BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 902710

## Green Power:

**Green Power:**
**What are Consumers Getting?**
- Fourth National Green Power Marketing Conference
- May 10-11, 1999
- Philadelphia, PA

- Sheryl Carter
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1825
- San Francisco, CA  94105
- (415) 777-0220
- Scarter@nrdc.org

## Integrated ApproachtoIncreased Renewables

- Public Policy
- Renewable Portfolio Standard
- Public Benefits Charge
- Customer Choice
- Competitive Market
- Other Choice Programs

## How Do We Know/Influence What Customers Are Getting?

- Disclosure
- Tracking
- Independent Information Sources/Standards
- Certification/verification (Green-e)
- Individual organization efforts (member education)
- Power Scorecard

## Benefits of Market ApproachWhat Consumers Can/Should Get

- Education
- Opportunity for personal action
- Potential to move renewables above and beyond public policy minimums

## Power Scorecard Objective

- To influence the development of cleaner electricity products by:
- evaluating options to help consumers choose the most environmentally preferred products; and
- sending clear signals to electricity marketers and developers about which resources should be considered environmentally preferred.

- 

## Power Scorecard Criteria

- Air Quality
- Global climate change
- Acid rain and smog pollutants
- Toxic mercury emissions
- Water Quality
- Consumption of water resources
- Pollution of water bodies
- Impacts on fish populations and other aquatic ecosystems
- Land Quality
- Impacts on land
- Solid waste disposal

- 

## Power ScorecardScoring

- 

## Power ScorecardNOx Example

- 

## Power ScorecardResults Presentation

- 
# Presentation: 781042

## Air-Ground Service

- 800 MHz Commercial Service Band Plan

- * Notes:  If option 1 is implemented, licenses A and B would authorize transmission of radio waves that are vertically and horizontally polarized, respectively, and would initially share 1.5 MHz at 849.0-850.5 MHz paired with 1.5 MHz at 894.0-895.5 MHz. Once Verizon Airfone’s incumbent system ceases operations in the upper 0.5 MHz of each band, licensee B would shift its operations to 1.5 MHz at 849.5-851.0 MHz paired with 1.5 MHz at 894.5-896.0 MHz. The parties may agree to a different implementation scheme, subject to the service rules.
# Presentation: 096030

## Linac Cryostat Design Priorities

*Ken Shepard*
*ANL Physics Division*
*for Proton Driver Discussion/Planning*
*May 3, 2005 at FNAL*

## ATLAS PII Cryomodule –common cryogenic & cavity vacuum

***ATLAS PII Cryomodule –******common cryogenic & cavity vacuum***

## High-pressure water rinsing gives a dramatic improvement in super-conducting cavity performance.

**Argonne, Spring 2001**

- Q

**Los Alamos, Spring 2001**

***High-pressure water rinsing gives a dramatic improvement in super-conducting cavity performance.***

## Linac Cryostat Design Priorities / Strategies

**Enable clean assembly of cavity string**
**Maintain clean condition of cavity string**
- Separate cryogenic and cavity vacuum systems
- Provide for simple and clean integration into linac
**Enable and maintain cavity alignment**
**Maximize reliability**
**Minimize costs**
- Minimize clean room work
- Cryogenic performance
- Integrate design with linac tunnel

## Performance Projection: Experience BaseSNS Production

***Performance Projection: Experience Base******SNS Production***

## RIA Cryomodule Assembly 

***RIA Cryomodule Assembly ***

## Couplers & Tuners for the RIA Cryostat

**10 kW variable coupler from room ambient to 4 K**

**Pneumatic slow-tuner yoke for QWR and coaxial HW cavities**

## RIA Cryomodule Assembly

**Cavities are sealed up in a clean environment**

**Clean-room assembly to this point**

## RIA Cryomodule Assembly

## RIA Cryomodule Assembly

## Test Cryostat Design Priorities & Strategies

**Enable tests of a variety of types of cavities, couplers, and frequencies.**
- Test procedure and environment should be compatible with best-case, most stringent linac operating procedures and environment  (Low-particulate procedures require separate cavity and cryogenic vacuum systems)
- The test cryostat system should be as flexible as possible
- The test cryostat should provide rapid turn-around
- The test cryostat should facilitate a variety of diagnostic techniques
**Provide for well-controlled operation over the temperature range 1.8 – 4.5 K.**
**Permit cryogenic load measurements with 0.1 watt or better resolution**
**Magnetic shielding to less than 10 mG at niobium cavity surfaces**
**Tolerate heat loads of as much as several hundred watts over appreciable time periods (minutes to hours).**

## RIA Cavities being developed at ANL

**345 MHz, ******** = 0.4, double-spoke cavity (built & tested)**

**170 MHz, ******** = 0.26, coaxial 1⁄2 wave cavity (complete & tested)**

**115 MHz, ******** = 0.15, steering- corrected cavity (complete)**

**345 MHz, ******** = 0.5 and 0.62, triple-spoke cavities (complete in July 2004))**

## Design concept for general-purpose test cryostat

**Needed to enable true clean-assembly, improve turnaround, and enable 2 k testing**
# Presentation: 741974

## Advanced Wideband Electromagnetic SensorsGeophex, Ltd., Raleigh, NC

- Innovation
-    Geophex has developed a prototype airborne sensor that can measure variations
-      in the electrical conductivity in the Earth.

- Accomplishments
-    The technology developed under this project produced the GEM-2, an airborne
-     electromagnetic sensor to find mineral deposits.
-   Geophex developed a handheld version, known as the GEM-3, which has been
-    successfully used for investigating soil and groundwater contamination.
-    The sensor is a strong candidate for inclusion in the future planetary rover missions by
-     NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to detect ice or water, essential for supporting
-     manned missions in the future.

