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# Presentation: 778950

## Civil Air Patrol

**Communications**

## Communications Update

**Communications ****Update**

- Colonel Bryon Brammer
- Major Mike Heil
- Major Gary Belda

## What’s new in Comm?

**CHANGE!**

- Narrowband

- NTIA Compliance

- FAA Requirements

- 2008

- ?!

## The 2008  Challenge!

- DoD Implementation:
-  1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2008

*6*

- NARROWBAND FM

## Equipment Migration Milestones

- Wideband FM

- HF

- Legal Mandate
- Policy necessary to comply with the law
- “Sunset Dates”
- Staged, incremental approach
- Membership Impact!

**Non Wideband & HF Compliant Equipment **
**Can’t be use after 12/31/2001**

## New Equipment

## New Equipment

- New HF Radios
- New Aircraft FM
- New Repeaters
- New Tait T2020 Mobiles
- Aerial Imaging Project

## Motorola Quantar

## Motorola Micom-2 HF-SSB

## Tait T202025 watt.  99 channel alpha numeric display. 

- Tait T202025 watt.  99 channel alpha numeric display.

## N.A.T. NPX-138-60

## PMA-7000-CAP

## NEW - STANDARDIZATION

- POWER CONNECTORS
- Anderson PP-30 / PP-75 Connector Sets
- Cost @ $1.00 / Set
- Can be used coupled or uncoupled
- Available 30A and 75 A
- Local Distributor - PowerWerx.com

## ARCH Communications

- Contact Person:
- Mike Murphy
- 1-800-833-2337
- Civil Air Patrol Master Account

-    Billing
-    Alpha/Numeric Pager
**$7.95 / Month**
- Replacement Insurance
**$1.00 / Month**
- Misc. Taxes

- Internet Paging:
- Pager No.@ Archwireless.net
- CAP RECAP LIST

## Training

## Training

- A-CUT:
- Power Point

-  B-CUT:
- Power Point

-  NAT Radio:
- Power Point

-  PS Engineering:
- Power Point

-  IImorrow GPS:
- Power Point (Still Pending)
- Field Exercises

## Administration

## Administration

- License Renewals:
- @ 400 of 900

- ROA Cards:
- Current

-  Cut Off:
- 1 Oct 2000

-  CAPFLIGHT CALLSIGNS:
- Member Owned
- CAWG Form 100 RLA

## Questions?

- “The President can make you a general, but only communications can make you a commander” 			General Curtis E. LeMay

**Questions?**
**Comments?**

## Civil Air Patrol

**Communications**
# Presentation: 063381

## "There are so many fish being caught it's crazy." (According to a veteran troller for king salmon out of California's Half Moon Bay) - Pacific Fishing September 2002

"Washington's coastal troll season was productive when the biggest run of the biggest kings seen in years just kept coming." - Pacific Fishing March 2003

"There's been a lot of good stuff (chinook salmon) coming out of Oregon off the coast...the Columbia River was a real good run this year - beautiful fish - the best run I've seen out of there in many, many years." - Alaska Fisherman's Journal July 2003

**"Washington's coastal troll season was productive when the biggest run of the biggest kings seen in years just kept coming." - Pacific Fishing March 2003**
**"There's been a lot of good stuff (chinook salmon) coming out of Oregon off the coast...the Columbia River was a real good run this year - beautiful fish - the best run I've seen out of there in many, many years." - Alaska Fisherman's Journal July 2003**

## The Recent State of the North PacificAtmosphere-Ocean Climate System

- Nicholas A. Bond, James E. Overland,
- Mick Spillane, Phyllis J. Stabeno
-  ENSO and the PDO
-  SLP and SST Anomaly Maps
-  Time Series of Principal Components
- Issues

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## North Pacific SST Animations

- http://tmap.pmel.noaa.gov
-  (and follow your nose)

## Issues  

- Linkages between physics, chemistry and biology.
- Nearshore versus central basin forcing and response.
- What about summer?

## Slide 13

## Slide 14
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## Cloud detection and avoidance for the LDCM

***PI:**** Lazaros Oreopoulos (JCET-UMBC)*
***Collaborators: ***
*Tam**_x0001_**ás Várnai (JCET-UMBC)*
*Arlindo daSilva (GMAO-GSFC)*
*Robert F. Cahalan (GLA-GSFC)*

## Cloud detection and avoidance for the LDCM

- Goal: Improve upon all aspects of GMAP that relate to clouds:
*Cloud Fraction climatology*
- Supplement (replace?) ISCCP with MODIS
*Cloud Fraction forecasts*
- Supplement (replace?) NCEP with GMAO
*Cloud Fraction Estimates for acquired LDCM scenes*
- Modify (replace?) ACCA to reflect new spectral configuration

## MODIS (Aqua) -ISCCP CF comparisons (from Pincus et al. 2006)

- Mean CF difference (MODIS-ISCCP)

**CF Climatology: MODIS vs. ISCCP**

## CF forecasts: The impact of CF assimilation 

**Control**

**Cloud Assimilation**

**ISCCP**

**LOW**

**MID-HIGH**

**TOTAL**

**CF forecasts: The impact of CF assimilation**

- from Norris and daSilva (2006)

## CF forecasts: The impact of CF assimilation 

- Cloud assimilation

- control

**CF forecasts: The impact of CF assimilation**

- from Norris and daSilva (2006)

## MODIS-”lite” as a proxy to OLI+TIRS

- MODIS Cloud Mask spectral tests

**MODIS-”lite” as a proxy to OLI+TIRS**

## MODIS simple VIS/NIR reflectance tests

**MODIS simple VIS/NIR reflectance tests**

- full cloud mask

- VIS/NIR cloud mask

- Black: confidently clear

- gray: not cloud
- black: test not applied

## Performance of VIS/NIR reflectance tests

**Performance of VIS/NIR reflectance tests**

- All (131) MODIS-Terra daytime granules for April 20, 2005

## Fraction of total CF detect by 1.38 μm band

**Fraction of total CF detect by 1.38 μm band**

## Slide 10

## How much value does the 1.38 μm band add?

- VIS REF **OR** 1.38 μm detect cloud

- VIS REF **AND** 1.38 μm detect cloud

## ACCA vs. “truth”

- From Irish et al. (2006)

