BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 946970

## FAF Provisional Commodity Origin Destination Data

- Office of Freight Management and Operations
- Federal Highway Administration
- Tianjia Tang, PE
- _[tianjia.tang@dot.gov](mailto:tianjia.tang@dot.gov)_
- phone: 202-366-2217

## What does the provisional commodity OD data cover?

- The provisional commodity OD data:
- is a comprehensive multimodal commodity origin destination database for the US
- has identical dimensions to the freight database developed under the Freight Analysis Framework II
- is released by the end of March each year covering the most recent past year. For example, in March 2007, FHWA released the provisional data for calendar year 2006; and in March 2008, FHWA will release the provisional data for calendar year 2007.

## What does the term of “provisional” data mean ?

- The term of provisional data here means that the dataset is the best that can be organized at the time with the available resources; and the Freight Office has no plans to update this  dataset in the future.

## Why does FHWA develop the provisional data?

- The demand of most current data from Federal, State, local governmental agencies and private organizations as the result of the FAF1 project
- The recognition of the need by various TRB committees and demanded by the most recent TRB special conference on Freight Demand Modeling: Tools for Public-Sector Decision Making

## How to use the provisional commodity origin destination data?

- The provisional data has identical format and definitions as the FAF2 commodity database.
- All database programs used in FAF2 are applicable
- The FAF2 Commodity GIS data linkage is also applicable.

## Who Is Involved?

- Under the leadership of the Office of Freight Management and Operations in FHWA, a team including Battelle Memorial Institute, MacroSys Research and Technology , and University of Tennessee is organized to develop the database.

## How Can You Help?

- Please provide feedback on your experience of using these data and suggestions on how to process the data and make it better.
- ... **your feedback on what seems wrong or unfit in the database is even more appreciated** !

## That’s All. Thank You!
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## Dengue

- Manifestaciones clínicas y epidemiología

## I.  Virus, vector y transmisión

## Virus del dengue

- Causa dengue y dengue hemorrágico
- Es un arbovirus
- Transmitido por mosquitos
- Compuesto de ARN (ácido ribonucleico) de una sola hebra
- Tiene 4 serotipos (DEN-1, 2, 3, 4)

## Serotipos del virus del dengue

- Cada serotipo proporciona una inmunidad específica para toda la vida, así como inmunidad cruzada a corto plazo.
- Todos los serotipos pueden causar enfermedad grave y mortal.
- Hay variación genética dentro de los serotipos.
- Algunas variantes genéticas dentro de cada serotipo parecen ser más virulentas o tener mayor potencial epidémico.

## Transmisión del virus del denguepor Aedes aegypti

- Transmisión del virus del denguepor *Aedes aegypti*

**Viremia**

**Viremia**

**Días**

**0**

**5**

**8**

**12**

**16**

**20**

**24**

**28**

**Humano 1**

**Humano 2**

**El mosquito se alimenta /**

**adquiere el virus**

**El mosquito se realimenta /**

**transmite el virus**

- Período de
- incubación
- intrínseca

## Replicación y transmisióndel virus del dengue (Parte 1)

- 1. El virus se transmite a
-     un ser humano por medio
-     de la saliva del mosquito

- 2. El virus se replica
-     en los órganos diana

- 3. El virus infecta los
-     leucocitos y los
-     tejidos linfáticos

- 4. El virus se libera y
-     circula en la sangre

## Replicación y transmisióndel virus del dengue (Parte 2)

- 5. Un segundo mosquito
-     ingiere el virus junto
-     con la sangre

- 6. El virus se replica en la
-     zona embrionaria del
-     tubo digestivo del
-     mosquito y en otros
-     órganos, e infecta las
-     glándulas salivares

- 7. El virus se replica
-     en las glándulas salivares

## Mosquito Aedes aegypti

- Mosquito* Aedes aegypti*

## Aedes aegypti

*Aedes aegypti*

- El dengue es transmitido por un mosquito hembra infectado
- Se alimenta principalmente durante el día
- Vive cerca de las viviendas humanas
- Pone los huevos y produce larvas preferentemente en recipientes artificiales
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## Proposed standard for annotated ECG waveform data

- Norman Stockbridge, M.D., Ph.D.
- Division of Cardio-Renal Drug Products
- FDA

## Purpose

- Study review
- Permit audit or independent assessment of ECG intervals and interpretations
- Insight into treatment-related morphological changes
- Long-term
- Resource for discriminating drugs with arrhythmogenic potential

## Principles

- Support multichannel time-series data with specializations for ECG, Holter, TTM, etc.
- Supplement to other clinical datasets
- No demographics
- No final ECG interval assessments
- No information on context within study
- Non-proprietary
- Extensible for sponsor/CRO purposes

## File organization

- Session(s)
- Subject, device, & time
- Epoch(s)
- Channel characteristics
- Data

## Session characterization

- Subject ID
- Equipment
- Manufacturer
- Type
- Model
- Start
- Date & time
- Epochs

## Epoch characterization

- Channels
- Time offset
- Bits, zero offset, units, scale
- Filter band, baseline adjustment
- For each channel
- Name
- Bits, zero offset, units, scale
- Filter band, baseline adjustment
- Waveform data (multiple representations)

## Data representation

- 10-bit data		10 1101 0011				00 0111 1010				...
- Pad to 12 bits		0010 1101 0011				0000 0111 1010				...
- Hex encode		3D2A70...

