BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 830957

## AIRS Stochastic Cloud-Clearing Algorithm

- Choongyeun Cho and David H. Staelin
- Presented to the
- AIRS Team Meeting
- March 30, 2004

## AIRS Stochastic Cloud-Clearing Algorithm

- AIRS TB

- AMSU ch.5,6,8,9,10

- cosine (scan angle)

- Land fraction

- AIRS
- 4 Delta-cloud
- PC’s

- cloud

- AIRS Cloud-cleared TB’s

- AIRS TeamCloud-clearedradiances

- 316

- 7

- 3

- 5

- 4

- TB

- -

- +

- +

- +

- 	NAPC1	- trained on 9 AIRS granules
- 	NAPC2	- trained on TB for 9 granules

- 	295	15-m channels
- 	21	8-m channels

- Trained with9 granules

- 316

- 316

- 316

## Baseline Fitting Process

- Stochastic CC (ch. 1284)

- Cloud Mask (30%)

- Fitted

## Filtered Stochastic and Physics-Based Cloud-Cleared 8.15-m Brightness Temperatures

- Channel 1284 (H2O) (1227.7 cm-1)
- Granule 91 (9/6/02) Indian Ocean, LAT -26.3, LON 70.2
- Filter subtracts cloud-cleared baseline and convolves with 33 boxcar
- *AIRS Team algorithm v3.2.4

## Correlation Coefficients: Visible (v3) vs. Cloud-Cleared 8.15-m AIRS TB’s

- Lon -26.3/Lat 70.2
- Indian Ocean

- Lon -12.5/Lat -106.1
- Eastern Southern Pacific

- AIRS channel 1284(1227.7 cm-1)(water vapor)September 6, 2002

## RMS Differences: Cloud-Cleared 8.15-m AIRS TB’s vs. Cleared Baseline

- Lon -26.3/Lat 70.2
- Indian Ocean

- Lon -12.5/Lat -106.1
- Eastern Southern Pacific

- AIRS channel 1284(1227.7 cm-1)(water vapor)September 6, 2002

## Filtered AIRS Cloud-Cleared 13.80-m Brightness Temperatures

- Channel 262 (T@~3.3 km) (724.8 cm-1)
- Granule 91 (9/6/02) Indian Ocean LAT -26.3, LON 70.2
- Filter subtracts cloud-cleared baseline and convolves with 33 boxcar
- *AIRS Team algorithm v3.2.4

- -Visible Ch 3

- Physics-BasedClearing*

- StochasticClearing

## RMS Cloud-Cleared 13.8-m AIRS TB’s vs. Baselines

- Filter subtracts cloud-cleared baseline and convolves with 33 boxcar

## Bias Relative to Uncleared Data

- Stochastic Cleared Data clipped; cooling correction < 0.5 K
- Channel 262 (724.8 cm-1)

## Bias Relative to Uncleared Data

- Stochastic Cleared Data clipped; cooling correction < 0.5 K
- Channel 1284 (1227.7 cm-1)

## Bias of SST Retrieval After Angle Dependence Removed
# Presentation: 710539

## Droplet Combustion Experiment (DCE)

**Droplet Combustion Experiment (DCE)**

**Study of Spherical Droplets Burning without Gravity Effects**

**Large Droplet Burning**
**in Normal Gravity**

**Large Droplet Burning in**
**Microgravity**

**Droplets in Practical, Normal Gravity Systems**
**are Spherical but Microscopic:**
**	****- Difficult to Observe and Measure**
**	****- Unaffected by Gravity**

**Excited OH Radicals**
**Imaged in Microgravity**

**Lewis Research Center**

***Microgravity Science Division***

***Space Directorate***

**Practical Combustors Depend on**
**Knowledge of Droplet Combustion**
# Presentation: 728010

## Hydrogen-Bonded Solids for Fuel Cell ApplicationsSossina M. Haile, California Institute of Technology, DMR 0435221

- Hydrogen is attractive for fuel cells because
*It can be readily made via hydrolysis using any other energy input*
*It produces only H**2**O as the local by-product of energy consumption*
*Its electrochemical conversion at ambient temperatures is rapid*
- But, hydrogen fuel cells require Pt, a limited and costly resource
- Replacing Pt requires fundamental mechanistic insight
*Point-contact electrodes on solid acid electrolytes give defined electrode geometries; fundamental activity of Pt can be probed*

- Pt wire

- composite electrodePt + electrolyte + carbon

- O2 + 40% H2O

- c= 0.459, a= 0.530
- a + c  1   1 electron step

- Io = 92 nA   1.2 nA/cm per Pt|CDP contact

- CsH2PO4 (CDP)

- 240°C

**Notes:**
The I-V characteristics were measured using the galvanostatic current interrupt method. In this method, a fixed current is applied for some period (until the system is stable) then abruptly shut off and the voltage is monitored. At the point of current interrupt, there is a rapid decline in voltage – due to the ohmic resistances in the cell, followed by a slow decline – due to the ‘capacitive’ resistances in the cell. We have already shown that the ohmic terms are essentially limited to the electrolyte. The capacitive terms are due to the slow electrochemical reactions at the electrodes. By using the asymmetric geometry shown, we can ensure that the measured capacitive resistance (i.e. slow voltage decay) is entirely due to the small electrode so we measure one electrode at a time without having to use a reference electrode, and without having to seal off the chambers between the two electrodes. 

