BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 143765

## Low Speed Digital Tester

- Hak S. Kim

## Low Speed Digital Tester

- Description
- Requirement
- Design Approach
- Status
- Issues

- 02/18/05

## Description

- Tester for Digital Devices
- Low to Medium Speed
- Reusable Hardware and Software
- Minimize Design Time
- Reduce the Cost of Digital Device Test

- 02/18/05

## Description

- Testing Setup

- Device Under Test
- (DUT)

- Digital Tester

- PC Based
- Controller
- User Area

- Remote Test Location

- 02/18/05

## Requirement

- Flexible
- Reusable
- Re-programmable FPGA
- Multi I/O Lines
- 200 MHz Parallel

- 02/18/05

## Requirement

- Use of Industry Standards
- Program –VHDL & JTAG
- Communication to User –RS232 / USB etc.
- User Friendly Interface Software
- Affordable
- Added Features

- 02/18/05

## Design Approach

- Block Diagram

- 02/18/05

## Design Approach

- Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA
- XC3S400, -1000, -1500
- 400K to 1.5M gates (8,064-29,952 Logic Cells)
- Up to 622 Mb/s Data Transfer Rate per I/O
- 264 to 333 (116 to 149 DS) I/Os
- 1.2V to 3.3V I/O Level
- Inexpensive

- 02/18/05

## Design Approach

- FPGA Programming
- JTAG
- On Board Selectable FLASH ROM
- Communication
- RS232
- USB

- 02/18/05

## Design Approach

- User I/Os
- 278 Total
- 34 Single / 122 Differential
- 235 Medium / 43 Low Speed
- 233 Dedicated / 45 Shared
- Clock
- 4 Clock inputs (Shared I/Os)

- 02/18/05

## Design Approach

- Added Features
- On Board SRAM
- Temporary Storage
- 1M x 16 SRAM
- Shared I/Os
- Current Monitor
- 4 Channel ADC with Shunt Resistors
- Re-configurable Gain Amplifiers
- Latch-Up Detection and Alert Signals
- Programmable Latch-Up Thresholds

- 02/18/05

## Status

- Hardware Design Completed
- PCB Components Being Populated
- FPGA Programming in Progress
- User Interface Software Programming in Progress

- 02/18/05

## Issues

- Daughter Board Fabrication
- Throwaway Use?
- Need Minimal Changes in Hardware
- VHDL Code Modification
- Different DUT Requires Different Flavor

- 02/18/05
# Presentation: 424690

## 3D Flux rope Model with Adjustable Twist

- 3. line-current

- 1.  flux rope

- 2.  magnetic   charges

- Titov & Démoulin (1999)

- 3 field sources

## Initial Configuration

- (Titov & Démoulin)

- Normal Field at Surface

- flux-rope footprint

*I*0  =  *I*

*I * :  flux rope current

*I*0  :  sub-surface line current

## Extreme Limits of T&D Configuration

*I * :  flux rope current

*I*0  :  sub-surface line current

*I*0  =  0

*I*0  =  500 *I*

## side view

-   (x = 0)

- end view
-  (y = 0)

- initial

- displaced

- Line-Tied Displacements

## Slide 5

## Confined Eruption

- Kliem & Török (2004)

- strong toroidal field everywhere
- (large sub-surface line current)

## “Failed Eruption” Observed by TRACE

- “Failed Eruption” Observed by TRACE

## Simulation of “Torus*” Instability

- *nonhelical kink
- (see Bateman 1973)

- 1.  no subsurface line current
- 2.  subcritical twist for helical kink
- 3.  torus center near surface

## Slide 9
# Presentation: 794957

## High Energy Theory Group Overview and Some Recent Results

- _Outline_
- High Energy Theory Group
- Research Activities
- Some Recent Results
- Perspective (Future)
- William J. Marciano 04-18-06

## 1. High Energy Theory Group (FY2006)

- _Permanent Staff (6)_
- 	M. Creutz
- 	W. Kilgore
- 	W. Marciano
- 	F. Paige
- 	A. Soni (Group Leader)
- 	T.L. Trueman (Half-time)
- _Also:_
- 	S. Dawson (Physics Chair)E. Scholz (SciDAC)

- _Research Associates_
- 	C. Jackson
- 	T. Krupovnickas
- 	D. Suprun

## 2. Research Activities

- High Energy Theory

- ATLAS DØ  ILC

- Neutrinos
- MINOS, Daya Bay
- VLBL

- gμ-2
- EDM

- Nuclear Theory D. Kharzeev et al.

- RIKEN/BNL Research Center

- Lattice Gauge Theory F. Karsch et al.
- Finite Temp.

- RHICPolarized PP

- Unique Environment

## Diverse Research Program

- Lattice Gauge Theories: Formalism and Phenomenology: M. Creutz, A. Soni (RBRC)
- LHC Collider Physics: W. Kilgore, F. Paige, (S. Dawson), C. Jackson, T. Krupovnickas
- B Physics: A. Soni, D. Suprun
- Perturbative QCD: W. Kilgore, (S. Dawson)
- Polarized Protons (QCD at RHIC): T.L. Trueman
- Electroweak Physics (Precision, Rare, Low Energy, Neutrinos): W. Marciano, T. Krupovnickas

## 3. Some Recent Results

- _Precision Test of CKM Unitarity_  	(Marciano and Sirlin, 						 PRL _96_, 032002 [2006])
- |Vud|2+|Vus|2 +|Vub|2 =1
- 	      10-5
- Superallowed Nuclear Beta Decays (0+    0+)
- Electroweak Radiative Corrections ~4%
- _Uncertainties?_
- 		Was:		Vud = 0.9736(2)(4)RC
- 		Now: 	 	 Vud = 0.97377(11)(15)(19)RC
- New Ingredients: Bjorken Sum Rule Analogy		   Large N QCD (Resonances)