- Commercialization
- Geophex received US Patent # 5,557,206, entitled “Apparatus and Method for Detecting a Weak Induced Magnetic Field by Means of Two Concentric Transmitter Loops.”
- The patent has wide applications in geology, geophysics and biophysics.
- Currently, two GEM-2s are flying in Australia for mining companies looking for diamond deposits (known as Kimberlite pipes), precious metal (gold and silver), and base metals (copper, nickel, etc.).  They expect to start a similar airborne geophysical operation out of the U.S. using the same sensors.
- The GEM-3 is also used for detecting and identifying buried landmines and unexploded ordnance. The cleanup cost related buried unexploded bombs for the U.S. alone is estimated to exceed $10B.

- Government/Science Applications
-    The GEM-2 has been used for airborne geophysical surveys to
-    explore mineral deposits.
-    The handheld GEM-3 has been applied for detecting and identifying
-     buried unexploded ordnance and landmines.
-    Both the GEM-2 and GEM-3 have been used for environmental site
-     characterization.
**   **Potential future applications include: detection and identification
-     of concealed weapons; medical tomography for imaging
-     conductivity of human bodies, and planetary exploration for water
-     and other natural resources for sustaining human colonization.

- Points of Contact:
-    -  NASA (Commercial Technology Program, 228/688-1929)
-    -  Geophex, Ltd. (Dr. I.J. Won, 919/839-8515)
-        1995 SBIR Phase2 ; # NAS13-670

- John C. Stennis Space Center
- May 2000

- GEM2a in Australia prior to takeoff
# Presentation: 102197

## Heavy Duty OBD Issues

*Clean Diesel Implementation Workshop*
*August 6, 2003*

_**Presented By:**_
**John Trajnowski**
***Vehicle Environmental Engineering ***
***Ford Motor Company***

## HDOBD Regulatory Development Update

- ARB recently proposed new OBD requirements for all trucks over 14,000 lb. GVWR.
- EPA is expected to initiate a rulemaking for federal heavy duty trucks in the near future.

## ARB HDOBD - Rulemaking Timetable

- ARB Workshop to discuss their proposed heavy duty OBD II requirements will probably be held in September.
- The regulation is scheduled to be considered for adoption at the November, 2003 ARB Board Hearing.

## ARB HDOBD – Proposed Requirements

- ARB’s proposal very similar to the LD/MDV OBD II requirements.
- Monitoring required for all emissions-related systems and components *on the vehicle.*
- Rate-based monitoring will be required to ensure monitors execute on a regular basis.
- Regulation will require a standardized communication protocol for the OBD II system.

## ARB HDOBD - Implementation

- ARB proposed to require HDOBD on heavy duty trucks beginning with the 2007 model year.
- Phase-in of 30/60/100% in 2007/08/09.

## ARB HDOBD – Major Issues

*Vehicle-based* monitoring requirements.
- Not limited to engine.  Includes transmission.
- Non-engine driveline malfunctions have negligible emissions impact.
- OBD II requirements apply to “vehicle” model year rather than “engine” model year.

## ARB HDOBD – Major Issues

- 2007 MY implementation date is problematic.
- Major workload already facing HD truck engine manufacturers in 2007 to comply with new emissions requirements.
- Purpose unclear for potential new AECD/NTE zone tracking requirements.
- Requirement unrelated to detecting malfunctions.
- How would ARB plan to use this information?
- Would this requirement be cost effective from an air quality perspective?

## ARB HDOBD – Other Potential Concerns

- There will be significant cost implications if ARB requires a communication protocol other than what is currently in use.
- SAE J1939 for diesel engines in large trucks.
- ISO 15765-4 (LD protocol) for engines used in lighter trucks derived from LD/MDVs.
- Aftertreatment monitoring requirements are technology-forcing and create a compliance risk.

## ARB HDOBD – Enforcement Concerns

- ARB plans to propose HDOBD enforcement provisions in a separate rulemaking.
- Light Duty OBD II enforcements regulations contain “mandatory recall” provisions.

## ARB HDOBD – Other Potential Concerns

- ARB’s Policy “You cannot use certain emissions control technology if you can’t monitor it.”
- Policy could impact engine manufacturers’ ability to meet emissions requirements.
# Presentation: 461284

## The Effects of Long-Range Vacancy-Solute Binding Energies on  a New Coarsening Mechanism in Ni-Al-Cr by Lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation 

**The Effects of Long-Range Vacancy-Solute Binding Energies on  a New Coarsening Mechanism in Ni-Al-Cr by Lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation**
- NSF Grant DMR-0241928, David N. Seidman, PI

- LKMC 1 With long-range solute-vacancy binding (2nd to 4th NN)

- LKMC 2 Without long- range solute-vacancy binding (2nd to 4th NN)

- Completely different vacancy trajectories between two gamma prime precipitates from the  two different parameter sets.

- The parameter set used for  **LKMC 1 (left-hand side) **implies long-range solute-vacancy binding, up to 4th nearest-neighbor: permuting one vacancy on the xth NN shell (1 < x < 5) of a solute, S, with one far away Ni atom changes the internal energy by
- (S-Ni + V-Ni)x -  (S-V + Ni-Ni )x.  This latter binding is cancelled by setting ( V-S = Ni-S)x and (V-Ni = Ni-Ni)x in **LKMC 2 (right-hand side)** simulations (parameter set 2).

