BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 428998

## LBNL Disbursements

- January 12, 2006
- Barbara Gomez

## Org Chart- December 1, 2005

## FY 2005 Accounts Payable Vouchers

- Non PO Vouchers	 12,902	  22%
- PO Vouchers		 39,270	  65%
- Travel (EDI)		 _ 7,908_	  _13%_
-    Total Vouchers	         60,080	 100%
- 41.8% of invoices received electronically
- 11.9% of payments are made electronically

**Notes:**
Total vouchers (non travel) 52,172
Of that 25% is non PO

## What’s next?

- Automated processing
- Load journals electronically
- Pay electronically
- Fewer certifications
- Less paper

## Certification Process

- Requester

- Preparer

- Requisition has:
- Description
- Amount
- Project
- Requester
- Certifier

- Procurement

- Requisition

- RequisitionApprover

- Subcontract Created

- Vendor

- Subcontract has:
- Ts & Cs
- Payment terms
- Certifier
- Cert. Type

- Performs services

- Invoice

- AP enters into PS
- & gets Certifier OK

- Certifier approves invoice
- & returns it to AP

- Invoice Certification required for most  2-way (non-receiving) invoices >$5K

_***Legend***_***:***
- Brown: Division
**Blue**: Procurement
- Grey: Vendor
**Green**: Payables (AP)
**Purple**: New processes

- AP authorizes payment
- For approved invoices

- Additional $100K/$1M
- division/buyer certification

**Notes:**
What dictates the certification Rules?
How do you certify a payment?
What happens if a certifier changes on a PO?

## FAQ’s -Feeders

- RECAC
- Receipt  accruals
- Goods are received without an invoice
- APSAC
- Invoices
- Costs are booked
- APSPY
- Payments

## FAQ’s- Non PO Desk

- Why do I need a business justification?
- To explain the expense
- Why do you need tax id information?
- To set up a new vendor
- Why do I need to send original entries?
- Prevents duplicates
- Why do I need to print my name?
- Verify approvers

## FAQ- Why didn’t the invoice pay?

- The item was not received
- _[Receiving@lbl.gov](mailto:Receiving@lbl.gov)_
- The invoice is not certified
*Reply All* to email notice
- AP does not have the invoice
- The invoice is paying per the terms of the PO

## Any Questions?
# Presentation: 909044

- Danielle FOUASSIER, Arnaud CHULLIAT
- Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

## 3 consecutive locations

-       PSM
- 1883 -1900

-      CLF
-  1936- ....

-       VLJ
- 1901- 1935

- Geological map – Hachette 1957
*The estimation of VLJ/PSM, CLF/VLJ jumps makes the series homogeneous*

## French magnetic database before this project

- Database in accordance with yearbooks
- 1923 was a turning point in yearbooks:
- before 1923, publication of only 4 hourly values: 6,12,18,24
- after 1923, publication of the 24 hourly values
-   *hourly values are spotted values until 1961.*

## Can we automatically digitize the old tables ?

- Plans to automate the keyboarding were deemed unrealistic:
- non uniform hand-writings over the years
- not enough space between lines
- Table lines (horizontal and vertical) can fool the recognition of characters

## DTF: digitization task force

- Typists:
- 1901 - 1912 (VLJ)	    IPGP students	   	    2006/2007
- 1913 - 1922 (VLJ) 	    VAST staff (VIETNAM)  	    2007
- 1885 - 1900 (PSM) 	    VAST staff (VIETNAM)  	    2008
- Checker:
-      D Fouassier in charge of the database
- Tool:
- 	DOS clipper program

- STEP1: while entering hourly values

- STEP2: all informations entered

## Methods for checking digitized data

-  Alarm if out of
-   limit value
- - Sum checking
- (computed versus    hand-written)

- Human post-checking
-     10 years:
-    (1913-1922)
- No exact daily sum

- Software checking
- Tracking down staggered lines:
- chart     keyboarding
- day n-1     day n-1
- day n        day n-1
- day n+1    day n
- day n+2    day n+1
- day n+3    day n+3

- Comparison
- - new hourly values
- - six-hour values
- - yearbook values

## Comparing six-hour and hourly values (one month)

## six-hour and hourly values during a major storm 

- H variation >1060 nT
- D variation > 3 Degre 13Min

- - monthly mean values
-  from hourly values
- -monthly differences of
-  mean values computed from
-  hourly and six-hour values

- - yearly means values
-   from hourly values
- - yearly differences of
-   means values computed from
-   hourly and six-hour values

- CLF becomes the longest  continuous series among the ones available in world data center before 1923
# Presentation: 900631

## qqH->qqWW->qqll

**Mehmet T. Zeyrek**
**METU/Ankara & Texas Tech University**
**JetsMet Meeting July 18, 2001**

**Notes:**
Mnm

## Comments and Plans

**Present studies concentrate only on leptons**
**CompHEP + PYTHIA is done.  Forced proper decays of:**
**Signal : jjH; H->WW->llvv (l=e or ********)**
**Bkgrnd : jjZ; Z-> tau tau -> llvv (l=e or ********)**
**Bkgrnd : ttj: t->Wb; W->lv (l=e or ********)**
**Understand Rainwater & Zeppenfeld analyses and the present one**
**Concentrate on jets next **
**Selection of tagging jets; identify optimized**
**   ****cuts**
**Final ORCA analyses to be done later:**

## Comments and Plans

**   ****Signal (Pythia) and (CompHEP), each 20K, digis in FNAL user federation**
**   ****Recently found a bug in CompHep –  Pythia interface; QCD scale for FSR was wrong !, fixed**
**   ****Re-process signal (CompHEP) events**
**   ****Process backgrounds;**
**       ****ttj**
**       ****Zjj **
**       ...****.**

## Azimuthal opening angle

## Polar opening angle

## R separation of leptons

## Dilepton invariant mass

## Max. lepton momentum
# Presentation: 731093

## Mobile Analytics – First Responders
VAC Consortium, Oct 2006

- VAC Consortium, Oct 2006

- Tim Woodward
- Sr. Systems Architect
- Motorola
- 480-966-2688
- tim.woodward@motorola.com

- October 06, 2006

## Information – Arizona Border Example

**AZ Border**
**Patrol**

**FBI**

**AZ National**
**Guard**

**AZ County**
**Authorities**** **

**California**
**Authorities**

**New Mexico**
**Authorities**

**Medical 1st Responders**

**Mexico**
**Authorities**

- Multiple Authorities from 3 states, 4 counties and 2 countries all trying to coordinate communications and information across approximately 350 miles of US border.