## Neutron Decay

- Bjorken Sum Rule

- Use f+(o) = 0.961(8) 	(Leutwyler and Roos [1984])
- |Vud|2 + |Vus|2 + |Vub|2 = 0.9992(5)Vud(4)Vus(8)f+(o)
- Good Agreement With Unitarity
- _Future:_ Lattice f+(o)
- 	Use Bj SR Data 	(5)Vud     (4)
- 	Experiment: Nuclear Q Values (Revolution?)
- Other Applications: sin2W, Atomic Parity Violation

## Other Electroweak Research

- e+e-     +-      vs.           o-
- 	*-T. Krupovnickas and W. Marciano*
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Xenon vs. Germanium
- 	EXO Experiment (Enhanced or Suppressed?)
*	**-T. Krupovnickas and W. Marciano*
- Very Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations (BNL or FNAL-Homestake)
- 	sin2213, Matter, CP Violation, “New Physics”
- 	*-W. Marciano and BNL Study Group*

## Odderon in Polarized PP

## Slide 10

## 4. Perspective (Future)

- BNL is: ATLAS Center, QCD Lab, Supercomputer-Lattice
- Remain a strong and diverse group
- Respond to Discoveries, Big Lattice Effort, LHC Phenomenology
- Hard due to dwindling resources (Aging group)

|  | 1994 | Now (2006) | 2007 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Permanent Staff | 7 | 5 1/2 |  |
| Associate Physicist | 2 | 0 |  |
| Assistant Physicist | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Postdocs | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Summer Visitors, Students...Workshops. |  |  |  |

*Need more Postdocs and Students*
# Presentation: 504660

## The Business Case forTechnology Demonstrations to Enable Clean Coal Deployment

***Craig Hansen***
- Vice President, Washington Operations

***“******We are passionate about innovation******and technology leadership”***

**The Business Case for****Technology Demonstrations to Enable Clean Coal Deployment**

**Notes:**

References:

Fluor:  “EPC Contactors: changing with the Industry”, AIChE Management Division Conference, April 2007

EE I- Brattle cost Report, January 2008

## Slide 2

## SaskPower “Clean co2al Project” 

***Impermeable Formations***

***Deep Oil/Gas Bearing Geological Formations ***

**Underground****CO****2**
**Storage**

- SaskPower “Clean co2al Project”

***Atmospheric******Air for******Combustion***

***Coal******In***

***CO******2****** to******atmosphere***

***Electricity***

***350 MW gross***
***Yields***
***300 MW net***

***Conventional******Coal Plant***

***Shallow Coal Bearing Formations***

***Pure oxygen ******for combustion***

***Coal******In***

***Near Zero***
***Emissions ******Coal Plant***

***Electricity***

***500 MW gross***
***Yields***
***300 MW net***

***CO******2***

***Enhanced ******Oil Recovery***

**Notes:**
The plant will use what is called “oxyfuel” technology where pure oxygen is used in the combustion process to eliminate nitrogen from the system. With the nitrogen removed from the system, the processes are then configured to readily capture the CO2 and compress it for other uses.  Oxygen is supplied by a 9000 tpd air separation plant
In the case of this plant, the CO2 is purified an compressed to be utilized for enhanced oil recovery, EOR, although storage is considered plausible, if required. 
An interesting aspect of this proposed project is the creation of a new value chain where one ton of coal would  produces .0.8 MWhrs and 2 to 10 bbl’s of oil. 
As with other capture technologies, there is an additional energy requirement to both capture the CO2 and then compress it to a liquid for flooding.  That requirement here is about 150 MWs.  

## Carbon Capture Technology Costs Generally Uncertain Today Comparative Range indicates Options of Similar Cost

**50%**

**75%**

**100%**

**125%**

**150%**

**175%**

**%**

**Avail.**

**Avail.**

**Demo**

********** SCPC = Supercritical Pulverized Coal; Data obtained from various sources.***

**Demo**

**Demo**

**Advanced****Demo**

**Cost of Electricity, Percent of Base SCPC*******

**Many**
**“****Wild Card”**
**Technologies**
**?**

## How Long Will All of this Take?

**“****Level of Support”**

**Time**

**7 to 8 years**

**4 to 5 years**

***Commercial Plants with Control***
***(Carbon Charges)***

***At-scale Demonstration***
***Five Projects at $261 M each, ~ $1.3 B***
***5M tpy storage levels***
***(Sponsored projects)***

_***Early Adopters***_*** ***
***Five projects at $675 M each, ~ $3.4 B***
***15M tpy storage levels***
***(Incentives and******market pull)***

***“******Rollout” ***

***How Long Will All of this Take?***
# Presentation: 396287

## caTissue Data Migration

- Washington University/Siteman Cancer CenterPersistent Systems

- National Cancer Institute

## At WashU

- Administrative data: 642 users, 147 collection protocols, 32 storage types, 3873 storage containers
- Biospecimen data: 25215 participants and 95585 specimens
- All legacy data has been migrated and as of yesterday caTissue Core has been commissioned in production in the tissue bank.

