Ecosystem Services

- Geoffrey Heal for EPA-SAB

## What is “value”?

- Multidimensional
- Many aspects of the value of e-s-s
- Includes a range of ethical sources of value as well as economic aspects of value –
- “Intrinsic value” or Kantian imperatives may be motivation for legislation as with the ESA
- Focus on economic aspects of value

## Total Economic Value

- TEV –
- Use and non-use values
- Use values include recreation, fishing, water purification
- Non-use values include existence values
- Quite comprehensive – more that generally recognized by non-economists

## Classification of Total Economic Values for Aquatic Ecosystem Services

| USE VALUES |  | NONUSE VALUES |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Examples of 
Direct Use Values | Examples of
Indirect Use Values | Examples of 
Existence Values and 
Bequest Values |
| Aquaculture
Transportation
Commercial and recreational fishing
Wild resources
Potable water
Recreation
Genetic material
Scientific/educational opportunities | Flood control
Storm protection
Habitat function
Shoreline/river bank stabilization
Nutrient retention/cycling | Biodiversity
Cultural heritage
Resources for future generations |

- SOURCE:  Adapted from Barbier et al., (1997) and Barbier (1994).

## Valuation methods

- Market methods, revealed preferences – relatively rare (non-market, public goods)
- Non-market methods, stated preferences
- Travel costs
- Hedonics
- Stated preference methods –
- Contingent valuation and conjoint analysis

## What to measure

- Willingness to pay or
- Willingness to accept
- Depends primarily on property rights, expectations
- WTA > WTP, which is bounded by income while WTA is not

## Measurement

- We are always interested in measuring the values of **changes** in e-s-s that will result from human activities
- The focus is on changes in e-s-s from human activities and on
- Valuing the changes in e-s-s

## Difficulty

- Main analytical difficulty seems to be in linking economic and ecological analyses
- Need to use ecological analysis to predict response of e-s-s to human activities
- Ecologists tend to focus on impact of human actions on ecosystem structure and function

## Difficulty

- Need ecologists to predict (e-s-s) resulting from policy measures
- Is often complex and stretches science to the limits
- Then use economics to value (as WTA or WTP) this (e-s-s) by a suitable valuation method
# Presentation: 204505

## How do I check my AgLearn Learning History and print a certificate?

**Use your internet browser to go to AgLearn at **_**www. Aglearn.usda.gov**_  **and login.**

**Step 1**

**Locate and click on the ****Learning**** tab.**

**Step 2**

**Locate and click on the ****Learning History**** link.**

**Step 3**

**Your ****Learning History**** will be displayed.  You can view your ****Learning History**** and print the ****Completion Certificate**** for any course listed.**

- Page 10

- Exhibit A

## How do I print my Learning History Report?

**Step 1**

**Use your internet browser to go to AgLearn at **_**www. Aglearn.usda.gov**_  **and login.**

**Locate and click on the ****Reports**** tab located on the right-hand side of the screen.**

**Step 2**

**From the list of report names provided, locate and click on the Learning History link.**
**The Run User Learning History screen will be displayed.  Scroll all the way to the very bottom of the screen and click on the Run Report button.**
**The User Learning History report will be displayed and can be printed.**

- Page 11

- Exhibit B

## How do I add a course to my Learning Plan?

**Use your internet browser to go to AgLearn at **_**www. Aglearn.usda.gov**_  **and login.**

**Step 1**

**Locate and click on the ****Catalog ****tab located on the right-hand side of the screen.**

**Step 2**

**Locate and click on the ****Advance Catalog Search**** tab.**

**Step 3**

**From the ****Title**** field, type in all or part of the course.  **
**Ensure the ****drop down box**** says: ****contains****.**
**Click Search.**

**Step 4**

**The ****Search Results ****screen will be displayed. **
**Click on Add to Learning Plan or you can Launch Online Content right away. **
**Note: For details about the course, click on the course title.  The Item Summary screen is displayed.  If there are handouts, materials, etc., these are located under Related Documents Tab at bottom of screen.**

- Page 12
# Presentation: 766011

## Lancaster Computing Facility

- Status
- Hardware
- Awaiting installation of Tape drives (probably not mammoth).
- Installing fibre links to outside world
- Software
- Installed mcp06 software
- Generated First Pass of MB Events for overlay
- In process of installing SAM station
- Software Installed
- In process of completing configuration
- Complete by weeks end? This meeting helps.

