BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 175966

## Population genetics of the wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticinain Central Asia 

- J. A. Kolmer
- M. E. Ordonez
- USDA-ARS
- Cereal Disease Laboratory
- University of Minnesota -St. Paul

## Slide 2

## Leaf Rust Collections

- Collections from 2002, 2004, 2005
- A. Morgounov - CIMMYT, Almaty Kazakhstan
- 137 isolates tested for virulence - 99 for SSR
- Caucasus - (Azb.,Geo. Arm.) 13 Uzbekistan - 7
-      Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan -15
-      S. Kazakhstan - 39
-      N. Kazakhstan- 25
-      N. America-16
- 	Durum - 2
-      Clone corrected within populations
-      (race/SSR genotype)
-      20 differentials - 23 SSR loci

-        Super highway - Kazakhstan

## Virulence and SSR Diversity

|  | Cauc. | N. Kaz. | S. Kaz | Tjk-Kyg | Uzbek | N. Am. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| No. isolates | 13 | 25 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 16 |
| No. races | 12 | 21 | 37 | 15 | 7 | 16 |
| No. SSR 
genotype | 11 | 21 | 34 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| Shannon/ Ln(N) | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.70 | 0.76 | 0.93 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

## Tjk-Kyg-Uzb.-Caucasus not sig. differentiated S. Kaz - N. Kaz.not sig. differentiated

- Differentiation Statistics (*Phi*) of Pair-wise Populations - Virulence phenotypes

- Neighbor joining

- Tjk-Kyg-Uzb -          Caucasus not signif. differentiated
- S. Kaz - N. Kaz.
- not signif. differentiated
- 0.82 correlation with virulence tree

- Differentiation (*F**st*)  Statistics of Pair-wise Populations SSR Genotypes

- Neighbor joining

## Individual Isolates SSR Allele Variation

- -Central Asia
- 1    Avir Lr2a Vir Lr2c
- 2
- 4
- Most from Cauc-Tjk-Kry-Uzb.
- 3    Vir Lr2a  Vir Lr2c
- Most from S.+ N.Kazakhstan
- -North America
- Avir  Lr2a   Vir Lr2c
- Vir Lr2a Lr2c
-        Avir Lr2a Lr2c
- -Durum
- 6    Avir. to almost all Lr genes

- Neighbor joining

## Slide 8

## Central AsiaP. triticina populations

- Two distinct regional populations - mountain barrier
- Limited migration between regions - very few SSR-virulence genotypes in common
- Strong relationship between virulence and SSR genotypes

-    Come to Kazakhstan!!!

## Population Genetics of P. triticina - Future Goals

- Describe world-wide populations
-      20 Tc line differentials
-      23 SSR loci
- North America, Central Asia, Middle East,
-     South America, Europe
- Determine genetic relationships between populations -
-     (MCDS - USA- S. America)
# Presentation: 009394

## summary

**	****Impossible!**
**But the slides are on the web**

## What happened here?

**Terrific cultural enrichment**
**We made new connections**
**Other ways to look at our favorite physics**
**New people to talk to**

## What’s next?

**Identify common problems to pursue further**
**I’ll show a strawman set of problems**
**Don’t throw rocks!**
**throw emails to **_**[Barbara.Jacak@stonybrook.edu](mailto:Barbara.Jacak@stonybrook.edu)**_
**Pursue possibility of a workshop at theory venue**
**e.g. ITP Santa Barbara**
**Arrange cross-disciplinary talks/session at APS meetings (DPP, DNP, DAMOP)**

## Common problems

**Thermalization**
**How fast can the systems thermalize?**
**	****do they actually thermalize?**
**HOW do they thermalize?**
**	****collisions (of what) vs. interaction with (collective) fields**
**Models & their validity range**
**Kinetic models for collective processes**
**Hydrodynamics**
**Correlations among particles in strongly coupled plasma**
**Affect density structure of plasma**
**Should give rise to correlations also in the final state**
**Quasi-bound states, EOS**

## Common problems, ctd.

**What happens when systems get dilute?**
**Recombination and final state interactions**
**Diagnostics**
**Systems are short-lived!**
**	****study space-time evolution through time integrated**
**	**** ****observables (radiation or probes)**
**	****must figure out how to use correlations to extract **
**Use of final state cluster distributions for initial state info**
**Diagnostics of collective motions**
**	****multiparticle emission variables**
**	****single particles in multiparticle field, acoustic waves**
# Presentation: 381526

## No Need to Wrap It: HIV Gift-giver Newsgroups, Gift Theory and Exchanging HIV as a Gift 

- Messages were downloaded from 17, Web-based, Gift-giver / Bug-chaser newsgroups
- Postings dated from Sept. 1998 to Feb. 2003
- 281 messages were categorized thematically to form a typology of the Gift
- HIV-Gift narratives were then read with reference to sociological and anthropological theories of gift-exchange

## Barebacker & Gift-giver Rationales

**Gift-giver / Bug-chaser rationales echo themes found in**
**the Barebacking literature. **
- Condom-less sex is more natural, real, intimate
- Risk-takers are essentially masculine, hyper-masculine
- Individual choice
- Acts of rebellion, resistance
- Safer-sex exhaustion; inevitability of HIV infection
- Treatment breakthroughs
- Eroticize illness, AIDS, STDs, decay
- Fetishisation of Ejaculate
- Gendered sex roles, e.g., penetration = feminization

## The Typology of the Gift 

- The Gift of...
- the Gift
- the Bug
- Disease, AIDS
- Poz, Pozzing
- Voltage, Charging
- Toxin, Poison, Death

- The Gift facilitates...
- Conversion, New Life
- Becoming a Giver
- Joining Poz Brotherhood
- Pregnancy, Breeding
- Denigrating the Unawares, the ‘Clean’

## Exchanging HIV as a Gift

- Gift-giver gives ‘Gift’
- Gift-givers are described as powerful, valued, masculine Tops
- Bug-chaser receives ‘Gift’
- Bug-chasers are described as weak, worthless, feminized Bottoms
- Gift of HIV is _**always**_ given by Tops to Bottoms.