## Data representation issues

- More efficient encoding (BINHEX, UUENCODE)
- Loss-less data compression
- Support for external data files

## Annotations (event markers)

- Types of annotations
- Point
- Interval
- Levels where annotations may appear
- Session (E.g., when last dose given)
- Epoch (E.g., PVC)
- Channel (E.g., fiduciary points)

## Specializations for 12-lead ECG

- Standard channel (lead) names
- Standard units on amplitude
- Standard common annotation names

## Standard channel/lead names

- I
- II
- III
- AVL
- AVR
- AVF

- V1
- V2
- V3
- V4
- V5
- V6

## Standard amplitude units

- UV (microvolts)

## Standard annotations

- PSTART (point)
- QSTART (point)
- RSTART (point)
- RPEAK (point)
- SPEAK (point)

- JPOINT (point)
- TEND (point)
- UWAVE (interval)

## What should be annotated?

- Annotate those leads and those beats that contribute to the assessment of ECG intervals
- Annotate other interpretations.
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## MISSIONS OF VA

***Veterans of Armed Forces***

** ****Patient care**
** ****Research and education**
** ****Backup medical care to DOD**
** ****Cemetery management**

## >100 VA Hospitals

**>100 VA Hospitals**
**Strong emphasis on clinician investigators**

## VA NOBEL LAUREATES

**1977 - Rosalyn Yalow**
**    ****Bronx VA - RIA**

**1977 - Andrew Schally**
**   ****New Orleans VA**
**Hypothalamic releasing**
**               ****factors**

**1998 - Ferid Murad**
**Palo Alto VA - NO**

## COOPERATIVE STUDIES PROGRAM

_**CSP #4**_** – Coronary artery surgery I (1965-1975)**
_**CSP #28**_** – Coronary artery surgery II (1970-1992) **
_**CSP #90**_** - Prognosis and Outcome Following Heart**
**                        ****Valve Replacement (1975-1997)**
_**CSP #207**_** - Anti-platelet Therapy After CABG (1983-1991)**
_**CSP #385**_** - Urgent Revascularization in Unstable Angina**
**                     ****(AWESOME, 1995-2000)**
_**CSP #411**_** - The coronary artery revascularization prophylaxis**
**                      ****(CARP) trial (ongoing)**
_**CSP #474**_** – Radial artery vs saphenous vein grafts in CABG (ongoing)**
_**CSP #517**_** – Outcomes following myocardial revascularization: On & off**
**                     ****cardiopulmonary bypass (ongoing)**

**Cardiac Surgery**

## MERIT REVIEW SUB-COMMITTEES

**Aging & clinical geriatrics                   Infectious Diseases (A,B)**
**Cardiovascular studies (A,B)             Mental Health & Bipolar PTSD**
**Clinical Research Program                 Mental Health Schizophrenia & Cog **
**Endocrinology (A,B)                           Nephrology**
**Gastroenterology                                Neurobiology (A-E)**
**                               **
**General Medical Science                    Oncology (A,B)**
**Hematology                                         Respiration**
**Immunology (A,B)                               Surgery (A,B)**

**26**

## Major Changes Over Past 5 Years in Merit Review Process

## OLD
2-3 internal
1-2 external

- 2-3 internal
- 1-2 external

- NEW
- 2-3 internal
- External only when necessary

- Reviews

- External reviewers were experts working directly in grant area
- Increasingly difficult to obtain, expensive

## Page Limit

- OLD
- 15 pages of text
- Figures and tables extra

- NEW
- 25 page limit
- “NIH-type” format

- Difficult to document 15 pages of text
- Increasing amount of figures, tables
- As payline decreased, preliminary data increased

## Page Limitations, Order and Content Requirements 

## Funding

- Medical research < 3% VA budget
- Almost 70% Investigator initiated

- OLD
- $150,000
- 5 year

- NEW
- $125,000
- 4 year max

- Payline?

- http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/funding/

## Questions?
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## Project PlanRoot Cause and Risk AnalysisTeam 2

- Project PlanRoot Cause and Risk AnalysisTeam 2

- NASA:  Henning Leidecker;  301-286-9180
- Boeing: Gary W. Bickel; 714-372-6820
- 4/11/00

## Team 2--Schedule

## Accomplishments

- Coating Penetration Tests
- HF-etch tests tentatively completed pending team agreement
- Need micro-photos of HF-etch defects and breaks to confirm equivalence to prior instances
- Preliminary plan for 2nd round of tests is out for review; will include OC-1260 fiber, SSQ fiber NOT respooled on BICC colorizer

## Issues

- Coating Penetration Test Results
- Conflicts with Vendor Specification review may push start of phase II tests to 4/17
- Complete set of Phase II strength and HF-etch tests will take to 4/29
- Key tests could be complete by 4/22
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## QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROLANALYSIS

- SOUTHERN RESEARCH STATION
- FY 2006
- October 1, 2005 – September 30, 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – ALL STATES AND FEDSTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 2631FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – ALABAMATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 98FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – ARKANSASTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 101FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – FLORIDATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 218FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – GEORGIATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 118FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – KENTUCKYTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 79FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – LOUISIANATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 122FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – MISSISSIPPITOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 172FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – NORTH CAROLINATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 85FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – SOUTH CAROLINATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 122FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – TENNESSEETOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 110FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – East TEXASTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 97FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – West TEXASTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 278FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – VIRGINIATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 115FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – PUERTO RICOTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 46FY-2006

## CHECK PLOT COUNTS – FOREST SERVICETOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 209FY-2006

## TOTAL CHECK PLOT COUNTOctober 1, 2005 – September 30, 2006

- AFFECTED BY:
- NUMBER OF QA/FIELD SUPPORT PERSONNEL IN EACH STATE
- LA REVISITS/MS INVENTORY/LEAVE
- TOTAL NUMBER OF EXPERIENCED/TRAINED QA/FIELD SUPPORT PERSONNEL AVAILABLE
- AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHECKPLOTS
- PRODUCTION WITHIN ASSIGNED STATE

