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# Presentation: 323097

## Wide Bandgap (WBG) Technology – Advanced Packaging Technology and Commercial WBG Devices and for High Temperature Applications

** **

| Cost   |   |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Schedule |   |   |
| Technical |   | Basic 500oC packaging materials/ subcomponents validated under NEPP |
| Programmatic |   | Propulsion Technology and Integration Project (PTIP) at GRC.    |

**Description:**
- WBG high temperature microelectronics are essential to many NASA space and aeronautic applications, such as launching site safety monitoring, Venus missions, and aerospace engine technology. Silicon carbide (SiC) sensors and electronic devices have been demonstrated for operation at high temperatures up to 500 - 600oC.  However, packaging for these devices have not been systematically validated. Some SiC devices are commercially available, but these devices are designed for high temperature applications because of the lack of supporting packaging technology.  In order to expedite the application of WBG technology for NASA missions, NEPP has been supporting evaluation efforts in high temperature packaging. This work has already resulted in basic packaging technology which has successfully facilitated SiC device tests at 500oC for over thousands of hours.  This task evaluates test-vehicles composed of commercial (Cree) SiC devices and advanced packaging technologies for high temperature applications.

**Benefits:**
** **
- Safety monitoring for high temperature launch locations.
- Electronics for space missions to inner solar planets.
- Enable sensing, signal conditioning and data transferring in aerospace engine environments to significantly improve overall engine performance and long term reliability.
- Implement wide band-gap micro-systems.

**Schedule/Costs:**

**Risks:**

- Red, Yellow, or Green

**Lead Center/PI: **GRC/PI - Liangyu Chen, OAI
**Center Funding Split: ****GRC **$150K

**Non-NASA Organizations/Procurements:**
- SSC: OAI grant $80K
- Materials/fab./commercial devices: 31K
- Travel $1.5K

**Final Products:**
** **
- -Final validation report of high temperature packaging systems and WBG SiC devices for high temperature applications.
- -Technical publications of high temperature device packaging technologies.

**Product Insertion Plan:**
- Preliminary test report: Q4/2006
- Final validation report: Q4/2008

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- Package assembly

-  Device selection/acquire

- Testing vehicle design

- Testing vehicle assembly

- Static thermal tests

-  Dynamic thermal test

- Quarterly/Annual Reports

**Total FY06 Cost including CS FTE: $150K**

- CS FTE: 0.125
# Presentation: 756402

## Surface Transportation System: Challenges of the FutureHearing Before Subcommittee on Highways and TransitCommittee on Transportation and InfrastructureU.S. House of RepresentativesJanuary 24, 2007

- Testimony of Jack Schenendorf
- Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
- 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
- Washington, D.C. 20004
- (202-662-5321)

## Introduction

- Of Counsel with law firm of  Covington & Burling LLP
- Practice: Government Affairs/Transportation
- Before joining Covington in 2001, served on staff of this Committee for 25 years, serving under six Republican leaders
- Bush/Cheney Transition Team

## Introduction (cont’d)

- Testifying in my capacity as Vice Chairman of the National Surface Transportation Revenue and Policy Study Commission
- Established by Congress in Section 1909 of SAFETEA-LU.
- Commission consists of 12 Members
- The Secretary of Transportation (Chair)
- 3 Executive Branch
- 4 House
- 4 Senate
-   I was appointed by Speaker Hastert.

## Perfect Storm Gathering

- Our aging surface transportation system needs to be adequately maintained and replaced where necessary
- Economic and population growth will place increased demand on our aging infrastructure, requiring improved efficiency and increased capacity
- Our traditional funding sources have been unable to keep up with the demand

## Testimony

- Commission’s work
- Challenges facing Commission
- Second financing commission

## Commission’s Work

- Commission’s charge: needs, federal role, and financing
- Short, medium and long-term perspectives
- Highways, transit, intercity freight rail, intercity passenger rail
- Conceptual plan (with alternative approaches), including specific recommendations regarding Federal policies and legislative changes
- To include recommendations for alternative revenue sources to support the Highway Trust Fund
- Schedule: December 31, 2007

## Commission’s Work: Public Outreach

- Dallas, Portland, New York, Memphis
- Atlanta, Los Angeles/Las Vegas, Chicago
- Washington, D.C.

## Commission’s Work: Technical Analyses

- Analysis of current status of system (6 papers)
- Analysis of baseline revenues and system needs (12 papers)
- Analysis of future issues and changing demands on the system
- Demographic changes (7 papers)
- Changes in economy (17 papers)
- Energy issues (7 papers)
- Environmental concerns (8 papers)
- Security and emergency management (4 papers)
- Military deployment (1 paper)
- Design policies (9 papers)
- Other (over 30 papers)
- Analysis of financing alternatives
- Revenue options (19 papers)
- Transition (5 papers)
- Alternative federal roles (11 papers)

## Commission’s Work: Blue Ribbon Panel

- 74 members
- First Meeting in February
- Peer review
- Projects

## Challenges

- Slow start
- Resources
- Vision
- Diverse views

## Second Commission

- Ways & Means/Finance Committees
- Scheduling
- Limited jurisdiction
- No money
- Relationship to Section 1909 Commission
# Presentation: 677124

## Morbidity coding in Australia

- Sue Walker

## Morbidity coding in Australia

- Performed in all hospitals and day surgery centres for inpatients only
- No outpatient and emergency department coding is performed routinely ... yet!
- All separations are coded using the full medical record as the source document for abstraction
- Coding is done using the ICD-10-AM (currently Fifth edition, Sixth to be implemented in July 2008)

## Morbidity coding education in Australia

- For new coders:
- Face to face:
- HIM programs in four universities
- Short courses run by health departments
- Distance education:
- Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA)
- Open Training and Education Network (OTEN)

