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## Monterey, USA

June 30th to July 2nd, 2004

**Monterey, USA**
**June 30th to July 2nd, 2004**

**ARGOS NEXT**

## ARGOS NEXT GROUND SEGMENT ELEMENTS

**1. ARGOS PROCESSING CENTERS**

**All the Following Modifications were successfully tested during On-Orbit Test Phase:**

** ****File Exchanges with the ADEOS II Ground Segment**

** ****ADEOS II/Argos DCS Level 0 Data and HK Telemetry Processing**

** ****Processing of Argos Messages Relating to the Downlink Messaging**

** ****28 Bit ID Numbers**

**Compatibility with DEOS II Spacecraft Maneuvers**

## Slide 3

## LEVEL 0 DATA DISPOSAL TIMES

**STORED DATA : 94% of the Data Within 3 hours**

**REAL-TIME DATA : 87% of the Data Within 40 Minutes**

***“******FROM MAY 5, 2003  TO OCTOBER 23, 2003 , THE ARGOS PROCESSING CENTERS WERE PROCESSING AND DELIVERING THE ARGOS/ADEOS II DCS DATA, ON AN OPERATIONAL BASIS” ***

## 2. DOWNLINK MESSAGE MANAGEMENT CENTER (DMMC)

**DMMC ROLE IS TO CENTRALIZE, VALIDATE AND SCHEDULE DOWNLINK MESSAGE REQUESTS FROM USERS BEFORE XMITTING THEM TO THE SATELLITE**

**TOULOUSE (late 2002) – **
**LARGO (initially planned for mid 2004)**

**TESTING WAS COMPLETED AND AVAILABLE TO BETA TESTERS IN 3Q 2003**

## 3. MASTER BEACONS

**TOULOUSE - *****OPERATIONAL***

**HATOYAMA - *****OPERATIONAL***

**FAIRBANKS – *****To be repaired***

## 4. PLATFORM MESSAGING TRANSCEIVER (PMT)

** ****BATHY SYSTEMS USING AN  IESM/MARTEC RCVR**

** ****PROTOTYPES COMPLETED IN EARLY SUMMER 2003**

** ****50 UNITS AVAILABLE IN 2003 FOR INITIAL APPLICATIONS – *****DRIFTERS, FLOATS***

** ****OTHER MANUFACTURERS WERE SHOWING INTEREST: *****MARTEC, TOYOCOM, SEIMAC ***

** ****INTERACTIVE TRANSMISSION SUCCESFULLY TESTED IN SEPTEMBER 2003 : 32 MESSAGES PER PASS**

** ****SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION IN OCEANS 2003 (SAN DIEGO)**

** ****MANY APPLICATIONS IDENTIFIED.**

## 4. PLATFORM MESSAGING TRANSCEIVER

** ****FLAT AND WHIP ANTENNA DEVELOPPED FOR PMTs**

** ****DEVELOPMENT OF ARGOS 3 PMT TO BEGIN IN OCTOBER 2004 USING THE ARGOS-NEXT EXPERIENCE**
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##   PMDB

** **** ****PMDB**

**Personal Safety Skills**** **

**VIDEO IV**

## LEVELS OF STRESS

| Stress Level | Staff Action |
| --- | --- |
| Moderate Stress | Verbal Intervention |
| Severe Stress | Limit Setting |
| Panic | Personal Safety Skills or Therapeutic Containment |
| Tension Reduction | Therapeutic Rapport |

## PERSONAL SAFETY SKILLS

**Personal Space**
**Different Ways **
**	****Someone May Harm Us**
**Escape Techniques – A Plan of Escape, Rather than Instinctively Striking Back**

## EXERCISES

**Walk up to your partner and stand nose to nose until told to stop.**
**Walk up to your partner and stand in the supportive stance outside of the **
**	****patient’s striking distance.**
**Punch at your partner's nose **
**	****stopping short of contact.**
**Practice blocking punch.**
**Show grabs**

**EXERCISES**

## GRABS

**2.  Double wrist grab**
**3.  Two hands grabbing one wrist**
**4.  Wrist grab with startle reflex - Demo Only**
**5.  Choke (front & rear)**
**6.  Hair pull (front & rear)**
**7.  Kick**
**8.  Death Grip (Headlock) - Demo Only**

**GRABS**

## PMDB

**Personal Safety Skills**** **

**PMDB**
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## Current Project Update on  Evidence-Based Practice for Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists

- ,
-  June 28, 2007
- Presented by
- Janene Willer, MA. CCC-SLP
- Idaho State University
- willjan1@isu.edu

## Objectives

- Background
- Overview
- Importance of the current project
- Strategies learned

## Background

- How to get started with this outreach project
- Build a collaborative team: Team members: Janene Willer, MA. CCC-SLP; Ruiling Guo, HSL. AHIP; and Barbara Bain, Ph.D
- Conduct a survey on needs assessment of speech language pathologists and audologists (This needs assessment survey was funded by the Regional Medical Library)

## Overview

- Survey findings
- 96.43% of SLP/A had no problem using computer and accessing the Internet. However, 86.9% reported that they had insufficient knowledge and skills in searching EBP resources.
- 47.82% of SLP/A did not know about EBP
- 52.38% of SLP/A were interested in learning EBP and 47.82% were interested in learning how to search PubMed
- Lack of time to search EBP and implement EBP

