BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Advanced Instrumentation for

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Phase Doppler technique was successfully adapted to 	cloud droplet size and velocity measurement
-  	This instrument was successfully tested in the NASA 	Glenn Research Center (GRC) Icing Tunnel
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- 	Further development of an advanced Phase Doppler 	signal processor was done by Aerometrics/TSI, and is  	presently being sold by TSI Inc.
-  	Aerometrics was acquired by TSI in 1996
-  	Boeing purchased this instrument system for cloud 	certification of their aircraft
-  	Two of these instrument systems were purchased by the 	Italian Government for calibrating their Icing Tunnel

***Aerometrics/TSI Inc.***
***Shoreview, MN***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  	An advanced Phase Doppler signal processor was 			developed under a $150K Phase III effort with GRC
-  	For use in the certification of commercial aircraft
-  	For use in cloud physics studies, including in-flight tests

- Glenn Research Center
- Turbomachinery & Propulsion Systems
- 3-045

**Advanced Instrumentation for**
**Aircraft Icing Research**

***ADA-100 Icing Probe of TSI***

**INNOVATION**

- 1987 Phase II, NAS3-25407, 12/99
- NASA Contact - John Oldenburg
- Company Contact - Amir Naqwi

- An all weather instrument for measuring cloud droplets size and velocity
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## Data Assimilation Education ForumPart II: Education Capabilities Panel

- NCAR’s Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART):
- Community DA - Education, Exploration, Research, Operations

*January 21, 2008*
*presented by**Jeffrey Anderson*
*Senior Scientist**NCAR*

## DART is: 

- Public domain software for Data Assimilation
- Well-tested, portable, extensible, free!
- Models
- Toy to HUGE
- Observations
- Real, synthetic, novel
- An extensive Tutorial
- With examples, exercises, explanations
- People

- used at -

- and many more ...

**Notes:**
Code: well-tested, portable, extensible
Models: toy- to HUGE
Observations: real, synthetic, novel
An extensive Turorial: examples, exercises, explanations
People:   images of all of us

## DART is: 

- Education
- Exploration
- Research
- Operations

## Education

- Tutorial

**Notes:**
BigLorenz.mpg  bottom plot is time evolution of two of the state vectors.
Tutorial given in workshop format at XXXX, YYYYY, ZZZZZ
Tutorial designed to be a ‘follow along’ exercise
Want to have some more elements on this ... plot_bins case of filter divergence ... diagnostic plot of total error ...
There is a slide show of students - students.mov - cannot figure out how to get two movies to play at once.

## Exploration

- Impact of PS obs on V wind

- Adaptive Inflation

**Notes:**
Carbon data assimilation graphic - DART/models/simple_advection/work/simple_advection.pdf
Maybe some kernel types or exploration of the differences between inflation types - graphics from tutorial
Could put all adaptive inflation on one side 
Could rotate simple advection figure so time is horizontal - might fit better on slide

## Research

- GPS occultations

- QuikSCAT winds

**Notes:**
GPS occultation graphic

## Operations

- CAM T85 - 80 members

- CWB Rainfall probability

- 48h track forecast

- 32 members

- Scales Very Well!

## Summary

- Hardware
- Desktops: Linux, Unix, Apple, Windows (under cygwin)
- Clusters: Linux, AIX, SGI/ALTIX, ??? (got one we can try?)
- Supported Models
- A large complement of 1d models: Lorenz63, Lorenz96, ‘simple_advection’, PBL1d, ...
- Some ‘intermediate’ models: pe2lyr, bgrid_solo, ...
- Several ‘real’ models supported but source not included : CAM, WRF
- Contact Info
- _[www.image.ucar.edu/DAReS/DART](http://www.image.ucar.edu/DAReS/DART)_
- Jeff Anderson _[jla@ucar.edu](mailto:jla@ucar.edu)_
- Tim Hoar _[thoar@ucar.edu](mailto:thoar@ucar.edu)_
- Nancy Collins _[nancy@ucar.edu](mailto:nancy@ucar.edu)_
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## SensitivityAnalysis

## Theory

## Equations

- Faraday

- Ampere

- Constitutive Eq.s

## Data Acquisition

## Location

- N

## Data Collection

- Data collected along a 2.4km profile
- Spacing of 100m
- Data acquired over a 1.5 hr period
- 24 stations used
- Titan System

## picture of people digging holes

## Data Processing

## Inversion

- Determining a model which could have given rise to observed effects

- E( x, y, t ) H( x, y, t )

- E( x, y, w ) H( x, y, w )

- Z( x, y, w )

*min*

## & smoothness

**Data Fit**

**smoothness**

## Homogenous Half Space 

- Some Additional Parameters

-  Skin depth (m)
-  Min frequency
-  Max frequency

## Homogenous Half Space

- tau=3, rho=6, i = 30, RMS = 3.053

## Homogenous Half Space

- Tau = 30, rho = 6, i = 30, RMS = 3.371

## Homogenous Half Space

- Tau = 300, rho = 6, i = 30 RMS = 4.266

## Homogenous Half Space

- Rho = 32, tau = 3, i = 30, RMS = 3.048

## Homogenous Half Space

- Rho = 128, tau = 3, i = 30, RMS = 3.040

## Homogenous Half Space

- Rho = 512, tau = 3, i = 30, RMS = 3.039

## Layered Model

## TM only

## TE only

## Conclusions

- Damn good data
- Only a model, **not** a solution

## Acknowledgments

- Team 6 members
- Staff of Sage ( esp George and Louise )
- Students of Sage ( for digging all those holes)
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## Building Energy Code Education Projects At Iowa Central Community College

- Bill McAnally
- Iowa Central Community College
- Fort Dodge, Iowa
- July 18, 2002

## Slide 2

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Project Driven Education

- Contracted with the Department of Natural Resources
- Two project homes
- One residence hall
- Groundbreakings
- Open house – formal and informal
- Presentations at conferences and seminars
- Partnerships

## Slide 6

## Why Do We Need The BECE Program In Iowa?

- First thought is saving energy. Right?
- Update the building industry on methods and materials
- Housing longevity
- Create new jobs
- The best benefit is homeowner health and comfort!!!!