- Same alloy thermodynamics
- Same ***solute*** diffusion coefficients in pure Ni
- Distinct correlations / flux coupling effects
***Coagulation is suppressed  !!!***
# Presentation: 872244

## Highly Compliant Gimbaled AFM Probes

- Scanning probes that can be used in fluidic environment and with multi-directional movement provide a unique measurement capability necessary for life sciences and physical sciences
- Highly sensitive AFM levers that have minimal moving areas and lower noise have been fabricated .  The fabrication process was developed and optimized at CNF; it requires 4 contact photolithography layers and allows us to produce a highly compliant and ultra-small (20x20μm) torsion probe.  These levers allow more sensitive operation in liquid and better thermal stability than commercially available levers.  In addition, our fabrication process allows for design flexibility in 3 dimensions and we have utilized this fact to produce dual-axis gimbaled levers.  These levers have two sets of orthogonally-arranged soft SiN hinges onto which we mount a pad and a gimbaled mount .
- These AFM probes are useful in a wide range of applications, due to the fact that we can uncouple movement in 2 directions using a single optical lever.

- Frederick Sachs, State University of NY at  Buffalo
- Work performed at Cornell Nanoscale Facility
# Presentation: 265587

## Asphalt Pavement Joint Densities

- 2004 Construction Season
- Jack Scott, FAA

## AC Joint Density Evaluation

## AC Joint Density Cutback

## AC Joint Density Not Cutback

## AC Joint Density Hot Joints

## Hot Joint

- Error in the Notice 15 specification.
- Defined cold joint as over 4-hours old.
- Interpreted that hot joints were less than 4-hours old.
- Result- the hot joint densities were low and erratic in some cases since they were not cut back and were too cold for adequate compaction.
- Notice 16 defines cold joints as less that 185 degrees F.

## Density - Cores Not On Joints.

## Asphalt Densities

- Cores  not directly on the joint are more reflective of the mat densities than the joint.

## Drawbacks From Requiring Cutting Joints.

- Attempt to shorten the paving lanes an thereby add transverse joints to avoid cutting of the longitudinal cold joints.
- In projects where transverse joints are undesirable, additional requirements to limit transverse will have to be included.

## Results

- Pay more to cut cold joints back.
- Densities and PWL's are significantly improved.
- Improved joint performance with higher densities.
- Continue to require the joints to be cut back

## 2005 Construction Season

- Send in Data through ADO for another evaluation.
- Will be evaluated in future for possible Joint density acceptance rather than QC.
# Presentation: 498605

## MiniBooNE Event Reconstruction and Particle Identification
Hai-Jun Yang ( for MiniBooNE Collaboration ), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
APS April Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, April 14-17, 2007

**MiniBooNE**** Event Reconstruction and Particle Identification**
- Hai-Jun Yang ( for MiniBooNE Collaboration ), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- APS April Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, April 14-17, 2007

- Event Reconstruction

- Boosted Decision Trees (BDT)

- Track Max-Log-Likelihood

-  Fit events with 3 hypotheses: e,,0
-  Ratios of max-log-likelihoods provide
-    particle identification information
-  Staged background rejection

-  Reconstruct O(300) physical/topological variables
-  Combine/optimize 172 good variables using BDT
-   to build a powerful PID variable.
-  Global background rejection, e or non-e ?

-  How to build a decision tree ?
- For each node, try to find the best variable and splitting
- point which gives the best separation based on Gini index.
- Gini_node = Weight_total*P*(1-P), P is weighted purity
- Criterion = Gini_father – Gini_left_son – Gini_right_son
- Variable is selected as splitter by maximizing the criterion.

-  How to boost the decision trees ?
- Weights of misclassified events in current tree are
- increased, the next tree is built using the same
- events but with new weights. Typically, one may
- build few hundred to thousand trees.

-  How to calculate the event score ?
- For a given event, if it lands on the signal leaf in one
-  tree, it is given a score of 1, otherwise, -1. The sum
- of scores from all trees is the final score of the event.

- The advantage of using boosted decision trees is that it combines many decision trees,  “weak” classifiers, to make a powerful classifier. The performance of boosted decision trees is stable after a few hundred tree iterations.

- 1. B.P. Roe, H.J. Yang et.al., physics/0408124, NIM A543 (2005) 577-584.
- 2. H.J. Yang, B.P. Roe, J. Zhu,  physics/0508045, NIM A555(2005) 370-385.
- 3. H.J. Yang, B.P. Roe, J. Zhu,  physics/0610276, Accepted by NIMA (2007).
- 4. Y. Liu, I. Stancu, physics/0611267

**Goal:** The MiniBooNE experiment is designed to confirm or refute ***e* oscillation signal seen by LSND
# Presentation: 201925

## Creation of a Composite Solar Ultraviolet Irradiance Data SetMatthew T. DeLand and Richard P. CebulaScience Systems and Applications, Inc.

- Solar UV irradiance measurements from satellite instruments extend from 1978 to the present using overlapping data sets.
- Current data sets have wavelength-dependent and time-dependent differences that prevent easy merging.

## Evaluate absolute differences between instruments using recently created reference spectrum [Thuillier et al. 2004].
Remove spectral and temporal differences during overlap periods based on knowledge of instrument performance.
Create composite irradiance data set of daily spectra for general use (e.g. atmospheric models).

- Remove spectral and temporal differences during overlap periods based on knowledge of instrument performance.
- Create composite irradiance data set of daily spectra for general use (*e.g. atmospheric models).*
# Presentation: 520011

## Standards Implementation: 10 Tips From the Front Lines

- Susan Pimentel
- July 20, 2005
- U.S. Department of Education, Division of Adult Education and Literacy
- American Institutes for Research

- Adult Education Content Standards Consortia Meeting

**Notes:**
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## Three Stages of Implementation

*Getting to know your standards.*
*Teaching your standards.*
*Assessing your standards.*

## Tip #1

- 	Turn your standards developers into standards implementers!

## Tip #2

- Adopt a systems approach, i.e., get the rest of your “house” in order:
- Budget priorities
- Teacher qualifications
- Program improvement/evaluation
- Recognition/incentives
- Instructional delivery methods
- Facilities/resources
- Reporting requirements

## Tip #3

- 	Continue to involve the field. . .
- 	Give them a voice in decisions from professional development to teacher hiring practices and beyond.