## Importance of the Current Project

- The outreach project was funded by the NLM/RML and our project target population was SE Idaho
- Team members: Ruiling Guo, HSL, ISU and Barbara Bain, Ph.D
- Needs assessment of Idaho SLP/A revealed lack of use of evidence in TX
- Identified need for educational program in information resources searching and EBP

## Planning and Marketing the EBP Training Program

- Identified partners and support for workshops with Audiology and SLP Directors
- Visited key facilities to describe the purpose, content, and request topics
- Key issue: scheduling best time for professionals to attend workshop

## Soliciting Participants

- Developed a list of interested participants  from the Idaho Speech and Hearing Assoc
- Emailed professionals to request input on  Summer and/or Fall workshop
- Created EBP workshop brochure and program agenda
- Follow up with phone calls and second email for registration
- Applied for CEU’s from ASHA

## Networking/Communication with RML

- Specific suggestions and continued support for workshops was provided by Linda Milgrom and Cathy Burroughs
- Discussion of EBP with team and partners provided opportunities to problem solve
- Evaluated successful approaches

## Summary

- Providing two options for workshop increased registration to accommodate SLPs and Audiologists
- -Workshop format in 2 full days or
- -Workshop presented on 3 evenings
- Participants were asked to provide high interest topics
- Encouraged partners to apply the training workshop

## What We Have Learned

- Difficulty in recruiting the participants in rural areas
- Never give up
- Collaborative approach
- Be flexible
- Ask the eternal question: “how do you know that what you do works?”
- Practice, practice, and practice

## What We Have Learned

- EBP in SLP and A from J. A. Logemann (2000) ASHA Leader:
- 	“Our professions’ futures depend on the effectiveness of our treatments, not on our impressions of their effectiveness”

-                         Questions
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## Experiments Using SAM-Grid

- CDF, D0, MINOS

## The Tevatron Accelerator at Fermilab

**The Tevatron Accelerator at Fermilab**

**MINOS**

## CDF

- The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experimental collaboration is committed to studying high energy particle collisions at the world’s highest energy particle accelerator.  The goal is to discover the identity and properties of the particles that make up the universe and to understand the forces and interactions between those particles.

- 3-D display of tracks in the Silicon Detector.

- CDF Top Event

## CDF

**Detector**
- 1,000,000 channels
- Event Size 150 KB
- Event Rate 50 Hz (170 Hz in 2005)
- So far ~1 PB of Data
- Expect overall 10-20 PB

**This means the CDF**
**           **Move 10s TB / day
-      Process PBs / year
-      Has 35% remote computing

## CDF Institutions : Total 53

**Canada - 2**
**USA - 28**

**Russia - 2**
**Germany – 1**
**Switzerland – 1**
**United Kingdom – 4**
**Italy – 7**
**Spain - 1**

**Korea - 1**
**Japan - 5**
**Taiwan - 1**

## D0

-  The DØ Experiment consists of a worldwide collaboration of scientists conducting research on the fundamental nature of matter. The experiment is located at the world's premier high-energy accelerator, the Tevatron Collider, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, USA. The research is focused on precise studies of interactions of protons and antiprotons at the highest available energies. It involves an intense search for subatomic clues that reveal the character of the building blocks of the universe.

- 3D event display of a high ET jet event

- The highest energy event in one of the D0 supersymmetry searches

## D0

**Detector**
- 1,000,000 Channels
- Event size 250KB
- Event rate ~50 Hz
- So far 0.75 PB of data
- Past year overall 0.5 PB
- Expect overall 10 – 20 PB
**This means that D0**
- Move 10s TB / day
- Process PBs / year
- Has 25% – 50% remote computing

## D0 Institutions  : Total 72

## MINOS

- The Main Injector, at Fermilab, will serve as the neutrino source for the MINOS experiment which seeks to observe the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations.  The experiment’s long baseline will begin at Fermilab, and end deep in a former iron mine (800 meters) in Soudan, a village in northern Minnesota, where MINOS will place its neutrino detector – 735 kilometers, or about 450 miles, from the source.

**Detector at Soudan**

**MINOS Mural Project**

## MINOS

- So far about 2TB of data
- Past year overall 0.7 TB
- Expect overall 0.3 PB in 5 years

|  | Near Detector | Far Detector |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Channels | 10000 | 24000 |
| Event Size | 10 KB/spill | 1 KB/event |
| Event Rate | 1 spill/2 seconds | .5 Hz |

- Cosmic Ray path in Near Detector

- Front of Detector

- Side View of Detector

## MINOS Institutions : Total 31

**United Kingdom – 5**
**Russia – 3**
**Greece – 1**
**France – 1**

**USA - 19**
**Brazil - 2**
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## Modeling the Oil Transition:What are the Questions?

