BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 385704

## Creating SEDD Stage 3 Deliverables: A LIMS Vendor’s Perspective 

- Buddy Wilson
- 26 July 2005

- NEMC 2005

## About Promium

- Software vendor specializing in LIM systems for public and private environmental laboratories
- Systems currently used in over 100 environmental laboratory facilities
- Operating in EPA Regional Labs 5, 6, 8, 9 and Army Corps of Engineers MRD Lab
- Base LIM system includes a standard EDD library with over 35 common EDD formats including SEDD 2a, 2b and 3 (CLP Exhibit H).

## Fun with SEDD:The 2004 EPA CLP SOM01.0 PE

- First time electronic deliverables were required with CLP Contract RFP PE sample submission
- Samples were shipped to labs December 6th and (originally) due January 3rd
- EPA provided an on-line SEDD checking tool
- Promium had previously participated in several projects requiring SEDD Stage 2a and 2b with its clients
- SEDD Stage 3 (Exhibit H) required 74 new fields and 5 new tables added to existing LIMS structure (96 tables)
- New CLP forms presented a few challenges but were relatively quite similar to previous forms
- Some labs tried to do the SEDD manually

## Capturing CLP Package and SEDD Data into the LIMS

- Analytes
- Analyses
- Calculations
- Rounding Rules

- AnalyticalStandards

- Prep Batching

- AnalysisBatching

- Multi-LevelData Review

- ProjectSetup

- InstrumentCalibration

- CleanupBatching

- SampleLogin

- Instruments

- PCL Print Capture to XML

- DataTool Instrument Interface

## Reporting CLP Packages with SEDD Stage 3 EDDs from the LIMS

- EDD Library(DLL)

- DataTables
- QueryDefs
- Form Orders
- Linked Tables

*Crystal **Reports*®(RDC)

- Valid Values
- Cross-Codes

- Web Site,
- E-mail

**PRIMARY**
**LIMS DB**

- SEDD

- CLPREPORT

- Zip

- PDF

## Fun with SEDD:The 2004 EPA CLP SOM01.0 PE

-  More challenging than we thought it was going to be
-  Staggered dual-column PEST and ARO were particularly difficult to deal with
-  Several conflicts between forms and SEDD regarding sig figs and decimals
-  On-line SEDD checking tool was very helpful
-  Not something you would want to do manually...

| Fraction | Data Elements | Data Elements Filled | File Size |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aroclors | 41693 | 12755 (30.6%) | 1.81 MB |
| Pesticides | 96585 | 28693 (30.0%) | 4.19 MB |
| BNAs | 151648 | 44919 (29.6%) | 6.55 MB |
| VOA Low | 170140 | 49149 (28.9%) | 7.37 MB |
| VOA Trace | 85394 | 24760 (29.0%) | 3.70 MB |
| Total | 545460 | 160546 (29.4%) | 23.62 MB |

## Contact Information

- Buddy Wilson, Promium
- 	Phone: 425-286-9200
- 	EMail: bwilson@promium.com
# Presentation: 490278

## BT Organizational Chart

- Teresa Wolt
- Secretary (RCJV)

- Jose Garcia
- Manager

- Lisa Phillips
- Deputy Manager

- Caroline Root
- Team Lead

- Charles Bell
- Team Lead

- Cindy Maclean
- CO

- Laurie DeClaire
- Team Lead

- Gerri Mason
- CO

- Susan Stefanovic
- CO
- Limited Warrant

- Jennifer
-  Ariens
- CS

- Homero Rangel
- CS

- Elijah Williams
- CS

- Dana Altmon-Cary
- CS

- Steve Fletcher
- CS

- Brad Niese
- CO

- Jim Gips
- CO

- TBD
- CS

- Tim Boyes
- CO

- Sharyn Willis
- CS

- Lee Pagel
- Lead
- Rotational SEB Assignment

- October 27, 2008
# Presentation: 939315

## Function Promoting Anabolic Interventions.Diet and Exercise

- Carmen Castaneda Sceppa, MD, PhD
-                                         NMRI
-                                         Annual Meeting
-                                          2007

## Loss of Lean Body MassMuscle Mass and Function

-  Aging
-  Disease
-  Disuse

## Sarcopenia15 to 35% of Older Adult Population

- Baumgartner R, *Am J Epidemiol* 1998

## Muscle Anabolic/Catabolic Signals

## Prevalence of Inactivity

- CDC: Adults participating in NO leisure-time physical activity
- Current average = 40%

**31% **

**34%**

**42%**

**51%**

**65%**

**Prevalence (%)**

## Function
Muscle  strength, independence
Viscera  resting energy expenditure
Immune system  infection/inflammation
Morbidity – demonstrable at a 5% loss
Mortality – fatal at a 40% loss

- Muscle  strength, independence
- Viscera  resting energy expenditure
- Immune system  infection/inflammation
- Morbidity – demonstrable at a 5% loss
- Mortality – fatal at a 40% loss