## Slide 8

## Foundations

- Drainage
- Waterproofing
- Insulation – interior or exterior
- Superior Walls
- Wood
- Insulated Concrete Forms

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Walls And Roof

- OVE framing
- Vapor retarders and air barriers
- Band joist area
- Sealing details and products
- Insulation demonstrations
- Infra-red testing of the envelope

## Slide 13

## Wall And Roof Exterior

- Homewrap and competitors
- Drainage plane
- Ventilated cladding
- Ice dam explanations
- Doors and windows

## Slide 15

## Mechanicals

- Geo-thermal
- High efficiency sealed combustion gas
- Energy recovery ventilators
- Radon, VOC’s, paints, and CO
- Mold

## Are We Reaching People?

- Conferences, seminars, and training sessions
- Radio talk shows
- Parade Of Homes
- Open houses
- Newspaper articles
- Happy Customers
- Word of mouth!

## Slide 18

## Slide 19

## Slide 20
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## Data Taking StatisticsWeek of 2002 December 30 – 2003 January 5

**Corrections to Physics Lumi & Events to Tape**
**Special Runs: Jet Trigger Study **
** ****Recorded 103 nb****-1**** &  331k of non-Physics evts**

** ****Physics:  Recorded Lumi of 5.6 pb****-1**** or  ****81.9%****  of Delivered Lumi**
**Recorded 14.5 million Physics Quality Events **

** ****Prior best performance was last week of Dec 23-29**
****** ****4.8 pb****-1**** and 11.0 million events**

## Delivered Luminosity Losses

**1.4 hrs:  16:55 Fri Jan 3****rd**** - Online Buffer disk crashed.  **
**The disk was used in the transfer of data into SAM and the event catalog.  The crash occurred in the middle of a run, and about 70 nb****-1 ****of Recorded Physics Lumi was lost.**
**1.5 hrs:  02:35 Sat Jan 4****th**** - Begin Store 2136 – “Hot” L1 CAL Trigger Towers**
**Random occurrence – problem was not seen during previous store only a few hours earlier.****  ****Took some time to diagnose, page expert, disable triggers, etc.  We took several inefficient recorded runs throughout this period.**
**~1.0 hr:  50 Run transitions (~1 minute/per)**
**~1.0 hr:  11 Begin or End Store transitions (~5 minutes/per)**
**~1-2 hrs:  Average 1-2% FEB during physics data taking  **

**Major Sources of Downtime:  Not recording during a store**

**Other Losses**

## Other D0 News 

**One controlled access request on Mon Dec 30****th****        ~ 1.5 hours (early am)**
**Calorimeter BLS PS trip**
**Between Stores 2113 & 2114**
**Improved stability of Muon readout crates**
**We are now running at L1/L2 rates of 10-20% higher**
**L1:  600 ******** 700 Hz**
**L1:  250 ******** 300 Hz**
**Little loss to our efficiency**
**Running at ~90% for most runs**
**Improved monitoring and automated error detection**

**Rec/Del Lumi = 96.0%**
**Best performance so far for a run of significant length (4.25 hours)**

## L1/L2/L3 RatesStore 2138 – Sun Jan 5th  from 03:02 

**~86% Eff**.

## Plans for Upcoming Week

**Final checks with beam before shutdown**
**Trigger commissioning:  rates, readout, noise**
**Test new trigger list**
**Collect special runs**
**Complete our Preparation for Shutdown**
**Detailed plan for daily activities **
**Mechanical/Elec Operations**
**Sub-Detector & Trigger Systems**
**No major hardware or software problems**
**Small detector jobs done during Supervised Access today**
**Software & Online System changes will be performed during beams studies period**
**Finish data collection for Winter Conferences!!**

## Store 2138 – L2/L3 Rates
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## Instructions for Building an Entry Quad Chart:

- General:
- Simply copy the format/fonts, etc. for each type of quad in the illustrations provided.
- Some brief comments on each of the four quads are also provided below. All Quads should have the **Title **of the task, in the first line, and the **PI Name: Institution **in thesecond line. Both of these are above the red and blue lines, in the area where the NASA “meatball” is. The font is “Comic Sans”.
- Entry Quad:
- - Top Left Quadrant: The **Objective **(“what” the task will do) in bullet format.
- - Top Right quadrant: A representative illustration of the technology, at the initial
- stage of the task.
- - Bottom Right Quadrant: **Key Milestones **(“when”) for accomplishment of the
- task in the format of “Month/Yr”. (E.g.: 03/06 for the second milestone.)
- o At the bottom, center of this quadrant, the entry TRL for the technology in
- the format **TRLin = m**
- - Bottom Left Quadrant: **Approach **(“how”); in bullet form the task will be
- accomplished. This quadrant also lists any **Co-Is/Partners.**
- - Provide the date (month/yr; e.g.: 10/05) the chart was created, in a small font, on the
- lower left of the slide, below the double blue lines. Place the date (month/year) for the
- quad in the lower left in a small font below the blue lines.
***Page 2 of this presentation contains an example slide and page 3 contains a blank template.***

## Adaptive Self-Correcting T/R Module

**Adaptive Self-Correcting T/R Module**

**PI: Wendy Edelstein / JPL**

**CoIs: **Constantine Andricos, Gregory Sadowy, JPL

_**Key **__**Milestones**_

_**Objective**_** **
- Develop a practical and low cost  adaptive L-band T/R module with integrated calibrator for use in phase-stable array antennas for interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) applications.
- Performance goals are <1 deg absolute phase stability and <0.1 dB absolute amplitude stability over temperature.
- Technologies include high efficiency L-band T/R module; integrated phase/amplitude detector; closed-loop detection and correction circuitry.

_**Approach:**_

- Modify an existing high-efficiency L-band T/R module with built-in calibrator by:
- Developing a stable closed-loop amplitude and phase detector circuit.
- Integrating the calibrator circuit into the L-band T/R module.
- Characterizing performance over temperature to demonstrate ability to self-correct for variations in insertion phase or amplitude.

