BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 489247

##    Tax Reform	

- Martin Feldstein
- Harvard University and
- National Bureau of Economic Research

## The Tax Structure Has Become Much Better

- Reduced individual marginal tax rates
- Top rate down from: 91% in 1960, 70% in 1980
- Reduced corporate tax rate
- Rate down from 52% in 1960, 46% in 1980
- Fewer tax deductions and exclusions
- Major changes in Tax Reform Act of 1986
- Lower tax on dividends and capital gains

## Favorable Effects of Previous Personal Tax Reforms

- Lower tax rates improve:
- Work incentive
- Form of compensation
- Saving incentive
- Lower tax on corporate income, dividends and capital gains improve:
- Saving incentive
- Form of investment (corporate vs other) and finance (bias against dividends and in favor of debt finance)

## Priorities for the Future

- Reduce marginal tax rates that distort individual incentives
- Reduce corporate income tax distortions that now
- Reduce saving by lowering net return
- Reduce dividend payout because of double taxation
- Increase corporate use of debt finance

## “Fundamental Reforms” Would Achieve These Goals

- Value added tax (or national sales tax), Flat tax, Consumed Income tax
- BUT
- Distributional problems eliminate pure VAT and pure Flat Tax
- VAT and Consumed Income Tax involve major transition problems

## Two Possible Piecemeal Reforms Could Also Achieve Those Goals 

- Tax husbands and wives separately
- Integrate corporate and personal income tax rates

## Taxing Husbands and Wives Separately

- Lowers marginal rate on 2nd earners
- Common practice in most other countries
- Can be done in revenue neutral way
- Can be applied to wage and salary income  only or to all income

## Integrate Corporate and Personal Income Taxes

- “Gross-up and credit” method has been widely used  in other countries
- Total earnings imputed to individual taxpayers
- Corporate tax regarded as withholding at source
- Individual receives tax refund if personal rate less than “credit rate”
- Credit rate is 35% with complete integration but could be less to achieve revenue neutrality
- Could be combined with other corporate tax reforms, e.g., investment expensing

## Favorable Effects of CIT Integration

- Lowers tax rate on equity investment and saving
- Reduces anti-dividend bias in current law
- Reduces current bias in favor of debt finance
# Presentation: 532321

## Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting
“Countdown to Ignition and Gain”

December 3, 2008

**John H. Nuckolls**
**LLNL Director Emeritus**

**Fusion Power Associates Annual Meeting**
**“****Countdown to Ignition and Gain”**
**December 3, 2008**

**Search For**
**A “YES WE CAN” Ten Year**
**Inertial Fusion Energy Development Strategy**

*None of these remarks are necessarily the view of LLNL, LLNS-LLC, NNSA, the USG, or any other organization.*

## Ten Year Inertial Fusion Energy Development Strategy?

**Ten Years??**
- Manhattan Project in 4 years
- Apollo Program in 6 years

**Goal:**	In the next decade, develop Inertial Fusion Energy to address the great challenges of climate, energy, and the economy
**Funding:**  President-Elect Obama’s projected high national priority $150B, 10 year energy program

## Ten Year IFE Development Strategy?Exploits Four Key Technological Strengths

- Smaller, cheaper lasers enabled by advances in targets
- Fusion reaction chamber wall protected from radiation damage
- Separate laser, target factory, and fusion reaction chamber enable rapid innovation
- NIF, supercomputers, and outstanding experts will enable major improvements in target performance

## Ten Year IFE Development Strategy?Accelerate Ignition and Fast Ignition

**Why FI:**
- A second robust path to ignition and high gain
- Requires much smaller laser energy; enables a revolution in fusion energy development and economics
- Potential for major increases in target gain via increases in implosion efficiency

**How:**
- Surge in funding for Rochester FI experiments, FI target design at LLNL and University of Rochester, and for a NIF FI laser capability

## Ten Year IFE Development Strategy?Four Steps to Fusion Power

- Build an efficient high-average power laser module, a target factory module and a fusion chamber
- Build a surged, heat capacity IFE system
- Build a fusion engine
- Breed tritium supply to initiate larger fusion systems
- Waste from fission power plants
- Build a fusion power plant

## Ten Year IFE Development Strategy? Questions/Issues

- Major technological difficulties? Risks?
- Costs? Less than 10% of $150B?
- Strong, sustained, political support?
- Need detailed plans, system studies
# Presentation: 656712

## An evaluation of a new method for measuring low level vertical temperature structure

**Kipp & Zonen MTP-5HE**

## Test and Demonstration

**MTP5-HE collocated at**
**PSCAA RASS/Profiler site on NOAA CAMPUS**
**Hanford WA 400’ ft Met tower**
**Demonstrate **
**Accuracy**
**Ease of operation**
**Reliability**
**Ability to meet operational needs of PSCAA**

## MTP 5-HHarsh climate

**Height range up to 600 m**
**Height resolution 50 m**
**Rotating Teflon****TM ****scanner window minimizes cleaning**
**Frequency 59.6 GHz, 3****o view, Double Side-Band (DSB)**
**Very good accuracy**
**Wide ambient operating temperature range**
**Long-life scanner motor, typically 5 years operation**

## MTP 5-HEHarsh, Extended range

**Height range up to 1,000 m**
**Height resolution varies from 50 m to 120 m**
**Frequency 56.7 GHz, 3****o view,**** narrower bandwidth, Single Side-Band (SSB)**
**Improved specification of radiometer to maintain signal to noise performance**
**Mist, cloud and heavy rain slightly degrades accuracy of temperature measurement**

## MTP 5-PPolar

**For operation in Polar regions**
**Height range up to 600 m**
**Height resolution 10m in lowest part of scan**
**Frequency 60.4 GHz, <1****o view**
**Large parabolic dish antenna with very narrow beam angle**
**Modified 2AP sun tracker for antenna and radiometer scan**
**For use in Arctic and Antarctic**

## MTP 5- H/HE- What Does It Do ?

**Real-time measurement of air temperature in the Planetary Atmospheric Boundary Layer**
**Heights up to 1,000m above the instrument (depends on model type)**
**Simple automatic operation**
**Self-calibrating**
**Minimal maintenance**

## MTP 5-H/HE What Is The Method ?

**Passive Microwave Receiver**
**Measures 5 mm wavelength thermal radiation from the atmosphere from 0 - 90****° elevation**
**Software derives temperature**** ****profile**

- It is silent !!!

