BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 603326

## SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTION IN THE FRAMEWORK                                         OF ROUGH INDEXING PARADIGM

**AUTHORS: L. Primaux {**_[primaux@labri.fr](mailto:primaux@labri.fr)_**}; J. Benois-Pineau {**_[jenny.benois@labri.fr](mailto:jenny.benois@labri.fr)_**}; P. Krämer **_[{kraemer@labri.fr](mailto:%7Bkraemer@labri.fr)_**}; J-P Domenger {**_[domenger@labri.fr](mailto:domenger@labri.fr)_**}**
**LaBRI CNRS UMR 5800 / University Bordeaux1****	****	****http://www.labri.fr/Recherche/ImageSon/AIV/**

**SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTION IN THE FRAMEWORK                                         OF ROUGH INDEXING PARADIGM**

**Shot Boundary Detection:**
- We assume a **Gaussian Distribution** of D, which is online updated as follows**:**
- Detection threshold *λ* (Kp set to1.8):

**Results:**
- The most equilibrated result is a recall of 70.2% and a precision of 63.4%.
- The best precision is 73% for a recall of 65% and the best recall is 74% for a precision of 57%.

**I-Frames**
- DC I-Frames matching takes into account  Luminance and chrominance
**WMSE:** I-Frames Dissimilarity Measure Weighted MSE

**Transition Effects Classification:**
- The classification consists in considering as “CUT” all peaks which are immediately followed by their opposite, with the tolerance of one I-Frame in between. Moreover the peak must not be preceded by a high positive value. Otherwise peaks are considered as “GRAD”.
- The decision based on the derivative of the number of intra-coded macroblocks showed an increased performance of 20% in recall compared to absolute value Q in (#).

- here				      in order to let Gaussian more reactive, and α is set to 0,15

- The index *i* is retained as shot border if:
- But still, to recognize *D(i) *as a shot change peak, we consider the previous shot change peak value *D(j) *and apply the following decision rule:

- run-sec decod-sec segm-sec  processor-type-and-speed   6732       3874         2858            Pentium 4 2.8GHz
# Presentation: 884612

## HepMC Proposal

- Presentation of the proposal for the new version of HepMC
- Lynn Garren
- July 25, 2006

## background

- CMS requested MathCore GenVector
- Others want no change to Lorentz vector
- Concern about dependencies
- Compromise proposed last week
- A couple more unrelated requests

## The Proposal

- Remove all dependencies
- Replace HepLorentzVector with minimal simple vector
- Prefer struct of four doubles
- Need a bit more
- Continue to use existing code?
- Template constructor, but not class
- http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/simu/HepMC/download/

## SimpleVector.h

- class FourVector
- 4-momentum or position
- class ThreeVector
- Position
- Independent
- FourVector does not have a ThreeVector

## FourVector constructors

- FourVector( double x, double y, double z, double t=0)
- FourVector(double t)
- FourVector()
- template <class T >
-    inline FourVector( const T& v)
- Uses x(), y(), z(), t()
- Side effect: problem with FourVector(0)
- Seen, for instance, with GenParticle(0,...)

## FourVector methods

- px() py() pz() e() m() m2()
- perp() perp2() mag()
- x() y() z() t()
- theta() phi() rho()
- =   ==  !=
- pseudoRapidity() eta()
- set(,,,) setX() setY() setZ() setT()
- setPx() setPy() setPz() setE()

## ThreeVector methods

- x() y() z()
- phi() theta() r()
- mag() perp2() perp()
- =  ==  !=
- set(,,) setX() setY() setZ()
- setPhi() setTheta()

## Rationale

- Methods used by HepMC
- Similar methods that seem likely to be used
- Don’t want a full vector class

## PdfInfo

- CMS requests PdfInfo class
- HepMC 1.28?
- GenEvent has pointer (undefined by default)
- double x1;   // fraction of beam momentum carried by first parton ("beam side")
- double x2;  // fraction of beam momentum carried by second parton ("target side")
- int kf1; // flavour code of first parton
- int kf2; // flavour code of second parton
- double QscalePDF;  //  Q-scale used in evaluation of PDF's  (GeV)
- double pdf1;  // PDF (kf1, x1, Q)
- double pdf2;  // PDF (kf2, x2,Q)
- Needs to be discussed by LCG simulation

## Generated Mass

- Expecting request from Monte Carlo authors
- Store generated mass
- Additional double
- Certainly there in HEPEVT common block
- Precision problem
- Might perhaps store px, py, pz, m
- Code breaks...
- Doesn’t make sense to calculate mass to store it
- Must get generated mass directly from generator

## Conclusion

- Without templated constructor, not backwards compatible
- With templated constructor, partially backwards compatible
- Templated constructor overrides default conversion (int to double)
- Possible obscure errors
- FourVector is not a full physics vector implementation
- Pere promised something to help when reading
- Is this proposal acceptable?
# Presentation: 788749

## RDB and EPICS

- The World According to SLAC
- Ideas and Implementations by:
- J. Rock, D. Rogind, S. Allison

## History of attempts

- Old SLC system
- Controls database is a collection of flat files
- Cabling and maintenance databases not complete
- PEP-II (mid ’90s)
- Started late
- Some EPICS (first at SLAC)
- Odd collection with duct tape and wire
- SPEAR
- Small project; limited goals
- LCLS
- The chance to do it right; mostly EPICS

## SPEAR’s  Way

- DEC RDB (not ORACLE or MySQL)
- IOCs report PV information on boot
- PV information includes INP/OUT
- Used to resolve mix ups

## LCLS Future

- Looking for an RDB person
- Naming convention meeting as we speak
- Steve Lewis has joined from LLNL
- Looking to do as much as possible
- Central PV help just a beginning
- Interested in our outcome