## Sossina M. Haile, California Institute of Technology, DMR 0435221 Broader Impacts

- Solid acid electrolytes suffer from extreme plasticity during use
- Evaluation of mech. props. is accessible to younger students
- Christopher Lee, rising senior at a local high school, has conducted experiments in the Haile lab over the past two years,
- He has entered his findings ‘Mechanical Properties of Cesium Hydrogen Sulfate for Fuel Cell Applications” in several competitions
*Junior Science & Humanities Symp. *
*March – May, 2007*
*Placed 3**rd** in California region *
*Honorable mention in National competition*
*Los Angeles County Science Fair *
*April, 2007*
*1**st** place in Eng. Applications Div. *
*California State Science Fair *
*May, 2007*
*2**nd** place in Appl. Mech. & Struct. Div.*
*Davidson Fellows Natl Sci. Comp. *
*Mar, 2007*
*Honorable mention*

- LA County Science Fair
# Presentation: 042992

## Office of the General Counsel Report to the Commission

- Support for the FCC Strategic Plan

## Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security

- OGC’s Role
- Avoid avoidable risk where possible
- Identify unavoidable risk to permit informed decision-making
- Defend Commission decisions before the courts

## Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security

- Administrative Law Division
- Reviews each Commission item
- In 2003, Ad Law reviewed 425 Commission items
- Provides legal advice to Commissioners, Bureaus and Offices

## Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security

- Homeland Security
- Principal legal advisor
- Transaction Team
- Participates in the review of all significant transactions
- Reviews FCC rules and policies relating to transfers and assignments

## Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security

- Bankruptcy Law Advice
- Goals
- Productive spectrum use
- Protection of government’s secured creditor status
- Preservation of Commission’s ability to protect the public interest

## Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security

- Litigation Division – Federal appellate courts
- 35 briefs, 36 oral arguments, 14 mandamus and stay petitions
- Litigation Division – Federal district courts
- 20 lawsuits

## Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security

- Analysis of FCC-related court decisions for internal purposes
- Goals:
- Enhance the legal rationale for agency decisions
- Guide our advocacy in court
- Anticipate judicial trends

## Modernize the FCC

- Less visible work of OGC is critical to the functioning of the FCC
- “In-house” counsel
- Administer *ex parte *rules
- Ethics advice and counseling
- FOIA appeals and appeals from hearing cases

## Support for Strategic Plan in 2004

- OGC’s role:
- Legal analysis, advice and training
- Judicial advocacy
- In-house counsel functions
# Presentation: 741080

## Paris Conference    Expanded Role of National Employment Database March 15, 2007

**Paris Conference****    Expanded Role of National Employment Database ****March 15, 2007**

**Sean Hurley**
**Director, Division of Data Collection and Analysis**
**Office of Family Assistance**

## Use of National Employment Database (NDNH) in Support of TANF Program Goals

- Improve Program Integrity
- Increase TANF Work Participation Rates
- Enhance Performance Measurement

**NDNH and TANF**

## Increased Focus on Accuracy of Data in Management of TANF Program

- Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA)
- Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA)
- State Work Verification Plans

## Impetus for TANF Access to NDNH Data

- Need for uniform measurement of employment information for High Performance Bonus (HPB) work measures
- Inability to use HPB data for State administrative purposes
- Gap between State reported employment and study information

## Chronology of TANF Access to NDNH Data

- February 2002 – HPB match
- June 2003 – D.C. Pilot begins
- March 2005 – All States offered access
- April 2005 – Match  for 10 State statistical analysis
- July 2005 – W-4 match begins

## Figure 1TANF Families by Reason for ClosureFY 2004

##  Table 1TANF Families by Reason for ClosureFY 2004

## TANF-Reported Employment v. NDNH Adults with Earnings

|  | TANF |  |  | NDNH |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | Total Adults | Number Employed | Percent Employed | Percent with QW Earnings |
| 10-State Total | 547,093 | 137,171 | 25.1% | 34.4% |
| 1 | 210,621  | 69,470  | 33.0% | 35.2% |
| 2 | 8,110  | 3,252  | 40.1% | 50.9% |
| 3 | 98,553  | 19,494  | 19.8% | 27.4% |
| 4 | 45,087  | 12,585  | 27.9% | 42.0% |
| 5 | 21,196  | 6,118  | 28.9% | 44.1% |
| 6 | 46,230  | 11,076  | 24.0% | 37.6% |
| 7 | 29,084  | 4,480  | 15.4% | 29.6% |
| 8 | 4,098  | 754  | 18.4% | 37.7% |
| 9 | 73,563  | 9,200 | 12.5% | 32.5% |
| 10 | 10,551  | 742  | 7.0% | 29.3% |

**NDNH and TANF: 10-State Analysis**

## State Findings from Using the NDNH

- One reported 33% of NDNH matches had previous unknown employment
- One found 1,100 more W-4 records than its child support office – was critical in meeting 2005 participation rate
- One reported that 26% of matches revealed employment – 14 percent closed for other reasons but may have been employed
- One found 8 percent of matches were out-of-State, 15% of which had employment unknown to the agency
- One found 1,300 persons on cash assistance who had employment that was unknown
- One found 16% of out-of-State matches with unknown employment, of which 5% had benefits closed/reduced with 1 month savings of $66,000

## Work Performance Measures Results

- Job Entry – 34.86% in FY 2004 and 34.33% in FY 2005
- Job Retention – 58.97% in FY 2004 and 64.41% in FY 2005
- Earnings Gain – 36.87% in FY 2004 and 35.52% in FY 2005

## NDNH Matching Status By State

## Summary Use of NDNH Is An Important Tool

- Information on Employment/Earnings Impacts
- TANF payment accuracy
- Accuracy of work participation rates
- Provision of work supports
- Longitudinal performance measurement comparisons
- Other program eligibility
# Presentation: 360660

## RML Evaluation Liaisons’ Teleconference

- 2. The new OERC workshop series--presenting brief summaries to all RML staff
- 3. The OERC Blog
- 4. Brief overview of the 8/14/06 teleconference on cross-regional collaboration
- 5. The Planning and Evaluating Health Information Outreach Projects booklets: their new look on the web, and, have we received our
- orders from all regions?
- 6. Updates from you all regarding evaluation-related activities going on or planned in your regions.

- August 22, 2006
- 2:30-3:30 EDT

## The new OERC workshop series—presenting brief summaries to all RML staff

- 5 new workshops:
- Conducting Community Assessment
- Participatory Evaluation Methods and Program planning
- Developing Logic Models and Evaluation Plans
- Conducting Surveys
- Conducting Interviews
- One-hour overviews during Eval Liaisons’ teleconference?
- Sept 26, Nov 28?

