BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Consular Notification Process

**“****Are you a US citizen?”**

**“****YES”**

**“****NO”**
**Includes** **ALL NON-US CITIZENS**, regardless of immigration status

_**If Country is on Mandatory List**_
- Inform detainee of his/her right to communicate with consulate, and that you must inform consulate of arrest/detention
- Inform the nearest consulate **without delay**
- Make record of notification in case file

_**If Country is **__***NOT***__** on Mandatory List**_
- Inform detainee **without delay** of his/her right to communicate with consulate, and ask: “Do you want your consulate notified of your arrest/detention?”

**“****NO”**
- Make a note of this in the case file
- Do _NOT_ inform the consulate

**“****YES”**
- Make a note in file (or use fax confirmation)
- Inform consulate **without delay** & note in case file

_***IN ALL CASES***_***:***
*Detainee may communicate with consular officer and may request consular access at any time (whether previously declined or not)*
*Consulate may have access to detainee regardless of whether detainee requests it*
*Do not inform consulate about detainee’s refugee or asylum status*

**STOP.**
- (No CNA Issue)

**“****What is your nationality?”**

- Office of Policy Coordination & Public Affairs, Bureau of Consular Affairs                  U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.  20520    phone 202-647-4415
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## Small  wheel “C” in horizontal position – Installation of MDT and CSC Services

**Space  for   MDT**

**Space for CSC**

**CSC Services**
**Gas**
**Cooling water**
**Low Voltage **
**High Voltage**
**Fiber Optics**
**Alignment**
**(5  and 6 not shown)**

## Next Step:  Small  Wheel to be  rotated  into a Vertical position,  Chambers mounted

**Next Step:  Small  Wheel to be  rotated  into a Vertical position,  Chambers mounted**
**(cantilever tool allows access from both sides) and services connected and tested**

**JD Disk (12 cm Fe)**

**Neutron  and photon  Shield**
**(7cm boryated polyethylene**
**3 cm Pb)**

**Cantilever Chamber  Installation  Tool**

## CSC Chamber Preparation Lab (Bat 184)

**CSC Chamber Preparation Lab (Bat 184)**
**Cosmic Ray Test Setup**
# Presentation: 224430

## Technology Issues – Key Questions

- What are the primary RE and EE technologies being applied to state and regional electricity markets, and what do you think they will be in the future?
- What are the opportunities for EE and RE technologies in state and regional electricity markets?
- What are the analytic issues affecting development of RE and EE technologies in these markets?
- What analysis tools are available, and how could they be enhanced or improved to address needs?
- What additional information (analysis tools or studies) would be valuable in expanding the use of renewable energy in electricity markets?

## Technology Issues

**Session Chair – Walter Short, NREL**
- Maximizing Wind 		Ron Lehr, AWEAon the Grid
- Internet-Based Systems	John McGowan,for Energy Management	Energy Control Inc.
- Using PV to Shave Peak	Christy Herig, Consultant
- Cost-Effective Integration	Roger Duncan,of EE Tech into Buildings	Austin Municipal Utility
- 						Discussion Period
# Presentation: 078255

##  Small and Very Small Grinding Operations

- Small Plant Commitment to Delivering Unequaled Food Safety

- Hugh Tyler
- The Butcher Shop
- Columbia, S.C.

## Very Small Plant

- Over 43 years in the meat industry
- 9 employees
- Weekly production - 3,500 lbs. of ground beef
- and 1,800 lbs. of non-intact beef (i.e. cubed)
- Product

## What Small Processors Have Done

**PRE-REQUISITE BUYING **
**PROGRAM - SPECIFICATIONS**

**GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICES**
**RECEIVING**
**PRODUCT TEMPERATURE CONTROL THROUGHOUT**** ****THE PROCESS**

**E. Coli 0157:H7 IS ADDRESSED IN THE HACCP PLAN**

**PRODUCT TESTING, WHICH IF THERE IS A PROBLEM THE PRODUCT IS ADULTERATED**

## Challenges – Faced by the Small andVery Small Processor

- Products are bought in small quantities
- Lotting is difficult due to co-mingling of product
- Use of microbial interventions in grinding operations

## Challenges – Faced by the Small andVery Small Processor

- Small plants are at the mercy of their suppliers
- Cost of testing is a financial burden with testing being a haphazard proposition

## A Challenge – With No Control

-    If interventions are used in the grinding operations and the product is tested and is positive for *E. coli O*157:H7, THEN IT IS THE GRINDER’S SYSTEM THAT IS INADEQUATE.

## Food Safety System

- Should be designed to reduce/eliminate *E. coli *O157:H7 at the point of contamination
- Follow the philosophy of prevention (HACCP)
- Reduce or eliminate both the hazard and the end product testing

## The Progress

- 	Progress has been made in all areas of meat production, but especially in Food Safety.  These efforts need to continue.

## To Continue Progress

**Have open dialogue**

**With industry, trade associations, consumers, educational institutions and regulatory agencies, USDA/FSIS State, CDC**

## To Continue Progress

**Have meetings to ensure open communications**

**Provide educational opportunities**

## To Continue Progress

- Learn and incorporate existing and emerging technologies

## To Continue Progress

- Focus on the point of contamination
- where change can be made that will make the most  difference in eliminating E.coli 0157:H7

## Conclusion

- E. coli O157:H7 is still prevalent today
- Small plants want to produce the safest food possible
- Focus interventions at the point of contamination
- Testing is not the answer, preventions at the best place in the process is the answer
# Presentation: 803485

## Brief Overview of STAR Goals for FY05 RHIC Run

**Brief Overview of STAR Goals for FY05 RHIC Run**

**Outline:**
** ****Executive Summary from FY05 STAR Beam Use Request**
** ****Table of Requested beams & energies**
** ****Time estimates & Luminosity requirements**

