BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 224080

## FPD SOFTWARE

- TEST MOTIONS

-  CONNECTIONS
-  CONFIGURATION
-  SOFTWARE
-  TESTS
-  CONCLUSION

- Lionel Peyrichoux
- 14 March 2001

## CONNECTIONS

## CONNECTIONS

-  Pot Status (6 bits / Pot)
-  Pot Position (1 analog channel / Pot)
-  Emergency Line (1 bit / Side)
-  Smoke Detector (1 bit / Rack)

- Command :
-  Pot Motion (16 bit / Pot)
-  Reset Smoke Detector (1 bit / Rack)
-  Amplifier Crate (1 bit / Rack)

## POT CONNECTION

-  Run / Stop (1 bit)
-  Home position (1 bit)
-  In position (1 bit)
-  Mechanical failure (1 bit)
-  Driver failure (1 bit)
-  Cable failure (1 bit)
- LVDT (1 analog)

- Pot commands :
-  Go home (1 bit)
-  Run / Stop (1 bit)
-  Speed (Low / Fast) (1 bit)
-  Position (0 to 8191 half-turns) (13 bits)

## CONFIGURATION

## SOFTWARE

- Python scripts
- 2 Softwares:
- Main Program : fpd.py
- Random Program : fpd_random.py

## SOFTWARE

- Main Program :
- Control Pot motion (position, speed ...)
- Control Pot Alarms
- Control Smoke Detector & RMI
- Control Power Box (Amplifier)
- Control Emergency Line
- Update Online Database (position ...)

- Random Program :
- Control Pot Motion
- Control Pot Alarms

## SOFTWARE

- Alarms :
- Mechanical failure :
- Stop the motor
- Reduce the speed
- Driver failure :
- Stop the motor
- Cable failure :
- Stop the motor
- Emergency line :
- Stop all motors
- Smoke Detector :
- Stop the motors
- Turn off the amplifier crate
- Rack Monitor control :
- ?

## TESTS

- Which Pots ?
-  D1
-  D2
-  P1 Up
-  P1 In
-  P2 Up
-  P2 in

- Why ?
- Test the IIB
- Calibrate LVDT (Home Position)

## TESTS

- Safety & Alarm Tests :
- Emergency Line
- Switch off the Rack Monitor
- Unplug the Drivers
- Smoke Detector

## CONCLUSION

- Pot Motion
- D1 : retested
- D2 : retested
- P1 Up : Stuck but OK
- P1 In : OK
- P2 Up : OK
- P2 In : Retested

- Software
-  Emergency Line
-  Reduce the speed if mechanical failure
-  Stop the motor after each motion
-  Smoke dectector Status
-  Amplifier Crate control
# Presentation: 458763

## Mission Extension Using Sensitive Trajectories and Autonomous Control

- Edward Belbruno
- Princeton University and Innovative Orbital Design, Inc.
- AISRP PI MEETING 2005
- April 3-6, NASA Ames

## Goal- Enable spacecraft to linger about a planet for extended time spans in a cost effective manner, and autonomously

- Data collection is maximized for a given mission
- Accomplish goal by using new sensitive/chaotic trajectories
- Dynamic sensitivity saves fuel -> _do more with less_
- Theory is *weak stability boundary (WSB) theory *developed by EB, 87-90
*Idea*:  Transition region about a planet, eg Moon, between capture and escape –>chaotic weak capture
- Can achieve ballistic lunar capture transfers(~*surfer* *catching* *wave*)

## Operational Demonstrations

- Used in 1991 to salvage Japan’s *Hiten* and bring  to Moon
-           ->        *First application of chaos to space travel*
*          * -> *        New 90 day ballistic capture transfer*
- Used in 2004 to get ESA’s *SMART-1* captured into lunar orbit
- Ideas played a key role in 1998 salvage of Hughes *HGS-1* using Moon

## Approach 

- Two key applications:
-         a.  Motion about planet in WSB region
-         b.  Newly discovered *Quasi-stationary motion*
- Focus on a. using Moon
- WSB transfer to Moon -> ballistic capture in WSB region
- Can maintain weak capture for tiny DeltaV
- Demonstrated in February’s work, DeltaV is very small
-                    ~ 20 m/s for 3-4 months
- Smaller the DeltaV, more unstable/complicated the motion
-          *Idea- Reduce DeltaV, require more frequent control*
- Optimize -> will yield control algorithm that’s autonomous
*              *
* *
# Presentation: 825247

## MANAGE PRE-SCOPING

**MIP Home**

## Manage Pre-Scoping/SS03

**SS03 “Pre-scope project: Pre-scoping checklist”**
-  This is the pre-scoping checklist.  The goal of this screen is to verify that certain tasks were performed as part of pre-scoping, and to select the result of pre-scoping (either Hold the project or Continue to study the project).
-  If you have not completed all the tasks, you will need to log out and wait until you can indicate “true” for each of the required fields.  You can not save a screen that is only partially completed.
-  The “cost” is the actual or final cost of the pre-scoping effort only.
-  The pre-scoping result determines the next step in the workflow.  Selecting “continue to study project” will send the project to scoping.  Selecting “hold pre-scoped project” removes the project from all user’s work lists until a specified date.  After the hold period is over, the pre-scoping task lead can re-evaluate the project and decide to continue it or hold it until a new date.
-  Holds typically occur while waiting for funding.

## Manage Pre-Scoping/SS04

**SS04 “Hold pre-scoped project: Hold information”**
-  If “hold” was the result of pre-scoping, the pre-scoping task lead immediately receives this task on their work item list.
-  Selecting “Do not hold, continue study” allows the study project to continue to scoping.  Setting a date on which the hold will expire causes the task to be removed from all work lists until that date.  After that date, it will reappear on the pre-scoping task lead’s work bench as “Hold Pre-Scoped Project.”
-  If you want to extend the hold after it reappears, just revise the expiration date.
- Call the MIP Help Desk if you need to change the hold date after you have already completed the activity.

