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## WEATHER

**(We don’t deliver just on sunny days)**
- Air Traffic Operations
- Steve Vail

## WHY PARTICIPATE?

**RTCA Free Flight**** – Select and Steering Com**
**ATA Committees**** – ATMC, ATC Steering, FSIC, CDM**
**R&D Projects**** – NASA SMS, Multi-lateration, GPS, MITRE, ITWS**
**Aircraft Upgrades**** – FMS, RNP, GPS**
**Sponsor Technology**** – Enhanced Vision, LAAS, other automation**

## SWAP and CCFPSevere Wx Avoidance Plan and Collaborative Forecast Product

- (CCFP)

**TODAY’S SITUATION**

## Flight Schedule Monitor - LGA 1415z - 02Aug01

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

**Notes:**
ACTUALREAL TIME  SURFACE DISPLAY

Shared situational awareness between FAA/User/Airport Authority

Notice transition from air to ground tracking - FLG5820 landing Rwy 27

N109FE appears in gate because aircraft powers up
	Indicates intent
Includes all types of equipage
	Mode A
	Mode S

WE CAN PALNNED TOGETHER EFFICICENLY.  THIS IS WHY WE ARE SO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THIS SYSTEM

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Information, updated by FAA/FedEx systems, for ATC/GOC cooperation 

**Information, updated by FAA/FedEx systems, for ATC/GOC cooperation **
**to manage the arrivals prioritized by payload**

## Arrival Demand

**Arrival Demand**

**Arrival Capacity of each inbound fix under static arrival procedures is finite.  Demand may be concentrated at one fix and thus airport capacity is not captured due to fix capacity.**

## Arrival Demand

**Arrival Demand**

**Dynamic arrival procedures with multiple arrival routes and fixes, activated as demand warrants, would allow airport capacity to be captured.**

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## LAAS 

**LAAS**** **
**(Local Area Augmentation System)**
**Architecture**

**LAAS**
**Reference Station**
**(Integrity**
**Accuracy**
**Availability)**

**Processor**
**GPS **
**Receiver**
**VHF **
**Transmitter**

**Pseudolite**

**Pseudolite**

**Pseudolite**

**SFS GPS Apch’s**
**May 26th**

## Precision approaches that avoid noise sensitive areas without requiring radar vectors

**STAR**
**FIX**

**FINAL APCH**

_**Precision approaches**_** that avoid noise sensitive areas without requiring radar vectors**

- Altitude restriction

## Precision approaches that avoid terrain without requiring radar vectors

**STAR**
**FIX**

**STAR**
**FIX**

**Short SI  final**

**B**

_**Precision approaches**_** that avoid terrain without requiring radar vectors**

**FINAL APCH**

## Precision approaches that achieve spacing without requiring radar vectors

**STAR**
**FIX**

**STAR**
**FIX**

**SI FINAL APCH**

**1**

**2**

**3**

**A**

**B**

**C**

_**Precision approaches**_** that achieve spacing without requiring radar vectors**

- “FDX 123, Assigned
- transition A”

- UPS999, Assigned
-  Transition 3

## WHAT IMPACTS ALL CAPACITY ENHANCEMENTS?

- WEATHER!

## CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS WHAT REALLY COUNTS!!!

**CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS WHAT REALLY COUNTS!!!**
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## SVW in Operational Weather Forecasting

**Capt Caroline Bower**
**Joint Typhoon Warning Center**

## Area of Responsibility

**CPHC**

**New Delhi**

**La Reunion**

**            ****Tokyo**

**Australia**

**Nadi, Fiji**

**180****o**

**NHC**

**33%**

**8%**

**11%**

**13%**

**11%**

**7%**

**Area of Responsibility**

**140****o**

**17%**

## Global Coverage

## METWATCH

**QuikSCAT is the primary data source for verifying the presence of closed cyclonic circulations**
**Used to identify open/easterly waves, westerly wind bursts, surface convergence and troughing**
**Used to identify directional flow (i.e., southwesterly monsoon)**

## Development

**Used to assess tropical disturbance classification**
**Poor, Fair, Good (TCFA)**
**First warning**

## TC Analysis

**TC Analysis**

**Assess TC wind distribution**
**Distribution of winds**
**Critical wind radii**
**Max wind speed reported**
**Position**
**Multiple impacts**
**Warning position and wind distribution**
**Bogus message (dotcom file) used to prime atmospheric models (i.e., NOGAPS, COAMPS, GFDN)**

## Usage

**Assess image**
**Proximity to land**
**Rain flags (compare to vis/IR imagery)**
**Identify circulation center**
**Identify area of 35-knot winds**
**Measure distance to outer 35-knot wind vector in each quadrant**
**Assess distribution of 50-knot winds, measure radii**
**Assess overall symmetry of wind distribution, potential complicating factors (i.e., gradient compression)**

## Usage

**All available data incorporated into composite fix (warning position)**

## Limitations

**Data missing or rain flagged where it is most important**
**Sensor unable to accurately assess inner core winds**
**Data latency often on the order of several hours**
**Given current architecture, cannot use WindSat, TMI, SSM/I, SSMI/S (storm-centered displays) to METWATCH**

##                                         Questions?

- Capt Caroline Bower
- JTWC
- 808 474-3946
- e-mail: caroline.bower@navy.mil
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## Collaborative Session Management

- Argonne National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Ray Bair
- October 21, 1997

## NCSA Habanero

**NCSA Habanero**

**User Environment**

**Session Control**

**National Center for Supercomputing Applications, ****University of Illinois**

## NCSA Habanero Features

**NCSA Habanero Features**

- Collaborative framework
- Construction supports a wide variety of tools
- Cross platform
**Any platform that supports the Java Development Kit (JDK)**
**Windows 95 & NT, Solaris, IRIX, Macintosh, AIX, etc.**
- Provides routing, synchronization, arbitration
- Shared events
- Provides sharing of state data
- Applications leverage new framework developments - CORBA

## DOE 2000 Habanero Features

- Security integrated into API
- Improved floor control model
- Web page session launch
- Multiple modes
- User selects session to join from list
- 3D virtual rooms access sessions (ANL)
- Additional tools
- Shared screens (TeleViewer)
- Audio/Video (MBONE, CUseeMe)
- Shared Netscape browser (WebTour)
- Shared editors, Instruments, etc.

