BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 677192

## MonitoringOHV Recreation in California Deserts

- DMG Resource Inventory and Monitoring Workshop
- Palm Springs, CA
- 30 January 2002

- BLM California State Office

## Development Objectives

-   Baseline Inventory Methods
-   Monitoring Protocols
-   Institutional Collaboration
-   Database Management

- BLM California State Office

## Management Objectives

-   Establish Thresholds for Action
-   Meet OHV Trail Maintenance 			Needs
-   Restore Habitats

- BLM California State Office

## Pathways to Meet Objectives

- Partnerships
- Interdisciplinary Monitoring Teams
- Technology Investments
- Information Access

- BLM California State Office

## Interagency Partnerships

- Baseline Surveys		NRCS, USGS
- Monitoring Protocols 	USGS, CA Parks
- Restoration 			NPS
- Training**	****	****	****	**USGS, NGOs

- BLM California State Office

## Interdisciplinary Monitoring Teams

-   GIS                                              Soils                                              Botany                                            Wildlife Biology                        Recreation Sociology

- BLM California State Office

## Technology Investments

- Digital Photography
- Remote Sensing Data
- High-Accuracy GPS Units
- GIS Landscape Ecology Analysis

- BLM California State Office

## Information Management

- Website Information Access
- Cross-Agency Data Sharing
- Standardized Data Collection
- Documentation and Analysis

- BLM California State Office

## Baseline Surveys

- Soils	Jawbone-Butterbredt ACEC
- 			Johnson Valley OHV Area
- 			Chemehuevi Management Unit

- BLM California State Office

## Baseline Surveys

- Species			Desert Tortoise
- 					Bats
- Cultural			Jawbone-Butterbredt Resources 		ACEC

- BLM California State Office

## Monitoring Protocols

- T & E / Sensitive Species
- Biological Diversity
- Ecosystem Functions
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Restoration Techniques

- BLM California State Office

## T & E / Sensitive Species

- 						    Pierson’s Milkvetch
- 						Mojave Monkeyflower
- 					     Mohave Ground Squirrel
- 							  Burrowing Owl

- BLM California State Office

## Biological Diversity

- Ants
- Herps
- 								   Raptors

- BLM California State Office

## Ecosystem Functions

- Air Quality
- Surficial Geology
- Downstream Effects
- Natural Vegetation Restoration

- BLM California State Office

## Habitat Fragmentation

- Route Proliferation
- 	Seed-Eating Birds
- Noxious Weeds

- BLM California State Office

## OHV Trail Inventory & Monitoring

- 					Statewide Protocol 	Interface: GPS to GIS                Cadastral Expertise
*	**	**	**	**	**	**Dove Springs OHV Area   **	**	**Eagle Lake Field Office                                    Ukiah Field Office*

- BLM California State Office

##           Restoration

- 					Two Desert Teams
- 					Three Plant Communities

- BLM California State Office

* **creosote scrub*

*riparian woodland*

*Joshua       **tree  **woodland*

## Needs

- Diversify funding sources
- Establish BLM monitoring teams Palm Springs and El Centro
- Coordinate with BLM monitoring efforts in Nevada and Arizona
# Presentation: 545409

## Impact of the 2007 HDD and Fuel Standards on Public Health

**Tom Cackette**
- California Air Resources Board
- EPA Workshop - Chicago
- August 6, 2003

## Outline

**Air Pollution**
- Extent of the problem
- Health effects
**Importance of the rule**
- Tailpipe emissions
- Fuel

## Air Pollution

## Air Pollution:Days With Unhealthy Air

**Year 2002**

## Health Impacts of  Air Pollution

**Annual health impacts**** **(California)
**14,000 premature deaths**
**Life shortened by 14 years**
**7,000 hospital admissions **
**300,000 asthma attacks**
**3,000,000 lost work days**

** ****By comparison**** **
** ****3,700 deaths - car accidents**
** ****2,000 homicides**

**Notes:**
The health effects from air pollution range from minor effects such as eye and throat irritation to serious and life-threatening effects and death. 
 There are up to 17,000 premature death due to high PM levels in California annually, mostly among the elderly with heart and lung disease. Particulate pollution has also been associated with increases in infant and childhood mortality and increases in sudden infant death syndrome. 
 Ozone and particulates have also been shown to increase the incidence of hospitalization, resulting in up to 55,000 admissions per year in California.  These admissions are mainly for respiratory and cardiac related incidences such as heart attacks and asthma attacks.  
 Air pollution worsens asthma, causing up to 1,300,000 attacks per year in California, and leads to more severe and more frequent asthma attacks.  
 Air pollution also increases the number of school and work absences, with up to 3,300,000 lost work days per year in California resulting from air pollution. 
We are all vulnerable to the effects of air pollution at some point in our lifetime.  Air pollution effects have been seen in athletes as well as in children, the elderly, and those with heart and lung disease.

## Health Impacts1 of Diesel PM Emissions

**Annual, **

**1 ****Annual;  direct emissions only**

## Maximum Allowable Emissions1 to Comply with Federal Ozone Standard

**Remainder of  Allowable Emissions**

**1**** Los Angeles - 2010**

## California Diesel Fuel

- 15 ppm sulfur fuel available now for fleets
- 15 ppm sulfur required - June 2006
- On-road
- Off-road too
- Needed to support statewide PM filter retrofit program too
- No opposition from oil industry

## Summary

- California has adopted by regulation:
- 2007 HDD exhaust standards
- 2006.5 ultra low sulfur diesel fuel
- Emission reductions are large
- Needed to meet ozone standard (NOx)
- Needed to meet PM standard (NOx/PM)
- Delays or relaxation inconsistent with meeting clean air standards and protecting public health
# Presentation: 103836