## Manage Pre-Scoping/SS05 Page 1 of 2

**SS05 p.1 “Initiate study project: Project information”**
-  Select the registered scoping task lead for your project from the list of organizations on the two drop-down lists.  The scoping task will be routed to their work list.  Caution: The drop-down lists are NOT filtered by registered users that can receive the assigned project.  Make sure the selected organization type and organization name match the registered scoping task lead for the project.  Contact the help desk to verify the registered users for the task.  Selecting organizations from these drop down lists does not automatically register them to receive the task, and does not result in an error message that the task will be sent to no user.
-  Start Date, End Date, and Cost refer to the scoping task, not to the full study project.  The date must be entered in the specified format.

## Manage Pre-Scoping/SS05 Page 2 of 2

**SS05 p.2 “Initiate study project: Contact list”**
- Enter the names of the project contacts as you would like them to appear in the reports.  Phone numbers, email, and address information can be added into the fields as free text.
-  None of the fields are required, nor are there any active links from this screen.  This information is for the reports only.
-  The people entered on this screen do not have to be registered users in the MIP.
# Presentation: 055511

## Ensuring Safety Today for

** ****Pharmaceutical Consumers**

**Flex Products, Inc.**
- October 28, 2003

**Boston Congressional Field Forum**

## Pharmacists, consumers and regulators need an easy, affordable tool to distinguish authentic products from counterfeits, whether they come from the neighborhood drug store or through the mail.

**Recognizing Authentic Products**

## Solutions

**There is an ****available, proven**** and ****affordable**** **
**counterfeit-deterrent technology, in use today by global currencies and major pharmaceutical companies than can be easily incorporated into drug packaging as the overt layer of an effective solution.**
** ****Easy to understand**** and verify**
** ****Resistant to replication**
** ****Provides an effective first line of defense in the war against counterfeiting**

## Currency Authentication

**“*****Color-shifting technology . . .***** The Secret Service says this has been ****the one feature counterfeiters have been unable**** to reproduce.” **
***USA TODAY,*****  **Mar 5, 2003**.**

## Protecting the World's Currency

**Over ****25 billion banknotes**** in 89 countries utilize OVP®. **
**About ****80 percent**** of the world’s total currency value.**** **

**Notes:**
SecureShift Technology solutions utilize the power and simplicity of Optically Variable Pigment® technology pioneered by Flex Products, Inc.
Optically Variable Pigment has become a world standard for protecting over 25 billion banknotes, in 89 countries. That’s approximately 80% of the total value of the world’s currency. Virtually everyone on the planet has been in contact with our products. The overt color shifting appearance of this material, in its many applications, provides positive, easy verification by eye and a strong deterrence to counterfeiting

## SecureShift® and Drug Safety

**Today****,**** ****6 of the top 20**** ****global, research-based pharmaceutical companies use SecureShift. **
**SecureShift protects**** ****7 leading brands**** ****of ethical drugs.**

## SecureShift® TechnologyKey Benefits

**Authentication**
**Easy eye verification**
**Powerful deterrent**
**Multi-layered**
**Application flexibility**
**Labels, packaging, closures, blister packs**
**Aesthetics**
**Affordability**

## Protecting Consumers

**SecureShift is an *****affordable, easy to understand***** technology that**

**Is rapidly deployable,**
**Available through secure channels, and **
**An effective first line defense to improve the safety of the U.S. drug supply.**

## For More Information

**Flex Products, Inc.**
**1402 Mariner Way**
**Santa Rosa, CA  95407**
**Tel: 707-525-7656**
**Fax: 707-525-7537**
***SecureShift@flexprod.com***
***www.SecureShift.com***
# Presentation: 334748

## Magnetic Nanoparticle Synthesis Strategies for Biosensor DevelopmentOscar M. Suarez, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, DMR 0351449

- Magnetic nanoparticles have attracted great interest for applications beyond magnetic data storage. For example, these particles are being investigated for use in biosensors, in which attachment of an analyte results in an increase in particle size with concomitant changes in the magnetic relaxation properties of the particles.  Though this application has been demonstrated in principle, the performance of such sensors has not been addressed quantitatively and in relation to theories of nanoparticle rotational Brownian motion. One obstacle in making such quantitative comparisons has been the use of inadequate particle formulations.

- particles, but the strongly adsorbed surfactant precluded further modification. Aqueous precipitation resulted in nanoparticles that were easy to modify but with broad particle size distributions. Thermal decomposition of organometallic precursors resulted in monodisperse nanoparticles of controllable size, with surfaces which could be easily modified by replacement of the adsorbed surfactant, however the particle yield is low. These results underscore the need for new synthesis techniques capable of yielding large quantities of monodisperse nanoparticles.

**Partnership for Research and Education on Functional and Nanostructured Materials**

**Magnetic nanoparticles synthesized through thermal decomposition of organo-metallic precursors**

- We have compared three different particle synthesis strategies with respect to obtaining particles of controllable size, narrow size distribution, and easily modifiable surfaces. Reverse micelles yielded monodisperse ~3 nm
# Presentation: 850437

## Thoughts on Design of New Large Underground DetectorsIncorporating Track Imaging

- Mikhail Batygov and John Learned,
- University of Hawaii.
- Brookhaven, UDiG workshop,
- October 17, 2008

## Moving beyond present large water Cherenkov detectors

- BIGGER
- Obvious up to 1 MT, limited by the cost of PMT
- Dope water for greater output and n detection
- Studies underway: e.g. GADZOOKS
- New generation of photodetectors
- Problem with development time & funding; hybrids are probably best short term hope
- Imaging
- Old idea from the 80-ies by JGL and T. Ypsilantis, may be practical now

## Advantages of RICH

- Ability to recover p and  independently
- Ability to see track topology
- Useful for recognizing decay mode and rejecting background
- Much experience with RICH detectors at accelerators now
- New information from accelerator experiments allows better background characterization of which imaging can take advantage (information from RICH becomes more useful).