***Steve Plotkin***
***Center for Transportation Research***
***Argonne National Laboratory***
***Workshop on Modeling the Oil Transition***
***Resources for the Future***
***April 20, 2006***

## Let’s take a look at history.......

**We’ve been “about to run out of oil” several times before.**
**Investors who assumed the current oil supply crisis would last were badly burned (remember the Synfuels Corporation?)**
**During the last crisis, the Saudis forced prices below $10/bbl!!!**
**“****Near-term peaking of conventional oil production” is highly uncertain and controversial.  Some of the primary advocates have been wrong before.**
**Monitoring of oil supply data has, if anything, gotten worse.**

## So, if I were a potential investor in alternative fuels......... 

*I’d be very cautious and risk-averse, and would worry about:*
**Can I really count on oil prices staying up?**
**Will the complementary parts of the fuel supply system grow fast enough to make my investment work?**
**Will my costs skyrocket? **
*Implication: Don’t count on a smooth, timely transition!*

## So what questions should the models be trying to answer in response?

**What might be the effects of a delayed and “rough” transition – cost escalation, environmental dangers from potential construction errors with inadequately trained workforce, rushed schedules, etc.?**
**What is the “total” value of alternative pathways, considering full investment risk (including “fallback positions” if transport fuel path stalls)?**
** ****What are the costs and effects of alternative policies and measures that might “smooth” the transition?**
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## „Robots and more“

**Ethernet Demo Cell **
**Heinrich Munz**
**Produ****c****t Management,**
**Manager Concept Validation**

## Ethernet Demo Cell Overview

- 4 Robots and virtually all technology needed in a body shop
- Working exclusively with Ethernet, even on the device level
- Partnering with German automation market leaders
- Started 1 1⁄2 years ago with the preliminary IDA protocol
- There are plans to implement other Ethernet protocols as well
- On each device, an Embedded Web Server is implemented
- Beside the I/O Protocol and HTTP, the robots also supports
- OPC
- NTP
- FTP (for Backup/Restore)
- PTP to come (for movement synchronization)

## Demo Cell Prototype

- Haas-Laser

## Ethernet Demo Cell Overview

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Suggestion

- This cell could be duplicated and set up in the Detroit region
- Ethernet/IP Protocol
- US companies
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## Title of Your Activity Goes Here

- Talking point 1 goes here (Note – you might want to _[hyperlink](http://www.loc.gov/index.html)__ talking points.)_
- Talking point 2 goes here
- Talking point 3 goes here
- Talking point 4 goes here
- Talking point 5 goes here

- Your name – City, State – Teaching level and subject – Date

- A one sentence statement describing the learning objective of your activity goes here.

- Caption for LOC image goes here

## Activity Title:

**Your Talking Points:**
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

- Your name, etc.:

**Learning Objective:**

- Image Caption:
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## MOD IX - ADDRESSING LEAD IN YOUR MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

- Explain management’s role in a lead maintenance program
- Outline the fundamental components of a lead maintenance program
- Effectively communicate with residents
- Recognize procedures that you currently use that need to be modified to assure lead safe work practices are followed for lead-based paint work on the job

- Learning Objectives

**Notes:**
Font for Learning objective Arial

## WHAT IS A WRITTEN LEAD MAINTENANCE PROGRAM?

- Identification of lead-based paint surfaces
- Identification of low risk and high risk work
- Training of maintenance personnel
- Modification of work order forms and systems
- Education of residents
- Designations of persons in charge of lead work
- Methods for conducting quality assurance and quality control

**Notes:**
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## HOW IS THE WRITTEN MAINTENANCE PLAN IMPLEMENTED?

- Who do you contact if equipment is needed?
- What changes are needed (if any) in your work orders?
- Who informs contractors about lead-based paint hazards?
- How is information passed to residents and other workers?

**Notes:**
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## ELEMENTS OF A WRITTEN PLAN

- Identification of Lead-Based Paint Surfaces
- Identification of Low and High Risk Work
- Worker Training

**Notes:**
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## ELEMENTS OF A WRITTEN PLAN, CONTINUED

- Modification of Work Order Forms and System
- Education of Residents

**Notes:**
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## ELEMENTS OF A WRITTEN PLAN, CONTINUED

- Designation of Persons in Charge of Lead Work
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Documentation

**Notes:**
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## JPL Oceanography Educational ProductsSupporting National Education Standards

**JPL Oceanography Educational Products****Supporting National Education Standards**

## Oceans’ Music: Climate’s DanceEducational Poster

- Oceans’ Music: Climate’s DanceEducational Poster

## Oceans’ Music: Climate’s Dance  Educational Poster

- -- Appropriate for ages 11-14
- -- Inquiry-based learning about the connections between ocean circulation and global climate.
- -- Reverse has classroom-ready activities
- -- Science, engineering reinforcement
- --Can be ordered online

**Oceans’ Music:**** ****Climate’s Dance**

- Oceans’ Music: Climate’s Dance  Educational Poster

- http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/jason-1-poster.html

## “Discovering the Oceans” Book Cover and

**“****Be a Junior Oceanographer” Website**

## “Discovering the Oceans” Book Cover and

**“****Be a Junior Oceanographer” Website**

**--The front of the book cover provides just the spark needed to imagine diving in to the study of our oceans. **
**--Read the cool comic on the back to learn that NASA uses satellites to study the surface of the ocean and to track marine life. **
**--At the “Be a Junior Oceanographer” website, students take a short quiz on oceanography and marine science.  When they pass the quiz they can print out their own Junior Oceanographer certificate and their first name/city will be added to the Junior Oceanographers’ Hall of Fame.**

- http://sealevel2.jpl.nasa.gov/jr_oceanographer/bookcover-educators.html

- •Discovering the Oceans book cover is targeted for students ages 8-12.
- •Educators may request student copies from topex@jpl.nasa.gov

## Voyage on the High Seas:  A Jason-1 Oceanic AdventurePoster - Board Game

**Voyage**** ****on the High Seas:  ****A Jason-1 Oceanic Adventure****Poster - Board Game**

## Voyage on the High Seas:  A Jason-1 Oceanic AdventurePoster - Board Game

- -- Engaging poster and a fun board game suitable for use within and outside the classroom
- -- Designed for ages 9 - 13 but offers a fun learning experience for the whole family
- -- Highlights global ocean current system
- -- Reverse has classroom-ready activities designed to be reproduced directly from the poster
- --Science, engineering, language, and world geography reinforcement
- --Can be ordered online