- ‘Real Sex’ is natural, extreme, dirty, risky
- HIV negative = Clean
- HIV positive = Dirty
- HIV+ ejaculate is Gifted, Buggy, Charged, Dirty, Poisoned, Toxic, Hot
- Exchange is akin to reproduction. Chasers are impregnated, knocked-up, seeded, etc.

## Key Findings

- No Barebacking or Gift-giver newsgroups were found that dated prior to 1997-98, most dated from 2000
- Newsgroups function as self-reinforcing forums
- Conceived of as a Gift, the meaning of HIV can be manipulated to fulfill particular goals
- Becoming HIV+ is considered inevitable, desirable
- As with any gift, the Gift of HIV is transformative
- Exchanging HIV provides a sense of control
- Extreme sex provides a sense of sexual transgression that safe-sex precludes
# Presentation: 526474

## Combining Different Measurements

*Bob Nichol, ICG Portsmouth*
- Tommaso Giannantonio, H-J Seo, _Dan Carson_, _Hubert Lampeitl_*, Josh Frieman, Bruce Bassett, Mat Smith, Will Percival
- (for SDSS Collaboration)

** see poster*

## BAO with Redshift

- 99.74% detection

**Percival et al. (2006)**

- 143k + 465k

- 79k

- z~0.35

- z~0.2

**Percival et al. 2007**

- Measure ratio of volume averaged distance
- D0.35 /D0.2 = 1.812 ± 0.060
- Flat CDM = 1.67
- Systematics (damping, BAO fitting) also ~1Next set of measurements will need to worry about this

## Cosmological Constraints

****

****

****

**w= P/******

******m**

**Only ****D****0.35**** /D****0.2**** **

- With CMB

- Flatness assumed, constant w

**Favors w<-1 at 1.4******

**W**

## Cosmological Constraints

**1******

**2******

**3******

**W**

******m**

**Only ****D****0.35**** /D****0.2**** **

- With CMB

- Flatness assumed

**W**

******m**

******m**** = 0.249 ± 0.018**
**w = -1.004 ± 0.089**

- D0.35 /D0.2 = 1.66 ± 0.01

**w= P/******

## Discrepancy?

-  **2.4******** difference between SN & BAO****. The BAO want more acceleration at z<0.3 than predicted by z>0.3 SNe**
** ****~1******** possible from details of BAO damping - ****more complex then we thought**
** ****Assumption of ****flatness and constant w**** needs to be revisited**

## Revisit with SDSS SNe

- Only look at measurements at z<0.4

-  500 Ia’s
-  102 from 05
-  LCDM line
-  2 contours
-  q0 = -0.34 (2)

*SDSS BAO points*

## Cosmological Constraints

- Only look at measurements at z<0.4

-  ISW (z<0.4)
-  Peacock et al

*SDSS BAO points*

**W**

**SNe**

- BAO

**Flat wCDM**

**w= -1 (15% stat & sym)**

## Curvature

- Only look at measurements at z<0.4

-  ISW (z<0.4)
-  Peacock et al

## Distance Duality

- Returning to BAO and SN discrepancy?

## Cosmic Chronometers

- Age of galaxies constraints age of universe (Jimenez & Loeb 2002)

**5500 LRGs**

*Carson et al. (in prep)*

- (*Using Thomas et al. models, marginalised over alpha-enhancement and metallicity*)

## Cosmic Chronometers II

- Age of galaxies constraints age of universe (Jimenez & Loeb 2002)

**raw t(z)**

**HST**

**TSR**

**ISW**

**WMAP**

***ALL FLAT***

## Differential Ages H(z)

- We find *H*(z=0.2) ~ 80 +/- 12 km/s

*Same value as Gaztanaga et al. but not yet competitive in error*

## Conclusions

- Tension remains between BAO and SN (over same redshift range). But ~2at best
- Cosmic Chronometers provide constraints on age-redshift relation (thus h and m). Also provide constraints on H(z) but not yet competitive
- BOSS could do much better, especially if we can do better on the stellar modeling (Maraston et al.)
# Presentation: 047908

## Pseudopotential calculations of excitonic transitions in semiconductor quantum dots

**Andrew Williamson**
- Lin-Wang Wang
- Huaxiang Fu
- Alex Zunger

- National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
- Golden, Colorado

## Summary

- Description of Atomistic Methods
- Pseudopotentials, Folded Spectrum Method
- electron-hole Coulomb interaction
- Free Standing Dots
- 	CdSe, InAs: Excited state spectra
- Embedded Quantum Dots
- 	GaAs / InAs SK dots: Dependence on size, shape and pressure

## Calculation of single particle states

- Empirical Pseudotential Hamiltonian

- Relax Strain (VFF)

- Folded Spectrum Method

-  No EMA
-  No Parabolic bands
-  No limit on no. bands
-  Realistic shape
-  Realistic surface
-  Full strain

## Calculation of excited states

- Coulomb Energy

- Transition Probability

- jth conduction State

- ith valence State

- ~ 40 valence states

- ~ 20 conduction states

- Absorption Spectrum

## Calculated absorption spectra (CdSe)

-  Few main peaks
-  Spacing decreases
-    with size

## Free standing CdSe

-  EPM explains up to 8 peaks
-  Correct scaling with size

## Free standing InAs

## Differences with k.p

- 1. Different order of levels

- InP: EPM s above p (VB to CB allowed)
-         k.p    p above s (VB to CB forbidden)

- H. Fu *et al. *Appl. Phys. Lett. **71 (1997)**

- 2. Different assignment of some excitons

- S+D

- E

- VBM

- bulk

- E

- i

- -

- (eV)

