BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Mojave Ground Squirrel Partnership Workshop

## Goal

** ****Ensure long-term protection of MGS habitat & viability of species**

## 1 -  Determine the extent of the MGS range 

- Prioritize areas to be surveyed/monitored to determine presence/absences
- Update current MGS map
- Fund population biologist/statistician to determine most efficient method of locating MGS
- Conduct presence/absence surveys

## 2 - Determine habitat type

- Determine preferred habitat type
-  Determine ecological requirements

## Long term monitoring for status trends
Population estimates and baseline population data
Create and maintain central data base
Standardize data collection techniques 
Translocation/ reintroduction of MGS

- Population estimates and baseline population data
- Create and maintain central data base
- Standardize data collection techniques
- Translocation/ reintroduction of MGS

** ****3 -   Adaptive management plan**

## Continue to support research that promotes conservation of the species
1) Locate core populations
2) Determine important corridors between core areas.
3) Determine barriers to movement and id measure to minimize barriers
4) Document genetic variation through out the range

- 1) Locate core populations
- 2) Determine important corridors between core areas.
- 3) Determine barriers to movement and id measure to minimize barriers
- 4) Document genetic variation through out the range

**Adaptive management cont.**

## Adaptive management cont.

- Assess the need for and develop as necessary education materials that will assist in the conservation of the species.

## 4) Develop/implement measures to sustain long  term viability

-  Limit the loss of habitat and effects on MGS populations through the application of effective conservation measures and when applicable through mitigation and compensation
- 1) Restore and enhancement of habitat
- 2) Avoid/minimize impacts to MGS and its habitat

## Measures to sustain long  term viability cont.

- Secure and/or manage sufficient core habitat and corridors to maintain self sustaining populations
- Task 1) Develop and implement interim conservation measures
- Task 2) Maintain genetic variation through out the range

##   Foster communication and coordination among participants and other interested parties to identify opportunities for collaborative action to further the acquisition, protection, restoration and management of MGS habitat. 

## Monitoring

- Hire a statistician/population biologist
- Phase I
- 1) Develop experimental design for presence absence throughout range.
- 2) Assess method of monitoring for statistical validity, using accepted scientific methods, i.e. Grid vs transects, trapping, vocalization, cameras, etc.

## Monitoring cont.

- Phase II
- 3) ID aspects of population biology (age specifics, population size, density dependence, survival rate, reproductive rate, sex ratio, etc.) though population viability analysis with simulation models.

## Monitoring

- Phase III
- Analysis of spatial needs, number of location of core populations and 	connectivity.

## Slide 14

## Slide 15
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## DIVERSITYTODAY’S GLOBAL REALITY

**INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION**

**ITA’S DIVERSITY Year-To-Date**

## ITA Overall HQ & Domestic Population

**ITA Overall HQ & Domestic Population**
**                ****Diversity Profile – November 2005 **

-               ITA Population:  _1515 _
-           (Includes 316 TP&USFCS employees serviced by NOAA ASCs)

## Jan 2005

- Feb 2005

- Mar 2005

- Apr 2005

- May 2005

- Jun 2005

- Jul 2005

- Aug 2005

- Sep 2005

- Oct 2005

- Nov 2005

## ITA’s RNO by Gender – November 2005

-        **MEN**

-     **WOMEN**

-        697 (46%)

-        818 (53.9%)

- ITA HQ & Domestic Population:  _1515 _
-           (Includes 316 TP&USFCS employees serviced by NOAA ASCs)

## ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – November 2005

**ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – November 2005**

-                                  Total # GS-13 & Above:  _854_    (56.3% of HQ & Domestic ITA Population)

- _Minority Group_:              _Total ITA Population_:      _#s  in Grades GS-13 and Above_:          _Percentage in upper grades_:
- Black                                               271                                           81                                                   29.8%
- White:                                             1099                                         705                                                  64.1%
- Asian:		          81                                            39                                                  48.1%
- Hispanic:                                           63                                            29                                                   46%
- AmInd                                                1                                                0                                                     --

## ITA Veterans2005 Year-to-Date 

**ITA Disabled Employees****2005 Year-to-Date**

## ITA Diversity Comparison 

|  ITA YTD | 4.1% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 3.5% |
|  CLF  | 12.5% |

|  ITA YTD | 53.9% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 45.6% |
|  CLF  | 45.5% |

|  ITA YTD | 0.1% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 0.6% |
|  CLF  | 0.8% |

|  ITA YTD | 5.3% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 8.0% |
|  CLF  | 4.0% |

|  ITA YTD | 17.8% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 16.9% |
|  CLF  | 10.0% |

|  ITA YTD | 7.0% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 12.5% |
|  CLF  | 10.4% |

|  ITA YTD | 3.7% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 3.6% |
|  Federal Rep.  | 7.0% |

**Hispanic**

**Women**

**Am Indian**

**Asian**

**Black**

**Veteran**

**Employees Disabled**

- _Source:_**  **
-     ITAOHRM
-   OPM 2005 Report to Congress  (Sep 2004 data)
-  OPM 2004 Report to Congress (Sep 2003 data)

- Red shading indicates underrepresentation in a specific
- minority group.