*Presented at the December 8, 2004 RHIC Coordination meeting*

## Slide 2

## STAR Beam Use Proposal for Run V (2004-2005)

**         ****Run V:    **Soft physics and High pT comparison spectra; Charm and –Onium Yields;
*Goal is > 50 M min-bias, ~10 nb**-1** sampled by HT trigger, ~ 10% at half field*
-                         Significant measurement of ΔG at s = 200 GeV; Transverse spin studies
-                         related to the Sivers Function** **
**	****	****	****	****  **
**                                                                     **_**Table II:  Run V Scenario**_
**	****	****  **
**                   ****Beams****	****              ****AA, A****~ 60****	****                 ****p******** p********, p********p******
-                  Weeks 	                **4 + 10**                         **3+11**
**                   ******** ****s****NN  ****                            ****200*****                          ****200****
**(*   Depending on performance, 1-2 weeks at ******** s****NN**** = 62.4 GeV may be requested)**
**(**  Goal is to sample > 7 pb****-1**** with longitudinal polarization (P > 40%); depending **
**      ****on performance, goal will then be to sample > 4 pb****-1**** (P > 40%); a second**
**      ****goal is to acquire > 20M min bias pp events for comparison with ********s****NN**** = 200 GeV**
**      ****AuAu dataset.)**

## Rough Time/luminosity Estimates

- Cu-Cu Run:
- Running with 50% live time for Rare Triggers, we estimated that, with smooth Collider operations, we will accumulate ~ 10 M evts of min-bias/week.
- 	- This goal only requires L of ~ 4 x 1026 cm-2 s-1 (i.e. minimal requirement)
- To integrate the integrated luminosity goal for the rare triggers (~ 10 nb-1)  looks reasonable in about 9 weeks, given the C-AD projections
- Polarized pp Run:
- To achieve the entire request, 7 pb-1 of longitudinal
- polarization and 4 pb-1 of transverse polarization,
- in an 11 week period, requires an average of 1 pb-1/week, in line with C-AD proj.
# Presentation: 368329

## Adolescent  Obesity  -  A Pediatric Surgeon’s Perspective

- Allen F. Browne, M.D.
- Adolescent Adjustable Gastric Band Interest Group
- AAGBIG

## AAGBIG

-  IDE holders – 3
- Interested Pediatric Centers - 11

## “Givens”

- Morbidly obese children are sick
- Dismal prognosis if not successfully treated
- Need help now

## Bariatric Treatment

- Nutrition
- Behavior management
- Activity
- Pharmacology
- Surgery
- A multidisciplinary approach works

## Current “Gold Standards”

- 80% response rate
- Lose 60% of Excess Weight
- Maintain response 5 yrs
- Resolve comorbidities
- Prevent comorbidities

## What Works – What Doesn’t Work

- FDA – 1993Before AGBBefore laparoscopy Before recent results
- ADA - 2005

## Questions

- When should morbidly obese children be treated?
- How risky is treatment?
- How risky is non-treatment?

## Comorbidities

- Medical
- Psychological
- Social
- Economic

- When do they start?
- When do they get harder to treat?
- Can they be prevented

## Adjustable Gastric Band

- Not a Roux-Y-Gastric Bypass
- Not a Bilio-pancreatic Diversion
- Not a Sleeve resection
- Unique FDA influence

## Adjustable Gastric Band

- Not an intragastric balloon
- Not a gastric pacer

## Adjustable Gastric Band

- Removable
- Adjustable
- Lowest morbidity and mortality
- It works

## The AGB works

- Australian government analysis
- Recent U.S. data:
- Ponce – 2005
- Parikh, Fielding and Ren – 2005
- Ren, Weiner and Allen – 2004
- Ren, Horgan and Ponce – 2002
- Lessons from the A and B Studies

## The AGB works in Adolescents

- Small numbers, short term data
- Fielding
- Dixon
- Horgan, Holterman, Browne

## Recommendations - 1

- Facilitate national demonstration
- AGB plus a comprehensive weight management program
- Facilitate IDE’s
- Common evaluation and management protocols
- Shared data

## Recommendations - 2

- Begin with ages 13-17 years old
- Use NIH guidelines
- Follow patients at least 5 years
- Use as endpoints:
- % EWL
- Resolution of co-morbidities
- Development of co-morbidities

## Recommendations - 3

- There is no place for randomized study of surgical procedures
- There is no place for randomized study of surgical procedures vs. programs without surgical procedures.

- Thank You.
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## Websites

- Governing Directive
- NPR 2800.1, *Managing Information Technology*
- Process
- An ITAR Working Group with representatives from all directorates has been established.
- An “Export Control Applicability Matrix,” located at _http://export.gsfc.nasa.gov_, has been developed to assist in determining whether a particular type of document is usually export controlled.
- All export control sensitive data at GSFC is required to be behind a firewall and be accessed by passwords.
- “Directors of”are required to authorize access privileges to the data.
- Websites accessible through the GSFC firewall require registration.
- Point of Contact
- GSFC CIO, Linda Wilbanks, Code 100, ext. 6-5710

- Sensitive, confidential, export controlled, copyright protected, or privacy information should not be placed in publicly available directories. A clear accountability for the accuracy and appropriateness of information to be displayed must be established before any information regarding NASA activities, missions, organizations, publications, is posted on the Internet via NASA “servers” for public access.

## Website Registration

- Process
- Complete the website registration located at _http://webregistry.gsfc.nasa.gov_.
- Instructions for completing the export control self-certification portion are located at _http://export.gsfc.nasa.gov_.
- Registration also includes completing a GSFC Form 25-49 (GSFC STI Public Disclosure Export Control Checklist) and submitting it to the GSFC Export Control Office.
- Point of Contact
- GSFC Webmaster, Emma Kolstad Antunes, Code 295, ext. 6-1377

- All websites accessible through the GSFC firewall are required to be reviewed for content compliance with Federal law and NASA Policy. This review requires website registration and self-certification. This review also includes self-certification for export control compliance.
# Presentation: 714140

## National 511 Overview

**Talking Technology and Transportation (T3) Webinar**
- Mac Lister
- FHWA Resource Center
- January 9, 2008

## 511 Deployment Status

**511 Deployment Status**

- = 511 Operational (“Live”)

- as of October 15, 2007

- D.C.