## MTP 5h/HE- What Is It For ?

**Air pollution forecasts**
**Emergency response**
**Weather now-casting (1-5 hrs)**
**Atmospheric chemistry studies**
**Model Validation**

## Output Graphics

## MTP5- HE

## Siting considerations

## Sand Point Data

**Compare RASS vs MTP 5HE**
**Understanding the differences**
**Virtual Temp **

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## Difference

## Slide 16

## Two Month Composite Results

- < 1 deg c

## MTP5-HE vs Hanford tower

## MTP5-HE vs Hanford tower- 50 m

## MTP5-HE vs Hanford tower 100 m

## Findings and next steps

**MTP5- HE met all objectives of the test.**
**Purchased 2 units (delivery Jun 08)**
**Deploy in Tacoma WA and Darrington Wa**
**Operate for one year**
**Develop a model evaluation project for BL and air quality considerations  **

## Conclusion

**This technology will greatly benefit Air Monitoring Networks and programs**

## Acknowledgements

**Robert Dolce, Kipp& Zonen**
**Ken Underwood, Minisodar, Inc**
**Josh Underwood, Minisodar, Inc**
**Matt Harper, Adam Petrusky, Puget Sound Clean Air**

## Comment

**More detailed .ppt on this technology is available upon request**
** **
# Presentation: 424349

## African easterly jet in ECMWF and GFS analyses and in GFS

- Medium-range forecasts
- --means over 40-50 days in June and July 2006

## These plots do not include fields at 650 hPa.

- GFS analyses stronger African Easterly jet than ECMWF, slightly further south

## 14 levels of fields (top) excluding 650;

- 26 levels including 650 (bottom)
- GFS analyses averaged over 30W-30E

## GFS forecasts act to shift African easterly jet southward, but forecast errors in easterly jet of same order as differences in analysis between ECMWF and GFS.

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Forecasts little change in easterly jet, accelerate westerly winds in boundary layer 

- Forecasts little change in easterly jet, accelerate westerly winds in boundary layer

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## GFS has stronger shallow vertical cell south of African easterly jet

## equator

## Slide 16

## 925 GFS

## Slide 18
# Presentation: 885815

## Remote Sensing of Mining

- Remote Sensing of Mining

## Remote Sensing Imagery

- Identification of mining operations
- map the extent, changes over time
- Identification of tailings, overburden piles
- Determination of water quality degradation
- mapping of acid mine drainage sediments
- coal fines accumulation
- watercourse diversions

## Determining Water Quality in Mine-Impacted Areas using Hyperspectral Data

## Biogeochemical model

## Imaging Spectroscopy

- These spectra are used to derive information based on the signature of the interaction of matter and energy expressed in the spectrum.

## Imaging Spectroscopy at Copper Basin TN

- Mining of massive sulfide ores (iron and copper) began in 1850
- Two major mining companies
- Cities Service Company
- Tennessee Chemical Company (declared bankrupt in 1989)
- 1891 open heap roasting of copper ore began. 15 years later all vegetation was destroyed.

## Mine drainage impacted stream at Copper Basin, TN

## Methods

- HyMap sensor flew three flight lines over the area on 9/25/99

- Sensor characteristics:
- 126 spectral bands: 0.45 – 2.5 nm
- 15nm bandwidths
- Ground sampling distance (pixel size): 5 meter
- Signal to noise ratio > 500:1

## Copperhill 

## Results

- Mine drainage sediments in the North Potato Creek and Davis Mill Creek are comprised of schwertmannite with trace to small amounts of goethite
- These minerals form in acid sulfate systems
- The pH of these stream reaches can be estimated to be pH 3-4 with moderate to high dissolved sulfate loads

## North Potato Creek

- Image processing algorithm output

- Bright pixels represent mine drainage sediments

## Copper Hill

- Ocoee River

- Davis Mill Creek

- Bright pixels represent mine drainage sediments

## Future Sensor Systems

- NASA Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) (launch April 13th, 2000)
- Hyperion Sensor
- 30 meter pixel resolution
- OrbView-4 by ORBIMAGE an affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corp. (launch late 2000)
- 8 meter pixel resolution
- ARIES-1 Hyperspectral Resource Mapping Satellite (launch ~2001)
- 30 meter pixel resolution

## Satellite Multispectral Imagery

** ****Data in multi-band digital format**

** ****More quantitative analysis possible**

** ****Used for landcover mapping over large areas**
**	****- automated**
**	****- archive goes back to 1972**

## Mountain Top Removal
# Presentation: 245497

## UMass at TDT 2000

- James Allan and Victor Lavrenko(with David Frey and Vikas Khandelwal)Center for Intelligent Information RetrievalDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst

## Work on Story Link Detection

- Active work on SLD
- Not ready in time for official submission
- Story “smoothing” using query expansion
- Score normalization based on language pair

## What is LCA?

- Local Context Analysis
- Query expansion technique from IR
- More stable than other “pseudo RF” approaches
- Application for more than document retrieval
- Basic idea
- Retrieve a set of passages similar to query
- Mine those passages for words near query
- Ad-hoc weighting designed to do that
- Add words to query and re-run

## LCA for story smoothing

- Convert story to a weighted vector
- Inquery weights (incl. Okapi tf component)
- Select top 100* *most highly weighted terms
- Find top 20 stories most similar (cosine)
- Weight all terms in top 20 stories (LCA)
- Select top 100 LCA expansion terms
- Add to story (decaying weights from 1.0)
- Story now represented by 100-200 terms
- Compare smoothed story vectors