- CLF:  Civilian Labor Force
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## Origin of symmetry                    							breaking 

- SUSY provides a candidate for dark matter

- Gauge couplings are unified

- Will complete the Standard Model
- Could explain the origin of mass

- with Q symmetry generator

- SM Higgs Limit at CDF Run II

- Origin of symmetry                    							breaking
-  Hierarchy
-  Dark matter
-  Gravity
-  Unification

- Challenging at the Tevatron

- Lightest SUSY higgs is SM-like
- Cross section enhanced at high tan

- Higgs potential

-  MSSM minimal particle content
-  New discrete symmetry, R-parity, Rp = (-1)3(B-L)+2S
-  Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) is neutral and stable, candidate for dark matter if Rp is conserved
**SUSY IS BROKEN**, more than 100 free parameters
- Several symmetry breaking mechanisms are proposed

- Standard Model, open questions

- SUperSYmmetry

- Resolves in natural and elegant way

- Searching for Higgs boson(s)

- Minimal Supersymmetric SM (MSSM)

- SM Higgs

- Possible SUSY signatures at CDF

**Leptons + jets**

**Photons + ME****T**

**Large Transverse Missing Energy (ME****T****)**

**MSSM Higgs,**
**R****p**** violation**
- Lepton/baryon number violation

**minimal-**
**SUperGRAvity**

**Gauge Mediated Symmetry Breaking**

**m****H****<135 GeV/c****2****:**
- Associated prodution
-  		 WH, ZH
- cleaner final states
**m****H****>135 GeV/c****2****:**
- look for  gg->H->WW

**SUSY predicts 5 higgs bosons!**

- SM higgs

-   (pb)

## COMBINED RESULT:

**Chargino mass m>**** ****1****2****7**** ****GeV/c****2**** **

-  Large QCD cross-section,  ~ few pb
-  Assume m(gluino)  m(squark)
-  SIGNATURE: multijets +
-     MET +  transverse energy (HT)

- ∫L = 371 pb-1

-  Golden SUSY channel at the Tevatron
-  SIGNATURE: lll + MET
-  _Combine several channels_

-  Important at low mH
-  SIGNATURE:
-      e/ + MET+ 2  b-jets

**RESULTS**** with double tag**

- ∫L = 312-745 pb-1

- ∫L = 695 pb-1

-  Br(t->b) ~ 1 in wide range of parameter space
-  SIGNATURE: e/ + h + 2 b-jets

**RESULTS**** **
**Expect ****2.3****+0.****5**** Observe ****2**** events**
**Stop mass m > 1****55**** GeV/c****2**
**Directly applicable to LQ3 production**

- ∫L = 322 pb-1

**RESULTS**
- For m(gluino) ~ m(squark)
**m****q****>**** 380 ****GeV/c****2**** **

- Squark gluino Search

- Chargino-neutralino Search

- candidate
-  event

- RPV Stop Search

- SM Higgs Search

**WH-> l********bb**

**NN + secondary vertex**

- ~

**_**

- ~

|   | Expected | Observed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2 jets | 32.26.2 | 29 |
| 3 jets | 29.04.9 | 33 |
| 4 jets | 35.17.2 | 46 |

- μ+e
- control
- region

- 2 jets

- Signal
-  region
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## Informational Material

- On Burnthrough

- June 03

## Terms Used

## 2 inch Minimum Overlap

- Use of Cap Strip

## Blanket Overlap

## Horizontal Overlap

- 6 inch Minimum sealed with Tape

## 14 inch Maximum Pitch

## Minimum 1 inch from Skin

## Maximum 14 inches

## Maximum 14 inches

## Should be Fire Resistant

## Test Fixture Modification for the Testing of Fixing System

## Configurations that Meet

-  the Requirement

## Slide 13

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## Slide 21
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## State of New HampshireDivision of Child Support Services NECSES

**New England Child Support Enforcement System**

## NECSES

**Originally developed in NH and ME**
**Statewide production since March 1991**
**FSA 1988 Certified June 1997**
**PRWORA Certified December 2003**

## Mainframe System

**Continue Enhancing**
**   ****or**
**Replatform?**** **

## Option I Using ARCSIS as a base

**August 2002 Visited Arkansas**
**ARCSIS is a ‘grandchild’ of NECSES**
**NECSES Users were able to follow design**
**Many screens still have the same name**
**Data organized in a familiar way**

## Option 2Replatform NECSES in NH

**Create exactly what is needed**
**Longer Development**
**Less Cost Control**
**Greater Conversion Risks**

## Option 3Continue Enhancement of Current NECSES 

**Technically Obsolete**
**Inefficiencies – “spaghetti code”**
**Workers skilled in COBOL also aging**

## Gap AnalysisNECSES / ARCSIS

**From the user viewpoint:**
**How ARCSIS and NECSES are alike**
**What ARCSIS has that NECSES can use**
**What ARCSIS has that must be changed**
**What ARCSIS doesn’t have that NECSES needs**

## Technical Changes

**NH’s OIT can support either SQL or Oracle Database**
**Still at issue:**
**Staff to support Maintenance once implemented**
**Financial commitment by the Department and State**
**Conversion of Data**
**Pre-conversion data cleanup**

## Interfaces

**Department (IV-A, IV-E, Medicaid)**
**State (SESA, DMV)**
**Federal (Offset, FCR, CSENet)**
**Private (Banks, Utilities)**

## Risk Assessment

**Using ARCSIS as the basis for replatforming NECSES**
**Maintaining two systems in sync if changes done modularly**
**Conversion of data**
**Interruption of services/payments to Custodial Parents **
**Knowledge transfer and training for OIT and DCSS staff**

## Financial Data Risk Assessment

**Old System Financial Activities and New System Changes to that Information**
**Backing out and reprocessing receipts **
**UDC distribution**
**Arrearage and accrual adjustments **
**Reissuing of checks**
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## Management Discussion and Analysis

- April 8, 2003

**Woods Allee, Budget Administrator**

## Passenger Statistics

- Total Passengers (millions):
- 2000 – 38.8
- 2001 – 36.1
- 2002 – 35.6
- Percentage O&D:
- 2000 – 56.5%
- 2001 – 56.8%
- 2002 – 54.1%
- Airports Council International Ranked DIA as the 5th busiest  airport in the nation and 10th busiest airport in the world based on total passengers in 2001.

