BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
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## Why the Present Shielding Plan was Abandoned.

- Radiation levels in the area of the collimators meant that it would require several crews to complete the shielding job.
- The awkwardness of location made it likely that the beam pipe or bellows would be damaged – particularly if we had multiple crews trying to work quickly.
- The existing design did not allow for servicing of the motors, LVDT’s, or vacuum flanges without unacceptable  radiation exposure.
- There was no provision for the eventual removal of the system.
- Conclusion: Remove collimators and do it right.

## Conceptual Design of Collimator

- Integrate collimator and enough shielding for at least twice present Booster flux at 1% high field scraping into a movable  system which can be assembled externally and installed quickly (~ 1 day)
- Design must include a clear plan to scale up to the full shielding (MiniBooNE+NuMI @ 2% scraping).
- After extended operation at full flux:
- There must be a reasonable method for servicing the motors and LVDT’s.
- There must be a reasonable plan to remove the central collimation system (“coffin”) in the event of a catastrophic failure (e.g. vacuum leak).
- There must be a reasonable plan to remove the entire system in the event Santa brings us a new Booster.

## Some Ground Rules

- No “quick and dirty” temporary solutions.  What goes in, stays in.
- No partial designs. *Nothing* goes in until we have a clear plan for the whole system.

## Some Desirable Features

- Use existing mover system, if reasonable.
- Use as much of the steel as reasonable.

## Basic Design Choices

- Movable collimator inside a central coffin, all on rolling cart, around which full shielding could later be placed (Larry’s “11th hour solution”).
- Bed of steel placed down first, central collimation system placed on top ( how ?)
- Collimator fixed inside central shielding steel. Entire assembly is moved.

## Goal

- Settle on broad features of design, and move ahead.
- Peter Kasper will be in charge of the project (I will cover for him until he gets back).
- Summer is soon than you think.
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## DOE Land Use Planning Process Initiative

**Presentation to the ORNL Leadership Team**
**Pat Parr**
**Oak Ridge National Laboratory**
**March 4, 2002**

## DOE Land Use Planning Process Initiative

**DOE is looking for a set of possible land use scenarios for parts of the reservation no longer needed for DOE mission.**
**The land use scenarios will help guide future DOE decisions.**
**Public input is a key component for the scenario development.**
**A working Focus Group has been established.**

## Land Use Focus Group Mission Statement

**The mission of the Oak Ridge Reservation Land Use Focus Group is to provide DOE with recommendations in developing a comprehensive plan for the future use of the land resources of the Oak Ridge Reservation that are currently or potentially surplus to DOE’s mission for the next 20 years.  Special emphasis will be on a planning strategy for the next 5 years.**

## Land Use Planning Focus Group and Facilitation Team

## Land Use Planning Process Accomplishments

**DOE Program needs have been determined.**
**A map of the planning focus area has been prepared.**
**Data on the planning area has been collected.**
**Public input opportunities have begun. **
**Values to consider in planning have been identified.**
**Technical analyses have been initiated.**
**Draft markups show there is much area of agreement.**

## Slide 6

## Data and Technical Analyses

**Much technical data was already available.**
**Additional data has been collected (e.g., City of Oak Ridge zoning, EM Radiological areas, State proposal for Natural Areas, City land needs).**
**Analyses will determine the potential for consequences within and outside of the planning area (including regional).**
**Analyses update will be provided throughout the process to help refine scenarios.**

## Land Use Scenario Development

**Maps with various land use scenarios will be developed based on input from the Focus Group and the public. **
**Land use scenarios will be analyzed to consider site-specific and reservation-wide consequences, including cumulative effects.**
**Scenarios developed through this process will be incorporated into the Oak Ridge Reservation Comprehensive Integrated Plan.**

## Public Input Opportunities 

**Focus Group Meetings (monthly with public comment periods)**
**Open House (December)**
**Community Workshop Meetings (January and throughout the process)**
**Website (under construction)**
**Comments (mail, e-mail, telephone)**

## Slide 10

## Areas of Agreement

**A draft map has been prepared showing agreement on land uses within the planning area.**
**Input from the February Focus Group meeting will further expand areas of agreement.**
**Maps showing various land use scenarios for areas of multiple interest are being prepared for Focus Group review in March.**
**Detailed technical analyses of supported scenarios will begin following March meeting.**
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## Environmental Visualization Laboratory:Summary of CapabilitiesNOAA/NESDIS/STAR

- Dan Pisut
- EVL Manager (IMSG)
- dan.pisut@noaa.gov
- 301.713.0933

## How we operate

- Vis Lab Staff

- NESDIS

- NOAA Misc.

- NOAA Communications

- External Media

- Requestor

- Website

- Recirculation

- Public Affairs

## Our History

-   Trial program started in 1999 by NOAA  Administrator Dr.     Baker: “Get the NOAA logo on NOAA products”
-   Specialized in hurricane imagery
-   Transferred to NESDIS due to lack of sustainability at     NOAA level
-   Transferred to NESDIS/STAR for improved funding/oversight

## What we’re changing

_**The Past**_
- Hurricanes
- Images for the web and TV
- McIDAS, Autometric Edge
- Unilateral development

_**The Present**_
- NOAA environmental data
- Multimedia: web, tv, classrooms, spherical displays, printEdge, Maya, Adobe Suite,IDL, McIDAS
- Partnerships, regular clients,assessments

- Topics

- Output

- Systems

- Ideas

## Expanding capabilities

## The tools we use

## Product use

- FY06 Statistics
-  5 Confirmed primetime news airings
-  10 major television documentary pieces
-  7 magazine/book cover images
-  Innumerable displays on CNN, MSNBC,
-   Fox, etc. websites and newspapers
* **An Inconvenient Truth*, Smithsonian, and   National Geographic as repeat customers