## Smoothing SLD with LCA

- Run on training data (english)
- Green line is no smoothing
- Blue is smooth with past stories
- Pink is smooth with whole corpus (cheating)

## Work on Story Link Detection

*Story “smoothing” using query expansion*
- Score normalization based on language pair

## Score normalization

- Noticed that SYSTRAN documents were throwing scores off substantially
- Multilingual SLD was much worse that ENG only
- Look at distribution of scores in same-topic and different-topic pairs

## Score distributions, same topic

**EE**

**MM**

**ME**

## Score distributions, diff topic

**EE**

**MM**

**ME**

## Clearly need to normalize

- SYSTRAN stories use different vocabulary
- Stories are much more likely to be alike
- And much less likely to be like true English
- Develop normalization based on whether within or cross-language
- Convert scores into probabilities
- Use distribution plots for each case

## Combined distribution (before normalization)

**Same topic**

**Diff. topic**

## After normalization(on same data--”cheating”)

**Same topic**

**Diff. topic**

**Probabilities!**

## DET plots from normalization

- Huge change in distributions
- Less pronounced change in DET plot

## Conclusions

- Story smoothing with LCA works
- Need to “smooth” with all stories before *later*
- Need to use different matching for smoothing and then story-story comparison
- Score normalization has potential
- Other sites have found similar effects
- Experiments on source-type (audio, newswire) within language pairs have been inconclusive
- Not much training data for doing conversion
# Presentation: 016423

## Recognition 

**Is a basic human need**
**Builds self esteem**
- Should be part of all 4-H experiences
**Can take many forms **
**Requires adult support**

## Recognition 

**Should be offered in a balance of tangible and intangible forms **
**Is given to all youth who are participating **
**Provides public feedback soon after the accomplishment**

## Recognition

**Includes an avenue for self assessment and reflection**
**Supports individual choice in learning and participation**

## Participation 

- Simple Requirements that are well publicized
- Earned many times
- Presented at activity
- Appropriate for activity and youth
**Not expensive but valued by youth**

## Progress Toward Self Set Goals 

- 1. For all ages and activities
- 2. Realistic and reachable
- 3. Uses youth’s own goals and plan
- 4. Evaluated by youth and adults
- 5. Measured against youth’s goals

## Achievement of Standards 

- 1.	Established by specialists
- 2.	Clearly defined and not changed
- 3.	Uses rating categories
- 4. Measures quality

## Peer Competition 

- 1. Not for young children
- 2. Can confuse the means with the 	ends
- 3. Needs clear rules and procedures
- 4. Can be high risk
- 5. May generate publicity
- 6. Should be optional

## Excellence in Cooperation 

- 1.	Involves all fully
- 2.	Uses mutually agreed upon goals
- 3.	Gives attention to the way the 	group works
- 4.	Ultimate goal is not recognition
- 5. Recognizes all
# Presentation: 194304

## EGPM

- The European Contribution to Global Precipitation Measurement

***Status***

*A.Ginati, A.Tobias, E.Herland*
*ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands*

## Artist’s View

**Artist’s View**

**Active/passive microwave sensing well established **
**Innovation: imaging + sounding + radar**

## Background

- In the TRMM era

- - Several mission proposals for implementation as Earth Explorer missions (1994, 1998)
- Support to TRMM exploitation
- Science development
- Technology development
- EGPM proposed as candidate Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission
- Significant mission / system definition and technology development work achieved

- In the GPM era

**Background**

## Background

- EGPM proposed for implementation as Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission (EEOM) in response to second call for EEOM
- Conceived as:
- ESA contribution to GPM
- Own objectives and optimised for high latitudes, light rain, snow; flood forecasting in Mediterranean areas
- Developed at phase A level
- Mission Advisory Group
- Mission science definition and performance estimation studies
- System and support studies
- Technology pre-development activities
- Programmatic dossier

## Status: Explorer Selection Process

- Evaluated for selection among a set of candidates:
- ACE+, EGPM, Swarm
- EarthCARE, SPECTRA, WALES
- For Explorer Missions to be launched in 2008/9 – 2010/11
- Subject to thorough scientific and technical / programmatic reviews:
- Science: community, Explorer Consultation meeting (19-20 April), Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC)
- Technical / programmatic review panels
- Recommendations of ESAC
- Proposal implementation recommendations
- Decision Programme Board Earth Observation (PB-EO), May 2004

## Status: EGPM evaluation

- Technical / Programmatic Review: mature, go ahead
- Main Considerations and Recommendation of ESAC on EGPM
- Precipitation, atmospheric parameter least well known
- Uniqueness of EGPM recognised
- Full science benefit requires whole GPM, (timing EGPM)
- Semi-operational nature of the mission
- Pursue EGPM in different programmatic framework (Earth Watch)
- Decision PB-EO accordingly

## Status: Results of Explorer Selection

- SWARM

- EGPM

- ACE+

- Selected as
**Explorer – 5**
- Launch 2008 / 2009

- Seek implementation in Earth Watch

## Next 

- The **Earth Explorer** missions:
- - Provide the data to understand the processes
- - Develop the science underlying the applications
- - Demonstrate the techniques and system concepts

- The **Earth Watch **missions:
- Support the applications
- Provide data continuity as required to study numerous science issues

- Dual mission strategy

- Discussion with operational partners
- Work plan
# Presentation: 380462

## root_macros in em_analyze

- What it is:
- A set of utilities to analyze output rootuples of em_analyze.
- It continues the work of Frederic Fleuret and Michel Jaffre’s
- ROOT analyze work.
- Location: em_analyze/root_macros/
- Versions:
-  v01-02-03 & later
-  p10 branch: vp10-br-02 & later
- Documentation: em_analyze/doc/root_macros.html

## Contents

- In the root_macros directory:
- electron.H
- electron.cpp: main program
- electron.h: automatically generated from rootuple
- fiducial_example.C
- run_electron.sh: shell script to run *electron. *(Yi Jiang)
- In the subdirectory D0Util/ are some utilities:
- D0Util.h: A ROOT file to set the detectors position.
- D0Fiducial.h: A ROOT file to set the fiducial cuts, and define
-       fiducial objects.
- 3.	Particle.h: A ROOT file to set the particle status.

