BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 538274

## NCEP Ocean Model Report

**An Update: The Best & Final**

## Subsequently,

**David B, Len P. and Jake R. revisited the recommendations and we agreed on acceptable wording**
**The document was sent out to the OMRT for** **its individual and collective** **consideration**
**We received no objections**
**So here again are the three recommendations:**

**#1) In-situ and remote-sensing observations and models of air-sea interactions over a broad range of time and space scales dictate the need for the coupling of ocean, coastal ocean and Great Lakes models to atmospheric models. The coupled modeling will enhance the forecast capabilities for the atmosphere, the ocean, and coastal ocean and Great Lakes, in the context of a whole earth system model framework.  Thus ocean, coastal ocean and Great Lakes modeling must be fully integrated into operational weather, climate, hydrologic and earth system forecasts.**

**# 2) NCEP is presently the major governmental provider of atmospheric forecast ****enabling capacity in the United States and thus delivers**** ****services of significant social and economic**** ****value**** ****to the Nation.**** To maintain this preeminence, particularly given the nation’s growing needs in the ocean and coastal regions, NCEP must  develop internal and external partners committed towards implementing two-way, interactively coupled ocean-coastal-atmosphere models for its operational forecasts, ****which will result in additional products and capabilities of social and economic value to the United States.**

**# 3) In order to move forward aggressively, and to most efficiently and effectively make accurate and comprehensive weather, climate, water and marine forecasts and warnings, NCEP must develop a comprehensive strategy with the ocean community, including academia, private industry, and all appropriate federal entities, both external and internal, to capitalize on existing and developing ocean and coastal observations and models. Further NCEP must lead in the merging of models and data via data assimilation, and in the applications which ensue.**

## Next Step

**This version of the Ocean Modeling Report [subject to correction of any typos and possible reformatting] will be transmitted to NOAA this month with a NOAA response due back to SAB by February 18, 2005; several weeks prior to the next Board meeting**
# Presentation: 196465

**Update on**
**Beam Spot Monitoring &  Feedback**
**Yi Dai**
**STT Meeting**
**September 15, 2000**

## Beam Spot Monitoring and Feedback 

**To achieve the best beam position stability**
**Beam spot size**
**~30microns**
**Primary vertex reconstruction resolution: **
**a few 10microns**
**Correction dipole accuracy**
**~10microns**
**To minimize the complexity**
**Database storage**
**To avoid frequent redundant entries**
**Communication and control traffic**
**Fastest ACNET communication: < 1Hz **
**To have a responsive system**
**Efficient primary vertex reconstruction**
**Once every a few minutes(?)**
**Correction dipole reaction time**
**Better than one step every a few minutes(?)**

_**Basic Idea:**_

## Beam Spot Monitoring and Feedback 

**Beam Position Calibration**
**To provide the “static” parameters**
**Done for each store of beam**
**Stored in the online database**
**Beam Parameter Downloading**
**At the beginning of each run**
**To be used as L2STT triggering parameters**
**Beam Position Monitoring and Feedback**
**Continuous beam position monitoring - EXAMINE**
**For daily shifters**
**For accelerator control people**
**Feedback triggered when deviations exceed thresholds**
**To ACNET dipoles for correction**
**New beam parameters will be entered into database after feedback correction**
**To Updated beam parameters **
**For later-on beam history study**

_**Planned Procedures:**_

## Beam Spot Monitoring and Feedback 

**Beam Position Control Stability**
**Overall beam stability:**
**~100 microns (in positions)**
**Feedback control accuracy****:**
**~10 microns**
**Responsiveness**
**A few minutes for each feedback correction**
**Mainly limited by EXAMINE and ACNET front-end (correction dipoles) reaction time**

_**Expected Performance:**_
# Presentation: 705405

## Sponsoring Cancer Center: 

**Sponsoring Cancer Center:**
- 	**Albert Einstein College of Medicine Cancer Center**
**Workspace:**
**	****Vocabularies & Common Data Elements**
**Director:**
**	****Dr. David I. Goldman**
**Contact Person:**
**	****Administrative: Ms. Kathleen Pickering** (pickerng@aecom.yu.edu)
- 	**caBIG related issue: Dr. John Greally **(jgreally@aecom.yu.edu)
**Prepared By: **
**	****Xin Zheng, PhD**
**	****Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resource**
**For:****	**
**	****caBIG kickoff meeting**
**	****Feb.19 – 20, 2004**
**	****Washington DC**

## Slide 2

## Creating a common, extensible informatics platform, 

***Creating a common, extensible informatics platform, ***
***	******where diverse data and analytic tools are integrated.**** *

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Edit and distribution method: We suggest to create a central data depository for controlled vocabularies and common data elements and create a web application for data input, edit, and distribution.

**Edit and distribution method: **We suggest to create a central data depository for controlled vocabularies and common data elements and create a web application for data input, edit, and distribution.
**Mechanisms for engaging caBIG domain workspaces in data standards development/recommendations**  and **mechanisms for engaging architecture workspace to coordinate the delivery of semantic content**: small size cross workspace meeting or topic specific forum
**Data standards relevant to caBIG**: same standard as used in developing caCORE is a good starting point.
# Presentation: 118643

## E-1-4

- NPOESS Program and Spacecraft

## NPOESS Spacecraft Status

- NPOESS supports the 1330 and 1730 orbit planes
- Spacecraft working to A-DCS/spacecraft ICD IF31-0033 (see section E-3-2)
- Technical interchange meeting with CNES planned for July 9-11, 2008
- Spacecraft subsystem reviews – Dec 2008/Jan 2009
- Spacecraft Critical Design Audit – February 2009

## Launch dates

- Initial order for two satellites,
- 		- option for additional two to be exercised in 2010
- Planned launch dates:	C1	31 Jan 2013  	1330 orbit
- 		C2	31 Dec 2015	1730 orbit
- 		C3	31 Jan 2018	1330 orbit
- 		C4	31 Jan 2020	1730 orbit
- Program runs through 2026 (provide data through 2026)

