BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 151429

## Ion Mobility Spectrometer

-  	PCP demonstrated the sensitivity of the Ion Mobility
- 	Spectrometer (IMS) to analyze aliphatic hydrocarbons at 	concentration down to 10**-14 moles per second, the first 	time that such low levels of the hydrocarbons have been 	measured.
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  	Thirteen IMS have been sold to various companies to
- 	measure air pollutants and to serve as detector of certain 	hazardous hydrocarbons.  The total revenue from these 	sales totals $780K.

***PCP, Inc.******	***
***West Palm Beach, FL***

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

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  The SETI Institute awarded a $37K contract to develop a
- 	similar ion mobility spectrometer.  The IMS technology 		was included in a major flight experiment proposals, the 		mini-Cometary Ice and  Dust Experiment (m-CIDEX)
- 	during the Cometary Coma Chemical Composition
- 	Mission.

- Ames Research Center
- SS # 2-021

**Ion Mobility Spectrometer**

***Photograph of***
***Ion Mobility Spectrometer***

**INNOVATION**

- 1989 Phase II, NAS2-13276
- 1995 Phase II, NAS2-97013
- NASA Contact - Daniel Kojiro (561) 683-0507
- PCP Contact - Dr. Martin Cohen (650) 604-5364

- Detection and identification of extremely low concentrations (down to 10**-14 moles per second) of hydrocarbons by ionization then electronically measuring the ion signals and drift

- PICTURE IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME
# Presentation: 451800

## A Stakeholder’s Perspective

**A Stakeholder’s Perspective**

**Doug McChesney**
**Washington Department of Ecology**
**December 4, 2002**

## A Little Background . . .

**Wet winters and dry summers**
**Development linked to water**
**Agriculture**
**Hydropower**
**Fisheries**
**Forestry**
**Urban growth**
**Water supplies stressed**

**A Little Background . . .**

## Strategic Plan:

**Strategic Plan:**

## The present . . .

**Water issues very contentious**
**Water management scheme outdated**
**Legislature reluctant to address**
**Watershed planning underway**

**The present . . .**

## Difficulties:

**Legislators otherwise occupied**
**Water management inside game**
**Planning groups unsophisticated**
**Need broader public participation**

**Difficulties:**

## Physical Science:

**Physical Science:**

## Political Science:

**Political Science:**

## The Strategic Plan:

**Ambitious **
**Appropriate areas of investigation**
**Proper organizational questions**
**How predictable are changes?**
**How will changes affect supplies?**

**The Strategic Plan:**

## Concerns:

**Optimistic timelines**
**Need to prioritize within needs**
**Which questions most important?**
**Time frames to produce answers? **

**Concerns:**

## Key objectives:

**Causal factors**
**Relationships**
**Understanding of variability**
**Better prediction**
**Regional understanding**
**Trend analysis**
**Broader communication**

**Key objectives:**

## Broader audience:

**Other elected officials**
**Planning group members**
**Members of public**

**Broader audience:**

## Recognize end user needs:

**Accessible products**
**Identify linkages**

**Recognize end user needs:**
# Presentation: 774769

## The American Bankers Association brings together all categories of banking institutions to best represent the interests of this rapidly changing industry.  Its membership-which includes community, regional and money center banks and holding companies, as well as savings associations, trust companies and savings banks-makes ABA the largest banking trade association in the country. 

## ABA: World-Class Solutions, Leadership and Advocacy

- World-Class Solutions
- Staff expertise
- 1-800-BANKERS
- Compliance Hotline
- _[www.aba.com](http://www.aba.com/)__ – 24/7 access to members-only resources_
- 27 E-mail Bulletins
- Toolboxes/ABAWorks
- Conferences, schools and other professional development offerings
- Revenue-enhancing products from the Corporation for American Banking (CAB)
- ABA-Sponsored Insurance Program

## ABA: World-Class Solutions, Leadership and Advocacy

- World-Class Leadership
- Initiatives are shaped with input from nearly 1,200 bankers nationwide who serve on ABA committees and councils
- World-Class Advocacy
- Motivating Congressional representatives
- ABA takes action on all legislation that may impact banks
- Minimizing regulations
- ABA works closely with FDIC, OCC, OTS, FASB, SEC and other agencies that impact bank profitability and operations
- Challenging harmful practices in the courts
- ABA has taken more than 250 cases regarding credit unions, postal rates, payment systems and more through the court system
- Empowering grassroots changes
- Team 21
- Alliances with state banking associations
- BankPac
# Presentation: 710676

## A portable 6-inch diesel-powered trash pump was used to pump water from Little Topashaw Creek for gully erosion tests February 4 and 5, 2002.

## Flow rates were controlled by adjusting the throttle on the diesel engine.  The pump discharged into a fire hose.

- During the final test, a second pump was used to pump water from a small slough on the floodplain to achieve the desired discharge (~170 L/s).

## The fire hose discharged into an 18-inch diameter poly pipe that carried the water into an open channel lined with plastic.

## The open channel discharged into a small the retention basin at the top of the gully.

## The water flowed from the retention basin into the gully, which was planted with hedges of switchgrass two growing seasons prior to the test.

## An acoustic Doppler flow meter recorded flow depth and velocity in the open channel.

## Readings from the acoustic Doppler logger were used to control the pump speed and thus the inflow rate. 

- Readings from the acoustic Doppler logger were used to control the pump speed and thus the inflow rate.

## Continuous records were obtained for turbidity at the upstream and downstream ends of the grassed gully, and four additional Doppler loggers recorded flow depth and velocity. The black cylinder on the left is the turbidity probe, and the gray box on the right is the Doppler logger.

## Hydraulic conditions in the bottom of the vegetated gully during one of the flow tests.  The black geotextile is a “silt fence” placed shortly after switchgrass hedges were planted to support the plants during the period of establishment.