***Accessible by 46% of Population***

***Accessible by 65% of Population in 2008***

- = Expected “Live” in 2008

## 511 Deployment Progress

- Over 75 Million Calls To Date

## 2008 Tipping Point?

- Coverage by 2/3 of population, with many major metropolitan areas
- Solid footprint for “national” service
- Consumer demand / expectation
- Look toward sustainability
- Organization
- Support

## Web Site Information Traffic Data

| Traffic                 Conditions | No. of States | % of States |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Traffic speeds  | 14 | 28%  |
| Travel times/delay | 11 | 22% |
| Traffic flow/congestion | 23 | 46% |
| Incident data | 39 | 78% |
| CCTV camera images | 40 | 80% |
| DMS messages | 17 | 34% |
| HAR messages | 3 | 6% |

**Web Site Information**** ****Traffic Data**

## 511 Data Considerations

- Assess quality metrics
- Call volume not necessarily indicator of value or usefulness
- Examine information quality measures beyond customer satisfaction
- Sharing data
- Institutional, beyond standards

## 2006 Proposed Program

- “Section 1201” RFI
- Real-Time System Management Information Program
- Published May 2006
- Traffic and travel conditions information
- “Decision quality” for traveler choice of mode, time, and route

## 2006 Proposed Program Description

- Span
- Major highways nationally and arterials in urban areas
- Characteristics
- Road and lane closures (construction, incidents, weather)
- Roadway weather updates
- Travel times in congested metro areas
- Transit service in metro areas
- Quality
- 85% Accuracy and 85% Availability

## Resources Available

**511 Websites**
- http://www.deploy511.org
- http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/511** **
**Deployer Websites**
- AZ511.com, 511.KY.gov, 511MN.org, 511tampabay.com, 511virginia.org, etc.
**Listserv at Yahoo! Groups **
- 511_coalition-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

## Business Models Review

- Private sector works best with broadcast media and ‘bundled’ services
- Public and private sectors are sharing roles
- Public sector policies need to catch up with market changes

## Using ATIS During Disasters

- Public panic is _not_ the norm
- People make rational decisions based on information
- Amount of detail should be specific to medium

## Contacts

- Mac Lister (708) 283-3532
- Bob Rupert(202) 366-2194
- James Pol(202) 366-4374
- Jimmy Chu(202) 366-3379
- Tom Stout(202) 366-6054
# Presentation: 209831

## Vertical Test Stand

- Test bare 1.3 GHz 9-cell superconducting RF cavities
- 	Measure Q vs. T
- 	Measure Q vs. Eacc   at 2 K
- Develop Fermilab superconducting RF expertise
- Complete & commission test stand, test cavities FY07

- Radiation Shielding
- X-rays and neutrons generated from interaction of field emitted electrons in material
-        estimate levels from DESY/TTF data
- Mars15 simulation
-         Lead, steel, concrete and borated polyethylene radiation shielding
- Personnel protection in existing offices/work spaces   Maintain “Controlled Area” status in IB1

- Existing cryoplant in IB1 Magnet Test Facility
-  cryogenic cooling capability of 125 W at 2 K (250 W available for intermittent testing)

-    R. Carcagno, _C.M. Ginsburg_, Y. Huang, R. Nehring, B. Norris, J. Ozelis, T. Peterson, V. Poloubotko, R. Rabehl, I. Rakhno, C. Reid, C. Sylvester, M. Wong, C. Worel

**helium vessel ********=26.5”**

**radiation shielding**

**vacuum vessel ********=42”**

**16’**

**SRF cavity**

**and its Upgrade Plan**

- RF/DAQ System based on Jefferson Lab design
- 250 W (CW) max RF power required at cavity (Q>5x109 and Eacc<35 MV/m)
- Collaboration with JLab established
- RF system interlocked for personnel safety

**Cryostat at PHPK**

**Industrial Building 1**

**Cryostat design**

**Radiation shielding design**

**VTS pit**

## Reduce schedule risk by adding safeguards to reduce downtime 

**IB1 cryogenic system infrastructure**

- Red: proposed upgrade

- Black: existing/under construction

*Reduce schedule risk by adding safeguards to reduce downtime*
- Add compressor and purifier skid at vacuum pumps’ outlet to eliminate contamination from sub-atmospheric operation (primarily air-leaks)
*Decouple vertical cavity testing from superconducting magnet tests*
- Install dedicated vacuum pump for cavity vertical tests to decouple from superfluid magnet tests
- Add dedicated 10-ton crane for cavity test area
*Add helium gas storage capacity and staff to accommodate three VTS cryostats*
*All upgrades require additional transformer*

- Upgrades
-  To increase Vertical Test throughput
- Upgrade VTS for two-cavity operation
- Add two more vertical test stands
- Upgrade cryogenic infrastructure
- To support cavity R&D, e.g., field emission studies and quench location

- Projected annual cavity tests

**Single VTS capacity expected ~ 48/year**

**3 vertical test stands and**
**cavity staging area**

- Projected annual # cavity tests in US for ILC
# Presentation: 705098

## Frame Work Equivalency Work Plan (FEWP)

- USDA Regulations: 7 CFR Parts 305 and 319

## Framework Equivalency Work Plan

- Part I: Overview
- Part II: Legal Authorities
- Part III: Guidelines for Operation
- Part IV: Guidelines for Other Conditions/Activities
- Addendum