- Kotler J,* AmJ Clin Nutr *1989

**BCM**

**Body Cell Mass ******
**body’s metabolically active tissue**

- Lean Body Mass Matters

## Dietary Protein Intake

## Protein Intake and Nitrogen Balance

- Castaneda-Sceppa C, *AmJ Clin Nutr *1995

- *

- *

- *

- * p < 0.02

- 1⁄2 DRI			DRI

- 10-wk Change, g N/d

## Protein Intake and Muscle Size

## Protein Intake and Anabolism

- DRI
- 1⁄2 RDA

- * †  p < 0.02

- Castaneda-Sceppa C, *J Nutr Health & Aging* 2000

## Reduced Anabolism and Muscle Atrophy

-   DRI,  r = 0.36
-      P < 0.005

- 1⁄2 DRI,  r = 0.45

- Castaneda-Sceppa C, *J Nutr Health & Aging* 2000

## Resistance Exercise Training: a non-pharmachologic anabolic therapy

## Muscle Mass and Function with Resistance Training

- Hughes V, *J Gerontol *2001

## Resistance Training, Lean Body Mass 

- and Type 2 Diabetes

- Castaneda-Sceppa C, *Diabetes Care* 2002

## Glycemic Control and Muscle Hypertrophy

## Insulin Sensitivity and Muscle Hypertrophy

- Brooks N, *Int J Med Sciences* 2006

## Resistance Training, Muscle Wasting and CKD

- Castaneda-Sceppa C, *Ann Int Med* 2001

## Muscle Wasting and Inflammation in CKD

- Castaneda-Sceppa C, *Am J Kidney Dis 2004*

## Evidence-Based Research into Practice

**Evidence Level = A**
- from well-conducted
- adequately powered
- generalizable
- randomized controlled trials (RCT)

**Diabetes Care:**
**Technical Review 2004**
**Position Statement 2006**

## Summary – Future Work

- The structural and functional consequences of the loss of muscle mass and function with aging have been characterized to some extent.
- Less is known about these in the setting of chronic disease conditions leading to muscle wasting.
- The mechanisms of such losses require further investigation.
- Currently, diet and exercise are the most beneficial lifestyle interventions to counteract sarcopenia and muscle wasting.
# Presentation: 294339

## Military Customs & Courtesies

## Objectives

- Saluting
- Respect for the flag and National Anthem
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Grade Insignia, Proper Titles and Titles of Address

## Saluting

- Required between a Jr and Sr
- CAP members req’d to salute military superiors but not vice versa
- Staff Cars
- Ruffles and Flourishes
- Indoors
- Outdoors

## Saluting

- Air Force Song
- Indoors
- Outdoors
- Saluting Indoors
- Reporting

## Respect to the Flag and National Anthem

- Outdoors
- Saluting the U.S. Flag
- Retreat Ceremonies
- National Anthem
- Indoors

## Pledge of Allegiance

- In uniform
- In civilian clothing

## Grade Insignia, Proper Titles & Title of Address

- Butter bar?
- Silver Oak Leaf?
- Brigadier General?
- “Hey Sarge”?
- “Sergeant Smith” to a Chief Master Sergeant?
- “Colonel Jones” to a LtCol?
- “General” to any general officer?

## Summary

- Saluting
- Respect for the flag and National Anthem
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Grade Insignia, Proper Titles and Titles of Address
# Presentation: 715971

## Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

- An overview
- January 16, 2008

## Objective:

- Protect personal identity
- Combat theft

## What is PII?

- USDA  considers PII to be information that can be ***used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity***, such as your social security number or medical records, or information that when combined or used with other identifying information is linked or linkable to a specific individual.

## Steps to Safeguard 

*Examples include:*
- Encrypt electronic PII
- Remove PII
- Restrict access
- Confidentiality statement

## Steps to Safeguard (cont)

- Alternate unique identifier
- Secure areas only
- Transporting/Shipping PII		(AS-2137)
- Secure destruction    			(AS-2087)
- Terminate system access

## Encrypting Sensitive/Privacy Data

- WinZip
- Page 4  “Encrypting” handout
- IT Help desk # 690-1000
- IRM-378

## Shipment of PII

- Encrypt before shipping
- Prevent inadvertent opening
- Signs of tampering apparent
- Approved methods:
- FedEX            and            USPS
- Exception: single envelope
- AD-2137

## Terminating Info System Access

- Terminate access:
- Reassigned, separated, deceased
- Modify access:
- Reassigned within HRD
- FSA-13A
- IRM-400

## Breach Policy

- One (1) hour
-  OCIO, Office of Cyber Security
- (DM) 3505-000

## Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

- Q & A
# Presentation: 284677

## Fixation and Sealing:A Scientific Perspective

**Robert Whirley, Ph.D.**
**TriVascular**

## GET A GRIP & HANG IN THERE

**Fixation is critical to stent-graft performance**
**Migration occurs when**
**	****LOAD**** exceeds ****FIXATION**
**Studies suggest migration may be a strong predictor of late problems**

## FORCES ON A AAA STENT GRAFT

**Momentum equation**
**Re low in aorta & iliac at peak systole**
**Viscous forces dominate inertial forces**
**Laminar flow a good assumption**
**Pressure gradient**
**<5 mm Hg => small load**

## FORCES ON A AAA STENT GRAFT

**Simplifying for force on proximal end**
**Value remaining terms for various BPs**
**Note the large influence of sac pressure**
**Transient hypertension may be relevant**

## ISO 25539:  MIGRATION RESISTANCE

**Standard**
**Purpose:  Determine the force required to displace the prosthesis in a mock artery (i.e., resistance to migration)**
**Test Method**
**Deploy device in mock artery**
**Measure pullout force**
**But what about disease, angulation, etc?**

## DISTAL LIMB MIGRATION

**Migration can occur at proximal or distal end**
**Loads act proximally on distal end**
**Sac support depends on anatomy**

## Adjunctive Devices - Special Considerations

**Typically tubular instead of bifurcated**
**Loads analysis methodology still works!**
**Longitudinal load depends strongly on curvature of adjunctive device**
**Previous analysis suggests a worst-case load estimate:  F = PA**

## SEALING

**Clinical Objective:  Prevent aneurysm-related death**
**Design objective:  Exclude the aneurysm from hemodynamic pressure, thereby preventing rupture**

## SEALING: ISO 25539

**Standard: Relevant Tests**
**Conformability to Vessel Wall**
**Simulated Use**
**Radial Force**
**Other indirect tests**
**Characteristics Not Addressed**
**Sealing!**
**FDA Observations from Work Assignment**
**Most considered Sim Use objective to be delivery system rather than implant performance**
**Angulation generally absent**

## MUST SEAL IN HOSTILE TERRITORY

**Noncircular lumens:  **
**Wall may be**** **
**Hard Ca++**
**Compliant tissue**
**Thrombus - hard or soft**
**Testing should be consistent with realistic anatomy**

## SEALING:  Non-orthogonal ends

**SEALING:  Non-orthogonal ends**

**Conformance**
**Asymmetry**
**Inner curve contact / seal**
**Device factors**
**Anatomical factors**
**Testing?**

## SUMMARY

**Loads drive fixation requirements**
**Testing for seal is challenging**
**Conformance to wall may not = seal**
**Realistic anatomy should drive test conditions**
# Presentation: 077682

## NEPA Technical Conference- Air Toxics Session

- Bob O’Loughlin
- Federal Highway Administration
- Resource Center

## Air Toxics

- Issue: What are the air toxic impacts of transportation projects?
- 6 MSAT Risk Drivers: Acetaldehyde, Acrolein, Benzene, 1,3 Butadiene, Formaldehyde, Diesel Particulate Matter.