## Future-Proofing Z39.506 December 2000

- John A. Kunze
- UC San Francisco and
- National Library of Medicine

## Z39.50 History: a Personal Look

- Inception and OSI postpartum
- Need for non-bibliographic IR
- Emergence of lean protocols and bulky markup

## Z39.50 Group Dynamics

- Collective < sum of parts?
- The bike shed discussion
- The restaurant debate
- Consensus-based planning woes elsewhere

## The Rise of Worse-is-Better

- Right way:  the MIT school (LISP)
- Worse-is-Better way:  the New Jersey school (UNIX/C)
- Worse gives ultimate computer virus (UNIX/C)
- Right gives endless design process and difficult implementation

## Back to Z39.50 Design

- OSI terminology still haunts us
- ASN.1 is for Albatross, BER is for Bummer
- Dealing with library-centric reputation
- Implementation burden of MARC

## Comparison with Search Engines

- Result set management not sacred
- Statefulness not sacred
- Piggybacked search
- Scan, Sort, Explain
- Init, Close, A&R Control

## Z39.50 at a Crossroads

- IR over HTTP
- _[www.google.com/search?q=pub+grub](http://www.google.com/search?q=pub+grub)_
- ?q=pub+grub&hl=en&safe=off&start=10
- NLM Entrez interface
- _[www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez)_
- The XML factor
# Presentation: 171292

## Privilege ProjectStatus Report

- Gabriele Garzoglio
- Fermilab CD/CCF

## Current Activities

- Support PRIMA and GUMS code for 32/64 bits for GT2 and GT4 for CMS T1&2 + OSG VO (best effort) (50% Vikram)
- Deploy and support gPlazma infrastructure for CMS Tier 1&2 (important for SRM v2 deployment)(50% Ted for 3 mo)
- Fix GUMS memory management problems (John Hover et al.: up to .5 FTE for 3 weeks)
- Stress test of the GT4 PRIMA call-out (John W.: 5 FTE days)
- GT4 PRIMA packaging in VDT (Vikram: Done)
- Integration of gLexec with Privilege (8.5 FTE weeks)
- Integrate GUMS with a monitoring/alarm infrastructure (.2 FTE for 2 mo)

## Possible future activities

- Simplify / Aggregate architecture
- Streamline gPlazma infrastructure (direct connection to GUMS)
- Reorganization of PDP services (GUMS talking to SAZ)
- Update communication protocols (from extended SAML v1.1 to SAML v2.0)
- Improve PRIMA build process
- Publication of role-based privilege policy (with EGEE)
- Extend privilege enforcing to network management
- Long term directions
- Investigate direct DN rights enforcement (no UID mapping)
- Integrate Privilege Project with Policy Discovery Services
- Extend privilege enforcing to include privacy
- Executable integrity

## VOMRS

- Release 1.2.3: improvements to the Web UI, bug fixes, internal info management (DONE)
- Release 1.3.0 (.4 FTE for 6 mo)
- Redesign of group and group role handling
- Multiple Acceptable User Policy doc. per VO
- Support / Maintenance (.15 FTE for 6 mo)
- Fermilab / OSG
- LCG (> 500 user, 200 of which CMS)
# Presentation: 261443

## SCKTROSouth Central Kansas Tornado Recovery Org.

- A Partnership of Faith Based and
- 	Non-Governmental Organizations
- Organized Under NVOAD Guidelines
- Dedicated to Meeting the Unmet Needs of Individuals and Families Throughout the Disaster Area

## SCKTRO – Who We Are

**American Red Cross**
**Church of the Brethren Disaster Response**
**Catholic Social Service**
**Church World Service**
**Evangelical Free Church**
**Disciples Home Missions Office of Volunteering**
**Friends Disaster Service**
**Hope Crises Response Network**
**KARE 1 Project **
**Kiowa County Ministerial Alliance**

**Lutheran Disaster Response**
**Mennonite Disaster Service**
**Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services**
**Nazarene Disaster Service**
**Presbyterian Disaster Services**
**Salvation Army**
**United Church of Christ**
**United Methodist Church – Disaster Response**
**United Way of the Plains**
**World Hope International**

## SCKTRO – What We Do

- Emergency Financial Help
- Utilities
- Food
- Prescriptions
- Transportation
- Housing
- Repairs
- New Construction
- Materials and Labor
- Referrals

## SCKTRO – How We Work

- Clients engaged through Case Management Process
- Assigned a Case Worker
- Mutually Developed Recovery Plan
- Advocate for Clients
- Help Clients Through the Process

## SCKTRO – What We’ve Done

- Coordinated, Housed, and Fed Hundreds of Volunteers
- Established Volunteer Village
- Over 32,000 hours logged July- Dec. Contributed Over $200,000 to Off-Set City Costs Through Volunteer Hour Credits
- 31 Houses Repaired; Over 250 Lots Cleaned
- 16 Houses Under Construction or Repair

## SCKTRO – What’s Next

- 30+ Future Builds or Repairs
- March Blitz Build
- Partner with USDA, MHRS, SCCF on Self Help Housing
- Partner with New York Says Thank You Foundation on Sept. 11 Project
- Work to Close Over 130 Remaining Cases Helping People Put Their Lives Back Together

## SCKTRO – What We Need

- How You Can Help and Participate With Us
- Funding for Personnel; July – December
- $109,500 Unfunded for Director, Coordinators, and Case Workers
- Building Materials for Blitz and Beyond
- Food and Funding for Volunteer Village

**Notes:**
22k director
43.5k Case Workers
36k Coordinators (2)
8k Support – Kitchen supervisor & Secretary

## SCKTRO

- Recently heard comments:  “These people are doing a great job in this community.  They’ve made a huge difference in people’s lives.  Without their efforts there would be some people literally living on the streets.”   “This is the group that is getting things done.”
- Helping people reconstruct their lives is difficult work – How can you join us in helping?