## What is needed

- Improved communications
- Long-term planning
- Needs assessment
- Canned visuals
- More efficient reporting of stories through the offices
- Integrated story development
- Planning for the future
- Web streaming
- What are the visual needs of NOAA?
- Standards for data, display, visualization

## Product examples

## Slide 10
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##         CMU TDT Report     12-13 November 2001

- The CMU TDT Team:
- Jaime Carbonell, Yiming Yang, Ralf Brown, Chun Jin, Jian Zhang
- Language Technologies Institute, CMU

## Time Line for TDT Activities

- (Re)Start: Summer 2001
- Baseline FSD, Link, Det: Sept 2001
- Evaluation (of baseline): Oct 2001
- New Techniques: Nov 2001 – Onwards
- Topic-conditional Novelty
- Situated NE’s (all tasks)
- Source-conditional interpolated training

##     Baseline FSD Method

- (Unconditional) Dissimilarity with Past
- Decision threshold on most-similar story
- (Linear) temporal decay
- Length-filter (for teasers)
- Cosine similarity with standard weights:

## 	     FSD Results

|  | Story weighted | Topic weighted |
| --- | --- | --- |
|     P(miss) |     .6028 |     .6028 |
|     P(F/A) |     .0207 |     .0186 |
|     Cost |     .0141 |     .0143 |
|     Norm Cost |     .7043 |     .7217 |
|    Opt N. Cost |     .6807 |     .6807 |

## Comparative FSD DET Curves

##        FSD Observations

- Cross-site comparable baselines (cost =.7)
- Data/labeling issues (from error analysis)
- “Events-vs-Topics” issue (e.g. Asia crisis)
- A few mislabled stories wreak havoc for FSD
- Eager auto-segmentation a problem (misses)
- Recommendations for TDT labeling
- FSD on true events, or events within topic(s)
- Change auto-segmentation optimality criterion ??
- Recommendations for TDT reserachers
- Keep working hard on FSD – not cracked yet

##   New FSD Directions

- Topic-conditional models
- E.g. “airplane,” “investigation,” “FAA,” “FBI,” “casualties,”   topic, **not** event
- “TWA 800,” “March 12, 1997”  event
- First categorize into topic, then use maximally-discriminative terms within topic
- Rely on situated named entities
- E.g. “Arcan *as victim*,” “Sharon *as peacemaker*”

## A New Approach to First Story Detection for TDT

##  Baseline Story-Link Detection 

- Use same term-weighting and cosine similarity as FSD and detection
- Decision Thresholds conditioned on language and source
- Lower threshold for **cross**-language
- Lower threshold **cross**-ASR/newswire
- Thresholds trained on development set
- 15% improvement over universal threshold

##               Primary Link

##               CMU Link

##               CMU2 Link 

##           CMU Detection

|  | Auto-segmented
boundaries | Pre-established
boundaries |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cdet (basic) |     .0076 |     .0063 |
| Cdet (norm) |     .3786 |     .3138 |

- Incremental Retrospective Clustering
- Group-Average in Forward Deferral Window
- Same cosine similarity and terms weight as FSD
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## National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center

***Millicent C. Manning******Contracting Officer******, NITAAC ***
***January 22, 2004***

***Electronic Commodities Store III***

***Quarterly Meeting***

## ECS-III ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

- ECS-III ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

- Kathy Gleason

- Contract Support

- Monique Woodard

- Contract Specialist

- Millicent Manning

- Sr. Contracting Officer

- Victor Powers

- Director-DITA

- Tech. Support Group

- Immanuel Ravindra

- Contract Support

- Abhijit Revankar

- Contract Support

- Tim Warrington

- IT Manager

## Electronic Commodities Store III

- Vendors List
- 12 Large Companies
- 25 Small Disadvantage Companies
- 29 Small Companies

## Electronic Commodities Store III

- 	      	Customer Service
- Help Desk 1-888-773-6542
- Website: NITAAC.NIH.GOV
- 		~ Request for Quote (RFQ)
- 		~ Hotlinks to 66 vendors websites
- 		~  Point of Contact and telephone numbers for 	    vendors

**Notes:**

Helpdesk 1800 number/
Website
66 vendors tel. Numbers point of contact

## Suggested Check Format

**Mail Check to: NIH, OFM, FSB**
**	****  ****Building 31, Room B1B23**
**	****  ****31 Center Drive, MSC 2054**
**	****  ****Bethesda, MD  20892-2054**

## Suggested Check Stub Format

## Monthly Check ReportThings to Remember:

**Contractors on more than one NITAAC Contract, should submit a separate check for each contract.**
**NITAAC contractors should not make partial payments of the fee.**
**The entire fee for each funding document should be included in the first invoice to the customer.**
**A photocopy of the check must be faxed, mailed, e-mailed or delivered to the Financial Team & the Contracting Officer.****	**
**A check should be sent by the 10****th**** of the month for fees collected from customer agencies.  Federal Law and the contract expressly prohibit the retention of the NIH fee by contractors.**

## How to Submit Request for Modification?

- Refer Section B.2.1 Price Tables/Lots

| CLIN | Model#
And
OEM# | Product Description and Salient Characteristics | Unit and Quantity | ECS III Price | GSA Price | Catalog or Market Price | OEM Warranty |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

## Report for FY 2003

- Total No. of Orders
- 14140
- Total $ Amount
- $333,020,825.10

## Conclusion

- Customer Service
- Web Sites
- Reporting Requirements
-  294’s and 295’s
-  Small Business Certification
- Updated Information – POC, e-mail, Telephone Numbers...etc.
# Presentation: 592729

## Harvard Medical SchoolJon SeidmanDec 3, 2008

***RNA profiles by DSAGE (Deep Serial Analysis of Gene Expression)***

## Transcriptional Profiling Approaches

**Serial Analysis of**
**Gene Expression**
**(SAGE)**

**Microarray **
**Analyses**

**Notes:**
To assess the molecular response of a sarcomere mutation known to cause FHC, genome wide mRNA expression profiles were analyzed in mice heterozygous for the Arg403Gln missense mutation in the  cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC403/+).  Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) was performed on cardiac left ventricles removed from mutant MHC403/+ mice at an early age, prior to the development of hypertrophy. 