## The OERC Blog

- _[http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/blog](http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/blog)_
- Categories:
- News
- Liaisons
- Collaboration
- How to Register (and why?)

## Brief overview of the 8/14/06 teleconference on cross-regional collaboration

- Selecting area for national collaboration
- Aug 25:
- core group rep from each region (ADs?)
- add to list of potential projects
- By November:
- dot voting to prioritize
- rating NN/LM readiness
- recommend projects
- December mid-year RML Director’s meeting
- confirm
- task force
- Spring
- outcomes
- strategies
- evaluation
- RML Directors’ Meeting in Philadelphia
- Recording of Aug 14 discussion is at: _[http://nihbreeze.cit.nih.gov/p54231041/](http://nihbreeze.cit.nih.gov/p54231041/)_

## The Planning and Evaluating Health Information Outreach Projects booklets: their new look on the web, and, have we received ourorders from all regions?

- _[http://](http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/booklets/)__[nnlm.gov](http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/booklets/)__[/evaluation/booklets/](http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/booklets/)_

## Updates from you all regarding evaluation-related activities going on or planned in your regions...

- Next call Sept 26, 2:30 Eastern
# Presentation: 320556

## Autumn HEPiX 2004Brookhaven National Lab

- Tom Throwe
- 18 October 2004

## Locations

- Monday through Wednesday
- Here in Berkner Hall Room B
- Room C available for breakout groups
- Thursday and Friday
- Medical Building (490) conference room
- Small conference room available there for breakouts also

- Autumn HEPiX 2004, BNL

- 18 October 2004

## Medical Building - 490

- Left covered entrance at top of U shaped drive
- Large conference room off of the lobby
- 0.5 km (0.3 mi)
- 5 minute walk to Berkner
- Shuttle service if raining

- Autumn HEPiX 2004, BNL

- 18 October 2004

## Network

- Wireless
- Available in both locations
- SSID is “bnlexternal”
- No encryption or registration
- Use DHCP
- Network is bnl.org, addresses will be 192.203.218.xxx (dhXXX.bnl.org)
- Directly on the Internet, so VPNs should work
- Workstations in Berkner lobby for email

- Autumn HEPiX 2004, BNL

- 18 October 2004

## Food

- Coffee breaks in lobby
- Breakfast and lunch available in cafeteria
- Lunches have been allocated one hour on Monday through Wednesday and 1.5 hours on Thursday.
- Pegram Lectures by Richard Smalley
- Conference dinner on Wednesday at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead

- Autumn HEPiX 2004, BNL

- 18 October 2004

## Talks

- Please get talks to me in powerpoint or PDF by at least the session before you are to give it.
- Email to _[throwe@bnl.gov](mailto:throwe@bnl.gov)_
- USB drive
- Site reports allocated 20 minutes and talks allocated 30 minutes.  Please allow for questions.  Time notices will target 15 and 25 minutes, respectively.

- Autumn HEPiX 2004, BNL

- 18 October 2004

## Miscellaneous

- Restaurant list
- Enterprise car rental
- Possible tours on Friday
- RHIC/Atlas computer center
- RHIC experiment
- Problems
- Contact Tom Throwe or Mariette Faulkner

- Autumn HEPiX 2004, BNL

- 18 October 2004
# Presentation: 735342

## Security Solutions to Enable Dynamic, Distributed Collaborations

-  Large and geographically distributed membership
-  Membership with diverse expertise, comprising different roles
-  Community resources with associated community policies
-  Develop novel tools and approaches for:
-  Management of collaboration membership and resources
-  Online CA & Credential Repository (CR), local security integration
-  Management of roles and privileges
-  Community Authorization Service (CAS), restricted delegation
-  Integration in collaborative tools and environments

**Security Solutions to Enable Dynamic, Distributed Collaborations**

-  Membership management
-  Ease credential management
-  Group administration
-  Resource participation
-  Low cost of participation
-  Integration w/ local security
-  Rights assignment
-  Community based authorization
-  Restricted delegation
-  Application support
-  Feature-rich software
-  Standards based

**Principal Investigators:**	Steve Tuecke, Argonne National Laboratory	Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute	Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, Madison

**MICS Program Manager:** Thomas Ndousse

**Grid Security Infrastructure  – The Novel Ideas**

**Impact and Connections**

- _ __IMPACT_:
-  New PKI-based approaches to credential management, restricted delegation, policy management
-  Development of security tools and services for collaboration
-  Widespread deployment and adoption of approaches and tools
- _ __CONNECTIONS_:
-  This work is responsible for development of the Globus Toolkit’s widely used Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
-  Used by numerous SciDAC collaboratories, including DOE Science Grid, Particle Physics Data Grid, Earth Systems Grid, and Fusion Collaboratory.
-  Also used by many non-DOE projects worldwide, including NSF TeraGrid, NASA IPG, NEESGrid, European Data Grid.

**Accomplishments and Plans**

-  Community Authorization Service
-  Demo with ESG DODS system         			Nov 2001 **Done**
-  Deliver w/ simple policies					May 2002 **Done**
-  Gather feedback and deliver 2nd version		Sep 2002 **Done**
-  Deliver integrated with GT3/Web Services	Sep 2003 **Done**
-  Standards
-  X.509 & GSS drafts						Feb 2002 **Done**
-  Final X.509 & GSS standards				Feb 2003 **Done**
-  Other Software
-  Draft conformant GSS						Apr 2002 **Done**
-  Integration of Online CA (KCA) and GSI		Sep 2002 **Done**
-  Demo online CA							Mar 2003 **Done**
-  Authorization Callouts for site integration		Apr 2003 **Done**
** **Security support for GT3/Web Services          May 2003 **Done**

**Future Plan Highlights (Pending Funding)**

-  Integration with attribute authorities (e.g. VOMS)
-  Better site security integration – e.g. with Kerberos
-  Integration with policy decision services (e.g. PERMIS, Akenti)
-  Increased removal of security concerns from applications
# Presentation: 212689