## SCKTRO – Contact Info.

- _[www.scktro.org](http://www.scktro.org/)_
- Main Office:
- 201 N. Main, PO Box 208,          Haviland, KS 67059
- 620-862-5882
- Construction/Volunteer Office
- East side of Davis Park – South trailer
- 620-723-3155
# Presentation: 811529

## Example infrared spectrum 

- absorbance
- positions:

- Lipids

- Amide I

- Amide II

- Water

- DNA/RNA

**Example infrared spectrum **
**of a biological system**

- Protein Amide I:	1690-1600
- Protein Amide II:	1575-1480
- Lipid =CH2:	3100-3000
- Lipid -CH2, -CH3:	3000-2850
- Nucleic Acid -PO2-:1225, 1084

- The peak positions of Amide I and II
- are sensitive to the protein secondary
- structure (-helix, -sheet, random
- coils, etc.)

- A good reference: Mantsch and Chapman, *Infrared spectroscopy of biomolecules*. 1996, New York: Wiley-Liss.
# Presentation: 217406

## Toolkit Coordinators Net Conference

- July 14, 2005

## Toolkit Update

- Status of Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- What’s new in SP1
- Additional Functionality
- Improved Functionality
- Fixes

## Status of SP1

- Currently being tested by select pilot sites
- Undergoing last few changes before release
- Target Release Date – first of August

## Changes in Service Pack 1

- Additional Functionality
- Ability to refresh Domain Data has been added under the Tools menu
- When creating ‘build your own’ polygon layers the acres are automatically calculated and added to the attribute table.
- Attribute Tool has been enabled on the Build Your Own digitizing toolbars.
- Added the Toolkit Data Cleaner utility to the SP 1 installation

## Changes in Service Pack 1

- Improved Functionality
- “ghost records” no longer appear in the PLU attribute table after a check out.
- Removed Unlock Folder icon from Folders tab, moved it to a menu option under Tools menu
- Improved error messaging in several areas

## Changes in Service Pack 1

- Fixes
- Problems with the split tool, identified in build 66, have been corrected
- Land Unit features can now be deleted from the PLU layer, without deleting the tabular data from the land units tab, and practice schedule.
- The practice schedule will now accept values less than 1.0 in the amount columns.
- Known problems with status changing from “write” to “read” on checked out folders have been corrected.
- Problem of planning date entered in PRS being dropped in TK has been fixed.

## Improvements in Contract Wizard

- A cost list is no longer required for non-cost shared items in CTA programs.
- The delete function no longer creates duplicate contract items in the Contract Wizard.
- Deleting contract items after sorting will no longer produce an error.
- Page break problems when printing large contracts has been corrected.
- Fatal Error no longer occurs when producing a contract when participant address information is unavailable.
- Issue with renumbering contract items has been resolved.

## Status of Land Units in the NCPDB

## Digitizing Issues with Append Tool
# Presentation: 657823

## Demand Controlled Filtration

**David Faulkner, MS, PE**
**Indoor Environment Department**
**Lawrence Berkeley National Lab**

## Demand Controlled Filtration

**What it is, what it is not**
**Background **
**Previous work**
**Energy savings potential **

## What it is, what it is not

**Controls particle concentration, via the recirculation fans, not controlling ventilation (amount of outside air)**
**As particle counts increase, then recirculation fans increase speed**

## Previous Study

**Class 100 cleanroom**
**Area of 300 ft****2**
**Intermittent use**
**Energy reduction of 60-80%**
**Reference: ****Faulkner, D., W.J. Fisk, and J.T Walton, “Energy Savings in Cleanrooms from Demand-Controlled Filtration,” *****Journal of the Institute of Environmental Sciences***** 39 (6): 21-27, 1996.  LBNL-38869.**** **

## Current Study

**Industrial Cleanroom in San Francisco Bay Area**
**4 separate regions with different cleanliness ratings**
**Experiments performed in Class 10,000 room**
**16 FFU**
**Floor Area 606 ft****2**

## Other Industrial Settings

**Southern CA industrial facility is saving energy by night-time setback**
**Large Southern CA manufacturer is in the process of implementing DCF**
**Large university in the East recently retrofitted cleanroom facilities and is ready to implement DCF**

## Case study – recirculation setback

**Setback based solely on time clock, 8:00 PM-6:00 AM**
**No reported process problems or concerns from process engineers**
**60% – 70% power reduction on turndown**

## Facility Existing Procedures

**All fans controlled by PC running proprietary software**
**Software capable of scheduling fan speeds**
**Fans controlled from 100% during day to 50% at night and weekends??**
**100% from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm**

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Study Phases

**Background measurements**
**DCF **
**Occupancy sensor**

## DCF

**Used a MetOne particle counter**
**Continued night and weekend setback**

## Occupancy Sensors

**Stopped weekend and night setback**
**6 wireless occupancy sensors**
**30 minute delay after last occupancy detection**

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## Slide 18

## Slide 19

## Slide 20

## Slide 21

## The Savings

| 
Configuration | 
kW-h | Percent of reference | Percent of reference |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 24/7 | 151 | Reference |  |
| Night & Weekend Setback | 109 | 72% | Reference |
| Occupancy Sensor | 96 | 63% | 88% |
| DCF | 91 | 60% | 83% |
| Half Speed | 70 | 46% | 64% |

## Conclusions

**Facility was already saving (?) 28% by night and weekend setback as compared to 24/7**
**Additional savings possible of 40% with DCF**
**Smaller but still significant savings of 37% with Occupancy Sensors**