## Tip #4

- 	Clarify roles, responsibilities, and expectations. . .
- 	Who is responsible for what? The state? The program directors? The instructors?

## Tip #5

- 	Exercise patience. . .
- 	Give programs/instructors *time* -- months -- to organize to teach the standards.

## Tip #6

- 	Be deliberate and steady. Consider phasing-in the standards:
- By time
- By program
- By content area

## 	Target all levels of staff. . .

	Do not leave your program directors out of the mix. 

- 	Do not leave your program directors out of the mix.** **

- Tip #7

## Tip #8

- 	Tailor professional development to what instructors say they need and what the data show. . .
- 	Beyond improving instructional  effectiveness, this builds trust and appreciation.

## Tip #9

- 	Adopt a “coaching” model to staff development that is hands-on and on-site -- just-in-time training.

## Tip #10

- 	Repeat the training, and repeat it again. . .
- 	With staff turnover, it is critical to offer learning opportunities that continue to address:
- Getting to know your standards
- Teaching to your standards
- Assessing your standards
# Presentation: 740249

## &

## “The partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.” – A. Einstein

***“******The partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.” – *****A. Einstein**

## Scope for TOPS

**Design and implementation of “solvers” for PDE-derived systems**
**Linear solvers**
**Eigensolvers**
**Nonlinear solvers**
**Time integrators**
**Optimizers**
**Software integration**
**Performance optimization**

**(w/ sens. anal.)**

**(w/ sens. anal.)**

## Status of CMRS-TOPS collaboration

**CMRS team has provided TOPS with discretization of model 2D multicomponent Hall magnetic reconnection evolution code in ****PETSc****’s ****DA/DMMG**** format, using automatic differentiation for Jacobian objects**
**TOPS has implemented fully nonlinearly implicit Newton-GMRES-MG-SOR parallel solver (with deflation of nullspace in CMRS’s doubly periodic formulation)**
**Both first- and second-order implicit temporal integration available**
**CMRS and TOPS reproduce the same dynamics on the same grids with the same time-stepping, up to a finite-time singularity due to collapse of current sheet (that falls below presently uniform mesh resolution)**
**TOPS code, being implicit, can choose timesteps an order of magnitude larger, with potential for higher ratio in more physically realistic parameter regimes, though it is slower in wall-clock time for small CFL**
**Plan: tune ****PETSc**** solver by profiling, blocking, reuse, etc. **
**Plan: identify the numerical complexity benefits from implicitness (in suppressing fast timescales) and quantify (explicit versus implicit) **
**Plan (with APDEC team): incorporate AMR**

## 2D Hall MHD sawtooth instability (PETSc examples /snes/ex29.c and /sles/ex31.c)

**Model equations:**

- (Porcelli *et al.,* 1993, 1999)

**2D Hall MHD**** ****sawtooth instability ****(****PETS****c ****examples ****/snes/ex29.c**** and ****/sles/ex31.c****)**

- figures c/o A. Bhattacharjee, CMRS

##  PETSc’s DMMG in Hall MR application

**Mesh and time refinement studies of CMRS Hall magnetic reconnection model problem (4 mesh sizes, dt=0.1 (near CFL limit for fastest wave) on left, dt=0.8 on right)**
**Measure of functional inverse to thickness of current sheet versus time, for  ****0*****<t<*****200**** (nondimensional), where singularity occurs around *****t=*****215**

##  PETSc’s DMMG in Hall MR app., cont.

**Implicit timestep increase studies of CMRS Hall magnetic reconnection model problem, on finest (192********192) mesh of previous slide, in absolute magnitude, rather than semi-log**

## Newton-Krylov-Schwarz – a parallel PDE “workhorse”

## CMRS/PETSc Library Interactions

- PETSc code

- CMRS code

- Application
- Initialization

- Function
- Evaluation

- Jacobian
- Evaluation

- Post-
- Processing

- PC

- KSP

- PETSc

- Main Routine

- Linear Solvers (SLES)

- Nonlinear Solvers (SNES)

- Timestepping Solvers (TS)

**CMRS/PETSc Library Interactions**

- ADIC generated code
# Presentation: 740391

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

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

***Total SARs: 546***

## Suspicious Activities Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs

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

- Note:  The pie chart does not include those categories of suspicious activity for which data queries returned no results (i.e., no filers reported these activities).
- 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 Activity Reported by Casinos & Card Clubs Filing Trendby Type of Gaming EstablishmentState of MinnesotaFor the Period January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2007

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

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

**Note: Statistics based on Casino Address**

- Tower

- Manhomen

- Walker

- Hinckley

- Granite Falls

- South Haven

- Morton
# Presentation: 417833

## System Software Environments

- Breakout Report
- June 27, 2002

## What is the scope of existing efforts?

**What is the scope of existing efforts?**
- Scalable Systems Software Center
- FAST-OS “lightweight kernel” effort
- Science Appliance effort
- Systems Management research
- Blue Gene

## Anemic Areas of Existing Research

**What are the under funded critical research issues?**
- Security – protecting systems from compromise
- Fault tolerance – being able to run through failure. Three steps: detection, notification, system recovery
- Linkage between projects and groups for FT chain.
- Validation of result – how know that app got right ans. Given system runs through failure.