## Running root_macros

- Check out em_analyze
- Run the script file:
- 	>em_analyze/root_macros/***run_electron.sh*** <File 1> <File 2> ...
- 	<Files> are valid output root files of reco_analyze.
- Attn.:
- The files in the command line should have the same
- reco_analyze version.

## Output

- Currently 19 postscript files:
- electron_cc.ps 		electron_phi_cc.ps
- electron_cc_s.ps 	electron_phi_cc_s.ps
- electron_cc_so.ps	electron_phi_ec_so.ps
- electron_ec.ps 	            electron_phi_ec.ps
- electron_ec_s.ps 	electron_phi_ec_s.ps
- electron_ec_so.ps 	electron_phi_cc_so.ps
- deltapT_cc.ps		deltapT_ec.ps
- id_cc.ps		id_ec.ps
- electron_eta.ps 	electron_eta_s.ps 	electron_eta_so.ps

## histograms
# Presentation: 185679

## Assessing Organizational Readiness to Change: A Review of Research to Date and Development of a Cross-QUERI Agenda 

**Christian D. Helfrich**
*Ischemic Heart Disease-QUERI*
**Carmen Hall**
*Polytrauma and Blast-Related Injuries-QUERI*
**Bryan J. Weiner**
*University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill*
**Daniel T. Holt**
- Air Force Institute of Technology

## Objectives
Discuss organizational readiness to change
Review the literature and 4 specific tools
Outline a cross-QUERI research agenda for improving the assessment of organizational readiness to change

- Discuss organizational readiness to change
- Review the literature and 4 specific tools
- Outline a cross-QUERI research agenda for improving the assessment of organizational readiness to change

## Assessing Organizational Readiness to Change: A Review of Research to Date and Development of a Cross-QUERI Agenda 

**Christian D. Helfrich**
*Ischemic Heart Disease-QUERI*
**Carmen Hall**
*Polytrauma and Blast-Related Injuries-QUERI*
**Bryan J. Weiner**
*University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill*
**Daniel T. Holt**
- Air Force Institute of Technology
# Presentation: 374482

## Update and Plans

- Nancy Kirkendall
- Director, Statistics and Methods

## Outline

- Status of Strategic Plan
- Natural Gas
- Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
- Electricity
- Short Term Energy Outlook

## EIA’s  Strategic Plan the Three Goals

- EIA’s information program will be relevant, reliable and consistent with changing energy markets and EIA’s information products will retain or improve their high quality and timeliness.
- EIA’s resource base will be sufficient to accomplish all core elements of its mission.
- 3. 	EIA will have effective leadership and management, and EIA staff will be highly motivated and productive.

**Notes:**
Strategic Plan was rolled out on 4/5/04
Senior Planning Staff been working on for over a year now
Make EIA a better place to work
Improve our products and services 
Your comments have been incorporated
Also heard from Stakeholders on the Plan 
Includes goals on products and services
Added goal on IT
Howard and Guy will steward the document.

## What to Measure

- Relevancy and Reliability
- Number of Information products requested
- Percent frames deemed sufficient
- Outside expert evaluation
- Quality
- Surveys meeting quality targets
- Customers satisfied and very satisfied
- Timeliness – release targets
- Customer and Stakeholder Involvement –List of events

## Challenges in How to Measure

- Survey Frames (Thursday morning)
- Outside experts rate AEO/IEO as relevant and reliable, consistent with changing industry structures, quality, and timeliness (Thursday morning)
- Surveys meeting output performance and timeliness targets (Friday morning)

**Notes:**
ACSI

## Natural Gas 

- Natural gas production
- Evaluation of Methods
- In Texas – the bias
- In the Gulf
- A new survey
- Commercial and Residential Prices – expanding Natural Gas Marketer Survey to other States
- Industrial Prices
- Still considering Census Bureau assistance

## CIPSEA

- Recent accomplishments
- 11 information collections under CIPSEA
- Modified confidentiality wording and implemented it in all 2004 surveys
- Work in progress
- Developing a training program for staff
- Participating in an interagency committee led by OMB to develop guidance for agencies

## Electricity 

- Committee suggested data needs depend on the industry structure-- which is still in flux.
- Where we are now
- Focus Groups
- Electricity 2005
- Transmission Data Needs by Doug Hale
- Data Edits for the 920

## Short Term Energy Outlook

- Improving the STEO – a new initiative for EIA
- Today’s agenda
# Presentation: 599529

## Status of HDF-EOS Aura Guidelines

- Cheryl Craig

## Changes Since Last DSWG

- Status of HDF-EOS Aura Guidelines

- Aura Guidelines accepted May 2008 as a final Technical Note in NASA’s Standards Process Group collection
- 			*http://www.esdswg.com/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-009** *
- “Creating File Format Guidelines: The Aura Experience”
- Request from several people including Rama to document the procedures we used to create Guidelines
- In preliminary review stage with Standards Process Group
- Authorship list: Cheryl Craig, Paul Wagner, David Cuddy, ChristinaVuu, Scott Lewicki, Doug Ilg
- Daniel Kahn (SSAI) has indicated interest in using Aura Guidelines with modifications – Rich Ullman talking to Standards Process Group on how to allow them to evolve