## EMSL TeleViewer

**Share anything on your screen, with anyone, anywhere**
**Any application on UNIX, Windows, Macintosh platforms**
**Pick a window, rectangle, or the whole screen**
**Print, save, copy, annotate shared region images**

## Multi-Pane Whiteboard

**Multi-Pane Whiteboard**

**Draw text, lines, shapes, etc.**
**Blank background or selected picture**
**Multiple whiteboards, with thumbnails**
**Parallel work within distributed groups**
**Addresses issues of ownership and control**

## DOE2000 Habanero Status

- Software distribution agreement
- Next release date = October 31
- NCSA tools + TeleViewer, Multi-Pane Whiteboard, CUseeME (Mac, PC), MBONE (UNIX, PC)
- Platforms supported = Windows’95, IRIX, Sun Solaris, Macintosh
- Download from http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/
- Exhibit at SC’97 (High Performance Networking and Computing) November 17-20 in San Jose
- Windows NT testing starts in November
# Presentation: 670180

## Influenza Vaccine Supply2004 Update

**Eddie Wilder, M.B.A.**
**Public Health Advisor**
**Immunization Services Division**
- National Immunization Program
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Department of Health and Human Services
**National Vaccine Advisory Committee****Washington, DC****October 5, 2004**

## 2004 Influenza Vaccine Update

**Overview**
**Production and Distribution**
**Timing of Distribution**
**Influenza Vaccine Stockpile**

## The 2004 Influenza Vaccination Season

**Three manufacturers **
**Two making inactivated vaccine**
**One making live attenuated vaccine**
**Approximately 13 million more doses to be produced this year than in 2003**
**Distribution of vaccine began in August**

## Influenza Vaccine Doses Producedand Distributed for the U.S. Market2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004*

| Year | Doses Produced | Doses Distributed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2000 | 77.9 Million | 70.4 Million |
| 2001 | 87.7 Million | 77.7 Million |
| 2002 | 95.0 Million | 83.0 Million |
| 2003 | 86.9 Million | 83.1 Million |
| 2004 | Approximately
100 Million | ??? |

******* Data provided by manufacturers producing influenza vaccine for the U.S. market.**

## Cumulative Monthly Influenza Vaccine DistributionFor 2000, 2003/04 1, 2004*

**1.**  Data presented in this figure were supplied by the influenza vaccine manufacturers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
-      Updated 09/30/2004
- * Current Projection

- Doses (Millions)

**99.17**

**83**

**70**

**28**

## Timing of Distribution in 2004/05 Influenza Season

**MMWR – September 24, 2004**
**Production proceeding satisfactorily**
**Chiron delay in distribution**
*Small number of lots did not meet sterility specifications*
*Those lots will not be distributed*
*Planned distribution in early October*
**Aventis Pasteur began distribution in August**
**MedImmune will begin distribution in early October**
**Optimal time for vaccination against influenza is October and November**

## 2004 Influenza Vaccine Stockpile

**Legislative authority through the VFC Program**
**We have purchased 4.5M doses of influenza vaccine for this influenza season to be held as a national stockpile**
**One half of stockpiled vaccine will be available for distribution in December 2004**
**Remaining half will be available for distribution in January 2005**

**QUESTIONS?**
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## The Physics of the LHC

**The CMS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider**
**Dan Green**
**Fermilab**
**US CMS Program Manager**
**November 28, 2005**

## Higgs Field and Dark Energy

**Action A is dimensionless. Langrangian density then has mass dimension 4. Scalar, vector field has mass dimension 1. **

## Gauge “Theory”

**Massless Higgs and W bosons. Make ‘gauge replacement” familiar from classical electrodynamics.**

**EWSB or vacuum field means W (and Z) acquire a mass term.**

**Gauge coupling and EWSB define the Higgs coupling to the gauge bosons**

## Higgs Mass

**Higgs “potential” defines self-coupling triple and quartic couplings with  2 parameters.**

**Minimum of Lagrangian at vacuum field value. Curvature about minimum gives Higgs mass.**

**One parameter comes from muon decay constant. The second will be defined by the Higgs mass, as yet unknown**

## Cosmological Higgs?

**Spectacular mismatch in estimates/measurements of dark energy. Why is the Higgs field not gravitationally effective?**
**Only HEP scale comparable is solar neutrino oscillation, mass ~ 9 meV.**

## Dark Matter and SUSY

**Boltzmann Eq. Freezout of relic when annihilation rate ~ expansion rate.**

**Neutralino annihilation rate into quark pairs.**

## Approximate Solution

**Very approximate solution:**
**Puts limit on mass of SUSY LSP**

## “Exact” Solution

**Need weakly interacting LSP. However, the annihilations have many branches which make exact calculations impossible. Limited parameter space in MMSM SUSY if the LSP neutralino is a mixture dominated by Higgsino.**
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## F L I R EFlowing Liquid-Surface Illinois Retention ExperimentCritical Design Considerations

- Mark Boaz, **David N. Ruzic**, Ning Li,
-  Jeff Norman and Jean-Paul Allain
*Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering*
- University of Illinois
-  at Urbana Champaign
- October 25, 2000     APS DPP Meeting

## Outline

- Motivation
- FLIRE Concept
- Experiment to Address Critical Concern
- Results
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements

## Motivation

- Flowing Liquid Metal Walls
- High heat flux capability
- Disruption resistant
- Low Z possible
- May have new plasma operating regimes
- Can helium be removed ?
- What is the retention of He in liquid metals?