## Air Toxics

- On-road mobile sources contributed 30-65% of the total measured concentration of the 6 MSAT risk drivers; less than 2% for the other 15 MSATs (1996 monitoring data).
- EPA National Air Toxic Assessments (12/17/02)

## Air Toxics

- Air toxic impacts have been raised on transportation projects in Arizona, California, Nevada and Washington.
- Context: Significant impact under NEPA and/or as a Title VI/EJ impact.

## Air Toxics

- Current lawsuit on US-95 in Las Vegas by Sierra Club includes air toxics as part of the complaint.
- FHWA has provided a response to the Sierra Club that serves as an interim FHWA position.

## Air Toxics

- Research: (1) MATES-II in southern California; Colorado study of leukemia risk/traffic density; and (3) CARB study of Barrio Logan in San Diego.
- FHWA research- air toxics (short-term and long-term) and particulates.

## Air Toxics

- MATES-II/CARB: Mobile sources represent 89-90% of excess cancer risk.
- MATES-II: Diesel particulate matter represents about 70% of excess cancer risk.

## Air Toxics

- MATES-II: By 2010, CARB’s LEV and reformulated fuel programs and SCAQMD measures will reduce emissions of acetaldehyde (53%), benzene (69%), 1,3 butadiene (69%), formaldehyde (56%), and diesel particulates (20%). Off-road sources predominate.

## Air Toxics

- Research on health risks near roadways: Mixed results.
- Estimated exposures and low sample sizes. Colorado study represents the vehicle fleet in the early 1970’s to early 1980’s.

## Air Toxics

- FHWA has recognized the need for a short-term policy.
- FHWA and EPA are discussing the possibility.

## Air Toxics

- Over time existing and committed controls will reduce air toxics on a regional basis.
- Attempts at project evaluations, lacking concentrations and risk assessment.
# Presentation: 419807

## Document Versioning & Control

- By Peter Hemphill

## My Perspective & Background

- Senior System/Software Designer
- 17 years designing systems to manage documents and related content
- Currently manage systems maintaining over 3 million documents from hardcopy to electronic formats.
- Manage, control and version _republished_ documents
- Need to take in virtually any kind of document/attachment
- Need to manage and track changes to those documents
- Need to handle varying structures, formats and renderings of documents.
- Need to manage documents electronically (including hardcopy)

## What is “Version Control”

- Version Control is really a combination of:
- Managing relationships between levels in a hierarchical structure that comprises a document or set of documents.
- Storing/Managing  and using information about the changes (“metadata”).
- Cross-Referencing to other documents or sets of documents indicating replacements or other applicable documents.

## Document Structure

- Documents have a hierarchical “Bill-of-Materials” type structure.
- Building a car is conceptually like the hierarchy of building documents!
- Very flexible structure to manage versions from the largest piece down to the page if you like.
- Each level has related metadata/attributes
- Who, what, where (location), when and why.
- Managing “Objects” and attachments as well as hardcopy.

## Document Hierarchy Levels

## Document Hierarchy Levels

## Storing, Identifying & Grouping Document Information

- Each level has a unique identifier for each instance
- Like an ISBN, only for each level/piece of a document that needs to be versioned.
- Use the level that suits your operation to store in groups that make sense.
- Attaching an OCR label or page to hardcopy/folder
- Three (or more) methods to file items
- Just put the items on a shelf one after the other
- File/Group by a level that makes sense for your needs
- By document number, subject or other means.  This can lead to “interpretation” issues.
- Each level has a relationship to higher and lower levels.

## Document Cross-References

- Examples of Cross-References:
- Superseding
- Superseded by
- Use
- “Refer to”
- Cancelled by
- In-Lieu-Of
- Others
- Cross-References link to different levels in the hierarchy
- “Super Family”, Family, Revision, Document Levels

## Fundamental Questions to Ask

- What can be *thrown away?*
- Information multiplies
- Exponential costs with ripple-effects
- Reduces scale and increases performance
- What are the costs, regulations and justifications for keeping and controlling data elements/documents?
- What information changes?
- What information needs version control?
- What bibliographic/metadata elements are necessary to find and manage the documents?
- Will an “out-of-the-box” solution *really *work?
- Flexibility & Customization
- Is the cost/benefit worth customizing the software?  Or is it more cost effective to change processes to adapt to the software?

## Conclusion

- Thanks for your time!
- I hope this helps in dealing with the challenges we all face in document management!
- Email:  Pete.Hemphill@ihs.com
# Presentation: 698033

## ACS PUMS - Sampling

- PUMS is a systematic sample of ACS interviewed HUs and the persons in the sampled occupied units
- 2005 ACS PUMS sampled 1% of total US HUs (including Puerto Rico)
- 1,259,653 HUs (including vacants)
- 2,913,796 persons in sampled occupied HUs

## ACS PUMS - Sampling

- Sample size determined by state
- SS = Round Up(0.01  official HU estimate)
- Take Every = # interviewed HUs / SS
- State sampling rates range from 25% (Vermont) to 52% (Florida)
- Overall US sampling rate was about 40%

## ACS PUMS Sampling

- Within each state, all interviewed HUs are sorted by PUMA, mode, occupancy status, and other household and householder characteristics
- HU sample is selected systematically from sorted list
- Person sample includes all persons in selected HUs

