BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Slide 1

**Notes:**
Adrian and Pete waiting to lock on to the base station signal.  Many portions of Alaska provide for ideal conditions to take advantage of GPS technology.  No tree canopy!

## Slide 2

**Notes:**
Surveyor performing calculations with HP-41 calculator.  It may seem antiquated, however, it sure beats using a “coffee grinder” calculator (Curta).  Photo circa early 1980s.

## Slide 3

**Notes:**
Rain? What rain!  This gear is for the mosquitoes!

## Slide 4

**Notes:**
Give the crew a reason to smile and they will smile.  Apparently, there was nothing funny about waiting for a helicopter on a cold Alaskan Morning.

## Slide 5

**Notes:**
Sir, your limo has arrived!  Helicopters, although relatively expensive, are in fact one of the most cost effective methods of transportation for a survey crew.

## Slide 6

**Notes:**
Steep terrain and long hikes make for challenging working conditions.

## Slide 7

**Notes:**
Instrument persons are unique (maybe even odd) individuals.  They take pride in setting-up their equipment in challenging  locations.  “If an eagle can land there, I can set up there!”, they would defiantly cry!

## Slide 8

**Notes:**
Safety first!  Water transportation provided its own unique challenges and dangers!  Everyone wears a life-vest or a float-coat! Period!!!!

## Slide 9

**Notes:**
Can you find Waldo?  Oh, there he is!  Alaska has a tendency to “cut a person down to size”.

## Slide 10

**Notes:**
This was one of the “lucky” surveyors.  He could drive to his project.   Airplanes, four-wheelers, boats, canoes, helicopters, dog sleds, hovercraft and trucks are used to transport cadastral survey crews.  

## Slide 11

**Notes:**
“Meandering” the shoreline – taking measurements to a second crew member at each point along the bank where the shoreline changes bearing.

## Slide 12

**Notes:**
BIG COUNTRY! 

## Slide 13

**Notes:**
Locating improvements in an Alaskan village.  

## Slide 14

**Notes:**
Why won’t this boat go backwards?  Fast moving water bodies add to complicate the task of surveying.

## Slide 15

**Notes:**
Remains of a bearing tree of a 1/16 section corner.  Wild land fires can cause much damage to accessories.

## Slide 16

**Notes:**
Old Man river!  Oh, life on the banks of the mighty Yukon River!  Annually, rivers, much like the Yukon, erode hundreds of acres of land each year.  This photo illustrates the “cut” bank.

## Slide 17

**Notes:**
Smoked salmon! Yum, yum! Surveying in villages, locating improvements and use areas, can also be quite challenging.  Watch out for the sled dogs!  They do bite.

## Slide 18

**Notes:**
What’s this thing!  I was just walking around and I found this.  “Spinning angles” with a total station.

## Slide 19

**Notes:**
Leffingwell’s cabin, Flaxman Island.  Ernest De Koven Leffingwell was an early 1900 arctic explorer.  Obviously he did not find the Best Western!

## Slide 20

**Notes:**
Computing the “move” to the true corner point.  

## Slide 21

**Notes:**
Part detective, part technician, part computer expert, part explorer, part outdoorsman and part crazy, best describes today’s cadastral surveyor!
# Presentation: 247294

## Government Grant Writing

- For Fun and Profit

## Jan Figart, MS, RNSenior Planner, Maternal & Child HealthCommunity Service Council of Greater Tulsa, Inc.www.csctulsa.org Tulsa Healthy Start Initiativewww.tulsa-health.org

## Read the guidance completely

- 	Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are. The olny iprmoetnt tihng is that frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.PS:  Do not sepll cehck tihs bfeore sndenig to ohters.

## It can’t be written overnight!

- Experienced grant writer—120 hrs.
- 	20 hrs. data gathering and organization
- 	10 hrs. gathering documents to be included in the appendix
- 	30 hrs. gathering barriers and challenges from team members, editing their responses and returning for their review
- 	10 hrs. budget and narrative
- 	50 hrs. writing and administrative review

## Set-up and preparation

- Margins
- Fonts
- Script size
- Style guide
- Attachments
- Required forms

## Connect the dots

- Need
- Response
- Evaluation measures
- Impact
- Resource/capabilities
- Support requests
- Specific program criteria

## Indicator data comes from many sources

- Programmatic:
- 	Project data base
- County:
- 	Health/mental health department
- 	Human services
- 	Rehabilitative services
- 	Commerce/labor
- 	Public schools
- State:
- 	Health department
- 	Governor’s office
- 	Human services
- 	Education services

## Indicator data comes from many sources

- National:
- 	CDC—MMWR and National Center for Vital Statistics
- 	HRSA—MCHB, Title V, Title X, CSHCN
- 	Annie E. Casey—www.aecf.org/kidscount/kc2002
- 	Children’s Defense Fund—www.cdf.org
- 	Kaiser Family Foundation—www.kff.org

## Local health plan

- Maternal-Child Health, Title V Block Grant
- State Child Abuse Plan
- State Developmental Disabilities and Rehabilitation Plan
- Local Title V and Title X Plan
- Local Hospital District Plan
- Coalition/Consortia plan

## Respond to each question

- Respond to the guidance—as though you were doing your taxes
- 		Don’t blindly cut and paste
- 		Keep data years consistent
- Read the evaluation criteria—make sure you have responded to the specific content
- Refer to previous Sections if previously stated
- Use data tables with narrative for clarity
- Budget should match narrative
- Request technical assistance

## Forms

- Implementation plan
- 		Objectives
- 		Strategies
- 		Timeline
- 		Measurements
- Consortia form
- Budget forms
- Evaluation plan
- 		Common performance
- 			measurements
-     		National assessment
- Database for collection of data

## DPSWH March 2004 Webcast Wednesday, March 17, 20042:00-3:30pm Eastern

- www.mchcom.com/archivedWebcastDetail.asp?aeid=247

## elements

- www.animationfactory.com

## elements

- www.animationfactory.com
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## Questions:

**What are the potential benefits of the research, if any, to the subjects and to children in general?**
**(2) What are the types and degrees of risk that this research presents to the subjects?**
**(3) Are the risks to the subjects reasonable in relation to the anticipated benefits, and is the research likely to result in generalizable knowledge about the subjects disorder or condition?**
**(4) Does the research present a reasonable opportunity to further the understanding, prevention, or alleviation of a serious problem affecting the health or welfare of children? **
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## S2K+2 Airline TrainingNotes for the Instructor

## S2K+2 is designed to prep Airline Operation Control Centers (AOCs), specifically AOC Coordinators and Dispatchers for the 2002 Severe Weather Avoidance Procedure (SWAP) Season.

