BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## northern sweetgrassHierochloe hirta (Schrank) Borbas ssp. Arctica (J. Presl) G. Weim.                               Synonyms: Hierochloe odorata,  Anthoxanthum hirtum Other common names:  sweetgrass, vanilla grass, holy grass, alpine grass,  Seneca grass 

**Culturally:**
- Sweetgrass is used ceremonially by Tribes throughout North America by burning the dried and braided grass stems for an incense or smudge.
- The fragrant smoke is used for purification and to carry prayers.
- It was used as a perfumery by the Blackfeet who braided it and kept it with their clothes.
- The Cheyenne mixed sweetgrass with pineapple weed to use as a perfume.
- The Gros Ventre used it as a hair rinse to achieve a lustrous shine.
- Tribes near the Great Lakes use it to weave baskets with.
- Some mixed sweetgrass with other grasses in making bedding.

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

- Photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.

## northern sweetgrass

**Medicinally:**
- Sweetgrass tea was used to treat coughs and sour throats.
- Sweetgrass was mixed with seeds of meadow rue to make a tea to clear congested nasal passages.
- Sweetgrass water was used as an eyewash.
- Windburn and chapping were treated by an infusion of sweetgrass stems soaked in water or a salve of sweetgrass water and grease.
- Women burned sweetgrass braids after their moon time to finish the cleansing.
- The Karok tribe used an infusion of sweetgrass to treat women who had a miscarriage.
- Pregnant women drank this infusion to stop fetus growth.
- The scent of sweetgrass is due to a chemical called Coumarin.  Coumarin is an anti-coagulant.  It works by latching onto the same molecules as the coagulant Vitamin K. Unfortunately, it also damages the liver. When this effect was found, its use as a vanilla substitute was banned.   However, coumarin tablets are still prescribed to patients for a time after heart surgery.

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

- Photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.
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## The North American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status

**Update prepared by**
**Climate Prediction Center / NCEP**
**   ****04 August 2008**

## Outline

** ****Recent Evolution and Current Conditions**
** ****Summary**
** ****Climatology**

## Rainfall Patterns: Last 7 Days

**Rainfall Patterns: Last 7 Days**

**Below or near-normal rainfall was observed over most of the NAM domain during the past week. **

## Rainfall Patterns: Last 30 Days

**Rainfall Patterns: Last 30 Days**

**Above –normal precipitation has been observed over most of the NAM domain during the past 30 days.**

## Recent Evolution: Rainfall

**Recent Evolution: Rainfall**

- Inactive monsoon during the past week

## Atmospheric Circulation & OLR Last 7 days

**Atmospheric Circulation & OLR Last 7 days**

**During the past week, low-level winds were mostly northwesterlies over the NAM domain  and strong moisture divergence was also observed in this region**

## Summary

**During the past week, below or near-normal precipitations were observed over most of the NAM domain.**

## ClimatologyMONSOON ONSET

-  **June 5**

**June 6**

**June 6**

**June 8**

**June 7**

**June 14**

**June 14**

**June 17**

**June 16**

**June 23**

**June 27**

**June 25**

**June 29**

**July 3**

**July 6**

**July 11**

**July 7**

**July 8**

**July 13**

**July 9**

**July 13**

**July 14**

**June 10**

**June 11**

**June 22**

**June 21**

**Higgins, R. W., Y. Chen and A. V. Douglas, 1999:  Interannual Variability of the North American Warm Season Precipitation Regime.  J. Clim, 17, 653-680**

## Precipitation Climatology
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## The Pharmacy Week Poster

## Food is a good draw

## Pharmacists Can Make the Difference 

- As Knowledgeable Professionals, Pharmacists are key to successful patient counseling
- LCDR Kassandra Sherrod a Public Health Pharmacist, cheerful and approachable

## Educators: Pharmacists Present Public Health Information

- Pharmacy Week is a great opportunity for the dissemination of public health information and the exchange of ideas
- LCDR Angela Payne Organizes Public Health Information

## Pharmacy Week Give Aways

## Medication Consultation

- A private area is important
- LT Marci Lee reviews a list of medications taken by this person’s mother

## Blood Pressure Screening

## Your Blood Pressure Is...

- Screened participants come away with a record explaining their blood pressure

## Public Health Pharmacy Lecture Series

## Pharmacy Week Lectures

- Monday: *Innovative Pharmacy Services * Jann Skelton, Vice President Operations, Medica, LLC
- _[Go to Slide Show](file:///skelton.ppt)_
- Tuesday: *New Developments in the Management of Kidney Transplants*   Christine Chamberlain, PharmD, BCPS, National Institute of Health
- _[Go to Slide Show](file:///kidney.ppt)_

## Pharmacist Diabetes Patient Care

- Dr. Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner’s offering: *Role of the Pharmacist in Diabetes Care - Focus on Community Pharmacy*
- Information about the Diabetes Patient Care Outreach
- _[Go to slide Show](file:///diabetes.ppt)_

## Event Organizer and Moderator, CDR Holquist Introduces Dr. Dang

## Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis

- NIH Pharmacist Dr. Dang speaks as mentor Dr. Frank Pucino looks on:                  *New Pharmacologic Treatment Options for Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis*
- _[Go to slide show](file:///ra.ppt)_

## Camaraderie at Pharmacy Week
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## Advanced CFD Methodology for

- 1989 Phase 2; SS-66; 2/3/98
- NAS8-38489; Mary Cummings

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

- Marshall Space Flight Center

**Advanced CFD Methodology for**
**Fast Flow-Transients**

***CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION***
***HUNTSVILLE, AL***

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Aircraft, missile, and car aerodynamics.
- Multiple moving body dynamic analysis including store separation, ejecting pilot/seat and aircraft canopy dynamics, train moving through tunnel and others.
- Design and analysis of aircraft components such as wings, ducts, etc.