## Review/Delivery Status

- NGST spacecraft design reviews in the December 2008-February 2009 time frame
- CNES instrument PDR scheduled for February 2009
- CNES review of interfaces October 2009
- Since instrument reviews come later than the spacecraft review, will be important to keep in close contact to ensure information exchange is kept up-to-date
- “need dates” vs “availability dates” for A-DCS instrument being worked between NGST/IPO and CNES as part of giver-receiver list discussion
- Currently a 2 week disconnect between instrument delivery and latest (no impact) spacecraft need date

## NPOESS Contacts – June 2008

- IPO Payload lead  Jim Morris *   _[James.W.Morris@noaa.gov](mailto:James.W.Morris@noaa.gov)_
- IPO A-DCS instrument   Mike Cummings
- 					  _[Michael.Cummings@noaa.gov](mailto:Michael.Cummings@noaa.gov)_
- NGST A-DCS Wes Steele   _[wes.steele@ngc.com](mailto:wes.steele@ngc.com)_
- (NGST) SI**Stephanie Moore  _[smmoore@raytheon.com](mailto:smmoore@raytheon.com)_
- *   Jim Morris replaced Hal Bloom in this capacity
- ** SI=Systems Integration (responsible for ground interface 	control documents). Stephanie Moore replaced Tim Gresham in this capacity

## Ground Interfaces

- Ground-to-ground ICD exists and has been signed by all parties.
- Document D34652 NPOESS to Advanced Data Collection System Interface Control document
- Dated August 11, 2006  (revision A)
- Will be revised by NGST (and re-sent for signature) to account for any A-DCS 4 specific differences

## Spacecraft Interfaces 

- March 2007, Technical Interface Meeting held at IPO among CNES, NGST and IPO to discuss A-DCS-4 details
- Initial draft of A-DCS-4 ICD created by CNES and discussed at that TIM
- IF31-0033 ICD for the Advanced Data Collection and Location System (A-DCS) released and signed by all parties
- IF31-0033 currently at revision B, dated January 28, 2008
- ICD will be revised periodically for missing/incomplete information, as the information becomes available
***Technical interface meeting among CNES, IPO and NGST planned for July 9-11, 2008***
# Presentation: 680869

## Owner of Express Shuttle II, Paradise of Port Richey

## Vessel Description

-  **Small passenger vessel**
** ****149 passenger capacity**
** ****3 crewmembers**

-   **65 feet long**
**  ****22 feet wide**
**  ****2 800-HP diesel engines**

## Typical Route of Express Shuttle II

## Planned Route of Express Shuttle II on Day of Accident

**Planned Route of *****Express Shuttle II***** on Day of Accident**

## Express Shuttle II Position 100 Yards from Shore

***Express Shuttle II***** Position 100 Yards from Shore**

**X**

## Emergency Response

## Emergency Responders

- Copyright Mark L. Smith

## Crew Response to the Fire

## Previous Recommendation Port Imperial Manhattan Fire

- M-02-09:  Establish firefighting training for crewmembers on board small passenger vessels in commuter and ferry service

## Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) 1-91

- M-02-10: Revise Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular No. 1-91 so that it provides more in-depth guidance in training and drills for firefighting on board small passenger vessels

## Slide 11
# Presentation: 394219

## XP-826: Investigation of “X-point limiter” plasmas

**M. Bell, R. Maingi, K-C. Lee**

- Define LCFS by a limiter contact close to and just inside the X-point
- An alternative to conventional poloidal divertor
- H-mode has been obtained reliably without an X-point on the boundary
- Flux expansion near X-point and tangential contact spread heat load
- XP-826 tried to make an X-point limiter on lower outer divertor plate
- SOL contact at location of Liquid Lithium Divertor plates
- Approach
- Start with 0.9MA, 65kA TF LSN plasma with 2-source NBI
- Set PF2L/Ip = 4kA/MA, PF2U/Ip = 2.5kA/MA; PF1AL/Ip, PF1AU/Ip to zero
- Adjust vertical position down and, depending on the variation in *l**i*, adjust PF2L/Ip to bring the X-point close to lower outer divertor plate
- Attempt feedback control of the X-point location with rtEFIT
- Repeat shots to condition contact point then assess H-mode access
- Experiment could also provide X-point height scan (proposed by K-C. Lee)

## Discharges Produced with X-Point Close to Outboard Divertor Plate

*128756, 0.3s*

- ~4 hours total runtime on 3 days (4/25, 5/2, 6/16)
- Essentially as “filler” on latter 2 days
- 12 productive shots plus initial baseline shot

## Stability Appeared to be Reduced

- Higher TF needed to maintain q95 > 7
- H-mode transition occurred while plasma limited on inner wall
- Confinement appears similar to pre-lithium shots in standard LSN shape
- Reduced lower triangularity 0.3–0.4 expected to reduce N limit
- Not able to assess conditioning effect with small number of shots
- Shots after lithium experiments collapsed at even lower N

## Experiment was Limited Success

**Experiment was Limited Success**

- X-point limiter configuration was achieved transiently
- Provides a proof-of-principle for experiments with LLD
- Appears to be compatible with H-mode
- Need to optimize control strategy to improve reproducibility
- Using dRsep control may not be best method
- X-point control has not been used routinely on NSTX
- Increasing cross-sectional area (taller, fatter plasma) would relax need for high TF (65kA) and modest Ip (0.9MA) to maintain q95 above practical limit
- Too few shots were run to assess possible effects of conditioning a new contact area on the PFCs
# Presentation: 414916