## ACS PUMS - Confidentiality

- In addition to standard ACS confidentiality measures, additional steps are taken for PUMS
- Sub-state geographic detail limited to Census 2000 PUMAs
- Additional record-level editing, including topcoding

## ACS PUMS – Weighting and Tabulation

- PUMS weight = ACS weight / SRate
- Separate weights for HUs and persons (as in Census 2000)
- For totals, users add up weights for all HUs or persons on PUMS files with desired characteristics
- For family or household characteristics, use the HU weight

## ACS PUMS - Reliability

- When using ACS PUMS data, we urge users to calculate standard errors and factor them in their analyses
- Two methods
- Direct SEs using replicate weights
- Generalized SEs using design factors

## ACS PUMS - Reliability

- Replicate weights included on PUMS files
- Same methodology as full-sample ACS
- Produces more accurate SEs than design factor method
- Tabulate statistic using main weight, then repeat for each of the 80 replicate weights

## ACS PUMS - Reliability

- Design factor method similar to Census 2000 Long Form and PUMS, and previous ACS PUMS
- Separate formulas for totals, percents, ratios, means, and medians
- new formulas for 2005, see p. 7-9 of 2005 PUMS Accuracy of the Data document
- Design factors updated for 2005, but will not be updated every year

## ACS PUMS – Reliability vs 2000

- Multiple years of ACS PUMS can be tabulated together (with weight adjustments) to give more sample and lower SEs

## Reliability – ACS Full Sample vs ACS PUMS 

## Reliability – 2000 PUMS vs ACS PUMS
# Presentation: 807113

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## Slide 4

## The remotely sensed signal [R(0,z)] is a function of

- bottom composition (*A*), water column composition
- (*R*∞, *K*) and water depth (*z*).
- Generally, all are unknowns.

## Implicit Water Column Correction:

- Classify the combined water-leaving radiance signal
- Requires spectral library that encompasses variabilities
- of both water column and bottom-type
- Louchard et al. (2003), Mobley et al. (2005) propose
- Euclidean distance spectrum-matching approach using
- modeled spectra
- This study: multivariate classifer approach using
- measured spectra

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## Slide 15

## Model Results

- To depths ~20 m, correct classification rates >80%
- Increased chl → correct classification rates >90%
**Field Results**
- Forthcoming. . .

## Explicit Water Column Correction:

- Remove water column effects, then classify
- Requires inversion of remotely sensed signal to
- determine seafloor spectral reflectance, as well
- as library of reflectance spectra
- Many, many proposed approaches
- This study: empirical decorrelation from depth,
- based on Conger et al. (2006)

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# Presentation: 807665

## Solution-Processed Flexible Memory Devices 

- Dr. Nadine Gergel-Hackett
- Dr. Behrang Hamadani
- Dr. Curt Richter
- Dr. David Gundlach

## Technology

- Motivation
- Flexible electronics is an emerging industry
- 	that “sprays” electronic devices onto inexpensive plastic sheets
- 	(like inkjet printer on an overhead transparency)
- Problem: Currently no method exists in flexible electronics for fabricating non-volatile low operation voltage memory devices ie devices that “hold” written state without an applied voltage

- Completed design and fabrication of electronic memory devices on inexpensive plastic substrates

- actual devices

## Commercial Applications

***Integrated Sensor is Structure – T. Clark/DARPA***

- Flexible memory devices would have applications in almost all flexible electronics circuits, some possible uses of flexible electronics include:

## Technology - Combining separate existing technologies 

- Advantages of Method of Device Fabrication:
- Can be performed at room temperature and pressure
- Simplified design
- Inexpensive fabrication procedures

*Technology - **Combining separate existing technologies *

- actual devices

**Notes:**
using sol gel to make TiO2
using TiO2 in memory device to invent a method for making sol gel TiO2-based flexible memory device

## Technology

*Technology*

- Devices showed an electrical switching with memory behavior

- Electrical characteristics of device

## Technology Applications

-     Areas for Improvement:
- “write” and “erase” voltage values, and on/off ratios vary between devices, and increase with operation
- Devices switched maximum of <10 times before permanently remaining in high state
- Source of electrical switching
- 	behavior not yet well studied

## Technology Applications

## Potential Applications :The Missing Piece for the Realization of Flexible Electronics

*Potential Applications :**The Missing Piece for the Realization of Flexible Electronics*

## 
 “Solution-Processed Flexible Titanium Dioxide        Memory Devices” 
   Provisional patent application filed 1/22/08
	serial # 51/022,534

-  “Solution-Processed Flexible Titanium Dioxide        Memory Devices”
-    Provisional patent application filed 1/22/08
- 	serial # 51/022,534

*Licensing & Collaboration Opportunity*

## Contact Information

-  Nadine Gergel-Hackett, Ph.D
- 301-975-8755
- nadinegh@nist.gov
- David Gundlach, Ph.D
- 301-975-2048
- david.gundlach@nist.gov
- Curt Richter, Ph.D.
- 301-975-2082
- curt.richter@nist.gov
# Presentation: 273324

## What is QCD?

- Quantum ChromoDynamics is the theory of the strong force
- the strong force describes the binding of quarks by gluons to make particles such as neutrons and protons
- The strong force is one of the four fundamental forces in the Standard Model of Physics– the others are:
- Gravity
- Electromagnetism
- The Weak force
- The 2004 Physics Nobel prize was awarded to David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek**  **for their work leading to QCD

## Slide 2

## What is Lattice QCD?

- Lattice QCD is the numerical simulation of QCD
- The QCD action, which expresses the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons:where the Dirac operator (“*dslash*”) is given by
- Lattice QCD uses discretized space and time
- A very simple discretized form of the Dirac operator iswhere *a* is the lattice spacing

## A quark, (x), depends upon (x + a) and the local gluon fields U  
(x) is complex 3x1 vector, and the U  are complex 3x3 matrices.  Interactions are computed via matrix algebra
On a supercomputer, the space-time lattice is distributed across all of the nodes

