BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 826714

## Legal Aspects of Studying Pregnant Women	

- Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD

## The punch lines

- The potential for liability is far greater if this research is **not **conducted
- Pregnant women are not fetal containers and are not incompetent per se

## Potential liability for not studying pregnant women

- Harm to women
- Unreasonable failure to study (negligence)
- Failure to warn and unsafe (products liability)
- Discriminatory failure to study
- Analogy to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Title VII, and equal protection
- Inequitable selection of subjects – IRB

## Potential liability for not studying pregnant women

- Harm to the fetus
- Thalidomide, DES, coumadin, tetracycline, phenytoin
- It is worth remembering that the only reason there wasn’t massive liability for DES was the presence of many manufacturers

## Potential liability for studying pregnant women

- The centrality of appropriate review and informed consent
- The big issue is the risk of harm to the developing fetus
- Can the woman’s decision to participate preclude suit on behalf of the child?
- Would a FDA regulation requiring that  pregnant women be studied preempt state remedies?

## Who should decide about studying pregnant women?

- The women themselves
- Partner
- Is this required by the regulations? Should it be?  Can it be?
- IRB
- National review panel for high risk research?

##  Selected References

- Institute of Medicine, Women and Health Research, Vols. 1 & 2 (1994)
- Vanessa Merton, The Exclusion of Pregnant, Pregnable, and Once-Pregnable People (A.K.A. Women) From Biomedical Research, American Journal of Law and Medicine 19: 369-452 (1993)
- Nancy Kass, Holly Taylor, Patricia King, Harms of Excluding Pregnant Women from Clinical Research:  The Case of HIV-Infected Pregnant Women, JLME 24: 36-46 (1996)
- Int’l Union, UAW v. Johnson Controls, 111 S.Ct. 1196 (1991)
# Presentation: 537675

## Study of the HT & MHT triggersat HLT 

***Gheorghe Lungu***
***Rockefeller University***

## Introduction

- CSA07 QCD ~105k events (5k per pt_hat bin)
- Calo Jets: iterative Cone 0.5, uncorrected, Et > 1GeV
- _Beam parameters_
- Inst. Luminosity=1E32
- Filled Bunches=1000 (out of 3557)
- Bunch crossing time = 25ns
- _Definitions_
- HT = sum of all Calo jets Et
- MHT = vector sum of Calo jets Et

- _Introduction_

## Trigger Bits

- _Default HLT JetMet bits_
- HLT1jet
- HLT2jet
- HLT3jet
- HLT4jet
- HLT1MET
- HLT2jetAco
- HLT1jet1METAco
- HLT1jet1MET
- HLT2jet1MET
- HLT3jet1MET
- HLT4jet1MET
- HLT1MET1HT
- HLT1jetPE1 (prescale=10)
- HLT1jetPE3 (prescale=100)
- HLT1jetPE5 (prescale=10000)
- HLT2jetvbfMET
- HLTS2jet1METNV
- HLTS2jet1METAco

- _New trigger bits_
- HT
- MHT
- HT & MHT
- The new triggers are based on the HT and MHT constructed with CaloJets.

## Inclusive Single Trigger Rates

- Inclusive Single Rate = rate of events passing a given trigger criterion

- HT trigger

- HT+MHT trigger

- MHT trigger

## Total Rates

- Total Rate = rate of events passing at least one trigger criterion

- HT trigger

- MHT trigger

- HT+MHT trigger

## Fractional Extra Bandwidth

- Fractional Extra Bandwidth = 1 - Exclusive Single Rate / Total Rate

- Exclusive Single Rate = rate of events passing only a given trigger criterion

- HT trigger

- MHT trigger

- HT+MHT trigger

## Plans

- Available sample used FastSim
- Plan to create the sample from scratch using full simulation
- What’s the difference between LM1_isasdkpyt and LM1_sftsdkpyt?
- Your suggestions/comments are welcome.

- _Plans_

## BACK-UP Plots
# Presentation: 269790

## Wyoming WIC PresentationEBT User’s Conference November 2007Making EBT Affordable to WIC

## Wyoming is capitalizing on work already done by Texas & New Mexico!

- Transfer of existing NM EBT System
- Augmenting as much as possible
- Cards -- Purchasing cards via the NM card contract
- Verifone Card Readers
- Store integration with chain stores
- Store integration with non-chain suppliers

## Host Processing

- Advantage of NM EBT system = a transferable settlement host
- Feasible to have newly centralized Wyoming Department of Health Information Technology group to set up and maintain
- Customer Services
- ACH File Transfer

## Capitalizing on NM Card Contract

- The overall cost of smart cards has decreased.
- The cost of the 32K chip for our new EBT system is approximately the same as the cost of the 8K smartcards we are currently using.

## Retailers

- TX/NM investments in area of retailer integration
- Partnership with retailers
- Willing to invest some of their own resources
- Communication with suppliers and stores is key

## Retailers - continued

- All stores integrated, if possible
- Stand aside
- Two companies have these systems.
- Only three years of maintenance is included with purchase.
- Responsibility will remain in stores.
- This eliminates a designated retailer manager.