## HDF-EOS workshop impact on Guidelines

- Status of HDF-EOS Aura Guidelines

- With merging of HDF5 and NetCDF4, exploring the possibility of adding dimension scales to allow reading of Aura Grid files via HDF5 or NetCDF4 calls.
- Working with both Kent (MuQun) Yang at HDF and Ed Hartnett at NetCDF on this.
- Will keep group informed
*VERY PRELIMINARY*

## Aura Document Location

- Status of HDF-EOS Aura Guidelines

**http://www.eos.ucar.edu/hirdls/HDFEOS_Aura_File_Format_Guidelines.doc**
**http://www.eos.ucar.edu/hirdls/HDFEOS_Aura_File_Format_Guidelines.pdf**
**	**
# Presentation: 316678

## Jeremy Heaton, M.D.Professor, Dept. of Urology, Dept. of Pharmacology & ToxicologyQueens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

**Uprima****®**** ****Presentation****TAP Holdings Inc.**

- E001451 Primary

- Urpima®

## Current Basis of ED Management

- Individualization of diagnosis and treatment
- Consideration of the partner and the environment
- Lifestyle modification and education
- Current treatment emphasis
- Non-invasive therapies first (only one oral agent available)
- Patient/partner choice of therapy

- ED-Management

## Uprima® Works by a Central Mechanism

**Cerebral Cortex**

**Hypothalamus**

**Spinal Cord**

**Paraventricular Nucleus**

**Erectolytic**
**imagination, anxiety, fear,**
**depression, neural afferents**

**Erectogenic**
**imagination, visual, olfactory,**
**neural afferents**

**Neurotransmitters**
**NO, dopamine, serotonin,**
**oxytocin**

**Uprima****®**

**Neural Erectile Signaling**

- +

- -

- Uprima® Works by a Central Mechanism

- Argiolas et al. *Brain Res* 421: 349-352, 1987 and others.

- ED Management
# Presentation: 921874

## Interoperable Modes For Key Recovery

- NOTE: This is a technical presentation concerned with interoperability only. Policy decisions could limit implementation of this model.

## Key Recovery Modes

- Decryption Key Escrow -- TTP, Key Backup
- Session Key Recovery -- KRA
- ISSUE: Requirements for realtime voice/data have not been adequately defined

## Interoperability - Key Escrow

- Rationale: Maximize authorized access and maintain interoperability with non-key escrowed implementations
- Requirement: FIPS compliant implementations will always include originator as a cryptographic recipient

## Key Escrow Matrix

- FIPS

- NON-FIPS

- FIPS

- NON-FIPS

- Recipient

- Originator

## Interoperability - Key Recovery

- Rationale: Maximize authorized access and maintain interoperability with non-KRA implementations.
- Rationale: Session keys wrapped for KRA are included in the same way as any other recipient/key-info pair
- Requirement: Originator always includes KRA as a cryptographic recipient for purposes of session key recovery - Recipient/wrapped key pair

## Key Recovery Matrix

- FIPS

- NON-FIPS

- FIPS

- NON-FIPS

- Recipient

- Originator

## Interoperability- KRA

- Rationale: A desire to support multiple session key recovery techniques (even for one KRA)
- Requirement: Wrapped session keys are preceded by a registered OID identifying the recovery technique used
- Requirement: Key-Info fields must have a well-defined standard format for FIPS compliance

## Interoperability Applications

- Rationale: To provide a common standard applications for Government, Corporate, and Individual users
- Requirement: Allow KRA to be at least one-time configurable - Recipient-id and Recovery method
- NOTE: For key escrow implementation Originator = KRA, Method = Key Exchange
# Presentation: 128337

## Mechanical Program

- Eric Anderssen, LBNL engineer working on ATLAS pixels is phasing into our pixel program – full time in January 2008 (carbon composite expert)
- Contracted ARES company for analysis on cooling, precision mount design and refinement of ladder stability.
- Phone meetings weekly
- First results –
- we will need a sub ambient cooling system
- simplified precision mount
- First stage report due in January
- Addressing two items:
- Cylinder modifications for integration of GEMS, IST and Pixels
- Pixel mechanical design

## Cut Apart Current Cones August 2009

- Old East Cone and most of Beams to be reused to support New West Cone
- Old West cone refurbished into New East Cone in Berkeley
- Cut Carbon Elliptical Beams avoiding  Al Insert

*Send to Berkeley*

*Keep at Brookhaven*

- Eric Anderssen

## Modified East Cone and Install with New West Cylinder

- View as Temporary Fix—Should be ACAP (as cheap as possible)
- Supports end of New West Cone/FGT
- Replicates Old Beam Pipe Interfaces
- Includes SSD if required
- Only for summer ’09 to ‘10
- Wholly Machined/Bonded Solution
- Tooling to locate Buck Plate while bonding is required...

*Buck Plate aimed for*
*Easy Swap of replacement*

*Some Tooling Required...*

*~1.5m*

- Eric Anderssen

## Goal—Swap-in Replacement and Install pixels – summer 2010

*Should Be*
*Same Length*

*New East Cone with Cylindrical Shell made from Old West Cone*
*Swap in by matching Bolted Interface to New West Cone...*

*Modification*
*Will Take Up*
*Length...*

*Include SSD interface On Shell*

- Eric Anderssen

## Inner Support Cylinder  (ISC)

- ISC fits inside and is supported by the cone

- ISC supports IST on outside

- ISC

- ISC supports pixel and beam pipe inside

## Pixel support structure – current development

**2.5 cm radius**

**8 cm radius**

**Inner layer**
**Outer layer**

**End view**

**ALICE style carbon support beams (green)**

## Sector/ladder design

- thinned MAPS chips
- 2 cm by 2 cm, 50 μm thick

- multilayer aluminum kapton
- flex circuit cable for signal and power

- thin carbon composite substrate

- carbon composite support beam

## Conceptual mechanical design

## Pixel placement concept

- Detector assembly slides in on rails
- Parallelogram hinges support the two detector halves while sliding
- Cam and follower controls the opening of the hinges during insertion and extraction
- Detector support transfers to kinematic dock when positioned at the operating location

