BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 089428

## Douglas Bailey, Chair
September 2008

- Douglas Bailey, Chair
- September 2008

## Objectives

- To advise the ITDS Board of Directors on a method to obtain more precise product characterization for imported and exported goods
- To support the efficient and effective review, release, and statistical analysis of products entering and leaving the US

## Principles

- Meet Participating Government Agency (PGA)  product information needs by leveraging existing or emerging commercial supply chain capabilities
- Best solutions will be compatible with existing or planned international solutions or those likely to be supported by the World Customs Organization and/or the United Nations.

## Participants

- Members are interested PGAs
- Trade associations and supply chain companies will be invited to share commercial perspectives

## Terminology 

- Critical to effective communication:
**Product Identification** (e.g., GTIN, SKU)
**Product characterization** (e.g., minimally processed beef without additions)
**Product description** (e.g., package dimensions)
**Dictionary** (a collection of entries defining product’s distinguishing features)
**Catalog** (a collection of information about specific products)

## High Level Project Plan

- PGAs define characterization needs for product sets
- Committee reviews capabilities of dictionary and catalog providers
- PGAs designate best characterization source(s)
- Data interconnection and information flow designed between source(s) and ACE
- Present recommendations to ITDS Board (Winter/Spring 2009)

## Progress to Date

- -- Charter approved by ITDS Board - July 17
- -- First regular meeting of PIC; reviewed and confirmed committee objectives - August 6
- -- Reviewed terminology, project plan, and briefing on global dictionaries - September 3
- -- Drafting Capabilities Profile for DMOs and Catalogs
- -- PGAs defining critical characterizations by product set using templates – Drafts due October 1

## Next Steps

- Review of applicable ISO standards - September 24
- Interview Dictionary Maintenance Organizations (UNSPSC, GS1GPC, eCl@ss) - TBA
- Interview Catalog providers (GS1 GDSN, GSX)
- Evaluate capabilities of DMOs to meet PGA needs
- Evaluate catalog sources and Interconnection functionality
- Confirm feasibility of design
- Document recommended solution to Board

## Operational Concept

- Global  Product Dictionary

- Global  Catalog

- Supplier

- GTIN 12345611911

- Code50111313

- ACE

*Product code assigned by supplier*

*Authoritatively published  by supplier*

*Securely  downloaded  by ACE from catalog*

*Admissions decisions made using PGA business rules AND authoritative, global product information*

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## Douglas Bailey, Chair
September 2008

- Douglas Bailey, Chair
- September 2008
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## University of Pennsylvania MRSEC Michael L. Klein DMR-0520020 Education Nugget:  Workshop on ‘Science in Archaeology’

- A series of workshops on ‘Science in Archaeology’ has been established for high school science teachers, which was jointly sponsored by the MRSEC and the University of Pennsylvania Museum for Archaeology and Anthropology. Lectures on Archaeochemistry, Archeometallurgy, Science of Ceramics Conservation,

- Pre-historic Tool Making Techniques and Bronze
- Casting Technology have been given and followed by tours of the MRSEC’s Shared Experimental Facilities. Participants then visited both the Museum’s Conservation Department and Applied Science Center for Archaeology and took a field trip to the Laran Foundry, Chester, PA to see the lost wax bronze casting process in operation. The figure shows molten silicon bronze being used in a sand casting procedure. Participating teachers were eligible for continuing education credit from their State.
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## MISSION OPERATIONS WORKING GROUP II

## MOWG II

- JULIO L. MARIUS
- ICESAT MISSION OPERATIONS MANAGER
- CODE 425
- JMARIUS@POP400.GSFC.NASA.GOV
- PH: 301-286-3347

## MISSION OPERATIONS ORGANIZATION

## PURPOSE

- Understand the current data system and ops concept, roles
-      and responsibilities
- Establish systems milestones
- Identify issues

## MEETING FORMAT

- INFORMAL
- DISCUSSIONS ARE ENCOURAGED
- BRING UP ANY ISSUES THAT MAY IMPACT YOUR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY
- COORDINATE ALL MISSION OBJECTIVE ISSUES:
-      SCIENCE PAYLOAD: GLAS
- 	GROUND SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION: MOC/LASP, EDOS.
- 	OPERATIONAL INTERFACES: NISN/EBnet
- 	TESTING : S/C, PAYLOAD,GROUND SYSTEMS, END-TO-END

## OBJECTIVES

- UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE  AT THIS POINT IN TIME AND WHERE WE NEED TO GO TO HAVE A SUCESSFUL MISSION.
- UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND WHO IS GOING TO DO IT
- WHEN IS GOING TO BE DONE
- DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEDULE OF ALL ACTIVITIES LEADING TO A SUCCESFUL LAUNCH AND MISSION SUPPORT

## FINAL OBJECTIVE

- BY THE END OF THURSDAY:
- 	HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT A “TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF ICESAT IS GOING TO BE”

## AGENDA REVIEW

## AGENDA REVIEW

## AGENDA REVIEW

- TIME ALLOCATION JUST FOR  PLANNING PURPOSES
- EXTRA TIME WILL USED  FOR SPLINTER GROUP MEETINGS
- ROOMS AVAILABLE: CONFERENCE ROOM 16-236
-                     JULIO’S OFFICE: 16-200H
-                     JOE’S OFFICE: 16- 240C