## Image of a Track

- Use tomographic
- methods to reconstruct
- in focus image.

## Imaging

- Scintillators
- Easy because images seen from every location
- Problem with Depth of Field
- Problem with adequate light (for event energies typical of scintillator experiments – MeV )
- Studies underway at several locations, particularly at Tohoku
- Cherenkov
- Rays in a plane containing the track are parallel and can be focused to a point in that plane
- For an imager (camera) there are several things that can be measured
- R => 
- Thickness => 1/p
- Crossing views give reconstruction of dE/dX, Xi, Yi, Zi, Vxi, Vyi, Vzi
- Need large aperture, >~1m2

## Summary

- In rethinking new large neutrino/pdk detectors we ought to consider new technologies.
- Message from us: please consider the use of RICH-like techniques.
- Existing detectors might make a good test ground: just several cameras would make terrific muon recording device.
- Build small test device for Homestake?  Anyone want to collaborate?

## Image of a Track

- Use tomographic
- methods to reconstruct
- in focus image.
# Presentation: 779616

## Reverse-Geometry Digital X-Ray SystemDigiray® Corporation, San Ramon, CA

**Innovation**
- RGX® is the only portable real-time X-ray nondestructive testing system, detects defects conventional systems cannot see
**Accomplishments**
-      X-ray system to detect defects conventional systems               	cannot see
- 	RGX® is the only portable real-time X-ray nondestructive 	testing system
-  	Scanning X-ray beam replaces mechanical motion
-  	Multiple detectors for 3-D stereo or layer-by-layer viewing
**Commercialization**
- 	Seismic safety inspections and detection of residual stress 	and chemical composition of alloys and corrosion in aircraft 	using Reverse Geometry X-ray diffraction
- 	Joint Digiray-NIST U.S. Patent pending
- 	Over $3,000,000 total sales to date in the following
- 	markets: Aircraft safety, National Security,
- 	Corrosion/cracks (petrochemical industry),  		Electronics

**                                         ****Digiray RGX® Laminography**
**Government/Science Applications**
-      NASA - inspection of X-33 cryotanks;  space shuttle pipe weld and
-        tile inspection; detection and location of hidden corrosion in aircraft
-        at NASA LaRC
-      Rocket propellant integrity inspection
-      Inspection of nuclear fuel rods for defects
-      Medical applications for motionless computed tomography that
-        produces many cross sectional images
-      Inspection of aircraft in the field or hanger and may be mounted on
-        either manual or robotic handling systems
-      Joint agreement with the British Ministry of Defense for detection
-        of explosives in airport luggage
**	****	****	****             **
**	****	****	**

**Points of Contact:**
- NASA: William P. Winfree (757) 864-4963; w.p.winfree@larc.nasa.gov
- Digiray Corporation:  Dr. Richard D. Albert (925) 838-1510
- Last update: 4/99

**NASA Langley Research Center**
**1993 Phase II**
# Presentation: 478765

## CCDs w/o channel stop bus are different

**C. Bebek**
**25 January 2005**

## SNAP V2 w/ HMS

**In the SNAP v2 wafer, the CCDs that have the erase structure (or channel stop bus, or HMS) internally operate as previous version CCDs**
**The usual rules apply to these.**
**V1s and FS1s are furthest from their corresponding TG.**
**H1s are furthest from the SW for L1 and L2; H3s are furthest from SW for U1 and U2.**
**Reference the following figure**

## SNAP V2 w/ HMS

**The pixel size is 10.5 ****μ****m.**
**Active pixel count of 3512 x 3508 ****(parallel x serial).**
**Each end of the serial registers ****has 10 underscan pixels.**
**Serial channels are continuous and****can be read at either end or both.**
**Parallel channels are not continuous.**
**Pad sizes are 100 ****μ****m x 200 ****μ****m**
***Note carefully how H, V and FS signals are ordered within the CCD.***

## SNAP V2 w/o HMS

**In the SNAP v2 wafer, the CCDs that *****do not have***** the erase structure (or channel stop bus, or HMS) internally operate differently.**
**The pad name order is the same for all CCDs.**
**But to allow continuous parallel clocking, new rules apply.**
**V1s and FS1s are furthest from their corresponding TG for L2 and U2; V3s and FS3s are furthest from their corresponding RG for L1 and U1.**
**H1s are furthest from the SW for L2 and U1; H3s are furthest from SW for L1 and U2.**
**Reference the following figure**

## SNAP V2 w/o HMS

**The pixel size is 10.5 ****μ****m.**
**Active pixel count of 3514 x 3508 ****(parallel x serial).**
**Each end of the serial registers ****has 10 underscan pixels.**
**Serial channels are continuous and****can be read at either end or both.**
**Parallel channels are continuous and can be read at either end or both.**
**Pad sizes are 100 ****μ****m x 200 ****μ****m**
***Note carefully how H, V and FS signals are ordered within the CCD.***

|  |  | w/o HMS |  |  |  | w/ HMS |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | U1 | U2 | L1 | L2 | U1 | U2 | L1 | L2 |
| V order from TG | 1-2-3 | 3-2-1 | 1-2-3 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 |
| FS order from TG | 1-2-3 | 3-2-1 | 1-2-3 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 |
| TG poly layer | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| H order from SW | 3-2-1 | 1-2-3 | 1-2-3 | 3-2-1 | 1-2-3 | 1-2-3 | 3-2-1 | 3-2-1 |
| H barrier phase for serial load | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SW poly layer | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
# Presentation: 708863