## Flow from right to left.  Switchgrass hedge on left.  Typical data from Doppler logger shown on inset plot.

## Although the grass hedges provided good control of erosion within the gully proper, they were not adequate to control erosion at the ~1.5 m headcut that was located at the mouth of the gully where it emptied into Little Topashaw Creek channel.

- Although the grass hedges provided good control of erosion within the gully proper, they were not adequate to control erosion at the ~1.5 m headcut that was located at the mouth of the gully where it emptied into Little Topashaw Creek channel.

## The erosion of this headcut was to have been limited by deposition within a large woody debris structure placed on the outside of the bend in Little Topashaw Creek where the mouth of the gully was located.  However, the deposition in the woody debris structure was not high enough to provide control.

## Hedges performed better in the steep upper slope of the gully near its head.  Wire survey flags were used to establish water marks during peak flow which were later surveyed.

## Failure of hedge at gully mouth during final test.  Maximum discharge was about 0.2 m3/s.

- Failure of hedge at gully mouth during final test.  Maximum discharge was about 0.2 m3/s.
# Presentation: 330429

## Slide 1

## Primary Battery Major Findings

- A relatively small fire source is sufficient start a lithium battery fire
- The ignition of a single battery produces enough heat to ignite adjacent batteries
- Halon 1301 is ineffective in suppressing a lithium battery fire
- Batteries of the same type but from different manufacturers exhibit  varying flammability characteristics

## Primary Battery Major Findings (2)

- Halon 1301 chemically interacts with the burning lithium and electrolyte-with no  effect on fire intensity
- Cargo liner is vulnerable to penetration by molten lithium
- Batteries fuse together when exposed to flame, promoting propagation between batteries

## Primary Battery Major Findings (3)

- The temperatures found in a suppressed smoldering cargo fire are sufficient to ignite a primary lithium battery
- The pressure rise due to battery ignition is sufficient to compromise the integrity of a cargo compartment

## REPORT PUBLISHED

- “Flammability Assessment of Bulk-Packed, Nonrechargeable Lithium Primary Batteries in Transport Category Aircraft” by Harry Webster, June 2004
- DOT/FAA/AR-04/26
- Report can be found at: http://www.fire.tc.faa.gov

## RSPA Interim Final Rule Issued

- “Prohibition on the Transportation of Primary Lithium Batteries and Cells Aboard Passenger Aircraft”
- 49 CFR Parts 171, 172, 173 and 175 [Docket No. **RSPA**-04-19886 (HM-224E] RIN 2137-AE05
-  prohibits primary lithium battery cargo shipments on passenger carrying aircraft
- Federal Register, December 15, 2004, Page 75208

## Proposed Lithium-Ion Battery Flammability Tests

- HM-224E: “RSPA and the FAA will continue to study the hazards associated with the transportation of secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries and will  initiate additional actions as necessary.”
- Investigate flammability characteristics, Extinguishing system effectiveness, battery charge state, battery failure mode

## Lithium-Ion Battery Types

- Initial testing will be done with 18650 type cells routinely used to power laptop computers
- Additional tests will be done with flat prismatic cells used in cell phones
- Tests will be conducted at 100% and 50% charge

## Test Conditions

- The 64 cubic foot test chamber used for the primary batteries will be used
- Batteries will be subjected to small alcohol fires
- Data will include chamber temperature and heat flux measurements and each test will be documented with video coverage
- Pressure rise will be measured in the Pressure Modeling Facility

## Test Conditions (2)

- Batteries will be tested singly and in groups
- Halon effectiveness tests will be conducted at 5% concentration
- Oven tests will be conducted to determine the self ignition temperature
# Presentation: 516806

## AURA OMI Ozone Profiles for Large-scale CMAQ Boundary Conditions with Lightning EffectsRAPCD Ozone Lidar for Fine-scale Tropospheric Ozone Variations 

*Mike Newchurch**1**, Arastoo Pour-Biazar**1**, Maudood Khan**2**, Xiong Liu**3,4**, Lihua Wang**1**, Daewon Byun**5**, Brad Pierce**6**, Bill Koshak**7**, Rochelle Williams**1**, Shi Kuang**1**, John Burris**8**, Yun Park**1*
*1**UAH, **2**USRA, **3**SAO, **4**UMBC, **5**UH, **6**UW, **7**MSFC, **8**GSFC*

##              cntrl                     raqms_bc                    sat_bc                      sat_icbc 

-    853 mb          501 mb           212 mb

- Fig 1. O3 (ppbv) 1900 UTC, 8/21/2006 simulated by 4 CMAQ runs; over plotted with 9 ozonesondes found within 1500~2300 UTC.

**Using OMI boundary (bc) or bc+initial conditions, results in significantly better agreement between CMAQ and the sondes in the middle and upper troposphere.**

## The temporal evolution seen at Huntsville is also significantly improved throughout the troposphere by using OMI ic/bc information.

**The temporal evolution seen at Huntsville is also significantly improved throughout the troposphere by using OMI ic/bc information.**

- Fig 2. Huntsville ozonesondes compared with 4 CMAQ runs: (1) cntrl (2) raqms_bc (3) sat_bc (4) sat_icbc

## Aug. 9-10, 2008 DIAL Measurements

- Range-corrected signal

- O3 retrievals with 10-min resolution

- Compared with coincident ozonesonde measurements

- sonde

- High-altitude channel

- Low-altitude channel

- Low O3 layer

- Retrieval time range

- 1:50PM

## Aug. 17-18, 2008 DIAL Measurements

- O3 retrievals with 10-min resolution

- Range-corrected signal

- High-altitude channel

- Low-altitude channel

- sonde

- Compared with coincident ozonesonde measurements

- Descending layer

- 8AM

- 1PM
# Presentation: 047924

## MNM Fatal 2004-25

- Machinery
- December 9, 2004 (Texas)
- Alumina Plant
- Technician/Operator
- 46 years old
- 26 years experience

## Overview

- The victim was standing outside an open access door attempting to flush material from a slaked lime surge tank.  The lime slurry rushed from the tank as the victim was hydro-blasting through crusted material just inside the open door.