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- The basic methodology was developed in SBIR Phase II.  CFD Research Corporation invested several person-years to add capabilities for unstructured grids, automated chimera overset grids, six-degree-of-freedom model for moving body analysis, Graphic User Interface (GUI), and commercial quality documentation.
**   **
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- FASTRAN is being commercialized as CFD-FASTRAN.  Several ads have appeared in Aerospace America and software has been exhibited at AIAA Reno Conferences.
- Typical license fee for CFD-FASTRAN is $50,000.  Over a dozen licenses have been obtained from Raytheon, MICOM, Lockheed-Martin, Samsung Aerospace, STAE, and Embry-Riddle and Cranfield Universities.
- Several contracts from Lockheed Skunk Works, Martin Baker, MICOM, and U.S. Navy.

*External Aerodynamics of an F-16 with Attached Stores*
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## Lab #3a State Notation Language

## Lab #3State Notation Language

- Real Life Example #3 : It is apparent from previous studies that the cathode temperature requires stabilization. Although this has been accomplished via closed-loop control from the workstation, a better permanent solution is to implement the closed loop control on the ioc using the sequencer.
- Create a sequence program that :
- Monitors the state *studnt_:OP:stabilizerC*
- When* studnt_:OP:stabilizerC *changes from 0 to 1, use the current reading of *studnt_:cathodeTempM *as the setpoint and maintain that setpoint by varying *studnt_:cathodeCurrentC. *
*Proportional Control Algorithm :*
- CTL[T+1] = CTL[T] + (GAIN * (SETPOINT - MEASURED))
- Stop the algorithm when *studnt_:OP:stabilizerC *goes to 0.
- Print messages to *studnt_:OP:stabilizerMsg *to inform the operator of sequence status.
- Test your results using the StripTool.* *

## SNL Development and Test

- A skeleton program has been provided for you in ~/ioc/linac/linacApp/src/stabilizer.st . After editing this file, type gnumake to compile it.
- Edit the startup file to remove the # in front of the following lines :
- #ld < stabilizer.o
- #seq &stabilizer, "user=studnt_"
- The first time the sequence program runs, you will get the following error :
- 0xnnnnn (stabilizer): 3 of 4 assigned channels have connected
- Use seqShow, seqShow <taskId>, and seqChanShow <taskId>  to debug this problem

## SNL Development and Test

- To load a new version of the state program, use the following commands from the ioc console (instead of rebooting) :
- seqShow
- td <stabilizer_task_id>
- ld < stabilizer.o
- seq &stabilizer, "user=studnt_"
- Additional helps for the vxWorks shell
- Esc k/Esc j - cycles through previous commands
- vi  commands can be used to edit command line
- i - insert; x - delete char
- l - move cursor right; h - move cursor left
- r - replace single character; R - replace characters

## Lab #3bDevelopment Environment

## Development Environment

- Create a new development area as follows :
- Execute the commands
- cd ~/ioc
- mkdir example
- cd example
- <path>/makeBaseApp.pl -t example example
- <path>/makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example example
**where**
- <path> = /usr/local/epics/baseR3.13.1.1/bin/solaris

## Development Environment

- The first command creates:
- <top>/
- 	Makefile
- 	config/
- 			...
- 	exampleApp	src/
- 			...
- 		Db/
- 			...
- The second command creates:
- <top>/iocBoot
- 	Makefile
- 	iocexample/
- 		...

## Development Environment

- Each command can be issued multiple times to create additional iocxxx or xxxApp directories
- Examine the following ...
- example/config/RELEASE
- exampleApp/src/baseLIBOBJS
- exampleApp/src/base.dbd
- exampleApp/src/exampleInclude.dbd
- exampleApp/src/Makefile.Host
- exampleApp/src/Makefile.Vx
- exampleApp/Db/dbExample*
- exampleApp/Db/ Makefile.Host

## Development Environment

- Boot your ioc from this area and familiarize yourself with the example databases and sequence program .
- example/iocBoot/iocexample/st.cmd
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## 

Day 3 – The home stretch

- Day 3 – The home stretch

**2****nd**** Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) **
**Regional Coordination Workshop**
***October 23-25, 2007***
***St. Petersburg, Florida***

## Summary of workshop major themes & issues
Linking regional design efforts w/interagency programs: Mary Altalo
Break
Thoughts and questions: Zdenka Willis
Next steps & action plan: Molly McCammon and Geno Olmi

- Linking regional design efforts w/interagency programs: Mary Altalo
- Break
- Thoughts and questions: Zdenka Willis
- Next steps & action plan: Molly McCammon and Geno Olmi

***Thursday Agenda***

## Breakout Session 1 Summary

- Conceptual Design White Paper covered basics
- Few missing elements --  add statement of problem, gap analysis, interface between regions, don’t start with models
- For further discussion –
- Regional operating center needs further definition
- Performance metric
- Model skill assessment
- Education and outreach – important but where
- Time horizon:  5-10 years
- MUST HAVE TEMPLATE –

## RCOOS Conceptual Design TemplateAn Application Driven Design ProcessA map of the where, what and why for an ideal system

- Start with statement of problem(s) (organize around themes, not system elements)
- Link problem(s) to users
- Determine products to fulfill need
- Determine if models are needed
- Assess existing assets, determine missing elements (gap analysis)
- Outline data management needs
- Evaluate R&D needs to address problem(s)
- Develop performance metrics (model skill development)
- Implement an education and outreach plan for users and the general public
- Evaluation and refinement
*(need common definition of terms so regional designs can be compared)*
*NEXT STEPS:*
*Working Group:  Ru Morrison, Jan Newton, Harvey Seim, Bill Boicourt*
*Revised Template to RAs:  by Nov 2nd*

## User Needs and Priorities(sessions 2&3)

- Regions are doing well in doing needs assessments
- Avoid need assessment overload
- Coordination with federal activities --  federal agencies should work with RAs on user outreach
- Collaborate with federal, regional, state efforts --  i.e.,regional ocean governance
- How do RAs engage with other federal agencies
- Ask IWGO for POC in regions

## Modeling Summary

- All RAs have modeling --  NFRA compiling inventory
- National plan for models
- Communications between federal and regional -  RA needs on modeling output, Federal plans for upgrade...
- Data assimilation is critical, need to share capabilities
- NFRA modeling subcommittee

## Optimizing Design Summary

- Current status --scientific intuition
- OSSEs -  not widespread, too expensive, potential in future
- Federal agency
- Federal asset build out plans
- Connection with other agency initiatives --  NWQM, national wave plan, etc.