***(x)** *is complex 3x1 vector, and the *U****  *are complex 3x3 matrices.  Interactions are computed via matrix algebra
- On a supercomputer, the space-time lattice is distributed across all of the nodes

## Why do Lattice QCD?

- Many QCD problems can only be simulated numerically, using Lattice QCD
- To test the Standard Model, physicists take experimental data and compare to the theoretical predictions of QCD
- Differences may indicate new physics, for example, explaining why the universe is dominated by matter and has so little anti-matter

## Testing the Standard Model

*** *and *** *are two parameters of the Standard Model
- Theory and experiments constrain the possible values of *** *and **
- The regions of different colors correspond to different constraints
- The allowed values of *** *and ** from  the Standard Model would lie in the intersection of all of the colored regions
- This figure shows the current constraints

## Testing the Standard Model

- New B-factory  experiments, such as BaBar at SLAC and Belle at KEK, will reduce the experimental errors, shrinking the areas of each region

## Testing the Standard Model

- Even tighter constraints will result from better theoretical calculations from Lattice QCD
- If the regions don’t overlap, there must be new physics!
# Presentation: 281031

## FNAL Ptolemy to-do list

**Integration of FNAL and CERN code**
**Pluggable star components**
**Minimize code duplication**
**XDAQ issues**
**No barrel shifting on BU side?**
**Communication with Filter Nodes**
**See next page**
**Time scales, milestones**

## BU event transfer to FN

**DEEtherNIC emulates 10-GbE adapter**
**1 MB memory**
**1500 B MTU, 150 B headers overhead**
**Collisions considered negligible**
**Packets have no FN specified (yet)**
- They only keep the network busy
**DEFNBU uses 1 PCI bus for *****all***** traffic**
**DEPCIControl extended with 3****rd**** access port**
**Operation:**
**Each complete event is copied as a stream of packets into DEEtherNIC**
**New event is requested when last packet has been copied**
# Presentation: 922012

## National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection

**Under Secretary for Food Safety**
**USDA Office of Food Safety**
**Tuesday, November 15**

## Office of Food Safety

- Recent Food Safety Successes:

## Percentage of Positive Regulatory Samples

*E. coli* O157:H7

- Office of Food Safety

## Listeria monocytogenes

*Listeria monocytogenes*

- Percentage of Positive Regulatory Samples

- Office of Food Safety

## E. coli O157:H7Foodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 42% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

*E. coli* O157:H7Foodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 42% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

- 1996-2004 FoodNet Foodborne Illness Incidence Data
- (Cases per 100,000 persons)

- Office of Food Safety

## Listeria monocytogenesFoodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 40% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

*Listeria monocytogenes*Foodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 40% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

- 1996-2004 FoodNet Foodborne Illness Incidence Data
- (Cases per 100,000 persons)

- Office of Food Safety

## CampylobacterFoodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 31% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

*Campylobacter*Foodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 31% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

- 1996-2004 FoodNet Foodborne Illness Incidence Data
- (Cases per 100,000 persons)

- Office of Food Safety

## YersiniaFoodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 45% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

*Yersinia*Foodborne Illnesses Have Decreased By 45% Since the 1996-98 Baseline

- 1996-2004 FoodNet Foodborne Illness Incidence Data
- (Cases per 100,000 persons)

- Office of Food Safety

## Office of Food Safety

- The Kearney Patrol Assignment                                       We need less time traveling and more time in-plant.

## The journey to a 

**Step #1****                HACCP Implementation 1998-2000**

**Step #2             HIMP**

**Step #4             ??**

**Step #5             ??**

**Step #6             ****Full Implementation of our Risk-based System**

- The journey to a
- fully implemented
- risk-based system

**Step #3****   *****Listeria***** Risk Assessment**

## Office of Food Safety

- The Risk-Based System is supported by three equally important “legs.”

## Office of Food Safety

- FSIS Employees

- RBS

- FSIS Employees

## Office of Food Safety

- Industry

- RBS

**FSIS Employees**

**Industry**

## Office of Food Safety

- Consumers

- RBS

**FSIS Employees**

**Industry**

**Consumers**

## Office of Food Safety

- Communication, Cooperation, and Collaboration are Essential: If one leg is removed, the system can collapse.

## Office of Food Safety

- Public health is constantly evolving

## Office of Food Safety

- This is why we must continue to enhance our food safety and public health system.
# Presentation: 055991

## Laboratory Diagnosis of OIs in Resource-Limited Countries

- Jonathan E. Kaplan, M.D.

## Prevalence of OIs Among Persons Dying with HIV Disease in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

- Tuberculosis						38%
- Bacteremia						16%
- Toxoplasmosis, CNS				15%
- Pyogenic pneumonia				30%
- Purulent meningitis				  	  5%
- Non-specific enteritis				10%
- Cryptococcosis					  3%
*Pneumocystis carinii* pneumonia		  	  3%
- Nocardiosis					  	  4%

- _Prevalence_

- Source: Lucas et al. AIDS, 1993

## Prevalence of OIs Among Persons with AIDS, Thailand (2 series)

- 							_Prevalence_
- Tuberculosis					   29-37%
- Cryptococcosis				   19-38%
- Wasting syndrome				   8-28%
*Pneumocystis carinii* pneumonia		   5-20%
- Bacterial pneumonia			   4%
- Esophageal candidiasis			   3-6%
*Penicillium marneffei* infection		   3%
- Toxoplasmosis				   2-3%
- Cryptosporidiosis				   1-2%

- Sources: Chariyalertsak, 2001; Tansuphasawadikul, 1999

## Bacterial Pathogens

*M. tuberculosis*		AFB stain, culture/sensitivity
*S. pneumoniae*		Gram stain, culture/sensitivity
*H. influenzae*			Gram stain, culture/sensitivity
- Non-typhoidal		Culture/sensitivitysalmonella
*M. avium*			AFB stain, culture/sensitivity