- S2K+2 is an introduction to tools and procedures that will be implemented this Spring/Summer 2002.
- S2K+2 Airline Training hopes to give insight into the AOC Coordinator Position, and how it interacts  between the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) and the Dispatcher.

- S2K+2 Airline Training Notes for the Instructor

## Some of the modules contain minimal technical training for those who have not yet been exposed to newer tools. 

- You can expect some minimal technical training on CCSD, RMT, Pathfinder, Diversion Recovery and CCFP.  I’ve included Pathfinder and Diversion Recovery Users guides in their respective folders.
- The term, “AOC Coordinator” is recognized as a generic term for the airline employee who represents his or her respective airline as a liaison between the airline and ATC Traffic Management.

- S2K+2 Airline Training Notes for the Instructor

## The EDCT +-5 and Pathfinder modules contain proposed in-house procedures for US Airways.  The protocol used at US Airways will not necessarily reflect how other airlines develop their own in-house procedures.  This is for guidance in developing your procedures only.

- S2K+2 Airline Training Notes for the Instructor

- The last module contains the System 2002 slides that went out to the ARTCCs.  The ARTCCs will adapt these slides to meet the individual ARTCC training needs for their facility.

## It takes me about 4 hours to present this in my Dispatch Recurrent class.

- S2K+2 Airline Training Notes for the Instructor

- You can start all the modules from the ...
- “S2K+2 Main Menu.PPT” file.
- At the end of each module there is a “Back to Main Menu” button that will take you back to the main menu.

## S2K+2 Airline Training 

** ****1. CCFP - Collaborative Convective Forecast Product**

** ****2. CCSD - Common Constraint Situation Display/ FCA / RMT**

** ****3. SWAP Review**

** ****4. Pathfinder Page**

** ****5. Diversion Recovery Page**

** ****7. EDCT + - 5**

** ****8. Systems 2002 ATC Field Training**

** ****September 11 - TSD Replay**

** ****6. TCA Procedures**

- S2K+2 Airline Training
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## Agenda ForJoint ALICE-STAR Computing Meeting

**Apr 8/9, 2000**
**Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY**
**Bldg. 510, ITD Seminar Room**

- All speakers are kindly asked to send their talk
- in whatever format to thomas.ullrich@yale.edu

## Joint ALICE-STAR Computing Meeting

- Agenda for Saturday Apr 9, 2000
- Bldg. 510, ITD Seminar Room
- 9:00	STAR Offline Project Description, *T. Wenaus*
- 9:45	ALICE Offline Project Description, *F. Carminati*
- 10:30	Coffee Break
- 10:45	STAR framework, *Valery Faine *
- 11:05	ROOT based event data storage, *V. Perevoztchikov*
- 11:25	Schema evolution, *V. Perevoztchikov*
- 11:45	ALICE Offline Organisation, *Yves Schutz*
- 12:15	Schema Evolution Mechanism in ROOT I/O, *R. Brun*
- 12:45	Lunch Break
- 14:00	STAR Reconstruction Overview, *Spiros Margetis*
- 14:15	Cluster Finder, *Raimond Snellings*
- 14:30	TPC-Tracking, *Raimond Snellings*
- 15:00	Global Tracking (incl. vertex finder) , *L. Barnby, *
*               **S. Margetis, J. Balewski*
- 15:20	STAR Strategies for Year-2 Tracking, *H. Caines*
- 15:45   	Coffee Break
- 16:00   	ALICE Global Reconstruction Strategy, *K. Safarik*
- 16:45   	TPC Reconstruction, *Y. Belikov*
- 17:30   	STAR QA Overview, *Curtis Lansdell*
- 17:50   	ALICE CodeChecker and Reverse Engineering
-                Tools, *I. Hrivnacova*
- 18:10       Adjourn

## Joint ALICE-STAR Computing Meeting

- Agenda for Sunday Apr 9, 2000
- Bldg. 510, ITD Seminar Room
- 9:00	STAR: Reconstruction & Analysis Farm, *Y. Fisiak*
- 9:15	HPSS and Production Management, *L. Didenko*
- 9:35	MDC experiences, *Torre Wenaus*
- 9:40 	ALICE  GRID Project, Experiences and Plans,
-                *B. Nilsen*
- 10:05	ALICE MDC, *F. Rademakers*
- 10:20	Coffee Break
- 10:30	STARs use of mySQL and Conditions DB, *J. Porter*
- 11:00	STAR File Catalog, TagDB, and the Grand Challenge
-                Apparatus, *A. Vanyashin*
- 11:30	ALICE Data Challenge Setup and Results,
-                *F.  Rademakers*
- 12:10	Lunch Break
- 14:00	STARs Event Generators, *R. Longacre*
- 14:15	STAR Detector Simulation GSTAR, *P. Nevski*
- 14:45	TPC simulator TRS/TFS, *M. Calderon*
- 14:55	Embedding and Efficiency Calculations, *M. Calderon*
- 15:20	ALICE Simulation Strategy, *A. Morsch, I. Hrivnacova*
- 16:10	Coffee Break
- 16:25	STAR Data Analysis, Datamodel, and DSTs, *T. Ullrich*
- 16:55	ALICE: ROOT evolution, *R. Brun, F. Rademakers *
- 17:25	Discussion on Possible Areas Of Joint Development
- 18:30	Adjourn
# Presentation: 051958