## Proposed Experiment

- Flow Li down a ramp into a second vacuum system inside the large vacuum system
- Have Li flow provide vacuum isolation
- Aim He ion beam at flowing Li
- Look for He in inner chamber with a He leak detector

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Detectability Limits

- He leak detectors can see 2.7 x 109 s-1
- Ion beam at 1 mA has 1.6 x 1016 s-1
-              (seven-orders-of-magnitude !)
- Flow velocity = 1 m/s
- Fusion system will have same time in chamber, 0.01 sec.
- If 1 ppm is seen, (six-orders-of-magnitude)  minimum observable retention time constant = 25 sec.

## Critical Questions

- Will surface layer with the implanted ions smoothly flow into the inner vacuum chamber or will the liquid metal pool at the opening?
- If it does not pool, will a vacuum seal be maintained?
- Is having two ramps sufficient to ensure this?

## Prototype Design

- Key is to have flow maintain contact with ramps.
- Equation of motion for free flow:
-                    y(x) = x - bx2
- Measure flow speed, find “b”, cut plywood.
- Length of ramp determined by co-joining angle.  Experiment, choose 25 degrees.

## slotted holes in plywood allowed for adjustment of exit size

## gap from reservoir controlled by teflon insert

## Exit

- width
- is
- 3 mm

## Assembled FLIRE prototype

## Note brightness of exit when open

## 5 mm gap from reservoirs is too big !

## 4 mm gap still pools, but then settles down nicely

## 3 mm gap is just right

## 2 mm gap is okay, but some Cu is showing

## 3 mm gap again, different view

## Conclusion

- Through careful design, uniform “folding” flow can be achieved.
- FLIRE experiment could determine critical parameters for the ALPS/ APEX programs

## Acknowledgements

- DOE ALPS program
- Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Hussain Nomanbhai
- Shadi Beidas
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## Best practices in clinician engagement:  processes and outcomes 

- Cynthia Morris
- Research Director, Oregon Rural Practice-Based Research Network
- Doug Fernald
- Assistant Director, Colorado Research Network
- Margaret Love
- Director, Kentucky Ambulatory Network
- Barcey Levy
-  Director, Iowa Research Network

## Participatory research: 

- Research conducted with the collaboration of those affected by the issue being studied for the purpose of taking acting or effecting change.
- A methodology that promotes active involvement in the processes that shape research and intervention strategies, as well as in the conduct of research studies.

##   Generating Meaningful Research

- Did the original ideas for the research projects come from the community?
- 					or
- Are the research questions or issues of interest supported by members of the community?

## So if we believe in this, how do we engage clinicians in  the conversation?

## In other words...	

- How do we engage clinicians to discover issues of importance, find questions of interest?
- How do we engage clinicians for input on creating appropriate study designs?
- How do we help clinicians decide whether or not to participate in a research proposal?

## Why is it difficult?

- Ivory tower bias
- History
- Time
- Competing interests
- Research is not a primary concern
- Lack of self-efficacy for research
- Inertia

## Benefits of communication

- Engender trust and cooperativity
- Networks exist only because of the members
- Gives the network guidance, direction

## Methods of Engagement

- _Websites:_
- Not bidirectional
- Great for posting news, announcements
- Can have a members-only section for threaded discussion, posting protocols
- _Listserves for network members:_
- Sporadic activity but allow asynchronous discussion
- _Email_
- Falls into the email morass
- Time consuming and unidirectional

## Methods of Engagement

- _Practice Enhancement or Research Coordinators_:
- Facilitation through an intermediary does not yield clinician discussion
- Infrastructure requires support, money
- _Network phone conferences:_
- Can initiate conversation and yield decisions given strong organization
- Time effective but more formal, less personal

## Methods of Engagement

- _Fax Surveys:_
- Focus on specific questions
- Quick response
- Fax is becoming novel!
- _Newsletter:_
- One way communication
- May fall into junk mail pile
- But great for public, legislators, publicity
- Worth the effort

## Methods of Engagement

- _Central or regional network meetings_:
- Face-to face builds trust, collegiality among members and staff
- Expensive!
- Requires time, commitment of clinicians
- Hold in conjunction with larger meetings
- _Focus groups:_
- Can engender intense discussion, many ideas
- Requires time, cooperation, consent, analysis
- Representative?

##      What is the evidence base?

- We study recruitment and response principles but not engagement
- Caution:  Be realistic about outcomes of this process.
- Everyone builds strength and capacity through participation
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## Strand R&D

***E. Barzi for the Materials Group***

**LARP, Berkeley, CA USA, Apr. 26-28, 2006**

**Notes:**
I’m going to show the work I did to prepare the test set-up for next HTS critical current measurements 

## Outline

**Outline**

**Overview of FY06 Tasks and budget status**
**Progress since Oct. 05 Collaboration Meeting **
**Outstanding issues**
**FY07 Task schedule**

## Superconductor R&D

- Properties of round strands
- How are strand properties affected in cabling
- Measure effect of Lorentz forces
- Effect of conductor properties on magnet performance

- Outline

## FY06 Strand R&D Tasks

**FY06 Strand R&D Tasks**

**A possibly improved RRP strand with 54 subel. was later chosen as LARP workhorse strand for 2006, with the Conductor Development Program (CDP) undertaking the R&D endeavor of designs with smaller subel.**

