BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 545396

## Politics, Policy, and Procedure

- Sustaining the Training:
- Advocacy and Policy Development
- Krysta Jones
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- April 23, 2008

## Policy 

- Community and grassroots work
- Translate this into stories your Members of Congress will understand
- Educate staff
- Become a resource
- Provide concise documents

## Politics 

- Who are your Members of Congress?
- What is their background and experience?
- What Committees are they on?
- Who are their supporters, donors?
- What is the make-up of the district/state?

## Procedure 

- Know the system (basics of the legislative process and how you can participate)
- Bill Introduction –Propose Ideas
- Hearings –Testify
- Floor –Contact Congress (Letters to the editor, letter writing, petitions)
- Regulatory Process

## Case Study-Johanna’s Law 

- Gynecologic Cancer Education Bill
- Formed coalition of supporters
- Lobbied Congress
- Found a Congressional champion
- Held hearings
- Found famous spokesperson
- Received opposition from Senator
- Senator’s constituents protested opposition
- Bill passed in December 2006

## Appropriations Process   

- Collect relevant information and data
- Budget introduced the first Monday in February
- Form relationships with key staff
- Submit appropriations report language
- Participate in appropriations hearings
- Demonstrate program success and shortfalls- why more funding is needed

## Conclusion 

- Communicate POLICY to Congress
- Understand POLITICS of government
- Navigate PROCEDURE to achieve goals
- Combine these for SUCCESS
# Presentation: 011875

## Consultation with Tribal NationsWho Gets to Define “Right”?

## The responsibility of the NRCS to seek advice, guidance, and counsel from and to confer with American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, with regard to natural resource conservation issues that may affect a tribe.  (NRCS General Manual 410-405.2, August 2000)

**Consultation:**

## Federally recognized American Indian Nations are DIFFERENT from all other NRCS customers.

## What does this unique status mean to the NRCS?  Federally recognized tribes are: 	- Limited Sovereigns   	- Legally independent (in 	  		many instances)  	- Separate Governments  	- Culturally Different

## Tribal Nations are also culturally, linguistically, socially, politically, and historically UNIQUE. 

- Tribal Nations are also culturally, linguistically, socially, politically, and historically** ****UNIQUE****.**

## Tribal Nations, as our customers, AND as domestic sovereigns,want a more comprehensive approach to consultation, not limited by simple compliance.

## Asking for Tribal Consultation 

- Individual tribes vary widely in:
- Available Staff
- Expertise
- Organization
- Areas of Interest (geographic and topical)
- Response Time
- Agency Recognition

##  PROCESS

**Consultation is a**
** **_**PROCESS**_

## The NRCS Consultation PROCESS consists of six parts: 

- The NRCS Consultation PROCESS consists of six parts:

**Contacting Tribal Nations -    ****   ****	****Establishing Relations**
**Defining Consultation  **
**Determining Appropriate Contacts  **
**Establishing Government to Government   ****	****Relations **
**Determining How to Best Use Specific   ****   ****	****Consultation Episodes**
**Maintaining a Sound Relationship**

## Government-to-Government Relationsvs.Specific Consultation Episodes

## Government-to-Government Relationship Addresses:

- Broad, long term, issues as determined by tribal and agency leaders
- General tribal positions on resource management issues
- Personal relationships, trust, and consensus between leaders

## Specific Consultation Episodes 

-    Specific consultation episodes should be focused on individual projects and/or issues,  and should involve designated technical specialists on tribal and NRCS staffs.

## What’s Left?  And What’s Right?

- “Getting it right” calls for:
- Recognizing the unique legal, cultural, and historical status of tribal nations
- Working with tribal nations on a government-to-government basis
- Asking tribal nations how to set up consultation, and finally,
- Focusing on process and relationships, rather than simple compliance.
# Presentation: 697085

## Improving Access to Mainstream Services for Families with Children Experiencing Homelessness

**Improving Access to Mainstream Services for Families with Children Experiencing** **Homelessness**

**John A. Wagner, Commissioner**
- MA Department of Transitional Assistance (Welfare)
- Policy Academy on Homelessness, Houston TX
- “Plenary Session”
- April 21, 2005

## Background

**MA Department of Transitional Assistance = Food Stamps, TANF, cash assistance, homeless shelters**
- $30M for individuals
- $74M for families
**Recent study found $253,899,019 across MA executive agencies to “manage” homelessness**
**DHCD, DPH, DMH, DOE, MRC, DSS, DOC, DMA, DYS, others**

## Background (Cont.)

- Jan. 2003, Governor signs executive order establishing Governor’s Commission on Homeless, requires report
- May 2003, MA participates in PA4 on Chronic Homeless
- Nov. 2003, Commission Report
- Incorporates work/recommendations of PA4
- Recommends establishment of permanent interagency council, chaired by Gov. or Lt. Gov.
- Jan. 2004, MA Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing (MICHH)
- Aug. 2004, PA4 Chronic Homeless team presents recommendations/plan to MICHH and is adopted
- MICHH establishes a workgroup for homeless individuals (DTA/DMH co-chair) and for families

## MICHH Organization

**Homeless Individuals Workgroup**
- Includes members of PA4 team
- Implementation of recommendations
- “Cohort” study of 119 “street sleepers”

**Homeless Families Workgroup**
- Convened original by One Family Campaign around issues on as-needed basis
- Will be formalized and augmented to include future MA team for PA on families (Fall 2005)

## Outstanding Issues

**Continuums of Care (22 in MA)**
**DTA Lead Agency concept, building regional, community-based collaborations**
**Legislative efforts**
# Presentation: 442971

## An Examination of the Diurnal Cycle in the NCEP 

- GFS (and Eta) Model Precipitation Forecasts (during NAME)

- John Janowiak, Valery Dagostaro*, Vern Kousky, Bob Joyce
*Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS, Camp Springs, MD*
*Meteorological Development Laboratory/NWS, Silver Spring, MD*

- 30th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Penn State University, October 26, 2005

## MODEL FORECASTS

- Every 3 hours after 1st 12 hours from 00Z runs    		(12h, 15h, ..., 36h)
- 1o 1o x lat/lon grid