**Tribal Law Enforcement**

**Immigration and**
**Naturalization**

**Telephone**
**interconnect**

**Local, State and Federal**
**Databases**

- October 06, 2006

## Information Types

- User

- Organization

- Proximity

- Individual

- Location (GPS)

- Maps

- Group

- Telephone
- Interconnect

- Video Streaming

- Photos

- Forms and
- documentation

- Text Messages

- Confidentiality

- Integrity

- Security Management

- Validity

- Dispatcher

- Availability

- October 06, 2006

## Different Responders Use Different Information

- User

- Organization

- Individual

- Maps

- Group

- Telephone
- Interconnect

- Video Streaming

- Photos

- Forms and
- documentation

- Text Messages

- Confidentiality

- Integrity

- Security Management

- Validity

- Availability

- Location (GPS)

- October 06, 2006

## Development of Data Intensive Mobile Devices

- High resolution, interactivity and scalability

- Data

- Bandwidth

- Technology

- High volume and processing

- Advances in Air interface, infrastructure, mobiles

- Mobile Devices

**NEED**

**RESULT**

**PROGRESS**

- October 06, 2006

## Security

- Voice Encryption
- End-to-End
- Air Interface Encryption
- Only over the air
- Authentication
- User
- Radio
- Data Encryption
- End-to-End

- Infrastructure

- Air Interface
- Encryption

- End to End

- Authentication

- October 06, 2006

## 911

- Integration of Information

- Information availability and presentation is critical in making effectual decisions

- Operational Success

- Situational Awareness

- Real time response

- October 06, 2006
# Presentation: 352919

## Lightweight Structural Foams fromCeramic Materials

-  Developed technology to produce lightweight structural 	foams from ceramic materials such as boron carbide, silicon 	carbide, and hafnium carbide
-  Produced lightweight, high quality reflectors using silicon 	carbide-hafnium carbide foam substrates with aluminum-	coated quartz mirror faceplates
-  Ultimately spun off foam technology into medical field, as 	HedrocelTM synthetic bone material
**                             ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Licensed medical foam technology to Implex (Allendale, NJ), 	a manufacturer of musculoskeletal implants.  Implex has 	invested $10 million in production facilities and experimental 	trials.  Implex 1996 sales were nearly $1.5 million, with 1998       	sales projected at $20-30 million
-  Formed  joint venture, Cytomatrix (Cambridge, MA), to 	develop biological cell growth medium using foam technology
-  To date, 6 jobs at Ultramet, 30 jobs at Implex, and 4 jobs at 	Cytomatrix have been created

***ULTRAMET***
***PACOIMA, CA***

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

**     ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Primary NASA application is in solar concentrators for 		advanced dynamic power systems
-  Can be used in solar collectors for ground-based solar 		power systems

- 1986 Phase 2; SS-177; 9/8/97

- Lewis Research Center

**Lightweight Structural Foams from****Ceramic Materials**

***Lightweight Mirror Structure with***
***Aluminum-coated Quartz Mirror Faceplate***
# Presentation: 770221

## A heat pulse technique for measuring water flow in soil

- Tyson Ochsner
- USDA-ARS
- Soil and Water Management Research Unit
- St. Paul, MN

## Application of the heat pulse technique

- The heat transfer occurs by conduction and convection.

## Heat transfer equations

- 	where Jw is the water flux.

- The governing heat transfer equation is

## Laboratory experiments

- We tested the technique in the lab using packed columns of sand, sandy loam, and silt loam soil.

## Heat pulse signals converted to Td/Tu

- Heat pulse signals converted to Td/Tu

- The temperature increase ratio increases with flow rate.

- Sand

- Flux
- (cm h-1)

## Resulting water flux estimates

- Strong linear relationship between flux measured by the sensor and that measured at the column outlet.

## Linear regression results

| Soil type | Slope (S) | Intercept | Std. Err. | r2 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  | cm hr-1 | cm hr-1 |  |
| Sand | 0.765 | 0.605 | 0.390 | 0.998 |
| Sandy loam | 0.232 | 0.452 | 0.125 | 0.998 |
| Silt loam | 0.400 | 2.88 | 0.071 | 0.999 |

- Regression results indicate good precision and linearity, but the slopes are less than one.

## Linking theory and measurements

- 	Choosing  *a = 1/S* and *b = 1* leads to an “enhanced conduction” model.

- Choosing *a = 1* and *b = S* leads to a “reduced convection” model.

## Slide 9

## Results

- The smallest flux detected with the heat pulse technique was 0.12 cm hr-1.
- The relationship between heat pulse flux estimates and the outflow flux was linear up to 40 cm hr-1.
- The standard heat transfer model over-predicted the sensitivity of the heat pulse sensor to water flux.
- A reduced convection model accounted for the discrepancies between the measured data and the standard model.

## Closing statements

- “Uncorrected” heat pulse measurements are fairly accurate in sand.
- Theoretical over-predictions of instrument response to convective heat transfer are common.
- A reliable procedure for correcting heat pulse measurements is needed.
- The heat pulse approach for measuring soil water flux warrants further development.