- http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/jason-1-game.html

**Voyage**** ****on the High Seas:  ****A Jason-1 Oceanic Adventure****Poster - Board Game**
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## Operations Analysis

- For Ops Analysis Tools TIM
- June 27-28, 2002
- Steven Noneman/UP10/MSFC

## Contents

- Ops Analysis Requirements
- Ops Metrics
- SRR Schedule
- Meeting Objectives

## Ops Analysis Functions

- Independently Estimate Ops Costs
- Validate SRD Ops requirements
- Assess the operability of the architectures

## SRR Milestones

## Program FOMs (DRAFT)

## Meeting Objectives

- The following information is needed at the TIM for each ops analysis tool:
- 1.  Background, history, and/or status of the tool, and AEE integration status
- Inputs and their sources, and interdependencies with other tools
- Modeling approach
- Outputs and users/customers of the outputs
- Readiness to support SRR and SRD
- Collect info to define OA Tools Roadmap.

## Backup

## Ops Analysis Tools work in 2002 (draft)

- VSP

- NROC

- Maintenance hours

- Launch Systems Cost and cycle time

- RLVDES
- Builder

- RLV ops processes models

- RLVTM

- RLV traffic model

- Technology Effects

- Operations Manpower
- Ground Operations cost
- Flight Operations Cost
- Vehicle Turnaround Time
- Facilities Costs

- Vehicle data
- (weights, sizes,
- Subsystems, etc.)

- RMAT

- Fixed Yearly Ops Cost
- Variable Ops Cost per Flight
- Turnaround Time
- Compare Architectures
- Sense of Direction

- SME Knowledge-Base

- STS Ops Cost and Cycle-Time Database

- AATe

- Conceptual Level Ops Drivers
- (e.g. sub-sys integration, reliability, # of fluids, etc)
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## DUSEL Science Questions

- How do biology and geology interact to shape the world underground?
- How does subsurface microbial life evolve in isolation?
- Did life on earth originate beneath the surface?
- How deep does life go?  Is there life not as we know it?
- Restless Earth (Geosciences)
- What controls flow and transport in deep subsurface?
- What are key mechanisms of deformation?
- Can we predict earthquakes?
- How does complexity affect key processes?
- Ground Truth (Geoengineering)
- What lies between boreholes?
- How can technology lead to a safer underground?
- How can we optimize recovery of earth resources?

**Notes:**
Specifically at Homestake and Generically at all sites

PACs and Workshops used to define how proposed letters of intent would fit into the unreleased S1 vision

S1 vision is:
Dark life to investigate the origins and evolution of life on Earth
Earth Science mainly focused on Engineering Geoscience – the response of geologic materials to 
Engineering and 
Environmental stressors

## The Path Forward – Working Group Theme Areas

## Slide 4

## An example: Does quorum sensing occur in the subsurface?

- Park et al. PNAS 100:13910 (2003)

- nutrient depletion

## The Path Forward – Working Group Theme Areas
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## Proton Source 

- Eric Prebys FNAL Accelerator Division/Proton Source

## The Fermilab Accelerator Complex

- MinBooNE

- NUMI

- Proton Source

- MI-8 line

## Preac(cellerator) and Linac

**“****Preac” - **Static Cockroft-Walton generator accelerates H- ions from 0 to 750 KeV.

**“****Old linac”(LEL)-** accelerate H- ions from 750 keV to 116 MeV

**“****New linac” (HEL)-** Accelerate H- ions from 116 MeV to 400 MeV

## Booster

-  Accelerates the 400 MeV beam from the Linac to 8 GeV
- Operates in a 15 Hz offset resonant circuit
- Sets fundamental clock of accelerator complex
- From the Booster, beam can be directed to
-  The Main Injector
-  MiniBooNE (switch occurs in the MI-8 transfer line)
-  A dump.
- More or less original equipment

## Extracted Beam Structure

- 5-6 x 1010 protons/bunch x 80 bunches = 4-5 x 1012 protons/”batch”
- (instantaneous) batch rep rate = 15 Hz

- ~9 ns (FW)

- 19 ns

- ...

- 80 bunches = 1.6 sec

- Single turn extraction:

## Limits to Proton Intensity

- Total proton rate from Proton Source (Linac+Booster):
- Booster batch size
- ~4-5E12 protons/batch, depending on beam quality required.
- Booster repetition rate
- 15 Hz instantaneous
- Currently ~9Hz, limited by RF system.
- Beam loss
- Damage and/or activation of Booster components
- Above ground radiation
- Present performance
- Maximum ~1017 p/hr @ 4.5x1012 p/batch

- Historically our biggest worry

## 8 GeV Targetry Possibility: Booster Neutrino Beam

- Could locate target somewhere in MI-12B beam line
- Would compete with running experiments for beam

## Variable Energy??

- The specification says “1-5 GeV”
- The Booster Accelerates resonantly to 8 GeV
- It cannot be changed on a cycle by cycle basis
- It can (and has) accelerated to different energies *during dedicated running periods*, HOWEVER
- The MI-8 transfer line consists largely of permanent magnets design for 8 GeV beam.
- Cannot transport <8 GeV beam to Main Injector or BNB

## Possibility: Booster Dump

- Used for study cycles and “short batches”
- Can run to here with Main Injector in access
- No permanent magnets before dump.
- Could be retuned for alternate energies during special running periods.
- Limited space for apparatus.
- Maximum beam flux 6.8 x 1018 protons per year
- And we need a lot of that for normal operation.