- Study Period: July 12 – August 15, 2004
-                    (during NAME field campaign)

## VALIDATION DATA

**A new member of the “MORPH” family: “****R****MORPH”  (Research-quality)**
**Land****:  CPC *****daily***** gauge analysis (Higgins & Shi) disaggregated by CMORPH**
**           ****satellite estimates **
**Ocean****: CMORPH only**
**Interpolated to match**** space-time resolution of model forecasts**

## VALIDATION DATA

- A new member of the “MORPH” family: “**R**MORPH”  (Research-quality)
- Land:  CPC ***daily*** gauge analysis (Higgins & Shi) dissaggregated by CMORPH
-            satellite estimates
- Ocean: CMORPH only
- Interpolated to match space-time resolution of model forecasts

## RMORPH & Gauge Comparison

**RMORPH & Gauge Comparison**

## Precipitation Difference from Validation Data

**Precipitation Difference from Validation Data**

## Difference in Frequency (%) by Intensity

**Eta - RMORPH**

**GFS - RMORPH**

**Percentage Difference**

**Difference in Frequency (%) by Intensity**

## Distribution of Heavy Rainfall Events

## (Land only)

## Mean 3-hour Precipitation

##     HARMONIC ANALYSIS

-     HARMONIC ANALYSIS
-  Applied to period mean diurnal cycle

##     HARMONIC ANALYSIS

-     HARMONIC ANALYSIS
-  Applied to period mean diurnal cycle

## Slide 13

## % of Daily Mean 

- % of Daily Mean
- Precipitation @ 35oN

## Precipitation @ 35oN

- Precipitation @ 35oN

## CONCLUSIONS

- Peak daily rainfall 3-6 hrs too early in Eta (SE US)
- 		and GFS (eastern U.S.)
- Better phase agreement over NAME “Tier-1”
- Models propagate rainfall well (central US -> east )
- Light rain rate OVERforecast in the models &
- 		heavy events UNDERforecast
# Presentation: 764285

## Recovery Audit Program

- USDA Financial Management Training

## Background

- The President’s Management Agenda includes an initiative to reduce Federal government erroneous payments
- Section 831 of the Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2002 added a new subchapter in the U.S. Code requiring executive agencies that enter into contracts in excess of $500 million a year to implement a recovery audit program

## Purpose of Recovery Audit 

**To look for payment errors resulting from:**
- Duplicate payments
- Errors on invoices or financing requests
- Failure to reduce payments by applicable sales discounts, cash discounts, rebates, or other allowances
- Payments for items not received
- Mathematical or other errors in determining payment amounts and executing payments
- Failure to obtain credit for returned merchandise

## OMB Requirements (1/4)

- Maintain cost effective recovery program of internal controls designed to prevent, detect, and recover overpayments to contractors

## OMB Requirements (2/4)

- Review contracts to determine contracts that may be exempted from recovery auditing requirements:
- Cost-type contracts that have not been completed and payments are subject to further adjustment
- Cost-type contracts that have been completed and are subject to a final contract audit
- Contracts that contain interim or provisional payment structures
- Recent payments may be excluded until the agency’s normal post-payment process has been completed

## OMB Requirements (3/4)

- Recovery audits may be performed by:
- Agency staff
- Other Federal agencies
- Recovery audit contractors
_**NOT**_ the Office of Inspector General
_**NOT**_ external auditors that need to maintain independence
- Recovery activity _**MUST**_ be handled by Federal employees
- Recovery auditor contractors may be obtained on a contingency fee basis

## OMB Requirements (4/4)

- Reporting: In the FY 2004 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR), agencies must report to OMB the following based on FY 2003 activity
- Description and evaluation of recovery audit program
- Total cost of the recovery audit program, with agency salaries and contract service amounts separated
- Total payment errors identified under program. Report amounts not recoverable, recovered, and pending final resolution. Report separate totals from amounts attributable to internal agency activities and to recovery audit contractors
- Description of management improvement plan
- Description of contracts excluded from program
- Reporting format is being developed for release in June

## USDA Requirements

- 3/16/04 - Reporting requirements and draft format were provided to agency heads
- 6/30/04 –Submit draft language to be included in the PAR report
- 8/27/04 –Submit final recovery audit information

## Contact Information

- Dale Theurer  (202) 720-1167
- Aaron Prose  (202) 720-1558
# Presentation: 815658

## Portable Broadband Seismology

- Jakarta, Indonesia
- May 11-13, 2006
- Bruce Beaudoin
- Marcos Alvarez

- Part 3: Seismometer Overview

## A Simple Seismometer

**Notes:**
This is a basic instrument used in school’s in the USA, it shows the elements of a professional instrument

The mass is on an arm, which can move with very little friction. The movement of the arm is damped by the pot of oil. The mass moves over the coil and induces a current.

In a modern instrument the current goes to a digitizer

## Equipment Inventory:Seismometers

## Spectral Amplitude Response Characteristics

**Notes:**
Types of instrument used for different experiments. 

## Equipment Inventory:Broadband Seismometers

- Guralp CMG-3T

- Streckeisen STS-2

## Equipment Inventory:Intermediate Period Seismometers

- CMG-40T
- 30s active feedback

- CMG-ESP
- 30s active feedback

## Equipment Inventory:Short Period Seismometers

- L4C
- 1Hz

- Teledyne GS-13
- 1Hz
- 1 Element/Housing

- L22
- 2Hz

- Passive Sensors

## Streckeisen STS-2

- Tri-Axial
- 120 Second
- Low Power
- 1500 V/m/s

**Notes:**
The STS-2 the components are not at 90 degrees,

## Streckeisen STS-2

**Notes:**
Metal shield protects the elements from the electromagnetic field generated by the electrics

## Slide 10

## Transformation

- Equations

- East
- North
- Vertical

**Notes:**
The 3 components are called u, v and w, the electronics in the sensor convert this to north, east and vertical using the equations at the bottom of the slide

## Transformation

- Equations

**Notes:**
The combination of the three components to the Z,N and E components means that if one is broken you need to think of how they combine to work out which one doesn’t work