## Morbidity coding education in Australia

- For existing coders and users of ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS in Australia and internationally:
- NCCH offers:
- Update education for each ICD-10-AM/ACHI-ACS edition
- Annual coding workshops
- Biannual coding conference
- For new ICD-10 users, NCCH offers short and customised coding courses face to face

## HIMAA’s role

- HIMAA Education Services offers
- comprehensive medical terminology
- introductory, intermediate and advanced coding
- customised educational programs
- Clinical Coder Certification

## Clinical Coder Certification (CCC)

**minimum of 4 year's clinical coding experience in a hospital environment with a varied, complex casemix**
**Part 1 - completion of six coding assignments - 60% of assessment****(Note: successful completion of the Advanced coding course is equivalent to Part 1 of CCC)**
**Part 2 - two-hour examination paper consisting of handwritten medical records - 40% of assessment**
**Pass mark for CCC is an aggregate of 80%. Must pass part I to be eligible for Part 2. **
# Presentation: 185692

## MTest Pixel Telescope – Status Update

- David Christian
- September 11, 2007

## MTest Telescope

- Constructed using “BTeV pixels”
- Pixel size = 50 x 400 (600)
- Oriented to provide “precision-x” or “precision-y” measurements.

## Layout

- Aperture ~ 3.5cm x 3.5cm
- 4 – 6 stations

- Beam

- x

- y

- x

- y

## Nomenclature

**Station** = 2 **planes **& an **SLINK**
**Plane** = 3 **modules** mounted on a TPG heat spreader
**Module** = **hybrid** pixel detector glued & wire-bonded to a **High Density Interconnect** (Kapton flex circuit)
**Hybrid** = pixel **sensor** bump bonded to **4 FPIX2.1** ASICs

## DAQ Overview

**SLINK**

**ROUTER**

- Twin-ax
- (sATA)

**PCI Interface**

- Fiber

- Trigger/timing signals

- Trigger/timing signals

**LINUX pc**

- Removable disk

## DAQ

**SLINK** communicates with 2x3x4=24 FPIX2.1 chips & with ROUTER.
- Relays commands & responses
- Collects data
- Deserialize (digital phase follower)
- Time order & construct data blocks w/extended time stamp & chip ID headers
- Hierarchy of 2-way data merges

## DAQ - continued

**ROUTER** communicates with **PCI interface** & **SLINKs** and (optionally) DUTs
- 12 sATA ports, 4 RJ45 ports
- Relays commands & responses
- Collects data
- Hierarchy of 2-way data merges (same logic as SLINK)
**PCI Interface** communicates with **ROUTER** & **pc**
- Relays commands & responses
- Uses 3 CSRs & 3 ring buffers in the pc main memory (64 MB)

## Detector Status/Plan

- Hybrid development complete
- 11 good hybrids in hand
- Balance waiting for LANL PO to VTT
- Delivery Jan – May (schedule risk)
- Module development
- 4x HDI layout ~85% complete (FNAL)
- Prototype by end of October, production Nov-Dec (on the optimistic critical path)

## Detector Status/Plan continued

- Plane/Station development:
- TPG in hand, reinforcing about to start (FNAL)
- Mechanical design underway (FNAL)
- SLINK pcb layout & final design is waiting for completion of 4x HDI (Nevis)
- Box/Area:
- Cleanup has started
- Mechanical design underway (FNAL)

## DAQ Status/Plan

- DAQ Hardware/Firmware (Nevis)
- PCI interface ~90% complete (trigger/timing hooks not written)
- Router ~70% complete (trigger/timing, implementation of merges, integration of DUT?)
- SLINK
- Prototype tested at ~90% level; linked to 2 modules
- Design/layout waiting for 4x HDI
- On the optimistic critical path

## Software Status/Plan

- Online software (FNAL, Syracuse?, UNM?)
- Core low level routines exist & have been tested.
- Need to specify online, including online/offline boundary, write & test code.
- On the optimistic critical path
- Offline software (Syracuse, FNAL?, UNM?)
- Data unpacking
- Alignment
- Tracking, integration of DUT
- On the optimistic critical path
- Strategic decisions to be made in the next 4-6 weeks

## Schedule

- Focus on full telescope in ~Feb
- If bump bonding is delayed (past ~Jan)...
- Install 1st station + fragments as available (~Jan?)
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## Beams Week in Review

- Accelerator Performance
- Week 80 integrated Luminosity : Record 4.34 pb-1
- Accelerator Studies
- All stores intentionally terminated

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Beams Week in Review

| Store # | Initial Luminosity | Duration | Termination | comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1739 | 1.98   E31 | 18  hours | Intentional | TEL on; BLC tuned    |
| 1748 | 2.14  E31 | 7.45  hours | intentional | No BLC  |
| 1750 | 2.57   E31 | 17.75  hours | intentional | BLT on pbars  |
| 1752 | 1.93   E31 | 18.1   hours | intentional | No BLC; BLT on pbars |
| 1754
1756 | 1.96  E31
1.9  E31 | 16.5   hours
16.75 hrs
 | Intentional
intentional | “ 
“ |

*Store Summary Week 80*

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Beams Week in Review

- Current Issues
- Increase the number of protons through MI coalescing
- RestoreMI pbar coalescing efficiency to the 80 - 90% level
- Complete commission pbar beam loading compensation in MI
- MI – Tevatron transfer line matching

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Tevatron Summary

- Week 79 Accelerator studies:
- Implemented BLT closure for the pbars
- Measured and corrected local coupling at the IR  (B0)
- Tevatron Tune and Coupling Drift – hardware installed still need beam time (proton only stores)
- Tevatron Dampers (need more work)

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Tevatron Injection Closure (BLT)