## ESD Software (our part)

- Need good up-to-date list of PVs
- Needs to include “other” system
- Management of secondary data important
- Archiver data
- Channel Watcher data (save/restore)
- Alarm Handler data

## Other System

- Has EPICS version of name
- Code to generate list worked once
- Fairly static now

## Secondary Systems

- Not just record names, but fields
- Save/Restore might want .LOPR, for example
- Ease of choosing names
- Singly
- In groups by pattern
- Ease of setting parameters
- Singly
- In groups by pattern

## Notes from Judy

- The UI we need:
- Is convenient, easy to use, intuitive.
- Is probably web-based.
- Allows mass import of data
- Allows field-by-field editing
- Allows update of groups of things, with as many cut/paste/filldown/automatic options as possible
- Has plenty of reports so we can easily see and communicate what we have in the db structure.
- Maps easily into our normal view of the data (i.e. we need to easily identify and manipulate an epics .db or template, an alarm tree, a channel list.)
- Has security (one or more levels)

## ESD RDB Use

- Startup file crawling to produce
- Old method for old system data
- Tools to get secondary data right
- Generation of secondary data files
- LCLS may want .db generation too
- We also have cable databases and, in principle, power drawings

## Tools

- I like to talk about
- Functionality
- Tables
- Reports
- Generating configuration files
- Task groups end up talking about
- Which web tools?
- Formal Oracle or ad-hoc generation
# Presentation: 674282

## The Lambda (3rd installment)

- Lbar+random observations
- Richard Seto
- Ppg016 meeting
- Jan 2, 2003

## Procedure

- CNT ntuples to pair ntuples from munir  ppi- and pbarpi+
- TOF-TOF, EMCE-EMCE, TOF-EMCE, all east
- Cuts done for me by munir
- No additional cuts for now
- Normalization is still just between 1.13 –1.2 GeV
- Note- mass of lambda is 1.1157
- Gaussian fit, convoluted with gausian of 1.3 GeV (from resolution?)- extracted “width” is plotted from 1.10-1.13 (30 MeV, 2 MeV bins, 15-3=12 degrees of freedom
- Chisq tends to be ~ 25 (10-45) for 13 DOF
- Centrality bins 0-10, 10-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60-100
- Pt bins .3-1.8, 1.8-5 or .3,.8,1.3,1.8,2.3,2.8
- Still problems with background – working on ++ and – (no results yet)

## For the record (from munir)

- List of runs
- run2_v03_burn1/CNT files.  The complete list at /phenix/u/munir/FileList/UCR_CNT_file.lis
- We do 3-types of combinations:
- Both pbar and pion are identified in tof (TOF-TOF)
- Both pbar and pion are identified in PbSc (East-East)
- One member of the pair in TOF and the other in PbSc (TOF-East)
- Only pi+ in TOF and pbar in PbSc contributes for the third kind of mixing.
- RKS has a question about this

## Single particle Cuts

- EMCal (East):
- |bbcz| < 30.
- |zed|<75
- quality==31 || 63
- 0.3<mom<1.2 for both protons and pions
- emcsdphi*emcsdphi + emcsdz*emcsdz < 9.
- isPi ans isK calculated using EMCal resolution of 480ps (followed HadPid in CVS)
- |isP|<2
- |isPi|<2

- Tof
- |bbcz| < 30.
- |zed|<75
- quality==31 || 63
- etof>0.002
- |tofsdphi|<2.5 && |tofsdz|<2.5
- |isP|<2.5
- |isPi|<2.5
- 0.5<mom<3.0 for proton
- 0.25<mom<1.8 for pion

## Pair acceptace criteria

- ghost track rejection : applied ONLY to same sign pairs
- |delta_zed|<0.02
- |delta_phi|<0.03
- one member of the pair is randomly rejected
- intruder rejection : In same arm and same sector
- TOF : delta_ttof=0 && delta_etof=0
- PbSc: delta_temc=0 && delta_ecore=0
- both members of pair are rejected.
- For actual pair +-, ++ and -- :
- 0<centclock<93
-  For mixed pair +-, ++ and --  :
- 18 centrality bins from 0% in an increment of 5%, the last bin is 85%-92%
- 15 bbcz bins from -30 cm  in an increment of 4 cm
- tracks from same centrality and vertex bins are mixed

## Cut (TOF+)(EMC-)

**Cut (TOF+)(EMC-)**

- Typical cut requires  for tof-emc combo
- + in TOF, and – in emce for phi – use same cut for lambda
- IS this OK? seems like a mass cut to me (looking at lbar)

- Without
- Pt<1.8

- With  cut
- Pt<1.8

## Widths

- Consistent with flat

- lambda

- lambdabar

## Masses

- Reasonable value
- Pdg=1.1157

- lambdabar

- lambda

## Pt dependence“all”

## To do

- Do a more careful study of these plots
- See munirs stuff
- Look at ++, -- and study subtraction problems
# Presentation: 492209

## Forecasting Florida Rivers:How can we help you?

- HAS Forecaster
- Southeast River Forecast Center
- National Weather Service
- (770) 486-0028 ext. 402

**Forecasting Florida Rivers:****How can we help you?**

- www.srh.noaa.gov/serfc

## River Forecast Centers

## Weather Forecast Offices

**Weather Forecast Offices**

## Slide 4

## RFC Operations

** ****Data Collection**
** ****Quality Control**
** ****Precipitation Forecasting (QPF)**
** ****Hydrologic Model Calibration**
** ****Hydrologist Forecast Refinement**
** ****Disseminate Information**
** ****Maintain Hydrometeorological Watch**