## Contractors & USDA

- Acting as our own prime contractor
- Planning, DDI and QA Contractors – all “above and beyond”!
- USDA-MPRO and FNS
- National UPC Database
- Category Subcategory List
- WDH-IT

## New WY Design Features Which Will Benefit Other States

- Modularity of system components
- Documentation
- Thorough and accurate
- Well labeled
- Updated regularly to reflect evolving project decisions
- Retained on SharePoint repository
- Available to YOU when ready to convert!
# Presentation: 688495

## National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

*South Central Regional*
*Alcohol Summit*
*Kenneth Copeland*
*Regional Programs Manager*
*817-978-0120*

## Top 10 Leading Causes of Death in the United States for 2002, by Age Group

## 2003 South Central RegionPersons Killed in Crashes

- <date/time>

- 2003 South Central RegionPersons Killed in Crashes

**Sources  FARS, NASS GES**

*	**	**	**  **Total**	**AR**	**	**%*
*Arkansas**	**	**    637**	**254**	**	**41*
*Louisiana**	**    894   **	**406**	**	**45*
*New Mexico**	**    439**	**198**	**	**45**	*
*Oklahoma**	**    668      255         38 **	*
*Texas**	**        3,675    1,709**	**	**47*

## South Central RegionPersons Killed in Crashes

- <date/time>

|  | Year |  | %
Change  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 2002 | 2003 |  |
| Total Killed | 6,423 | 6,313 | -1 |
| 
Alcohol Related Deaths | 2,864 | 2,822 | +1 |

- South Central RegionPersons Killed in Crashes

**Sources:  FARS, NASS GES**

## NHTSA Priority

*Supported by:*
*Community Outreach*
*Earned & Paid Media*
*Operation Blue Talon*

**Notes:**
The first priority - High Visibility Enforcement - builds on efforts that have been successful in the past.

We have considerable experience in using this strategy to increase safety belt use.  This Labor Day, we will be once again asking law enforcement to increase their efforts to enforce intoxicated driver laws.  Law enforcement are our main partner in the campaign to reduce alcohol related crashes, injuries and deaths.

## Crackdown Dates

- August 19th – September 5th

*Sustained Enforcement Required !!!*

## NHTSA Priority

- Prosecutors&DWI Courts

## NHTSA National Support

**National Paid Media**
**Crackdown Coordination **
**Data**
**Research & Evaluation – Texas Project**
**National website**
**Safe Communities Coordinator**
**IACP Chiefs Challenge**

## www.stopimpaireddriving.org

*www.stopimpaireddriving.org*

**Notes:**
NHTSA has develop resources for the alcohol campaign that can be found at  stopIMPAIREDdriving.org.

## NHTSA Regional Support

**Coordination with SHOS – Blue Talon**
**Alcohol Coordinator**
** ****Law Enforcement Liaison**
** ****Diversity Outreach Liaison**
**Media Specialist**
**Spanish speaking Program Manager**
**Data Specialist **
**Regional website**
**Judicial Liaison**
**Training **

## NHTSA’s South Central Regional Alcohol Coordinator

**Kenneth Copeland**
**(817) 978-0120**
**kenneth.copeland@nhtsa.dot.gov**
# Presentation: 070477

## Electricity Efficiency in Washington State - Capturing the Opportunities 

- Electricity Efficiency in Washington State - Capturing the Opportunities

- Tony Usibelli
- _[tonyu@ep.cted.wa.gov](mailto:tonyu@ep.cted.wa.gov)__ _
- (360) 956-2125
- Director, Energy Policy Division

## Policy Directions for Electricity Efficiency Actions are Clear 

- 5th NW Power and Conservation Council Power Plan
- Efficiency is the region’s best resource choice
- West Coast Governors’ Global Warming Initiative
- Electricity efficiency is the best near-term GHG reduction strategy
- WA State Energy Strategy
- Electricity efficiency has worked and can work under the “old” integrated utility model
- Utility Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs)
- Utility plans are yielding major commitments to efficiency

## Conservation is the Cornerstone of the 5th Power Plan 

*“**The region should increase its efforts to secure cost-effective conservation, beginning immediately. It is the least expensive and has the least adverse environmental impacts of any available resource. Development of this conservation will reduce the likelihood of another electricity crisis like the one the West experienced in 2000 and 2001.”** *

- NW Power and Conservation Council, *“5**th** Power Plan Summary and Action Plan”,* (Preliminary Draft”  September 9, 2004)

## Washington Faces Unique Challenges and Opportunities

**Washington Faces Unique Challenges and Opportunities**

**Washington has few government incentives**
**No System Benefits Charge (SBC)**
**Limited state budget **
**We have a complex mix of consumer and investor-owned utilities**
**Growing recognition that electricity efficiency can be an economic development strategy **
**Jobs **
**Lower utility bills **
**Washington has a history of major electricity efficiency achievements **

## State government has a key role in electricity efficiency 

**Energy codes are **_**the**_** “lost opportunity” resource **
**States can set equipment efficiency standards **
**Governor can issue executive orders on efficiency and sustainability**
**Private companies have supported public sector efficiency- $100 million in Energy Performance Contracts **
**State can set energy life cycle and sustainability requirements (LEED) for new/remodel construction **

## Summary 

**Policy imperatives are clear – electricity conservation/efficiency is the best resource investment**
**Implementing requires actions by numerous organizations (state government, utilities, private sector, regional organizations) **
**Washington has a lot underway and can meet regional targets with bit more commitment and effort  **
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## What do you give your child for snacks?

**¿Qué da a su niño para los bocadillos?**

## Your child depends on You to learn new thingsOffer your child 5 fruits and vegetables each day

**Tú hijo depende de**** **_**Tí**_** ****para aprender cosas nuevas  **
**Ofrécele 5 frutas y vegetales al día**

## Set a good example – your child is watching

**Dé buen ejemplo – su niño se fija**

## At this age, it’s normal for your child to refuse a new foodKeep trying

**A esta edad es normal que su niño rechace un nuevo alimento**
**Siga intentándolo**

## Fruits and Vegetables Taste Great and Help your Child Grow and GlowLas Frutas y Verduras Saben Muy Bien y Ayudan a su Niño a Crecer y Resplandecer

**They are:****	****Son:**
**a healthy snack**
**un bocadillo saludable**
**easy to prepare and carry with you**
**fáciles de preparar y de llevar**
**rich in vitamins and fiber**
**ricas en vitaminas y fibra**
**low in salt**
**de bajo contenido de sal**

## The Mystery Bag - Can you tell what is in it?La Bolsa Misteriosa - ¿Sabe lo que hay en ella?

## Ways I can help my child eat more fruits and vegetablesFormas en que puedo ayudar para que mi hijo/hija coma más frutas y vegetales