- Closed-Loop Calibration Scheme

**TRL****in ****= 4**

- Requirements, architecture, design		7/06
- Breadboard demo (TRL 5)		1/07
- Build T/R with integrated calibrator		7/07
- Prototype validation (TRL 6)		1/08

- High-Efficiency L-band T/R module to be modified with integrated calibrator

**04/07**

- EXAMPLE SLIDE

## TITLE HERE

**TITLE HERE**

**PI: Name Here**

**CoIs: **CO-Is / Partners Here

_**Key **__**Milestones**_

_**Objective**_** **
- Objective Here

_**Approach:**_

- Approach Here

**TRL****in ****= ?**

- Milestone Here		Mo/Yr
- Milestone Here		Mo/Yr
- Milestone Here		Mo/Yr
- Milestone Here		Mo/Yr
- Milestone Here		Mo/Yr

- Image / Picture Here with Caption

**Mo/Yr**
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## National Water Quality LaboratoryApril 23, 2008Mission Briefing

## Agency Organizational Chart

**Notes:**
So... what is the Biological Group?

## Administrative

**Jim Steverson**

_**Analytical Services**_
**David Reppert**

_**Support Services**_
**Will Lanier**

_**Methods Research**_
_**& Development**_
**Jeff McCoy**

_**Safety, Health, Environmental**_
_**Compliance**_
**Carlos Arozarena**

_**Business Development Team**_
**Donna Damrau**

_**Quality Assurance**_
**Douglas Stevenson**

_**Administrative**_
**Patricia Johnson**

_**Chief’s Office**_
- Chief, Greg Mohrman
- Asst. Chief, Merle Shockey

## Three Primary Mission Areas:

***Research and Development of new analytical methods***
***Analytical services for chemical, radiological and biological analyses***
***National Field Supply Service***

## What the NWQL does...

***Analytical chemistry and biological taxonomic services***
***Analytical methods development and implementation***
***Analytical consulting and special projects***
***Primary focus: water, sediments, invertebrates***
***Sample loading:***
***Roughly 35,000 samples/yr (equates to approx. 125,000 containers)***
***Approx. 1,300,000 data points for individual compounds, elements and invertebrates***
***Provide high-quality supplies to support field sample collection, preservation and transport***

## Technical Excellence

***National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP)***
***Low-level analyses in water and associated matrices from across the nation***
***Unique databases for pesticides and degradation products that are sought by other agencies, including the EPA***
***Leadership in low-level emerging contaminants***
***R&D to full-scale capacity***
***Analytical consulting for project/program enhancement***
***Non-regulatory science***
***Scientific integrity and ethics focus***

## Management and Operations Excellence

***Fee-for-Service coupled with a Working Capital Fund***
***Pricing model***
***Business aspects including technical, customer, and staffing considerations***
***Web-based customer tools including:***
***Customer web-accessible sample status page***
***Same day electronic sample receipt acknowledgement***
***Use of contract laboratory support***

## NWQL customers...

***USGS Water Science Centers***
***Cooperative Water Program (states)***
***National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)***
***Toxics Hydrology Program***
***USGS BRD***
***USEPA***
***USFWS***
***USNPS***
***Department of Defense Earth Science Program***
***CRADA and TAA with private industry partners***

##   Method Development at the NWQL

## NWQL particulars...

***Approximately 130 Federal personnel including perms, terms and students***
***Approximately 13 contractor personnel***
***Facility leased from GSA***

## National Water Quality LaboratoryApril 23, 2008Mission Briefing
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## SVT Changes for SVX 2b Geometry

- Two of SVT’s design assumptions no longer hold for Run 2B silicon detector
**Perfect 12-fold “wedge” symmetry**
**Measurement layers whose radii can be approximated as constant within a wedge**
- Can be addressed with minor modifications
**Add 12 Merger boards**
- produce additional boards from existing design
**Upgrade Fitter boards**
- extend current design

- Run 2A
- geometry

- Run 2B
- geometry

## Recovering “wedge” geometry for SVT

- SVT is built as 12 identical units, finding/fitting tracks in parallel
**1/12 of SVT processes 1/12 of detector in azimuth**
- In upgraded detector, some staves in outer layers span SVT wedge boundaries
**These staves’ hit data must be split among two SVT wedges**
**Detector will be cabled such that data only feed forward in azimuth, never backward**
- Detector data received by Hit Finders in SVT wedge N can be used for tracking in SVT wedges N & N+1
**SVT wedge N receives some hits from wedge N-1, forwards some hits to wedge N+1**

## Run 2a SVT data flow (per wedge)

**COT tracks**

**Silicon hits**

**Hit Finders**
**(2 outputs;**
**only 1 is **
**now used)**

**Silicon**
**raw data**

**Merger**
**(4 inputs,**
**2 outputs)**

**Associative**
**Memory**

**Hit**
**Buffer**

**Track**
**Fitter**

**Fitted tracks**
**for 1/12 of**
**detector**

## Run 2b SVT data flow (per wedge)

**to wedge **
**N+1**

**Run 2b SVT data flow (per wedge)**

**COT tracks**

**Silicon hits**

**Hit Finders**
**(2 outputs)**

**Silicon**
**raw data**

**Mergers**
**(4 inputs,**
**2 outputs)**

**Associative**
**Memory**

**Hit**
**Buffer**

**Track**
**Fitter**

**Fitted tracks**
**for 1/12 of**
**detector**

**from wedge **
**N-1**

## SVT Track Fitter Changes for SVX 2b Geometry

- SVT TF performs fast, linearized fit in FPGAs
**6 measurements ******** 3 parameters plus ********2**
**Uses road ID to reduce bits in multiply**
**250 nsec per track fit!**
- For a given set of layers, coefficients are constant across a wedge
- To handle stave geometry, fit coefficients for a given layer combination must vary within an SVT wedge
**In present Track Fitters, coefficients are stored in FPGA internal SRAM**
- 70% of RAM, 60% of logic is used in FIT chip
**Number of sets of coefficients needed per Track Fitter will increase by an order of magnitude**
**Newer FPGAs can meet this need, without any fundamental TF design change**
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## DUAL-SPRAY FUEL NOZZLE FOR LOW EMISSIONS GAS TURBINE COMBUSTORS

