17 CFR 16.01 - Publication of market data on futures, swaps and options thereon: trading volume, open contracts...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Publication of market data on... MARKETS AND SWAP EXECUTION FACILITIES § 16.01 Publication of market data on futures, swaps and options.... (1) Each reporting market, as defined in part 15 of this chapter, must separately record for each...

17 CFR 16.01 - Publication of market data on futures, swaps and options thereon: trading volume, open contracts...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Publication of market data on... MARKETS AND SWAP EXECUTION FACILITIES § 16.01 Publication of market data on futures, swaps and options.... (1) Each reporting market, as defined in part 15 of this chapter, must separately record for each...

17 CFR 37.1400 - Core Principle 14-System safeguards.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... procedures, and automated systems, that: (1) Are reliable and secure; and (2) Have adequate scalable capacity... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Core Principle 14-System... SWAP EXECUTION FACILITIES System Safeguards § 37.1400 Core Principle 14—System safeguards. The swap...

17 CFR 37.405 - Risk controls for trading.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Risk controls for trading. 37.405 Section 37.405 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP EXECUTION FACILITIES Monitoring of Trading and Trade Processing § 37.405 Risk controls for trading. The swap...

78 FR 33605 - Process for a Designated Contract Market or Swap Execution Facility To Make a Swap Available to...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-06-04

... 37.10(c) and 38.12(c)--Applicability D. Sections 37.10(d) and 38.12(d)--Removal E. Annual Review F... 17 CFR 40.5(e), 40.6(c)(3). Upon the Commission approving a SEF's or DCM's available-to-trade... adequate pricing data'' of a subject swap. \\18\\ WMBAA Comment Letter at 2; MarketAxess Comment Letter at 9...

17 CFR 140.72 - Delegation of authority to disclose confidential information to a registered entity, swap...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

..., registered futures association or self-regulatory organization. 140.72 Section 140.72 Commodity and... or self-regulatory organization. (a) Pursuant to the authority granted under sections 2(a)(11), 8a(5... execution facility, swap data repository, registered futures association, or self-regulatory organization as...

17 CFR 43.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... registered swap execution facility's or designated contract market's trading system or platform and is... party may affirm such terms on such platform. Embedded option means any right, but not an obligation...

17 CFR 43.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... registered swap execution facility's or designated contract market's trading system or platform and is... party may affirm such terms on such platform. Embedded option means any right, but not an obligation...

17 CFR 37.1501 - Chief compliance officer.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... facility's self-regulatory program that is requested by the board of directors or the regulatory oversight... compliance office review, look-back, internal or external audit finding, self-reported error, or validated...) Supervising the swap execution facility's self-regulatory program with respect to trade practice surveillance...

17 CFR 37.205 - Audit trail.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... trading; and (iv) Identification of each account to which fills are allocated. (3) Electronic analysis capability. A swap execution facility's audit trail program shall include electronic analysis capability with respect to all audit trail data in the transaction history database. Such electronic analysis capability...

12 CFR 242.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... treated in the United States, as a bank holding company) that is— (1) Incorporated or organized in a...— (1) Is incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States or any State; (2) Is... execution facility, or security-based swap data repository that, in each case, is registered with the...

78 FR 47154 - Core Principles and Other Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities; Correction

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-08-05

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 37 RIN 3038-AD18 Core Principles and Other... this chapter. Appendix B to Part 37--Guidance on, and Acceptable Practices in, Compliance With Core Principles [Corrected] 2. On page 33600, in the second column, under the heading Core Principle 3 of Section...

17 CFR 45.10 - Reporting to a single swap data repository.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... the swap data repository to which the first report of required swap creation data is made pursuant to... designated contract market that reports required swap creation data as required by § 45.3 shall report all... of the swap data repository to which required swap creation data is reported by the swap execution...

17 CFR 45.10 - Reporting to a single swap data repository.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

..., which shall be the swap data repository to which the first report of required swap creation data is made... designated contract market that reports required swap creation data as required by § 45.3 shall report all... of the swap data repository to which required swap creation data is reported by the swap execution...