## FY06 Tasks and Budget status

**FY06 Tasks and Budget status**

## RRP HT Studies

**RRP HT Studies**

**BNL data on 8220 RRP billet**

## Prediction of Short Sample Limits

**Prediction of Short Sample Limits**

**SRS01**

## High Field Short Sample Limits

**High Field Short Sample Limits**

**BNL:****	****Imax = 9780 A (490 A/strand)****	****Bpeak = 12.4 T **

**FNAL:****	****Imax = 9630 A (480 A/strand)****	****Bpeak = 12.2 T **

**SRS01**

## Low Field Short Sample Limits

**Low Field Short Sample Limits**

**Extracted strand test results**

**Transformer test results**

**BNL:****	****I****S**** = 575 A to >1200 A****	****RRR = 174 to 355 **

**FNAL:****	****I****S**** = 587 A to 1287 A****	****RRR = 297 **

**SRS01**

## Choice of Strand and Cable

## Cabling simulation – High Field Jc

**Rolled down strand**

**One can find a range of strain where there is a good correlation of I****c**** degradation between extracted and rolled strands **

**Strain=(d-t)/d**** **

## Filament Size Distributions

**28-strand PIT Cable (88.6% packing factor)**

## Slide 13

## Deff onset for Instabilities

_**B**_

- PS limit

## Rolled vs. Cabled

**Rolled vs. Cabled**

**PS limit**

**PS limit**

## Filament Merging

**RRP Cable cross section**

**Merging cannot be seen through magnetization of an extracted strand because it is a local effect**

## Observe Merging through Magnetization

**PIT- Deformation, but NO merging**

**RRP- Deformation AND merging**

## Min. Iq of RRP LARP strands in low field

**In cables and extracted strands Is and RRR are not as reproducible as in round strands.**

**Rolled**

**Extracted**

**Cable**

## New R&D Design by OST

**60/61 restack with spaced SE’s ****  **

**Previous design**

**New design (‘05)**

**The new design has increased Cu thickness between subelements to reduce cabling impact on subelement merging****.  **

**54/61 restack ****  **

**Newer design (‘06)**

**120/127 restack with spaced SE’s ****  **

## FY07 Strand R&D Tasks
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## New Climate Observations Introduced

- FY2004 Target: 275 new ARGO floats deployed;
- June 2004 Actual:  371 ARGO floats, 523 total ocean observing platforms

- FY04 Target = 275

- 16 Aug 2004

**Cumulative observing platforms deployed**

## Reduce the Error in Global Measurements of Sea Surface Temperature

- Long-term Target: Error of 0.2 °C by 2008

- Expanding the in situ network will minimize the satellite bias error, enabling more accurate global sea surface temperature from a combination of satellite and in situ measurements

- Note: this measure is proposed as a new GPRA for FY2006; it is already reported on quarterly

- Satellite bias error: the systematic difference between satellite-derived vs. in situ measurements of sea surface temperature

- 16 Aug 2004
# Presentation: 650799

## The AIRPACT AQ Forecast System & NASA Project for Exploiting Satellite Data

- Joe Vaughan, Farren Thorpe, Brian Lamb, George Mount
- Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, WSU-Pullman
- Cliff Mass and Greg Hakim, UW, Seattle
- Louisa Emmons and David Edwards, UCAR
- Ray Peterson, Pasayten Consulting

## Applied Sciences Program Approach to Integrated System Solutions for

**Applied Sciences Program Approach to Integrated System Solutions for**
**A Comprehensive Regional Air-Quality Decision Support System for the Pacific Northwest**

## http://lar.wsu.edu/airpact-3/

- <date/time>

- _[http://lar.wsu.edu/airpact-3/](http://lar.wsu.edu/airpact-3/)_

## OMI Tropospheric Column NO2 

- OMI Tropospheric Column NO2
- vs
- AIRPACT Tropospheric Column  NO2

## We are very interested in 

- OMI AIRPACT-3 comparisons

- We are very interested in
- tropospheric O3 products!

## OMI AOD Retrievals and AIRPACT

**OMI AOD Retrievals and AIRPACT**

## MOPPIT CO Retrievals and AIRPACT

- DAY

- NIGHT

## We’re here to exploit your data, 

- if we can!!
- Thank You
- JVAUGHAN@WSU.EDU
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## SURFnet6

- Kees Neggers
- SURFnet
- Kees.Neggers@surfnet.nl

- Panel A
- ONT2 Breadth First Testbed
- September 12, 2005

## SURFnet and SURFnet6

- 170 connected organisations, 750,000 users
- A hybrid optical and packet switching infrastructure, yielding native IPv4, IPv6 and lightpath services
- Based on SURFnet-owned managed dark fiber all the way to the customers premises
- Functionality and flexibility pushed to L1/L2, resulting in a vastly reduced number of L3 routed locations
- SURFnet6 via NetherLight connected to networks participating in GLIF

## Roadmap: Optical Services

**2005**

**2006**

**2007**

**2008**

**2009**

**2010**

**operator initiated lightpaths**

**intra-domain user provisioned lightpaths**

**OPN**

**Inter-domain user provisioned lightpaths**

**Dynamic optically switched lightpath**

## Roadmap: Optical Technology

**2005**

**2006**

**2007**

**2008**

**2009**

**2010**

**Transparent optical switching**

**Electronic dispersion compensation**

**Resource allocation stategies**

**Measurement stategies**

**Testing strategies**

**Cloud bypass**

## Roadmap: Interoperability Issues

**2005**

**2006**

**2007**

**2008**

**2009**

**2010**

**Inter-domain AAA**

**Inter-domain control plane**

**Inter-domain dynamic optically switched lightpaths**

**Inter-domain user provisioned lightpaths**

## Key Themes

- A hybrid optical and packet switching infrastructure
- Customer-owned managed dark fiber, single control plane, single transmission infrastructure
- Optical technologies: transparent optical switching, electronic dispersion compensation
- Lightpath technologies: static and dynamic, intra-domain and inter-domain, operator and user provisioned
- Lightpath usage: Optical Private Network (OPN), lightpath on demand, cloud bypass

## Key Research Areas

- Optical Networking: Resource allocation for lightpath provisioning, electronic dispersion compensation
- High performance routing and switching: Alternatives for flow control in hybrid networks
- Management and monitoring: Developing measuring and reporting strategies in hybrid networks
- Grids and access: Matching grid techniques with hybrid networks, the role of AAA
- Testing methodology: Developing testing strategies for  hybrid networks, facilitated by a separate Test Bed and NetherLight
# Presentation: 196870

## FSIS Risk Assessments forE. coli O157:H7

- Dr. Carl Schroeder
- Office of Public Health Science
- Risk Assessment and Residue Division
- April 9, 2008

## Risk Assessment Process

- Develop a plan and gather data
- Formulate questions
- Develop risk assessment model
- Peer review
- Public presentation
- Update based on comments
- Post to web

**Notes:**
Stress iterative nature

## Slide 3

## Questions 

- What is the risk of illness from *E. coli *O157:H7 in ground beef?
- What is the occurrence and extent of *E. coli *O157:H7 contamination at points along the farm-to-table continuum?