## Guralp CMG-3T

- 120 Second
- Low Power
- 1500 V/m/s

## Guralp CMT-3T

**Notes:**
The 3T has three components in the Z, N and E orientations, so there no need for the mathematics

These seismometers work using “force feedback” – this is what the electronics are for. The mass is actually held in place by current through the coil

## Guralp CMG-3ESP

- 30 Second
- Low Power
- 2000 V/m/s

## Guralp CMG-40T

- 30 Second
- Low Power
- 800 V/m/s
- No locking

**Notes:**
For most instruments the masses have to be locked when moving the instrument so that this no damage is done. This was one of the first instruments that didn’t need to be lock for moving.
# Presentation: 501054

## Update for Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook ESUs

## Major Revisions

- Addition of new, recently available data for spring/summer chinook index stocks (updates through 1999 return year, 1994 brood year)
- Incorporation of smolt-to-adult return estimates into calculation of se (estuarine and early ocean survival)

## Lambda is Much Worse

| Stock | Lambda from 1980-present | Lambda from 1990-present |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marsh  | 0.888 | 0.675 |
| Johnson | 0.970 | 0.815 |
| Imnaha | 0.824 | 0.748 |
| Bear/Elk | 0.971 | 0.812 |
| Poverty | 0.951 | 0.757 |
| Sulphur | 1.037 | 0.681 |
| Minam | 0.939 | 0.849 |

## Slide 4

## Combinations of Actions Will Be Necessary

- Regardless of hydropower options chosen, we MUST explore other opportunities to increase rate of population change.
- Dam breaching becomes less likely to be sufficient to mitigate extinction risk, but more likely to be necessary.
- As situation(s) worsen(s), options become necessities.
# Presentation: 666768

## Runway Incursion Briefing(ICAO Definition applied to FY 04-07 data)

- Wes Timmons, Director of Runway Safety

- April 22, 2008

## A CHANGE

**All Categories**

**Tower Operations  (millions)**

**9.0**

**13.0**

**11.0**

**12.0**

**14.0**

**8.0**

**10.0**

**Runway Incursion Rate**
**Runway Incursions per 1,000,000 Tower Operations**

**YTD 03/26/08**

**11.56**

**12.36**

**63.12**

**63.01**

**13.34**

**368 as of 03/26/07**

**RUNWAY INCURSIONS**

**Rate est. 12.59* as of 03/26//08**

**61.13**

- * Rates are based on Estimated Tower Operations

**14.60**

**61.15**

**15.0**

## Runway IncursionsCategory A&B

**Tower Operations  (millions)**

**Category A&B Runway**** ****Incursion Rate**
**Runway Incursions per 1,000,000 Tower Operations**

**YTD 03/26/08**

**0.600**

**0.500**

**0.400**

**28**

**63.12**

**29**

** ****0.460**

- * Rates are based on Estimated Tower Operations

**0.444**

**63.01**

**31**

**0.300**

** ****0.507**

**61.13**

**24**

**0.200**

**61.15**

** ****0.393**

**15**

** ****0.541**

**Rate est. 0.541 * as of 03/26/08  Performance Reference = 0.509 ***

**0.700**

**0.100**

## Category A&B Rates and Counts(FY 2008)

**Total Category A&B Runway Incursions YTD FY 2008:**   **15**
**Total Category A&B Runway Incursions YTD FY 2007:   7**

## Severity Distribution of Runway Incursions

**FY 2008 YTD (03/26/08)**

**FY 2004-2007**

## Runway Incursions by Type/Category FY 2008 to Date (03/26/08)

**V/PD**

**OE**

**PD**

**93**

**+**

**+**

**=**

**417**

**271**

**53**

**FY2007**

**EOY TOTAL**

**123**

**575**

**194**

**+**

**+**

**=**

**892**

**892**

**FY2007**

**YTD TOTAL**

**51**

**235**

**82**

**+**

**+**

**=**

**368**

**368**

## Distribution by Type of Runway Incursions

**FY 2008 YTD (03/26/08)**

**FY 2004-2007**

## Runway Incursions by Category/TypeFY 2008 to Date (03/26/08)

**7**

**8**

**158**

**244**

**B**

**C**

**A**

**D**

**+**

**+**

**+**

**=**

**417**

**FY2007**

**EOY TOTAL**

**892**

**17**

**7**

**346**

**522**

**+**

**+**

**+**

**=**

**892**

**NONE**

**NONE**

**FY2007**

**YTD TOTAL**

**368**

**5**

**2**

**161**

**200**

**+**

**+**

**+**

**=**

**368**
# Presentation: 148374

## Occupancy

**Occupancy**

**It’s the law**

## The Law*

***The occupancy law applies to all VA loan types **_**except**_** for Interest Rate Reduction Refinancing Loans (IRRRL)**

**A veteran obtaining a VA-guaranteed loan must certify that they intend to occupy the property as their primary residence.**

## Requirement

**Live in the property or**
**Intend to occupy within a reasonable time**

## What is a “reasonable time”?

**What is a “reasonable time”?**

**Occupancy within 60 days is considered reasonable.***

***Of course, there are exceptions....**

## Exceptions to 60-day guideline

- A particular future event (i.e. job transfer, military discharge, etc.) that will make it possible for the veteran to occupy the home on a specific date after loan closing.

- Borrower must provide _official documentation_ to support claim of future event.

## Exception to 60-day guideline

**Occupancy After Retirement**

**In the near future?**

**Sometime soon?**

_**Only**_** retirement on a **_**specific**_** date within  12 months qualifies!**

## Exception to 60-day guideline

**Extensive property repairs or improvements that will prevent the veteran from occupying the property while work is being completed.**

**The veteran must certify their intention to occupy or reoccupy the property upon completion of repairs/improvements.**

## REMEMBER:

**REMEMBER:**

## Who can satisfy occupancy requirements?

**Spouse of the veteran**
**Adult child of the veteran**
**Renter**
**Both A and B**
**A, B, and C**
**All of the above **

**Who can satisfy occupancy requirements?**

## Occupancy by Spouse

**Spouse may satisfy occupancy if**
**Veteran is on active duty and cannot occupy**
**Veteran cannot occupy due to distant employment**

## What if the veteran doesn’t have a spouse to occupy?

- Only active duty service members _deployed_ from their permanent duty station are considered to be in temporary duty status and able to provide a valid intent to occupy certification with or without a spouse.