**Notes:**
Decrease of 8.8% from 2000 to 2002
Decrease of 3.26% from 2001 to 2002

3.1 million decrease from 2000
1.1 million decrease from 2001

## Relative Market Shares

## United’s Denver Hub Jet Service Routes

## 2003 Revenue Budget

**Total = $590.0 Million**

## What Airline Bankruptcy Means

- Near-term revenue loss - $12.7 million
- Uncertainty regarding business decisions and survival
- Information flow is often guarded
- Delayed airport decisions
- Need to do scenario planning

## United’s Yields at DIA Remain the Highest of Their Hubs

## Airfield Layout Map

## Operating Budget 

## Capital Improvement Program

## Projected Revenue Sharing Amounts

**Notes:**
[see comments pg 19]

## Stress Case Analysis Results – Coverage(Included in 2002 Official Statements)

**Notes:**
[see comments pg 19]
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## REPORT FROM CONFIDENTIALITY, ETHICS, PRIVACY AND ACCESSGroup A

- Suniti Ponkshe

## KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

- Set up a committee / task force to:
- Identify potential users of Collaborative Health Information Infrastructure,
- Analyze gaps under the current privacy laws, and
- Develop policy that addresses uses and disclosures.
- Provide balanced education to consumers and providers about **privacy risks, safeguards and rights **of EHR and collaborative health information network(s) through various activities such as town meetings, TV, Print media, etc.  ----- Fund it through foundation grants and Govt. grants.

## KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

- Establish a patient information roadmap that
- Acknowledges the consumer as the individual whose interests and rights are primacy, and
- Sets the rules and standards for content, information flow, role-based access and audit control.
- Set up a cross-industry group to create a working Regional Health Information Infrastructure privacy model (i.e., practices, guidelines & state laws)  --- that addresses how they will interact within their region and across state boundaries

## KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

- Establish a regulation that will
- Assign ownership of the EHR to the consumer, and
- Clarify the rights and responsibilities of “ownership” including in the situation of incapacity, guardianship and emergencies.  (HHS/CMS)
- Controversial
- Specifically exclude the use of identified EHR  data for individual underwriting or other exclusionary activities for coverage, but allow it for payer-based care coordination activities.
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## OSS  97Global Security & Global Competitiveness:  Open Source Solutions

***Scientific and Technical Intelligence:  Cooperative Efforts and Directions***

- September 4, 1997

## HELP!!!: The Impact of the Internet on Customer Service

*Presented by*
- Cheryl Hunter
- Defense Technical Information Center

## Agency Overviews

## Workshop Topics

- Impact of the Internet on Who is Served
- Setting Priorities
- Automated Tracking Systems to Support Customer Service
- Software to Support Customer Service
- Using the Internet to Provide Referrals
- WWW Design for Customer Support

## Workshop Topics

- WWW Search Engines
- Logging WWW Activity
- Intranet Support to Help Desk Personnel
- Physical Environment
- User Registration via the WWW
- Recommendations

## HELP!!!

- Impact of the Internet on Who Is Served
- Restricted environments
- General public
- Setting Priorities
- Automated Tracking Systems to Support the Customer Service Activities
- NASA’s Customer Support System (CSS)
- DTIC’s Customer Retrieval System
- NLM’s CustomerQ

## HELP!!!

- Automated Phone Systems to Support Customer Service
- Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) systems
- Answering services
- Voicemail
- 1-800 Numbers
- Using the Internet to Provide Referrals
- HomePages
- Intranets
- URLs

## HELP!!!

- WWW Design for Customer Support
- FAQs
- FINDIT
- Hot links
- Phone numbers
- Maintenance
- Logging WWW Activity
- Accurate statistics
- Identifying who is accessing site

## HELP!!!

- Intranet Support to Help Desk Personnel
- Physical Environment
- User Registration Via the WWW
- Transfer of data to proprietary database
- Request for registration packets

## Recommendations

- Create a set of Help Desk tools
- Share helpful URLs
- Design & incorporate HomePage hotlinks
- Hold a Help Desk conference
- Evaluate statistical software packages
- Sponsor demos of customer support systems
- Hold a training session on new WWW tools
- Demo CENDI customer service WWW sites
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## Visualization 

**The ability for users to visualize raw and processed data easily will be key to the success of the SNS**
**Many tools currently exist – could be adapted at existing centers**
**Need (evolving) infrastructure for better 3d visualization**
** ****3d cave - future**
**Needed on the timescale of the experiment**
**Flexibility to change tools at the instrument/experiment level without going to a programmer**
**Resources needed to extend current tools to TOF**
**Common problems for pulsed sources (sparse data; cut; non-linear transformations) need to be dealt with up front**
**Scientific communities set needs for their experiments**

- Pynn -Wed

## Collaboration

**Remote collaboration will provide many advantages to users, to SNS and to the scientific community**
**Allow complementary expertise to be used to plan, execute and analyze experiments **
**World-wide reach, theorists and experimenters**
**Reduce time to publication**
**Enable better experiment planning**
**Be used as an educational tool**
**Permit off-site users (e.g., professors) to participate during experiment**
**Allow instrument scientist to monitor progress of an experiment without continuous presence**
**Relieve some IR responsibility for educating new users (distance classes, demos, etc.)**
** ****Allow people to consult others who have worked on similar problems and share know-how **
**Supplements IR role**
**Broadens the “user-base” of SNS as well as its impact**

- Pynn -Wed

## Collaborations

**Requirements can be met to a large extent with existing tools, but they need to be integrated **
**Desktop availability (perhaps with enhanced capability in specific locations e.g. special labs at universities)**
**Web cam and voice**
**On line data manipulation and sharing with remote viewing and control**
**Replicate data room (for teaching at off-site locations)**
**Record interaction sessions in an electronic note book**
**Facility needs to provide training sessions in the technology**
**Successful models already (e.g., MSEL)**
**Security issues will need to be fully and carefully addressed**

- Pynn -Wed
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## Innovative Laser Furnace

-  Furnace incorporates room temperature mounting grips and a 		uniform hot zone with relatively sharp boundaries and 		controllable length
** **Furnace capable of selective heating of single crystal fibers at 		temperatures of up to 3000oC
** **Capable of implementing tensile tests under thermal load 		conditions
**                             ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Firm received a Phase III contract for $163K from Metal 		Samples Co., Inc.