## ~2,000,000 tags

**Deduce mRNAs by Tag Sequence**

**How many tags?**
**300,000 RNAs per cell x 7 cells =**
**~2,000,000 tags**

**NB:  **_**Whole RNA method**_
**300,000 RNAs x 3*10****3**** x 2/35 = **
**50,000,000 tags**

## Deep Sequence Analysis of Gene Expression (DSAGE)

- 21 bp tag MmeI

**D****eep**** S****equence**** A****nalysis**** ****of**** G****ene**** E****xpression**** (DSAGE)**
**data processing pipeline**

**Quality control**
- Chastity > 0.6
- Discard bad tiles

**Match to genome**
- Create file of all NLAIII tags
- 50-85% match

**Match to known SAGE tags**
- Use reference SAGE tags (human)
- Only 10-20% tags are in databases

**TAGS**
**~250000**

**GENES**
**~20000**

- NlaIII

## IKKß WT vs IKKß KO

- SHR-18#5

- SHR-18

- SHR-18 v SHR-18#5

|  | Reads (qual> 0.2) | Reads matched to the genome | Tags | genes (sense and antisense) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TCGA-06-0184 | 4776180 | 3761784 | 210996 | 38832 |
| TCGA-06-0208 | 5593318 | 4624439 | 289502 | 42010 |
| TCGA-06-0211 | 5660233 | 4762460 | 255290 | 40153 |
| TCGA-06-0214 | 6291924 | 5333917 | 268937 | 41423 |

**Notes:**
IKK phosphorylates IkB and removes it from NFkB.  NFkB is now activated and induces gene expression in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines and LPS. Complete KO of IKKb is embryonic lethal with uncontrolled liver apoptosis.

## Comparison of DSAGE and Affy expression

- DSAGE

- DSAGE

- DSAGE

- DSAGE

## Examples of Tags found in the tumor TCGA-02-052-01A-01R 

- Glycogen phosphorylase

- Phosphoinositide Binding Protein-3

## Abnormal EGFR transcripts

**Abnormal EGFR transcripts**

**Copy number**

**R****2****=0.57**

- TCGA-06-0148

- TCGA-02-043

- TCGA-02-043

- TCGA-02-037

- TCGA-02-038

- TCGA-02-059

- TCGA-02-003

- TCGA-02-002

## Mitochondrial Gene expression and necrosis

**Mitochondrial Gene expression and necrosis**

**%necrosis**

**Cox2 (tag counts)**

## Collaborators

_**Collaborators**_
**Raju Kucherlapati**
**Oleg Iarchouk**
**Dmitriiy Sonderlin**
**Lynda Chin**
**Jun Yao**
**Sachet Shokul**
**George Church**

_**Seidman Laboratory**_
**Hiroko Wakimoto**
**Daniel Herman**
**Masataka Kwana**
**Josh Gorham**
**Steve DePalma**

## Proneural*

**Classical**

**Mesenchymal*******

**Neural**

**Proneural*******

**Differential expression and tumor type**

## PYGB expression in 3 GBM tumors
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## Reconsolidation, Cocaine and

- Matrix Metalloproteinases

- Barbara A. Sorg
- Washington State University

## Addiction is Learned

## Enzyme                                    MMP      

- Collagenases			MMPs-1, 8, 13, 18
- Gelatinases			MMPs-2, 9
- Stromelysins			MMPs-3, 10, 11
- Membrane-type			MMPs 14-17, 24, 25
- 					(= MT1-6 MMPs)
- Others:
- (Matrilysins				MMP-7, 26
- Metalloelastase			MMP-12

## pre

**NMDA** **R**

- glutamate

- ECM Molecules

- post

## pre

**NMDA** **R**

- Active MMP

- ECM Molecules

- post

## MMP inhibition with FN-439 impairs 

- MMP inhibition with FN-439 impairs
- water maze performance

- Meighan et al. J. Neurochem. (In Press)

## Does MMP inhibition prevent acquisition or

- consolidation of cocaine-induced CPP?

## MMP inhibition attenuates acquisition

- & consolidation of CPP

## Slide 9

## Does MMP inhibition prevent reconsolidation?

## MMP inhibition disrupts reconsolidation of CPP

## Activity

- 0

- 25

- 50

- 75

- 100

- FN-439

- aCSF

- Photocell counts per min
- spent on cocaine-paired side

## Repeated exposure to MMP inhibitor in context only 

- Repeated exposure to MMP inhibitor in *context only*
- does not alter reinstatement of CPP

## Conclusion

## Amygdala

- MMP-3

- GAPDH

- Cocaine Prime

- Saline Prime

- Time After Cocaine-Primed Reinstatement

**MMP-3 mRNA**
**(% Saline)**

**Amygdala**

- 0

- 50

- 100

- 150

- 200

- 250

- 300

- 1 hr

- 3 hr

- *

- 3 hr

- Cocaine-Primed Reinstatement
- Increases MMP-3 mRNA in Amygdala

## Summary of reconsolidation studies 

-  as applied to drug abuse

- _Pharmacological agents can be used to:_

-   Disrupt the conditioned reward value of the CS 		(light) (Pavlovian to instrumental transfer, in 		absence of drug) Lee et al. (2005) Neuron 47:795.