## The Envelope Manufacturers Association

- The Association and
- Our Operations

## Background

- Founded in 1933 from two early associations founded in the 1870s
- International in 1993
- 170 Member Corporations
- 30 Nations in Membership
- Foundation for Paper- Based Communications
- Media Center

**Picture of Our Founder**

## The Association

- Focused on three primary areas: Postal matters, technical issues and market-based research.
- Two primary meetings and a number of educational programs.
- www.envelope.org

## The Foundation

- We have an endowment of $7.5 million.
- Institute for Postal Studies
- Center for Technology and Trends
- Industry promotion efforts

## Institute for Postal Studies Research

- Special report on commissions
- Jobs studies
- Small Economic Model
- Economic value of the posts
- CSRS research
- Symposiums

## Center for Technology and Trends

- Intelligent Document Study
- Global Trends Report
- Postcards in the Mailstream
- Direct Mail Study
- Electronic substitution and mail research
- Speakers on new technology

## EMA and the Postal Service

- Have worked with the Postal Service since 1914 (Post Office Department)
- Founding member of MTAC
- Actively involved in development of educational programs on MERLIN, Postal Partners and other projects

## Just Remember, If You Are Not Using An Envelope, We Are Coming To See You!

- Thanks!
# Presentation: 224972

## US Fish and Wildlife Service

- Focal Species Strategy for Migratory Birds

## Focal Species -Background

*Mission*
*Mandates*
*Authorities*
*Operating principles*
*Strategies*

- A Blueprint for the Future of Migratory Birds:  Migratory Bird Program Strategic Plan – completed in 2004

## Focal Species -Background

*Completed in 2005*
*President’s Management Agenda*
*Recommended stronger performance measures*
*Emphasis on measuring the status of migratory birds*

- Program Assessment Rating Tool by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) conducted for Migratory Bird Program in 2005

## Focal Species: New Measure

*Birds of Conservation Concern*
*Endangered and Threatened birds*
*Game birds below desired condition*
*Game birds at/above desired condition*
*Superabundent birds*

- Increase the percent of migratory bird species at healthy and sustainable levels

- Based on Birds of Management Concern

## Focal Species Strategy

- Systematically identify and carry out management tasks necessary to change status of select species
- From the list of Birds of Management Concern, select a subset as candidates for focused conservation efforts (i.e., Focal Species)
- Focal species to be the subject of campaigns guided by action-oriented management plans that identify tasks, associated timelines and budgets needed to achieve status objectives
- From this subset of focal species, select a “short list” for targeted actions in 2006
- Develop action plans for each “short list” species

## How the Numbers Work

**Healthy and Sustainable**

**412**

**505**

**917 species, subspecies, or managed populations**

**Birds of Management Concern**

## OMB Goals by 2007

**Healthy and Sustainable**

**412**

**917**

**505**

**5**

## OMB Goals by 2007

**Healthy and Sustainable**

**412**

**917**

**505**

**5**

**139 Focal Species**

**- High conservation need**
**- Representative species**
**- Current high effort**
**- Partnership potential**
**- Realistic? **

## OMB Goals by 2007

**Healthy and Sustainable**

**412**

**917**

**505**

**5**

- 139 Focal Species

**- High conservation need**
**- Representative species**
**- Current high effort**
**- Partnership potential**
**- Realistic? **

- 9 species for FY 2006 action plans

## Focal Species Strategy

- Success of the Focal Species Strategy depends on cooperation and coordination
- Partner assistance and expertise in developing particular details of the action plans
- Help and collaboration in carrying out necessary Focal Species management tasks where missions and interests overlap
- A benefit of the Focal Species Strategy will be to build new (and re-forge existing) relationships

## Focal Species Strategy

- John Christian
- Assistant Regional Director
- Big Rivers and Great Lakes Region

## Focal Species Strategy

- Thank you!
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## Minera:

- Minera:

- Simulation Update

- U.C. Irvine
- (when it’s not raining)

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

## What is to Come . . 

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- CCQE/CCRS Analysis
- Optimization of Detector
- etc.

## Simulation Update

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- life of a grad student . .

- photons  gluons

- bear with me . .

- + 27

## Quasi-elastic and Resonance

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- Form Factors
- vector, axial, discrepancies
- Pion Production
- it’s there!
- “Scratch the back” of oscillation experiments (minos)

## 2212 Efficiency

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- sample size

- ~24% tracked

- ccqe

- plots, plots, plots

## 2212 Efficiency

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- ccrs

- indiscriminate

- ~30% tracked

- again, filtered

## Further Studies

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- module, scintillator id
- tracker update (p.120 . . )
- verify suspicions
- statistics
- S05

## Optimization

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- Kevin’s email
- OD studies
- z spacing *
- width variation
- Others?
- Reality and cost factors

## 0.7 Spacing

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- 37% efficient

- reality check

## 3.7 Spacing

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- 7% efficient

- we don’t have a winner

## In the End . .

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- shrink it!
- reality, cost
- upgrade
- (preliminary)

## Etc.

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- And now for something completely different . . .

## Strangeness

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- real grad life
- hep-ph/0210017, hep-ph/0311053, nucl-ex/0412030
- assumptions of non-neutrino physics

## Strangeness

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- add a little strangeness . .

- . . and extract

## Strangeness

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- precision
- take ratio of ’s, NC/CC  asymmetry(?)
- CC form factor
- BNL-734 data (1987!)
-  -0.25GsA(0)0 (90%CL)
- High Statistics Neutrino Scattering Experiment

## Think About the Future

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05

- 2212 Efficiency
- Optimizations
- Strangeness Simulations
- You Tell Me . . .