## The Migration Process

## Migrating to Staging Database

- Map legacy data with new schema and opportunity to cleanse data.
- Most important and time taking step
- Data issues
- Value domain mismatch
- Data type does not match
- Bad data
- Patients with specimens but no collection protocol
- No concept of specimen collection group in legacy data
- Errors due to typos
- No storage container hierarchy or restrictions

## The Data Migration Tool

- caTissue API based and publicly *(soon to be)* available Java program.
- Two modes of operation
- Read from staging database
- Read from error logs (error recovery mode)
- API validation catches any *bad* data
- After correction, tool can be rerun for just those records.
- Duplicate participant matching information is generated during participant insertion.
- Can be used to cleanse legacy data
- Objects to be migrated are configurable

## Data Cleansing Process

**Staging**
** ****DB**

**Production **
**DB**

- Successful Records

**Migration Tool**

- Error report & Duplicate participant report

- Manual Correction

- Error Records

## Migrating to Production Database

- Performance issues with API
- API validation errors
- Bad data
- More specimens than specified container size
- Email address not unique
- Collection protocols with non-existing users
- State stored in country field
- Data type mismatch
- Date/numbers stored as strings
- Value domain mismatch
- M/F for Male Gender/Female Gender
# Presentation: 799926

## NWS/Central Region Climate Services

**Preston Leftwich**
**Central Region **
**Climate Services Program Leader**
**July 8, 2003**

## NOAA Climate Services

## Central Region Climate Services

**Program Elements**
**Data stewardship (collection and quality control)**
**Science and Training**
**Customer education, assistance, and outreach**
**Developing partnerships in the climate community**

## Central Region Climate ServicesWhere to Start Regionally

**Identify focal points at each office.**
**Conduct an orientation workshop.**
**Include climate services in other CR meetings (e.g., SOO/WCM, MIC/HIC).**
**Continually share “best practices” in climate services as they are identified****.**

## Central Region Climate ServicesWhere to Start Locally

**1. Know requirements of Climate Services related Directives: NDS 10 – (1001 – 1004).**
**2. Know local climate data acquisition and quality control procedures.**
**3. Learn what climate information is available and how to get it (history, outlooks, impacts).**
** **

**Notes:**
Note:  5 Points under Vision over two slides.

## Central Region Climate ServicesWhere to Start Locally

**4. Include climate information in local outreach activities.**
**5. Acquire training in various aspects of climate services.**
** **

**Notes:**
Note:  5 Points under Vision over two slides.

## NWS Climate Forecast Operations Concept

**NCEP Climate Prediction**

## Central Region Climate Services

**Workshop includes topics from the various aspects of Climate Services.**
**Provide background and tools to enable focal points to establish a team approach to climate services at WFOs and RFCs.**
# Presentation: 401142

## METS@MIT

- MacKenzie Smith
- Associate Director for Technology
- MIT Libraries

## METS Uses	

- Encapsulates *metadata* for
- Simple Digital Objects
- Single files, e.g. PDF or TIFF image
- Complex Digital Objects
- Scanned documents, multi-part objects
- Records *structure* for Digital Objects

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## METS Uses	

- Digital Object Packaging Standard
- OAIS SIP/AIP/DIP
- Repository interoperability
*NOT* Digital Object modeling schema
- e.g. ABC Harmony or CIDOC

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## METS Uses	

- Application data, e.g.
- Page turners
- Multimedia players
- Map viewers

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## METS@MIT

- DSpace Institutional Repository (tomorrow)
- OAIS DIP/AIP/SIP
- Exit strategy
- Interoperability with other repositories
- Digitization Production Workflow
- Archival and special collections
- E-theses

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## Slide 6

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## Digitizing Workflow

- Complex (many steps)
- Labor-intensive
- Error prone
- Requires custom programming
- For METS creation
- For METS applications

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## Slide 8

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

##  Application Architecture

- Scanning
- Local or outsourced to vendor
- OCR
- METAe engine
- Structural analysis
- METAe engine (trained to appropriate grammar)

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## Application Architecture

- METS production
- METAe engine
- Access and Delivery
- Greenstone digital library system
- Indexing and retrieval of descriptive metadata
- Rendering (Page turner, etc.)
- Archive
- DSpace or other digital archive

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## Issues

- METAe
- METS profile for given document grammar
- Payment model
- Unnecessary features (e.g. bitmap indexes)
- Alternative: METAe “lite”
- open source METS production engine
- OCR included
- Structural analysis?

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003

## Issues

- METS support in Greenstone
- University of Chicago experiment
- Standard profile definitions for common Digital Object types: book, journal, report, image set
- METS support in DSpace
- More tomorrow...

- Copyright MIT, 2003

- October 27, 2003
# Presentation: 281259

## Time Series Data

- James Forester
- Marinsoft, Inc.
- 7 August 2000

## Topics

- Overview
- Definitions
- Time Series Model

## What is a Time Series?

- Collection of observations of a single unit made over several points in time
- currency exchange rates
- weather data
- equipment performance

## Types of Time Series

- event-driven data
- irregular, piece-wise constant
- cycling of a sump pump
- measurement data
- regular, continuous
- physical phonemena: temperature,etc.

## Definitions: 1

- sequence
- a time series dataset
- granularity
- smallest unit where values can exist
- span
- extent of valid granularity points

## Definitions: 2

- regularity
- regular: every point has a data value
- irregular: data values are missing
- density
- measure of the regularity of the time series
- type
- interpolable versus noninterpolable
- compound
- contains multiple sequences

## Time Series Model: 1

- general description
- common attributes describing the whole time series (identifier, calendar, start-time, end-time, type)
- sequence of observations
- data collected over successive points in time (time collected and data value)

## Time Series Model: 2
# Presentation: 246666

## The First Year SFMR Surface Wind Observations from AFRC WC-130J Aircraft: Impact on Operational Hurricane Forecasts and Warnings

**Peter G. Black (1), Jonathan Talbot (2), Ivan Popstefanija (3), **
**Eric Uhlhorn (4), James Franklin (5) **
***(1) Naval Research Laboratory and SAIC, Inc., Monterey, CA***
***(2) AFRC, 53******rd****** Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler AFB, MS***
***(3) ProSensing, Inc., Amherst, MA***
***(4) NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL***
***(5) NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL***
***Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference***
***Charleston, South Carolina***
***3-7 March, 2008***

## 2007 SFMR Advisory Statistics

- Atlantic TC’s
- Number: 16
- Depressions Only: 2
- Sub-Tropical Cyclones: 1
- Tropical Storms: 8
- Hurricanes: 6
- Major Hurricanes: 2 (both CAT5)