## Acknowledgements

**Paul Rogensack and Tony Wong **
**Larry Chu and Peter Rumsey **
**Dennis DiBartolomeo, Duo Wang, and Bill Tschudi**
**Industry contacts**
**Pacific Energy Center**

## Future Work & Questions

**Is increase recirculation fan speed optimum?**
**Simple interface for control**

## DAVID FAULKNER

**D_Faulkner@lbl.gov**
**510.486.7326**
# Presentation: 295199

## Data Taking Mar 8 – 14

## D0 Status

- Taking data at close to 90% efficiency in “discovery mode”
- Exception: hit really hard by the **power glitch on Monday**
- Struggled all day to get DAQ going (networking problems)
- Several power supplies failed
- Problems in following store
- Lost forward muon power supply at the beginning of the store
- Silicon HV trips
- Not properly seated demultiplexer card in the Level 2 system – lost 2.5 hours
**Special runs** taken this week include
- Forward preshower calibration runs
- Test of Level 1 and Level 2 terms in new trigger list (scheduled to go online shortly after the shutdown) – preparing for higher luminosity after the shutdown
- High rate tests for 1kHz L2 accept rate
- About 16 hours (3 million events) with low threshold low bias calorimeter triggers
- Study calorimeter uniformity
- Extend the measurement of the jet energy scale in the region 10-20 GeV

## Store 3293 (Sunday)

**Store 3293 (Sunday)**

## Shutdown Plans

- Attempt to **reproduce / understand toroid related noise** (today + possibly tomorrow)
- Raise humidity
- Run magnet up to 2500A (normal operating point is 1500A)
- If noise is found, start binary search
**Prevent future occurrence of noise**
- Measure connection and coil resistance
- Do a ring test on each coil pack
- Install a voltage tap on each coil
- Check torque on all connecttions
- Mostly **maintenance**, plus minor repairs on all systems – I'll spare you the details (e.g. >20 tasks on mechanical and electrical support teams task list)
- Detector will likely remain closed

## D0 Status cont.

- Our **post-/pre-shutdown data sample**
- ∫L dt = 105.6 pb-1 delivered, 85.6 pb-1 recorded
- 81.1% efficiency
- not bad, considering that this includes start-up, ~2 days of downtime due to SMT rack monitoring/cooling problems, and ~5 days of toroid noise problems
- After three years as D0 run coordinator, Dmitri has stepped down
- I will try to fill the gap as much as I can
- Michael Weber is the new deputy run coordinator
# Presentation: 215668

## Data Taking July 14 – 20

## Integrated Luminosity

- Detector complete

## Data Taking Efficiency

- Detector complete

**May/June**

**July**

## Highlights / Lowlights

- Calorimeter low voltage power supply trips
- Around 140 (!) trips between Wed Jul 9 and Tue Jul 15
- Two problems, one with power supply, one with rack monitoring
- Ultimately solved during access on Tuesday Jul 15
- Need to study impact of trips on data quality (at 50Hz to tape there may be strange events while voltages are coming down)
- Different low voltage power supply trip on Saturday
- Investigated today, will require longer access to repair (OK for now)
- A couple of cases where Level 3 nodes or single board computers in readout crates would fail
- Improved monitoring, software, instructions
- Muon front-end and HV problems over the weekend
- Central: PDT HV trip, affecting 4 chambers. Identified and disabled during access today
- Forward: MDT front-end board causing frequent readout and trigger errors, ~once/hour. Replaced during access today

## Highlights cont.

- Other minor access work on Muon electronics, L1 Muon, L1 Track Trigger, Forward Proton Detector, during 3 controlled accesses
- New trigger list 12.20 online since Thursday morning
- Reduced some monitor trigger rates, decoupled some L1/L2 triggers, L3 changes for B triggers

- Fairly large number of (mostly minor) issues, aggravated by new shifters, operator errors, vacation time, ...
- Continue to work hard on getting back to 90%+ efficiency
# Presentation: 534424

## SINDA/FLUINTCullimore & Ring Technologies, Inc.,  Littleton, Colorado 

- Innovation
-    SINDA/FLUINT is a comprehensive finite-difference, lumped
-     parameter tool for analyzing complex thermal/fluid systems.

- Accomplishments
-    SINDA/FLUINT saves time and money by making the  design process
-     faster and easier, letting the customer gain a better understanding of their
-     complex system. The consumer  controls what is important and how to get
-     the answer to their design performance questions using the most efficient
-     approach. Furthermore, the code is completely extensible. The customer
-     chooses the features they want, decide what levels of accuracy and
-     approximation are appropriate, and  what outputs are needed. Individuals can
-     even add their own customizations as needed  to handle their unique design
-     task or to automate repetitive tasks.

- Commercialization
-  C&R's numerous clients span such diverse industries as electronics  packing, aerospace, automobile and aircraft  engine cooling, air conditioning, fuel lubrication and hydraulic systems, spacecraft and launch vehicle thermal control, propulsion, and environmental control, Power generation systems, Oil and gas pipeline and distribution systems, Process design and control, Furnaces and kilns.** **
- The firm has existing relationships with the corporations listed below:
-     Ford, Raytheon, Boeing, NASA, Chrysler , Northrop, Gruman, Aerospatiale, DoE  Laboratories, Cummins, Allied Signal, Kawasaki, U.S. Air Force,Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, U.S. Navy, General Motors, Westinghouse, Alenia Aerospazio, U.S. Army.