17 CFR 45.10 - Reporting to a single swap data repository.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... the swap data repository to which the first report of required swap creation data is made pursuant to... designated contract market that reports required swap creation data as required by § 45.3 shall report all... of the swap data repository to which required swap creation data is reported by the swap execution...

17 CFR 38.11 - Trade execution compliance schedule.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Trade execution compliance... DESIGNATED CONTRACT MARKETS General Provisions § 38.11 Trade execution compliance schedule. (a) A swap... (2) Thirty days after the available-to-trade determination submission or certification for that swap...

75 FR 67282 - Provisions Common to Registered Entities

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-11-02

...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is proposing rules to implement new statutory provisions enacted under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') and amend existing rules affected by the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. These proposed rules apply to designated contract markets (``DCMs''), derivatives clearing organizations (``DCOs''), swap execution facilities (``SEFs'') and swap data repositories (``SDRs''). The proposed rules implement the new statutory framework for certification and approval for new products, new rules and rule amendments submitted to the Commission by registered entities. Furthermore, the proposed rules prohibit event contracts based on certain excluded commodities, establish special procedures for certain rule changes proposed by systemically important derivatives clearing organizations (``SIDCOs''), and provide for the tolling of review periods for certain novel derivative products pending the resolution of jurisdictional determinations.

To prohibit Members of Congress, senior congressional staffers, and administration executives from making certain purchases or sales of registered securities, futures, swaps, security futures products, security-based swaps, and options, to prohibit bonus payments to executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and for other purposes.

THOMAS, 112th Congress

Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49

2012-02-09

House - 02/23/2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:

76 FR 58186 - Swap Transaction Compliance and Implementation Schedule: Clearing and Trade Execution...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-09-20

...(h) of the CEA, by any of the following methods: Agency Web site, via its Comments Online process at... promote market integrity within the financial system by, among other things: (1) Providing for the... existing and potential market infrastructures, including clearinghouses, trading platforms, and swap data...

17 CFR 39.12 - Participant and product eligibility.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... a customer that: (A) Discloses to the futures commission merchant or any swap dealer or major swap participant the identity of a customer's original executing counterparty; (B) Limits the number of counterparties with whom a customer may enter into trades; (C) Restricts the size of the position a customer may...

17 CFR 39.12 - Participant and product eligibility.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... a customer that: (A) Discloses to the futures commission merchant or any swap dealer or major swap participant the identity of a customer's original executing counterparty; (B) Limits the number of counterparties with whom a customer may enter into trades; (C) Restricts the size of the position a customer may...

76 FR 36287 - Temporary Exemptions and Other Temporary Relief, Together With Information on Compliance Dates...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-06-22

... Econ. Dep't, Bank for Int'l Settlements, Triennial and Semiannual Surveys--Positions in Global Over-the...-Based Swap Data Repository Registration, Duties, and Core Principles, 75 FR 77305 (Dec. 10, 2010..., duties, and core principles for SB SEFs. See Registration and Regulation of Security-Based Swap Execution...

77 FR 15459 - Procedures To Establish Appropriate Minimum Block Sizes for Large Notional Off-Facility Swaps and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-03-15

... Commission is of the view that the term swap category is a more descriptive term to convey the concept of a... inappropriate comparative measure for the swaps market.\\46\\ Some of these commenters, for example, argued that...

77 FR 41260 - Second Amendment to July 14, 2011 Order for Swap Regulation

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-07-13

... herein; and removes any reference to the exempt commercial market (``ECM'') and exempt board of trade... transacted on either an ECM or EBOT to include transactions in agricultural commodities. \\7\\ Amendment to... agricultural swaps to be entered into or executed on an ECM or EBOT. The Commission noted that ECMs and EBOTs...