## Intermittent OccupancyDue to Employment

**Acceptable if the following two conditions are met:**
**History of continuous residence in the community and**
**There is no indication of a principal residence established elsewhere.**

## Unusual Circumstances

- <date/time>

**Unusual Circumstances**

**Call or e-mail your Regional Loan Center regarding unusual occupancy issues.**
- _[www.homeloans.va.gov/contact.htm](http://www.homeloans.va.gov/contact.htm)_

**These things happen...**

**We’d be**

- HappY

**to discuss them with you!**

## Occupancy Certification

- Uniform Residential Loan Application;
- VA Form 26-1802a, Addendum to the Uniform Residential Loan  Application (prior approval loans); and
- VA Form 26-1820, Report and Certification of Loan Disbursement (at the time of loan closing).

## Reference

- <date/time>

**Reference**

- _[VA Lenders Handbook](http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/pam26_7.html)__ VA Pamphlet 26-7_
**Chapter 3, section 5**

## Thank you for choosing to work with the VA Home Loan Program.

**We appreciate your support!**
# Presentation: 775117

## Savannah River Site

- Product Standardization Initiative
- Jim Arflin

## Product Standardization Initiative

- Standardization Objectives
- SRS’s Program
- Process
- Current Status
- Savings Potential

## Standardization Objectives

- Leverage purchasing power
- Reduce spare parts inventory
- Minimize training costs
- Improve workforce flexibility and plant availability rates

## SRS’s Program

- Owned by site’s Chief Engineer
- Coordinated by PMMD
- Guidance from Steering Committee
- Engineering Manager, Chair
- Maintenance Manager
- PMMD Management
- Materials Acquisition
- Asset Management
- Procurement Engineering
- Standards policy

## Process

- Candidate commodities identified to Steering Committee (SC)
- Product Review Teams chartered to evaluate potentials
- SC approves pursuit
- Agreements executed
- Standards issued

## Current Status

- 10 products recommended
- 9 have been evaluated
- 6 have demonstrated viability
- 3 under detailed review
- 1 agreement executed (PLC’s)
- $1 M projected savings over two years

## Points of Contact

- Bill Johns
- PMMD
- (803)952-9820
- william.johns@srs.gov
- Monica Jorque
- PE&CD
- (803)952-9736
- monica.jorque@srs.gov
# Presentation: 113885

## INTEX-B flight#3 plan – Houston local 1 on Saturday 3/4plan last updated 3/2 @19Z

**Objectives: **
**TES and OMI validation **
**Southeast U.S. outflow to Gulf of Mexico **

**1. In-progress ascent to point 2 (highest altitude possible)**
**2. Down spiral at point 2 (TES validation);**
**3. Low-altitude 1-10K porpoise legs between 2 and 3 **
**     ****(OMI + TES validation – SE US outflow)**
**4. Up spiral at point 3 (TES validation)**

## IONS Ozonesonde Launches http://croc.gsfc.nasa.gov/intexb/ions06.html
# Presentation: 305854

## Basic Needs for Healthy Growth

**1. safety & structure **
**2. belonging and membership **
**3. closeness & several good       ****	****relationships **
**4. experience gaining competence/ ****	****mastering skills **
**5. independence  **

## Basic Needs for Healthy Growth    		(cont’d)

**6. self- awareness: the ability & ****	****opportunity to act on that ****	****understanding. **
**7. self-worth: the ability & ****	****opportunity to contribute.**

## Healthy Environments

**Are inclusive:  create connections & belonging.  **
**Involve a caring adult.**
**Provide opportunities to practice service for others.**
**Provide autonomy: opportunity for self-determination.**

## Healthy Environments

**Provide opportunity to master skills & engage in learning.****	**
**Assure physical and emotional safety.**
**Help youth vision a positive role  for themselves.**

## Critical Competency Areas 

**1. Health/physical competence**
**2. Personal /social competence**
**3. Knowledge, reasoning and creativity competence**
**4. Vocational competence**
**5. Citizenship competence**

## Components of Effective Programs

**Have trained staff who.... **
**apply developmentally and culturally appropriate practices. **
**know of and use community resources.**

## Components of Effective Programs

**Serve a broad based audience reaching....**
** **
**highly vulnerable and less vulnerable youth. **
**early in their development.**

## Components of Effective Programs

**Offer comprehensive programming that...**
**base programs on the principles of youth development. **
**provide opportunities for youth to master skills. **

## Components of Effective Programs

**Are designed with input from participants.... **
**	****Involve and empower youth. **
**	****Have clearly defined outcomes.**

**Collect and use evaluation information to...**** **
**refine the program.  **
**become self- sustaining over time. **
# Presentation: 035764

## Kate MalloyDavid WadeTony Janicki

*Rob Mattson*

*Benthic Macroinvertebrate  and Periphyton Monitoring in the Suwannee River Basin in Florida 2: Relationships between Water **Quality and Biology*

*September 23, 2004*

## Objectives:

- Determine which water quality variables are most strongly correlated with biology
- Determine probability of occurrence of species as a response to water quality

## SRWMD Data:

- Most frequently occurring benthic invertebrate and periphyton species
- 16 water quality parameters:
- 		*a**lkalinity, chl a, color, conductivity,      **	**DO, NO2+NO3, NH3,TKN, total N, **	**total P, OPO4 ,PH, temperature, TOC, **	**TSS, turbidity*

## Spearman Correlation 

- non-parametric
- tests statistical significance of bivariate relationship
- provides measure of association (positive, negative, strong, weak)

## Logistic Regression

- Predict the ***probability of occurrence***, p(y), of  a species as a function of environmental variables
- Concept: an organism has ***tolerance limits*** for a given environmental variable (bounded by a minimum and maximum value)
- Single logistic regression describes ***optimum habitat requirements***
- Multiple logistic regressions provide information on relative ***importance of each environmental variable***

## Nitrate + Nitrite

- Statistically significant correlations for 16 of the 20 frequently occurring periphyton species
- 11 were highly significant (<0.001)
- Correlations varied in strength, ranging from 0.62-0.20
-  most positively correlated
- Example species:
*Cocconeis placentula*
-  R=0.62, p<0.001

