BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 668178

## Archived InformationKentucky Initiatives to Improve Mathematics Education

- Steve Newman
- Northern Kentucky University
- _[newman@nku](mailto:newman@nku.edu)__[.](mailto:newman@nku.edu)__[edu](mailto:newman@nku.edu)_

## Steve Newman’s Background

- Director of Kentucky Early Mathematics Testing Program (KEMTP)
- Member of national Content Expert/Employer Panel in mathematics for the American Diploma Project (ADP)
- Member of Kentucky group that developed college readiness standards in mathematics based on ADP benchmarks

## Purpose of the KEMTP

- The KEMTP test gives high school sophomores and juniors a realistic assessment of their mathematical preparation for college early enough so they can take corrective action while still in high school.

## About the KEMTP

- The KEMTP was created by the 2000 Kentucky General Assembly.
- The KEMTP test is the only test of its kind in the nation to be offered online. Its address:  www.mathclass.org.
- The KEMTP is a partnership between NKU and University of Kentucky (UK), which supplies online support.

## Method for Showing Effectiveness

- UK developed a simple method for showing effectiveness of KEMTP test.
- Students in elementary calculus at UK, and college algebra at UK and NKU, are given 12 or 15 randomly selected KEMTP test questions at beginning of semester.
- Scores on this test are compared with final grades in the course.

## Elementary Calculus at UK: 2423 Students (4 Semesters)

| Score | %(A) | %(A,B) | %(A,B,C) | Number |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| >70% | 33 | 50 | 65 | 765 |
| 50-70% | 12 | 26 | 43 | 1004 |
| <50% | 6 | 14 | 30 | 654 |

## College Algebra at UK:1119 Students (2 Semesters)

| Score | %(A) | %(A,B) | %(A,B,C) | Number |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| >70% | 43 | 65 | 78 | 51 |
| 50-70% | 25 | 50 | 70 | 279 |
| 30-49% | 15 | 36 | 56 | 411 |
| <30% | 6 | 20 | 42 | 378 |

## College Algebra at NKU:327 Students (2 Semesters)

| Score | %(A) | %(A,B) | %(A,B,C) | Number |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| >70% | 33 | 59 | 74 | 27 |
| 50-70% | 19 | 42 | 56 | 89 |
| 30-49% | 6 | 14 | 29 | 133 |
| <30% | 3 | 10 | 27 | 78 |

## Spring 2002 Calculus:156 UK Students

| Score | %(A) | %(A,B) | %(A,B,C) | Number |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| >80% | 23 | 54 | 82 | 56 |
| 65-80% | 14 | 34 | 52 | 65 |
| <65% | 0 | 9 | 20 | 35 |

## Kentucky College Readiness Standards

- Kentucky has developed some college readiness standards in mathematics by breaking the ADP benchmarks into three categories: essential gateway skills, valuable but not essential skills, and advanced skills.

## KEMTP Test Advantages

- The KEMTP test effectively and exclusively tests the essential gateway skills.
- The KEMTP test gives students feedback about their performance relative to ADP benchmarks.

## Conclusions

- The Kentucky college mathematics community has determined very specifically what students need to know to be successful in college mathematics classes.
- Kentucky K-12 mathematics standards are being revised and the college readiness standards are being considered in the process.
# Presentation: 099905

## Chopper contingency plan

- Philip Heimann

-  What if Rigaku is unable to deliver a chopper until the beginning of November?
-  How to proceed with the commissioning activities without a chopper?
-  Change procurement strategy: Dave to agree on additional money to Rigaku
- (estimate 20k$)

## The commissioning activities

- Beamline commissioning
- Alignment of the optics
- Measurement of the energy resolution
- Measurement of the flux
- Slicing commissioning
- Measurement of the x-ray beam profile at the slits
- Characterization of the slicing intensity and signal/background
- Beginning the first experiments
- VO2, liquid C, H2O, atoms

## Running without a chopper

- Power on slits (up to 190 W)
- Tantalum blades cooled to the flange through copper braids
- Power on samples in transmission (up to 190 W)
- Power on M202.2 (up to 150 W) and G201/G202 (up to 22 W)
- Optics might distort not damage

## Beamline and slicing commissioning

- For beamline and slicing commissioning: August and September
- Operate in-vacuum undulator at low K=0.14
- Power = 2.1 W < 9.1 W after chopper on BL6.0.1
- Fixed E range 620 – 1130 eV
- Intensity down by 20

## Beginning the first experiments

- Provide slicing beam, which has an intensity of 10-4 compared with the main beam
- Add fixed, well-cooled slit upstream of the ADC slits

- 0.113 m directly upstream of the ADC slits

- 130 m slit width

- Translate 200 m
- above optical axis

## Conclusions

- Beamline commissioning: can be done over the E range 620 – 1130 eV,
- Remaining issue M201 performance at full power
- Slicing commissioning: can be done
- Begin the first experiments: except cannot do experiment first with ps pulses
- We should fabricate the fixed, well-cooled slit
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# Presentation: 521167

## The Psychosocial Impact of Testing Individuals with No Prior History of Genital Herpes for Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2

- KR Turner, T Miyai, CK Kent, JD Klausner
- STD Prevention and Control Services,
- San Francisco Department of Public Health

## Background

- CDC *Prevention Agenda for Genital Herpes*
- Assess the psychosocial impact of HSV serologic diagnosis among persons with no history of genital herpes
- HSV-2 serologic testing at STD Clinic began in May 2000
- Clinicians initially concerned about psychosocial impact

## Study Objectives

- To measure changes in perception of trauma associated with genital herpes
- To measure changes in general mental health and wellbeing following serologic HSV-2 testing
- To measure changes in sexual attitudes following serologic HSV-2 testing
- To evaluate the impact a positive HSV-2 result had on quality of life