- Transfer 1

- Transfer 4

- Store 1750  Initial Luminosity 2.57E31

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Tevatron Summary

- Measured Tune and Coupling Drift at 150 GeV

- Correction Scheme to be implemented during this week studies

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Pbar Summary

- No Dedicated studies during this period
-  Parasitic development of bunch-by-bunch position monitor in AP3 pbar transfer line from Accumulator.
- Commissioning of new AP2 trim (HT704)

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Recycler Summary 

- No pbar transfers last week
- Re-configuring low level RF files
- Started to investigate trapped ions in the presence of pbars and associated tune shift... on going
- Continue pbar injection transfer line studies

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002

## Schedule for this Week

- Collider Operation: Stack ‘n Store
- Goal for the week-> Integrate > 5 pb-1
- Focused studies between (< 2hrs) stores

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 09 September 2002
# Presentation: 261774

## Enbridge SCC Management Program

*SCC Workshop *
*Houston - December 2, 2003*
*Walter Kresic*
*Enbridge Pipelines Inc.*

## System Map

**Norman Wells**

**Athabasca**

**Line 1**

**Line 2**

**Line 3**

**Line 4**

**Line 5**

**Line 6**

**Line 7**

**Line 9**

**Line 10**

**Line 11**

**Line 13**

**Line 14**

**Line 17**

**Vector**

**540 Miles**

**591 Miles**

**1098 Miles**

**800 Miles**

**1098 Miles**

**1098 Miles**

**645 Miles**

**759 Miles**

**153 Miles**

**524 Miles**

**91 Miles**

**47 Miles**

**909 Miles**

**461 Miles**

**88 Miles**

**348 Miles**

**Pipeline System**

**Line 9**

**Line 9**

**Line 8**

**130 Miles**

## CEPA Framework

**Condition Monitoring**

**Plan & Implement Mitigation**

**Document & Learn**

**CEPA Framework**

## Condition Monitoring

**Condition Monitoring**

**Pipeline segment susceptibility inventory**
**coating type / disbondment observations**
**field examinations whenever pipe exposed**
**crack ILI data**
**hydrotest results when available**

## Plan and Implement Mitigation

**Plan and Implement Mitigation**

**Mitigation of discrete pipe joint**
**addresses isolated SCC colonies**
**grinding, sleeving, recoating**
**Mitigation of entire pipe segment**
**ILI-based repair project for widespread colonies **
**hydrotest is an option**
**pressure spectrum modification? (PRCI)**

## Document and Learn

**Document and Learn**

**Annual update of technical process**
**databasing significant volume of information**
**on-going trend process**
**share with industry**

## SCC Detected by ILI

**SCC Detected by ILI**

## Documented Process

**Documented Process**

**Roles and responsibilities**
**Annual plans and budgets**
**Technical procedures**
**Field NDT**
**Pressure restriction during field work**
**Grinding / Sleeving / Coating Specifications**
**Gathering samples and field observations**
**Annual trending techniques**

## Enbridge SCC Observations	

**Enbridge SCC Observations****	**

**No failures have occurred**
**Near neutral pH SCC **
**Associated with disbonded P.E. tape**
**Pressure cycling a potential contributor**
**Crack detection ILI is effective**

## Improvements

**Improvements**

**Field NDT process (i.e. reporting styles)**
**NDT depth sizing **
**Fitness-for-purpose equations**
**Crack tool defect sizing precision**
**Crack initiation and growth lifecycle understanding**

## Summary

**Summary**

**Enbridge SCC Management Program is a component of a broader crack program applied to all pipe**
**Techniques and technologies exist but greater precision desirable**

## Enbridge SCC Management Program

*SCC Workshop *
*Houston - December 2, 2003*
*Walter Kresic*
*Enbridge Pipelines Inc.*
# Presentation: 460034

## the future? 

- Assessing the potential impacts of global warming

- Courtesy of Nate Mantua

## The Future of North PacificOcean Climate fromIPCC Model Projections 		

- James E. Overland1
- Nicholas A. Bond2 and Muyin Wang2
- 1 NOAA/PMEL
- 2 University of Washington/JISAO

## Models Contributed to IPCC AR4 

- Models Contributed to IPCC AR4

## EOF1 of SST from 20C3M Simulations 

- EOF1 of SST from 20C3M Simulations

## EOF1 of SST for 2001-2099 in A1B 

## EOF2 of SST for 2001-2099 in A1B 

## The year in which the net change in winter SST due

- to the trend exceeds the natural variability (2 1/2)

**Notes:**
Using 1 standard deviation

## Slide 8

## Regional Applications

- Bering Sea - Sea Ice (Benthic vs. Pelagic); Flatfish; AYK Salmon, Others?
- GOA Walleye Pollock
- California Current System Upwelling
- East China Sea Jack Mackerel

## Projected 40% Ice Loss before  2050

**Winter**

## Flatfish in the SE Bering

-       Larval Transport
-                   &
-           Recruitment

## CCCH

- GFDL20

- MirocH

- MRI5

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Schwing et al. 2006

## Summary

- 10 out of 18 models replicate the major mode of the North Pacific SST variability.
- 21st Century simulations feature a rather spatially uniform warming trend.
- This warming will exceed the natural variability over most of the North Pacific before about 2050.
- Assessment of regional effects does not necessarily require dynamical downscaling.

## Slide 17
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## NIH Woman-Owned Small Business Initiatives 

## Introduction

- Annette Owens-Scarboro, Small Business Specialist
- Women-owned Small Business representative for the NIH to DHHS

## Federal Laws and Regulations

- Executive Order 12138 and 13157 Public Law 103-355 and Public Law 106-554
- Established the Woman-owned Business Enterprise Program, 1988, and a 5% WOB contracting goal and set-asides respectively.
- Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supporting WOSB.