## Fungal Pathogens

*C. albicans*			KOH preparation, culture
*C. neoformans*		India ink stain, cryptococcal 				  antigen, culture
*H. capsulatum*		Wright’s stain, culture
*P. marneffei*			Wright’s stain, culture
*P. jiroveci*			Methenamine silver, Giemsa 				  stains

## Protozoal Pathogens

*C. parvum*			Modified acid-fast stain
*E. bienensi* and other	Various stainsmicrosporidia
*I. belli*				Acid-fast stain
*T. gondii*			CT scan

## Viral Pathogens

*H. simplex*			Tzanck preparation, culture
- Cytomegalovirus		Culture, histology
- Papillomavirus		Pap smear, histology

## Other Common Pathogens

*Plasmodium* sp.		Giemsa stain
*S. aureus*			Gram stain, culture/sensitivity
- Enteric bacilli			Gram stain, culture/sensitivity
- Enteric parasites		Stool exam(protozoa, helminths)
- Hepatitis viruses		Serology

## Factors To Consider – OI Laboratory Support

- Incidence/prevalence of infection
- Severity of infection
- Procedures required to obtain specimens
- Availability of therapy
- Complexity of test
- Training
- Quality assurance
- Cost

## “Low-Hanging Fruit”

- AFB microscopy
- India ink stain
- Gram stain
- Stool microscopy, stains
- Stains for *P. jiroveci*
- Fungal stains
- Malaria microscopy

## OI Laboratory Activities

- In-country assessments
- Training materials/courses
- Quality assurance
# Presentation: 587360

## Peter Liaw, University of Tennessee, DMR 0231320 

**International Materials Institute: **_**A**_**dvanced **_**N**_**eutron **_**S**_**cattering net**_**W**_**ork for **_**E**_**ducation and **_**R**_**esearch (ANSWER) **
**Peter Liaw, University of Tennessee, ****DMR 0231320**

***IMI-ANSWER-Japan Research Collaborations on Bulk-Metallic Glasses***

_**Motivation**_
- Processing and properties of bulk-metallic glasses (BMGs) have been widely studied.  However, their atomic structures still remain mysterious.
- Structural models of BMGs are typically based on hard-sphere representations, which offer little direct correlation to the observed properties, such as mechanical behavior.
- A further understanding of the local atomic structure of BMGs is critical for developing and manufacturing the next-generation, glass-forming alloys.
- Current collaborations focus on the glass-forming ability and fatigue behavior of BMGs.

_**Research Efforts with Dr. Y. Yokoyama and **_
_**President A. Inoue, Tohoku University, Sendai**__** **_
- Designing and fabricating BMGs.
- Using the neutron diffraction on the Neutron Powder Diffractometer (NPDF) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) at the National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) to study the atomic structures.
- Applying computational simulations to understand the mechanisms.

_**Impact**_
- The collaborations develop new materials and study their properties and potential applications.
- The number of IMI-ANSWER-Japan collaborators’ publications is 14.

## Peter Liaw, University of Tennessee, DMR 0231320

**Peter Liaw, University of Tennessee, DMR 0231320**

_**International Research Network**_
- IMI-ANSWER organizes symposia and workshops to develop the partnerships among Japanese, other Asia countries’, European, and US research societies.

***IMI-ANSWER ******Student Exchange***
***Program***

_**IMI-ANSWER Students Visited Japan**__** **_
- Mr. J. J. Wall visited the Japan Ultrahigh Temperature Materials Research Laboratory (JUTEM) at Tajimi, Gifu.
- Dr. M. L. Morrison and Dr. W. Peter conducted the joint research on BMGs at Tohoku University.

***IMI-ANSWER ***
***Visiting Scholar Program***

- Dr. Y. Morii of the Japan-Spallation Neutron Source introduced the industrial application of neutron at the Japan Research Reactor - No. 3 (JRR-3) and the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (JPARC) to the US and international participants in NST2,  2007.

- IMI-ANSWER hosted the Neutron Stress, Texture, and Phase Transformation Workshop (NST2) at the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, US, 2007. Speakers from overseas interacted with participants from institutions worldwide. Please refer to ANSWER website at *http: answer.utk.edu*.

- Dr. Y. Yokoyama of Tohoku University visited University of Tennessee, 2007.
- Dr. C. Fan of University of Tennessee fabricated bulk-metallic glasses at Tohoku University, 2006.

***Partnership Development & Exchange Program with Japan***

***IMI –ANSWER Symposia & Workshops***
# Presentation: 694084

## Federal Most Wanted Listof Transportation Safety Improvements

***“... ******a program to increase the public’s awareness of, and support for, action to adopt safety steps that can help prevent accidents and save lives*****.”**
***November 8, 2007***

## Slide 2

## 949 Open Recommendations

**Aviation: 449**
**Highway: 274**
**Railroad: 115**
**Marine: 59**
**Pipeline: 30**
**Intermodal: 22**

**November 2007**

## Issue areas selected for intensive follow-up and heightened awareness because they:

- Will impact and enhance safety of the nation’s transportation system
- Have a high level of public visibility and interest
- Will benefit from special form of encouragement

##  Safety Recommendations on Most Wanted List

-     DOT Secretary    1
-     FAA		  19
-     FMCSA		    9
-     NHTSA		    5
**	**

- PHMSA     1
- FRA	         1
- USCG        1

**State Recommendations:  9**
**November  2007**

**Federal Recommendations:  37**

## Office of Safety Recommendations& Advocacy

**Darrin Broadwater**
**Mike Brown**
**Pat Cariseo**
**Barbara Grider**

**Jeff Marcus**
**Julie Perrot**
**Pat Sullivan**

##  Today’s Presenters

**Sandy Rowlett**
**Bob Swaim**
**Dan Bower**
**Malcolm Brenner**
**Jim Cash**
**Jana Price**
**Jim Southworth**
**Bruce Magladry**
**Mitch Garber**

## Action / Timeliness Criteria

**Red****:** Unacceptable response
**Yellow****:** Acceptable response – progressing slowly
**Green****:** Acceptable response – progressing in a timely manner
# Presentation: 251751