- P+F

- S+D

- D+G

- S+D

- P

- S+D

- D

- P+F

- k.p

- 0

- 2

- 4

- 0

- 2

- 4

- EPM

- -0.2

- -0.3

- -0.4

- -0.6

- -0.7

- -0.8

- -0.5

## Conclusions - Free standing dots 

-  Eigenstates and energies
-  Coulomb energies, excitation energies
-  Transition probabilities, absorption spectra
-  Good agreement with experiment even for
-    high order exciton

## InAs / GaAs wavefunctions {101}

-  Hole states: Multiband mixing

-  Electron states: Single band works well

## Effect of shape on conduction states

- {101}

- {105}

- {113}

-  Same order of states
-  Same shape of wavefunctions

## Effect of size InAs/GaAs {101}

-  Gap decreases with size
-  Number bound electron states
-    increases
-  No change in order of states

- CBM

- VBM

- (3)

- (5)

- (4)

- (4)

## Effect of pressure, InAs/GaAs {105}

## Conclusions - SK dots 

-  Eigenstates and energies
-  Coulomb energies, excitation energies
-  Size dependence of energy levels
-  Pressure induced type I  II transition
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## MUMPS -- reported cases per 100,000 population by year, 
United States, 1975-2000

**United States, 1975-2000**

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# Presentation: 035006

## Tourism, Recreation & Coral Reefs

***Elizabeth Halpenny***
***Nature Tourism Solutions / University of Waterloo***

## Overview

- The “Big Picture”: impacts of tourism and recreation
- Solutions & case studies

## The big picture: Impacts	

- Tourism and recreation are:
- 	- here to stay
- 	- big business, largest economic sector
- 	- US travel receipts for 2001 were US$72.3 billion

## TIAA (1997) 83% of US travelers support “green” travel companies and are willing to spend on average 6.2% more for environmentally responsible travel services and products

## The big picture: Impacts

- Tourism and recreation are:
- 	- here to stay
- 	- big business, largest economic sector
- 	- US travel receipts for 2001 were US$72.3 billion
- 	- diverse (small and large scale companies) (broad range of activities)

- The big picture: Impacts

## The big picture: Impacts

**Positive impacts**
- - income generation for MPAs
- - income generation for local communities
- - increased environmental awareness
- - health benefits to humans from recreational activities

## The big picture: Impacts

## The big picture: Impacts

**Negative Impacts**
- -  trampling of corals
-  - siltation
-  - pollution (suntan oil, boat fuel, motor noise, sewage, etc.)
-  - increase fresh water runoff
- - increase in fish harvesting* ** *

## The big picture: Review

- Tourism & recreation are:
- Big business
- Entrenched, here to stay
- Diverse and complex
- Brings positive and negative impacts
- Hard to measure, manage, or plan for

## Solutions: Case Studies

**Hawaii:** ReefWatchers; ReefTeachers; Watchable Wildlife Project

## Solutions: Case Studies

**Florida:** Sea Smart, Dive Smart Program; REEF Fish Survey Project; Great American Fish Count

## Solutions: Case Studies

**California:** Coral Parks Program and recreationists guidelines; Protect the Living Reef campaign

## Solutions: Case Studies

**Kosrae, FSM:** Kosrae Village Ecolodge

## Solutions Overview

- Education and Outreach
- Monitoring
- Increased understanding of tourism and recreation sector
- Guidelines
- Financing

## Thank you

- Elizabeth Halpenny
- Nature Tourism Solutions /
- University of Waterloo
- Email: _[ehalpenny@sympatico.ca](mailto:ehalpenny@sympatico.ca)_
- &
- The International Ecotourism Society
- Web: www.ecotourism.org
# Presentation: 444578

## ProgrammingEnvironment

- David N. Lombard
- MSC.Software, HPC
- January 10, 2002

## From 0th Meeting

- Programming API’s (eg. Compilers, PVM, MPI, OpenMP)
- OpenMP - used for on-a-node SMP programming. Not open source. We could go with the demo version of the PGI OpenMP compiler on the “disk”.
- Compilers - Must work with MPI and PVM. EGCS plus commercial compilers (PGI, KAI, Intel, Compaq, etc).

## From 0th Meeting(cont’d.)

- Programming API’s (eg. Compilers, PVM, MPI, OpenMP)
- Message Passing - MPI and PVM.
- This exposes the interconnect.
- Which MPI? MPI-LAM or MPIch? Do we have to pick one? If the mpi.h files are compatible, we can probably switch between different MPI shared libraries without changes to application binaries.
- MPI-lam has some MPI-2 and true MPMD support.

## From 0th Meeting(cont’d.)

- Programming tools (eg. Debuggers, performance tuning).
- Debugger - What open source debugger are people using? Printf. Totalview is a defacto standard parallel debugger --- but its not open source.  We could go with a demo version on the “disk”.
- performance monitoring - upshot, MPICL, ?

## Current Status

- Programming API
- gcc et al are bound to the distribution.
- Freely redistributable OpenMP-capable compiler not available.  Intel?
- In addition to MPICH and PVM, LAM/MPI was added.
- No support for application-layer networks in parallel libraries.

## Current Status(cont’d.)

- Progamming Tools
- TotalView not freely redistributable.
- ddd
- Nice tool.
- Open source
- No parallel support, but, this could be an opportunity for OSCAR.
- Performance tools as delivered by MPICH, PVM, and LAM/MPI.

## Future

- ddd
- Integrate parallel library tools to ddd?
- Message passing trace?
- Intel Compiler (OpenMP)
- Will this ever be freely redistributable?
- PGI
- Commercial.  Reduced version?

## Future(cont’d.)

- Atlas
- Build on actual host v. multiple packages.
- Redistribution?
- What else?
# Presentation: 388213

## MC and Parameters 

- Rick St. Denis
- Glasgow University

## Generation of MC

- Generation (don’t store)
- Simulation (don’t store)
- Reconstruction—Store file
- Stripping
- Ntuples
- Refers to these stages as “Tiers.
- There is a heirarchy. Files are stored at a Tier.