**ACCA vs. “truth”**

- Cloud fraction errors when running only OLI-relevant ACCA tests
- New spectral tests and threshold adjustment to existing spectral tests
- New approaches:
- Automated Threshold Selection Algorithms
- Surface reflectance mosaics
- Simulate impact on acquisition of predefined cloud score errors

*Issues to investigate:*

## Some topics that merit investigation

- Shorter than month cloud climatology? Possible with MODIS and can simulate impact
- Evaluate alternate forecasting model with historical forecasts (simulate impact on scheduler)
- Can forecasts from two (or more!) models be combined?
- Total cloud fraction sensitive to overlap assumptions? (i.e., how to combine cloud fractions in multiple model layers)
- Impact of different MODIS-OLI spatial resolution in cloud mask development
- Something more than cloud scores?
- Cloud shadows
- Cloud fraction over land and ocean
- Metric of clear-cloudy sky distances (i.e., scene “usability index”)
# Presentation: 828617

## DSB Design Review

**May 5, 2004**
**Gerald Przybylski**
**Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory**

## Deficiencies of Rev 0

- Loading irregularities/Fab deficiencies
- Footprint irregularities
- Short across manual reset switch
- 1Hz, 50% duty cycle limitation on 1pps input
- On-board 3.3V regulator undersized
- Mode switching threshold marginality
- Reset pulse switch accessibility

- DSB Rev 1  Review, LBNL

- July 19, 2004

## Mitigations

- Fab issues:- Require Class II fabrication in purchase order
- Change layout for selected, incorrectly sized footprints - R66 & R68 pads to 1210 size- Change Y1 footprint. Three of 5 pads out of position- Suggest change 1uF Capacitors, C18, C23, C24, C27, C36, C38, C44, C45, C50, C58, C61, C63, C65, C67, C68, C72 and C74, to X7R Ceramic (DC020703FIF) 0805 size- Shorten board by 1/16" (?)

- DSB Rev 1  Review, LBNL

- July 19, 2004

## Mitigations (continued)

- Change regulator U2- Mpack part (digi-key LP3964EMP-3.3CT-ND by National Semiconductor)
- S1: Use only pin 1, pin 2, the switch contacts.- Correlate with footprint
- Modify 1pps input from GPS- R63  becomes open circuit,- C40 (from JP3 to U13-2) becomes R119 = 4.7K
- Change LEDs and switch to improve accessChange DS1, DS2, DS3 to a three-in-one verticle LED unit DS1a,b,c, - (suggest digi-key 350-1274-ND)- Correlate with End-panel layout change
- Shorten board by 1/16"

- DSB Rev 1  Review, LBNL

- July 19, 2004

## Enhancements

- Add fuses F1, F2, F3
- Add four protective diodes, D9, D10, D11 and D12.
- Add ground pins on JP2A and JP2B
- Add ground pins on JP3 (RJ45 input connector)
- Add provisional loading instructions to build instructions to loading house
- 0 to 1 transition on a modem control line causes pulse from 1pps fan-out

- DSB Rev 1  Review, LBNL

- July 19, 2004

## Status

- Schematics revised
- New BOM
- New Netlist for PADS
- Unresolved PADS version compatibility

- DSB Rev 1  Review, LBNL

- July 19, 2004

## Wish List,if there ever is a V2.x

- Add PCI interface- CPLD or FPGA- Driver needed- Config memory
- Add Power and Fan monitoring capability- 48V monitoring not provided by off-the-shelf monitors
- Add remote power on/off functionality- requires remote power (CANbus or POE)
- Add remote CPU Reboot functionality

- DSB Rev 1  Review, LBNL

- July 19, 2004
# Presentation: 497907

## MNM Fatal 2005-09

- Powered Haulage
- April 4, 2005 (Nebraska)
- Sand & Gravel Operation
- Laborer (Part time)
- 47 years old
- 8 days mining experience

## Overview

- The victim was operating a skid loader and dumping material into the plant grizzly.  The loader traveled onto the grizzly, overturned, and landed on the ground below.  The victim, who was not wearing the seat belt, was ejected and pinned beneath the skid steer loader.

## Slide 3

## Why Did Accident Occur?

- The accident occurred because management did not have any policies, procedures, or controls in place to ensure that equipment operators received training before operating equipment.  The victim did not maintain control of the skid steer loader he was operating.

## Causal Factors

- No policies, procedures, or controls were in place to ensure that employees received training to safely operate mobile equipment.  The victim did not maintain control of the equipment he was operating.
- No policies, procedures, or controls were in place to ensure that employees wear seat belts while operating mobile equipment.

## Best Practices

- Ensure miners have been Task Trained prior to allowing them to operate mobile equipment.
- Install berms, bumper blocks, or similar impeding devices at dumping locations where there is a hazard of overtravel or overturning.
- Conduct adequate pre-operational examinations on all self-propelled mobile equipment and correct all defects affecting safety.

## Best Practices

- Always wear a seat belt when operating mobile equipment.
- Exercise caution when approaching dumping locations; operate mobile equipment at an appropriate speed, and travel with the bucket lowered until stopped and ready to dump.
# Presentation: 435894

## RMP PLAN IN HAND TRAINING:  CHLORINERegistration and Executive Summary Module

**U.S. EPA**** **
**Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office**

## Registration

- Registration applies to all covered processes at the facility
- Facility-specific data in sections 1.1 through 1.16
- Process-specific data in section 1.17

## What Do I Need to Report?

- Facility and parent company name
- Facility identification numbers
- RMP facility identifier
- EPA identifier
- Dun and Bradstreet number
- Facility location
- Street address
- Latitude and longitude

## What Do I Need to Report? (continued)

- Owner/operator
- Person responsible for program
- Emergency contact
- Other points of contact (optional)
- Name of LEPC (optional)

## What Do I Need to Report? (continued)

- Number of employees
- Coverage by other regulatory programs
- OSHA PSM Standard
- EPCRA section 302
- CAA Title V air permit
- OSHA Voluntary Protection Program
- Last safety inspection
- Use of predictive filing