- Iain A Bertram - Lancaster University

- 26 April 2001

## mcp06 Statistics

- On Dual 733 MHz PII Processors
- 256 MB per cpu.

- mcp06p07.00.05a and p08.10.00 non-optimizedIsajet Minimum Bias Sample        Job Type                  Events    Gen/Time   D0gstar     D0sim      Reco      RecoanalyzeQCD p_T >   1 GeV 0.0 MB events   48000       0.07     129.17       5.71      13.93       1.05QCD Dijet Events        Job Type                  Events    Gen/Time   D0gstar     D0sim      Reco      RecoanalyzeQCD p_T >   2 GeV 0.7 MB events   31450       0.07      73.77       7.29      17.61       1.42QCD p_T >   5 GeV 0.7 MB events   25750       0.06      78.90       7.56      19.02       1.49QCD p_T >  10 GeV 0.7 MB events   21000       0.07      84.46       8.04      21.64       2.31QCD p_T >  20 GeV 0.7 MB events   11250       0.07      90.33       8.65      24.74       3.49QCD p_T >  40 GeV 0.7 MB events    6750       0.07      95.98       9.34      29.16       4.45cf mcp05        Job Type                  Events    Gen/Time   D0gstar     D0sim      Reco      RecoanalyzeQCD p_T >  10 GeV 1.4 MB events   20750       0.16      60.61      14.02      27.36       2.64QCD p_T > 200 GeV 1.4 MB events   20750       0.47      91.55      17.39      71.94       3.70

- Iain A Bertram - Lancaster University

- 26 April 2001

## Farm Hardware

- Worker

- Worker

- 196 Worker CPUs

- Switch

- Controller Node

- Switch

- 500 GB Bulkserver

- Tape Library
- Capacity ~ 30 TB
- k£11/30 TB

- Worker

- Controller Node

- 500 GB Bulkserver

- Iain A Bertram - Lancaster University

- 26 April 2001
# Presentation: 817501

## quench training

- 5 magnets measured cold (01, 02, 03, 05, 06)

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## MQXB Test Results

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg.
- 24 Feb. 2004
-   P. Schlabach

*brookhaven**** - fermilab - ****berkeley*

_**US LHC ACCELERATOR PROJECT**__**                               **_

## summary of harmonics

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## harmonics at collision

- std. dev. w.r.t. ref. table

- color coded w.r.t. ref. table

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## higher order harmonics

- measurements show some higher order (n7) harmonics
- “surprisingly large”
- unrealistic?
- smacks of s/n
- average values ~0.0*x* except b10
- for which the answer is right on average!
- constant harmonic amplitude may indicate we’ve hit the wall

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## other issues

- magnetization b6 as expected
- ~-1 u. @ injection

- 40 & 80 A/s loops in MQXB06

- eddy currents small

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## strength

- _target 1127____4 at 11345A_

- cross calibration of probe(s) and ssw ongoing

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## magnetic measurements during manufacturing

- f.q. monitored
- major change was a modification to the coil shim pattern to reduce the magnitude of b6
- 10-12 coils were anomalously large, traced to a hardware problem

- shim change to tune b6

- oversize coils

- target

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## magnetic measurements during manufacturing

- field quality optimization
- q2a/b
- cold mass with best field quality is put where the  is largest
- cold mass matching
- post LQXB04 we had a pool of magnets to choose from
- optimized field of pair taking account the cancellation of harmonics when cold masses are rotated relative to each other
- bodd, aeven cancel

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004

## summary

- few surprises in field quality
- none big
- b6 compensated
- f.q. good, adequately described by ref. table
- high order
- main field within spec.
- production schedule has allowed some “sorting”

- KEK CERN FNAL  Mtg  ps

- 24 Feb. 2004
# Presentation: 866043

## The Environmental Review Process: From Compliance to Stewardship

- Owen Lindauer
- Office of Project Development and Environmental Review

## What defines the role of the Division Office in the EIS process? Part I

- The CEQ regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act
-    “the responsible Federal official _shall_ *furnish guidance* and *participate in the preparation* and _shall_ *independently evaluate* the statement prior to its approval. . .”
- 40 CFR § 1506.5(c)

