BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 944299

## Four Dimensional Storm Cell Investigation (FSI) in AWIPS

- Stephan Smith
- DOC/NOAA/NWS/OST
- Mesoscale Development Laboratory
- HPCC 2005 - COL/NE/03
- Presentation by Greg Stumpf, NWS/MDL

## Objective

- Develop a prototype 4D display for spherical coordinate radar data
- Using NSSL’s WDSS-II GUI
- Already handles radar data in spherical coordinates
- Uses OpenGL for graphics rendering
- Provides fast, off-the-shelf graphics capability
- Build specific GUI capabilities for FSI
- Defined window layout and functionality
- Dynamic cross section capability & CAPPIs
- Prepare for integration into AWIPS
- Actual integration into AWIPS is at the discretion of, and the responsibility of, the NWS

- HPCC 2005  -  Smith  -  COL/NE/03

- 1 June 2005

## Status of FSI

- Progress to date
- Developed dynamic cross section and CAPPI display capability

- HPCC 2005  -  Smith  -  COL/NE/03

- 1 June 2005

## Remaining Work on FSI

-  Additional FSI display functionality
- Implement FSI GUI configuration
- Develop “hot key” commands
- Integrate into AWIPS
- Access radar data from AWIPS database
- Receive notifications when new data is available
- Alpha testing at select NWS forecast offices, Spring 2006.

- HPCC 2005  -  Smith  -  COL/NE/03

- 1 June 2005
# Presentation: 668306

## SEMO REVIEWS

- 1845.102-71 SOLICITATION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES
- LIST OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY TO BE FURNISHED:
- QUANTITIES
- LOCATIONS
- CONDITIONS
- OTHER RELATED INFORMATION

## SEMO REVIEWS

- 1845-102.71 (CON’T)
- REQUIREMENT THAT OFFERORS IDENTIFY ANY GOVERNMENT PROPERTY IN THEIR POSSESSION:
- PROPOSED FOR USE DURING CONTRACT PERFORMANCE.
- ITEMS
- QUANTITIES
- LOCATIONS
- ACQUISITION COSTS
- PROPOSED RENTAL TERMS
- IDENTIFY THE CONTRACT THAT PROPERTY IS ACCOUNTABLE.

## SEMO REVIEW

- 1845.102-71 (CON’T)
- REQUIREMENT THAT REQUESTED GOVERNMENT PROVIDED FACILITIES BE DESCRIBED AND IDENTIFIED BY THE CLASSIFICATIONS IN 1845-7101-1

## SEMO REVIEW

- 1845.102-71 (CON’T)
- OFFEROR PROVIDE, IF APPLICABLE, THE DATE OF THE LAST GOVERNMENT PROPERTY CONTROL SYSTEM REVIEW, A SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, AND CONTRACTOR CORRECTIVE ACTIONS TAKEN (IF APPLICABLE).

## SEMO REVIEW

- 1845.102-71
- CRITERIA FOR SEMO REVIEW
- PROVIDE SOLICITATION (OR CONTRACT) TO THE CENTER SUPPLY AND EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT OFFICER (SEMO) FOR REVIEW FOR ACQUISITIONS:
- WITH AN ESTIMATED COST GREATER THAN $1MILLION
- OR FOR ACQUSITIONS OVER $50,000 WHEN WORK IS TO BE PERFORMED AT THE CENTER,
- OR EXISITING GOVERNMENT PROPERTY IS TO BE FURNISHED, OR CONTRACT ACQUISITION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY IS REQUIRED OR PERMITTED.
# Presentation: 191816

## Building Safety

## Mission First...

- Safety Always!

- Safety is not a box to check or a separate activity that we “finish.”
- Rather, safety must be an integral part of how we operate in every activity.

## Safety means....

- Paying attention
- Thinking clearly
- Doing the “right thing”

## Safety & Risk Management Process

- PERCEIVE hazards
- PROCESS risk level
- PERFORM risk management

##    PEOPLE involved in the event

- PERCEIVE hazards related to:

**   ****P**EOPLE involved in the event
**   ****A**REA
- EN**V**IRONMENT for activity or event
**   ****E**XTERNAL PRESSURES on participants

- STEP ONE:

##    CONSEQUENCES of each hazard

- PROCESS risk by considering:

**   ****C**ONSEQUENCES of each hazard
**   ****A**LTERNATIVES
-     **R**EALITY (no wishful thinking allowed!)
**   ****E**XTERNAL PRESSURES involved

- STEP TWO:  for each hazard,

##    TRANSFER if appropriate

- PERFORM risk management:

**   ****T**RANSFER if appropriate
**   ****E**LIMINATE hazards whenever possible
-     **A**CCEPT when benefits > consequences
**   ****M**ITIGATE hazards and associated risk

- STEP THREE:  for each risk,

## PEOPLE

**P**EOPLE

- Squadron Meeting

- Unit sign-in log for members?
- Sign-in & escort system for visitors?
- Photo ID required?
- Numbers appropriate to space?
- Proper supervision ensured?

## AREA

- Building Safety Example:

- Squadron Meeting

- Hazard assessment conducted?
- Known hazards mitigated or cleared?
- e.g., electrical cords taped down
- Circuits / outlets not overloaded
- Emergency equipment in working order?
- Smoke detectors work
- Fire extinguisher available & fully charged
- Rally point established & briefed
- Location of circuit breaker/fuse panel known
- Restrooms available?

## ENVIRONMENT

- Squadron Meeting

- EN**V**IRONMENT

- Escape / evacuation routes briefed?
- Emergency equipment in place?
- Physical security ensured?
- Keys secured
- Access controlled
- Post-meeting security sweep
- Fences intact
- Lights sufficient for planned activities?
- Temperature set?