- Satellite-based Advisories: 214
- Aircraft-based Advisors: 56
- SFMR-based advisories:  25
- NOAA: 3
- AFRC: 22

## 2007

## UNDER SAMPLING ISSUE

**TA Doppler True Vmax vs. along-track Vmax**

**UNDER SAMPLING ISSUE**

## Slide 5

## CONCLUSIONS

**A 9-year SFMR data set from 1998-2006, where SFMR mainly not assimilated in real time, shows that Best Track estimates of maximum wind over-estimated SFMR maximum wind estimates by 10-17%.****	**
**However, in 2007 when SFMR assimilated in real time, half the points are overestimates and half are underestimates, suggesting on average that Best Track and SFMR estimates are now aligned with each other.**
**With 3-5 AFRC aircraft flying in 2007, 31 inter-comparison cases were amassed, plus 3 from NOAA aircraft, whereas 9 years were required for 54 comparison cases in developmental data set. In 2008, all 10 AFRC WC-130J aircraft will be flying SFMRs in addition to the two NOAA P3s as well as the NOAA G-IV.**
**We are at a historic turning point in history for improving hurricane intensity observation and forecasting where the capability to observe the TC surface wind domain matches the improved coupled model capabilities to assimilate and model it. This alignment should provide the next best opportunity for improving hurricane intensity and structure forecasting.**
# Presentation: 551726

## Seismological Considerations

**Prof. Ralph Archuleta**
**Department of Earth Science**
**& Institute for Crustal Studies**
**University of California, Santa Barbara**

## Primary Factors

**MAGNITUDE**
**Faults**
**Geometry: Length, Width, Dip**
**Rate of occurrence, slip rate**
**DISTANCE**
**Closest Distance**
**Crustal Earthquakes**
**Subduction Zones**
**Random Events**
**Special Effects**
**Directivity**
**Stress drop**
**Hanging Wall vs Footwall**

## North American Seismicity

- http://www.iris.washington.edu

## Magnitude Scales

**From Heaton, et al. 1982**

## Seismic Moment and Magnitude

**Log M****0**** = 1.5 M + 16.05**
**M= (2/3)(Log M****0**** - 16.05)**

**Seismic Moment is measured in units of dyne-cm**
**(force x distance)**

**Log M****0**** = 1.5 M + 9.05**
**M= (2/3)(Log M****0**** - 9.05)**

**Seismic Moment is measured in units of N-m**
**(force x distance)**

## Seismic Moment

**M****o**** =**** ******** ****s A**
- Where:
-  ****is the shear modulus.
- S   is the average slip on the faulted area.
- A   is the area of the fault plane over which slip      has occurred.

## Styles of Faulting: Geometry

**Reverse**

**Normal**

**Strike Slip**

## 1906 EarthquakeSlip and Offset Fence

## Right Lateral Motion on San Andreas Fault: Wallace Creek

## Styles of Faulting

**Reverse**

**Normal**

**Strike Slip**

## Wasatch Fault: Example of Normal Fault

## Borah Peak Fault Scarp, M 7.3,   					Oct. 28, 1983

***Borah Peak Fault Scarp, M 7.3,   ******	******	******	******	******	******Oct. 28, 1983***

## Styles of Faulting: Geometry

**Reverse**

**Normal**

**Strike Slip**

## Thrust Slip

- Wufeng High School Track:
- Slip from the 1999 Chi Chi, Taiwan earthquake

## Thrust Fault & Accelerographs

## Slip Projected onto Fault Plane (1999 Chi Chi)

**Liu and Archuleta, 2000**

## Parkfield Slip Distribution

## Imperial Valley Slip Distribution

- Hypocenter

## Landers Slip Distribution

- Wald and Heaton, 1994

- Hypocenter

## Subduction Zone

## Seismicity of Pacific Northwest

## Different Regions with Different Distances

## Depth of Earthquakes

## Directivity-Superposition

- From Benioff, 1955, following analysis of the 1952 Kern County earthquake

## Directivity in Imperial Valley

## Normal Component

**From Hall, Heaton, Walling and Wald 1995**

## Recurrence Rates

** ****Log N(M) = a -bM**
**N(M): The number of earthquakes per year greater than or equal to M.  Think of it as the probability of an earthquake of M occurring once per year**
**Not normally based on large events for a specific fault**

## Hanging Wall vs Footwall

## Difference in Intensity: WUS vs EUS

## Seismological ConsiderationsProf. Ralph ArchuletaUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

***Seismological Considerations******Prof. Ralph Archuleta******University of California, Santa Barbara***

## Subduction Zone-Distance

## Directivity

## Slip Chi Chi
# Presentation: 675395

** **
**FSS Prep and Entry**
**Workgroup #115**
**May 16, 2007**
**Joe Schick – Quad Graphics**
**Rod Barbee – USPS Engineering**
**Marc McCrery – USPS Operations**

## Objective

***Identify areas of impact to the USPS and customers associated with preparation and entry of flats in an FSS environment.  Recommend approaches to optimize FSS preparation and entry to minimize end-to-end costs and fully leverage the FSS program.***** **

## Status

**Have held three meetings and two conference calls**
**One meeting was in conjunction with site visits to a P&DC and printing plant.**

## Flat mail preparation for and entry into FSS environment

**Dolly holding ACTs**

**CASTR holding street trays**

## General Staging

**General Staging**

**NOTE:  Drawing not to scale.  Relative locations of work areas and pathways not intended to represent actual layouts****.**

**Empty Dolly**

**Empty Dolly**

## Status

**Have shared and discussed current baseline flat mail characteristics**
**Have decided to focus on Dulles and Phoenix as two FSS locations to model in baseline and future environments**
**Printers and other customers will provide their mailing profiles to these sites based on FSS Schemes provided**

## Status

**Currently exploring one option that we are calling an Auto-Ready pallet containing non-compensating bundles to one or more FSS schemes**
**During the last meeting reviewed national and Dulles mail characteristics to see the prep opportunity that exists for Auto-Ready**
**Also initiated the discussion around entry times under an FSS operating environment**

**      ****Questions???****	****	**
# Presentation: 413981

## HELPING AND INTERVIEWING: DO’S AND DON’TS

## OUTCRY

- Suicidal: attempt or gesture
- Running away from home
- May disclose it indirectly -- happening to a friend
- May ask how to help a friend who is being abused
- May discuss abuser without mentioning abuse
- May want to talk about home situation
- May leave suggestive drawings or notes to be found
- May complain to nurse of vague somatic symptoms

- Attempts at telling someone and seeking help. Seldom occur soon after the first abuse --  usually occur months/years after the first time. By this time their helplessness & depression is usually very high.