***PENN LABORATORIES******DAHLONEGA, GA***

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

**     ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Being applied to NASA’s Advanced High Temperature 		Materials Program (HITEMP), in Enabling Propulsion 		Materials (EPM) Program, and part of the High Speed 		Research Program (HSR)
-  Useful to Navy programs such as High Temperature 			Phase Diagram studies
-  Furnace used at NASA Lewis Research Center for 			ceramic fiber research

- 1990 Phase 2; SS-133; 3/21/97

- Lewis Research Center

**Innovative Laser Furnace**

***Laser Fiber Test Sample***
# Presentation: 881546

## Measurement of MHD dynamo and helicity transport during CHI

**NSTX Research Forum ****December 2005**

**H. Ji (PPPL), J. Boedo (UCSD), R. Raman (U. Washington), D. Mueller (PPPL), H. Kugel (PPPL)...**

## Background

**Parallel current and magnetic helicity is transported inwards to sustain the plasma current during CHI.**
**Understanding mechanism(s) of CHI is crucial to assess its effects on confinement and feasibility for current drive in ST.**
**Three models proposed for the CHI mechanism:**
**Plasmoid ejection model --- 2D reconnection**
**Turbulent EMF model (the ******** dynamo effects) --- 3D MHD or two-fluid dynamics**
**“****Rotomak” model --- 2D two-fluid dynamics**
**The dynamo probe head will provide crucial information on these models by directly measuring the candidate terms due to fluctuations. **

## Relevant Measurements by Dynamo Probe

**Measured Fluctuations:**
**                   **
**                     **
**The terms needs to determine current (helicity) transport are**
**Additional information for momentum transport**

- MHD dynamo

- diamagnetic dynamo
- (two-fluid effect)

- Reynolds stress
- (available already)

- magnetic Reynolds stress
- (new measurements)

## Finish manufacturing and installation
Onsite conditioning and system-debugging 
Preliminary tests
Proposed exp’ts (possibly piggyback with others)
OH+CHI experiments with varying ratio between OH current and CHI current (1 day)
CHI only experiments with varying V and fill pressure (1 day)
Transient CHI experiment to detect signature of reconnection (1 day)

- Onsite conditioning and system-debugging
- Preliminary tests
- Proposed exp’ts (possibly piggyback with others)
- OH+CHI experiments with varying ratio between OH current and CHI current (1 day)
- CHI only experiments with varying V and fill pressure (1 day)
- Transient CHI experiment to detect signature of reconnection (1 day)

**Proposed Activities in FY06**
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## Web Content Managers Online ToolkitWebcontent.gov

- Janet Stevens
- Presentation at Chicago Regional Web Managers Conference
*June 7, 2005*

##    About Webcontent.gov	

- “One-stop” web portal for government web managers
- Serves the public by improving all government websites
- Helps agencies meet federal requirements
- Showcases common and “best” practices
- Highlights news and events
- Provides answers to common challenges
- Managed by inter-agency Web Content Working Group

## 

www.webcontent.gov

- _[www.webcontent.gov](http://www.webcontent.gov/)_

-    How Can I Access It?

## Toolkit Organized Around Primary Topics:

Federal Requirements, Policies & Guidance
Launching a Website
Developing & Managing Content
Design & Usability
Marketing Your Website
Evaluating Your Website
Management & Governance
Using Technology

- Federal Requirements, Policies & Guidance
- Launching a Website
- Developing & Managing Content
- Design & Usability
- Marketing Your Website
- Evaluating Your Website
- Management & Governance
- Using Technology

-    Future Plans

## Expanded Features:
Calendar
Agency contacts / Subject matter experts Directory
Best Practices
Job Board  
Videoclips of experienced web managers
Self-assessment guides and checklists
Surveys
Sample design templates

- Calendar
- Agency contacts / Subject matter experts Directory
- Best Practices
- Job Board
- Videoclips of experienced web managers
- Self-assessment guides and checklists
- Surveys
- Sample design templates

-    Future Plans (2)

**Redesign Prototype****  ****A ****Homepage**

**Redesign Prototype B- Homepage**

**Redesign Prototype B- Subpage**

## Good examples, case studies and best practices 
Suggestions for additional guidance and strategies 
Calendar items
Job vacancies
Agency web policies and operating procedures 
Research, studies, usability test results, etc.
Lessons learned in managing specific types of websites

- Suggestions for additional guidance and strategies
- Calendar items
- Job vacancies
- Agency web policies and operating procedures
- Research, studies, usability test results, etc.
- Lessons learned in managing specific types of websites

-      How Can I Contribute?

## Manager, Webcontent.gov:

Sheila Campbell
Senior Content Manager, FirstGov.gov
sheila.campbell@gsa.gov
202-208-5588

ICGI Web Content Working Group Co-Chairs:

Candi Harrison
candis_b._harrison@hud.gov
520-670-6237 x228

Kate Donohue
Donohue.Kate@dol.gov
202-693-5945

- Sheila Campbell
- Senior Content Manager, FirstGov.gov
- _[sheila.campbell@gsa.gov](mailto:sheila.campbell@gsa.gov)_
- 202-208-5588
**ICGI Web Content Working Group Co-Chairs:**
- Candi Harrison
- _[candis_b._harrison@hud.gov](mailto:candis_b._harrison@hud.gov)_
- 520-670-6237 x228
- Kate Donohue
- _[Donohue.Kate@dol.gov](mailto:Donohue.Kate@dol.gov)_
- 202-693-5945

-   Questions?
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## Chapter 6: Climate Variability and Change

- Comments of Michael Oppenheimer
- Princeton University
- Review of the Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program
- 4 December 2002