## Slaked lime surge tank involved in accident.  Tank was 30 feet in diameter and 38 feet high.

## The victim was standing in front of this access door located at the bottom center of the lime surge tank.

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The accident occurred because the mine operator did not ensure that effective procedures were utilized to protect persons from entrapment by materials from within the surge tank.  The amount and consistency of material in the surge tank were not determined before the tank access door was removed and the hydro-blasting work began.

## Causal Factor

- Management policies and controls were inadequate and failed to implement safe work procedures to ensure miners were not exposed to entrapment hazards created by material remaining in the slaked lime surge tank.

## Best Practices

- Ensure that tanks, bins, or silos have been thoroughly examined and materials that could be hazardous to personnel have been removed or diverted prior to opening or activating access doors, valves, feeders, or gates.
- Ensure that miners jointly discuss the safe job procedures, identify all possible hazards, and take all precautions to safely perform the task before the work begins.

## Best Practices

- Ensure that miners are not required to work where they are exposed to entrapment by materials contained in tanks, bins, or silos.
# Presentation: 301156

## Tim Gavagan
Supply Chain Management Strategies
U.S. Postal Service

- Tim Gavagan
- Supply Chain Management Strategies
- U.S. Postal Service

- FAI/DAU Acquisition Learning Seminars
- Strategic Sourcing | October 25, 2005 | Washington, DC

## Overview of Supply Management

- National responsibility for sourcing, asset management, distribution, and disposal
- Centralized/center led structure
- Staffing:  660
- Operations 298
- Sourcing 301
- Support 61
- Locations:  9 locations nationwide

## Supply Management Organization

- 5 Portfolios
- (Services, Supplies, Facilities, Mail Equipment, Transportation)
- 13 Category Management Centers
- 	  (Surface Transportation, Automation Equip., Vehicles)
- 4 Purchasing Service Centers (transactional support)
- SM Operations (support, asset mgmt., distribution, disposal)
- SM Infrastructure (policies, data integrity, development)
- SCM Strategies (SCM vision, processes, & tools)

## Supply Management Spend

- $11.5B Total

**$5.0**

**$2.4**

**$1.3**

**$1.0**

**$0.6**

**$0.2**

**$0.5**

**$0.6**

**Transportation**

**Services**

**Facilities**

**Supplies**

**Capital Equip; Other**

**Fuel & Utilities**

**ADP/IT**

**Communications**

- FY04

## Strategic Sourcing Experience

- Started mid-2000
- 200+ strategic sourcing initiatives to date

| Commodity Example | Expedited Packaging Products | Maintenance, Repair, & Operations (MRO) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Current Annual Spend | $92M | $184M |
| SCM Techniques | Product redesign
Leveraging
Incentives
e-Sourcing  | Leveraging
Standardization
Rationalization
e-Sourcing  |
| Cumulative SCM Cost Benefit | $42M
(2002 – 2005) | $22M 
(2003 – 2005) |
| Total Cost Benefit
(All Commodities) |  |  |

**$1.6B**
-  (2000 – 2005 Qtr 2)

## Critical Success Factors

- Cross-functional process
- Good spend data
- Solid business cases
- Supplier selection process

- Strategic Sourcing

## Critical Success Factors 

- Critical Success Factors

- Management support
- Commodity strategies
- Benchmarking
- Linkage to USPS strategy

- Credible metrics
- Technology enablement
- Right structure
- Process improvements

- Overall Supply Chain Management

-   Motivated, skilled people
# Presentation: 363837

## Lunar/Meteorite    Certification

- Renee Yoder

## Introduction

- Lunar sample
- Three rock & three soil samples
- Meteorite sample
- Six different samples

## Lunar Sample Disk

## Meteorite Sample Disk

## What’s in the Box?

- Lunar/Meteorite sample disk in pouches
- Silver metal carrying case
- Teacher binder
- _Exploring the Moon_ teacher guide
- “The Moon: The Geologic History and Future Exploration” slide set
- _Exploring Meteorite Mysteries_ teacher guide
- “Exploring Meteorite Mysteries” slide set

## Making a Request

- HOW?  Written request on school letterhead
- WHEN?  Four weeks’ advanced notice
- WHICH? Lunar, Meteorite, or both
- DATES?  List preferred dates
- RETURN?  In  two weeks

## Security Guidelines

- MAILING ADDRESS?   Educational institution at a street address
- STORAGE?  Safe or vault with built-in combination lock (preferably in a bank safety-deposit box or at a police department)

## Please Avoid

- Post office boxes
- Key locks and portable safes
- Your home safe
- Any safe that also stores valuables
- Public display in commercial areas
- Leaving the sample unattended

## Before Arrival

- Identify the use and storage locations
- Alert campus security of the use and storage locations
- Arrange for additional security if possible

## Remember!!

- Keep samples under your constant control at _***all times ***_while in use***.***
- Publicly display samples in non-commercial areas (i.e., libraries) only.
- Display samples for non-profit use only.
- Be prepared for NASA security inspection at any time.

## Returning Samples 

- Return samples on or before the due date.
- Call your post office in advance.
- Return _***all***_ items as they were sent via “Restricted-Registered Mail.”
- Use gummed paper tape to seal the box.
- Obtain a receipt.