## Part I: Overview

- Fundamental Requirements for Trade
- Generalized Description of all activities associated with Irradiation as a phytosanitary treatment
- Details of specific requirements for importing country

## Part II: Legal Authorities

- Public laws, citations and legal authorities
- Imports/Exports
- Food Safety Policies
- Role of the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO)
- International regulatory agencies
- Treatment Objectives: Levels 1-3

## Part III: Exporting Country Guidelines

- Operational Work Plan: Inspection, auditing and safeguard protocols
- Facility Approval Procedure: Nuclear Authority, NPPO and CPHST
- Facility Compliance Agreement

## Part IV: Guidelines for Other Conditions/Activities

- Other Quarantine (non-target) Pests, least restrictive action(s)
- Cooperative Goals and Expectations

## Addendum	

- Mutual Goals and Expectations of both countries
- Implementation Plan
- Identified Activities may include: Facility approvals, approval of compliance agreements, completion of administrative and regulatory requirements, inspection guidelines and recordkeeping, procedures for non-compliance, Port-of-Entry Procedures.

## Comments for FEWP

- Developed specifically for each country
- Comments/Feedback for this document email to Dr. Paul Gadh:
-  Paul.Gadh@aphis.usda.gov
# Presentation: 705902

## Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) ITL's Experience Undergoing the ANSI SDO Accreditation Process 

**Michael D. Hogan**
**ITL Standards Liaison**
**310-975-2926**
**m.hogan@nist.gov**

**U.S. Department of Commerce**

## History  

- NIST ITL (and its predecessor organizations) has been accredited by ANSI to develop voluntary consensus standards as a sponsor using the ANSI Canvass Method since October 5, 1984 for the following scope of activities:
*"Standards and guidelines for information exchange relating to automatic data processing and related systems".*
- While we have developed a few American National Standards under ANSI’s accreditation, we now maintain our accreditation for one standard, which has now had five editions: 1986; 1993; 1997; 2000.
- Latest edition: ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007 - *Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information - Part 1*
- A Part 2, XML, version is under development.
- Quickly became a de facto international standard used by:
-  *FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System* ;
*Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Scotland Yard* , Interpol, etc.
- See: http://www.itl.nist.gov/ANSIASD/

**U.S. Department of Commerce**

## Compliance, Procedures, and Audits  

- ANSI requires an annual compliance review to the latest version of the ANSI Essential Requirements.
- Through 2002 , ANSI provided mandatory procedures for canvass sponsors to follow.
- Since 2003, all canvass sponsors, such as NIST ITL, were required to develop their own standalone procedures.
- ANSI provided guidance that made the development of our standalone procedures relatively straightforward.
- ANSI reviews and approves each edition of an accredited standards developer’s procedures.
- ANSI initiated an audit program in 1995.
- ANSI audit program ensures that accredited standards developers are following their approved procedures.
- NIST ITL has been “successfully” audited in 1996, 2001, and 2007.

**U.S. Department of Commerce**

## Observations 

- Annual compliance reviews keeps us aware of changes to ANSI requirements.
- Approval of our procedures keeps us knowledgeable of our process.
- Periodic ANSI audits keeps us motivated to follow our process.
- ANSI staff is an excellent resource for advice.

**U.S. Department of Commerce**
# Presentation: 388138

## AQUATIC PLANTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER

_**Lifeforms of aquatic plants.**_
**Emergent: The roots and part of the stem are underwater, the majority of the plant is above the water.**
**Floating Leaf:  The roots and stem are underwater, while the leaves float on surface of water.**
**Submergent:  All parts of the plant are underwater.**

**AQUATIC PLANTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER**

_**What is an aquatic plant?**_
**An aquatic plant is a plant that spends all or part of its life cycle in water.**

_**Why are aquatic plants important?**_
**food and shelter for many animals including bugs, small fish, birds, and humans.**
**produce oxygen for aquatic organisms.**
**clean water by allowing sediment to settle out and absorbing nutrients.**
**protect shorelines by dampening the effect of waves and current.**

_**How do aquatic plants survive the winter?**_
**Most aquatic plants produce specialized wintering structures (called propagules) on the stem or root.  These structures store energy that is used to produce a new plant in the spring.**
**Some aquatic plants overwinter as a green plant.  Green shoots may often be seen through an ice fishing hole.**
**A few aquatic plants produce large numbers of seeds with a heavy coat.  **

**wild celery and water stargrass**

**Muskrats make their winter homes out of emergent vegetation.**

**white water lily and American lotus**

**Arrowhead, also known as duck potato, produces an over-wintering structure in the roots called a tuber.  The tuber is a favorite food of ducks during fall migration.  Native Americans roasted the tuber like a potato and ate it.**

**white waterlily**

- Heidi Langrehr
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Resource Trend Analysis Field Station Onalaska, WI  54650
- May 24, 2000

- Jeff Janvrin

- MN DNR

- WI DNR

**wild rice**

- Terry Dukerschein

- WI DNR
# Presentation: 724915

## SiPM R&D

- Vishnu V. Zutshi
- for
- NIU/NICADD

## Photodetectors (SiPM/MRS)

- “Investigation of a Solid-state Photodetector”, NIM A 545:727-737 (2005).
- “Effects of a strong magnetic field on LED, extruded scintillator and MRS photodiode”, NIM A553: 438-447 (2005)

- Working point
- Dark rate
- Linearity
- Temp. dependence
- Fiber alignment
- Stability
- Radiation damage
- B-field sensitivity

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Si-PM and MRS

- P. Buzhan et. al

- ~1000 pixels on 1mm x 1mm
- Bias voltage ~ 25-90V
- Gain ~ 106
- Quantum x geom ~ 12-15%

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## SiPM/MRS

- SiPM: MEPhI/Pulsar
- MRS: CPTA

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Dark Noise Rate

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Working point

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Temperature dependence

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Linearity

**~ 30 MIPS**

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Fiber-Sensor Alignment

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## B-field (in)sensitivity

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## MRS Rate, Noise, and Amplitude Before & After