## What defines the role of the Division Office in the EIS process?

- SAFETEA-LU Section 6002 (23 U.S.C. 139)
- “intended as a statement of policy”
- 		-SAFETEA-LU Conference Report
- “to facilitate the *expeditious resolution* of the environmental review process for the project. . .”
- 	- § 139 (c)(6)(A)
- “to prepare or ensure that any ...statement or ...document required be completed in accordance with (Sec. 6002) and applicable Federal Law”
- 	- § 139 (c)(6)(B)

## Views of FHWA’s Role

- Compliance

- Stewardship

- -Quality Control
- -Quality Assurance
- -Checking the Box

- -Expeditious Resolution of the
-  Environmental Review Process
- -Better Program Delivery
- -Better Project Delivery
- -Better Project Decisions

## Degree of Division Office Engagement

- Before SAFETEA-LU

- After SAFETEA-LU

- Responsibility for inviting and designating **Participating Agencies**
- Responsibility for establishing **a plan for coordinating public and agencies**
- Responsibility for **providing an opportunity for agency and public involvement** in defining project **purpose and need**
- Responsibility for **providing an opportunity for agency and public involvement** in determining the **range of alternatives**
- Responsibility for **collaboration with agencies to determine methodologies** and level of detail required in analyses of alternatives
- Responsibility for **establishing deadlines** for comment during the environmental review process

**Notes:**
What is meant by “responsibility for”? Go to the next slide that illustrates the continuum of practice from compliance to stewardship. 

## New Views of FHWA’s Role ?

- Compliance

- Stewardship

- -Quality Control
- -Quality Assurance
- -Checking the Box

- -Expeditious Resolution of the
-  Environmental Review Process
- -Better Program Delivery
- -Better Project Delivery
- -Better Project Decisions
# Presentation: 276422

## Artificial Cilia-  Biologically Inspired Nanosensors Alison Flatau and Pat McCluskey (U Maryland) and Beth Stadler (U Minnesota)

- Many types of nanowires are being grown.

- Someday Co/Cu multilayers
- could be used as magnetic
- sensors in each wire.

- _Objective:_
- Borrow design of inner ear and create cilia for acoustic sensors
- Magnetostrictive cilia will change magnetization when moved by an acoustic signal.

## Artificial Cilia-  Biologically Inspired Nanosensors  Alison Flatau and Pat McCluskey (U Maryland) and Beth Stadler (U Minnesota)

*Artificial Cilia-  Biologically Inspired Nanosensors** ** Alison Flatau and Pat McCluskey (U Maryland) and Beth Stadler (U Minnesota)*

- High Q Design

- High Spatial
- Resolution Designs

**Notes:**
When the ‘cilia’ are exposed to an acoustic signal, they will resonate at a frequency that is determined by to their dimensions.  Since they are magnetostrictive, changes in dimension (or motion) will cause them to generate a magnetic field.  Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors can be used to detect this change in magnetic field since they are small and work over a very wide range of frequencies (most commonly known as hard drive heads).  Currenly, the GMR sensors would sense several cilia, but as hard drives scale smaller, the ‘pixels’ of our sensors will scale as well.  In the future, since GMR sensors are simply layers of Co/Cu/Co, our multilayered wires may be useful for detecting the motion of individual wires, but electronic wiring must scale smaller first.  The high spatial resolution designs will be able to detect several frequencies so they can detect more accurately where the signal is coming from.
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## PEER REVIEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE

**PEER REVIEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE**
**Short Application Pilot**
**Don Schneider, Ph.D.**

**National Institutes of Health****U.S. Department of Health and Human Services**

**August 27, 2007**

## Short Application Activities

**Short Application Activities**

**Goals**
**Trans-NIH Application Committee**
**NIH Pilots and Initiatives**
**CSR Short Application Pilots**

## Goals of Shortening Activities

**Goals of Shortening Activities**

**Assessment of meritorious science**
**Alignment of review criteria and research plan format**
**Lessening of burden, especially reviewer burden**
**Timely review outcomes**

## Trans-NIH Application Committee

**Trans-NIH Application Committee**

**Committee communicated with scientific community via a web-based Request for Information (RFI) that resulted in more than 5,000 responses, 75% in favor of shortening.**
**Committee developed recommendations for shortening in an integrated way with other peer review initiatives.**
**Committee reported RFI results and its recommendations to PRAC and other groups April 2007.**