- Government/Science Applications
-     The NASA standard tool for thermohydraulic analysis,
-       SINDA/FLUINT,  includes thermodynamic and hydrodynamic
-       solutions specifically targeted at the growing  demand for
-       design and analysis of liquid propulsion systems.
-     Spacecraft and launch vehicle thermal, Propulsion, and
-       environmental control design.
-     Electronic packaging and component design.
-     Power generation systems.
-     Alternative energy systems and energy conservation design.
-     Automobile and aircraft engines, cooling, fuel, lubrication,
-       climate control, and hydraulic systems.
-     HVAC and fire protection systems.
-     Oil and gas pipeline, distribution, steam injection systems.
-     Process design and control.

- Points of Contact:
- NASA- Jane I Fox, 281-483-4815:
-  CR Technologies-_[sales@crtech.com](mailto:sales@crtech.com)__  _
- 1995 SBIR Phase II NAS9-97017

- Johnson Space Center     Date of Update 11/11/2002    Success Story NAS9-066
# Presentation: 681159

## The Research & Development Committee (R&DC)

**Roles/Responsibilities, and**
**How the R&DC evaluates its subcommittees**
**SRA Conference – Washington, DC**
**Thursday October, 9, 2008****2:30pm-3:45pm**

## Panel Members

**Lynne J. Brandes, RN, BA, CCRP**
**Research Compliance Officer (151)**
**VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System**
**1055 Clermont Street**
**Denver, CO  80220**
**(303) 399-8020 x 3314**
- _[lynne.brandes@va.gov](mailto:lynne.brandes@va.gov)_
**Eileen Collins, PhD**
**Chair, Research and Development Committee**
**Associate Professor, UIC **
**Edward Hines VA Hospital (151)**
**Hines, IL  60141**
**(708) 202-8387 x23525**
**eileen.collins@va.gov**
**John Hudson, MS**
**Research Compliance Officer (151)**
**Wm. S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin**
**2500 Overlook Terrace**
**Madison, Wisconsin 53705**
**(608) 256-1901 ext 1780**
- _[john.hudson3@va.gov](mailto:john.hudson3@va.gov)_

**VHA HANDBOOK 1200.1 **
**THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) COMMITTEE**
**	****The R&D Committee is responsible, through the Chief of Staff (COS) to the medical center Director, for oversight of the research program and for maintaining high standards throughout the R&D Program. Those standards include:**
**ensuring the scientific and ethical quality of VA research projects, **
**the protection of human subjects in research, **
**the safety of personnel engaged in research, **
**the welfare of laboratory animals, **
**security of VA data, and the **
**security of VHA research laboratories*****.***

## TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
(based on informal survey of VA RCO’s)

What aspects of a protocol does the R&D need to review; what is redundant to the reviews of the subcommittees?

Timelines for R&D review versus IRB/IACUC and SRS reviews

Monitoring of the scope of practice and credentialing requirements

_**(**_based on informal survey of VA RCO’s)
**What aspects of a protocol does the R&D need to review; what is redundant to the reviews of the subcommittees?**
**Timelines for R&D review versus IRB/IACUC and SRS reviews**
**Monitoring of the scope of practice and credentialing requirements**

## Topic 1

**What aspects of a protocol does the R&D need to review; what is redundant to the reviews of the subcommittees?**

## Topic 2

**	****Timelines for R&D review versus subcommittee (IRB/IACUC/SRS) **
**reviews **

## Topic 3

**Monitoring of the scope of practice and credentialing requirements**

## If time allows.....

**Additional discussion:**
**How are facilities handling the “briefing” of the medical center Director**
**Ongoing review of how the R&D sub-committees are functioning**
**Conflict of interest**
**Review of publications by R&D**
# Presentation: 674723

## University of Maryland NSF-MRSEC Highlight: Directed Self Organization of Step Bunches on Patterned Vicinal Si(111)Taesoon Kwon, Hung-Chih Kan and Ray Phaneuf DMR-0520471

- Applied Physics Letters **88**, 071914 (2006)

- High-temperature annealing of lithographically patterned vicinal Si(111) surfaces shows an intriguing *length-scale dependence of self-organization of step bunches* – resulting from the motion and interference of mis-orientation-derived straight steps and the circular steps which bound cylindrical pits. Annealing of patterns with small pit diameters produces a rapid relaxation to straight step-bunches, while *larger structures maintain significant in-plane corrugations* for as long as the out-of plane corrugations persist. This indicates the existence of a characteristic length scale, set by the competition between the Gibbs-Thomson effect and sublimation. Significantly, the eventual relaxation is to nearly uniform step trains indicating that the late stage evolution is dominated by repulsive step-step interactions.

- Variation of Self-Organization with Pattern Size
- (Top row) Topography resulting from annealing pit-patterned vicinal
- 	Si(111) surfaces vs. pattern length at T=1273°C for 30 s in
- 	ultrahigh vacuum. Initial pattern dimensions are (left) 1.4 μm
- 	diameter x 2.8 μm pitch, (center) 4 μm diameter x 8 μm pitch
- 	and (right) 8 μm diameter x 16.0 μm pitch.
- (Middle column) Effect of increasing annealing time for initial pattern
- 	dimensions of 4.0 um diameter, 8.0 um pitch. (top) 30 s, (center)
- 	65 s, (bottom) 120 s. Initial pit depths are approximately 35 nm.