## EXTERNAL PRESSURES

- Squadron Meeting

**E**XTERNAL PRESSURES

- Safety veto policy* in place?
- Safety veto policy briefed?
- External pressures identified/briefed?
- “Antidotes” to pressures briefed?
- No horseplay rules briefed?

- *Any CAP member must be able to make a “safety veto” on any activity at any time, without fear of ridicule or reprisal from any other member.

## Building Safety Example:

- Audience participation

- Think of the building your squadron uses.
- What are the hazards arising from the People involved, the Area, the enVironment for the event, and the External pressures?
- For each hazard, think of Consequences, Alternatives, Reality, External pressures.
- What can you do to Transfer, Eliminate, Accept, or Mitigate the risk to safety?
# Presentation: 197221

## MNM Fatal 2006-08	

- Powered Haulage
- April 22, 2006 (Tennessee)
- Crushed Stone Operation
- Utility Operator
- 53 years old
- 7 years mining experience

## Overview

- The victim was gathering wash down hoses
- to start washing material out from under the
- railroad scales. He tripped over the hoses
- and fell in front of the front-end loader that
- was traveling through the area.

## Slide 3

## Root Cause

- Management policies and controls were inadequate.
- Procedures were not in place requiring hoses to be
- removed and stored when not in use. Management failed
- to identify the tripping hazard that was created when hoses
- were lying in travelways and work areas. Procedures that
- prohibited miners from performing tasks in areas where
- mobile equipment was being operated were not
- established.

## Best Practices

**Before moving mobile equipment, be certain no one is in the intended path, sound the horn to warn unseen persons, and wait a few moments to give them time to get to a safe location. **
**Train all miners to recognize the hazard of mobile equipment traveling nearby and never assume the equipment operator sees them. **
**Ensure that all workplaces are kept clean and orderly.**** **
# Presentation: 679891

## FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

- Advisory Committee

- MTAC

**Richard J. Strasser, Jr.**
**Chief Financial Officer &**
**Executive Vice President**

**FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE**
**JANUARY, FY 2005**

## Summary: October 1, 2004 - January 31, 2005

**Unusually high revenue/volume growth in November**
**Slight revenue/volume growth in October and December**
**Slight revenue/volume decline in January**
**Increased expenses due to cost inflation and additional volumes and deliveries**
**High productivity increase held down expenses**
**Net income below last year, but over plan**

## Income Statement – January 2005

**$  290**

## Volume Compared to SPLY

**+2.8B**

**+3.9%**

**Quarter 1**

**Quarter 1**

**53.8B**

**56.8B**

**January**

**January**

## Volume - Percent Change to SPLY

**January YTD +3.9%**

**FY 2005**

**Quarter 1 +5.5%**

**NOV**

**DEC**

**JAN**

**OCT**

**SEP**

**FY 2004**

**AUG**

## Revenue Compared to SPLY – January YTD

**Revenue Compared to SPLY – January YTD**

## Volume and Revenue - Change to SPLY- Jan YTD

## Income Statement – January Year-to-date

**$ 2,100**

## Deliveries				     143.0M

**Deliveries****	****	****	****	****     143.0M**

## Workhours - Change to SPLY - January YTD

**Workhours - Change to SPLY - January YTD**

**Savings**

**3.4M**

## =

- TFP

**Change in Combined Workload**

**Change in Resources Used**

**Total Factor Productivity Defined**

**=**

## =

- TFP

**Change in Combined Workload**

**Change in Resources Used**

**2.6%**

**0.4%**

**2.2%**

**Total Factor Productivity – January YTD**

**=**

## Productivity Components – January YTD

**Productivity Components – January YTD**

**Cost**
**Inflation**

**Workload Growth**

**TFP**

**5.9%**

**5.9%**

**3.3%**

**Actual Expense**

**3.7%**

**2.2%**

## Total Factor Productivity

**Percent Growth**

**Cumulative 1972 – 2005**

**FY**

## FY 2005  Quarter 2 – Summary Outlook

**Above Forecast**

** ****$17.2B**

**    ****-$0.2B**

** ****Above Forecast**

** ****$17.0B**

**Below Forecast**

## PL108-18

**PL108-18**
**RATE FILING**

## PUBLIC LAW 108-18

** ****$3.1B Required to Fund FY 2006 Escrow**

**And Annual Funding Requirement Increases to $5.4B in FY 2015 **

** ****USPS Recommended Elimination of Escrow**
**   ****Requirement**

**PUBLIC LAW 108-18**

** ****Escrow Account and Use of “Savings”**

## PUBLIC LAW 108-18

** ****Pre-Fund Postretirement Health Benefit **

**Costs of All Employees and Retirees**

** ****Eliminate Escrow Requirement – USPS **
**   ****Would Be Only Agency Pre-Funding **
**   ****Pension and Retiree**** ****Health Benefit Costs **

**PUBLIC LAW 108-18**

** ****USPS Proposal On “Savings”**
# Presentation: 407880

## Broadband Deployment and Technology Training MediaOne’s Northeast Region

***Prepared for:***
**21st Century Workforce Commission**
**March 7, 2000**

## Broadband:

**Driving Change/Transforming the Economy**** **
** ****Regional Broadband Deployment**
** ****Bridging the Digital Divide**
** ****Workforce Training**** **

**The Broadband Network:  **An interactive, high-capacity fiber-optic coaxial network that provides a foundation for delivering multiple services over a common infrastructure
**  ****Always-On, High-Speed Internet Service**
**  ****Local Digital Telephone Services**
**  ****Cable and Digital Cable Television**