## Safety Tips to Keep in MindConsejos de Seguridad a Tener en Cuenta

**Cut fruits and vegetables into small sizes**
**Corte las frutas y verduras en trozos pequeños**
**	****	****	****Wash your hands**
**	****	****	****Lávese las manos**

## Safety Tips to Keep in MindConsejos de Seguridad a Tener en Cuenta

**	****	****Scrub vegetables and fruit with skins before eating**
**	****	****Restriegue las frutas y verduras que tienen piel antes de comerlas**
**	**
**	****	****	****	**
**	****	****Rinse other fruits and vegetables with water before eating**
**	****	****Enjuague con agua las otras frutas y verduras antes de comerlas**

## Offer 5 fruits and vegetables a dayOfrecele 5 frutas y vegetales al dia

**Mark the days that you meet your Fit WIC goal. Bring this calendar to your next WIC clinic visit.**
**Marque cada día al terminar su actividad de Fit WIC.  En su próxima visita a la clínica de WIC, traiga este calendario.**

- September 2001
# Presentation: 681335

## Election Administration Support Division2007 Accomplishments

- EAC Public MeetingDecember 11, 2007Austin, Texas

## Election Administration Support Division Responsibilities

- HAVA Payments to States
- National Voter Registration Act Implementation
- HAVA Title III Voluntary Guidance
- Language Accessibility Program
- Help America Vote College Program (including grants)
- EAC Pollworker Program
- National Parent Student Mock Election Grant Program

## Oversight of HAVA Funds

- Conducted training session for election officials during the NASS and NASED Winter Meetings.
- Created sample state annual reporting forms
- All training materials posted on EAC website

## Report to Congress: States’ Use of HAVA Funds

- States reported:
- $1,781,943,111 HAVA funds spent
- $1,339,389,395 remaining balance
- Approximately $152 million interest earned
- Covered Title I, Sections 101 and 102 as of December 31, 2006 and Title II, Section 251 as of September 30, 2006
- Report available on EAC website

## Report to Congress: States’ Use of HAVA Funds

## State Certifications:HAVA Title III Compliance

- 6 States have certified to the EAC that they have complied with all the requirements in Title III of HAVA
- American Samoa
- Florida
- Kentucky
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania

## Audit Resolutions

- 26 Audits Resolved during FY 2007
- 9 Office of Inspector General Audits
- $10,466,237 repaid to State election funds for questioned costs, missing state matching funds, and lost interest
- $68,403 repaid to U.S. Treasury
- 17 State Single Audits
- $1,390,722 repaid to State election funds for questioned costs, missing state matching funds, and lost interest
- $90,000 repaid to U.S. Treasury

## Language Accessibility Program

- Glossary of Key Election Terminology
- English/Spanish released April 2007
- 1,843 terms and phrases used in election administration
- Culturally and linguistically appropriate translations
- New glossaries coming in Summer 2008
- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog

## National Voter Registration Act

- National Voter Registration Form was the most downloaded file from the EAC website

## National Voter Registration Act

- Every EAC meeting since September has contained NVRA issues on the agenda
- EAC received public comment on whether to transfer previously adopted NVRA regulations from Federal Election Commission
- Created framework, with timeline, for NVRA rulemaking process

## Edgardo Cortés
Election Research Specialist
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
1225 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
866-747-1471 (toll free)
Fax:  202-566-3127
ecortes@eac.gov
www.eac.gov

**Edgardo Cort****és**
- Election Research Specialist
- U.S. Election Assistance Commission
- 1225 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 1100
- Washington, DC 20005
- 866-747-1471 (toll free)
- Fax:  202-566-3127
- ecortes@eac.gov
- www.eac.gov
# Presentation: 300830

## Local Moment and Heavy electron Physics, P. Coleman, Rutgers, DMR 0312495/0605935

-  Physics  has traditionally focused on stable phases of matter---such as superconductors, magnets or ferroelectrics---but with modern materials it becomes possible to study unstable quantum phases of matter.  new behavior develops around the precarious point of  phases matter: a ``quantum critical point''.
-  (Over - one of the hallmarks of quantum criticality is a linear resistance over many decades of temperature - seen here at the field tuned QCP of YbRh2Si2).
- The puzzle of quantum criticality is tantalizingly important for material science, because quite frequently,  electrons appear to preempt  intense critical fluctuations of a quantum critical point by re-organizing themselves at the last minute  into a new stable phase of matter.
- Methods developed to understand how electrons break up at a Quantum Critical Point are closely linked to those used to understand the break-up of matter in a quark gluon plasma.
# Presentation: 788894

## Update on Phase Ionization Cooling using Parametric Resonance

- David Newsham
- Muons, Inc.
- Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting – FNAL
- 17-20 March 2008

## Muon Ionization Cooling & PIC Concept

- 19 March 2008

## Phase Space Example

- Perturbation Only

- Perturbation with Absorber

- 19 March 2008

## Base cell from 1.6 m to 0.7 m
Absorbers every alternate base cell (x=2, y=)
From matrix analysis  = -0.175

- Absorbers every alternate base cell (x=2, y=)
- From matrix analysis  = -0.175

- Simplified 2-‘Cell’ Layoutwith Perturbation

- 19 March 2008

## PIC Lattice Mark-IV

- Absorber and energy recovery

-  = 74.6°  B = 2.17 T
- Q ~ -56 T/m (1 cm long)
- Base Cell = 0.7 m

- 19 March 2008

## Phase Space

- No Perturbation

- Acceptance limited by physical apertures

- 19 March 2008

## Add Perturbation

-  = +10%

-  = -10%

- No Absorber

- 19 March 2008

## PIC Cooled Phase Space

-  = 5%
-  3.5 mm Be

-  = 10%
-  7 mm Be

- 19 March 2008

## Emittance

- No Stochastics
- Monochromatic (Po = 100 MeV/c)
- x = y =6 mm
- Px = 5 MeV/c
- Py = 3 MeV/c
- Measured between absorbers