-   Disrupt  the drug-associated contextual memory
- 	(in absence of drug)
- 	also, Miller and Marshall (2005) Neuron 47:873.

-   Disrupt the drug-associated contextual memory
- 	(in presence of drug)

## Slide 17

## Questions/Challenges Ahead

-   Does disruption of reconsolidation reduce *craving* (in 		addition to *expression* of cocaine-seeking 			behavior)?

-   If the memory is partially present after disruption of 	reconsolidation, does relapse to drug-taking 	cause reconsolidation and therefore 		strengthening of the memory?

-   Is the memory impairment from disruption of 			reconsolidation long-lasting, or will “maintenance 	treatments” be required?

-   Does extinction alter (facilitate or impair) reconsolidation
- 	of a drug memory?

## ?

**Collaborators: Drs. Joseph Harding & Jay Wright**

## “Use almost can change the stamp of nature”

-     *Hamlet*

- Can disruption of reconsolidation change the stamp of drugs?

## Slide 21

## Examples of stimuli affecting brain MMPs

- MMP-2	Hippocampus	Seizures, transient ischemia
- 					 traumatic brain injury
- MMP-3	Cortex		transient ischemia,
- 					traumatic brain injury
- MMP-9	Hippocampus	Spatial learning,
- 					Sleep deprivation,
- 					Alzheimer’s disease
- MMP-9	Cortex		Spatial learning, transient
- 					ischemia

- _    __MMP      Brain structure          Up/downregulation     _
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## Status report 1/10/05

- M.Weber, FNAL

## Beam position

- First runsaftershutdown

- Beam move at DZero

- LowBeta move at CDF

- X

- Y

## Beamposition II

- pre shutdown

- first runs after shutdown

- after AD adjusted the beam position

- spec

## Power outage

- One day to recover.Several electronics boards, power supplies and PCs died.
- No major failure

## Wet engine failure

- Lost wet engine Jan 5th evening
- Solenoid and VLPC powered down and warmed slightly(Solenoid to 15K, VLPC to 50K).
- The repairs were done just the timewe ran out of  LHe

## Hard week for LHe

- Lab power outage

- Switching back,
- Power disruption

- Wet engine valve contamination

- (Solenoid off)

- solenoid to op temp

- VLPC to op temp

- rebuilddone

- Lhe dewar levelin liter

- now: ~1000 liter + 12 liter/hour

## Data taking

- Delivered 5.6pb-1
- Recorded 4.5pb-1 (80%)

- Solenoid off and no CFT

- 3915

## Running OK in 3915

- L3 is much better, thanks to 32 offline nodesinstalled in the online L3 farm

- SMT power supply failure(outside the hall)
# Presentation: 540465

## Source Selection Authority (SSA)
Doug Cooke, Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD)

Source Evaluation Board (SEB) Membership
Jeff Dutton, Chair
Jim Gips, Contracting Officer
Tom Carrington
Brian Johnson
Raul Blanco
Randy McDaniel
Steve Nunez 
Sylvia Aragon, Recorder

- Source Selection Authority (SSA)
**Doug Cooke, Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD)**
- Source Evaluation Board (SEB) Membership
**Jeff Dutton, Chair**
**Jim Gips, Contracting Officer**
**Tom Carrington**
**Brian Johnson**
**Raul Blanco**
**Randy McDaniel**
**Steve Nunez **
**Sylvia Aragon, Recorder**

**CSSS SSA **** and SEB Membership**
# Presentation: 116562

## Winter Weather Forecasting,

## Ingredients based forecasting

**Ingredients needed to have precipitation**
_***Forcing for Ascent***_
***Instability ******	******(conditional, potential, upright, and slantwise)***
***Moisture***
***Efficiency***
***5.  Temperature***

- From S. Wetzel (2000)

## Forcing for Ascent

**What ways can we look for forcing**
***Omega from models***
***Q vectors***
***“******Frontogenesis  (F vectors)”***
***Isentropic lift***

## Q - Vectors

- +  Q-Vectors point to ascending areas, indicate ageostrophic wind, frontogenesis /frontolysis
- +  Only one forcing function (div **Q**)
- 	Convergence of Q implies upward motion
- +  Quasi-Geostropic

- From E. Thaler (2002)

## Q - Vectors

**Q - Vectors**

## Frontogenesis  (F – Vectors)

**CAUTION:  F-Vectors are not always related to vertical motion.  **
**Frontogenesis is a positive F.**
**Frontogenesis is directly proportional to the thermal gradient.****  **

- From P. Schumacher (2002)

## 2-D Frontogenesis

**2-D Frontogenesis**

## Isentropic Lift

_**Isentropic surfaces are material surfaces**_**, i.e.,  parcels are thermodynamical bound to the surface, if there is an absence of diabatic processes, **
**Horizontal flow along an isentropic surface contains the adiabatic component of **_**vertical motion**_** often neglected in a Z or P reference system**

- From J. Moore (2002)

## Isentropic Lift

- From  J. Moore (2002)

## Interesting Winter Reference Links

**Garcia Method for Forecasting snow**
***Uses Isentropic lift and mixing ratio to get snowfall amount***
***http://www.crh.noaa.gov/techpapers/memos/TM-116/TM-116.html***
**U. of Wisc. Forecast Ingredients page**
**	****http://speedy.meteor.wisc.edu/~swetzel/winter/ingredients.html**
**La Crosse’s Microphysics web page**
***http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/micrope.html***
# Presentation: 045936

## Electrically Active Organic-Inorganic Hybrid MaterialsZhonghua Peng, University of Missouri-Kansas City, DMR-0134032

- The objective of this project continues to be the development of unprecedented organic-inorganic hybrids based on covalently linked polyoxometalate clusters and organic -conjugates.  A  new soluble zwitterionic hybrid dumbbell where a cluster anion and a transition metal complex cation is bridged by an extended conjugated system has been successful prepared.  Such a hybrid shows both a metal to ligand charge transfer transition associated with the complex at around 500 nm and a ligand to metal charge transfer transition of the cluster anion around 440 nm.   This hybrid shows five semi-reversible reduction processes.