## Young-June Kim
Department of Physics
University of Toronto

- Department of Physics
- University of Toronto

**Resonant Inelastic ****X-ray Scattering ****Investigation of Cuprates **

## Outline

- Resonant IXS
- What is indirect RIXS?
- Considering outgoing resonance
- response function?
- but there is more
- Charge transfer excitation (> 2 eV)
- Orbital selective d-d excitation (< 2eV)
- Multi-magnon excitation (< 1eV)
- Conclusions and Outlook

## Experimental Setup

**Experimental Setup**

- overall energy resolution: ~130 meV (FWHM)

- 9ID
- Advanced
- Photon Source

## MERIX spectrometer

- credit: Yuri Shvydko

## Incident energy dependence

- La2CuO4 Brillouin zone center

## Third order theory

- Collapse onto a single curve

- Abbamonte et al. 1999

## Ei-independent spectrum

- Dielectric loss function from
- ellipsometry
- EELS
- Theory (van den Brink and van Veenendaal)

## Ei-independent spectrum

- Dielectric loss function from
- ellipsometry
- EELS
- Theory (van den Brink and van Veenendaal)

## How about other cuprates?

## Momentum dependence

**Momentum dependence**

***q***

***Q***

- Ellis et al. PRB in press

- Kim et al. PRB 2007

## Comparison with L and M edges

**M****2,3****-edge (Kuiper et al. 1998)**

**L****3****-edge (Ghiringelli et al. 2004)**

## dd excitation using hard X-ray	

- Going to very large Q
- Using quadrupole transition as an intermediate state

- Larson et al., PRL 2007

- Sr2CuO3 - Seo et al., PRB 2006

## d-d excitation in Sr2CuO2Cl2

- pre-edge (quadrupole) intermediate state

## Magnetic Excitation?

- Hill et al. PRL in press

## Doping

## Possibilities?

- Two magnon excitation

## More possibilities?

- Charge 2e boson (Choy, Leigh, and P. Phillips)
- What about d-d excitation?
- d(3z2-r2) to d(x2-y2) is not experimentally identified yet in cuprates
- But...

***t*

*Im[1/****(q,****)] *

## Perhaps in the future?

- CeB6, Zirngiebl et al. PRB 1984

## Old instrumentation (1m)

- New instrumentation (2m)

## NSLS-II wish list

- Improved energy resolution
- 10-20 meV resolution will allow us to study excitations in the 50-100 meV range
- Pseudo gap in high Tc superconductors
- Magnetic excitation
- Crystal field in Rare-earths
- Magnon-phonon-electron interaction
- Smaller beam size (20 nm?)
- Scanning IXS?
- Probing electronic structure in inhomogeneous sample

## Conclusion and Outlook

- Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering can probe
- d-d orbital excitations
- Charge-transfer gap
- Dispersion bandwidth
- Perhaps magnetic excitation
- Needs more work
- Mid-IR excitation at (, 0) In La2-xSrxCuO4
-  two magnon?
- Future:
- Fermi surface probe?
- Needs energy resolution improvement

- ~1.8 eV

- For La2CuO4

- ~2.2 eV

- ~0.3 eV

- ~0.5 eV

## Thanks to

- Toronto
- Jung Ho Kim
- David Ellis
- John P. Hill (BNL)
- Girsh Blumberg (Lucent)

- APS XOR
- T. Gog
- D. Casa
- Y. Shvydko
- Samples
- N. Motoyama, K. M. Kojima, and S. Uchida (U. Tokyo)
- F. C. Chou (MIT)
- S. Wakimoto (JAEA)
- G. Gu, M. Huecker (BNL)
- S. Komiya, Y. Ando (CRIEPI)
- H. Zhang (Toronto)
# Presentation: 034353

## Presented

** ****at the **
**Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science **
**meeting  on March 13, 2003**
**by**
**Yi Tsong **

## Operating Characteristic Curve

- 0

- 10

- 20

- 30

- 40

- 50

- 60

- 70

- 80

- 90

- 100

**Probability to Accept (%)**

**5%**

- Area of uncertainty

- Consumer protection region

**Producer protection region (****changes with sample size****)**

**Variability **
**(either standard deviation at a given batch mean **
**or coverage)**

**Quality Assurance Region (****fixed****)**

## Comparison of Operating Characteristic Curves

- Lower Consumer protection (QA Region)
- PTI test’s curve is sharper (narrowed area of uncertainty)
- More uncertainly quality batches accepted (lower product quality)
- “Gap”: Fewer rejections does mean lower quality of accepted batches

- 21

**“****Gap”**

**LQ**

- FDA test: as in Draft MDI/DPI Guidance

**QA Region**

## Examples of Effect of Deviations on current FDA OC Curve

- Examples of Effect of Deviations on current FDA OC Curve

- Majority of OINDP products approved by FDA in 1990-2001 have DDU test or acceptance criteria or both that deviate from draft Guidances (IPAC-RS 2001 survey)
- The ”gap” between FDA and PTI OC curves decreases with such deviations, and consumer protection is eroded
- PTIT provides reduction of producer risk without compromising consumer protection

- FDA DCU & TCL test as in Draft MDI/DPI Guidance

- 22
# Presentation: 201150

## Evaluation of a Silane Quaternary Ammonium Salt as an Antimicrobial Fabric Treatment

**Arvye Davis**
- Randall Sumner
- SLSTP- Flight Group2004

## Overview

- 	Antimicrobial agents are used to kill or limit growth of microorganisms. ÆGIS Microbe ShieldTM, an antimicrobial agent composed of a silane quaternary ammonium salt, is featured for its durability and efficacy against both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. This research studied  the effectiveness of the antimicrobial agent as a treatment for cotton fabric. Cotton fabric samples were coated with the antimicrobial agent, then tested against three species of bacteria. The samples were shaken in a bacterial solution to allow contact with the microbes, and the number of viable bacteria were counted. The data were compared to the numbers of bacteria with untreated fabric. This research reveals that the antimicrobial agent reduced the numbers of bacteria exposed to the treated cotton fabric.