## BA in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

**L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs **
**Virginia Commonwealth University**
**William W. Newmann**

## Origins

**Creation of the Wilder School 2003**
**Task: Innovate!**
**Something new in the Public Policy field that uses the new School’s assets**
**Criminal Justice**
**Political Science**
**Public Administration**
**Urban Planning**

## Planning Strategy

**Interagency Model vs. Skunk Works Model**
**Skunk Works Model chosen**
**Newmann works in isolation**
**Once designed, program reviewed by**
**HSEP Steering Committees**
**University and governmental membership**

## The Tricky Part: Approval

**Defending it from those with some bias**
**Getting cooperation from other university units**
**Committees, committees, committees**
**“****How does this serve the people of Virginia?”**

## Program Mission/Focus

**All-Hazards**
**Emergency management with homeland security as one of the tasks**
**Academic Education, not Training**
**Management**
**Broad Education**
**Electives in many areas**
**Business**
**Criminal Justice**
**Political Science**
**Urban Studies and Geography (Planning)**

## Program Specifics (for reference only)

**HSEP 101 Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness**
**POLI 103 U. S. Government**
**POLI/INTL 105 International Relations**
**HSEP 301/CRJS 367/POLI 367 Terrorism**
**HSEP 302 Emergency Planning and Incident Management **
**HSEP 310 Risk and Vulnerability Assessment**
**HSEP 311 Strategic Planning for Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness**
**HSEP 320/CRJS 375 The Intelligence Community and the Intelligence Process**
**HSEP 330/CRJS 330 Legal and Constitutional Issues in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness**
**HSEP 490 Senior Seminar**
**Electives: Six credits from Criminal Justice, Business, Political Science,  Urban Planning**
**Total: 36 credits**

## Expectations/Results

**Program begins: Fall 2005**
**Planning expectations**
**100 majors by spring 2010**
**Results**
**100 majors by spring Fall 2006**
**Spring 2008: 200 majors**

## Why Such Rapid Growth?

**Demand: natural disasters, terrorist attack**
**Recruitment**
**HSEP 101 as General Education course**
**Cross listings with CRJS and POLI**
**Faculty Open Door Policy for university students and High School students**
**Reassuring Parents**
**Overrides for everyone!**
**Independent Studies**

## Problems/Obstacles

**New programs as a resource competitor to old programs**
**Finding faculty**
**Maintaining university resource commitments**
**“****If you can build a linear accelerator out of duct tape and paper clips this year, why can’t you do it again next year?”**

## Curriculum and Management

**No curriculum revisions yet**
**New Electives to be added**
**Managed by Program Coordinator**
**Wilder School structure**
# Presentation: 160430

## IT Professional Skills Pilot Program

## Department IT environment ever more	sophisticated
more skills needed
enhanced skills needed
IT industry ever more competitive
recruitment harder 
retention & continuity threatened

- more skills needed
- enhanced skills needed
- IT industry ever more competitive
- recruitment harder
- retention & continuity threatened

-    **The Challenge**

## The IT Professional Skills 
Pilot Program

   An innovative approach to building maintaining, and rewarding the skills the Department needs 	

**Pilot Program**
-    An innovative approach to building maintaining, and rewarding the skills the Department needs

-     **The Response**

## Who?

- Foreign Service serving in skill codes 2880 or 2882  (or 2881 positions)
- Civil Service serving in job series 332, 334, 335, 391, 392, 854, 855, 856, or 1550

## What?

- Professional Qualification Incentives for Foreign Service
- Retention Allowances for Civil Service
- Incentives of 5%, 7%, 10%, or 15% for certifications of needed skills

## Why?

- To encourage IT employees
- To certify existing skills
- To acquire needed skills
- To retain IT talent

## Strategy 

- JOB SATISFACTION

## What Credentials?

- 5% - basic Microsoft, Lotus, Cisco, with  A+
- 7% - dedicated Y2K work
- 10% - B.S., GSA 1000 by 2000,
- 			 technician certificates,
- 15% - MCSE, M.S., CCP, CCIE,
- 				CIO certificate, Oracle DBA

## Full-time classes

Part-time classes

Distance Learning

- Part-time classes
- Distance Learning

-  **How to Get Credentials?**

## The Department actually covers a lot
FSI/SAIT offers classroom courses
FSI/SAIT provides Distance Learning 
FSI External Training funds job-related courses

Exam costs are employee’s responsibility

- FSI/SAIT offers classroom courses
- FSI/SAIT provides Distance Learning
- FSI External Training funds job-related courses
- Exam costs are employee’s responsibility

**Who Pays?**

## The Opportunity

- Reward initiative
- Raise the floor of IT competence
- Grow a better IT staff
- Serve the Department better

## Credential Growth

## Credential Growth

## Credential (Historical)
# Presentation: 486868

## MNM Fatal 2005-11

- Falling Material
- May 23, 2005 (Wisconsin)
- Sand and Gravel Operation
- General Laborer
- 57 years old
- 8 years mining experience

## Overview

- The victim and a co-worker were attempting to load a 10 foot by 5 foot by 3⁄4 inch steel plate onto a flatbed truck.  A front-end loader was used to lift the plate with a chain hook while the victim steadied the plate with his hand, standing on the edge of the truck bed.  As the plate was lowered into the truck bed, it detached from the hook and struck the victim, causing him to fall from the truck bed to the ground below.  The steel plate then fell from the truck bed landing on the victim causing fatal crushing injuries.

