BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 361461

## H-JET-pol. status 

- Status of H-Jet-target
- BRP, vacuum pump are fixed on Feb. 12th.
- Status of recoil spectrometer
- No dead/ problem channels.
- ADC gain shift all 96 channels suddenly between Feb.8 and Feb. 12. (most likely due to dynamic of gain)
- What we have done:
- We see expected ***T******R******-TOF*** and ***T******R******-************R*** correlations.
- Best positions of blue beam and H-Jet target are found!
- Moving blue-beam vertically to find the best acceptance for all 6 detectors.  Thanks, MCR crews!
- Fix blue beam and move H-Jet horizontally to find the highest event rate point.

## Set up

- x

- y

- jet

- (-10, -10) mm

**Set up**

- (0, -4) mm

**Collision point – detector:  80cm**
**Cover kinetic energy: 0.5 < T****R**** < 5 MeV**
**Energy calibration: 5.486 MeV (Am),  **
**                                  ****3,183 MeV (Gd)**

- Same as RUN5 and RUN6

## Energy and TOF correlations from one of the detector

**TOF**

**T****R**

**Ch#1**

**Ch#4**

**Ch#5**

**Ch#8**

**Ch#9**

**Ch#16**

**0.5 < T****R**** < 5 MeV**
**80 > TOF > 20 ns**

## Energy and TOF correlations of   6 detectors  (BLUE side)

**TOF**

**T****R**

**0.5 < T****R**** < 5 MeV**
**80 > TOF > 20 ns**

- Energy and TOF correlations of   6 detectors  (**BLUE side**)

**20 nsec**

**Si#3**

**Si#1**

**Si#6**

**Si#1**

**Si#5**

**Si#2**

**TOF**

**T****R**

**C****o****l****o****r**** shows events from 8 different channels. **

**Recoil particle identification**

## Y

**T****R**** and ch# correlation**

**Ch# ******** ********R**

**Y**

**B**

**Si#3**

**Si#1**

**Si#4**

**Si#6**

**Si#5**

**Si#2**

**Ch#**

**T****R**

**Forward scattered particle identification**

## Bit fat ...

**FWHM 8.5mm**

**4:00  blue beam intensity 44*10****11**

**7:50 39*10****11**

**5:40 39*10****11**

**Jet-nozzle temp 75 degrees K**

**RUN4 6.9mm RUN5 6.5mm**

- H-Jet target intensity profile measurement

**1.2 < T****R**** < 2.5 MeV**

## Are we ready?

- What we have done:
- We see expected ***T******R******-TOF*** and ***T******R******-************R*** correlations.
- Best position of blue beam and H-Jet target from       **blue-beam vertical scan** and **H-Jet horizontal scan**.
- What we need to do:
- H-Jet profile is bit fat....really?
- Blue-beam size at IP12? * =10 m ?
- Background study
- “Empty” target run, “out of” target run.
- To transfer data taking to MCR operators.

- We would say we are ready!

## Back up Yellow banana

**Si#3**

**Si#4**

**Si#2**

**Si#1**

**Si#5**

**Si#6**
# Presentation: 869404

## OPM E-Government Initiative E-Payroll

- Office of Personnel Management
- Strategic Compensation Conference 2002
- August 27-28  2002

## OPM e-Gov Initiatives

- e-Clearance
- EHRI
- e-Payroll
- Recruitment One-Stop
- Retirement System Modernization
- e-Training

## OPM e-Payroll Standardization Next Steps

- e-Training

**e-Payroll**

**Recruitment**

**Employment**

**Retirement**

**The Employee Life Cycle**

**Interrelationships Among OPM e-Gov Initiatives**

## OPM E-PayrollThe Current Environment

- 22 Payroll Providers
- 4 Largest service 80% of total Federal civilian payroll
- Cost for current provider systems (FY 2003 – 2012)
- Operations		$1.5 billion
- Investments		$  .7 billion
- TOTAL			$2.2 billion

- Def Finance &  Accounting Service
- Dept of Interior

- Dept of Veterans Affairs
- Dept of Agriculture

## OPM E-PayrollRecommendation

- Consolidate Federal payroll providers
- Standardize payroll policies
- Modernize payroll systems as necessary
- Phased approach to achieve the end state, an integrated HR/Payroll system

## OPM E-PayrollPhased Approach

**Consolidation**

**Standardization**

**Enterprise Architecture**

**Interim State**

**Sept 2004**

**Standardization Continues**

** ****Final Enterprise Architecture**

**Integrated HR/Payroll**

## OPM E-PayrollBenefits

**Elimination Of Redundancies**
**Internal Efficiencies and Effectiveness**
**Cost Reductions**
**Foundation For Achieving Vision**

## OPM E-PayrollTimeline

_**What we’ve done**_
**Apr 2002 – Final Business Case Analysis**
**May 2002 - Request for Responses**** **

## OPM E-PayrollTimeline

_**What we’ve done (cont.)**_
**July 2002**
***Provider Responses Received***
***Develop Benchmarking Plan***
***Develop Migration Outline***
**August 2002**
***Evaluate Individual Provider Responses***
***Rank Provider Responses***

## OPM E-PayrollTimeline

_**What we need to do**_
**September 2002**
***Make Recommendations for Consolidated Providers***
***Consolidated Providers Selected***
**October 2002**
***Agencies Select Consolidated Provider***
***Migration Begins***

## E-Payroll Contact Information

**Norm Enger**
**OPM e-Gov Program Director**
**202 606-1000**
**Janet Dubbert**
**Director, Office of Payroll Policy and Systems Integration**
**Project Manager, e-Payroll**
**202 606-2800**

**Naldyne Kotecki**
**Director, Consolidation and Systems Integration**
**    ****202 418-3163**
**Joe Campbell**
**Director, Payroll Policy**
**	****202 606-1534**
# Presentation: 150402

## B200 Flight Plan for 17 April

- Objectives
- Overfly DC-8 spiral and missed approach at Prudhoe Bay
- CALIPSO validation
-  Takeoff: 2000 UTC, 1200 Local
- Duration: 4.5 hours