## What Do I Need to Report? (continued)

- Process-specific information
- Program level
- NAICS code
- Chemical name
- CAS number
- Chemical quantity

## Executive Summary

- Executive summary applies to all covered processes at the facility
- Prepare an executive summary that describes your facility’s risk management program
- Communicate the nature of the risks posed by your facility and explain what you have done to minimize the risk

## What Do I Need to Report?

- Accidental release prevention and emergency response policies
- Description of your facility and the regulated substances handled
- Worst-case release scenario and the alternative release scenario

## What Do I Need to Report?(continued)

- General release prevention program and chemical-specific prevention steps
- Five-year accident history
- Emergency response program
- Planned changes to improve safety
# Presentation: 160766

## Laser Signs at LBNL

**For more information, contact Ken Barat, EHS Division, x2544**

- Indicates use area of mid to high power lasers
- These are all potential eye hazards
- Does not indicate if lasers are on or off

**Vertical beams**

- Indicates a special condition
- Laser alignment or service in progress
- Administrative controls in place
- Sign removed when condition is changed

- Indicates possible beam presence
- Usually found on optical tables.
- May indicate presence of vertical beams on table, beam enclosure, etc.
- An awareness reminder
# Presentation: 772720

## West VirginiaGovernor’s Highway Safety Program

- Strategic Enforcement Project
- 2004

## Strategic Enforcement Project - 2004

- Areas of Concentration
- Enforcement Activities
- Public Information and Education
- Media
- Training

## Goals

- Enforcement
- 1560 Enforcement Events
- Sobriety Checkpoints
- Saturation Patrols
- Directed Patrols
- Underage Enforcement

## Goals

- Public Information and Education
- Activities
- Civic organizations
- Employers
- Schools
- General Public

## Goals

- Media
- Seeking mostly earned media
- Television
- Radio
- Newspapers
- Feature stories and news stories
- Paid media during YDYDYL Crackdown

## Goals

- Training
- 42 Classes
- Operating Sobriety Checkpoints
- Managing Sobriety Checkpoints
- DUI Update
- Officer Testimony
- SFST Update

## Implementation of Plan

- Roundtable Meeting – February 2004
- Governor’s Highway Safety Staff
- Law Enforcement Liaison Office
- Regional Coordinators
- WV State Police
- Research Partners
- Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor
- Other Key Players

## Implementation of Plan

- Announce and discuss Goals
- Set Timelines
- Begin July 1, 2004
- Enhanced focus during Crackdown

## Implementation of Plan

- Additional meetings
- Between February and July 2004
- Regional Coordinators
- WV State Police

## Implementation of Plan

- Kickoff July 4 weekend
- Governor’s Press Conference
- Announcing kickoff
- Governor’s Highway Safety Office
- Law Enforcement Liaison
- Regional Coordinators
- WV State Police
- County and Local Law Enforcement
- Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor

## Activity Focus

- Project Duration
- July 1, 2004 – December 31, 2004
- Areas of concentration
- Enforcement
- PI&E
- Media
- Training

## Labor Day Crackdown

- West Virginia

**Labor Day Crackdown**

## Activity Numbers

- Enforcement Activities
- Goal of 1560 activities

- Sobriety Checkpoints
- 241

- Total enforcement activities
- 2,057

## Results

- Total Contacts – 63,784
- Total Arrests - 704

## Activity Numbers

- Public Information & Education / Media
- Total of
- 384 events

## Activity Numbers

- Training
- Goal of 42 trainings

- 15 Trainings
- 386 Officers

## Costs

- Enforcement - $624,000
- Sources
- WV Commission on Drunk Driving Prevention
- NHTSA Section 410
- NHTSA Section 163

## Costs

- Public Information and Education
- $7,200
- 120,000 Checkpoint Strikeforce rack cards

## Costs

- Media
- $166,000 paid media

## Costs

- Training
- $7,500
- Average of $500 per class

## Costs

- DUI Enforcement Trailers
- 7 Trailers and equipment
- $80,000

## Costs

- Total costs
- $884,700

## Problems Encountered

- Officer burnout
- Maintaining media interest
- Reporting

## WV Governor’s Highway Safety Program

- WV DOT Division of Motor Vehicles
- Highway Safety Office
- 2 Hale Street, Suite 100
- Charleston, WV 25301
- (304) 558-6080
- www.wvdot.com
# Presentation: 925619

**NWS Corporate Board Meeting**
**August 7, 2001**

**Dr. Jack Hayes**
**NWS/Office of Science & Technology**

**Technology Infusion Plan**

*Vision and Goals*

## Technology Infusion Plan

**Overarching Vision:**
**No Unanticipated Weather, Water, Climate, or Related**
**Environmental Events Impact Nation**
**NWS Provides World’s Best Weather, Water, Climate, and Related Environmental Data, Information, and Products Based on Cutting-Edge Science and Technology**

***2025 Vision and Goals ***

## Technology Infusion Plan2025 Vision and Goals, cont.

**NWS (with partners) sustains a seamless database of:**
***Observations***
***Analyses***
***Forecasts***
***Uncertainty Information***
***Outlooks, watches, warnings***
**Interrogation and mining tools allow users to exploit      ****	**** database for any application or purpose**

## Technology Infusion Plan

**Probabilistic forecasts are based on dynamic combinations of model output, statistical tools, decision aides, and human input**
**Warning and forecast lead times, specificity, and accuracy allow:**** **
***mitigating actions well in advance of hazardous events***
***better everyday decision making***
***longer-range preparation***
***maximum exploitation of favorable conditions***

***2025 Vision and Goals, cont.***

## SeamlessOutlooks-Watches-WarningsBased on Probability of Occurrence 

## Technology Infusion Plan

***	******	******	******   ******Example Warning Lead Times*****	**
**	****	****	****   ****	****	****	**_**2000**_**            **_**2025**_
**Tornadoes****	****	****	****12 mins****	**** ****40 mins**
**Thunderstorms****	****	****	****18 mins****	****  ****5 hours**
**Flash Floods****	****	****	****43 mins****	****  ****4 hours**
**Winter Storms****	****          ****	****	****9 hours****	****  ****2 days**
**...****etc.**

***2025 Vision and Goals, con’t***
# Presentation: 791376

## Rehabilitation R&D RCD Award

- Cynthia J. Brown, MD
- Birmingham VAMC
- University of Alabama at Birmingham

## Overview

- Why Rehabilitation R&D ?
- Benefits & Potential Negatives of
-    VA-based Research
- The Application
- Mentor Letter
- Career Plan
- Research Plan

## Why Rehabilitation R&D?

- _Rehabilitation R&D Mission_:
-    “ to discover new knowledge to advance optimal rehabilitative healthcare for veterans with disabilities and to create innovations that improve the health and rehabilitative care of veterans and the nation.”