-   Designed fuel nozzle using advanced CFD analysis
-   Tested prototype nozzles at atmospheric pressure for lean 	blowout
-   Fabricated and tested selected fuel nozzle in full annular 	combustor test at idle and simulated full power operating 	conditions
-   Demonstrated lean blowout fuel-air ratio of 0.003 at idle 	conditions.  This exceeds the current AST goal of 0.005
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Received over $175,000 in contracts from industry, e.g., 	Allied Signal
-   Selected as candidate for 70% NOx reduction regional engine  	combustor program; fabrication and testing to start in 1998
-   If successfully demonstrated, nozzle has potential of being a 	production engine part.  CFDRC will give the rights of the fuel 	nozzle to a fuel nozzle vendor in exchange for royalty fees

***CFD Research Corporation***
***Huntsville, Alabama***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Potential use in low emission aircraft gas turbine 			combustors
-   Basis for further development of low NOx fuel nozzles for 	land based gas turbine engines for various industrial 			applications

- Lewis Research Center
- Advanced Subsonic Technology
- 3-004

**DUAL-SPRAY FUEL NOZZLE FOR LOW EMISSIONS GAS TURBINE COMBUSTORS**

***Prototype Fuel Nozzle***

**INNOVATION**

- 1990 Phase II, NAS3-26616, 3/98
- NASA Contact - Chi-Ming Lee
- Company contact - Cliff Smith

- A fuel nozzle that provides high turndown fuel-air ratio and low emissions in small aircraft gas turbine engines
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## FS National Aerial Photography 2007

- Bill Belton
- USDA Imagery Planning and Coordination Meeting
- December 5-7, 2006

## National Level Funding History

- FY 2004:						$1,071,000
- Tongass NF Contract			$500,000
- NAIP Projects			$571,000
- FY 2005:						$   841,000
- All to NAIP Projects
- FY 2006:						$1,650,000
- $1,600,000 to NAIP
- $50,000 to MRLC
- FY 2007:						$1,567,500
- 5% Reduction from FY 2006
- Chugach NF Contract, est.		$    200,000
- Puerto Rico High Resolution		$     25,000
- NAIP Projects			$1,342,500

## Regional IssuesNorthern Region 

- Resource Photography
- 35,000 acres of burned area on Clearwater NF
- Will get information to APFO in early January
- Would like NAIP to fly Idaho in 2007
- Region cooperated with state for NAIP CIR acquisition
- Using this to produce a Landsat NAIP merged product for vegetation segmentation
- Resampled to 5 meter resolution
- “NAIP has proven to be an invaluable tool in the R1-VMP Project and has enabled us to progress in a manner that otherwise would have been impossible with only Resource Photography to rely on.”

## Regional IssuesNorthwestern Region

- Resource Photography
- Anticipate flying 2 forests, dependent on funding
- Uses of NAIP Imagery:
- Updating vegetation polygons
- Backdrop imagery for maps, specifically for Senator Wyden's Mt Hood wilderness proposals
- Delineation of forest stand boundaries using eCognition software

## Regional IssuesNortheastern Region

- Dan Wendt is new Regional Remote Sensing Coordinator
- Superior NF is acquiring high resolution (45cm pixel) multi-sepctral imagery for entire forest
- 6 Terabytes of data will be collected
- Hiawatha NF may collect Resource Photography dependent on funding
- Will want False-color IR

## Regional IssuesAlaska Region

- 2 Open contracts from 2004 on Tongass NF
- 1:40,000 and 1:15,840
- Failure to collect 1:40,000 is affecting GSTC DOQQ POW
- Mark Riley will work with APFO to develop specifications for direct digital imagery
- Expect to have $64,000 for Chugach NF resource photography in 2007
- Alaska Geographic Data Committee is meeting this week, much interest in IFTN project.
# Presentation: 122329

## Microwave-initiated metathesis route to Li2SiN2Richard B. Kaner, UCLA, DMR-0453121

- 	Solid-state metathesis reactions can provide an attractive alternative to the traditional synthesis of lithium silicon nitride, a fast-ion conductor and potential component in nitrogen sensors.  The method we report in the *Journal of Materials Chemistry* (**16**, 1318, 2006) is especially promising since it utilizes an industrial by-product (SiCl4) and can be initiated easily in a conventional microwave oven. This is advantageous when compared to the reaction of Li3N with Si3N4, which is hindered by the high energy input required and the high cost of Si3N4.
- 	A metathesis reaction between SiCl4 with Li3N and LiNH2 acting as nitrogen and lithium sources, respectively, produces Li2SiN2 in seconds when initiated in a microwave oven:
- 	6SiCl4 + 8Li3N + 3LiNH2 + 12NH4Cl 
- 				6Li2SiN2 + 15LiCl + 11NH3 + 21HCl
- 	The product phase (Li2SiN2 versus LiSi2N3) can be controlled by the amount of LiNH2 or Li3N present in the reaction mixture; while the product yield and crystallinity can be controlled by the addition of NH4Cl.  The amount of lithium in the mixed nitride can be tuned by varying the amount of LiNH2 in a given reaction mixture.