## Study Design

- Prospective cohort study
- Participants: patients attending STD Clinic between April and August 2001 who expressed interest in HSV-2 testing and had no prior diagnosis of genital herpes

**Participant enrolled; **
**baseline interview conducted; **
**HSV-2 test**
**(In Person)**

**Enrollment**

**Participant receives **
**HSV-2 results**

**Week 1**

**First follow-up**
** ****interview**
**(Telephone)**

**Week 2**

**Final follow-up**
** ****interview**
**(Telephone)**

**Week 13**

## Measures of psychosocial morbidity:

- Genital herpes trauma score (ASHA)
- Adjusted Rand Mental Health Inventory 5 item version
- Adapted Multidimensional Sexual Self-Concept Questionnaire (Snell)
- Herpes Quality of Life (HQoL) questionnaire among HSV-2 infected (Galen)

## Data analysis:

- Compared the mean scores at baseline to mean scores at follow-up by HSV-2 status.
- Quality of Life scores among HSV-2 positives at Follow-Up interviews
- Odds ratios, 95% confidence intervals, and Chi Square tests for significance were calculated

## Follow-Up

- enrolled in study, completed
- baseline questionnaire

**196**
- eligible for 1st f/u interview

**41 = HSV2(+)**

**155 = HSV2(-)**

**36 (88%)**
- completed 1st f/u interview

**144 (93%)**
- completed 1st f/u interview

**29 (71%)**
- completed 2nd f/u interview

**129 (83%)**
- completed 2nd f/u interview

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Good 

- Good
- Metal
- Health

- Poor
- Metal
- Health

## Positive 

- Positive
- Sexual
- Attitudes

- Negative
- Sexual
- Attitudes

## 4. Good Quality of Life Among Persons with 

- 4. Good Quality of Life Among Persons with
- Asymptomatic HSV-2 Infection at Follow-Up

- Follow-Up 1

- Follow-Up 2

**Top Quartile**

**Top Quartile**

## Limitations

- Sample size
- Follow-up rate
- Sensitivity of questionnaires

## Conclusions and Recommendations

- No significant differences in psychosocial morbidity by HSV-2 status in this population
- Psychosocial morbidity should not be a barrier to testing for HSV-2

## Acknowledgements

- San Francisco STD Prevention and Control Services:
- Tomio Miyai
- SFCC Clinicians
- SFCC DCIs and Health Educators
- Joe Catania, UCSF
- Galen Research for HQoL
- ASHA for questions about perception of trauma
# Presentation: 374745

## Decision Tree for Protection of Human Subjects from Research Risk

**YES**

**NO**

**Are **_[Human Subjects](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer/tree_glossary.pdf)__[ ](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer/tree_glossary.pdf)__involved _**(even if exempted under 45 CFR 46) ?**

**EXEMPT**** **
*State which exemption fits Code: E1-E6*

**NO**

**UNACCEPTABLE**
**exemption not applicable ***Negative impact on score. Explain why exemption does not fit**. *

**UNACCEPTABLE**
*Unacceptable Risks and/or Inadequate Protections** *
*Negative impact on score.*
*Explain nature of concern, may also comment about other issues below the level of “concern”.*

**UNACCEPTABLE **
**Information not present**
**APPLICATION NOT REVIEWED**
**Contact**
**Scientific Review Administrator**

**ACCEPTABLE**
**acceptable risks and/or adequate protections**** **

**Summary of Reviewer Choices:**
**Human subjects not involved **
**Human subjects involved, ****ACCEPTABLE**
**Human subjects involved, ****UNACCEPTABLE**
**Human subjects involved and exempt claimed**
-       _Exemptions (see Glossary)_
*	****E1**** -- Instructional strategies in established educational settings*
*	****E2**** -- Educational tests unlinkable to individuals and no risks from disclosure*
*	****E3**** -- Educational tests on public officials, or absolute confidentiality federally mandated*
*	****E4**** -- Existing data/specimens, publicly available or unlinkable to individuals*
*	****E5**** -- Demonstration projects concerning public benefit or service programs*
*	****E6**** -- Taste and quality evaluation of foods without additives exceeding regulated levels*

**YES**

**ABSENT**
**No Information **

- NO

**Does the application adequately and appropriately address: **Risk to subjects, adequacy of protection against risks, potential benefits of the research to subjects and others, and the importance of knowledge to be gained. Does the applicant address the _[Human Subjects Risk and Protection Issues (see Glossary)](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer/tree_glossary.pdf)_
- Identified in **Section** **e** of the 398 instructions?

**Does the study fit an allowed  **_[Exemption](http://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer/tree_glossary.pdf)_** ****?**
**Does the applicant provide a justification with sufficient information about the involvement of human subjects to allow a determination that the designated exemption is appropriate.**