## fin.

- B.P. Ziemer	Feb.’05
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## BTeV High Voltage

- David Christian
- Fermilab

## High Voltage Requirements

- A draft requirements document exists:
- _[http://home.fnal.gov/~dcc/btev/](http://home.fnal.gov/~dcc/btev/)_
- A workshop has been scheduled for 4/20/01
- WH12W in the morning (9:00 – 12:30)
- FCC2A in the afternoon (1:30 – 5:00)
- I need to know who will attend by video (FNAL + 3 slots reserved)

- March 4, 2001

## High Voltage Summary

| Detector Subsystem | Polarity | Max # of channels (without spares) | Voltage Range | Current Range | Readback Precision |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pixels | Negative | 1426 | 0-1000 | 10 nA –
10 mA | 0.1% of full scale
V & I |
| SSD’s | Positive | 870 | 0-1000 | 100 nA –
10 mA | 0.1% of full scale
V & I |
| Straws | Positive | 3700 | ~0-2200 | 0 – 10 A | 0.5% of full scale V; 1% I |
| RICH | Negative
Negative
Positive | 286
143
143 | 15kV-22kV
10kV-17kV
0-100 | 0 – 100 nA
0 – 100 nA
0 – 10 A | 0.1% FS V;1% I
0.1% FS V;1% I
0.1% FS V;10% I |
| EM Cal. | Negative
Negative
Negative
Negative | 230
230
230
230-690 | 0-400
0-600
0-800
0-1000 | 0 – 10 mA
0 – 2 mA
0 – 0.5 mA
0 – 0.1 mA | 0.02% FS V; 0.1% I
0.02% FS V; 0.1% I
0.01% FS V; 0.1% I
0.01% FS V; 0.1% I |
| Muon Chambers | Positive | 2496 | ~0-2000 | 0 – 12 A | 1% FS V & I |

- March 4, 2001

## Are these requirements reasonable?

- Number of channels is very large.
- Do straws & muon chambers need an HV channel for every group of 32 wires?
- Does every pixel (SSD) sensor need an individual HV channel?
- V,I Ranges & Readback specs okay?
- Please check & send e-mail (to me at dcc@fnal.gov) with suggestions for changes.

- March 4, 2001
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## Building a Better SmartInit“Island Style”

- Robert Ballard
- WFO Honolulu
- Marine/Tropical IFPS Methodology Workshop – April 2004

##  Identify the Problem

- Default SmartInit not resolving significant tropical synoptic features
- Models can resolve synoptic scale features
- Find a way to build forecaster knowledge and experience into SmartInit
- Limited MOS data, MOS points and complex terrain

## Our Goals

- Looking for a SmartInit that will approximate the forecaster’s expectation given a particular model solution
- Correctly resolve synoptic scale features as forecast by the models
- Give forecaster more time to deal with local/island effects.
- Want to minimize inconsistencies between POP, Sky and Weather grids
- Needs to work on all models (GFS, UKMET, ECMWF, ETA, NOGAPS, RSM)

## The Scenario

## Default GFS SmartInit POPs

## “HFO” GFS SmartInit POPs

## Adjustments to POP SmartInit

- Uses low to mid level RH fields to calculate an index based upon moisture amounts and depth
- Incorporates significant model vertical motion as an adjustment to the index
- POP calculated from index based on empirical study and forecaster input from Summer 03 to Winter 04

## Default GFS SmartInit Weather

## “HFO” GFS SmartInit Weather

## Adjustments to Wx SmartInit

-  Assigns a coverage based only on POPs
- All precipitation assumed to be “convective” (e.g. RW not R)
- Makes a check for heavy precip (RW+) and thunder based upon CAPE, K-Index

## Default GFS SmartInit Winds

## “HFO” GFS SmartInit Winds

## Adjustments to Winds SmartInit

-  Uses FHAG10 (10m wind) instead of BL030 field
- Incorporates “upper elevation winds” at heights above 800 mb using model wind fields
- Decreases winds over lower elevations on land to account for frictional effects
- Weakness – Channeling effects not accounted for and must be added by the forecaster

## Future Enhancements & Ideas

- More sophisticated checks for
- Heavy precip and/or thunderstorms
- Severe thunderstorms
- Snow and snow level
- Adding in sea/land breeze effects for light winds
- Verification of HFO SmartInits
# Presentation: 710235

## Traffic Incident Managementat the Big Dig

- Presenter:
- Kevin A Duffy-
- CA/T Manager of Emergency Planning & Response
- Kaduffy@bigdig.com

## DifficultyKeeping the Roadways Traversing Boston Open and Flowing at Pre Construction LevelsDaily Use of Project Footprint Areas: 339,000(minimum) 

- Traffic Incident Managementat the Big Dig

**Solution:**
- Disseminate information quickly; simplify response, and execute with perfection

## Critical Elements of Success

**Strategic**

- Great emphasis on traffic planning and    congestion prevention
- All lane alterations are scripted, using a three phase sign off, involving Construction, Traffic Engineering, and state/local authorities
- Every effort in planning yielded one less incident

## Strategic (continued)

**Established Traffic Disruptions as part of Project- wide Emergency Response System**

- Guarantees that a quick, efficient method is continually in place to mitigate traffic difficulties
- As part of the ERS, multiple resources are dedicated to a traffic disruption, minimizing the time and scope of a traffic disruption. These include a field engineer, and a traffic engineer, along with emergency services.