***Regional Broadband Deployment***

## $1.5 Billion Invested Since 1995

***Regional Broadband Deployment***

**750mhz (2-Way) Broadband Deployment**
**MediaOne’s Northeast Region**

## Breadth and Diversity

**  ****World’s Largest Deployment of Cable Modem Technology**
**  ****Cable Homes Passed (HP) - 1.9 Million**** **
**  ****High-Speed Internet HP - 1.3 Million**** **
**  ****Digital Telephone Services HP - 550,000  + **** **
**  ****Broadband for All - Economically and Demographically Diverse**

***Bridging the Digital Divide***

## Bridging the Digital Divide 

**Free Library, School and Boys and Girls Clubs Connections****	****575 New England Schools, 64 Libraries **** **
**Grants Provided for Technology/Education Programs**** **
**COOL Program (Community Outreach and Online Learning)**** **
**Cable in the Classroom **

***Bridging the Digital Divide***** **

## Scope of Learning and Development Offered 3,500 Employees

**  ****14,000 Training Participants in 1999 Translating to 132,000 ****     Hours of Training Provided**
**  ****175 Different Course Offerings Internally in the Areas of:**
** ****Technical Systems and Troubleshooting Knowledge**
** ****Customer Excellence and Sales**
** ****Desktop Computer Skills**
** ****Health and Safety**
** ****Management Development**

***Workforce Training***

## 

**Then: Traditional Classroom Training for Analog Video Product**
**Now:  Dynamic, 3-Product Environment**
- Learning Labs, Online Training
- Broadband, 3 Product Technicians
- Knowledge-Based Career Path
- Opportunity One - Concepts/Compensation
- Employee Owners
- Extensive 4-6 Week Introduction
- Staff Training - Supervisors

***Workforce Training - Trends***
# Presentation: 504266

## Progression of DNA Typing Markers

- RFLP
- multilocus VNTR probes
- single locus VNTR probes **(****32****P and chemiluminescence)**
- PCR
- DQ-alpha **(reverse dot blot)**
- PolyMarker **(6 plex PCR; dots for SNPs)**
- D1S80 **(AMP-FLPs)**
- singleplex STRs with silver staining
- multiplex STRs with fluorescent dyes

## Changing Technologies  Paradigm Shift: Restriction Fragment-Length Polymorphisms to Short Tandem Repeats

**Five RFLP probes provide almost exclusive identity (~ 1 in 10****9**** individuals)**
**RFLP requires a minimum of 25 ng of relatively undegraded DNA (1000 - 20,000 basepairs)**
**Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) only require        ~ 1 ng DNA that can be partially degraded**
**Discrimination power: 5 RFLP probes equals       ~ 12 STR loci**

## Slide 3

## Which Suspect, 

- Which Suspect,
- A or B, cannot
- be excluded from
- potential  perpetrators
- of this assault?

## Capillary Electrophoresis (CE)

- 50-100 m x 27 cm

- Burn capillary window

- Data Acquisition and Analysis

**DNA Separation occurs in minutes...**

## ABI PRISM® 310 Genetic Analyzer 

**ABI PRISM****®**** 310 Genetic Analyzer**

**Capillary electrophoresis with multi-color detection capabilities**

## ABI Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer

- capillary

- Syringe with polymer solution

- Autosampler tray

- Outlet buffer

- Injection electrode

- Inlet buffer

## Autosampler Tray

- Close-up of ABI Prism 310 Sample Loading Area

- Sample Vials

- Electrode

- Capillary

## Allele 10       COfilerTM size: 187 bp  MS size: 83 bp

_**ABI 310 Result**_
- 9.3 allele: 1071 sec
- 10 allele: 1073 sec

_**Mass Spec Result**_
- 9.3 allele: 203.3 sec
- 10 allele: 204.8 sec

_**Allele 10       **_COfilerTM size: 187 bp  MS size: 83 bp

## Slide 10

## STR Analysis by Hybridization on Microchips

**STR Analysis by Hybridization on Microchips**

## MWG Biotech RoboAmp 4200

**MWG Biotech RoboAmp 4200**

## Mass Spec Sample Plates

- PerSeptive Biosystems (100 positions)

- Bruker        (384 positions)

## Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

**Acceleration Region**

**Detector**

**Ion Extractor**

**Drift Region**
**Electric-Field Free**

**Pulsed Laser Beam**

**High-Density**
**Sample Array**

**DNA Reaction Products**
**(Size separated and **
**drifting to the detector)**

**X-Y sample control**

**DNA separations occur in microseconds!**

## Bruker BIFLEX III Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

**Capable of fully automated data acquisition on 384 or more samples per plate**
# Presentation: 924527

## JIRS – Magnet Feasibility Study

***bnl - fnal- lbnl - slac***

_**US LHC Accelerator Research Program**_

- P. Wanderer
- LARP CM9
- October 18, 2007

## JIRS task 3.3.2.2

- Magnet Feasibility Study
- Subtask 1: QA – specifications, bench tests
- QA – Phase I upgrade – 2012
- Subtask 2: QB – magnet design studies
- QB – Phase II upgrade – 2016
- Subtask 3: Slim magnets – study design parameters, including type of superconductor
- Slim = inside ATLAS, CMS; Phase II - 2016

## Recent input

- Email from Steve Peggs, Oct. 10:
- 	‘...in yesterdays "extended PAF" meeting (Aymar, Garoby, Schmickler, Rossi, Evans, Bruning, ++) there was support from the top down, including Lyn, for Lucio's proposal for the U.S. to build 5 Nb3Sn Q1 quads (includes 1 spare) for the Phase 1 upgrade.’