## Microwave-initiated metathesis route to Li2SiN2 

- Richard B. Kaner, UCLA, DMR-0453121

- The fast ion conductor Li2SiN2 can now be made in seconds from the reaction of four solids (6SiCl4, 8Li3N, 3LiNH2, 12NH4Cl) initiated by microwaves.  In this photograph taken through the door of a conventional microwave oven, the reaction zone and outline of the glass vial are added in white for clarity as reported in the *Journal of Materials Chemistry* (**16**, 1318, 2006).
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## Accuracy of Delivery 

**Accuracy of Delivery **

## Accuracy of Delivery

**Feedback from consumers/mailers**
**	****	****- Inconvenience **
**	****	****- Security Issue**
**	**
**Impact of Misdelivered mail**
**	****	****- Cost to USPS**
**	****	****- Cost to mailers**
**	****	****- Effect on brand equity**

## Misdelivery is one of the top 5 customer issues nationally
Most frequent problem – incorrect name/incorrect address

**Most frequent problem – incorrect name/incorrect address**

**Consumer Affairs Tracking System**

**CATS**

## Accuracy of Delivery Indicator (ADI)

**Quality Indicator**
**Continuous Measurement**
**Household and Business Reporters**
**Complements the Customer Satisfaction Measurement System**

## Accuracy of Delivery Indicator

**Reporters Report Mail for 2 weeks**
**Data cleaning and Quality Control**
**Report Generation (AP and Quarterly)**

**Methodology**

## 
Errors in order of Frequency:		
1    Name/street name incorrect; ZIP correct		
2    Name/street # incorrect; street name/ZIP correct
3    Name and ZIP incorrect				
4    Name incorrect; all else correct                                	(excludes “current resident”)          			

**Errors in order of Frequency:****	****	**
**1    Name/street name incorrect; ZIP correct****	****	**
**2    Name/street # incorrect; street name/ZIP correct**
**3    Name and ZIP incorrect****	****	****	****	**
**4    Name incorrect; all else correct                                ****	****(excludes “current resident”)****          ****	****	****	**
**	****	**

**National Results: Misdeliveries by Description**

**ADI - Accuracy of Delivery Indicator**

## Accuracy of Delivery

**Impact of misdelivered mail**

**   ****There is a direct correlation between the number of      pieces of misdelivered mail and ****overall satisfaction****.**
**	****	****	****	****               ****%            %**
**           ****Misdelivered Mail****                    E/V       E/V/G****                 ****	****_________________________________________**
**               ****NOT AT ALL****                         ********            ********  ****         **
**            ****   ****ONCE ****	****	****             --****	****	****  --**
**            ****   ****2/3 TIMES****	****            --****	****  --**
**               ****MORE THAN 3****                      ********            ******** ****     **
**              **
** **

## Survey Results

## Comparison of Data

**Misdelivered mail**

- Customers Receive

- Employees Perception

## Comparison of Data

**Handling misdelivered mail**

## Accuracy of Delivery Campaign

**Increase customer confidence**
**Reduce the costs and delays**
**Strengthen our brand**

## Plan of Action

**Analyze existing data **
**Simultaneously pilot several new initiatives**
**Measure and analyze results**
**Develop**
**Performance Measurement System**
**Communications Plan**
**Recognition Program**
**Implement nationwide**
# Presentation: 277040

## Stormwater Issues in the Arid Southwest

- SBIR Phase I Pacific Southwest Solicitation

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Between 40-50% of impaired waters in the Pacific Southwest are from, or suspected to be from, urban sources
- Unique Climatology
- Heavy pollutant loadings
- Flashy storms

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation 

- 80% of Californians live within a 30 minute drive of the coast
- Beach usage is higher in CA than in other 49 states combined (U.S Lifeguard Assn.)

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Regulatory Framework
- General Permit System relying heavily on Best Management Practices
- Industrial Stormwater
- Metals, oil and grease, petroleum hydrocarbons
- Construction Stormwater
- Sediments, nutrients, oil and grease, petroleum hydrocarbons
- Municipal Stormwater
- Pathogens and all of above

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Huge universe of sites with varied conditions
- Construction, Industrial, Municipal
- Tens of thousands of Industrial Sites in Region 9
- BMP effectiveness studies find wide variability depending on site characteristics and operator knowledge
- Owner/operator knowledge biggest impediment to efficient BMPs

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Iterative approach to BMP implementation not widely used
- How to get quick reliable feedback and use it?
- Reliable water quality data not in the equation
- Sample collection and lab analysis is seen as too complex for most permittees

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Program Needs
- Real-time monitoring technology
- for pathogens, oil and grease, metals, and petroleum hydrocarbons
- Require little supervision, maintenance, and technical know-how
- Provide data that would allow iterative approach
- Technology and output should be user-friendly for those without a background in water quality

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Program Needs
- Technologies to promote rapid settling of fine suspended particles in stormwater retention basins without adverse water quality effects
- To be used in construction, municipal, and industrial settings

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation

- Program Needs
- Products or technologies that extract embedded oil or oil products from surfaces (soil, concrete, asphalt) without adverse water quality effects

## SBIR Stormwater Solicitation	

- Others?
- Technologies to remove urban pollutants from stormwater
- Generally lower concentrations than found in traditional waste streams; cumulative impact
- No adverse water quality effects
- User-friendly

## Questions?

- Ellen Blake, USEPA
- 	(415) 972-3496
- Jeremy Johnstone, USEPA
- 	(415) 972-3499
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## Progress in Coupler Development and Testing

- 1. As of this morning we have finally put RF into the CC2 input coupler, we are just putting in a very low amount 200Watts or so for right now as we calibrate the interlock sensors etc. 2 For 3rd H input coupler processing, reported last week by Denis Nicklaus that he is making progress with the EPICS sequencer.  There still is the outstanding question to use SimCon2.1 or 3.1.  Helen prefered (and most agreed) to use SimCon3.1, as any developement with SimCon3.1 is defintate forward progress, while intense SimCon2.1 developement might prove to be a distraction.... 3. Next week I should be able to give some results of the input coupler processing of CC2.  I encourage you (anyone interested) to stop by and see what we are up to at MESON.
# Presentation: 710243

## Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service

**Impact on**
**Labor-Management Relations 2002**

## F.M.C.S. Creation

**Established as an independent agency under Taft-Hartley amendments in 1947.**
**Created to resolve collective bargaining disputes which threaten the free flow of commerce.**
**F.M.C.S. is neither a regulatory nor an enforcement agency, but is a neutral designed to assist Labor & Management.**