## Contact Information 

- Renee Yoder, Educator Resource Center
- Renee.Yoder@grc.nasa.gov
- (216) 433-2017
# Presentation: 363833

## 12th International Meshing RoundtablePanel Discussion

- Darby Vicker
- darby.vicker@nasa.gov
- 281-483-6107
- September 16, 2003

## Background

- NASA/JSC/EG3 – Applied Aeroscience and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Branch
- Typical uses of CFD in our branch include
- Aero databases – stability and trajectory analysis
- Calibration of flight instruments – X-38 FADS
- Separation models – X-38/B-52
- Verification of engineering analysis
- Complete flow fields for debris analysis and flow feature extraction

- SSLV – Reynaldo Gomez

- X-38/B-52 – James Greathouse

- High Fidelity X-38– Darby Vicker

- X-38 FADS

## CFD Tools in EG3

- Two primary codes
- OVERFLOW – Navier-Stokes solver
- Requires chimera overset structured volume grids
- CART3D – Euler solver
- Requires triangulated surface grids (geometry definition only)
- Automatic volume grids via sub-divided Cartesian grids
- Automation is important
- CFD is becoming more accepted and relied upon as an analysis tool
- The frequency and number of requested solutions is increasing
- EG3 has been asked to produce 150+ SSLV CFD solutions on a 33 million grid-point system for one of the return-to-flight tasks
- Makes automation of the complete CFD process, including grid generation, essential
- SSLV elevon and body flap automation – _[animation](file:///sslv_lowres.gif)_

## Chimera Grid Generation

- Structured grids that arbitrarily overlap
- Quick turn around from grid generation to solutions
- Possible to grid complex geometry with structured grids in a relatively short time
- Flow solvers available are very efficient

- SSLV External Tank & Solid Rocket Boosters

## CAD

- Getting a quality representation of geometry ready for grid generation is not trivial
- We receive geometry from many CAD platforms (ProEngineer, CATIA, Unigraphics, etc.)
- For complex geometry, there are often undesirable “features”
- Slivers, gaps, highly warped or twisted surfaces, etc.
- Currently we rely on 3rd party software to fix geometry problems and (usually) translate to a neutral format

## Mesh Quality

- Triangulated grid in high curvature
- Wing leading edge example

## Desirable Software Features

**Batch mode operation**
- Easily accessible feature information
- Vertex location, arc length, surface area, etc.
- Grid diagnostics
- Tabulated numbers and graphical indication of open edges, non-manifold edges, etc.
- Improved (structured) surface grid creation via extrusion
- Ease of use
- Robustness
- Variety of boundary conditions
- Basic: float; periodic; splay; constant X, Y or Z
- Advanced: Follow u or v of CAD patch; follow a curve; follow exact points on a curve;
# Presentation: 402824

## CORS USERS FORUM Towards Real-Time Positioning

- Richard Snay
- NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
- CGSIC Meeting
- Long Beach, CA
- September 13, 2005

## Continuously Operating Reference Stations

***Continuously Operating Reference Stations***

## Agenda

- 1:30 CORS/OPUS: Status & Overview
-         Richard Snay, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
- 1:45 EarthScope’s Plate Boundary Observatory
- 	    Greg Anderson, UNAVCO, Inc.
- 2:05 Post-Processing Versus Real-Time GNSS
- 	    Georg Weber, German Federal Agency for Cartography
-          and Geodesy
- 2:25 The International GNSS Service—Progress Towards Real-Time
-          Mark Caissy, Natural Resources Canada
- 2:45 CORS/OPUS: Future Prospects
-          Charles Schwarz, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
- 3:00 Question & Answer Session
- 3:20 Break
- 3:35 Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups
- 5:00 End

## Interactive Sessions (3:35 – 5:00 pm)

- Towards real-time CORS products and services
-      Charles Schwarz, Miranda Chin, and Bruce Sailer
- B. OPUS, UFCORS, and other CORS utilities
- 	 Tom Soler, Dale Pursell, and Marti Ikehara
- C. Guidelines for establishing CORS sites
- 	  Giovanni Sella, Don Haw, and Julie Prusky
- D. Ionospheric & tropospheric models
- 	 Tim Fuller-Rowell and Dru Smith

## CORS NETWORK NOW CONTAINS 6 IRAQI SITES

***Established by ***
***U.S. Army***

- Several CORS in Hurricane Zone Now
- Collecting 1-Second GPS Data to Support Airborne Mapping
# Presentation: 391011

**METROLOGY PRODUCTS ****THAT SUPPORT**
** ****INTERFACE STANDARDS**
- Save Time
-  Save Money, and
- Eliminate reprogramming
- Reduce measurement error
- Allow freedom to select components
- Lessen training burden
- Allow interchangeability of components

**rippey:**
- Put a background picture in this poster?
- Other scenarios - no line/product line launch delay
- No need to support 18 programming/inspection packages

## STANDARDS LANDSCAPE

**Inspection Execution Software**

**CAD **
**Software**

- Geometry and
- Feature
- Tolerance
- Information:
**STEP APs**

- Measurement
- Results:  **DML**

- Inspection Process
- Information: **DMIS**

**Off-line Inspection**
**Process Planning**
**Software**

**Reporting **
**& Analysis**
**Software**

**Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs)**

- CMM control commands
- and responses: **I++ DME**

- STANDARDS LANDSCAPE

## Metrology Project Team 

**Metrology Project Team **
***Reduce product development cycle time and manufacturing costs ***
***Achieve interoperability of software and hardware***
*** ******in automated metrology**** *
# Presentation: 738732

## Three-Dimensional, Three-Phase Combustion

- A computational fluid dynamics code has been developed to describe the injection of liquid propellants into rocket engine combustion chambers. Unique feature is the use of real fluid properties to describe liquid propellants as they combust to form gaseous and particulate combustion products. The combustion physics has been approximated such that flows from individual injector elements can be investigated so candidate designs can be evaluated numerically.