## STATE OF MIND

- Very confused
- Tremendous sense of helplessness & hopelessness - nobody will believe me, understand me, or help me
- Very scared of what will happen to them and family
- Why did it have to happen to “me”
- Tremendous feeling of guilt
- Very protective of abuser, especially if very close
- Very concerned about future course of action

## DISCLOSURE

- Calm yourself
- Make time available (if over committed ask if you can do it later or if someone else can help)
- Find a quiet and private place
- Listen calmly and patiently
- Support them -- do not question their integrity
- Reassure him/her you are concerned
- Reassure them it is not their fault
- Reassure them that no one will get punished
- Do not suggest what was done to them - listen

- IT MAY HAPPEN AT A TIME YOU LEAST EXPECT

## FIND PROFESSIONAL HELP

- Handling and helping abuse cases is very subtle and complex. Never assume you can deal with such cases unless you have been fully trained in child abuse.

## Interviewing the child: DO’s

- Build trust if the child does not already trusts you
- Conduct the interview in private
- Make sure you have time: don’t rush
- Sit next to the child, not across a table which can be intimidating to the child
- Reassure the child of confidentiality
- Use language that the child understands best
- Ask child to clarify words you don’t understand
- Don’t suggest or lead the child in their disclosure

## Interviewing the child: DON’Ts

- Do not allow the child to feel “in trouble” or “at fault”
- Criticize the child’s use of words or language
- Suggest answers to the child
- Probe or press for answers the child does not want to give
- Display disapproval, shock, horror of parents, child or situation
- Force or insist that the child removes clothing
- Have other interviewers present

## Interviewing Parents: DO’s

- Select interviewer(s) appropriate to the situation
- Conduct the interview in private
- Tell parent(s) up front the reason for the interview
- Tell parent(s) that the interview is confidential
- Be direct, honest, and profession
- Advise them of what you plan to do, and what follow up steps you will take

## Interviewing Parents: DON’Ts

- Do not try to “prove” abuse or neglect by accusations or demands
- Display disapproval, anger, horror of parent(s), child, or situation
- Pry into family matters unrelated to the situation
- Place blame or make judgements about the parent(s) or child
# Presentation: 373028

## An Overview of Online Collaboration Tools

- Lisa Wolfisch
- Rachael LaPorte Taylor
- SSD Internet Staff

## "The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. 

- The idea was that by writing something together, and as people worked on it, they could iron out misunderstanding."
*Tim Berners-Lee, 2003*

## Collaboration Tools

- Instant Messaging
- Collaboration Platforms
- Weblogging Software

## Instant Messaging

- Real-time conversations
- Quiet
- Quick response
- Back channel communications
- New tools aimed at office communication

- Conferences
- Virtual meetings
- Audio/video
- Share files
- Instant feedback
- Build relationships by easing communication

## Collaboration Platforms

- Develop, communicate, and share information
- Web-based, scalable, connecting team members from Census Bureau and agency partners
- Archival of shared documents and threaded discussions allow tracking of evolution of particular topics

## Collaboration Platforms

- Other integrated features available through “SiteScape”
- Document management: shared documents with versioning
- Threaded discussions
- Calendars
- Instant messaging
- File sharing
- Online meetings

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Weblogs

- Initially comprised of online journals maintained by individual authors
- Contain a regular series of postings about a topic, day-to-day events, links to other sites and commentary
- Adopted by corporations and agencies as a communication tool for customer relationships

## Weblogs

- Allow for categorized, threaded discussions
- Multiple authors
- Document project issues
- A public record of progress, milestones
- Dated archives
- Distribution of content through RSS feeds
- Moveable Type, Blosxom, Radio UserLand

## Slide 12

## Slide 13
# Presentation: 876834

## SEC Builds Foundation for Space Weather

**SEC Builds Foundation for Space Weather**

**Gary Heckman**
- NOAA Space Environment Center

- In addition to its role as the official source of space weather alerts, warnings, and forecasts, SEC is central in developing, planning, and operating space weather capabilities at the national and international level.
- SEC cooperates closely with the U. S. Air Force though joint operation of Space Weather Operations and in space weather observing programs.
- SEC is the World Warning Agency of the International Space Environment Service (ISES) and is the primary mover in organizing data, forecast, and technology exchange between ISES members.
- SEC staff played a central role in developing the Second Edition of the *National Space Weather Program Implementation Plan* and the *National Security Space Architecture Transition Plan.*
- SEC is organizer or co-organizer of many symposia on space weather including Space Weather Week, Chapman Conferences, and COSPAR sessions.** **

**Abstract**

**Sensor coverage from**
** ****the Implementation Plan**

**International Space Environment Service (ISES)**

- The NSSA study included the most exhaustive analysis of space weather users and their requirements that has been done.  It forms the basis for a number of other plans that address the users, their needs, and the ability of the space weather services community to meet them.  SEC played a core role in the NSSA study, especially with the documentation of needs and capability.

- Sensor plans proposed in the NSSA study were modified in the NSSA transition plan and the NSWP plan to reflect further scientific evaluation of the validity of the proposed solutions.