**No measurable **
**change in response**

**1**

**1**

**1.08**

**1.08**

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab

## Future

- Characterize devices from new vendors
- Closer look at radiation damage
- Study fiber-less operation in detail
- Development of integrated readout layer

- Fermilab contribution key

- V. Zutshi, ILC Cal Mtg, Fermilab
# Presentation: 753058

## Human Factors Engineered (HFE) Small Airplane Cockpits

**                               ****ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Supplemental Type 	Certificate (STC) Approval AUG 98
- Direct female molds manufactured from 3D CAD/CAM models
- The HFE technology creates a reduction in pilot work load and thus improves safety
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Sales to date $500,000 by 1999; potential sales $1,000,000 annually by 2002
- Manufacturing Partnerships with Elite Software to build & sell training simulators using this manufacturing technology created
- Fully staffed engineering dept. and 4 production jobs created
- Partnerships created with 3 avionics vendors to install their systems: Vision Micro Design, II Morrow & PS Engineering

**Human Factors Engineered (HFE) Small Airplane Cockpits**

***Mod Works***
***Punta Gorda, FL***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
**  **The low cost design & manufacturing technology is one 	of the major thrust areas of the NASA Agate program 	and is considered a vital element for GA revitalization

- 1996 Phase II, NAS1-97037
- NASA Contact - Henry Jarrett III (757)264-1917
- Company Contact - Tim Coons  (941)637-6770

- Langley Research Center

- HFE Glass Cockpit in EAA/FAA research Glastar

- Low cost design & manufacturing of ergonomic small airplane cockpits. Direct female molds machined from 3D computer models. The technology created a reduction in pilot work load as well as assembly labor for installation.
# Presentation: 090138

## Constraining Binary Evolution with Gravitational Wave Measurements of Chirp Masses

- Tomasz Bulik
- CAMK, Warsaw, Poland

## Questions

- What do theoretical models tell us about the masses of compact object binaries?
- What can be measured with high frequency gravitational wave detectors?
- What can one learn about stellar evolution from gravitational wave observations?

## Single Star Evolution

- Evolutionary code based on Hurley, Pols, Tout (2000)
- Evolution starts at ZAMS and goes through:main sequence, Hertzsprung gap, red giant branch, core helium burning, asymptotic giant branch, helium star main sequence, helium star giant branch
- Evolution ends at formation of: helium white dwarf, carbon-oxygen white dwarf, oxygen-neon white dwarf, neutron star, black hole

## Binary evolution

- Effects included in the population synthesis code: wind mass loss (standard, LBV, W-R type), tidal circularisation of binary orbit, magnetic breaking, conservative mass transfer, quasi-dynamic mass transfer, common envelope evolution, rejuvenation, hyper accretion onto compact objects, detailed supernovae treament, fall back and direct black hole formation, gravitational ewave energy loss in compact object binaries

## Binary initial parameters

- Salpeter IMF with –2.7 exponent
- Flat mass ratio distribution
- Eccentricity distribution proprtional to e
- Orbital separation flat in log
- Maxwellian kick velocity distribution

## Mass distributions - fingerprints

## Intrinsic distribution of M

## Detection of GW from binaries

- Detection in inspiral phase
- The frequency change and signal depends on the chirp mass only
- Only the chirp mass can be measured in the zero approximation
- Post Newtonian corrections – both masses

## What can be observed

- Sampling distance is proportional to chirp mass in power 5/6
- Sampling volume is proprtional to chirp mass in power 2.5 !
- Assume Euclidean space and flat star formation rate history

##   Observed chirp masses

## Slide 11

## Is constraning  stellar evolution feasible with GW observations?

- Assume that the true stellar evolution goes through a giiven model from our list
- Find the probability with which model A can be rejected with observations of 20, 100, 500 mergers
- Repeat and find the probability that appears in less than 1% of the cases

## Cumulative distributions of obs chirp masses

## Significance of the test

## Conclusions

- The distribution of masses of compact objects is a very sensitive function of stellar evolution
- The observed binaries will be  dominated by BHBH mergers
- Most parameters can be constrained with about 100 merger observations
# Presentation: 844246

## MINOS DocDB FeedbackLiz Buckley-Geer

- MINOS started using DocDB in October 2005. We started with our October Collaboration Meeting
- There were some initial teething troubles with the new Events format that was released at the same time as our October Meeting. These were resolved in the next minor release.
- Since then most people have been satisfied with the system – there are always a few curmudgeons who will complain regardless but I am ignoring them!
- I have collected feedback from users on desired improvements and new features. Most of the items I list have been raised by more than one person.

- DocDB Stakeholders Meeting

- Jan 31 2006

## Searches etc

- We would like the search page to have the option of typing in author names instead of just having an allowed list.
- In addition it would be nice to have a “sounds like” feature for name searches – akin to what is provided in the FNAL phone book.
- The “sort by Author with topics and files” does not appear to sort correctly? I did a search and got authors I,M,N and then back to I, then T before R?
- It would be nice to have any easy way to differentiate documents attached to events from other types of technical notes so that you could display a list of non-event documents.

- DocDB Stakeholders Meeting

- Jan 31 2006

## Events/Meetings

- We are making extensive use of this feature
- However before long our events page will be un-readable due to density of information and choice of colors/fonts
- The display of events needs to be hierarchical, for example
- The master event page should just contain a set of links, one for each event type.
- Each link should take you to a page for that event that lists all the instances of that event
- The topics listing on an event agenda can get very long. As it is not terribly relevant for an agenda listing we would like to suppress it.
- Can we get the default background for the Notes box changed, dark gray makes it really hard to read.
- A “recent events” link on the home page would be useful. This would help in finding events.

