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# Presentation: 027746

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- 				Diane J. Frasier
- 				November 8, 2004
- 			AMC Acquisition Symposium

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization		

- Purpose:  “To establish an innovative acquisition environment throughout the Department by creating a seamless integration of acquisition policies, procedures, systems and contract vehicles to serve employees, customers and vendors.”

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Background:
- April 17, 2003 – Bob Woods, Chief of Staff memo
- Operate as one HHS
- Reduce duplicative administrative functions – reduce administrative expenses
- Savings redirected to program areas

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Background (cont.)
- June 2003 Gettysburg Management Retreat
- Marc Weisman, OS/OAMP charged with task  to “consolidate” HHS acquisition
- “How do we define “consolidate”

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- July 2003 – Strategic Sourcing Pilot
- Effective purchase of goods and services by leveraging organizational needs and buying power

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- August 2003 – Acquisition Consolidated Workgroup (ACW) - renamed Acquisition Integration and Modernization (AIM)
- Develop and implement sensible HHS-wide plan for acquisition consolidation
- OPDIV participation
- Cross-functional

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- December 2003 – Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE)
- All day session to understand full scope of undertaking HHS acquisition consolidation
- Session resulted in identification of key areas for further action

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Six original ACW/AIM teams
- Process
- Systems
- HHS Wide Acquisition Contracts (HWACs)
- Resources
- Communications
- Metrics

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Process Team
- Develop standardized acquisition processes and procedures
- Minimize redundancy and promote efficient, effective and consistent work efforts

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Systems Team
- Design and implement a Department-wide integrated contract requisition and writing system
- Create a seamless interface for users across OPDIVs

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Strategic Sourcing/HWACs
- Effective purchase of goods and services by leveraging organizational needs and buying power
- Create and use HWACs

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Resources
- Review/analyze OPDIV staffing requirements
- Metrics
- Develop meaningful measures for AIM initiatives
- Measures for acquisition offices
- Communications
- Develop plan for communicating AIM initiatives

## Acquisition Integration and Modernization

- Project Management Team
- Combined Resources, Metrics and Communication Teams
- Liaison to other 3 remaining AIM teams

## Slide 14

## Slide 15
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## Meeting Summary and Next Steps 

## Next Steps

- Create focus group to discuss noise
- CAL promotion (fall 2002)
- Introduce Final version of Testing Facility Guidance Manual (fall 2002)
- Introduce new Draft specification for review and comment (fall 2002)
- Begin collecting unit shipment data from all partners (Jan 2003)

## ENERGY STAR® Contacts

- Andrew Fanara
- (202) 564-9019
- _Fanara.andrew@epa.gov_
- Kate Lewis
- (202) 564-3531
- _Lewis.kate@epa.gov_
- Rebecca Miller
- (202) 862-1266
- _rmiller@icfconsulting.com_
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## Machine status

## Status - overview

- Tue **Jan 4**		beginning”2 weeks” ramp-up
- Tue **Jan 11**		**beginning of phyisics** (eve)
- Tue **Jan 18****	**	<**1 week into physics   (data up to Monday morning 5:30am)**

- Total from January 11 (nbarn-1)
**Phenix:****	****	****1.38**
**STAR: ****	****	****1.38**
**Brahms:****	****	****0.64**
**Phobos: ****	****	****0.52**

## Intensity/collisions – Week 1

- access

**28**

**28**

**28**

**28**

**28**

**28**

**31**

**34**

**37**

**37**

**43**

**45**

**37**

- best

## Week 1 – best store   (31x31 4.5e9)

- 5904 – Sunday afternoon

## Operations issues

**Rates** Phenix/Star, Phobos/Brahms
- 	(procedure for phenix steering)
- Reduce **time between stores**
- 	data, revisit optimum store lengths?
- Gap cleaning (no cleaning or cleaning
- Nominal **intensity – reproducibility**
- 	(better with AGS, and low intensity interlock)
**Transmission – reproducibility**
- 	(auto-orbit correction, + regular re-tuning on ramp)
**Ramp check/maintenance** every morning
- 	(by day shift leader)
**Use of configuration page**

## Luminosity development

_**Ramp/store parameters now: 37x37 4.5 e9**_
_**limitations**_
**Pressure rises**
**Phobos** PR with 43x43
**transition pressure rise at** **warm section 4 o’clock** with 45x45
- Losses at transition
**Transverse Emittance**
**Background**  not yet
**Beam-beam**  not yet
_**Luminosity development**_
- Increase bunch intensity **4.5********6-7e9**
**Transition** optimization for bunch intensity>4.5e9
**Emittance** measurement, control (injectors, emittance growth RHIC)
- Re-try Increase number of bunches to 45-55
**IR correction**, yellow
**Common cavities**
- Test of **different working point** (ramp/store)

## Back from access

**Monday-Tuesday  - many problems**
- AGS main magnet and PS
- ODH alarms
- Repeated quenches
- RF cavity tuner failures
- ...........impact on luminosity clear
**Recover from access owl today**:
- Support to operation (Greg, Todd...)
- Ramp maintenance (transmission)
- Revert to ramp/store  **5904** *(Sunday- Phobos B)*
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## The Relationship of Silicon Dihydride Sites to the Metastable Defects in a-Si:H

**Disordered Semiconductors Research Group**

**Abstract**
- 	We use proton nuclear magnetic resonance to probe stable silicon dihydride existing in high defect density hydrogenated amorphous silicon.  The silicon dihydride line shape exhibits the well-known “Pake” doublet form resulting from a dipole interaction between two protons. We simulate the line shape using the relevant Hamiltonian and broadening effects known to occur in this amorphous system. The sets of simulation parameters that reproduce the experimental data render an approximate realization of the hydrogen’s local bonding environment  (i. e. hydrogen-hydrogen separation, nearest neighbor distances). A unique parameter set cannot be determined from the magnetic resonance data alone. However, it is possible to extract the upper and lower limits by considering the extreme cases for known hydrogen bonding environments—the true parameter set being somewhere in between these values.
- 	Of particular importance is the hydrogen-hydrogen separation since the dihydride site is a possible candidate for the metastable defect mediating the Staebler-Wronski effect. We compare our results with a previous study that links a metastable paired hydrogen site to the effect.