## NIH Pilots and Initiatives

**NIH Pilots and Initiatives**

**Self-contained Pilots - Announcements with special features**
**	****- length, 7, 10 and 15 page research plans**
**	****- biosketch (e.g., 10 most relevant publications)**
**	****- format (impact>methods)**
**External and Internal Working Groups on Peer Review (cf. Dr. Lawrence Tabak)**

## CSR Short Application Pilots

**CSR Short Application Pilots**

**Develop questionnaire to gather quantitative information on research plan length and application format from reviewers and staff**
**	****- focus on ability to assess science**
**	****- probe issues related to length of research plan**
**	****- probe issues related to format, including importance of potential impact vs. approach, review criteria, biosketch, etc.**
**	****- share draft questionnaire with NIH stakeholders**

## Cont. CSR Short Application Pilots

**Cont. CSR Short Application Pilots**

**In collaboration with CSR and IC review units, provide questionnaire to reviewers and staff involved in short application pilots, e.g.,**

| # Pages | Mech- anism | IC | Spe-cifics |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 7 | R01 | GM | EURK, format |
| 10 
(Oct 2) | R01 | GM | Molec Probes |
| 10 | U01 | TW | Biodv, format |
| 10 | R01 | GM | Imag Probes |
| 15 (2 pilots) | R01 | HL | Lymph Dis |
| 15 | R01 | EB | Multisc Model |

## Discussion
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## PHOBOSRun 5 Progress

- Peter SteinbergBrookhaven National Laboratory
- January 5, 2004

## Additional time allowed major progress on run goals

DAQ now running with 530 Hz top speed (Silicon only, FASTBUS limit ~450 Hz). 

System last night running at ~400 Hz 
Nearly a factor of 2 over typical running last year
Major achievement for PHOBOS DAQ Team (Andrei Sukhanov & Iouri Sedykh)

Progress on new TDC readout system made, but slowed due to run prep

**DAQ now running with 530 Hz top speed (Silicon only, FASTBUS limit ~450 Hz). **
**System last night running at ~400 Hz **
**Nearly a factor of 2 over typical running last year**
**Major achievement for PHOBOS DAQ Team (Andrei Sukhanov & Iouri Sedykh)**
**Progress on new TDC readout system made, but slowed due to run prep**

- Run Preparation

## Last Night

- Low radiation - ~100urad/sec in both chipmunks
- Silicon experts called in at midnight
- Stable beam by 1:30am
- Substantial amount of system working
- Trigger system (Paddles & T0)
- Full silicon detector
- All data sunk and automatically processed on RCF
- Most done by 8:30am this morning
- Nice test of detector, online, and offline chains

## Radiation in Run 4

- End of March 2004

## Radiation in Run 5

- Far below Run 4, so far...

## Raw Cu+Cu Data

***Paddle N***

***Paddle P***

***Overall, signals******look reasonable******(pre-preliminary******calibrations)***
***Some pileup evident.******Inefficient pileup ******trigger firing at ******30% of DAQ rate***

***Arbitrary units!***

## First Collisions (Tues morning)

***(4 x ns)***

## Cu+Cu Event Display

## Vertex Distribution

- Production ran automatically

***Z Vertex (cm)***

***Events***

## Plans

- Expecting magnet work tonight
- Look at curved tracks in spectrometer
- Prepare for production running & analysis
- We are ready as we can be for whatever luminosity RHIC can deliver
- Will start to implement vertex triggers to reduce L0 rate of large-z events
- We are actively looking at pileup – both from within and outside of the nominal bunch crossing

## Run Conditions

**Required run conditions to achieve goals – luminosity, ********* etc. **
**Assuming *********=3m for 200 GeV as last year**
**Special requests**
**Fixed-length stores are clearly optimal for overall operation of PHOBOS**
**We would like additional time (e.g. 45 minutes) in a store if there is a substantial (>30 min) vacuum breakdown.**
**Similar to last year – times should be appropriate for the actual behavior of the machine**
**(pp): Special 400 GeV run as early as possible.**

## Physics Goals/Needs for Run 5

**Physics goals for planned Cu-Cu run**
**Energy**** and centrality dependence for**
**4******** observables (multiplicities, flow) **
**Particle spectra**
**Needs (Cu-Cu)**
**~ 1 Billion events @ 200 GeV (1.5-4 nb****-1**** or 2+8 weeks) **
**~ 150 Million events @ 62.4 GeV (2 weeks) **
**1 day @ 22.4 GeV (injection)**