## WOB Trends

- Between 1997 and 2002, it is estimated that the number of women-owned firms increased by 14% nationwide twice the rate of all firms, employment increased by 30% -- 11/2 times the U.S. rate, and sales grew by 40% -- the same rates as all firms in the U.S.
- As of 2002, there are an estimated 6.2 million majority-owned, privately-held women-owned firm in the U.S., employing 9.2 million people and generating $1.15 trillion in sales.

## NIH WOSB Initiatives

- Outreach Program
- Matchmaking/Teaming with Prime Contractors
- Subcontracting Opportunities
- One-on-one Counseling
- Monthly Seminars

## NIH WOSB Accomplishments(000)

- _Fiscal Year_        _Goals_              _ %_              _Achieved _          _%_
- _ _
-                  $1,800,000      5.0              $2,688,240        4.8
- 2001                 $1,758,773      5.0              $2,026,538        5.9
- 2000                 $1,658,793      3.9              $1,944,027        4.8

**NIH WOSB Accomplishments****(000)**

## 8(a) Program
SDB Program
HUBZone Program

- SDB Program
- HUBZone Program

**Federal Certification Programs Available for WOSB**

## KEY WEB SITES

- Center for Women’s Business Research  _[www.NFWBO.org](http://www.nfwbo.org/)_
- National Women’s Business Council  _[http://www.nwbc.gov/](http://www.nwbc.gov/)_
- SBA Office of Women’s Business Ownership  _[http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness](http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness)_
- Register in e-Portals in Commerce (e-PIC), _[http://sbo.od.nih.gov](http://sbo.od.nih.gov/)_ ,  and Central Contractor Registration System (CCR), _[http://www.ccr.gov](http://www.ccr.gov/)_

## Thank You Very Much!
# Presentation: 057096

## Making the Land Use, Transportation, and Air Quality Connection

- Marianne Fitzgerald
- Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
- fitzgerald.marianne@deq.state.or.us
- Air Innovations Conference
-  August 12, 2004

## 1996 Portland Maintenance Plans

- Oregon land use laws encourage compact growth, discourage sprawl
- Maintenance Plan Transportation Control Measures include land use measures
- Portland Metro-area 2040 Growth Management Plan encourages more density and planned growth in “centers”
- Metro-area funding priorities support transit, bicycle and pedestrian improvements

## 2004 Portland Maintenance Plans

- Metro recently revised transportation control measures; these measures continue to support alternative transportation
- New “Contingent TCMs” in maintenance plan contingency plan are triggered by growth in vehicle miles traveled per capita
- 5% increase in VMT/capita triggers further study;
- 10% increase in VMT/capita triggers further transportation control measures

## 2040 Plan:  Principles

- Encourage efficient use of land
- Protect and restore the natural environment
- Provide a balanced transportation system
- Create vibrant places to work and live
- Encourage a strong local economy

## 2040 Plan:  Transportation

- Street designs fit land use context
- Streets are retrofitted to include sidewalks and bikeways
- Street connectivity requirements allow easier walking and access to transit
- Frequent transit service provided on all major streets

## How is it Working?

- Infill is occurring faster than expected, within UGB
- Transit ridership 1990-2001 outpaced population growth and daily VMT
- VMT/person stabilizing
- Mixed use development is occurring across the region

## How is it Working? CMAQ/STP funding 1992-2005

## How is it Working?  Light Rail Transit System 1996-2007

## How is it Working?  Transit

- 29th largest metro area with 13th largest annual transit ridership
- Transit eliminates 58 million vehicle trips/year
- 72% of riders have the choice of using a car
- 30% of riders are commuters; 22% use transit for recreation

## How is it Working?  VMT

## How is it Working?  Air Quality (8-hr ozone)

## For more information...

- Metro 2040 Plan, “Creating Livable Streets,” and “Green Streets” on their website, _[www.metro-region.org](http://www.metro-region.org/)_
- Portland maintenance plan transportation control measures in conference handouts
- 1996 TCM
- 1996 TCM Substitution Policy
- 2004 TCM (update)
# Presentation: 222319

## The Checkered Past of (Two) AISRP Initiatives as Case Studies in Traversing the mid-TRL “Valley of Death”:VSPO and ViSBARD

- Aaron Roberts
- NASA GSFC/HQ

## When was solar minimum two solar cycles ago?(Do a text search for “sunspot”, click on the link to the Sunspot WDC, and choose graphics or data.) 

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## ViSBARD Examples

- (Find “visbard” in Google for more)

## OMNI2 Test of Stationarity: Five Solar Rotations

- Slow (blue)
- Dense (large)

- Arrows: Magnetic
- field, colored by
- field magnitude
- (red, large)

- (OMNI2: Multidecade collection of hour-average data at 1 AU)

- (Visualization using ViSBARD,
- a freely available tool. Search
- for “visbard” in Google.)

## Outline

- c. 1990 3-D (stereo) OpenGL proposal-AISRP
- Renewal, and some lessons
- Academia may not share your goals, long term
- Learn to read markets, not just what you like
- 1999 first ViSBARD proposal (Java, contractor);
- Data retrieval and tools (VO precursor)
- Idea of data center transfer (discussions with NASA Data Centers)
- 2001 AISRP SPVO proposal (TRL too high!!!)
- Lesson: Have a place to land
- 2002 TR&T VSPO –> MO&DA (1/2) [VSO about then]
- 2003 Tools for VSPO –> MO&DA (still proceeding)

## Outline

- Living With a Star Program (a home??) involvement 2002–2005; support of SPASE
- Lesson: Hire Joe King!
- Lesson: Make each new step useful to someone (don’t design for years and then hope it is accepted)
- 2006 SPDF NASA Data Center Senior Review
- VSPO incorporated and rated highly -- infrastructure at last!!
- Lesson: Perseverance pays
- NASA HQ: Data Policy; VxO calls, add in services
- Next round: VxOs & SPASE & RAs –> “HDMP”
- ViSBARD still limps along -- more lessons (markets; marketing; partners)