## General Points

- Questions are generally appropriate
- Approaches are poorly defined due to failure to make choices: Improvements in modeling are key.
- Time horizons for improvements in understanding are unduly optimistic
- Plan doesn’t hone in on getting information that will help answer the key policy-relevant issue (as noted by President Bush):
-           What changes may be dangerous

## Question 1: Sensitivity to Feedbacks

- Response of clouds remains likely the biggest factor but there is a lack of emphasis on research on cloud microphysical processes
- Timescale of 5-15 yr to improve understanding of sensitivity seems optimistic; more likely 15+ yr.
- No mention of carbon-cycle feedback through the response of the biosphere

## Question 2: Improving predictions of near term variability and long term change

- Key issue lost among many others: under what circumstances could there be a change in variability due to human forcing? What consequences might follow?
- Addressing this question would mainly be through model improvements with secondary role for paleo-studies.
- Time horizons are again too optimistic

## Question 3: Abrupt Change, THC, Ice Sheets

- Need vast improvements in ice sheet models both to explain past abrupt change, like Heinrich events, as well as potential for future changes, particularly for West Antarctic ice sheet.
- Need ground truth: chief limitation is the human capital available
- Time horizons here are ridiculously short; it will take decades
- Lack of relation of information to question of what may be “dangerous”.

## Question 4:Extreme Events

- Balanced section in regard to science approach
- But lack of attention to triage for policy: what might actually be “dangerous”

## Question 5: Relation of information producers to users

- No attention to key issue: given long time horizons for progress on many key fronts (e.g., ice sheets, cloud feedback), how can scientists structure information for decision-making on a coordinated program of _***emissions reduction***_ and adaptation in the face or uncertainty?
- What information on what timescale makes what difference to future concentrations given various emission mitigation options?
-     No prescription here for answering a question from a policy makers like: “Given that I don’t want even a 10% chance of event X happening (e.g., THC or WAIS collapse) when do I have to decide to begin reducing emissions?”
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## The Bush Plan Does Not Achieve a True 70% Reduction by 2018

**Effect of banking on reaching cap**

## Clear Skies: No Solution to Regional Haze for Acadia

- Current polluted day

- Under “Clear Skies”
- 2 deciview improvement

**Acadia National**
**Park, Maine**

- WinHaze Visual
- Air Quality Modeler
- V 2.90

- Haze Rule Target:
-  Natural Visibility

## Clear Skies: No Solution toRegional Haze for Great Smoky

- Current polluted day

- Under “Clear Skies”
- 2 deciview improvement

- Haze Rule Target:
-  Natural Visibility

**Great Smoky Mountains National Park**

## Power Plant Deaths Per 100,000 Adults 2020

**Power Plant Deaths Per 100,000 Adults 2020**

## Clean Power Act 2020

**Clean Power Act 2020**

## Clear Skies 2020

**Clear Skies 2020**

## Clean Air Planning Act 2020

**Clean Air Planning Act 2020**

## EPA “Straw” Proposal 2020

**EPA “Straw” Proposal 2020**

## Counties in Projected to be in Nonattainment for 

- Counties in Projected to be in Nonattainment for
- Either PM2.5 or Ozone in 2010 Under Clear Skies

## Base-2010

- 69 counties
- 32.7 million people

## Clear Skies-2010

- 27 counties
- 19.1 million people

## Clean Air

- Planning Act-2010
- 16 counties
- 15.6 million people

## Straw/EPA 2010

- 13 counties
- 14 million people

## Clean Power Act 

- Clean Power Act
- 2010
- 5 counties
- 10.3 million people

## Slide 15

## The Bush Plan Fails to Solve the Acid Rain Problem

**Hubbard Brook study found that **_***nothing short of 80% reduction***_** in power plant SO2 would allow biological recovery in damaged NE ecosystems to begin before mid-century.**
**CSI falls short, so problem remains unsolved.**

## Results from Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH

**Results from Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH**

## COMPARISON OF REQUIREMENTS UNDER BUSINESS-AS-USUAL AND THE STRAW PROPOSAL

## Clear Skies < Clean Air Act

- Under CSA you get . . .
- _Pollutant_		_Tons_	_Year_
- SO2		3.5M	2018-25
- NOx		1.7M	2018-25
- Hg			15	2018-25
- But you *lose**** ***. . .
- Tight emissions limits for new plants.
- States’ rights to get reductions from upwind states.
- Special protections for air quality in national parks.
- 2010 deadline for clean air standards attainment.
- Federal protections requiring modern emission controls on plants when they modernize (New Source Review).
- Residual Mercury risk and other toxic emission control requirements.

- The Clean Air Act requires . . .
- _Pollutant_		_Tons_	_Year_
- SO2		2.0M	2010-12
- NOx		1.25M	2009-10
- Hg			 5	2008

## Slide 20
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## Beam Stop: Thermal/Structural Analysis July 18, 2001

**Spallation Neutron Source Division**
**Los Alamos National Laboratory**

**Snezana Konecni, Ph.D.**

## Objectives

- Beam stop is placed between the first and second DTL tank and its use is to stop the beam of protons in order to test the quality of the beam.
-  Beam will be under full power and pulsed.
**Total power 11.629 kW.**
**25 mA, 1ms, 60 Hz.**
**Beam shape is elliptical (2.02 by 1.92 cm), there is an azimuthal distribution.**
- Beam stop will be used for a 6 months at full power during commissioning.