## F.M.C.S. Mission

**Promote sound & stable L/M relations.**
**Prevent/minimize work stoppages through mediation assistance to parties.**
**Advocate collective bargaining, mediation & voluntary arbitration.**
**Develop the art, science & practice of conflict resolution.**
**Foster constructive joint L/M processes.**

## F.M.C.S. Services

**Dispute Mediation**
**Private, Public, & Federal Sectors**
**Preventive Mediation**
**Customized training**
**Education, Outreach & Advocacy**
**Of collective bargaining processes**

**Alternative Dispute Resolution**
**In-lieu of litigation**
**Arbitration Services**
**L/M Grants**
**To fund collaborative efforts between L/M**
**International Program**

## Dispute Mediation

**2002 U.S. Statistics**
**45,339 contract notifications**
**19,303 assigned**
**6,757 closed (active)**
**5,128 closed/agrmt.**
**76 % closed/agrmt.**
**308 work stoppages (all size B.U.’s)**

## Active Dispute Cases(U.S.)

## Work Stoppages(U.S.)(all size bargaining units)

## Preventive Mediation

**2002 U.S. Statistics**
**Active in 2,618 joint training/process cases**
**Has grown to over 30% of mediation caseload**

## P.M. Cases(U.S.)

## Alternative DisputeResolution

**2002 U.S. Statistics**
**Active in 1144 cases**
**(+397.3 % since 1995)**
**Increasing number of Reg-Neg’s & public policy mediations**

## A.D.R. Growth(U.S.)

## Arbitration Services

**1,300 on F.M.C.S. Roster**
**Arbitrators must meet strict criteria to qualify for roster**
**Arbitrators are not F.M.C.S. employees**
**16,000+  panels issued in 2002**

##  Grants Program

**To support joint L.M.C. efforts in:**
**Work site**
**Area**
**Industry**
**Private & Public sectors are eligible**
**Awarded annually**
**Competitive basis**

## Grant Awards(U.S.)

**F.Y. 2002 Statistics**
**$1,050,000 awarded to 13 LMC programs **
**The 13 recipients were chosen from 71 applications**
**Since 1981, $22.5 million awarded to 344 recipients**

## International Program

**Customized conflict resolution services:**
**Training/mentoring**
**Curriculum design**
**Convening**
**Mediation/facilitation**
**Dispute system design**
**Monitoring & evaluation**

##   Hot Topics at the Table

**Job Security**
**Subcontracting**
**Use of P/T, casuals, agency employees**
**Successor language**
**Severance**
**Staffing issues**
**Healthcare industry**
**Mandatory O/T**
**Limitations****	**
**State legislation**

**Pension Benefits**
**Defined benefits vs. defined contributions**
**Wages / Benefits**
**Focusing on recruitment & retention in tight labor market**
**Health Insurance**
**Double-digit increases all over again**
**Benefits at retirement**
# Presentation: 672179

## Interfacing with the Automatic Induction for the AFSM-100MTAC #96

**Mike Winn****	****	****	****	****Dave Williams**
**Industry Co-Chair****	****	****	****Postal Co-Chair**

## Status of Automatic Induction (Ai) Upgrades

**Phase 1 Deployment Schedule**
- Purchased 210 Systems for 59 Sites
- Installation: October 29, 2005 – September 30, 2006
- 112 Systems Accepted
- On Schedule
**Phase 2  Program**
- Approved by Board of Governors on May 3, 2006
- Funding for 145 Additional Ai Systems
- Deployment: January – December 2007

## Bundle Breakage Cost Analysis

**Workgroup Telecom on May 4, 2006**
- Helped Define Opportunity for Savings
- Examined Various Components
**Workgroup Taking **_**Total**_** System Approach to Costs**
- Focus on Lowest Combined Costs for Industry  and Postal Operations

**Notes:**
Analyzed costs associated with bundle breakage of Periodicals on APPS.

Found opportunity cost of $114 million if there was zero bundle breakage. 

Sacks remain problematic for bundle breakage.

Analysis re-enforced the idea that alternative preparation and presentation of flats will provide benefits to the Postal Service and mailing industry.   

## Explore Different Solutions

**Parallel Paths to New Environment**
- Maximize Efficiencies of Postal Processing – Use Flats Container That Permits Direct Induction into AFSM-100
- Minimize Costs of Mailer Preparation –        Use Existing Industry Technology That Yields Output for Ai

## Tests for Alternative Flat Mail Preparation

**1. -“Dolly Dock” Test – July 2006**
- Mailer Puts Loose Flats in Automation Compatible Trays (ACT)
- Mailer loads ACTs on Dolly Docks
- Mailer Transports to Southern Maryland Processing and Distribution Center
- ACTs Automatically Removed and Inducted Off Dolly Docks into Ai on AFSM-100

**Notes:**
July 2006 is a  TENTATIVE date

## Automation Compatible Tray (ACT)

**AUTOMATION COMPATIBLE TRAY**

**Notes:**
AUTOMATION COMPATIBLE TRAY (ACT)

Removable Door

Comb Feature for Raking Out Mail

ACTs Assigned to Individual AFSMs

Bar Coded for Tracking within System

Holds 12” of flats

##  Tests for Alternative Flat Mail Preparation  

**Auto Prep Test – August 2006**
- Automates De-bundling of Strapped Bundles Off Pallets
- Places Loose Flats into ACTs
- Automates Loading of ACTs onto Dolly Docks
- Inducts Dolly Docks into Ai

**Notes:**
August 2006 is a TENTATIVE date.

## Proposed Pallet for Auto Prep

**Straps Only**
**Non-Compensated Bundles**

**Scheme 1**

**Scheme 2**

## Calendar

**Plan Visit to Southern Maryland P&DC for “Dolly Dock” Test Around July 2006**
**Schedule Next MTAC Meeting for August 2, 2006 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. **

**Questions?**
# Presentation: 729933

## Current Market Drivers forRenewables Development

- State Policies
- RPS, RE Funds, Financial Incentives, Net Metering
- Federal Incentives
- PTC, ITC, Accelerated Depreciation
- Market Economics and Fuel Price Risks
- Market Demand
- Consumer Preferences, Green Pricing, Renewable Energy Certificates

## Market Issues – Key Questions

- What is the nature of state and regional electricity markets today and how is it changing?
- What are the key market drivers, and how are these drivers and other factors affecting the markets?
- What is the potential role for RE and EE in these markets?
- Over time, what trends are observable in these markets, and what do they imply for market development?
- What analysis tools are available, and how could they be enhanced or improved to address needs?
- What additional information (analysis tools or studies) would be valuable in expanding the use of RE in these markets?