## Slide 3

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The accident occurred because the procedures and equipment used to load the steel plate were inadequate.  The victim had to stand in the bed of the truck and guide the suspended plate by hand because the rigging system used did not control the steel plate.

## Causal Factors

- Management policies and controls were inadequate.  Procedures were not in place to ensure suitable hitches, slings, and tag lines were used to load the steel plate into the truck bed.  The hook came out of the hole in the plate as it was loaded onto the truck.

## Best Practices

- Conduct a Risk Assessment before beginning a task, to evaluate the work procedures, identify all possible hazards, and ensure steps are taken to safely perform the task.
- Establish procedures to safely complete tasks and ensure miners communicate clearly with each other.
- Ensure that miners are not positioned in areas where they are exposed to hazards from suspended loads.
- Use hitches and slings that are suitable for the material being lifted. Ensure that taglines are used when loads require guidance or steadying.
# Presentation: 103240

## US COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND FEDEX WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU AT 

- Greeting & Introduction of US CS role
*Mr.* *Greg O**’Connor, Commercial Counselor*
*Ms. Veronika Novakov**á**, Commercial Specialist  *
- CzechInvest Health Care projects in the Czech Republic
*Mr. Jakub Mikul**áš**ek, Chief Operating Officer, Czechinvest*
- Development of private sector in health care** **in the CR
*Mr. Old**ř**ich** Š**ubrt, CEO**,** Agel, a.s.*
- FedEx, US CS worldwide partner & Health Care
*Mr. Carlo Novi, Global Accounts Manager, FedEx*
*Mr. Patrik Kloss, District Sales Manager**, FedEx*
- Introduction of ZS Zahrádka

**US COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND FEDEX**** ****WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU AT **
***HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY SEMINAR & COCKTAIL***

## Vision: The Premier Front-line U.S. Trade Agency Creating Prosperity in the United States and abroad. 

-   The U.S. Commercial Service supports U.S. companies in the CR as well as the Czech distributors representing U.S. manufacturers
-  The U.S. Commercial Service works with Czech governmental and non-governmental institutions to promote U.S.-Czech business relationships.
- 	_www.buyusa.gov/czechrepublic_

**U.S. COMMERCIAL SERVICE**

## SUPPORT FOR US FIRMSIN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

- SINGLE COMPANY PROMOTION
- Do you need to:
- get the word out about your new product or service in the Czech Republic,
- introduce your new distributor agent,
- find new customers,
- conduct a technical training program?
- Let the U.S. Embassy help you boost your promotional efforts.

## SUPPORT FOR US FIRMSIN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

- 	ADVOCACY
- Support for U.S. companies and distributors of U.S. products in tenders.
- Can include letters to Czech government and other decision makers, personal visits, etc.
- 	_http://www.export.gov/Advocacy_/

***Open to support any other innovative ideas for support or cooperation. ***

## OTHER ACTIVIETIES

- HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY SEMINARS
- HC Seminar & Coffee for Czech Distributors (September 2006) _http://www.buyusa.gov/czechrepublic/en/94.html_
- HC Seminar & Cocktail for US Companies (March 2007)
- HC Seminar with Insurance companies (June/September, 2007)
- INTERNATIONAL VISITORS PROGRAM (IVP)
- U.S. Embassy grant program – funds trips for Czech professionals in governmental and non-governmental institutions to visit the U.S.
- This year, a health care group visit is proposed.

- CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Major initiative of Ambassador Graber and the U.S. Commercial Service.
- Work with Czech NGOs an important aspect. (Introduction of ZS Zahradka at the end of this program.)

## CONTACT INFORMATION 

_**US EMBASSY, US COMMERCIAL SERVICE**__** **_
- Tržiště 15, 118 01 Praha 1
- Czech Republic
- Tel: +420 257 022 437
- Fax: +420 257 022 810
- _www.buyusa.gov/czechrepublic_
_*Contacts:*_* *
- Mr. Greg O’Connor, Commercial Counselor
- _Greg.O’Connor@mail.doc.gov_
- Ms. Veronika Nováková,
- Commercial Specialist, Health Care sector
- _Veronika.Novakova@mail.doc.gov_
# Presentation: 815218

## Resource Management PurchaseCard Presentation

- Inna Hinson                          11/06/01
- Central Budget Office
- GG-C-C1 /7-2110

## Funding Process for Government Credit Cards

- Resources Management Official (RMO) Analyst for Funding
- Accounting coding structure
- Object Class
- Financial Management Code
- Procurement Request (MRs)
- Process for ROS Credit Cards

## SAMPLE FUND CODETA/TA-28310V.1111/2629C/100807/54/02

- TA

- 28310V

- 1111

- 2629C

- 100807

- 54

- 02

- ORGANIZATION CODE

- UNIQUE PROJECT NUMBER (UPN)

- LAST 4  DIGITS OF CREDIT CARD NUMBER

- OBJECT CLASS CODE

- FUNCTIONAL MANAGEMENT CODE (FMC)

- FUND SOURCE (FS)

- FISCAL YEAR (FY)

- ACN

## Object Class Codes

_**Code**_
- 2629
- 2628

_**Description**_
- Government I.M.P.A.C. Credit Card Purchases
- Information Technology

## Functional Management Codes (FMC)

_**Code**_
- 100807
- 300205
- 300225
- 300500
- 300600
- 400000

_**Description**_
- General & Admin. Office Supplies
- Supplies
- Other Costs - General
- Other Cost - Project Unique
- Instrumentation Support
- Safety,Reliability & Quality Assurance
- On or Near Site Research Activity
# Presentation: 365955

## Investigation and Development of Data-Driven D-Region Model for HF Systems Impacts

- D. Rice
- Space Environment Corp., Providence, Utah
- R. D. Hunsucker
- RP Consultants, Klamath Falls, Oregon
- J. Eccles
- Space Environment Corp., Providence, Utah
- J. J. Sojka
- Space Environment Corp., Providence, Utah