## Parameters

- In each case we store parameters.  Parameters are relevant to certain categories.
- Generator categories: Pythia,Herwig,...
- Simulation categories: QuickSim, CDFSim
- Reconstruction: Production (note RCP)
- The name of a parameter is a “type” so parameters are <category>.<type>

## What is needed

- Define the parameter categories and types
- Store files with relevant <category>.<type> specifying the data tier for the file
- Select sets of files with constraints on parameters
- Run AC++ (that you know) to analyze

## Definition of Params

- samadmin add parameter --type=lamqcd                --category=pythia     --datatier=generated
- samadmin add dimension mcrun                              --name=pythia.lamqcd --category=pythia               --type=lamqcd
- Requires an “administrator” to enter
- Needed to avoid: lamqcd, lambdaqcd,lambda_qcd etc.!Should keep the number under control

## Storage

- sam store --descrip=myParam.py --source=.         --dest=/pnfs/filesets/...
- Where
- myParam.py has:
- ‘pythia’: {
- ‘lamqcd’ : ‘0.200’,
- ...}

## Selection of files

- Check the list of files:
- Sam translate constraints                                    --dim=‘pythia.lamqcd 0.200’
- Create a dataset definition (aka dataset)
- Sam create dataset --defname=mbot04               --dim=‘pythia.lamqcd 0.200’
- GUI also available
- Defname can be anything: need to keep it under control!
- Do NOT use filename to select datasets!

## What Exists

- Files have been stored from Glasgow
- Some parameters are defined
- GUI exists for creating dataset definitions

## What is Needed

- Sensible way to get the parameters out of AC++ and into the description file. (grep for now): Turn to Liz
- Specification and definition of all parameters and categories: MC group
- Assurance that the GUI will not allow mixture of files from various generations: for now you need to take care! SAM Group
- Nonetheless, this can be used now and improved based on feedback

## Advanced thoughts

- Obvious Param names: pythia.lamqcd
- What about using the RCP names for modules: ‘ClusteringRCP’ = ‘jetcone7’
- Gives less parameters to type
# Presentation: 469009

## JASMIN at NuMI - Activation Measurements at the Muon Alcoves & Hadron Absorber

- Dave Boehnlein & Hiroshi Yashima for T972
- All Experimenters’ Meeting
- October 27, 2008

## Muon Activation of Materials

**Goals of the activation study:**
**Understand fast muon reactions in targets (Al, Cu);**
**Measure muon attenuation in the NuMI alcoves;**
**Compare results to simulations using MARS15. **
**Additional samples have been exposed to understand the spatial distribution of neutrons.**

## Plan View of the NuMI Alcoves

**Activation Samples were placed on the downstream wall in each alcove and on the Hadron Absorber.**
**Exposed samples were counted on high-purity Germanium Counters at HIL.**
**Muon attenuation results were shown at Aug. 25 AEM**

## Preliminary Mass Yield Results

**Mass yield distribution on Cu from Alcoves 1 and 2.**
**The line is from Rudstam’s formula for photospallation.**
**The histogram at right is from MARS15; the MARS15 prediction for Alcove 1 (not shown) is also lower than data.**

## Samples for Neutron Studies

**Samples for Neutron Studies**

## Summary

**Results from 2007 study are being finalized.**
**Recent short irradiations should give a better understanding of the neutron-induced activation.**
**More exposure of Al and Cu is in progress.**
**Active detector (Bonner Sphere) group to visit Fermilab in November.**

## Recap of Muon Attenuation

**Notes:**
Backup slide

## Preliminary Neutron Study Result

**Ten-day exposure in the NuMI beam:**
**Al samples show Na-24 distribution as shown (red line).**
**The spike toward the top of the circle is not yet understood.**
**Other materials (Au, Cu) are being analyzed to understand fast neutrons.**

**Notes:**
Backup slide
# Presentation: 290400

## Unique Polymeric Materials by Novel ProcessesJoseph P. Kennedy, The University of Akron DMR; 0243314

_**Intellectual merit**_:  An aim of our fundamental investigations is to gain increased understanding of the mechanism of cationic polymerizations, and to exploit our new insight for the synthesis of designed potentially useful polymeric materials.
- We are creating novel copolymers, blocks, grafts, stars, self-assembling networks, etc. with precisely controlled structures. The sketches show some structures assembled and studied in structure/property investigations (	         = rubbery,  	       = glassy segment).

*diblock*

*triblock*

*triarm block*

*multiarm block*

*  **network of*
*  **self-assembled *
*  **triarm blocks*

## Broader Impact: NSF funded basic research led to a family of patented triblock polymers “SIBS” (acronym for styrene-isobutylene-styrene tribolcks). These thermoplastic rubbers exhibit a combination of properties suitable for various industrial and medical uses. Among other things, SIBS matured into a FDA-approved medical device, the TAXUS stent, manufactured and marketed by Boston Scientific Corp. This drug-releasing coronary stent, one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of Medical Devices, is used to treat coronary artery disease. SIBS revolutionized the practice of heart surgery; it produced in excess of $4 billion in sales and created thousands of jobs. Drug-eluting stents have been implanted into millions of people and reduced major bypass surgery by ~85%. The sketch shows an inflated stent placed into a plaque-blocked artery.