- MI-8 Line

- Dump line

## Extraction Aperture 

- Probably can’t go below ~4 GeV without big losses

## A Few Comments on Proposed Parameters

- Proton energy 1 GeV - 5 GeV
- Protons per macro-pulse ≤ 1017
- ~20000 times Booster capacity
- ~ 1000 times SNS or (proposed) JPARC storage rings
- -> Slow spill not an option here or anywhere
- Nominal macro-pulse lengths < 1 msec
- If linac, then 16 Amps ~100-1000 times practical linacs
- Variable macro-pulse spacing up to ~250 sec
- 1017 proton @ 5GeV every 250 sec = 320 kW
- ~1/4 design SNS
- About 10 times TOTAL Fermilab proton capacity
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## SCC Management

- State Regulator Perspective
- Brian Pierzina
- Minnesota Office of Pipeline Safety

## Ever Changing World

- Before 1492, the World was Square.
- Before 2003, we didn’t have SCC on liquid lines, and ILI was unreliable at detecting it

## SCC in Minnesota

- 3 SCC Ruptures in Northern Minnesota since 1994
- 2 were on the same pipeline – 8.5 years apart

## Over The Years

- Have participated somewhat with SCC dig programs
- Successful in finding it, but not necessarily the critical SCC
- Recent ILI results show promise

## What Makes a Good Operator?

- Doesn’t mean you can’t have failures
- Lead by example
- Share information (some better than others)
- Understand your system and the safety issues you face, and plan/act accordingly

## Information Exchange

- Critical to Decision Making
- Gives operators a queezy feeling
- Establish model approach for consistency
- Federal/State Partnership also important

## Research Needs

- Growth Rates
- SCC Coupling with other defects
- ILI improvements
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## Insulin Resistance and PCOS

## Conclusions

- Increasing evidence that PCOS is associated with insulin resistance
- Data seems to suggest differences between IR associated with obesity and IR associated with PCOS
- Data also notes peripheral IR and maintenance of ovarian insulin sensitivity

## Conclusions

- Obese and lean PCOS phenotypes
- Ovarian androgen dysregulation may be a primary pathogenetic mechanism
- Serine phosphorylation may link post- receptor insulin resistance and selective uncoupling of ovarian thecal androgen biosynthesis

## Conclusions

- Implications for PCOS-insulin resistance cardiovascular risk, conversion to glucose intolerance
- Associated with oligomenorrhea
- Metabolic syndrome profile
- Obesity is augmentative
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## U.S Drought Highlights Since October 2004

**Douglas Le Comte**
**NOAA/CPC**
**30****th**** Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop**
**October 24-28, 2005**

## Outline

**Drought Highlights****—Southwest Alleviation, Northwest Development, and Midwest Summer Development**
**Drought Forecasts****—How are we doing?**

## What A Difference A Season Made in the West!

## October vs April Drought

## Water Year Precipitation

## Snow Water Content April 2005

## Impressive Snowpack on Snowbird November 7, 2004

**Impressive Snowpack on Snowbird November 7, 2004**

**A pretty good omen that **
**the 2004-05 snow season**
**would be extraordinary!**

## EL NINO’S and SOUTHWESTERN DROUGHT

**WETTER**

**WARMER SSTs**

- Although El Nino’s are generally
- associated with improved drought
- conditions in the U.S. Southwest,
- this is by no means assured. _The best_
- _odds for improvement come with_
- _stronger events (SST anomalies_
- _over +1.5 deg. C)._

**Expected range**
**of SSTs**

## Streamflow Forecasts April 1, 2005

## Spring-Summer Changes

## April vs July 2005

## Changes to October 4, 2005

## August vs October 2005

## October 4 vs October 11 2005

## The Seasonal Drought Outlooks

## Selected Drought Outlook Tools

**2-Week Soil Moisture**
**Seasonal Constructed Analog Soil Forecasts**
**NCDC Palmer Drought Amelioration Probability Maps**

## CPC 2-Wk Soil Moisture Forecast

**http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/soilmst/cas.shtml**

## Constructed Analog Soil Moisture USA

**http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/soilmst/cas.shtml**

- Observed

- Forecast

## NCDC Drought Amelioration Probabilities

## How Are We Doing?

## How Did We Do With the Western Drought?

**Too cautious**
**in September!**

**Finally got**
**it right in Dec!**

## Time Series of Verification Scores

- Mean Pct Correct 59%
- Mean Persistence Score 45%

## Selected Future Improvements

**Better seasonal temp/precip forecasts thanks to new consolidation tool**
**Better seasonal soil moisture forecasts from NLDAS projects (Univ. of WA, Princeton, NCEP)**
**Research leading to improved understanding of the underlying causes of drought (e.g., air-sea and ground-air interactions)**

## Parting Wisdom

**“****If you’re going to predict, predict often.  As long as you keep updating  your prediction, people forget your last prediction.”****  **
***Milton Friedman***
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## Office of the Managing Director2006 Annual Report

**January 17, 2007**

## OMD’s Mission

- Provide support services for the Commission
- Finance and Budget
- Information Technology
- Contracts and Purchasing
- Human Resources
- Building and Administrative Services
- Secretary’s Office
- Security
- Government Compliance