## Logistic Output

*Logistic Output*

***Optimum***

***Tolerance Range***

***Model Domain***

***p(y)***

## Logistic Regression Approach

- Diatom,  *Cocconeis placentula*

## Periphyton Species Summary 

*Periphyton Species Summary** *

## Nitrate + Nitrite

- Statistically significant correlations for 15 of the 20 frequently occurring invertebrate species
- 11 were highly significant (<0.001)
- Correlations varied in strength, ranging from 0.59-0.17
-  most positively correlated, a few negatively
- Example species:
*Tricorythodes albilineatus*
- R=0.59, <0.001

## Logistic Regression Approach

- Mayfly, *Tricorythodes albilineatus*

## Invertebrate Species Summary

## Alkalinity

- Statistically significant correlations for 13 of the 20 frequently occurring periphyton species
- 10 were highly significant (<0.001)
- Correlations varied in strength, ranging from 0.61-0.18
-  most positively correlated
- Example species:
*Cocconeis placentula*
-  R=0.61, <0.001

## Alkalinity

- Statistically significant correlations for 17 of the 20 frequently occurring invertebrate species
- 11 were highly significant (<0.001)
- Correlations varied in strength, ranging from 0.62-0.15
-  most positively correlated, a few negatively
- Example species:
*Tricorythodes albilineatus*
- R=0.62, <0.001

## Answer Questions:

- What are the most sensitive biological indicators for selected environmental variables?
- Is there a set of physical/chemical conditions that will result in an expected biological condition?
# Presentation: 802652

## Nonlinear Shunting

- Presented by Victor Karpov
- Contributions by
- D. Shvydka,Y. Roussillon,
- A. D. Compaan and D. M. Giolando
- University of Toledo

**Abstract:**
**...****a candidate major mechanism **
**of efficiency loss and degradation**

## Ohmic shunting

-   Signature effects:
-  Loss in Voc
-  Loss in FF
-  Slope J(V) @ V=0

**CdS**

## Nonlinear: shunting without Rsh

- Small lift-off voltage (VLO) elements

- V

- J

- Jsc

- J

- V

- VLO

- J

- V

- “Voc”~VLO

- +

- =

- Voc

- V

- J

- Jsc

- J

- V

- VLO

- J

- V

- “Voc”~VLO

- +

- =

- Voc

**Signature effects****: Low Voc and FF, no Rsh**
**Commonly observed in loss and degradation**

## Examples - Weak diodes 

- Low Voc, main junction problems

- Partial shunts
- Say, through CdS only

- Recombination pathways through depleted region

## Examples: Reach through diodes

- V=0;
- Current blocked

- V>VRT;
- Reach-through current

- J

- V

- Reach-through
- diode

- VRT

**Genesis:**
**Poor doping, Contaminations, Metal delamination**

**Spots of strong back barrier**

## Correlated FF and Voc: Modeling

**Ideal:              Voc=1000, FF=65**
**Random 1:      Voc=790,  FF= 58**
**Random 2:      Voc=720,  FF= 51**

- 1000 diodes,
- Gaussian disorder,
- Voc/Voc=0.2

- General trends
- Cell to cell variations
- Correlated FF and Voc

- E  x  a  m  p  l  e

**Could be misinterpreted as uniform junction recombination**

## Correlated FF and Voc: Experimental

- N = 1020 readings
- Fresh and degraded cells
- (described in APL, 2002)

- High correlation
- between FF and Voc

**Could be misinterpreted as uniform junction recombination**

## Nature degrades nonuniformlyStresses concentrate on weak elements 

- Electric Breakdown
- Mechanical Cracking
- Corrosion Spots
- Chemical Decomposition
- Health Problems
**PV should not be an exception**

## Discrete in space, continuous in time

- Stress concentrated on weak elements
- Degrades them further
- Weak element continuous degradation
- Drives the entire system down

- Experimentally, various mappings
- (LBIC, EL, EBIC, Thermography)
- Show increase in nonuniformity
- Correlated with degradation

## Shunting instability

- Small thickness, *l*~1m, Large area, *L*~ 1cm,
- Large capacitance, *C*~ 1nF, Voltage *U*~ 1V

- Thin films are energetically unstable with respect to shunting

**Giant stored energy *****CU******2******/2***** ~ 10 GeV !!!**
- Suffices to create multiple shunts
- Inevitable but can be slowed down

## Conclusions

- Commonly observed efficiency loss and degradation through FF and Voc explained by nonlinear shunting
- Caused by weak diode or strong back barrier spots
- Can be mistaken for uniform junction recombination
- If nothing else, occurs through electrostatic instability
- Inevitable, but can be slowed down
# Presentation: 644622

## Tri-Cities Research DistrictWhere We’ve Been and Where We’re GoingGary Spanner

## Where We’ve Been

- Won IPZ designation & $275K
- Developed master plan for the core
- Built local momentum & support
- Identified Infinia as technology demo
- Concluded that wind too weak

## Where We’ve Been (cont’d)

- Opened Bioproducts Sciences & Engineering Laboratory (BSEL)
- Recruited Drs. Ahring & Thomsen
- Hosted key state leaders several times
- Obtained $100K from Battelle

## Where We’re Going

- Implement today’s input
- Hold S&T park seminar series
- Execute a coordinated marketing effort
- Signage, new businesses, street work, submarine park
# Presentation: 789368

## Trigger Meister Report

**Elizabeth Gallas, Levan Babukhadia**
**(Trigger Meisters)**
***See the TM HomePage***
**http://www-d0.fnal.gov/trigger_meister/**
*** ***

- Trigger Board Meeting
- January 16, 2002

- Babukhadia,Gallas/TM Report

- Jan 916, 2002

## Summarize TrigDb Configurations

_**Rate Tests:**_
- obsolete:
- 	ratetest_L1CalMuon-1.10 - 53 triggers
- current
- 	ratetest_L1CalMuon-1.20 - 53 triggers
- 	ratetest_L1CalMuon-1.30 - 73 triggers
- added 4 new l1 muon triggers by themselves, with fastz (min_bias), with EM5, EM10, JT*
_**Physics datataking**_:
- obsolete
- 	global_CalMuon-3.10 - 48 triggers
- current
- 	global_CalMuon-3.20 - 48 triggers
- 	global_CalMuon-3.30 - 50 triggers +?
- tested by Yann on 100,000 events
- (added 2 new L3 Scripts for TAU id, hanging off existing L1 triggers, no changes in prescales)

- Babukhadia,Gallas/TM Report

- Jan 916, 2002

## What’s new ?

- TM strongly advocate ‘trigger workshop’
- suggested by Leslie
- integrate all levels of the trigger
- L3 hardware changes allow increase in rate to L3
- I don’t understand exactly how much until we start running again
- L2 system now sending objects to global
**Physics Groups: start simulating L2**
**L1 PreScale for L2 rejection DEAL !**
- Add L2 to your triggers, a corresponding decrease in the L1 prescale on that trigger seems fair.