- Waypoints:
- PABR  N 71 17.13 W 156 45.96 0
- WP1   N 70 11.01 W 150 29.08 28000
- DC8SP N 70 11.33 W 148 53.10 28000
- PASC  N 70 11.68 W 148 27.91 28000
- WP2   N 70 50.55 W 148 27.99 28000
- C20   N 71 15.44 W 158 27.95 28000
- WP3   N 74  8.73 W 164  3.12 28000
- C25   N 73 54.92 W 163 30.91 28000
- C22   N 72 20.06 W 160 18.97 28000
- C18   N 70  9.91 W 156 48.12 28000
- PABR  N 71 17.13 W 156 45.96 0
# Presentation: 781168

## Atmosphere Discipline Summary

**July 2002**

## Recent progress

**Algorithm stabilization / product validation**
**	****cloud mask, TPW, O3, CTH, aerosol**
**	****cloud properties**
**Publications**
**	****5 papers submitted to IEEE TGRS Aqua Issue**
**	****papers in JGR, Nature, JAS****	****	**
**Crystal field experiment**
**	****ice cloud investigations**

## Detecting cloud shadows over land by comparing observed 1.6um reflectance 

**Detecting cloud shadows over land by comparing observed 1.6um reflectance **
**with 8-day clear-sky composite and looking for values lower than an 80% threshold**

## Detecting cloud shadows over land by comparing observed 1.6um reflectance 

**Detecting cloud shadows over land by comparing observed 1.6um reflectance **
**with 8-day clear-sky composite and looking for values lower than an 80% threshold**

## Recent progress

**S/W updates to accommodate Aqua data**
**	****initial product flow looks good**
**Aqua concerns**
**	****near real time geo-location (missing position **
**	****	****sensor) - polar winds**
**	****offset between warm-cold focal planes - TPW**
**	****missing 1.6 um - cloud optical properties**

## Terra and Aqua 

**Terra and Aqua**

**MODIS Band 2**
**Terra (left) and Aqua (right)**

**East African Scene from July 11, 2002**
**Terra at 08:05 UTC, Aqua from 11:00 UTC**

**MODIS Cloud Mask**
**Terra (left) and Aqua (right)**

**Colors: green is confident clear**
** ****cyan is probably clear**
** ****red is uncertain**
** ****white is cloudy**

## Terra and Aqua

**Terra and Aqua**

**East African Scene from July 11, 2002**
**Terra at 08:05 UTC, Aqua from 11:00 UTC**

**MODIS Band 31**
**Terra (left) and Aqua (right)**

**MODIS Cloud Top Pressure (mb)**
**Terra (left) and Aqua (right)**

**Colors:  red          ******** 100     aqua      400-500     ****              white  100-200    tan          500-700**
**              ****cyan   200-300     brown    700-850**
**              ****blue    300-400    orange  850-1000**
**              ****gray is clear**

## Atmospheric Total Column Water VaporEast African Scene from July 11, 2002Terra at 08:05 UTC, Aqua from 11:00 UTC

- Terra 08:05 UTC

- Aqua 11:00 UTC

## Global Atmospheric Total Column Water Vapor 

**Terra**

**Aqua**

**5 July 2002**

**cm**

**cm**

## SRF Terra (solid) and Aqua (dashed)

**SRF Terra (solid) and Aqua (dashed)**

## Near Term Plans

**Global IR radiance bias (obs – calc) adjustment**
**	****sequencing of 8 day clear sky composite**
**	****forward stream as well as reprocessing**
**Level 3 Products **
**	****animation for easier QC**
**	****intercomparison of complementary TPWs, etc. **
**ATBD updates by end of Sep 2002**
**	****algorithm evolution**
**	****Aqua adjustments**
**	****quality indicators**
**IR Calibration in Nov 2002**
**	****MAS and SHIS underfly of Aqua**

## Terra plus Aqua

**Better Polar Winds**
**Diurnal process studies**
**aerosol, moisture, and clouds**
**AIRS plus MODIS**
**cloud properties**
**soundings**
# Presentation: 356193

## D0 Status: June 10-June 17

- D0 concentrated on shutdown activities over last 2 weeks
- Silicon detector
- all LVPS in the cathedral area are modified
- failure of the LVPS late April was known one: bad fuse holder
- running since Sunday, 06/09 stable
- while we expect reliability to be greatly improved any failure of these LVPS will require 1-2 days shutdown
- new grounding scheme is installed
- dependence of F- wedges noise vs cooling temperature is studied
- HV improvements and some HDIs repairs completed
- Fiber tracker
- 195 of 198 AFEs boards are installed
- commissioning of CTT trigger progressed
- sent trigger decisions all the way up to muon L1
- Calorimeter
- timing and control boards replaced
- L1 trigger up to eta of 2.4 is installed
- 4 BLS LVPS in the hall are replaced with modified version
-  will continue during accesses and October shutdown
- multi-buffer readout issues fixed

- Dmitri Denisov

## D0 Status

- Muon system
- gas leaks in mini-drift tubes are reduced by ~25%
- calibration of HV system performed
- 4 failed PMTs replaced (out of ~5,000)
- a few electronics boards with dead channels are replaced
- L1 trigger LVPS has been fixed
- DAQ system
- new DAQ system installation is finished
- talk by Gustaaf Brooijmans today
- Mechanical/electrical support
- very efficient operation during shutdown
- all jobs performed safely and on schedule
- Survey
- reliable support during detector opening/closing
- Finished shutdown safely and on schedule with all critical jobs completed
- Ready for beam since Saturday day shift...