## Research

- The three types of bacteria were *Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus epidermidis*, and *Bacillus subtilus*. For each test, the bacteria were grown in Tryptic Soy Broth (TSB) for eighteen hours at room temperature. The bacteria were diluted in 0.003M KH2PO4 to 72 percent transmission using a Vitek Colorimeter. For testing, the bacteria were diluted 1:1000 to 1.5-3.0 x 105 cfu/mL. Then, 50mL aliquots of the diluted bacteria were distributed into sterile 250mL flasks.
- The number of bacteria were determined by the pour plate method using Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA). The control was plated at “0” contact time. The nine flasks were agitated in a reciprocal shaker at 120 RPM. After one hour, all bacteria samples were plated and incubated for 24 hours at 35°C.

## Results

- Graph 1: Comparison of all pure cultures used with and without the antimicrobial agent.

- It was discovered that the antimicrobial agent did exhibit the  ability to kill the three species of bacteria.

**Acknowledgements**

- This research was conducted as part of the 2004 Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The authors recognize the support of the Dynamac Corporation, the NASA Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program Academic Partner Alliance and the United States Department of Agriculture. I would like to thank my Principal Investigator, Randall Sumner, for his hard work in preparation of this research, and I would also like to thank Jason Johns and Adam Santone for their help and guidance in this research.
# Presentation: 694567

## Identifying  the Hazards

- Pam was a strong, slow-moving (≈ 5 MPH) Category 3 Hurricane with sustained winds of 120 MPH at landfall
- Spawned tornados and generated a storm surge which left the majority of New Orleans under 10-20 feet of water
- Pam would’ve been costliest and deadliest hurricane in U.S. history

## Access To and Managing Information

- HURREVAC
- Evacuation Information Transportation System
- HAZUS
- SLOSH Study Results
- NFIP Floodplain Map
- Inland Flooding Information
- National Weather Service Forecasts

## Understanding the Risks

- 97% lost landline communications and commercial power
- 77% of structures destroyed
- Over 1.1 million people could not return to their homes
- Over 30 million cubic yards of debris generated
- 237,000 cubic yards of household hazardous waste was uncontained

## Immediate Needs

- HAZMAT
- Un-watering of Levee-Enclosed Areas (New Orleans)
- Billeting of Federal Response Personnel
- Donations Management/Volunteer Resources
- Distribution Plan for Water/Ice/Power
- Public Information
- Transition from Rescue to Temporary Housing
- Reentry and Access Control

## Goals and Objectives

- Response
- Preparedness
- Recovery
- Mitigation

## The Management Process

- 15 Federal Agencies
- 20 State Agencies
- 13 Parishes
- 5 Volunteer Agencies
- LOHSEP
- FEMA Region VI
- FEMA HQ
- IEM

## Plans, Plans, and More Plans

- Bridging document between Local/State plans and federal plans (Base Plan)
- Functional plans and annex’s
- Action Plans with checklists and trigger points
- Emphasis on integration with existing plans and developing sufficient detail to facilitate response planning
- Mitigation Plans (State and Local)
# Presentation: 315878

## What Do Scientists Do?Sharon AndrewsChallenge Center at Garfield ElementarySioux Falls, SD

**What Do Scientists Do?****Sharon Andrews****Challenge Center at Garfield Elementary****Sioux Falls, SD**

**How Does It All Begin?**
**Scientists are curious and seek to explain the natural world.  Ideas about the natural world exist, but scientists extend their thinking by observing the natural world and making predictions that test the existing ideas. Theoretical scientists make predictions, but experimental scientists go further by devising investigations to test their predictions. **

**Instruments to Collect Data**
**Many times scientists can buy instruments to collect data for them, but sometimes they need to make their instruments.  Scientists are not always in the lab.  Sometimes they must collect data remotely.  In this case, computers  are taken into the field. These computers can record data for weeks without the scientists being around.**

**Collecting Data**
**Collecting the data can be very frustrating.  External factors, such as weather conditions or human error, can interfere with accurate data collection.  Sometimes the instruments do not work properly.  Scientists often spend many years collecting data.**

**Acknowledgements**
**Many thanks goes to Dr. Ralph Ackerman for his patience and guidance during this fellowship, and to my lab partners, Laura Cady and Margaret Hicks.  I would also like to thank Adah Leshem-Ackerman for her guidance and support and Ames Lab for hosting the ACTS.  Thanks also goes to the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, for funding the ACTS program.**

**Analyzing Data**
**Analyzing data means trying to make sense of the data that the scientists have collected and comparing it with their original predictions. Sometimes the scientists will find that their data is inconsistent or does not make sense. In this case, they will need to collect the data again.  Sometimes the scientists will make new predictions and begin the process over again. **

**Devising the Investigation**
**After scientists make predictions, they need to devise investigations that will test their predictions.  These investigations can be time consuming.  The scientists needs to determine how they will collect the data, the instruments to use, and how they will record the data.**
** **

**Displaying the Data/Sharing the Results**
**Scientists want to share their findings in a way that is easy to see and understand.  This is why the data from the investigation is often displayed in charts and graphs.  Many times scientists will have their results published in scientific research journals.   **
# Presentation: 084129

## Engineering Directorate Test Laboratory

**Cryostructural test**
**Tensile & compressive loads test**
**Combined Environments**
**Load environments to simulate launch, on orbit, & landing conditions for development, qualification, acceptance & research testing of space flight hardware**

**Sub-scale injectors & elements, thrusters, gas generators, turbopumps**
**Oxygen & Hydrogen cold flow**
**Cryostructural**
**On-orbit vacuum environment**
**Solar thermal propulsion**
**Solid motor propellant & materials**
**Hot gas material characterization**
**Engine Systems (LH****2****, CH****4****, RP-1)**