## Model

## Results

- Risk of illness
- June to September: 1 in every 600,000 ground beef servings
- October to May: 1 in every 1.6 million ground beef servings
- Risk factors for contamination
- Prevalence of *E. coli *at feedlots
- Occurrence and extent of carcass contamination
- Effectiveness of procedures used to decontaminate carcasses
- Effect of carcass chilling

## Conclusion

- Mitigations during cattle production and slaughter are effective for reducing the risk of illness from *E. coli *O157:H7 in ground beef

## Slide 8

## Question

- Do non-intact blade-tenderized beef steaks pose a greater risk to the consumer from *E. coli *O157:H7 compared to intact beef steaks?

## Model

## Results

- Contamination with *E. coli *O157:H7
- 2.6 per 10 million servings for intact
- 3.7 per 10 million servings for non-intact
- Risk of illness
- 1 illness per 15.9 million servings for intact
- 1 illness per 14.2 million servings for non-intact

## Conclusion

- The risk of illness from *E. coli *O157:H7 in non-intact beef steaks is not significantly higher than intact beef steaks

## E. coli O157:H7 Pre-harvest Risk Assessment

## Objectives

- Develop a screening tool to allow more rapid assessment of pre-harvest risk management options
- Determine if pre-harvest intervention is a cost effective food safety strategy under most optimistic assumptions

## Proposed Model

## Estimated Completion

- Fall 2008

## Updated Comparative Risk Assessment for E. coli O157:H7 Intact and Non-intact Beef

## Objectives

- Estimate the risk of illness from *E. coli *O157:H7 in non-intact vs. intact beef steaks

## Proposed Model

- Updated 2002 model to include data for
- Translocation and distribution of *E. coli *O157:H7 in beef from mechanical and chemical tenderization
- Growth of *E. coli *O157:H7 in non-intact at various temperatures
- Effect of cooking on *E. coli *O157:H7 in non-intact steaks
- Effect of sanitation on removal of *E. coli* O157:H7 from blades/needles used to tenderize beef

## Estimated Completion

- Fall 2009

## Summary

- FSIS is conducting a risk assessment on pre-harvest interventions for reducing *E. coli *O157:H7 in beef
- FSIS plans to update its comparative risk assessment for *E. coli *O157:H7 in intact and non-intact beef
- All FSIS risk assessments available on the web: www.fsis.usda.gov/science/risk_assessments
# Presentation: 685508

## By Kimball Brace, President
Election Data Services, Inc.   September 24, 2007

- Election Data Services, Inc.   September 24, 2007

**2006 UOCAVA Survey**:A Summary of Findings

## Basic Election Administration Facts

- Size is important to remember
- 1,778 of nations’ jurisdictions have fewer than    1,000 registered voters in them.
- Only 320 jurisdictions have more than 100,000 registered voters
- Only 18 jurisdictions have more than 1 million voters.
- Over 26% of election jurisdictions still use paper ballots.

## UOCAVA Voters2006 General Election

**Estimated Eligible**
*Source: GAO*
**Requested Ballots**
**Cast or Counted Ballots**

**333,179**

**992,034**

**6,000,000**

## Of All Eligible UOCAVA Voters:

**Only 16.5% sought to participate in 2006 Election**
**Turnout was only 5.5 percent of eligible**

**Eligible**

**6 Million**

## Of Requested UOCAVA Ballots

**Only one-third were **
**	****cast or counted**

## What Makes Up UOCAVA Voters

## Each State is Different

## Percent of Requested Ballots That Were Cast or Counted

## Of All UOCAVA Ballots Rejected:

**Returned Undeliverable**
**Other**
**Untimely Receipt**
**Rest**
**No Voter Signature**
**Unmatched Signature**
**No Date with Signature**
**Lacking Postmark**
**No Date on Voter Signature**

## Summary

**Clear survey suffers from big problems**
**While appears in shambles,**
**We have more data now than we had in 2004**
**Still question of whether we’re better now.**
**Is there a catalyst to fix it?**

## Further Information Available at:

- Election Assistance Commission
- 1225 New York Ave
- Suite 1100
- Washington, DC 20005
- (202-) 566-3100
- www.eac.gov
- Karen Lynn-Dyson
- Research Director

## Report Contractor:

- Election Data Services, Inc.
- 1400 Eye Street, NW, Suite 400
- Washington, DC 20005
- (202) 789-2004
- _[www.electiondataservices.com](http://www.electiondataservices.com/)_
- Kimball Brace
- President
- _[KBrace@aol.com](mailto:KBrace@aol.com)_
# Presentation: 004595

## Section 4

**LEISA Atmospheric Corrector**

## LEISA Atmospheric Corrector

***Correction of multispectral surface imagery for atmospheric variability (water and aerosols)***
***High spectral, moderate spatial resolution (250m), large swath (180km) hyperspectral imager using wedge filter technology***
***Spectral coverage of 0.89 - 1.6μm, bands selected for optimal correction of high spatial resolution images***