**The Relationship of Silicon Dihydride Sites to the Metastable Defects in a-Si:H**

**Summary ****	**
- 	We have fitted the experimental Pake doublet for stable SiH2 with line shape simulations whose fitting parameters reflect the possible local environments and variation in the hydrogen-hydrogen separation. It is found that that an accurate fit is obtainable when the hydrogen-hydrogen separation in SiH2 is 1.8 Å. Isotropic broadening due to neighboring atoms and variations in the separation distance allow for satisfactory fit, but cannot be uniquely determined from the NMR spectra alone.
- 	The significant deviation from the previous result of 2.3 ± 0.2 Å suggests that the metastable site may not be SiH2. However, it is difficult to rule out SiH2 since a detailed line shape for the metastable site in device-grade material has not been possible to date.
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## Polio and Polio Vaccine

**Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases**
**National Immunization Program**
**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**

**Revised January 2007**

## NOTICEContent and order of the slides in this file may differ from those presented on the broadcast and webcast

## Poliovirus

**Enterovirus (RNA)**
**Three serotypes: 1, 2, 3**
**Minimal heterotypic immunity ****between serotypes**
**Infection is acquired through the mouth**
**Most poliovirus infections are asymptomatic **

## Poliomyelitis—United States, 1950-2005

## Poliomyelitis—United States, 1980-2005

**Poliomyelitis—United States, 1980-2005**

- *

*** VAPP in a U.S. resident acquired outside the U.S.**

## Vaccine-Derived PoliovirusInfections-MN, 2005

**7 month old infant with a severe immunodeficiency**
**Infected with a type 1 poliovirus derived from the vaccine strain **
**7 additional infections in the community**
**None of the infected children were paralyzed or had other symptoms **

## Poliovirus Vaccine

**1955****	****Inactivated vaccine**
**1961****	****Types 1 and 2 monovalent OPV**
**1962****	****Type 3 monovalent OPV**
**1963****	****Trivalent OPV**
**1987****	****Enhanced-potency IPV (IPV)**
**2000****	****OPV discontinued in U.S.**

## Inactivated Polio Vaccine

**Highly effective in producing immunity to poliovirus**
**>90% immune after 2 doses**
**>99% immune after 3 doses**

## Polio Vaccination Schedule 

_**Vaccine**_
**IPV**
**IPV**
**IPV**
**IPV**

_**Age**_
**2 months**
**4 months**
**6-18 months**
**4-6 years***

**Minimum**
_**Interval**_
**  ****---**
**4 wks**
**4 wks**
**4 wks**

***the fourth dose of IPV may be given as early**
** ****as 18 weeks of age**

## Schedules that Include Both IPV and OPV

**Only IPV is available in the ****United States**
**Schedule begun with OPV should be completed with IPV**
**Any combination of 4 doses of IPV and OPV by 5 years constitutes a complete series**

## Polio Vaccination of Adults

**Routine vaccination of U.S. residents 18 years of age or older not recommended**
**Should be considered are those who travel to polio endemic areas of the world and selected laboratory workers **

## Polio Vaccination of Unvaccinated Adults

**Use IPV**
**Use standard IPV schedule if possible (0, 1-2 months, 6-12 months)**
**May separate doses by 4 weeks if accelerated schedule needed**

## Polio Vaccine Adverse Reactions

**Local reactions (pain, erythema, swelling – 2.8%**
**Severe reactions are rare**

## Polio VaccineContraindications and Precautions

**Severe allergic reaction to a vaccine component or following a prior dose of vaccine**
**Moderate or severe acute illness**

## Polio Eradication

**Last case in United States in 1979**
**last case of wild poliovirus in the Western Hemisphere occurred in Peru in 1991 **
**World Health Organization established a polio eradication program in 1988 **

## Wild Poliovirus 2005

**Wild Poliovirus 2005**

## National Immunization ProgramContact Information

**Telephone****	****	****800.CDC.INFO**** **
**Email****	****	****	****nipinfo@cdc.gov**** **
**Website****	****	****www.cdc.gov/nip**
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## Slide 1

## Broader Aspects of Research Accomplishments

- The work on the remarkable symmetry-breaking phase transition in multilayers of spherical domain block copolymers forms a major part of the PhD thesis of **Gila Stein**.  Besides her considerable experimental skill, Gila has proved adept at collaborating with Glenn Fredrickson and his post-docs, Eric Cochran and Kirill Katsov.  This collaboration has led to an explanation of the phase transition in the context of a Landau-type theory, using self-consistent field theory based simulations to demonstrate the competition between the packing preferred in the bulk with that at the interfaces.  Gila has also recently demonstrated that the multilayers melt at a higher temperature than monolayers and plans to apply for a NRC post-doc, which she will start in late 2006/early 2007.