- 19 March 2008

## Linear Transfer Matrix

- 19 March 2008

## Tijk Aberration Matrix

- T522 =  3.429
- T544 =  2.912
- T144 = -1.027
- T324 = -1.025
- T346 = -0.655
- T126 = -0.590
- T526 = -0.313
- T566 =  0.197

- T511 =  0.079
- T216 =  0.016
- T533 =  0.013
- T414 = -0.011
- T234 = -0.011
- T313 =  0.011
- T423 = -0.005
- T111 = -0.005

- 19 March 2008

## Vary x

- 19 March 2008

## Vary Px/Po

- 19 March 2008

## Vary y

- 19 March 2008

## Vary Py/Po

- 19 March 2008

## Vary P

- 19 March 2008

## Vary time

- 19 March 2008

## PIC with Sextupoles

- 19 March 2008
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## 15 K Synchrotron Charge Densities of two Isostructural Metal Organic Frameworks H. F. Clausena, R. D. Poulsena, J. Overgaarda, Y.-S. Chenb, M.-A. Chevalliera, B. B. Iversena  a Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmarkb ChemMatCARS, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National LaboratoryChemMatCARS NSF CHE 0087817

**15 K Synchrotron Charge Densities of two Isostructural Metal Organic Frameworks** *H. F. Clausen**a**, **R. D. Poulsen**a**, J. Overgaard**a**, **Y.-S. Chen**b**, **M.-A. Chevallier**a**, B. B. Iversen**a**  **a** Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark**b **ChemMatCARS, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory*ChemMatCARS NSF CHE 0087817

- Two isostructural MOF structures M3(C8H4O4)4(C5H11NO)3(C4H12N)2 have been synthesized where M is zinc (**Zn**) or cobalt (**Co**). The experimentally measured electron densities were measured at the ChemMatCARS synchrotron x-ray facility at the Advanced Photon Source. The two isostructural metal organic frameworks of **(Zn)** and **(Co)** consists of metal atom chains interconnected by the 3 unique BDC linkers forming a 3D layered network with large cavities. The metal chains are subdivided into groups of 3 metal atoms, which are interconnected by the BDC-linkers. There are 2 disordered DEF molecules and 1 diethyl amine cation (DEA) which are positioned in the voids of the structure.

- The residual density, static deformation density, and Laplacian maps for selected parts of **(Co-MOF)** are shown.** **The contour level for the residual and the dynamic deformation maps is 0.1 e/Å3 with solid contours being positive. In the Laplacian maps the contour levels are 2x10y (x = 0,1,2,3 and y = -2,-1,0,1,2,3) for the dashed positive contours and 2x10y (x = 1,2,3 and y = -2,-1,0,1,2,3) for the solid negative contours.

- The metal atom groups in the two MOFs are shown with the bridging carboxylate groups (left) and the disorder in the solvent groups (right). The thermal ellipsoids are shown on a 90 % level.

-  Present at the Sagamore XV Programme Conference
- “ELECTRON CHARGE SPIN AND MOMENTUM DENSITIES”
- 13-18 August 2006,Bosworth Hall Hotel, Warwickshire, UK
# Presentation: 848508

## 774.3 - Section 4(f) Approvals

## De Minimis Impact Example

_***De Minimis ***__**Impact Example**_

- 23 CFR 774.3(b)

**Notes:**
No need for alternatives analysis
No need to document all possible planning to minimize harm as a separate step
You can mitigate down to a de minimis impact

## Individual Section 4(f) Evaluations 

- Individual Section 4(f) Evaluations

**23 CFR 774.3(a) & (c)**

## Is the Avoidance Alternative Prudent?

**4(f) property**

**Relative value of the property**

## Weighs the drawbacks and benefits of the “bad” alternatives against each other to select an alternative when avoidance is not available
Harm to 4(f) properties is weighted more heavily than other impacts
Two recent court decisions endorse the view that what matters is the “net” harm after mitigation
Technical correction effective July 3 clarifies that rejected avoidance alternatives are not re-considered as part of the least overall harm determination 

- Harm to 4(f) properties is weighted more heavily than other impacts
- Two recent court decisions endorse the view that what matters is the “net” harm after mitigation
- Technical correction effective July 3 clarifies that rejected avoidance alternatives are not re-considered as part of the least overall harm determination

- The Least Overall Harm Determination:

**23 CFR 774.3(c)(1)**

**Notes:**
The least overall harm factors
1.Ability to mitigate the adverse impacts to each 4(f) property
2. Relative severity of harm, after reasonable mitigation, to the 4(f) qualities
3. Relative significance of each 4(f) property
4. Views of officials with jurisdiction
5. Degree that purpose and need is met
6. Magnitude of adverse impacts, after reasonable mitigation, to non-4(f) resources
7. Substantial differences in cost

## For Projects Already in Development:

- Grace period is over – 23 CFR 774 is in effect
- You will need to add documentation
- Pay special attention to:
- Feasible and Prudent Avoidance Alternatives
- Least overall harm
- All possible planning to minimize harm
- FHWA and FTA field and HQ offices available for assistance

## Yes

| Avoids using Section 4(f) property? | Feasible 
and 
Prudent? | Can
You 
Select? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 
No | 
N/A | 
No |
| 
Yes | 
No | 
No |
| 
Yes | 
Yes | 
Yes |

- A

- B

- C

## 1

| Avoids using Section 4(f) property? | Feasible 
and Prudent? | Least Overall Harm? | Can 
You 
Select? |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 
No | 
N/A | 
No | 
No |
| 
No | 
N/A | 
Yes | 
Yes |
| 
Yes | 
No | 
N/A | 
No |

- 2

- 3

## X

| 4(f)
Uses? | Feasible 
and Prudent? | Least Overall Harm
Considerations? | Can 
You 
Select? |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| De minimis impact to 2 parks; also a 2 acre non-de minimis use of a 50 acre N.R. eligible farm | 

N/A | The farm is one of many similar examples. The alternative is also slightly more expensive. | 

Yes |
| 1⁄2 acre use of Abe Lincoln’s birthplace | 
N/A | SHPO and NPS vigorously object.   | 
No |

- Z

## Slide 10
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## Stabilizing CO2 concentrations for any concentration from 350 to 750 parts per million means that global net CO2 emissions must peak in this century, and begin a long-term decline ultimately approaching ZERO...