- Babukhadia,Gallas/TM Report

- Jan 916, 2002
# Presentation: 697089

- Sponsored by Congressman Adam Smith

- April 24, 2007
- 6:30pm-8:30pm
- Port Business Center
- 3600 Port of Tacoma Road
- Tacoma, WA 98424

- Find out what you need to know to obtain a Congressional Nomination
-  to one of the United States Military Academies.
- Meet Academy Field Representatives From:

**U. S. Military Academy at West Point****U. S. Air Force Academy****U. S. Naval Academy****U. S. Merchant Marine Academy****U. S. Coast Guard Academy**

**This informational event is recommended for all high school students that reside in Washington State’s 9th Congressional District.  All grades are welcome.  Event will be held in Conference Room 104. **
**Contact:  Rebecca Snyder, Academy Coordinator**
**Office of Congressman Adam Smith****3600 Port Of Tacoma Road., Suite #106****Tacoma, WA 98424****253-896-3775 or 1-888smith09**
# Presentation: 487614

## Arctic Region Supercomputing CenterUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks

- Roger Edberg, Bob Huebert, Steve Munk
- Access Grid Retreat
- 30-31 Jan 2001

## ARSC

- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- ~30 full-time staff
- ~220 active users: 30% UAF, 70% external (primarily DOD unclassified science)
- Resources: Cray T3E, SV1, SGI systems, ImmersaDesk, Access Labs, User Services, Technical Services

## ARSC’s Motivation

- Distance (!)
- Within Alaska
- Interstate
- International
- Technological Imperative

## Distance

- Users (HPC, Viz, Storage, Services, ...)
- University of Alaska: UAF, UAA, UAS and remote campus locations
- Alaska State Government
- DOD HPCMO - other centers, Washington DC
- Vendors

## Air Travel From Anchorage

- Fairbanks				1 hours
- Juneau					2 hours
- Seattle					3 hours
- Chicago				6 hours
- Frankfurt				9 hours
- Tokyo					10 hours

## ARSC Connectivity

- Pacific Northwest GigaPop Fairbanks - Seattle [OC12]
- Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN)  [OC3]

## ARSC AGN Timeline

- NGI grant proposal and award
- Aug 2000 - Components ordered
- Sep 2000 - AG Tutorial at ANL
- Jan 2001 - Systems operational; remodeling and multicast configuration remain
- Feb 2001 - Fully Online

## ARSC AGN Site

- Board of Regents Conference Room - Butrovich Building, UAF
- Large, comfortable room
- Easy access for ARSC, UAF faculty, students, administration, visitors
- High visibility

## AGN Planned Usage

- Teaching: joint classes, demos, tutorials
- Meetings and Demonstrations
- R&D collaborations - videoconferencing and beyond...
- Huge potential for closer ties with remote users and other sites

## User Specialties

- Geophysics, space physics, astronomy
- Oceanography: Arctic ocean circulation, coupled biology-circulation models
- Engineering: Arctic, petroleum, mining, electrical
- Climate/Weather: research and forecasting
- Ecosystems, Hydrology

## Teaching Possibilities

- Don Morton - University of Montana
- Guy Robinson, Lori LeBrock, Darrell Hicks, Chris Hartman, Glenn Chappell - UAF
- Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
- Albuquerque HPCC, Maui HPCC

## R&D Possibilities

- Chris Moore, Al Hermann - PMEL/NOAA, University of Washington
- Piero Pierucci - Rome; Bill Brody, Chris Hartman - ARSC
- US Army Cold Regions Test Center - Delta Junction, AK
- ERDC

- ARSC Web		http://www.arsc.edu
- Roger Edberg  	edberg@arsc.edu
- Bob Huebert		huebert@arsc.edu
- Steve Munk		munk@arsc.edu
# Presentation: 725686

## NIMH IMPAC II Basic Web Query Tool

- Presented at the IMPAC II
-  Extension Systems’ Demo
- May 10, 2001
- by Jackie Sanders, NIMH jsanders@nih.gov 301-443-3770 Copy of slides www.nimh.nih.gov/demo/natcher/index.htm _[[GO]](http://www.nimh.nih.gov/demo/epmc/index.htm)_

- 11/17/1999

## Purpose of the Tool

- Provide an easy-to-use generic web based ad hoc query & reporting tool to fill in reporting gaps left by IMPAC II
- First for NIMH
- Then for interested NIH folks as the applicability became apparent
- Gain experience with using Cold Fusion to process IMPAC II data

- 11/17/1999

## Background on Development

- Feb 1999 - Jackie studied existing NIMH and NIH IMPAC-related systems to see what commonly has been done in the past to:
- Select a collection of records
- Arrange them in sequence
- Present the detailed information

- 11/17/1999

## Background (continued)

- Mar - Apr 1999 - Jackie developed the first release of the system in Cold Fusion, working part time on it.  Got help and advice from:
**Rich Morey**, NIMH Technical Support Contractor, **Tracy Soto**, NIMH IMPAC II Technical Representative, **Patti Gaines**, NIMH PARIS Project Officer, **Dennis Glanzman**, a NIMH Program Official, and **IMPAC II Help Desk**

- 11/17/1999

## Background (continued)

- Apr 1999 - Deployed for use on NIMH’s In_tra_net
- Apr - May 1999 - Jackie expanded selection, sorting and reporting features based on user feedback
- Jun 1999 - NIMH copied the system to NIMH’s In_ter_net and conducted a brief Stress Test with **Tim Twomey** of OER and **Ed Farley** of CSR plus NIMH testers

- 11/17/1999

## Background (continued)

- Jul 1999 - NIMH switches to Internet version
- Aug 1999 - Availability of the system announced at the **ADP/EP** meeting
- Sep 1999 - Began collaborating with **Thor Fjellstedt** and **Don Tiedemann** to merge/share  some of the NIMH Query tool features with the ECB project.