## Visualising the use of biometric systems: tackling symbolism, context, and interpretation

**Patrick Hofmann**patrick@designpH.com | Sydney

## In the next20 minutes

 1  Placement and context

2  Biometrics visualisations

-  **1**** ** Placement and context
**2**** ** Biometrics visualisations

##  
Placement and context

**Placement and context**

**1**

## What is this?

## What is this?

## What is this?

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

## What is this?

**What is this?**

**** Pointingupward?

**** Signallingimportance?

**** Directingmovement?

**** Denotingfingerprinting?

## What is this?

**What is this?**

**** On a flag?

**** On a calculator?

**** In a screen
- interface?

**** On a building?

**** On a medicinebottle?

**** On a biometricdevice?

## What is this?

**What is this?**

**** On a shoppingmall map?

**** On a food packageor recipe?

**** On a mobilephone?

**** On a biometric
- device?

## What is this?

**What is this?**

**** On a machinedial or knob?

**** On a milk cartonor bottle?

**** On a browser?

**** On a biometric
- device?

## What is this?

**What is this?**

**** In a hardwarestore?

**** In the margin ofa user guide?

**** In a cartoon abovesomeone’s head?

**** On a biometric
- device?

##  
Biometrics
visualisations

**Biometrics**
**visualisations**

**2**

## Full instructions 

 Intended to be read before using the biometric device

 Or placed in the biometric device

 Better integrated as individual symbols into the dynamic feedback of the biometric device display

**Full instructions **
**** Intended to be read before using the biometric device
**** Or placed in the biometric device
**** Better integrated as individual symbols into the dynamic feedback of the biometric device display

## Levels of visualisation 

 Realistic and representative

 Symbolic and abstract

**** Realistic and representative
**** Symbolic and abstract

## Usability challenges 

 Mobility

 Flexibility

 Accessibility

 Fatigue

 Crossover experiences

**** Mobility
**** Flexibility
**** Accessibility
**** Fatigue
**** Crossover experiences

## Usability findings 

 Context is important

 Order is important

 Parallelism  is important

 You can’t simply mix and match

 You can’t simply ask ‘What does this mean?’

 More findings tomorrow withMary Theofanos

**Usability findings **
**** Context is important
**** Order is important
**** Parallelism  is important
**** You can’t simply mix and match
**** You can’t simply ask ‘What does this mean?’
**** *More findings tomorrow with**Mary Theofanos*

## Thank you!

**Thank you!**

**patrick@design****pH****.com**

**+61**** 422 023 797**
# Presentation: 759441

## Electronically Switchable Bragg Gratings (ESBGs) Foster-Miller, Inc.Waltham, MA

**Innovation**
- Electrically controlled diffractive optical elements based on a novel polymer/liquid crystal microdroplet composite were developed for programmable optical interconnects and switchable focus lenses.

**Accomplishments**
- Developed techniques for switchable diffractive lenses.
- Demonstrated applications to reading multi-layer optical disks.
- Showed reconfigurable interconnect optical architectures for high-speed parallel computation.
- Developed holographic lithography and fabrication methods for ESBG lenses, electrodes and packages.
- Due to nanoencapsulation, ESBG lenses switch in 50 μs, much faster than bulk liquid crystals.
- Enables spectral imagers and other applications of diffractive optics to eliminate moving parts.
- ESBG arrays are a new type of spatial light modulator for transforming laser beams into large numbers of reconfigurable states.
**Commercialization**
- Promising applications in optical communication networks for cntrol of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems.
- Foster-Miller has invested $1M internally in patent costs, market research and IR&D to further develop ESBG telecomm products.
- ESBG technology is targeted for Foster-Miller spin-off commercialization.

**Government/Science Applications**
- U.S. Navy contracted for demonstration of spectral imager with no moving parts.
- ESBG fiber optic switch components for WDM under consideration for Next Generation Internet (DARPA).

- Switchable drop filter concept for WDM networks using ESBGs

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Denise Swain; 256/544-8112)
-    -  Foster-Miller, Inc. (Dr. L. Domash; 781/684-4164)
- 1993 SBIR Phase 2; NAS8-40562

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Date of Update:	12/15/98
- Success Story #:	8-025
# Presentation: 114540

## Water-loss rates in Nicrophorus marginatus and the implications for trapping ofN. americanus

- W. Wyatt Hoback
- University of Nebraska at Kearney

## What Limits the Western Range of ABB?

- Observed mortality in traps during August
- Bedick, Lincoln County
- No apparent damage
- Dehydration and desiccation?

## Experiments

- Tested *N. marginatus *
- High and low humidity
- Effects of temperature
- Compared to other similar-sized beetles

## N. marginatus

- Most common burying beetle in Nebraska
- Day active
- Habitat generalist
- Large size range

## Wet

- Dry

## Measured time to 50% mortality

- Beetles in containers with drierite or with water-soaked cottonballs
- 5 temperatures tested

## Slide 9

## Exposed beetles to direct contact with drying agent

- Tested the effects on water loss rates
- Also tested beetles that were killed with cyanide
- Also tested beetles which had openings sealed with wax

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## N. marginatus compared to other beetles

- Pasalidae (Bess beetle)
- Moist wood-dwelling large beetle
- Predicted high water loss rates
- Giant tiger beetle (*Amblycheila*)
- Nocturnally active tiger beetle
- Inhabitant of dry areas

## Slide 15

## N. marginatus Activity Pattern

## Dry Traps Kill Beetles

- Burying beetles lose water at very high rates
- Frogs
- Maintaining a layer of moist soil in a trap prevents desiccation

## Implications

-  Soil moisture content and relative humidity may begin to define the western edge of the beetle’s range.
-  Reintroductions may not be possible in some states within the beetles historic range due to severe habitat changes.