**INNOVATION**

***SECA, Inc.***
***Huntsville, AL***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- NASA has expressed interest in applying methodology to the GEN3 program.
- Spray combustion models have been used to analyze experimental test results supplied by Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- and Raumfahrt (DLR), Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches (ONERA), Snecma, and Astrium. Results  have been reported in workshops sponsored by these agencies.

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Subtopic: 14.03, Adv. Reusale Propulsion Tech.
- April 2001

**Three-Dimensional, Three-Phase Combustion**

**                               ****ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Code describes high-pressure homogeneous and heterogeneous spray combustion processes; models RP-1, hydrogen, and oxygen propellants.
- Fastrac engine flow field analyzed to predict wall temperatures and gas properties in the acoustic cavity.
- Have predicted performances of several candidate vortex engine designs.
- Mixing efficiency for the Mars ascent engine evaluated.
- Code has been “parallelized” to run simultaneously on several processors.
- _x0008_Phase III contract awarded for additional engine design and analyses.
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Primary market sectors include government agencies and private companies that design and manufacture liquid rocket engines.
- Code has been used to analyze cryogenic regenerative cooling for Sierra Engineering, Inc; a strategic alliance partnership established with Sierra to pursue future work.
- Educational program in place for informing potential customers of innovation’s advantage over older technology.

- Contacts: MSFC, Tom Knight; 256-544-5353
- SECA, Richard Farmer; 256-534-2008
- 1996  Phase II (and III); NAS8-98070
# Presentation: 803911

## Preliminary Results from the Prototype 

**Preliminary Results from the Prototype **
**Thin-Cloud Rotating Shadowband Radiometer**

*M.J. Bartholomew*, R.M. Reynolds**+**, A. Vogelmann*, R. Edwards,  S. Smith*, and Q.-L. Min^*
**Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY*
*+ **Remote Measurements and Research Company, Seattle, WA*
*^State University of New York, Albany*

_**References**_
- Marchland, R., T. P. Ackerman, E. R. Westwater, S. A. Clough, K. Cady-Periera, 	and J. C. Liljegren, 2003:  An assessment of microwave absorption 	models and retrievals of cloud liquid water using clear-sky data, J. 	Geophys. Res, 108(D24), 4773, doi:10.1029/2003JD003843.
- Min, Q.-L., and M. Duan , 2005:  Simultaneously retrieving cloud optical depth and 	effective radius for optically thin clouds, *J. Geophys. Res.*, 110(D21201), 	doi:10.1029/2005JD006136.

- Future Plans- Complete installation at SGP,  make observations there and carry out intercomparisons with other ARM instruments.
- Acknowledgements-  This project received ACRF funding and help from the ARM Operations staff at SGP.  We wish to extend a special thank you to SGP Operations staff members Dan Nelson, Craig Webb and Rod Soper

- Solar Aureole = Total Hemispheric Irradiance –
- 		 Observed Partially Occulted Irradiance

**2.  Design**

**1. Background and Theory**

**3. Some Preliminary Observations**

- Figure 1

- Figure 2a

- RMRC0
- Remote Measurements
- & Research

- Thin clouds prevalent and accuracies are low for their liquid water path (LWP),
- 	effective radius (Reff) and cloud optical depth (COD)
- 	- At SGP 50%  of clouds have LWP less than 100gm-2, mode 40gm-2
- 	- current microwave radiometer LWP retrieval accuracy, +- 20gm-2
- 	- Marchland et al., 2003
- Surface irradiance calculations, Figure 1, suggest that a LWP uncertainty of 	20gm-2 causes an error of greater than 100W/m2 in total hemispheric 	irradiance for an atmosphere with a 1 km thick cloud layer (45 degree 	incidence angle) with 40gm-2  (Min and Duan, 2005)
- Observations of solar aureole, Figures 2a and b, may lead to simultaneous retrievals of LWP, Reff, and COD with the following expected accuracies
- 	LWP, 2gm-2
- 	Reff, 10%
- 	COD, 2%
- 	- Min and Duan, 2005
- Requires a scanning resolution of 1 degree +-15 degrees of the sun

- Figure 2b

- 25cm R

- 10cm R

- Testing at BNL

- On roof of Radiometer Calibration Facility at SGP, 1/2008
- Image courtesy of Dan Nelson

- Solar Aureole

- Total Hemispheric Irradiance

- Observed Partially Occulted
- Irradiance

- Thick Cloud

- Thin Cloud
# Presentation: 764903

## STS41G Left Wing Lost Tile (RTV Reversion) 

## STS41G Left Wing Impact Damage

**20” x 10” x 1.5”d**

## STS 26R Right Wing Impact Damage

**17.5” x 1.5” d**

## STS 27R Missing Chine Tile

## STS 27R Debris Damage

**15” x 6” x XX” d**

## Meteoroid/Orbital Debris Damage During STS-45

**OV-104 Wing Leading Edge Panel 10 RH**

**Outer Mold Line**

**Inner Mold Line**

**FWD**

## Meteoroid/Orbital Debris Damage During STS-45

**OV-104 Wing Leading Edge Panel 10 RH**

## STS 73 Right Wing Impact Damage 

**4” x 10” x 1”d**

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## Introduction to the SRCH Detector

- subsystems, their functions and performance

## The accelerator provides a symmetric electron-positron beam.

- Beam
- Pipe

- Collisions will occasionally yield new particles.

- We hope to observe the decay of these new particles.

## Detection begins in the silicon tracker.

- Silicon
- Tracker

- A magnetic filed will bend charged particles.

- We measure the trajectory of charged particles.

## Particles that interact electromagnetically will deposit energy here.

- Electromagnetic
- Calorimeter

- The calorimeter contains 20 layers of active material separated by lead sheets.

- This is a sampling detector.