***Gila Stein**** is shown here adjusting the position of a GISAXS*
*sample at the APS at Argoone National Lab.  Gila was a ChE undergraduate at Drexel and has been an REU mentor for Hector Cota in the summer of 2004*

**Se Gyu Jang**, seen above using the scanning force microscope,  is a PhD student in ChE at KAIST in the group of  Sueng Man Yang.  Se Gyu has spent the last year in the Kramer group at UCSB learning to combine  the graphoepitaxy methods for aligning and eliminating defects in cylinder forming block copolymer worked out under NSF support by Matt Hammond (PhD ’05) as well as the techniques for crosslinking and incorporating SiO2 precursors into P2VP domains to produce inorganic-organic hybrid films developed by Ryan Hayward (PhD ’04) .  The aim, in addition to establishing strong links between the Yang and Kramer labs, is incorporate the etch resistance necessary for nanopatterning inorganic substrates into defect free block copolymer monolayers.
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## FT Benchmark in UPC

**Christian Bell and Rajesh Nishtala**

## NAS FT Benchmark

- Part of the NAS Parallel Benchmark suite
- Solves a 3-D partial differential equation (PDE) using forward and inverse FFTs
- Important in many spectral-type and engineering codes
- Integrates a heavyweight all-to-all communication step
- Initial exercise was to port the benchmark in UPC and aimed to evaluate UPC for programmability (it is _not_ based on existing GWU NPB benchmarks)

## NAS FT Outline

- Compute 2D FFT of NX*NY over NZ/THREADS planes
- Send sections of NX*NY/THREADS from each plane to all
- Transpose each section in Z direction and compute 1D FFT
- Send results back to original THREADS

## NAS FT UPC Implementation

- Each UPC Thread allocates its portion of the 3D Cube in the UPC shared heap
- Little synchronization required – each thread knows where portions of the cube live in the shared heap and issues bulk data puts and gets for 2D and 1D FFTs
- All operations are done in place and in UPC shared memory – no extra memory allocation for temporary storage or double buffering
- 2D FFT plane computations are interleaved with communication (this constitutes a broken up All-to-All).
- Implemented a blocking and non-blocking versions for all communication steps

## Existing NAS UPC FT Programmability Comparisons

_**GWU NAS 2.3 FT **_
- ~600 semi-colons
- Uses 3 x 1D FFTs
- Code history makes the UPC code difficult to read  (from Serial Fortran, to OpenMP and finally to UPC)
- Poor programming methodology

_**Berkeley NAS UPC FT**_
- ~275 semi-colons
- Uses 2D FFT + 1D FFT
- Strictly programmed in UPC from the ground up
- Improved readability

## Performance ResultsBerkeley UPC FT vs MPI Fortran FT

- 80 Dual PIII-866MHz Nodes running Berkeley UPC
- (gm-conduit /Myrinet 2K, 33Mhz-64Bit bus)

## Conclusion

- Our aim for a highly programmable UPC program also produced a very competitive benchmark
- A “bulk” type benchmark faster than Fortran MPI
- Communication scheduling between 2D FFT planes circumvents the lack of an efficient All-to-All
- Non-blocking version requires an additional ***17 lines*** of UPC code
- Makes use of Berkeley UPC specific non-blocking extensions introduced in February 2004
- MPI Non-blocking semantics require important infrastructure and design changes
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## Driver Performance

- Burton H. Simon

## Investigation Overview

- Driver’s Fitness for Duty
- Driver’s Experience
- Driver’s Cellular Telephone Use
- Accident Investigation Experience
- Cellular Telephone Use
- Cellular Telephone Research
- Accident Data

## Driver’s Fitness for Duty

- Good general health
- No medications, toxicology negative
- Adequate opportunity for sleep
- Medically certificated

## Driver’s Experience

- Valid CDL
- Completed motor carrier’s driver training
- 9 months’ experience
- Previously driven accident route

## Driver’s Cellular Telephone Use

- Driver used hands-free cellular telephone
- 12-minute conversation documented
- Driver and witnesses reported use

## Accident Investigation Experience

- Largo, Maryland (2002)
- Inexperienced driver
- Unfamiliar with vehicle
- Distracted by use of hand-held cellular telephone
- Recommended States prohibit use by learners and intermediate drivers

## Cellular Telephone Use

- Over 204 million subscribers
- 30% report use while driving
- NHTSA reports 974,000 drivers using hand-held cellular telephones at any given daylight moment

## Naturalistic Research

- Naturalistic driving study (NHTSA, 2006)
- Cellular telephone was most common distraction observed
- Accident risk increased up to 3 times

## Additional Research

- Driving performance impaired
- Slower reaction times
- Drive more slowly
- Maintain greater following distances
- Reduced awareness of driving environment
- Primarily a cognitive distraction
- Hands-free offers little, if any, improvement

## Accident Data

- FARS 2005
- All Drivers
- Cellular telephone used by driver: 135 (0.23 percent)
- Cellular telephone present in vehicle: 726 (1.2 percent)
- Bus Drivers
- Cellular telephone used by driver: 1 (0.35 percent)
- Cellular telephone present in vehicle: 5 (1.8 percent)
- Data incomplete
- Data insufficient to identify full scope of  U.S. problem

## Slide 11
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## Gravity Waves Ripple over Marine Stratocumulus Clouds

**29 October 2003**

**Gravity Waves Ripple over Marine Stratocumulus Clouds**

## Hazy and Dusty Skies over Western Africa 

**12 January 2004**

**Notes:**
A pall of smoke and dust largely obscured the nations of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso and southern Mali on January 12, 2004. The poor air quality in the region was a combined result of the hundreds of agricultural fires that were burning throughout western Africa during December and early January, and was likely to have been influenced by a Saharan dust storm that occurred several days earlier. These image data products from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) illustrate the abundance of atmospheric particulate matter across the region.
The left-hand panels are natural-color views from MISR's downward-pointing (nadir) and most obliquely forward-pointing cameras. At the nadir view, the shoreline of the Cote d'Ivoire and many other surface features are apparent, and the haze across the region is noticeable. The distinctive area of dark green vegetation (apparent below and left of image center) are situated in the Cote d'Ivoire, near the border with Ghana, to the east of the Komoe River and southwest of the Comoe National Park. At the oblique view the aerosol appears so thick that the coastline is completely obscured, but this region of dark vegetation and hilly terrain can still be discerned.
The right-hand panel is generated through automated processing of data from multiple MISR cameras, and utilizes the change in scene brightness and contrast at different view angles to retrieve aerosol amount, expressed as optical depth. The aerosol map indicates an optically thick atmosphere by the orange or yellow pixels, and clearer skies are indicated by blue pixels. Places where clouds or other factors precluded an aerosol retrieval are shown in dark gray. Aerosol properties are retrieved at a coarse spatial resolution of 17.6 kilometers.
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer observes the daylit Earth continuously and every 9 days views the entire globe between 82 degrees north and 82 degrees south latitude. These data products were generated from a portion of the imagery acquired during Terra orbit 21641. The panels cover an area of about 380 kilometers x 1425 kilometers, and utilize data from blocks 80 to 90 within World Reference System-2 path 195.
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.Text acknowledgment: Clare Averill (Raytheon ITSS / Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
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## Way Points:

**Way Points:**
- - NASA-GSFC Buildings 32 & 33, Greenbelt, MD
- - USDA-ARS EOS Core Site, Beltsville, MD
- - Knob Mountain, Shenandoah National Park, VA
- - Appalachian Laboratory Tower, Frostburg, MD
- - Dolly Sods Wilderness, WV
- - CMH Airport, Columbus, OH

- Visualizations courtesy of Paul Davis/CRESS

- - Leaf On:  6/30/00 – 7/2/00 (actual)
-  Leaf Off:  3/27/01+    (estimated *)
-     * MODIS will be used to verify that snow cover has abated.

**Acquisition Strategy:**

**CMH**

**Dolly Sods**

**Knob**
**Mtn**

**GSFC &**
**USDA**

**Instrument:**
- ADAR 5500 (RGB+NIR); 1m resolution

## Vegetation Continuous Fields

- Validation using Fine Resolution Data

- Ground Observation

- Air Photo (1m)

- TM (15m & 30m)

**MODIS (250m & 500m)**

**1m**

**30m**

**30m classified**

**250m classified**

- - Coordinated observations from ground, air, and satellite.
- - Provides the opportunity to examine scaling issues.
-  Example shows prototype from U.S. field activities.
-  Using IKONOS, Positive Systems ADAR, and ETM+

## Slide 3
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## Unit 1: Course Overview

## Course Objectives (1 of 2)

**Describe:**
**The purpose of the National Response Framework. **
**The response doctrine established by the National Response Framework. **
**The roles and responsibilities of response partners.**

## Course Objectives (2 of 2)

**Describe:**
**The actions that support national response. **
**The response organizations used for multiagency coordination. **
**The relationship between planning and national preparedness. **

## Student Introductions

**Name, job title, and organization**
**Overall experience with emergency or incident response**

## Expectations

**What do you expect to gain from this course?**

## Instructor Expectations

**Cooperate with the group.**
**Be open minded to new ideas.**
**Participate actively in all of the training activities and exercises.**
**Return to class at the stated time.**

## Course Logistics

**Course agenda**
**Sign-in sheet**
**Housekeeping:**
**Breaks**
**Message and telephone ****location**
**Cell phone policy**
**Facilities**
**Other concerns**

## Successful Course Completion

**Participate in unit activities/exercises.**
**Achieve 75% or higher on the final exam.**
**Complete the end-of-course evaluation.**
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## · 9 Counties

**Working in conjunction with ****the Sacramento Air District & the San Joaquin Air District**

- S

**Santa **
**Clara**

**San**
**Mateo**

**Alameda**

**San**
**Francisco**

**Contra Costa**

**Solano**

**Napa**

**Sonoma**

**Marin**

**Encompasses**
- ·** 9 Counties**
- ·** 5 Districts**
- ·** 6000 Square Miles**

## 1955

**1955**

**2000**

**San Francisco Bay Area Trends**

** ****3****             Millions of People            ****7**

** ****1.7         ****   Millions of Cars             ****5**

**  ****35****      Millions of VMD Daily         ****140**

## Sources of Bay Area Air Pollution

**Sources of Bay Area Air Pollution**

## A Day in the Life of Ozone

**A Day in the Life of Ozone**

##          The       Spare the Air        Program

- Voluntary intermittent program to reduce        emissions on high ozone days.

- On average 20 - 25 day per year.

- Begun in 1991.

- Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley air        districts have similar Spare the Air programs.

## What You Can Do on a Spare the Air Day

**Reduce your driving. **

**Postpone using gasoline powered ****lawn and garden equipment.**

**Don’t use consumer products that pollute.**

**Conserve energy.**

**Don’t use gasoline powered boats.**

## Why is it important to reduce air pollution?

**It’s a public health issue.**

**It’s a business productivity issue.**

**It’s a quality of life issue.**

##   Aspects of the Spare the Air Program         

**www.sparetheair.org**
**   ****Website**

**Advertising**

**Media**
**Outreach**

**Email**
**Notification**

**Youth Outreach Campaign**

**Public**
**Outreach**

**Employers**
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## Project Initiation

**Environmental Review Process initiated by letter that must contain:**
- Type of work, termini, length, location, and other Federal approvals (expected permits).
- An indication of the time frame for the environmental review process to begin
**Letter is official notice to Division to begin environmental review process**

## Project Initiation

**What it is and is not**
- Can be NOI, if NOI has all information and is submitted to Division Administrator.
- Not the usual NOI. The NOI is published in the FR. Letter of Project Initiation is not.
- Letter comes from sponsoring agency official authorized to sign the EIS

## When?	

**Letter of Project Initiation before NOI but after a thorough evaluation that the project is “ready to proceed”**
**Have firm commitment to initiate the project through the Environmental Review Process  **
**May initiate during planning if all of the needed information is known**

## How to Start

**Letter must come from official at sponsoring agency authorized to sign EISs **
**Letter can be hard copy or email**
**After receipt of letter initiate Environmental Review Process:**
- Identification of Joint Leads & Participating Agencies
- development of a coordination plan

## New Project Implementation

**Sponsoring agency sends notification**
**Include information about project**
**Type of work, termini, length, location**
**List of other Federal approvals**
**Identify when the ERP should start**
**Send notification prior to publication of NOI**
**If sufficient information available send notification in transportation planning process**