## Budget allocation

- Total:  $80k ( ~ 1⁄4 FTE = 440 hours)
- QA:  $60k (in view of PAF meeting)
- QB:  $10k
- Slim:  $10k

## QA concept

- Install Nb3Sn quad in an accelerator (e.g., Tevatron, RHIC, LHC) or beamline to judge performance in “real world” situation (lifetime test, radiation heating, radiation damage)

## If QA  Q1 for Phase I

- FY08 Q1 objectives:
- Establish “who does what” – e.g., US provides cold mass, CERN the cryostat
- Establish *list of* critical parameters:  length, gradient, aperture (>Q1), ...
- Establish *list of* needs for new conductor (strand, cable), hardware, ...
- FY08 Q2 objectives:
- Establish values for the above (by 1/31?)

## If QA  Q1 for Phase I

- FY08 Q3 objective:
- Conceptual Design Report (present draft at DOE annual review, June 08)
- FY08 Q4 objective:
- Establish resources needed for Preliminary Design Report, begin work on report

## QB – Phase II - 2016

- Determine QB parameter space
- FY08 Q1 objectives:
- Establish list of people working on the task
- List magnet parameters, design constraints
- FY08 Q2 objective:
- Establish values for design constraints or estimates when values will be available
- Draft “intro to magnet design for non-experts”

## QB – Phase II - 2016

- FY08 Q3 objectives:
- Discuss constraints with other task groups via video and at CM10
- Iterate “intro to design” document
- FY08 Q4 objective:
- Prepare initial report jointly with other JIRS tasks

## Slim magnets - 2016

- Are the “slim magnet” meetings with AT/AB/ATLAS/CMS continuing?
- FY08 Q1 objective:
- Establish task force members, CERN contacts, develop status report
- FY08 Q2 objective:
- Prepare list of “interface” parameters (e.g., allowed fringe field on detectors; required  spatial stability of magnets)

## Slim magnets - 2016

- FY08 Q3 objective:
- Prepare constraints, based on interface parameter list
- Establish constraints, based on different superconducting materials (NbTi, Nb3Sn, HTS)
- FY08 Q4 objective:
- Select superconductor(s)
- Write report

## Summary

- Task interacts with several other disciplines/tasks in LARP and at CERN
- QA: Rapid action needed for QA = Q1 Phase I
- QB and slim magnets: longer time frame -- need experience with machine, detectors to settle parameters
# Presentation: 730069

## Live Web Seminars Tips & Tricks

- Invitations:
- Send invite1-3 weeks prior to event
- Send reminders to registrants: 1 week, 1 day, and then 1 hour prior to event
- Add an option to add the event to registrants Outlook calendar (i.e. LiveMeetings)
- Material Distribution:
- Send email message with link to the presentation materials for download in case people want it.
- Don't email huge files -you'll choke some people's machines, and not everyone wants the file version

## Live Web Seminars Tips & Tricks

- During the event:
- Always have an IT person on hand as well as a "co-pilot" to assist the presenter.
- Use polling to engage attendees. Can use once in beginning, middle, and end.  No more than 5 polls.
- Announce the questions and instructions.
- Have someone besides the speaker monitor the polling.
- Always share results with attendees.
- Have plenty of experts available for live Q&A sessions.  Safest way? Have attendees submit them electronically.
- Consider recording popular events to re-broadcasting later with live Q&A session
- Record on a machine other than the presenter’s

## Live Web Seminars Tips & Tricks

- After the event:
- Make the evaluation available on line, and have it appear on attendees screen after the training session
- Take attendees to your website at end of event
- Send an email thanking people for attending, and once again direct them to your web site
- For those that didn't attend, send a "sorry we missed you" email with instructions on how to watch the event archive if available.
# Presentation: 740119

## Pay for Performance in Florida

- Brian Dougherty
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection

- The Past, Present & Future of PFP in Florida

## Why Pay For Performance?

- Reimbursement and Preapproval programs do not encourage cleanup.
- These programs focus on cost control and adherence to procedures at the expense of cleanup progress.
- Regulators are rewarded for nitpicking.
- Contractors are rewarded for working the system.

## How to Start Up PFP

- Talk
- Find Contractors and Owners that are willing.
- Highlight the benefits of PFP.
- Acknowledge the risks and limitations.
- Discuss as early as possible in cleanup.
- Listen
- Contractors know how to clean up sites.
- A bad deal is a bad deal for everyone.

## Overview of PFP in Florida

- Voluntary Participation.
- Find regulators and contractors that are willing.
- Negotiate Prices.
- Limit to ‘big ticket’ items.
- Consider for Every Site.
- Start discussion with assessment.
- Allow additional assessment and design revisions

## History of PFP in Florida

## Summary of PFP in Florida

## Future of PFP in Florida

- Bundling Sites
- Spread risk over several sites.
- Uniform Pricing.
- Master Agreement
- Examples:
- 10 Sites for $135,000 each
- 15 sites for $167, 000 each
- 14 sites for an average of $267,000

## Future of PFP in Florida - Bid!

- Total Bid Award = $465,544
- Total Pre. Est. = $1,281,285

## Percent DifferenceBid vs Preapproval 

## PFP

- Why?  		Encourages Cleanup
- How?		Cooperation
- What Next?	Continue to scale up
# Presentation: 910808

## OSD cast data acquired through the GODAR Project for 1900-1991 compared to NODC/WDC archive holdings as of 1991

## CTD/STD casts data acquired through the GODAR Project for 1965-1991 compared to NODC/WDC archive holding as of 1991

## MBT temperature profiles acquired through the GODAR Project for 1966-1991 compared to NODC archive holdings as of 1991

## XBT temperature profiles acquired through the GODAR Project for 1941-1991 compared to NODC archive holdings as of 1991
# Presentation: 688258