## Acknowledgements

- Collaborators are Robert Horton, Gerard J. Kluitenberg, and Quanjiu Wang.
- This work was conducted at Iowa State University.
# Presentation: 697869

## Entry Level Investment: TEAP and ZT Success 

- Pat Jackson, RN, National TEAP Consultant

## TEAP Trends

- The number students entering the program positive for drugs continues to decrease
- Region 5 has a slightly higher positive-on-entry rate than National

## TEAP Trends

- The number of students testing positive on 45-day probationary test is increasing
- Region 5 has a slightly lower positive 45-day rate than national

## TEAP Trends

- Slightly less than half of the students tested on suspicion were positive
- The criteria used to conduct a drug test on suspicion is fairly accurate
- Over half of the students testing positive on suspicion were not given a suspicion intervention period

## TEAP Trends

- There were 96 SIR’s involving alcohol from 7/1/07 to 2/23/08
- 45 incidents occurred off center
- 41 incidents occurred on center
- The largest numbers were for public intoxication
- Next was underage drinking

## TEAP Trends

- There were 286 SIR’s involving drugs from 7/1/07 to 2/23/08
- 28 incidents occurred off center
- 258  incidents occurred on center
- The largest number of incidents involved THC
- The largest secondary incident code was listed as Possession

## Other Observations

- More than 1,000 students left the program before the 45-day test

## Alcohol

- The alcohol policy is not consistent
- Regions have differing policies
- Centers have differing policies
- TEAP consultants continue to ask for support of a national alcohol policy

## Program Direction

- Continue to decrease the number of students who arrive on center positive for drugs
- Provide intervention/prevention/education programs for all students using regional drug use trends as a guide
- Develop center wide TEAP programs
- Utilize the support/services of federal A/D programs whenever available

## Advisory Committee Recommendations

- Pre-arrival drug testing
- Interval drug testing
- Pre-employment drug testing

## Advisory Committee Rational

- Students positive on entry
- Separate early
- Four times more likely to separate before 60 days
- More likely to separate due to discipline
- Less likely to graduate from the program (37%)

## Advisory Committee Comments

- Job Corps is not a treatment program
- Graduates will be required to have a pre-employment drug test
- Drug free students are better learners
- Drug free students are better prepared for the workplace

## Resources

- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association at http://www.samhsa.gov
- Regional MH Consultants
- Patricia Jackson, National TEAP Consultant
# Presentation: 699102

## Malawi HIV Quality Assurance Program 1990-1997prepared by A. K. A. Barnaba

## Structure of Presentation

- Map and demographics of Malawi
- Project Objectives
- Program Description
- Types of samples
- Panel selection and lyophilization procedure

- 6.	Information management
- 7.	Reporting of results
- 8.	Sustainability
- 9.	Challenges faced
- 10.Future challenges.

- ZAMBIA

- TANZANIA

- MOZAMBIQUE

- MOZAMBIQUE

- LILONGWE

- BLANTYRE

- QUEEN ELIZABETH CENTRAL HOSPITAL

- MALAWI

**Map of Malawi**

## Malawi Demographics Number of Sites

- Total Area:	118,484 Sq. Km.
- Demography
- Population:	**9,800,000.**
- Distribution
- Rural Population:	**86%**
- Urban Population:	**14%**
- City:		Blantyre
- Population:	**782,266**
- Pop. Growth Rate:	**3%**
- Economy :	Agriculture.
- Life Expectancy:	**39.3 years**
- Adult HIV Prevalence: **16% estimated**

**HOSPITALS**
- Government:		**27**
- Private:			**28**
**HIV TESTING SITES**.
- Total:			**62**
- Government:		**29**
- Private Hospitals:		**28**
- Estate Clinic:		**2**
- Military/Police:		**2**
- Project Clinic:		**1**

## Project Objectives

- Set up National HIV reference laboratory.
- Evaluate HIV test kits before they are introduced in the country.
- Implement quality assurance program.
- Expand quality assurance to other blood borne pathogens.

## Program Description 

- Collaboration between Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital,Lilongwe Central Hospital  and Germany Technical Cooperation (GTZ).
- Introduction of new testing techniques
- Seven years duration

## Types of samples 

- Serum samples.
- Lyophilized samples.

## Panel Selection and Lyophilization Procedure

- 1.	Identify 20 pints of blood .
- 2. Test the sera using available HIV test kits and Western blot.
- 3.	Inactivate the serum specimens.
- 4. Select a panel of 20 samples

## Panel Selection and Lyophilization Procedure continued......

- 5. Test the panel with available kits in the hospitals.
- 6.  Aliquot the sera into micro vials.
- 7. Keep samples in deep freezer ready for lyophilizing

## Panel Selection and Lyophilization Procedure continued......

- 8.  Assemble the lyophilizer and start lyophilizing

## Information Management

- Filing
- Data entry
- Data analysis
- Data for decision making

## Reporting of results

- Medical Officer
- Laboratory
- Mail
- Follow-up

## How is the program sustained?

- Donor dependent
- Dependence on one laboratory technician

## Past Challenges

**Staff**
- Ministry of Health & Population assigned a laboratory technician for 30% of his working time.
**Room**
- Laboratory and office space provided at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital.
**Partial funds  ****	**
- Contribution to cost of quality control follow-up training.

## Future Challenges

***To ensure the high-quality, expansion and sustainability of national reference laboratory functions including quality assurance, it is necessary to:***
- Integrate the project into the national laboratory structure
- Create dedicated positions for National HIV reference laboratory staff
- Provide recruited staff with skills, budget and powers to improve testing quality nationwide
# Presentation: 285243

## Today:  Production Cost of Electricity

- (in the U.S. in 1997, cents per kWh)

- coal

- nuclear

- gas

- oil

- wind

- solar

- 2.1 ¢

- 2.3 ¢

- 3.6 ¢

- 3.9 ¢

- 5.5 ¢

- 22 ¢

*Nuclear Energy Institute, American Wind Energy Association, American Solar Energy Society*

