BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 324691

## Application of Refrigerant Mixtures for Space Thermal Management Foster-Miller, Inc.Waltham, MA

**Innovation**
- Identified ways to utilize waste heat and to reduce thermal management system weight for manned space flight applications.

**Accomplishments**
- Constructed a heat pump heater for crew hygiene water.  The heat pump utilized waste heat from the thermal bus and reduced the power needed for water heating from 5kW to 100 Watts.
- Developed a proprietary oil-refrigerant separator for use in microgravity -- key component for the use of heat pumps in space.
- Designed and tested a two-phase spacecraft thermal bus which employed a binary refrigerant mixture.  The unique control system developed for the thermal bus resulted in a 85% decrease in pumping water.
- As a result of these efforts, Foster-Miller has developed unique expertise in the fields of refrigerant chemistry and application engineering.  Foster-Miller has also established itself as a world-class developer of vapor compressor systems and equipment for novel applications.
**Commercialization**
- Engineering and consulting to the electric utility and supermarket industries to develop and test replacements for ozone depleting (ODP) refrigerants for commercial refrigeration.  Efforts to date have resulted in company sales of $1M.
- Development of a refrigerant mixture replacement for R-12 in automotive air conditioning.  Potential annual revenue to Foster-Miller through licensing is on the order of $15M.

**Government/Science Applications**
- NASA -- Design, fabrication, and testing of a high-lift heat pump for future Lunar and Mars exploration.  Investigation of modular heat pumps for manned and unmanned space flights.
- DoD -- Refrigerant replacement for silo-based missile guidance systems - finding the minimal cost approach to eliminate the use of R-12 in this application.
- DoD -- Microclimate and man-portable personal cooling systems for NBC and HazMat applications.
- Total revenue from government applications is on the order of $7M.

- NonAzeotropic Heat Pump for Crew Water Heating

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Denise Swain; 256/544-8112)
-    -  Foster-Miller, Inc. (David Walker; 781/684-4237)
- 1988/1989 SBIR Phase 2; NAS8-38407/NAS8-38482

- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Date of Update:	12/28/98
- Success Story #:	8-012
# Presentation: 143312

## SPoRT FY05 Science Activities

_**Prototype product development**_
** ****AIRS profiles, assimilation, forecast impact**
** ****Hybrid MODIS SST composites / validation**
** ****Use of SST in forecast model for coastal processes**
** ****EOS land surface products – assimilation **
** ****Thunderstorm forecasts**
** ****Development of convective initiation products**
** ****Partnering activities**
_**Transition**_** to operations**
** ****Extensions to coastal WFOs**
** ****Assessment of products in the operational envirnment**

##    SPoRT Team

**Steve Goodman – Co_PI – lightning lead**
**Bill Lapenta – Co-PI – modeling lead**
**Gary Jedlovec – Co-PI – satellite remote sensing lead**
**        **_**On-site Scientists**_**	****	****	****    **_**Affiliates/Partners**_
**   ****John Mecikalski (UAH)****	****	****	****University of Oklahoma**
**   ****Dennis Buechler (UAH)****	****	****	****Joint Center for Satellite**
**   ****Paul Meyer (NASA)** **	****	****	****   Data Assimilation (JCSDA)**
**   ****John Hall (Unites)****	****	****	****Florida State**
**   ****Jeff Bailey (Raytheon)****	****	****	****NWS/Southern Region**
**   ****Frank LaFontaine (Raytheon)****	****	****Forecast Systems Lab.**
**   ****Brad Zavodsky (UAH)****	****	****	****University of Wisconsin**
**   ****Kate Lacasse (UAH)****	****	****	****University of South Florida**
**   ****Stephanie Haines (UAH)****	****	****	****Florida Institute of **
**   ****Rich Blakeslee (NASA)** **	****	****	****     Technology**
**   ****Will McCarty (UAH)****	****	****	**** **
**   ****Patrick Gatlin (UAH)****	****	****	**_**Off-site Scientists**_**	**
**   ****Jason Burks (HUN/NWS)****	****	****	****Scott Dembek (USRA Cons.)**
**   ****Chris Darden (HUN/NWS)****	****	****	****Bob Atkinson (USRA Cons.)**
**   ****Shih-hung Chou (NASA)****	****	****	**
**  ****5 C.S. FTE   6 Contractor FTEs**
**	**
# Presentation: 719520

## 
Legislative Reform
Update

				February 22, 2006

**Legislative Reform**
**Update**
**	****	****	****	****February 22, 2006**

## POSTAL REFORMStatus

**S. 662  approved by Unanimous Consent **
**Resolution to “fair and equitable”; replaced with “just and reasonable” – legal equivalent**
**Complaint process specifically applies to Title 39, Chapter 1 (except 101(c)), sections 401, 403, 404, 404a and 601**
**“****Transition Rule” - allows a final rate case under current statute**

## POSTAL REFORMStatus (continued)

**Reid Amendment – Terms & Qualifications of Governors**
**Harkins Amendment – Public Process for Facility Consolidations**
**Stevens Amendment – Alaska Bypass Mail**

## POSTAL REFORMStatus (continued)

** ****Administration’s positions remains the same as stated in the SAP issued with HR 22**
** ****Position restated with issuance of President’s budget**
**  ****Pricing Flexibility**
**  ****CPI Rate with strict exigency**
**  ****SEC reporting standards**
**  ****Greater flexibility through NSA and worksharing**
**  ****PL 108-18 Escrow Fund to pre-fund Retiree Health Benefits; Military Service Obligation - USPS**

## POSTAL REFORMStatus (continued)

_**Complaint Process**_
**Title 39**
**Chapter 1 - Postal Policy and Definitions**
** ****101(c) – Compensation [exception] **
**Section 401 - General Powers of the Postal Service**
**Section 403 - General Duties**
**Section 404 - Specific Powers**
**Section 601 – Letters carried out of the mail**

## POSTAL REFORMNext steps

**With Unanimous Consent approval for    S. 662, legislation will go to Conference**
**Resolution of conflict among HR 22, S 662 and SAP; budget neutral position must be resolved**
**Selection of Conference Members is critical**

## POSTAL REFORMNext steps

_**Senate Conferees**_
**Sen. Collins (R-ME)**
**Sen. Stevens (R-AK)**
**Sen. Bennett (R-UT**
**Sen. Coleman (R-MN)**
**Sen. Voinovich (R-OH)**
**Sen. Lieberman (D-CT)**
**Sen. Carper (D-DE)**
**Sen. Akaka (D-HI) **
# Presentation: 199626

## Web Services and Portals

- Keith R. Jackson
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

## Web Services

- Portals will be built by composing discoverable, self-describing, distributed components.
- The components provide access to the underlying compute and data fabric.
- Portal developers can worry about providing domain specific views of the Grid, without having to re-implement basic services.