## Other issues

- Common messages, branding IOOS, common terms
- The “Plan” --  reach agreement on what plan(s) need to be done
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## E-2-3

- NPOESS Spacecraft Interfaces

## Spacecraft Interfaces 

- Announcement made at 2006 OPSCOM that spare existing POES-designed A-DCS will no longer be available for NPOESS
- Fall of 2006, NGST/IPO and CNES explored potential interface differences for A-DCS-4 for NPOESS
- March 2007, Technical Interface Meeting held at IPO among CNES, NGST and IPO to discuss A-DCS-4 details

## Spacecraft Interfaces (cont.)

- Initial draft of A-DCS-4 ICD created by CNES and discussed at TIM
- NGST made modifications based on the TIM and is prepared to go to their configuration management board for internal release
- NGST also soliciting ruling as to whether ITAR marking can be removed (would simplify things for CNES)

## Spacecraft Interfaces (cont.)

- Examples of differences between A-DCS-3 and -4 (all covered in new ICD)
- 	- uses 1553 data bus for commands, telemetry and “data”
- 	- higher power downlink transmitter
- 	- higher data rate to spacecraft
- 	- qual and acceptance temperatures redefined
- 	- based on new temperatures, new allowable (higher) power limit
- 	- in general, compatible with NGIID requirements (NPOESS General Instrument Interface Document)
- 	- possible dual-frequency uplink is not presently part of the A-DCS-4 design documented in the ICD, but is still under consideration
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## Backup Slides

## Rate of Exacerbations Requiring Antibiotics

**	****Placebo****	****SAL****	****FP****	****Advair 500/50**
**N=****	****1524****	****1521****	****1534****	****1533**
**All Exacerbations requiring**
**Antibiotics**
**Mean number per year****	****0.83****	****0.69****	****0.77****	****0.72**
**Treatment vs placebo**
**   ****Ratio****	****	****0.832****	****0.925****	****0.863**
**   *****p*****-value****	****	****<0.001****	****0.076****	****<0.001**
**Exacerbations requiring**
**Antibiotics alone**
**Mean****	****0.32****	****0.31****	****0.39****	****0.37**
**Treatment vs placebo**
**   ****Ratio****	****	****0.946****	****1.203****	****1.152**
**   *****p*****-value****	****	****0.354****	****0.002****	****0.015**

- Data on file, GlaxoSmithKline (SCO30003)

- Table X7.2.014

- NOTE: Negative Binomial Analysis

## Comparison of Moderate/Severe Exacerbations and Pneumonia

**	****Placebo****	****SAL****	****FP****	****Advair 500/50**
**N (ITT) = ****	****1524****	****1521****	****1534****	****1533**
**Moderate/Severe Exacerbations**
**Patients with events (%)****	****1057 (69)****	****1065 (70)****	****1055 (69)****	****1039 (68)**
**Events / 1000 treatment years****	****1072 ****	****931 ****	****973****	****877 **
**	****Placebo****	****SAL****	****FP****	****Advair 500/50**
**N (Safety) =****	****1544****	****1542****	****1552****	****1546**
**Pneumonia terms**
**Patients with AEs (%)****	****139 (9)****	****162 (11)****	****224 (14)****	****248 (16)**
**Events / 1000 treatment years****	****52 ****	****52 ****	****84****	****88 **

- Note: Adverse events occurring on treatment

- Data on file. GlaxoSmithKline (SCO30003).

## Time to First ICS + LABA, LABA or ICS

- Data on file, GlaxoSmithKline (SCO30003)

- Note: analysis includes medications of interest of at least 28 days duration
- Note: Vertical bars represent standard errors
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## York College Radio Telescope

- NASA Sharp
- Ian O’Leary
- Tim Paglione

## Construction

**Every item shown came separate. **
**We built this from the ground up on top of the York College rooftop**
**Connections were made from a TV studio to the telescope.**

## Commissioning

**We installed the SRT software on a designated laptop**
**We aligned the telescope by tracking the Sun.**
**We rotated the electronic noise calibrator to maximize its power coupling to the receiver.**
**We observed the HI spectrum from the well-known source S8 .**
**We installed VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software onto the main laptop to control it from anywhere in the York College network.**
**We measured beam dimensions observing the Sun**

##  Data Analysis

- Beam width measurement of azimuth and elevation scans.

- This chart shows the hydrogen spectrum from the source S8.
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## The RHIC Spin Program

***The RHIC Spin Program***
***W. Bradford Tippens***
***Program Manager for Medium Energy Physics***

*The Medium Energy Program*

## The Medium Energy Subprogram 

-  Facilities:
- TJNAF – received CD-1 for 12 GeV Upgrade
- Support Seven Laboratory Research Groups:
- TJNAF
- ANL:  Medium Energy(TJNAF, Hermes, ATTA), HE (RHIC-spin)
- BNL:  RHIC-spin, LEGS
- LANL:  MiniBooNe, RHIC-spin
- Manage ~42 University grants
- ~ 75 Faculty / Staff
- ~ 50 Post Docs
- ~ 100 Graduate Students
- ~ 60 Undergraduate Students