## 2400

- Manufacturing Science & Technology Center
- David W. Plummer, Director

**2400**
- Betty Clayton
- Sr. Management Assistant

**2024**
- Carla Chirigos
- Center Business Manager

**2400**
- Jane M. Poppenger
- Quality Engineer

**2400**
- John Zich
- ESS&H Coordinator

**2450**
- Mark F. Smith, Sr. Manager
- Mfg. Process Science & Technology

**2431**
- Matt Donnelly
- Manager
- Machining Operations.

**2434**
- Phil Gallegos, Mgr.
- Electronic Fab.

**2433**
- Joe M. Harris, Acting Mgr.
- Machining Services

**2455**
- Paul McKey. Mgr.
- Meso Mfg.& Systems Dev.

**2452**
- Dianna Blair, Mgr.
- Thin Film, Vacuum & Packaging

**2453**
- Michael Kelly, Mgr.
- Organic Materials

**2454**
- Alex Roesler Mgr., Ceramics & Glass

**2431-3**
- Jane Poppenger
- Team Lead
- Mechanical Measurements

**2433-1**
- Daryl Reckaway
- Team Lead
- Machining & Liaison Services

**2433-2**
- Douglas Abrams
-  Team Lead
- Machine Shop Infrastructure

**2434-1**
- Louis A. Gonzales, Team Lead Electronic Fab. Team

**2453-1**
- J .Anthony Romero
-  Plastics Lab Team

**2454-1**
- Chris Armijo
- Active Ceramics Team

- Revised: 1/17/07

**2430**
- Joe Harris, Sr. Manager
-   Manufacturing Enterprise

-  **2431-2**
- Joe Stephenson
- Team Lead
- Machine Shop

**2431-4**
- Jane Poppenger
- Team Lead
- Mechanical Calibration
# Presentation: 148690

## Drug Product Integrity  The Florida Response

- John D. Taylor, RPh
- Drug Inspector

## The Situation in 2002

**Discovery of counterfeit drugs in regulated distribution channels**
**Department agents break high profile case and help expose threat**
**Statewide grand jury report identifies weakness in the state’s regulation of prescription drug wholesalers  **

## Spring 2003

**Legislature amends Florida Drug and Cosmetic Act**
**Phased implementation**
**Specified Drug List**
**Defined Authorized Distributor of Record**
**Pedigrees for all drugs to end user by            July 1, 2006**
**Regulations strengthened**

## New Permit Qualifications

**Fingerprint and criminal background check for principals**
**Bond increased from $200 to $100,000**
**Law examination**
**Certified Designated Representative**
**Required for out-of-state wholesalers as well**

## New Criminal Penalties

**Failure to deliver or acquire pedigree papers where required may be a 3****rd**** degree felony**
**Knowing delivery of a contraband legend drug may be a 2****nd**** degree felony**
**Knowing delivery of a contraband drug leading to great bodily harm may be a 1****st**** degree felony**

## Tools for EnforcementPedigree Papers

**Until July 1, 2006**
**Required for wholesaler to wholesaler transactions for 34 ****specified**** drugs**
**Required for non authorized distributor of record ****(ADR)**** wholesaler to wholesaler transactions for all drugs**
**Wholesaler not required to pass pedigree to practitioner or pharmacy**

## Tools for EnforcementPedigree Papers

**After July 1, 2006**
**Required for all prescription drug transactions from wholesalers**
**Not required of manufacturer**
**Wholesalers must authenticate the pedigree for drugs received by specified methods**
**End users not required to authenticate pedigree**

## Summary

**Three year phase in of provisions**
**Enhanced qualifications for permittees**
**Enhanced penalties for criminal activities**
**Enhanced tools for enforcement (pedigree papers and other required documents)**
# Presentation: 335023

## Load Modeling Assumptions

- SSG-WI PWG/TSG Meeting
- November 9, 2005

## RMATS Load Areas

- The RMATS Study load forecasts were gathered from the participants during the RMATS study, and escalated for 2015.
- Bubbles were defined by RMATS participants
- RMATS forecasts used include Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and northern Nevada
- Idaho (Roger Grimm) and Utah (Becky Wilson) provided updates.

## Northwest

- For Oregon and Washington, the NWPPC (Terry Moreland) developed the forecasts to coordinate with the fixed hydro shape used.
- Two bubbles, NW-US west and NW-US east.
- For Alberta and British Columbia, the 2015 forecast comes from WECC 2005 L&R report 2014 numbers for Canada,
- escalated to 2015 and
- proportioned to bubbles according to the FERC 714 hourly data

## Southwest

- New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Nevada, Imperial CA, and northern Mexico forecasts
- come from the 2005 WECC L&R Report,
-  escalated from 2014 (the last year in the report) to 2015, and
- proportioned into bubbles to match the average of several years historical (FERC form 714) data.

## California

- Used annual forecasts from the CEC
- Monthly numbers developed using same monthly proportions as WECC L&R report.
- Division into bubbles based upon proportions developed from FERC 714 historical data and input from Irina Green for summer months
- Division of northern California bubbles by Irina Green
# Presentation: 772195

## Multiwavelength Photoacoustic Measurements of Light Absorption and Scattering by Wood SmokeMore Specific Title:Evidence for light absorption by organic carbon species in woodsmoke.Kristin Lewis, William P. Arnott, and Stephanie WinterUniversity of Nevada Reno Physics Department Hans Moosmuller and the Desert Research Institute Reno Nevada USA  Claudio Mazzoleni Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos NM USA 

## People and Instruments

## Missoula Wood Smoke Optics and Chemistry Experiment

***Photoacoustic instruments at******1047 nm******870 nm******780 nm******532 nm******405 nm***
* ****7 wavelength Aethalometer***
***Aerodyne Mass Spec***
** ****TDMA, CCN, SEM, CRD, Mercury, NO2, Ozone, TSI 3 lamba Neph, Radiance Nephs, Scattering hygroscopicity,  TEOM, EC/OC, and more...**

**Optical, chemical, and microphysical properties of varied wood smoke aerosols were measured at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory June 2006.  **
** ****For each of the 16 fuel types, 200 grams of fuel were ignited.  *****The smoke was contained in a burn chamber and sampled for two hours.***

## Photoacoustic Instrument Schematic: First Measurements with a Multi-Wavelength Photoacoustic Instrument for Aerosol Light Scattering And Absorption

- Photoacoustic Instrument Schematic: *First Measurements with a Multi-Wavelength Photoacoustic Instrument for Aerosol Light Scattering And Absorption*

## Angström Coefficients and Single Scattering Albedo

- Measurements at 2 wavelengths are used to obtain *a, b, c*, and *d* Angström coefficients for absorption and scattering.
- The typical assumption for absorption is *d = 1* for elemental carbon.
- Single scattering albedo is obtained at each wavelength.