**NASA - Living With A Star****(from material presented at Spring AGU/Montreal)**

##  Investigation and Development of Data-Driven D-Region Model for HF Systems Impacts

- Space Environment Corporation
- Vince Eccles
- Bob Hunsucker
- Don Rice
- Jan Sojka
- Developing a Data-Driven D-Region model for real-time HF absorption calculations with validation obtained from a low-cost HF-link monitoring network.
- NASA satellite data streams and HF monitoring experiment are used to determine D-Region specification during solar x-ray flares, particle events, winter absorption anomaly, sporadic E

- HF Link Monitoring

- (www.spacenv.com/~rice/hidive)

## HF Propagation and Absorption Modeling

- The Data-Driven D-Region is combined with E and F Region model ionosphere (IRI, and others) to provide background for ray-tracing and absorption calculations.
- Results compared with HF-link Monitoring Experiments.

- F-Region

- E-Region

- D-Region

## Modeling and Monitoring D-Region Weather

- Large space weather events are evident in 2003 data and model of 5000 kHz HF propagation characteristics
- Low frequency propagation at night due to daytime absorption.
- Most notably the “Halloween Storm” in October-November
- Nighttime variations in HF propagation cutoffs.
- Daytime absorption increases during winter anomaly events are easily identified. (Improvements of NO model density needed.)

- UT (hour)

- UT (hour)

- Day of 2003

- Day of 2003

- Model Signal@KF

- Measured Signal@KF

- Model Signal@KF

## Modeling and Monitoring E&F-Region Weather

- Space weather observed in 10000 kHz HF propagation characteristics.
- High frequency propagation during daytime only (generally)
- Solar rotation variation influence on ionosphere ionization rates.
- Sporadic E layer provides for low angle HF propagation during nighttime...not modeled.
- Diurnal and seasonal trends captured.

- UT (hour)

- UT (hour)

- Day of 2003

- Day of 2003

- Measured Signal@KF

- Model Signal@KF
# Presentation: 186987

## NIH Woman-Owned Small Business Initiatives 

## Introduction

- Annette Owens-Scarboro, Small Business Specialist
- Women-owned Small Business representative for the NIH to DHHS

## Federal Laws and Regulations

- Executive Order 12138 and 13157 Public Law 103-355 and Public Law 106-554
- Established the Woman-owned Business Enterprise Program, 1988, and a 5% WOB contracting goal and set-asides respectively.
- Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supporting WOSB.

## WOB Trends

- Between 1997 and 2002, it is estimated that the number of women-owned firms increased by 14% nationwide twice the rate of all firms, employment increased by 30% -- 11/2 times the U.S. rate, and sales grew by 40% -- the same rates as all firms in the U.S.
- As of 2002, there are an estimated 6.2 million majority-owned, privately-held women-owned firm in the U.S., employing 9.2 million people and generating $1.15 trillion in sales.

## NIH WOSB Initiatives

- Outreach Program
- Matchmaking/Teaming with Prime Contractors
- Subcontracting Opportunities
- One-on-one Counseling
- Monthly Seminars

## NIH WOSB Accomplishments(000)

- _Fiscal Year_        _Goals_              _ %_              _Achieved _          _%_
- _ _
-                  $1,800,000      5.0              $2,688,240        4.8
- 2001                 $1,758,773      5.0              $2,026,538        5.9
- 2000                 $1,658,793      3.9              $1,944,027        4.8

**NIH WOSB Accomplishments****(000)**

## 8(a) Program
SDB Program
HUBZone Program

- SDB Program
- HUBZone Program

**Federal Certification Programs Available for WOSB**

## KEY WEB SITES

- Center for Women’s Business Research  _[www.NFWBO.org](http://www.nfwbo.org/)_
- National Women’s Business Council  _[http://www.nwbc.gov/](http://www.nwbc.gov/)_
- SBA Office of Women’s Business Ownership  _[http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness](http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness)_
- Register in e-Portals in Commerce (e-PIC), _[http://sbo.od.nih.gov](http://sbo.od.nih.gov/)_ ,  and Central Contractor Registration System (CCR), _[http://www.ccr.gov](http://www.ccr.gov/)_

## Thank You Very Much!
# Presentation: 000327

## NIKHEF Hall probesperformance

**Paul Balm**
**Nov 15, 2000**
***Dutch Fist Meeting***

## Outline

**The solenoid**
**design and field**
**Hall probe system**
**probe locations: where and why**
**survey: where are they really?**
**calibration**
**Performance testing**
**Calibration: |B|**
**Alignment**
**Conclusion**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## The D0 Solenoid

**superconducting magnet, 2T field**
**2.7 m long, 60 cm radius, ~5 kAmps**
**field uniformity of 0.5% for tracks within the solenoid**
**muon steel (toroid) is used as return yoke**
**Manufactured by Toshiba, Yokohama, Japan *****- and don’t underestimate that...***
**Installed in DAB in 1997**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Slide 4

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Solenoid design and field

**Design focused on producing uniform field in the tracker volume (obviously...): Coils not evenly distributed**

-      2T     Bz      0 T

- z = 0
- sol. ctr.

- z = 130 cm
- sol. edge

-           1T    Br     0 T

- z = 0
- sol. ctr.