## Medium Energy Science Program

- QCD with Electron Beams:
- TJNAF
- LEGS *expecting to complete pion production data in 2006*
- MAMI
- HIGS
- QCD with Proton Beams:
- RHIC-spin program congratulations to everyone on such a successful spin run so far!
- Precision Measurements:
-  ATTA (charge radius of **6,8**He) *0.7% determination of **6**He radius*
- MiniBooNe (sterile neutrino) *results expected this summer*
- PSI (muon capture) *hope to* *collect 10**10** events by end of 2006 (1%)*
- TWIST (Michel parameters) *first results yield 2X improvement of P***

## Medium Energy Budget Breakout

## FY06 Research Funding by Program

***FY06 Research Funding by Program***

## Summary

-  FY2006 was a difficult year, but we survived thanks to the cooperation of everyone in the community.
-  Conducted a review of all of the ME Lab research groups in May.  This will help determine future funding decisions for these laboratory groups.
-  The LEGS experimental program will be ending in FY2007.
-  The FY2007 PB will allow the ME program to restore the RHIC-spin and JLAB effort to FY2005 levels.
-  The PB provides a substantial increase for the RHIC-spin BNL research group.
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## Qase Rt: Engineering Software Tool

**Qase Rt: Engineering Software Tool**

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

**AST Engineering Services, Inc.**

- Englewood, CO

**INNOVATION**
- System engineering computer software tool to model how
-     certain applications will affect a proposed system’s performance
**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Models can be assembled, tested and modified to meet project requirements, long before funds are invested in the computer
- Does real-time analysis of a proposed system after it has been configured
- Consists of both analytics  (less time consuming and fast mathematical model) and discrete event simulation  (more time consuming and more precise)
- Addresses all components of system, including hardware, software, network, and data placement
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Commercial product introduced, initial sales of $150K
- Worldwide Sales Channel, one of 10 largest software distributors, projects commercial sales of $25M
- Strategic partnership based upon technology  established with large hardware company
- Contract with Computer Associates supported porting to PC and UNIX environment, CA now markets and sells software as “Application Modeler”

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Used to predict  performance of proposed real-time, aerospace systems, embedded systems, and/or scientific systems
- Resource planning  exercises for enterprise-wide computer based systems after deployment
- Currently used in support of NASA’s Earth Observing System Data & Operational System (EDOS) initiative

***Modeling Hardware Architectures***

- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Success Story #014

- 1985 & 1990 Phase II; NAS7-995 & NAS
- NASA/JPL Contact - Blair Lewis
- Company Contact - Gary Wright
# Presentation: 781041

## ENTERING INDIVIDUAL SPOT AWARDS

For County Employees (CE):  use  NOAC 849, reason code 024, authority code 999 

For Federal Employees (FA):  use NOAC 849,  reason code 024, authority code V3F.  

August 14, 2008
Connie Washburn-Marsh /Rande Young

- For ***County Employees*** (CE):  use  NOAC 849, reason code 024, authority code 999
- For ***Federal Employees*** (FA):  use NOAC 849,  reason code 024, authority code V3F.
- August 14, 2008
- Connie Washburn-Marsh /Rande Young

## Enter Reason 024, individual Cash Award – spot;

**Enter Reason 024, individual Cash Award – spot;**
** ****NOA 849, authority code 999 for CE employee in EmpowHR Copy**

## enter reason code 124, individual spot cash award, NOA 849,

**enter reason code 124, individual spot cash award, NOA 849,**
**authority v3F For FA in EmpowHR Copy.**

- This example is for FA
# Presentation: 188828

## Dayton Laboratory - update

- C

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- E

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**Dayton Laboratory - update**

- 

**The Molecular Biology of HIV **

**Infection of Primary Human **

**Macrophages**

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**Identification and characterization of **

**macrophage genetic pathways regulated by **

**HIV infection and/or individual HIV genes.**

- –

**Regulation of apoptosis in/by macrophages.**

- –

**Gender bias in HIV infection of common **

**blood cell populations.**

- –

**Effects of antiretroviral agents in HIV **

**infection of macrophages.**

- –

**Basic molecular biology of HIV **

**autoregulation**

**.**

**Flavivirus replication in MDM**

- –

## Regulation of Apoptosis

- Tat protein upregulates TRAIL.
- TRAIL produced by MDM could contribute to bystander mediated apoptosis (theoretically).
- HIV infection & Tat upregulate MDM Bcl-2. This may protect MDM from apoptosis.

## HIV upregulates MDM IL-7R-alpha chain at the levels of RNA and protein.

- Upregulated IL-7R is exposed on the exterior of the plasma membrane.
- This upregulation appears to be in a predominant population of MDM.

## Slide 4

## HIV or Tat upregulation of the IL-7R correlates with increased intracellular signalling through STAT-3 in response to stimulation with exogenous IL-7 cytokine. 

- HIV or Tat upregulation of the IL-7R correlates with increased intracellular signalling through STAT-3 in response to stimulation with exogenous IL-7 cytokine.

- Therefore, the upregulated IL-7R is displayed on the cell surface and is functional.

## Slide 6

## ?

- HIV transcription

**IL-7**

**IL-7 receptors**

- POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP

**STAT-3**

**?**

- IL-7R transcription

## Future :

- Mechanism of HIV upregulation by IL-7 in MDM.
- Recently (since the site visit) we were awarded an NIH  IATAP award to study the mechanism of the effects of IL-7R upregulation on HIV replication and the effects of Nef on primary human monocytes and macrophages.

## We have recently developed the technology for expressing transfected genes in MDM.

- Transfection into MDM should permit us to do extensive mechanistic studies.

## Transfection of YFP (appears green) into MDM

## Flavivirus Biology

- Development of dengue virus replicons expressing exogenous genetic material, including HIV proteins. (vaccine vectors)
- Replication of West Nile Virus (WNV) in MDM in collaboration with Drs. Hewlett & Rios.