## Fixed-Length Stores

- This was a major issue...last year!
- Good for RHIC, Good for experiments
- Optimize timing injectors & AGS

***01/07/04***
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## ZODIPIC

- IDL routines
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~mkuchner
- COBE DIRBE model (Kelsall et al. 1998)
- 1500 K to 3.3 AU, 0.5-200 m
- Scattering Phase Function fit to Helios data (Hong 1985)

## 5 mas pixels, 10 m

- 5 mas pixels, 10 m
- Default 1 zodi cloud
- around Sun at 10 pc
- Surface brightness
- in Jy/pixel
- goes in “inu”.

## Iterations to distribute computing power

- in log radius and get total flux right.

## tvscl, inu

- tvscl, alog10(inu)

## Slide 5

## Extras:

- Inclination, Position Angle
- Ring and Blob
- Asteroidal Dust Bands
- X,Y,Z Offsets (for secular perturbations, e.g.)
- Iterative grain temperature calculator
- IRAS model

## zodipic, inu, 5, 1, inclination=60,

- positionangle=60, radin=1.2, offsety=0.2

- zodipic, inu, 1, 0.5, inclination=60,
- positionangle=-10, ring=1, blob=1, /nofan

## Dynamical Modeling

- not part of ZODIPIC

## Slide 9

## Vega

- arcsec

- arcsec

- IRAM Plateau de Bure 1.3 mm
# Presentation: 925752

## NISN Customer Videocon Locations

- December 12, 2005
- 12:30-2:30 Central Time

_**Site**_
- ARC1
- DFRC1
- FRMT1
- GRC1
- GSFC1

_**Bldg/Room**_
- N203 / 104
- 4801 / 2221
- IV&V / 225B
- 3 / 7
- 8 / 206

_**Site**_
- MAF1
- MSFC1
- SSC1
- VAFB1
- WSTF1

_**Bldg/Room**_
- 350 / S-15
- 4200 / 106
- 1100 / 235
- 840 / C216
- 101 / 125A

_**Site**_
- HQ1
- JPL1
- JSC2
- KSC1
- LaRC1

_**Bldg/Room**_
- HQ / CD61
- 230 / 111
- 17 / 2026
- HQ / 3125
- 1201 / 115

- 09/12/05
# Presentation: 790471

## Media Bureau

**COMMISSION PRESENTATION**

- January 15, 2004

## Cable High-Speed Internet Access

- Broadband

**Cable High-Speed Internet Access**
- Available to 87.5 Million US Homes
- More than 13.8 Million Subscribers
- Competition with Other Platforms
**Internet Policy Working Group**
- MSOs are Rolling Out VoIP
- Cable Modem Subscribers are Using Other VoIP Providers

## Media

***Digital Television Transition***
**HD Content**
**DTV Sales**
**DTV Prices**
**“****Plug and Play”**
**Broadcast Flag**
**Integrated Tuners**

## Media

***Localism In Broadcasting***
**Localism Task Force**
- 1st Hearing in Charlotte, NC
- Next Hearing: Jan. 28th in San Antonio, TX
- Additional Hearings Planned
**Low Power FM Radio Stations**** **
- Resolved 1600 applications
- 850 more to be resolved by mid-2004
- Granted 926 new LPFM applications

## Media

***Media Ownership***
**2002 Biennial Review of the FCC’s            Broadcast Ownership Rules**
- 20 Month Review Process
- Largest Public Record in FCC History
- Appeal Pending in 3rd Circuit

## Increased Subscribership  

**10****th**** Annual Video**
**Programming Competition**
** ****Report**
- Increased Subscribership
- Competition Thriving
**News Corp. – DirecTV Application Reviewed**

## Homeland Security

**2003 MSRC Achievements:**
- Adoption of 88 Best Practices Recommendations
- Model City Exercise in Tampa, FL
- Outreach Initiative to Local Entities

## Modernizing the FCC

**Training:**** **** **
**FCC University**
**“****Engineering Challenge”**
**Expanded Electronic Filing:**** **** **
**Consolidated Database System (CDBS)**
**Cable Operation And Licensing System (COALS)**
**Backlog Reduced:**** **
**Appeals of Local Rate Orders**
**Market Modification Applications for Review**
**Low Power FM New and Major**
**TV New and Major**
**LPTV / TV Transmission Facility Changes**
**Class A License Applications**