**University of Maryland NSF-MRSEC Highlight: ****Directed Self Organization of Step Bunches on Patterned Vicinal Si(111)****Taesoon Kwon, Hung-Chih Kan and Ray Phaneuf** **DMR-0520471**
# Presentation: 056800

## “Hospital Uncompensated Care Issues”

**Teresa Coughlin, M.P.H.**
- Senior Research Associate
- The Urban Institute

## Background and Purpose of Medicaid DSH Program

- In 1981 Congress mandated Medicaid DSH payments
- $15 billion spent on DSH payments in 2001
- Purpose:
*maintain access for low-income*
*provide financial help to hospitals serving large numbers of low-income patients *
- Single biggest public program to help hospitals cover UC costs

## How Does a DSH Program Work?

- Each state is different
- States largely determine design
*which hospitals get DSH*
*allocation among hospitals *
*DSH payment methodology*
*number of DSH programs*
- Federal DSH spending is capped
*states have preset federal DSH allotments*

## DSH Payments to Hospitals

- Nationally, 80% go to acute care hospitals, with most going to county-owned or private hospitals
- 20% to mental hospitals
- Distribution varies by state

## Key Issues in DSH Program

- Highly controversial issue between federal government and states
*how states raise their share of DSH payments *
*what share of DSH payments stick with hospitals*
*distribution of federal DSH dollars across states  *
*several federal DSH reforms in 1990s*
- Sometimes controversial issue within a state
*among hospitals *
*between state and hospitals*

## Steps That States Can Take To Make Best Use of DSH Funding

- Ensure state is spending its federal allotment
- Ensure “true” safety net providers receive enough DSH payments
*change DSH eligibility or allocation formulas*
- Impose conditions on hospitals getting DSH
*e.g. must provide certain amount of free care or primary care*
- Encourage hospital innovation
*CO, IN, MI and TX use DSH to fund “insurance-like” programs for uninsured*

## New Federal DSH Provisions 

- New Provisions
- In 2003 cutbacks in federal DSH spending
*more than $1 billion; affect 35 states*
- In 2003 hospital-specific cap is expanded
*states can pay public hospitals 150% of UC costs, rather than usual 100%*
- Implications
*less money for UC *
*better targeting of DSH funds with 150% option  *

## Possible Federal Medicaid DSH Reforms

- Make it more akin to Medicare DSH
- Reallocate federal share of DSH
*national formula for state distribution*
*distribution on state need (e.g. number of low-income persons) and fiscal capacity *
*national formula for hospital allocation*

## Strategies To Help Prevent UC Costs 

- Promote insurance initiatives—Medicaid, SCHIP, HIFA waiver, ESI
- Encourage use of primary care
*expand network of community health centers (RHCs, FQHCs)*

## Other Ways to Help Pay for Hospitals UC

- Medicaid
*increase general Medicaid reimbursement *
*Medicaid upper payment limit (UPL) strategies*
- Increase state/local hospital subsidies

## Major Differences Between Medicare DSH and Medicaid DSH

- Size:  Medicaid DSH 3 times larger than Medicare ($15 billion versus $5 billion)
- Federal funding:  Limited for Medicaid; no limits for Medicare
- Formula:  Medicaid no national formula; national for Medicare
- State role:  Large for Medicaid; virtually no state role in Medicare
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***Organization, Roles and Responsibilities of the National CIO Office ******Karen S. Evans**** **Administrator, Office of**E-Government and Information Technology**United States Office of Management and Budget** *

- North American Day 2005

## Organization

## Organization

## Organization

- Detailed Federal Staff and Contract Support

## Organization

## Roles and Responsibilities

- Following is a sampling of responsibilities established for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology in the E-Government Act of 2002
- Oversight of the E-Gov Fund in support of interagency partnerships and innovation in using E-Government;
- Directing the activities of the CIO Council, advising on the appointments of CIO’s, and monitoring and consulting on agency technology efforts;
- Advising the Director of OMB on the performance of IT investments, as well as identifying opportunities for joint agency and government wide IT projects;
- Overseeing the development of enterprise architectures within and across agencies through the Federal Enterprise Architecture
- Overseeing specific IT reform initiatives, activities, and areas of shared responsibility relating to:
- Capital planning and investment control for IT;
- The development of enterprise architectures;
- Information security;
- Privacy;
- Access to, dissemination of, and preservation of government information;
- Accessibility of IT for persons with disabilities

## For more information...

- Karen S. Evans
- Administrator
-    Office of E-Government and Information Technology
-    Office of Management and Budget
- (202) 395-1181
- kevans@omb.eop.gov
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## Overview of ManualandGeneral Description

- National Manual Version 1.56

## Manual Layout

- Title Page

- Table of Contents

- Introduction

- Sections

- Appendices

- Regional Supplements

## Title Page

- Volume 1:  P2 Plots (FIA)

- Volume 2:  P3 Plots (FHM) distributed at P3 training

- Initial Date: January 8, 2001

- Revised Date:  January 18, 2002

- Based on National Core Field Guide 1.5, January 2001

- Manual Version 1.56

- Updated Page Index

## Table of Contents

- Items are listed in order of the 4-digit item number
- National Core Items
- are listed first
- Regional Items are
- listed second, are
- shaded, and begin
- with ‘R’
- Page numbers include section and page (4-1)

## Introduction

- Version History
- Field Guide Layout
- Units of Measure

## Section 0.0 General Description

- 0.1 Plot Setup
- Microplot is offset 90 degrees and 12.0 feet from subplot center

- No more prism plots in VA and no more KY remeasure plots

## Section 0.0 General Description

- 0.2 Plot Integrity
- Do not chop vines from tally trees
- Either pry vines off the trunk to measure DBH or estimate DBH if cannot pry them off

- Still okay to scribe and nail tags on witness trees
- Still okay to bore trees on the plot

## Section 0.0 General Description

- 0.3 Ownership Information
- No changes in collecting ownership information
- Be sure to notify state coordinator or field supervisor when ownership changes to or from National Forest

## Section 0.0 General Description

- 0.4 Locating Sample Plots
- Starting Point guidelines
- Photo work
- Using GPS to establish SK 1 plots
- Witness Tree guidelines

## Section 0.0 General Description

- 0.5 County Edit Procedures
- New Plot Summary Sheet

- Details of this sheet will be covered Thursday morning

## Questions?

**Notes:**
If needed.
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## Supporting a Collaboration Continuum

- Deb Agarwal,
- Chuck McParland,
- Marcia Perry, and
- Sachiko Halper
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