## Major Accomplishments in 2006

## Strengthened financial management and accounting practices

- Received “unqualified opinion” and _no_ material weaknesses for the first time
- Improved management of agency’s budget
- Funded IT modernization

## Enhanced support for Commission programs and activities

- Implemented reorganization plan for Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
- Fought waste, fraud and abuse by expanding oversight of Universal Service Fund and Telecommunications Relay Service Fund
- Transferred $12.7 billion to U.S. Treasury in record time

## Other Accomplishments

- Implemented roll out of new technology to modernize the Commission’s IT infrastructure
- Over 80% of PCs are more than 5 years old
- Replace 1300+ PCs by the end of 2007
- Achieved 100% compliance with Privacy Act training requirements
- Reduced from 51 to 19 the number of requests for emergency extensions of OMB approvals
- Processed 530 FOIA requests
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##  Accelerator Performance (10/21-10/27)

- Focused Required Maintenance (8 hr Tuesday)
- Minimize impact on luminosity
- Put in Tevatron store to last till Tuesday
- Pbar maintenance Monday then stack overnight till 0600 Tuesday and sit on stack during Tuesday access.
- Booster, MI, Tev,  Cryo  maintenance start Tuesday 0600 – 1500
- CDF/D0 access start 0400 Tuesday
- Remainder of week Stack ‘n Store

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Last Week

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Shutdown Work

- Major work done during shutdown
- Tevatron
- Repaired water leak on C48 warm bus
- Isolated ground fault on octupole circuit to pin 11 F36 Conig tower
- F36 cold leak repair
- Cryo Wet engine maintaince
- Main Injector
- Installed hardware and software in LLRF for 2.5 Mhz acceleration
- Proton Source
- Magnet moves  -> Reduce radiation levels at RF stations
- Booster RF station repair
- LLRF module repair
- Pbar Source
- Repaired DRF1-6
- Repaired ARF1 water leak
- Started testing for
- Other work...

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Tevatron loss at flattop

- Store 1896

- Store 1908

- After adjusting tunes and feeddowns
- at FT and thru squeeze

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Tevatron F36

- Repair of F36 Conig tower.

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Tevatron chromaticity

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Booster Magnet Moves  

- Reduction in losses due in part to a smoother vertical orbit

- Before magnet move

- After 2nd magnet move

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Main Injector Coalescing

- No Beam loading

- Beam loading

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Beams Week in Review

| Store | Initial Luminosity | Duration | Termination | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1845 | 3.09E31 | 9.3 |  intentional | 143 mA, no known changes |
| 1863 | 2.52E31 | 15.5 | intentional | 96 mA , kicker timing, MI rpos attn |
| 1865

18xx

18xx | 3.38E31

0.0

0.0 | 9.7

0.0

0.0 | RF trip (lightning ?)
Quench A11

Quench A11 | 134 mA, dampers off |
| 1886 | 3.50E31 | 22.0 | intentional  | 141 mA,tev tunes,coupling,orbits |

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Peak Luminosity

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Integrated Luminosity

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Beams Week in Review

- Current Near Term Issues
- Proton and pbar emittance preservation
- Proton and pbar lifetime at pbar injection
- Proton and pbar lifetime on the ramp
- Pbar coalescing with large stacks, 85% 140 mA stack

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Schedule for this Week

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002

## Longer-term schedule

- Week 10/28
- Stack ‘n Store  (No planned dedicated studies/access)
- Potential short between stores studies and *End of Store* studies
- Shots to Recycler - off the bottom and small stack dedicated, *depending on Collider operation*
- Week 11/4
- Stack ‘n store
- Accelerator studies (?)
- Week 11/11
- Stack ‘n Store
- Necessary Repairs (?)

- All Experimenters Meeting

- 28 October 2002
# Presentation: 037146

## GD role in the Hazards theme in the bureau science strategyGD Managers Meeting 

**U.S. Department of the Interior**
**U.S. Geological Survey**

**GD role in the Hazards theme in the bureau science strategy****GD Managers Meeting**** **

**April 18, 2007**

## What does GD have to do to be a significant player or contributor? What is our niche?

**  ****Robust monitoring infrastructure: ANSS, NVEWS, geodesy, geomag**
**  ****Technology for network communications (see above)**
**  ****Characterizing and assessing hazards**
**  ****Forecasts based on understanding physical processes**
**  ****Partnerships**
**Our niche derives from:**
**  ****Statutory authority**
**  ****Real-time capabilities espec. analysis (value added)**
**  ****Process understanding across temporal and spatial scales, includes modeling and especially testing of models**

## What has to be changed, adapted or grown in GD? 

**Develop a truly national capability for landslides, including rapid response (but probably not nationally comprehensive monitoring)**
**The science strategy calls for a risk-based approach that takes traditional hazard assessment role and incorporates societal vulnerability; for GD, that means an internal “translator” capability to effectively collaborate with Geography Discipline and external partners who bring necessary expertise.**
**Side benefit of risk approach: Help with internal prioritization**
**Challenge: How to move beyond pilot efforts (geographic vs. thematic focus) once demonstrate proof of concept. **

- What has to be changed, adapted or grown in GD?

## What new technologies, expertise and data are needed to achieve the vision? 

**At same time, we are in danger of losing the expertise that can bring value to the data being collected; need balance of skills for monitoring implementation, data interpretation and process research**
**Data availability is an ongoing challenge – need for data integration; web portal**

- What new technologies, expertise and data are needed to achieve the vision?