## Slide 19
# Presentation: 541273

## Theory of metastability in simple metal nanowires

- Jérôme Bürki, CAS & D. L. Stein, *Physical Review Letters* **95**, 090601 (2005);
- Chang-hua Zhang, Jérôme Bürki & CAS, *Physical Review B ***71**, 235404 (2005)

- Charles A. Stafford, University of Arizona, DMR-0312028

- University of Arizona physicists have discovered what it takes to make
- metal ‘nanowires’ that last a long time and can carry extraordinarily high
- current densities.  They developed a theory that explains why nanowires
- thin away to nothing at finite temperature.  Thermal fluctuations in a
- nanowire create a collective motion, or ‘soliton,’ among atoms in the
- wire.  As each of these kink-like structures propagates from one end of
- the wire to the other, the wire thins.  Their theory makes one very simple
- prediction, which is that the energy barrier to create these kinks depends
- only on the square root of the surface tension of the metal.  That's quite
- counterintuitive, because surface tension alone would make the wire
- unstable.  But the larger the surface tension, the more stable the wire,
- regardless of its radius.  This discovery explains why experimentalists
- have had more luck at making long-lived nanowires using such noble
- metals as gold and silver rather than sodium or other alkali metals.

## Theory of metastability in simple metal nanowires

- Charles A. Stafford, University of Arizona, DMR-0312028

**Broader impact**
- Robust nanowires that can take
- repeated use without failing at
- room temperature and higher are
- particularly important to the
- electronics industry, which hopes
- to use tiny wires -- that have
- diameters counted in tens of atoms
- -- in Lilputian electronic devices
- in the next 10 to 15 years.

**Education**
- One graduate student (Chang-hua Zhang) and one postdoc (Jérôme Bürki) contributed to this work.
- Zhang received his Ph.D. in 2004,
- and is currently a postdoc at Indiana University.

**In the News**
- Our work was featured in ``UA Physicists
- Find Key to Long-Lived Metal Nanowires,’’
- by Lori Stiles (*UA News, *August 24, 2005);
- (*Chemie.DE News-Center, *August 29, 2005).
# Presentation: 457275

##  Public Awareness – Supplemental Enhancements for LDCs

- John Erickson, PE
- American Public Gas Association
- PHMSA Public Awareness Workshop

## What Is APGA?

- _The_ National Trade Association for Publicly-Owned Gas Utilities
- ~ 680 member utilities
- Created in 1961
- New mission in 2004
- Moved to Washington, DC
- Expanded to 10 staff

## Most LDC’s Are Small

## Most LDC’s Are Small

## Questions

- _[jerickson](mailto:jerickson@apga.org)__[@](mailto:jerickson@apga.org)__[apga](mailto:jerickson@apga.org)__[.org](mailto:jerickson@apga.org)_
- 202-464-0834
- www.apga.org

## Supplemental Enhancements – Suggested Considerations

- Potential Hazards ?
- High Consequence Areas ???
- Population density ?
- Land development activity ?
- Land farming activity ?
- Third Party damage incidents ?
- Environmental considerations ??
- Pipeline history in an area ?
- Specific local situations ?
- Regulatory requirements ?
- Results from previous public awareness program evaluations – Not yet

## One LDC Operators Enhancements

- New audience – Ice/snow clearing companies
- New audience – Trash haulers
- New audience – Railroads
- New message – Carbon monoxide

## Suggested Fix

- Create distribution-specific supplemental enhancement list
- Enforce RP 1162 in the spirit of the document – FLEXIBLY!
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## Unneeded Material & Chemical (UMC) StrategyStatus Meeting

- March 29, 2007
- John Selva

## UMC Funding Status

- ADS was submitted to fund all UMC dispositions
- No ADS Specific Funds will be allocated in FY07
- HENP Funds
- Specific to C-AD Operations, Dependent on Continuing Resolution
- Excess Nuclear Material Disposition
- Expected to see approximately 200K allocated

## Accomplishments to Date

- EENS
**Sampled Mixed and Rad Wastes**
**Disposed of Plastic Tanks (CLOSED)**
**Scrap Metal removed except for cabinet (Recycled)**
**TMI resin has been removed and disposed of thru WM. Rad material/lead bricks still remain.**** **
**Oceanographic Equipment is owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) – Can we return it?**
**Lab Chemicals Misc (815/830/526/901) - S2/P2 CMS-re-inventorying project this year will address this. Bldg. 815/526 begins 3/27/07.**** **

## Accomplishments to Date

**EENS**
**MEL Hot Cell contents, revised ADS 3/14/07 and HFBR material in cells included in HFBR budget**
**Vacuum Pressure Chamber is programmatic and still needed.**
**Contents of Dynamitron/Cyclotron (NE), Neither NE nor EENS has any material at the old Dynamitron/Cyclotron**

## Accomplishments to Date

- BES
- Gallium Trichloride - **Progress being made on contents and tank removal**
**Need projects !!**

## UMC Database Review

**Review Handout**
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## LV PS Option 1

**Original thought**
**1 supply for each quadrant **
**6 2-7V, 30A (use 4 of these, 2 spares, 1 from test stand)**
**4 2-7, 115A (can use these for test stand)**
**2 5-10V, 80A**
**2 12-30V, 11.5A**
**Installed in M209 ****(Remember “GET THEM OUT OF THE HALL”)**
**Sense at Cathedral fuse panel for each quad.**
**3 adapter cards / 12 hybrids**
**Voltage drop (607mV per AC), with 1/0 cable up to Cathedral.**
**Requires we order one more set of cable. **
**Investigate twisting pairs by vendor, Cableco.**
**Route verified Thursday—looks good.**

**L. Bagby****	****6.30.04**

## Overall Distribution

## IS System Components

## Cable Distribution

## PS to AC V drops

## Option 2

**If we want to sense current for each AC via the Wiener we’ll need...**
**12 supplies**
**10 in house (6 2-7/30A, 4 2-7V/115A) + ****2 more and spares**
**8 possible sources per housing.**
**Suggest 6 per housing.**
**Lower max current, still use 1/0 cable**
**2A instead of 6A (assumes 450mA/hybrid)=463mV drop**
**Since current is so low (2A), perhaps Wiener isn’t the best choice at all!**
**Current readback resolution: 10mA**