**Engineering Directorate Test Laboratory**

**Thermal vacuum**
**Thermal cycle/humidity**
**Altitude**
**Launch ascent/descent**
**Vacuum bakeout**
**Optical certification bakeout**
**Arc Jet/Hot Gas**
**Development, qualification, acceptance, & research testing of space flight hardware**

- Propulsion Test

- Experimental
- Fluid
- Dynamics
- Test

- Environmental
- Test

- Structural
- Strength
- Test

- Structural
- Dynamics
- Test

- Test Support

**Engineering excellence enabling our customers’ mission success.**

**Cryostructural**

**24” Hybrid**

**Experimental modal analysis to verify & correlate analytical finite element models of space flight hardware.**
**Vibration, acoustic, & pyrotechnic shock testing for space flight hardware development, qualification & acceptance.**
**Micro-gravity vibration emission testing**

**Propellants, Pressurants & Calibration**
**Advanced Instrumentation Applications**
**Special Test Equipment Design**
**Test Planning**
**Emerging Technologies**
**Data System & Software Development**

**Cryogenic Mass**
**Flowmeter**

**Lox-Ethanol engine**

**14” Trisonic Tunnel**

**Air & water flow**
**Full flow air blow down for turbopump turbine inlet testing**
**Subscale nozzle internal contours & back pressure data via blow down testing **
**Pump impeller & inducer sub- & full-scale performance mapping via visual water flow testing**
**Subsonic & supersonic vehicle model & nozzle testing at Mach 0.2-5.0**
**Air blow down testing of subscale solid motor casing & ****nozzle designs**
**Probe calibration testing**

**Environmental Facility**

**Modal Test**

**Propellant Handling**

**Optical**
**Propagation**

**Applications**

**Acoustic Test**

**Vibration Test**
# Presentation: 295862

## North American

*North American*
*Development*
*Bank*

## North American Development Bank (NADBank)

- NADBank is the administrative arm of the Community Adjustment Investment Initiative Program (CAIP)
- CAIP reduces adverse trade impacts of NAFTA
- CAIP may fund B&I Guaranteed Loans in designated areas
- CAIP may pay all or part of the guarantee fee

## Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support (ARMS) Loan Guarantees

- ARMS funds business on designated munitions bases
- ARMS uses B&I program as delivery tool except :
- 15 % minimum equity (Subordinated Debt may count as equity)
- Loan guarantee is 85% under $5 million; 80% for $5 million through $10 million; and 75% for over $10 million
- $20 million maximum loan
- Maximum interest rate is P=2%
- No real estate loans
- Environmental liability falls on the Army

## Click Here to Continue
# Presentation: 076270

## Virginia Department of Mines,Minerals, and Energy -Division of Mineral Resources

**900 Natural Resources Dr. Suite 500****Charlottesville, VA  22903****www.dmme.virginia.gov****William L. Lassetter, Jr.****william.lassetter@dmme.virginia.gov**

## Coalfields

- 1st production in 1748 in the Richmond basin

## VA DMME – Federal  (USGS, OSM, MSHA) Partnerships in Coal Related Studies 

**1984 – 1989****	****(GEOHY) 24K quad geologic mapping of SW ****	****	****	****VA Coalfield; standardized stratigraphic ****	****	****	****	****framework; acid/base analytical data**
**1988 – 1992****	****Coal Quality Program (38 coal beds); Coal ****	****	****	****Availability studies**
**1990 – 2002****	****Coal Bed Base Mapping Project; digital Maps-on-Demand ****	****	****(MOD) series integrating GEOHY and mine map data**
**2001 – 2004****	****Validate/re-correlate NCRDS coal records; automated ****	****	****	****protocol using preliminary 3-D stratigraphic model **
**2005 – 2010****	****Validate/re-correlate NCRDS coal records; Coal Bed ****	****	****	****Assessments; GEOLEX; Devonian Shale Sampling; ****	****	****	****Mesozoic Basin Hydrocarbon Potential Workshop;**
**	****	****VA Mine Mapping and Information System **

## NCRDS Records

- 10,498 points
- 143,329 strat records
- 48 quadrangles

**NCRDS Records**

## Data Sources

**Data Sources**

**Geologic Maps**

**Underground Mine Maps**

**Gas Well **
**Geophysical**
**logs**

**Coal Bed Elevation**
**And Thickness Data**

## Coal Bed Correlation

- Identified 78 named coal beds,
-    50 with significant regional extent
- ~5,150 ft coal-bearing stratigraphy
- 22 marine “marker” zones
- Identified approximately 300 variations in local and regional coal bed names
- Evaluated stratigraphy using geologic framework maps and independent data

## Vectorize Well Logs

**“****New” NCRDS**
**Coal Points**
**High-resolution**
**strat data for**
**3-D model**
# Presentation: 248188

## Booster Beam Quality Variables

- B:LGEM8G
- Booster longitudinal emittance
- Measured by resistive wall monitor
- Currently logged on $14 (pBar) and $17 (test)
- B:BNCHRT
- Bunch length after bunch rotation
- Measured by resistive wall monitor
- Currently logged on $14 and $17
- I:8G(H/V)E14
- Booster (Horizontal/Vertical) emittance
- Calculated from Texas multiwires
- Logged on MI event $26
- Also have a gap monitor to measure coupled-bunch modes, but this is not logged, since its meaning depends on sample time settings.