## Reliable File Transfer Service

- A Grid Web Service that:
- Provides a simple interface to reliably transfer data between GridFTP servers
- Supports reliable transfers in the face of network outages,  machine crashes, and other faults
- Supports the automated tuning of network parameters to optimize bandwidth

## RFT Usage

**GridFTP Server**

**GridFTP Server**

**Reliable File Transfer **
**Service**

**WSDL Repository**
**(UDDI?, WSIL?)**

**Client**

- GSI Proxy

## Fault Recovery

**GridFTP Server**

**GridFTP Server**

**Reliable File Transfer **
**Service**

## Fault Recovery

**GridFTP Server**

**GridFTP Server**

**Reliable File Transfer **
**Service**

## Fault Recovery (cont.)

**GridFTP Server**

**GridFTP Server**

**Reliable File Transfer **
**Service**

**DB**

**Machine crashes**

## Fault Recovery (cont.)

**GridFTP Server**

**GridFTP Server**

**Reliable File Transfer **
**Service**

**DB**

- After machine reboot, recover incomplete transfers from the DB

## RFT Internals

**Client**

**GSISOAP**** **
**Interface**

**Persistent DB**

**Manager Thread**

**Transfer Threads**

**Optimization**
**Module**

**Transfer **
**Queue**

**GridFTP Server**

**GridFTP Server**

## RFT Usage Example

- from rftClient import *
- handle = “”
- srcUrl = “gsiftp://host.lbl.gov/data/climate_model_1234”
- destUrl = “gsiftp://lorenz.ncar.edu/tmp/climate_model_1234”
- try:
-     handle = submit_transfer(srcUrl, destUrl)
- except TransferRequestException, ex:
-     print ex
- ...
- try:
-     status = check_transfer_status(handle)
- Except TransferRequestException, ex:
-     print ex
- print status
- ...

**Notes:**
tmp

## Future Plans

- Working with ANL to develop a uniform interface to the RFT service.
- Integration with OGSA.
- Use the RFT in the GCE testbed.
- Other data grid tools
- Replica creation / management / selection
- Performance monitoring / optimization
# Presentation: 519485

## Status Report on AMSR-E On-Orbit Calibration

- Frank J. Wentz
- Peter Ashcroft
- Thomas Meissner

- Presented at AMSR-E Workshop
- NSSTC/GHCC Rm. 4078
- 1-2 May, 2003
- Huntsville, AL

## Slide 2

## Day Minus Night SST Difference:  Static Coefficients

## Day Minus Night SST Difference:  Dyanamic Coefficients

**90 N**
**90 S**

**June 1                                                             Oct 15**

## 6.9 GHz Minus 10.7 GHz Difference

## Comparing AMSR-E and TMI Over Amazon Forest

## AMSR-E Observations Over Botswana Desert

## AMSR-E Observations Over Botswana Desert: Day

## AMSR-E Observations Over Botswana Desert: Night

## Using Rain to Look at Calibration Problem:  V-Pol

- Assumes a uniform cloud layer, emission model only
- Red Curve is perfect calibration
- White Curve is a simulation of the current calibration problem.

## Using Rain to Look at Calibration Problem:  H-Pol

- Assumes a uniform cloud layer, emission model only
- Red Curve is perfect calibration
- White Curve is a simulation of the current calibration problem.

##                          Spillover    X-pol       Cold Mirror

**NASDA               < 3.6%      < 0.3%          3.4 K ?**
**Current                  4.5%         0.0%          5.8 K**
**Model #1         ****   ****    1.9%         ****2.3%****        ****11.0 K**
**Model #2                1.9%        0.0%    ****15 & 8.5 K**

- Adjustment that will reduce TB by 7 K at TB=280K

- Constraint for Model #1:
- Spillover, X-pol, and Cold Mirror TB  same for v-pol and h-pol

## Cold Calibration Contamination from the Moon 

- Cold Calibration Contamination from the Moon
-                               Units are in degrees Kelvin.
# Presentation: 754545

## Internet Resources

- Researching Foundations and Seeking Grant Funds
- Tedd Buelow
- USDA - Rural Development
- Office of Community Development

## Changing Digital DividePersonal Analogy

## Where to look?

- OCD
- U.S. Government
- Foundations
- FC Search: Internet Based

## What’s OCD Got?

- NOFA
- _[http](http://ocd.usda.gov/nofa.htm)__[://ocd.usda.gov/nofa.htm](http://ocd.usda.gov/nofa.htm)_
- Toolbox
- _[http://www.ezec.gov/Toolbox/financing.html](http://www.ezec.gov/Toolbox/financing.html)_
- Preview of Foundation Grant Information Service
- Click _[Here](http://rddata.usda.gov/foundation_grant_information_service_main.html)_

## What do Other Fed Sites Have?

- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
- http://www.cfda.gov
- Native Edge
- http://nativeedge.hud.gov

## Agency Funding Sites

- First Gov
- www.firstgov.gov
- Federal Register On-line
- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
- HUD
- www.hud.gov/adm/grants/fundsavail.html

## Agency Funding Sites (continued)	

- HHS
- http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet
- Education
- http://www.ed.gov/funding.html
- National Endowment for the Arts
- http://www.arts.endow.gov/guide

## Foundations

## The Foundation Center

- Free Information
- Foundation Web-sites
- Learning Lab
- Analyzing Trends and Research
- Philanthropy News Digest