**NO**

**YES**

**Is exemption from regulations claimed?**

***(Regulations do not apply) ***

**YES**

- NIH/OER April 5, 2002

**NO**
# Presentation: 490076

## Light Update

**PVC Extrusions as Delivered**

**Ken Heller**
**University of Minnesota**

**May 5, 2005**

## Reflectivity as Measured

**Minos solid**
**NO********A liquid**
**Minos liquid**

**Liquid scintillator spectrum**

**Reflectivity measurements by Indiana Group**

**r = 89%**

**r = 91%**

**r = 87%**

## Measured Light Yield

**Measured with 1 m extrusion and long fiber**

**Measured with 14.6 m extrusion and long fiber**

**0.8 mm fiber loop**

**N = 80 exp(-L/4.6)+10 exp(-L/5000.) **

**Measurements by**
**Dan Cronin-Hennessy**
**Leon Mualem**

**15.7 m**

## Design Extrusions

**MINOS 1.2 mm fiber**

**4.2 cm wide x 2.2 cm deep cells**

**0.8 mm fiber in corner**

**0.8 mm fiber at sides**

**3.87 cm x 6.0 cm deep**

**0.8 mm fiber in corner**

**0.8 mm fiber at sides**

**Geometry gives factor of 1.75**

**13 pe goes to 23 pe**

**Simulation by Keith Ruddick**

**Reflectivity gives factor of 1.2**

**23 pe goes to 27 pe**

## Signal to Noise MASDA

**Signal to Noise MASDA**

**Signal  = 25 pe x 100 (gain)**

**Noise = 400 electrons**

**Current Electronics**

**Cosmic ray measurement**

**Light Injection Measurement**

**pedestal**

**pedestal**

**Measurement & Simulation **
**Leon Mualem**

## Improvements

**Need to be produced and tested**

** ****Extrusions with real geometry**
** ****Extrusions with 15% TiO****2**
** ****Electronics with matched capacitance**

**Should give S/N = 10 at far end**

## Signal to Noise Design Electronics

**Match capacitance**

**Noise = 250 electrons**

**Signal  = 25 pe x 100 (gain)**

**S/N = 10**

**Cosmic ray measurement (S/N = 10)**

**S = 35 pe**
**N = 350 electrons**

**Simulation**

## You Can Never Have Too Much Light

**You Can Never Have Too Much Light**

**Possible Additional Gains**

** ****Type of TiO****2**** – crystal type and size**
** ****Plastic components**
** ****Control fiber position away from sides**
** ****Increase fiber diameter (0.8 to 0.9 mm)**
** ****Fiber coupling to APD**

**Component****	****	****%**
**PVC Resin****	****	****78.7**
**TiO****2****	****	****	****11.8**
**Acrylic impact modifiers****	****4.0**
**Fillers****	****	****	****3.0**
**Lubricants****	****	****0.8**
**Organo-tin stabilizers****	**** 1.6**

**Other Possible Gains**

** ****Increase pseudocumene in scintillator**
**Fiber damage risk**
** ****Lower noise in electronics**

**Fiber sinks to bottom**

## Conclusions

**Short term R&D for light yield (1 year or less)**
**Test real cell size**
**Test plastic composition**
**TiO****2**
**Additives**
**Test fiber spacers**
**Extrude desired profile and test light yield and mechanical properties**
**Test coupling schemes to APD**
**Explore pseudocumene content (fiber lifetime measurements)**
**Build desired electronics prototype and test noise**

**We are in excellent shape and almost ready to build the detector**

## Light Absorption by Fibers

**Light Absorption by Fibers**
# Presentation: 660116

## NIH Directory Service:Insights, Issues, Next Steps

- NIH AMG Technical Subcommittee

## Insights

- Relation between databases and business processes
- Immediate vs. deferred data reconciliation

## Business Processes and Databases/Directories

**Chaos**

**Business Process**

**Database or Directory**

## Business Processes and Databases/Directories

**Chaos**

**Business Process A**

**Database or Directory**

**Business Process B**

**?**

## Deferred Data Reconciliation 

**Database A**

**Database B**

**Updates**

**Updates**

**Detect & Reconcile Conflicts**

**Later...**

## Immediate Data Reconciliation 

**Database A**

**Database B**

**Updates**

**Updates**

**Detect & Reconcile *****Potential***** Conflicts**

## Immediate vs. Deferred

- Immediate reconciliation
- Can interact with requestor
- Databases more likely to be consistent
- Suitable for applications requiring prompt update
- Deferred reconciliation
- Easier to implement

## Issues

- Who decides upon and approves NIH business processes?
- For what and how will the NIH directory service and its information be used?
- Do these uses require high-quality data?
- Others?

## Next Steps

- Continue survey of NIH databases
- Investigate meta-directory products
- Analyze tradeoffs of placing white pages objects at NIH level vs. ICD level
- Define directory pilot project
- Others?

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# Presentation: 188826

## Flex wire bonding with pattern recognition between each wire

- Westbond 2400B Au Ball & Wedge, Al Wedge Bonder

- Flex wire bonding with pattern recognition between each wire

## Custom made flex to frame PCB

- Optical comparator displaying
- contour view of v4.1 flex hybrid
- (surface view also possible)

- Flex Hybrid
- on Frame PCB

- laminator. Aligns, places and heat
- sets adhesive for 5 flex at one time.
- Water cooled to prevent thermal
- expansion of critical parts.

- Silkscreen for adhesive application

- Vacuum holders
- for flex

- 50 v3 flex built by Compunetics
- Passive components loaded at Surface Mount Depot (SMD, OKC)
- 24 loaded with AMS MCC and tested at Genoa
- 5 of these now at UOK for test development and cross-calibration
- Remainder used for wire bonding tests, other studies
- 100 v4.1 flex built by Compunetics
- 43 built with 1.5 (increased from 1.0 mil) Pyralux cover layers to compensate for increased Cu thickness (now 17 microns, min.)
- 50 loaded at SMD to date
- 10 tested and distributed to Bonn, Genoa and LBNL for module construction
- 100 v4.2 flex built by Dyconex (Switzerland)

- V3 flex on frame PCB
# Presentation: 017576

## Abramson Cancer Center

**University of Pennsylvania**
**Integrated Cancer Research Workspace**
**NCI caBIG**

**Don A. Baldwin, Ph.D.**
**Director - Penn Microarray Facility**
**dbaldwin@mail.med.upenn.edu**
**215-898-3675**

## An integrated system is needed for functional genomics

**Transcript**
**Proteome**
**Metabolome**
**Genotype**

**Interactions**
**DNA : Protein**
**Protein : Protein**

**Phenotypes**
**Loss / Gain of Function**
**Quantitative Trait Loci**

**Biomedical Informatics**
**Facility**

**An integrated system is needed for functional genomics**

## Dataset Availability

**Transcript profiling**
**	****77 Cancer Center labs with Affymetrix projects**
**	****3 large scale projects for long-oligo printed arrays**
**Array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization**
**Genotyping**
**Proteomics**
**Tissue Array**