***The Climate Change Problem***

***... ******the pre-industrial concentration was 280 ppm.***

## Stabilizing CO2 concentrations requires more than business-as-usual.

## Controlling Cost

*Technologies that are presently insignificant elements of the global energy system, could make a big difference including:*
- Carbon Capture—*at any point in the energy system*
- Geologic Sequestration
- Hydrogen Systems—*production, transportation, distribution & use*
- Energy Storage Systems
- Commercial Biomass Energy

## Biotechnology Holds the Key

*If biotechnology can deliver breakthroughs in key technologies such as ...*
- Carbon Capture & Sequestration—*terrestrial, ocean, and direct*
- Hydrogen Systems—*production, transportation, distribution & use (e.g. fuel cells)*
- Energy Storage Systems
- Commercial Biomass Energy—*energy crops and non-energy crops (e.g. food, fiber, forest products)*

## Biotech Fuel Cells

*Biotech Fuel Cells*

*...**To fuel the H**2** economy.*

## Ocean CO2 Sequestration

*Ocean CO**2** Sequestration*

*... To remove and store carbon and make a H**2** economy possible.*

## And, if there is a biotech revolution in energy and food crop productivity

***And, if there is a***** ****biotech revolution in energy and food crop productivity**

**IS92a 550 ppmv**

**No Bio-productivity Growth**
# Presentation: 476268

## The Big Picture: A Look at Hospitals in a Volatile Healthcare Environment

**Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D.**
**Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy**
**The Florence Heller Graduate School for Social Policy**
**Brandeis University**

## Hospital Margins Not Keeping Up With Spending Growth

## Spending Growth Now Dominated by Hospital Services

**Source: **Milliman USA Health Cost Index, in Strunk, Gabel and Ginsburg, 2001,Center for Studying Health System Change 2002

**Percentage of Yearly Medical Spending Increase**

## Total Hospital Margins 
Beginning To Trend Down

**Beginning To Trend Down**

**Sources:**** **1997-2000 Moody’s all rating medians,  2001 AHA national hospital indicators survey

*** Estimate**

## And It’s Not Just The Stock Market!

## Financial Conditions of Hospitals  In Some States Not Doing Well

** ****Hospital Operating Margins 2000 **

** **

- Increasing Demand For Services
- Increased inpatient utilization
- Continued growth in outpatient use
- Increased ED use
- Accelerating Cost of Services
- But, Inadequate Payment Rates from
- Medicaid
- Uninsured, and
- Medicare

**Hospitals Face The Following Dilemma**

## Look At Increasing Labor Costs!

**Estimate**

## Can We Count on Higher Payments From Private Payers In Future To Bail Out Lower Payments From Government and Increased Number of Uninsured? 

- Maybe---
- Less Pressure From Managed Care
- But---
- What About
- Growth of Specialty Hospitals, and
- New Non-Hospital Delivery Systems     that Focus on Well Paying Patients
- Increased Patient Cost Sharing Could Reduce Use

## Growing Demand for Emergency Room Visits AndThe Addition of New Hospitals 

## Emergency Department Visits1990-2001

**Year**

## Advisory Board – “We Need More Hospitals” 

**Additional Hospitals In 2011**

**Under Different Assumption**
# Presentation: 109823

## Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP) Meeting
Gatlinburg, Tennessee

- Gatlinburg, Tennessee

- New Information Management System and Reports Archiving Procedures

## Outline

- Introduction—New Information Management (IM) System
- Former Archiving Procedure
- New Archiving Procedure
- Reasons for New Procedure
- What’s next

## New Information Management System

- Document reviews are done at the directorate level
- Authors are responsible for review process
- All reviews are done electronically
- Upon completion of review, reports are sent to the Library electronically
- Reports are downloaded to Documents Online Database for distribution, including harvesting

## Former Archiving Procedure

- Keep one noncirculating vault reference copy of all LLNL reports
- Keep two copies for circulation to customers
- Keep up to 10 copies for permanent distribution to customers
- Scan all unclassified, unlimited distribution reports

## New Archiving Procedure

- Customers download and print hard copy reports as needed
- Classified and unclassified reports to be separate
- Classified reports will be moved to the Weapons Program
- Unclassified reports will remain in the vault, but will eventually be moved to Main Library
- Former vault space shared by librarians and IM staff now  open
- Librarians are now housed in vault with the report collection

## New Archiving Procedure, Cont’d

- Outside agency reports are no longer accepted (LANL is the exception)
- Legacy reports will be scanned

## Reasons for New Archiving Procedure

- Critical shortage of office space in the building
- Report Librarians and IM staff share the same office space
- Shared space is a security vault; IM staff only need regular, open office space
- New IM System instituted at LLNL

## What’s next

- Continue classified-unclassified separation process
- Move classified reports to Weapon’s Program
- Move unclassified reports to Main Library
- Convert existing space to office space
- Scan all unclassified, unlimited distributions and add them to Documents Online Database
# Presentation: 756935

## Date: 			14 February 2008
Chair: 			Mr. Jeffrey Ator
Exec Secretary: 	Lt Col Mark Fitzgerald, USAF

- Chair: 			Mr. Jeffrey Ator
- Exec Secretary: 	Lt Col Mark Fitzgerald, USAF

**Telecon # 888-680-9581, pass code 535430#**
**GoToMeeting:  **_**https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/666870207**_** **
**Meeting ID is: 666-870-207**