## GROUND SYSTEM OVERVIEW

## GROUND SYSTEM OVERVIEW

## GROUND SYSTEM OVERVIEW

## Slide 14

## Data Flow
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## Update on Metastability

**Rana Biswas**
**Iowa State University**
- Bicai Pan
- University of Science and Technology of China

- NREL Workshop: April 17-2006

## Tritium decay in a-Si:T

- New understanding of metastability through tritium decay in a-Si:T
- Decay of tritium leaves behind dangling bond & inert He3
- Density of Si-dangling bonds (DB) observed orders of magnitude less than density of decayed tritium (Taylor, Zukotynski, Stradins...)
- Understand basic physical processes through molecular dynamics when Si DB (Si*) produced
- Si DB close to SiH. Then (Si_DB + SiH) mobile DB [PRB 97, Biswas et al; or mobile H - Branz 98]
- The Si DB forms a bond with close Si, which in turn breaks a bond:       Si* +Si-Si = Si-Si + Si*
- Motion of DB away from site by propagation of strain in network. Does not need H

- Si*(1)

- Si*(3)

## Annihilation of dangling bonds

- Two Si DBs recombine forming weak Si bond, considerably reducing DB density
- Si*+SiH + Si*+SiH = (SiH)2 + Si-Si (APL 98: Biswas, Pan), (H-collision model: Branz(98))
- Formation of  two SiH bonds. H-H distance ~2-3 A. Paired H
- May also be possible to form dihydride (SiH2)
- Branching ratio between processes ?
- Kinetics of DB formation ?
- Concepts applicable to light-soaking on a-SiH, a-SiGe:H, breaking of weak bonds, 2 Si DB
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## RTEMS Experiences at SSRL (continued)

-  Introduction
-  Building/Booting
-  Available EPICS Support
-  Wish List

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## Introduction

- Currently at RTEMS 4.6.0pre2
- We no longer build for VxWorks
- Building RTEMS is complicated
- ...but using is easy
- OSI layer makes porting from VxWorks almost trivial

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## Building RTEMS at SSRL

- Tools and libraries
- Unbundled RTEMS applications
- Create symbol list used in system image link
- System image used by all IOC
- Not all libraries included
- Include some unbundled apps like Cexp
- Don’t use routines (rtems_init and rtems_netconfig) delivered in base/src/RTEMS
- Building is complex - Till’s README files helpful

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## RTEMS Unbundled Apps

- C Expression Interpreter (Cexp) (our “shell”)
- Telnet
- NFS
- Monitor

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## RTEMS Boot

- System image loaded
- Initialization task
- Also loads symbol file
- Runs common non-EPICS startup script to load other unbundled apps, set TZ, start tasks, etc
- Then runs EPICS app startup script identified in NVRAM which loads app image and initializes EPICS
- Left at Cexp prompt – at this point, usage similar in concept to VxWorks

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## Slide 6

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## Slide 7

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## EPICS/RTEMS Support Available at SSRL

- IPAC – CANBus, Acromag, Hytec
- BitBus Controller
- GPIB – LAN and Termios
- Echotek Digital Receiver
- AB EtherIP
- Generic Transient Recorder
- Bumpless Reboot Restore
- Sequencer
- Soon – General Standards PMC

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison

## Wish List

- osiDevLib – layer on top of VME/VXI (return errors for soft IOCs)
- devStats – CPU health status monitor like [VX,vx,Vx,vX]Stats
- epicsOSversion – get OS class and version as string
- osiTS – periodic NTP sync and timestamp update like soft time slave IOC in VxWorks’s drvTS
- Routine to show boot parameters
- BTW, include files under base/src/vxWorks/src should be installed in base/include/os/vxWorks

- EPICS Meeting         June, 2003

- Stephanie Allison
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## Beam-beam compensation with electron lenses  

- Vsevolod Kamerdzhiev
- for the beam-beam compensation team

## Hardware status

- Both TELs are operational, equipped  with SEFT electron guns
- In pulsed mode up to 0.7 A of peak electron current for single bunch compensation
- up to 3A dc electron current

## Ongoing development

- Electron guns with Gaussian current density distribution
- E-guns with grids
- Generation of hollow electron beams
- Marx generator (Stangenes Industries)
- HV pulse generator based on summed pulse transformer scheme (G. Saewert, EE-support)

## Gridded e-gun

- Manufacturing of the first prototype complete
- Assembly complete
- Vacuum conditioning and testing in progress

## Gridded e-gun, conditioning

## Dynamics:

**1****st**** run: Gaussian profile**

**Dynamics:**
**Z0=50 mm**

_**Note:**_
**Contour lines for all**
**plots are for final**
**stationary regime! **

**L.G.Vorobiev**

## New Geometry:

-  Control electrode 1 mm shift (left)
-  Anode 20 mm shift (right)
-  Anode Inner radius decrease (virtual cathode prevention)
-  Cathode (-10kV), control electrode (-4kV), anode (0 kV)

**83% density drop at R=0 !**

_**New Geometry:**_

**L.G.Vorobiev**

## Conclusion (e-gun simulation)

-  Transition from Gaussian beam to flat, and hollow beams
-  (25% drop) without any geometry changes (initial design)
-  only voltage.
-  Control electrode shift by 1 mm allows 50% central
-   density drop.
-  Anode re-positioning allows 83% central density drop.