## Market Issues

**Session Chair – Blair Swezey, NREL**
- Consumer Research on	Steve French, Natural	        EE and RE		        	Marketing Institute
- Deliberative Polling		Frank Thompson, Nebraska					Public Power District
- RE and EE Program		Marwan Masri,Results in California		Calif. Energy Commission
- REC/EE Certificate		Meredith Wingate, CenterMarkets				for Resource Solutions
- Discussion Period
# Presentation: 193731

## 2006 U.S. Oat Crown Rust Race Survey

- M.L. Carson and G. Ochocki, USDA Cereal Disease Lab
-  St. Paul, MN

## Slide 2

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Mean Virulence - 2006

- Winter Oat Region
- Ave. virulence 15.5 (out of 28)
- Range 3-20

- Spring Oat Region
- Ave. virulence 14.8
- Range 2-23

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## St. Paul Buckthorn Nursery 2006

- Only three *Avena* accessions were crown rust free
- AC Leggett (*Pc68 & Pc94)*
- PI 258731 (WIR 5201; *A. strigosa*)
*A. murphyii P12*
# Presentation: 652617

## Columbia University MRSEC (IRG 1), Irving P. Herman DMR-0213574Structural Phase Diagrams of Oxide Nanocrystals: How Particle Size Changes Properties

- Complex oxide materials often have complex phase diagrams.  This means that the structural phases depend on the details of the composition.  Phase transition behavior should be different in nanocrystals and nanowires than in the bulk due to their much larger surface area and the variation of surface energy with phase and passivation.  Professor Chan, in collaboration with Professor Herman and others, has observed this nano-effect in a study of the cubic phase of Ce1-xZrxO2-y, -- an important catalyst for energy applications -- using a variety of methods that utilize visible light, x-rays and electrons to probe structure and properties at room temperature and at the high temperatures at which these catalysts are used.  With decreasing particle size, the phase boundary between the cubic phase (which is best for catalysis) and the tetragonal phase was observed to shift to higher zirconia concentrations (40-60%, dependent on particle size) in air than for the bulk material.
- Another thing also happens when these particles become small.  A smaller particle size increases the solubility of zirconia (ZrO2) in cubic phase ceria (CeO2) and also converts a small quantity of Ce4+ ions to Ce3+ ions. A higher concentration of larger Ce3+ ions helps to relieve the local stress induced by smaller Zr4+ ions and this stabilizes the cubic phase even under higher zirconia concentrations. This stabilization is very important in using these particles as catalysts at high temperature.

- Phase diagram for Ce1-xZrxO2-y nanoparticles, as measured by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman scattering (scattering by visible light).

- See *J. Am. Ceram. Soc. ***89**, 1028 (2006). For more information, please contact Siu-Wai Chan.
# Presentation: 595108

## New Processing Regulations&Policy Memos

## How the Rules Are Made

- Legislation
- Regulation
- Instruction
- Policy
- Handbook
- Audit Guide

## Status Part 250 Re-write

- Anticipated Publication in 2007
- FSMC
- Processing
- Warehousing and Distribution
- Laura Castro – FDD Policy Branch Chief
- Sunday, April 1 at 2:45 pm in Ballroom D

## Comments

- Received 39 Comments
- 15 Schools
- 2 School Associations
- 12 State Agencies
- 9 Industry / Organizations
- 1 CPA

## §250.18(b) AuditsRequirements for Processors

- _Proposal_
- In-State Processors
- CPA audit first year, then every 3 years
- §250.19 Removes SDA on-site review
- Multi-State Processors
- CPA audit each of first 3 years
- Revises audit thresholds
- Annual > $5 million
- Two years between $1 million and $5 million
- Three years < $1 million

## Acceptability of End Products

- §250.24(g) DA Performance Standards
- §250.30(g) Ensuring Acceptability of End Products
- _Proposal_
- Retain the current requirement that the DA provide for testing of end products to ensure their acceptability to RAs prior to entering into processing agreements.

## §250.30(e)State Processing Agreement

- _Proposal_
- Requires the DA to enter into a State Processing Agreement with an in-State processor.
- Retains the current requirement that States entering into master agreements must use specific selection criteria.

## §250.31(a) & (b)Procurement Requirements

- _Proposal_
- 	References the applicability of procurement requirements in 3016 & 3019 to the purchase of finished end products from processors and to indicate that procedures conforming to State or local laws may be used as long as they ensure compliance with Federal regulations.

## §250.34(a) Substitution

- _Proposal_
- Permit substitution of any DF with commercially purchased food of the same generic identity, or U.S. origin, and of equal or better quality than the DF.
- Permit substitution of any DF to be made before receipt.

## §250.34(c)Grading Requirements

- _Proposal_
- Retain the current provision that DA may choose to require grading for DF other than beef, pork, and poultry.
- Clarify that AMS grading for beef, pork, and poultry is necessary to ensure compliance with substitution requirements.

## §250.35(c) Storage, Inspection,QC, and Inventory Mgmt.

- Commingling of DF & Comm. Purchased Foods
- _Proposal_
- Allows commingling unless processing agreement requires separation or DF backhauled.
- Requires processor to ensure that commingling by distributor ensures the sale & delivery of end products that meet substitution requirements.