## New Project Initiation Streamline

- Consolidate information for a Notice of Intent with notification for project initiation
- Consolidate notifications for new projects in one letter notice
- Utilize the STIP as a vehicle for project initiation

## Retrofit Implementation

**The NOI was published months ago?**
- Get sponsoring agency to send a notification letter for the file.
- Indicate date of NOI and that environmental review process (ERP) is now ongoing
**What if you have just completed FEIS?**
- Get sponsoring agency to send notification letter for file
- Indicate that lead agencies should consider the requirements of ERP to insure they are met prior to issuing ROD

## Project Initiation Quiz 

**The Environmental Review Process is initiated by the FHWA Division Office by use of a project initiation letter**
**The initiation letter must identify participating agencies and indicate when the environmental review process should commence**

## Project Initiation Quiz II

**If a project has a NOI it doesn’t need an initiation letter and notices of initiation may be batched in a multi-project notice of initiation **
**For projects started after 8/10/05 but before the 6002 guidance was finalized the environmental review process must be followed but no initiation letter is required **
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## Lecture 4

**Reciprocal lattice**
**“****Ewald sphere”**
**	****	****Sphere of reflection (diffraction)**
**	****	****Sphere of resolution**
**	****	**

## Reciprocal lattice: 	Diffraction pattern of the 	crystal latticeDiffraction data:	Reciprocal lattice X diffraction 	pattern of the unit cell 	content

## Slide 3

## Reciprocal Lattice

**	****	**

## Slide 5

##  Scattering by atomic planes in crystal:

** ****Scattering by atomic planes in crystal:**
**Bragg geometry**

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Vector representation

## Define “Reciprocal lattice vector S”

**Define “Reciprocal lattice vector S”**

## Equivalence

**Equivalence**

- = 1/d

- for crystal

- If we set the magnitude of s and so vectors equal to 1/then
- Bragg’s law and Laue conditions are the same !!

## In Crystal

**In Crystal**

## (hkl) plane intersects at:

- (*hkl*) plane intersects at:
- a/h, b/k, and c/l

## (from a set of parallel atomic planes)

- a* is perpendicular to bc plane etc.

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Ewald Sphere of Reflection (Diffraction)

## Construction of Ewald sphere

- set the magnitude of s and so vectors
- equal to 1/

- -

## Magnitude of S

****

**Magnitude of S**

## = 1/d

**= 1/d**

## Slide 21

## when the point touches the Ewald sphere !!

- a* is perpendicular to bc plane etc.

## Slide 23

## Slide 24

## Slide 25

## Slide 26

## Bijvoet pair

**Bijvoet pair**

## Effect of wave length

**Effect of wave length**
**To Ewald sphere**

## Slide 29

## Rotation “wedge”

**Rotation “wedge”**

## Angular separation

- Mosaic spread

## “Blind region”

**“****Blind region”**

## Slide 33

## Summary

**Reciprocal lattice is the diffraction pattern of the crystal (real) lattice**
**Diffraction pattern of a crystal is the product of the reciprocal lattice and the diffraction pattern of the unit cell content**
**Equivalence of Bragg diffraction condition and Laue diffraction condition**
**Ewald construction of “Diffraction sphere”**

## Mathematical description of 

- a*, b*, c* are the axis
-  of a reciprocal unit cell

- Where

- a, b, c are the axis
-  of a real unit cell

**Mathematical description of **
**crystal lattice and reciprocal lattice**

## Slide 36
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## Toward 1D Quasiperiodicity: Zn1xPdx

**Pd concentration**

**Zn****84.6****Pd****15.4**

**“****Zn****77.5****Pd****22.5****”**

**“****Zn****79****Pd****21****”**

**1/******

**Zn****76.8****Pd****23.2**

- c = 12.912 Å
- m = # Pd / c = 3
- n = # Zn / c = 5

**S**

**S**

**L**

**L**

- c = 33.32 Å
- m = 8; n = 13

- c = 46.894 Å
- m = 11; n = 18

- c = 106.86 Å
- m = 25; n = 41

- (c = 4.2 Å  *m*)

-  Intergrowth compounds in the Zn-Pd system have structural analogies with the Fibonacci sequence if we define dimers as short segments (S) and trimers as long segments (L) of _face-shared icosahedra_; there are _2 periodicities_ (m in Pd; n in Zn)
# Presentation: 204508

## RF barrier bucket study

**Outline  **
**RF barrier bucket issues of the Recycler**
**Base line slope between the RF barriers**
**Longitudinal ******** growth due to MI ramping (?)         **
**Longitudinal beam dynamics simulation****  **
**1-D simulation using ESME **

## Effect of the baseline slope on long. non-uniform beam distribution caused     by  extra voltage in right side  

## Beam distribution  with existing baseline slope

**Beam distribution with reduced baseline slope**

-  RF barrier bucket

##   Long.  growth due to ramping or   RF voltage in the MI	: beam inside the RF bucket 	 	   	  wiggles and eventually long.  became bigger	: under investigation

## Beam distribution projected in time after beam injection

**Beam distribution projected in time sometime after the injection**

## Beam simulation using ESME   1. just started, long way to go   2. simulated a RF bucket with       baseline slope with ~6% of       RF voltage     :  result looks qualitatively         right compared to what we         observed 

## ESME simulation of the debunching process of RR  

**Beam injection to the recycler**

**Decreasing the 2.5 MHz voltage**

## Debunched beam contained in the RF bucket

**Debunched beam contained in the RF bucket**

## Simulation of the effect on beam distribution in phase space  with a baseline slope: voltage of the slope is ~6% of RF voltage

**The beam distribution when 0.45 seconds pass**

## 3.6 seconds later

******3.6 seconds later**

******4.5 seconds later**

##  more work on long.  growth issue

-   **Trying to build a long.******** damper system**
-       -  smooth the bump of the beam distribution caused by
-          external voltage :  trace the bump of the beam
-          distribution and put a pulse to the opposite direction
-          of the external voltage.