- (a)

*Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. ***2005***, 44, *6902*.*

- A soluble zwitterionic hybrid dumbbell (a); Optical properties of the new hybrid (b); Electrochemical properties of the hybrid (c).

- (b)

- (c)

## Electrically Active Organic-Inorganic Hybrid MaterialsZhonghua Peng, University of Missouri-Kansas City, DMR-0134032

- Under this grant, two graduate students have obtained their Ph. D degrees: Dr. Bubin Xu (04) and Dr. Meng Lu (05). Two graduate students are pursuing their Ph. D degrees: Ms. Jeonghee Kang (4nd year) and Mr. Gavin Wang (3nd year).  Five undergraduate students have been supported: Ms. Calida Cheung, Mr. James Nelson, Ms. Kathryn Dixon, Mr. Brian Stapleton, Mr. Shayne Sprenkle and three high school students have participated in the project: Ms. La’chelle Bailey, Ms. Shelita Terrill, Mr. John Brown.
- Ms. Cheung, Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Brown made significant contributions that they were coauthors of some of our publications.
- Mr. Stapleton is now applying for our Ph. D program.

**Outreach:**
- As a science mentor, the PI participated in Science Pioneer’s Meet the Mentor Day activities, advising 26 students (5-12 grades) on their science projects. Supervised three undergraduate students (Kathyrn Dixon, Brian Stapleton, and Shayne Sprenkle ) doing research in the PI’s laboratory.

- Electrically Active Organic-Inorganic Hybrid MaterialsZhonghua Peng, University of Missouri-Kansas City, DMR-0134032

- The PI, as a science mentor, talks with  local students during the Meet the Mentor Day (Nov. 5, 2005)
# Presentation: 307249

## 170 Broadbands

- Networks Contributed to NEIC in Real-time

- MEDNET
- GEOFON
- KNET
- IMS
- CDSN
- GTSN
- GSN

- SLU
- AEIC
- BKY
- SNL
- Weston
- BILIKIN
- LLNL

- ATWC
- PTWC
- AVO
- NMT
- USBR
- SLU
- Menlo

- CERI
- Butte
- TriNet
- UUSS
- UNR
- LDEO
- MIT

- Contributors via VDL

- Contributors via EW

## NEIC Real-time Data System

- RSN

- Waveserver

- VMS
- Cluster

- NEIC
- Products

- TWC

- ISN

- USNSN
- vsat

- RSN

- IRIS DMC

- Research

- QA/QC

## USNSN Noise Analysis

- Station noise characteristics
- Diurnal/seasonal variations
- Geography/location
- Installation type
- Station maintenance issues
- transients
- ANSS backbone station design
- ANSS backbone siting criteria
- Network detection thresholds
- ANSS , USNSN, GSN
- Microseism source research
- Cultural noise source modeling

- Motivation

- Hailey, ID 08/2001-05/2002

- 2370 individual PSDs, binned in 1/8 octave intervals, are used to construct a Seismic Noise Probability Density Function for HLID BHZ, shown to the right.

## USNSN Noise Monitoring for QA/QC

- Raw waveforms continuously extracted from waveserver
- In 1 hour segments, overlapping by 50%.
- PSD pre-processing:
- 	trend and mean removal
- 	10% cos taper applied
***No screening for ******earthquakes, or transients and ***
***instrumental glitches such as data gaps, clipping, spikes, ***
***mass re-centers or calibration pulses***

- PSD calculated for each 1 hour segment
- With ASL algorithm for direct comparison
- to NLNM.
- PSD is smoothed by averaging powers over
- full octaves in 1/8 octave intervals.
- Center points of averages shown.

## Power Frequency Distribution

- After 1 year, thousands of PSDs computed.
- Histograms generated for each period bin.
- 	powers in 1dB bins.
- Next step:
- Histograms converted to PDFs.
- Normalize each power bin by total
- Number of observations.

## Slide 6

## Artifacts in the Noise Field

- Cars

- Numerous artifacts are observed and identifiable.
- Strong signals are generated from instrumentation and telemetry issues such as calibration pulses, automatic mass re-centering and dropped packets.
- We also observe significant power around 0.1 sec (10Hz)
- due to this stations proximity to a road.

## Seismic Noise PDFs

- Idaho Springs, CO

- Bozeman, MT

- Continental Interior Mine Site

- Continental Interior Borehole Site

## Seismic Noise PDFs

- Eastern US
- Binghamton, NY

- Island Site
- Big Island Hawaii

## USNSN Noise Characteristics

- Seismic noise will
- vary as a function
- of geography
-  and frequency.

- 90th percentile noise
- model mapped for
- each USNSN station.

## 6am local time

## Slide 12

## USNSN Noise Analysis

- Web station book
- Real-time noise PDF
- Noise history
- Diurnal/seasonal variations
- Station/Network SOH
- transients
- IRIS software framework
- Community tool
- Earthworm module
- RSN

- Next Step

- Hailey, ID 08/2001-05/2002
# Presentation: 518858

## MAIN POINTS

- CAP Vision and Mission
- Missions of Civil Air Patrol
- Organization of Civil Air Patrol
- Where the local Unit and Wing  fits

## CAP Vision Statement

- 	Civil Air Patrol, America’s Air Force Auxiliary, building the nation’s finest force of citizen volunteers...performing Missions for America.