- DocDB Stakeholders Meeting

- Jan 31 2006

## Document Uploads

- We have users who produce their talks for meetings as html pages.
- We would really like a way of automatically uploading these talks by just giving the main URL and have DocDB use something like wget to fetch all the other files referred to in the main document.
- I know it is already possible to do this manually but if you have a large number of plots in the talk it is very tedious to have to type in all those URLs.

- DocDB Stakeholders Meeting

- Jan 31 2006
# Presentation: 764770

## New York’s ENERGY STAR ® Labeled Homes Program

*Introducing*

*Sponsored by*

*And *

## Is Every New Home Energy Efficient?

- 	***Not any more!***

*Unless of course*

**Notes:**
The ENERGY STAR Brand  makes the consumer’s home purchase decision easy.

Narrative/Notes:

Every builder says they build an energy efficient home, but how do consumers know?  They need proof, but most consumers are too busy to research all the different technologies themselves.  They need an easy way to be sure they’re getting what they expect (comfort, efficiency, durability, etc.) - that’s what the ENERGY STAR is for. ENERGY STAR is the symbol for  energy efficiency.  

“Saving the Earth, Saving you Money”.

Transition:

What is EPA doing to build consumer brand awareness ?

## What is Energy Star ®?

**Giving your customers More for Less ...**

- A Rapidly Growing Consumer Label...

## What’s in it for you?

- $1,000 for each ENERGY STAR® Labeled Home

- $5,000 for each ENERGY STAR® Model Home

- $3,000 for each ENERGY STAR® Home displayed in a “Parade of Homes” or other approved event

***BIG $$$ INCENTIVES***

- Co-op advertising incentives for ENERGY STAR® Homes advertised in approved co-op advertising programs (up to 25% of advertising costs)

*AND*

**Notes:**
The three advantages of an ENERGY STAR Home are Value, Cost and Brand.

Narrative/Notes:

In the next few minutes, I’m going to show you why ENERGY STAR Homes can offer a powerful advantage in the competitive new construction market.

Transition:

We’ll talk about each of these three advantages...

## So Much More!    Like....

*We Give You ****FREE**** of Charge*

*TV Commercials featuring Steve Thomas from the hit TV show “This Old House”*
*and*
*Your Company Name and Phone Number included in our ****ENERGY STAR ******®***** ***Radio Ads**  *

*and*

## FREE Inclusion in our 7 inch by 10 inch ENERGY STAR ® Newspaper Ads  

*FREE** Inclusion in our 7 inch by 10 inch ****ENERGY STAR ******®***** ***Newspaper Ads**  *

## Building ENERGY STAR ® Labeled Homes

**Alright, already!**
**Just tell me what I have to do for E****NERGY**** S****TAR****®****!**

## How do I do it? 

*Sign** the partnership agreement and the New York Addendum*

*Contact **a HERS Rater*

*Revise **House Specifications **(if necessary)*

*Make your customers happier** with a better built, more energy efficient home*

*Collect **BIG $$$$ and ...*

*Increase your bottom line!*

## The Account Managers

**Frank Champitto **
**(Albany/Syracuse/Binghamton and the Upper Hudson Valley Regions)**
**NYSBA Research & Education Foundation**
**518-465-2492 **
**email: frankc@nysba.com**
**Jim Cleveland **
**(Buffalo/Rochester and the Finger Lakes Regions)**
**Honeywell DMC**
**716-468-5011**
**email: jim.cleveland@honeywell.com**
**Tom Jordan **
**(The Lower Hudson Valley - Ulster/Westchester/Binghamton Areas)**
**ICF Consulting**
**860-643-6570 **
**email: tcjordan@snet.net**

*Who can help you?*

## Sign-up Today!

*Don’t Delay*

***Sign-up Today!***
# Presentation: 295861

## Don Setterberg
Airspace Manager
AIR ARMAMENT CENTER
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

**Airspace Manager**
**AIR ARMAMENT CENTER**
**Eglin Air Force Base, Florida**

- Military Usageof Eastern Gulf of Mexico

## Eglin Gulf Test RangeNationalDefenseResource

## Current Use

**Current Use**

_**Flight Activity**_**Air-to-Air****Air-to-Ground****Surface-to-Air**_**Munitions Used**_**Bombs & Missiles****Drones****Chaff & Flares****Obscurants**

## F-22 Raptor

## Expanded Hazard Area for Missile Shots

## PATRIOT MISSILE

***PATRIOT MISSILE***

**EGLIN**
**AFB**

**GULF OF MEXICO**

## CRUISE MISSILE

***CRUISE MISSILE***

**EGLIN**
**AFB**

**GULF OF MEXICO**

## TMD (PROPOSED)

***TMD (PROPOSED)***

**EGLIN**
**AFB**

**GULF OF MEXICO**

## Theater Missile Defense (TMD)

## AirborneLaser

## Hypersonic Weapon

## Space Plane

## Spaceport Florida 

## Future Use      TMD  F-22  Space  Hypersonic  Directed Energy

**Future Use****      ****TMD****  F-22****  Space****  Hypersonic****  Directed Energy**
# Presentation: 747129

## Slide 1

## Slide 2

## Slide 3

## Annual Average Cost of Care and Pharmacy Decreased

**Average cost of care decreased.**
**6% decrease for diabetes**
**15% decrease for asthma**
**Average pharmacy costs decreased.**
**7% for diabetes**
**19% for asthma**

**Annual Average Cost of Care and Pharmacy Decreased**

***Annual ***
***Cost of Treatment***

***Annual ***
***Pharmacy Costs***

**Greater focus on adherence to treatment plans,**
**reduced emergency department use for asthma patients by 30%, **
**hospitalizations by 38% and disability costs by 50%.**