- Dmitri Denisov
# Presentation: 832699

## Initial Scale Estimation 

-      **different Detector Capacitances according to cell type: **same than in Run I

**     ****Preamps with 5 or 10pF feedback capacitance:** PreAmp output same than in RunI

**     ****shaping: signal ******** 2/3:** intial RunI signal size

**    ****digitization to “corrected” ADC counts independent of gain1/8 path**

**     ****terminated Cable: signal/2 **PreAmp Driver signal **** 3

## Estimations with pulser signals

**slopes in both cases ~ 0.25  **
**32000 Adc counts = 200 GeV for em3 in CC **
- 	DAC=5000, ADC=1240  7.7 GeV from reconstruction  8.6
**Shaper Output signal of 5V = 32000 ADC counts **
**	**measurement of shaper signal from Pulser  during Access today

## Timing adjustment

***113ns***

***81ns***

***97ns***

**timing scan with various delays on SCL signal**
**best timing found with a shift of 113ns w.r.t. initial setting**
**all crates set to this values since 25th August**
**ICD channels are better in time with intial setting**

**CC crate 8**

## Timing comparison CC/EC

**EC Calorimeters are now slightly shifted over the peak**
**transformation of ratios to delay (ns) ongoing**

## Trigger Signal

**      ****signals on Trigger input **

**signals on BLS card**

**estimate with pulser (signal shape slower!)**
** ****DAC=5000**
** ****Dan’s Measurement at the L1-trigger input ~38 GeV**
** ****Reiner’s energy estimation: ~31 GeV**
** ****looks consistent within precision **
**verification of signal from PreAmp to Trigger Input ongoing**
**better handling with L1 read out**

**Trigger Signal**
# Presentation: 354165

## Initial Inter-Center Testbed Configuration 

**Internet**

- VPN

- Channel
- Simulator

- DTN Bundle
- Agent

- GRC

- VPN

- Channel
- Simulator

- DTN Bundle
- Agent

- JPL

- VPN

- Channel
- Simulator

- DTN Bundle
- Agent

- GSFC

- DTN Bundle
- Agent

- DTNBone

- IPv4/
- IPv6

- IPv4

- IPv4

- VPN

- UK-DMC

## Slide 2

## Globally Connected  NCO Experimental Network

- Globally Connected  NCO Experimental Network

- Channel
- Simulator

- University of Oklahoma SIGMA Testbed

- UK-DMC

**NEMO**
**Home Agent**

**VMOC**

**Intrusion Detection **

- DTN
- Bundle
- Agent

- DTN
- Bundle
- Agent

- DTN
- Bundle
- Agent

**Moonv6 **

- Channel
- Simulator

- Cisco UK-DMC Engineering Model
- Testbed

**Intrusion Detection **

**Intrusion Detection **

**Intrusion Detection **

- DTN
- Bundle
- Agent

**Intrusion Detection **
# Presentation: 689545

## Lightweight Graphite/Aluminum (Gr/Al) Space Radiators for Thermal Management

-   Designed and produced Gr/Al radiator panel with built-in            	heat-pipe housing
-   Demonstrated substantial weight and thermal performance 	over baseline radiator components.  Electronic substrate 	provided 10% reduction in weight and 50% improvement in 	performance.  Radiators provide a 50% improvement in 	weight and/or performance
-   Designed, produced and demonstrated substantial benefits in	terms of heat removal and weight for Gr/Al as a substrate for 	electronics
**                              ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Commercial sales for MMC substrates for electronics will 		be over $40K for 1997
-   Two new  jobs were created
-   Army funded a program for $550K to place inserts in MMC 	components

***Foster-Miller, Inc.***
***Waltham, MA***

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

**      ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Gr/Al MMCs have application in dimensionally stable 		spacecraft structure and optical platforms, and they have 	thermal management application in gas turbines and 		rocket engines.
-   Use of these MMCs as a substrate in electronic products 	will reduce cost and improve reliability of radars, satellites, 	and other electronics intensive systems
-   Samples of MMC electronics substrates are being 			supplied to government prime contractors for evaluation.  	Keen interest has also been expressed by aerospace 		contractors in MMC radiators

- 1992 Phase II; SS #205; 11/97
- NASA contact - Karl Baker

- Lewis Research Center

**Lightweight Graphite/Aluminum (Gr/Al) Space Radiators for Thermal Management**

***Radiator Panel from MMC***

- Lightweight metal matrix composites (MMCs) with superior heat removal for structural radiators and thermal management of electronics
# Presentation: 675827

## MTAC BRIEFING

## CONFIRM - Production System

**a**

***CONFIRM************ - Production System***

***118 customers certified, 144 customers in process of getting certified***

**Notes:**

For Origin Confirm, USPS identifies the Confirm subscriber by the response piece’s POSTNET Code.  As a result, nine digits are available to the mailer to identify a customer, particular mailing, or other information that can be used to link the mail piece to an established information database.

## CONFIRM Proposed Fee Structure 

*Remaining Subscription Time*

- 12 months

- 9 months

- 6 months

- 3 months

## EXPANDED STRUCTURE -- 14 Digits

**a**

***Additional PLANET Code Digits***

***EXPANDED STRUCTURE -- 14 Digits***

_**Client ID**_**1 Digit**

**Julian Date**_**of Mailing**_**3 Digits**

**Presort **_**Level**_**1 Digit**

**Drop Facility Type (e.g., **_**BMC, Plant)**_**1 Digit**

_**Client ID**_**1 Digit**

**Julian Date**_**of Mailing**_**3 Digits**

**EXAMPLE**
# Presentation: 075173

## Old ‘hard rock’ mines in North Carolina

- Jeff Reid, Ph.D., P.G., CPG
- North Carolina Geological Survey
- 1612 Mail Service Center
- Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
- Voice: 919.733.2423 x403
- E-mail: _[jeff.reid@ncmail.net](mailto:jeff.reid@ncmail.net)_
- Internet: _[www.geology.enr.state.nc.us](http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/)_

## Old ‘hard rock’ mines in North Carolina

- Urbanization in high population growth areas encroach on historic old mines
- Old mines predate the NC Mining Act
- Increased incidents involving mine surface breaches and ‘close encounters’

- Many mines (hundreds) with known subsurface workings as deep as 900 feet

## Mines with known subsurface workings

- Piedmont
- Gold (hundreds)
- Tin (tens)
- Tungsten (one)
- Coal (limited workings)

- Mountains
- Mica (hundreds, or more?)
- Feldspar (hundreds?)
- Other industrial minerals ?