- z = 130 cm
- sol. edge

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Hall probe locations

**Each probe measures field in 3D plus temp.**
**Locations: measure**
**centerfield, field at point of min. gradient, return field**
**Use “fieldmap” for precise field meas.**
**Use Hall probes for ****meas. of deviations**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Survey

**VStar: A digital camera with a hard-drive and evaluation software**
**Recognize “targets” in photos **
**Determine (x,y,z) of each target with ~10 micron accuracy**
**At least three targets per surface, allows reconstruction of plane: **
**top planes of probes on strips, tops and sides of mounting blocks**
**Figure out all orientations and positions**

**survey: [verb] to determine and delineate the form, extent, and position of by taking linear and angular measurements and by applying the principles of geometry and trigonometry**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Calibration

**Performed at CERN by Felix Bergsma**
**Each probe rotated in field**
**field of 1.5 T**
**temperature ~20 deg C**
**Bx, By, Bz cross-terms accounted for**
**Output is calibration routine and a set of calibration constants**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Performance plots

**plots of |B|**
**not using survey data - positions taken at average radius and nominal *****z***
**plots of components**
**survey data used, positions accurate to the order of microns**
**some assumptions in interpretation of survey data - I have attempted to plot these as well\**
**They are on the web:**
**	****http://www-d0.fnal.gov/~balm/hallprobes/tests**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000

## Conclusion

**Hall probe data credible**
**more study may prove interesting**
**Installation is complete**
**apart from one cable into MCH**
**we’re still not sure where to go with our data...**
**Documentation is mandatory (D0 note)**
**quite extensive webpages already exist:**
**	****http://www-d0.fnal.gov/~balm/hallprobes**
**this talk in on there too**

- Paul Balm

- May 24, 2000
# Presentation: 343162

## MTAC 99Streamline Acceptance/Verification of Periodicals Scott LorenzPritha Mehra	

- November 2, 2005

## Issue Statement

- Leverage PostalOne!
- Acceptance, Induction, Verification, and Payment for Periodicals Postage
- Eliminate current labor intensive processes
- For book weight capture
- For advertising percentage capture
- Convenience to partners in the dynamic workflow process.
- Periodicals Postage Reporting
- Make a flexible reporting system
- Recognize the various roles in today’s workflow process

## Desired Results

- Periodicals Postage Payment
- Efficient acceptance in PostalOne!
- Efficient payment in PostalOne!
- Streamline book weight capture
- Streamline advertising percentage capture
- Periodicals Postage Reporting
- Consolidated at the Issue Level
- Drill down to individual statement at the entry office and edition level
- Accessible to publishers, printers, auditors

## New Periodicals Flow

**3. Publisher**
**Adjusts **
**Advertising % **
**In *****PostalOne!***

**2. ****Postage **
**Statements **
**Entered**
**To *****PostalOne!***
**Via Mail.dat**
**DMUs verify **
**&  change final **
**weight **
**(if required)**
**in *****PostalOne!***

**(Optional: PAGE Verifies weight **
**And Advertising %)**

**4. DMU**
**Finalizes **
**Postage**
**Statements**
**Account **
**Debited**
**Automatic**
**Postage Statement **
**At Issue **
**Level**
**(After All DMU Entry)**

***P******ostal******O******ne******!*****®**

**1. Publisher or**
**printer  sends**
**Mail.dat **
**(estimated**
**weight, Ad%)**

## Key Concerns & Next Steps

- Allow Issue Date, or Vol No. + Issue No. to identify a Periodicals Issue.
- Add Vol No. + Issue No. to Mail.dat
- Weight and Ad percentage capture
- Each unique Advertising % + Book weight defines a Postal Book
- Time for entering advertising percent
- Multiple debits lead to more reconciliation efforts
- Audit bureaus view documents in PostalOne! versus hardcopy
# Presentation: 043336

## Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century

*Assuring Access and Availability*
- Institute of Medicine
- National Academy of Sciences
- August 2003
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- June 2004
-                                                                    Alan Kohrt, MD, FAAP

## AAP Principles

**Access**
**Quality**
**Reimbursement**

## US Immunization Challenges

- Macro System Level—National
- Access
- Financial barriers-Fragmented public-private financing
- Fragility of vaccine supply
- Declining incentives for manufacturers
- Micro System Level—Practice
- Quality
- Increasing numbers of recommended vaccines
- Increasing complexity of immunization schedule
- Macro/Micro System Level
- Reimbursement
- All costs
- New vaccines

## IOM Report

- Shortages
- Variation in coverage levels
- Disparities in access

## IOM Recommendations

- New federal subsidy to cover vaccine cost and administration fee based on Societal Value of a vaccine
- Develop a process to calculate the level of subsidy based on Societal Value of each vaccine while vaccine in development
- Mandate vaccine coverage – 	For all plans, public and private:  	Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, ERISA
- Voucher system for the uninsured

- Adapted from *Financing Vaccines*, IOM 2003

## AAP  Believes

**Immunizations are a “public good”**
**Funded by the Federal Government**
**All adults and children are immunized**
**All immunizations are with highest quality**
**Vaccines administrative/purchase costs reimbursed fairly**
**Manufacturers payment sufficient to fund research and development**
**AAP agrees with IOM recommendation for increased federal funding**

## IOM RECOMMENDS 

**Insurance mandate for all recommended vaccines**
**AAP policy and discussion papers agree with insurance mandate **
**AAP agrees with recommendation**

## Concerns for Children and Families

**VFC Program**
**Improved system**
**Continue VFC?**
**Opening legislative process—risk?**
**Voucher system**
**Cost, complexity**
**Limit access**
**Societal benefits**
**Change over time**
**Adult vaccine crowd out  **

## Concerns for Primary Care Practice

**Quality**
**VFC AFIX program –quality assurance**
**Federal, state, practice level**
**Administrative work**
**Simplicity**
**Reimbursement**
**All costs associated with vaccines**
**Fair reimbursement, incentive**
**New vaccines**
**Liability**