##  synchronize the beam signal pass time and a electronic 

-   **kick at the right phase.**

**Resistive Wall Monitor**

**RF system**

##     - an alternative way to find out whether the long.  growth

**  ****the way**
-     **-** **an alternative way to find out whether the long. ******** growth**
**       ****is from  MI ramping  **
**    ****-****      **
# Presentation: 545397

## NGOs and Irradiation: A Public Policy Case Study

## Stratfor

- A global geopolitical and public policy intelligence firm
- Global reach
- Global expertise
- Offices in Austin, Washington and New York

## We Knows Activists

**Philosophies of groups and leaders**
**Networks**
**Methodology/tactics**
**Allies**
**Resources**
**Objectives**

## Activists

**Career activists/NGOs**
**Churches**
**Unelected public figures**
**Competitors **
**Students**
**Teachers**
**Civic groups**
**Unions**

## How Activists Control Issues

- Create public acceptance of their science
- Enlist credible support
- Reach vulnerable populations early
- Create identifiable villain
- Advocate simple solution
- Achieve widespread publicity
- Apply political pressure

## Why has this become an issue?

## There is a connection between people, food and the environment because people say “those factors affect my health.”

## Anti-Irradiation NGOs

- Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy Project
- Organic Consumers Association
- Center for Food Safety
- Food & Water, Inc--defunct
- Local groups (when needed)

## Opposition to Irradiation

- Human health concerns
- Food quality
- Food safety
- Anti-technology

## Changing Tactics

- Previous opposition to irradiation companies
- Federal rules
- Address the issue on a national level

## New Tactics

- General move in NGO community to engage “vulnerable populations.”
- Targeting local organizations
- School boards –kids are seen a vulnerable population
- In wake of USDA approval, stronger push for labeling
- Demand for notification

## Labeling

- Looks innocuous
- Wrap issue in idea of customer “right to know” and “better information”
- NGOs believe current label insufficient
- Is “simple solution”

## Labeling—problems

- Battle over text on label
- Label not information—label is used as warning.
- NGOs will not stop with labeling—having labeled, they will call for removal

## California

- AB 1988 serves as good example of new tactic
- Serves as project lab for activist movement
- Can not be used as representative model

## Keys to resolution

- Always maintain your credibility
- Look for win/win scenarios
- Educate members/allies
- Inoculate them against activists
- Establish them as ambassadors
- Anticipate arguments
- Collaborate with the media
# Presentation: 457011

## AQS Ambient Monitoring                  Topics

- AQS Conference
- August 20, 2008
- David Lutz

## Data Timeliness for 1Q 2008

- EPA tracks the data submittals on a quarterly basis for criteria pollutants and PM-2.5 parameters to indicate performance in data submittals to AQS
- Criteria monitoring data required to be submitted to AQS by 90 days after the end of the calendar quarter
- Continuous PM-2.5 and PM-2.5 speciation monitoring also included

## Data Timeliness

- Data timeliness definition means the percentage of all possible ambient concentrations readings that were submitted to AQS by the 90-day deadline
- Number of possible ambient concentrations reflects the declared monitoring schedule
- AMP430 report is used to retrieve the data

## Data Timeliness

- Data timeliness statistics are presented by pollutant, reporting organization, State, Region, and national summary
- Statistics are calculated for:
- All reporting organizations
- State/local reporting organizations only
- Tribal data
- All other reporting organizations (i.e., industry, National Park Service, TVA, contractors, etc.)

## Percent Data Timeliness for All Agencies for 1Q 2008 (as of July 1, 2008)

## DataTimeliness

- National data timeliness for all 5,814 monitors was 71.7 percent
- Regional data timeliness ranged from 47.0 percent to 84.9 percent
- State/local data timeliness for 4,833 monitors was 78.0 percent
- Tribal data timeliness for tribes 143 monitors was 47.4 percent
- Other reporting organization data timeliness for 838 monitors was 39.3 percent

## Percent of Sites With No Data for 1Q 2008 (as of July 1, 2008)

## Percent of Sites With No Data for 1Q 2008

- 1,159 of 5,814 monitoring sites reported no data (19.9 percent) to AQS for 1Q 2008 as of July 1, 2008
- 688 of 4,833 monitoring sites reported no data (14.2 percent) to AQS for 1Q 2008 as of July 1, 2008 for State/local reporting organizations
- 65 of 143 monitoring sites reported no data (45.5 percent) to AQS for 1Q 2008 as of July 1, 2008 for tribal monitors
- 406 of 838 monitoring sites reported no data (48.4 percent) to AQS for 1Q 2008 as of July 1, 2008 for other agencies

## Percent Data Timeliness by Pollutant (as of July 1, 2008)

## Percent Data Timeliness by Pollutant for 1Q 2008

- Percent data timeliness ranged from 42.7 percent for TSP to 82.7 percent for PM-2.5 (parameter 88501)
-  For State/local agencies, PM-2.5 (parameter 88101), Pb, and TSP were all less than 75 percent
- For tribal data, only PM-2.5 (parameter 8500) and Pb were greater than 75 percent
- For other agencies only PM-2.5 (parameter 88101) was greater than 75 percent

## Percent Data Timeliness for Previous 4 Quarters for State/local agencies

## Percent Data Timeliness for Previous 4 Quarters for State/local Agencies 

- Average data timeliness for 2nd, 3rd, 4th Q 2007 and 1st Q 2008 was 79.7 percent
- Data capture can be greatly increased by closing out discontinued monitors
# Presentation: 707919

## Good forecasts out to day 6 for GFS

- 	 	       day 6.5 for ECMWF
- Useful forecasts to day 8 for GFS
- 	                 day 9 for ECMWF
- GFS 1.5 days better than CDAS