## Including Traffic in the ERS Provided a Structure of Communication and Incident Management Control Among Non- Traffic Personnel. Field Staff Receive Instruction on Clearing Self- Created Disruptions. All Staff must Submit to Annual Refresher Training 

- Strategic (continued)

## Strategic (continued)

- Non project related disruptions were handled through the same assessment criteria and communications links to external agencies as would be used for injuries, utility disruptions etc.
- Critical links were found by analyzing these non related events

## Continually Functional Operations CenterThe CA/T Ops Center Operates 24/7 Due to Construction Demands. A Less Ambitious Construction Project Would Only Require a Center Operating Around That Specific Construction Schedule

- Tactical

- Application of measures to minimize disruption

## Tactical

*Video Monitoring*
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- Sharing images with decision makers via intranet link
*Rapid identification and classification of a traffic disruption*
- Occurring when a disruption is noticed by a construction engineer, operations monitor, or external notification
- Classification to ensure standard response

## Tactical

*Primary notification is delivered to a single point of    contact in the field, who will coordinate the response*
- One point of coordination is a traffic engineer

*Immediate independent notification of a Traffic Engineer when a disruption is reported or identified*
- Notification is made by the operations center, ensuring the passage of information

## Tactical

*Exercise program with training and drills*
-    All personnel will be ready for the real disruption
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## Early Stimulant Exposure Impact on Later Substance Abuse: A Longitudinal Study

- F. Xavier Castellanos
- Rachel Klein
- Sal Mannuzza
- John Moulton
- NYU Child Study Center

## The New York Longitudinal Sample

- Recruited 1970 – 1977
- Lower middle class Caucasians; > 90% male
- Initial ages 6 to 12 y
- Pervasively hyperactive (included blinded in- school observations)
- Excluded if primarily aggressive
- [Main source of DSM-III criteria for ADHD]

## Treatment of ADHD in Childhood

- All subjects diagnosed by Rachel Klein
- All psychopharmacology managed by Don Klein
- Free treatment – research clinic
- Other options essentially unavailable
- Methylphenidate – mean 38 mg/day
- Identical to MTA titration!
- Duration: 7 d to 5 y; mean 2.2 y

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## How Do We Measure the Brain? 

- Zijdenbos, Giedd, Blumenthal, Paus, Rapoport, & Evans

## Total Cerebral Volumes

- 700

- 800

- 900

- 1000

- 1100

- 1200

- 1300

- 1400

- 1500

- 0

- 5

- 10

- 15

- 20

- 25

**AGE (y)**

**mL**

**ADHD F**

**ADHD M**

**NV F**

**NV M**

- N=291; 544 scans

## Total Cerebral Vol. Growth Curves

- Controls > ADHD P<.003

- Castellanos, JAMA 2002

## Total Cerebral Volume in Healthy Controls, Medicated ADHD, and Initially Unmedicated ADHD

- 1000

- 1020

- 1040

- 1060

- 1080

- 1100

- 1120

- 1140

- 1160

- 1180

- 4

- 5

- 6

- 7

- 8

- 9

- 10

- 11

- 12

- 13

- 14

- 15

- 16

- 17

- 18

- 19

- 20

- 21

- 22

**Age (years)**

**mL**

** ****ADHD**

** ****MN**

** ****NV**

**Total Cerebral Volume in ****Healthy**** ****Controls****, ****Medicated ADHD****,**** and ****Initially Unmedicated ADHD**

## Slide 10

## N=291

**N=291**

## Early Normal  White Matter Development

- Paus et al., 2001
- Brain Res Bull

## Normal White Matter Development - Adulthood

- Increases ~linearly to max at ~ age 44
- N=70 men
- Cross-sectional
- Frontal, temporal WM
- Bartzokis et al., 2001
- Arch Gen Psychiatry

## Enduring Stimulant Effects?

- Not on teacher or parent behavior ratings
- Sensitization of accumbal circuitry?
- Predisposition to substance abuse?
- Well documented in animal studies
- Alternatively: protective against substance abuse
- Mechanism?
- Trophic effect on myelination?

## NY Longitudinal Study – Next Phase

- Reassess outcome at middle adulthood
- Mean age 39 y
- Interval substance abuse, psychiatric, functional outcomes
- Relate 3-T high-resolution structural MRI including diffusion tensor imaging to outcome
- Comparison with prospective control group
- Stratify by age treatment began
- NIDA – R01 DA-16979
# Presentation: 461061

## Strategic Markup Language (StratML)

- XML CoP
- 1.18.2006

## StratML Background

- History
- Scope:
- StratML is envisioned as a standardized XML template and vocabulary for Federal agency strategic plans that is aligned with the Federal Enterprise Architecture, government policy, and leverages existing standards.

## StratML Project Plan

- 1) research to identify a relatively small set of core elements that are common to all strategic plans;
- 2) build consensus within the StratML CoP (as well as more broadly across industry and government at all levels, to the degree that time and resources allow) on the semantics (names and definitions) of such elements;
- 3) rendition, piloting, and testing of an XML vocabulary and template (schema);

## StratML Project Plan (cont.)

- 4) validation of the template against existing government policy and related standards;
- 5) advancement of the schema not only for government wide usage but also for establishment as an international standard through a recognized voluntary consensus standards organization; and
- 6) Testing and validation of XML CoP’s *Federal XML Naming and Design Rules and Guilelines (NDRG).*

## StratML Phased Approach

**Phase 1:**
- In support of recently issued OMB guidance on IPv6 and implementation of subsection 207(d) of the eGov Act, Phase 1 work will focus on IRM strategic plans, the development of an XML vocabulary of common terms used in such plans, and the creation of an XML schema encompassing those elements.  Vetting and validation of vocabulary and schema will be conducted with AIC followed by a pilot test.
**Phase 2:**
- Work will increase the scope to include the agency-wide strategic plans that agencies are required to compile and maintain under the Government-wide Performance and Results Act (GPRA).