## CAP Mission Statement

- 	To serve America by developing our Nation’s _youth_; accomplishing local, state and national _missions_; and _educating our citizens_ to ensure air and space supremacy

## Missions of Civil Air Patrol

- Aerospace Education
- Cadet Programs
- Emergency Services
- Other Missions

## Aerospace Education

- Internal Programs
- External Programs

## Cadet Programs

- Aerospace education
- Leadership training
- Other benefits

## Emergency Services

- Search and Rescue  (SAR)
- Disaster Relief
- Humanitarian Services
- Emergency Communications Network

## Other Missions

- Air Force Support
- Counterdrug

## Organization of Civil Air Patrol

- National and Regional Offices
- Relationship between CAP and USAF
- Region and Wing Liaison Offices

## Civil Air Patrol National Board

- National Commander
- Senior Air Force Advisor
- National Vice Commander
- Chief of Staff
- Legal Officer
- Finance Officer
- Eight Region Commanders
- Fifty-two Wing Commanders

## National Executive Committee

- National Commander
- Senior Air Force Advisor
- National Vice Commander
- Chief of Staff
- Legal Officer
- Finance Officer
- Eight Region Commanders

## HQ CAP Corporate Offices

- Executive Director
- Mission Support
- Corporate Legal Counsel
- Plans & Requirements
- Aerospace Education & Training
- Cadet Programs
- Personnel

## HQ CAP Corporate Offices (cont)

- Financial Management
- Marketing & Public Relations
- Operations
- CAP Bookstore
- CAP Supply Depot

## CAP-USAF Offices

- Commander
- Vice Commander
- Information Management
- Financial Management
- Chaplain Services
- Inspector General
- Staff Judge Advocate

## CAP-USAF Offices (cont)

- Logistics
- Aerospace Education & Cadet Programs
- Public Affairs
- Safety
- Operations

## Slide 16

## CAP Field Organization

- 8 Regions
- 52 Wings
- Groups
- Squadrons
- Flights

## CAP Squadrons

- Composite Squadron
- Cadet Squadron
- Senior Squadron

## CAP Chain of Command

- CAP Headquarters
- Your Region
- Region Commander
- Your Wing
- Wing Commander
- Your Group
- Group Commander
- Your Squadron
- Squadron Commander
- Your Flight

## MAIN POINTS

- CAP Vision and Mission
- Missions of Civil Air Patrol
- Organization of Civil Air Patrol
- Where the local unit and wing fits
# Presentation: 657669

## MRSEC at University of Massachusetts at Amherst Thomas P. Russell DMR-213695Wetting Cylindrical Alumina Nanopores with Polymer Melts

-      **In studies on the wetting of cylindrical nanopores in alumina membranes with polystyrene melts, a wetting transition from the capillary action to the spreading of precursor film was observed with increasing annealing temperature. At relatively low temperatures, polystyrene melts filled the alumina nanopores at a slow rate due to the capillary action, forming nanorods; when the annealing temperature was high enough, a precursor film formed and rapidly covered the inner walls of nanopores, resulting in the formation of very long polystyrene nanotubes. The wetting transition is due to the change of the spreading parameter from negative (partial wetting) to positive (complete wetting) with increasing annealing temperature, and the transition temperature is dependent on polymer molecular weight.**

**A. Merry (Salem High School), J. Olmo(Ludlow High School), M. Zhang, P. Dobriyal, J.-T. Chen, and T. P. Russell**
# Presentation: 158488

## Vertex reconstruction

- Spiros Margetis (Kent State University)
- STAR Collaboration

## Introduction

- STAR needs several approaches
- Heavy Ion / High luminocity p-p
- Small pile-up vs Huge pile-up
- High / Low multiplicity
- Au+Au vs ‘no-touching’

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000

## Heavy Ion Program

- Vertex finder is based on a ‘seed’ finder plus  an analytical LSM method combined with iterative outlier removal in each step (3 steps)
- No simultaneous vertex/track fit
- Quick/Simple but w/out sacrificing accuracy

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000

## Seed finder 

- Tracks are propagated to the beam-line
- A density array is build in z steps (0.5cm)
- The maximum is determined
- The vertex ‘seed’ is put at ( 0, 0, z_max )

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000

## LSM/outlier removal

- Tracks are moved to dca (perigee or 3D) from seed or iteration vertex. This can be recalculated in every step
- (Some) MCS is taken into account
- Track model is linearized for short distances
- A dca cut removes outliers from the fit
- Weighted dca removal of single tracks in peripheral
- A vertex and full error matrix is calculated based on a global minimization of  track’s dca
- Repeat three times

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000

## Primary tracks selection is based on a (relaxed) dca criterion (3cm)
FTPC and/or SVT can determine and store a vertex which is determined by them
Finder is ran on TPC only tracks to define a vertex for FTPC use
Track refit is performed in an independent fitting step

- FTPC and/or SVT can determine and store a vertex which is determined by them
- Finder is ran on TPC only tracks to define a vertex for FTPC use
- Track refit is performed in an independent fitting step

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000

## Performance

- For central Au+Au and TPC only vertex resolutions in x,y,z are about 200 microns
- For TPC+SVT drop to 50 microns
- Relatively stable operation (lately!)