## VA RR&D Areas of Emphasis

- Mobility
- Orthopedics
- Disabilities as a consequence of aging
- Neurological dysfunction
- Visual and hearing impairment
- Rehabilitation outcomes
- 						 							      (http://www1.va.gov)

## Benefits of VA-based Research

- Broad range of fundable topics
- Significant older veteran population
- Variety of available research settings
- Potential to broaden research into multiple sites within VA system
- Facility-specific or VISN-specific awards available
- Ex. VISN 7 CDA

## Potential Negatives of VA-based Research

- Older VA population mostly male
- Could impact research
- “Prestige”
- NIH Loan Repayment Program
- VA-based Education Debt Reduction Program
- Full or Part-time VA employee
- $40,000 over 5 years
- Recent employee (6 months)

## The Application

## The Mentor

- Draft their letter
- Should echo your career & research plan
- Mentor’s role in your training
- Training activities planned
- Time available for you
- Emphasize their prior successes as mentor
**Use mentor letter for additional details**

## Career Plan

- Emphasize prior training & funding
- Impact of research on veteran healthcare
- Benefit to candidate and the VA
- Be specific about training and new skills
- Where are you going and how will this help you get there?

**Notes:**
This is about you and how you are going to grow into an independent researcher-no time for modesty.
Writing own letters of support a good tool for selling yourself-can also be used to add additional information about the project that there wasn’t room for in the plan.

## Research Plan

- Applications are judged on:
- Feasibility and merit of planned research
- Relevance to VA
- Commitment to VA Career
-  Anticipated long-term contribution to VA

**Notes:**
While applications are judged on scientific merit, the second two statements are key and focus on the candidate and how the research will advance the candidate.
We often get wrapped up in the science and forget that the purpose is to fund us, not our project.

## Research Plan (cont.)

- “The proposed research plan is well described and the next logical step. It is somewhat large in scope, but given the applicant’s background and resources, it is appropriate. The relevance to the VA mission is excellent.”

## Thank You !

- Cynthia J. Brown, MD
- Birmingham VAMC
- GRECC 11-G Room 8225
- 1530 3rd Ave South
- Birmingham, AL 35294-0001
- Phone: (205) 933-8101 ext 7300
- Fax: (205) 558-4749
- cbrown@aging.uab.edu
# Presentation: 769503

## Slide 1

## Slide 2

## Slide 3

## Slide 4

## Slide 5

## WEBCOASTWEB-based Coastal and Ocean Analysis SysTem

- Will provide data and services to COTS/COOA
- One-stop-shopping for coastal ocean observing data
- 1 of 5 seed projects for COOA
- Will be based on EOS-WEBSTER (WEB-based System for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research)
**http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu**
- The EOS-WEBSTER system and the knowledge gained in providing over 7,500 data products to over 15,000 users will provide a direct and cost-effective path for the rapid development of WEBCOAST.

## WEBCOAST Overview

- “The proposed WEBCOAST system will provide timely and relevant data and services that will greatly enhance and connect COOA projects and also address the critical issues in science and management of coastal and ocean resources.”

## ...More Specifically

- Projects:
- CoMPOSe (Coastal Marine Primary Production Observing System)
- REACH (Regional Ecology and Coastal Hydrogrophy)
- FleetLink: Coastal Ocean Observing from Commercial Fishing Vessels
- Projects external to COOA: GoMOOS, USGS, EcoHAB, MODIS, CoastWatch, NDBC
- Data:
- Satellite
- Ship-track
- In-situ
- Model results

## How a User Gets Data

- Search for data in a variety of ways:
- Spatially,Temporally, Collection (project), Keywords, Publication, Freetext
- Select/order the data products.
- Custom products are generated based on the user’s criteria.
- Email is sent to the user when the order is ready.
- User can download the data or request it to be shipped on CD or DVD (free).
- User Support is available via email or a toll-free number.

## Data Management

- Data storage formats:
- Raster: HDF-EOS grid files
- Point: HDF-EOS point files or in database tables
- Others: NETCDF files, HDF-EOS swath files, etc.
- User’s choice of output formats:
- Binary Sequential (BSQ): binary file with a descriptive header
- ASCII: ASCII-grid or spreadsheet format
- Animated GIF (MPEG?)
- Others as required

## Other Features

- Data clipping (cookie cutting)
- User decides how much data to get – not necessarily the whole dataset
- Trims data to a gazetteer geopolygon or a user defined bounding box
- Gazetteer
- Easily expandable list of region types and regions
- Used for searching and/or clipping data

## Other Features (cont.)

- Visualization:
- FleetLink ship-track data overlaid on satellite images, such as ocean color or sea surface temperature
- Weekly bulletins of coastal primary production in collaboration with CoMPOSe
- Metadata: WEBCOAST will adhere to various metadata standards such that it can be integrated into larger systems:
- Clearinghouse
- FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee)
- DODS (Distributed Ocean Data System)

## Technical Details

- Dell PowerEdge 2550, dual 1.4GHz Pentium III, 2GB memory
- ~1.3TB disk space so far (easily expandable)
- Redhat Linux
- Informix (IBM) Dynamic Server (object-relational DB)
- Geodetic datablade
- Apache web server
- Tomcat Java Servlets / JavaServer Pages (JSP)
# Presentation: 089775