## Old ‘hard rock’ mines in rapid growth areas – North Carolina

## Recent examples – North Carolina

- February 18, 2000 – Phoenix gold mine breached surface
- Golf course home development built over abandoned gold mine
- Result: “19th” hole

## Recent examples – North Carolina

- Spring 2003
- Concord (Cabarrus Co.) – likely gold mine ventilation shaft breaches back yard following heavy rain
- Union County – citizen reports he fell into shallow depression between workings; his probing with iron rod suggested deeper workings (high growth area just east of Charlotte).
- Concurrent issue – high arsenic in groundwater

## Some future challenges

- High population growth counties in Piedmont “crescent”
- Urbanization encroaching on old ‘hard rock’ areas
- Likely high speed rail route from Washington, D.C. to Charlotte
- Highway construction (e.g., Tin – Lincoln Co.)
- Asheville area as retirement destination

## Assets and challenges

- Highly developed state ‘corporate’ GIS & orthoimage database
- Capable trained staff
- Solid hardware and ArcGIS 8.x GIS software asset base – computers, large format scanners &, plotters, OFR reports, etc.
- Serving data and scanned geologic maps on *via* Internet and ArcIMS,
- National database experience (NGMDB)

- Cash strapped (salaries and operations)
- Limited staff available (temporary staff needed to make substantial advances – nearby university student ‘pool’)
- Holder of many paper maps (e.g., mica and feldspar), gold, etc., dating from 1896
- Limited current staff time
- Server approaching limits
- LISTSERVE ? to facilitate communication

## Assets and challenges, cont’d

- Field verification of database locations needed
- Field investigation of selected Piedmont sites with known subsurface workings needed

- Resources needed to support field work and confirm locations
- Ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment needed
- Other subsurface investigation tools needed
# Presentation: 509457

## Comments on:Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

**Dr. Joseph R. Mason**
**Drexel University, The Wharton School, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation**

**Notes:**
Talk about Santos, think about fiduciary duty a la Krikorian, trusts, pension funds, etc... Motivation may be that HF don’t HAVE to do the right thing, but they may do so anyway out of (typical) interest in maximizing shareholder wealth. 

## Overall Objective of Paper

- Define HF Activism
- Identify HF Selections
- Measure HF Effects

## Define HF Activism: Wide Variety of HF Strategies

- Fundamental Underlying
- Information
- Capital

## Define HF Activism: Wide Variety of HF Strategies

- Fundamental Underlying
- Information
- Capital

## Define HF Activism: Wide Variety of HF Strategies

- Fundamental Underlying
- Information
- Capital

## Define HF Activism: Wide Variety of HF Strategies

- Fundamental Underlying
- Information
- Capital

**Regulatory Arbitrage**

## Regulatory Arbitrage: Hedge Fund Voting

- Regulatory Arbitrage: Hedge Fund Voting

- Is this activism by BJPT definition?

**Notes:**
Two reasons may not be BJPT “activism”
	1. level of ownership under 13-d may not be 5%
	2. may not fit any of the classifications of “activism” in the 13-d
May, in fact, go beyond activism as characterized by BJPT. 
Not necessarily, damning, just need to think real hard about what kind of measurement we have here. 

## Identifying HF Selections 

- Selection is partially the firm, but also the *level* of activism.
- Category 1, “Communicate with board/management...”
- Category 7, HF “intends to take full control...”
- Many ways to econometrically differentiate levels of activism.
- GIM 2003 QJE
- Selection bias (with truncation): Only see those that HF invest in *beyond threshold*.
- Partial observability bias: Don’t see rejected investment opportunities.

**Notes:**
Cat 1 is really “no activism”: activism level 0 in ordered logit.
Alternatively, with cat 1 as activism level 1 and others higher. 
Matched sample is relevant for firm selection bias, but can’t say anything about level of activism (because match non-HF firms not necessarily rejected for fundamental reasons). 

Could be multi-stage model, i.e., select firm (0-1), then select activism level (1-7).

Point: this requires a lot more thought. (Not a bad “problem” to have, though!)

## Measure HF Effects: Other Tests

- Post-“activism” operating performance.
- Performance of HF pursuing “activist” agendas.
- All models estimated on basis of *predicted* “activism level” and Heckman methods

## Overall Objective of Paper

- Define HF Activism
- Think hard about def’n of activism
- Identify HF Selections
- Think hard about distinctions between objectives
- Think hard about selection-obervability-act, level.
- Measure HF Effects
- Formal selection model

- Estimate with care: Results fascinating!
# Presentation: 884961

## Sea-ice data products at NSIDC

- http://nsidc.org/data/seaice/   http://nsidc.org/data/seaice/alpha.html

- extent, growth/melt, trends,
- anomalies, reflectance, persistence

- extent, concentration, snow cover,
- ice surface temperature, melt ponds

- ship, buoys, submarines, starting with
- Tegetthoff (1872) and FRAM (1893)

- ice velocity, snow melt onset,
- brightness temperatures, meltponds

- continuous time series since 1978!

## 1979-present satellite retrievals of sea-ice properties

**1979-present satellite retrievals of sea-ice properties**

**SMMR:** Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (1978-1987)
**SSM/I:** Special Sensor Microwave Imager (1987-present)
**AMSR-E:** Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (2002-present)
**AVHRR:** Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (1978-1999)
**MODIS:** Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (1999-present)
**TOVS:** TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (1979-present)

## RADARSAT (1996-present) and QuikSCAT (1999-present)

- Ice classification between
- perennial and seasonal ice zones
- using RADARSAT and QuikSCAT data.  Could be used by including an age tracer in the sea ice model.

- (Kwok et al., 2004)

## RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System (RGPS):

- Small-scale kinematics, deformation, and divergence.

- Ice motion is not a continuous field: gradients in the forcing wind field are concentrated in fractures (discontinuities) and narrow bands of intense shear (Kwok, 2002).