**konecni:**

## Design Criteria

- Beam Stop Design Criteria:

## Heat Flux Along the Beam Stop Axis

- Cone Slope =3.5

## Applied Heat Flux 2-D Model

## Assumptions

- The beam stop is assumed to be a cone with radius of 10cm base and slope of 3.5 cm/cm (15.95 Degrees)  It will be made of Nickel 200, 2 mm thick.
- The cone is cooled with water under pressure to prevent boiling (22 psi This is 50% more than Psat).
- Heat transfer coefficient is based on the velocity of the water in the spiral channel (19623 w/mK).
- Heat flux is symmetrically applied on the inside of the cone in order to do 2-D analysis.
- Total applied power on the inside of the cone is 18.408 kW. ( This is 1.58 times more than operational)

## Beam Stop

## Beam Stop Cone

## Beam Stop Assembly

## Characteristics

## Green’s Function Solution

- Heat Flux is 2200 W/cm2, HTC=1.96W/cm2K, 2 mm Nickel slab, duration of pulse 1 ms

## Temperature (10 gpm)

- C

## Stress for a 2mm Ni200 Temperature  and Pressure

- N/cm2

- Yield strength is 14000 N/cm2

**(load=15.21 N/cm2)**

## Displacement

- Pressure applied 1.52 bars

- cm

## Conclusion

**Applied total heat in the thermal analysis is 18.41kW which is 1.58 greater than the operational heat load of the beam stop**
**Water Pressure of 1.58 bars (22psi) is 50% larger than the saturation pressure for temperature of 100 C.**
**Stresses due to thermal and pressure loads are in the range of the yield strength of Nickel 200 (hot rolled plate yield strength is 140-550 MPa)**
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## Changing Teaching Behaviors:The Road to Student Achievement

**Powell et al:** Technology as a potentially cost-effective alternative to on-site coaching
**Research Aim:** Examine effects of two methods of providing coaching to teachers to improve literacy instructional practices.
**Outcomes:** Both treatment groups had greater gains than control on ELLCO and child measures. Type of feedback differed between remote and on-site conditions.
**Implications:** Technology may not be an effective alternative to on site coaching, but both may provide complementary contributions to improving teacher quality.

## Changing Teaching Behaviors:The Roads to Student Achievement

**Connor et al:** New way of implementing current reading programs focused on child by instruction interactions and not different methods of professional development
**Research Aim**: Determine if individualized reading instruction
- 	(as guided by A2i algorithms) results in improved student outcomes.
**Outcomes:** Significant treatment effects for students passage comprehension and improved teacher knowledge.
**Implications:** Variations in fidelity of implementation impact outcomes. The more time teachers spent using A2i, the stronger their student’s reading skills by the end of the year.

## Considerations for Research on Teacher Professional Development

- Methodological Considerations
- Statistical power
- Realities of recruitment for RFT
- Potential for replication
- Same studies, same measures
- Different sites, samples, and content areas
- Practical Considerations
- Program quality
- Fidelity of implementation
- Classroom management with small group instruction

## Research Directions...

- Revisiting foundational research with newer technologies and stronger research designs
- Effective Instructional Approaches (e.g., Rosenshine & Berliner 1978)
- Components Analysis
- Examining the immutable role of teacher preparation programs
- How much variability is accounted for by the content and nature of teacher preparation programs?
- Potential of longitudinal studies of teacher education programs and student outcomes?
- Psychology
- What is role of social support for teachers?
- Teacher personality and temperament

## Training and coaching:What do teachers and trainers want?

- Teachers
- Training before and during implementation
- Coach teaches the students – teacher watches
- Coaches
- Ability of teacher to be diagnostic while teaching e.g., did the students get it?
- Power of repeated practice
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## MNM Fatal 2007-14

- Powered Haulage Accident
- June 19, 2007 (Nevada)
- Gold Operation
- Underground miner
- 30 years old
- 41⁄2 years experience

## Overview

- The victim was fatally injured on June 19,
- 2007, while operating a load-haul-dump
- (LHD) over a backfilled stope. The LHD fell
- through the floor into a void that had
- developed due to subsidence in the backfill.
- The victim was recovered on July 2, 2007.

## Slide 3

## Root Cause

- Management policies and procedures failed to ensure that the
- combination of mining methods and ground control measures
- employed were adequate to protect persons and safely support
- equipment. Controls were not in place to ensure the quality of the
- procedures and materials used in the backfill process, permitting voids
- to be created in the backfill. The inadequate backfill was used for
- ground support and travelways, creating hazards to persons working or
- traveling in these areas. There were no procedures to report voids
- found in the backfill material.

## Best Practices

- Supervisors or other designated persons should examine underground haulageways and travelways for changing ground conditions.
- Design and utilize mining methods that will maintain stability and control the ground in places where persons work or travel.
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## Systemic Exposure of Topical Tacrolimus

- Veneeta Tandon, Ph.D.
- Pharmacokinetics Reviewer
- Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation III
- Office of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics

## Adult PK Studies In NDA

- _In healthy volunteers_ (N=12)
- single/multiple topical doses of 0.03, 0.1 and 0.3% tacrolimus ointment
- _In patients_ (N=49, 0.1%; N=35, 0.3%)
- single/multiple doses of 0.1 (N=17) & 0.3% ointment (N=4)
- single/multiple doses of 0.1% ointment (N=32)
- single/multiple doses of 0.3% ointment (N=31)

## Adult Studies (0.1% ProtopicTM )

- Duration of the studies
- b.i.d dosing for 13 days
- PK sampling on Day 1, 4 and 14
- b.i.d dosing for 7 days
- PK sampling on Day 1 and 7
- Range of total BSA treated: 11-60%
- Number of patients with > 50% BSA treated= 8

## Systemic Exposure of 0.1% ProtopicTM From PK Studies In Adults

- Note: With more than 50% of the total BSA treated, all blood samples had detectable levels of tacrolimus

- NC=not calculable

## Clinical Trials With Concentrations   5ng/mL From Random Sampling In Adults

## Key Findings From a Study With 0.3% Tacrolimus Ointment In Adults

- Face and neck lesions in adults (N=7) are more permeable to the lesions on the trunk and limbs (N=6), leading to 4-7 times higher exposure of tacrolimus .
- A tendency for lower concentrations of tacrolimus on Day 8 (exception: face and neck regions of treatment).