## Particles that interact strongly will deposit energy here.

- Hadronic
- Calorimeter

- The calorimeter contains 20 layers of active material separated by lead sheets.

- This is a sampling detector.

## Muons interact very weakly.

- Muon
- Catcher

- We need a system that detects muons from any decays.

- This is a scintillating detector.

## SRCH provides measurements of

- momentum and energy of all charged decay products.
# Presentation: 763721

## Candidate Vaccine Strains and Potency Reagents, 2008-2009 Season

- Rajesh K. Gupta, Ph.D.
- Lab Chief, Division of Product Quality
- OVRR, CBER, FDA
-  Prepared** for**
- Vaccines and Related Biological Products
-  Advisory Committee
- 21 February 2008

## Influenza A (H1N1)

- Current vaccine strain A/Solomon Islands/3/ 2006-like virus
- Reagents available for IVR-145 from CBER, NIBSC, TGA
- WHO Recommended strain A/Brisbane/59/2007 like virus
- Possible candidates: A/Brisbane/59/2007  (IVR-148)
-     A/South Dakota/06/2007 (HGRs in preparation)* *
- Potency Reagents: Available from CBER – Late May 2008

## Influenza A (H3N2)

- Current vaccine strain A/Wisconsin/67/2005-like virus
- Reagents available for X161B from CBER, NIBSC, TGA
- WHO Recommended strain A/Brisbane/10/2007   like virus
- Possible candidates:  A/Brisbane/10/2007 (IVR-147, NYMCX-171, A, B, C, D);
-     A/Uruguay/716/2007 (HGRs in preparation)
- Potency Reagents: Available from TGA (A/Brisbane) & would be available from CBER – Late May 2008

## Influenza B

- Current vaccine strain B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like virus
- Reagents available from CBER, NIBSC, TGA
- WHO Recommended strain B/Florida/4/2006-like virus
- Possible candidates: B/Florida/4/2006;   B/Brisbane/3/2007
- Potency Reagents: Available from TGA (B/Brisbane) NIBSC – Reagents ready for calibration; CBER – Late March 2008
# Presentation: 091696

## Visual Basic For Applications(VBA) - AFE Board-level Test Package

- What to Expect Today
- lots of graph objects
- forms
- buttons galore
- nearly impenetrable code
- a wide variety of examples of how to do various things
- a wider variety of examples of how NOT to do various things

- What I hope you’ll ‘get’ from today’s efforts
- Some ideas you can use in your applications
- Some boilerplate modules you can use with minimal fuss
- confidence.  Hey, if a dummy like me can get this far, think of how far you bright people can get!

- John T. Anderson - AFE board test VBA

- March 25th, 2004

## About as “basic” as VBA gets....

- Let’s look first at the “rm_generic” application on the server for the course.
- This is about as trivial an application as you can get.  It was used make a 1553 Rack Monitor drive a few bits out in patterns to exercise some relays we had wired to it
- Bet you get an error opening it up!  That’s one of the problems with auto-executing macros.
- Let’s take a minute and explore these items:
- Code for ‘this workbook’
- Relay_tests module and usage of put_1553
- and, if you haven’t had enough versions already, I wrote a hex decoder too (third or fourth one you’ve seen by now, I’d bet)

- John T. Anderson - AFE board test VBA

- March 25th, 2004

## OK, let’s get to the AFE board.

- Please close the RM_generic application and instead open up the “AFE_board_test.xls”.
- Allow me to talk to you a bit about navigation in the sheets
- use of a ‘global parameters’ sheet
- spinner button for graphs
- we’ll just walk around a bit.
- The idea of this sheet was to make a test setup that would be used *by someone who had no idea what the AFE does.*
- That’s fine, but it’s got more functions than a Swiss Army knife
- Just displayed as a bunch of sheets, the word ‘impenetrable’ comes to mind.  I chose to use forms.

- John T. Anderson - AFE board test VBA

- March 25th, 2004

## Forms, subforms, and makin’ code

- In what should come as no surprise, forms are just a collection of objects that you write code for to handle various events.  You’ve seen that all before.
- Forms are just a trick to ‘hide’ that it’s Excel and make a more friendly interface
- Forms let you mix controls and display how you want it - sometimes a little nicer than the spreadsheet.
- Let’s go thru how it is done and tell war stories along the way.

- John T. Anderson - AFE board test VBA

- March 25th, 2004
# Presentation: 912320

## Slow Relaxations in Complex Fluids: Origin and Nature of Dynamical HeterogeneitiesBulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University, DMR 0549762

-      A number of soft glassy systems, including granular materials in particular, fall outside the rubric of conventional statistical mechanics because they do not satisfy energy conservation. In recent work, we have shown that the volume integral of the trace of the stress tensor, , plays the role of energy in granular packings, with an accompanying “temperature”, , which controls fluctuations (Phys. Rev. Lett, 99, 038002 (2007). Top  figure shows the equation of state for N, frictionless soft disks: /N as a function of the average number of contacts per grain, z.  Bottom figure is an experimental measurement of
- /N  as a function of the distance from the unjamming point for grains with friction.  The experimental results of the Behringer group showed a logarithmic strengthening with shear rate in a Couette flow experiment.  This was interpreted using the stress ensemble and led to the identification of  

- Equation of state for frictionless granular packings

## Slow Relaxations in Complex Fluids: Origin and Nature of Dynamical HeterogeneitiesBulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University, DMR 0549762

- Student News
- Silke Henkes, who has been the main force behind the construction of the statistical ensemble received a KITP graduate fellowship for Fall 2007.
- _[http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/people/grad_fellows/](http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/people/grad_fellows/)_
- Two new students, Mitch Mailman and Max Bi have joined the group and are working with Corey O’Hern of Yale University to study jamming of soft anisotropic grains and the applicability of the statistical ensemble.
- _[http://www.physics.brandeis.edu/people/gradstudents.html](http://www.physics.brandeis.edu/people/gradstudents.html)_
- Alissa LeMon, an Economics and Mathematics major is working on a simulation project to study clustering in granular flows.
# Presentation: 543648

## little bluestem Schizachyrium  scoparium (Michx.) Nash Synonyms: Andropogon  scoparious.  Other common names; bearded grass, prairie beard grass, broom beardgrass, small feathergrass, pinehill bluestem, seacoast bluestem.