**Today:  Production Cost of Electricity**

## Photons to Chemicals-Overall Process

- h**

- Building blocks: H2O and Photons

- H2O

- H2

- O2

## Photons to Chemicals-Overall Process

- h**

- Building blocks: H2O and Photons

- H2O

- electricity

**photovoltaic**

**electrolysis**

- O2

- H2

**Notes:**
CO2 +3H2 = CH3OH + H2O 
Overall: 2H2O+CO2=3/2 O2+CH3OH

## Photons to Chemicals-Overall Process

- h**

- Building blocks: H2O, CO2 and Photons

- H2O

- electricity

**photovoltaic**

**electrolysis**

- O2

- H2

- CO2

- CH3OH

- [CH3OH (l) can be substituted by CH4 (g)]

**Methanol synthesis**
**reactor**

**Notes:**
CO2 +3H2 = CH3OH + H2O 
Overall: 2H2O+CO2=3/2 O2+CH3OH

## Photons to Chemicals-Overall Process

- h**

- Building blocks: H2O, CO2 and Photons

- H2O

- electricity

**photovoltaic**

**electrolysis**

- O2

- H2

- CO2

- CH3OH

- [CH3OH (l) can be substituted by CH4 (g)]

**Electrochemical**
**Methanol production**

**Methanol synthesis**
**reactor**

**Notes:**
CO2 +3H2 = CH3OH + H2O 
Overall: 2H2O+CO2=3/2 O2+CH3OH

## Presently Possible Methanol Generation Electrochemical Cell-A Reverse Fuel Cell

- Proton exchange membrane

- CO2

- H2O

- 2H2O→O2(g)+4H++4e-

- H+

- O2

- e-

- CO2+6H++6e-→CH3OH+H2O

- O2

- CO2

- CH3OH
- +
- H2O

- Anode

- Cathode

- e-

- e-

- e-

- Catalyst-supported
- electrode

- +

- -

## Proposed Novel Studies-First Step

**h********

- CH3OH
- CH4

## Slide 8

## Proposed Novel Studies-First Step

**h********

- CH3OH
- CH4

## Research Needed

- Design synthetic enzymes that
- catalyze the reaction at the right potential
- increase turnover rates
- have stability
- Demonstrate in a real device
- Develop substantive collaborations between chemical biologists, inorganic chemists and materials chemists
# Presentation: 134979

## Midwest Drought of 2005:USDM As Lens, Or Prism?

**Michael A. Palecki**
**Midwestern Regional Climate Center**
**Illinois State Water Survey**
**Department of Natural Resources**

## Dictionary.com

**Lens:  1. A ground or molded piece of glass, plastic, or other transparent material with opposite surfaces either or both of which are curved, by means of which light rays are refracted so that they converge or diverge to form an image.**
**Prism:  5. A medium that misrepresents whatever is seen through it.**

## Midwest Drought Evolution

## Getting Dry...

**Getting Dry...**

**What Drought?**

## Extreme Drought

**Extreme Drought**

**Seems to be Getting Dry**

## Crossover!

## Not Much Drought Left in the Old Core

**Not Much Drought Left in the Old Core**

**Extreme Drought Persists...**

## The Wind Up...

**At first, the focus was on short term, agricultural drought**
**As the growing season ends, hydrologic drought becomes more important**
**Is it fair to track the worst time scale of drought in this way, rather than split the difference?**

## The Pitch...

**Yes!  It is appropriate in the DM world to focus on the more important type of drought with regards to the biggest potential impacts at a location**
**Drought status in the Midwest should generally track hydrologic drought during the recharge season, and ag drought during the growing season**

## He Swings and Misses

**But what about next spring?**
**Hydrologic drought important for long term ag growth, transportation, energy, recreation, natural environments, etc.**
**If timely precipitation recharges surface soil, should DM track ag drought even with a severe 12-month hydro drought?**
**Well.....I don’t know.....is hydro drought still more important because of its magnitude?**

## The True DM Analog: Bifocals

**Yes, I’ve just contradicted myself**
**Yes, this is a very difficult problem**
**I would suggest a Midwest balance like this (short term-long term):**

**Spring: 50-50**

**Summer: 80-20**

**Autumn: 50-50**

**Winter: 20-80**

## Spring 2006 in the Midwest

**Wetter than normal cold season: recharge successful, no problems**
**Climatology during cold season: no problems at the start of the spring; but problems could re-emerge mid-summer**
**Drier than normal cold season: all bets are off; some recharge will germinate crop in spring, followed by rapid onset of problems without timely rains**

## What Will Happen Spring 2006?

**CPC Forecast: warmer than normal cold season**
**Commercial Forecasts:  warmer than normal, drier than normal cold season**

**Déjà vu all over again: 2003?**

**WILL A SPRING DROUGHT FORECAST BE CORRECT?**

## 2003 or 1954?

**2003 or 1954?**

**This may be a**
**difficult year...**
# Presentation: 278836

## Overview of Sun-Earth Connections

- Fundamental Ideas from SEC
- Why Should Teachers Care?
- The sunspots are coming, the sunspots are coming....Solar Maximum is Here!

## Fundamental Concepts from SEC

- The Sun is dynamic
- We live in the atmosphere of the Sun
- Earth responds to the changing sun --  that response is known as space weather
- Scientists study the Sun-Earth Connection using data from spacecraft, ground stations, supercomputers, and rocket experiments

## The Sun is dynamic, not constant

- Our Sun is a big, hot, massive star
- It has cycles -- sunspots, fast and slow solar wind, magnetic field reversals, irradiance -- time scales from seconds to a million years
- Quiet features -- solar wind, rotation, emitting different radiations/wavelengths
- It has the astrophysical equivalent of storms and weather -- CMEs, flares, prominences, filaments, radio bursts

## We live in the atmosphere of the Sun

- Space is not a vacuum - filled by dynamic, blustery solar wind extending far beyond the planets
- Interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field produces a cavity around Earth -- the magnetosphere
- Solar wind/system carves a place in the galaxy/interplanetary space

## Earth responds to the changing sun

- That response is known as space weather
- Space (particularly around Earth) is a tough place to live and work
- Effects of SEC activity are visible at Earth -- aurora and airglow are examples
- Space weather effects our systems and society, principally technology
# Presentation: 051399