## Multiresolution Analysis, Computational Chemistry, and Implications for High Productivity Parallel Programming

**Aniruddha G. Shet, James Dinan, Robert J. Harrison, and P. Sadayappan**

**Adaptively refined tree**

**Compress tree algorithm**

**Reconstruct tree algorithm**

**X**

**Multiplication of differently refined trees**

**A coefficient tensor that is removed from the tree after it has been operated upon.**

**Solution Building Blocks**

- Research sponsored in part by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program and Post Masters Research Participation Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, and DOE grant #DE-FC02-06ER25755 and NSF grant #0403342.
# Presentation: 046584

## Chronic Care Model

- Patient Education
- and Self-Management

## Patient Health Education in VHA

- Interventions to assist veterans to:
- Access & appropriately utilize VHA healthcare resources across the continuum of care
- Become actively involved in healthcare decision making
- Engage the needed family & social support systems
- Achieve the desired self-management & coping skills

## Critical Issues

- Use evidence-based interventions
- Educate clinicians as well as patients
- Maximize limited clinician time
- Promote patient-clinician partnerships
- Education vs information

## Evidence-based interventions

- Salient belief model
- “When you think of having **diabetes**, what do you think of?”
- Social Cognitive Theory/Self-efficacy
- “One a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is it that you will **monitor your blood sugar twice a day for 1 week**?”

## Transtheoretical Model/Stages of Change

- Precontemplation
- Contemplation
- Preparation
- Action
- Maintenance

## EES Patient Health Education Resources

- Patient Education: TEACH for Success
- Shared Decision Making Learning Packages
- Shared Decision Making
- Supporting Shared Decision Making
- My Healthe Vet
- Patient Education in Primary Care
- COLLAGE-Patient Education Community of Practice _[http://vaww.collage.research.med.va.gov](http://vaww.collage.research.med.va.gov/)_
- PHE Hotlines & Conference Calls
# Presentation: 490587

## Chronic NSAID Use: Small Bowel Injury

- Waqar Qureshi, MD, FACP, FACG
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Chief of Endoscopy
- Baylor College of Medicine/VAMC
- Houston, Texas

## The occasional finding of intestinal blood loss
or anemia in the setting of normal upper and
lower endoscopy led to the realization that:
NSAID-induced small intestinal ulceration and bleeding were clinically important 

				Hedenbro JL, et al. Gastrointest Endosc 1988;34:247-251
				Upadhyay R, et al. Ann Rheum Dis 1990;49:359-362

- or anemia in the setting of normal upper and
- lower endoscopy led to the realization that:
- NSAID-induced small intestinal ulceration and bleeding were clinically important
- 				Hedenbro JL, et al. Gastrointest Endosc 1988;34:247-251
- 				Upadhyay R, et al. Ann Rheum Dis 1990;49:359-362

- NSAIDs and the Small Intestine

## A Controlled Study of NSAID-induced Small Bowel Injury Using VCE

**Methods:**
- 41 ambulatory subjects (mean age = 49.5 y) with various types of arthritides (OA/RA/gout/non-specific) were enrolled
- 21 subjects took NSAIDs daily (>3 mo duration)
- 20 took acetaminophen alone or nothing.

## The Pill Camera

- 1. Optical dome
- 2. Lens holder
- 3. Lens
- 4. Illuminating LEDs (light emitting diodes)
- 5. CMOS image sensor
- 6. Battery
- 7. ASIC (Application Specific
-   Integrated Circuit) transmitter
-  8. Antenna

- Dimensions:
- Height: 11mm
- Length:   26mm
- Weight: 3.7gm

## Small Bowel Ulcer

## NSAID Ulceration

## Blood in Terminal Ileum

## A Controlled Study of NSAID-induced Small Bowel Injury Using VCE

**Results:**
- 					any injury (p<0.001)
- Severe damage was associated with high dose indomethacin, naproxen, and ibuprofen use.

|  | NSAID users | Controls |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Any injury | 71% | 10% |
| Severe injury | 20% | 0% |

## Conclusions

- Symptoms and signs of ill-health among chronic
- NSAID users are often attributed to the underlying
- disease
- Possible evidence of NSAID enteropathy includes:
- Dyspepsia that does not respond to PPI
- Vague abdominal pain that eludes diagnosis or treatment
-  Iron deficiency anemia
- Hypoalbuminemia

## VCE is a useful tool for diagnosing NSAID-induced small intestinal mucosal injury
VCE should be considered in patients on NSAIDs with unexplained symptoms 
Prospective comparisons of NSAIDs or other drugs and the GI tract

- VCE should be considered in patients on NSAIDs with unexplained symptoms
- Prospective comparisons of NSAIDs or other drugs and the GI tract

- NSAID-induced Small Bowel Injury Conclusions

## THE END
# Presentation: 841526

## High Energy Density RechargeableLi-Ion Batteries     

**High Energy Density Rechargeable****Li-Ion Batteries     **

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

**Yardney Technical Products, Inc.**

- Pawcatuck, CT

**INNOVATION**
- 20 ampere-hour rechargeable Li-ion battery
-  for space applications
**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- Batteries with specific energy of >100Wh/kg and energy density of 240 Wh/l
- Provide a 3-4 times weight and volume savings compared to state-of-art Ni-Cd/Ni-H2 batteries
- Demonstrated more than 300 cycles with prototype 5 amp-hr cells
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Military and commercial satellites
- Eventual application in consumer electronics, telecommunications,  computers

**GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Won $13.6 million joint contract with NASA and U.S. Air Force for battery development for aircraft, planetary rovers and landers and satellite applications
- Candidate for Mars Lander Mission

***Advances In Battery Technology for Space Applications***

- 1992 Phase II; NAS7-1309
- NASA/JPL Contact - Rao Surampudi
- Company Contact - P. G. Russell

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Success Story #7-015
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## What do you see?