## Regional advection and deformation

**Regional advection and deformation**

- (R. Kwok)

## Ice area and volume export from the Arctic Ocean

**Ice area and volume export from the Arctic Ocean**

- (R. Kwok and A. Nguyen)

## Submarine Upward Looking Sonar Ice Draft Profile Data

**Submarine Upward Looking Sonar Ice Draft Profile Data**

**AWI Moored ULS Data, Weddell Sea (1990-1998)**

## ICESat freeboard data

**ICESat freeboard data**

- (R. Kwok)
# Presentation: 676493

## U.S. Influenza Surveillance2004 - 2005

- <date/time>

- U.S. Influenza Surveillance2004 - 2005

- Keiji Fukuda
- Influenza Branch
- National Center for Infectious Diseases
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

## Evolving U.S. Influenza Surveillance

- <date/time>

- _Core_
- Viruses
- WHO / NRVESS Laboratory System
- Influenza-like illness
- Sentinel Provider (SP) System
- Mortality
- 122 cities
- NCHS
- State activity assessment
- State & Territorial Epidemiologists Report

- _Changes Underway_
- Current systems
- Enhancements to SP system
- New Systems Added
- Pediatric influenza hospitalizations
- New Vaccine Surveillance Network
- Emerging Infections Program
- Pediatric influenza deaths
- H5N1 detection in ill travelers
- Under evaluation
- Biosense
- Notifiable diseases, etc.

## Growth of the Influenza Sentinel Physician Surveillance System

- <date/time>

- * Data as of 1/27/2005

## Sentinel Provider System Coverage Map

- <date/time>

## Visits for Influenza-like Illness to U.S. Sentinel Providers, 2002 - 2005

## <footer>

- <date/time>

## 2004 – 2005 U.S. Season

- <date/time>

## Influenza Virus Detections, 2004-05 U.S. WHO/NREVSS Collaborating Laboratories

**58,286**
**Negative**

**1,041 (14.6%)**
**Influenza B**

**1986 (32.7%) **
**subtyped**

**6 (0.3%)**
**H1**

**1980 (99.7%)**
**H3N2**

**65,404 specimens tested **
**for influenza viruses**

**7,118 (10.9%) Positive**

**6,077 (85.4%) **
**influenza A**

## U.S. WHO/NREVSS Collaborating LaboratoriesSummary, 2004-05

## Visits for Influenza-like Illness to U.S. Sentinel Providers, 2002 - 2005

## NVSN Influenza (Lab Confirmed) Hospitalization Rates

**Children 0 - 4 Years, 2000 - 2005 **

- This graph has been updated from the January 21, 2004 report due to laboratory confirmation of an additional influenza hospitalization between December 26, 2004 and January 8, 2005.

## EIP Influenza (Lab Confirmed) Hospitalization Rates

**Children 0-4 years & 5-17 years, 2003 - 2005**

## Pneumonia and Influenza Mortalityfor 122 U.S. CitiesWeek Ending 2/05/2005

- 2001

- 2002

- 2003

-    20       30       40         50          10        20        30     40        50       10       20       30      40       50        10      20     30       40        50

- Epidemic Threshold

- Seasonal Baseline

**Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality****for 122 U.S. Cities****Week Ending 2/05/2005**

- 2004

## Weekly Influenza Activity Estimates Reported

**Weekly Influenza Activity Estimates Reported**

**by State & Territorial Epidemiologists**

- Week ending February 05, 2005 - Week 5

-  No Report

-   Sporadic

-   Regional

-  Widespread

-   No Activity

-   Local Activity

## Conclusion

- <date/time>

- Conclusion

- Moderate impact compared with 2003
- Dominated by A (H3N2) viruses
- 6 reported pediatric deaths
- Ongoing activity
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## Interfacing with the Automatic Induction for the AFSM-100MTAC #96

**Mike Winn****	****	****	****	****Dave Williams**
**Industry Co-Chair****	****	****	****Postal Co-Chair**

## Tests for Alternative Flat Mail Preparation

**1. -“Dolly Dock” Test **
**Mailer Puts Loose Flats in Automation Compatible Trays (ACT)**
**Mailer loads ACTs on Dolly Docks**
**Mailer Transports to Southern MD P&DC **
**ACTs Automatically Removed and Inducted Off Dolly Docks into Ai on AFSM-100**

##  Tests for Alternative Flat Mail Preparation  

**Auto Prep Test **
**Automates De-bundling of Strapped Bundles Off Pallets**
**Places Loose Flats into ACTs**
**Automates Loading of ACTs onto Dolly Docks**
**Inducts Dolly Docks into Ai**

## Next Steps

**August 17 –Demo of Dolly Dock/Auto Prep Systems**
**August 23 – Dolly Dock And Auto Prep Test**
**September 14  – Next MTAC 96 Telecon **
**November 1 – Next Meeting   **

**Notes:**
Sunset Group

**Questions?**
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## MNM Fatal 2004-08

- Slip or Fall of Person Accident
- April 16, 2004 (Texas)
- Cement
- Truck Driver
- 74 years old
- 50 years experience

## Overview

- A truck driver drove his bulk tank trailer to the approach of a bulk cement silo.
- He used a pneumatically powered gangway and four rail safety cage to access the top of his trailer.
- He attempted to open a hatch cover on the top of a bulk tank trailer but the cover would not open because it caught the bottom two rails of the safety cage.
- He was unable to retract the gangway and cage pneumatically.
- The driver used a pry bar to pull the cage away from the cover.  When the cover was freed, the gangway and cage moved rapidly to the retracted position, causing him to fall to the ground.

## This truck was involved in the accident.  Note the fold down stairs/railings that can be seen in front and above the truck beyond the red flagging tape.  The victim was found directly below the fold down stairs w/protective cage.

## This picture illustrates the fold down cage provided for the truck drivers to protect them from falling while accessing the hatch at the top of the trailers.  The victim fell between the rails and the trailer to the ground.

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The trailer was not properly aligned with the access platform.
- The hatch cover became lodged in the bottom rails of the safety cage.
- Apparently, the truck driver was unaware of the hazards associated with the pneumatically controlled gangway when he attempted to manually free the cover from the cage.