## Foundation Center (Continued)	

- Products for Sale
- Print Materials
- FC Search: The Foundation Center's Database on CD-ROM
- Foundation Directory Online

## Foundation Center Demo

- www.foundationcenter.org

## Other Links Courtesy of The Foundation Center

- http://fdncenter.org/research/npr_links/index.html

## The End

- Tedd Buelow
- USDA-Rural Development
- Office of Community Development
- 202-260-5979
- Toll Free: 1-800-645-4712
- Email: tbuelow@ocdx.usda.gov
# Presentation: 410273

## Demographic Full Count Review System (FCRS)

## Select State

## Navigation bar

## State-county housing units

## State-County Housing Unit derived measures

## State-County total population

## Population derived measure

## County-Tract Map

- Percentage error distribution display

## Tract map

- Tract 965500 – Winsdor County

## Tract-Block GQ classification

## GQ addresses

## Description of Issue & Corrective Action

## List of all the files attached to this issue 

## View of the County uploaded files 

## Issues and Suggestion

- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Issues
- Inconsistencies with total population count comparison.
- High number of GQ of college quarters impacted the Current/Claritas analogy
- Check boundary overlaps
- Suggestions
- No boundary overlap exists
- Based on other source (REF 9999) the tract/block exists but a group quarter is left uncounted within a block

## Population derived measure

## Metropolitan subdivisionpopulation

## MCD population derived measure

## MCD map

- MCD 62050  – Chittenden County St. George town

## Description of Issue & Corrective Action

## List of all the files attached to this issue

## View of theMCD uploaded files

## Issues and Suggestion

- Vermont
- Chittenden County
- St. George town
- Issues
- Population count comparison result significant differences
- High number of GQ has impacted the Current/Claritas analogy
- Suggestion
- Found a block missing on census map as
-      compared to my map.
- See supporting document of my snapshots at impacted geography levels
# Presentation: 692338

## Modeling the population dynamics of HIV/AIDS

- Brandy L. Rapatski
-  James A. Yorke
- 		 Frederick Suppe

## Primary Goal

- To determine how infectiousness of HIV varies as an untreated infected gay man progresses through 3 stages of the disease.
- Any attempt to measure these infectivities must be a highly mathematical analysis of available data.

## Modeling SF Gay Population

- We model the San Francisco population as described by the San Francisco City Clinic Cohort Study (SFCCC).

## San Francisco Transmission Dynamics

- Analysis of 1978-1984
- Six Activity Levels (from survey data)
- Infectiousness depends on stage (3 stages)
- Bathhouse Assumption
- Men vary in how often they visit the bathhouses but once inside choose partners at random.
- Model must account for 1978-1984 SF data

## Infectivity Per Contact Conclusions

- 2/3
- Year

- 7 Years

- 3 Years

- First
- Stage
- Infectivity
- 0.015

- Second
- Stage
- Infectivity
- 0.006

- Third
- Stage
- Infectivity
- 0.223

- Death

**Total infections = 0.721**

**0.015*2/3=0.010**

**0.006*7=0.042**

**0.223*3=0.669**

## Infectivity Comparison

|  | First Stage | Second Stage | Third Stage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Previous variable-infectivity SFCCC models
(Jacquez-Koopman et al. 1994) | 0.050-0.300

~0.125 | 0.0001-0.001 | 0.001-0.010

~0.005 |
| Our SFCCC variable-infectivity model  | 0.014-0.024

~0.020

(factor of 1/6) | 0.000-0.008 | 0.126-0.493

~0.300

(factor of 60) |

## Viral Loads

- Variable viral loads over the course of a typical untreated individual’s HIV infection.

**[------------------2****nd**** Stage-------------------]****                  **

**[1****st**** Stage]**

**[-----3****rd**** Stage----]**

**Our infectivities correspond to viral loads**

## The infectivities reflect the pattern of semen infectivity.  

- Though infectivity depends on mode of transmission, third stage remains most infectious.

## Person-to-Person Transition Rate

- Africa:  1 person to 1,000,000 in approximately 40 years (1950-1990)

| Model | Mean Transmission Time  | Infections caused per individual |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Previous variable-infectivity SFCCC models |  |  |
| Our SFCCC variable-infectivity model  |  |  |

**1.3 years**

**6.9 years**

- 1.6

- 10

**~31 generations in 40 years**

**~6 generations in 40 years**

## Contact Information

- _[BLR@math.umd.edu](mailto:BLR@math.umd.edu)_
- http://www.killi.com/brandy
# Presentation: 259505

## Fire Cause and Propagation

## Cause and Origin

- Fire originated in right-side wheel well
- Failed wheel bearing caused friction
- Excessive heat built up in wheel and brake components
- Heat ignited rubber tire

## Tire Fire Testing

- Wheel bearing failure:
- Wheel component temperatures can exceed 1300° F
- Heat spreads through hub and rim
- Heat ignites tire

## Tire Fire Testing

- Tire fires are hard to put out:
- Superheated wheel components are difficult to cool down
- Access to components is limited
- Hot hub and brake components reignite tire

## Detection and Suppression

- Heat detection and suppression systems
- Confine suppression agent to area of origin
- Located in engine compartments and confined spaces
- No systems for wheel wells and tire fires
- Early detection and monitoring are critical for fire prevention

## How the Fire Spread

- From tag axle tire to other tires
- To wheel well combustibles
- To fuel lines, engine compartment
- Up motorcoach combustible exterior
- Through sidewall materials and windows
- Into motorcoach interior

## Fuel System Integrity

- Nonfire-resistant fuel lines spill fuel if burned through
- Fuel lines located near wheel well fire source
- Fuel involvement accelerates fire and
-    limits passenger evacuation time
- FMVSS 301 does not apply to motorcoaches

## Burnthrough of Exterior

- Lightweight and combustible exteriors
- Flammability standards for interior materials only
- Fire can spread into passenger compartment
- Passengers exposed to smoke and heat
- Interior exposed to heat and open flame

## Summary

- Detection systems for early warning
- Fire protection for fuel systems
- Fire-hardening of exteriors

## Slide 10
# Presentation: 541286

## The BioSense Application

- September, 2006
- Jerome Tokars, MD, MPH
- Associate Director for Science
- Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response, CDC
**The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**