## Parting words ...

- In* Diffusion of Innovation,* Everett M. Rogers poses the question "What is so difficult about technology transfer?" and concludes that "technology transfer is difficult, in part, because we have underestimated just how much effort is required for such transfer to occur effectively.”
- Technology transfer is usually a two-way, back-and-forth process of communication.
- Embodied in this definition of technology transfer is the importance of a long-term partnership between the creators and the end users of the new technology. This partnership drives an iterative process of development, implementation, and acceptance.
# Presentation: 448465

## Use of the ensamble products in Mexico

- Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
- Ing. Alberto Hernández Unzón
- Dr. Michel Rosengaus Moshinsky
- Mexican Institute of Water Technology
- Dr. René Lobato Sánchez

**Oct-Nov, 2006**

## NAEFSOperational Use at the National Meteorological Service of Mexico

- Meteograms for México
- Probability of rainfall thresholds
- Mean and Std. Dev. for surface and elevation charts

## Meteograms for MEXICO

- NAEFS Products are in “quasi” operational mode at NMSM
- Forecasters use NAEFS for 3:00pm discussion desk
- Too much dependency among forecasters now, as it happened when MM5 was installed
- Much interest in rainfall and surface temperature, need to know how ensamble is downscaled
- Starting to implement a local  objective validation system
- Would be possible to have a frozen ensamble version for at least one year?
- Skew-T’s  possible?

## Meteograms for MEXICO

## Contours help forecasters to put attention on potentiallly dangerous zones

**Contours help forecasters to put attention on potentiallly dangerous zones**
**Mexican State Political boundaries would help**

## Slide 6

## For medium to high weather impacts, model uncertainties create among forecasters  a missconception of skill

**For medium to high weather impacts, model uncertainties create among forecasters  a missconception of skill**

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Good for midlatitude synoptic features

**Good for midlatitude synoptic features**
**Hard to catch tropical disturbances**
**Would be possible to expand further to the East & South?**

## Big uncertainty that requires model validation 

**Big uncertainty that requires model validation**

## Other ensamble productsused at NMSM 

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## Slide 19
# Presentation: 201154

## RAOS Objectives

**Characterize new and existing instruments for measuring aerosol light absorption and extinction**
**Quantify the uncertainty in the measurements of aerosol light absorption coefficient used by NOAA and ARM**
**Derive methods for determining spectral aerosol absorption from multi-wavelength measurements of absorption and (extinction - scattering) **
**Note:  All experiments done at low RH**

## Agreement of Absorption Standards

- Notes:  Data points represent kerosene soot runs with varying amounts of ammonium sulfate.  Extinction data were adjusted to agree with scattering measurements on white aerosols (~5% adjustment to Eadj data).

## Reno2002 Light Absorption Comparison

- Notes:  Data points represent all ***low-extinction*** kerosene soot runs with varying amounts of ammonium sulfate.  Bond et al. (1999) corrections applied to PSAP data.  PSAP wavelength adjusted to 532 nm assuming a -1 dependence.

**0**

**5**

**10**

**15**

**20**

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**5**

**10**

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**Photoacoustic **

**(Mm**

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** ****@ 532 nm)**

**PSAP **

**(Mm**

**-1**

** ****@ 532 nm)**

## Summary of Results

**Agreement of standard methods for absorption is ±5-12%**
**PSAP agrees with standard methods within about ±5% for typical atmospheric absorption levels**
**Filter transmission methods (PSAP, aethalometer) require improved corrections for multiple scattering effects**
**Cavity ringdown extinction cells appear to be biased low by 10-25%**
# Presentation: 687877

## Testing Physics Examine at D0

- FNAL/Univ. of Illinois
- Soojin Kwon
- Advisor: Pushpa Bhat (FNAL)
- 3 July 2002

## Physics Examine

- Developed by Michiel Sanders
- The goal is to monitor the data quality of physics runs
- Runs Reco + RecoAnalyze online in the Examine framework and produces “RecoAnalyze.root”
- A root script then produces histograms in “PhysicsExamine.root” from “RecoAnalyze.root”
- The current version is based on p11.07.00

## Example of Test Runs

- ProcessRate
- (sec/event)

- 218.2

## Example Plots

- Run 158574
- July 1,  3 hours
- Total 205,000 events, 335 processed
- Process 1 event every ~33 sec
- Three sets of plots
- Xgooey / PhysicsExamine.root
- TopDqm macros (Arnulf Quadt) / PhysicsExamine.root
- Direct (simple root macros) / RecoAnalyze.root

## Plots generated by Xgooey

- from “PhysicsExamine.root”

## Jets

## Good Jets

## Eta vs. Phi

## No. of Vertices

## Primitive Vertex

## Vertex Spatial Distribution

## ICD Energy

## Electrons (1)

## Electrons (2)

## Plots generated by TopDqm macros

- from “PhysicsExamine.root”

## Jets

## Electrons

## Vertex

## Plots extracted directly 

- from “RecoAnalyze.root”

## Jets 

- Jets

## EM Particles

## Muons

## Muon Track Fits

## Slide 24
# Presentation: 725996

## MNM Fatal 2004-24

- Fall of Highwall
- December 6, 2004 (Pennsylvania)
- Sand & Gravel Operation
- Company President
- 51 years old
- 25 years experience

## Overview

- The victim was operating a front-end loader digging material near the base of a 65 foot highwall when approximately 445 tons of sand and gravel material fell off the highwall and partially buried the loader.  He was trapped in the cab by the falling material.