## Pitney Bowes

*Pitney Bowes*
# Presentation: 454072

## Academic Administration Friend AND Foe

- Sidney H. Golub, Ph.D.
- Executive Director

- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

## Relevant Experiences

- Graduate Student
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Assistant Professor (depts. of Microbiology
-           and Surgery)
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor with tenure
- Professor
- Associate Dean of Medicine, Academic Affairs
- Interim Dean of Medicine

- Executive Vice-Chancellor (Provost), Chief academic officer of research university campus
- Scientific society executive; Science policy and government  relations
**Have not been:**
- Department Chair
- Campus CEO
- In industry or private research foundation

## What Does Your University Administration Want From You?

- Research Productivity
-    			Impact
- 			Prestige
- 			Recruitment of better faculty and students
- 			Happy patients, alumni and donors
- 			Indirect cost recovery

## What Does Your University Administration Want From You?

-         Quality clinical care
- 		Competitive advantage
- 		Income
-         Teaching
-         Service
-         Absence of controversy

## Things Your Administration Can Do FOR You 

- Space and renovation
- $ (start up, bridge funds, student stipends, seed
- 		money)
- Access to students
- Protected time to do research
- Connections (mentor, collaborators, shared resources)
- Access to funding (donors, foundations, industry)
- Life style issues  (housing, child care, leave, spousal employment)

## Things Your Administration Can Do TO You

- Consume time
**	****	**Excessive clinical responsibilities
- 		Too many committees
- 		Teaching overload
- 		Outreach, community service
- 		Fund-raising

## More Things Your Administration Can Do TO You

- Insufficient support
- 		Space
- $
- Personal
- Stack the tenure deck

## General Do’s and Don’ts

- Get a good mentor
- Understand the promotion process
- Be a good institutional citizen
- Teach effectively
- Provide quality clinical care
- Have a life

- Swim alone with sharks
- Guess at how you will be evaluated
- Do too much committee work
- Teach too much
- Do too much patient care
- Make those who love you miserable

- DO

- DON’T

## Research Do’s and Don’ts

- Collaborate with others
- Get research funding
- Obtain peer reviewed funds
- Publish
- Publish in quality journals

- Lose independence
- Choose projects you cannot afford
- Do projects you cannot publish
- Keep good results secret
- Clog the literature with junk

- DO

- DON’T

## Excuses That NEVER Work

- My famous colleague/department Chair/Dean/mentor does not like me
- I had to see too many patients
- I was busy making money for the University
- No one understands my research

## More Excuses That NEVER Work

- I was unable to get the grants to do the work
- I got caught up in departmental politics
- I taught an especially heavy load
- I was too busy

## SUMMARY 

- To be effective and successful,
- do a few things very well.
- MANAGE YOUR TIME WISELY
# Presentation: 212048

## Electron Paramagnetic Resonance at Hunter College

**Makia Hughes**
**John F. Kennedy High School****Physics Department, Hunter College of Solid State NMR/EPR Lab ****EPR measurements of Lithiated Silver Vanadium Oxide ****Dr. John Flowers, Professor of Chemistry at Medgar Evers College of CUNY**** **

## Our Goal 

- To use EPR to examine and confirm the mechanisms of discharge in a Sulfur Vanadium Oxide (SVO) battery in order to develop higher quality batteries.

## What is EPR?

- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance also known as Electron Spin Resonance is a spectroscopic technique which detect species that have unpaired electrons.
- A surprisingly large number of materials have unpaired electrons. (examples: free radicals and many transition metal ions)
- EPR alone yields inconvertible evidence of free radicals and has the unique power of identifying the paramagnetic species.

- Emblem of the Society of Free Radical Research

## EPR Instruments 

- The EPR Spectrometer consists of many different components.
- Microwave Bridge:            Electromagnetic Radiation Source
- Microwave Cavity:            Amplifies weak signals from the sample
- Magnet:                              Splits the electronic spin energy levels
- Console:                             Contains signal processing and control electronics and a                                                                           			        units for acquiring a spectrum
- Computer:                          Used to analyze data as well as coordinating all the units 			        for acquiring a spectrum.

## How does EPR Work?

- Like a proton, an electron has a spin, which gives it a magnetic property known as a magnetic moment.
- When an external magnetic field is supplied, the paramagnetic electrons can either orient in a direction parallel or antiparallel to the direction of the magnetic field .
- This creates two distinct energy levels for the unpaired electrons and measurements are taken as they are driven between the two levels.

## EPR Spectroscopy

- EPR spectroscopy is the measurement and interpretation of the energy differences between the atomic or molecular states.
- These measurements are obtained because the relationship between the energy differences and the absorption of electro-magnetic radiation.
- To acquire a spectrum, the frequency of the electromagnetic radiation is changed and the amount of radiation which passes through the sample with a detector is measured to observe the spectroscopic absorptions

## EPR Results

- 4 Samples Tested
- 1) Pure SVO-		Gives EPR signal due 						to the paramagnetism 						of SVO; High Q value
- 2) Li0.72Ag2V4O11	Weak or No EPR signal; 					Lower Q value
- 3) Li2.13Ag2V4O11  	Weak or No EPR signal; 					Lower Q value
- 4) Li5.59Ag2V4O11	Definite EPR Signal; 						Lower Q value
- Supports our Hypothesis
# Presentation: 834368

## Monolithic Arrays for Room Temperature 

**Near Infrared Imaging**

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

**Sensors Unlimited, Inc.**

- Princeton, NJ

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Demonstrated a  monolithic 16 X 16 element InGaAs near infrared detector array
-  Demonstration included ancilliary electronics for all modes of operation
-  Technology will significantly lower cost of near infrared cameras
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Technology supported development of photodiode arrays that are used as optical performance monitors for fiber optic networks
-  Significant sales in telecommunications field

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Remote sensing of atmospheric gases including methane, water and carbon dioxide

***InGaAs Arrays for Optical Performance Monitoring***

- 1991 Phase II; NAS7-1253
- Success Story # 7-032

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

**INNOVATION**
- 256 eleent sensor array for next generation
- room temperature near infrared cameras
# Presentation: 064973

## Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring System Cardiodynamics, San Diego, CA

- Innovation
-     A hemodynamic patient monitoring system which enables physicians
-       to rapidly and accurately analyze patient hemodynamic status in a
-       less costly, non-invasive, real-time manner

- Accomplishments
-    Translates electrical conductivity in the thorax into blood
-      flow data.
-    Twelve parameters are measured or derived and displayed in
-      real time, including: cardiac output/index, two measurements
-      of contractility, systemic vascular resistance, and thoracic fluid
-      content.