##     VIOXXTM Gastrointestinal Outcome Research(VIGOR)Arthritis Advisory Committee Meeting   February 8, 2001

- Lourdes Villalba, M.D.
- DAAODP, CDER, FDA

## VIGOR Study Design

- Large, prospective, randomized controlled study (8,000 patients, median f.u. 9 months)
- Treatment:  Rofecoxib 50 mg q.d.                                     		     Naproxen 500 mg b.i.d.
- Population: RA
- 			     Low dose ASA not allowed
- Endpoints:  Safety (GI and general safety)
-                   Not designed to address efficacy

## VIGOR Study Design  Dose

- Rofecoxib 50 mg/day
- 2X upper dose labeled for chronic use in OA
- Naproxen 500 mg b.i.d.
-  maximum labeled dose for chronic use in OA and RA
- Rofecoxib not currently labeled for use in RA

## VIGOR Study DesignRelevance of the 50 mg Dose  

- “Dose-creep” phenomenon in chronic painful conditions
- Rofecoxib 50 mg dose is approved for the treatment of acute pain
- Post-marketing usage data

## VIOXX 50 mg usage data*

- Number of total drug appearances (all dose strengths): 12,853,000
- 	50 mg strength:   652,000   (5 % of total)
-      ****** ****30 days   140,000 (21 %)**
- * (IMS Health data, NDTI 5/99 to 9/00)

## VIGOR Study DesignPopulation

- RA
- 70% women
- median age 58 years
-  56% corticosteroid use
- Important exclusions:  low dose ASA use
-    Patients deemed by the investigator to require prophylactic ASA or anticoagulation at the time of screening were excluded

## VIGOR Study Design  Endpoints - Safety

- Organ-specific endpoints
-  Powered to detect differences in GI specific endpoints
- General safety endpoints
- Routine safety
- Pre-specified NSAID-related

## VIGOR Study Design  Endpoints - Efficacy

- Not designed as an efficacy study
- Non-flare design
- Change in DMARD therapy, systemic and intra-articular corticosteroids allowed; rescue analgesia at the investigator’s discretion
- Some efficacy endpoints included.                No measurement of swollen joints, tender joints, ESR/CRP

## VIGOR Study Issues

- Generalizability of GI findings
-  to patients on ASA
-  to NSAIDs other than naproxen
- Cardiovascular findings
-  (Statistical issues)
- Organ specific safety vs. overall safety

## FDA speakers

- GI Safety:  Lawrence Goldkind, M.D.
- Cardiovascular Safety:  Shari Targum, M.D.
- Statistical Issues:  Qian Li, Ph.D.
- Overall Safety:  Lourdes Villalba, M.D.
# Presentation: 359825

## University of Pennsylvania MRSEC Michael L. Klein DMR-0520020 IRG 2:  Nano and Microstructure Building Blocks - Shu Yang

**Nano- and microstructure building blocks with tailored size, shape and chemical functionality will play important roles in construction of novel materials and devices.  Despite enormous advances in the synthesis of a wide range of building blocks of various shapes and sizes, control over their uniformity in a large area and assembly into precise 2D and 3D structures remains the primary obstacle to the bottom-up approach. One emerging approach is to combine bottom-up and top-down strategies, allowing for directed self-assembly of aniostropically functionalized building blocks into specific targeted structures. We have investigated the mass-production of  rod-shaped particles with precise control of size, shape and aspect ratios using multi-beam interference lithography.  The suspension of such non-spherical particles is found very stable.  By manipulating the fabrication process, we can selectively coat a thin layer of Au either on one end or two ends of the rods, which can be subsequently functionalized with DNA molecules or polymer brushes.  Thus, the interactions between the patchy particles, for example, induced by DNA hybridization, will be selective and directional. **
# Presentation: 278840

## Section 4

_***Section 4***_
***Fault Tree Analysis***

*** ******. . . Robert Moorehead***
*Independent Consultant*

## Content

***Content***

***Ground Rules***
***Fault Tree Illustrations***
***Observations***

## Fault Tree Analysis Ground Rules

***Analysis conducted in failure space***
***Compliments FMEA’s******	***
***Connectors, wiring, and fiber optics considered structure***
***All active system hardware elements examined - fault trees developed for elements critical to Minimal Mission***
***Software not examined******	******  ***

***Fault Tree Analysis Ground Rules***

## Fault Tree Illustrations

## Minimal Mission Failure

***Minimal Mission Failure***

## Power Generation Failure

***Power Generation Failure***

## Power Distribution Failure

***Power Distribution Failure***

## PSE RSN Failure

***PSE RSN Failure***

## Housekeeping RSN Failure

***Housekeeping RSN Failure***

## Command & Data Function Failure

***Command & Data Function Failure***

## Observations

***FMEA’s and Fault Tree Analysis are in agreement; critical hardware for Minimal Mission has been identified***
***There are no critical hardware elements in the Ground System Segment because of Spacecraft’s Safe Hold Mode***
***Safe Hold Mode is principally implemented in software thus was not examined using the FMEA or Fault Tree Analysis***
***The identified Launch Vehicle Segment Mission Unique Category 1 hardware failures are not considered credible; however, experience suggests that an incorrect launch software load is a threat to mission success***

***Observations***
# Presentation: 722103

## GPRA:  New Climate Observations Introduced

-      FY2005 Target: 1014 new ocean observing platforms deployed and reporting;
-      May 2005:  723 total ocean observing platforms (relative to total FY04 deployments); 419 ARGO floats

- May. 05

**B**

## GPRA:  Reduce the Error in Global Measurements of Sea Surface Temperature

-      FY05 target: 0.5 °C; Long-term Target: Error of 0.2 °C by 2008
-      Long-term measure:  annual targets, progress reported quarterly

- More rapid expansion of the in situ network over the next several years will minimize the satellite bias error, enabling more accurate global sea surface temperature from a combination of satellite and in situ measurements.