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – ALL STATES AND FEDSTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 1990FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – ALABAMATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 98FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – ARKANSASTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 101FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – FLORIDATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 218FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – GEORGIATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 118FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – KENTUCKYTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 79FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – LOUISIANATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 122FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – MISSISSIPPITOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 192FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – NORTH CAROLINATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 85FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – SOUTH CAROLINATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 122  FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – TENNESSEETOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 110FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – East TEXASTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 97FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – West TEXASTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 278FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – VIRGINIATOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 115FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – PUERTO RICOTOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 46FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE – FOREST SERVICETOTAL NUMBER OF CHECK PLOTS – 209FY 2006

## CHECK PLOT TYPE 

- AFFECTED BY:
- NUMBER OF QA/FIELD SUPPORT PERSONNEL IN EACH STATE
- DATA CREDIBILITY – ALL PLOTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CHECKING
- TRAINING NEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL STATES
- TOTAL NUMBER OF EXPERIENCED/TRAINED QA/FIELD SUPPORT PERSONNEL AVAILABLE
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## CIVIL AIR PATROL

- Colorado Springs Cadet Squadron
-  Lt Col M. T. McNeely

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

-                                                  PRESENTS
-    INTRO TO SPACE COURSE

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBITOVERVIEW

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBITOVERVIEW

-  How Satellites are Launched
-  Location Advantages of the Two Primary US Launch Sites
-  Purpose of the Hohmann Transfer

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- You need LIFT !!
- W  =   m  (g)
- Weight = mass (acceleration of gravity)

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Booster Types
-    DELTA II

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Booster Types
-     ATLAS

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Booster Types
-     TITAN

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Booster Types
-     The
- SHUTTLE
- BOOSTER

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Booster Types
-              PEGASUS

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Booster Types
-    TAURUS

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Launch Locations
- Cape Canaveral (Patrick AFB) Eastern Range)
- Vandenberg AFB (Western Range)

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Launch Constraints

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- Hohmann Transfer

## PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT 

- PLACING SATELLITES IN ORBIT

- STK Scenarios
# Presentation: 257773

## The Reorganization of World Trade

- A Framework for Asking Questions
- William Gruben
- Vice President &
- Director, Center for Latin American Economics
- Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas

## No matter what kinds of countries we are talking about −

- Agriculture’s share of exports falls
- Minerals’ share of exports falls

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## If Mineral and Agricultural Exports Are Down, What’s Up?

- Manufacturing
- Transition to production that requires more education, which has positive aspect in and of itself
- Back in the 1950s, economic development theorists thought the shift from primary products to light industry was the route to long-term growth − but not like this

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## A Question Some People Forget to Ask

- Does trade have more than efficiency and wealth effects?
- Is there a downside from all of this manufacturing?
- Child labor?
- School Dropouts?
- Business cycle booms and crashes?

## The complicated phenomenon of fragmentation

- The big increases in trade that we have seen in the last two decades has largely been intra-industry trade
- This suggests fragmentation
- Part of a product is produce in country A, sent to country B for more processing, sent to country C for more and then back to country A
- Business cycle effects

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17
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## Crop Molecular Genetics Lab

- Dr. Graham Scoles
- Dr. Brian Rossnagel

- Department of Plant Sciences
- Barley and Oat Breeding Program
- Crop Development Centre

_*Personnel*_
- Dr. Aaron Beattie
- Dr. Tajinder Grewal
- Donna Hay
- Peter Eckstein

## Marker Discovery, Development and Implementation

**Molecular Marker-Assisted Selection**

**Genomics**

- Oat (and Barley)
- Traditional polymorphism screen using a variety of fingerprinting methods and linkage analysis
-  usually for simply inherited traits
-  usually using bi-parental populations
-  polymorphisms developed for ease of use in MMAS
-  implement/adapt markers developed by other programs

- Research Objectives

- Marker implementation in breeding materials on a routine basis - lower cost
- 					         - increased accuracy
- 					         - shortened breeding cycle

- Oat markers include/d;  *Pg16*, loose smut, *Pc94*, *Pc68*

-  EST Isolation
-  SSR marker development
-  TILLING collaboration
-  DArT Consortium
-  QTL analysis, association mapping/linkage dis-equilibrium

## Marker-Assisted Selection

- PCR based markers 	- 2 primer allele-specific or SCAR
- 		- 96 lane agarose gel electrophoresis

- Rapid and crude DNA preparation 	- sodium hydroxide based
- 			- germinated seed
- 			- 96 samples PCR ready in 45 minutes

**Where to Next ??**

- Too many samples for a research lab
- Too few for a dedicated high-throughput facility

- Critical Mass – need more marked traits
- 	   - need quality markers
- 	   - have barley *Un8*, Cov. Smut, *Yd2*, *Pc11*, *Rh2*, *Rh13*,
- 		*Rpg1*, Net Blotch, low-protein, *LOX1*
- 	   - have lost *Pc68*, *Rh2*, *Pc11*, *chr. 3 scald R.*

## SNP Markers

- Variety of ways to implement and analyse

- Barley CAP leading the way
- 	- great for genotyping, ease marker discovery
- 	- markers from the shelf - too poor - pick a SNP
- 			  - too far - pick a SNP
- 			  - not poly - pick a different one
- 			  - wrong marker type - select SNP from region

- Oat - perhaps a little behind barley

- Real-Time PCR
-        - Cybergreen or TaqMan
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## Diversity in the General Sciences

- Joe Kwan
- Presentation to AFRD Staff Committee
- Bldg 71, Rm 233
- Nov. 22, 2004

## Strategic Recruitment

- Gerry Abrams has recently written a pilot plan (see document dated 10/1/04).
- Clearly the General Sciences scientific staff population lacks diversity (AFRD is no exception).
- The issue is what can be done effectively to correct this problem.