## Which strategic partners need to be cultivated? 

**Ongoing partners: Emergency managers, NOAA/NWS, **
**International partners are becoming more important; GEOSS  increasing interdependence, need to cultivate partners (ex. Reliance on other countries for InSAR, cooperation on ground-based networks; full and open data access); risk approach creates new international support opportunities, including development banks, UN as well as USAID**

- Which strategic partners need to be cultivated?

## Example scientific investigations 

**Multi-hazard scenarios for at-risk urban areas (discussed yesterday for Southern California) as means to make the hazard real to those affected; tool for community engagement**
**Example project that rolls together understanding and forecasting of eruptive processes; brings together seismology, geochemistry, geodesy, petrology. (Tasks in briefing book)**

- Example scientific investigations
# Presentation: 142459

## Nanomechanical Architecture of Strained Bi-layer Thin Films:

**from design principles to experimental fabrication**** **
**Feng Liu(1), M. Huang(1), and M. Lagally(2) and R. Blick(2)**
**University of Utah**
**University of Wisconsin-Madison**
- Controlled and consistent fabrication of different classes and shapes of nanostructures (as opposed to simply stochastic self-assembly) will be a requirement if nanotechnology expects to achieve its promised impact on society. Recently, we demonstrate by both theory and computation the design principles of an emerging nanofabrication approach based on the *nanomechanical architecture* of strained bi-layer thin films, which are further confirmed by experiments through fabrication of a variety of nanostructures, including nanotubes, nanorings, nanodrills, and nanocoils (***Advanced Materials, ***Volume 17, 2005, Pages 2860-2864). This approach offers the possibility of fabricating nanostructures with an unprecedented level of control over their size, geometry, and uniformity, based on *a priori* designs, possesses an unparallel level of versatility for making nanostructures with combinations of different materials, and is compatible with existing device fabrication technologies suitable for parallel mass production of identical or different nanostructures. Further, by combined multi-scale modeling and simulations from first-principles calculation, to molecular dynamics simulation, and to continuum mechanics modeling, we demonstrate how mechanical bending of nanoscale thin films differs from that of macroscopic thin films. Especially, we show that surface stress will even play a more dominant role than misfit strain in bending a film that is down a few monolayers thick.
- This work is supported by DOE-BES, project DE-FG02-03ER46027 and CMSN program. The experiments are done in collaboration with
- Prof. Max Lagally at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

## Fig. 1. Schematic illustration of a strained bi-layer film folding into a nanotube when its width W is large, but into a coil when its width W is small, demonstrating the design principles of nanomechanical architecture of strained bi-layer films. The arrows indicate the folding direction. There exist two critical geometric conditions for coil formation:  W < L0 = 2R0, where R0 is the characteristic radius of bending curvature, and > c = sin-1(L/W0). The spiral angle of the coil depends on the folding direction as  tan-1(d/R0), with the smallest spiral angle of  = tan-1(W/R0). 

- Fig. 2. SEM image of nanoarchitectures fabricated from strained
- Si/SiGe bi-layer films. (a) Nanorings with a thickness of 80 nm,
- radius of ~3.0 m, and width of 3 m; (b) nanodrill with a
- thickness of 110 nm, radius of ~2.4 m, and width of 10 m; and
- (c) Nanocoil with a thickness of 110 nm, radius of ~2.4 m, and
- width of 2 m. In general, we can vary the thickness from 10 nm to
- 200 nm and dimensions from 20 nm to 100 m.
# Presentation: 489458

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# Presentation: 199037

## Payroll/Personnel System

**Update**

**Penny Forbes**

**Notes:**
I’d like to begin this year’s presentation by providing information relating to customer support.  Although this information has never been discussed during sessions such as these, because of the importance of the subject and the emphasis that NFC is placing on CS, I thought it would be beneficial to review our successes during Fiscal Year 03.

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

***e*****-Payroll Implementation Windows**
- Pay Period 12, 2004
- Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
- Pay Period 17, 2004
- Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- Department of Labor (DoL)
- DHS’ Coast Guard (CG)
- DHS’ Federal Protection Service (FPS)

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

***e*****-Payroll Implementation Windows**
- Pay Period 07, 2005
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Pay Period 17, 2005
- DHS’ Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**STAR 3.0****	**
- Currently 2,024 users processing over 27,000 T&As
- Agriculture - 1,511
- Treasury - 157
- All Others - 356

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**STAR 4.0**
- Demo site available on _[www.nfc.usda.gov](http://www.nfc.usda.gov/)_
- Enhanced Web features
- Improved navigation
- User defined preferences
- Pilot scheduled for Pay Period 13
- Full Production scheduled for Pay Period 15

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**STAR**
- January 2005
- Employee and Daily Entry
- Default schedule
- September 2005
- Retire STAR client and PC-TARE

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**EPIC**
- April 2004
- Automated Third Party Debts
- October 2004
- Agency to assume responsibility for Third Party Debt processing
**	**

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**EPIC**
- January 2005
- Web version
- September 2005
- Retire client version
**	**

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**EPP/ESS**
- Over 276,000 employees subscribe to EPP
- Represents 52% of the NFC population
- 3% use paperless E&L feature
- February 2004
- Allow option of choosing future pay period
- March 2004
- Receive pin via email once email address and Q&As supplied