***Working Group***
***for***
***Meteorological Codes***

## Welcome

**Welcome!**
**Administrative remarks**
**Meeting is being recorded**
**Rest room keys are on counter at front door**

## Agenda

**Introductions and attendance**
**Approve DRAFT ROA**
**Review Action Items from ROA**
**Break (~ 2:00 p.m.)**
**Review Staffing Flow Diagrams**
**Proposed changes**

## Introductions around room and on telephone

**Introductions and Attendance**

## Approval of DRAFT ROA

**Approve DRAFT ROA**

## Switch to DRAFT ROA file and review each Action Item

**Review Action Items from ROA**

## Switch to FMH Change diagram
Switch to Annex 3 Change diagram

**Switch to Annex 3 Change diagram**

**Review Staffing Flow Diagrams**

## Proposed Changes

**January 26, 2008 **
**Hello;****I have come across what I believe is a mistake in the FMH-1 and I believe that it has been propagated for many years since the exact same thing is in the 1994 version of FMH-1.****On page 2-2, paragraph 2.5.2a2d and 2.5.2a8e is this reference;****The lowest standard instrument approach procedure minimum as published in the****National Ocean Service (NOS) U.S. Terminal Procedures. If none published, use****1/2 mile.****As far as I can tell, and I have searched the entire National Ocean Service web site, they do not have anything whatsoever to do with instrument approach procedures.  The FAA web site is where one finds the latest Terminal Procedures Publications.  The web site address is: **_**[http://naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/onlineproducts](http://naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/onlineproducts)**_**Could someone please double check this?  If it is indeed a mistake, then it has propagated through the National Weather Service and FAA manuals and instructions.  ****NWSI 10-1303 and WS Operating Handbook 7, contain the same remarks and so does the FAA 7900.5b manual.****I would very much appreciate hearing about anything you can find out about this.**

## Proposed Changes

**January 2008**
**Work in progress**
**Proposal:  Instead of reporting snow intensity in observation (lgt, mdt, hvy) report LWE instead over local communications**
**Customer: Airline Industry**
**POC: Steve Albersheim**

## Open Discussion
# Presentation: 506912

## MODIS BRDF/Albedo Products:V004 Enhancements

- Development Team:
- Alan H. Strahler (PI), Crystal Schaaf, Feng Gao, Yufang Jin
*Department of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing*
*Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA *
*Tel.  +617-358-0503, Fax +617-353-3200, e-mail:schaaf@bu.edu.*

## V004 Enhancements

- We benefit greatly from the enhanced upstream processing.
- We have implemented the SIN projection and the 1/20th  degree resolution CMG products for BRDF parameters, albedo quantities and NBAR.
- MODIS derived  BRDF model values have been used to update the *a priori* database used for the backup magnitude inversion algorithm.
- New shortwave and NIR narrow-to-broadband conversion factors for “pure” snow pixels (Shunlin Liang) have been implemented (note that according to Julienne Stroeve and Anne Nolin, individual spectral values retrieved for “pure snow” are quite accurate and the N2B factors used for the visible broadband values are appropriate).

## V003 vs V004

- True color composite: Stretches have been implemented to highlight the differences --- overall < 3% mean change.

- V003 ( 2001193)

- V004

## V003 vs V004

- Green: Highest quality, Red: Moderate quality, Gray: Backup algorithm

- V003

- V004

## New N2B for “pure snow”

## Known Issues

- Continued improvements in the atmospheric correction algorithm (MOD09) and the cloud algorithm (MOD35) will lead to further improvements in product quality.
- Aqua plus Terra combined processing will begin in 2003 and will also lead to improvements in the product quality (on any clear day, more observations will be available --- at slightly different illumination angles).

## Terra-only vs Terra+Aqua NBAR13 - 28 August, 2002

## Terra-only vs Terra+Aqua Quality Flags 

- Green: High quality,  Blue: Moderate quality,  Red: Low quality

## Known Issues - continued

- We will continue our outreach to the Modeling Communities:
- Now that two years of reprocessed (V003) data are available, we are being asked to prepare quite a number of customized data sets for modeling groups.
- We are actively collaborating with the NCAR-CCSM climate community, the ECHAM-4 climate community, and the LPJ biogeochemical community.
- We wish to extend the L3 processing to include the Arctic and Antarctic (for at least a few sunlit periods each year).

## CMG Broadband White-Sky Albedo (0.3-5.0mm)1 - 16 January, 2002

- 0.0	           0.2                0.4

- No Data

## CMG Broadband White-Sky Albedo (0.3-5.0mm)25 May - 9 June, 2002

- 0.0	           0.2                0.4

- No Data

## V005 Enhancements Under Consideration 

- An increase in the spatial resolution of products to 500m.
- Implementation of a daily rolling 16 day processing schedule:
-  Frequency of the archived products (daily, 8 day, or 16 day is still being explored).
- Implementation of a “true month” CMG.
- Implementation of  improvements to both the primary BRDF algorithm and the BRDF database for the backup algorithm.
# Presentation: 739824

## AHRQ WebM&M: Reader Survey Results

## Survey Techniques and Results

- Survey ran from May 5th to June 8th, 2004
- 542 respondents
- Overall, user satisfaction for the site averaged about 70% “excellent” and 30% “good”
- 77% of respondents were registered users
- 95% of users have never submitted a case

## Visitor Characteristics

- 55% were health care providers; 45% non-providers (i.e., administrators, risk managers)
- Approximately equal numbers of nurses (24%) and physicians (22%) responded
- 79% had visited the site more than 5 times
- 91% viewed more than one commentary when they visited the site
- 45% used the Internet > 20 times per week