**L.G.Vorobiev**

- See Leonid’s presentation:
- http://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1514

## TEL2 on P11

- TEL2 studies after shutdown

## P13 tune shift

## Studies

- EoS #5835
- position scans
- old settings were found to be good
- DTM tune measurement with TEL2 on/off
- Mid store studies #5837
- angle scans, did not find better setting
- timing on P12, P11, P13
- single bunch tune measurement with 1.7 GHz schottky

## TEL beam study plan

- Carefully measure proton tunes bunch-by-bunch using 1.7 GHz Schottky and the DTM
- Come up with an optimal compensation scheme for the “Tev after shutdown”
- Continue studies (TEL2+TEL1) in the beginning of stores and during halo removal
- Prepare the Gaussian e-gun for head-on compensation studies

## Electron Lenses for LHC

- Electron Lenses are considered as an LHC upgrade construction project (CP)
- Cost estimate and possible construction schedule (3-4 lenses) submitted
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## Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Delaware                                                                                       For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 98,237***

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

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Delaware

- 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 Delaware**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

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

***Total SARs: 224***

- 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 Delaware

**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 Delaware

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

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
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## Unit 1

**Unit 1**

- 01--S231-EP

## Unit 1 – Objectives

**Identify engine capabilities and limitations that the engine boss must consider when deciding to attempt an assignment.**
**Describe assignments that require specialized training of engine crewmembers.**
**Describe the observations the engine boss must make of crewmembers to insure safety is not compromised.**
**Describe the criteria used to maintain the engine inventory.**

## Engine and Crew Capabilities

**Engine and Crew Capabilities**

**As an Engine Boss, what is the importance of knowing the capabilities of your:**
**Engine?**
**Assigned ****personnel?**

##    How do the capabilities of your engine and assigned personnel apply to any tactical assignments you may receive?

**   ****How do the capabilities of your engine and assigned personnel apply to any tactical assignments you may receive?**

- 01--S231-EP

## Tactical Assignments

**Be sure to apply these your situation:**
**Risk Management Process**
**Standard Fire Orders**
**Watch Out Situations**
**LCES Checklist**
**Downhill Checklist**
**Wildland/Urban Watch Outs**
**Others?**

## Engine Inventory

**Pre-incident inventory**
**Maintaining inventory during incident operations**
**Utilization of hose and appliances**
**Demobilization/post-incident inventory re-supply**

## Daily Engine Maintenance

**Daily checklist**
**Preventative maintenance checks**
**Maintenance schedule and records**

## Unit 1 – Objectives

**Identify engine capabilities and limitations that the engine boss must consider when deciding to attempt an assignment.**
**Describe assignments that require specialized training of engine crewmembers.**
**Describe the observations the engine boss must make of crewmembers to insure safety is not compromised.**
**Describe the criteria used to maintain the engine inventory.**
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## Prosthetics and Orthotic Supplies

**VA Denver Acquisition & Logistics Center (DALC)**

## Prosthetic and Orthotic Supplies

- Customers & Stakeholders
- Items Carried at DALC
- Fulfillment
- Product Requirements

## Customers & Stakeholders

- Veterans
- VHA Audiology & Speech Pathology Service
- VHA Prosthetics & Sensory Aids Service
- VHA Blind Rehabilitation Service
- Other Government Agencies

## Items Carried at DALC

**Hearing Aids**
**Hearing Aid Accessories**
**Batteries**
**Prosthetic Socks**
**Orthotic Softgoods**
**Cochlear Implants**
**Assistive Listening & Alerting Devices**
**Electro larynxes**
**Aids for the Visually Impaired**

## Fulfillment	

- Orders placed with DALC
**Clinics Place Orders via ROES, email, Phone, & Fax**
**Veterans Place Orders via Mail-in Cards, email, Phone, Online**
- Orders placed against National Contracts
- Orders on stocked items filled at DALC
- Hearing Aid orders filled at manufacturer

## Product Requirements

- Hearing Aid requirements – VA Audiology & Speech Pathology Service
- Prosthetic & Orthotic Devices & Supplies – VA Prosthetics & Sensory Aids Service

## DALC Contacts

- Kim Whorton, Director
**Phone 303-914-5150**
- Tim Grauer, Chief of Acquisition & Materiel Management
**Phone 303-914-5180**

## Thank You!

**Thank You!**
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## A Fast Algorithm for Transient Flowsand Finite-Rate Chemistry

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- A state-of-the-art engineering tool suitable for combustion device design and analysis
- Technology will allow producers of tri-propellant space vehicles engines to optimize the point at which the conversion from one combination of propellants to another will occur
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- United States Boosters, Inc. is provided $ 42,755 in funding for the activity of understanding the physics of thermal protection layer coating of the Shuttle Program’s Solid Rocket Boosters
- In 1994-1995, Pratt & Whitney employed ESI’s technology to enhance the computational efficiency of the NASTAR code
- ESI received $ 10,058 for their contribution; $ 1,650 from Baxter Healthcare Corporation for modeling steam sterilization processes, and a NASA SBIR Phase III contract for $ 247,546 as a continuation of their Phase II effort

***ENGINEERING SCIENCES, INC.******HUNTSVILLE, AL***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
- Supports the use of tri-propellant engines in NASA’s new	generation reusable launch vehicles
- Potential applications include rocket engines, gas turbine	combustors and nozzles, furnace and burner design and 	automobile combustion chamber design

-  1992 Phase 2; SS-145; 8/7/96

- Marshall Space Flight Center

**A Fast Algorithm for Transient Flows****and Finite-Rate Chemistry**

- MSFC NAS8-40175
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## -.04 EC, +.03 UK