## The Future of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey

***Chuck Darby***
***AHRQ***

## Assessing Where We Are Now

**Have seen growing interest among practitioners, health plans, and purchasers **
**NQF endorsement anticipated summer 2007 **
**Major issue is identifying and reducing burden of widespread national implementation **
**Will continue working with multiple stakeholders to minimize burden and maximize benefits**

## What Are the Burdens?

**Costs for conducting and reporting the results**
**Effort to provide samples of patients**
**Concerns about public reporting**
**Lack of tools to implement quality improvement**

## What Are the Benefits?

**Elimination of costly duplication in data collection**
**Standardized and scientifically sound measurement of the patient’s perspective**
**Tools for patients to aid their decision making **
**Tools for clinicians to improve care**
**Furtherance of patient-centered care**

## What AHRQ Is Doing to Reduce  Burden and Increase Benefits

**Funding a study that will estimate the costs of doing the survey and assess its benefits**
**Exploring the validity of less traditional data collection methods**
**Evaluating sampling strategies **

## What AHRQ Is Doing to Reduce  Burden and Increase Benefits

**Building coalitions of potential survey users  to share in decision making about collecting and using data**
**Focusing on quality improvement in the CAHPS III project **
**Developing the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey component of the National CAHPS Benchmarking Database**

## What AHRQ Is Doing to Reduce  Burden and Increase Benefits

**A coordinated data collection to serve multiple purposes:**
**	****-****	****Quality improvement**
**	****-****	****Maintenance of certification**
**	****-****	****Accountability**
**	****-****	****Public reporting**
**Yields the National CAHPS Benchmarking Database to serve multiple uses and users **

## The Vision

**A health care system responsive to the needs of patients**
**Patients equipped to make informed decisions**
**Clinicians equipped to give the highest quality of care to their patients**

## To Ask a QuestionClick on the “Q&A” button

## How to Contact the CAHPS User Network

- E-mail: cahps1@ahrq.gov
- Phone: 1-800-492-9261
- Website: www.cahps.ahrq.gov

## Today’s Speakers and Guests

**Speakers:**
**Julie Brown****, RAND Corporation Team**
**Kristin Carman****, American Institutes for Research Team**
**Dale Shaller****, Harvard Team**
**Chuck Darby****, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality**
**Guests:**
**Melinda Karp****, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners**
**Dan Duffy, MD****, American Board of Internal Medicine**
**Cliff Rowley****, HealthPlus Michigan**

## After the Webcast

**Questions or comments?**
- E-mail: _[cahps1@ahrq.gov](mailto:cahps1@ahrq.gov)__ _
- Phone: 1-800-492-9261
- Website: _[www.cahps.ahrq.gov](http://www.cahps.ahrq.gov/)__ _
**On CAHPS Web site:*****  ***
- Presenters’ slides
- Audio recording
- Transcript
# Presentation: 674731

## “Strawperson” NIH DirectoryDIT Design

- NIH AMG Technical
- Subcommittee

## Introduction

- Some objects to be represented:
- persons	- organizations
- groups		- places
- roles		- services
- devices		- certificates
- Focus initially on:
**persons**
**organizations**
**roles**
**groups **(for directory access control and management)

## Introduction (Continued)

- DIT must support:
- object **addressing**
- interactive **browsing** (e.g., moving around DIT and listing contents)
- LDAP client **searching** (e.g., scope, search bases)
- DIT design strategy:
- Use **flat namespace** to provide stable DNs for addressing
- Construct deep **views** of flat namespace to support browsing and searching

## NIH Directory Information Tree

- groups

- people

- geographic

- CIT

- = view namespace

- = stable namespace

- ...

- Bethesda

- bldgs

- MD

- NC

- = view generation path

- people

- 10

- = organizational role entry

## NIH Organizational Role

- Objectclass: **nihOrganizationalRole**
- Entry describes a role or position within in organization unit (including phone, addresses, etc.)
- Roles and positions are put in context with respect to placement of entry in DIT.
- Can be used for NIH “green pages” construction.
- Searching for objectclass=nihOrganizationalRole at one particular organizational unit level can return all roles.
- Allows one person to have multiple representations of attributes (e..g, phone #, address, etc.)

## NIH Organizational Role Example

- objectclass = nihInetOrgPerson		o = NIH
- uniqueIdentifier = 011-111-1111		c = US
- cn = Harold E Varmus
- givenName = Harold
- sn = Varmus
- personalTitle = Dr
- telephoneNumber = +1 301 496 2433
- buildingNumber = 1
- roomNumber = 126

- objectclass = nihOrganizationalRole
- cn = Chief
- telephoneNumber = +1 301 496 7940
- buildingName = 49
- roomNumber = 4A56
- roleOccupant = uniqueIdentifier=001-111-1111, ou=people, o=NIH, c=US

- o=National Institutes of Health

- ou=National Cancer Institute

- ou=Division of Basic Sciences

- ou=Varmus Lab

- ou=people

- cn=Chief

- uniqueIdentifier=001-111-1111

*(Note differing telephone number, building/room values.)*

## DIT Design Issues

- View objects
- Copies
- Allows a particular view to have a subset of attributes that may exist in source object
- Attribute updates (if allowed) are delayed
- Aliases
- Object view identical to source object
- Attribute updates are immediate
- Not all directory services support aliases
- Can use either for different views

## DIT Design Issues (continued)

- RDNs of People Objects
- uniqueIdentifier
- DN never changes
- Meaningless to people who see DNs
- Common Name (e.g. “Johnson, Mary A1”)
- DN may change
- More meaningful representation of person’s name

## DIT Design Issues (continued)

- One postalAddress, telephoneNumber, secretary, etc. enough for people who work for multiple organizations?
- Current NIH Telephone Directory:
- 1 entry per person in “white pages”
- Multiple roles represented in “green pages”

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## Sensor status, June 2004CiS: 1121 good tiles have been delivered.1000 good tiles have been tested. 243 wafers (616 good tiles) have been delivered to bumping vendors.  150 wafers (375 tiles) are available for shipment to bumping vendors immediately.  The final 100 tiles now being tested.ON:26 good tiles have been delivered.  This is a 15% acceptance rate on the first batch.  Second batch has been delivered and is being measured.  With reduced specifications on p-spray (those tiles would be used in the outer layer), the acceptance rate will probably exceed the 15% observed for the first delivery.