**Medicinally:**
- Ashes from the burnt stems were  applied on open sores.
- The ashes were mixed with water and this concoction drunk to relieve indigestion.
**Culturally:**
- Bundles of stems are used as switches in sweat lodges.
- The stems were rubbed into softness and used as fur-like insulation in moccasins during the winter.
- This is the state grass of Nebraska.

- Photo courtesy of:  L. Glasscock. USDA SCS. 1991. *Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth, TX. Courtesy of _[USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute](http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/WLI/)_. This image is not copyrighted and may be freely used for any purpose. Please credit the artist, original publication if applicable, and the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. The following format is suggested and will be appreciated:  **L. Glasscock** @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / **USDA SCS. 1991. *****Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species*****. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth, TX.**

- Slide developed by Pat Broyles, Soil Conservationist, Manhattan, KS. PMC.  USDA is an equal opportunity employer.
# Presentation: 011447

## ORM	

- One Step At A Time

## ORM Process

**Notes:**
1. Sort out what is important from what’s unimportant
2. Decide what mission implication there are from 1
3. This analysis allows the process to constrain and focus the decision for maximumopportunity
4. Select the controls that best support the mission. Bang for buck1
5. First dynamic that leads to WCE. First step where resources are expended. This is committment. Culture change time
6. This is where an assessment is made to determine if risk controls meet defined organizational standards. Also it is where the process is measured, and the process repeated as necessary.     

## An Accident is the unplanned result of a behavior or a condition that is likely part of an organization’s culture 

## “ Culture is the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action and artifacts, and depends on man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.” 

## Or, more simplyIt’s the way we do things around here

## Every Organization Has a Culture

- Sometimes it’s difficult to read
- You ever been the “new guy?”
- Do you want to stand out?
- Fit in?
- You strive to achieve balance with everyone else.
- Our goal is a strong, cohesive, tight-knit
- single direction organization

## What is the Safety Culture?

- If it’s safe, it’s good
- If it not, then you’re headed for trouble.
- You have to demonstrate:
- Vision
- Values
- Beliefs

## Slide 8

## Culture Belongs to the Members

- Look to your managers
- CFI’s
- Staff Members
- Check Pilots
- Planners
- Informal Leaders

## Elements of Culture

- Environment: The ether around us at work
- Events triggering – most powerful force in shaping culture
- Values: Heart of Culture. Defines success.
- If you do this, you will be a success. No deviation is allowed
- Role Models and Heroes – they set examples
- Rites & Rituals – They set the routine in the culture. Set behavior.

## The “Next Accident”

- Brainstorm with your squadron
- What will the next accident be?
- Make a list of all the topics
- Prioritize the list
- Have the members rank them in importance, using a ballot
- Tally from most to least likely to happen
- Email me the results
- jquick1@earthlink.net

## 5M Concept

**Man**

- Machine

**Media**

**Mission**

**Management**
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## SIT on-board event processing 

- peer review
- NASA-GSFC      August 22, 2002

***SIT on-board event processing***

- Glenn Mason, Peter Walpole, Mihir Desai
- University of Maryland
- Joe Dwyer
- Florida Institute of Technology

##   SIT software requirements specified separately

-   SIT software requirements specified separately
-  very similar to SEP / HET requirements
-  basic scheme similar to WIND/STEP instrument which used an 1802 microprocessor

## Electronics

- HVPS

- Box

- SIT ASSEMBLY

## Slide 4

## SIT Board Level Block Diagram

- TELESCOPE

- TOF Analog Electronics

- HVPS

- LV Interface

- Cover

- Board 1

- Board 2

- Board 3

- Low Voltages

- SSD Bias

- Housekeeping

- SIT

- Unlatch

- GSFC/UMd

- UCB

- UMd/GSFC

- MPAe

- Motherboard

- To/From CPU

- MPAe

- TEST CONNECTOR

- TOF Digital Electronics

- Energy Electronics

- Logic/MISC/CPU IF

- Board 4

- UMd/GSFC

- 8/15/02

## Event Processing Software

**Event Processing Software**

***Fig 3.7 SIT SW requirements***

## Time of Flight

*From SIT description*

**Time of Flight**

**Solid State Detector Energy**

**Element**
**Tracks (H - Fe)**

## From SIT description

## From SIT description

*From SIT description*

## From SIT description

*From SIT description*

## Matrix

**Matrix**
**Rates**

*From SIT description*

## Beacon

**Beacon**
**Rates**

*From SIT description*

## From SIT description

*From SIT description*

## Event

**Event**
**Storage**
**Algorithm**
**For**
**Telemetry**

*From SIT description*

## From SIT description

*From SIT description*

## Computation of intensity from matrix rates:

**Ij = intensity, T = time (s), A******** = geometry factor, ******** = efficiency, ********E = energy window, MRj = matrix rate j counts**

*From SIT description*

## Computation of intensity from pulse height data:

**(as before, plus: N****(0/1)j**** = number of PHA events of particular species & energy of priority 0/1; N****(0/1)**** = total number of PHA events of priority 0/1; MR(1/2) = matrix rate counts for priority 0/1**