***-.04 EC, +.03 UK***

***-.05 EC, +.02 UK***

## June 2006

- Northern Hemisphere

## Slide 3

## Northern Hemisphere

***GFS has gained 1(.8) to 1.5(.6) days to skill in 15 years***

***Northern Hemisphere***

## Southern Hemisphere

***GFS has gained 1.5 (.8) to 2 (.6) days in 11 years***
***GFS good forecasts out to 5 days, ***
***Useful forecasts to 7(SH) to7.5 (NH) days***

***Southern Hemisphere***

## June 2006

## June 2006 

***June 2006 ***
***Tropics***

## Slide 8

## June2006

***June2006***
***20S-20N 200***

## June2006

***June2006***
***20S-20N 850***

## BIAS

***CONUS June 2006***
***Equitable Threat Score***

***BIAS***

## Black –GFS

***Black –GFS***
***Red-ECMWF***

***Fit to rawindsondes***

## Slide 13

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## Slide 21

## GFS vs pry May 9-July 3 (Xingren Wu)

|  | op | y |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NH 500 hgt dy5 ac ag. own (common) analysis | .810(.811) | .811(.811) |
| NH 500 height day 5 RMS error | 44.89(44.71) | 44.84 (44.77) |
| NH 500 height day 5 bias  | -6.37 (-6.48) | -6.00 (-6.14) |
| NH 250 day 3 RMS vector wind error | 9.02 (8.82) | 9.02 (8.87) |
| SH 500 height day 5 anomaly correlation  | .804 (.805) | .800 (.800) |
| SH 500 height day 5 RMS error | 70.51(70.40) | 71.14 (71.16) |
| SH 500 height day 5 bias  | -2.02 (-4.59) | -2.28 (-5.18) |
| SH 250 day 3 RMS vector wind error | 10.58 (10.35) | 10.77 (10.57) |

## Slide 23

## Slide 24

## GFS vs pry May 9-July 3 (Xingren Wu)

|  | op | y |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 20S-20N 200 day 3 RMS vector wind error | 7.52 (6.96) | 7.56 (7.04) |
| 20S-20N 850 day 3 RMS vector wind error | 3.48 (3.35) | 3.48 (3.38) |
| 20S-20N 200 day 3 v anomaly correlation | .678 (.711) | .682 (.712) |
| 20S-20N 850 day 3 v anomaly correlation | .703 (.706) | .698 (.698) |

## Equitable threat score and bias over CONUS

- May 13-June 30
- Helin Wei

- 12-36hr

## 36-60 hr

- 60-84 hr

## Slide 28

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- Mary McDaniel Clum
- (505) 232-0304 - mmcdaniel@asapnm.com

- Rose Ann Casale
- (505) 899-3535 - Rcasale@comforce.com

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- (505) 843-8421 - jstack@compa.com

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- (505) 265-4442 - rsanders@enercon.com

- Steve Head
- (505) 269-3118 - head@hesnm.com

- Fil Martinez
- (505) 343-0200 - fil@lmtechnologies.com

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- (505) 998-4000 - tkeyes@orionint.com

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- 505) 323-7587 - jkelly@theplusgroup.com

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## Magnets

*Paul E. Reimer*
*21 June 2008*

## First Magnet

- Dual magnet spectrometer
- Proposal:SM3 coils and SM12 iron to construct first magnet
- Note that this means that SM3 is not available (at least with all 3 coils) for 2nd magnet

- Special Considerations
- 30t iron blocks—crane can only support 25t.
- Blocks can be lowered upstream, assembled inside with smaller, stronger gantry crane
- Blocks can be cut and moved with 25t crane
- Problem with all designs
- Power and cooling available, but Fermilab task force will make sure

- Paul E. Reimer Magnets

- 21 June 2008

## Second Magnet

***Second Magnet***

- Options investigates include
- KTeV Magnet
- Its there, it’s free
- Field up to 0.6GeV pT kick, but KTeV ran at **much** lower field.  Only map for 0.4GeV pt kick
- SM3
- Its **not ** there
- 3 coils not available with solid iron magnet,
- but 2 coils could give sufficient pT kick for experiment
- JGG
- In use (P907)
- Needs repair (I believe)
- Power and cooling available, but Fermilab task force will make sure

- Paul E. Reimer Magnets

- 21 June 2008
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## Work Plan

**Office of Inspector General**

- This Work Plan provides a framework for how Office of Inspector General resources will be used during Fiscal Year 2007.  The plan includes mandatory, requested, and discretionary audits, inspections, and investigations that address the U.S. Department of Education’s top management challenges and emerging issues.  The plan is designed to be flexible and may be modified during the year to accommodate higher priority work as determined by the Inspector General or as requested by the U.S. Department of Education, the Congress, or others.

**Framework for Fiscal Year 2007 Work Plan**

**Mission of OIG**

- To promote the efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity of the Department’s programs and operations, we conduct independent and objective audits, investigations, inspections, and other activities.

- The U.S. Department of Education’s mission is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation, as well as to improve the management, efficiency and accountability of federal education programs and activities.  The Congress has entrusted the Department with approximately $89 billion of taxpayer funds to fulfill its mission. The Office of Inspector General works with the Department to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity of these programs and the Department’s operations.