## Causal Factors

- The bulk tank trailer was improperly positioned at the access platform causing the trailer’s hatch cover to become lodged in the bottom rails of the safety cage.
- The truck driver was not familiar with all of the operating features of the air powered gangway control lever.  He was unaware that the air cylinders were charged when he pried the cover from the safety cage rails.

## Best Practices

- Establish traffic patterns that ensure safe alignment of vehicles with access equipment.
- Establish operating procedures for customers to safely perform tasks.
- Post these procedures in a prominent place for customers to review.
- Train customers in the established procedures.
- Monitor customers to ensure that procedures are followed.
- Customers---Notify mine management when any problems are encountered with machinery or equipment.
# Presentation: 154770

## Tools for Becoming a Business Leader Session I

- Training and Development

## Competencies

- Interpersonal Effectiveness

*Negotiating*

- Effective Communications

- Customer Service

- Technical competence

- CREDIBILITY

- Flexibility/adaptability

- Results Oriented

- Accountability

- Leveraging Diversity

**Strategic Thinking**

- Creative thinking

- Emotional Intelligence

- Partnerships/Networking

**Ethical & Decisive Leadership**

- Service Ethic

- Organizational Stewardship

- Continuous Improvement

- Problem Solving

- Conflict Management

- Human Resource Management

**Notes:**
You have all these new competencies that you are responsible for.
Everyone should be working on their accomplishments for each competencies.  From the accomplishments, you will see where you need improvement.
What can I do to gain these competencies?

## IDP-Individual Development Plan

- Written Plan that describes your immediate and long-term goals.
- Tool to help you organize your training and development
- Learn new skills
- Acquire additional knowledge
- Sharpen current expertise

**Notes:**
1.  We have a tool to help you.  It is the IDP.

## IDP

- Annually you discuss your goals and accomplishments with your supervisor and DAD and develop an IDP.

## Development Opportunities

- USDA Graduate School—New Leader Program
- Target Audience GS 7-11
- Program Components:
- 6 Month training and Development
- 3 residential training weeks
- 30 day developmental assignment
- There is an annual call for applications.  If you are interested, contact Gregory Jackson

**Notes:**
There are some development opportunities out there that has help many of us, including the speaker for this session.

## LEAD—Leadership Evaluation & Development 

- ARS Program Lead by Dave Carter
- Target Audience GS 11 and above
- Program Components
- Formal Training Courses
- Developmental Assignments
- Mentoring Program
- Shadowing
- Self Development
- Congressional Briefing Conference
- Evaluation

## CARE—Consolidated Assistance Review and Evaluation

- The CARE program consolidated many of the reviews previously completed by individual Divisions or Areas utilizing Total Quality Management (TQM) principles.
- Opportunity to share your knowledge with others and also learn from others
- Leadership opportunities
- Networking opportunities

## SET—Service Employees Team

- Provides temporary help during periods of peak workloads or special projects.
- Duration—Up to 16 weeks

**Notes:**
A SET detail is wonderful way to with development.  Example of my OSQR experience.

## AgLearn

**Notes:**
Do a quick search on Leadership resulted in 5 pages of courses.

## Slide 10

**Notes:**
The National AO planning team developed a spreadsheet of training that is available and the competency it addresses.

## Slide 11
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## CPRS/ BCMA Throw Down

- Cheryl Justice & Paul Townsend
- West Texas VA Health Care System
- Lunch & Learn Class 9911

## CPRS/BCMA Throw Down

**Problem: **
-     CPRS and BCMA are very important to the continuum of care for our Veterans. Education Service wanted an entertaining way to teach the products and improve morale in the medical center.

## CPRS/BCMA Throw Down

- 				Objectives:
- Learn
- Create
- Identify
- Champion

## CPRS/BCMA Throw Down

- 		Goals:
- Learn
- Inspire
- Improve
- Promote

## CPRS/BCMA Throw Down

- Results:
- Fun
- Innovative
- BCMA/CPRS integration
# Presentation: 517938

## DoN ESPC PROGRAMM&V Briefing

- DoN ESPC PROGRAMM&V Briefing

- Russell Dominy, CEM

## DoN ESPC Program

- 42 Projects at 28 Navy & Marine Corps installations worldwide
- Core ESPC Team - NFESC / NAVFACCO Port Hueneme
- Utilize specialized expertise on project specific basis
- Responsible for
- Marketing
- Project development and execution through award
- Energy program support

## DoN ESPC Program(Contracting Vehicles)

- DOE Regional and Technology Specific
- Army COE Huntsville 4-State and 46-State
- Air Force Regional
- DoN Stand-alone

## Navywide Alternative Financing Project Awards

## DoN ESPC Program(M&V Strategy)

- Based on FEMP M&V Guidelines
- Project specific M&V Plan
- ESCO develops, with facility input
- Assumptions defined by ESCO and agreed to by Govt. throughout process
- Contractor assumes performance risk

## DoN ESPC Program (M&V Process)

- General strategy discussed during Kick-off Meeting
- Baseline Measurement / Monitoring Strategy developed during Initial Proposal / Site Survey Phase
- Baseline Measurement Methodology agreed to prior to Final Proposal / Feasibility Study development
- M&V Plan fully developed during Feasibility Study / Detailed Energy Survey

## DoN ESPC Program (Recent Developments)

- DoN ESPC Program (Recent Developments)

- Navy IG Team
- Will EO energy reduction Goals be met
- Evaluate tools to Meet EO Goals
- Interested in actual vs. proposed savings
- Equipment Commissioning
- Establishing post installation baseline
- Impact on savings
- System performance
- Energy Manager Training
- Energy Project Execution Guide
- Defines process for both ESPC and UESC program
- Unified approach to alternative financing
# Presentation: 543581

## Follow-on Protein WorkshopFebruary 14-16, 2005Breakout Session E - Immunogenicity Summary Slides

## Immunogenicity and Product Quality Attributes

**Can immunogenicity of protein products be predicted by biochemical/analytical techniques alone? **
**Factors which can affect immunogenicity:**
**3-dimensional structure**
**Impurities**
**Product-related**
**Process-related**
**Leachables**
**Excipients**
**Product degradants (aggregates, oxidized, deaminated species)**