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000

## Plans

- Merge low/high multiplicity finders
- Upgrade outlier removal method
- Take errors into account
- Replace propagation routines with universal routines in a certain framework (Geane, Kalman ...)
- For fun only, we might use the ‘full’ fitting at some point

- STAR/ALICE Joint Software Workshop

- 8 April 2000
# Presentation: 370600

## WIA Section 188 Disability Checklist Training

- Element 5.1 – General Prohibitions

## Element 5.1:  General Prohibitions

- These are the “don’ts” – actions that are considered discriminatory
- Impossible to list every single action that may violate the law
**Important: **** **these actions are unlawful *even if* the person(s) who take them *do not intend* to discriminate

## Examples of General Types of Discriminatory Actions

*Denying* a qualified person with a disability the *opportunity* to *participate in*, or *benefit from*, a program or activity because of his/her disability
*Failing to give* a qualified person with a disability an *equal opportunity* to get the same results or benefits from a program or activity that people without disabilities receive
*Charging* a particular person with a disability any *extra fees* to cover the costs of accommodating the disability

## Specific Examples of Discriminatory Actions

- Accepting any job orders from an employer that will not accept applications from qualified persons with disabilities
- Stereotyping people with disabilities when evaluating their skills, needs, abilities, and interests
- Referring qualified people with disabilities to different programs / activities / employers / types of jobs than other qualified people

## What is steering?

- Based ***solely*** on a person’s disability:
- Referring him or her to a particular job / employer / program / activity
- Directing him or her to a particular profession / career path
***Steering is illegal!***
- Deciding on an ***individualized basis ***is appropriate – and required by law

## Additional Specific Examples of Discriminatory Actions

- Using tests or other assessment processes that measure customers’ impairments, *not* their skills and abilities
- Failing to provide reasonable accommodations or modifications

## Actions That Are NOT Discriminatory

- Recipients are generally *not* required to provide these items or services (although they may choose to do so):
- Personal devices such as wheelchairs
- Individually prescribed devices, such as eyeglasses or hearing aids
- Readers for personal use and study
- Services of a personal nature, such as assistance with eating, toileting, or dressing

## Actions That Are NOT Discriminatory (cont’d)

- If a Federal statute or Executive Order specifies that a program or activity is limited to people in specific categories, recipients are *not* required to admit people with disabilities who do not fit those categories

## Who is entitled to equal opportunity/ positive actions under these laws?

*Only* people who have *actual, current* disabilities
- Others (with records or “regarded as”) are *not entitled* to positive actions such as reasonable accommodations

## Any questions?
# Presentation: 540313

## The U.S. and World Situation: Plums, Dried (Prunes)

**<footer>****USDA**
**Foreign Agricultural Service**
**Horticultural & Tropical Products Division**

## U.S. Dried Plum Market

**               ****Bureau of the Census, DOC**
**Note-Marketing Year is August-July. F=forecast. **

**U.S. Dried Plum Market**

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Marketing Years**

## Top Dried Plum Exporters

**Million**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Global Trade Atlas**

## U.S. Dried Plum Exports:Value and Export Value Share

**Million**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## U.S. Dried Plum Exports:Volume and Export Volume Share

**Thousand Metric Tons**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations**

## Top Importers ofDried Plums

**Million**

**Source:  Global Trade Atlas**

**Calendar Years**

## U.S. Imports of Dried Plums and Share of Domestic Consumption

**Metric Tons**

**Marketing Years**

**Source: Economic Research Service, ****USDA**
**               ****Bureau of the Census, DOC**
**Note-Marketing Year is August-July.**

## U.S. Imports of Dried Plums From Top Suppliers

**Metric Tons**

**Calendar Years**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC **

## U.S. Monthly Imports of Dried Plums

** ****Metric Tons**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**

**U.S. marketing season is August 1-April 30**

## U.S. Value Trade in Dried Plums

**Calendar Years**

**Million Dollars**

**Source:  Bureau of the Census, DOC**
# Presentation: 524100

## Notice: The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and may not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Scientists in EPA have prepared the EPA sections, and those sections have been reviewed in accordance with EPA’s peer and administrative review policies and approved for presentation and publication.  The EPA contributed funding to the construction of this website but is not responsible for it's contents. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.

**Notice: The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and may not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  Scientists in EPA have prepared the EPA sections, and those sections have been reviewed in accordance with EPA’s peer and administrative review policies and approved for presentation and publication.  The EPA contributed funding to the construction of this website but is not responsible for it's contents. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.**

## A Site Prioritization Procedure for Monitoring PlotsCombining Ecological and Social Criteria

- Lorne Bennett
- University of Guelph
- Rob Milne
- Wilfrid Laurier Univeristy

## Credit River Watershed

## Credit River Subwatersheds

- Credit River Subwatersheds

## Objectives

**To develop a site selection procedure that integrates ecological and socio-economic criteria for an urbanizing agricultural landscape**
**To develop a scoring system that allows objective synthesis of diverse information**
**To apply this system to complex landscapes within three Credit Valley subwatersheds**

## Slide 6

## Ecological Land Classification Subwatershed 11

## Survey Transectsfor Silver CreekSouth

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 16

## Site Selection Criteria

**Spatial Controls**
**Permitted access**
**Physical access**
**Historical distribution of monitoring sites**** **
**Socio-Economic Criteria**
**Pool of volunteers**
**Land use pressure**
**Priority projects**

**Biological Criteria**
**Species diversity**
**Species rarity and responsibility**
**Habitat utilization**
**Habitat size and connectivity**

## Slide 18

## Avian BaselineResearch Plots2000-02

## CVC Forest Bird Monitoring Program Plots

## Highest ScoringSites for eachSubwatershed

## Highest ScoringSites for Subwatershed11, 13 and 15

## Summary

**Procedure useful where biophysical and socio-economic environment overlap in urbanizing landscapes**
**Structured assessment assists in synthesis of diverse information**
**Useful in prioritising monitoring sites among similar and different land types**
# Presentation: 028016

## CGSIC States and Local Government Subcommittee

- Ken Bays, Geodesist
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management
- March 10, 2004

## Charter 

- To _provide an open forum_ for civil user information exchange concerning the use of GPS by state and local governments within the U.S. recommending appropriate action on those issues which concern their user needs.
- To _identify the common needs_ of state and local governments for GPS information, respond to such requests and concerns submitted by this user community, and forward issues to the full CGSIC.
- _Identify information requirements_ and _methods to distribute this information_ to state and local government users of GPS,

## Charter 

- To maintain a _list of active points of contact_ in state and local governments which support CGSIC activities.
- To _conduct_ state and local government GPS _information studies_ on civil user needs.
- To effectively support the CGSIC’s role under the Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB).