**Work Plan**
**Fiscal Year**
**2007**

## FISCAL YEAR 2007

**Student Financial Assistance **
**Programs**

**Other **
**Audits and Inspections**

**Audits and Inspections of**
**State and Local **
**Programs**

**FISCAL YEAR 2007**
**ANNUAL**
**WORK PLAN**

- Selected Institutions
- Hurricane Recovery Funds
- Special Allowance Payments
- Improper Payments
- Academic Competitiveness and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grants
- Controls for Safeguarding Student Information
- Information Technology Contracts
- Performance Based Organization performance

- Selected Grantees
- Hurricane Recovery Funds
- Fiscal Controls in Accounting for Federal Funds at Local Education Agencies
- Corrective Action and Restructuring Title I Schools in Improvement
- Lapsed Funds
- Impact of NCLB Waivers
- Supplemental Education Service Providers

- Financial Statements and Related Activities
- Controls over Hurricane Related Funds by the Department
- Implementation of OMB Circular A-123
- Quality Control Reviews of Audits
- Risk Management Activities
- Privacy Act Information Disclosures
- Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
- IT System Security Controls
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## Magnetotelluric Interpretation of La Bajada Canyon

- Jeremy Gunter
- SDSU
- SAGE 2004

## Topics of Investigation

- Brief Overview of MT
- Instrumentation
- Study Area
- 1D and 2D Interpretations
- Implication of Interpretation

## What is Magnetotellurics?

- MT = The Study of Naturally Occurring E and H Fields at Surface of Earth to Map the Subsurface
- Assumption of Normally Incident Plane Wave
- Sources: Solar Winds, Lightning Discharge, and Active Sources

## Instrumentation

- Geometrics Stratagem EH4
- Provides 2D MT data
- Frequency: 10hz to 92k Hz, Controlled Source
- Capability for Natural Source MT

## Study Area

- La Bajada Fault Zone on Cochiti Pueblo Land

## 1D Interpretation

- Force 3D World into 1D Model
- Implications = Earth is a Heterogeneous Half-Space
- Layered Homogeneous Half-Space Allows for Skin Depth:
- Depth of Investigation =                   then                    if                   then                 at 10hz or T=0.1 for Homogeneous Half-Space

## La Bajada Soundings

**Notes:**
If one observes the phase separation at T=10^ -2 or the data fit separation between TE and TM modes, dimensionality becomes evident at the lower frequencies.  One may infer that since the resistivity at sounding location 100 is approximately 50 ohm*m, which means that resolution is on the order of 1km then it is possible that the MT results, especially the TE phase, is resolving either the entire fractured La Bajada fault zone, or perhaps another parallel fault.  The evidence again lies in data corresponding to soundings 100 and 400.  

## La Bajada Soundings

**Notes:**
By analysis of sounding 600 compared to 100 and 400 it then becomes evident that we have crossed the fault boundary.  The evidence is in the simple fact that soundings 100 through 500 have conductivities of 100 ohm*m, and soundings 600 through 800 have conductivities of 10 ohm*m.  

## La Bajada’s 1D World

**Notes:**
By analysis of the 1D models for each sounding one can see that the top layers are fairly resistive and at about a depth of 100m there exists a thin slightly conductive layer.  As we approach line 400 this layer becomes more pronounced.

## La Bajada’s 1D World...

**Notes:**
By sounding 500 it becomes evident that there has been a transition from more pronounced resistive layers to now a increasingly conductive layer at shallow depth.

## Analysis of 1D Data

- 2 to 3 Major Resolvable Layers
- Line 100 to ~400  = R,C,R
- Line 500 to 800 = Small R, Large C
- Resistivity Change from ~100 ohm-m to ~10 ohm-m
- What could this mean?

## La Bajada in 2D

**Notes:**
Sharp 2D inversion.  

## Profile of 2D Inversion

## Implications and Improvements

- Successful Location of La Bajada Fault, and Possibly Another Fault???
- Layer Determination, and Water Table Interface
- More MT Stations to the West
- Use Lower Frequencies
# Presentation: 810409

## Endoscopic Sedation

**Todd H. Baron, MD, FASGE**
**Chair, ASGE Standards of Practice Committee**
**Professor of Medicine**
**Div. Gastroenterology & Hepatology**
**Mayo Clinic, Rochester**

## The Landscape of Endoscopic Sedation

**Monitored anesthesia care (MAC): 33-40% of all endoscopic sedation **
**Up to 67% (NY)**
**Midazolam + opiate: 60% of sedation**
**GI-directed propofol: nearly 500,000 patients reported**
**Excellent efficacy and safety**
**Less than 1% of sedation nationally**

## The Landscape of Endoscopic Sedation

**Restricted label of propofol**
**State nursing board rules limit propofol use by GI / nurse team**
**Economics of MAC (anesthesia provider delivered)**
**$150 to $440 per case**
**Billions of dollars of health care costs**
**Payers starting to deny reimbursement**

## Sedation Levels

**Various levels can be obtained by any drug or drug combination**
**Anesthesia provider- delivered propofol is almost all deep sedation**
**GI / Nurse delivered propofol (or fospropofol) targets moderate sedation**

## Endoscopist Satisfaction*

**1-10 scale**
**10 = best**
**N= 1076**

**P<0.0001**

*** Cohen Am J Gastro 2006**

## Fospropofol

**Water soluble prodrug of propofol**
**Without restricted label, may allow “propofol superiority” sedation experience given by GI / nurse team**
**Potential decreased use of anesthesia providers may be cost saving**