##  Collaboration Environment

- Collaboration communication options
- Meeting in person
- Access Grid
- Videoconference
- Teleconference/telephone
- E-mail
- Directory Service

- Increasing % of time
- Decreasing interactivity

## Collaboration Realities

- Collaboration takes effort
- Must provide a perceptible benefit
- Must fit with current work practices
- Collaboration tools need to be used regularly (not on the shelf)
- Group must already have a strong need to collaborate

## Pervasive Collaborative Computing Environment Goals

- Support ‘continuous’ collaboration
- Target daily tasks and base connectivity
- Web-based interface for ease of use/installation
- Leverage off of existing components when possible
- Standards-based components
- Leverage off the Grid services
- Security
- Directory services
- Access Grid is the top of the continuum

## Example: PCCE Messaging Requirements

- Provides a place to find and interact with your collaborators
-  Supports asynchronous and synchronous communication
- More immediate than e-mail but less intrusive than the phone (text-based)
- Supports private and group conversations
- Allows collaborator to be in multiple conversations simultaneously

## Existing Tools

- MOO
- Provides persistent virtual spaces
- Can only be in one place at a time
- Instant Message
- Support for multiple simultaneous conversations
- Servers not available for local use
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Support for multiple simultaneous conversations
- Open source clients and servers available

## PCCE – Messaging

- Standard IRC server (hybrid.the-project.org)
- Client is a Java applet (originally from nova-irc.sourceforge.net)
- Modified client to add enhancements
- Permanent contexts (virtual spaces)
- Storage of preferences and current state
- Sounds for notification of events

## PCCE Messaging Applet

## Historical: Remote Camera Control Available

**Goal **
- Provide remote control capabilities for videoconferencing over the internet
**Remote Camera Control System**
- Drives serial-controllable video devices
- Allows remote user to change video camera/view
- Server accepts ASCII control requests
**Client designed as a Java application **

## Remote Camera Control

**Platforms and supported devices**
- Language
- Server - C++;
- Client – Java
- Communication - ASCII
- Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Windows 95/98/NT
- Sony EVI-D30/D31, Canon VC-C1/VC-C3 cameras, Panasonic WJ-MX50 videoswitcher

## Remote Camera Control Interface

## Conclusion

- Collaborative interactions need to be supported by a continuum of tools
- Feeling of basic connection is critical
- Many interactions do not require face-to-face
- By supporting the day-to-day interactions we increase the need for and utility of Access Grid environments

## URL

- http://www-itg.lbl.gov/Collaboratories
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## February 2009

**Physical Biosciences**
- Vacant
- Bob Stack, PNNL

**Photosynthetic Systems**
- Gail McLean

**Chemical Sciences, Geosciences,**
** ****and Biosciences Division**

**Eric Rohlfing, Director**
- Diane Marceau, Program Analyst
- Michaelene Kyler-King, Program Assistant

**Jim Horwitz, Acting Director**
- Ehsan Khan, Program Manager Christie Ashton, Program Analyst
- Charnice Waters, Secretary

**Materials Sciences and **
**Engineering Division**

**Scientific User Facilities Division**

**Pedro Montano, Director**
- Linda Cerrone, Program Support Specialist
- Rocio Meneses, Program Assistant

**Operations**

**Construction**

**X-ray Scattering**
- Lane Wilson

**Neutron Scattering**
- Thiyaga P. Thiyagarajan

**Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopies**
- Jane Zhu

**Ultrafast Science and Instrumentation**
- Vacant

**Exp. Cond. Mat. Phys.**
- Andy Schwartz
-    Doug Finnemore, Ames

**Theo. Cond. Mat. Phys.**
- Michael Lee
- Arun Bansil, NEU
-   Jim Davenport, BNL
- Kim Ferris, PNNL

**Physical Behavior **
**of Materials**
- Refik Kortan

**Mechanical Behavior**
**and Radiation  Effects**
- John Vetrano

**Tech. Coordination Program Management**
- John Vetrano

**Materials Chemistry**
- Dick Kelley
- Jim McBreen, BNLVacant

**Biomolecular Materials**
- Mike Markowitz

**Synthesis and Processing**** **Bonnie GerstenJeff Tsao, SNLMike Coltrin, SNL

**Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research**
- Tim Fitzsimmons
- Helen Farrell, INL

**Catalysis Science**
- Raul Miranda
- Paul Maupin
- Michael Chen, ANL

**Heavy Element**** ****Chemistry**
- Lester Morss
-    Norm Edelstein, LBNL

**Separations and Analysis**
- Bill Millman
- Larry Rahn, SNL

**Geosciences**
- Nick Woodward
-   Pat Dobson, LBNL

**Solar Photochemistry**
- Mark Spitler

**Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences**
- Jeff Krause

**Computational and Theoretical Chemistry**
- Mark Pederson

**Spallation Neutron Source Upgrades**
- Tom Brown

**NSLS II **
- Tom Brown

**TEAM**
- Tom Kiess

**Instrument MIEs **
**(SING, LUSI, etc.)**
- Tom Kiess

**Advanced Light Source **
**User Support Building**
- Tom Brown

**X-ray and Neutron Scattering Facilities**
- Roger Klaffky

**Nanoscience Centers &**
**E-beam Centers**
- Tof CarimVacant

**Accelerator and Detector R&D**
- Vacant

**Facility Coordination, Metrics, Assessment**
- Van Nguyen

**Linac Coherent**
**Light Source**
- Tom Brown

**February 2009**

**Technology Office Coordination**
- Marvin Singer

**Condensed-Phase and Interfacial Mol. Sci.**
- Greg Fiechtner

**Gas-Phase Chem. Phys. **
- Wade Sisk
- Larry Rahn, SNL

**BES Operations**** **
- Rich Burrow, DOE Technical Office Coordination
- Don Freeburn, DOE and Stakeholder Interactions
- Ken Rivera, Laboratory Infrastructure/ES&H
- Katie Perine, Program Analyst/BESAC