**What do you see?**

## Main parameters

** ****Color -> Spectral Class -> Temperature (****T****)**
** ****Luminosity (****L****) -> Magnitude (****M****)**
** ****Mass (****m****)**

## The value of the main solar parameters...

** ****Color: ****Yellow**
** ****Spectral Class: ****G**
**Temperature: ****6000° K**
** ****Luminosity: ****4*10****26**** Watt**
** ****Magnitude: ****+5**
** ****Mass: m=****2*10****30**** Kg**

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Click on it

**Click on it**

## Formulas...
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## Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of ConnecticutFor the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 42,965***

**Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Connecticut****For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Connecticut

- Note:  The pie chart represents the top nine characterizations plus additional characterizations in total.
-            An individual SAR may cite more than one characterization.  Hence, the number of characterizations detailed here significantly exceeds the total number of SARs.

**Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Connecticut**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Connecticut Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filing Trend For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 1,128***

**Connecticut Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filing Trend ****For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

- Note:  Suspicious Activity Report statistical data is continuously updated as additional reports are filed and processed.  For this reason, there may be minor discrepancies between the statistical figures contained in this report and those in previous FinCEN reports.  Annual numbers for this exhibit are calculated by ***Subject Address*** and not filer address; therefore, the annual totals appearing in the above graph do not match those in Section 1, Exhibit 8 (Characterization of Suspicious Activity by State & Territory by Year).

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Connecticut

**For the Period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**

- Greenwich

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Connecticut

**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
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## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend

***Total SARs: 309***

**Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend**
**State of New Mexico**
**For the Period August 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs

**Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs**
**State of New Mexico**
**For the Period August 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

- Note:  The pie chart does not include those categories of suspicious activity for which data queries returned no results (i.e., no filers reported these activities).
- An individual SAR-C may cite more than one suspicious activity.  Hence, the number of activities detailed here exceeds the total number of SARs.

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trendby Type of Gaming EstablishmentState of New MexicoFor the Period January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2007

## Suspicious Activity Report Casinos & Card Clubs

**Geographic Reporting Locations**
**State of New Mexico**
**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Casino Address**

- Mescalero
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## Towards Higher Quality & Lower Costs

- Jay Beavers, Microsoft Research
- JBeavers@Microsoft.Com

- Access Grid Retreat
- March 4, 2002

## Distributed Classroom

- Learning Venues

- Workspace
-   PowerPoint
-   Ink
*  **Shared Apps*

- Conferencing
-   WM codecs
-   Low Latency
-   Multicast

- My Services (Passport, Messenger, Calendaring)

*Whiteboard*

*Assessment*

- Archive / SQL Server

- Internet2

- Partners
-   WM Transcoding
-   MBONE Transcoding
-   Student Experience

- Network Diagnostics

## Demos

- DISC Conferencing
- Higher Quality
- Easy to use
- VMR Player
- Video over video
- Image over video
- VMR Cube
- Video rendered on 3D object

## Lower Costs

**Integrates the system on one computer**
- Commodity hardware
- Dual Pentium IV
- NVIDIA Graphics
- 1394 Cameras (quality, one wire, capability)
- Software intelligence
**Web Services with complex systems centrally managed**
- DISC Node is one simple install
- Centralize the complexity
- Personal Nodes under $1.5k
- Conference Nodes under $5k
- Classroom Nodes ~$25k (mostly projectors & audio)

**Notes:**
Commodity Hardware

Software Intelligence
A/V compression
Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Speaker Tracking
Camera Management

Centralize the complexity
Directory
Messaging
Scheduling
Class portal
Storage (archival & search)

## Current Partners

- Argonne National Labs – MBONE compatibility
- Transcode to MBONE tools (h.261, loss of quality)
- RTP implementation compatibility
- Brown University – Tablet PC Student Experience
- Outside of the classroom, how does university education change?
- Assuming every student has a Tablet, what can we do in the classroom?
- Co funded by Tablet PC group
- University of Washington – Windows Media Transcoding
- Transcode to Windows Media network transport
- Distribute off Windows Media servers
- Limited Persist to ASF (long term storage)

## Takeaway -- Today

- Windows XP
- Video Mixing Renderer
- 1394 Camera Support
- DirectShow / Windows Media
- Easy to use API that handles capture, rendering
- High quality, x86 optimized codecs
- http://Research.Microsoft.Com/Downloads
- DISC Conferencing application
- 320x240 & 640x480
- Low artifacts, low bandwidth
- Simple to install & use
- RTP class binaries

**One Box Works**

## Takeaway -- Futures

- Conferencing Framework w/ BSD licensed source code
- Conferencing classes
- Managed DirectShow classes
- RTP classes
- Improved FEC for better bandwidth efficiency & higher loss tolerance
- Documentation & Sample code
- Windows Media Codecs
- Latency & bandwidth & quality improvements
- Archive & Playback from SQL Server
- Distributed PowerPoint
- Tablet PC integration (ink, wireless)
- Distributed Whiteboards

## Future UI

**Future UI**

- For more information contact: ericcarl@microsoft.com

## For More Information

- ToddN@Microsoft.Com, relationships & money
- JBeavers@Microsoft.Com, code & technology
- http://Portal.LearningWebServices.Com/DISC
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## Profit: A spectral analysis GUI

- Randall Smith
- James Peachey

## Spectral Analysis Needs

- Users with high-resolution spectra (with ~104 bins) would like a new analysis tool in addition to XSPEC (or Sherpa).
- This tool must:
-  Understand standard X-ray spectra data formats
-  Have easy-to-use interface
-  Link to existing atomic databases
-  Connect to existing spectral tools (XSPEC, Sherpa)
-  Be freely distributable

- Plus, of course, it must do some useful analysis tasks!