## Gender bias in HIV replication in blood cells (Office of Women’s Health)

- (Collaboration with Indira Hewlett & Kathleen Clouse)
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## CISE / IIS Programs inHuman-Computer InteractionEphraim P. GlinertCISE/IIS

## HCI Program Vision

**The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) program supports research fundamental to the design and evaluation of systems that mediate between computers and humans, and which will lead to the creation of tomorrow's exciting new user interface software and technology. **
**The program's ultimate objective is to transform the human-computer interaction experience, so that the computer is no longer a distracting focus of attention but rather an invisible tool that empowers the individual user and facilitates natural and productive human-human collaboration.**

## HCI Program Scope

**HCI research focus areas currently include, but are not limited to:**
**Graphical and multimedia interfaces.**
**Use of gesture, movement, touch, and sound in the interface.**
**Multi-modal and intelligent interfaces.**
**Virtual and augmented reality, and immersive environments.**
**Wearable, mobile, and ubiquitous computing.**
**New input and output devices.**

## Examples of HCI Projects Funded During FY’03

**James Davis, Ohio State University**
**CAREER: Computer Recognition of Human Activity**
**Christoph Bregler, New York University**
**Laban Capture**
** **
**Hong Hua, University of Hawaii**
**Jannick Rolland, University of Central Florida**
**Collaborative Research: Development and Assessment of Head-Mounted Fovea-Contingent Display Technology**
**Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell**
**Human-Robot Interaction in Safety-Critical Applications **

## Examples of HCI Projects Funded During FY’03

**Daniel Ellis, Columbia University**
**CAREER: The Listening Machine - Sound Source Organization for Multimedia Understanding**
**Doug Bowman, Virginia Tech**
**CAREER: Domain-Specific 3D Interaction Techniques for Design and Construction Tasks in Immersive Virtual Environments**
** **
**Prasun Dewan, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill**
**User-Interface Generation for Mobile and Desktop Computing**
**Christopher Quintana, University of Michigan Ann Arbor**
**Design Guidelines for Learner-Centered Scaffolding on Handheld Computers**

## To Contact Me...

**Ephraim P. Glinert**
- _[eglinert@nsf.gov](mailto:eglinert@nsf.gov)_
**Tel. (703) 292 8930**
**CISE / IIS Division, Room 1115**
**National Science Foundation**
**4201 Wilson Boulevard**
**Arlington, VA 22230**
# Presentation: 872822

## Modulated BBA

- Jen Niedziela and Todd Satogata
- APEX Report
- May 18, 2007

## May 16, 2007

- Set up to modulate IR Q1’s, Q2’s, Q3’s, and Q5’s
- 1/20 Hz modulation on quad
- 1/5 Hz modulation on bump across quad
- Started out with 1mm
- Went to 5mm later in study
- Down sampled BPMs
- 20 seconds of TBT data
- Data every 1562 turns (1 sample/19.5ms)
- Made data taking faster with enhanced script
- Took one dataset for IR6, 8, 10, and 12 in BLUE
- Analysis in progress
- Request time to get data in yellow if available

## TBT orbit plot

- bi9-bv1

## Sample Data – bi9-bvs

## Sample data – bi9-bhs

## Beta Functions

- From AT Model:
- BetaX = 71.052
- BetaY = 94.378
# Presentation: 927064

## SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF SELF-ASSEMBLED MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTING NANO ARRAYSD. Kumar, North Carolina A & T State University, DMR-0403480

- (a) Cross-section high-resolution STEM-image of YBCO film embedded with Y2O3 nanoparticles (indicated by arrows) are clearly discernible, with average size and separation of ~5 nm and ~10 nm, respectively (b) High resolution STEM image of one Y2O3 nanoparticle showing its coherent growth in the YBCO matrix.

- (a) 3-D self-assembled Ni-nanoparticles in Al2O3 thin film matrix. (b) STEM-image of a single Ni-nanoparticle obtained using the STEM at ORNL with highest resolution in the world.

**By maneuvering  the misfit strain between nanoparticles and the surrounding thin film matrix****, ****self-assembled ordered structures of  nanomagnetic particles in nonmagnetic thin film matrices and nanodimensional impurity defects -acting as pinning centers- in a high temperature superconducting YBa****2****Cu****3****O****7-x**** thin film matrix have been achieved using ****a ****pulsed laser deposition  technique, shown schematically in adjacent figure. The abilities to create an ordered array of magnetic nanoparticles in thin film matrix and to embed coherent array of non-reactive nanoparticles in superconducting thin film matrix are expected to result in the fabrication of  new devices in the area of magnetic recording, biomedicine, and  the development of second-generation “coated conductor” films for power applications.**

## SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF SELF-ASSEMBLED MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTING NANO ARRAYSD. Kumar, North Carolina A & T State University, DMR-0403480

**Broader Impact**:
- _New Course Development:_ The course (MEEN 660: New Methods in Thin Film Synthesis) was taken by eight MS and four senior undergraduate students. The course is planned to be inducted in permanent –course-curricula of Mech. Eng. Dept. at NCAT.
- _Infrastructure development_: A physical property measurement system has been purchased which is used by several faculty and students members at NCAT enhancing their research and educational standard significantly.
- _Salient Publications (total exceeds 15)_
- J. Mater. Res. (Invited, 2005), Meta. Mate.Trans.** 36A, **277-294 (2005), J. Appl. Phys. **97** (2005), J. Nanosci. Nanotechno. **4**, 726 (2004),  Supercond. Sci. Tech. (submitted)
- _Invited presentation (more than 10)_
- Kumar (2: MRS & TMS), Hebard (2: APS & MRS)), Pennycook (1: MRS), Narayan (4: MRS, TMS Campbell Lecture), Gapud (1:MRS)
- _International dissemination of results_
- NIRT-PI was the lead organizer of a symposium on “Magnetic nanoparticles and nanowires” during MRS 2005 Spring Meeting  in San Francisco that had ~ 15 invited oral presentations, 50 contributed oral presentations, and 30 poster presentations from within and outside USA.
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## DARHT VLT Meeting 
Joe Kwan
Mar 13, 2007

- Joe Kwan
- Mar 13, 2007

## No more drooping beam pulsesafter we fixed a poor connection

##   < 1.9 eV means cathode reaching 10 A/cm2 with < 1050oC

## Cathode loading curves

## Miram Curves

## So far the highest current density was space charge limited 

- So far the highest current density was space charge limited

- We are in the process of adding a negative gate voltage, to allow a dc bias on the Faraday cup housing, in order to increase the gun perveance.