## Potential Gaps in Research

**What are the gaps in MICS research portfolio related to peta-scale computing?**
- What happens after Linux?
- OS that supports the programming model – if it is going to change from dist. mem. Message passing then...
- Alternate to microkernel approach *“Concrete”* holds everything together but is really heavy.
- Local address space vs more expansive address support
- Experimental architecture research testbed
- Arose during PIM discussion
- Platforms for software development
- Not just the commodity clusters we work with today ES40 and PIM not addressed

## Getting Help From Others

**What is needed most from the other four groups?**
**Runtime & Programming models – **feedback to OS so it can reconfigure to optimize needs, PIM is entangled across Programming and OS.
**Data & vizualization** - Scalable I/O – leverage SDM ISIC *and Program models*
- Checkpoint/restart 100K nodes
**Portability & Interoperability - ??? **Discussion but no clear things we need to leverage
**Performance – **feedback to OS so it can correct bottlenecks while apps run.
# Presentation: 670029

## MTAC Work Group #82

Parcel Delivery Performance
Measurement Effectiveness

**Parcel Delivery Performance**
**Measurement Effectiveness**

## 	Desired Results Submitted to MTAC Leadership Committee

1. 	Understand the operations and procedures that affect delivery performance measurement.
2.	Identify issues impact delivery performance measurement effectiveness. 
3. 	Rank items identified based on impact on measurement effectiveness.
4.	Issue recommendations.
5.	Review processes for measurement use in service improvement.

**1. ****	****Understand the operations and procedures that affect delivery performance measurement.**
**2.****	****Identify issues impact delivery performance measurement effectiveness. **
**3. ****	****Rank items identified based on impact on measurement effectiveness.**
**4.****	****Issue recommendations.**
**5.****	****Review processes for measurement use in service improvement.**

**#82 Parcel Delivery Service Measurement Effectiveness**

## 	
Data Warehouse industry user access in September
New Shipment Quality Reports implemented 
DDU Acceptance procedures to support Shipment Quality data collection implemented in late July
Finalizing new report requirements under EDW
DDU & BMC service has improved to record levels
Dedicated (Ad-Hoc) Parcel Service Coordinators 
Communication with consolidators on performance

**Data Warehouse industry user access in September**
**New Shipment Quality Reports implemented **
**DDU Acceptance procedures to support Shipment Quality data collection implemented in late July**
**Finalizing new report requirements under EDW**
**DDU & BMC service has improved to record levels**
**Dedicated (Ad-Hoc) Parcel Service Coordinators **
**Communication with consolidators on performance**

**Work Group Activity Status**

## 
Arrival Quality measurement 
Consequences of poor arrival quality
Improved report design to focus on all pieces
Reports to support 8125 scan performance
Start-the-Clock process under eVS
Revisit BMC Start-the-Clock process
Data sharing & communication processes at the lowest levels
Performance for DDU Entry of Standard packages

**Arrival Quality measurement **
**Consequences of poor arrival quality**
**Improved report design to focus on all pieces**
**Reports to support 8125 scan performance**
**Start-the-Clock process under eVS**
**Revisit BMC Start-the-Clock process**
**Data sharing & communication processes at the lowest levels**
**Performance for DDU Entry of Standard packages**

**Work Group Action Items**

## 
Goal is that processes and metrics will be in place for Fall mailing season.
Expect to sunset Work Group at end of Calendar Year

**Goal is that processes and metrics will be in place for Fall mailing season.**
**Expect to sunset Work Group at end of Calendar Year**

**Work Group Activity Status**

## 	
	Questions?

**	****Questions?**

**Work Group # 82**
# Presentation: 243220

## Job Scheduling

- P. (Saday) Sadayappan
- Ohio State University

## Problem Statement

- Given a stream of parallel jobs and a set of computing resources, determine when and where to execute each job
- In the form that the job scheduling problem is addressed at most supercomputer centers:
- Homogeneous set of processors
- Each job asks for a specific, fixed number of processors

## Job Scheduling Today

- Earliest job schedulers (Intel iPSC) used a simple FCFS strategy; low utilization (50%)
- Back-filling was implemented at Argonne
- Give an earliest-possible reservation to job at head of the queue, but allow a later arriving job to bypass it, if the reservation is not violated
- Utilization improves to ~90%
- Used at most production facilities today

## Can Performance be Improved?

- Metrics:
- System Metric: Utilization
- User Metrics: Response time (wait+run time), Slowdown (response-time/run-time)
- Over a hundred papers published:
- Focus mainly on improving user metrics: much greater potential for its improvement than utilization
- Question: How important is it to squeeze an additional 5-10% utilization on a system that is already achieving over 85% utilization?

## Improving Response Time

- Question: How important is it to evaluate alternatives to standard back-fill scheduling, with a goal of improved user response-time?
- Many studies have reported simulation  studies showing significant improvement of slowdown or response-time with new schemes; but most production schedulers simply use aggressive back-fill. Why?

## Possible Reasons for Non-Adoption

- Academic studies do not model specific policy issues of a center, e.g. “good citizen rules,” multiple queues etc.
- Most results are based on job log traces at Feitelson’s archive, with many logs from academic centers exhibiting low system utilization (< 70%).
- Most studies report overall averages over entire trace: insufficient to assess impact of change:
- E.g., using a Shortest-Job-First queue policy instead of the usual FCFS policy significantly improves overall average slowdown by a factor of 4; but increases response time for 24 hour jobs to 50 hours instead of 26 hours.

## QoS for Job Scheduling

- Job schedulers do not provide QoS:
- No response time guarantees
- No equitable way of offering different service for urgent versus non-urgent jobs
- Technical and Accounting issues:
- Develop job schedulers that can do deadline-based scheduling
- Develop accounting models to charge based on urgency of job:
- Charge = f1(resource-usage) + f2(wait-time-limit)
- Question: How desirable is it to develop job schedulers with QoS functionality?