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**EPP/ESS**
- July 2004
- SF-50B
- January 2005
- Online tax filing

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**Reporting Center**
- February 2004
- RIF Register Reports
- July 2004
- Convert EARN and W–2s
- Leave Error Report
- T&A Data

**Notes:**
STAR – currently used by 600 timekeepers 

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**SPPS **
- February 2004
- Web version made available
- October 2004
- Enhance Web features
- Improved workflow
- September 2005
- Retire client version

**Notes:**
Retired PACT/PRES/FINQ/SINQ/HCUP as of September 30, 2003.  Any usage into 2004 will have to be handled through a Reimbursable Agreement

## Payroll/Personnel SystemUpdate

**W-2s**
- 2003 Tax Year
- January 2004 – 581,000 W-2s processed
- 2004 Tax Year
- April 2004 – Began internal system testing
- October 2004 – QA Test with User participation
# Presentation: 913977

## CDMP/NSIDC FY2009

-  - *Continuing task:* Glacier Photograph 	       		Digitization Project (L-9) - *Continuing task:* Historical IPY Data and 	Bibliography (L-14)

***Accomplishments in FY 2007-08***
- IGY Glacier Photographs were published on the DAHLI web site.  http://nsidc.org/dahli/igyglacierphotos.html.  The majority of these were taken by the IGY Glaciological team of William O. Field.  Also included are a set of panoramic photographs taken by the US Navy.
- NSIDC has begun to collaborate with the Carnegie Institute in Washington DC to digitize:
- 12 publications from the 1st and 2nd IPYs
- about 200 photos related to activities during IPY2 in Alaska
- photos from the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions of 1928-30 and 1933-35.

***Historical IPY Materials: Database & Bibliography***

***Continuation Tasks***
- The Carnegie Institute holds several linear feet of IPY/IGY materials.  We will continue with: Approximately 10 cu. ft. of magnetograms, manual/visual observations, logbooks, data analyses, instrument and observatory plans associated with the Carnegie Institution's IPY2 stations in Alaska during 1932-1933.  These materials will also need to be inventoried and cataloged to the specifications of the Carnegie Institute.
- John Hollin, Fellow of INSTAAR and Research Scientist Emeritus of University of Colorado, has donated 30 slides taken during his time at Wilkes Station, Antarctica during the IGY.  These slides will be digitized and made available through the DAHLI project and web site.

***Historical IPY Materials: Database & Bibliography***
# Presentation: 071061

## The Transition to Independence as a Developmental Process

- Lauren S. Wakschlag, Ph.D.
- Institute for Juvenile Research
- University of Illinois at Chicago

## Overview of Wakschlag Developmental Pathway

**Clinical/Developmental Psychologis**t
- Ph.D., Univ. Chicago 1992
- Assistant-Associate Professor, Dept of Child Psychiatry, UC-1992-2005
**Overarching scientific question: **
- Mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of problem behavior, particularly very early pathway
**NIDA K-Award -1997-2002**
- Prenatal smoking and preschool behavior problems
- Training in neuropsychopharmcology, exposure measurement, longitudinal modeling
**First R01 Phase (PI) 2002-2009**
- NIDA R01 Prenatal smoking and patterns of youth problem behavior
- NIMH R01 Observational measurement of preschool behavior problems
- NCI (P01) Developmental influences on adolescent smoking patterns
**2005-present**
- Associate Professor,, Institute for Juvenile Research, UIC
**Next scientific phase**
- Participant, NIMH R21 Translational Network on Neural Substrates of Preschool Psychopathology
- NIMH R01 Developmental Characterization of Preschool Disruptive Behavior
- NIDA R01 Resubmission (dual PI with Kikmberly Espy) Prenatal smoking and the substrates of disruptive behavior in early life
**Translational collaborators**
- Developmental epidemiology, developmental neuropsychology, intervention science, neuroscience, molecular and behavioral enetics

## Balance as Key

- Training
- Innovation/Scientific Leaps
- Conduct of K
- Mentorship
- Translational collaboration

- Productivity
- Strategic Measured Steps
- Next Stage
- Independence
- Building Program of Research

## Unique Facets of K for Launching to Independence

- Mentored conduct of independent investigation
- Training
- Protected time
- Developmental grant mechanism

## Working Backwards

- Right from the beginning
- Defining multi-level goals
- Training
- Building collaborative net-choose wisely
- Building program of research
- Timing (where do you want to end up)
- Vision with flexibility
- Seize opportunities
- But don’t be opportunistic!

## Question-Driven Research

- What’s your “big question”?
- What’s your dream study
- Chunking -component parts
- Multiple streams
- What is uniquely your own?
- Thinking “out of the box”
- Where have you been and where do you want to go?

## K-Award as Foundation

**Publishing **
- Building a coherent focus
**Timing**
- Always looking ahead
**Logical Next Step**
- Choice points
**Platform for Subsequent Grants**
-  R01s
- R21, R34

## Scientific Productivity Across Life of the K

**Defining sub-questions**
**Early papers from K**
**Secondary Data Analysis**
**One person’s covariate is another’s career!**
**Collaborative opportunities**

## Grant Strategies and Mechanisms

- Exposure to the process
- Preparation/pink sheets/resubmission
- Budgeting
- Mock reviews
- Strategic choices (mechanism, framing)
- Collaborative process

## Work-Family Balance

- Know yourself
- Make considered choices
- Find mentors, seek role models
- Make the process explicit
- Be creative
- Make Program Staff your partners