## Measure Rainfall - Radar

## Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimator

**Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimator**

## Gage and Radar 

**Gage and Radar **

## Mean Areal Precipitation

## One Day Observed Ranfall

**One Day Observed Ranfall**

## Year to Date Rainfall

## Year to Date Departure

## Zoom In

## Rainfall Forecast

## Outflows from West Point

**Outflows from West Point**

**Ruff Off Between West Point Dam and Forecast Point**

## Flood Impact

## Forecast Points

## Forecast Points

## Forecast Hydrograph

## Flood Impact

## Significant Flood Outlook

**Significant Flood Outlook**

## What Makes an Accurate Forecast

**Accurate Measure of Rainfall (Gage or Radar)**
**Accurate Distribution of Rainfall**
**Accuracy of Reservoir Releases**
**Accuracy of Rainfall Prediction**
**Calibration of Hydrologic Model**
**Other Model Factors**
**Experience of Hydrologist**
**Other “Beyond the Science” Issues**
**Accurate Hurricane Track**

## SERFC Challenges in Florida

**Climatic Maximum of Precipitation**
***60% of Nations Rainfall falls over the SE***
**Active Tropical Weather**
***7 out of 10 Tropical Storm or Hurricanes***
***    ******make landfall on SERFC coastline***
**Extreme Variation of  Geomorphology**
***Mountains***
***Coastal Plains***
***Karst Geology***

## www.srh.noaa.gov/serfc

- (770) 486-0028 ext. 402

- www.srh.noaa.gov/tae
- www.srh.noaa.gov/jax
# Presentation: 261426

## HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES WITH PHYSICAL EXERCISE (Project HOPE)

**A Randomized Trial to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in a ****High-Risk Minority Population**

## KEY INVESTIGATORSRobert Garrison, Ph.D.Mace Coday, Ph.D.Mary O’Toole, Ph.D.Lisa Vasser, B.A.Lisa Klesges, Ph.D.Jennie Ma, Ph.D.Karen Johnson, M.D., M.P.H.

## HOPE TRIAL PARTNERS

- University of Tennessee, Memphis, Department of Preventive Medicine.
- The Church Health Center of Memphis.
- HOPE AND HEALING, a Ministry of the Church Health Center.

## PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

- The purpose of the HOPE trial is to test the efficacy of two behavior change models as posited in Social Action Theory to increase physical activity in a sedentary low SES population.

## MAJOR HYPOTHESES

- Whether intentional theory-driven contact (Arms B and C) in a facility based physical activity intervention improves patient outcomes over unintentional standard care contact (Arm A).
- Whether Patient-Provider Interaction, as a model for exercise behavior change, is superior to Patient-Peer Mentoring as a model for exercise behavior change.

## THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKSocial Action Theory

- STANDARD CARE: Patients randomly assigned to Arm A (Standard Interaction) will have access to an exercise facility where unintentional contact with regular staff members will be available.

## THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKSocial Action Theory

- SOCIAL SUPPORT: Patients randomly assigned to Arm B (Patient-Peer/Novel Interaction) will have facility access where intentional, socially supportive contact with trained peer mentors will be provided.

## THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Social Action Theory

- PATIENT-PROVIDER INTERACTION: Patients randomly assigned to Arm C (Patient-Provider/Enhanced Interaction) will have access to the same exercise facility where intentional, enhanced provider communications with trained health educators will be provided.

## POPULATION OF INTEREST

- Participants will be enrolled from a large inner-city medical clinic (The Church Health Center, Memphis) which provides health care for low SES workers who do not have medical insurance.
- Participants will be sedentary with a Body Mass Index _>_ 25 kg/m2.
- Majority of the participants will be African-American (80%) and female (83%).

## RESEARCH DESIGN

- A randomized, controlled trial testing two  behavioral physical activity interventions versus standard care.
- Follow up intervals will be every 6 months for the 2 year follow up period.

## PROPOSED INTERVENTIONSSocial Action Theory

**Action context **
**Social support theory**
**Patient-Peer novel interaction**
**Peer Mentors provide face-to-face, phone, mail, & optional group contact.****	**

**Action context **
**Communication theory**
**Patient-Provider enhanced interaction**
**Health Educators provide face-to-face, phone, mail, & optional group contact.**

## PRIMARY STUDY OUTCOMES

- Physical fitness changes as estimated by one mile walk test.
- Reported physical activity participation.
# Presentation: 873061

## NEPA CHALLENGES: THE HORRID MESSAGE

- JACK F. GILBERT
- ATTORNEY-ADVISOR
- FHWA
- OFFICE OF CHIEF COUNSEL

## BEFORE WE GET STARTED

- You _all_ do *Very Good Work*
- Good Stewards of the Environment
- Doing the Right Thing
- Still Subject to a Challenge

## NEPA CHALLENGES

- I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge
*William Shakespeare (1564–1616)*
*Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 4, l. 199-200; Sir Toby Belch.** *

## The Goals of a NEPA Challenge

- Alteration
- Minor or Major
- Stop
- Kill, Bury, Put to Sleep
- Delay
- Kill, Bury, Put to Sleep

**Notes:**
Alteration through many forums – scoping, comment, etc. usually not a primary reason for lawsuits.
Stopping a project is difficult. Delay it long enough and you might get to stoppage

## It Can Be Pretty Horrid

- Senville v. Peters
- City of Carmel v. US DOT
- N.C. Alliance for Transp. Reform v. US DOT
- AGUA v. FHWA

## Merrily We Sue Along

- Lawsuits
- Threat of a Lawsuit
- Filing of  a Lawsuit
- Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs)
- Preliminary Injunctions (PIs)
- Summary Judgments
- Hearings/Final Judgments
- Appeals
- Threats of Further Lawsuits

## Before the Lawsuit

- Be Proactive *not* Reactive
- Fully Engage with the Project’s “Opponents”
- Maintain Project Flexibility
- Assemble the Necessary Team
- Educate the Public – Be on Message
- Issue Spotting*
- Respond Fully to All Comments
- But Always Remember – Even if everything is done perfectly you can still be sued