## StratML Timeline

*January 2006:* Planning and recruitment
*Late January 2006:* StratML CoP meetings begin; Phase 1 begins
*March 2006: *IRM Vocabulary complete
*April 2006: *IRM Schema development and testing
*May 2006: *Phase 2 begins
- J*une 2006: *Agency Strategic Plans Vocabulary complete
*July 2006: *Agency Strategic Plans Schema development and testing
*August 2006: *Standard application process

## StratML Other Issues

- Other Touchpoints (GPRA, OMB Guidance (A-11, A-130, FEA, E-Gov Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, others)
- StratML CoP
- Member Recruitment (IAC, AIC, CAF, CFO-C)
- CORE.gov
- Q&A

## Contact Information

- Adam Schwartz
- _[aschwartz@gpo.gov](mailto:aschwartz@gpo.gov)_
- _[https://collab.core.gov/CommunityBrowser.aspx](https://collab.core.gov/CommunityBrowser.aspx)_
# Presentation: 089025

## Shared Electronic Medical Records Between Patients and Providers

- James D Ralston, MD MPH
- Group Health Center for Health Studies
- University of Washington
- Seattle, Washington

- AHIC Chronic Care Working Group
- August 16th, 2006

## Today’s discussion will focus on  

- Adoption
- Patient satisfaction
- Quality of care

## A tale of two web sites

- MyGroupHealth
- Group Health Cooperative of Washington and Idaho
- Integrated part of care with over 100,000 patient users
- MyUW
- University of Washington Medical Center
- Research-only system with about 200 patient users

## With a common goal

- Redesign care to better meet the needs of patients

## Slide 5

## About Group Health

- Member-governed, not-for-profit, integrated financing and care delivery system
- 560,000 patients
- 860 medical staff
- 25 medical offices, 2 hospitals
- Washington and Idaho
- Contracts with 6,130 physicians in Washington

## MyGroupHealth Web Services

- Refill Prescriptions
- Secure electronic mail with providers
- After Visit Summaries
- Record Access
- Appointment Scheduling

## Test Results with Charting

**Test Results with Charting**

**Notes:**
Coming Soon: Members will be able to graph test results over time. Great for monitoring 

## 113,932 enrollees as of May 2006

## Use of MyGroupHealth Services  

## Slide 11

## Typical Online Patient in 2004

- 51-year old woman managing multiple chronic conditions
- Has a PCP with ≥ 20% all patient encounters through electronic messaging

## How Satisfied Are You With the Following Services? 

**36.2%**

**57.3%**

**35.5%**

**21.4%**

## MyUW for Patients with Diabetes

- Based on Chronic Care Model
- Case-management within patient’s care team

*Goldberg, Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2004*

- One randomized trial complete
- Three ongoing randomized trials

## MyUW for Patients with Diabetes

- Complete access to the electronic medical record
- Uploading blood glucose levels
- Integrated disease management tools
- Secure electronic mail
- Web links for diabetes education

*Goldberg, Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2004*

## MyUW: Results of First Trial

- HbA1C dropped by 1.1% in the intervention vs. control group.
- Program stopped because of reduced healthcare utilization without compensation in this fee-for-service environment.

*Goldberg, Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2004*
*Ralston, BMJ 2004*
*Goldberg, ADA Proceedings 2006*

## Take Home Points  

- Use and satisfaction are greatest for web services that support ongoing care and patient-provider communication. (MyGroupHealth, MyUW)
- Same patients use secure electronic patient-provider mail as use other healthcare services (MyGroupHealth)
- Management of diabetes improved among patients with access to a shared and interactive electronic medical record (MyUW)
# Presentation: 676154

## Workgroup # 120Communicating Entry Requirements/In-Home Delivery Dates Solutions/Seasonality Impacts

**INDUSTRY CO-CHAIR**
**DALE MILLER**

**POSTAL CO-CHAIR**
**CHRIS ORONZIO**

**Notes:**
First meeting was held Tuesday, January 29  with 24 people in attendance.

## Communicate to Mailing Industry
Critical Entry Times (CETs)
Explore Solutions for Mailers
In-Home Delivery Days
Affect of Seasonality of Service and Performance Measurement

- Critical Entry Times (CETs)
**Explore Solutions for Mailers**
- In-Home Delivery Days
- Affect of Seasonality of Service and Performance Measurement

**Issue Statement**

**	****MTAC # 120**

**Notes:**
The Target Completion Date for MTAC #120 is August 31, 2008.

## Receive Standardized, Consistent, Timely Communications
Dialogue with Postal Service on Issues Identified in MTAC # 114
Understand Postal Plans so Industry Can Be Prepared for Changes

- Dialogue with Postal Service on Issues Identified in MTAC # 114
- Understand Postal Plans so Industry Can Be Prepared for Changes

**Expectations of Workgroup**

**	****MTAC # 120**

**Notes:**
MTAC #78, “In-Home Delivery Instructions for Standard Mail” , completed its work in August 2003.  Co-chaired by Wanda Senne and Mike Spates, that workgroup developed a better way of providing instructions for mailings requesting specific delivery dates.  The Postal Bulletin dated September 4, 2003 contained the recommendations from MTAC #78.

## Next Steps

- Discuss MTAC #120 Focus with Senior Leadership
- Telecom – February 19, 2008 3:00 EST
- Workgroup Meeting - April 29, 2008

**MTAC # 120**
# Presentation: 516812

## Disk Sectors

- Integrated support and cooling for disk modules.
- Each sector has 6 modules
- Number of sectors is 2x9+4x8=50.
- Fabrication of all sectors in baseline scope.
- Final Design Review - completed
- Production Readiness Review(of barrel staves and disk sectors) Feb. 2000, but could be earlier for sectors.
- Ready now to order production materials.
- Detailed production plan and manpower ready.
- All sectors made at LBL.

- Baseline Sector Concept

- Combined structural support with cooling.
- Carbon-carbon faceplates. Front and back faceplates offset in phi to provide full coverage(minimal gaps).
- Aluminum coolant tube between faceplates.
- Three precision support points to disk ring.
- Modules mounted on both sides.

## Sector Design/Prototype Status

- Twelve prototypes fabricated so far using baseline design concept. A few more will be fabricated before PRR to begin to iron out production details. Materials in hand.
- Additional >2x12 prototypes fabricated using similar but alternative design concepts(supported by DoE SBIR program). These have been used to construct and test(mechanically)two full prototype disks to evaluate disk support ring -> see photo next page and talk by W. Miller.
- Requirements document created for Final Design Review.
- Baseline sector concept meets all requirements(thermal, stability, irradiation to 50 Mrad,....)
- Only principal issue remaining to be addressed is fraction of stability budget(in Z) to apportion to sector, disk support ring, frame.
- Additional tests of sector stability(under temperature change) planned to allow better comparison with FEA to address this issue.