- Commercialization
- 1600 first generation systems sold worldwide
- The BioZ System (second generation system), which features advanced  digital  signal processing, received FDA approval in November 1996
- In September 1997, FDA approval was issued for the Portable BioZ System
- The Company  has announced a commitment by GE Medical Systems Information Technologies to purchase $3.5 million of CardioDynamics' products in 2001.
- The significant increase in first quarter sales reflects the medical community's growing recognition and demand for CardioDynamics' proprietary Impedance Cardiography (ICG) technology. During first quarter 2001, 156 BioZ systems were sold, increasing the Company's installed base to over 1,200 systems (98% increase over first quarter 2000) being used in over 700 customer sites.
- The company was recently added  to the Frank Rusell Company’s annual index reconstitution process,  the Rusell 2000 and 3000 indices.
- Recurring revenue for the first quarter 2001 was $360,000 (9% of sales), an increase of 70% over recurring revenue of $212,000 for the same period in fiscal 2000.
- The firm has reported it’s 3rd Profitable Quarter, 17th Consecutive Quarter of increased sales and a 20% increase in third quarter 2001 sales.
- Net sales for the third Quarter of 2002 were 6.3 millions dollars.

- Government/Science Applications
-   Procedure provides an easy to use, non-invasive, cost effective
-    alternative to the Pulmonary Artery (Swan-GanzTM) Catheter for
-    monitoring cardiac function in government medical facilities.

- Points of Contact
- 1985 SBIR Phase II; NAS 9 17809
- NASA:  Collin Hieger, chieger@ems.jsc.nasa.gov -  Company: 1-800-778-4825

- Johnson Space Center        Date of Update  10/10/02                  Success Story #103

**Cardiac Output Mobile Monitoring System**
# Presentation: 082772

## Modifications of AFE boards

- Removing of unused channels from readout
- green modifications, added resistor to unused channels: this is how we started but we decided to abandon
- blue modifications, removed capacitor from unused channels
- Modifications for 53 MHz readout
-  red modifications

## Green ModificationsIncreased Spread Of Pedestals

- Run 182282, lights off, 4-Oct-03
- Run 180808, 1-September-03, last before Shutdown

## Green ModificationsIncreased Spread Of Pedestals

- Run 182282, lights off, 4-Oct-03
- Run 180808, 1-September-03, last before Shutdown

## Green ModificationsIncreased Spread Of Pedestals

- Run 182282, lights off, 4-Oct-03
- Run 180808, 1-September-03, last before Shutdown

## Green ModificationsIncreased Spread Of Pedestals

- Run 182282, lights off, 4-Oct-03
- Run 180808, 1-September-03, last before Shutdown

## Green ModificationsIncreased Spread Of Pedestals

- Reason was found for this:
- Green modifications cause unused channels to fire discriminators continuously
- Paul Rubinov re-programmed 2 boards so that unused channels’ discriminators show up in data for first 4 MCMs. Board 7A4 is a board with green modifications, B0 is a board with blue modifications.
- Marvin warned us that chips firing continuously can have shorter lifetime.
- We decided to abandon green modifications.

## Blue Modifications, board 8A2Increased RMS Of Pedestals

- Run 182174 3-Oct-03, crate 0x50
- Run 182044 1-Oct-03 for boards 9A, crate 0x50
- Run 180808 1-Sep-03, last before Shutdown

## Blue Modifications, board 9A3Increased RMS Of Pedestals

- Run 182174 3-Oct-03
- Run 182044 1-Oct-03 for boards 9A
- Run 180808 1-Sep-03, last before Shutdown

## Blue Modifications, board 8A0Unchanged RMS Of Pedestals

- Run 182174 3-Oct-03, crate 0x50
- Run 182044 1-Oct-03 for boards 9A, crate 0x50
- Run 180808 1-Sep-03, last before Shutdown

## Blue Modifications, board 8B7Improved RMS Of Pedestals

- Run 182174 3-Oct-03, crate 0x50
- Run 182044 1-Oct-03 for boards 9A, crate 0x50
- Run 180808 1-Sep-03, last before Shutdown

## Blue (+Red) Modifications, crate 0x50Increased RMS Of Pedestals

- Run 182174 3-Oct-03, crate 0x50
- Run 182044 1-Oct-03 for boards 9A, crate 0x50
- Run 180808 1-Sep-03, last before Shutdown
- 40% of boards have increased RMS (17-1)/41
- RMS of blue board –RMS of unmodified board

## Unmodified Boards in crate 0x51 RMS of pedestals not changed

- Run 181920 29-Sep-03 - Run 180808 1-Sep-03, last before Shutdown

## Why Blue (+Red) modified boards have larger RMS?

- Light Leaks
- Handling of Boards
- Blue modifications

## Blue (+Red) Modifications, crate 0x50Increased RMS Of Pedestals

- Run 182252 4-Oct-03
- Run 180808 1-Sep-03
**Lights off**
- 25% of boards have increased RMS (9-1)/32
- RMS of blue board –RMS before modifications

## Green modified boards changed back (red left on)

- Run 182369 7-Oct-03 – Run 180808 1-Sep-03
- RMS of board –RMS before modifications

## Green modified boards changed back (red left on)

- Run 182369

## Green modified boards changed back (red left on)