## Pediatric PK Studies in NDA

_**In Pediatric Patients**_ (N=20)
- single/multiple doses of 0.1% ointment (N=20 ,
- 	ages 6-12)
- No PK study conducted in the age range 2-5 years using 0.1% ointment
- single/multiple doses of 0.3% ointment (N=8,
- 	ages 5-11)

## Pediatric Studies (0.1% ProtopicTM )

- Duration of the study
- b.i.d dosing for 13 days
- Age Range (6-12 years)
- Range of total BSA treated: 17-83%
- Number of patients with > 50% BSA treated= 8

## Systemic Exposure of 0.1% ProtopicTM From PK Studies In Pediatrics

- NC=not calculable

## Key Findings From a Study with 0.3% Tacrolimus Ointment In Pediatrics

- The younger children (age 5-6 yrs, N=4) tended to have higher systemic exposure of tacrolimus compared to the older children (age 7-11 yrs, N=4)
- The older children (age 7-11 yrs) tended to have higher systemic exposure on Day 8 as compared to Day 1.

## Highest Observed Concentrations in Clinical Trials From Random Sampling(Age 2-6yrs)

- Note: These concentrations do not necessarily represent the true Cmax

## Systemic Absorption of Topical Tacrolimus Compared to Oral Tacrolimus

- aAUC(0-)

## Conclusions

_**Adults**_
- Systemic absorption of tacrolimus in adults, after topical application of 0.1%, is lower than the exposure generated from oral dosing for transplant rejection.
_**Pediatrics**_
- An insufficient number of subjects were enrolled in the PK studies to assess the systemic absorption of tacrolimus in pediatric patients below the age of 5 under maximal use conditions. Further work in this target population should be considered.
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## Lightweight Telescope for SpaceScience and Communications

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

**SSG, Inc.**

- Wilmington, MA

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Designed multifunction telescope of silicon carbide
-  Produced 30 cm aperture telescope made entirely of silicon carbide optics and structures
-  Produced lightweight silicon carbide mirror with surface accuracy required for visible optics
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Space optical communications
-  Commercial remote sensing satellites

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Provided telescope for MICAS instrument on Deep Space 1 - First New Millennium technology demonstration mission
-  MICAS is a multipurpose camera, supporting the spacecraft navigation system and scientific exploration mission
-  Potential applications in deep space missions to Europa and Pluto

***MICAS Instrument for Deep Space 1 Mission***

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- 1992 Phase II; NAS7-1306
- Success Story # 7-013

**INNOVATION**
- Lightweight, temperature insensitive flight
- telescope which supports optical
- communications and remote sensing

## Slide 2
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## INTRODUCING 

**at**
**NASA**
**Goddard Space Flight Center**
**Greenbelt, MD**
**January 2006**
** **

**INTRODUCING**** **
** **

**	****Leadership                                ****	****Alchemy** is 	an award  winning, state-of-the-art program that  develops leaders and Ambassadors of Positive Change who proactively create their desired future.  Participants learn about leadership by being leaders and are transformed, from the inside out.  Over the course of the  9-month program, participants:

- Gain **personal insight** and leadership mastery.
- Understand the **organization** and leadership competencies to create the desired future and transform the organizational culture.
- 3.	**Transform ** knowledge and skill into wisdom and action.

**For more information contact:  **
-  Gail S. Williams, Program Manager,
-    Gail.S.Williams@ nasa.gov, 301-286-0159
-  Kanu Kogod, Bridges in Organizations,
-    Kanu@Bridges-in-Orgs.com, 301-299-0744
-  Scott Coady, The Institute for Embodied Wisdom,
-    Scott@embodiedwisdom.com, 805-649-8900
**Visit the Leadership Alchemy Web Page**: http://ohr.gsfc.nasa.gov/DevGuide/DevPrograms/Alchemy/home.htm
**Read The Partnership for Public Service’s Case Study**: http://www.ourpublicservice.org/solutions/solutions_show.htm?doc_id=197909

## Leadership Alchemy

**Appreciative Inquiry**
**Action Learning**
**Making Requests, Offers,**
**and Declarations**
**Influencing  **
**Telling Effective Stories for Organizational Change**
**Developing Leadership Presence**
**Emotional Intelligence**
**Networking**
**Presence and Authenticity**
**Inclusiveness & Diversity**

**Language of Leadership**
**Confidence Building**
**Leadership Values & Vision **
**Coaching & Mentoring**
**Building Trust**
**Shadowing  and Interviewing Leaders**
**Teaming and Leadership**
**Enemies of Learning**
**Wellness and Balance**
**Community of Practice****  **

**Concepts Learned...Concepts Lived**
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## Introduction

- PPD Mechanical Department
- Process Engineering Group

- 1

## General Considerations

- Dew Point
- Pressure Head
- Barometric Pressure
- Tube Sizes
- Mixing Systems
- Cost Considerations

- 2

## Dew Point

| Temp | Pressure |
| --- | --- |
|  [C] |  [kPa] |
| -40 |   84.5 |
| -35 | 108.6 |
| -30 | 137.8 |
|            -25 | 172.8 |
|             -20 | 214.3 |
| -15 | 263.5 |
| -10 | 320.7 |
|    0 | 463.3 |
| 10 |          649.7 |
| 20 |          887.7 |
| 30 | 1185.5 |
|             40 | 1552.2 |

- 3

## Mixing Systems

- Fermilab example
- Similar to RPC
- 0.5% mixture accuracy in single stage dependant on flow meters
- Improved accuracy with gas analysis and batch testing
- CDF binary mixture, 500 ppm accuracy

## Cost Considerations	

- Tubing and Valve Material
- Container Flow Paths
- Parallel vs. Series flow
- Filter Cost Example
- Electric vs. manual valves
- Instrumentation

- 7

## Filter/Orifice Example

- Sintered Metal Filter
- 1/8 inch Stainless, $43.20 each, Qty 1
- 1/8 inch Stainless, $30.68 each, Qty 2000
- 1/8 inch Brass, $14.13 each, Qty 2000

- 8
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## Summary of the Run 8 dAu Data set

- Last revised December 31, 2007.
- Summaries include everything through Sunday December 30th.