## LAC Performance

***High Spectral - Moderate Spatial Resolution Hyperspectral Imager  Using Wedged Filter Technology (LVE)***
***Spectral Coverage:  ~0.9 - 1.6************m; 256 Bands Selected for Optimal Correction of High Spatial Resolution Images ***
***Spectral Resolution:  35 cm******-1****** (************: 3 nm @ 0.9 ************m, 9 nm @ 1.6 ************m)***
***Swath Width:  ~185 km; Matches Landsat***
***Spatial Resolution (pixel):  356 ************radian (250 meter @ 705 Km)***
***Three 256 x 256 Element InGaAs Arrays; TEC Stabilized (<285 K)***
***Three 15 Degree FOV 3 Element Lenses***
***Two Modules: “Bolt-on”Optics Module and Electronics Module  ***
***Mass: 10.5 kg (EM, 4.4 kg; OM 3.9 kg; Cable 2.2 kg) ***
***Power:  48 W (Peak); <15 W (Orbital Average)***

## Comparative Size
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## New NWS Western Region Local Climate Products

- 1Marina Timofeyeva, 2Andrea Bair and
- 3David Unger
- 		1 UCAR/NWS/NOAA
- 		2 WR HQ/NWS/NOAA
- 		3 CPC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA

**Contributors**:	Bob Livezey, Shripad Deo,
- 		Heather Hauser, Holly Hartmann,
- 		Eugene Petrescu, Michael Staudenmaier

## OUTLINE

- Need for Local Climate Products
- Challenges in Local Climate Product Development
- Methods and Data
- Product Design
- Operational Organization
- Next Steps

## Need For Local Climate Products 

- CPC products and Local Climate

## Need For Local Climate Products

- Localized Climate Impacts are of public interest

## Challenges in Local Climate Product Development

## Methods and Data

- Modified CPC Translation of CD Seasonal Temperature POE

- Observed T

## Methods and Data

**Modification** included:
- Regression coefficients estimate: use of straight regression coefficients versus ones inflated by correlation;
- Forecasting methodology: station mean and variance are estimated from CD forecasted mean and variance and use of normal distribution for POE ordinates versus use of inflated correlation coefficients and CD POE temperature ordinates;
- Local Product design is customer friendlier

## Methods and Data

**Data**: NCDC provided an experimental “homogenized and serially complete data” set with:
-  Monthly/daily value internal consistency check
- Bias adjusted to a midnight to midnight observation schedule
- Spatial QC
- Artificial change point detected and adjusted
- Estimated missing or discarded data

## Methods and Data

## Methods and Data

## Methods and Data

- CPC Composite Analysis extended by Risk Analysis and CPC forecasting method

## Methods and Data

- Extension includes Risk Analysis identifying statistically significant signal

## Methods and Data

- Making forecast using Composite Analysis

- FORECAST USING CURRENT CPC Nino 3.4:

| Nino3.4
Term | Warm | Neutral | Cold |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Above | 67% | 33% | 11% |
| Near | 13% | 53% | 28% |
| Below | 20% | 14% | 61% |

**Example – ElNino with 7.5 month lead (forecast for JFM 2005):**

- NINO 3.4  INITIAL TIME   5 2004
- PROJECTION FRACTION
- Lead Mo  BELOW NORMAL  ABOVE
- JJA   0.5	0.076	0.371	0.552
- ................................................
- DJF  6.5	0.053	0.388	0.559
**JFM  7.5****	****0.080****	****0.393****	****0.527**

## Product Design

- Translated POE: Customer “wants a number”

## Product Design

- Verification with cross-validation

## Product Design

- Verification with cross-validation

**Probability**** **

**Observed Frequency**

## Product Design

- CD verification indicates space & time differences in forecast performance

## Product Design

- Composite Based: Customer “wants a number”

**Probability, %**

**Temperature, ****°F**

## Product Design

***Analysis of WFO Flagstaff Composites ***
***for Tmean JFM***

## Product Design

- Verification

## Product Design

- Verification

## Operational Organization

- 87 site in NWS WR area will be introduced in 01/05

## Next Steps

- Product Documentation
- Experimental Phase
- Customer Feedback
- Product Adjustment
- Product Introduction in NWS operations
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## Radiation-Hard CMOS APS Circuits for Star TrackersPhotobit CorporationPasadena , CA

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Radiation-hardened version developed as a follow-on to 1995 Phase II SBIR contract that delivered 512 x 512 pixel APS array for use as the focal plane element of a CMOS APS Star Tracker.
- Can tolerate more than 1 Megarad radiation for space use. This innovation enhances the survivability of micro-trackers over a much wider range of radiation hazards and space missions than currently possible.
- Provides reduced weight, size, and power than commonly used CCD sensor architecture.
- Reduces system costs since APSs can be manufactured in standard CMOS foundries and specialty electronics will be eliminated.
**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- GSFC is developing a Star Tracker that integrates Photobit’s  APS array in the imaging portion of the unit.  The Star Tracker will be capable of an on-board performance demonstration during a future flight opportunity.

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

-   1997 Phase-II, SS-5-058, 6/20/01

**COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS**
- The APS circuits proposed in this effort are applicable to micro-star and feature trackers as well as other science and defense spacecraft instrumentation. Practically all terrestrial high radiation environments needing video monitoring will benefit from a radiation-hard APS array.  These include a wide range of medical imaging and diagnostic systems, cameras for nuclear power  plants, and radiation waste management operations.

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**INNOVATION**
- Optimized Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology and implemented radiation hardening techniques for use in a Star Tracker.

- Points of Contact:
-   -  NASA -Bob Spagnuolo, 301-286-3122
-   -  Photobit - Sayed Eid, 626-683-2200

***Graphic***
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## Survival Factors Issues

- Mark George
- Survival Factors Specialist

## Slide 2

## Survival Factors Issues

- At least 7 minutes elapsed between engine failure and water contact.
- Pilot did not tell passengers about the possibility of ditching or to retrieve life vests.
- Passenger in seat 5A retrieved three life vests and put them on children.
- Passenger in seat 3B retrieved life vest and read safety briefing card.
- None of the remaining six life vests were retrieved.