## Tools Needed

**Databases for proteomics, tissue array, clinical data **
**Linkage between databases**
**Common sample tracking mechanism, annotation, ontologies**
**Rapid mining of literature and derivatives**

## Tool Evaluation

**Review by full-time core facility staff, using existing data sets**
**Selected sophisticated core users**

## System Integration

**ACC Biomedical Informatics Facility**

## End User Testing

**Recruitment and education: during individual consultations, Penn Genomics workshops, online tutorials**
**Coordinated by Biomedical Informatics Facility, which will implement a testing database and web tools for reporting**

## Software Validation

**Coordinated by Biomedical Informatics Facility, which will implement bug reporting tools.  De-bugging for specifically reported problems.**

## Workspace Interactions

**Site visits**
**Developer/Adopter Net**
**Teleconferences**
**caBIG workspace meetings**
# Presentation: 299342

## Runway Length Design	

- A/C 150/5325-4A “Runway Length Requirements for Airport Design” – January 1990
- New “4B” version due within one year
- Will refer to Manufacturers Sources (Websites) for Performance Data / Length Requirements

## Slide 2

## Runway Length Design

- Telluride Regional Airport
- Constrained Site
- Field Elevation 9,078 feet
- Runway Length 6,870 feet
- Significant Business Jet Activity
- Warm Summertime Temps

## Runway Length Design

- 450 foot Extension results in:
- Beechjet 400A
- 50 NM range increase w/full passenger load
- Canadair CRJ200
- 6 additional passengers at 200 NM Range
- Learjet 35A
- 70 NM range increase w/full passenger load

## Runway Length Design

- Takeoff Length usually critical
- Part 121 – Part 135 – Part 91.K can require full stop landing in 60%-80% of effective landing length for Commercial Service, Charter and Fractional Ownership operations
# Presentation: 125871

## Session 4

- Lydia Morales
- Sue Rager

**Session 4**

## Agenda

- SAIG System Enhancements
- Managing your Mailbox
- Managing your Transmissions
- Understanding Mailbox Storage
- Hands-on

## SAIG System Security Enhancements

- New Password Rules
- Must begin with an alpha character
- Must be a minimum length of eight characters
- Must contain at least one upper case and one lower case alpha character, plus one numeric character
- Cannot be changed back to "PASSWORD" (ignore case)
- Cannot be any of the last five passwords used
- User will be locked out after three failures (Call CPS/SAIG Technical Support to reset password)
- Can contain special keyboard characters, such as @, #

## SAIG System Enhancements

**SAIG System Enhancements**

- Centralized network password control
- Transaction Delivery Community Manager (TDCM) Enhancements
- 508 Compliance and Password Security
- EDconnect
- 508 Compliance and
-    Password Security

## Managing your Mailbox

- From EDconnect
- Password changes
- Querying your mailbox contents
- Receiving files to multiple folders
-  From TDCM
- Password changes
- Querying your mailbox contents
- Restoring lost files

## Managing your Transmissions

- Audit trail
- Investigating transmission errors
- Verifying transmissions

## Understanding Mailbox Storage

**	****	****Archived Files**

|  |
| --- |

|  |
| --- |

**Understanding Mailbox Storage**

- Messages Tab (TDCM)
- Mailbox Query View (EDconnect)
- Received File View (EDconnect)
-  Activity Log View (EDconnect)

- Archive Tab (TDCM)

## EDconnect & TDCM – Hands-on

- Find files
- Determine cause of file transmission errors
- Restore files

## Technical Assistance

- We appreciate your feedback and comments.
- Email: _[SAIGComments@ed.gov](mailto:SAIGComments@ed.gov)_
-  For Help call:
- CPS/SAIG Technical Support
- Phone: 800-330-5947
- Email: _[cpssaig@ed.gov](mailto:cpssaig@ed.gov)__ _
# Presentation: 379421

## “GPS-Photo Link” Software

- Creates ESRI shape files for GPS route and pictures
- Provides ESRI extensions in Arcview or ArcGIS for hotlinking digital photos to GPS track routes.
- Adds watermarks to photos (lat/long, elevation, time, etc)
- Creates web page for archiving photos with metadata
- Links pictures to Mapquest and other geospatial web sites

- http://store.geospatialexperts.com/

## Ethiopia Crop Assessment Tour (1800+ photos)

- July 14-August 2, 2006

## Creates ESRI shape files (route & picture) and provides ESRI extensions for displaying photos

## Links to Photos to Google Maps and MapQuest

## Elevation data is useful

## WRSI Anomaly Model (Relative Yield )(2004  and 2005 Comparison)

- WRSI Anomaly Model (Relative Yield )(2004  and 2005 Comparison)

- WRSI Anomaly Relative yield model from FEWS/USGS at
- http://igskmncnwb015.cr.usgs.gov/adds/

## Albertshoek (Crop failure May 2004, butbumper harvest May 2005)

-  Feb. 24, 2004

- Crop failure in 2004

- WRSI Relative Yield (2003/04)

- Feb. 22, 2005

- Average to above-average crop in 2005

- GPS and digital camera data integrated with relative-yield model.

- WRSI Relative Yield (2004/05)

- Albertshoek (Crop failure May 2004, butbumper harvest May 2005)

## Viljoennskroon (Standing from same point--on top of an overpass)

-  Feb. 2nd dekad,2005

-  Feb 22, 2005

- Feb. 3rd dekad, 2004

- Feb 24 2004

- GPS and digital camera data integrated with relative-yield model.