**Notes:**
Examples – Katy Freeway - 

## Defending the Lawsuit 

- Counsel must be knowledgeable
- Coordination between State, Feds City, etc., and consultants
- Remember there is but one audience – U.S. District Court
- A litigation team - exec committee
- A designated point of contact

## Lawsuit Rules or Murphy’s Law

- It will take longer than you want
- It will take longer than you think
- It will take more time and money
- It will not be easy
- It will be personal

## Issue Spotting

- Common Litigation Areas
- Purpose & Need
- Alternatives
- Indirect Impacts
- Cumulative Impacts
- Air Toxics
- Lack of Response to Comments
- Administrative Record

## The Path to Lawsuit Success

- Call the Attorney -- before the lawsuit is filed
- Remember Public Comments are the map to any lawsuit
- Document Document Document
- Show Your Work
- Administrative Record
- This is what the Court sees

## Delay for Delay’s Sake

**An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.** *
-         Evelle J. Younger
- (Substitute “project” in place of “trial”)

## CONCLUSION

- To See the Project Completed You Need:
- Legal Viability
- Political Support
- Public and Govt. Agencies
- Economic Feasibility
- To Address the Challenge You Need:
- Integrated and strategic approach
- Major investment of time and resources
- Leadership, dedication and commitment

## FINAL CONCLUSION

- Thank You for Time and for
- Your Hard Work
# Presentation: 112226

## Emerging/Niche Technologies

- South Sun Energy Conservations:
- The Winsulator

## Description

- Winsulator – High molecular weight, 1/8”, clear acrylic, interior storm                window with UV blocker
- Magnetically attached to a                             metal angle iron installed on                   the window frame

## Description

## Benefits

- Reduces HVAC requirements
- Blocks > 95% of UV rays
- Reduces heat gain
- Eliminates fading
- Eliminates infiltration
- Reduces outside noise 60%

## Demonstration

- Green – 52 BTUH / ft2
- Red – 280 BTUH / ft2
- Outdoor Temp – 38 F
- Single pane window

## Product Cost

- Range:
- $12 - $16 per square foot
- Variables:
- Fixed costs - travel
- Window size - larger window is lower cost per square foot

## Savings

- Reported by **Center for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies (CADDET)**
- “29% reduction in window-related energy consumption”
- _[www.caddet-ee.org/](http://www.caddet-ee.org/)__ public/                                                       __	__	__uploads/pdfs/Brochure/r251.pdf_
- 			Payback: 2 – 6 years

## Vendor Information

- _[www.winsulator.com](http://www.winsulator.com/)_
# Presentation: 672523

## What should I do to prepare for a flu pandemic?

- Dr. Richard Benjamin Chief Medical Officer American Red Cross

## First, ask yourself these questions:

- What if my children’s schools were closed?
- What if a family member were to become ill?
- What if I could not go to work?
- What if I had to stay home for an extended period of time?

## Gather essential supplies

- Water
- Easy-to-prepare food
- Medications and medical supplies
- Medical history and contact information
- Health and cleaning supplies

## Easy-to-prepare foods

- Canned meats, fruits, vegetables and soups
- Protein/fruit bars, dried fruit and crackers
- Cereal/granola, peanut butter and nuts
- Juice (jarred or boxed)
- Milk (boxed or powdered)
- Baby food and formula

## Get in the habit of....

- Washing hands often with soap and water
- Covering your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze
- Cleaning and disinfecting commonly shared items
- Staying home when you’re sick
- Getting plenty of rest
- Drinking lots of fluids
- Exercising regularly and eating a balanced diet
- Getting a seasonal flu shot every year.

## Caregiving Tips

- Designate one person as caregiver
- Keep personal items separate
- Use very hot water for washing dishes and clothes
- Wear disposable gloves

## For more information from the Red Cross about how to prepare for a flu pandemic go to:

- _[www.redcross.org/pandemicflu](http://www.redcross.org/pandemicflu)_

**Contact your local chapter to request a *****Pandemic Flu Family Preparedness Guide*****. To find the chapter closest to you go to **_[www.redcross.org](http://www.redcross.org/)_** and type in your zipcode.**
# Presentation: 536274

## Past, Present and Future of Airborne Sunphotometry Using the NASA Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometers 

**INTRODUCTION**
- Since 1985, the NASA Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometers (AATS-6 and -14) have made extensive measurements of atmospheric constituents via their effect on the Sun’s direct-beam transmission through the atmosphere.  These AATS measurements are used extensively to validate and supplement satellite retrievals of stratospheric and tropospheric constituents, to validate airborne and ground-based LIDAR data products, to characterize horizontal and vertical distributions of gas and aerosol properties, to study closure (consistency) with in situ samplers aboard many aircraft, to test chemical-transport models, and to study the radiative effects of atmospheric constituents and Earth surfaces that are important to both climate and remote measurements.
- A collaboration between NASA Ames Research Center and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is underway to develop a prototype airborne spectrometer capable of sky radiance measurements in addition to observations of the direct solar beam.  To date this collaboration has yielded a ground based instrument called the Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR-G).

**4STAR – The Future Based on AATS**
- - AATS-like sun tracking and motion control
- - Direct-beam sun irradiance and sky radiance vs. angular distance from the sun.
- - Spectrometers allow many more wavelength channels, and with finer resolution.
- - Improved measurements of H2O, O3, and aerosols in the stratosphere and troposphere, while enabling measurements of additional gases such as NO2.
- - AERONET-like measurements from aircraft.