## Existing Similar Tools

**PintOfAle**: Useful tool, but requires IDL and focused on stellar coronae issues
**ISIS**: Requires S-lang competency to use efficiently.
**vWhere**: Good framework, but focused on event data, rather than spectral analysis.

## Genesis of Profit

- Randall: Visualized GUI tool that would allow easy plot selections, line identification and fitting and would link to the ATOMDB.
- James: Currently developing GLAST software using the (free) ROOT toolkit, a robust set of libraries used extensively by the high-energy community and extremely well-supported.
- Fortunately, the two met years ago and resumed having semi-regular lunches after Randall returned to Goddard...

## Existing Features

-  Displays fixed thumbnail & scrollable main plots
-  Modifiable plot features (linestyle, color)
-  Finds lines from ATOMDB that match plot
-  Can convert energy spectral to velocity spectra
-  Stores & restores subplots
-  Fits spectral with simple Gaussian fits (via ROOT intrinsics)
-  Internal ability to handle either wavelength or energy data

## (Some) Future Plans

- Fitting
-  Do complex fitting through interface to XSPEC
-  Generate XSPEC xcm file to load observed subplot immediately
-  Display plot residuals
- Line Identification
-  User filters on line id list (ie, only Fe lines, only He-like, etc)
-  Temperature -selected line id list, rather than peak emission
-  Display implied lines (ie, Fe XVII 3C line implies a 3D line)
-  Create latex table from line id, fluxes
- Support for absorption spectroscopy (sort by oscillator strength)
- Plot Display
- Show/hide error bars; allow rebinning, smoothing, etc
-  Using input redshift, show in observed or source frame
- Overlay (or co-add) individual line spectra in velocity space
-  Display observed line ratio and temperature/density curve

## And now a screenshot...

## A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo...

- 			...paraphrasing Larry Niven
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## Lessons Learned Success Story

- Bill Hunt, FR
- West Valley Demonstration Project
- 716-942-4688

## Ratchet tie-down strap with Counterfeit Suspect Bolt

## Event Background

- WVDP had previously conducted S/CI training for QA, procurement, warehouse, and other personnel
- DOE Richland discovered a SC/I bolt and issued a Lessons Learned into SELLS Database
- WVDP Lessons Learned Coordinator forwarded Richland’s Lessons Learned to WVDP personnel
- WVDP QA inspector read the Lessons Learned; subsequently identified a ratchet tie-down assembly with a Suspect/Counterfeit bolt which was intended to be used in a Low Level Radioactive waste shipment

## Tie down straps on HICs

## HICs on Truck

## Example of suspect head mark

- 	All grade 5 and grade 8 fasteners of foreign origin which do not bear any manufacturers’ head marks

- Grade 8

- Grade 5

- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- _[http://](http://www.qmo.bnl.gov/DOESCI/DOESCI.htm)__[www.qmo.bnl.gov/DOESCI/DOESCI.htm](http://www.qmo.bnl.gov/DOESCI/DOESCI.htm)_

## Post-event actions

- WVDP subsequently identified seven other ratchet tie-downs with S/CI bolts
- WVDP notified other Ohio sites
- ORPS report issued and DOE IG notified
- Corrective action to verify site QA and warehouse personnel were trained in S/CI and had S/CI identification material available
- Operating Experience Summary wrote complimentary article

## How can straps with S/CI bolts get on site?

- Procurement
- Some Quality levels do not require QA receipt inspection (e.g. commercial grade items)
- Straps brought on site by vendors
- securing cargo
- in vehicle as spare

## Potential consequences 

- If straps failed during transit, Low Level Radioactive waste could be spilled
- Potentially shut down DOE waste shipments across the complex...Huge impact to Closure plans, Costs, and Schedules
- DOE loses credibility to safely ship radioactive waste

- We need to learn from our mistakes to prevent recurrence

## Use your Lessons Learned toolbox

- Ensure your site has a Lessons Learned Program
- Share Lessons Learned from your operating experience
- Use other sites’ experience

-  	Preclude recurrence of *undesirable* outcomes
- 	Repeat *desirable* outcomes

## Use Lessons Learned 

- Review Lessons Learned during work planning (**Define work) **
- Use Lessons Learned to control hazards
- 	(**Analyze Hazards**)
- Implement Lessons Learned to perform work (**Perform Work Safely**)
- Share Lessons Learned from events and work  evolutions **(Feedback**)

- Does this sound like ISMS?

## US DOE Lessons Learned Web Sites

- Society for Effective Lessons Learned SELLS
-  	_[http://www.tis.eh.doe.gov/ll/](http://www.tis.eh.doe.gov/ll/)_
- Environmental Management Lessons Learned
- 	_[http://www.em.doe.gov/lessons/](http://www.em.doe.gov/lessons/)_
- National Nuclear Security Admin.Lessons Learned
- 	_[http://www.lessons-learned.net/default2.asp](http://www.lessons-learned.net/default2.asp)_
- DOE Operating Experience Summaries
- 	_http://tis.eh.doe.gov/paa/oesummary.html_
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## Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of California                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 811,581***

**Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of California                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of California

- Note:  The pie chart represents the top nine characterizations plus additional characterizations in total.
-            An individual SAR may cite more than one characterization.  Hence, the number of characterizations detailed here significantly exceeds the total number of SARs.

**Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of California**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## California Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filing Trend For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 37,653***

- Note:  Suspicious Activity Report statistical data is continuously updated as additional reports are filed and processed.  For this reason, there may be minor discrepancies between the statistical figures contained in this report and those in previous FinCEN reports.  Annual numbers for this exhibit are calculated by ***Subject Address*** and not filer address; therefore, the annual totals appearing in the above graph do not match those in Section 1, Exhibit 8 (Characterization of Suspicious Activity by State & Territory by Year).