## What are the root causes?

- Do we see this as a systematic discrimination problem?
- Do we see this as a lack of policy?
- Do we see this as a lack of an effective execution plan?
- Do we see this as an over-supply of excuses?  (Examples: we are not hiring, we don’t have the right candidates, we only hire the Best)
- We do not have an institutional mandate (yet), or the supporting policies and procedures.

## What should the staff committee do?

- Recognize that there is a problem and set  goals
- Set the conditions for fixing it
- Identify someone who should be responsible for fixing it
- Recommend policy and plans
- Allocating resources and authorization is probably not the responsibility of the staff committee—it should be up to the division director.

## We propose three approaches

- Hire on reputation
- Hire on potential
- Create and maintain a “Living List”

## Hire on reputation

- Hire a relatively senior person who is highly qualified and has a proven track record.
- Such a person will attractive future talent for further improvement of our diversity profile.
- If a superstar can bring a research program with funding into AFRD, a position can be created to enrich our research portfolio.

## Hire on potential

- We still hire only people who are qualified, but the qualifications can be defined more broadly to include the “institutional value” of diversity—this is an alternate view to hiring the “best”.
- Hire an entry level staff who, at the time of hiring, may not have demonstrated the exact skill match, but the person has potential to become an excellent member of the AFRD staff.
- The hiring supervisor from a particular research group usually only focuses on candidates that have the exact skill match, so the diversity interest must be asserted at a higher management level.
- This is where we need to improve our hiring procedure to include a step on diversity evaluation.

## Outreach effort

- Previous outreach efforts have generally failed to come up with suitable candidates at the correct moment.
- The issue is how to create and _maintain_ a “recommended” candidate pool.
- To reduce the risk in Hiring on Potential, we need to know these people ahead of time.
- It has been suggested that we should create a Living List.  Staff with recruiting responsibility should meet regularly to identify potential candidates.
- We should regularly invite women and minority speakers to give seminars.  The question is who pays?
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## Credentialing Your MRC Volunteers

- Anne Rinchiuso, MPH
- Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

## Overview

- Role of the Medical Reserve Corps/NYC
- Pre-event credentialing
- Post-event credentialing

## Role of Medical Reserve Corps/NYC

- Any health professional with a valid state license or certification is eligible to volunteer
- The MRC/NYC will support Points-of-Dispensing (PODs) for mass prophylaxis
- Vaccine
- Antibiotics

## Status of MRC/NYC

- 2,834 volunteers registered as of 7/13/04
- 50% physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses
- 30% other health professionals, including pharmacists, veterinarians, podiatrists, and dentists
- 20% mental health support staff

## Pre-event Credentialing

- Targeted recruitment aids the credentialing process
- State licensing lists
- Partnerships with professional societies/organizations
- Organizational partnerships

**Notes:**
We have tailored our recruitment strategies to target health professionals whom we expect to hold a valid state license or certification.  We think that this inherently provides us with a first check on the eligibility of a health professional to volunteer with our MRC unit.  We have been working with the NY State Education Dept Office of the Professions, professional societies and organizations such as the Medical Society of the State of New York and New York State Society of Physician Assistants, and with our colleagues in other bureaus/divisions within the DOHMH.

## State Licensing Lists

- NY State licensing lists obtained for health professionals licensed in NYC
- Invitation letter sent to ~156,000 in January 2004 from Commissioner of Health
- Majority of registrations to date have come from that mailing

## State Licensing Lists (2)

- Registrations checked against NY state licensing lists
- Updated lists obtained from the state on an annual basis

## Partnerships with Professional Societies/Organizations

- Work with professional groups to target members
- E.g., state and county medical and nursing societies

## NYC Has Partnerships with Hospitals and Primary Care Centers

- NYC DOHMH Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program (BHPP)
- BHPP works with the medical care delivery system (hospitals, primary care centers, poison control centers and emergency medical services) to provide an integrated response during a citywide emergency
- Interaction with hospital BT coordinators and Primary Care Center staff to disseminate MRC information

## MRC Identification Cards

- Upon verification of licensing/certification, ID cards sent to volunteers
- Name and degree with expiration date

## Post-event Credentialing

- MRC Volunteers
- MRC ID cards and a valid photo ID
- Other health professionals
- Photo ID and a copy of current license
- State licensing lists loaded onto laptops for on-site credentialing at Alpha PODs
# Presentation: 414802

## Securing the Border and Reforming Immigration Without Amnesty

**Market-Based Limit on Number of**
**Good Neighbor SAFE Visa Holders**

**If All Required Measures on Border Security are Completed, and Infrastructure is In Place for Employment Verification and Good Neighbor SAFE Visa Programs, Then President  Makes Certification to Congress and Ellis Island Centers Open**

**Yr 2**

**Employment Verification is Fully Operational**

**Yr 5**

**Yr 0**

**Yr 6**

**Enactment; Border Security Measures Begin**

**6 mo**

**Regulations Issued for Good Neighbor SAFE Visa Program and Preparations for the Program Begin**

**Department of Labor Sets Annual Limit on Number of Good Neighbor SAFE Visas**

**Securing the Border and Reforming Immigration Without Amnesty**
**Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rep. Mike Pence**
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## Boston Medical CenterCareNet PlanandBoston Healthy Community Access Project