## BioSense: Topics

- Background
- Data sources
- Disease indicators
- Data analysis
- BioSense Application
- Current
- Plans
- Challenges

## BioSense Data Sources

- Initial (2003-present)
- Department of Defense (DOD) outpatient (n=355)
- Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient (n=849)
- LabCorp
- Real-time hospital data (2006)
- Foundational: chief complaint, diagnosis (n=34)
- Additional: census, micro lab, radiology, pharmacy, ED clinical
- Others
- Existing biosurveillance systems
- Poison Control Centers (n=61)
- National laboratories
- Outpatient pharmacies (OTC, prescription)
- National Emergency Preparedness Network (ED and ICU census)

## Disease Indicators

- Based on chief complaint or diagnosis
- 11 syndromes (eg, respiratory)
- 78 sub-syndromes (eg, pneumonia, URI)
- Additional indicators will be added as newer data types (eg laboratory) are received

## BioSense Data Analysis

- W2 method
- Modified EARS C2
- Weekdays compared with weekdays, weekend days with weekend days
- Recurrence interval (RI; eg, p=0.01 equivalent to RI of 100 days)
- Regression model being developed

## BioSense InterfaceStatus of Development

- Older modules:  VA/DoD/LabCorp
- Newer modules:  Hospital real-time data
- Computerized scan for statistical anomalies
- Time series display
- Drill down on individual patient records
- Map by location and time
- Descriptive data

## BioSense Home Page

## Patient List(Demonstration Data)

## Patient Detail(Demonstration data)

## Describe(Demonstration Data)

## Patient Map(Demonstration Data)

## Chief Complaint/Diagnosis, All Facilities

## BioSense Application: Plans

- Geo analyses: analysis by county, cluster analysis (SaTScan)
- New data sources (eg poison control center) and types (eg, micro lab)
- Custom events (eg, diarrhea + GI hemorrhage)
- Dashboard summaries

## BioSense Application: Challenges

- Ensuring data accuracy
- Evaluation of system/application
- Taming complexity
- Co-display display of heterogeneous data types
- Interfacing with other systems
- Training staff
- Developing technical infrastructure

## User Input

- Ongoing informal dialogue and feedback
- BioSense user meetings: May, June 2006
- National meetings (eg PHIN, Syndromic)
- Teleconferences (“Real-time, Real-talk”)
- Working groups
- Data monitoring/investigations
- BioSense Application

## Summary

- BioSense System is continuing to develop
- Acquire new/timely data sources
- Incorporate new disease indicators
- Adapt analysis methods
- Development of the BioSense Application is ongoing that is informed by data analysis, practical experience, and user input
# Presentation: 153136

## Simulating Non-equilibrium Processes over Extended Time- and Length-Scales using Parallel Accelerated Dynamics, Jacques G. Amar, University of Toledo, DMR 0606307

**MOTIVATION: One of the challenges in atomistic non-equilibrium simulations is that many important processes occur on time-scales much longer than the typical atomic time-scale. One approach which can overcome this limitation is temperature-accelerated dynamics (TAD).  However, TAD simulations are limited to very small system sizes since the time for the standard serial TAD simulation typically increases rapidly with system size.  **

*APPROACH: In order to overcome this limitation we are developing, in collaboration with Art Voter and Blas Uberuaga of Los Alamos  Laboratory, methods for carrying out parallel TAD (parTAD) simulations.  *

**RESULTS: As a first application of our parTAD method, we have simulated the low-temperature growth of copper (Cu) thin-films for system sizes significantly larger than possible using serial TAD.  Our parTAD simulations are several orders of magnitude faster than serial TAD, thus allowing the possibility of realistic simulations of non-equilibrium processes to be carried out over extended time- and length-scales. **

*Picture of simulated Cu/Cu(100) film after 7 layers of growth for system size N**s** = 9*

**Notes:**
A full description of these results is provided in Y. Shim, J.G. Amar, B.P. Uberuaga, and A.F. Voter, “Reaching extended length scales and time scales in materials simulations via spatially parallel temperature-accelerated dynamics”, submitted to Physical Review B (2007).  See also: http:astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~jamar/ph/jga.html

## Simulating Non-equilibrium Processes over Extended Time- and Length-Scales using Parallel Accelerated Dynamics, Jacques G. Amar, University of Toledo, DMR 0606307

- A postdoctoral research associate, Yunsic Shim, and graduate student, Valery Borovikov, are involved in this research.  In addition, a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student, Mary Mills, has participated in this work by studying the effects of oblique incidence and substrate rotation on the surface morphology in high-temperature thin-film growth.

**Outreach:**
- Amar gave an Invited Talk on this work at the 2006 American Chemical Society meeting.  Amar also gave a seminar describing this research to the University of Toledo Research Experience for Undergraduates students in June 2007.

*Simulating Non-equilibrium Processes over Extended Time- and Length-Scales using Parallel Accelerated Dynamics,* Jacques G. Amar, University of Toledo, DMR 0606307

*Surface morphology obtained in simulations of high-temperature thin-film deposition with substrate rotation and deposition angle **** = 88**o**.*
# Presentation: 372588

## PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATING NEW AIR DISPERSION MODELS

- 8TH MODELING CONFERENCE
- September 22,23 2005

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**APPENDIX W TO 40 CFR PART 51- GUIDELINE ON AIR QUALITY MODELS-ADDRESSES  NEW AIR QUALITY MODELS**
**SECTION 3.1.1**
**SUBSECTION B.  WHEN A MODEL IS FOUND TO PERFORM BETTER THAN THE LISTED MODEL, IT IS RECOMMENDED**** ****AS A**** ****PREFERRED MODEL**

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SUBSECTION B.  IF NO MODEL PERFORMS BETTER THAN THE CURRENT PREFERRED MODEL,  THEN OTHER FACTORS ARE CONSIDERED**
**PAST USE**
**PUBLIC FAMILIARITY**
**RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS**
**AVAILABILITY**

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SUBSECTION C**.  **THE SOLICATION OF NEW REFINED MODELS WHICH ARE BASED ON SOUNDER SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND MORE RELIABLY ESTIMATE CONCENTRATIONS** _**IS CONTINUOUS**_**.  **