_**Broader Impact:**_** NSF funded basic research led to a family of patented triblock polymers “SIBS”***** *****(acronym for styrene-isobutylene-styrene tribolcks). These thermoplastic rubbers exhibit a combination of properties suitable for various industrial and medical uses. Among other things, SIBS matured into a FDA-approved medical device, the TAXUS stent, manufactured and marketed by Boston Scientific Corp. This drug-releasing coronary stent, one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of Medical Devices, is used to treat coronary artery disease. SIBS revolutionized the practice of heart surgery; it produced in excess of $4 billion in sales and created thousands of jobs. Drug-eluting stents have been implanted into millions of people and reduced major bypass surgery by ~85%. The sketch shows an inflated stent placed into a plaque-blocked artery.**

**Unique Polymeric Materials by Novel Processes****  Joseph P. Kennedy, The University of Akron; DMR 0243314**
# Presentation: 098151

## Precision Robot Navigation

- Configuring a PS2 optical mouse to interface with a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller

**Researchers: Calley Levine and Ali Moussawi**
**Mentor: Professor Vikram Kapila**
**Teaching Assistant: Mr. Mishah Salman**

- Summer 2004

**Our Robot**

## Our Project

- The precision navigation robot was created in order to provide a cheap and practical method for determining the position of a robot.
- This was done using a PS/2 optical mouse and
- 	the BASIC Stamp 2 (BS2) microcontroller
- Difficulty: Interfacing communication between the mouse and the BS2
- Many attempts were made to write a program which would successfully enable the communication... simply said, we failed
- Factors: timing, power, and data transfer
- Instead, the PAK-Via pic was used and its displacement readings were then applied in order to restrict the movement of the robot to an area inscribed by specified parameters (i.e. a room)

## What We Learned...

- Circuitry (basics; use of transistors; integration of sensors, processors, actuators, etc.)
- Computer programming using PBASIC language
- Responsibilities of employment... the work wasn’t too bad
- Managing time and keeping to deadlines is extremely important
- 	(AIM, Minesweeper, and Microsoft Paint are destructive forces!!!)
# Presentation: 242095

## 
B. Veihelmann1, R.B.A Koelemeijer2, J.P. Veefkind1, P.F. Levelt1

     1 Royal Netherland Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands
     2 Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau, De Bilt, The Netherlands

- B. Veihelmann1, R.B.A Koelemeijer2, J.P. Veefkind1, P.F. Levelt1
-      1 Royal Netherland Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands
-      2 Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau, De Bilt, The Netherlands

**Particular Matter ****from ****OMI Aerosol Data?**

## Meteo-scaled Aersosol Optical Thickness

- Height of Planetary Boundary Height

- Function of relative Humidity **

- AOT* correlates with near-surface PM values

## 
correlation AOT* 	with PM2.5	0.77
			 	with PM10	0.68
PM2.5, PM10 from 86 ground stations in Europe
AOT from MODIS
strict cloud screening

- correlation AOT* 	with PM2.5	0.77
- 			 	with PM10	0.68
- PM2.5, PM10 from 86 ground stations in Europe
- AOT from MODIS
- strict cloud screening

- Koelemeijer et al., 2006, Comparison of spatial and temporal variations of aerosol optical thickness and particulate matter over Europe, Atmosph. Env. 40.

**Correlation of Time Series **

## Combining Model and Satellite Data

*PM**fit** = a · PM**model** + b · AOT  + c*

- modelled PM field

- satellite measurement

- coefficients a,b,c determined on training dataset
- PMfit  correlates with measurements from ground stations

## Correlation PMfit with rural background stations PM2.5

modelled PM field from LOTOS-EUROS
AOT from MODIS

- PMfit from 		correlation
- Model alone		0.7
- Satellite alone		0.72
- Model+Satellite	**0.82      **(0.62 for PM10)

- Correlation PMfit with rural background stations PM2.5
- modelled PM field from LOTOS-EUROS
- AOT from MODIS

**Spatial Correlation of Year-Averages**

- Koelemeijer et al., 2006, Comparison of spatial and temporal variations of aerosol optical thickness and particulate matter over Europe, Atmosph. Env. 40.

## Outlook

- relate AOT from OMI with PM2.5 at Cabauw site
- currently ongoing study
- combine transport model with OMI aerosol data
- assimilation AOT from OMI  model
- model  constrain OMI aerosol retrieval
- planned within EUCAARI

- European Integrated Project of Aerosol Cloud Climate Air Quality Interactions
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## GAPS Draw-Downs

**GAPS Draw-Downs**
**&**
**Extension of Liquidation Periods**
**April 2005**

- Lois Davis, Richard Smith, Joyce Campbell
- OVAE
- Lena Trujillo-Chavez, New Mexico Dept. of Ed.

## OVAE REVIEW OF DRAW-DOWNS:

- Consistent/Continual Basis
- Approximately 25% Quarterly; 50% Semi-Annually, etc.
- Serious Implications When Dollars are not Spent

## EXTENDING LIQUIDATION PERIOD:

- Send in request prior to expiration date of grant
- Send request to OVAE liaison via email or other ways
- Request must include:
- Grant Number
- Amount of additional time needed
- Reason/Justification
- Statement that no new costs will be incurred

## QUESTIONS ?
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## Study Skills Seminar

- Capital Composite Squadron
- Civil Air Patrol

- Module 3

**Communication Skills**

## Introduction & Overview

- Communication is Important to Study Skills
- Lesson Topics
- Perception
- Illusions
- Attention
- Social Perception
- Verbal, Non-Verbal, Written Communication

## Psychology of Perception

- Perception vs. Sensation
- Learning Senses
- Visual, Aural, Tactile
- Learning Modes are Individual
- Experience Influences Perception
- Organization & Structure

## Perceptual Grouping

## Closure

## Reversable Images

## Adaptation

## Adaptation

## Illusions

## Attention

- Internal Factors
- Selectivity
- Motivation
- Past Experience
- External Factors
- Salience
- Vividness

## Social Perception

- Attribution
- Consensus
- Consistency
- Distinctiveness
- Impression Formation
- Lasting
- Credible Authority
- Primacy
- Negative
- Extreme

## Failures in Social Perception

- Fundamental Attribution Error
- Actor-Observer Effect
- Self Serving Bias
- Stereotypes
- Halo Effect

## Applying Perception to Study Skills

- Listening
- Speaking
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Writing

## Listening

- Get Ready to Listen
- Responsibility for Comprehension
- Listening for Understanding
- Controlling Your Emotions
- Listening for Main Ideas
- Mental Agility
- Notes are Memory Jogs, not Transcripts