- Note: this measure is proposed as a new GPRA for FY2006; it is already reported on quarterly

- Satellite bias error: the systematic difference between satellite-derived vs. in situ measurements of sea surface temperature

- Mar. 05

**B**
# Presentation: 359438

## Report to Congress

**Fifth Annual CMRS Competition Report**
**August 3, 2000**

## U.S. Mobile Revenues as a Percentage of Total Telecommunications Revenues

- Source: Federal Communications Commission

## Mobile Telephone Subscribers: 1996 to 1999

## Competition in the Mobile Telephone Industry

## U.S. Mobile Data Market - Total Revenues (millions)

## Mobile Data Forecasts

- 21.3 million mobile data users in the U.S. by the end of 2001 - Yankee Group
- 21 million smart phones worldwide by end of 2000, 48 million by 2002 and 204 million by 2005 - Ovum
- By 2003, more than one-half of world’s estimated one billion mobile phone subscribers will be connected to the Internet - Phone.com

## Paging Subscribers: 1996 to 1999
# Presentation: 710241

## Layer 0 prototype

- Kazu Hanagaki/Fermilab

## Things to do

- Readout by SVX4 with analog cable for the first time.
- Dependence on the thickness of spacer between the two cables.
- Dependence on the distance from the cable to shielding material.
- Frequency dependence on external RF source.
- Prototyping of L0 module.  hybrid???                              Proof of effectiveness of proposed grounding (Marvin, Breese,...) and shielding scheme.

-  nothing more = baseline.
-  external RF source.
-  floating metal (there should not be, but  if it exists...)

## Noise dependence on the spacer thickness

| 200m thick spacer | C (pF/cm) |
| --- | --- |
| Single cable | 0.339 |
| er =1.0 | 0.342 |
| er = 2.0 | 0.466 |
| er = 3.0 | 0.585 |

- Roy Prabir’s measurement.

- Spacer is Kapton (er = 3.5)

-  Confirms Russell’s result.

-  wrong calculation???
-  gain(#electrons/ADC count) varies on the capacitive load???  capacitance measurement & recalculation.

## Prototyping of module

- Sensor --- 6(x2?)
- Cable --- 2x6(x2?)
- Hybrid???
- CF fixture
- Area of the aluminum piece contacting with the CF.
# Presentation: 423432

**Debra Ness**
**President**

## Reasons for Consumer Demand

-  Patient-centered healthcare requires:
- Information to make informed decisions
- Information to ask informed questions
-  Consumer-directed health plans require more consumer information

## Ongoing Public Reporting Activities

-  Niagara Coalition
-  Leapfrog Group
-  Bridges to Excellence
-  Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
-  Wisconsin Health Care Collaborative
-  Care Focused Purchasing
-  Human Resource Policy Associates
- State Initiatives in CA (HealthScope), TX, IL, MD, FL, etc.

## Challenges Facing Consumers:

- Many dimensions of quality
- Many different ways the information is displayed
- Many different ways that similar information is measured

## Helping Consumers Compare Quality

- Standardized, validated measures
- Standardized, consumer friendly data displays
- Comprehensive measurement of all dimensions of care

## Using Public Reporting to Improve Quality

- Report must be widely disseminated
- Data display must be clear
- Consumers play a key role

## Three Drivers of Healthcare System Improvement

- Purchasers/Payers through contracts they negotiate
- Consumers through information guiding informed choice
- Providers wanting to improve quality
# Presentation: 502990

## Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope  Hani Elsayed-Ali, Old Dominion University, DMR  0420304

- STM is being used by graduate students and postdoctoral associates to perform their research and gain training in thin film growth, surface modification, surface and nanocrystal characterization, and UHV technology. An objective is to highlight to the students the importance of relating atomic scale materials characteristics to macroscopic properties and the importance of surface properties in microelectronic fabrication and nanotechnology.

**Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope****  ****Hani Elsayed-Ali, Old Dominion University, DMR  0420304**

## Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope

**Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope**
**Hani Elsayed-Ali, Old Dominion University, DMR  0420304**

- Crystalline QD formation on Si(100)-2x1
- at ~260 °C *with laser excitation*

***	***
- Ge on Si(100)-2x1 after deposition with different number of laser pulses. (a) Si(100)-2x1,  (b) after 70 pulses, and  (c) after 220 pulses. Growth starts by the formation of a very low density of asymmetric huts with high aspect ratios. Further deposition results in a higher density of clusters characterized by their narrow size and height distributions

**STM is used to study effect of electronic excitation of substrate on Ge/Si quantum dot growth**

**STM study of early stages of Ge QD hut growth by pulsed laser deposition**

- Non-crystalline QD formation on Si(100)-2x1
- at ~260 °C *without laser excitation*
# Presentation: 444583

## CFT Occupancy dependence on Beam Luminosity

- David Lam
- Oct 2003

## CFT Occupancy vs. Luminosity

- Choose 3 classes of events for the study:
- Zero-biased triggered
- Minimum-biased triggered
- Jet triggered – JT_45TT specifically
- Events with delivered luminosity range from 6E30 to ~40E30 (cm-2 s-1)
- Two set of events:
- Set 1: 10 events between Feb and Mar 2003
- Set 2: 11 events in August (just before the shutdown)

## Method

- Use a modified version of cft_offline_mon
- Use D0TriggerFilter to pick out the desired events
- Since most of the reconstructed events are still generated using p13, we used raw data instead to get rid of the 20 ADC cut
- Plot average occupancy vs. the middle point of the delivered luminosity range.

## Occupancy distribution

## Results

- Fitting results show occupancies increased with luminosity as expected
- Top line: Jet triggered
- Middle line: Min-biased triggered
- Bottom line: Zero-biased triggered
- MC min-biased and zero-biased events are also included.
- When extrapolated, at 200E30, jet triggered occupancy is approximately: 0.233 (CFTX 1)

## Events between Feb. and Mar.

## Events in Aug (before shutdown)

## Result

- Zero-biased events triggered on beam crossing:
- Contain mostly electronic background “noise”
- Occupancy variation due to p/anti-p halo
- Min-based events triggered on collision:
- Signal in luminosity monitors above threshold on both ends
- Number of collision increases with luminosity – Poisson distribution
- Supposedly, occupancies increase faster with luminosity compared to zero-biased event.
- But, slopes for the fits of min-biased events are lower than zero-biased and jet triggered – so dig deeper....