- First Prototype Disk

- 12 Sectors
- and support ring.
- Complete thermal
- and mechanical
- prototype. Stability
- measurements
- made using optical
- CMM while coolant
- flowing through
- sectors and under
- variety of operating
- conditions.

## Thermal Measurements - Example

- Platinum on silicon heaters to simulate
- heat loads. These are attached using the
- current baseline thermal material CGL7018. RTDs are also mounted to measure temperature at points and compare with IR images.

- Infrared thermography has been used to assess thermal performance of sectors. This is a typical example of thermal performance using room temperature liquid cooling. Good correlation observed between T seen in such tests and T measured using baseline evaporative C3F8. IR thermography will be used in production QA.
# Presentation: 814005

## Federal Acquisition Careers

- Pat Brooks, Director of Contract Operations
- Chief Acquisition Office, GSA

## Acquisition Functional Areas

- GS 1102 Career tracks
- Contract specialist  (buyer)
- Contracting Officer (warranted buyer)
- Procurement analyst (policy)
- Related degree fields
- 	-Business
- 	-Accounting
- 	-Marketing
- 	-Finance

## Career Development Strategies

- Maintain expertise
- Diversify experience
- Diversify education/expertise
- Program management
- Information technology
- Law

## Perks/Fringe Benefits

- Never a dull day
- Interesting challenges daily
- Constant feedback
- Interaction across the government and industry
# Presentation: 719956

## New Community Board Training Requirements for Rural Development:A Train the Trainer Session

- June 13, 2002
- Kissimmee, Florida
- Rick Wetherill, Tedd Buelow and Sheldon Keyser

## Session Overview

- Tedd
- EZ/EC Board Related Regulations
- OCD Board Related MCR Recommendations
- Brief List of Readily Available Board Training Tools
- Rick
- “Board Beyond Belief”
- EZ/EC Board Training Topics and Strategies
- Sheldon
- “A Rural Practitioner’s Perspective”
- General Non-Profit Board Training Topics and Strategies

**Ultimate Goal is to provide audience with strategies and tools to train boards in his/her state and region**

## What Do the Regs Say About Boards?

- Before March 25, 2002...
**Nothing!**
- After March 25, 2002...

## EZ/EC Regs & Boards Post March 25th

**7 CFR Part 25 § 25.404 Validation of designation.**
- 	(a) *Maintaining the principles of the program*
*	**	*Ongoing broad-based participation
- 	(1) *Continuous improvement*
*	**	*Learn from the past and continuously enhance 	performance
- 	(2) *Participation*
*	**	*Continuous broad-based community participation in 	the implementation of the strategic plan,..., including 	board membership in the lead entity and other key 	partnership entities.

## EZ/EC Regs and Boards (continued)

**7 CFR Part 25 § 25.404 Validation of designation.**
**	**(b) *Administration of the strategic plan*
*	*(3)  *Board Membership*
- Must be representative of the entire community
- Either broad-based election or appointment
- 55% must be elected locally
- At least 1 locally elected board member from each census tract that is representative of low income residents in that tract
- For Tribal Government Organizations the Deputy Administrator can waive the 55% elected criteria if it’s determined, in writing, that an appointed board will be more representative of the community

## What Does the MCR Report Say?

- FY 2001 MCR Recommendations 2, 5 and 9 for the Empowerment Programs all state:
- “A new round of community board training will be conducted during fiscal year 2002 for all empowerment communities. This training will be coordinated by the national office and delivered in conjunction with each applicable state office. The training will cover the following topics: leadership; teaming; communication and community outreach; strategic planning; management and governance; fundraising and financing; and community involvement.”

## Brief Catalog of Tools

- Two sets of the Board Training Materials will be mailed to the State Offices this month
- Each set includes:
- Community Empowerment Board Training Tapes: Volumes 1-3
- Facilitator’s Guide
- Participant Manual

## Brief Catalog of Tools (continued)

- Bring A Board Expert to Your State
- North Dakota Example: Cy Svoboda
- Carol Weisman, President of Board Builders
- Others?
- Rick’s and Sheldon’s Tools
- Which brings us to Rick Wetherill...
# Presentation: 124161

## Distribution of the swimbladder parasite Anguillicola crassus in American eels in the Northeastern Atlantic 

- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Department of Biology
- Amy Aieta
- &Kenneth Oliveira

## Life History of Anguilla rostrata

**Life History of *****Anguilla rostrata***

**Silver phase**

**Egg**

**Leptocephalus**
**       ****larvae**

**Glass eel/Elver**

**Yellow phase**

## The life cycle of Anguillicola crassus

**L2 Released**

**Intermediate Host**

**L2 molts to L3**

**Intermediate/**
**Paratenic Host**

**Ingested by Eel**

**L3-L4 swimbladder wall **
**L4-L5 swimbladder lumen**

**The life cycle of *****Anguillicola crassus***

## Biogeography of Anguillicola crassus

**Identified in Southeast Asia 1974**
- (*Anguilla japonica*)
**Early 1980s introduced to Europe**
- (*Anguilla anguilla*)
**1995 found in North America**
-  (*Anguilla rostrata*)

** ****South Carolina** (Fries et al. 1996)

**Chesapeake Bay **(Barse and Secor 1999;
- 		       Barse et al. 2001)

**Hudson River**** **(Barse and Secor 1999)

** ****2003**** N. Dartmouth**, MA

## Objectives

**Determine northern extent of parasite range in USA**
**2) Examine prevalence & intensity within NE**
**3) Examine effects of parasite/eel interactions**

## Methods

**Northeastern Distribution Yellow eels ***
- Summer 2005
**Southern Sampling Survey**
**CT**, RI, _**S.-MA**_
**Northern Sampling**
_**N.-Ma**_**,** **NH**, ME