## Transverse Emittance vs. Charge

## Longitudinal Emittance vs. Charge

## pBar protons vs. Booster Charge

## pBar protons vs. Bunch length

## pBar protons vs  brightness

## pBar protons vs. “Longitudinal brightness”

## Conclusions

- Both transverse and longitudinal emittance increase with Booster batch size
- Slip stacked intensity remains ~linearly dependent on Booster intensity even at high intensity (would expect a turn-over if brightness were the figure of merit)
- Still need to keep emittances good enough to efficiently slip stack protons.
- If longitudinal parameters are reflected at extraction, might still affect stacking rate.
- Need to study this.
# Presentation: 148365

## State Departments of Transportation Perspective:

**Economic and Transportation Infrastructure Considerations**

***By****** ***
***Dr. Tony Kane***
***American Association of State Highway***
***Transportation Officials (AASHTO)***
***at***
***White House ***
***Conference on Aging***
***Listening Session***
***January 8, 2005***
***Washington, DC***

## Presentation Outline

**Transportation’s Broad Context**
**Older Americans: Trends and Forecasts**
**Older Mobility Solutions**
**Public Policy Considerations**

## Cross Impact of Aging Issues:Transport is Key

**	****	****	****Transport Access and Mobility**
**Health**
**Economic**
**Security**
**Social**
**Support**

- Access to Care
- Reduced highway injuries
- Access to jobs—reduce social security drain
- Affordable mobility
- Interaction
- Quality of life
- Independence

## Older Americans: Driving Facts

**1985 – 1995: 50% More drivers > 70**
**	****	****	****     ****20% more drivers overall**
**1983 – 1995: Older driver trips     + 77%**
**	****	****	****	****	****        ****VMT     + 98%**
**Fatalities / 100M VMT**
**	****	****	****	****> 85        8**
**	****	****	****	****> 75        3.7**
**	****	****	****  ****Nat. Avg.       1.5**

## Older Americans (> 65)Highway Fatalities and Injuries(2003)

**Fatalities: ****	****6,630 or 15.5%**
**Injuries: ****	****	****211,000 or 7.3%**
**Annual Cost:****	****$230 B (all ages; 2000 $’s)**

## Older Americans (>65):The Future

**By 2030: 70M over 65 vs. 53M today**
**By 2030: 20% of Nation > 65**
**In Future, Older Americans:**
**Will live longer**
**Work longer**
**Live more dispersed**
**Demand more mobility**
**Increase auto use**
**Need enhanced transit options**

##  Older Mobility Remedies

**	****	****	****	****Supply****	****	****Demand**
**Short-Run****	****	****    ******
**Long-Run                ******

## Short Run

** **_***Supply***_
**Highway signs, lighting, delineation**
**Intersection signal clearance**
**Left turn signal timing**
**Left turn offsets**
**Transit schedule reliability**
**Transit accessibility**

** **_***Demand***_
**Drivers licensing fitness**
**Driver training**
**Bus use training**
**Taxi, jitney subsidies**
**Alternative mode information**

## Long Run

** **_***Supply***_
**Reconstructed Highway Interchanges**
**Longer and better acceleration lanes**
**New transit services (Family of Services)**
**Transit accessibility**
**Auto/Highway Intelligent Communication (VII)**

** **_***Demand***_
**Development Patterns**
**Consolidation of Social Services**

## Public Policy Considerations

**Need for WHCOA to emphasize transportation**
**Need for Increased highway and transit funding overall  and for older American solutions**
**Enhanced emphasis on highway safety overall and for older Americans**
**Need for greater sustained RD&T on older safe mobility needs and issues**
**Continued enhancement of AASHTO and USDOT guides and standards**
# Presentation: 332744

## Infection Control in Health Care Settings

**This is an archived document.**

## Infectiousness

- Patients should be considered infectious if they
- Are coughing
- Are undergoing cough-inducing or aerosol-generating
-        procedures, or
- Have sputum smears positive for acid-fast bacilli and they
- Are not receiving therapy
- Have just started therapy, or
- Have poor clinical response to therapy

## Infectiousness (cont.)

- Patients no longer considered infectious if they meet **all** of these criteria:
-     Are on adequate therapy
-     Have had a significant clinical response to therapy,
**      **and
-    Have had 3 consecutive negative sputum smear
-      results

## Infection Control Measures

- Administrative controls to reduce risk of exposure
- Engineering controls to prevent spread and reduce
- concentration of droplet nuclei
- Personal respiratory protection in areas where
- increased risk of exposure

## Administrative Controls

- Reduce risk of exposing uninfected persons to infectious disease:
- Develop and implement written policies and protocols to ensure
-  Rapid identification
-  Isolation
-  Diagnostic evaluation
-  Treatment
-   Implement effective work practices among HCWs
-   Educate, train, and counsel HCWs about TB
-   Test HCWs for TB infection and disease

## Administrative Controls (cont.)

- Perform risk assessment and classification of facility based on
-    Profile of TB in community
-    Number of infectious TB patients admitted
-    Analysis of HCW skin test conversions

## Engineering Controls

- To prevent spread and reduce concentration of infectious droplet nuclei
-    Use ventilation systems in TB isolation rooms
-    Use HEPA filtration and ultraviolet irradiation with other
-       infection control measures

## Personal Respiratory Protection

- Use in areas where increased risk of exposure:
- TB isolation rooms
- Rooms where cough-inducing procedures are done
- Homes of infectious TB patients
# Presentation: 813046

## DOELAP Update

- Robert Loesch
- DOELAP Administrator
- HS-82, Office of Technology

## Current Status

- DOE STD-1095-95 (Personnel Dosimetry)
- DOE/EH-0026 (Handbook)
- DOE/EH-0027 (Standard)
- ANSI N13.11-1993
- DOE STD-1111-98 (Program Admin)
- DOE STD-1112-98 (Radiobioassay)
- ANSI N13.32-1995 (Extremity)
- Not Mandatory

## What’s Changed(ing)?

- 10 CFR 835 Amendment
- Adopted ICRP 60 (et al) - quantities, W*T*, W*R*
- ANSI/HPS N13.11-200X
- Adopting ICRP 60, ICRP 68
- ANSI/HPS N13.32-2008
- Awaiting final approval by ANSI

## Future Changes

- Rewrite of DOE STD-1095 (underway)
- Inclusion of  ISO 17025 requirements
- Adoption of new ANSI/HPS N13.11-200X?
- Inclusion of ANSI/HPS N13.32-2008?
- Rewrite of DOE STD-1112
- Inclusion of ISO 17025 requirements
- Adoption of new ANSI/HPS N13.30-20XX?