## Trigger luminosity

- Look into the recorded luminosity for each event
- Recorded luminosity are stored by luminosity block (lbn), which usually corresponds to time interval of 1 minute.
- Plot occupancy vs. record luminosity for each trigger

## Zero-biased Events (Set 1)

## Zero-biased Events (Set 2)

## Result (cont.)

- Both set of zero-biased events have positive dependencies on luminosity
- However, for set 1 min-biased events, some funny looking structure in the plot
- Set 2 min-biased events have occupancies DECREASE with increasing luminosity

## Min-biased Events (Set 1)

## Min-biased Events (Set 2)

## Jet triggered Events (Set 1)

## Jet triggered Events (Set 2)

## Jet-triggered events recorded luminosity distribution

- Set 1

- Set 2

## Jet triggered result

- Set 1 jet triggered occupancies increase with increasing luminosity in range 0 – 900 ub-1
- But set 2 occupancies DECREASE with increasing luminosity in range 0 – 150 ub-1
- Why the range of recorded luminosity differed?  Given that the delivered luminosity range are the same in both sets.
- Comments?  Suggestions?
# Presentation: 794162

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- “ The Labor Force “

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- National Tribal Telecommunications Association
- Gila River Telecommunications
- Fort Mojave Telecommunications
- San Carlos Apache Telecommunications
- C.R.S.T. Telephone Authority
- SaddleBack Communications
- Tohonto O’odom Utility Authority
- Unicomm

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- These companies employ a diversified range of qualified Indian technology trained staff members.
- Administration & Management Personnel
- Outside Plant Technicians
- Central Office Technicians
- Office Personnel

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- Native Americans have a proven track record in owning businesses and as employees.
- South Dakota had 955 Indian-owned businesses or 1.5% of total businesses according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Total sales & receipts for these businesses totaled $222 million.

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- Corporate America should be aware of tax code provisions that create substantial incentives to businesses wishing to locate on Indian reservations.

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-66) provides specific assistance to enterprises investing in and conducting business on Indian reservations.
- Accelerated depreciation for capital investments on Indian reservations.
- Tax credit for Indian employees wages and health benefits.

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- The Small Business Administration has the     8 ( A ) program that allows government agencies to secure direct procurements from qualified Alaska Native Corporations, Native American Firms, and Native Hawaiian-owned Businesses.  These contracts can be sole-sourced negotiated purchases.

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- SBA 8 ( A ) Highlights
- Tribally-owned certified 8 ( A ) business can negotiate directly with government, no competition necessary to secure contracts.
- Contracts have unlimited ceiling with tribally-owned certified companies.

## ITTI - Industry Conference

- HUBZone Empower Contracting Program
- Every federally recognized Indian reservation is a HUBZone.
- Administered by the Small Business Administration
- Program’s goal of allocating up to $6 billion dollars of government purchases by FY 2003 through HUBZone Program.
- www.sba.gov/hubzone

## ITTI – Industry Conference

- Lakota Technology Inc.

## ITTI – Industry Conference

- LTI Facility Construction
- May 2001 to October 2001
# Presentation: 154971

## 3-D MHD Modeling of Collapsar Explosions

**Hui  Li  **
- Collaborators:
- G. Rockefeller, C. Fryer, A. Heger, S. Li

-  **Preliminary 3D modeling of magnetic explosion**
** ****Implications on nucleosynthesis**
** ****Future work**

- Supported by an LANL/LDRD project (PI: A. Heger)

## Parameters

- 106

- 106-8

- 108

- 1012-14

- >1014        cm

- Black hole,
- Neutron Star?

- Disk around
- black hole

- Stellar
-  envelope

- surface

- Circumstellar
- environment
- / ISM

- Collapsar     Rockefeller & Fryer

## Viewing it as a system with magnetic fields..... 

**~ 10****10**** cm**

- ~10kpc

**BH-Disk**

**Magnetic explosion**

**“****Hydro” explosion**

## Key Ingredients

- disk

- 

**magnetic injection .....**

**Key Ingredients**

-  Injection:  xGcm2),energy & helicity injection
- 		 fast (vinj > vA): 1/ ~ ms, A ~ 0.1 sec
-  Total current: ~ 1020 Amperes
-  Interaction with surroundings: collapsing envelop
-    Self-Organization: flux conversion, dissipation, etc.

- BH

##  Initial Conditions

-  Spherical hydrostatic equilibrium
-   = 1.1,   = 0.25,
-  0=9.3x109 gm cm-3, 0= 2x1010 K, rc=107 cm
-  Injection (magnetic) : 2x1050 ergs/s, tinj ~ 5 sec

- 60 M_sun Collapsar
- Density

- 60 M_sun Collapsar
- Temperature

## Key Parameter

- xGcm2)
-  I ~ 2x1020 Amperes
-  r ~ 106 cm (central disk)

- SM Black Hole:

- Ipol

- r

- Collapsar:

****** ****~ 0.05**

****** ****~ 0.1**

- Gcm2)
-  I ~ 1019 Amperes
-  r ~ 1015 cm (central disk)

## Magnetic Explosion?

**Adding**** ~ 2x10****50**** ergs**** of magnetic “free” energy **
**over **** 1 sec**** **
**in a ****10****7**** cm**** region**
**an initially ****hydrostatic**** star **
**   ****This free energy then drives an ****explosion.**** **
**  ****What is the explosion dynamics?**

- Density Evolution

## “Magnetic Tower”

- 1

- 2

- 3

- 4

- 5

- 6

- 7

- 8

- 9

- 5

- 6

- 7

- 8

- 9

- 4

- 3

- 2

- 1

- 1

- 2

- 3

- 4

- 5

- 6

- 7

- 8

- 9

- Inside bubble

- Outside bubble

- Temperature Evolution (K)

- Entropy Evolution

- 100

- kB/nuclei

- 10

- 1

- Plot generated by A. Hungerford and C. Fryer

**Cyan:**   60 M_sun, collapsar, MHD Explosion
**Red:**     60 M_sun, collapsar, hydro Explosion
**Green:** 15 M_sun, rotating SN
**Black:**  23 M_sun, binary
**Blue:**    weak explosion