A stochastic hybrid model for pricing forward-start variance swaps

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Roslan, Teh Raihana Nazirah

2017-11-01

Recently, market players have been exposed to the astounding increase in the trading volume of variance swaps. In this paper, the forward-start nature of a variance swap is being inspected, where hybridizations of equity and interest rate models are used to evaluate the price of discretely-sampled forward-start variance swaps. The Heston stochastic volatility model is being extended to incorporate the dynamics of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) stochastic interest rate model. This is essential since previous studies on variance swaps were mainly focusing on instantaneous-start variance swaps without considering the interest rate effects. This hybrid model produces an efficient semi-closed form pricing formula through the development of forward characteristic functions. The performance of this formula is investigated via simulations to demonstrate how the formula performs for different sampling times and against the real market scenario. Comparison done with the Monte Carlo simulation which was set as our main reference point reveals that our pricing formula gains almost the same precision in a shorter execution time.

17 CFR 23.603 - Business continuity and disaster recovery.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

..., facilities, infrastructure, personnel and competencies essential to the continued operations of the swap.... The individuals identified shall be authorized to make key decisions on behalf of the swap dealer or...

17 CFR 23.603 - Business continuity and disaster recovery.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

..., facilities, infrastructure, personnel and competencies essential to the continued operations of the swap.... The individuals identified shall be authorized to make key decisions on behalf of the swap dealer or...

Exploring SWAp's contribution to the efficient allocation and use of resources in the health sector in Zambia.

PubMed

Chansa, Collins; Sundewall, Jesper; McIntyre, Di; Tomson, Göran; Forsberg, Birger C

2008-07-01

Zambia introduced a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the health sector in 1993. The goal was to improve efficiency in the use of domestic funds and externally sourced development assistance by integrating these into a joint sectoral framework. Over a decade into its existence, however, the SWAp remains largely unevaluated. This study explores whether the envisaged improvements have been achieved by studying developments in administrative, technical and allocative efficiency in the Zambian health sector from 1990-2006. A case study was conducted using interviews and analysis of secondary data. Respondents represented a cross-section of stakeholders in the Zambian health sector. Secondary data from 1990-2006 were collected for six indicators related to administrative, technical and allocative efficiency. The results showed small improvements in administrative efficiency. Transaction costs still appeared to be high despite the introduction of the SWAp. Indicators for technical efficiency showed a drop in hospital bed utilization rates and government share of funding for drugs. As for allocative efficiency, budget execution did not improve with the SWAp, although there were large variations between both donors and year. Funding levels had apparently improved at district level but declined for hospitals. Finally, the SWAp had not succeeded in bringing all external assistance together under a common framework. Despite strong commitment to implement the SWAp in Zambia, the envisaged efficiency improvements do not seem to have been attained. Possible explanations could be that the SWAp has not been fully developed or that not all parties have completely embraced it. SWAp is not ruled out as a coordination model, but the current setup in Zambia has not proved to be fully effective.

A Facile Two-Step Method to Implement N√ {iSWAP} and N√ {SWAP} Gates in a Circuit QED

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Said, T.; Chouikh, A.; Bennai, M.

2018-05-01

We propose a way for implementing a two-step N√ {iSWAP} and N √ {SWAP} gates based on the qubit-qubit interaction with N superconducting qubits, by coupling them to a resonator driven by a strong microwave field. The operation times do not increase with the growth of the qubit number. Due to the virtual excitations of the resonator, the scheme is insensitive to the decay of the resonator. Numerical analysis shows that the scheme can be implemented with high fidelity. Moreover, we propose a detailed procedure and analyze the experimental feasibility. So, our proposal can be experimentally realized in the range of current circuit QED techniques.

17 CFR 43.6 - Block trades and large notional off-facility swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

..., Poland, Russia, and Turkey; or (ii) By unique currency combinations not included in paragraph (b)(4)(i... the date of publication. (g) Required notification. (1) Block trade election. (i) The parties to a... election to have the publicly reportable swap transaction treated as a block trade. (ii) The registered...