## Speaking

- Prepare the Subject
- Analyze
- Research
- Support Ideas
- Organization
- Practice
- Prepare Yourself
- Focus
- Relax
- Take Your Time

## Non-Verbal Communication

- Appearance
- Eye Contace
- Movements and Gestures
- Voice
- Rate
- Pitch

## Written Communication

- Used to Inform and/or Persuade
- More formal than Spoken
- Historical Change of Style
- Reader Centered Writing
- Consistant Structure
- Hour Glass
- Common Ground
- Statements & Related Details

## Module 3 Summary

- Communication Skills
- Feedback
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## IMPROVING RESPONSE 

- Steve Lyons
- The Weather Channel
- NHC
- Orlando, FL
- April 11, 2006

## THE $100,000 QUESTION

-    **DOES THE MESSAGE NEED TO IMPROVE, OR DO THE PROCESSES AND THEIR OPTIONS NEED TO IMPROVE?**

## THE MESSAGE

**STEVE’S 1****st**** LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**   ****NO INFORMATION IS BAD INFORMATION**

## REQUIRED RESPONSE SHOULD BE FAR LESS SEVERE!

**“****POOR” FORECASTS**
**RISING POPULATIONS**
**INADEQUATE ROADS**
**NON LOCAL EVACUATIONS**
**INSUFFICIENT “LOCAL” SHELTER SPACE**
**INADEQUATE SHELTER SUPPORT**
**GET EM’ OUT OF THERE MENTALITY**
**POOR/UNSAFE CONSTRUCTION...**
**    ****ALL LEAD TO OVER RESPONSE BY FAR GREATER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE THAN IS NECESSARY.**
**    ****THIS IS BY ITSELF ****POOR RESPONSE**
** **

## “PHASED EVACUATIONS”

**STEVE’S 2****nd**** LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**   ****GREED COMBINED WITH IMPERFECT COMMUNICATIONS DICTATES “PHASING” WILL FAIL IN HIGH POPULATION AREAS!**

## “PHASED EVACUATIONS”

**DOES YOUR PUBLIC KNOW YOUR PHASES?**
**MAKE THE PROCESS AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE (****REMOVE FAILURE POINTS****)**

## WHAT IS THE RISK?

**NOT ALL CAT 3’s ARE EQUAL, SOME ARE FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN OTHERS!**
**PROVIDE CONSISTENT “LOCALIZED” RESPONSE INFORMATION**
**EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT YOUR PLAN BEFORE YOU ASK THEM TO FOLLOW IT**
**GIVE PEOPLE GOOD REASONS & GOOD OPTIONS TO RESPOND **

## Great Hurricane Galveston, TX 1900

## New England 1938

## Long Beach MS 2005!(after Katrina)

## EARLY EVACUATIONS

**STEVE’S 3rd LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**   **
**   ****THE EARLIER YOU START THE EVACUATION THE LESS LIKELY IT WAS NECESSARY!**

## POPULATION IS A HUGE ENEMY!

## FALSE ALARMS & BAD EXPERIENCE

**EVACUATION FALSE ALARMS ARE RARELY FORGOTTEN**

## FALSE ALARMS & BAD EXPERIENCE

**STEVE’S 4th LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**   **
**   ****BAD EVACUATION EXPERIENCES **
**   ****ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN!**

## SHELTERS & SAFE HAVENS

**STEVE’S 5th LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**   **
**   ****THE MORE RESTRICTIONS YOU PUT ON SHELTERS, THE LESS LIKELY PEOPLE ARE TO USE THEM.  **

## SHELTERS & SAFE HAVENS

**PETS ARE A PART OF THE FAMILY, DEAL WITH THEM **
**A**** ****LOCAL**** SAFE HAVEN IS A BEST OPTION (IF IT IS POSSIBLE)...THE REQUESTED RESPONSE IS LESS SEVERE!**

## THE UNTESTED

**STEVE’S  6****th**** LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**   ****THE UNTESTED RESPONDERS WILL EXPERIENCE THE GREATEST PROBLEMS!**

## Tampa Florida...untested!

## THE COST!

**STEVE’S 7****TH**** LAW OF RESPONSE...**
**    ****YOU CAN NOT MOVE PROPERTY!**

-                                        THE COST
-      1. Katrina 	                      2005        	$75+ billion 2. Andrew 		1992		30 3. Charley 		2004		15 4. Ivan			2004		14
-      5. Wilma  		           2005		12 6. Rita 			2005		10 7. Frances 		2004		  9 8. Hugo 			1989		  7 9. Jeanne 		2004		  710. Allison 		2001		  5
-          7 of the 10 costliest within the last 2 years!

## CONCLUSIONS

-    MITIGATE
- 	EVACUATE WITHIN YOUR OWN HOME
- 	BE PREPARED EQUALLY WELL EVERY HURRICANE SEASON...TOTAL NUMBERS DON’T MEAN MUCH!
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## NIH Directory Service Pilot

- NIH AMG Technical Subcommittee

- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

## Assumptions

- All directory person entries must have NIH UIDs
- Each NIH UID is associated with either an SSN or passport# + country
- Organizational information may not be accurate during pilot

- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

## Connected Directories and DBs

- UID DB
- Data Warehouse (minimal schema DB)
- New NIH-MD Card Key, Parking, ID Badge, TRANSHARE DB
- HRDB as fallback
- Telecommunications DB
- CSO Email Directory

- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

## Initial Load ONLY

- UID DB
- SSN from HRDB
- Passport# + country from JEFIC DB
- OU attributes and organization tree
- NIH Scientific Directory

- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

## New Business Processes

- ID Badge (electronic replacement for form NIH 1308-4/5)
- NIH Electronic Directory
- electronic replacement for form NIH 433
- alternative to phchange@nih.gov and http://directory.nih.gov
- add/update new nihOrgPerson attributes
- Card Key

- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

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- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

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- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98