## §250.36(d) Indirect Discount

- _Proposal_
- 	Requires the processor to ensure that the distributor notify it of sales of end products under indirect discount on a monthly basis, through automated sales reports or other electronic or written submission.
# Presentation: 526481

## Directed Flow of Charged Hadrons in 62.4 GeV Au+Au Collisions

- Markus D. Oldenburg
- (for the STAR collaboration)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Division of Nuclear Physics Fall Meeting
- Chicago, 10/29/2004

## Overview

- Introduction
- Model Predictions for Directed Flow
- Measurements & Results
- Summary and Outlook

## Anisotropic Flow

**v****1****: “directed flow”**
**v****2****: “elliptic flow”**

-  peripheral collisions produce an asymmetric particle source in coordinate space

-  spatial anisotropy
-  momentum anisotropy

-  Fourier transformation of azimuthal particle distribution in momentum space yields coefficients of different order

## Directed flow (v1) and the QGP phase transition 

- Directed flow (v1) and the QGP phase transition

- J. Brachmann, S. Soff, A. Dumitru, H. Stöcker, J. Maruhn, W. Greiner, Bravina, Rischke,  PRC 61 (2000), 024909; L.P. Csernai, D. Röhrich, PLB 458 (1999), 454; M. Bleicher and H. Stöcker, PLB 526 (2002), 309.

- Anti-flow/3rd flow component, with QGP  v1(η) flat at mid-rapidity.

## Directed flow (v1) and baryon stopping 

- R. Snellings, H. Sorge, S. Voloshin, F. Wang, N. Xu, PRL 84 (2000), 2803.

- Positive space-momentum correlation, no QGP necessary  v1(η) “wiggle”.

## Directed flow (v1) at RHIC at 200 GeV

- Directed flow (v1) at RHIC at 200 GeV

- J. Adams *et al.* (STAR collaboration), PRL 92 (2004), 062301.

- charged particles

- shows no sign of a “wiggle” or opposite slope at midrapidity
- Predicted magnitude of a “wiggle” couldn’t be excluded.

## Charged particle v1(η) at 62.4 GeV

- Charged particle v1(η) at 62.4 GeV

- Three different methods:
**v****1****{3}**
**v****1****{EP****1****,EP****2****}**
**v****1****{ZDCSMD}**
- Sign of v1 is determined with spectator neutrons.
- No “wiggle”, opposite slope, or “flatness” at midrapidity observable!

- STAR preliminary

- charged particles

## Centrality dependence of v1(η) at 62.4 GeV

- Centrality dependence of v1(η) at 62.4 GeV

- Different centrality bins show similar behavior.
- Methods agree very well.
- Most peripheral bin shows largest flow.

- STAR preliminary

- most peripheral

- most central

- charged particles

## Comparison of different beam energies

- Data shifted with respect to beam rapidity.
- good agreement at forward rapidities
- In the fragmentation region the particle composition might be different!

- STAR preliminary

- charged particles

-  NA49 data taken from:
-   C. Alt *et al.* (NA49 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 68 (2003),  034903.

**y****diff ****= y****200GeV**** – y****17.2,62.4GeV**
-          y200GeV  = 5.37
-          y62.4GeV = 4.20
-          y17.2GeV = 2.92

## Summary and Outlook

- Directed flow v1 of charged particles at 62.4 GeV was measured.
- No indication of a “wiggle” or opposite/zero slope at midrapidity at 62.4 GeV.
- At forward rapidities our signal agrees with measurements at 17.2 and 200 GeV.
- Measurements of identified particle v1 at midrapidity will further constrain model predictions.
- High statistics measurement of v1 at 200 GeV to come.
# Presentation: 816805

## Ensuring Physical Stability of Pharmaceuticals: Can/should we improve our ability to identify and prevent physical changes?

- Ajaz S. Hussain, Ph.D.
- Deputy Director, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, CDER, FDA

## Outline 

- Introduction
- Ajaz Hussain
- A scientific perspective
- Prof. Rhodes
- Overview of current stability requirements
- Chi-wan Chen
- ACPS Deliberations and Recommendations

## Awareness Topic: Introduction

- Regulatory stability testing requirements are effective in minimizing stability problems. So why are we discussing this topic today?
- Lingering concern that certain gaps exist with respect to ensuring “physical stability”
- Especially for complex product types such as CR parenterals

## Awareness Topic: Introduction

- Do such concerns contribute to “excessive” stability testing?
- Is there an opportunity to further improve (regulatory) utility of pre-formulation and development data to understand mechanisms of physical and chemical changes?

## Physical Stability: Concerns

- A critical quality and performance attribute
- Example: Changes in dissolution rate (in absence of detectable chemical changes)
- a prominent cause for recalls (quality problems)
- Accelerated stability test conditions are more reliable for identifying potential for chemical changes

## Physical Stability: Concerns

- Mechanisms governing physical changes are not well understood or characterized
- Dissolution rate changes may occur due to a change in morphic form of drug and/or excipient, a change in processing (e.g., milling, granulation,..), packaging, ..
- Recall investigations often do not result in identification of a “root cause”
- Increasing number of parenteral CR products
- Do these pose a higher risk of failure than oral products?

## Physical Stability: Opportunity

- Significant advances in pre-formulation material characterization/optimization
- Improved ability to identify and eliminate problems?
- Can we use this information to reduce the need for stability testing and prior approval supplement process?
- Risk Based CMC Program (Dr. Yuan-Yuan Chiu)

## Shelf-Life of Products

- DOD-FDA Shelf-Life Extension program
- Results from 1122 lots (96 drug products) were evaluated.
- 84% of the lots were extended for an average of 57 months past the original expiration date.
- Of the 946 lots extended, 14% were eventually terminated due to failure. The rest are still active or discontinued by the military.
- 22 Drug Products showed no signs of stability failure (at least 5 lots of each tested).
- 10 Drug Products were unstable with most lots failing initial extension.
**Stability Period is highly variable from lot to lot.**

## Extensions: Example 1

## Extensions: Example 2

## Questions

- Should this topic be developed for a more detailed discussion by ACPS?
- Should FDA labs develop a research project to elucidate mechanisms of (physical) stability failures?
- To provide information on how to prevent stability problems
- Based on “recall” and SLEP database
- Complex dosage forms (e.g., CR Parenterals)