## Suggestion

**Install Wiener as planned during Aug. shutdown.**
**Gain operational experience to see if we really need to monitor current per AC.**
**Since we’ll have 4 hybrids installed, use enable line to troubleshoot questionable hybrids.**
**Design fuse panel with a little extra space**
**----just in case.**** **
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## Formal Assessment of Network Security Risks with an Integrated Assessment Instrument

**Formal Assessment of Network Security Risks with an Integrated Assessment Instrument**
- David P. Gilliam
- David.P.Gilliam@jpl.nasa.gov
- John C. Kelly
- John.C.Kelly@jpl.nasa.gov
- John D. Powell
- John.Powell@jpl.nasa.gov
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

- L 5

**Notes:**
1
1

## The Need for Formal Network Security Risk Assessment

- Tens of thousands of networked computer systems within NASA
- Vulnerabilities are a risks to systems in the form of:
- Lost data and / or information theft
- Corrupted data
- Lost work effort
- Unavailability of systems (especially during encounters)
- Erroneous data sent to space craft have potentially catastrophic consequences

- L 5

**Notes:**
2
2

## An Integrated Assessment Instrument

- Vulnerability Matrix (VMatrix)
- Property Base Testing (PBT)
- Model Based Verification (MBV)
- Security Assessment Tools

- VMatrix

- PBT

- MBV

**Attacks not found **
**in the Wild**

## VMatrix

- Vulnerability Descriptions
- Exploitation Code

- PBT

- MBV

- Properties Extracted
-   from VMatrix are
-   usable by:

- PBT

- MBV

- DOVES Database at UCDavis (Matt Bishop)

## PBT Tool

- Operates over code
- Employs Slicing
- Isolate code pertaining to the property being verified

- VMatrix

- PBT

- MBV

- Property Interaction with

- VMatrix

- MBV

- Matt Bishop (UCDavis)

## MBV

- Flexible Modeling Framework (FMF)
- Compositional Approach
- Makes use of SPIN
- Infers Results from a partial model

- VMatrix

- PBT

**Attacks not found **
**in the Wild**

- Property Interaction with

- VMatrix

- PBT

- Potentially discovers new vulnerabilities

## SATs

- A collection of various tools
- Largely focused at the implementation level
- Each tool:
- Addresses specific weaknesses
- Uses specific techniques
- Ongoing effort to add additional SATs to the collection as they become available

- L 5

**Notes:**
2
2

## Conclusion

- Ongoing Research
- Novel adaptation of existing technologies
- Synergistic Integration
- Each asset leverages the advantages of the others
- Overall benefit that is greater than the sum of the benefits of each tool used individually**?**
- Future Plans
- Pilot Study with with Multi-Mission Encrypted Communication System (MECS) planned
- Class A flight project
- Publication presentation at WETICE, SANS

- L 5

**Notes:**
2
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## GCOM status

*Keiji Imaoka*
*Earth Observation Research Center*
*Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency*
*AMSR-E Science Team Meeting*
*July 2008*
*Telluride, CO*

## GCOM 1st generation

| Instrument | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2 |
| --- | --- |
| Orbit | Sun Synchronous orbit
 Altitude:700km, Inclination: 98.2 deg. |
| Size | 5.1m (X) * 17.5m (Y) * 3.4m (Z) |
| Mass | 1910kg |
| Power | 4050W @ EOL |
| Launch | JFY2011 |
| Design Life | 5-years |
| Status | Phase-C |

_**GCOM-W1 (Water)**_

*GCOM 1**st** generation*

_**GCOM-C1 (Climate)**_

| Instrument | Second-generation Global Imager |
| --- | --- |
| Orbit | Sun Synchronous orbit
 Altitude:798km, Inclination: 98.6 deg. |
| Size | 4.6m (X) * 16.3m (Y) * 2.8m (Z) |
| Mass | 1950kg |
| Power | 4250W @ EOL |
| Launch | JFY2013 (TBD) |
| Design Life | 5-years |
| Status | Phase-B |

## GCOM Status

*Satellite system*
*GCOM-W1*
*Development of satellite: Phase-C*
*Development of AMSR2: Phase-C to D (under review)*
*GCOM-C1*
*Now in Phase-B, waiting for phase-up review*
*Ground segment*
*GCOM-W1:Completed SDR and preparing for RFP*

## GCOM Status

*Science*
*GCOM 1**st** Research Announcement*
*Issued: Jan. 2008. Proposal due: Apr. 2008.*
*Selection of PI has already finished.*
*Cooperation between US-Japan is under discussion.*
*Workshop is currently scheduled in Jan. 2009.*
*Future*
*GCOM 2**nd** RA for GCOM-C1 is scheduled to be issued in this JFY, but will depend on project and budget condition.*
*Discussions began for GCOM-W2.*

## AMSR2 Instrument

| AMSR2 Channel Set |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Center Freq.
[GHz] | Band width [MHz] | Polarization | Beam width [deg]
(Ground res. [km]) | Sampling interval [km] |
| 6.925/
7.3 | 350 | V
and
H | 1.8 (35 x 62) | 10 |
|  |  |  | 1.7 (34 x 58) |  |
| 10.65 | 100 |  | 1.2 (24 x 42) |  |
| 18.7 | 200 |  | 0.65 (14 x 22) |  |
| 23.8 | 400 |  | 0.75 (15 x 26) |  |
| 36.5 | 1000 |  | 0.35 (7 x 12) |  |
| 89.0 | 3000 |  | 0.15 (3 x 5) | 5 |

| GCOM-W1/AMSR2 characteristics |  |
| --- | --- |
| Local time | 13:30 LTAN |
| Swath width | 1450km |
| Antenna | 2.0m offset parabola |
| Incidence angle | Nominal 55 degree |

- Deployed

- Stowed

- Channels in 7.3GHz band for possible RFI mitigation.
- Two MWAs in control unit and mission module for redundancy.
- Improvement of HTS (warm load).