## Concerns for Public Health System

**Tenuous infrastructure of PH system**

## General Concerns

**Scientific questions**
**Political Feasibility**
**Government control/management**
# Presentation: 173874

## Between May 29 and August 10, 2007 twenty five undergraduate students

**Between May 29 and August 10, 2007 twenty five undergraduate students**
**from twenty different U.S. universities worked on projects in Ceramics, **
**Metallurgy, Polymers, and Neutron Condensed Matter Science together**
**with world-leading experts in those fields.  They joined 110 other under-**
**graduates similarly partially supported by the NSF working on projects in**
**the Physics, Chemical Sciences, Manufacturing Engineering, Information**
**Technology, Electrical Engineering, and Building and Fire Research**
**Laboratories in a single Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship**
**(SURF) program at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD.  In addition to living together and visiting each others’ **
**laboratories, these students learned about other fields of science and presentation skills through a**
**special weekly seminar and interactions with the staff.  Oral presentations at the conclusion of the**
**summer to the NIST management and staff showed the students had gained proficiency in areas as**
**diverse as nanomechanical properties, miscellar gells, spintronics, combinatorial research, cell**
**response in biomaterials, neutron reflectivity, and carbon nanotubes.  (Prior SURF student, Stephanie**
**Moyerman, also won the 2006 APS LeRoy Apker Prize partially based on her previous SURF project.)**

- Terrell A. Vanderah, NIST, DMR 0648986
# Presentation: 434168

## Flow dependent background error for GSI

- Still under construction
- Core module well tested (raflib.f90)
- Many features of anisotropic filter implemented
- Near term goal (implementation by March)
-       - anisotropic option installed
-       - aspect tensor options
-             isotropic inhomogeneous (current)
-             coupling to background gradient

## Flow dependent background error for GSI

- Several options tested in eta 3dvar to gain experience while waiting to use in GSI (Pondeca)
- raflib being used in high resolution test version of sst analysis (Katz, Gemmill)
- Used recently by Haixia Liu for 3D OSSE experiment with GPS data

## Slide 3

## Anisotropic background error

- s1

- s2

- s3

## Anisotropic background error

## Slide 6

## Some implementation details

- Additional parameters to estimate
- Return to factored form of B, B=CCT
- Factored form increases size of control vector for sum of gaussians
- Interpolate to coarser grid when applying filter (resolution determined by shortest correlation lengths)
- Try baseball grid when running in global mode to solve pole and periodicity problems (code provided by Purser, already tested)
- Cut cost of filter in half with latest refinement (Purser)
- Consider replacing or augmenting NMC method for parameter estimation with estimates from innovations (simplified approximations to maximum likelyhood or least squares fitting, Purser)
# Presentation: 438698

## Long-range Ultrasonic Method for Detection of Degradation in Buried, Unpiggable Pipelines

- GOAL: Demonstrate a pipeline inspection method that:
- Is sensitive to pipe wall thickness loss
- Implemented into a ILI tool
- Small enough or partially collapse to allow passage through internal restrictions
- TASK:
- Increase effective range for buried pipe –sound focusing
- Improve quantification capabilities –frequency tuning
- Benchmark data against MFL –establish signal signatures
- RFEC evaluation

**Notes:**
The OPS R&D Goals are to fill the technical Gaps and insure safe and reliable delivery of the nations energy needs.

## General DescriptionCapabilities

- Test ranges is ±100 feet in each direction from set-up location,  i.e., ±200 feet (buried pipeline)
- Detects metal loss anomalies such as corrosion and erosion on ID or OD surface
- Locates pipe features - welds, supports, elbows, attachments, etc.
- Direct access to pipe required – 18 inches around circumference – 6 inch vertical clearance required
- Not affected by close proximity of other pipes
- Provides 100% volumetric examination, 360o over test range
- Sensitive to metal loss equivalent down to 9% of pipe wall cross-section under field conditions
- Sensitivity increased to 3% under some conditions

**Notes:**
The OPS R&D Goals are to fill the technical Gaps and insure safe and reliable delivery of the nations energy needs.

## General Description Fixed-ring Tooling 2 to 6-inch

**Notes:**
The OPS R&D Goals are to fill the technical Gaps and insure safe and reliable delivery of the nations energy needs.
# Presentation: 290363

## Goddard Digital Preservation Metadata Elements

- Gail Hodge
- Metadata Review Group Meeting
- March 10, 2005

## Goddard Core and Preservation Metadata

- Goddard Core currently focuses on ***Descriptive**** *Metadata for ***Discovery*** and ***Evaluation***
- Only now beginning to address Preservation
- Have been waiting for other activities within the community in particular the results of the OCLC/RLG PREMIS Project

## Purpose of Preservation Elements

- Manage objects in the repository over time
- Permit rendering of the object in the future
- Document provenance (where it came from and what has happened to it)
- Promote authentication
- Focused initially on born digital materials, though digitization must be addressed with Landsat

## Monitored Activities 

- GPO on Federal Depository Library Program Digitization Project – Metadata for Preservation Experts Meeting, Draft report issued
- OCLC/RLG PREMIS Draft Final Report and Data Dictionary – released to Advisory Committee on Feb. 1
- IIPC – International Internet Preservation Consortium

## Element Categories from PREMIS

- Objects
- Format – specific information about the version of the application software
- Permanence rating – how likely is it to change
- Fixity, integrity and authenticity elements
- Events
- History of migration/transformation including format changes, how it was done and the date
- Agents
- Rights
- PREMIS identifies key problems with websites but doesn’t resolve them

## Questions for Discussion

- Should the Goddard Library create a dark archive and a light archive?
- Are permanence ratings important and if so, who would apply them?
- Can we implement a tiered system of commitment to support  various format types?
- How can we link to other archives such the NSSDC and GCMD and how would those links be maintained?