## 2003 Regional Meetings

- Cheyenne, Wyoming:  August 7-8
- Montpelier, Vermont:  August 12-13

## 2004 Regional Meetings

- Sacramento, California:  July 28-29
- Little Rock, Arkansas:    August 18-19

## Officers: States and Local Government Subcommittee

_**Chair:**_
- Ken Bays U.S. Bureau of Land Managemente-mail: ken_bays@or.blm.gov
_**Co-Chair**_**:**
- Rudy PersaudFederal Highways Administratione-mail: Rudy.Persaud@fhwa.dot.gov
_**Secretary**_**:**
- Marc ChevesAmerican Surveyor Magazinee-mail:  marc.cheves@chevesmedia.com
# Presentation: 732135

## EUREF-IP

**EUREF-IP**
**Streaming GNSS data over the Internet**
**using NTRIP 1.0**

- Denise Dettmering
- Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)Frankfurt, GermanyCGSIC 45th Prague, Czech Republic, March 14-15, 2005

## EUREF-IP Pilot Project

- Ntrip 1.0
- Ntrip data streams
- EUREF-IP Ntrip Broadcaster
- Ntrip DGPS Professional Service Concept

## real-time GNSS infrastructure on the Internet

- selected EPN stations
- disseminate RTCM corrections for differential positioning and navigation purposes
- various other applications, like                                                real-time orbit determination and atmospheric parameter estimation
- Pilot Project: EUREF-IP

## NTRIP 1.0

-  RTCM recommended standard
-  for streaming GNSS data over the Internet
-  transmission via TCP/IP
-  based on HTTP communication
-  HTTP port 80 for all communications (supported by most firewalls)
-  different data formats (RTCM/Raw measurement/...)
-  Internet Radio Technology

**Developed by RTCM SC-104**
- Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services
- Special Committee on Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems

## NTRIP system components

- Server

- Client

- 	no direct communication between provider and user

- 	only one „real“ Internet Server (Caster)

- 	Caster works as data splitter: mass-usage possible

## Ntrip data streams

- 03/Mar/2005:
- 654 real-time data streams, from:		27 NtripCaster
- 																		30 countries

## Ntrip Broadcaster - Europe

## EUREF-IP Ntrip Broadcaster

- 134 data streams
- 16 networks
**EPN:** 14 stations

## EUREF-IP stations

## EUREF-IP station GOPE

## Ntrip DGPS Professional Service Concept

- Reference
- Receiver

- Rover
- Receiver

## Ntrip DGPS Professional Service Concept

- NtripClient

- Mobile IP

- Mobile PI

- NtripTracker

- NtripTracker

- NtripServer

- NtripServer

- DSL

- DSL

- DSL

- DSL

- Mobile IP

- Mobile PI

- Reference
- Receiver

- Reference
- Receiver

- Rover
- Receiver

- Rover
- Receiver

- NtripClient

- Mobile IP

- NtripServer

- NtripServer

- DSL

- Primary
- NtripCaster

- Backup
- NtripMonitor

- Network
- DGPS VRS

- Primary
- NtripMonitor

- NtripTracker

- Mobile IP

- DSL

- DSL

- Reference
- Receiver

- Rover
- Receiver

- System
- Operator

- System
- Operator

- System
- Operator

**Administration**

- Raw Data

- RTCM Corrections

- Internet

## NtripMonitor

## NtripMonitor – Stream Details

## NtripMonitor – Last Failures

## NtripMonitor -NABU

## Summary

- Streaming GNSS data over Internet and cellular phone networks has proofed working
- No significant degradation of performance compared to usage of other transportation media
- Ntrip may disseminate all data streams with bitrates between 50 and 500 bytes/sec (different data formats)
- RTCM committee has accepted Ntrip as standard for  packet based communication
- Multiple services already established, e.g. EUREF-IP
- Various Ntrip clients and Ntrip servers are available

## Information

- http://igs.ifag.de/index_ntrip.htm
- euref-ip@bkg.bund.de
# Presentation: 791897

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend

***Total SARs: 1,937***

**Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trend**
**State of Indiana**
**For the Period August 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs

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

**Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs**
**State of Indiana**
**For the Period August 1, 1996 through December 31, 2007**

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trendby Type of Gaming EstablishmentState of IndianaFor the Period January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2007

## Suspicious Activity Report by Casinos & Card Clubs

**Geographic Reporting Locations**
**State of Indiana**
**For the Period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007**

**Note: Statistics based on Casino Address**

- Michigan City

- French Lick

- Elizabeth

- Florence

- Rising Sun
# Presentation: 493997

## Panel #3Checking for Completeness,inclusion of contributions,identifying high-level requirements

## Issue not yet addressed

- Integration of desktop tools
- Integrate portal with desktop
- We need assembleable/modular system.
- We may rely too much on web portals
- Far more capable application programs.
- We are missing the “human augmentation” concept.
- More emphasis on the HCI component.
- Involve cognitive psychologist.
- Spend the time to make it simple.

## Requirements to enable distirbuted science

- What is our science informed vision for the future?
- Some topics are hard:
-  how do we support distributed software development?
- How do we find solutions that work in more than one discipline?  Can I move easily from one discipline to another?

## Critical Issues

- Data management capabilities.
- How do we capture the fossil record of science?
- For some there is a data wall,
- Can we build a common, multi-agency data management architecture?
- We need a functional definition of a component model for this?
- Solve security problem.
- Robustness.
- We must make grids easy to maintain, fault tolerant and even autonomic.