## HTS design changes

*Improvement of HTS*
*Change of heat control methodology*
*Thermal Control Panel (TCP).*
*Controlling heat of TCP and HTS case structure.*
*Blocking of thermal coupling between HTS and its outside.*
*Change of temperature monitoring (e.g., number of points, vertical distribution).*
*No change for absorbing material itself.*

_*Heat control of AMSR/HTS*_

_*Heat control of AMSR2/HTS*_

## SGLI Instrument

## GCOM data flow
# Presentation: 699693

## Astronaut in Space

- Researched and Presented by Marian G., Kirsten T., and Emily-Page R.

## Elliott-Astronaut in Space

**Who: A man**
**Age: 39**
**Height: 70 in.**
**Weight: 180 lb.**
**Total daily calorie intake needed: 3457 cal**

## Astronaut Info

- The foods that astronauts eat are foods that are neither processed nor artificially preserved. Examples include apples and bananas.
- These foods are ready to eat and are packaged in flexible pouches. Examples include nuts, granola bars, and cookies.
- The water is removed from these foods to make them easier to store. Water is replaced in the foods before they are eaten. Includes beverages and oatmeal.
- These products are cooked and packaged in flexible foil pouches and sterilized by ionizing radiation so they can be kept at room temperatures. Meats are the only ones available, but other products are being developed for the International Space Station.
- _[www.spacelink.nasa.gov](http://www.spacelink.nasa.gov/)__ _.

## Continuation of Astronaut Info

- These foods require cold or cool temperatures to prevent spoilage.
- These foods are heat processed so they can be stored at room temperature. Most are stored in cans with easy-open pull tabs. Puddings are packaged in plastic cups.
- These foods are quick frozen to prevent a buildup of large ice crystals. This maintains the original texture of the food and helps it taste fresh. These include casseroles, quiches, and chicken pot pie.
- Astronauts need extra servings from the vegetable, fruit, protein, and sweets, oils and fats.
- www.spacelink.nasa.gov

## Breakfast

- 1 pastry, 200 cal
- 1 cup of yogurt, 240 cal
- 1 grapefruit, 80 cal
- 1 fresh medium apple, 90 cal

## Snack

- 1 fresh medium pear, 98 cal
- 1 avocado, 175 cal
- 4 medium green olives, 15 cal

##  Lunch

- 1 milkshake,  288 cal
- 1 corndog,  330 cal
- baked beans, 150 cal
- green beans,  22 cal
- peanut butter and jelly sandwich,
-                                              270 cal

- Lunch

## Snack

- Macaroni and cheese,   320 cal
- Ice cream,    290 cal

## Dinner

- Milk 2 %, 120 cal
- Beef pot roast, 284 cal
- Vegetable soup with meat, 134 cal
- Taco salad, 270 cal
- Cream soup, 130 cal
- Tuna, 70 cal

## Exercise Program

- Work out at least 2 times a day for 45 minutes minimum each session to stay healthy.
- Some choices are doing Tai-Bo, gym, treadmill, Bowflex, running, sit-ups, jump-roping, or snap scissors.

## Full schedule

- 8:30 a.m. – Wake up
- 9:00 a.m. – Eat Breakfast
- 10:00 a.m. – Work out for 45 minutes
- 11:15 a.m. – Have a snack
- 12:30 p.m. – Have lunch
- 2:45 p.m. – Work out for 45 minutes
- 3:30 p.m. – Have a snack
- 6:45 p.m. – Have dinner
- 9:30 p.m. – Go to bed

## The

- End
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## Tropical Atmosphere/Ionosphere/Thermosphere (TRAIT) Coupler 

**Tropical Atmosphere/Ionosphere/Thermosphere (TRAIT) Coupler **

_**Science Objectives:**_
- Determine energy deposition from the low and middle atmospheric sources, such as tropical storm systems, into the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere.
- Determine the neutral and electro-dynamical coupling between the Earth’s low latitude mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, and inner plasmasphere.
_**Associated RFAs:**_
**F2.4, F3.1, F3.4, H2.3, J4.4**

_**Enabling and Enhancing Technology Development:**_
- No “Enabling” technology required.
- New enhancing technology should reduce spacecraft cost by 10%.

_**Mission Implementation Description:**_
***Number of spacecraft: **2
***Location: **LEO with low inclination (< 20°); 2 with elliptical orbits (250 x 1500 km) Apogees:  180° apart, Perigee: dipping as low as 150 km
***Attitude control: **All spacecraft three-axis stabilized, momentum biased at 1 RPO
***Instrumentation: **Combination of in-situ and remote sensing instrumentation suite. TRL _>_ 8 for all instruments.** **
***Payload resources: **2** **S/C, payload adapter, prop sys, and fuel: approx. 1400 kg
_**Measurement Strategy:**_** **The two dipping satellites provide investigations of vertical coupling through continuous coverage in each orbit. Remote sensing: gravity waves, airglow, neutral winds, plasma density. In-situ:  electric fields, magnetic fields, thermal, energetic plasma, neutral density, winds, lightning
# Presentation: 211192

## PRS Data Errors and Data Quality issues

- SPA State conference calls
- 2-15-06
- Ken Tootle

## Objectives – Data Errors and Data Quality Issues

- Awareness of data errors
- A data error keeps the progress data from being reported in PRS.
- A data error results in no progress being reported.
-  Data errors occur due to user created errors through Toolkit
- Awareness of data quality issues
- Data that is incorrect results in inaccurate performance data.