**pixel support hinges**

**cam followers and linear cam**

**slide rails**

**sliding carriage**

**kinematic dock**

## Cam guided insertion operation

- Open

- Closed

## Hinge analysis

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Two sector patch installation – summer 2010

## cable bundle

| connection type | number of pairs | allocated pair diameter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analog power | 1 | 6mm |
| Digital power | 1 | 6mm |
| signal  | 40 | .64mm |
| sync | 1 | .64mm |
| clk | 1 | .64mm |
| marker | 1 | .64mm |
| Jtage (5 conductors) | 3 | .64mm |
# Presentation: 729656

## Office of Allowances Bureau of Administration

- eAllowances
- Phase II Update
- Web.PASS Application

**February 2008**

## Operates under WebPASS

## Phase I - Per Diem Released Jan 2006

- Automated Submission of the Per Diem (Hotel and Restaurant) Survey.  As of Jan 2008, over 470 surveys have been submitted using eAllowances.

## Phase 2 – Scheduled for Worldwide Release in April 2008

- Automates submission of all Allowance/Differential Surveys except Danger Pay (i.e. Hardship Questionnaire, Retail Price Survey, Education Survey & Living Quarters Expenditure Survey).
- Approved by ITCCB in January 2008
- Initially will be deployed only to posts scheduled to submit surveys in February/March 2008 timeframe.
- Full deployment scheduled for April 2008

## FSI Distance Learning Training Support

**FSI Distance Learning Training Support**

***Available Now:****** ***
*** ******PA461 - eAllowances Per Diem***
*** ******PA463 - Post Allowance: Retail Price Survey Data Collection *****   **
***Available Mid-April 2008:***
** *****PA462 - eAllowances: Retail Price Survey (using eAllowances to submit Retail Price Surveys)***
**          **

## Comments or QuestionsContact us by phone 202-261-8700or eMailAllowancesO@state.gov
# Presentation: 681633

## Miniature Cryogenic Turboalternator  Creare, Inc.Hanover, NH

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- High speed shaft in cryogenic gas bearings.
- High precision, automated miniature rotor fabrication techniques.
- Demonstrated shaft/bearing system at 50o Kelvin.
- Achieved design speed and power targets for the alternator.
**  ****	****	****COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Longer term commercial applications include cryocoolers for low temperature and high temperature superconducting medical and electronics instruments.

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

- 1992 Phase II, SS-154, 07/03

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- A $13 million multi-year Phase III contract awarded by NASA resulted in the successful installation and operation of a 75°K cooler on Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS instrument.
- Multi-stage coolers for Air Force space IR sensors at temperatures as low as 10°K.
- Likely bidder for a 4oK to 6oK cooler for James Webb Space Telescope MIRI instrument.

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**                   ****INNOVATION**
- Miniature, high speed vibration free, turboalternator

- Points of Contact:
- 	NASA – Rob Boyle: (301) 286-7185
- 	Creare, Inc. – Mike Izenson: (603) 643-3800
# Presentation: 004598

## ...

- Readout Crate

- L1, L2 Trigger

- L3 VRC

- L3 Filter

- L3 Supervisor

- Collector/Router

- Data Distributor

- Data Logger

- Dipole Corrector
- Controller

- VxWorks Server
- (MC68k)

- Primary Vertex Reconstructor

- Beam Position Client/Server Control

**Beam**

**Dipole Magnet**

**Detector**

**Trigger & Readout**

**NT Level 3**

**UNIX Servers**

**Linux PC**

**...**

**Data Cable**

**Ethernet**

**Overview: Beam Position Feedback Communication**

## Dzero EPICS Online Control LAN 

**Alarm**
**Server**

**Online**
**Database **
**Server**

- L3 Events

**Data**
**Distributor**

**EPICS/ACENET**
**Gateway Server**

**Accelerator**
**Console**

**Lumberjack**
**Data Logger**

**Dipole**
**Corrector**
**Controller**

**Dzero EPICS Online Control LAN**

**FNAL ACNET LAN**

**Verterx EXAMINE**

- ITC Client

- - Feedback Control

- - Database Archiving

- - Alarm notifying

- GUI Server

- ITC Server

**Beam Position **

**Control & Monitor**

- GUI
- Client

**Communication: Architecture**

## Communication: Main Thread Flow Diagram

- Yi Dai

- Wait for ITC Client Message

- Calculate Beam Position Deviations

- Deviations Out of Range?

- Activate CA Client

- Check Alarm Status

- Database Archiving

**ITC Client**

**CA Server**

**Alarm **
**Server**

**Database **
**Server**

**YES**

**NO**

**ITC Server**
# Presentation: 190278

## Department of Veterans AffairsHomeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program

- Jeffery L. Quarles MRC, LICDC
- Clinical Manager
- Grant and Per Diem Program

## Background

- Purpose to promote the development of Supportive Housing/and or Supportive Services to homeless veterans.
- Partnerships with Non-profits or local government organizations.
- Supported housing (up to 24 months) or Service Centers.

## Background

- Goal of funded projects
- Achieve residential stability
- Increase skill level and/or income
- Achieve greater self determination

## Background

- Grant opportunities are offered annually (as funding permits).
- FY 05- 290 Operational Programs with almost 8,000 beds;
-  Over 16,000 admissions (NEPEC, 2006).

## Legislative Intent

- Encourage New and Innovative Programs
- Encourage Collaboration
- Respect Community Providers’ Expertise
- Encourage Non-Duplication of Resources
- Encourage Rural and Urban Initiatives

## Funding Opportunities -Grants

- Creating new facilities or new components of existing ones...
- Up to 65% of costs...
- Acquisition
- Construction
- Renovation

## Funding Opportunities- Per Diem

- Per Diem may be funded for operational costs;
- Supportive Housing
- Service Centers
- Supportive housing rent may be charged.