- Sum = 11.7 Mevts
- 39% of Goal
- (<.82 Mevts/day> last week)

- Sum = 18.9 nb-1
- 63% of Goal
- (<1.4 nb-1/day> last week)

- Goals:
- 	- 30 Mevts of usable “min-bias”
- 	- 30 nb-1 of sampled luminosity (Slow Det. Readout)
- 	- 60 nb-1 of sampled luminosity (Fast Det. Readout, not started)

- About 22 more days to reach goal *at present rate*.

- About 8 more days to reach goal *at present rate*.

- For the Fast Det. Sampled luminosity, once going, best sustained rate probably ~ 1.6 nb-1/day. This means ~ 35 – 40 days to reach goal.
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## PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION

** ****The current Pacific Decadal Oscillation pattern has persisted since April 2001**
**  **
** ****Warm water (higher sea levels) in red and white**
** ****Cooler water (lower sea level) in blue**

**PDO images are courtesy of Nathan Mantua & Steven Hare, **
**University of Washington, **
**Units are degrees Celsius**

## EL NIÑO AND LA NIÑA FORECASTING & MONITORING

**NOAA long-term climate forecasts: flood control, agricultural strategy, water and energy use planning**
**Media use to explain weather and climate to the public **** **
**TOPEX/Poseidon data have become familiar to more than a billion people worldwide**

- EL NIÑO AND LA NIÑA FORECASTING & MONITORING

**Images produced by Dr. Victor Zlotnicki, Dr. Lee-Lueng Fu, and Akiko Hayashi, of the Oceans Research Element at  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.****  **

## EL NIÑO COMING

## EL NIÑO GOING

## EL NIÑO GONE

## El  Niño Global Impacts: Some are Harmful...

## ... Some are Great!

-  Gulf of Alaska - Improved salmon fisheries due to increased juvenile survival
-  Arizona - Desert gets more rainfall than usual - flora and fauna thrive
-  California - Surf’s up, as sea levels are up by as much as six inches.  Better surfing and sport fishing this year
-  Kansas - Plenty of summer rain produces bountiful harvests and fills emergency silos.  “Tornado Alley” shuts down.
-  South Atlantic Coast of U.S. - A mild hurricane season after a disastrous 1996.
-  Southern Rocky Mountains - Plenty of snow forecast for this winter, water storage is up and so are tourist dollars.

**Notes:**
Global Damage of El Nino

Next
Good El Nino

## CORAL BLEACHING

**  ****TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter sea level and**
**   ****NOAA AVHRR sea-surface temperature data**
**   ****monitor and assess global coral reef environments.**
**  ****High and low tropical sea levels and ocean**
**    ****temperatures caused by the ‘97 to ‘98 El Niño/**
**    ****La Niña “bleached” 25% of all coral reefs.**

**Maldive Islands, Central Indian **
** ****Ocean, NASA Landsat 7 image**

**Biodiversity - Coral ecosystems **
**are our oceans “rainforests”**

**90%Bleached**
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## APFO DATA CENTER 

## Why?

- Congressionally “earmarked” funds:
- “for the enhancement and management of the agriculture imagery catalog repositories and data warehouses”
- Limited storage capacity with existing architecture
- Future Planning Strategy
- Need to “merge” APFO production capabilities with GDW
- Current design does not allow for Disaster Recovery
- Photo Index Scanning Project
- Limited physical space available in existing server room

## Vault Requirements 

**Phase I -Scanning of Aerial Photo Index Maps (Pilot)**** :**
- @ 300 dpi =42MB storage required per index map (this is the expected standard)
- @ 400 dpi = 73 MB storage required per index map
- Total number of index maps 60,000 plus = approx. 2.1 TB
- Original + Orthorectified/inspected to be stored
**Total = 5 TB**
**Phase I I -  Imagery Scanning by frame**
- There are approximately 10 million frames to be scanned

## Vault Requirements

**Assumptions:**
- (With APFO’s current equipment - Leica DSW500 film scanner)
- B/W scans at 12.5  microns = 337 MB per frame  (3 min per scan)
- Color scans at 12.5 microns = 984 MB per frame  (8.5 min per scan)
- 1 person full time at 2087 working hrs per year scanning B/W  =41740 scans
- 1 person full time at 2087 working hrs per year scanning Color  = 14609scans
**B/W per year = 13.73 TB**
**Color per year = 14.08TB **
- Original + Orthorectified/inspected to be stored:
**B/W per year = 24.74 TB**
**Color per year = 28.16TB**
- With an upgrade of scanner to Leica DSW 700:
- B/W scans at 12.5  microns = 337 MB per frame  (1.5 min per scan)
- Color scans at 12.5 microns = 984 MB per frame  (3.5 min per scan)
- 1 person full time at 2087 working hrs per year scanning B/W =83480 scans
- 1 person full time at 2087 working hrs per year scanning Color = 35479scans
**B/W per year = 27.47 TB**
**Color per year = 34.01TB **
- Original + Orthorectified/inspected to be stored:
**B/W per year = 54.94 TB**
**Color per year = 68.02TB**
-  NAIP is ingested annually at a current rate of 30 TB

## Timeline

- April 2006 – Authorization to proceed for infrastructure upgrade
- June 2006 – Approval from OCIO to use existing contract vehicle (EDARCH)
- Sept 2006 – Initiated SOW for New Data Center
- Oct 2006 – Contracts awarder for both equipment and Data Center
- Nov 2006 – Construction Ongoing
- Dec 2006 – New equipment to be delivered/Installed
- Jan 2006 – Burn-in and start up of equipment completed – migration starts

## Capabilities

- Expanded ‘tiered” architecture
- Integration of APFO production and GDW
- 1 copy of data will reside off site
- Scalable: Allows for future expansion as needed