**Past, Present and Future of Airborne Sunphotometry ****Using the NASA Ames Airborne Tracking ****Sunphotometers **

- Roy Johnson1, Philip Russell1, Jens Redemann2, John Livingston3, Stephanie Ramirez2, Beat Schmid4, Connor Flynn4, Stephen Dunagan1

- 1NASA Ames Research Center, 2Bay Area Environmental Research Institute,
- 3SRI International, 4Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
# Presentation: 448772

## US Pixel Mechanics Role

- Global support structure

- Intermediate support structure

- Local support structure

- Stave

- Sector

- Disk

- Barrel

- x  (9-11)

- x5

- x  (22,40,56)

- x5

- x3

- LBNL

- Europe

- Final assembly at CERN

## Pixel Mechanics

- Prototype end frame section fabricated
- by December 1999.

- Thermal/mechanical prototype disk fabricated and tested successfully for stability. Second full
- prototype disk to be tested by next month.

- Evaporative cooling tests of disk sectors successfully done.

## Pixel Mechanics Status

- Dozens of prototype disk sectors have been built and tested. Baseline exists with alternative in case of problems with baseline.
- Evaporative cooling(confirmed as ATLAS baseline) of sectors demonstrated. Substantial thermal headroom. System complex -> need of evaporative cooling capability in US to meet schedule - for realistic test before reaching CERN. This is new.
- One full disk thermal/mechanical prototype tested at LBNL. Second about to be tested(at Hytec, Inc).
- Full-size frame prototype fabricated successfully.
- ATLAS Final Design Review of Local Supports(sectors) completed successfully in June.
- PRR of local supports and FDR of rest of mechanics scheduled for December - tight but feasible.
- In general, mechanical structures in good shape (so far) but critical issue is interface to cable and coolant plant - integrated design - see next page.

## Pixel Mechanics - Critical Issues

- Design and integration of cabling, fiber optics, coolant connections with mechanical structure is current critical issue. Is there enough space? Strain relief. Electrical issues. Interferences......
- CAD modeling and physical modeling limited by lack of design => build prototypes.
- Requires building complete chain from pixel module to power supply in realistic way. In progress.

-  5m flex cable production in place.
# Presentation: 698247

## Sharing the KOMP Resources

**Mutant Mouse Repositories**

- NARRC
- January 2007

- Clonal ES
- cell lines

## History of Mouse Resource Support

-  1959 - NSF funded 1st JAX mouse repository
-  1978 - Division of Research Resources
-      (pre-NCRR) funded the JAX mutant
-      mouse repository
-  1999 - NCRR funded MMRRC to expand
-     mouse resource capability
-  2006 - NIH funded
- Repatriation of targeted mutation strains
- Acquisition of Deltagen/Lexicon  strains

- NARRC
- January 2007

**Notes:**
Plus DRR funded the NIH animal resources program, including mice
From 1993 on, other NIH institutes sometimes contributed to resource funding through NCRR (NIA, NIAID, NIAMS, NIDDK) 

## Value of KOMP Resources

-  Provide mutant mice and ES cells for
- Basic research to basic & clinician researchers
- Understand pathways
- Understand gene function
- Identify drug targets
- Phase 0 drug trials
-  Critical to archive and distribute knockout mouse resources

- NARRC
- January 2007

**Notes:**
To test a drug you need an animal model that gets the disorder

## Size of current NCRR resources

- NARRC
- January 2007

|  | JAX | MMRRC | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mouse strains - live | 935 | 41 | 976 |
| Mouse strains - cryo. | 1,993 | 1,013 | 3,006 |
| ES cell lines | * | 14,273 | 14,273 |

**TOTAL****	**** 2928** 	**15,327****	****18,255**

***JAX C57BL/6J ES cell line distributed by ATCC.**

**Notes:**
C57BL/6J ES cell line; C57BL/6J albino available shortly

## Partnerships for Sharing Resources

- FIMRe - **F**ederation of **I**nternational **M**ouse **Re**sources
- Coordinate mouse resource archiving and sharing
- Provide each other local distribution centers
- Standardize protocols
- Share advancements and training
- IMSR   - **I**nternational **M**ouse **S**train **R**esource
- One-stop on-line shop for mouse resources available worldwide

- NARRC
- January 2007

## Maintenance of resources

- Living mice are not necessary - impossible except for strains in continuing demand
- Gametes & ES cells are mice in different formats
- 2/3 of strains at JAX in frozen state only
- ~96% of strains in MMRRC in frozen state only
- Both resource programs cryopreserve strains during the importation process
- C57BL/6 sperm can now be reliably frozen and recovered by IVF
- Frozen sperm enable recovery of large numbers of mice

- NARRC
- January 2007

**Notes:**
B6 sperm: changed everything, paper due to be submitted in 2-3 months

## Slide 7
# Presentation: 253720

## Preparedness Issues for the Local Level

- Edward J. Gabriel, M.P.A., A.E.M.T.-P
- Deputy Commissioner for Preparedness
- Office of Emergency Management
- City of New York

**Notes:**
Len Nichols’ slides for the presentation “Trends in the Uninsured: Impact and Implications of the Current Economic Environment.” 

Len Nichols is the Vice President of the Center for Studying Health System Change.

## Incident Management System & Decision Making

- Understanding of how the system coordinates multi-agency responses to field and non-field emergencies.

## Traditional Field Emergency Response Community

- Traditional Field Emergency Response Community

## Health Care System & Provider Protections

**MD’s, RN’s, EMS, Firefighters, Police Officers, etc.**

## Coordination of Local Agencies: Public Health, Hospitals & Emergency Responders

## Getting Out the Message
# Presentation: 290632

## Voyager 2.0

- A Multimedia Server

## Overview

- Voyager has provided RTP Archiving and Playback for almost 10 years
- Voyager has an RTSP 1.0 client interface
- Voyager 1.0 supported a CORBA interface for browsing, searching and doing administrative tasks.
- Voyager 2.0 needs to provide a solid platform for further research and integration with the Access Grid

## Use Cases I

- Actor: User
- User records a session
- User plays back a session
- User searches for a particular archive
- User browses archives
- User exports a archive
- User imports a archive