## Slide 3

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The accident occurred because the mine operator did not ensure that mining methods used maintained the stability of the highwall. Mining was being conducted at the base of a near vertical, 65 feet highwall that was not benched or sloped to the angle of repose. The mine operator had been cited on several previous occasions for failing to utilize safe mining methods in this same area.

## Causal Factor

- Management policies and controls were inadequate and failed to implement mining methods that would maintain highwall stability in the #3 pit where persons worked. The berm and warning sign that were erected to prevent access to the pit, along with obvious hazardous ground conditions, were ignored and the operator continued to remove material from near the base of the unstable highwall.

## Best Practices

- Ensure that mining methods used will maintain the stability of highwalls or slopes where persons work or travel.
- Ensure that experienced persons conduct examinations of highwalls or slopes to identify loose ground or unstable conditions prior to beginning work and as ground conditions warrant during the work shift.
- Establish policies that prohibit work or travel in areas where hazards from unstable ground have not been corrected.
# Presentation: 695343

## ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – 4th Quarter FY07 

**ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – 4****th**** Quarter FY07 **

-                                  Total # GS-13 & Above:  _870_    (63.74 % of HQ & Domestic ITA Population)

- _Minority Group_:              _Total ITA Population_:      _#s  in Grades GS-13 and Above_:          _Percentage in upper grades_:
- Black                                               242                                          84                                                34.7%
- White:                                             978                                         715                                               73.1%
- Asian:		         79                                           40                                                50.6%
- Hispanic:                                          56                                           31                                                55.3%
- AmInd                                              01                                             0                                                     --
# Presentation: 340317

## CONSUMER DIRECTION IN CAREGIVER SUPPORT?

## WHO IS THE CONSUMER?

**Consumer of Services**
**Home and Community-Based Care, Health Care, Transportation...**
**Consumer of “Family Caregiver Support”**

## TYPES OF“CONSUMER DIRECTION”

**MICASA and Independent Living**
**Self-Directed Supports (RWJ)**
**Home and Community-Based Waivers**

## PRINCIPLES OF CONSUMER-CENTERED SYSTEMS OF CARE

**Consumer-Centered vs. Provider Driven**
**Money Follows Person**
**Dignity of Risk**
**Community-Integrated,Least Restrictive**
**Reflects Preferences and Values**
**Support Life Strengths and Choices**

## CAREGIVER PRINCIPLES

**Filial Respect & Affection**
**Spousal Commitment and Devotion**
**Interdependence**
**Keeping a Promise**
**Avoiding Abandonment**
**Postponing Institutionalization**
**Preserving Dignity **
**Family Values**

## FOCUS ON CAREGIVERS

**Caregiver-Centered**
**Money Follows Caregivers**
**Reflects Caregiver Preferences & Values**
**Support Caregiver Strengths & Choices**
**Mapping Informal Supports**
**Family & Community Integrated**

## SUPPORT VS. SERVICE

**Helping/Empowering Caregivers to Succeed**
**Know what problems are - really  (Advocate Assessment)**
**Know elder’s preferences**
**Know what the service system does, what it costs and who will pay.**

## SUPPORT VS. SERVICE(CONTINUED)

**Defining a Role, Setting Boundaries**
**How many hours in a day?**
**Creating a Routine, Planning for a Crisis**
**Building Caring Communities**
**Caring for Yourself**
**Sharing With Others**

## SUPPORTINGCAREGIVER DIRECTION

**Giving Resources to Caregivers**
**Cash**
**Caregiver Allowance**
**Service Bank**
**Pay Family Members**

## OTHER CAREGIVER SUPPORTS

**Information & Assistance**
**Counseling & Mediation**
**Home Modifications**
**Adaptive Equipment**
**Assistive Technology**

## CAREGIVER RECOGNITION

**Organizations of Caregivers**
**Community Recognition**
**Publicity & Visibility in Media**
**Awards, Prizes and Treats**
**Career Enhancement**
**Entertainment, Recreation & Fitness**
**Spiritual/Pastoral Support**
# Presentation: 741682

## Intellectual Merits

- MET DMR-0348818, Seetharaman, Carnegie Mellon University

***Motivation:***** **The structure and properties of steel parts for various applications, depend on the rates of and manner in which a number processes occur at high temperatures, such as flow of molten steel, reactions between molten steel and its container, slag,  and atmosphere, solidification and solid state phase transformations. Since all these kinetic processes occur at high temperatures, they are somewhat difficult to study through classical metallographic tools such as optical or electron microscopy.
***Goals:*** This program aims to utilize and enhance current capabilities to quantify high temperature metallurgical phenomena through direct observations. A high temperature confocal scanning laser microscope and x-ray fluoroscopy

**Initial structure: Electron microscopy**

**Observation of structural changes during thermal treatment: High temperature confocal microscopy**

**Final structure: Optical microscopy**

***Example:***** **increasing the understanding of thermal processing by following the evolution of microstructure through the use of multiple microscopy techniques

## Broader Impacts

***Outreach:***** **A materials science module was developed and used for a two day SWE activity for female  middle and high school students. The middle-school activities included: (i) casting miniature metal statues and characterizing cast structures, (ii)  investigating temperature sensitive mechanical properties of polymers and (iii) introducing the phenomenon of superconductivity. The high school activities involved developing materials for a “rocket to be launched to space”. Approximately 50 students participated in each of the two age groups.

***Education:***** **A web based module is being developed that shows CSLM movies of solidification and phase transformation phenomena for Fe-based alloys. The module will have the appearance shown below to the left. CSLM movies have been develop for a Fe-C alloys and examples are shown, in the  figures to the right. The images show -ferrite platelet precipitation from a -matrix upon cooling.