- Viljoennskroon (Standing from same point--on top of an overpass)

## FEWS national offices have the potential to document numerous trips paid by US tax payers

**1800+ photos****1000+ photos****1400+ photos****~400 photos****~500 photos**
# Presentation: 899897

## SPoRT LAPS

- Science Sharing Session
- 28 April 2004

## Motivation for SPoRT LAPS

- 	Provide high resolution analyses for:
- Verification of forecast grids
- Assistance with forecast of minimum temperatures

## Why SPoRT LAPS instead of LAPS?

- Uses latest version of LAPS
- Includes modifications for better temperature and dew point temperature surface analyses
- Increased quality control of observations
- Higher resolution
- 20 km RUC is background model
- 4 km analyses are produced
-    (125 x 125 grid points and 40 isobaric levels)

## Surface temperature analysis

- 1200 UTC 22 March 2004

**too warm**

**too cold**

- SPoRT LAPS (yellow contours) ignores the two extreme observations and creates a relatively uniform analysis

- AWIPS LAPS (black contours) tries to fit all observations, creating unrepresentative bullseyes of temperature

## SPoRT LAPS depicts tighter temperature gradients

- Surface temperature analysis valid at 1800 UTC 22 April 2004

**SPoRT LAPS depicts ****tighter temperature gradients**

**SPoRT LAPS**

**AWIPS LAPS**

## SPoRT LAPS analyses better resolve terrain features

**SPoRT LAPS**

**SPoRT LAPS analyses ****better resolve terrain features**

- Surface temperature analysis valid at 1800 UTC 16 April 2004

**AWIPS LAPS**

## Availability in AWIPS

- Hourly analyses are available ~75 minutes after the analysis time
- Standard products and some derived products can be viewed by selecting SPORTLAPS from the volume browser

## Applications in GFE

- Difference fields of variables between SPoRT LAPS and forecast grids
- Work in progress by Chris Darden
- Compute rms difference and bias over county or elevation groups

## Difference field of surface temperature between SPoRT LAPS and forecast grid in GFE

- 1600 UTC 22 April 2004
# Presentation: 431272

- Historic Districts of New Orleans

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 19

- Value of Residential Housing by Census Block in New Orleans (HAZUS-MH in $millions)

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 20

- Schools and Hospitals in New Orleans

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 21

- Hazardous Materials Site, Schools and Hospitals in New Orleans(From HAZUS-MH)

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 22

- Boundary of Neighborhood and Land Use Classification by Parcels in New Orleans (files from New Orleans Regional Planning Commission)

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 23

- Major Transportation Infrastructure (Rail, Highway, and Water)On USGS 1:100,000 QUAD Sheet

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 24

- New Orleans City Parks & Recreational Areas on USGS 1:100,000 QUAD Sheet

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

- 25

- Police and Fire Stations in New Orleans (HAZUS-MH)

- Session 14: Utilizing Mapping and Modeling in Hazard Mitigation Planning and Land Use

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## http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov

## pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov

- OS independent - Palm, PocketPC, Linux, Tablet PC, desktop
- Web browser friendly- AvantGo, Blazer, EudoraWeb, WebPro, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Safari
- Wired or Wireless
- MEDLINE/PubMed, Clinical Trials, Journal browser, PICO

## MEDLINE/PubMed

## Journal Browser

## Clinical Trials

## PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)

## PubMed for Handhelds for Devices

*PubMed for Handhelds* for Devices
- with WAP Browsers
- http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/indexw.html

## Questions, comments, suggestions:pubmedhh@nlm.nih.govhttp://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov
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## Detecting the Onset of Fire in an Aircraft by Employing Correlation Spectroscopy

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Designed and fabricated a bright light source – a multi-	 line fiber laser using Bragg Grating filters
-   Developed modulators for the Bragg gratings that 	enhanced the sensitivity of the fire sensor
-    Detected carbon monoxide, an important fire marker, 		using the laser-based test setup

***Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS)***
***Torrance, CA***

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

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Can be used as an early warning of fire in the 	International Space Station, aerospace vehicles, 	airplanes, public and federal buildings, and subway 	stations
-   Other applications are protection of semiconductor 	fabrication facilities, power plants, industrial plants, 	naval assets, hospitals, schools, warehouses, chemical 	plants, and schools

- Glenn Research Center
- Human Habitability & Biology
- 3-093

**Detecting the Onset of Fire in an Aircraft by Employing Correlation Spectroscopy**

**INNOVATION**

- 1998 Phase II, NAS3-00016, 8/02
- NASA Contact – Dr. Nancy D. Piltch
- Company Contact – Ms. Toni Quintana

***Modulator Developed as Part of the IOS Fire Onset Detection System***

- Detecting the onset of fire using a fiber laser operating in the near infrared, and a modulation system

**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Have attracted $140,000 of commercial funding
-   Forming a spinoff company, Optech Ventures, LLC,          	to commercialize this and other IOS technologies
-   Identifying target markets and potential partners
-   Employing three full-time staff members to develop and 	commercialize trace gas sensing technology
# Presentation: 925169

## Wave Particle Diffusion of Energetic Ring Current Ions

- S. Jones 			USRA / NASA-GSFC
- M.-C. Fok		NASA-GSFC
- K. Gamayunov	NASA-MSFC

## Outline

-  EMIC Waves – Pitch Angle Diffusion
-  CRCM Model
-  EMIC Calculation
-  Nov 20-21 2003 Storm Simulation
-  Conclusions

## EMIC Waves – Pitch Angle Diffusion

-  During magnetic storm recovery, high energy ion populations have been observed to decay faster than can be explained by charge exchange losses
-  Pitch-angle scattering by EMIC waves has been suggested as a mechanism to explain rapid ion loss
-  Electromagnetic Ion-Cyclotron (EMIC) waves are generated by pitch-angle anisotropy
-  Wave particle interactions may cause diffusion of high energy ions into the loss cone