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- DRAFT 1

- 10/1/98
# Presentation: 182019

## Seat Round Robin

- Pat Cahill
- Patricia.Cahill@FAA.gov

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

- Currently, 8 labs in the United States have oil burners set up for seat testing:
- Boeing Seattle
- Accufleet
- Starr Aircraft Products
- Custom Products
- Flame Out
- Skandia
- Govmark Labs
- Chestnut Ridge

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Test Samples**

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

- Testing is complete in the US
- Testing has not yet started outside the US

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Comparison of Test Methods**

**Yes**

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Test Method, Lab Equipment and Fuel Differences**

- Handbook

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Fire Hardened Foam 1**

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Fire Blocking Layer**

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

**Fire Hardened Foam 2**

## Aircraft SeatsWorld Wide Round Robin Testing

- There is no correlation in the pass/fail data among those labs that run according to the Rule or Handbook.
- All of the failures reported by all of the labs were due to weight loss. No failures were due to burn length.
- The majority of labs recorded greater horizontal bottom burn lengths than horizontal top burn lengths.
- The air velocity through the burner may be one of the reasons that cause the rapid breaching of the hook and loop closures and blocking layer into the polyurethane foam, resulting in failures of those test samples.
- The use of tabs and or a static disk may influence test results.
- The thermocouple type used for calibration purposes appears to be the wrong type for this test.

## Radiant Heat Panel Discussion

- Pat Cahill
- Patricia.Cahill@FAA.gov

## Composite Sample Ventilation

_**Ventilation Slits**_**:**
**2-inch**
**vs.**
**4-inch**

## Composite Sample “C”After Flame Time

## Composite Sample “A”After Flame Time

## Hook and Loop

- Comparison testing of two different sample sizes.
- Testing performed at Aplix Inc., Charlotte, NC

## Hook and Loop4” x 12” Sample Before Test

## Hook and Loop4” x 12” Samples After Test

## Hook and Loop6” x 13” Sample Before Test

## Hook and Loop6” x 13” Samples After Test

## Hook and Loop

## Discussion for Task Group

- Use of Flat Frame
- Flame Exposure Time (longer than 15 seconds)
- Temperature inside the chamber at calibration
# Presentation: 432844

## Energy Code  Outreach In 				Washington State

**Bruce Carter**
**WSU - Energy Program**
**360 956-2040**

## Products

**Builders Field Guide**
**Topic Specific Code Brochures**
**Homeowner’s Handbook**
**Code Compliance Forms on Web**
**Energy Code Text on Web**

## Builder’s Field Guide

## WSEC Brochures

## Homeowners Handbook

## Distribution Efforts

**Point of Purchase displays**
**Libraries**
**Utilities**
**Building Departments**
**Trade Associations**

## Point of Purchase Displays

## Outreach  Efforts

**Code official workshops**
**Builder workshops**
**Designer workshops**
**Sub Contractor “socials”**
**Supplier trainings**
**Tenant trainings**
**Homeshows**

## Products Currently Under Development

**  ****Builders Field Guide on the Web**
**  ****Residential Energy Code Certification**
**    ****Tutorial on the web**
**    ****www.energy.wsu.edu/buildings/**

## Focus groups – 
	residential and non residential
Targeted better workplace
Radio and T.V. spots
Web page

**	****residential and non residential**
**Targeted better workplace**
**Radio and T.V. spots**
**Web page**
**	****	**

- Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance –	BetterBricks

## Slide 11

## What Did We Find Out?

**  ****Codes are a hard sell to the general public**
**  “****Builders Guide” is very beneficial to**
**      ****contractors**
**  “****Homeowners Guide” has limited effect**
**   ****Factsheets have limited effectiveness**

## Questions?

## © 1998 Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program. The Building Standards & Science Group presentation is a presentation publication of the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program. This presentation publication contains material written and produced for public distribution. You may reprint this written material, provided you do not use it to endorse a commercial product. Please reference by title and credit Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program.

**© 1998 Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program. The Building Standards & Science Group presentation is a presentation publication of the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program. This presentation publication contains material written and produced for public distribution. You may reprint this written material, provided you do not use it to endorse a commercial product. Please reference by title and credit Washington State University Cooperative Extension Energy Program.**
# Presentation: 532476

## Highlight: “All-in-One” Self-Cleaning, Anti-Reflection Coatings from Nanoparticles

- R. **Cohen **(MIT) and M. **Rubner **(MIT)
- This work was supported primarily by the **MRSEC Program** of the National Science Foundation under award number **DMR-0213282.**

- The coatings suppress the reflection of light dramatically so that light transmission through a glass lens can approach 100%. Water droplets can either spread instantaneously into thin sheets or roll off the surface depending on the choice of final chemical treatment.   In the former case, anti-fogging properties are imparted to the surface whereas in the latter, a self-cleaning effect is realized.  When created with titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2), these coatings also exhibit light activated self-cleaning characteristics.  The favorable combination of antireflection, antifogging and self-cleaning properties makes these “All-in-One” coatings attractive for a variety of applications, including coatings on automobile windshields, mirrors, windows in high-rise buildings, green houses and solar cell panels.

**Figure.**  **Top:** drops of water sitting on a transparent polymer/nanoparticle coating with anti-reflection and water-shedding properties (less reflective right side of glass slide is coated).  **Bottom:** Schematic of the simple water-based process used to fabricate thin film coatings containing in this case only nanoparticles of glass (SiO2) and titanium dioxide (TiO2).