- MET DMR-0348818, Seetharaman, Carnegie Mellon University
# Presentation: 770356

## ISLET TRANSPLANTATION:FOCUS ON MANUFACTURING

- UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- AND
- cGMP, Co.

- Michael Millis, M.D.

## GOAL

- Develop a Islet Transplant Program that would withstand the anticipated regulatory requirements
- Practical for an academic institution’s financial constraints

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## cGMP, Co

**cGMP, Co**

**Procedure that encompasses**
**   ****cGMP for the manufacture of**
**   ****biologics **
**BLA ready**
**Reimbursable **

**  ****Standard Laboratory Practice**
**  ****2000 Reminder letter that FDA**
**     ****regulates Islet Transplantation**
**  ****3/02 Guidance regarding validation**
**     ****of processing human tissues for**
**     ****transplantation**

## Principles for Biologic Manufacturing 

- Control and Validation of
- Facility
- Process
- Goal:  Make cellular (Islet) isolation conform to the Principles of Biologic Manufacturing

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Facility

- Early planning matching existing institutional assets with anticipated regulatory compliance- form a good plan
- Define robust process that when modified does not effect integrity of facility (validated)
- Early planning to control costs

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Process

- Control the critical process environment to assure product safety and repeatability
- Temperature
- Bio-burden
- Cross-contamination
- Eliminate all equipment that cannot be validated to assure absence of contamination/cross contamination
- Eliminate all components that require the use of undesirable substrates
- Early training of staff to assure aseptic transfer of product (SOPs, training, QA/QC)

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Temperature Controlled COBE 2991

**Temperature Controlled COBE 2991**
**Chilled by Refrigerant Unit that also chills other equipment**

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Temperature of bath and product

**Temperature of bath and product**
**determines depth of immersion**

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Bag being placed in heating 

**Bag being placed in heating **
**device made for the bag**

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Bag being placed in cooling 

**Bag being placed in cooling **
**device made for the bag**

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Summary

- Islet Isolation can be performed under conditions that adhere to BLA requirements
- It requires expertise in pharmaceutical standards for laboratory and  process development

- University of Chicago

- cGMP, Co

## Acknowledgments

- Jonathan Lakey
- Camillo Ricordi
- Benhard Hering
- James Shapiro
- State of Illinois
- Tom Cross
- JDRF

- University of Chicago
- Diane Ostrega
- Marc Garfinkle
- Technicians
- cGMP, Co.
- Phil Lasarsky
- John Jarosz
-  Gambro/COBE

- Additional Information

**cGMP, Co.**
**Phil Lasarsky**
**312 543-5523**

**University of Chicago**
**Michael Millis, M.D.**
**773 702 – 6319**
# Presentation: 789009

## Compulsory Use Under Regulation E

- Opportunities and Obstacles in Creating an Affordable Loan Product
- December 6, 2006

## Electronic Fund Transfer Act § 913

- No person may –
- Condition the extension of credit to a consumer on such consumer’s repayment by means of preauthorized EFTs; or
- Require a consumer to establish an account for receipt of EFTs with a particular financial institution as a condition of employment or receipt of a government benefit.

## Scope

- Applies to preauthorized electronic fund transfers, which are “EFTs that are authorized in advance to recur at substantially regular intervals”
- Creditors may require payment by electronic means for one-time debits

## Background

- 1977 National Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers Report
- “EFT should be a means to expand consumer choice among financial services, not to narrow it. ... [I]t is essential that consumers have the ability to choose among payment alternatives, and ... any attempts to restrict such choice should be prohibited to the extent possible.”

## Background

- EFTA enacted in 1978, and adopted many of the Commission’s recommendations, including compulsory use restrictions in § 913.
- Prohibitions are “designed to assure that EFT develops in an environment of free choice for the consumer.  A creditor could not condition the extension of credit on a consumer’s agreement to repay by automatic EFT payments.”
- Section “would not prohibit a creditor from offering a lower APR to consumers who repay by EFT.”

## Regulation E and Commentary

- Statutory prohibition for extensions of credit implemented in § 205.10(e)(1):
- _Credit_.  No financial institution or other person may condition an extension of credit to a consumer on the consumer’s repayment by preauthorized EFTs, except for credit extended under an overdraft credit plan or extended to maintain a specified minimum balance in the consumer’s account.

## Regulation E and Commentary

- Creditors may, however, offer a cost-related incentive, such as a reduced APR, to encourage consumers to choose an automatic repayment feature, so long as this program is not the only loan program offered by the creditor for the type of credit involved.
- Consumer must be eligible for both programs.

## Regulation E and Commentary

- Exception for overdraft checking plans
- Automatic repayment of overdraft plan may be required even if the overdraft extension charged to an open-end account that can be accessed in ways other than by overdraft

## Final thoughts

- Lenders may not condition extensions of credit on repayment by preauthorized debits, unless cost incentive provided
- Requirement to obtain a consumer’s signed, written authorization would apply for preauthorized EFTs
- Creditors may require consumers to repay loans by EFT if the consumer must repay the loan in a single installment
# Presentation: 548093

## INSERT CONSTRAINTS FROM COLLECTIVE EXCITED STATES in the fit of the functional. Concrete proposal : K , S(ρ=0.1 fm-3) , g0’. 

- INSERT CONSTRAINTS FROM _COLLECTIVE EXCITED STATES_ in the fit of the functional. Concrete proposal : K , S(ρ=0.1 fm-3) , g0’.