## CRCM Model

- Comprehensive Ring Current Model (CRCM) couples the Rice Convection Model (RCM) and the kinetic Fok ring current model
- RCM calculates ionospheric E field and current
- Fok model advances plasma distribution and particle losses
- Empirical Tsyganenko 89,96  and  MHD        BATS-R-US used as magnetic field models
- CRCM electric field drives plasmasphere model

## EMIC Wave Growth Calculation

-  EMIC growth driven by ring current ion temperature anisotropy
-  CRCM simulates hot and cold plasma densities
-  Convective growth rate (S) determined following Kozyra theory
-  S scanned over normalized wave frequency for maxima
-  S integrated along field lines for total wave gain G
-  G used to estimate EMIC magnetic field (Bw)

## Nov 20-21 2003 Superstorm

## CRCM Results

-  Initial run from the 20 Nov. 2003 superstorm
-  Large Simulated hot ion temperature anisotropy (due to drift shell splitting) and EMIC waves in dayside at L>7
-  Smaller wave growth in L~4 extending from local noon to dawn – during storm peak
-  EMIC wave activity steady in L~4 ring during storm recovery phase

## Conclusions – Future Work

-  CRCM simulation equatorial flux persists during recovery
-  High energy ions are observed to quickly decay
-  In progress – Khazanov/Gamayunov model to calculate pitch angle diffusion losses
-  Compare diffusion losses with IMAGE and other observations
# Presentation: 767092

## FLICC Update

- FEDLINK Membership     	Meeting
- October 17, 2002

## FLICC Awards 2002

- New:  Two awards in Library/Information Center category!  (10- and 11+ FTE)
- Deadline:  November 15, 2002
- Achievements from 10/1/01 to 9/30/02 ONLY
- Fax nomination form; let us know if we should be watching for other materials in the mail
- Will confirm receipt by December 13

## National Book Festival 10/12/02

- Planning group from FLICC, SLA/MLD and ALA/FAFLRT, headed by Mike Conklin (Treas.)
- 25 federal librarians planned and worked at the exhibit (18 exhibitors from 11 libraries)
- Exhibit distributed literature and displayed Websites: Military, law enforcement, history, agriculture, sci-tech-engineering, education, health/medicine, government publications

## Library Performance Measures

- Jan. 2001 seminar in DC; Sept. 2002 institute in Monterey in partnership with SLA & ARL
- ARL’s LibQual customer satisfaction survey tool used in over 1600 research libraries
- Military academic libraries testing in 2003
- Volunteer group reviewing for potential use in federal non-academic libraries

## Personnel WG:  Recruitment

- Good ideas to help all federal libraries & info centers recruit well when vacancies occur
- Met with OPM Director of Examining & Quals.
- Handout at Bookfest (drafted by Tad Downing)
- Applied for assistance through LC internal detail program—may have staff help in 2003
- Call or email me or Tad Downing

## Outsell Survey—Spring 2002

- Results in Info about Info Briefing:  “Changing Roles of Content Deployment Functions”
- Conclusions:
- Actual FTE ratios much larger: 2259:1 vs. 741:1
- Less than half market to current clients; less than one quarter market to potential clients
- Need better measurement of performance/value
- Need to convert more quickly to electronic

## EMAIL:  suta@loc.gov

- Tel. 202-707-4801
# Presentation: 364169

## Ordering Transition of Block Copolymer Thin FilmsAbraham Arceo, Peter F. GreenThe University of Texas at Austin (DMR-0072897)

- A-b-B diblock copolymers self-organize into a range of geometrical patterns (spheres, lamellae etc.) below an order-disorder transition temperature, TODT. For bulk symmetric copolymers, which form lamellae of spacing L, the transition occurs when N>10.5, where N is the number of monomers per chain and _x0010_ (~1/T) is an energetic interaction parameter.
**Finding**:
- The transition occurs when N>7.94 for a film (h<2L) of PS-b-PMMA copolymer supported by SiOx, corresponding to a decrease of TODT by approximately 250 degrees.
- In a solvent environment, supercritical CO2, which exhibits a preferential affinity for PMMA, the TODT is shifted significantly below the bulk, and below that of the supported film in air/vacuum.

**Shift of Thin film ODT**
- N)film-ODT~7.94
- (N)bulk-ODT=10.5

- Lamellar
-   (order)

- disorder

** ****BULK PHASE DIAGRAM**
-           (N)bulk-ODT=10.5

- Journal of Physical Chemistry B (LETTER),109, 6958 (2005)

## Broader Impact

- A-b-B diblock copolymers, depending on the chemical characteristics of the A and B components, are used for a wide range of applications, from devices and sensors to structural applications.  Many of the new applications involve thin films.  Upon increasing temperature, these materials self-organize. Our results show that the ordering temperature for thin, supported films, can be considerably lower, ~200 degrees, than the bulk ordering temperature (enhanced incompatibility between the A/B segments).
- Secondly, solvents are often used to process block copolymers because they not only plasticize the copolymer, but they also make the system thermodynamically more compatible.  Our results reveal that in cases where the solvent exhibits a preferential affinity for one component (PMMA in this case), that the _thin, supported, film_ may become more incompatible than one would anticipate. This could have significant implications for low temperature processing of these systems.
# Presentation: 514941

## Slaughter Cow Guidelines

**Slaughter Cow Guidelines**

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slaughter Cow Guidelines

**** All cows with **_**Absolute 0 fat**_** are 90's**** **
**regardless of weight or muscle thickness.**

- Preliminary Percent Lean

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slaughter Cow Guidelines

**Slaughter Cow Guidelines**

- 1100# = no adjustment
- Each 100# under 1100# = add .8%
- Each 100# over 1100# = subtract .8%