## If ON addresses all problems, the remaining 90% of the order will be delivered in 3 batches of 30% each, in June, July, and August.  Approximately 100 wafers would be sent to each of 4 probing institutes.

- If the contract with ON is cancelled, the remaining 1100 tiles would be provided by CiS.  150 CiS tiles are available immediately; 150 more could be delivered by approximately September, with the remainder delivered by approximately December.
- The probing institutes are able to characterize the wafers at a rate of approximately 1 wafer per day.
# Presentation: 409440

## Physiological Testing of Host Pathogens in an E. coli Specific Bioreporter System

-  **Carmen Pearson**
**North Carolina State University**
**July 12, 2004**
**Kathleen Daumer, Principal Investigator**
**   ****Dynamac Corporation**

## Bioreporter Mechanism

- In the closed environment of the space shuttle, there is great potential for pathogenic activity to occur.  With this bioreporter system, we will be able to monitor pathogenic activity by creating a photoreceptor able to measure bioluminescence produced due to interactions between several genes.
- By conducting physiological tests on the host cells we are able to figure out whether the bioreporter system can function when the cells are stressed.

## Genes and their Functions

- Lambda phage*E. coli* specific
- Contains *luxI* gene
- Phage infects host pathogen, integrating *luxI* gene
*luxI* produces acetyl homoserine lactone (AHL) molecules
- Bioreporter contains *luxR* gene
*luxR* recognizes AHL molecules and initiates *lux* cassette to produce bioluminescence

## Physiological Testing and Outcomes

- Starvation of host pathogens
- 1 hour and 1 day
- Count numbers of cells that are living and dead by staining
- Measure amount of light produced by stressed cells using a 96 well plate and plate reader
- Based on the data collected, stress on the host cells does not decrease the amount of light produced within the bioreporter system.
- Time for peak light produced increases, while intensity of light remains the same
# Presentation: 766956

## Hypersonic Phononic CrystalsEdwin L. Thomas (MIT),	DMR-0308133

- Fig. 2. BLS spectra of undeformed (a) and deformed (c) 3D phononic crystal demonstrating the shift in phonon frequencies upon stretching; (b) and (d) - AFM images of undeformed and deformed crystal, respectively.

- Fig. 1. Art meets science: kinematic sculpture by Eusebio Sempere consists of 3 cm hollow steel cylinders arranged on a 1010 cm square lattice and possesses a partial band gap for sound at 1670 Hz

- J.-H. Jang *et al.*, *Nano Letters*, **6**(4): 740, 2006

- Phononic crystals are structures with periodic variations in density and elastic constants that possess band gaps for sound and other mechanical waves. Sonic crystals are being investigated for sound and vibration isolation, ultrasonic crystals – for acoustic imaging, hypersonic crystals – for unusual acousto-optical effects, control over thermal conductivity, engineering of electron-phonon interactions.

- T. Gorishnyy *et al.*, Physics World, **18**(12), 24, 2005
- _Best Science Writing in Acoustics 2005 Award_ from the Acoustic Society of America

- We fabricate hypersonic crystals with band gaps in GHz frequency range using interference lithography and measure their phonon dispersion relation with Brillouin light scattering (BLS). Recently a fabrication process to make elastomeric phononic crystals with mechanically tunable band diagrams has been developed.

## Hypersonic phononic crystalsEdwin L. Thomas (MIT),	DMR-0308133

- Education

- This grant is used to provide support for T. Gorishnyy, a graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. In addition, R. Chen, an undergraduate student at MIT has been actively involved in this investigation during 2004-2005; and Mr. R. Bhobe, an undergraduate student at Stanford, has been working on this project during summer 2006.

- Outreach

- As a part of this investigation we have established a very productive collaboration with Prof. G. Fytas from Max Plank Institute (MPI) for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. T. Gorishnyy has visited MPI twice to perform Brillouin light scattering measurements on phononic crystals. This work has resulted in several publications and was presented at number of international conferences.
- References:
- T. Gorishnyy et al., PRL, 94 115501, 2005
- T. Gorishnyy et al., Physics World, 18(12), 24, 2005
- J.-H. Jang et al., Nano Letters, 6(4): 740, 2006
# Presentation: 910492

## The Coast and Geodetic Survey Library and Archives Collections at the Library of Congress

*Combined submission from:*
-        NOAA Central Library
-        Office of Coast Survey

## The C & GS Library and Archives Collection

- Accumulated scientific legacy collection of the Survey
- Library survives largely intact, but Archives were split between National Archives and Library of Congress
- L-28 recaptures the best of National Archive holdings; the next proposal will recapture the other half in Library of Congress

## Adolf Lindenkohl’s Chart of NE Pacific sea water density as published in Petermann’s in 1897 

## Lindenkohl’s original watercolor in the L & A Collection, Library of Congress

## Deliverables

- Same as task at National Archives
- Would like these to have geolocation determined also