## Use Cases II

## Requirements I

- Store Metadata about Archives
- Manage Archives
- Exposes Network Interfaces
- Integrates Security

## Requirements II

## Requirements III

## Architecture I

- Voyager Resources
- Sessions
- Media
- Archives
- Storage
- Users

## Architecture II

- Voyager Operations
- Create a new Archive
- Delete an Archive
- Search for an Archive
- Export an Archive
- Import an Archive
- Play an Archive

## Architecture III

## Technology Strategy

- Goals
- Portability
- Small number of prerequisite software packages
- Integrate existing solutions
- Enable developers to augment with new media capabilities

## Technology Choices

- C++
- ACE Toolkit for Core Code
- RTP from UCL common library
- RTP Dump Software from H. Schulzrinne
- Separate Media Recording Services
- Separate Storage Services

## Design I

- Create Core Data Structures and Objects
- Sessions
- Media
- Network Configurations
- Transport Configurations
- Time
- User

## Design II

- Create Media Recording Tools
- RTP
- Block Data
- Event Streams
- Create Storage Tools
- File System Storage
- Database Storage

## Design III

- Create Client Interfaces
- SOAP/WSDL
- RTSP 1.0 +
- Fast Forward
- Rewind

## Design IV

- Write Voyager Client
- Browsing
- Searching
- Recording
- Playing
- Export
- Adobe Premiere, iMovie
- Import

## Design V

- Future Work on
- Annotating Archives

## Open Issues

## Conclusion

## Final Notes
# Presentation: 084844

## EPICS Release 3.15

- Bob Dalesio
- May 19, 2000

## Features for 3.15

-   New Abstract Data Object
- Portable server replacement of rsrv
- Replace GDD
- Periodic Monitors
-  Remove String Length Limitations (Put off until 3.16)
- Name Length
- String Length
-  Replace dbStaticLib with new link support
- Extendible Link Support
- Support Dynamic Link Modification

## The New Data Object Is Enabling Technology that has no Immediate Advantage to the Users

- Currently there are two channel access servers to maintain: rsrv which serves the EPICS database and the portable server which serves all other data stores. This creates a problem for maintenance.
- The new data object improves the situation for composite data in two ways:
- 	1)  by providing a mechanism for sending composite parameters only when they change.
- 	2) by providing a method for defining new composite structues – like a statistics monitor which could be used to access data from an archiver or statistic records (refer to earlier talk)
- With the new data object and upgrades to the protocol, new event types – like monitor frequency deadbands and client specified deadbands, will be easily implemented.

## The New Data Object Is Enabling Technology that has no Immediate Advantage to the Users

- Currently there are two channel access servers to maintain: rsrv which serves the EPICS database and the portable server which serves all other data stores. This creates a problem for maintenance.
- The new data object improves the situation for composite data in two ways:
- 	1)  by providing a mechanism for sending composite parameters only when they change.
- 	2) by providing a method for defining new composite structues – like a statistics monitor which could be used to access data from an archiver or statistic records (refer to earlier talk)
- With the new data object and upgrades to the protocol, new event types – like monitor frequency deadbands and client specified deadbands, will be easily implemented.

## Conclusions

-  With a sabbatical to Ralph Lange and the support of SNS for Jeff Hill, we were able to move forward on the abstract data class, measure and optimize the performance, and integrate it with the EPICS static database library
-  With the addition of Andrew Johnson at Argonne, we are able to assign someone full time to the solution of the link problem that we have lived with since the beginning of EPICS – in a more complete way than the ‘@’ hack.
- We are making major structural changes in 3.15 that will break a log jam of over taxing of our original interface, code structure and protocol.
- Having some dedicated resources to attend to these issues is alloowing us to move forward on difficult and costly structural changes.
# Presentation: 690600

## Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Montana                                                                                      For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 4,212***

**Suspicious Activity Report Filing Trend for the State of Montana                                                                                      For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Montana

- Note:  The pie chart represents the top nine characterizations plus additional characterizations in total.
-            An individual SAR may cite more than one characterization.  Hence, the number of characterizations detailed here significantly exceeds the total number of SARs.

**Characterizations of Suspicious Activity for the State of Montana**
**For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Montana Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filing Trend For the Period April 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007

***Total SARs: 155***

- Note:  Suspicious Activity Report statistical data is continuously updated as additional reports are filed and processed.  For this reason, there may be minor discrepancies between the statistical figures contained in this report and those in previous FinCEN reports.  Annual numbers for this exhibit are calculated by ***Subject Address*** and not filer address; therefore, the annual totals appearing in the above graph do not match those in Section 1, Exhibit 8 (Characterization of Suspicious Activity by State & Territory by Year).

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Montana

**For the Period January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**

## Suspicious Activity Report Geographic Pattern for the State of Montana

**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Filer Branch Address**
# Presentation: 418878

## Osciladores de rubidio

- J. Mauricio López R.

- Centro Nacional de Metrología CENAM

## Relojes Ópticos

**Osciladores de Rubidio**

**Trampa de iones de estroncio del NRC**

**Relojes Ópticos**

## Hyperfine enery levels of ground state of Rubidium

- Energy

- F=2

- F=1

- mF=2

- mF=1

- mF=0

- mF=-1

- mF=-2

- mF=1

- mF=0

- mF=-1

- Clock transition

## Optical pumping process ilustrated

## Slide 5

## Estabilidad típica para osciladores de rubidio

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## Estabilidad típica de osciladores atómicos

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**Rubidio**

**Cuarzo**

**Cesio**

**E****stabilidad ****típica ****de**** osciladores atómicos**

## Principales ventajas y desventajas de los osciladores de rubidio

- Ventajas

- 1. Tamaño compacto

- 2. Bajo costo (500 – 5000 dólares)

- 3. Bajo consumo de energía

- 4. Poco tiempo de calentamiento (menor a 30 minutos)

- 5. Excelente estabilidad a corto tiempo (menor a 1 hora)

- 6. Tiempo de vida largo

- 7. Portatil

- 8. Transportable facilmente

## Principales ventajas y desventajas de los osciladores de rubidio

- Desventajas

- 1. No es un patrón primario

- 2. Degradación de estabilidad a mediano y largo plazo

- 3. Suelen ser sensibles a horientación respecto a campo 	magnético terrestre

## Osciladores de rubidio

- J. Mauricio López R.