**Highlight: “All-in-One” Self-Cleaning, Anti-Reflection Coatings from Nanoparticles**

- The rapidly developing field of nanomaterials chemistry allows a wealth of nanoparticles to be synthesized with designed properties.  However, putting these nanoparticles together into useful and practical structures such as thin film coatings remains a significant challenge.  Members of **IRG-II** of the **MIT MRSEC** have recently developed facile, water-based processing techniques that allow nanoparticles of opposite charge (or polymer/nanoparticle combinations) to be assembled reliably and reproducibly into robust, conformal, ultra thin film coatings with a variety of interesting properties (Lee et al., *Nano Letters *6, 2305, 2006).
# Presentation: 804615

## DOE ISM Manual(DOE M 450.4-1)

- Presentation to the EFCOG
- ISM Program Managers Meeting
- David Compton
- (DOE-HQ HS-1.1 Support)
- November 1, 2006

## DOE ISM ManualHistory

- Obtained concurrences 2/06; Deferred issuance pending 2004-1 IP Re-Review
- Obtained concurrences 8/06; Deferred issuance to address new HSS organization
- Obtained concurrences 10/06; Processing for Final Approval –       Approved 11/1/06 and posted at www.doeism.gov.

## DOE ISM ManualMajor Changes

- Full ISM Verifications, As Needed – Not every five years
- Approvals for DOE Site ISM programs by DOE Site Managers not HQ
- New DOE HSS Organization Addressed
- DOE ISM Champion Roles Clarified

## DOE ISM ManualMajor Elements

- DOE ISM System Descriptions
- Annual Safety Performance Objectives, Measures and Commitments
- Annual ISM Effectiveness Reviews
- Annual ISM Declarations
- Full ISM Verifications, As Needed

## DOE ISM ManualFull ISM Verifications

- Significant changes in leadership
- Significant changes in mission
- Significant changes in approach
- Loss of confidence in existing ISM system
- Significant problem(s) or poor performance
- Significant findings

## DOE ISM ManualCRD Requirements

- Develop ISM System; Maintain Cognizant of DOE System Description
- Annual ISM Reviews; Updates to System Descriptions; Declarations
- Describe ISM Maintenance/Continuous Improvement Process
- Identify Site-Wide Opportunities

## DOE ISM ManualAttachment 2

- ISM Principles and Attributes for Effective ISM Implementation
- _Supplemental Safety Culture Elements_

- -  Individual Attitude & Responsibility for Safety
- -  Operational Excellence
- -  Oversight for Performance Assurance
- -  Organizational Learning for Perf. Improvement

## DOE ISM ManualImplementation Schedule

- HQ ISM System Descriptions – May 2007
- Field ISM System Descriptions – Nov 2007
- Field Implementation – Nov 2008
- HQ Implementation – May 2009

## DOE ISM ManualISM Champions Council

- Purpose: Support Line Management
- Promote Communications
- Promote Continuous Learning
- Sponsor ISM Workshops
- Provide Input and Feedback

## DOE ISM ManualOther ISM Directives

- DOE P 450.4, *ISM Policy*
- DOE G 450.4‐1B, *ISM System Guide *
*DOE‐HDBK‐3027‐99, ISM Systems Verification Team Leader's Handbook*
- DEAR 970.5223‐1, *Integration of environment, safety, and health into work planning and execution*

## DOE ISM Manual

- Questions?
- _OPI for ISM Manual_
- Dr. Patricia Worthington (HS-10)
- 301-903-5392
- Pat.worthington@hq.doe.gov
- David Compton (HS-1.1 Support)
- 202-586-1034
- David.compton@hq.doe.gov
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## Mimicking Mother Nature

- Synthetic Chemist Erik Sorensen:
- Building Healing Molecules

## Sorensen Emulates Nature 

*Synthetic chemist Erik Sorensen creates molecules to heal disease *

*Nature’s chemicals*
- May hurt or heal
- Are the sources of many medicines
- Can be synthesized by scientists

*Question:*
- Can chemical weapons be helpful?

- Photo: Brian Wilson

## Answer: Yes

**Chemical weapons can be helpful**

**Snakes, spiders, and sea snails use venom to kill prey**
**Hemlock trees protect themselves with poison**
**Bacteria and fungi use toxins to fight enemies **

## Nature’s Chemical Weapons

- Kill prey
- Protect from predators
- Reduce competition for resources

- Kill viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells
- Suppress the immune system
- Treat heart disease and depression

- Chemicals from plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria

- In nature

- In medicine

## From Plant to Medicine

*From Plant to Medicine*

- Photo: Wikipedia Commons

- In nature, foxglove is poisonous.  In medicine, it is used to make digoxin, a drug used for heart failure and irregular heartbeat

- In nature, opium is a beautiful flower.  In medicine, it is used to make morphine, a strong painkiller

## From Mold to Medicine

- Credit: Christin L. Case

- Penicillin is a common antibiotic used to cure infections
- The penicillin molecule started its life as a mold

## How to Make a Molecule

**Step 1:**  Know all the atoms in the target molecule, how they connect to each other, and how they fit together in 3-dimensional space

**Step 2:**  Choose a few starting materials (atoms) and pour or scoop them one-by-one into a glass flask

**Step 3:**  Design a series of chemical reactions that will convince the atoms to form the target molecule by attaching at the correct places, releasing unneeded parts, or correctly swapping one atom for another

## Adapting to Nature in Short Supply

- Taxol®
- A drug used to treat cancer
- Originally manufactured from the bark of harvested Pacific yew trees, which are scarce
- Now manufactured from
- Plant cells grown in the lab
- Needles from farm-raised or wild yew trees

- Credit: National Institutes of Health

## Cyclostreptin: a Self-Made Molecule

- A molecule with potential cancer-killing properties
- Structure is 6 chemical rings with a backbone of 5-6 carbon atoms
- The molecule’s name
- Cyclo: rings are fused together in a complicated arrangement
- Streptin: substance was isolated from *Streptomyces* bacteria
- A rare, synthesized molecule, in that it can spontaneously fold into its final form

## Tools and Techniques

- Chemical reactions
- Bioprospecting
- Magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray crystallography

**How do these tools help synthetic chemists?**

**What are some of the ways scientists do this?**

**What tools unavailable in nature can chemists use to help them make nature’s molecules?**

## Research Applications

- What are some of the concerns of people who are opposed to bioprospecting?