- Good forecasts out to day 5 for GFS
-                                     day 6 for ECMWF
- Useful forecasts day 6.5 for GFS
-                            day 7.5 for ECMWF
- GFS 1.5  day better than CDAS

## Mar1-Apr 12, 2007

| 500 height | op | prx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NH day 5 | .871 | .872 |
| Day 8 | .620 | .639 |
| SH day 5 | .791 | .803 |
| Day 8 | .385 | .374 |
| RMSE hgt |  |  |
| NH day 5 | 56.1 | 55.4 |
| SH day 5 | 62.5 | 60.9 |
| RMSE wind  | tropics |  |
| 850 | 3.99 | 3.66 |
| 500 | 4.61 | 4.22 |
| 250 | 7.04 | 7.15 |

***Mar1-Apr 12, 2007***
***Fang-Lin Yang***
***Extratropics prx slightly ***
***Better (?)***
***Gains in tropics at 850***
***And 500 hPA***
***Loss in tropics at 200***
***Bias reduced***

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## PRX -.023

***PRX -.023***
***From 3rd to 4th***

***PRX +.044***

## Slide 6

## Precipitation

|  | ETS |  | Bias |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | op | prx | op | prx |
| 0-24 | .354 | .358 | 1.58 | 1.60 |
| 24-48 | .324 | .330 | 1.64 | 1.61 |
| 48-72 | .297 | .293 | 1.65 | 1.55 |
| 12-36 | .336 | .353 | 1.62 | 1.59 |
| 36-60 | .307 | .324 | 1.66 | 1.62 |
| 60-84 | .272 | .283 | 1.67 | 1.58 |

***Precipitation***
***Continental US***
***>.02 mm/24hr***
***PRX better***
***3/18-4/10/07***

## Slide 8

## Tropsopshere: 

***PRX winds fit radiosondes better***
***    ******east Asia forecast wind bias at 200 greatly reduced***
***PRX extratropical temperatures fit radiosondes better***
***PRX forecast heights fit radiosondes better***
***PRX analyzed moisture fit radiosondes better***
***Stratosphere:***
***PRX temperatures fit radiosondes better***
***PRX forecast heights fit radiosondes better***
***ACARS and aircraft winds***
***PRX forecast winds fit observations better 300-150 hPa***
***PRX analysed winds further from observations***

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## Slide 19

## Slide 20

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## Slide 26
# Presentation: 252041

## THE RED PLANET

***THE RED PLANET***

- By Space Science team: Dr Carsten,Stuart,         Prof Steve,Lawrence, Dr Joe, Kako, Lee, Adriano, Rania, Akiro, Toshiyuki, and Ryo!!!

## Kanji by Toshiyuki

*Kanji by Toshiyuki*

## Magnetic patterns on Mars

## This Image shows                     the relief on Mars

*This Image shows                     the relief on Mars*

## Olympus Mon is much bigger than     		Hawaii!!!

- Olympus Mon is much bigger than     		Hawaii!!!

- Energy of the impact was of the magnitude of 1025J

## Volcano Calculations

*V = *

*** **r**2** h*

- 3

- _____

## Olympus Mons

## Ulysses Patera       

## Impact of crater on Mars

*Impact of crater **on** Mars*

## Thank you for Listening! 

- Can we say a special thanks to Carsten, Stewart, Steve, Joe, Kako for translations, Lawrence and especially Eric!
# Presentation: 218731

## Opening Remarks	

- Joseph Sedor
- Investigator-in-Charge

## Accident Summary

- Comair flight 5191
- Bombardier CL-600, N431CA
- August 27, 2006
- 49 fatalities, 1 serious injury
- Airplane destroyed
- NTSB full Go-Team
- Member Hersman (member on scene)
- Vice Chairman Sumwalt

## Slide 3

## Taxiway A

**Taxiway A**

**Taxiway A**

## Accident Summary

- 6 a.m. departure
- Last of three airplanes
- No rain
- Dark

## FO:“[that] is weird with no lights”

- Captain:“yeah”

- Captain:“V1, rotate. Whoa!”

## Captain:“V1, rotate. Whoa”

## Findings

- No pre-existing airplane failures
- No restrictions to visibility
- Flight crew
- Properly certificated
- No medical factors
- Timely emergency response

## Major Areas of Investigation

- Flight crew operations
- Air traffic control
- Human performance
- Flight crew
- Air traffic control
- Airport environment

## Safety Recommendations

- _Issued_
- 6 safety recommendations
- 2 flight crew procedures (Dec. 2006)
- 4 air traffic control (April 2007)
- _Proposed_
- 5 safety recommendations
- 2 reiterated safety recommendations

## Comair 5191 NTSB Staff

- Bill Bramble
- John Brannen
- Tim Burtch
- Evan Byrne
- Pocholo Cruz
- Jason Fedok
- Pete Hall
- Tom Jacky

- Sarah McComb
- Brian Murphy
- Harry Reichel
- Al Reitan
- Greg Salottolo
- Karen Stein
- Terry Williams
- Dave Tew

## Comair 5191 NTSB Staff

- Reshan Beal
- Eunice Bellinger
- Sally Bennett
- Bob Benzon
- Sharon Bryson
- Noel Coleman
- Antion Downs
- Erik Grosof

- Vince Harris
- Ed Malinowski
- Jeff Marcus
- Sandy Rowlett
- Paul Sledzik
- Christy Spangler
- Ken Suydam

## ICAO Annex 13

- Accredited Representative
- Transportation Safety Board of Canada
- Advisors
- Bombardier
- Transport Canada

## Parties to the Investigation

- Air Line Pilots Association
- Blue Grass Airport
- Comair, Inc.
- Federal Aviation Administration
- GE Transportation, Aircraft Engines
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- National Air Traffic Controllers Association
- Teamsters Local 513 (Flight Attendants)

## Slide 15

**Notes:**
This concludes my presentation and I’ll be glad to answer any of your questions on the flight crew’s approach.
# Presentation: 800604