-  Giant Monopole Resonance : EGMR constrains K = 240 ± 20 MeV.                                                              (a) Allow in the fit this relatively broad range (one can allow 1.5σ, that is, 210 < K < 270 MeV). (b) A smaller range is possible if we have an *a priori* choice for the density dependence. This constraints comes from a comparative study of Skyrme, Gogny, RMF.
-  Giant Dipole Resonance : EIVGDR constraints S0.1  S(=0.1 fm-3). The constraint, coming from a study with Skyrme, is 22.3 < S0.1 < 25.8 MeV.
-  Giant Quadrupole Resonance : it mainly involves m*.
-  Low-lying collective states : too much dependent on s.p. spectrum.
-  Giant Gamow-Teller Resonance : imposing that it exhausts about 60% of the 3(N-Z) sum rule constraints the spin-isospin part of the functional. Here the precise constraint depends on the functional.

- Gianluca Colò, Univ. of Milano, Italy

## Slide 2
# Presentation: 002414

## The sad tale

- How we found the problem
- That won’t happen again but ...
- The worry.

- General Computing and Software Meeting
- Jan 16th, 2003

- Tom Diehl

## What happened

- The PDT front-end control boards
- run firmware that, among other things,  buffers and formats the L2 and L3 data.
- The firmware is under development.
- On Nov. 27th  we loaded a version that didn’t send L2 or L3 data under certain error conditions.
- I believe it passed the standard test procedure (as it was defined at that time).
- That mistake was discovered by a non-standard procedure and confirmed on Dec. 16th.
- The code was immediately replaced.
- The runs receive Grade = F for muon.

- Tom Diehl

## Symptoms

- Online monitoring shows unusual number of  readout errors. Experts said it was expected with this code version. Minute to Hourly monitoring.
- L2 accept rate shows a fine “sawtooth” structure related to SCLINIT. See picture (T.T.). This is how it was discovered and isolated. Daily to Weekly monitoring.
- L2 rejection instability. See picture. This is how it was confirmed. Weekly to Monthly monitoring.
- L3 data wrecked: comparison (R.M.) of the L1 trigger hardware against L1 trigger simulator with L3 data as input showed missing L3 data. Weekly to Monthly monitoring?
- Offline Ratio of Forward muon vs Central muon tracks. See T.G.’s slides. Weekly to Monthly monitoring?

- Tom Diehl

## Trigger Rate Plots

- “sawtooth” L2 accept rates

## L2 Rejection

- Runs 168618 to 169295 have higher avg. L2 Rej.

- The dashed lines
- indicate the run range
- for version changes.
- Note L2 Rej. returns to
- Previous lower level.

- Tom Diehl

## That won’t happen again ...

- Written procedure requires special run with new code.
- Procedures used to isolate this problem are applied to the special run and comparison is made against a special run taken with the current version.
- Only after an informal sign-off (by muon algorithms) do we load in the new code for regular use.
- But ...

- Tom Diehl

## Headline on D0 World News

- Perfectly good muon data wrecked!
- Usual suspects rounded up for questioning.
- It’s happened two or three times to us.
- It could happen to you.
- It might be preventable.

- I wrote this slide for the Oklahoma workshop.
- I don’t recall what the problem was that time but I bet it was more subtle.

- Tom Diehl

## Summary

- The muon data was corrupted in spite of testing procedures.
- It took 18 days to figure that out and fix it.
- In spite of many places we could have noticed the problem the discovery came from an unexpected source.
- I believe this indicates systematic problem(s).

- Tom Diehl
# Presentation: 066606

## “Climate Variability – Atmospheric Composition – Water Cycle”

- The Agenda
- Presentation of overview of the linkages among Chapters 5, 6, and 7 in draft Plan
- Opportunity for prepared comments by invited reviewers of the draft Plan
- Opportunity for verbal questions, comments, and discussion from workshop attendees
**IMPORTANT Reminder:**
- To be effective in improving the Strategic Plan, comments should be submitted electronically according to instructions on the website
- (_[www.](http://www.climatescience.gov/)__[climatescience](http://www.climatescience.gov/)__[.](http://www.climatescience.gov/)__[gov](http://www.climatescience.gov/)_; follow links to Strategic Plan)

## Introduction

- Different kind of session - I did not participate in preparing the draft plan
- Linkages are :
- Explicit (named as linkages - lists)
- Implicit (tied in some other way; e.g. through another section such as observations)
- Focused on the linkages within the USGCRP 	(Section II)
- Clear connections to and through CCRI
- Section II speaks to multiple research communities that should not be crowded out by blinding light of the climate problem.
- Chapter 12 ... major set of linkages

## Basic parts of the plan

- Three chapters:
- Atmospheric Composition; Climate Variability; Water Cycle
- Each chapter with
- (at least) 2 over-riding questions
- 5 broad questions
- (average of) 4 illustrative scientific questions for each broad question
- 3-5 research needs
- 3-5 products and payoffs
- Key Linkages (3-10 per section)

## The cross-cutting themes...as discovered

- Clouds and radiation
- Observations
- Regional impacts and connections

## Clouds and radiation 

- Explicit linkage among all three chapters.
- Connection to and through key uncertainties 1 & 3 (aerosols and cloud feedbacks)
- Cloud parameterization and feedbacks
- Aerosol impacts on clouds

## Observations

- All three call for improved, climatologically relevant observations
- Implicit connection through the “Climate Quality Observations”
- Nature and Scope (common research needs)
- Long-term (continuity)
- Global
- Regional
- Connected to modeling activities

## Impacts -regional (societal interaction)

- All three contain an strong connection to regional impacts - although not offered as an explicit linkage
- “Water Cycle” most developed
- “Climate Variability” connected broadly
- “Atmospheric Composition” and “Water Cycle” have strong underlying regional constituencies - implicit connection through human dimensions

## General Observations

- “Water Cycle” is connected to everything
- Major connections through Chapter 12 (“Grand Challenges in ...”)
- Development of linkages appears to be in a formative stage
- Partially shrouded by the language of disciplines, sub-specialties, and applied vs. research applications.
- Not fully developed as opportunities for synergism among elements of the plan.