## Issues

- Timing of site transitions
- 10 CFR 835 implementation dates will vary
- Date for new DOELAP standards?
- Phase-in of new testing requirements
- DOELAP can’t handle everyone at once!
- Potential need for changes to dosimetry algorithms
# Presentation: 211313

## Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance (TA) CenterFiscal Year (FY) 2005ERCM Grantee MeetingJanuary 11, 2005

**Kathy Zantal-Wiener, Ph.D.**
- Director, ERCM TA Center

## ERCM Staff

- Wendy Sisson, Deputy Director
- Madeline Sullivan, Technical Assistance Coordinator
- Elizabeth Eaton, Research Assistant
- Alok Nepal, Research Assistant
- Jessica Mitchell, Meeting Planner
- Carol Coy, Meeting Planner
- Experts

## FEEL TRAPPED? 

**The ERCM TA Center Can Help You Find Your Way...**

## Confused? 

**The ERCM TA Center Can Help You Put The Pieces Together!**

## How We Support Your Efforts

- Develop newsletters
- Identify and provide accurate information and resources about ERCM topics
- Assist U.S. Department of Education (ED) with grantee meetings
- Provide assistance in evaluating ERCM plans

## ERCM TA Center Web Resources

- _[www.ercm.org](http://www.ercm.org/)_ features:
- List of FY 2003, 2004, & 2005 grantees
- Guidance on ED reporting requirements
- Newsletters
- Technical assistance request form
- Resources
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

## Most Frequent TA Requests

- ERCM plan components
- Specific crises (e.g., bomb scares, active shooter, etc.)
- Evaluation
- Project
- Emergency exercises
- Site assessments
- Emergency supplies and go-kits
- Strategies for day-to-day challenges encountered by ERCM project staff
- ED reporting requirements

## Activities and Resources Planned for 2006

- Regional grantee meetings
- Regional non-grantee meetings
- Fact sheets based on TA requests
- ERCM lessons learned (web-based)
- Models of ERCM plans
- Newsletters

## How to Contact Us

- _[www.ercm.org](http://www.ercm.org/)_
- 1.888.991.ERCM
- _[Info@ercm.org](mailto:Info@ercm.org)_

## Questions?
# Presentation: 752258

## Dynamically Reconfigurable Vision

-   Fabricated a reconfigurable sensor with three programmable on-		chip windows. Snapshot-mode integration, multi-resolution via 		pixel averaging, and multiple readout ports. The on-chip windows 	can be reconfigured on a frame-by-frame basis to have arbitrary 		position, size, resolution and overlap.
- 	Developed a digital camera the incorporates the aforementioned 	imager and features a fast Ethernet data link for sensor 		configuration commands and return video, TCP/CP, embedded 		sensor controller, and a microprocessor.
- 	Created a demonstration system on a laptop PC running a 		Windows NT graphical user interface.
- 	Currently developing a second-generation 800x600 sensor that 		will have on-chip analog-to-digital converters in addition to the 		previous generation’s features. Engineering studies are also 		commencing to implement DRV technology on low light level and 	shortwave IR (SWIR) sensors
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- 	Currently working with industry partners to develop field-worthy 		prototype systems by 2001, and plan to begin high-volume sensor 	and camera board production by 2004.
- 	Several patents are pending on DRV technology, Comptek 		Amherst is establishing an intellectual property core to make DRV 	available for licensing by interested parties

**Dynamically Reconfigurable Vision**

***Comptek Amherst Systems, Inc***
***Buffalo, NY***

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
**  **NASA - Vision system for extravehicular helper/retriever 	robot and other spaceborne imaging applications
-   Air Force - Prototype DRV system is in use and a 		second-generation system will be delivered in 2001
-   US Navy - Surveillance and target identification from 	unmanned vehicles is a top concern. Currently the Navy 	is funding an infrared DRV preliminary system design.

- Year Phase II, NAS1-
- NASA Contact
- Company Contact : Chris Kramer  (716)631-0088 x188
- Cak@amherst.com

- Langley Research Center

- Three-Window DRV Imagery: Dual Target Tracking plus Full Field-of-View Surveillance

- Comptek Amherst Systems has developed inexpensive, low-power, reconfigurable sensors that reduce video bandwidth in real-time surveillance, precision strike, and other tactical imaging applications.

**S****mall****Business****T****echnology****Tr****ansfer**
# Presentation: 527185

## Discussions and Questions  Combidex (NDA 21-115)

**FDA Oncology Advisory Committee**
**March 3, 2005**

**Division of Medical Imaging and Radiopharmaceutical Drug Products, FDA**

## Discussion #1

**      ****Please discuss the evidence for efficacy and any concerns about the validity and generalizibility of the study findings to support the use of Combidex for detection of lymph node metastases from all tumor types in all clinical settings, including *****de novo***** tumors and tumor recurrences. **

## Discussion #2

**      ****Please discuss the differences in the potential clinical benefit of Combidex for nodes identified by prior imaging that are less than 10 mm, compared to nodes that are greater than 10 mm.**

## Discussion #3

**      ****Please discuss the risk of hypersensitivity reactions (magnitude and severity), and suggest the strategies that might mitigate the risk.**

## Question #1

**     ****Do the data demonstrate efficacy of Combidex for differentiation of metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes in patients with confirmed primary cancer who are at risk for lymph node metastases? **

## Question #2

**      ****Are the data robust enough to support use for a specific tumor type(s)?  **
**     ****If yes, please identify the tumor type(s)?**

## Question #3

**     ****Do the data demonstrate that Combidex is safe?**

## Question #4

**        ****Do the data demonstrate that Combidex is safe and effective for marketing approval based on the sponsor’s proposed indication?  **
**	****If yes, are there postmarketing studies you would recommend?**
**	****If not, do the data demonstrate that Combidex is safe and effective for marketing approval for any other indication?  **
**	****If yes, please describe the patient population and clinical setting for which Combidex would be indicated?**
**	****If no indication is supported by the current data, please recommend what additional studies or data are needed? **
# Presentation: 116058

## Dark Energy

- By Chris Malafis & Amit Sheth

## Discovery

- Two competing groups from different observatories were trying to prove the deceleration of the expansion of the universe.
- Instead they found out that it is accelerating.
- This means that there is some force that goes against gravity.