- Centro Nacional de Metrología CENAM

- jlopez@cenam.mx
# Presentation: 520003

## Impressions

- The job is
- Challenging
- 	and complex: detector & operations,  software& computing, analysis & physics.
- Ask your patience as I learn the job, people, issues.....
- No wonder Harry has fled the country. We will thank him properly next go-around.

## Our Status

**Now**
**Nearly all components on-line - turning to optimization, data quality.**
**Operations getting smoother and the DAQ rate ever increasing.**
**Analysis issues (tracking, NEW calorimeter) coming into focus. P13 cut.**
**On line and off line farms running at high efficiency, capacity growing.**
**HCP showed our capability to do physics**
**Looking a bit more forward**
**Offsite analysis becoming more of a reality. Discussing plans for DOE/NSF and non-U.S. funding of RACs.**
**Run IIb Upgrade Lehman approved, “set the standard”**

## D0 Operations

**Have reached 87% in one day and 5 days in a row in 60-70%. **
**August: 57%, 6.3 pb****-1**
**September:  60%, 16.3 pb****-1**
**Through October 9: 66%, 6.9 pb****-1**
**Total ~44pb-1**

**75%**

**D0 Operations**

**Machine performance improving up to 36E30!**

## DAQ Capabilities

**Store 1832**

**DAQ Capabilities**

**L1: ~700 Hz (1250)**
**L2: ~230 Hz (350)**
**L1: ~50 Hz**

## Physics

**Improved Analysis, Exclusive States, Cross Sections, Limits**

## A Few Announcements

**Prof. Naba K.Mondal has recently been elected a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA). INSA is the prestigious Science Academy of India. **
**Have a green-light for an Remote Analysis Center at Lyon. Congratulations!**
**Discussion of January shutdown underway.  My **_**guess**_** is a shorter shutdown but won’t know date and duration until November.**
**We need shifters for the end of the year. Please contact Alan Stone!**

## Final Comments

**We seem to be nearly clear of technological problems, must mind the end-game with respect to the detector and algorithm development:**
**Bring CTT, FPD, full set of trigger tools on-line Improve data quality, fully characterize detectors (CAL, CFT)**
**Commit to long-term maintenance of software and hardware.**
**Improve algorithm performance (tracking, time, calibration..). Switch to TMB.  MC/Reco Compatibility...**
**Our challenge (as always) is to balance the needs of operations &  characterization, analysis & physics, and the upgrade. **
**Priorities and efforts are best guided by our physics goals. Limited resources will require careful discussion, consideration, and planning of these efforts.**

## Final Comments

**	****We have come a long way and done very well, our capabilities and physics has been constantly improving and are certain to improve dramatically in the next months.**
**	****	****	****	****Thanks!**
# Presentation: 381242

## PART at the U.S. EPA

- Josh Baylson
- Office of the Chief Financial Officer
- U.S. EPA
- January 24, 2006

## Structure of the PART

| SECTION | VALUE | CORE QUESTIONS |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Program Purpose, Design | 20% | 5 |
| 2. Strategic Planning | 10% | 8 |
| 3. Program Management | 20% | 7 |
| 4. Program Results | 50% | 5 |

## PART Scores & Ratings

| SCORE | RATING |
| --- | --- |
| 85-100 | EFFECTIVE |
| 70-84 | MODERATELY EFFECTIVE |
| 50-69 | ADEQUATE |
| 0-49 | INEFFECTIVE |
| N/A | RESULTS NOT DEMONSTRATED |

## Results Not DemonstratedKey Questions

- Q2.1 – Long-term performance measures
- Q2.3 – Annual performance measures
- Q4.1 – Progress vs. long-term measures
- Q4.2 – Achieve annual goals

## PART Follow-up Actions

- Typically three per PART
- Four types:
- Performance (48%)
- Legislative (2%)
- Management (34%)
- Budgetary (16%)
- OMB tracks implementation status

## PART and Program Budgets

- A program’s funding level is not determined by the PART rating
- PART identifies a program’s strengths and weaknesses
- Funding level changes may be an appropriate response to PART findings
- May mean increased, decreased, or stable funding levels.

## PART Schedule

- April – Self assessments due to OMB
- August – “Passback” of final draft
- September – OMB budget submission
- November – Report on follow-up actions
- February – Release of President’s Budget;   		     PARTs final and public

## EPA’s PART Ratings

| RATING | FY 2004
11 PROGRAMS | FY 2005 
20 PROGRAMS | FY 2006 
32 PROGRAMS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Effective |  |  |  |
| Moderately Effective |  | 10% (2) | 9% (3) |
| Adequate | 9% (1) | 25% (5) | 66% (21) |
| Ineffective |  |  | 6% (2) |
| Results Not Demonstrated | 91% (10) | 65% (13) | 19% (6) |

## EPA’s Grant PARTs

| PART Rating | All EPA PARTs | EPA Grant PARTs | Non-Grant PARTs |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Effective |  |  |  |
| Mod. Effect. | 3 |  | 3 |
| Adequate | 21 | 10 | 11 |
| Ineffective | 2 | 2 |  |
| RND | 6 | 5 | 1 |
|    Avg. Score |           57 |           50 |           65 |