## Concerns about Fospropofol

**No comparison to “gold standard” (midazolam + opiate)**
**No data for use in upper endoscopy**
**Longer 1⁄2 life than propofol**
**Perineal paresthesias**
**Insufficient data in ASA III patients**

## Summary

**Future studies needed for upper endoscopy, ASA P3**
**Training of procedural staff needed prior to implementation**

## ASGE Position

**Appropriately trained gastro-enterologists, and nurses under the direction of gastroenterologists, CAN safely administer propofol and fospropofol, for sedation during endoscopic procedures**
# Presentation: 681647

## http://clinicaltrials.gov

_**http://clinicaltrials.gov**_

**Notes:**
ClinicalTrials.gov is a federally sponsored Web site that  provides a comprehensive listing of clinical studies sponsored by NIH and other federal agencies, private industry, and nonprofit organizations.
Offers up-to-date information for locating clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. 
Any information you look for is free and secure and strictly confidential. No passwords or registration is required.
To learn more about clinical trials, and whether or not to consider participating in one, the “Understanding Clinical Trials ”  link to the right of the page will go directly to a page with more information about clinical trials.

What is the Purpose of a Clinical Trials? (Optional. Depends on Group)
Helps researchers determine how to give new treatments
Answer specific questions about new treatments
Answers questions about new ways of using known treatments or standard treatments.

## ClinicalTrials.gov

- Developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM) in collaboration with NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range of serious or life-threatening diseases and conditions
- Language intended to be suitable for general public
- Studies included conducted in 50 states and more than 154 countries

**Notes:**
The development of ClinicalTrials.gov was mandated by the FDA. Patient groups had demanded ready access to information about clinical research studies so that they might be more fully informed about a range of potential treatment options, particularly for very serious diseases. 
The primary intended audience is patients and other members of the public 
ClinicalTrials.gov contains more than 45,000 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry

## Benefits

- Locate an open clinical trial for a specific ailment
- Find contact information for the study
- Determine what treatments for a specific ailment are currently being studied
- Confidential
- No registration or personal identification is required

**Notes:**
Each record provides summary information about clinical trials
Each record contains the title of the trial, the purpose of the trial (e.g., what intervention is being tested for what disease), the inclusion and exclusion criteria (e.g., age, gender, stage of disease overall health, pregnant or nursing, undergone a specific treatment etc) and the place where the trial is being conducted and contact information. 

## Basic Search

- Type your search term(s) into the query box

**Notes:**
Clinical Trials was recently updated and is even easier to search. Go Live and conduct a search
# Presentation: 137398

## At Risk Behavior Summary

_***Structure***_

***PROJECT TITLE:***

***At Risk Behavior Summary***

**Reduced risk through a three-session training series with continuing action and discussion after the training**
**Managers and natural work teams**
**  ****Participate in a two-hour manager- led discussion aimed at showing that behavior is a matter of individual choice and offering a method for thinking before acting**
**  ****Participate in two-hour session involving video viewing and discussions aimed at the effect the manager has on the  environment and the effect the environment has on the individual**
**  ****A manager led hour and one-half session aimed at identifying positive improvements and how to build on those successes**
**Continued discussions after training aimed at changing how we interact with each other, worker-to-worker, manager-to-worker, group-to-individual, and group-to-group founded on the learning from the sessions and the experience outside the sessions**

_***Risks***_

- Activity will be viewed as and treated as the latest fad
- Lack of constancy of purpose to continue/organizational transformation

_***Benefits***_

**Makes people more conscious of their choices and the results.**
**Shows the power of the manager to modify the environment to improve performance.**
**Demonstrates how  the group’s social climate influences performance.**
**Enables managers and teams to discuss the social climate’s affect on performance.**
**Offers thinking tools to apply to making choices.**
**Enables the organization to see the constraining effects of various styles of management.**
**Sets a foundation for identifying better ways to interact with each other.**

_***Points of Contact***_

- John DeGiovanni
- Director – SSME S&MA
- Boeing Canoga Park
- 818-586-8787

- Reducing risk by making people aware of their behavior
- Apply potential problem analysis thinking to routine tasks
- Better manager and  work team performance through better awareness and improved management style
- Improved team synergy through improved interactions
- Fewer problems because people recognize risk and take action
# Presentation: 101155

## Risk-Based cGMPs:  Defining Risk and Quality

**Summary of Stakeholder Comments**
**April 23, 2003**

## Definition of Risk

**No consensus reached**
**FDA and industry do perform risk assessments routinely but few employ a formalized risk assessment and management process**
**Definition may need to be product specific**
**Risk changes through product life cycle**
**Types of risks identified include:**
**Patient**
**Business**
**Regulatory**

## Points to Consider in Defining Risk

**Benefits comparison**
**Product availability**
**Quality systems**
**Product development knowledge**
**Probability and severity of hazard**
**Acceptable levels of risk**
**Patient population (age, condition, species)**
**Number of products made at a given site**
**Exposure (volume of products in commerce)**
**Dosage form**
**Process step**

## Definition of Quality in the Context of Mfg & Control of Products

**Fitness for intended use**
**Safe**
**Effective **
**Available**
**Consistency**
**Process**
**Product**
**Increased process and product knowledge leads to increased assurance of quality**
**Must include customer (patient) expectations**