- John Cragin
- 617.414.5117
- John.Cragin@bmchp.org

## BMC CareNet Plan & Boston CAP

- Partnership – Boston HealthNet
- Age of partnership – 7 years
- HCAP funded – March, 2001
- Lead Agency – Boston Medical Center
- Other partnership grants – HRSA ISDI; The 	Boston Foundation; Anonymous Corporate 	Foundation (EMR implementation, 8 CHCs)
- Future Directions – Chronic Disease Registry; Quality Improvement; Care Management

## Network Partners

- Boston Medical Center
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan (Medicaid)
- Division of Health Care Finance and Policy

- Nine CHCs:
- Codman Square
- Dorchester House
- East Boston
- Greater Roslindale
- Harvard Street
- Mattapan
- South Boston
- Upham’s Corner
- Whittier Street

## Slide 4

## Overall Network Goals

- Exceptional care without exception
- A medical home and PCP for individuals, regardless of insurance status
- A managed care approach for individuals and families who do not have health insurance

## Network Strategies

- Data warehouse and current data reporting
- Clinical Interventions
- Diabetes
- Emergency Department Visits
- Transition (Discharge) Planning
- Breast Health Referrals
- Data Analysis
- Impact of Primary Care on health care Costs & Admissions
- Impact of Care Management on Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
- Impact of Care Management on specific Patient Populations

## CareNet Demographic SummaryGender and Age Range

## CareNet Demographic SummaryEthnicity and Language

## CareNet Demographic SummaryZip Code & City

## Network Funding and Duration

- HCAP/CAP funding from HRSA
- March, 2001 to September, 2004
- Massachusetts funds “free care pool’ for the uninsured  (Division of Health Care Finance and Policy)
- Tobacco Tax, Hospital and Insurer Payments, State Budget

## Successes to Date

- Creation of Data Warehouse
- 75,000 patients
- 4 year period
- Across health center and hospital sites
- Clinical Interventions
- Foundation support
- State involvement

## Keys to Our Success

- Multi-level collaboration
- Decision-Makers
- CHC Executives and Medical Directors
- Hospital Executives
- BUSM Department Chair
- Front Line Staff
- Nurse Care Managers identified barriers to care and prioritized intervention areas
- Special Knowledge Groups
- Women’s Health referrals
- EMR templates
- Diabetes

## Technical Resources

- CAP funded data warehouse
- 4 years of data on 75,000 patients
- EMR (Logician) used at BMC and CHCs
- Providers committed to maximizing health information for quality improvements
- IT support from BMC’s Medicaid MCO

## Getting to the Next Level

- Collect data on effectiveness and efficiency of care management interventions
- Create MPI and clinical Registries to extract data on chronic conditions from EMRs and provide feedback to Providers
- Work closely with the Commonwealth to develop both disease-specific and high-utilizer care management interventions
- Document the need for a managed care plan for the uninsured
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## Enhanced absorption of solar radiation by horizontal variability of cloud microphysicsAndreas Macke, Ronald Scheirer, Christine BrandauLeibniz-Institute for Marine Research, IFM-GEOMARKiel, Germany

## GESIMA: 3d, non-hydrostatic, bulk cloud physicscloud water, rain, ice, snow/graupel

## Absorption: PPHOM – Full 3D

## Absorption: ICA – Full 3D

## Absorption: (3D-ext, 1D-scat/abs) – Full 3Dhorizontally homogeneous microphysics – full 3D

- Absorption: (3D-ext, 1D-scat/abs) – Full 3Dhorizontally homogeneous microphysics – full 3D

## mean bias: 

**mean bias: **
**1.2 Wm****-2**** (******** = 75****o****) - 4.0 Wm****-2**** (******** = 15****o****)**

## cloud microphysics effect on absorption...

- ...increase with decreasing  solar zenith angle (deeper penetration of solar photons into the cloud)
- ...decrease with increasing solar zenith angle (less horizontal transport into higher absorbing regions)
- ...depend on horizontal variability of particle size

## Variability of water cloud optical properties

## Slide 9

## hom.

**hom.**
******:**
**2D **
- vs** **
**ICA**

**inhom.**
******:**
**2D **
- vs** **
**ICA**

**R**

**T**

**A**

****

## CLABAUTAIR Cloud (Ronald Scheirer)CLoud liquid wAter content and effective radius retrieval By an AUtomated use of AIRcraft measurements

## Solar broadband absorption

**Absorptivity**

**Absorptivity**

**3D cloud with horiz. hom. ******

**  ****Difference: hom ******** – inhom. **********

## Absorption and Horizontal Transport

## Slide 14
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## NWS Water Science Vision: Integrated Observing Systems and Data Assimilation

*Seamless, evolutionary infusion of new observing systems and data sources*

**Comprehensive Analyses  and Data Assimilation      **(including quality control, multisensor estimation and 4DDA)

**Product Validation and Customer Feedback**

**Data and Information Gap Analysis        **(e.g. high space-time resolution)

**NWS Water Science Vision: Integrated Observing Systems and Data Assimilation**

** ****NOSA (NOAA Observing System Architecture)**

## Objectives of the workshop

- Identify pressing and outstanding operational, science and science-to-operations needs for QPE and precipitation nowcasting to meet the NOAA customer needs and mission goals,
- Assess existing and planned science and science-to-operations capabilities for QPE and precipitation nowcasting, and
- Develop benefit-cost-effective pathways and collaborations for advancing QPE and nowcasting science and science-to-operations by leveraging the NMQ and JADE infrastructure and capabilities.