## Immunogenicity and Product Quality Attributes

**Sensitive, rigorous, current methodology should be applied to analysis of follow-on proteins.**
**Conclusion**
**Biochemical parameters are an important part of the characterization of proteins, but are not sufficient in and of themselves to predict immunogenicity of proteins.**

## Are Animal Studies Useful in Predicting Relative Immunogenicity, ie, Comparing Innovator and Follow on Proteins?  

**Animal studies can be useful in demonstrating differences between innovator and follow-on products.**
**Studies in animals could examine**
**Titer**
**Cross-reactivity**
**Neutralization**
**Kinetics of development and duration**

## Are Animal Studies Useful in Predicting Relative Immunogenicity, ie, Comparing Innovator and Follow on Proteins?  

**Absence of signal does not equate with absence of a problem, though any positive signal is clearly problematic.**
**No animal study can substitute for human trials.**
**A good animal study can reduce extent of human immunogenicity data required and influence the extent of data collected in pre- vs post- approval.**

## What Trial Designs Would Be Most Helpful in Determining Whether the Follow on Is Comparable to the Innovator in Immunogenicity?

**Given differences in key attributes of antibody assays, and the inability to compare immunogenicity data across products, side-by-side comparison may be advantageous. **
**A single arm immunogenicity study of the follow on may be adequate if it is capable of  assessing the extent of the immune response and its impact on safety and efficacy.**

## What Trial Designs Would Be Most Helpful in Determining Whether the Follow on Is Comparable to the Innovator in Immunogenicity?

**The risk posed by the immune response to the product should be a factor in clinical trial design to assess immunogenicity.**
**May affect size of trial/amount of data to be collected pre/post-marketing.**
**History of innovator product with respect to immunogenicity should be considered in clinical trial design and timing (pre/post-marketing).**
# Presentation: 198513

## METS Dissemination

- METS Opening Day
- _[Corey Keith](http://www.coreykeith.com/)_
- ckeith@loc.gov

## Introduction

- History
- Overview

## Challenges

- Generic vs Specific Viewer
- Allowing web designers to do their work
- Polymorphic behavior across similar profiles
- How to turn pages?
- Reuse Code
- Multiple namespace XSLT

## Architecture

- METS XML on file system
- Apache/Tomcat
- Cocoon

## Cocoon

- XML Publishing Framework (Toolbox)
- Generate
- From files (or URLS)
- From databases
- From code (XSP, JSP, PHP)
- Transform
- XSLT
- Serialize
- XML, HTML, PDF, SVG, MIDI?
- Caching

**Notes:**
Supports a variety of xslt engines

## Cocoon

- Flexible Pipeline Configuration
- Well Supported Open Source (Apache Project)

**Notes:**
Supports a variety of xslt engines

## Pros

- Allows web designers to design in XHTML
- Separation of Concerns
- Fast
- No preprocess of XSLT

**Notes:**
Can be used to preprocess

## Cons

- Changes to web design require updates to XSLT

## The Future

- PROFILES!
- Generic Viewer HARD
- Specs for Tools
- User Centered Design
- Different views for different classes of users
- Searching
- Lucene
- FEDORA
- Object oriented approach
- Interfaces

## Insert Demo Here!
# Presentation: 591571

## THE FUTURE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 

**George Haddow**
- The George Washington University
- Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management
- Washington, DC
- 2005 Emergency Management Higher Education Conference
- FEMA Emergency Management Institute
- Emmitsburg, MD - June 7-9, 2005

## Spring 2003 

- “We are optimistic that emergency management can survive and thrive in the future if it embraces the lessons learned from the past and moves forward with a progressive agenda that will be valued by the American people.”

## Four Lessons 

- Maintain an all-hazards approach to emergency management.
- The federal response infrastructure, based on the Federal Response Plan, works.
- Continue to practice the concepts that facilitated the U.S. emergency management system becoming the best system in the world.
- Make mitigation the focus of emergency management in the United States.

## Emergency Management Today (2005) 

- Terrorism focus
- National Response Plan (NRP)
- Customer focus, partnerships and communications
- Mitigation

## Five Pressing Issues 

- Imbalance of focus between homeland security and natural disaster management
- Challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning
- Lack of an effective partnership with the business community
- Cuts to EM funding
- Questions surrounding the evolving organizational structure of the nation’s emergency management system.

## A History of Imbalance Repeated 

- Civil Defense
- Hugo, Loma Prieta, Andrew
- History repeating itself

## More Public Involvement Needed 

- Limited role
- Project Impact, Tulsa, Napa
- “Redefining Readiness”

## Public-Private Partnership Effort Failing 

- Business Roundtable
- Overall strategy
- Information and planning

## Emergency Management Funding Cuts 

- Natural hazards programs
- First responders and plans
- Homeland security offices

## Organizational Uncertainty 

- Partnership
- Structure
- DHS

## A New Path for Emergency Management 

- Lessons learned
- Single focus
- DHS mission

## Where does emergency management go from here? 

- Community level
- New breed of government official
- Consensus building process
- All-Hazards including terrorism

## Conclusion
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## Health Cards in France

- Presentation by Yann FRAVAL
- French Ministry of Health
- e-mail : yann.fraval@wanadoo.fr

## Since the mid-80s...

- Pilot sites to test a Patient Data Card (PDC):
- medical data card (CardLink, Santal)
- administrative data cards
- Pilot sites to test a Healthcare Professional Card (HPC)

## April 24th 1996

- “By the end of 1998 all the healthcare professionals should be able to exchange electronic reimbursement forms with the national healthcare insurers.”

## The projects on the way

- a Healthcare Professional Card : CPS,
- a Patient Data Card : Vitale,
- a Network : RSS.

## The CPS (HPC) 

- Smartcard used for :
- identification of the Healthcare Professionals,
- authentication (access to network, data, servers, etc.),
- signature/certification,
- encryption/decryption.
- 300.000 units will be issued starting from 11/97.