**THE END**
# Presentation: 894165

## DRAFT AGENDARPMD ANNUAL CONFERENCEMay 6 – 8, 2008Residence Inn, Seattle, WA

## RPMD ANNUAL CONFERENCEMay 6 – 8, 2008

_**AGENDA – Tuesday**_
-   8:30 – 8:45	Welcome Remarks				Andy/Roy
-   8:45 – 9:00	RPMD – Looking Back in Time 			Nancy King
-   9:00 – 10:30	_[OMB A-11 Review](file://Filer/home$/DOC/SThomasson/Management%20Analyst/Webpage/docs/NOAA%20Scoring%20Presentation%206%20May%20draft%20v2.ppt)_				Kim Burke
-  10:30 – 10:45	**BREAK**
-  10:45 – 12:00	_[Audit Recap](file://Filer/home$/DOC/SThomasson/Management%20Analyst/Webpage/docs/FY2007%20Real%20Property%20Audit%20Findings%20Presentation%205-6-08.ppt)_ 				Mary Ann Whitmeyer
-  12:00 – 1:00	**LUNCH**
-   1:00 – 2:30	Major Project Process & Key Decision Points		Robb Gries
-   3:00 – 3:15	**BREAK**
-   3:15 – 3:45	_[Utilizing the Corp for Real Estate Services](file://Filer/home$/DOC/SThomasson/Management%20Analyst/Webpage/docs/Disposal_Briefing_Seattle_5-01-08.ppt)_		Ron Warren
-   3:45 – 4:30	_[Update on NWS Real Estate Activity](file://Filer/home$/DOC/SThomasson/Management%20Analyst/Webpage/docs/FRPM%20Briefing%20-%20Seattle%202008a.ppt)_		Ed Awni

## RPMD ANNUAL CONFERENCEMAY 6 – 8, 2008

_**AGENDA – Wednesday**_
-   8:30 – 10:30	Contract Authorities and Lease Administration Issues	Lynn Flanagan
-  10:30 – 10:45	**BREAK**
- 10:45 – 12:00	Review of FY07 IFIP Results			Roy Eckert
- 12:00 – 1:00	**LUNCH**
-  1:00 – 2:00	NEPA Requirements Relating to Leasing & SECO’s Role	Minh Trinh
-   2:00 – 3:00	Real Property Bulletin Reviews			Eastern/Western Region
-   3:00 – 3:15	**BREAK****	****	**
-   3:15 – 4:00	LEEDS Certification & NOAA’s Success with LEEDS	Andy Poppen
-   4:00 – 4:30	Facility Modernization				Lance Feiner

## RPMD ANNUAL CONFERENCEMAY 6 – 8, 2008

_**AGENDA – THURSDAY **_
-   8:30 –  9:00	ABC Reporting/Share Point Data			Roy Eckert
-   9:00 – 10:30	Federal RPM Task Tracker & LO Profile		David Milburn
- 10:30 – 10:45	**BREAK**
- 10:45 – 11:15	Update on NMFS Real Estate Activity		Carol Ciufolo
- 11:15 – 12:00	FRPP Update				Andy Duran
- 12:00 – 12:15	Closing Remarks				Andy/Roy
- 12:15 – 1:30	**LUNCH**
-   2:00 – 4:00	Ship Tour at WRC				RPMD
# Presentation: 186719

## Integrated Data Dissemination at theU.S. Census Bureau
IDS Program Overview

Enrique Gomez, IDS Program Manager

***IDS Program Overview***
**Enrique Gomez, IDS Program Manager**

## The Goals of IDS

- Increase utilization of Census Bureau data to a wider user group
- Consolidate data dissemination services
- Establish a flexible architecture to support growing demands and technology infusion

## Integrated Dissemination System Program Governance 

## Notional IDS Program Schedule

- IDS is more than an IT solution
- It is a new way of doing business at the Census Bureau

## IDS Planning Schedule

## Prime Contractor Role In IDS

- Develop, verify and/or validate detailed requirements
- IDS solution development and implementation
- Innovative, commercial, open systems are encouraged
- IDS operations
- Plan the transition, ensuring Census Bureau mission continuity
- Legacy systems operations and maintenance

## Industry Ideas Wanted	

***Business Planning Topics***
- What top three activities should the Census Bureau focus on or implement prior to contract award to ensure program success?
- What can the Census Bureau do to ensure the acquisition is on a level playing field?
- What transition alternatives should be considered?
# Presentation: 531184

## Warehouse Old Information Scheme (per node)

- Int list

- FP list

- String list

- Name=“Configured/
- Processors”
- Value=2

- Name=“Available/
- Processors”
- Value=1.23

- Name=“hostname”
- Value=“compute23”

- ...

- Name=“Configured/
- Disk”
- Value=12345.23

## New Information Storehouse(one node) 

- Node Information List

- Name=“Configured/Processors”
- Value=2
- Type=int

- Name=“Configured/Disk”
- Value=12345.23
- Type=floating point

## New Information Storehouse (still one node) 

- Node Info List

- Name=“CPUs”
- Value=2
- Type=int

- Name=“disk”
- Value=12345.23
- Type=float

- Resource Consumers

- Consumer info list
- Consumer type=“process”

- Name=“pid”
- Value=24237
- Type=int

- Name=“CPU secs used”
- Value=476.22
- Type=float

- Consumer info list
- Consumer type=“session”

- Name=“username”
- Value=“csteffen”
- Type=string

- Name=“CPU secs used”
- Value=932.22
- Type=float

## Example Resource Node Consumer List: 

- Resource Consumers

- Consumer info list
- Consumer type=“session”

- Consumer info list
- Consumer type=“root sessions”

- Consumer info list
- Consumer type=“session”

- Name=“user”
- Value=csteffen
- Type=string

- Name=“CPU secs used”
- Value=476.22
- Type=float

- Consumer info list
- Consumer type=“session”

- Name=“user”
- Value=desai
- Type=string

- Name=“CPU secs used”
- Value=77265.63
- Type=float

- Name=“user”
- Value=bradshaw
- Type=string

- Name=“CPU secs used”
- Value=53206.25
- Type=float

- Name=“CPU secs used”
- Value=103.90
- Type=float

- Name=“percent CPU in use”
- Value=0.27
- Type=float

## What’s Done:

- Information storehouse updated DONE
- New protocol designed DONE
- Protocol sender implemented DONE
- Protocol parser implemented NOT DONE
# Presentation: 719078

## MAPS

## Counties With Monitors Violating Alternate 8-hour Ozone Standards of 0.070 and 0.075 parts per million

**Counties With Monitors Violating Alternate 8-hour Ozone Standards ****of 0.070 and 0.075 parts per million**

- 398 counties violate.075 ppm

- 135 additional counties violate .070 ppm for a total of 533

- Notes:

- 1 398 of 639 monitored counties violate 0.075, 533 of 639 monitored counties violate 0.070.
- 2 No monitored counties outside the continental U.S. violate.