## Breakdown of Users by Roles

## Users' Self-reported Number of Years in Present Role

## Primary Institutional Affiliation of Users

| Academic Institution, University, or Medical School | 108 (19.9%) |
| --- | --- |
| Hospital (Excludes Ambulatory Care/Outpatient Clinic, Emergency Department) | 255 (47.0%) |
| Outpatient Clinic and Emergency Department | 49 (9.0%) |
| State or Local Government Agency, Federal Government Agency | 39 (7.2%) |
| Other | 91 (16.8%) |
| Total | 542 (100%) |

## Highest Degree Achieved

| Associate's | 20 (3.7%) |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's | 140 (25.8%) |
| Master's | 162 (29.9%) |
| Medical (MD) | 141 (26.0%) |
| Law (JD) | 12 (2.2%) |
| Other Doctoral (PhD, PharmD, DrPH, EdD, etc.) | 47 (8.7%) |
| Other Degree  | 14 (2.6%) |
| None | 6 (1.1%) |
| Total | 542 (100%) |

*	**Average year that respondents completed their degree was 1986 (range, 1930-2004; median, 1986; mode, 1981). *

## Breakdown of Users by Location

## Source of Referral to AHRQ WebM&M

| Link from AHRQ Web site | 169 (31.2%) |
| --- | --- |
| General-purpose Web search engine (eg, Google, Yahoo, etc.) | 24 (4.4%) |
| Link from another health-related or patient safety Web site (excludes AHRQ Web site) | 134 (24.7%) |
| Print media (eg, medical journals, newspaper, healthcare publications, etc.)  | 33 (6.1%) |
| AHRQ print media (eg, brochure, reports, fact sheets, etc.) | 28 (5.2%) |
| Word of mouth from a colleague or friend | 100 (18.5%) |
| Conference | 20 (3.7%) |
| Other  | 34 (6.3%) |
| Total | 542 (100%) |

## Primary Reason for Visiting AHRQ WebM&M Site

## Site Assessment

- Educational value of site: 75% rated it as "excellent"; 25% "good"
- Practical value: 75% "excellent"; 24% "good"
- Readers felt the site was easy to navigate, with 63% rating it "excellent" and 30% "good"
- 67% rated the clarity of directions and explanations as "excellent“; 29% "good"

## Ratings of Site Content and Design 

## Number of Times Used Site to Obtain CME/Trainee Certification 

| One | 151 (76.7%) |
| --- | --- |
| Two | 10 (5.1%) |
| Three | 6 (3.1%) |
| Four | 8 (4.1%) |
| Five or more | 22 (11.2%) |
| Total | 197 (100%) |

## Discussion

- The positive response to the site supports the notion that anonymous, web-based case presentations and commentaries are an effective way to educate both providers and non-providers about patient safety
# Presentation: 716141

## Development of an Optimized Scanning X-Ray Microdiffraction System 

**Development of an Optimized Scanning X-Ray Microdiffraction System **
**for Materials Research and Education**
- Ersan Ustundag, Iowa State University, DMR IMR-0416243

## Enhanced capabilities will enable new science:

- Broader spectrum range yields increased strain/stress sensitivity

- Higher flux and smaller X-ray spot size (~100 nm): looking at the mechanical properties of nanomaterials

- Broader spectrum range and special fixtures will allow 3D microdiffraction to probe properties at granular level in bulk materials

**Development of an Optimized Scanning X-Ray Microdiffraction System **
**for Materials Research and Education**
- Ersan Ustundag, Iowa State University, DMR IMR-0416243

**Successful NSF DMR-IMR grant led to the commissioning of a dedicated X-ray microdiffraction beamline at the ALS with enhanced capabilities**

** ****Front-end commissioning underway (completion in October 2005)**
** ****Installation of the end-station at new beamline programmed for Spring 2006**
# Presentation: 027744

## Rental Housing Assistance Business Process Reengineering Project Overview

## The Rental Housing Assistance (RHA) Business Process Reengineering project will assist Multifamily Housing (MFH) and Public and Indian Housing (PIH) to eliminate redundancies and streamline business processes.  As a result of this project, duplicative systems will be recommended for consolidation, retirement, or re-design.  Business processes and communication flows supporting RHA programs will be aligned to increase efficiency, ensure consistency, improve the quality of data received from business partners, and strengthen accountability.

**The Rental Housing Assistance (RHA) Business Process Reengineering project will assist Multifamily Housing (MFH) and Public and Indian Housing (PIH) to eliminate redundancies and streamline business processes.  As a result of this project, duplicative systems will be recommended for consolidation, retirement, or re-design.  Business processes and communication flows supporting RHA programs will be aligned to increase efficiency, ensure consistency, improve the quality of data received from business partners, and strengthen accountability.**

## Business Process Reengineering Methodology

**Business Process Reengineering Methodology**

**Documentation of the Current Environment**
- (People – Processes – Technology)
**Identification of Constraints**
- (Legislative/Financial/Business Partner/Etc)
**Definition of Key Business Requirements**
**“****As-Is” Process Maps and Model**

- We are conducting interviews to define the “As-Is” analysis for the following process areas:

## Next Steps for the RHA/BPR Project

- Business Diagnosis Phase Complete - [September 30, 2005]
- Process Direction (To-Be) Complete - [November 30, 2005]*
- Recommended Solution [June 30, 2006]
- Involvement of Industry Groups, MFH and PIH
- FY 2006 - 2nd and 3rd Quarters (January 2006)

## Project Organization - HUD

**Program Sponsors**
- Stillman D. Knight (MFH), William Russell (PIH)
**Executive Steering Team (EST)**
- _MFH_			_PIH_			_OCIO_
- Willie Spearmon		David Vargas		Mark McCloy
- Lanier Hylton		Pat Arnaudo		Stephen Lowe
- Eileen Walker		Elizabeth Hanson
**Core Reengineering Team (CRT)**
- _MFH_			_PIH_			_OCIO_
- Yvonne Spencer		Ted Taylor		Carolyn Armstrong
- Ylanda Ford		Stephanie Avery
- 				William Casey