## We will need more optics to make the  FAR pyrometer work properly 

## Performance of 311X with poor vacuum

- Presented by Glen Westenskow
- March 13, 2007

## Space Charge limited

- Hot case at 1x10-7 Torr

- For operation with J > 2 A/cm2 at 1x10-7 Torr need T >1043 Cb

## 4 A/cm2

- 4 A/cm2

- For operation with J ~ 3 A/cm2 at 5x10-8 Torr need T  ~ 1005 Cb

- 5x10-8 Torr case

## Cathode surface degrades overnight at 10-8 Torr

- After “activation”  previous day

- Cathode surface degrades overnight at 10-8 Torr

## After a modification to our pulser we hope to determine the vacuum level needed for operation at the 10 A/cm2 level.
# Presentation: 730223

## Spacecraft Supercomputer PrototypeOmitron, Inc.Greenbelt, MD

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Developed an architecture which exceeds the computational speeds of commercial units using similar topologies.
- Developed the system to be spacecraft migrateable.
- Delivered a prototype to the Goddard Space Flight Center.
** ****	****	****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Received contract from NASA Langley Research Center to develop a similar parallel processing board for use in modeling fault tolerant computing systems for spacecraft.
** **
- 	                **PRODUCT(S) DEVELOPED**
- Multi-mode Transputer based parallel processing system with 8 megs of RAM per node.
- board has an open link architecture which enables it to be linked with an infinite number of additional boards for increased computing power
- board is fully software configurable

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

- 1990 Phase II, SS5-002 12/21/95

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Spacecraft Image Processing
- Stress analysis, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and plasma physics
- Simulation of complex physical systems, such as spacecraft, or electronic circuits
- Graphics in which the location of vectors on a CRT are computed for different views or scale

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

***Transputer Based Multi-Node Parallel Processing ***
***Computer Board***

**INNOVATION**
- Transputer based multi-node ParallelProcessingComputer Board

- Points of Contact:
- 	-  NASA - John Rende; 301-286-8848
- 	-  Omitron - Rich Ambrose; 301-474-1700
# Presentation: 360574

## CADCA’s Forum XVI

**Anne Mathews-Younes**
**Director, Division of Prevention, Traumatic Stress, and Special Programs**
**Center for Mental Health Services**

**February 16, 2006**
**Washington, DC**

***CADCA’s Forum XVI***
***Federal Partner Town Hall Meeting***

- FROM PASSION TO POWER

## Slide 2

## Achieving the Promise:

- Mental health services must actively facilitate recovery.
- A call for system transformation.
- The goal: Hope for a full life in the community.
- Services and supports are consumer/child/family centered.
- Focus of care must increase illness self-management and build resilience.

**Transforming Mental Health Care in America**

## "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human 

***"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human ***
***soul on fire."***
***Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch***
# Presentation: 839428

## The fourth

***Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference***
***Lisbon, Portugal***
***November 15-18 2004***

## Call for Papers 

## Abstracts for Papers are now requested

-  for review by the CSRTG organising
-  committee.
- These should be no longer than one page
-  and should be submitted by 23 January 2004 to:

## Ms. Emma Tombleson Research Management DepartmentCivil Aviation AuthorityGatwick AirportLondonUK Tel 44 (0) 1293 573056Fax 44 (0) 1293 573981emma.tombleson@srg.caa.co.uk 

## General Topics

***Research progress and future directions***

***Accident studies, databases, risk assessments and probablistic methods***

***Cost-benefit Analyses and Safety Economics***

***International Initiatives***

## Crash Dynamics:Structural strength and load attenuationAirframe Structures  Computer modelling Airframe Structures Models  Seat/occupants Models Human injury criteria  

## Evacuation

- Computer models
- Human performance studies
- Experimentation and equipment
- Cabin crew issues

## Operational Issues

- Cabin crew training
- Turbulence
- Safety briefing
- Safety equipment

## Materials fire Safety

- Fuselage burnthrough resistance**:**

- Thermal/acoustic insulation:
- Material Flammability:

- Fire testing methods:

- Advanced fire resistant materials

## Systems fire safety

- Halon replacements:
- Fuel tank fire and explosion protection*:*
- Fire detection and suppression*:*

- Fires in nonpressurized areas:
# Presentation: 540312

## The U.S. Dried Plum Industry
Situation and Outlook

**Situation and Outlook**

-  	Horticultural & Tropical Products Division                                                                        				Foreign Agricultural Service

## The U.S. Dried Plum Market

**Production**

**Consumption**

** ****Exports**

**Imports**

## Market Share of Imported Dried Plums

**Consumption**

**Imports as a Percentage of Domestic Consumption**

** ****Imports**

## Origins of U.S. Imported 
Dried Plums

**Dried Plums**

## Monthly Imports of Dried Plums

**US Marketing Season Peaks August 1- April 30**

## Share of Dried Plum
Imports in Relation to the U.S.
Marketing Season

**Imports in Relation to the U.S.**
**Marketing Season**

**Peak Season**

**Off-Peak Season**

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## 2001 Applied Dried Plum (Prune) Tariff Rates for Selected Coutries

- United States

-                                                       4.4 cnts/kg

- Canada

- 0

- Mexico

- 20

- Brazil

- 10

- Venezuela

- 15

- European Union

- 9.6

- Poland

- 25

- China

-                                                 29%+17%VAT

- Hong Kong

- 0

- Japan

- 2.4

- Australia

- 5

- Malaysia

- 17.24

- Philippines

- 10

- Taiwan

- 22
# Presentation: 283360

## A passive insect sorting device for separating Aphthona spp. biological control agents of leafy spurge from larger insects, seeds and plant debris associated with crude insect sweep net collection.