**Notes:**
For supported housing- up to $29.31 per day
Maximum hourly rate for a service center no connected with supported housing is 1/8th daily cost of care not to exceed the VA sate home rate for  domiciliary care. 
Rent may not exceed 30% of veterans’ monthly adjusted income.

## Application Process

- Contact local  Homeless Coordinator
- Announce NOFA
- Send Applications
- Threshold Review
- Panel Review
- Second Submission
- Announce Award

**Notes:**
Contact with your VA Homeless Coordinator is important to help identify the appropriate contact at your local VA.  Working with your local VA is vital to ensure the project that is being developed will meet a need in your area and is supported by your VA.  (Local Homeless listing on VA website, address I will supply at the end of the presentation.

## Special Initiatives

- Special Needs Grants
- Authorized by P.L. 107-95;
- to provide funding to assist both non-profit organizations and VA medical Centers address the needs of special populations of homeless veterans: (3 year funding)

## Special Needs Grants

- Chronically mentally Ill
- 16 programs: $10,705,026 with 305 beds
- Women, including Women with children
- 8 programs: $2,739,838 with 112 beds
- Frail Elderly
- 3 programs: $1,523,004 with 51 beds
- Terminally Ill
- 2 programs: $709,523 with 17 beds

## Additional Information		

- VHA Homeless Webpage
- _[http://www1.va.gov/homeless/](http://www1.va.gov/homeless/)_
- Web page has links to info on VA Homeless Programs
- Homeless Programs and Initiatives
- Grant and Per Diem Program info
- VA Homeless Coordinators by State

## Contact information

- GPD Office
- Roger Casey
- Guy Liedke
- Chelsea Watson
- Bob Gegan
- Jeff Quarles
- Sue Sigwart
- Toll Free
- 877-332-0334
# Presentation: 523521

## Tom Sherwin, 

**Tom Sherwin, **
**Operations-WG lead,**
**Assistant Director HEC**
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
- University of California, San Diego
- La Jolla, Ca 92093-0505
- sherwint@sdsc.edu

**Teragrid Operations and Support**

## What is the TOC?

**Teragrid Operations Center**
**Central contact for TeraGrid support**
**Distributed**
**7x24**
**Provides a highly coordinated interface to individual sites/groups**

## TOC responsibilities

**To recommend policies and define procedures**
**Monitor and maintain operational status of Teragrid resources**
**Perform proactive corrective and performance verification**
**Assist in problem determination**
**Provide first level of support for technical issues**
**Provide second level of support to user services**

## Non-TOC issues

**	****(Simplistically)**
**User cannot compile code**
**Code optimizations**
**General user education/training**

## Teragrid Monitoring

**The TOC must actively monitor Teragrid resources**
- Clusters and nodes within them
- Networks
- Filesystems
- Storage
- Anything else users might need to know
**Must have enough information to begin troubleshooting process**

## Teragrid Trouble

**The TOC may receive a trouble report via phone, web, or email**
**TOC operations staff must create tickets and triage them based on information provided**
**Must also determine whether a grid problem exists, or a site-specific one**
**Procedures must be defined to transfer tickets between Teragrid sites**
**Most important: Nothing gets dropped**

## Problem Tracking

**Most sites already have a system in place**
**Probably won’t be able to force grid sites into using a specific system**
**Ops-wg must define the interactions between the distinct site ticket systems**

## Other Working Groups

**User Services**
- define distinction between user and service problems more clearly
**Clusters**
- monitoring data
- ops defines attributes and mechanisms
- clusters provides attribute data via those mechanisms
- verification tools
- clusters provides tools to verify
**Networking**
- Must have means of interaction for support
**Grids**
- Authentication issues
- Grid scheduling issues

## Summary

**The TOC will be relied upon heavily to provide coordination of support resources across the TeraGrid sites**
**Lots of work ahead defining processes to monitor and act on events as they occur**
**Most important are the processes by which problems are tracked and resolved**
# Presentation: 677936

## CDC’s Short Version of the ICECI--A Pilot Test

**Office of Statistics and Programming**
**National Center for Injury Prevention and Control**
**in collaboration with Massachusetts DPH**
**and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission**

## CDC’s Short ICECI--A Pilot Test

**using injury-related ED visits**

**  ****Two Systems-Massachusetts ED SCIP and NEISS**
**  ****ICECI Case Scenarios**
**  ****Field test (16 MA hospitals; 7 NEISS hospitals)**
**  ****Participant survey**

## CDC’s Short ICECI--A Pilot Test

**Lessons Learned for short versions of  ICECI 1.0 used in hospital EDs**

**  ****Mechanism (Underlying and Direct)**
**  ****Narrative**
**  ****Use coding rules consistent with ICECI 1.0 & comparable with ICD-10 using CDC’s framework**

## CDC’s Short ICECI--A Pilot Test

**Lessons Learned for Short Versions of ICECI 1.0 used in hospital EDs**

** ****Training and orientation of hospital medical staff**
** ****Train coders using guidelines/coding manual**
**  ****Electronic data entry and ongoing QA program**

## NEISS All Injury Program-July 1, 2000

**  ****National estimates of nonfatal injuries treated in US hospital EDs**
**  ****Approx. 600,000 cases per year**
**  ****Mechanism (underlying and direct); Intent**
**  ****Electronic data entry and ongoing QA program**

## NEISS All Injury Program-Data Release

**  **
# Presentation: 703541

## DIVERSITYTODAY’S GLOBAL REALITY

**INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION**

**ITA’S DIVERSITY Year-To-Date**

## ITA Overall HQ & Domestic Population

**ITA Overall HQ & Domestic Population**
**                ****Diversity Profile – March 2006 **

-               ITA Population:  _1432 _
-           (Includes 295 TP&USFCS employees serviced by NOAA ASCs)