## Benefits of a Risk Based System

**Patients**
**Increased availability**
**Faster approval of new products**
**Continue to receive quality products**
** ****FDA**
**More product and process knowledge shared by industry**
**More efficient resource allocation for review and inspection**
**Increased trust and understanding of industry decision making**

## Benefits of a Risk Based System

**Industry**
**Fewer, more efficient, science based inspections resulting in increased consistency**
**Faster, more consistent reviews****	**
**Potential for reduced regulatory burden**
**Manage changes and nonconformance with less FDA oversight**
**Focuses resources on critical issues**
**Flexibility to focus on what should be done, not what can be done**
**Improves communication with FDA**

## Challenges

**Major cultural change for both FDA and industry**
**Trust**
**Who will make the first move to drive this process**

## Challenges

**Developing a common understanding of risk and risk assessment**
**Principles and minimum standards**
**Risk assessment and management training **
**Communication to and perception by other stakeholders (public, Congress)**
**Communication within FDA**
**Completion of master plan (timeline)**
**Perceived risk of development report review**

## Existing systems

**Medical devices **
**Foods (HACCP)**
**EPA**
**Insurance industry**
**Well characterized biologics**
**EU and HealthCanada initiatives**
**Deviation reports**
**Annual product review**
**Recall, field alerts**
**Change control**

## Sector Specific Issues

**Different cGMPs for animal products**
**Differences for animals in the food chain**
**Lot release of certain biologics**

## Next Steps

**Evaluate existing systems to develop general principles of risk management**
**Additional work required to define risk and quality in the context of risk based GMPs**
**Complete and share master plan**
**Global harmonization **
**Increasing self regulation**
# Presentation: 125885

## A Framework for Universal Discovery of Resources

- September 22, 2003

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## What’s this all about?

-  We want to be able to identify and locate, in a timely fashion, any information on Center that we have a legitimate right to know about.
-  Barriers to this goal:
-  Myriad isolated repositories of information
-  Metadata stored in diverse formats, scheme
-  Important considerations:
-  Intellectual property
-  Security
-  Minimize extra work

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## What tools can we employ to solve this problem?

-  Central database to store copies of all metadata
-  alternative: on-the-fly querying
-  OAI for harvesting metadata (requires complicity)
-  alternative: metadata submission
-  XML as “lingua franca” data format
-  Qualified Dublin Core (“Goddard Core”) as “lingua franca” metadata 	set
-  XML registry
- Persistent identifier server/resolver
-  Web Services

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## Metadata Flow

- OAI harvesting or submission

- OAI harvesting or submission

- = User

- = local metadata store

- = information object

- Goddard Core  Metadata Server

- OAI

- = Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting; see
-    _[www.openarchives.org](http://www.openarchives.org/)__ for details_

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## User View

- Persistent Identifier Server

- 2.

- 1.

- 3.

- Goddard Core Descriptive Metadata Server

- User searches for and retrieves metadata records from GC descriptive metadata server
- User obtains physical or virtual location of object by submitting value of DC:identifier element to Persistent Identifier Server
- User negotiates access to object with local authority

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## Contributing Repository View

- = local metadata store

- Format Conversion/Metadata Mapping

- Goddard Core  Metadata Server

- Metadata moving from a contributing repository to the central repository must be
-  Converted to XML
-  Mapped to the Goddard Core
- Responsibility for this function is considered case-by-case at present

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## Current Conversion/Mapping Efforts

- Goddard Core Metadata Server

- Video

- IMAGES/NIX

- Web Sites

- Catalogue

- Project Documents

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

##  Qualified Dublin Core 

-  Qualified Dublin Core
-  52 elements – 47 descriptive, 5 administrative
-  uncomplicated definitions to increase flexibility
-  23 elements are refinements on subject, creator, and contributor.  These refinements correspond to facets of the NASA taxonomy.
-  For the most part simple elements are retained as part of the set
-  Working on “best practices” for various media (e.g. WWW, videos)

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

##  Permanance ratings: descriptive or administrative?

-  Permanance ratings: descriptive or administrative?
-   Proliferation of creator, contributor, subject variants
-   Persistent identification?
-   Format element change

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee

## Digital Archiving Plan (December 2002)

- Goddard Library Visiting Committee
# Presentation: 690281

## INDIUM PHOSPHIDE SOLAR CELLS

-   Achieved significant reductions in cell weight (~50%) and 		substrate cost (>90%)
-   NASA program led to additional Navy-sponsored advanced 		development
-   Follow-on program achieved record high conversion efficiency 		(~13%)
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Flight panel currently under construction for a high radiation 		mission Space Technology Research Vehicle (STRV 1-C/D) 		being funded by a $370K Navy contract

***Spire Corporation***
***Bedford, MA***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Affordable photovoltaic power for long duration missions 		in medium-to-high radiation orbits.
-   Technology currently being evaluated by at least three 		solar cell suppliers and users

- 1987 Phase II;  SS # 210;
- NASA Contact - Dennis Flood

- Lewis Research Center

**INDIUM PHOSPHIDE SOLAR CELLS**
**ON SILICON SUBSTRATES**

***Satellite with Indium Phosphide on Silicon ***
***Substrate Solar Cells***

- Lightweight, reduced-cost solar cells for high radiation environment space flight missions.
# Presentation: 062444

## Reduce Accidents and Incidents Caused by Human Fatigue

## 1989 DOT Fatigue Recommendations

**1989 DOT Fatigue Recommendations**

**I-89-1****:** Research – Closed Acceptable
**I-89-2****:** Education – Closed Acceptable
**I-89-3****:** Hours of Service Regulations – Closed Superseded