## On the horizon...

- Complete 2005 (FY 2007) process
- Begin 2006 (FY 2008) process
- Focus on:
- Efficiency Measures
- Tracking PART follow-up actions
- Using PART results in decision-making
- For more information:
-    _[www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/](http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/)_
-    ExpectMore.gov (after February 6th)
# Presentation: 322613

## Highlight:  Quantum Dot “Sandwiches” Emit White Light

- M. **Bawendi **(MIT) and V. **Bulovic** (MIT)
- This work was supported primarily by the **MRSEC Program** of the National Science Foundation under award number **DMR-0213282.**

- The ability to synthesize nanomaterials with nearly atomic precision provides the potential to engineer devices with tailored electronic and light emitting properties. Nanometer size crystals of semiconductors, called quantum dots, are especially interesting in that their electronic properties are strongly dependent on their size. Their size dependent light emission properties have fascinated chemists, physicists and engineers for over a decade. Members of **IRG-III** of the **MIT MRSEC** have demonstrated a light emitting device application of such quantum dots. They show that white light can be generated in a layered device that combines organic semiconductor layers with a single monolayer of quantum dots. The composition and the sizes of the quantum dots were chosen to cover the color spectrum required for the perception of white light, as in an incandescent light bulb.

**Figure.**  Schematic illustrates the device architecture, with a quantum dot monolayer sandwiched between organic layers. The blue, green and red spectra in the figure correspond to devices made from the three different types of quantum dots in the white device, and the black spectrum is from the white device itself.  The photograph shows an operating device emitting a shade of white that is tuned to match our perception of the color of sunlight.

**Highlight:  Quantum Dot “Sandwiches” Emit White Light**
# Presentation: 233790

## NOISE SOURCE 

**NOISE SOURCE **
**IDENTIFICATION **
**PROJECT**
**CONTINUOUS MINER**
**TEAM**

## Fairchild Mining Machine

- Fairchild Model 410
- Auger Type
- Operator’s Compartment
- 1 Operator and no helper
- Fairchild Haulmark Continuous Haulage
- 4 Operators
- No operator compartment

## Miner Operators

## Bridge Operator Summary

## Significant Changes

- Miner operator changes positions with bridge operator at midshift
- Switch with #2 instead of #4
- Plexiglas Barrier
- Between operator and conveyor chain

## Dosimeter ResultsAfter Modifications

## Joy Mining Machines

- Joy 14AA CM
- Remote Control
- Scrubber Capacity 3997
- 13 Horsepower motor
- Silencer package installed in August
- 1 bridge operator

## Miner & Bridge OperatorMarch 2000

## Miner & Bridge OperatorJanuary 2001

## Tivar Conveyor Deck

- Joy 14 CM
- Full face miner with Integral Bolters
- Auxiliary Fans

## Noise Level Readings

- 87 dbA with fan only
- 93 dbA motors only
- 102 dbA with chain only
- Chain is dominant noise source
- 101 dbA left ear - 474% Dose
- 97 dbA right ear - 272% Dose

## Eimco Mining Machines

- 2810-2  Continuous Mining  Machine
- Remote Control
- Silenced Fan Housing
- 30 HP motor
- 6000 CFM capacity

## Miner Operators

## Bridge Operators Summary

## Significant Findings

- Mining: 96 - 99 dBA with scrubber
- Scrubber exhaust: 102 dBA

## Scrubbers

- Sleeve style attenuator
- 30 or 40 HP only
- Bolt on attenuator
- Foam wrap on deflector
- Foam wrap around housing
- 30 or 40 HP only
- Silenced fan housing
- Proper fan blade clearance

## Auxiliary Fans

- Silencers
- Enclose fans as much as possible
- Tubing maintenance
- Holes
- Loose connections

## Continuous Mining MachineConclusions

- Chain conveyor is primary source of noise
- Scrubber is secondary source of noise
- Insulation of motors and pumps show limited results
- Replace bent conveyor flights or sides
- Proper operator positioning
- Barriers where possible

## Future Work

- Coated conveyor flights
- with Consol, Joy, NIOSH
- Scrubbers with crossover ductwork
- Initial survey conducted 2/14/01
# Presentation: 464549

## WebGenome

- A caArray Client

## ArrayCGH: Detection of Chromosomal Alterations

## WebGenome Capabilities

- Plotting
- Custom analytical pipelines
- Normalization/smoothing
- Aggregate statistical functions
- Data filters
- User-defined data aggregations

## Query 1 : List All Experiments

## Query 1 : Code snippet

- // Initialize secure session with MAGE-OM server
- SecureSession session = SecureSessionFactory.defaultSecureSession
- session.direct(sessionManagerUrl);
- session.start(userName, password);
- // Set up search criteria
- ExperimentSearchCriteria searchCriteria =
-     SearchCriteriaFactory.new_EXPERIMENT_EXPERIMENT_SC();
- searchCriteria.setSessionId(session);
- // Perform search
- SearchResult result = searchCriteria.search();
- Experiment[] experiments = (Experiment[])result.getResultSet();

## Variation : Query for Particular Experiment

- // Initialize secure session with MAGE-OM server
*SecureSession session = SecureSessionFactory.defaultSecureSession*
*session.direct(sessionManagerUrl);*
*session.start(userName, password);*
- // Set up search criteria
*ExperimentSearchCriteria searchCriteria =*
*    **SearchCriteriaFactory.new_EXPERIMENT_EXPERIMENT_SC();*
*searchCriteria.setSessionId(session);*
**searchCriteria.setIdentifier(experimentId);**
- // Perform search
*SearchResult result = searchCriteria.search();*
*Experiment[] experiments = (Experiment[])result.getResultSet();*

## Query 2 : Get required data for all reporters in a bioassay

## Data Required to Create a Plot

- Reporter data
- Reporter name
- Physical genome location
- Chromosome
- Chromosome position
- Quantitation value

## Query 2 : Get reporter data

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Query 3 : Get quantitations

## Slide 15

## Slide 16