## Expected outcomes of the workshop

- Generation of a science and science-to-operations plan for NMQ as community testbed for QPE and precipitation nowcasting applications, and
- Development of collaborative QPE and precipitation nowcasting research and development, and research-to-operations partnerships across NOAA and with external partners.
# Presentation: 696765

## ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – March 2006

**ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – March 2006**

-                                  Total # GS-13 & Above:  _839_    (58.6 % of HQ & Domestic ITA Population)

- _Minority Group_:              _Total ITA Population_:      _#s  in Grades GS-13 and Above_:          _Percentage in upper grades_:
- Black                                               251                                           73                                                     29%
- White:                                             1040                                         696                                                 66.9%
- Asian:		         81                                            40                                                  49.3%
- Hispanic:                                          59                                            30                                                  50.8%
- AmInd                                              01                                              0                                                     --
# Presentation: 520483

- PDSF Computing model
- Thomas Davis
- ASG/NERSC, LBNL
- LCCWS

## Contents

- Why PDSF at a supercomputing center?
- Short history of PDSF
- What does PDSF do?
- How do I get access to PDSF?
- Hardware
- Software

## Why PDSF at a Supercomputing Center?

- Sharing of resources
- 24x7x365 glass house.
- Can leverage some vendors expertise.
- Access to expertise in data management, networking, and other important services.
- Large cluster could be the next HPC system; so PDSF provides production experience with clusters.

## Short history of PDSF

- Came from SSC, crated and moved to Livermore.
- No new hardware, software for close to 8 years.
- Life support applied when NERSC moved to Berkeley from Livermore in 1997
- Has picked up experimental support ever since, with what appears to be a 1000% growth rate.

## How do I get PDSF access?

- Buy in service model. Clients pay for a fixed slices of CPU time/disk space.
- Over time, as cluster grows, the amount of disk space and cpu time drops.  Moore's law is in effect.
- Client has no direct ownership of cluster.  PDSF admins have the right to move resources around when needed.
- Client can get more CPU power than what they buy
- if no one else is using CPU's in cluster, then resources are available to other users.
- LSF Fairshare is used to arbitrate between clients.
- Equipment is retired based on Moore's law, and warranties.

## PDSF Hardware model

- CPU power is always moving.
- We expect to retire any Intel based system after 3 years.
- Disk size is climbing even faster; new drives replace old disks, increasing volume size and performance.
- Memory constraints can also force retirement of systems.

## Hardware, Continued.

- New hardware is always bought as late as possible.
- CPU speeds are based on the knee of the curve; 2x650mhz machines are better than 1x1Ghz machine.
- Memory is also bought based on size; always buy largest dimm's when possible.

## Software model.

- Platform LSF is used for batch queuing.
- Fought for better pricing..  but Platform still wants lots of money.
- Redhat 6.1 is software base.
- Only updated when needed; many experiments can't change.
- Control of software is vigorous; because PDSF has many experiments, any software changes are controlled.
- Opensource is preferred, but properiety software is acceptable.
# Presentation: 672667

## Tasks in a Nutshell

**Planning**

**Tasks in a Nutshell**
**Produce 4 (or 5) Pre-production Prototypes**
**P3**
**Aging Test**
**P2’’**
**P4   (and maybe P2’’’)**
**Prepare for Production Lab 8, MP9 and Lab 7**
**Setup PNPI for Pre-production Prototype Assembly**
** **_**NO PRODUCTION-LIKE ACTIVITY IN FY99**_

## Milestone to Achieve 	

**US CMS EMU - FNAL Site FY99**
**Planning**

**Milestone to Achieve ****	**
**	****	****	****	**
**Chamber Production****	****	**
**November 20****th**** ‘99****	****	****Complete P2’**
**December 31****st**** ‘99****	****	****Complete P3**
**February 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****Complete Aging Test Chambers**
**April 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****Start Panel Production (L2)**
**March 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****Procure P2’’ parts**
**June 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****Complete P2’’**
**July 31****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****Complete P4**
**October ‘99****	****	****	****Start Cha. Production (L2)**

## US CMS EMU - FNAL Site FY99

**	****	**

**	****Cosmic Testing****	****	**
**December 31****st**** 99****	****	****Complete P2’ Testing**
**January 31****st**** ‘99****	****	****Complete Phase I P3 Testing**
**February 15****th**** ‘99****	****	****Complete Aging CSC Testing**
**May 30****th**** ‘99****	****	****	****Complete Phase II P3 Testing **
**	****	****	****	****(New DAQ)**
**July 31****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****Complete P2’’ Testing**
**September 31****st**** ‘99****	****	****Complete P4 Testing **
**Tooling**
**July 1****st**** 99****	****	****	****PNPI Tooling**
**March 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****(Lab 8) Lifting Tooling**
**April 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****MP9 Production Tooling**
**	****	****	****	****	****	****Cleaning Machine**

**US CMS EMU - FNAL Site FY99**
**Planning**

## US CMS EMU - FNAL Site FY99

**Planning**

**	****Design and Engineering**
**	****	**
**November 1st ‘98****	****	****Finalize Aging CSC Design**
**January 15****th**** ‘99****	****	****ME23/2 Design Review**
**February 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****ME23/2 Design Released**
**March 15****th**** ‘99****	****	****	****Lab 8 Panel Production ****	****	****	****	****	****	****Readiness Review**
**April 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****ME1/2 Design Complete**
**September 15****th**** ‘99****	****	****MP9 Chamber Readiness Review**
**October 1****st**** ‘99****	****	****	****ME3/1****	**** Design Complete****	****	****	****	****	****	****ME1/3 Design Complete**
# Presentation: 428209