- 3 Monitored data can be obtained from the AQS system at _[http://www.epa.gov/ttn/airs/airsaqs/](http://www.epa.gov/ttn/airs/airsaqs/)_

- Estimates are based on the most recent data (2003 – 2005). EPA will _not_ designate areas as nonattainment on these data, but likely on 2006 - 2008 data which we expect to show improved air quality.

- Tribal Lands

## Counties With Monitors Projected to Violate Alternate 8-hour Ozone Standards of 0.070 and 0.075 parts per million in 2020

- Notes:

**Counties With Monitors Projected to Violate Alternate 8-hour Ozone Standards ****of 0.070 and 0.075 parts per million in 2020**

- 1 Modeled emissions reflect the expected reductions from federal programs including the Clean Air Interstate Rule, the Clean Air Mercury Rule, the Clean Air Visibility Rule, the Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule, the Light-Duty Vehicle Tier 2 Rule, the Heavy Duty Diesel Rule, proposed rules for Locomotive and Marine Vessels and for Small Spark-Ignition Engines, and state and local level mobile and stationary source controls identified for additional reductions in emissions for the purpose of attaining the current PM 2.5 and Ozone  standards.
- 2 Controls applied are illustrative.  States may choose to apply different control strategies for implementation.

- 3 Modeled design values in ppm are only interpreted up to 3 decimal places.
- 4 Consistent with current modeling guidance, EPA did not project 2020 concentrations for counties where 2001 base year concentrations were less than the recommended criterion. Such projections may not represent expected future levels. These counties are shown on the map with a grey dot.

- 82 counties violate 0.075 ppm

- 121 additional counties violate 0.070 ppm for a total of 203

- EPA cannot project future levels for these counties with monitors at this time

- Tribal Lands
# Presentation: 853111

## Fiscal Management of theCooperative Water Program

- Paul McEnrue
- Chief, Office of Accounting and Financial Management

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

**Introduction**
**Cooperative Water Program**
**Opportunities for Improvement **
**Getting to Green**
**Monitoring Results**

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

** ****Cooperative Water Program (CWP)**
**USGS is the primary Federal science agency for water-resource information.**** **
**Water Science Centers (WSC) in 48 states**
**CWP Partnerships with over 1400 State, Local and Tribal Governments**
**FY 2007 CWP appropriation $64M reimbursable income $168M **
**50% of the annual funding for a typical WSC. **
**Success of the CWP is directly linked to the success of the WSCs. **
**Financial Management Controls**

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

**  ****Opportunities for Improvement **
- Increased reliance on cooperative funding
- Choosing the correct “glide path”
- Multiple cooperators to help fund individual projects
- Projects are becoming smaller and shorter in duration
- Larger customer base and increasing number of agreements

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

**   ****Opportunities for Improvement **
- Audit Issues
- Timely review of agreements
- Management of billing and collections
- Agreement documentation
- WSC Issues
- Agreements not completed or delivered on a timely basis
- Cooperators declining to pay bills for work not completed
- Delinquent debts being referred to Treasury for collection

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

** ****Getting to Green**
- Budget and Science Information System (BASIS+)
- Program planning
- Project management
- Budget allocation
- Customer and performance tracking
- Staffing Levels

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

-   Getting to Green
- Policies and procedures
- Monthly review and quarterly certification of Reimbursable Agreements
- Reimbursable agreements over $25K must be billed on quarterly basis.
- PCBILL
- Exception reports
- Training, training, training

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

-   Monitoring Results
- Statistical Sampling
- Remote Payment Activities
- Invoice Payments
- Purchase Card Payments
- Travel Payments
- Reimbursable Agreements
- Status of Earned Unbilled
- Billed Uncollected
- Quarterly -- Reimbursable Agreement Statistical Sampling
- Terms and Conditions
- Agreement Execution

## Fiscal Management of the Cooperative Water Program

## Questions

- ? ? ?
# Presentation: 530035

## Trabajando con los padres y familias para enfrentar el problema del sobrepeso en los niños

**U.S. Department of **
**Health and Human Services**

**National Institutes **
**of Health**

*Podemos*

***Formas para mejorar la actividad física y la nutrición de los niños***

## ¿Qué es ¡Podemos! ?

- ¿Qué es ***¡******Podemos******! ***?

- Un programa educativo integrado para fomentar y mantener un peso saludable en los niños.
- Éste programa ha sido científicamente formulado para las comunidades y es reconocidoa nivel nacional por los medios de comunicación con el apoyo de distintos colaboradores.

## Una programa integrado de NIH

- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)

## ¿Por qué es necesario que los jóvenes mantengan un peso saludable?

- Las cifras son alarmantes: 9 millones de niños sufren de sobrepeso
- Problemas serios de salud
- Enfermedades cardíacas
- Asma
- Depresión
- Diabetes de Tipo 2
- Otros problemas
- ¡Ayudando a los niños ayudamos                            a nuestras familias!

## ¿Por qué es importante la participación de los padres y las personas que cuidan a los niños?

- ¡Son un excelente ejemplo!
- ¡Son quienes tienen la mayor responsabilidad en el hogar!
- ¡Son un gran apoyo!

## Lo esencial del Programa ¡Podemos!

- Lo esencial del Programa ***¡******Podemos******!***

- Es un curso de 6 semanas
- Centrado en torno al “equilibrio     de la energía”...
- Temas centrales:
- Opciones para un mejor nutrición
- Aumento de la actividad física
- Reducción del tiempo frente a la          pantalla
- No es un programa para bajar de peso

## ¿Qué ¡Podemos!  hacer por usted?

- Esperamos que aprenda:
- Estrategias y nuevas herramientas
- Cómo dar un buen ejemplo
- Recursos para el futuro
- ¡Y esperamos que disfruten aprendiendo juntos!

## ¿Preguntas? ¿Comentarios?