- <date/time>

**A passive insect sorting device for separating Aphthona spp. biological control agents of leafy spurge from larger insects, seeds and plant debris associated with crude insect sweep net collection****.**
**H.W. Ziolkowski and R.D. Richard**
**USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Bozeman Biological Control Station, **
**1648 S. 7th Ave., Bozeman, MT 59717-0278**

- In 1998, USDA-APHIS-PPQ, in support of Team Leafy Spurge activities on Euphorbia esula, developed a passive sorting system for the purpose of mass collecting and distributing large numbers of Aphthona species flea beetles.  Enhancing some ideas and methodologies that had been previously utilized in various forms, technicians at the Bozeman Biological Control Station produced a light, portable, free standing and easily operable sorting unit from inexpensive and readily available materials.  Dubbed the ‘Aphthona Accelerator’, this sorter can be set up and operating in minutes. This passive sorting device is driven by the typical behavior of  Aphthona flea beetles to orient upwards and move toward light. * *The flea beetles actually separate themselves from the larger insects, seeds and plant debris, that are also collected in field net sweepings, by moving through a fine mesh basket to a slick funnel and eventually into a collection jar.  It is possible to sort several hundred thousand flea beetles with this device in just a few hours, leaving nearly all of the extraneous material behind.  The ‘Aphthona Accelerator’ can easily be operated by one technician, freeing up everyone else to sweep up more flea beetles!

**Sorter Design By:  Mike Winks, Gary Adams, Valerie Farquhar, **
**Andrew Deutscher (USDA-FS), Harold Ziolkowski and R.D. Richard**
# Presentation: 213659

## The Environmental Occurrence, Fate and Ecotoxicity of Prozac®, Zoloft®, Paxil®, Celexa® and Luvox® in Aquatic Environments Marsha C. Black, Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

**The Environmental Issue****	**
- Heavy use of human prescription and over the counter drugs
- SSRI antidepressants are widely prescribed
- Prozac®, Zoloft®, Paxil®, Celexa®, Luvox®
- Among the 200 most prescribed drugs
- www.Rxlist.com
- Drugs and metabolites are excreted by humans
- Enter sewers or septic tanks for treatment
- Wastewater treatment may not degrade
- May be released to aquatic environment
- Could SSRIs cause adverse effects in the aquatic environment?
**The Proposed Research**
- Characterize degradation, fate of these drugs in the aquatic environment
- Measure acute and chronic impacts on aquatic organisms
- Invertebrates (water flea), mosquito fish, frogs
**Toxicity Results**
- Prozac has toxic effects in long-term exposures
- Delayed development in fish
- Altered behavior in fish and frogs
- Delayed metamorphosis in frogs
- Limb malformations in frogs
- Effects were measured at 0.6-100X the concentrations measured in streams
**Impact of EPA-Sponsored Research**
- SSRIs have potential to impact aquatic organisms
- Need for effective removal of SSRIs and other drugs by wastewater treatment plants (WWTP)
- Future regulatory action may be warranted
****

**Cooperating Scientists **
**University of Georgia ****	****	****Mississippi State Chemical Lab**
- Ted Henry 			Kevin Armbrust
- Emily Rogers 			Jeong Wook-Kwon
- Ben Hale
# Presentation: 510859

## Philippines: Telecom Industry

- U.S. Commercial Service
- U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines

- www.buyusa.gov/philippines

## Industry Overview

- 40 million cellular and 3.3 million fixed line subscribers in 2006
- Coverage area: wireless reaches 84% of the country while Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) reaches 58%
- GSM is the current Philippine cellular infrastructure
- “Text Messaging Capital of the World” with roughly 300 million messages sent and received per day.

## 3G cellular technology was rolled out in 2006. 
Dominant technologies: ADSL for wired, WiFi for wireless
VoIP now classified as a “value-added service” 
2,790 duly registered broadcast companies 
Ongoing testing of various standards for digital TV technology. 
Goal: 100% migration to digital by 2010 (NTC)

- Dominant technologies: ADSL for wired, WiFi for wireless
- VoIP now classified as a “value-added service”
- 2,790 duly registered broadcast companies
- Ongoing testing of various standards for digital TV technology.
- Goal: 100% migration to digital by 2010 (NTC)

**Industry Overview**

##  Best Sales Prospects & Buyers

- Best sales prospects are:
- Digital set-up boxes / Digital broadcast equipment
- IPTV / Mobile TV
- 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE) / 4G
- WiMax on 802.16e, BPL
- Next Generation DSL
- FTTH
- Network Security Systems
- IP Multimedia Systems
- SIP Servers
- Application Servers, IPv6
- HSDPA Terminal
- Buyers: Telecom & broadcast companies

##  Market Entry 

- Partner with a reliable Philippine distributor to handle the required type-approval/acceptance process at the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
- Assist Philippine distributor develop the market by:
- Technology / knowledge transfer through adequate training
- Support marketing efforts to introduce new product / technology (i.e. participate in exhibitions, advertising in yellow pages, sponsoring industry association’s events)
- Provide reliable after-sales support

##  Market Challenges  

- Varying tariff duty rates
- Pending legislation in the convergence of IT, telecom and media industries
- Piracy
- Price sensitivity of the market

## Philippine Trade Events

- Systems Integration Philippines 2007                            August 16-18, 2007                                                   World Trade Center, Manila, Philippines  http://www.globallinkph.com/2007events

**Thank you &****See you in the Philippines! **

**Judy Reinke **
- Judy.Reinke@mail.doc.gov
- Commercial Counselor

**Aida Miranda**
- Aida.Miranda@mail.doc.gov
- Senior Commercial Specialist

**U.S. Commercial Service**
**U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines**
# Presentation: 692839

## LADIES FITNESS BOOT CAMP

**“****Pleasure in what you do, puts perfection in the work.”  (Aristotole, 384-322 B.C.)**

**Attention to all DiVAS!!!!!  Half the year has passed and Summer is here, meaning,  a Fitness Maintenance Check is Needed**.