## Broadband 
Cable Modem Classification
DTV Adoption and Transition issues
2nd DTV Periodic
Plug and Play
Broadcast Flag
Must Carry
Integrated Tuners Deadline

- Cable Modem Classification
- DTV Adoption and Transition issues
- 2nd DTV Periodic
- Plug and Play
- Broadcast Flag
- Must Carry
- Integrated Tuners Deadline

- 2004 Preview

- Localism in Broadcasting
- NOI and Further Study
- Media Ownership
- Cable Ownership
- Biennial Review
- Homeland Security
- Re-charter MSRC
- Modernizing the FCC
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## CCF DataCenter Infrastructure

**NGOP**
**Farms Software**
**D0 **

## NGOP

- Tanya Levshina  (CCF)
- Jim Fromm  (CSS)
- Krzysztof Genser  (CCF)
- Marc Mengel  (CSS)
- Vladimir Podstavkov  (CSS)

## NGOP

- NGOP v2_1 released this week
- Multiple actions per condition
- Trusted domain
- Multiple & periodic maintenance intervals
- Pending (manual) action
- Classes for system administrators - NOW
- XML overview and ngop installation
- Configuration updates done bi-weekly

## NGOP

- NGOP central server upgrade to latest version in March
- Collaboration with IN2P3 (P. Olivero)
- NGOP installed
- Developing their own agents
- Close to production
- Plan to move to maintenance mode
- Project briefing in April

## Farms Software

- Igor Mandrichenko
- Krzysztof Genser
- Tanya Levshina
- Vladimir Podstavkov

## Farms Software

**FBSNG** - farm batch system
**FIPC **- farm inter-process communication system
**DFarm** - distributed disk storage
**FCP** - farm copy tool
**KFTP** - shell and API FTP and GridFTP client

## Farms Software

- Work in close cooperation with
- CDF, CMS, D0, Minos, Miniboone, SDSS, KTeV, Auger, fixed target experiments, outside collaborators
- Help users build farm applications
- Current Work
- FBS general improvements
- DFarm general improvements
- Project briefing tomorrow at 9

## D0 Muon System Assistance

- Vladimir Podstavkov

## D0 Assistance

- Scintillator Counters Subsystem
- Investigation of relatively rare (1 time per minute or so) cases of MIL-1553 transfer failures in DZero slow control system
- Desired increase of rates from ~2kHz L1 rate and ~.5kHz L2 rate to  ~2kHz L1 rate and ~1kHz L2 rate
- Transfer knowledge to D0
- Helping through Spring
# Presentation: 202172

## OVERVIEW OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT

- William Modzeleski
- Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary
- U.S. Department of Education
- Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools

## "What we do today, affects tomorrow."  -Secretary Ridge, 1/28/05

## What We Know!

- Involvement with crises since Oklahoma City.
- Project SERV
- International meetings on terrorism [2]
- Research with U.S. Secret Service
- On-going contact with Dept. of Homeland Security
- Development of Crisis Planning Guide
- Coordination with school law enforcement and State School Safety Centers
- ERCM grantee feedback

## What We Know!Most School Districts Have Crisis Plans! 

## What We Know!

- However, often these plans:
- Aren't comprehensive!
- Aren't practiced regularly!
- Aren't coordinated with community!
- Aren't always viewed as essential!
- Aren't always discussed with families and students!
- Aren't based upon sound factual data and circumstances!
- Aren't consistent with Federal guidelines!

## Where Do We Want to Be? 

## Where Do We Want to Be? 

- Have plans that address all 4 phases of crisis planning!
- Practice on regular basis!
- Be part of community crisis planning!
- Be key part of every schools planning!
- Be based upon sound data and information!
- Be reviewed and updated regularly.