## NIST Special Publication 800-76Biometric Data Specification for Personal Identity Verification

- March 3, 2006
- Update

## SP 800-76  Status

- Final version released February 1, 2006
- Replaced the December 2005 in response to 468 comments
- FAQ here
- _[http://](http://piv.nist.gov/pivqa/)__[piv.nist.gov/pivqa](http://piv.nist.gov/pivqa/)__[/](http://piv.nist.gov/pivqa/)_

## SP 800-76  Figure 1

## SP 800-76 Fingerprint Template Specification

- Mandatory biometric is now fingerprint templates.
- Template specification is the INCITS 378:2004 standard.
- 800-76 template specification is an application profile of INCITS 378
- 800-76 template specification restricts the options of INCITS 378 :
- No extended data
- No proprietary data
- One view for each finger.
- Restriction of minutia type (bifurcation, ridge ending)

## SP 800-76 Fingerprint Image Storage

- Flat fingerprint imaging is specified as the main mode of image collection
- Store segmented flats impression in INCITS 381 record
- The FBI has supported the Type 14 based transaction since addition of Appendix N to the Criminal Justice Information Services Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification in May 2005.
- Retention supports regeneration of templates, should amendment of minutiae specification make it necessary.

## Facial Data Specification

- Face specification is INCITS 385 for image acquisition and storage.
- Face specification is not intended for PIV on-card storage.  It is specified to support the printed image, and human check for card issuance and re-issuance.
- Face specification is appropriate for automated face recognition applications where needed.
- Compression ratio is 15:1
- Recommend that this image use J2K and ROI at 24:1 if it is to be placed on the PIV Card.

## CBEFF Structure

| CBEFF STRUCTURE |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CBEFF_HEADER | CBEFF_BIOMETRIC_RECORD | CBEFF_SIGNATURE_BLOCK |
| Section 6 | Sections 3.3, 3.4 and 5.2 | FIPS 201 |
| INCITS 398 5.2.1 | INCITS 398 5.2.2 | INCITS 398 5.2.3 |

## Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF) Requirements

- A CBEFF wrapper is required for biometric data on PIV cards.
- Includes mandatory elements.
- Includes all agency-optional biometric data.
- A new CBEFF Patron Format will be established.
- Patron Format PIV = Patron Format A +
- Definitive data types for its elements
- Inclusion of the FASC-N, per 800-73.

## Authentication Sensor Requirements

- Meet EFTS/G equivalent specifications
- Minimum area is 12.8 x 16.5 mm
-  Supports compact non-optical sensors

## Template Interoperability

- MINEX report expected on schedule second week of March 2006
- Performance of the INCITS 378 templates
- Interoperability of the INCITS 378 templates
- INCITS M1.3 has a ad hoc group on INCITS 378 minutia angle computation.
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## Applications of Microscopy and Microanalysis in Multidisciplinary ResearchJun Jiao, Portland State University, DMR 0353738 

**The focus of PSU’s REU site is the Application of Microscopy and Microanalysis to Multidisciplinary Research. Each participant learns to operate a scanning electron microscope (SEM) microscope and/or Focused Ion-Beam microscope (FIB) through hands-on training.**
**The objective is to promote the involvement of undergraduates-with an emphasis on under-represented minorities and female students-in research, higher education, and careers in science and engineering by actively engaging them in research projects with PSU faculty from various disciplines such as chemistry, physics, biology, environmental sciences, engineering. **
**The 8-week REU Summer Program consists of  a full training week, participation and research in individual labs for 7 weeks, and a final research symposium. **

** ****Rachel Shapiro and Maria Gutierrez training on the SEM**

**2007 REU Participants on a **
**field trip to FEI Company **
**with Co-PI Prof. Erik Sanchez**

**Javier Spyker working in **
**Prof. Mark Weislogel’s **
**Mechanical Engineering lab**
# Presentation: 586058

## Other MICE News(Highlights from the latest video conference,www.mice.iit.edu/vc/vc106/vc106.html)

- MICE Hall Preparation
- Target Update
- Spectrometer Solenoid Progress
- Calorimeter Update

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## MICE Hall Preparation

- Large section of one of the walls removed to allow
- Survey and setup of dipole magnet
- Installation of girder boxes on quadrupole baseplate
- Installation of decay solenoid, trolley, and stand
- Connection of decay solenoid to transfer line
- Decay solenoid preparation underway
- First four quadrupole magnets finished
- Work on local control room underway
- Schedule really tight for January 20 goal.

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## MICE Hall Preparation Pictures

- Decay Solenoid Area

- Decay Solenoid

- Quadrupole Magnet

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## Target Update

- Reminder:  Target will be inserted into halo of ISIS proton beam once per second to produce pions.
- ISIS requirement of two complete systems has put strain on small target team.
- Two big problems in the past two weeks
- Short circuit between coil and cooling jacket
- Power supply problem:  incorrect drive of coils led to damaged shaft and destruction of coatings on shaft and lower bearing
- Increased support from Daresbury Lab. has provided welcome relief.
- Detailed schedule set for January 20 goal.

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## Simplified Diagram of the Internal Mechanics

- Top Bearing

- Bottom Bearing

- Magnets

- Coils

- Water Cooling

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## Spectrometer Solenoid Progress

- Solenoid #1
- Fabrication of first magnet promised to be done by Christmas, but Steve Virostek thinks this is unlikely.
- Vacuum vessel, thermal shield, and support stands done.
- Solenoid #2
- Winding of magnet complete
- Quench protection installation and instrumentation underway.