**Joint USAF-SEC operation for space weather services**

**National Security Space Architecture Study**

**National Space Weather Program**

- Planned Solar-Solar Wind Research Models
# Presentation: 489840

## Reviewers   	Study Section

- Title
- Abstract
- Specific Aims
- Background & Significance
- Relevant Experience
- Experimental Design & Methods
- Budget

- Cover Letter
- Title
- Key Words
- Abstract

## Abstract

- Overall Goal - Purpose
- Importance
- Feasibility
- Strength of _your_ background
- Published studies (others)
- Data presented herein
- Experimental Approach
- Data Obtained
- Application to Phase II
- Importance

## Specific Aims

- Overall Goal
- Importance
- List Specific Aims (Independent)
- I.
- II.
- III.
- Key:  Keep It Simple - Limited Time
- 6 months
- 2 years

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Specific Attention

## General

- Stay Focused - Single Idea
- Simple Sentences - One Thought
- Paragraph - 	General Sentence			Specifics			Summary Sentence
- Headings - 	Every 1-2 Paragraphs			Questions/Answer Format
- Use Consultants/Contractual Arrangements
- Repeat (Abstract, Overview, Rationale)
- Describe Importance
- Appropriate Study Section

## Experimental Design & Methods

- Rationale - Overall Goal, Approach, Importance
- Specific Aim I
- Experimental design
- Specific Aim II
- Experimental design
- Anticipated Results and Pitfalls
- Specific Methods
- a)
- b)
- c)

## Budget

- Be Fair - Justify
- Consultants
- Contractual Arrangements

## Relevant Experience

- Your Background/Strengths

## Background & Significance

- Overview - Stress Goal, Describe Problem, Importance, Strength of Proposal (Feasibility)
- Literature - Topics, Questions
- a)
- b)
- c)
- Feasibility/Data
- Relation of Phase I to Phase II

## Title

- Describe Project
- Focused
- Current Terminology

## Study Section

- Cover Letter:
- Select study section
- Justify - scientific expertise, state of the art
- Select funding agency
- Justify - scientific interest
- Title:
- Use descriptive/current terminology
- Key Words:
- Use current terminology
- Abstract:
- Underline key words
# Presentation: 684704

## OFCM Special Session: Challenges of Urban Test Beds

**Dr. Walter D. Bach, Jr. **
**Program Manager, Environmental Sciences Division, Army Research Office, United States Army**
**Session Leader**

*In conjunction with the*
*10**th** Annual GMU Conference on Transport and Dispersion Modeling *
**August 2, 2006**

## Agenda

_**Introduction**_**:**** *****(1:30-1:45 pm)***
**Opening Remarks/Agenda Review: *****Dr. Walter Bach Jr., ARO***_** **_
**Welcoming Remarks/Charge to the Joint Action Group for Joint Urban Test Beds:  *****Mr. Bob Dumont, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology***
_**UTB User Perspectives**_**: *****(1:45-2:20 pm******)***
**Air Quality:  *****Mr. Mark Evangelista, NOAA/ARL***
**Public Health: *****Mr. Chatt Williamson, Army Research Laboratory***
**Emergency Response: *****Mr. Mark Miller, NOAA/NOS***

## Agenda

_**Learning from Existing/Developing Test Beds**_**: *****(2:20-2:35 pm)—Dr. Walter Bach, Jr., ARO***
_**UTB Research Perspectives**_**: *****(2:35-3:10 pm)***
**Science Topics, *****Mr. Jeff McQueen, NOAA/NCEP***
**Measurements, *****Dr. Ray Hosker, NOAA/ OAR/ARL***
**Data Management, *****Dr. Walter D. Bach, Jr., ARO***
_**Q & A Time**_**:  *****(3:10-3:15 pm)***
***Dr. Walter D. Bach, Jr., ARO***
# Presentation: 050693

## Slide 1

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  High**
_**Issue:**_**  Nutrient Intake and utilization**
_**Explanation:**_**  Basic research in this area is paramount. Need to look at triad of nutrients-microbes-host genetics. Priority should be rumen, but all areas of gut need to be explored. Need ways to measure and capture information. Gene expression/regulation studies **

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  High**
_**Issue:**_**  Reproductive efficiency**
_**Explanation:**_**  Need to investigate triad of nutrition-immune system-genetics. Make selection tools more accurate.  study expression/regulation of important genes. Evaluate economic impact.**

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  High**
_**Issue:**_**  Genetic Improvement and Genomic Tools**
_**Explanation:**_**  Need wider range phenotypes. ARS should remain repository of data. Emphasize health, fertility and well-being. Incorporate molecular data into genetic evaluations. Continue aggressive genomic program.**

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  High**
_**Issue:**_**  Animal behavior/ well-being**
_**Explanation:**_**  Important to develop standard methods and measures.  Important to educate producers and practitioners how to recognize problems.  **

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  Medium**
_**Issue:**_**  Conserve and Characterize Germplasm**
_**Explanation:**_**  Keep current repositories.  There is a need to both conserve germplasm and to characterize it.  May need to expand current repositories to include non-domestic breeds.**

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  Low**
_**Issue:**_**  Growth and Development**
_**Explanation:**_**  Focus should be on heifer growth. Also, mammary gland growth and regeneration in terms. Studies of structural conformation needs of high producing cows would also be interesting.  **

## Status:  Needs to be investigated further

**Priority Rating:  Low**
_**Issue:**_**  Product Quality**
_**Explanation:**_**  Work in this area should focus on improving the nutritional value of milk and enhancing important milk components.**

## Status:  Should no longer be investigated

**Priority Rating:  N/A**
_**Issue:**_**  Integrated Systems**
_**Explanation:**_**  Panel felt this was an important area, but that important decision making tools should be incorporated into other objectives and programs.**
# Presentation: 805480

## Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Non-uniform Dense Matter and Neutrino Interactions in Supernovae

- X-Ray image of Crab Nebula Pulsar Credit: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al.)