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slaughter Cow Guidelines

- Muscle Adjustment

- 3 = no adjustment
- Each numerical score less than 3 = subtract .3%
- Each numerical score more than 3 = add .3%

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Body Condition Score and Percent Lean

**Body Condition Score and Percent Lean**

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 6

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 7

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 8

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 9

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 10

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 11

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 12

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 13

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program

## Slide 14

- USDA, MRP, AMS, Livestock & Seed Program
# Presentation: 270976

## Goals of lithium pellet injector are to test lithium handling and study lithium transport

- Main purpose of lithium pellet injector is to investigate impurity transport
- 400 chambers permit injection of carbon, boron, lithium, and their compounds without frequent reloading during plasma operations
- Lithium transport is key issue to be investigated in support of lithium experiments in NSTX
- Transport of lithium to divertor can be studied with lithium pellets
- Divertor coatings with lithium pellet injection are not expected to have significant effect on particle control
- Maximum pellet size ≈2 mg
- Translates into ≈2 nm coating per pellet assuming entire lithium inventory uniformly covers divertor surface
- NSTX plasmas can absorb at most two 2 mg pellets per shot
- Need for ≈50 discharges to equal 100 nm evaporative coating implies *no* anticipated effect of pellet injection on recycling
# Presentation: 467237

## Fiscal Year 2003 Budget

**Fiscal Year 2003 Budget**

## Overview of the HHS Budget

**Total Outlays = $488.8 Billion**

## Ensuring A Safe and      Healthy America

## Protects the Nation         Against Bio-terrorism

## Invests in Biomedical Research

**Includes the final installment of the funds needed to fulfill the President’s commitment to double the FY 1998 NIH budget.**

## Provides Access to Health Care

## Builds Upon the Success of Welfare Reform

## Strengthens Medicare

**Dedicates              $190 Billion         Over Ten Years      for Targeted**
** ****Improvements & Comprehensive Medicare Modernization**

## Supports Healthy Communities

**Healthy Communities Innovation Fund**

## Improves Management & Performance

**Reflects HHS’ Commitment to the President’s Management Agenda & the Secretary’s Vision of “One-Department”**

## Other Initiatives

_**Head Start (+$130 Million):**_** Maintains current enrollment levels, supports competitive salaries for teachers, and strengthens training and technical assistance.**
_**Promoting Safe & Stable Families: (+$130 million):**_** Helps States to increase child abuse prevention, family preservation and adoption services with the paramount goals of promoting child safety, permanence, and well-being.**** **
_**New Freedom Initiative ($16 million):**_** Supports community based models of care and support that help remove the barriers to equality that face individuals with disabilities.**
_**Strengthening Families (+$125 million):**_** Supports targeted efforts to engage community and faith-based organizations in helping people and changing lives; includes Compassion Capital Fund, Mentoring Children of Prisoners, Responsible Fatherhood, and Maternity Group Homes.**
# Presentation: 801907

## WELCOME

***WELCOME***

***Polar Max 2006***

***Hosted by the NPOESS Integrated Program Office***
***http://www.npoess.noaa.gov***

***to ***

## Slide 2

## Thursday – October 26, 2006

_***Thursday – October 26, 2006***_
***0730  Doors Open – New Registrations***
***0800  Welcome***
***0810  Keynote – Dpty Asst. Administrator, NESDIS***
***0830  Session 4 - Future Polar-orbiting Systems***
***1015  Break***
***1045  Future Polar-orbiting Systems (Continued)***
***1215  Lunch***
***1315 Session 5 – Developmental Sensor Update ***
***         ******and Data Product Evaluation***
***1445  Break***
***1515  Developmental Sensor Update and Data***
***	******   ******Product Evaluation (Continued)***
***1645  Closing Remarks***

- Today’s Agenda

## NOAA Auditorium

_***NOAA Auditorium***_
*** ******No Eating or Drinking in Auditorium***
***	******Allowed in the Lobby, ***
***	******Science Center, and Outside***
*** ******Guest Computers***
***	******Located in Rear of Auditorium***
***	******(Please Use During Breaks)***
*** ******Emergency Exits***
***	******Rear and Front of Auditorium***

## Science Center

_***Science Center***_
*** ******Exhibits and Poster Presentations***
***	******- Please don’t touch ***
***	******- Exhibits will be staffed ******	******  ******	******  during breaks & social event***
*** ******Lunch***

##  Bring and Wear Badges Every Day

*** ******Bring and Wear Badges Every Day***
*** ******Restrooms***
***	******Rear, Left of Science Center***
*** ******Emergency Phone Numbers***
***	****** ******(301) 713-7060 or (301) 713-7070 ***
***     ******Someone will take calls/messages at all times ***
*** ******Questions / Problems??***
***      ******Kim Chamberlain or Erica Handleman***
***	***

## Presenters

_***Presenters***_
***Back of the auditorium for intro to equipment /meet with Session Chair***
***On-Deck Area – Left front immediately prior to presenting***
***Please contact IT personnel for last minute updates as soon as possible***
***Be prepared to take the stage***
***Be mindful of allotted time, including entry and exit***
***	******-  Timer shines yellow 5 min before end***

## Thank You

_***Thank You***_
*** ******Presenters***
***Attendees***
***Volunteers***
***Sponsors***
*** ******for making this all possible***

***Let’s have a successful***
***Polar Max 2006!***
***Feedback to:  polarmax@noaa.gov***
# Presentation: 708384

## Part Six: Collecting Your Own Data 

## However, it is likely that during an emergency / BT attack, 

***However, it is likely that during an emergency / BT attack, ***
***not all data will***
***Be available in electronic format / GIS format***
***Therefore need to identify data needs***
***Need to identify GIS skills – those who can get data “in” quickly***