## Aviation (Flight Crew)

**A-94-194, A-95-113, A-06-10**
- Flight/duty time limits set in 1938 and 1958
- 1995 NPRM to update flight/duty time regulations – no final rule issued
- Part 135 Aviation Rulemaking Committee

## Aviation (Maintenance)

**A-97-71 **
- FAA has conducted research on fatigue in maintenance, but no rulemaking proposed
- FAA stated it plans to address fatigue through education and training
- February 2007 letter to FAA

## Aviation FatigueProposed Safety Board Action

| Timeliness Classification | RED |
| --- | --- |

**Aviation Fatigue****Proposed Safety Board Action**

- Keep issue area on Most Wanted List
- Keep red timeliness designation: Unacceptable Response

## Marine

**Marine**

**M-99-1**
- Work-hour limitations date to early 1900s
- International Maritime Organization
- Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act
- Crew Endurance Management System (CEMS)
- Focus on multiple factors that affect fatigue
- Voluntary program

## Marine FatigueProposed Safety Board Action

- Keep issue area on Most Wanted List
- Reclassify M-99-1 ‘Open – Unacceptable’
- Assign red timeliness designation: Unacceptable Response

| Timeliness Classification | RED |
| --- | --- |

## Pipeline

**Pipeline**

**P-99-12**
- No Federal hours-of-service regulations exist for controllers of pipeline systems
- PHMSA Advisory Bulletin
- PIPES Act of 2006

## Pipeline FatigueProposed Safety Board Action

- Keep issue area on Most Wanted List
- Keep yellow timeliness designation: Acceptable response – progressing slowly.

| Timeliness Classification | YELLOW |
| --- | --- |

## Railroad

- First fatigue-related recommendations in 1980s
- R-99-2 added to MWL in 1999
- ‘Closed – Reconsidered’ due to lack of statutory authority in 2003

## Railroad

- 2004 Macdona, TX  collision resulted in 2 recommendations to FRA
- R-06-14: Scientific principles for work schedules
- R-06-15: Limit “limbo time”
- NTSB Testimony to Congress
- Draft Congressional legislation

## Railroad FatigueProposed Safety Board Action

- Add issue area ‘Reduce Accidents and Incidents Caused by Human Fatigue’ (Railroad) to Most Wanted List
- Add recommendations R-06-14 and R-06-15
- Assign green timeliness designation: Acceptable response – progressing in a timely manner

| Timeliness Classification | GREEN |
| --- | --- |

## Department of Transportation

**Department of Transportation**

**I-99-1****:** Require modal administrations to establish scientifically-based HOS regulations
- DOT Human Factors Coordinating Committee Operator Fatigue Management (OFM) Program

## Remove recommendation I-99-1 from Most Wanted List

**DOT Fatigue****Proposed Safety Board Action**** **
# Presentation: 683940

## The pp Chain

**Solar electron neutrino Spectra**

- Electron Neutrinos (e) from the Sun

- e deficit : the Solar Neutrino Problem since 1967
-  flavor change could be a solution, but unproven

## Evidence for Muon Neutrino () Oscillations

- Atmospheric ’s :

- ’s ‘disappear’ but e ’s do not.

- Evidence for Muon Neutrino () Oscillations
- from Super-Kamiokande in 1998

## SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory)

- Direct observation of active
- solar neutrino (e) flavor change

- Canada (Carleton, U.British Columbia, Guelph, Laurentian, Queens),
- U.K (Oxford), USA (BNL, LBL, Los Alamos, Penn, Washington)

##  Reactions in SNO

-  Reactions in SNO

- Z

## Analysis Step
Total event triggers
Neutrino data triggers
Nhits  30
Instrumental background cuts
Muon followers
High level cuts
Fiducial volume cut
Threshold cut

Total Events

- Total event triggers
- Neutrino data triggers
- Nhits  30
- Instrumental background cuts
- Muon followers
- High level cuts
- Fiducial volume cut
- Threshold cut
- Total Events

- Number of Events
- 355,320,964
- 143,756,178
- 6,372,899
- 1,842,491
- 1,809,979
- 956,535
- 18,783
- 1,169
- 1,169

- Background Reduction and Measurement
- Data between Nov. 1999 and Jan. 2001

## SNO measurements: (units 106 cm-2 s-1) 
CC (8B) = 1.75 ± 0.07(stat)         (syst) ± 0.05(theor)

ES (8B) = 2.39 ± 0.34(stat)         (syst)  

Super-Kamiokande finds    
     ES (8B) = 2.32 ± 0.03(stat)             (syst)              

******CC**** (****8****B) = 1.75** ± 0.07(stat)         (syst) ± 0.05(theor)
******ES**** (****8****B) = 2.39** ± 0.34(stat)         (syst)
- Super-Kamiokande finds**    **
**     ********ES**** (****8****B) = 2.32** ± 0.03(stat)             (syst)

- + 0.12
- - 0.11

- + 0.16
- - 0.14

- + 0.08
- - 0.07

- Direct evidence for non-******e**** **active component to 8B

- Flux Measurements

- CC - ES differences
- 1.6 from SNO CC and SNO ES, 3.3 from SNO CC and SK ES

## Future of Neutrino Physics

-  SNO next measurements even more interesting
-  Neutrino physics just beginning discovery era
-  Rich future for neutrino physics worldwide