**Liliana Caballero**
**With Pf. Horowitz**

**Indiana University**
**NNPSS June/13/2005**

## Outline

- Introduction: Supernova and Neutron Stars
- Ion Response
- Neutrino-Nucleus scattering
- Model
- Simulation Results
- Future Work

## Supernova Neutrinos

- Collapse of a Massive Star
- Gravitational Force vs. Nuclear Fusion
- Iron Core -> energy barrier->collapse
- Most of the energy is lost by neutrino emission: p+e -> n+*ν**e*
- Density increment->Strong Force & Fermi Degeneracy->Outward Pressure
- Neutron Star

- SN1987A

## Mass= 1.4 Sun Mass

- Image taken from Dany Pierre Page, Neutron Star (Theory) Group at UNAM

**Mass= 1.4 Sun Mass**
**Radius=10 km**

## ~1012 g/cm3

- Medium= Plasma Electrons and Nuclei
- Neutrino Trapping in Supernova
- Neutrino-Nucleus elastic scattering
- Ion, Electron Screening have important effect
- Ion Response

## Ion Response

- Linear Response -> Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Cross Section:
- Correlation Function g(r)
- Static Structure Factor S(q)
- Dynamic Structure Factor S(q,w)

## Correlation Function g(r)

- Probability of finding another ion a distance r from a given ion.

- r

## Static Structure Factor

- Charge Density

- Ground State

## Model

- Classical Approximation
- Ions interact via screened Coulomb potential

- e electron screening
- rij distance between Ions

## Monte Carlo Simulation

- T= 1 Mev
- N ions
- 56Fe
- ρ =1x1012 g/cm3
- Periodic Boundary Conditions
- ri at equilibrium,  i=1,N

## Correlation Function

**N=1000    ****λ****e=10 fm  L=382 fm**

## Static Structure Factor

**N=1000   ****λ****e=10 fm   L=382 fm**

## Dynamic Response

- Dynamic Structure Factor

## Molecular Dynamics Algorithm

- Verlet Algorithm

## Molecular Dynamic Simulation

- T= 1 MeV
- N ions
- 56Fe
- ρ =1x1012 g/cc
- Periodic Boundary Condition
- ri(t),  i=1,N

## Dynamic Structure Factor

**N=500     ****λ****e=10 fm       L=304 fm**

## Peaks

| q (fm-1) | *10-4 (fm-1) | Ωp*10-4(fm-1) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| q0=2π/L | 3.3 | 4.2 |
| q0* 21/2 | 4.5 | 5.7 |
| q0 *31/2 | 5.1 | 6.9 |
| q0 *41/2 | 6 | 7.8 |

## Future Work

- Ion-Ion Screening model break down at large density
- N=100000 nucleons MDGRAPE
- Dynamical Response Pasta
# Presentation: 679259

## Airport Safety and Operations Tutorial

- Matthew Jurgielewicz and Isabel Marin
- National Aviation Technology Center, Dowling College

## Abstract

**Create a training aid for college students and airport authority personal on airport safety and operations**

**The training tool will contain visual images illustrating issues to be aware of in order to perform proper daily inspections. **

**The training piece will be followed by a series of test questions related to the material covered.**

**Notes:**
All of the information for the tutorial will be gathered from the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 139-Airport Operations, Airport Certification Manuals, Federal Aviation Regulations Advisory Circulars, Airport Emergency and Snow Plans, Mutual Aid Agreements, and Airport Authority Procedures.

## FAR Part 139 Breakdown

**Self-Inspection**

**Paved Areas**

**Marking & Signs**

**Fueling Operations**

**Navigational Aids**

**Lighting**

**Obstructions**

**Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting**

**Snow and Ice Control**

**Safety Areas**

**Public Protection**

**Wildlife Hazards**

**Additional Areas Checked on an Airport Inspection**

**Traffic and Wind Direction Indicators**

**Airport Emergency Plan**

**Pedestrian and Ground Vehicles**

**Airport Condition Reporting**

**Identifying, Marking, and Lighting Construction and Other Unserviceable Areas**

**Non-Complying Conditions**

## Conclusion

**The research gathered from this project will be used in creating the training aid. The simulator will increase the knowledge of current and future airport authority on proper airport operations and safety.**

**The future project will be brought to life using Autocad, Mutigen Creator, and Vega Prime all operating on a Raytheon First Plus platform. **

## References

**Federal Aviation Regulation Part 139**

- _[www.faa.gov](http://www.faa.gov/)_

- _[www.images.google.com](http://www.images.google.com/)_

- _[www.wildlife-mitigation.tc.faa.gov](http://www.wildlife-mitigation.tc.faa.gov/)_

- _[www.asy.faa.gov](http://www.asy.faa.gov/)_

- _[www.aviatiopics.de](http://www.aviatiopics.de/)_
# Presentation: 657657

## NOAA’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO IOOS

**Michael Szabados**
**NOAA’s, National Ocean Service**

## SUPPORTING SAFE AND EFFICIENT MARINE OPERATION

**Ice Predictions**

**WEATHER PREDICTIONS**

**ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES**

**SUPPORTING SAFE AND EFFICIENT MARINE OPERATION**

**Marine Forecasts**

**Hazmats, Brownfields, Fisheries, Ballast Water, Dredging**

**NAUTICAL CHARTS**

**TIDES AND CURRENTS**

## Great Lakes Integrated  Observing System

**Great Lakes Integrated  Observing System**

- 	NOAA Water level stations
- 	NOAA Buoys
- 	Environment Canada Buoys

**Notes:**
2002 Accomplishments
Implement Great Lakes Online providing real-time information from NOAA’s 51 Great Lakes stations:
Great Lakes Online website 10,000 hits/per month
Great Lakes Voice System 2,000+ hits/per month
Deployed water level station at Look Out #4
Meteorological sensors installed at the following 8 water level stations: 
	Oswego
	Buffalo
	Harbor Beach
	Detour Village
	Rock Cut
	SW Pier
	Pt. Iroquois
	Calumet Harbor