## How Are We Going to Get There? 

## How Are We Going to Get There?

- Continue "crisis planning" as a priority
- Additional discretionary grant funds
- Continue to respond to crises [Project SERV]
- Continue training programs & technical assistance
- Continue to collect/disseminate best practices.
- Adherence to Principles of NIMS
- Continual coordination with DHS on: IIMG; Infrastructure Protection Plan; National Response Plan.
- Development of a system to provide field with relevant information [HSIN]

## How Are We Going to Get There?

- FY 2005 Grant Competition
- Application released on June 21, 2005
- Application due date is July 29, 2005
- Expected number of awards:  104
- To date, 243 school districts have received funding through the Emergency Response and Crisis Management grant program

## Slide 11

## The Importance of Data

- Drives crisis planning efforts
- Need/vulnerability assessments
- Feedback loops and after-action reports
- Crisis planning is a continuous process
# Presentation: 675991

## - NLSA (Carville, LA & Camp Beauregard, LA)

**- NLSA ****(*****Carville, LA & Camp Beauregard, LA*****)**
- _                             __Qty             TL_
- Water (liters)      2,142,000   119
- Meals -               1, 619712     76
- Blue Roof (rolls)        3,696       6
- Tarps -                      45,300   18
- Gens -                          117     19
- Ice (lbs)          1,240,000         42
_*Inbound *_
- Tarps (9/14)              98,807        40
- Meals (9/17)            500,000        23
- Ice lbs (9/16)          1,200,000      30
- Water (ltrs) (9/16)    697,632        39

- As of -  091408 0900 EDT

**- NLSA ****(*****Randolph Aux Airfield***
***and Ft Sam Houston, TX*****)**
**- DC**** (*****Fort Worth, TX*****)**
- _                                         __Qty           TL_
- MDRC                                               12
- Meals                           2,708,489    137
- Water (liters)               2,591,575     144
- Blue Roof (rolls)             105,816     171
- Generators                           177       49
- Gens High end                       19
- Tarps                                85,000      34
- Blankets	         33,792        7
- Cots	          2,600         1
- Drivers/Powers                       51
- Fuel - Diesel                     10,000        4
-        - Mogas                       5,000        2
- Power/Drivers                                 134
- Ice (lbs)                      1,280,000      32
_*Inbound*_
- Meals (9/14)                  896,700      50
- Meals (9/15-9/19)      7,966,743     379
- Generators (9/14)	               55        9
- Blue roof (rolls) (9/14)      12,408       5
- Tarps (9/15)                     16,178       7
- Fuel – Diesel (9/14)	         10,000       2
-         – Mogas (9/14)           5,000       2
- Water (liters)
- (9-16 -9/17)                  5,550,000   300
- Ice lbs 9/14 – 9/17      18,720,000   468
# Presentation: 666290

## Module 1: HUD Environmental Assessment and Remediation Requirements

**Module 1: HUD Environmental Assessment and Remediation Requirements**

**5**

**4**

**3**

**2**

**1**

**1**

**HUD Environmental Assessment and Remediation Requirements**

**Notes:**
ERIC

## HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements

**HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements**

- History
- 79-33 consistency check
- §§202 and 811 in early 1990’s
- 24 CFR Part 50 §50.3(i) in 1996 – HUD
- 24 CFR Part 58 §58.5(i) in 2003 – RE’s

**Notes:**
ERIC

## HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements

**HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements**

- Current Policy
- Proposed projects must be free of hazardous materials/contamination where health and safety of occupants could be affected
- Evaluation of previous use in area
- If investigations are required, use current techniques and qualified professionals

**Notes:**
ERIC

## HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements

**HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements**

- Associated requirements
- NEPA Environmental Impact Assessment vs. ESA
- Generally called Environmental Assessment (EA)
- Alternatively prepare EIS
- 24 CFR Part 58: Responsible Entity (RE) assumes environmental responsibilities
- 24 CFR Part 50 and 40 CFR Part 1506: Federal Agency independently evaluates environmental conditions; responsible for accuracy

**Notes:**
ERIC

## HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements

**HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements**

- Guidance
- 1996 Preamble re. §50.3(i)
- Hospitals, nursing homes, and housing: *hazard free*
- Commercial and industrial: *hazard managed*
- § § 202’s and 811’s and FHA MAP program
- No transaction screens
- ASTM E1527-05 always
- Phase II, if REC
- Remediation: no Engineering Controls, sign-off by State required

**Notes:**
ERIC

## HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements

**HUD ESA and Remediation Requirements**

- Other programs (non Office of Housing)
- Preparer determines if professional investigation is necessary, and how it is performed
- Exception: HOPE VI requires ASTM E1527-05 Phase I
- Mandate for degree of cleanup is not specified

**Notes:**
ERIC