***Site Plan?***

***Address of***
***Possible cases?***

***Which routes are connected?***

***Digitizing quarantine locations***

## Agricultural Terrorism

**Vaccination status of animals**
**Detailed transportation network with delivery times**
**Transportation “hubs” such as market areas**
**	*****this could be collected by GPS units on milk trucks for example***

**In the GIS ask questions like**
**	*****which farms are within 500 meters of this road***
***	******and have not been vaccinated***
***	******and have been visited by a feed truck within the last 24 hours***

**Agricultural Terrorism**

## Collecting information from a farm

**Collecting information from a farm**
**Farm house, barns, fields**
**A: Heads-up digitize relevant features (fields)**

## B: Collect Data and Input into the GIS

## In the event of an attack, which fields and animals

**Were within 300 meters of the road**

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13
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##   MARC Concept Clearance

***Proposed modification to the MARC undergraduate biomedical research training program***

**Presented to**
**National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council**
** **
**May, 2006**

- MORE, NIGMS, NIH, DHHS

## MARC Program

**Prebaccalaureate biomedical research training program for honors junior and senior students at minority and minority serving institutions.  **
**Mission is to increase the flow of competitively trained URMs for biomedically-related Ph.D. programs.**** **

## Need to Refocus

**Urgent national need to improve representation in the biomedical research workforce.**
**We have higher expectations of the MARC Program.**

## Concept Clearance

**Areas of change for ****significant ****increase in**
**the # MARC trainees receiving PhDs:**
** ****Focus on Develop & Enhance**
** ****Outcomes-Based Funding**
** ****Partnerships with T32 programs**

## Focus

**Activities to DEVELOP and ENHANCE students rather than INTEREST and MOTIVATE.**

## Outcomes-Based Funding

**# MARC trainee slots based, in part, on past success of the applicant institution in sending its students to biomedical Ph.D. programs.**
**More flexible use of trainee related expenses.**

## T32 Partnerships

**Encourage partnerships with NIH T32 training grant programs.**
**Original language intended T34/T32 training grant partnerships.**

## Expected Outcomes

**Improve MARC trainee preparedness for competitive doctoral level graduate programs.**
**SIGNIFICANTLY**** ****increase number of MARC trainees into Ph.D. programs.**
# Presentation: 833462

## Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Spectral Image Filters

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

**Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.**

**Cambridge, MA**

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   First liquid crystal tunable filter for use to 2.4 microns
-  Loss factor an order of magnitude lower than any  current dichroic polarizer
-  Demonstrated expanded spectral range, increased filter aperture and reduced thickness
-  Tuning reduced from 50 to 15 milliseconds
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Digital color cameras for science, industry and medicine
-  Sales are $1million annually and expected to double within next 12 months
-  Filters used in fluorescence multiprobe and fish imagery systems

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Current development funded under Planetary Instrument Development and Definition Program
-  Potential demonstration on Mars Rover as part of autonomous feature navigation system

***Color Picture taken with Monochromatic ***
***CCD Camera***

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- 1991 Phase II; NAS7-1246
- Success Story # 130

**INNOVATION**
- New class of filters suitable for the construction of small,
- low-cost multispectral imagers
# Presentation: 491003

## A Standard Grid Timestamp

- Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney
- Global Grid Forum
- Performance Working Group
- 4 March 2001

## i. Motivation

- Timestamps are often needed
- performance
- accounting
- scheduling
- ..and others
- Timestamps are very similar
- Ad-hoc formats require NxN conversions

## ii. Solution: A standard format

- An ASCII format for human-readability and non-binary encoding styles (e.g.: XML)
- A binary format for efficiency
- Important to allow conversion between ASCII and binary formats with minimal loss of information
- Define standard *accuracy* and *precision* information for both

## Outline

- Timestamp model
- ASCII format
- Binary format
- Issues
- Conclusions and discussion

## Timestamp Model

- Time value
- Time zone  = UTC
- At least 1970 .. 2032 (Unix 32-bit sec since epoch)
- Roughly picosecond precision
- Precision
- Definition: Clock ticks per second
- Accuracy
- Definition: Distance from true time value
- NTP provides an estimate of this, others don’t
- Suggest creation of “typical” accuracies table

## ASCII Format

- Extension of ISO8601
- Value
- Precision
- Accuracy

## ASCII Format - Examples

- October 26, 2000 at 8:34am and 26 seconds, precision = 1ms, accuracy = 1s
- 2000-10-26T08:34:26Zp.001a.5
- January 1, 2001 at 3:12pm and 5 seconds, precision = 5s, accuracy = 10min
- 2001-01-01T15:12:05Zp5a600
- October 26, 2000 at 8:34am and 26 seconds, precision = null,  accuracy = null
- 2000-10-26T08:34:26Z

## Binary Format

- Value
- Seconds
- 32bits
- Fractional seconds
- 32 bits
- Precision
- Log2( seconds/tick )
- 8 bits
- Accuracy
- Multiples of precision
- 32 bits

## Binary Format - Examples

- November 27, 2000 at 11:21am and 26.901 seconds, precision = 1ms, accuracy = 0.5s
- Same time, precision = 1E-6s, accuracy = 0.5s
- Same time, precision = 1s,  accuracy = null

## Issues

- Timestamp “accuracy” not well-defined
- NTP provides an estimate
- Grid Time accuracy table?
- Extensions for time intervals?
- Maybe *t**1** “*,” *t**2* ? Binary ??
- Extensions for time series?
- (timestamp, offset, offset, ... ) ?

## Conclusions and discussion

- Common timestamp format is useful
- We can reach rough consensus in stages:
- Model
- ASCII format  / Binary format
- What degree of consensus do we have?