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SUBSECTION C. THE NEW MODEL MUST:**
**BE COMPUTERIZED**
**HAVE A USERS GUIDE **
**INCLUDES THE MATHEMATICS OF THE MODEL**
**DATA REQUIREMENTS**
**OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS**
**HAVE A COMPLETE SET OF TEST DATA**
**BE USEFUL TO THE TYPICAL USERS**

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SUBSECTION C. THE NEW MODEL MUST:**
**BE AVAILABLE AT A REASONABLE COST**
**NOT BE PROPRIETARY**
**BE SUBJECTED TO A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION**
**BE SUBJECTED TO A SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEW **

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SECTION 3.2  ALTERNATIVE MODELS MAY BE USED IF:**
**THE NEW MODEL PRODUCES EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS;   OR,**
**A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION INDICATES THAT THE NEW MODEL PERFORMS BETTER;  OR,**
**THE PREFERRED MODEL IS LESS APPROPRIATE**

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SECTION 3.2  ALTERNATIVE MODELS**
**AN EPA PROTOCOL PROVIDES A STATISTICAL TECHNIQUE FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE FOR PEAK CONCENTRATIONS**
**AN ASTM REFERENCE PROVIDES A GENERAL PHILOSOPHY FOR DEVELOPING STATISTICAL EVALUATIONS**

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**SECTION 3.2  ALTERNATIVE MODELS.  THE ALTERNATIVE MODEL MUST: **
**HAVE A SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEW**
**BE APPLICABLE TO THE PROBLEM**
**HAVE THE NECESSARY DATA BASES**
**NOT BE BIASED TOWARD UNDERESTIMATES**
**HAVE A PROTOCOL ON METHODS AND PROCEDURES**

## EVALUATE NEW MODELS

**THE EPA PROTOCOL**
**BASED ON FRACTIONAL BIAS:**
**FB = 2 [PR-OB] / [OB+PR]**
**BASED ON THE HIGHEST 25 VALUES**
# Presentation: 749784

## 80% of Canada’s Population

## The Single Company Promotion

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-  Identify Potential Clients
-  Organize an Event
-  Invite the Participants
-  Provide Refreshments
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-  If desired, Organize a Reception

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-  Local Mailings
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- For further information on these and other events, please visit our Website

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# Presentation: 199286

## United States District Court for the District of Utah

- Welcome to ECF Attorney Training.
- Please make sure you have picked up all materials located at the front of the room.
- Choose a computer and get comfortable.
- We will begin shortly.

## This seminar provides attorneys and their staff with the knowledge needed to file on the electronic filing system.  Topics we will cover today include:

- How to prepare documents for electronic filing
- How to file documents electronically
- How to retrieve electronically filed documents
- How to receive electronic notice of filings
- What to do with material that can not be filed electronically
- What to do if you have difficulties filing electronically
- Legal issues including: electronic signatures, noticing and system requirements

## What is CM/ECF?

- Internet-based document filing system
- User-friendly
- Allows attorneys to electronically file pleadings with the Court
- Electronic filings are immediately placed on the Court’s official docket sheet
- Electronic notification of all filings
- Any modern PC with Internet access and web browser software can access CM/ECF

## What are the benefits of CM/ECF?

- Electronic access to case files via the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Automatic e-mail notification of case activity.
- Reduction in mail, courier and copy fees.
- Fewer “last minute” trips 				to the Court.

## Review of Packet Contents (brought with you)

- Administrative Procedures Civil and Criminal
- Log-in and password are the first part of the attorney signature. (pg 3 #1)
- Documents signed with an “/s/attorney name” or electronic image of the attorney’s signature is considered an original for purposes of FRCP 11.
- When filing in paper courtesy copies must be provided (pg. 7 & 8 #2&3)
- Courtesy copies must be provided when filing dispositive motions and memoranda with exhibits more than 10 pages or when requested by the judge.
- Please note there are many documents required to be filed on paper.

## Review of Packet Contents (brought with you)

- Page 10 # 6 - Chambers e-mail addresses
- Page 10 # 7 - The Court will continue to docket pleadings that add parties.  E-mail in PDF format to Utdecf_clerk@utd.uscourts.gov
- Page 11 # 5 - The three day mailing rule will apply whenever a document or pleading is served electronically

## Review of Packet Contents (brought with you)

- User Manual
- Help Desk contact information (p. 4)
- System requirements (p. 5)
- What is a PDF and why are we using them?
- PDF stands for Portable Document Format
- It is an easily viewable and shareable document that preserves the appearance and formatting of the original document
- PACER - you must have a PACER account to access any case dockets or documents

## Review of Packet Contents (brought with you)

- E-mail addresses for new civil cases (p. 17)
- E-mail Complaint and Civil Cover Sheet and summons in PDF format.  Remember to include phone number.
- Clerk will call for credit card number
- You will receive e-mail notice when case is open
- Summons will be printed, issued and mailed to you
# Presentation: 211512

## NexGen Burner for Seat Testing

## Introduction

**Background**
**Initial Measurements**
**Planned Work**

## Background

**A Next-Generation oil burner was developed to provide for an alternative FAA-approved test apparatus to replace the out-of-production Park oil burner for thermal acoustic insulation burnthrough testing**
**The burner, called the NexGen (or sonic) burner, was developed and tested vs. the Park oil burner**
**The NexGen burner was found to provide similar results**
**Multiple NexGen burners were constructed and also provided similar results**

## Objective

**The objective is to use a NexGen burner to provide similar results to a Park oil burner that is properly calibrated for fire testing of seat cushions**

## Procedure – Matching Air Velocity

**Measure the inlet velocity on the Park oil burner according to the handbook - 1800****±50 fpm**
**With the inlet velocity set, measure the exit velocity at the end of the draft tube (~1130 fpm)**
**Place the same anemometer at the end of the draft tube on the NexGen burner**
**Starting from 0 psig, gradually increase the sonic choke inlet pressure until the same exit velocity is achieved (~1130 fpm)**
**Note the inlet pressure (45 psig).  This will be the operating pressure for the NexGen burner for seat testing.**