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## Spectrometer Solenoid Pictures

- Cold Mass Assembly

- Support Structure

- End Walls and Flanges

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## Calorimeter Update

- Calorimeter consists of
- One layer of lead read out by scintillating fibers
- Ten layers of scintillator read out by wavelength-shifting fibers.
- An update was presented on the lead/scintillating fiber detector.

- Lead layer with light guides

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007

## Calorimeter Update

- Lead/fibers modules, detector frame, and iron magnetic shielding bar being assembled.
- Magnetic field shielding still being designed.
- Detector trolley components still need to be bought and built.
- Signal shaper prototype board built and being tested.
- Funding difficulties with INFN resolved.

- NFMCC Friday Meeting

- November 30, 2007
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## Managing Stress Corrosion Cracking

- Williams Gas Pipeline
- 	Transco – Ron Scrivner
- 	Northwest Pipeline – Dave Katz

## Transco’s Experience

- In-Service SCC Ruptures – 1967 & 1968
- Transco Reacted
- Hydrostatic tested to ensure integrity
- Tested the first crack detection tool in 1972
- Performed random digs to determine the extent of the cracking
- Participated in research to understand SCC

## Results

- Hydrostatic testing in 1968 & 1969 removed 34 SCC colonies
- In-Line inspection tool proved unreliable
- Random dig program found:
- SCC was predominately in the first valve section down stream compressor stations on Line “A”
- No SCC was found on line “B”

## Understanding SCC

- Research has developed an understanding of SCC (High Ph)
- Conditions necessary for SCC
- Potent Environment
- Stress
- Susceptible material

## Experience Continued

- In-Service SCC Rupture in 1972
- Contracted Battelle to review Hydrostatic testing procedures
- Recommend testing to 110% of Yield
- Recommended testing on a 3/6 year cycle

## Experience Continued

- Transco followed Battelle’s recommendations
- Implemented an SCC integrity program
- Continued random digs & Hydrostatic testing
- Has not had an In-Service SCC failure since 1972
- Has not had any failure (leak or rupture) since 1989

## Slide 7

## Minimizing the Potential for SCC

- Control Gas Temperature
- Install Gas Cooling
- Minimize Susceptible Environment
- Maintain CP System
- Improved Coating Systems
- Blast Cleaning
- Fusion Bonded Epoxy

## In Conclusion  (Transco)

- Transco continues to hydrostatically test pipeline segments where there is a threat of SCC.
- Transco continues to inspect for SCC threats
- No new threats have been identified since 1976
- Any line segment that experience a SCC rupture is considered to be at risk
# Presentation: 726569

## Public ForumFor the 7th Annual CMRS Competition ReportFederal Communications CommissionWashington, DCFebruary 28, 2002

- Charles R. Mahla, Ph.D.
- Econ One Research, Inc.
- Sacramento, California
- 916 449 2860
- www.econone.com
- www.wirelesssurvey.com

## Econ One’s Wireless Survey

-  Not a consumer questionnaire

-  It is a “Survey” of Wireless Plans

-  Data from Carriers’ Web sites

-  Survey Entails collection/analysis of over 2,500
-    pricing plans each month.

-  Four usage levels analyzed: 30, 150, 300,
-    and 600 minutes per month.

-  Three different Peak/off-peak assumptions.

-  Top 25 Markets Since September 1999.

## Econ One’s Wireless Survey...

-  Does _not_ estimate “average cost of service.”

-  Does _not_ attempt to value roaming or long distance.

-  Does provide insight into service cost trends.

-  Allows for inter-city trend and intra-carrier cost
-    comparisons.

## Wireless Performance/Cost of Service Trends

-  Demand for Wireless Service Continues to Grow

-  Penetration and usage (MOU) continue to rise

-  Cost of Service Continues to Fall

-  Footprints are Getting Larger

-  Localized Pricing is being Replaced by
-    Regional/National Plans

## Wireless MonthlyMinutes of Use (MOU)

- Source:IDC, RCR News, May 15, 2000, “The Wireless Industry Scorecard,” Legg Mason, 3Q 2001.

- Number of Minutes per Month

## Wireless Pricing Continues Downward Trend

**	****From December 2000 to December 2001 average service rates based on the four usage buckets included in our survey fell by 7.3%.**

**	****This decline followed a nearly 7% decline in 2000.**

## Wireless Pricing Continues Downward Trend

**Wireless Pricing ****Continues Downward Trend**

- +5.9%

- -4.5%

- -10.4%

- -11.7%

**$**

- Monthly Cost

- Source:  Econ One Research, Inc. Monthly Wireless Survey.

## Wireless Performance/Cost of Service Trends

-  The most expensive city was almost 34% more
-    expensive than the least expensive city in
-    December 1999.

-  The gap fell to 8% by December 2001.

## Difficulties in Calculating an Index of Cost of Service

-  MOU data are hard to come by.

-  Distribution of users by plan type unknown.

-  Time-of-day usage statistics are not publicly
-    available.

-  Consumer surveys help—how accurate are they?

-  City-specific MOU are even more difficult to find.

## Econ One’s Findings on “Rural” Market Service Costs

-  Conducted 25-market review in October 2001.

-  Average number of carriers per market: 3.3.

-  Average population: 95,611.

-  Versus 4.4 million average population in Top 25 markets.

-  Versus 4.9 per market in Top 25 markets.

-  Market selection not “scientific.”

## 25 Markets Used in “Rural” Analysis

- O mi

- 200

- 400

- 600

- 800

- 1000

## Econ One’s Findings on “Rural” Market Service Costs

## Econ One’s Findings on “Rural” Market Service Costs

## Questions and Comments

- Presentation Available for Download at:
- www.wirelesssurvey.com