## Vitale (PDC)

- Vitale 1
- family card with administrative data,
- around 10M units shall be issued starting 11/97.
- Vitale 2
- personal card with administrative and medical data,
- pilot starting mid-98 (1M units),
- 50M units should be issued in 1999.

## RSS (Network)

- Intranet that will connect the healthcare professionals, hospitals, clinics, medical centers, etc. = the entire healthcare community,
- first connexions available in 11/97,
- ground for a large panel of applications (e-mail, http-servers, databases, telemedecine, etc.).

## One concern : interoperability

- France and Germany have worked together on cards and terminals,
- G7 agreement on medical data set (CardLink),
- with Germany and Italy, use the Vitale 2 pilot site to test interoperability of PDCs (medical data set), HPCs and networks (security).
# Presentation: 130105

## Smart Card Technology . . .Is It Necessary?

- Smart Card Technology . . .Is It Necessary?

- Next Move . . . Or Check Mate?

- Electronic Procurement:  An                             Conference

## Smart Cards

- _What is a Smart Card?_

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

## Smart Cards

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

_**Technical          Applications:**_

## Smart Cards

_**Functional Applications:**_
- Stores Data
- Converts & Manipulates Data into Interactive Information
- Assures Information is Protected
- Identifies and Authenticates Access
- Transmits Transactions Securely
- Management of personnel information
- Management of medical and health information
- Tracking and managing financial transactions (travel, purchases)
- Home Banking/bill payment
- Electronic shopping
- Improve in-home entertainment and  information services

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

## Smart Cards

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

**Access**

**Information**
** ****Assurance**

**Comfort**
**Convenience**
**Customization**
**Independence**
**Privacy**

_**What’s The Objective . . . Balance:**_

**Confidentiality**
**Integrity**
**Accountability**
**Availability**
**Restoration**

## Smart Cards

_**Challenging Questions:**_
- What do I do if my card is lost or stolen ?
- How are they replaced ?
- Who provides customer service and how is it made seamless to the employee using it ?
- Who is going to develop, certify, install and upgrade the applications ?
- How are privacy, accuracy and security insured ?
- What are the industry (hardware & software) standards?

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

## Smart Cards

- Question:
- The US Government is deploying Smart Cards at a rapid speed with the promises of autonomy and overall cost savings . . .
- What are the challenges they may face?

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

## Smart Cards

- Question:
- Some say Smart Cards are an expensive solution to a non-existent problem . . .
- Are we seeing any real benefit?

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

## Smart Cards

- Question:
- With the rapid deployment of Smart Cards in the US Government . . .
- What are the next steps needed to take to make them more widely acceptable?

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001

## Smart Cards

- Question:
- Smart Card solutions are being utilized across the world . . .
- How do you see the intersection of cards, internet, and “dotcoms” changing the rules for US Government going forward?

- E-Gov Electronic Procurement Conference
- January 29-February 1, 2001
# Presentation: 186526

## WIC Foods for Breastfeeding Mom and Baby

**WIC Foods for Breastfeeding Mom and Baby**

**    **** ****New &**
** ****Improved!**

- The new WIC foods help you and your breastfeeding baby meet today’s nutrition needs as
- recommended by your health care provider.  You can continue to enjoy milk, cereal, eggs,
- fish, juice, peanut butter and beans plus fruits, vegetables, cheese, and whole grains.
**At six months of age **your baby can receive infant food meats, fruits, vegetables, and cereal.

- Your New WIC Foods:

|      Support your breast milk 
      supply |   Improve the variety of   
  foods available |
| --- | --- |
|       Promote steady weight 
      loss and help you maintain a 
      healthy weight after delivery |   Are consistent with Dietary
  Guidelines, MyPyramid, and infant 
  feeding recommendations! |

**  ****What You Will Receive:**

| GRAINS | FRUITS  and VEGETABLES | DAIRY | PROTEIN |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| For Mom: |  For Mom: |  For Mom: | For Mom: |
| 1 pound whole wheat bread | $10 cash value voucher for fruits and veggies | 24 quarts of milk | 1 pound dried beans Or peas Or 4, 15 ounce cans |
| Or other whole grain options | 144 fluid ounces of vitamin C-rich juice | More allowed substitutions | 18 ounces of peanut butter |
| 36 ounces iron-fortified cereal |   |   | 30 ounces canned fish |
|   |   |   | 2 dozen eggs |
| For Baby: | For Baby: | For Baby: | For Baby: |
| 24 ounces iron-fortified infant cereal | 256 ounces baby food fruits and veggies | Your breastmilk! | 77.5 ounces baby food meat |

**Eat WIC foods to keep you strong while you love and take care of your growing baby!**
# Presentation: 682724

## A Novel Approachto Catalytic Combustion

-  Demonstrated Ultra-low NOx, CO, and Unburned Hydrocarbons 	(UHC) emissions for High Speed Civil Transport applications
-  NOx emissions were demonstrated at steady-state to be 1/3 to 	1/5  of regulatory targets
**                             ****COMMERCIALIZATION**
-  Multimillion dollar long term catalytic combustor development 	and supply agreement between Westinghouse Power 	Generation and Precision Combustion, Inc.
-  Precision Combustion, Inc.’s catalytic combustor for Equivalent 	Zero Emission Vehicles is in an automotive application engine 	test program with Capstone Turbine Corporation
-  Commercial Phase III funding of more than $500K for 	ultra-low  NOx emissions catalytic combustors  for ground base 	gas turbine hybrid electric vehicles
-  Employment  increased from 5 to 35 employees

***PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC.***
***NEW HAVEN, CT***

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

**     ****GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-  Ultra-low NOx aircraft and ground power catalytic 			combustion
-  Catalytic combustors for clean hybrid electric vehicles
-  Ignition and combustion stability enhancement for 			aerospace engines

- 1990 Phase 2; SS-161; 8/7/97

- Lewis Research Center

**A Novel Approach****to Catalytic Combustion**

***Catalytic Combustion Flame***