## IOOS-Integrated Applications

- Fells Point, Baltimore

- Hurricane Isabel

**IOOS-Integrated Applications**
**Baltimore September 18-21, 2003**

## Benefits of an 

- TCOON Stations

- Benefits of an** **
**I**ntegrated **O**cean **O**bserving **S**ystem

## IOOS SUPPORTING A NATIONAL BACK BONE

**New York/**
**New Jersey **
**PORTS****®**

**Narragansett PORTS****®**

**New Haven PORTS****®**

**IOOS SUPPORTING A NATIONAL BACK BONE**

- University of Connecticut
- Department of Marine Science
**Wind Speed/Direction & Wave Height**

## TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING SAFE AND EFFICIENT MARINE OPERATIONS

**TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING SAFE AND EFFICIENT MARINE OPERATIONS**

- Tampa Bay Automated Information System
# Presentation: 009845

## Aerospace Operations SystemsTechnical Accomplishment

**Relevant Milestone**: 	Color extension of the contrast-gain control visibility model. (Visibility Models and Metrics Program Milestone, due 4Q, FY00)
**Shown:**  Targets, masks, and masking results of experiment to help develop and calibrate models.
**Accomplishment / Relation to Milestone and ETG: **Completed a preliminary experiment in color target detection on color noise backgrounds and used the results of the experiment to develop and calibrate a preliminary extension to color of the contrast-gain control visibility model.  The results were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology which provided very useful feedback.
- Two targets were used.  They were red/green uniform squares.  The luminance target was the background yellow.  For the red/green target, the green gun level decreased as the red increased, keeping the luminance constant.  The color of the red/green target varied from red to the background yellow as the target contrast was lowered.  The luminance masks were the background yellow.  The red/green masks were isoluminant. The sum mask was the sum of those two images.  A similar low contrast set of three masks was formed at half the contrast.
- Luminance noise did not mask the red/green target.  Red/green noise masking of the luminance target was small, but significant.  The sum results show this latter effect could only be seen with masking imagery of very low luminance contrast. Masking was fairly well predicted by a model with contrast masking within channels only.
- These models will allow display designers to ensure the visibility of critical information.
**Future Plans: ** Include more target shapes and more color masks to make model complete.  Test model on multi-band  IR images combined into color images with various sensor fusion algorithms.

- ETG: Reduce the aircraft accident rate by a factor of five within 10 years, and by a factor of 10 within 25 years

- Experiments for Color Image Visibility Model** **Development POC: Al Ahumada, ARCMay 2000

## Aerospace Operations Systems Experiments for Color Image Visibility Model Development

**TARGETS on the UNIFORM BACKGROUND**

**Luminance (Y)**

**Red/Green (R)**

**BEHAVIORAL RESULTS**

**High Contrast **
**Red/Green Noise **
**(R)**

**MASKS**

**High Contrast **
**Luminance Noise**
**(Y)**

**Summed**
**High Contrast Noises**
**(S)**

**Low Contrast **
**Red/Green Noise**
**(r)**

**Low Contrast **
**Luminance Noise**
**(y)**

**Summed**
**Low Contrast Noises**
**(s)**
# Presentation: 787918

## Beams Week in Review

- Myriad of unrelated problems
- Vacuum – AP3, Tevatron D4, P2, AP1
- Quench protection electronics – B0Q6
- Linac RF
- Accumulator sextupole power supply
- Some success
- Stacking rate record – 11.44 mA/hour for one hour
- Another store with *L*0 > 2E31.

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Initial Luminosity

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Protons to Collision

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Pbars to Collision

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Store Summary

| Store # | Initial Luminosity | Duration | Termination | comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1514 | 0.0 E30 | 0 hours | lost during scraping | A0 abort kicker pre-fire |
| 1518 | 17.37 E30 | 21.25 hours | intentional |  |
| 1526 | 20.36 E30 | 0.27 hours | B0Q6 quench |  |
| 1528 | 16.41 E30 | 5.43+ hours | in progress | pbar emittance blow-up at flattop, low lifetime |

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Peak Luminosity

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Integrated Luminosity

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Tevatron Summary

- Studies
- Longitudinal damper in operation at low gain
- P1/A1 line optics 6-8  growth, analysis in progress
- F0 Lambertson position - not a factor
- ‘dancing’ Bunches
- Tune drift/coupling at 150 Gev - .02 change

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Tevatron Summary – Long. damper

- Mode 1
- excitation and damping

- Mode 20
- excitation and damping

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Tevatron Summary – Tune drift

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Tevatron Summary – Coupling

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Pbar Summary

- Core cooling equalizers installed
- Horizontal Bands 1 & 2 only
- Studies
- A:EKIK flattop width
- P1 – AP3 lattice

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Pbar Summary – equalizers installed

- Band 1 bandwidth _before_:
- 0.670 GHz

- Band 1 bandwidth _after_:
- 0.904 GHz

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Pbar Summary – A:EKIK flattop

- All Experimenters Meeting

## MI Summary

- Low Emittance (8 GeV) proton Coalescing
- Flying Wire studies
- MI8 line Micado – scaling issues
- Pbar feedforward compensation

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Recycler Summary

- R30 line scans completed:		H = 35, V = 24
- R20 line work in progress
- Pbars this week

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Schedule for this Week

- Collider operation
- Limited studies
- Pbars to the Recycler (dedicated Pbar stack)
- Accumulator Shot Lattice into operation
- Tevatron orbit smoothing

- All Experimenters Meeting

## Schedule for this Week

- All Experimenters Meeting