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Survival Factors Issues

- Additional life vests were dropped by other airplanes.
- U.S. Coast Guard dispatched three aircraft to the scene, which arrived about 90 minutes after the accident.
- Air Sunshine General Operations Manual called for an emergency briefing by the pilot prior to the ditching.

## Survival Factors Conclusions

- After determining that he was going to ditch the airplane, the pilot failed to conduct an emergency briefing, and this failure contributed to passenger fatalities.
- The passengers would have had sufficient time to retrieve and don their life vests if the pilot had instructed them to do so shortly after the right engine failed.

## Survival Factors Issues

- Mark George
- Survival Factors Specialist
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## LED-Based Lighting Treatment for Cancer

- Using technology derived from NASA Space Shuttle plant growth experiments, an MSFC SBIR team is using tiny, pinhead-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs)  in the treatment of cancer.

**INNOVATION**

***Quantum Devices, Inc.***
***Barneveld, WI***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- LEDs have been used on seven Space Shuttle flights inside the AstrocultureTM, a plant growth chamber developed by the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, a NASA Commercial Space Center._x0008_
- The LED therapy holds promise of being the operating technique of the future.

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Date; Success Story #

**LED-Based Lighting Treatment for Cancer**

**                               ****ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved human trials.
- Research has focused on photodynamic therapy (PDT), an adjunctive cancer therapy in which light-sensitive, tumor- treating drugs are injected intravenously. Offering substantial improvement over lasers, a nine-inch LED probe produces longer-wavelength, broad-spectrum, near-infrared light, enabling both deeper and wider penetrations. LED light activation allows drugs to destroy cancer cells, leaving surrounding tissue virtually untouched.
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Commercial applications include PDT for primary brain tumors, as well as for other cancer oncologies, such as cancer of the liver, rectum, skin, and esophagus.
- After five years of research and experimentation, the LED probe is being used successfully in cancer patients who have exhausted other therapies. Cancer treatment trials have thus far included skin cancer and brain tumor patients, with promising results.
- One woman had endured six surgeries in ten years, as well as traditional radiation and chemotherapy. Her aggressive brain cancer kept coming back. Since her May 1999 surgery with the LED probe, there are no signs of return.

- Contacts: MSFC, Tom Knight; 256-544-5353
- Quantum Devices, Ron Ignatius; 608-924-3000
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Harry Whelan; 414-456-4090
- 1995 Phase 2;NAS8-97277
# Presentation: 245383

## Slide 1

## “...and one for all...”

***“...******and one for all...”***

## Slide 3

## GPS SYNCHRONIZATION

**Internal 8 channel GPS receiver standard****	**
**1 microsecond UTC, USNO**
**HI-Drive IRIG-B unmodulated output**
**Optional IRIG-B input**

## Slide 5

## REVENUE

**Instrument Accuracy 0.025%**
**System Accuracy 0.10%**
**Dynamic CT/PT Compensation (20/sec)**
**Full Four Quadrant**
**Internal Flash Memory (16/32 Meg)**
**Accuracy Traceable to National Standards**

## Slide 7

## METERING

**Vrms 0.02%**
**Arms 0.03%**
**Phase Angle 0.01 Degree**
**Frequency 0.0001%**
**Power Factor 0.005% VA**
**Accuracy over full operating range**
**And Much More**

## Slide 9

## POWER QUALITY

**Harmonics THD & Individual to 50****th**
**Flicker PST & Instantaneous**
**Direction of Harmonics & Flicker**
**Surges and Sags**
**Frequency Deviation**
**Out of Range Data Storage**

## Slide 11

## SYSTEM PROTECTION

**Out of Range Alarms all Parameters**
**Programmable Dry Contacts**
**Alarms via Communication Ports**
**Rate of Change of Frequency Trigger**
**Load Shedding Capability**
**4 Programmable Event Inputs**

## Slide 13

## DISTURBANCE ANALYSIS

**Internal Flash Ram (16/32 Meg)**
**Up to 6 Seconds Pre-Fault Waveform**
**Selectable Fault & Post Fault Data**
**All Data Time Stamped to 1 Microsecond**
**Sequence of Events**

## Slide 15

## SYSTEM CONTROL & MONITORING

**Synchrophasors per IEEE 1344 (20/sec)**
**System Time and Time Deviation**
**System Oscillations and Stability**
**Rate of Change of Frequency**

## Slide 17

## DATA AND COMMUNICATIONS

**3 Independent Data Ports**
**RS-232 or RS-485**
**Ethernet 10Base-T**
**Optional Internal Modem (2 maximum)**
**PSCSV Software Included**
**Multiple Utility Protocols Included**

## Slide 19
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## Subcommittee on Consequence Assessment and Protective Actions (SCAPA) 

- Cliff Glantz
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- _[cliff.glantz@pnl.gov](mailto:cliff.glantz@pnl.gov)_
- 509.375.2166

## SCAPA’s Role...

- Purpose is to provide support to “the DOE community by developing and sharing technical recommendations in the areas of consequence assessment, protective actions, and emergency preparedness” to support our goal of “safeguarding the health and safety of workers and the public”.