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of California

**Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of California**
**For the Period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of California

**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
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## Nexus for Airquality and Climate

- Global warming is occurring and that human-made climate forcing agents are at least partly responsible.
- Climate forcings include changes in short-lived air pollutants such as aerosols, tropospheric ozone, and its precursor such as methane, nitrogen oxides, etc.
- Short-lived air pollutants have inhomogeneous spatial distributions with both regional and global climate effects.
- Actions to address air pollution and climate forcing agents are being made separately at all levels of government, in industry, and by consumers.
- Successes in reducing pollutants and climate forcing exist, and multilateral accords can be preceded by actions of consumers, industry and government organizations.
- Discussions about potential actions to reduce air pollution and climate change should be informed by the full range of effects and current scientific understanding to aid strategic choices.

**Notes:**
Despite significant progress in the past 5-10 years thanks NASA for the dedication, a number issues still remain open. We expect that NASA’s ongoing and new missions on earth science in the next decade will continue to advance our knowledge of aerosol radiative forcing. .......

## Questions to Guide Us to Payoff 

*Effectiveness*:  What are the barriers to using decision support resources in decision-making, and how can these barriers be overcome? How can we continuously evolve our approach to decision support as we evaluate experiences and learn more?
*Information needs*:  Across the applications covered in your breakout group are there unmet high-priority information needs shared by user groups?
*Research priorities*:  What observations and research are most needed to develop resources for meeting the needs identified in question 2?
*Communication*:  What are the characteristics of effective communication of science to decision makers, and what is needed to better sustain a continuing dialogue? What are examples of successful decision support collaborations that should inform program design?

**Notes:**
Despite significant progress in the past 5-10 years thanks NASA for the dedication, a number issues still remain open. We expect that NASA’s ongoing and new missions on earth science in the next decade will continue to advance our knowledge of aerosol radiative forcing. .......
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## Tropical cyclones and hurricanes in a high resolution version of the Community Atmospheric Model

- Michael Wehner
- Computational Research Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- With Phil Duffy and G. Bala, LLNL

## Tropical Cyclones

- Hurricanes are extreme events with large impacts on human and natural systems
- Characterized by high vorticity (winds), very low pressure centers and upper air temperature warm anomalies.
- Wind speeds on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
- Category one: 74-95 mph (64-82 kt or 119-153 km/hr)
- Category two: 96-110 mph (83-95 kt or 154-177 km/hr)
- Category three: 111-130 mph (96-113 kt or 178-209 km/hr)
- Category four: 131-155 mph (114-135 kt or 210-249 km/hr)
- Category five: > 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr).
- How will the hurricane cycle change as the mean climate changes?

## Tropical cyclones in climate models

- Tropical cyclones are not generally seen in integrations of global atmospheric general circulation models at climate model resolutions (T42~300km)
- In fact, in CCM3 at T239 (50km), the lowest pressure attained is 995mb. No realistic cyclones are simulated.
- However, in high resolution simulations of the finite volume dynamics version of CAM2, strong tropical cyclones are common.

## Finite volume dynamics CAM

- Run in an ‘AMIP’ Mode
- Specified sea surface temperature and sea ice extent.
- Integrated from 1979 to 2000.
- We are studying four resolutions
- B 2ox2.5o
- C 1ox1.25o
- D 0.5ox0.625o
- E 0.25ox0.375o
- Processor Configuration and Cost (IBM SP3)
- B:   64 processors,   10 wall clock hours / simulated year
- C: 160 processors,   22 wall clock hours / simulated year
- D: 640 processors,   33 wall clock hours / simulated year
- E: 640 processors, 135 wall clock hours / simulated year

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Hurricane Statistics (0.5ox0.625o)

|  | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | Obs |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Northwest Pacific
Basin | >25 | ~30 |  |  | 40 |
| Atlantic Basin | ~6 | ~12 |  |  | ? |

## Conclusion

- We observe that tropical cyclones are permitted in FV CAM
- This is despite relatively coarse resolution compared to specialized hurricane prediction models
- Up to 25km in the horizontal, only 26 vertical levels
- FV CAM may have predictive value for the hurricane cycle under global warming scenarios.
- Simulated hurricanes are remarkably realistic
- Reasonable values of highest winds and lowest pressure
- Exhibit a realistic asymmetry in wind profiles
- Appear to be distributed correctly by basin and season
- Maximum winds are a bit too low, probably resolution dependent
- These calculations are expensive now
- However, they could be routine in several years.
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## Magnetic Properties of Large Meteorites: Analogy to Asteroid SignaturesPeter Wasilewski2 and Gunther Kletetschka1and M. Acuna 1Code 921, 2Code 691, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

**Magnetism of Eros:**
- Objective was to establish existence of magnetism
- Asteroids are the parent bodies for most meteorites reaching the Earth
- Composition matches LL chondrites
- Magnetism is related to -kamacite (<7% Ni), -taenite (>7% Ni), and "-tetrataenite (43-52% Ni)

## Eros

- limit

## Slide 3

## Eros and Large Meteorites

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Meteorite magnetism

- The smallest scale for which the magnetization is homogenous and is chondrule size(~1mm).
- Some chondrules acquired very intense natural remanent magnetization associated with extraordinary conditions of remanence acquisition of unknown nature
- Chondrules, however, are randomly oriented
- Smaller meteorite samples are more magnetic because they don’t  randomize completely the remanence direction.

## ??

## Conclusions:

- Absence of magnetic moment on 433 Eros may not be surprising and can be predicted from the meteorite record.
- Non-magnetic nature of Eros is due to absence of significant homogeneous magnetic field during the agglomeration of the asteroid from smaller fragments.
- Small scale (1mm) fragments (chondrules) can be strongly magnetic, but randomly oriented in respect to each other.