**n=13**

**n=10**

**n=3**

## Collection of Yellow Eels in Freshwater 

## Collection of Silver Eels 

- Collection of Silver Eels** **

## Preliminary Analysis

**Eels euthanized w/Clove oil**
**Weighed/length measured **
**Parasites counted**
**Parasite length measured**

## Analysis

- _Prevalence _
*Example *30%
- infected

- _Mean Intensity_
- 1.67 parasites

## Results

## Prevalence of Infection: 

**69%**

**35%**

**28%**

- Prevalence of Infection:
- Rhode Island

**N. KINGSTON**

## Prevalence of Infection: 

**7%**

**33%**

**62%**

**76%**

**16%**

**52%**

**21%**

**58%**

**64%**

**33%**

- Prevalence of Infection:
- Massachusetts

**NEW BEDFORD**

**PLYMOUTH**

**BOSTON**

## Prevalence of Infection: 

**0%**

**31%**

**0%**

**0%**

**0%**

**0%**

- Prevalence of Infection:
- Maine

**BANGOR**

**PORTLAND**

**0%**

**26%**

**35%**

**60%**

**58%**

**65%**

**53%**

**Kennebec River**
**Estuarine eels**

## n = 315

## Slide 17

## Silver Eel Data: Paskamansett River

| Year |  Prevalence | Mean Intensity |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2003 | 28% | 2.9 |  |
| 2004* | 52% | 5.8 |  |
| 2005 | ?    | ? |  |
| 
Significance |  |  |  |
| Prevalence: Fischer's Exact Test p = .008 |  |  |  |
| Intensity: T-test p = .007 |  |  |  |

## Conclusions

_**Current Northern Limit**_
- Sedgeunkedunk Stream, ME
- 44°45.306N, tributary of the Penobscot River
- No latitudinal trend
- Possible ballast water introduction
- Temperature: not an apparent limiting factor
_**Influences of Parasite**_
- All size classes infected
- No apparent detrimental effects on eel weight/length
- Suspected negative impact on migrating silver eels

## Questions/Discussion

*Questions/Discussion*
# Presentation: 730071

## Emissions Reductions and 
Energy Savings Calculator
- Web Accessible

**Energy Savings Calculator**
**- Web Accessible**

##        CAPABILITIES

- Determine Emissions Reductions and Energy Savings
- Residential
- Multifamily
- Commercial
- Municipal Facilities
- Renewables
- Solar Heating
- Solar Photovoltaic
- Wind
- Municipal Water and Wastewater
- Traffic and Street Lights

##       SELECTIONS

##        USER ENTRY

-        **U****SER**** E****NTRY**

- John@TAMU.edu

- New Construction

- John Doe

- BASTROP

- PUC Assignment

##          EXPRESS - SINGLE FAMILY

-          **E****XPRESS**** - S****INGLE**** ****F****AMILY**

##              SOFTWARE ACHITECTURE

-              **S****OFTWARE** **A****CHITECTURE**

**C# - C Sharp**
**ASP - Active Server Pages**
**ADO - Active Data Objects**
**XML – Extended Markup Lang.**
**.NET 2003 Used to Develop**

**DOE-2 – Hourly Simulation**
**Fchart – Solar Simulation**
**PVFChart – Photovoltaic Simulation**
**IMT – Inverse Model Toolkit**
**eGRID – EPA’s Emission Model**

## Demonstration Available
Prototype at Booth Table
Tracks Emissions Reductions for the SIP
473 Tons of NOx Reductions as a result of the 2003 Energy Code for single family residential only
First Release 8/30/04
Enhancements Planned

- Demonstration Available
- Prototype at Booth Table
- Tracks Emissions Reductions for the SIP
- 473 Tons of NOx Reductions as a result of the 2003 Energy Code for single family residential only
- First Release 8/30/04
- Enhancements Planned
# Presentation: 687531

## National Health Measurement StudyDennis Fryback PIP01AG020679Jeffrey W. Elias Ph.D    -   NIA

- DHHS/NIH/NIA/BSR

## Project 1: Complete national survey benchmarking cross-sectional norms simultaneously on 5 Health Related QOL measures: 
        SF36.v2      QWB-SA      HUI2/3. 
                EQ-5D     &      HALex

-         SF36.v2      QWB-SA      HUI2/3.
-                 EQ-5D     &      HALex

## National Health Measurement Study

***Project 1*** (Leader Dennis Fryback _University of Wisconsin)
-      a) requires a computer assisted telephone interview (random digit dialed) of 2,800 non-institutionalized persons , age 35-89 to establish age-specific and gender norms (large subset of African Americans) simultaneously on the 5 HRQOL measures.
-     b) allows discrimination among common self-reported conditions and means and SD’s for persons reporting and not reporting each condition

## National Health Measurement Study

- c) *Project 1*
-      will develop cross-walk regression equations between pairs of measures to eventually allow predictions of summary scores on each measure from the other measures.
- d)  will develop a public use data set.

## National Health Measurement Study

***Project 2  ***(Leader Robert Kaplan UCLA)
***     ******a) ***will compare measures of HRQOL in cohorts of patients with heart failure (N = 450) or cataracts N= 450).
***     ******b) ***evaluates the responsiveness of measures to change in status and treatment over time (1-6 months post intervention).

## National Health Measurement Study

***Project  3 ***(Leader Theodore Ganiats UCSD)
***     ******a) ***develop measures of symptom duration that patients think that are important for 5 disease states
-      b) quantitatively evaluate how symptom duration affects valuation of HRQOL via vignettes and HRQOL scales

## National Health Measurement Study

***Project 4 ***(Leader Ronald Hays UCLA)
- 	a) assess impact of psychometric equivalence of mode of administration: self, mailed, telephone    interview administered
-     b)  examine central tendency, missing data, variance, reliability, item difficulty, item discrimination

## National Health Measurement Study