## Number of reporting instances as of 1-12-06

| Reported Plans: | 36,428 |
| --- | --- |
| Reported Land Units: | 137,062 |
| Reported Practice: | 375,834 |

## Slide 4

| PRS Error Type | # | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Applied Date is not FY2006 or is NULL | 591 | 0.16% |
| Incomplete Location derived from Latitude/Longitude | 85 | 0.06% |
| Invalid Land Unit | 15 | 0.01% |
| Invalid Latitude/Longitude | 9 | 0.01% |
| Land Unit does not have CSG | 466 | 0.34% |
| Land Unit has an invalid land use | 44 | 0.03% |
| Latitude/Longitude is NULL | 965 | 0.70% |
| Plan Approval Date is not FY2006 or is NULL | 576 | 0.15% |
| Practice does not have program | 1,501 | 0.40% |

## Data Error Descriptions

- Data error descriptions are found in
- Toolkit technical note
- PRS Newsflash
- In this presentation

## New Tools in PRS

## New Tools in PRS

## Data Warehouse Errors

## Warehouse Update date

## Lat / Long) on a Land Unit is NULL” (0.53 %) and “Land Unit does not have a Program” (.27 % ).  

## PRS data errors

## PRS Data errors

## Invalid Lat Long errors

## Invalid Lat Long

## Invalid Lat Long –PRS Summary Tab

## Land Use has an invalid land use

## Land Use has an invalid land use

## Land Use has an invalid land use – Land unit has lost it attributes

## Invalid Land Unit

## Invalid land unit – Land unit has lost it attributes

## Applied date is not FY2005 or is null

## Applied date is not FY2005 or is null

## Plan approval date is not FY2005 or is null

## Plan approval date is not FY2005 or is null

## Invalid program - Be sure to use the “Save” button after edits or changes

## Data does not get reported - Click “Report After Check In” or your data will not be reported to PRS

## Data Quality issues - Conservation Program Selection

- Selecting totally erroneous program selections (e.g. Benefits All Programs)
- Selecting totally erroneous program selections for your location (e.g. AMA for a non-AMA state)
- Selecting an erroneous program selection for a particular performance measure
- Based on landuse (e.g. CTA-GLC for work completed on cropland)
- Based on the specific measure (e.g. FIP for CNMPs Written, no.)

## Data quality issues

- Ponds planned to date in FY 2006 – 167,650 – of that, 164, 625 are in one state and 114,000 of those are in one County and of those, 4,400 are on an individual ranch.
- Selecting the wrong program to charge performance to (e.g. “Grazing lands with conservation applied to protect the resource base, acres” – credited to CTA-General, rather than CTA-GLC)

## Run reports to scan for data quality issues

## Thank you!
# Presentation: 662255

## Module 3

**Motivation and Intervention**

## Readiness Ruler

- Ask your partner, **“Has your position on the ruler changed since the first session?”**
- If your partner’s readiness has increased, ask, **“What has made a difference for you?”**
- If your partner’s readiness has not increased or has decreased, ask, **“Why did you choose [the number chosen] instead of 0?”**

## Motivational Intervention

- Any clinical strategy designed to enhance
- client motivation for change

## Decisional Balance Exercises

- The client weighs the pros and cons of changing substance‐using behavior.
- The actual number of reasons a client lists on each side of a decisional balance sheet is not as important as the weight—or personal value—of each reason.

## Discrepancies 

- When people see that their actions conflict with important personal goals such as health, success, or family happiness, change is more likely to occur.

## Flexible Pacing

- The concept of *pacing* requires that clinicians meet their clients at the clients’ levels and use as much or as little time as is necessary to accomplish the essential tasks of each stage of change.

## Personal Contact With Clients Not in Treatment

- Motivational interventions include simple activities to enhance continuity of contact and strengthen the relationship between clinician and client when the client currently is not participating in treatment.

## Motivational Intervention and Stages of Change

- Clients need and use different kinds of motivational support depending on which stage of change they are in and which stage they are moving into.

## Clients Need Help...

**Precontemplation**
- 	Raising awareness
**Contemplation**
- 	Resolving ambivalence and choosing positive change
**Preparation**
- 	Identifying appropriate change strategies

## Clients Need Help...

**Action**
- 	Implementing change strategies, learning to avoid/limit relapse
**Maintenance**
- 	Developing new skills for maintaining recovery
**Recurrence**
- 	Recovering quickly and resuming the change process
# Presentation: 118073

## Portable Broadband Seismology

- Jakarta, Indonesia
- May 11-13, 2006
- Bruce Beaudoin
- Marcos Alvarez

- Part 8: Best Field Practices

## Pre-deployment Equipment QA

- QA all of your equipment in a controlled, lab environment prior to deployment.
- Test your recording parameters in the lab.
- Know your equipment:
- Be familiar with your installation plan.
- Practice setting up a station in the lab and in a simulated field environment.

**Notes:**
Before going to the field, test everything. 

Check that the parameters that you set for the datalogger etc. are all compatible and that everything works.

## Prepare

- Develop deployment and servicing sheets.
- Know the metadata you will require before you are in the field.
- A well stocked tool box is a must.
- Think spares, especially small items that can be misplaced.

- Identify and collect the construction materials you will need for your seismic station.

**Notes:**
Metadata = data other than the seismic data – e.g. location, serial numbers of the instruments.

## Far from human-generated noise (roads and machinery)
In a temperature-stable environment
Far from the ocean
On solid (competent) rock
Sky view
Good Drainage
Secure

- In a temperature-stable environment
- Far from the ocean
- On solid (competent) rock
- Sky view
- Good Drainage
- Secure

- Site Selection

## Vault & Site Construction

- Provide sensor coupling to Earth
- Protect the instruments:
- Flooding
- Temperature fluctuations
- Animals
- Secure

## Field Practices

- Take comprehensive field notes.
*If it is not documented, it didn’t happen*
- Take your time.
- Make sure you will record useful data.
*The “Fort Five”*
- Do you have power?
- Does the seismometer produce signal?
- Is your instrument programmed correctly?
- Do you have timing?
- Is your data being telemetered or stored on-site?

## Monitor Your Site & Data

- Monitor your sensor outputs before you close the vault and/or leave the site.
- Do a service run within 2 weeks of the initial deployment.
- Monitor your state-of-health channels.
- Look at waveforms.

**Notes:**
If something is going to go wrong it generally happens in the first few weeks.