## For certain fuel types burned aerosol light absorption did not display the 1/λ dependence on incident wavelength that is characteristic of small elemental carbon aerosol. 
Absorption can be far more efficient at the near-UV wavelength than in the near-infrared.

- Absorption can be far more efficient at the near-UV wavelength than in the near-infrared.

**Absorption by Wood Smoke**

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Conclusion

- Non-elemental-carbon components, such as organic species, exist on smoke aerosol of certain fuel types and preferentially absorb light at shorter wavelengths. addition to particle size, differences in refractive index at widely differing wavelengths contribute to spectral properties of the aerosol.
***Casual use of the inverse wavelength dependence of aerosol light absorption in remote sensing retrievals with sun photometers and satellite data can bring errors of a factor of 6 in the UV and a factor of 2 in the visible when compared with near IR absorption for certain types of wood smoke.******  ***

***ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:***
- DOE ASP Program and the National Parks Service, field work.
- NSF MRI program for instrument development.
- All participants in the Missoula Fire Experiment.
# Presentation: 755314

## Catastrophic Disaster and Emergency Planning: Revitalizing FEMA after Hurricane Katrina

- R. Steven Daniels, California State University, Bakersfield

## Hurricane Katrina Reports

- White House, *The Federal Response to Katrina: Lessons Learned.*
- U.S. House: *A Failure of Initiative.*
- U.S. Senate: *Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared*.

## Hurricane Katrina Reports

- U.S. Government Accountability Office, *Catastrophic Disasters: Enhanced Leadership, Capabilities, and Accountability Controls Will Improve the Effectiveness of the Nation’s Preparedness, Response and Recovery System.*
- Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal [Mississippi], *After Katrina: Building Back Better than Ever.*

## Common Themes

- Accurate weather forecasts saved lives.
- All levels of government understood the potential consequences of a large-scale hurricane on the Gulf Coast.
- All levels of government were unprepared.
- State and local infrastructure was inadequate.

## Common Themes

- Response plans at all levels were inadequate.
- All levels failed to execute existing plans.
- Massive communication failures undermined coordination.
- Lack of training, communication, and situational awareness undermined command and control.
- Military assistance was invaluable, but uncoordinated.

## Survey Design: Topic

- Catastrophic disaster:
- An event having unprecedented levels of damage, casualties, dislocation, and disruption that would have nationwide consequences and jeopardize national security.

## Survey Design: Sample

- Frame: IAEM and NEMA members (3,654).
- Sample: 111 (3%).
- 100% of FEMA regions, 65% of states and territories, 3% of counties, 26% of U.S. population.

## Survey Design: Four Themes

- Catastrophic disasters.
- Local and state emergency plans.
- Causes of Katrina failures.
- Recommendations for improving FEMA.

## Catastrophic Disasters

## Catastrophic Disasters

## State and Local Emergency Plans

## Effectiveness of Katrina Response

## Effectiveness of Katrina Response

## Revitalization of FEMA

## Revitalization of FEMA

## Survey Recommendations

- Focus on most likely disasters.
- Recognize regional variations.
- EOPs with adequate resources for catastrophes and mass evacuation plans.
- Evaluate EOCs for vulnerability to catastrophe.

## Survey Recommendations

- Foster comprehensive vulnerability management.
- Cultivate political support.
- Improve planning, communication, coordination, and execution.
- Restructure FEMA and hire the best.

## Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006

- Restructured and strengthened FEMA.
- Refocused FEMA on CEM.
- Strengthened regional administrators and operations.
- Created advisory councils.
- Changed Stafford Act to ensure greater flexibility.
# Presentation: 516998

## Pressure Infiltration Casting of Superalloy Composites

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Successfully cast superalloy composites utilizing vacuum 	melting and transfer to mold vessel
-   Developments were applied to the manufacture of copper 	and aluminum matrix composites for electronic thermal 	management materials

***Metal Matrix Cast Composites, Inc.***
***Waltham, MA***

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

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  	Will be used for the Boeing 	SpacewayTM satellite communication 	system, launch 2003-2004

- Glenn Research Center
- Materials
- 3-077

**Pressure Infiltration Casting of Superalloy Composites**

**INNOVATION**

- 1993 Phase II, NAS3-27541, rev. 5/03
- NASA Contact – Michael Nathal
- Company Contact – J. Cornie

- High temperature vacuum transfer of alloys for pressure infiltration of ceramic and carbon fiber preforms

***High Temperature Vacuum***
***Transfer (APIC************) Facility***

**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   $1.7M production facility installed and in operation
-  	Formed a joint venture/supply agreement with HC Starck  	to market MetGrafTM materials into the power 	semiconductor industry, including IGBT modules for hybrid 	electric vehicles
-   Owners investment, commercial leases and loans, supply 	agreement fees and reinvested profits amount to $2M
-   24 full-time jobs as a result of the innovation

***Boeing K-band Module Housings for Spaceway************ Phased Array Antenna***

***Wideband Gapfiller Satellite's Ka-band Antenna***

-  	Wideband Gapfiller satellite	communication system, launches in 2004-2005
-  	A wide range of electronic, microwave, power semi-conductor 	and optical packaging applications are in various stages of 	production, prototype development, and advanced research