- 11/17/1999

## Background (continued)

- Oct 1999 - Developed a plan with **Jim Cain** of OER to migrate the Query Tool over to OER’s IRDB server to become a sanctioned part of IMPAC II’s Web Tools.
- Didn’t happen, though, partly because of discussions about changing IRDB format.  Instead ...

- 11/17/1999

## Background (continued)

-  In mid 2000, began working with the newly formed QVR Team on merging the query tool’s features with the Electronic Council Book’s features.

- 11/17/1999

## Demonstration

- The System:	**http://www.nimh.nih.gov/i2/logon.cfm **_**[[GO]_x000b_](http://www.nimh.nih.gov/i2/logon.cfm)**_
- Demo Documentation:**http://www.nimh.nih.gov/i2/i2_Demo/Demo.htm** _[[GO]](http://www.nimh.nih.gov/i2/i2_Demo/i2_Demo.htm)_

- 11/17/1999

## Next Steps:

- Continue to support the system on NIMH’s web server until the QVR fully replaces its functionality.
- Continue to consider making small enhancements to the tool, also communicating those ideas to the QVR team.

- 11/17/1999

## The End 

- 11/17/1999
# Presentation: 157378

## Construction Sequence

- Michele McMurtry

## C-470 overpass

- Source: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office

## Slide 3

## Construction Sequence

- 9:00 p.m. on May 11 until 5:00 a.m. on May 12
- I-70 to be closed for 8 hours
- 11:00 p.m. until 12:30 a.m.
- Hoisting girder sections

## Construction Sequence (Cont’d.)

- The bolts in the photograph are the actual splicing bolts

## Girder identification mark painted by shipping crew

## Fabricator’s piece mark stamped into the girder

## Construction Sequence (Cont’d.)

- 4:00 a.m. 1st girder in place
- No time to install 2nd girder
-  Installation of temporary bracing
- Bolting problems
- Bolts too long
- Employee sent for different bolts
- I-70 reopened at 5:30 a.m.

## Construction Sequence (Cont’d.)

- 11th

- 12th

- 13th

- 14th

- 15th

- Girder Erection

- Accident

- 70

- 30

- 60

- 50

- 40

- Temperature F degrees

**Construction Sequence (Cont’d.)**

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12
# Presentation: 257776

## Communications Piece“what about Version 2?”

## Commitments of Version 2 would be treated primarily as follows:

- Continental-scale treatment of marshbirds:  *Technical Services Committee.*
- Fuller treatment of Latin America and the Caribbean: *Underway under “Advancing Range-Wide Waterbird Conservation Throughout the Western Hemisphere;” Regional Committee to facilitate creation of relevant regional plans. *
- Revision of status assessments: Technical Services to develop a strategy to account for hemispheric expansion

## Cont.

- Revision of other components (threats, monitoring, research, partnering, etc.):  *Not a discrete Council task for 2005; will be more feasible as more regional plans are completed.*
- Articulation of habitat and population goals: *Not a discrete Council task for 2005; goals are being developed for the regional-scale in regional plans.*
- Increased conservation actions: *Regional Committee to facilitate regional-scale implementation of planned conservation activities; Resources Committee to assess funding opportunities; Conservation Action Committee to continue addressing urgent conservation issues.*

## “Communications Piece”:

- Products addressing above commitments would be published on-line as they become available;
- A printed “Version 2” is not envisioned.
- Communications piece as an awareness tool of initiative progress, referring to on-line products.
- Development led by Communications Committee

## Give outline, appearance
# Presentation: 418563

## Statistical Considerations forDetection of Bladder Cancer by Microsatellite Analysis (MSA) of Urinary Sediment:Multi-Institutional Study

- Presentation at the EDRN FDA Education Workshop
- February 15, 2007
- Mark Thornquist
- Co-PI, EDRN Data Management and Coordinating Center

## Study Design

- Prospective study
- Primary outcomes: Sensitivity and specificity of an MSA panel of 16 markers to detect _recurrent_ bladder cancer in the two years following resection of incident bladder cancer
- Secondary outcome: Sensitivity and specificity of the MSA panel to detect incident bladder cancer
- Study populations:
- 260 bladder cancer cases, with baseline and follow-up every three months for 2 years (9 total contacts)
- 100 healthy normal controls – Group 1
- 100 controls with potentially confounding conditions: 25 BPH, 25 bladder infections, 25 hematuria, 25 foreign bodies (e.g., stones, stents) – Group 2
- Specimens collected: blood (baseline only for cases), urine
- Data collected:
- Cystoscopy (except in healthy normal controls)
- Urine cytology
- Pathology (whenever biopsy is done)

## Study Power:Baseline Sensitivity

## Study Power:Baseline Specificity

## Study Power:Follow-Up Sensitivity

## Study Power:Follow-Up Specificity

## Analysis Plan—Baseline Data

- Sensitivity [P(M+|D+)] and Specificity [P(M-|D-)] for the pre-defined marker panel
- D- defined as no disease indicated by cystoscopy (group 1 controls all considered D-)
- Specificity calculated separately for group 1 and group 2 controls
- Secondary analyses
- Weighted estimate of group 2 specificity that weights to the anticipated prevalence of the conditions in the screening population
- Exploratory subgroup analyses
- Sensitivity and specificity by sex
- Specificity by type of potentially confounding condition
- Exploratory marker combination analyses
- Optimization of panel rule (markers included, cutpoints, combination rule) with training and test sets