-  **Increase Metabolism**
-  **Boost your Energy**
-  **Increase Strength and Cardio**
-  **Boost your ****confidence**
-  **Start sculpting your body to perfection**
-  **Begin/ Maintain  a  life –style change**
- ** ****Workout with only WOMEN!!!**
-  **Look great in  EVERYTHING you  wear.**

**$75 (Returnees)**
**$150 First Time**
**(6-weeks)**
**Registration starts Monday Feb. 2nd**
**Classes start Tuesday, Feb. 17**

**Location:** Gilruth Center
-  Tuesdays and Thursdays **5:30am to 6:30am**

***Instructor: Ariane Y. La Coq***
***225-226-0795***
***ariane.lacoq@gmail.com***
*** ***

**Gilruth Front Desk: 281-483-0304**
# Presentation: 718140

## The Energetic Importance of Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares

- Brian R. Dennis
- COSPAR Meeting
- 16 October 2002

## Flare Energy Budget

- “The >20 keV electrons contain 10 to 50% of the total energy output” Lin and Hudson (1976).
- Not a single component of the energy budget “is presently known to better than an order of magnitude” (Hudson 1986).
- Energy in electrons is uncertain because of lower energy cutoff to spectrum.
- Thermal energy in plasma is uncertain because of uncertain volume, density, filling factor.
- Only plasma in narrow temperature range is generally imaged.

## Slide 3

## SXR:HXR Ratio vs. Flare SizeVeronig et al. A&A, 392, 699 (2002)

## RHESSI Contribution

- RHESSI observes both the soft X-rays (down to ~3 keV) and the hard X-rays with the same detectors (when the attenuators are out of the FOV).
- RHESSI also provides 2 arcsecond imaging capability in both soft and hard X-rays.
- RHESSI’s temporal resolution for images is 2 s for a complete set of spatial Fourier components.

## The Neupert Effect

- The time integral of the hard X-ray emission closely matches the temporal variation of the soft X-ray emission.
- Implies that accelerated electrons that produce the hard X-rays also heat the plasma that produces the soft X-rays.

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## A

- B

- C

## C

- A

- B

## RHESSI Spectra

## A

- B

- C

## C

- A

- B

## TRACE light curves19.5 nm

- RHESSI light curve25 – 50 keV

- Region
- A

- B
- C

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Summary

- Energy in accelerated electrons > energy in SXR-emitting thermal plasma
- Energy in electrons is a smaller fraction of thermal energy in smaller flares.
- General agreement with Neupert Effect.
- Poor spatial correlation between hard X-ray and EUV brightenings.
- Long–duration energy release after SXR peak with no electron acceleration.
# Presentation: 458354

## Stress Corrosion Cracking WorkshopDecember 2, 2003

- Steve Rapp
- Duke Energy Gas Transmission

## Stress Corrosion Cracking Workshop

Overview of Company Pipeline Facilities

Overview of the Company Pipeline Re-validation Program and SCC Operational History

Method for Identifying Locations with Potential SCC

SCC Management Methods

**Overview of Company Pipeline Facilities**
**Overview of the Company Pipeline Re-validation Program and SCC Operational History**
**Method for Identifying Locations with Potential SCC**
**SCC Management Methods**

## Slide 3

## A Snapshot of a Hydrostatic Retest Program

- Total mileage tested: 1343 miles (1986 – Present)
- Total number of test sections:  63
- Very high applied hydrostatic test pressures: Typically greater than 100% SMYS
- Average age of pipeline:  35 years in service
- Approximate cost:  $50MM

## Slide 5

## Method for Identifying Potential SCC Locations

- Are B31.8S SCC Requisite Conditions Satisfied ?

- No

- SCC Hydro Test?

- No

- Yes

- Yes

- SCC Hydro Test Failure?

- No

- Yes

- Page 2

- Page 1 of 2

- Hydro test date within past 20 years?

- No

- Yes

- Page 2

## SCC Mitigation Methods

- No

- Yes

- Company SOP

**SCC Mitigation Methods**

- Page 2 of 2
# Presentation: 748820

## Promoting a culture of service, citizenship and responsibility

***Promoting a culture of service, citizenship and responsibility***

***Volunteer opportunities with 60,000 organizations***

## Corporation for National and Community Service

**AmeriCorps**
- AmeriCorps*VISTA
- AmeriCorps*State and National
- AmeriCorps*National Civilian Community Corps
**Senior Corps**
- Foster Grandparents Program (FGP)
- Senior Companion Program (SCP)
- Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
**Learn and Serve America**

## Corporation Structure

**Corporation National Headquarters**
- AmeriCorps*NCCC
- AmeriCorps*National Programs
**Corporation State Offices**
- AmeriCorps*VISTA
- Senior Corps Programs
**State Commissions**
- AmeriCorps*State Programs
- Learn and Serve America

## National and Community Service in Citizen Corps

- CNCS worked with DHS to help develop Citizen Corps guidance for local officials
- CNCS awarded $10.3 million in FY ’02 to support mobilizing volunteers in Homeland Security activities, including Citizen Corps
- CNCS awarded $4.1 million in FY ’04 for service learning activities in Homeland Security
- 13 State Commissions have been designated as state Citizen Corps contacts
- CNCS programs close working relationships with state and local OEMs, Citizen Corps, and VOADs
- CNCS grants are supporting Citizen Corps efforts in more than 20 states and communities with Medical Reserve Corps

## Contact Information 

- Cee Cee Molineaux
- 202-606-5000 x199
- cmolineaux@cns.gov

- I look forward to hearing from you!!