## Formerly a DOE Subcommittee 

## Now Part of EMI SIG...

## http://www.orau.gov/emi/scapa

## Working Groups

- Consequence Assessment Modeling Working Group
- Provide technical guidance on matters related to modeling environmental transport and dispersion, resuspension, uptake, and human health impacts.
- Promote the use of improved, QAed, and benchmarked  modeling techniques
- Promote common methods, tools, and standards for consequence assessment modeling
- Plan for the future
- Product: Consequence Assessment Modeling Toolbox
- Activity: Provide guidance on model usability

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Working Groups (cont)

- Chemical Exposure Working Group
- Developing and maintaining a method for derivation of community exposure limits for chemicals without Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs)
- Product:  Temporary Emergency Exposure Limits (TEELs)
- Activity:  TEEL Rev 21 is under development
- Activity:  Improved TEEL Database is being developed

## Slide 10

## New TEEL Database System

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Working Groups (cont)

- Chemical Mixtures Working Group
- Developing and maintaining a method for emergency planning and analysis for exposure to mixtures of hazardous chemicals
- Exposure to mixtures of chemicals may lead to additive, synergistic, or antagonistic effects.
- Product:  Health Code Numbers.  Currently Rev 19 is available on the web
- Activity:  HCN Rev 20 is under development

## Slide 16

## Another New Activity...

- SCAPA is turning its attention to begin dealing with issues related to chemical and biological weapons
- Discussing the formation of a Bioagent working group and involving toxicologists and microbiologists in SCAPA
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    **You are welcome to join us when we meet all day on Thursday!**

## We Meet on Thursday
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## C&A status 1/12/07 report 

- 134 NOAA-wide IT systems
- 104 IT Systems operating in secure environment with current Authorization to Operate (ATO) and complete Certification and Accreditation (C&A) packages
- 30 IT Systems ATO have expired
- 42 IT Systems ATO will expire in CY07

## C&A status 1/19/07 report

- I asked my staff to again verify the above numbers, and we found that of the 42 systems with expiring ATOs this CY, we found that 7 have already expired.  In addition, we found 3 systems that were erroneously counted as having expiring ATOs this CY.    The updated numbers are:
- 134 NOAA-wide IT systems
- 97 IT Systems operating in secure environment
- 37 IT Systems that do not have full ATO
- 32 IT Systems ATO will expire in CY07

## C&A status 1/26/07 report

- The updated numbers are:
- 134 NOAA-wide IT systems
- 97 IT Systems operating in secure environment
- 37 IT Systems that do not have full ATO
- 32 IT Systems ATO will expire in CY07
- Of the 37 IT Systems without full ATOs, we received Interim Authority to Operate (IATO) for 36 of these systems.
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## Summer Internships in Science and Technology at Fermilab

- Jamieson Olsen
- 3 November 2006

## About Fermilab

- A one of a kind research laboratory dedicated to uncovering the mysteries of the physical universe.
- A world leader in high energy particle physics.
- An exciting an challenging place to work.  Many opportunities to learn new skills.

## Accelerators

## Particle Detectors

- Bubble Chamber (old school)

## Astrophysics

- LEFT: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- ABOVE: the future home of the Dark Energy Survey camera

## An Engineering Perspective

- Engineers work with scientists and technicians to design and build detector and infrastructure components.
- These components are generally not meant for large scale production and this allows for more freedom in the design process.
- Continually pushing the technological limits
- High speed digital logic
- Extremely low noise front end electronics
- Rugged, radiation hardened components for spacecraft or inside detectors or beamlines.
- Superconducting magnets
- High power RF components

## SIST Program

- Each year approximately 15 students are selected for the SIST program
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Physics
- Our 36th year!

## The SIST Experience

- A 12 week program.
- Paid internship!
- Transportation and housing are provided.
- Interns are assigned to an Engineer or Scientist advisor.
- The projects are well defined and challenging.  Expect to ask lots of questions!
- Attend weekly lectures and mentoring groups.
- The session concludes with a presentation and written report.

## Michelle

- E.E. student
- Advanced R&D for next generation laser based accelerators
- Automated test equipment used to evaluate beam quality.

- Diagnostic Data Acquisition for the Laser Beam at FNPL

## Jared

- M.E. student
- Jared worked on studying the thermal characteristics of high power components in the LINAC (Linear Accelerator).
- Research and development into new technologies that can improve the reliability of the LINAC

- Heat Transfer in Fast Ferrite Phase Shifters

## LaTToya

- E.E. student
- Helped to design and debug a board which monitors the beam position in the main accelerator.
- Extensive work with programmable logic and microcontrollers and software

- Debuncher Beam Position Monitor Downconverter Board Field Programmable Gate Array Configuration

## We need your help!

- Help us get the word out on campus
- Talk with your professors about the SIST program
- Local Professional Organization chapters (SHPE, etc.)
- National Conferences
- SHPE NTCC conference in Denver 2007
- SIST “webinars” coming soon...
**Application process will begin early 2007**
**http://sist.fnal.gov/**
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## II.  Disease Surveillance and Control

## Proactive Surveillance:Goals and Objectives

- Proactive Surveillance:Goals and Objectives

- Provide early and precise information
- time
- location
- virus serotype
- disease severity
- Predict dengue transmission and guide implementation of control measures
- Link clinical and entomologic surveillance

## Proactive Surveillance in Puerto Rico

- Blood samples obtained by private physicians, health centers, public and private hospitals
- Samples transported by staff from Health Department and private laboratories
- Samples tested at the CDC Dengue Branch
- Results provided to submitting source and Health Department vector control staff
- Analyses disseminated via Dengue Surveillance Summary

- Organization and Functions:

## Vector Control Methods:Chemical Control

- Vector Control Methods:Chemical Control

- Larvicides may be used to kill immature aquatic stages
- Ultra-low volume fumigation ineffective against adult mosquitoes
- Mosquitoes may have resistance to commercial aerosol sprays

## Vector Control Methods:Biological and Environmental Control

- Biological control
- Largely experimental
- Option: place fish in containers to eat larvae
- Environmental control
- Elimination of larval habitats
- Most likely method to be effective in the long term

## Purpose of Control

- Reduce female vector density to a level below which epidemic vector transmission will not occur
- Based on the assumption that eliminating or reducing the number of larval habitats in the domestic environment will control the vector
- The minimum vector density to prevent epidemic transmission is unknown

## Programs to Minimizethe Impact of Epidemics

- Programs to Minimizethe Impact of Epidemics

- Education of the medical community
- Implementation of emergency contingency plan
- Education of the general population