Fifteen years of sector-wide approach (SWAp) in Bangladesh health sector: an assessment of progress

PubMed Central

Ahsan, Karar Zunaid; Streatfield, Peter Kim; Ijdi, Rashida -E-; Escudero, Gabriela Maria; Khan, Abdul Waheed; Reza, M M

2016-01-01

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh embarked on a sector-wide approach (SWAp) modality for the health, nutrition and population (HNP) sector in 1998. This programmatic shift initiated a different set of planning disciplines and practices along with institutional changes in the MOHFW. Over the years, the SWAp modality has evolved in Bangladesh as the MOHFW has learnt from its implementation and refined the program design. This article explores the progress made, both in terms of achievement of health outcomes and systems strengthening results, since the implementation of the SWAp for Bangladesh’s health sector. Secondary analyses of survey data from 1993 to 2011 as well as a literature review of published and grey literature on health SWAp in Bangladesh was conducted for this assessment. Results of the assessment indicate that the MOHFW made substantial progress in health outcomes and health systems strengthening. SWAps facilitated the alignment of funding and technical support around national priorities, and improved the government’s role in program design as well as in implementation and development partner coordination. Notable systemic improvements have taken place in the country systems with regards to monitoring and evaluation, procurement and service provision, which have improved functionality of health facilities to provide essential care. Implementation of the SWAp has, therefore, contributed to an accelerated improvement in key health outcomes in Bangladesh over the last 15 years. The health SWAp in Bangladesh offers an example of a successful adaptation of such an approach in a complex administrative structure. Based on the lessons learned from SWAp implementation in Bangladesh, the MOHFW needs to play a stronger stewardship and regulatory role to reap the full benefits of a SWAp in its subsequent programming. PMID:26582744

Reduced SWAP-C VICTORY Services Execution and Performance Evaluation

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-08-01

NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) UBT, Inc.,3250 W Big Beaver Rd, Suite 329, Troy ,Mi,48084 8. PERFORMING...Symposium August 14-16 Troy , Michigan 14. ABSTRACT -Executing multiple VICTORY data services, and reading multiple VICTORY-compliant sensors at the...same time resulted in the following performance measurements for the system -0.64 Amps / 3.15 Watts Power Consumption at run-time. -Roughly 0.77% System

Structure of Pseudoknot PK26 Shows 3D Domain Swapping in an RNA

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Lietzke, Susan E; Barnes, Cindy L.

1998-01-01

3D domain swapping provides a facile pathway for the evolution of oligomeric proteins and allosteric mechanisms and a means for using monomer-oligomer equilibria to regulate biological activity. The term "3D domain swapping" describes the exchange of identical domains between two protein monomers to create an oligomer. 3D domain swapping has, so far, only been recognized in proteins. In this study, the structure of the pseudoknot PK26 is reported and it is a clear example of 3D domain swapping in RNA. PK26 was chosen for study because RNA pseudoknots are required structures in several biological processes and they arise frequently in in vitro selection experiments directed against protein targets. PK26 specifically inhibits HIV-1 reverse transcriptase with nanomolar affinity. We have now determined the 3.1 A resolution crystal structure of PK26 and find that it forms a 3D domain swapped dimer. PK26 shows extensive base pairing between and within strands. Formation of the dimer requires the linker region between the pseudoknot folds to adopt a unique conformation that allows a base within a helical stem to skip one base in the stacking register. Rearrangement of the linker would permit a monomeric pseudoknot to form. This structure shows how RNA can use 3D domain swapping to build large scale oligomers like the putative hexamer in the packaging RNA of bacteriophage Phi29.

Fifteen years of sector-wide approach (SWAp) in Bangladesh health sector: an assessment of progress.