## Week in Review: 03/31/03 –04/07/03

**  ****Keith Gollwitzer – FNAL**

- Store and Operations Summary
- Standard Plots
- Schedule for Week

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Store Summary

| Store | Initial
Lumi (E30) | Deliv’d
Lumi (nb-1) | Termination | Duration
(hr) | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2377 | 26.9 | 1006 | Intentional | 16.4 | 100mA Stack, 5 proton bunch coalescing |
| 2385 | 31.7 | 1561 | Intentional | 23.97 | 165mA Stack, 7 proton bunch coalescing |
| 2387 | - | - | Quench | - | 150mA Stack, 7 proton bunch coalescing
Setup delay: Booster inj fallout, F17K2, Experiment Access, ARF4 |
| 2398 | 31.4 | 1350 | Intentional | 19.8 | 150mA Stack, 5 proton bunch coalescing
Setup delay: Booster kickers, Lightning |
| 2400 | 28.6 | 1158 | Intentional | 19.3 | 140mA Stack, 5 proton bunch coalescing |
| 2402 | 31.3 |  | On going |  | 140mA Stack, 5 proton bunch coalescing |

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Summary of Headaches

- Proton Source contended with many items
- Source change, Chopper, LRF3, LRF4, Five LRF4 naps, LSPEC, Klystron7, 400MeV Debuncher
- DOG13, BRF7, BRF14, BRF15, BRF18, MKS05, MKS06, PARA1 curve
- Main Injector a few items
- MIRF3, MIRF18, coalescing, MI52 Kicker module
- Antiproton Source a few items
- ARF4, A:IB, emittance growth while stacking
- TeV
- Crate communication, BPM stale data, F17K2
- Quench at 500GeV, Lightning, Losses

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## TeV Maintenance work

- Quench on ramp
- Loss studies
- Component problems
- Lightning

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Slide 5

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Integrated Luminosity & Goals

- Goal curves as defined in Oct 02

- ~5pb-1 behind Base Goal

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Slide 7

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Maintenance & Studies

- Last Week –
- TeV: Orbit Smoothing, Feed-downs @ 150GeV, Dampers, Schottky S/N for tune tracker; Losses
- Pbar: Quad Pickup, Debuncher Momentum Band measurements, Beam-line application improvement
- MI: Feed-forward Beam Loading Compensation, Ramp Hysteresis
- This Week
- TeV: Orbit Smoothing, Dampers, Losses, F0 orbits, Low beta feed-down, pbar lifetime vs (proton intensity, helix separation, tune, cogging)

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Weekly Schedule

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03

## Summary

- My first week
- Half the week: a big headache
- Half the week: operations went smoothly
- Overall an okay week; can do better
- New Burle Tube has arrived
- Goal for this week
- 7 bunch proton coalescing for shots
- TeV horizontal damper re-implemented
- Continue with stable store running

- K. Gollwitzer - FNAL

- All Experimenters' Mtg - 07 Apr 03
# Presentation: 161830

## Climate’s Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston (CLIMB)  

- Matthias Ruth
*Professor and Director, Environmental Policy Program School of Public Affairs*
*University of Maryland, College Park*
- 5th State and Local Climate Change Partners’ Conference
- Annapolis, Maryland, November 20-22, 2002

- University
- of Maryland

## Climate Change and Urban Infrastructure

- Climate’s Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston *(CLIMB)*
- Study Region
- Structure
- Methodology
- Applications and Findings
- Six Challenges for Research and Policy

## Metro Boston

## CLIMB– Project Structure –

**University**
**Scientists**
**and Engineers**

- CLIMB
- Project

**Metropolitan **
**Area Planning **
**Council**

**Project**
**Advisory **
**Group**

**Stakeholder**
**Advisory**
**Group**

**Stakeholders**

## CLIMB– Information Management, Modeling, and Scenario Development –

- Drivers

-    Climate        Transp.  Comm. Water  Energy  Health   Econ./Soc.

-       Indicators

- Integrated Impacts

- Responses by
- Public, Private,
- Non-profit Sector

- System
- States

- Impacts

## Changes in Temperature Mean and Variance

- (Source:  IPCC 2001)

## Bootstrapping

## Climate Data Software

## Climate Data Software– Daily to Hourly Drill Down –

## Sea Level RiseIllustration for Nahant

## Sea Level RiseBoston Harbor

## Storm Surges

## Scenarios

## Storm Surge Flooding

## TransportationFEMA Flood Map for CLIMB Region

## TransportationFlood Plains in Region 1

## TransportationOverlay of Traffic Analysis Zones

## Transportation

- Trip Generation

- Trip Distribution

- Modal Choice

- Traffic Assignment

- Network Flows
- and Congestion

- Spatial
- Activities

- Networks

- Climate
- Impact

- Climate
- Impact

## Transportation Scenario Results

## Transportation Scenario Results

## Water Quality Simulations for Assabet River

## Model Results for Various Scenarios

- Dissolved
- Oxygen
- [mg/l]

## Average Monthly Temperature and Electricity Consumption

## Average Monthly Temperature and Heating Fuels Consumption

## Residential Electricity and Heating Fuel Use

## Commercial Electricity and Heating Fuel Use

## Changes in Electricity and Heating Fuel Uses

## CLIMB Regional Daily Mortality Rate and Average Temperature

## Temperature - Health Relationships

- Cold Threshold

- Heat Threshold

- Mortality
- Rate

- Ambient Air Temperature

## 10 Bootstrap Projections of Heat-related Mortality

## 10 Bootstrap Projections of Cold-related Mortality

## Projections of Temperature-related Mortality

## Six Challenges for Research, Education and Decision Making

- Avoid Environmental Ambulance Chasing
- Foster Diversity of Problem Solving Approaches
- Leverage Interdependencies among Infrastructures and Institutions
- Implement Forward-looking Design Criteria and Standards
- Get Multiple Bangs for the Buck
- Promote International Collaboration