## Procedure – Matching Fuel Flow Rate

**Install a 2.0 gph-rated CC 80****° nozzle into the NexGen burner**
**Adjust fuel tank pressure accordingly until 126 mL/min flow rate is achieved (2.0 gph)**
**95 psig fuel pressure measured at the burner gives 126 mL/min for this particular nozzle**

## Procedure – Matching Calibration

**Perform burner calibration procedures as outlined in the handbook**
**Measure flame temperatures with 1/16” thermocouples**
**Measure heat flux with 0-25 BTU/ft****2*****s heat flux transducer**
**Adjust burner component configuration to achieve calibration**
- Stator
- Depth
- Orientation
- Turbulator
- Orientation
- Ignitor and fuel nozzle depth
**If calibration is still not achieved, work within tolerance limits of air and fuel flowrate to adjust NexGen burner inlet air and fuel pressure**
**At this point, still actively working on achieving temperature calibration without resorting to the use of tabs or other flame altering external devices**

## Work to be Completed

**Perform side by side comparison between a properly calibrated Park oil burner and the NexGen burner**
- Compile a sample set of seat cushions with known fire performance
- Compare Park, NexGen, as well as with other labs that have run these cushions
**Enter the NexGen burner into a seat round robin**

## Questions?
# Presentation: 926991

## Update on the EUC in relation to ODS's:

**Notes from John O’sullivan**

**EU Regulation 2037/2000 is currently being**
** ****reviewed and the technical amendment is**
** ****being proposed and is due to be issued in**
** ****April or May 2003. It will deal with the **
-  **following issues:**

## Allows the export of Halon for critical 

**   ****systems as defined in Annex 7 in bulk **
**   ****containers which includes aviation.**

## The Commission is going to put time 

**   ****limits on the exemptions contained**
**   ****in Annex 7.  This includes critical **
**   ****uses having to be reviewed at a**
**   ****frequency to be determined by the EU.**

## Address new substances that are 

**   ****contained in the Montreal Protocol but**
**   ****are not currently in the regulation, **
**   ****e.g. Bromochloromethane.**

## Allows the export of equipment containing 

**   ****ODS, other than domestic refrigerators and **
**   ****freezers.**

## At this time the Halon Critical Uses 

**Advisory Group is reviewing Annex 7**
**and H1211 is going to be added to the **
**list for military applications in**
**addition to H1301.**

## There is also a lot of debate and 

**discussion regarding the use of HFCs and**
**it is very likely that there will be some **
**control measure put in place in**
**the not too distant future.**

## A number of European countries are putting 

**it into their legislation and will not **
**allow its use for fire fighting purposes.**
# Presentation: 037904

## North American Carbon Program Site-level Interim Synthesis Model Data Comparison (Site MDC)

*Kevin Schaefer, Peter Thornton, Ken Davis, Dan Ricciuto, Bob Cook, and the NACP Site-Level Interim Synthesis Team*

## Site MDC Objectives

**“****Are the modeled and observed carbon fluxes consistent with each other - and if not, why?”**
- Multiple models at multiple towers
- 25 priority 1 sites
- 34 priority 2 sites
- 22 models
- Quantify uncertainty
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- http://isynth-site.pbwiki.com/

## NACP Interim Synthesis Activities

- Site MDC
- Regional and continental
- Mid-Continent Intensive
- Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
- http://nacp.ornl.gov/mast-dc/

## Schedule

- December, 2007: start planning
- October 20, 2008: start model simulations
- November 3, 2008: final deadline tower inputs
- December AGU: mini-workshop
- January 7-9: Full workshop at ORNL
- February 17-20: NACP All-Investigators Mtg

## Quantifying bias & uncertainty

- Multiple analysis teams
- Multiple foci:
- Fluxes: Carbon, latent heat, sensible heat
- Environment: soil temperature & moisture
- Isotopes: 13C, 18O, and 15N
- Diurnal to inter-annual time scales

## Priority 1 Tower Sites

- Priority 2 Tower Sites

## Participating Models

## Inputs to Models

- Gap-filled observed weather
- Filled using nearby towers, NCDC/ASOS sites, and DAYMET data
- See Dan Ricciuto poster
- MODIS and AVHRR NDVI *LAI* & *f**PAR*
- Standardized fluxes and uncertainty
- Filtering and gap-filling
- Random error
- Systematic error

## Inputs to Models

- AmeriFlux Biological Data Template
- Models physical constants and initial conditions
- Full template desirable, high priority list a must
- Soil texture, vegetation type
- Stand age, species dist., biomass, phenology
- Land Use and Disturbance history
- Disturbance date and type
- Harvest, downfall, crop rotation, irrigation

## Output from Models

- Standard netcdf output files
- Model Survey
- Model uncertainty
- Parameter estimation
- Model structure
- Initial conditions

## Preliminary Results: Howland NEE

- Date (year)

- Date (year)

- Point Simulations with gap-filled weather

- Extracted from regional model results

## Preliminary Results: Howland Annual NEE

## Preliminary Results: Howland GPP

- Howland: GPP comparison

## Preliminary Results: Howland Annual GPP

## Conclusions

- Thank you!
- AmeriFlux, Fluxnet Canada, Fluxnet Synthesis
- DOE, CarboEurope, Canadian Carbon program
- We anticipate some very cool results
# Presentation: 149094

## Example Barrel Structures- Disk Primary

**FEA of Disk Frame Supports**
- Structure 2m long with two end plates and one mid-span plate
- Outer and inner shells are 1mm thick
- End plates are constructed as a sandwich
- Number of staves in circumference, 23, 32, and 36
- Total in 2m length 186
- Mass estimate for FEA 125.2kg
- 155997 elements and 107421 nodes
- Allowed definition of slots for staves

## Example Barrel Structures- Disk Primary

**Structure Description-2m long with 1m staves**
- Outer shell 1.4m diameter, 1mm thick M55J quasi lay-up
- Inner shell 0.46m, same as outer
- End plates M55J facings 0.5mm thick, with 1.27cm thick HC core
- Mass of structure 27.74kg
- Mass of 186 staves=125.2kg
**Gravity sag**
- Mid-plate region ~12μm
- Out-of-plane distortion of end plates <0.5μm