## Questions?
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## SAGE 2005

- ERICKA ALINNE SOLANO

**Deep Crustal Conductor **
**at Santa Fe River Site**

- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

- July 13th, 2005

## Overview

- Introduction
- Data Acquisition
- Methods and Processing in WinGLink
- Results
- Conclusions and Possible sources of deep crustal conductive zones

## Map of the MT study area

## Acquisition of MT data 

- The MT field arrangement

- The record length was about 0.03 to 200 sec.

## Methods and Processing in WingLink

- TE mode = xy, parallel to the geoelectric strike
-  35 deg rotation to impedance directions based in the polar diagrams
- Static shift correction using MT 180 well data
- 1D Occam Inversion and layered Earth model

## MT sounding curves, phase spectra and polar diagrams

**MT sounding curves, phase spectra and polar diagrams**

**MT-01**

## MT sounding curves, phase spectra and polar diagrams

**MT sounding curves, phase spectra and polar diagrams**

**MT-02**

## MT sounding curves, phase spectra and polar diagrams

**MT sounding curves, phase spectra and polar diagrams**

**MT-03**

## Geoelectrical 1-D models

## R e s u l t s

## Crustal conductive zones

- There are three possible sources:
- Aqueous pore fluids
-     This implies that there are porosity and interconnectivity of intergranular aqueous fluid and the material becomes more conductive.
- Solid state conduction minerals: graphite and serpentine.
-     T, P, alteration, methamorphism, composition, and grain size.
- Crustal melt zones.
-     Geometry, percent melt, water, T, P, and  composition.

## Acknowledgements

-  I would like to thank faculties of the SAGE and TA’s, specially George, Louise and Derrick for their time and dedication.
- Thanks to Toshiko, Patrick for their patience.
- Special thanks to Mark and team 4.
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## Mimicking Enzyme Catalysis, Multi-Layer Films

**90 nanomoles**

- EtBenzene  Styrene Oxide

- Source of Oxygen, 18O Labeling

**MnO****2**** film + O****2**** + 10 mM H****2****O****2**

**MnO****2**** film + O****2**

**Polyion film + H****2****O****2**

**Polyion film + O****2**

- JACS, in press

- L. Espinal. J. F. Rusling

## Oxidation of Toluene

- Solvent, Host-Guest & Intermolecular Interactions            S. L. Suib, UCONN

***Turnover number**

**OMS**

**K-OMS-2                      3.2                                B Only**

**Selectivity**

**H-K-OMS-2                    3.6                                B Only**

**K-OMS-2 (nano)             13                               A, B, C**

**Oxidation of Toluene**

-   **OMS-1                         0.7                                B Only**

- 4.6 Å

- OMS-2

- Issues :
- AOS
- Redox
- O, labeling
- H+ in Catalyst
- Oxidant
- Structure
- Pore Size
- SA
- Selectivity
- Yield

- Y. C. Son

## Solvent, Host-Guest & Intermolecular Interactions            S. L. Suib, UCONN

- Porous Mn Oxide
- Nanotubes

- + Mn Oxide Precursor

- NaOH, template removal

- 450oC

- New Nanovessels, Air/Water Stable

- V2O5, Dip Coating

- Lines, patterns

- 2-D Self Assembly, Air Water interface

- N. Hoz DeVila, C. Calvert, J. K. Yuan
# Presentation: 216140

## POSTER SERIES 2006

- CENTER FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS
- OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ARCHITECT
- PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE

- PRESERVATION MONTH – MAY 2006

**Notes:**
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## HAROLD D. DONOHUE FEDERAL BUILDING & U.S. COURTHOUSEWORCESTER, MA1930-1932JAMES A. WETMORE 

## U.S. POST OFFICE & COURTHOUSEBROOKLYN, NY1885–1892; 1933 MIFFLIN E. BELL JAMES A. WETMORE 

## FRANK M. JOHNSON, JR., FEDERAL BUILDING AND U.S. COURTHOUSEMONTGOMERY, ALABAMA1932–1933 1996–2002FRANK LOCKWOOD, SR.; BARGANIER DAVIS SIMS ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATED

## ELBERT P. TUTTLE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS BUILDINGATLANTA, GEORGIA1906–1910JAMES KNOX TAYLOR

## FEDERAL BUILDING, U.S. COURTHOUSE AND CUSTOM HOUSEDULUTH, MINNESOTA1929–1930JAMES A. WETMORE

## FEDERAL BUILDING & U.S. COURTHOUSE SIOUX CITY, IOWA1932–1934BEUTTLER & ARNOLD

## OLD POST OFFICE & COURTHOUSE LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS1876–1881; 1897; 1908–1910; 1994–1997JAMES B. HILL; WILLIAM MARTIN AIKEN; JAMES KNOX TAYLOR;WITSELL EVANS RASCO AND POLK STANLEY SAUNDERS & ASSOCIATES

## FEDERAL BUILDING, U.S. POST OFFICE AND COURTHOUSEMISSOULA, MONTANA1911–1913; 1927–1929; 1937JAMES KNOX TAYLOR; JAMES A. WETMORE; LOUIS A. SIMON

## FEDERAL BUILDING, U.S. POST OFFICE AND COURTHOUSEHILO, HAWAII1915 –1917; 1936 –1938HENRY WHITFIELD; LOUIS A. SIMON

## FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDINGSEATTLE, WASHINGTON1931 –1933JAMES A. WETMORE

## FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION BUILDINGWASHINGTON, DC1937 –1938BENNETT, PARSONS & FROST
# Presentation: 755175

## The North American Monsoon System: Recent Evolution and Current Status

**Update prepared by**
**Climate Prediction Center / NCEP**
**   ****29 September 2008**

## Outline

** ****Recent Evolution and Current Conditions**
** ****Summary**
** ****Climatology**

## Rainfall Patterns: Last 7 Days

**Rainfall Patterns: Last 7 Days**

**Near-normal precipitation was observed in the NAM domain during the past week. NAM continued to be in its demise phase.**