*From SIT description*

## From SIT description

*From SIT description*

## From SIT description

*From SIT description*

## MISC version of pulse height binning calculation:

-  f_m =  [(issd - K*2^16 + itof - Ktof*2^16 +2^16)*(128/7) ]/2^16

- f_e = [( - itof + Ktof*2^16) + (5.5)*2^16) * 16 ]/2^16

**Solid state detector lookup table value**

**Time-of-flight lookup table value**

**constant**

*From SIT description*

## Rate and priority matrix:

*From SIT description*

## Matrix rate assignments:

**etc**

**etc**

*From SIT description*

## Beacon rate assignments:

*From SIT description*

## PHA

**Event**
**contents:**

*From SIT description*

## PHA

**Packet**
**format:**

*From SIT description*

## Rate

**Rate**
**Packet**
**format:**

*From SIT description*

## Status:

-  Pseudo-SIT event table generated from WIND/STEP data (20K events)
-  simple fortran routine to process data completed 6/02 including
-  lookup table
-  matrix & beacon rate assignments
-  sample output of process events
-  Kristin Wortman developing machine language version -- preliminary version is ready for testing
# Presentation: 303008

## Basics of Physics in Extra Dimensions

## Motivation for extra dimensions

- Hierarchy problem
- Vast expanse between the scales of weak interactions and gravitational interactions is not aesthetic. 16 orders of magnitude.
- Dark Matter
- WMAP results indicate that 23% of the mass/energy required to close the universe is in the form of cold dark matter (CDM).
- Some models naturally provide a candidate for dark matter

## Common Factors in XD Models

- Small or large, extra dimensions are usually compactified
- radius of compactification ranges from 10-33 cm → 10-1 cm, depending on model and assumptions
- Extra dimensions manifest themselves in (3+1)-dimensions as Kaluza-Klein towers of states
- Our universe consists of the zero-modes of SM fields
- Higher tower states represent momentum states in the extra dimensions.
- Gravity propagates in the extra dimensions
- Dimensions in which neither gravity nor the SM fields propagate are irrelevant

## Relate XDs to observation

- SM fields are constrained to live on the 3-brane
- Charged SM fields cannot travel very far in extra dimensions  (~1 TeV ~ attometer ).
- For small XD, this is naturally accounted for
- For large XD, methods of constraint must be invented to keep SM fields within an attometer of the brane

## toy derivation of the KK tower of states for a scalar field

- Heuristic derivation showing how mass terms appear – infinite tower of KK modes
- 5th dimension compactified implicitly
- Flat metric

## Orbifolds

- An orbifold is the quotient of a space by its symmetries.
- Doesn’t necessarily reduce the dimension of the space
- Implicitly absorbs redundancies

## S1/Z2 orbifolds are convenient within XD because it provides a mechanism for generating boundary conditions.
The circle maps to an interval, whose endpoints are identified as the fixed points

- The circle maps to an interval, whose endpoints are identified as the fixed points
# Presentation: 697553

## Thin Film FRESNEL Solar Energy Reflector United Applied TechnologiesHuntsville, AL

**Innovation**
- Ultralightweight thin polymide film deployable structure integrated with ultraviolet radiation and atomic oxygen resistant thin film polymide Fresnel lenses and reflectors for use in solar thermal propulsion, large telescopes, and space solar power systems.

**Accomplishments**
- Development status:  Prototype demonstrated
- Currently negotiating with Boeing to demonstrate concentrator on its commercial solar orbit transfer vehicle.
**Commercialization**
- Product/Service name or trademark name:  Inflatable Space Structures & Reflectors
- Primary target/potential market sectors:  Private orbit transfer vehicles and communications satellite antennas.  Government large space telescopes and earth observation satellites.
- Customer interest:  Private sector communications satellite producers have shown significant interest for future system designs.
- Unique competitive advantage:  Space environment tolerant inflatable structures/reflectors of large size and precision not available elsewhere.

**Government/Science Applications**
- Meets user need for low-cost, operationally simple, long-life inflatable solar concentrator for solar orbit transfer vehicles, electrical power generation, and high temperature materials processing in space.
- Other reflector applications are large antennas, microwave concentrators, and next generation space telescopes.
- Received NASA SBIR Phase III contract for $620K as a continuation of their Phase II effort.

- Inflatable Structure Test at MSFC/XRCF

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Denise Swain; 256/544-8112)
-    -  United Applied Technologies (Rodney Bradford; 256/650-5120)
- 1994 SBIR Phase 2; NAS8-40649

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- 	Date of Update:	1/13/99
- 	Success Story #:	8-032
# Presentation: 081612

## Welcome to ROOT2001

- Jeff Kallenbach

- Jeff Kallenbach

## ROOT2001 Overview 

- 9 Sessions
- 100 Registered Attendees, from 25 experiments
- 40 Presenters
- Full program, with discussion built-in
- CD’s, manuals for registered participants
***http://www-root.fnal.gov/root2001***

- Jeff Kallenbach

## Wednesday Sessions - Auditorium

**Session 1 – What’s new with ROOT? **
**Philippe Canal**
**Session 2 – ROOT At The Experiments**
**Suzanne Panacek**
**Session 3 – ROOT and Other Packages**
** ****Pasha Murat**

- Jeff Kallenbach

## Thursday Sessions – WH1W

**Session 4 - ROOT and Data Management**
**Qizhong Li**
**Session 5 - ROOT In New Models **
**Valery Fine**
**Session 6 - New Models/Simulation**
**Hans Wenzel**
**Evening Social Event – FNAL Cafeteria**

- Jeff Kallenbach

## Friday Sessions – WH1W

**Session 7 - ROOT on the Web**
**George Irwin**
**Session 8 – Panel - The Future of HEP Computing, and ROOT’s place there**
**Bob Jacobsen **
***Invited Speaker - Matthias Kasemann***
**Session 9 - Summary and wrap-up**
**Philippe Canal**

- Jeff Kallenbach