## Summary

- Magnetic energy injection drives an outgoing shock, leading to an explosion.
- Magnetic bubbles are magnetically dominated (low ), but are confined by the surrounding pressure.
- Magnetic bubbles generally have lower density, pressure and entropy compared to the surroundings, except along the central axis where entropy can become very high.
- Tracer particle results show a variety of evolution histories, large difference between fluids inside and outside of the magnetic bubbles.
- Need a lot more work to understand the implications on nucleosynthesis.
# Presentation: 754542

## Started in 2001
90 Postdoctoral Fellows hired through Fiscal Year 2007
Anticipate addition of 16 Fellows during Fiscal Year 2008
Wide range of research topics spanning USGS science
2-year Federal appointments
Competitive compensation package

Web site: http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc

Contacts: 
Dr. Rama K. Kotra 	Ms. Sarah Griffin-Bemis
rkotra@usgs.gov	sgriffin@usgs.gov
703-648-6271		703-648-7395

**90 Postdoctoral Fellows hired through Fiscal Year 2007**
**Anticipate addition of 16 Fellows during Fiscal Year 2008**
**Wide range of research topics spanning USGS science**
**2-year Federal appointments**
**Competitive compensation package**
**Web site: **_[http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc](http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc)_
_**Contacts**_**: **
**Dr. Rama K. Kotra ****	****Ms. Sarah Griffin-Bemis**
- _[rkotra@usgs.gov](mailto:rkotra@usgs.gov)_**	**_[sgriffin@usgs.gov](mailto:sgriffin@usgs.gov)_
**703-648-6271****	****	****703-648-7395**

**USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral ****Research Fellowship Program**

- 9/07
# Presentation: 858102

## FINDING A “NEEDLE” IN A            CONTAINER STACK..!!

## THE CUSTOMER’S PROBLEM:

- 	Locating “lost” export containers within the storage yard not correctly catalogued by the terminal’s database...!!
-    Previously, as ships were being loaded valuable time and considerable expense was encountered looking for containers, resulting in delayed departure.
- Solution Provided By
- Sanderson Logistics & GPSat Systems Aust.

## TYPICAL CONTAINER YARD:

## THE REQUIREMENTS:

- Fix positioning equipment to moving machinery.
- Locate the centre of each container to +/- 1.5m 99.5% probable.
- Confirm lifting and placement actions.

## VELMET STRADDLE CARRIER:

## THE GPS RTK SOLUTION:

## SYSTEM SCHEMATIC:

## STRADDLE EQUIPMENT:

- NovAtel RT20 Receiver
- Vehicle Processor Unit
- LXE Radio Modem
- Power Supply & Conditioning
- VELMET Interface

## STRADDLE SYSTEM:

## CONCLUSION:

- System now in service at Patrick’s East Swanson & Port Botany Terminals.
- Every container location now accurately recorded.
- Desired accuracy of +/- 1.5m  99.5% probable exceeded.
# Presentation: 177353

## Radial polarization from RHIC CNI(Precise measurement for small angle)

- Osamu Jinnouchi (RBRC)
- CNI group
- RSC 2004.12.6

## Strip by strip polarimeters

-  the data used for this study from next page is,
-  66 CNI runs in BLUE accumulated
-  event data taken with Jet

- By taking up-down asymmetry, each strip can be considered as individual polarimeter
** should behave as phi asymmetry
- Variations more than statistical uncertainties are regarded as systematic of the measurement

- Number of carbons in i-th strip for
- Up(Down) spin

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004

## Strip by strip variations in asymmetry

- Deviations from Fit (projection)

- Fit with sine function (phase fixed)

- Si-1

- Si-2

- Si-3

- Si-4

- Si-5

- Si-6

- Deviations from Fit (projection)

- Fit with sine function (2 parameters)

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004

## Asymmetry as a function of strip#

- 1-parameter
- The phase shift not allowed
- Structure 1-2-3 4-5-6 seen

- 2-parameters
- Phase = 0.081 assumed
- Uniform distribution

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004

## Numerical comparison

****2/ndf = 104/69

****2/ndf = 70/68

- 2 parameter fit

- 1 parameter fit

- The angle -0.081 +/- 0.014 corresponds to
- -4.6 +/- 0.8 degree

- This could be
-  real polarization angle
-  geometrical dislocation of detectors   (5 degree is =1.2cm at Si)
-  some other reason ...

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004

## Dead layer dependence, cut dependence

-  Si dead layer correction change the AN for each strip
-  the plots so far assumed 59g/cm2 for all strips
-  use individual values for each strip
-                             2/ndf = 67/68   ** = -0.068 +/- 0.014
-  use ±10g/cm2 cases  49 g/cm2 2/ndf = 68/68   ** = -0.066 +/- 0.015
-                                                           69 g/cm2 2/ndf = 67/68   ** = -0.081 +/- 0.013
-  Different event cut condition
-    use 2-sigma (instead of standard 3-sigma) carbon invariant mass cut
-          2/ndf = 71/68   ** = -0.078 +/- 0.014
-  The measured angle value is quite stable against various changes

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004

## Fill dependence

- Rotator
- ON

- Rotator
- OFF

- Rotator
- ON

- Fit of blue points

- Average of “On”(10fills)

- Average of “Off” (5fills)

- - Fill by fill fluctuations look to be just statistical
- - Spin rotator dependence is not so obvious

- To get enough statistics,
- Typical fill
-     8 CNI RUNS  40mrad
-                           **The 1****st**** blue point**
- High statistics
-     32 CNI RUNS  20mrad
-                             **red point**

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004

## Summary and outlook

-  RHIC pC CNI measurement
-  negligible systematic error on strip by strip fluctuation
-  good sensitivity for radial component
-  - 4.6 ± 0.8 degree tilting of polarization vector
-  Outlook for calibration by Jet data
-  will obtain final consensus/agreement on Pbeam among Jet collaboration fairly soon
-  systematic error check with Yellow ring data
-  Update of Run-04, Run-03 with Jet-data take place in January (?)

- RSC meeting

- 12-6-2004