## Appendix A: Organizational Structure
# Presentation: 423435

## Liability Issues in New York State: Progress and Roadblocks 

**Liability Issues in New York State: Progress and Roadblocks**

*Judith LeComb, Coordinator*
*Public Health Preparedness Volunteers*
*Office of Public Health Preparedness*
*New York State Department of Health*

## Overview

- NYS Volunteer Program
- NYS Liability Coverage
- Local MRC Liability Coverage

## NYS Medical Reserve Corps

**Broome County MRC****	****	****	****Suffolk County MRC **
**Columbia County MRC****	****	****Tioga County MRC**
**	****	****	****	**
**Erie County MRC****	****	****	****University of Rochester MRC**
**	****	****	****	**
**Livingston County MRC****	****	****Westchester County MRC ****	****	****	**
**Monroe County MRC****	****	****	****Yates County MRC**
**Nassau County MRC****	****	****	****S2AY Public Health Network MRC **
**Niagara County MRC ** **Northern Metropolitan Hospital ****Association & Health Care Foundation**** (NORMET)**
**NYCDOH MRC**
**New York University Hospital Center**
**Onondaga County MRC****Orange County MRC****Putnam County MRC**

## Volunteer Liability Coverage: Progress

- Some counties have adopted Public Officers Law 18
- Some counties have adopted their own Resolution/Statute
- MRCs associated with counties can benefit from liability coverage

## Volunteer Liability Coverage: Roadblocks

- Some counties do not have liability coverage for volunteers
- MRCs associated with counties who do not have liability coverage have no liability coverage
- MRCs not associated with counties have no liability coverage

## NYSDOH PRACTIONER VOLUNTEER DATABASE

- Physician Volunteer Recruitment
- 	- Contract with Medical Society of State of New York
- Nurse Volunteer Recruitment
- 	- Contract with New York State Nurses Association
- Future Efforts
- Dentists
- Pharmacist
- Mental Health Practitioners
- Veterinarians
# Presentation: 192942

## Controlled Crystallization in Novel Block CopolymersRichard A. Register, Princeton University, DMR-0220236

- The hexagonally-perforated lamellar (HPL) structure is appealing as a nanostructured template (*e.g.*, to direct  crystallization) due
- to its unique combination of two- and three-dimensional continuity of the components.  Unfortunately, previous observations of HPL
- in block copolymers have shown it to be unstable (relative to other structures), and to possess a disordered arrangement of the perforations unless sheared.  We have synthesized polystyrene-poly(ethylene-*alt*-propylene) diblock copolymers, S/EP, that forms highly-regular HPL structures which persists indefinitely.  In this system, HPL
- can be accessed from other, stable phases
- (cylinders or lamellae) simply by changing temperature; we have elucidated these
- structural transformations, which require
- from seconds to hours to occur, via
*in situ* small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS).

*Macromolecules*, **38**, 4947 (2005).
*Macromolecules*, ASAP (July 13, 2005).

- Strucral transformatio between amorphous phase, mesophases (nematic and smectic C) and triclinic crystalline phase induced by stretching.

**S**

**S**

**2D**

**2D**

**EP**

**3D**

**Left:**  schematic HPL structure in S/EP diblocks
- showing 2D continuity of (minority) S domains
- and 3D continuity of (majority) EP domains.
**Top:**  TEM image of a thin section of HPL.

**Left:**  Synchrotron SAXS pattern
- of an unsheared sample of S/EP
- 9/14 simply heated to 260oC.
- Peaks indicate a highly regular
- ABC stacking of the perforations.

**EP**

**S**

**Left:**  Time-resolved SAXS for S/EP 7/13 following a quench from 180 to 140oC, which causes the structure to transform from cylinders (C) to HPL in the ensuring 40 minutes, as shown in the inset.

**50 nm**

**S/EP 7/13**

## Controlled Crystallization in Novel Block CopolymersRichard A. Register, Princeton University, DMR-0220236

**Outreach:**
- On March 17, Princeton University hosted the Science and Engineering Exposition,  bringing nearly 1000 local middle-school children to campus for a fast-paced exposure to the excitement of science and engineering.  The Register group ran a series of demonstrations on the unusual behavior of polymers, and the microscopic structure which lies behind it (such as superabsorbent polymer gels, see photo at left).  The event (particularly the polymer demo) was covered in local print and broadcast media, reaching an even wider audience.  Group members later ran similar demos in April, at Toll Gate Grammar School in Pennington, and in May, at Super Science Weekend in Trenton.

- The PI (right) and graduate student Sasha Myers (center) demonstrate the structure and properties of polymer gels.  A similar photo ran in the *New York Times* (March 18, 2005).
# Presentation: 077662

## Pennsylvania OrganizationNatural Resources Conservation Service

- State Conservationist
- Administrative Program Specialist

- Deputy State Conservationist

- Assistant State Conservationist/
- Intergovernmental Relations

- Management Analyst

- Assistant State Conservationist
- Programs

- Public Affairs Specialist

- State
- Administrative
-  Officer

- State Conservation
- Engineer
- Engineer Support Assistant

- State Resource
- Conservationist
- Program Assistant

- State Soil Scientist

- Assistant State
- Conservationist
- West
- Administrative Support
- Assistant (2)

- Assistant State
- Conservationist
- East
- Administrative Support
- Assistant

- Assistant State
- Conservationist
- Northeast
- Administrative Support
- Assistant

- Mgt Services

- HR

- FNM

- Engineering
- Specialists

- Ecological Sciences
- Specialists

- Soils Specialist

- GIS

- Soil Survey
- Offices (6)

- Technical Offices
- (2)

- Field Teams
- (8)

- RC&D Offices
- (4)

- Technical Offices
- (1)

- Field Teams
- (5)

- RC&D Offices
- (3)

- Technical Offices
- (1)

- Field Teams
- (7)

- RC&D Offices
- (2)

- Map Digitizing
- Center

- Water Resources
- Specialists

- Program Specialists