## Rainfall Patterns: Last 30 Days

**Rainfall Patterns: Last 30 Days**

**During the past 30 days,**** ****near–normal precipitation has been observed over southwest U.S. while above-normal precipitation was seen for most areas of northern and central Mexico.**

## Recent Evolution: Rainfall

**Recent Evolution: Rainfall**

- NAM continued its demise phase during the past week

## Summary

**NAM continued its demise phase during the past week**

## ClimatologyMONSOON ONSET

-  **June 5**

**June 6**

**June 6**

**June 8**

**June 7**

**June 14**

**June 14**

**June 17**

**June 16**

**June 23**

**June 27**

**June 25**

**June 29**

**July 3**

**July 6**

**July 11**

**July 7**

**July 8**

**July 13**

**July 9**

**July 13**

**July 14**

**June 10**

**June 11**

**June 22**

**June 21**

**Higgins, R. W., Y. Chen and A. V. Douglas, 1999:  Interannual Variability of the North American Warm Season Precipitation Regime.  J. Clim, 17, 653-680**

## Precipitation Climatology
# Presentation: 128348

## Typical Oxygen Cylinder Overpack

## Slide 2

## Oxygen Fire Test Scenario in LD-3 Container 

- Oxygen Fire Test Scenario in LD-3 Container

## Post-Test Damage to Container Resulting from Oxygen Release

## Significant Events Related to the Transport of Oxygen on Aircraft

- May 11, 1996     ValuJet Accident

- May 24, 1996     RSPA published Interim Final Rule temporarily prohibiting the transportation
-                            of chemical oxygen generators as cargo on passenger-carrying flights.

- May 31, 1996     NTSB Recommendation A-96-29, “RSPA should, in cooperation with the FAA,
-                            permanently prohibit the transportation of chemical oxygen generators as cargo on
-                            board any passenger or cargo aircraft when the generators have passed expiration
-                            dates, and the chemical core has not been depleted.” (Class I, Urgent Action)

- Dec 30, 1996     RSPA publishes Final Rule permanently banning the transport of chemical oxygen
-                           generators as cargo on all passenger-carrying flights.

- Dec 30, 1996     RSPA issues NPRM to ban the transport of all oxidizers, including compressed oxygen,
-                           on all passenger-carrying aircraft.

- June 5, 1997     RSPA adopted a more specific shipping description for chemical oxygen generators
-                          to make it easier for carriers to identify these devices, and also specified additional
-                          packaging requirements.

- Aug 20, 1997     RSPA publishes a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) to determine
-                           whether the proposed oxidizer prohibition should extend to Classes B and C
-                           compartments on passenger-carrying aircraft.

## Significant Events Related to the Transport of Oxygen on Aircraft

- Aug 19, 1999     RSPA published Final Rule imposing more stringent req’ments on transportation
-                            of compressed oxygen cylinders in aircraft.  The new requirements reduced the
-                            possibility of oxygen release in the event of a controlled fire, which could intensify
-                            the fire and overtax the suppression system.

- TBD, 00     RSPA NPRM on Oxygen Cylinder Overpack Performance.

- TBD, 01     RSPA Final Rule on Oxygen Cylinder Overpack Performance.

## Proposed Oxygen Cylinder Overpack Performance

- Flame Penetration Test

- Thermal Resistance Test
# Presentation: 225598

## "Diversity is the glue that holds this country together, and we are all part of that glue.”

- General Lloyd "Fig" Newton
- Commander, Air Education and Training Command

- LL6.2.1 -"Fig" Newton Quote

## "A good leader sets goals, measures progress, and rewards performance.  He or she tries to give everyone a stake in the mission of the organization and its outcome.  That’s the role of leadership."

- General John M. Loh
- Former USAF Air Combat Command Commander

- LL6.2.2 - Loh Quote
# Presentation: 702673

## Carnegie Mellon University MRSEC Science Accomplishment Nugget.GROWING THIN FILMS WITH ONLY ONE HANDP. Salvador/CMU MRSEC NSF DMR-0079996 IRG 2

- It has recently been demonstrated that metal surfaces with a chiral or "handed“ surface structures have the potential to separate mixtures of right and left handed molecules; this is an essential step in the production of all pharmaceuticals. However, to make any system based on this discovery affordable, it is necessary to produce large area thin films with the same structure. A three-step process has been developed for the deposition of chiral surfaces on Pt and Cu films using pulsed laser deposition. Structural studies show that the flat films expose their (621) surfaces, thus demonstrating that the chirality of the ceramic substrate can be propagated to the surface of the metal film. This technique, called homochiral heteroepitaxy, produces thin films that expose surfaces of only one hand.

- Figure: Atomic structure of the chiral (621) SrTiO3 surface used to seed the growth of homochiral Pt and Cu. Blue: Ti, Red: O, Green: Sr. The black lines trace the step edges.
# Presentation: 260417

## Stability of Staebler-Wronski defects and their influence on photocarrier lifetime

- Paul Stradins, NREL
- In collaboration with M. Kondo and A. Matsuda, AIST, Japan

- Large degradation of electron mobility-lifetime by less thermally stable     light-induced defects observed in a-Si:H coplanar structures
- Hysteresis by exposure-annealing in coplanar structures
- Do similar effects occur in solar cells?
- Solar cell stability  thermal stability of light-induced defects

## Electron lifetime decreases ~ 100x by  increasing defect density < 10x by light exposure

**Electron ******

**Defects**

## Defects of higher thermal stability have apparently weaker effect on electron lifetime

**Defects of higher thermal stability have apparently weaker effect on electron lifetime**

**Room T laser pulse exposure**

**Exposure at 360K**

**Stepwise anneal after room T exposure**

## Apparent electron capture coefficient into defects decreases with T of light-exposure

**> 10x decrease in apparent C****e**** with T****exp**** change from 300 to 450K:**
**Explains strong initial degradation of ********e**