## March 2006

**Diversity Profile by Program Unit**
**             ****2006 Year-to-Date **

## ITA’s RNO by Gender – March 2006

- ITA HQ & Domestic Population:  _1432_
-           (Includes 295 TP&USFCS employees serviced by NOAA ASCs)

- 664 (46.3%)

- 768 (53.7%)

## ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – March 2006

**ITA HQ & Domestic Upper Grade Levels – March 2006**

-                                  Total # GS-13 & Above:  _839_    (58.6 % of HQ & Domestic ITA Population)

- _Minority Group_:              _Total ITA Population_:      _#s  in Grades GS-13 and Above_:          _Percentage in upper grades_:
- Black                                               251                                           73                                                     29%
- White:                                             1040                                         696                                                 66.9%
- Asian:		         81                                            40                                                  49.3%
- Hispanic:                                          59                                            30                                                  50.8%
- AmInd                                              01                                              0                                                     --

## ITA Veterans2006 Year-to-Date 

**ITA Disabled Employees****2006 Year-to-Date**

## ITA Diversity Comparison 

|  ITA YTD | 4.1% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 3.7% |
|  CLF  | 12.6% |

|  ITA YTD | 53.7% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 46.3% |
|  CLF  | 45.6% |

|  ITA YTD | 0.1% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 0.6% |
|  CLF  | 0.6% |

|  ITA YTD | 5.6% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 8.4% |
|  CLF  | 4.1% |

|  ITA YTD | 17.5% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 16.7% |
|  CLF  | 10.1% |

|  ITA YTD | 7.0% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 12.8% |
|  CLF  | 9.4% |

|  ITA YTD | 3.7% |
| --- | --- |
|  DOC | 5.9% |
|  Federal Rep.  | 7.0% |

**Hispanic**

**Women**

**Am Indian**

**Asian**

**Black**

**Veteran**

**Employees Disabled**

- _Source:_**  **
-     ITAOHRM
-  OPM 2006 Report to Congress  (FY2005)
-  OPM 2004 Report to Congress (Sep 2003 data)
-  OPM 2005 Annual Report on Employment of Veterans in Federal Government (FY2004 Data)
-  OPM Federal Civilian Workforce Statistics: The Fact Book 2004 Edition ((FY 2003 Data)

- Red shading indicates ITA under representation in a specific
- minority group.

- CLF:  Civilian Labor Force
# Presentation: 220133

## Beyond the Pouch:DIS in the 21st Century

- Dawn Broussard, MPH
- Sr. Public Health Advisor
- Chicago Department of Public Health
- STD/HIV Prevention and Care Program

## DIS Roles Defined ~ mid-1960’s

- “A new public health professional, the venereal disease investigator, was introduced in the 1940’s.  These investigators, in interviewing venereal disease patients, searched out the many sex contacts of each known infection back to the incubation period”.

## Oh, the places you’ll go...

- Public and Private Hospitals
- Corrections
- Drug Treatment
- Adolescent Programming
- Outreach
- Bioterrorism/Emergency Efforts
- Other HD units

## DIS Duties Revisited

- On-site surveillance
- STD infection control
- Case management
- Formal and informal training of staff
- Interpret results and recommend treatment
- HIV/Hepatitis counseling and testing

- Prevention education
- Health promotion
- Specimen collection
- Movement of individuals (corrections, drug treatment)
- Liaison between agency and HD
- Other duties as assigned...

## “Indigenous” DIS

- Hired by agency
- Trained by health department
- Dual reporting to agency and HD supervisor
- Same performance indicators as HD DIS
- Participate in trainings, staff meetings and chalk talks

## Howard Brown Health Center

- The Midwest’s largest LGBT health center
- In 2003, reported 28% of MSM syphilis cases in Chicago
- Approximately 7,500 clients annually

## Advantages to HD and Agency

- Fewer restrictions on how, when and where they work
- Financial savings
- Indirect costs, fringe benefits may be less
- Strengthens ties between HD and agency
- Expands recruitment opportunities, career ladder for both sides

## Advantages

- Better received by clients
- Clinical and case management services in same location
- Perceived as more empathetic, less judgmental
- Not viewed as “government” interference in personal life
- Providers encourage clients to see HBHC DIS
- On-site referrals to social services

## A little bit of data...

|  | CDPH 
Clinic  | HBHC |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Syphilis Cases Interviewed | 88% | 95% |
| Cases Interviewed w/in 3 Days | 73% | 79% |
| Contact Index for MSM Cases | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Cluster Index | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| H&J Rate for P/S/A | 14% | 9% |

## Conclusion

- DIS are not relics from another era
- “Indigenous” DIS can enhance program’s ability to reach specific target populations
- DIS have a unique skill set that allows them to take on numerous roles
- DIS continue to provide STD  programs with the flexibility needed to respond to changing priorities

## AcknowledgementsAndrew DelicataJan HilandGus CondaLisa Varella

- For More Information:
- Dawn Broussard
- Phone:  (312) 747-3447
- Email:  broussard_dawn@cdph.org
# Presentation: 207860

## Large-Scale Educational Research in Multiple Sites: 

- The Case of Scaling-UP PALS
- Doug Fuchs
- Vanderbilt University

## Data Collection and Other Issues

- Coordination across sites:
- Training testers (Texas)
- Training teachers in treatment implementation requires specification and centralization
- Collecting fidelity of treatment data
- Ensuring accuracy in scoring protocols, creating data files, etc.
- Ms. Loulee Yen in Year 2

## Subject Recruitment across Sites and across Years

- Teacher perceptions of K-PALS in Nashville vs. Mpls. Vs. South Texas
- Recruiting in South Texas across years and implications for study design

## Beyond Scaling Up

- Implicit in IES’s so-called scaling-up studies is treatment is fixed
- Advantages of fixed treatments
- Disadvantages of fixed treatments
- Exploring boundaries of “customization”