**Posted 03FEB09**
# Presentation: 457021

## FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

- Product/Service Excellence & Innovation

- Customer Relationship Management

- Operational Efficiency

- Performance Measures

- Employer of Choice

- Employee Satisfaction Level
- Percent of New Hires at Entry Level
- Percent of Training Plan Implemented
- Employee Rating on High Performance Culture
- Percent Increase in Underrepresented Categories
- Percent of Employees Trained in Targeted Occupations

-  Number of Strategic Partnerships

- Percent Change in
- Current Customer Funding vs. Previous Year

- Cost Recovery Dollars Received
- Operating Costs as a Percent of Total Cost

- Percent of Additional or Follow-on Work from Customers

- Customer Satisfaction That Total Solution Delivered
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## First Place Fund for Youth

## First Place Fund for Youth Mission

**First Place was founded in 1998 to reduce the rates of homelessness and poverty among youth who are making the difficult transition from foster care to independent living.**
**First Place serves youth throughout the Bay Area, including San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties.**

## First Place Fund for YouthFoster Care Background 

- There are more than 520,000 children and youths in foster care in the United States
- A foster child is someone taken out of their home in cases of abuse, neglect, or parental absence
- “Foster care” is a catch-all term used for out-of-home placement with foster families, group homes, or relative caregivers
- One in five foster children lives in California

## First Place Fund for Youth:  Emancipated Foster Youth

- Each year, nearly 20,000 children will exit or be “emancipated” from foster care at the age of 18
- 5,000 children will emancipate in California,  nearly 600 of whom live in the Bay Area
- At the time of exit, almost all government-funded services for these youth are terminated, and they are expected to succeed on their own

## Emancipation Training CenterOverview

- Individual case management
- Housing search assistance
- Shallow rent subsidies
- Educational/vocational counseling
- Pre-emancipation workshops
- Community building activities

## Emancipation Specialist Program Overview

- Therapeutic approach to educational attainment
- Youth centered and mobile
- Permanent connection
- Individual emancipation planning
- Homeless prevention

## Supported Housing Program Overview

- Scattered site master lease apartments
- We do not own a building
- Permanent housing model
- Flexible, cost-effective model
- Scalable
- Serving 75 youths at any given time

## First Place Fund for YouthSupported Housing Program

- Participants receive:
- Access to a safe, permanent, affordable apartment
- A 24-month graduated rental subsidy
- Move-in assistance, including truck rental and physical labor
- A $200 move-in stipend to purchase necessities

## Supported Housing Promotes Housing Stability Among EFY

## Supported Housing Promotes Employment and Delayed Child Bearing Among EFY

## Supported Housing Promotes Safety and Self-sufficiency Among EFY

## First Place Fund for YouthPlans for the Future

- Increase* *housing capacity from 90 to 150 youths per year by FY 2009
- Partner with nonprofit developers
- Preserve and expand the State Housing for Foster Youth Fund
- Increase community investment among former foster youth by broadening our base of individual supporters
- Secure First Place’s identity in the community as the leader in this field and the “gold standard” for housing for foster youth

## First Place Fund for Youth

- Together, we can double the housing available to former foster youth

- Thank you for your leadership in stopping homelessness before it starts!
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## Slide 1

## 511

**Your link to short-term, route specific weather forecasts and road condition reports.**
**A partnership project between the Nebraska State Patrol and the Nebraska Department of Roads.**

## Nebraska is the first

**State to use the FCC**
**designated 511 number for**
**its entire highway system!**

## The 511 Traveler Information System:

**Is a rural Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) deployment project and brings transportation technology to the rural environment. . .**
**Gathers weather and road condition information together using a variety of advanced technology systems. . .**
**Provides the traveling public easy access to information so they can make informed decisions.**

**Nebraska’s 511 is patterned after the ****#SAFE**** Advanced Traveler Information System developed by Meridian Environmental Technologies, Inc., and in use in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.**
**Dial 511 in Nebraska and you can access ****#SAFE**** reports in neighboring states.**
**That’s information for over 44,000 miles of roadway!**

## Where does all that information come from?

**Doppler Weather Radar**
**National Lightening Detection Network**
**Road Sensor Network**
**Agricultural Weather Network**
**Satellite Data**
**First Person Reports from State Highway Personnel and State Patrol Officers**
**And More.......**

## Data Acquisition System

## 511

**   ****Replaces Nebraska State Patrol’s existing 1-800-906-9069 road report number, which will be phased out as users become comfortable dialing 511.**

## Does it cost anything to call 511?

**Cellular telephone users will incur the usual fees associated with any cellular call.**
**When land line service is available, users should incur no additional charges by calling 511.**

## What’s in the future for 511?

**World Wide Web Access to 511 Information**
**Voice Recognition and Language Choices**
**Land Line Access**
**Road Construction and Detour Reports**
**Metropolitan Traffic Reports**
**Warnings of crashes and Traffic Tie-Ups**
**Tourist Information through Partnership with the Nebraska Department of Economic Development**
**Services or Yellow Pages**
**Commercial Vehicle Information**

## Look for New 511 Road Signs Along State Highways

**Look for New 511 Road Signs Along State Highways**

## Use 511 to Plan Your Trips Wisely

**Avoid Travel in Inclement Weather**
**Use Your Cell Phone Safely**
**Buckle Up and Obey the Law**

**Your Safety is Our Goal!**