**RT exposure**

**Native defects**

## This effect of defect stability is much weaker in solar cells

**The effect persists under uniformly absorbed test light**

******e**** – J****SC**** : wide loops **

**N****D**** – J****SC**** : narrow or no loops **

## Degradation of cell parameters (Voc, JSC, FF) are related to each other and to defect concentration

**V****OC**** = A - kT log(N) : initially degrades fast**
**J****SC**** = C – D*N : initially degrades slowly**

**E. Schiff’s regime**** **

## Strong degradation of el in coplanar structures can be explained by an accompanying weak acceptor effect    positive chargeup of the defect system

**Solar cells weakly affected: 1) large space charge variations within i-layer; 2) governed by mostly by holes**

- Defect system

- EC

- Etn

- EV

- Etp

- G

- G

- R+

- R0

## Solar cell degradation governed mostly by number of defects  reduction of defect number desirable

**Solar cell degradation governed mostly by number of defects ******** reduction of defect number desirable**

**“****standard” device quality a-Si:H**

**“****Defect” stability or “paired H” stability?**
**Si network microstructure important**

**Defects in H-diluted a-Si:H are unstable (even at room T)**

## Conclusions

**Degradation of electron lifetime in *****coplanar structures***** strongly affected by thermal stability of light-induced defects.**
**Degradation of *****solar cells***** determined mostly by number of defects, not their stability**
**Weak acceptor effect accompanying defect creation is likely responsible for (1.) but weakly affects (2.)**
**Solar cell degradation could be minimized by determining and modifying atomic structures responsible for defect stability**
# Presentation: 412173

##  New Optimization Methods for Electronic Excited States

* **New Optimization Methods for Electronic Excited States*
- Todd J. Martinez (Chemistry)

- Comparison of potential energy surfaces near a conical intersection at two levels of theory. Intersection optimization at the accurate MS-CASPT2 level of theory was impossible before the introduction of our new method.

- Research** **Objectives: Understanding the chemical reactivity of excited electronic states requires knowledge of molecular geometries where one or more electronic states have the same energy. These geometries are known as conical intersections and play a key role in solar cells and human vision.

- Approach: We have developed a new method for determining these intersection geometries which is broadly applicable to all electronic structure methods that can treat excited states.
- Significant Results: We have used the new optimization method to optimize intersection geometries for a number of molecules which are paradigmatic in photochemistry. The flexibility and efficiency of the new method allowed us to carry out these optimizations with the most accurate electronic structure methods available, providing benchmark results for more approximate methods.
# Presentation: 728894

##       
NOAA N Prime DownlinkFrequency 
June 2008

Chris O’Connors, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD

**NOAA N Prime Downlink****Frequency **
- June 2008
- Chris O’Connors, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD

## NTIA's Spectrum Planning Subcommittee 

- As requested by DoC Office of Radio Frequency Management (ORFM) necessary documentation for Argos DCP downlink at 465.9875 MHz being prepared
- Expect submission to June meeting of NTIA’s Spectrum Planning Subcommittee through ORFM

## MetOp Field Test

- Task issued to Alion through existing OSD Ground System contract
- Initial planning completed
- Completion of field testing requested by mid-summer
- Commercial equipment using this frequency band being sought in order to assess impact of MetOp-A Argos transmissions

## Discussions with FCC

- Initial discussions with FCC indicate their willingness to work with NOAA on seeking a solution for access to 460-470 MHz on non-interference basis
- FCC suggested including commercial users of this band in future discussions

## Way Forward

- Conclude on the coordination by November 2008 in order to get NTIA approval before the launch
- Request the frequency assignment be placed in the Government Master File (GMF).
- The assignment would be on a non-interference basis to systems operating with a primary status within the band.
# Presentation: 424361

## Weather Briefing, 20070731

- Chuck Bardeen, Ana Maria Duran, Evelyn Quiros, Lenny Pfister, and Henry Selkirk

- Next four slides show progression of easterly waves as analyzed by NHC
- Easterly wave closest to us is very weak, and retrogression at one point shows difficulty in analysis.
- First easterly wave is real, based on SSMI precipitable water (NHC) and observations of visible imagery (Evelyn).
- We don’t believe that the second axis to the east is positioned properly

- Easterly wave crest near Lake Maracaibo is very hard to see here -- weak wave

- This shows easterly wave forecast by NHC for Thursday
- Morning.  Passage during the night makes sense to us

## 700mb forecast for

- Thursday AM shows
- Wavecrest west of us

- Easterly wave
- Psg ~6Z 2 Aug,
- followed by moist air.

- Next wave psg
- Is 12Z 4 August,
- Based on this

## Airport Weather Forecast for Thursday, August 2

- Expect easterly wave passage around midnight Wednesday night.
- Moisture level  increases, and easterlies at 925 mb at 12 Z on Thursday will be less than 8 meters per second.
- This implies a wind shift at around 10 AM, with rains at the airport beginning around 1-2 PM (earlier than normal).  The high moisture content implies isolated, but strong, showers.
- Because of the early wind shift, convection will be concentrated northeast and east of the airport (up-valley), so buildups to the west will be limited.
- Recommend landing by noon.

## Airport forecast for Friday, August 3

- We are in the moist phase of an easterly wave on this day.  Moisture levels are higher than on Thursday, and easterlies are weaker.
- Thus, we expect an earlier wind shift (9 AM or so), and rains starting at the airport around midday.
- The rains are likely to be greater than on Thursday.
- Again, the early wind shift implies stronger westerlies, which limits buildups west of the airport.
- Recommend landing by 11.