- Four localized points at mid-plane of the plates on the end—very simplistic

## Example Barrel Structures- Disk Primary

**Gravity sag along shell axis**
- Provides measure of first mode due to end plate diaphragm
- Deflection of 1.51mm leads to 12.8Hz
**Modal analysis**
- Modal FEA yielded 15Hz for first mode, and 39.44Hz and 39.62Hz for the second and third modes respectively
- All modes are plate out-of-plane bending
- Increasing face plate thickness to 1mm---
- Increases the frequencies to 18.87, 49.83, and 50.6Hz respectively

- 15HZ

- 1G Deflection in Z

## Example Barrel Structures- Disk Primary

**2nd Structural changes**
- Increased facings thickness for end plates to 1mm and the core height to 1.905cm (0.75in)
- Raised first mode from 15Hz to 24.9Hz
- Second and third modal frequencies are 66.11Hz and 66.77Hz
- Possible additional core height might be prudent *or internal ribs*
**Dynamic performance gain versus unfortunate increase in radiation length**
- Hitting right combination of changes will take more solutions
- Suggest adding radial ribs to outside end plate, if space between exiting services allow
- Need added material depth

## 1st Order Summary of Stave Supports

**Preliminary Solution of Disk Support is complete**
- Carries first three of the layers so structure is heavier than other examples
- Quite likely that the shells used to support the end plates can be light-weighted
- More analysis is needed
**Shell design with rings**
- Looks quite practical structurally
- Mounting of staves on external rings looks practical and quite accessible
- 1m staves would be fixed at Z=0, allowing free expansion or contraction in both directions
- Mounting of staves inside a shell is more difficult
- Light weighting cut-outs could provide the necessary access
- Again fix the staves at Z=0
**Disk design**
- Assembly can be tricky, considering stave length and associated services
- Stave must pass thru a slot and engage alignment pins at Z=0
- Choice of which end to fix the stave against movement is not clear
- Z= 0 might still be a possibility, but is a detail to be resolved
# Presentation: 120351

## NIDA Research Training Director’s Meeting

**	****	****	****November 3, 2006**
**	****	****	****         ****Rockville, MD**

**Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical ****	****Consequences of Drug Abuse****	**
**	****	****	****	****	**Jamie Biswas, Ph.D.
- 					Chief, Medications 					Research Grants Branch

## Medications Development for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in the DPMC

**Identify unmet clinical needs**
**Identify medications to test (Preclinical screening; Clinical Phase I, II, or III) for SUDs**
**Prioritize trials **
**For contracts – Medications Development Workgroup review**
**For grants – make Programmatic decisions based on project, score, and available funding**

## 	Program Priorities for the Treatment      	of Substance Use Disorders

**Stimulants **
**Cannabis abuse**
**Club drugs**
**Prescription opioids**
**New mechanisms for opioid abuse/addiction**
**New mechanisms for nicotine abuse/addiction**** **

## Addressing the Treatment Needs of Special Populations

**Women and Gender Differences**
**Minorities**
**Pregnant women and their fetuses**
**Adolescents**
**Subjects with comorbid substance use disorders**
**Subjects with comorbid psychiatric disorders**
**Subjects within the Criminal Justice System**

## Funding Decisions Are Based On:

**Unmet clinical needs**
**State of the art of the science and technology**
**Innovativeness (avoid redundancy)**
**Study Section recommendations, scores, and percentiles**
**Available funding**

## What kind of medications development research projects do we support?

**Preclinical**
**	****- Medicinal chemistry (new chemical entities, immunotherapy)**
**	****- Behavioral animal models**
**	****- Predictive toxicology**
**	****- New pharmacokinetic assays**
**Clinical**
**	****- Test new medications (safety and efficacy)**
**	****- Vaccines and monoclonals**
**	****- New and more effective formulations**

## Medical/Health Consequences of Drug Abuse and Co-Occurring Infections

- Medical/clinical consequences of legal and illegal drugs and co-occurring infections (HIV, HCV, STDs)
- Clinical research that impacts the pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS
- Factors that affect resistance and susceptibility to infection
- Medical interventions for drug abuse, and HIV and associated clinical conditions
- PK and pharmacodynamic interactions between drugs of abuse, medications to treat SUDs, and pharmacotherapies for HIV/AIDS and comorbid conditions
- Factors in progression of infectious diseases in vulnerable and underserved patient populations of drug abusers

## Distribution of Pre-clinical Grant Portfolio by Drug Treatment Target(Millions of Dollars)

## Distribution of Clinical Grant Portfolio by Drug Treatment Target(millions of dollars)

## Matching Training to Program Priorities – Drug Abuse Related Research Disciplines

**Medicinal chemistry**
**Behavioral pharmacology**
**Pharmacokinetics**
**Medical toxicology**
**Translational research**
**Medical consequences of drug abuse**
**Imaging**
**Human lab studies**
**Conducting clinical trials**
**Data analysis and analysis methodologies**
# Presentation: 185167

## Proton Plan Status April/May

- Eric Prebys

## Operations - Prebys
Technical Progress – Prebys
Focus on shutdown preparation
Cost/Schedule Report – Baller
Shutdown – Mau
Tranformers - Hays

- Technical Progress – Prebys
- Focus on shutdown preparation
- Cost/Schedule Report – Baller
- Shutdown – Mau
- Tranformers - Hays

- Agenda

## Operations

## Operational Highlights

- MiniBooNE
- Great Running!
- NuMI
- Great Running!

## Proton Intensities

- 1E17 p/hr

## NuMI

- On Base curve even with 20% error in rep. rate!
- 90% up time since April 1st.

- Dotted lines are 2.4 second rep rate

## MiniBooNE

- Well above design curve
- Will probably make up for beam line down time before shutdown.

## Total Booster Output 

- Total Booster Output

- MiniBooNE back!