## Cosmic Expansion

- Cosmic Expansion is the idea behind the expansion of the universe.
- As time goes on, astronomical bodies move farther and farther away from our galaxy.
- If this began earlier in the universe, galaxies and other huge structures would not have been able to form.

## Cosmic Expansion

## What is Dark Energy?

- A form of energy that makes up approximately seventy percent of the universe’s energy.
- However, scientists know very little about the concept.
- It is not observable because it doesn’t emit light.

## Nature of Dark Energy

- It is distributed throughout the universe in cobweb like filaments.
- The first half of the universe’s life galaxies have collided into each other to form clusters which spread out at a decelerating rate.
- Since then, the universe has been accelerating and galaxies stopped merging.

## Nature of Dark Energy

- In the last six billion years, the formation of structures like stars, black holes, and quasars has decreased.
- Scientists believe that Dark Energy is the counterpart to gravity, and carries particles as well.
- It is believed that eventually Dark Energy will overpower gravity and split all molecules and atoms apart. (Big RIP)

## Theories

- There are two proposed forms of Dark Energy
- Cosmological Constant – a constant energy density filling space homogeneously
- Quintessence – the energy can vary in space and time

## Cosmological Constant

- Has negative pressure equal to its density  and causes the universe to accelerate.
- The reason it has a negative pressure is because energy must be lost (or negative) to do work on an object.

## Quintessence

- In order for dark energy not to clump and come together like matter, it must be extremely light and therefore have a large Compton Wavelength.
- Compton Wavelength is the wavelength derived from E =  mc2.

## Negative Pressure	

- According to the Theory of Relativity, dark energy has strong negative pressure.
- Negative pressure acts very similar to a force that opposes gravity.
- This is one of the explanations for why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
- Accounts for missing mass of universe

## Negative Pressure

- Energy is converted into work done by the vacuum pressure.

## Evidence of Dark Energy

- Accounts for the huge amount of missing mass in the universe.
- The expansion of the universe is accelerating rather than decelerating.
- This proves that there is negative pressure since work is being done.
# Presentation: 021569

## NASA Cost SymposiumJuly 17-19, 2007 Hyatt Regency Tech Center - Denver7800 East Tufts Avenue, Denver, Colorado, USA 80237 

**For reservations, call 1-800-233-1234 and ask for the **_**NASA room block**_** at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center. **

## Brief Schedule of Events

_**Monday, July 16, 2007**_
- Registration & Hotel Check-in				TBD
_**Tuesday, July 17, 2007**_
- Symposium						8am –5pm
- Evening Welcome Reception				TBD
_**Wednesday, July 18, 2007**_
- Symposium						8am – 5pm
_**Thursday, July 19**_
- Symposium						8am – 5pm
- Evening Awards Banquet					TBD

## Driving Directions To Hotel

_**Directions From Denver International Airport (24 Miles):**_
**	**Exit airport on Pena Boulevard South to I-70 West. Continue on I-70 to I-225 South.  Exit 2A (Tamarac/DTC Boulevard) and turn left. Go under Interstate, turn right on Tufts Avenue. Hyatt Regency Tech Center is at the end of the street.
_**Hyatt Regency Tech Center**_** **
**	**Denver is conveniently located near many of Denver's growing suburbs, including Englewood, Centennial, Lone Tree, Highlands Ranch, Aurora, Littleton, Parker, Castle Rock and Greenwood Village.  Whether you're visiting downtown or one of our exciting suburbs, this luxurious Hyatt Denver CO hotel is the perfect location for you.

## Map of Hotel Location

## Parking and Transportation

_**Transportation To/From Denver International Airport:**_
_**Super Shuttle:**_** Cost: $19.00 one way or $34.00 round trip. **
**The phone number for Super Shuttle is 303-370-1300 or 1-800-Blue-Van **
_**Taxi Service:**_** The following companies provide service to/from the airport:**
**Yellow Cab: 303-777-7777 **
**Metro Cab: 303-333-3333 **
**Freedom Cab: 303-444-4444**
**Cost: Approximately $45.00-$65.00 per trip to and from the airport**
_**Sedan/Limo Services:**_** The following companies provide airport service at comparable cost as taxi’s**
**Centennial Limo: 303-564-3859 **
**Signature Limo: 303-434-3277**
_**Self-Parking**_
**Cost: $5.00 for the first two hours of your visit, $1.00 each additional hour. Maximum charge is $10.00 per day**

## LOCAL TRANSPORTATION

_**Hyatt Shuttle:**_**  **
- Hyatt Regency Tech Center offers complimentary shuttle service within a five-mile radius of the hotel, including Park Meadows Mall. Availability is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Any requests for trips further than five miles will be assessed a service charge. Please inquire at the Concierge desk for more information and schedules.
**  **
_**Light Rail Service:**_
- Travel to downtown Denver in just minutes via Light Rail. A new stop is located at the Belleview Station, on the E line, only one block from the hotel. Light Rail maps are available at the Concierge desk or at _[http://www.rtd-denver.com](http://www.rtd-denver.com/)__[/](http://www.rtd-denver.com/)_