## Analysis Plan—Follow-Up Data

- Sensitivity and specificity for the pre-defined marker panel
- Based on concurrent marker status, fit using GEE methods
- Anticipatory estimate:
- Se(t-s) = P[M+(t-s)|D+(t)], Sp(t-s) = P[M-(t-s)|D-(t)]
- Fit using GEE methods
- Goal to determine the value of s that provides satisfactory sensitivity while maintaining high specificity
- Exploratory marker combination analyses
- If an improved marker panel is developed in the baseline analysis, that panel will be examined for concurrent and anticipatory sensitivity and specificity in the follow-up data
- Exploratory analyses of marker combinations similar to those done in the baseline analyses can be conducted here using concurrent marker status as the outcome and with _participants_ randomly divided into training and test sets

## Analysis Plan—Other Analyses

- Potential bias—the participating sites are include several with a strong referral component.  We will examine whether the baseline risk factor distribution of study participants matches those in bladder cancer cases from large population-based studies conducted by ACS and the National Center for Health Statistics
# Presentation: 697543

## ZioLib, Parallel I/O Library

**Woo-Sun Yang** and **Chris Ding**
- Computational Research Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

## Parallel netCDF write (256256256)

## Parallel netCDF read (256256256)

## ZioLib uses I/O staging processors for Z-decomposition

- Relieves memory limitations of a PE
- Relieves congestion on I/O nodes
- Writes/reads in large blocks (no seeks) in parallel
- Eliminates gather/scatter from user codes

- Distributed array
- In (X,Z,Y) index order

- Remapped at I/O staging PEs
- In (X,Y,Z) index order

- I/O staging PEs write
- global field in parallel

## Current status of ZioLib

- A set of Fortran 90 modules supporting
- netCDF I/O (serial and parallel)
- direct-access unformatted I/O (serial and parallel)
- sequential-access unformatted I/O (serial)
- Works for arrays of any number of dimensions of **integer*4**, **real*4** and **real*8**
- Reads or writes in any array index order
- Works with any parallel decomposition
- Can handle ghost nodes
- Uses MPI-1 routines only – can still work for serial I/O on machines without a parallel file system, a parallel netCDF library or MPI-2

## Direct-access write (256256256; XZY to XYZ)

**transpose**
**global array**

**total**

**remap**

## Direct-access write (256256256; XZY to XYZ)Speed-up w.r.t. existing MPI + single-PE I/O

## More on testing

- Direct-access I/O with T42L26 resolution (1286426: 1.625 MB)
- Write: speed up by 3-4
- Read: speed up by 6-7
- CAM2.0 history I/O with 8, 16 and 32 processors
- with EUL (T42L26, Y-decomposition) and FV (B26, 2D-decomposition), load balancing chunking turned off
- used the serial netCDF with one staging processor
-  speed-up by 1.5-2.5 (with serial netCDF only)
# Presentation: 687868

## Observing the Tropical Cyclone and its Environment: Current Capabilities and Future Outlook

## Recent Success Stories: Satellite

**Observing Systems:**
***Saving of TRMM (for at least 3 more years)!!***
***TOPEX for ocean heat content and QuikSCAT***
**Communication**
***Real-time data access though links and web sites***
***Improved visualization methods***
**Use of Satellite Data:**
***Positive impact of sat data for SHIPS, ***
***Data assimilation into NWP;***
***Objective Dvorak technique, R-Cliper***
***Multi-spectral approaches to analysing TCs (Intensity and Structure)***
***Objective indicators of annular storms and eyewall replacement cycles***

## Satellite Data in SHIPS

**GOES predictors improve east Pacific forecasts by almost 10%**
**GOES and Ocean Heat Content improve Atlantic forecasts by 2-3%**
***Larger improvement for storms in high OHC areas***
**JHT project 2002-03**
**Operational in 2004**

*TPC’s operational OHC*
*product for Hurricane Katrina*
*from satellite altimetry*

## Slide 4

## Recent Success Stories: Aircraft

**Superb effort by 53****rd**** and NOAA on coping with an unprecedented hurricane season**
**First hurricane mission by a UAS**
**Upgraded real-time communication from P3s, enabling potential for use of radar data in NWP**

## Aerosonde Mission into Ophelia 16 Aug, 2005

**NOAA WP-3D SFMR **
**Surface winds in light blue, **
**Aerosonde winds in black,**
**buoy winds in dark blue.**
**Aerosonde peak winds at**
**2500 ft were 65 kt southeast **
**of center and 75 kt north **
**of center. **
**Excellent agreement between buoy, SFMR and Aerosonde winds adjusted to surface values.**
**SFMR winds SW of center were **
**within 10 min of aerosonde.**

## Observing Outlook

**Aircraft:**
***SFMR implementation on C130s (delayed?)***
***UAS Operational trial***
**Satellite:**
***COSMIC, GPM, NPOESS, GOES-R+ ***
***NRC Decadal Study Recommendations for future NASA (wind lidar, geo-microwave, GPS)***
******Many are delayed or on hold******
**Use of Data**
***4DDA techniques tested (4DVar, EnKF)***
***Assimilation of radar data land-based and aircraft***
# Presentation: 464552

## Generating Deletions

***w******-***

- Exons 2-6

- exon1

- exon1

- Exons 2-6

**RS5**

**RS3**

- Exons 2-6

- exon1

**RS5r**

**RS3r**

- 3

- 5

- 5

- 3

- 3

- 5

- 5

- 3

- exon1

**RS5r**

- 3

- 5

***w******-***

- Exons 2-6

**RS3r**

- 5

- 3

***w******-***

- Exons 2-6

- exon1

**DELETION**

***w******+***

**DUPLICATION**

***w******-***

***or***

## Coverage maps: Chromosome 3L

-  Also, over 12,259 deletions between 1bp and 1MB could be constructed.

**Notes:**
Coverage maps of all chromosomes can be seen on the poster (1012A)

So how easy is it to recover deletions and what is the rate of flipping?

## Validation - Genetic

- Uncovers
*noc*
*nht*
- Complements
*el*
*esg*

## Deletions with single gene resolution

## Designer Deletions

***Df(2R)ED3921***

***UM-8177-3***

***Df(2R)ED3889***

- Andrew Travers, MRC-LMB Cambridge

## w1118

*w**1118*

*RS5r*

*RS3r*

- Gene-trap