## Technical Status

## Significant Activity Since Last PMG

- (1.1) Linac
- (1.2.2) Quad Power Supply Upgrade
- Continues adiabatically
- (1.2.4) Linac LLRF Upgrade
- Prototype FPGA board working and being used for tests
- Still on track for shutdown
- (1.2) Booster
- Magnets, magnets, magnets

## Magnet Production (as of Monday)

- needed

- Successful test of 8th magnet triggered next AIP

## Production End Game

- Magnets
- 24th production coil set: ~next week
- 24th production magnet to MTA: ~ July 4th
- 24 magnets ready to install: ~end of July
- BPM’s
- Contract out
- 30 by July 20
- Three prototypes being built in-house.  Ready ~next week.
- Power Supplies
- Will have enough for our prototype test in early July
- Will have remainder in time for shutdown.
- Mechanical supports
- Out for fabrication.
- Should begin arriving next week
- Control cards, HRM’s, etc
- All in production and on schedule for shutdown

## Magnetic Measurement (10 magnets)

- Prototype

## Magnetic Measurement Summary (10 magnets)

## Alignment

## Prototype Test

- Plan to install one magnet in Long 4 in early July
- This will give us a chance to test the magnet and entire control chain in actual operation.
- This magnet will be installed in addition to the existing magnet.
- Will be moved into correct location during shutdown.

## Main Injector Activity

- (1.3) Main Injector
- (1.3.2) MI Collimation Systems
- Ring:
- Designs complete
- Parts arriving for collimators and LCW/bus modifications
- Should begin a test assembly of secondary collimator next week
- Still driving length of shutdown (more from Bob)

## Collimator Parts

## Main Injector (cont’d)

- (1.3.3) Multi-batch slip stacking
- Tested operational (pBar+NuMI) slip stacking
- 2x8 turns = 6.1E12 to pBar
- 9x6 turns = 2.3E13 to NuMI
- Limited by out of bucket beam hitting MI-52 kicker
- Should be improved with better tuning and damper improvements.
- Plan to run in operational mode for at least a few days some time before shutdown to perfect technique, so we can ramp up quickly after shutdown.
- (1.3.4) MI RF
- (see Hays talk about transformers)
- Tim Berenc leaving!
- Working to hand off to Chase and co.
- Hope to have a prototype comb filter working before he leaves.
# Presentation: 596677

## Powder River Basin WyomingProduced CBNG Water Summary

## Slide 2

## Perspective

-   25,169 CBNG wells completed  (60,126 APDs        		approved)
-   Since 2001, average of 74,900 ac/ft of water 		produced each year.
-   Storage capacity of Lake Mead –    				35,000,000 ac/ft

- Powder River Basin EIS analyzed and disclosed the environmental impacts of drilling 51,000 CBNG wells over a 10 year period.

## PRB Produced Water Volumes

| Watershed | Predicted Cumulative Total (2002 thru 2007), ac-ft | Actual Cumulative Total (2002 thru 2007), ac-ft | Percent of Predicted as of 2007 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antelope Creek | 101,484 | 25,321 | 25.0 |
| Clear Creek | 128,363 | 6,400 | 5.0 |
| Crazy Woman Creek | 105,463 | 984 | 0.9 |
| Little Powder River | 123,631 | 52,902 | 42.8 |
| Middle Powder River | 64,587 | 29,312 | 45.4 |
| Upper Belle Fourche | 451,456 | 103,971 | 23.0 |
| Cheyenne River* | 48,269 | 40,116 | 83.1 |
| Upper Powder River | 900,040 | 166,096 | 18.5 |
| Upper Tongue River | 112,670 | 57,396 | 50.9 |
| TOTAL | 2,035,963 | 482,498 | 23.7 |

- PRB FEIS States that 4% of the PRB groundwater will be produced with CBNG.

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Historic CBNG Produced Water Management Strategies(Federal Minerals)

- Direct Discharge to Drainage 		30%
- Discharge to Full Containment 		19%
- Discharge to Unlined Impoundments	33%
- Injection						  4%
- Active Treatment (RO, EMITS, etc,)	10%
- Land Application Disposal (LAD)		  3%

## Example Water Analyses

| Parameter | SE PRB | Along the Powder River | NW PRB |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| pH | 7.4 | 7.8 | 8. |
| EC, μmhos,cm | 1160 | 3750 | 4690 |
| TDS, mg/l | 709 | 2450 | 3170 |
| SAR | 8 | 46.9 | 96.3 |
| HCO3, mg/l | 804 | 2730 | 3330 |
| Cl, mg/l | 9 | 39 | 88 |
| F, mg/l | 0.5 | 1.2 | na |
| SO4, mg/l | ND | ND | ND |
| Ca, mg/l | 51 | 19 | 6.9 |
| Mg, mg/l | 11 | 11 | 3.8 |
| K, mg/l | 6 |   | na |
| Na, mg/l | 242 | 1040 | 1260 |
| Trace Metals |   |   |   |
| Al, μg/l (Total) | 110 | 1200 | ND |
| As, μg/l (Total) | 1.3 | 0.6 | ND |
| B, μg/l (Dissolved) | ND |   | na |
| Ba, μg/l (Total) | 840 | 1320 | 900 |
| Fe, μg/l (Dissolved) | 49 | <30 | ND |
| Mn, μg/l (Dissolved) | 67 | 13 | 30 |
| Se, μg/l (Total) | ND | <5 | ND |

## Beneficial Use 

- Wyoming State Engineers Office requires CBNG Operators to obtain a permit to appropriate groundwater with the beneficial use being the production of methane.
- After 3 years,  the water/gas ratio must not exceed 10 bbl/mcf of gas produced to maintain compliance.

## Direct Discharge to Drainage

## Discharge to Infiltration Impoundments 

## Livestock 

- Livestock
- Operations

## Stock Watering

## Land Application Disposal

- The disposal of CBNG water using irrigation,
- with or without soil amendments.  Most applications are
- seasonally limited.
- Misting
- Surface Irrigation
- Center Pivots
- Side Rolls
- Subsurface Irrigation

## Misting

- Seasonal

## Land Application Disposal

## Subsurface Drip Irrigation

## Subsurface Drip Irrigation

## Dust Control

## Active Treatment

- EMITs Ion Exchange

## That’s All Folks!