PubMed

Ahsan, Karar Zunaid; Streatfield, Peter Kim; Ijdi, Rashida-E-; Escudero, Gabriela Maria; Khan, Abdul Waheed; Reza, M M

2016-06-01

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh embarked on a sector-wide approach (SWAp) modality for the health, nutrition and population (HNP) sector in 1998. This programmatic shift initiated a different set of planning disciplines and practices along with institutional changes in the MOHFW. Over the years, the SWAp modality has evolved in Bangladesh as the MOHFW has learnt from its implementation and refined the program design. This article explores the progress made, both in terms of achievement of health outcomes and systems strengthening results, since the implementation of the SWAp for Bangladesh's health sector. Secondary analyses of survey data from 1993 to 2011 as well as a literature review of published and grey literature on health SWAp in Bangladesh was conducted for this assessment. Results of the assessment indicate that the MOHFW made substantial progress in health outcomes and health systems strengthening. SWAps facilitated the alignment of funding and technical support around national priorities, and improved the government's role in program design as well as in implementation and development partner coordination. Notable systemic improvements have taken place in the country systems with regards to monitoring and evaluation, procurement and service provision, which have improved functionality of health facilities to provide essential care. Implementation of the SWAp has, therefore, contributed to an accelerated improvement in key health outcomes in Bangladesh over the last 15 years. The health SWAp in Bangladesh offers an example of a successful adaptation of such an approach in a complex administrative structure. Based on the lessons learned from SWAp implementation in Bangladesh, the MOHFW needs to play a stronger stewardship and regulatory role to reap the full benefits of a SWAp in its subsequent programming. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

17 CFR 140.72 - Delegation of authority to disclose confidential information to a contract market, swap execution...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

..., registered futures association or self-regulatory organization. 140.72 Section 140.72 Commodity and... futures association, or self-regulatory organization as defined in section 3(a)(26) of the Securities... futures association or self-regulatory organization. (b) Disclosure under this section shall only be made...

Optimal mask characterization by Surrogate Wafer Print (SWaP) method

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kimmel, Kurt R.; Hoellein, Ingo; Peters, Jan Hendrick; Ackmann, Paul; Connolly, Brid; West, Craig

2008-10-01

Traditionally, definition of mask specifications is done completely by the mask user, while characterization of the mask relative to the specifications is done completely by the mask maker. As the challenges of low-k1 imaging continue to grow in scope of designs and in absolute complexity, the inevitable partnership between wafer lithographers and mask makers has strengthened as well. This is reflected in the jointly owned mask facilities and device manufacturers' continued maintenance of fully captive mask shops which foster the closer mask-litho relationships. However, while some device manufacturers have leveraged this to optimize mask specifications before the mask is built and, therefore, improve mask yield and cost, the opportunity for post-fabrication partnering on mask characterization is more apparent and compelling. The Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC) has been investigating the concept of assessing how a mask images, rather than the mask's physical attributes, as a technically superior and lower-cost method to characterize a mask. The idea of printing a mask under its intended imaging conditions, then characterizing the imaged wafer as a surrogate for traditional mask inspections and measurements represents the ultimate method to characterize a mask's performance, which is most meaningful to the user. Surrogate wafer print (SWaP) is already done as part of leading-edge wafer fab mask qualification to validate defect and dimensional performance. In the past, the prospect of executing this concept has generally been summarily discarded as technically untenable and logistically intractable. The AMTC published a paper at BACUS 2007 successfully demonstrating the performance of SWaP for the characterization of defects as an alternative to traditional mask inspection [1]. It showed that this concept is not only feasible, but, in some cases, desirable. This paper expands on last year's work at AMTC to assess the full implementation of SWaP as an enhancement to mask characterization quality including defectivity, dimensional control, pattern fidelity, and in-plane distortion. We present a thorough analysis of both the technical and logistical challenges coupled with an objective view of the advantages and disadvantages from both the technical and financial perspectives. The analysis and model used by the AMTC will serve to provoke other mask shops to prepare their own analyses then consider this new paradigm for mask characterization and qualification.

Solid Waste Assurance Program Implementation Plan

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Irons, L.G.

1995-06-19

On June 6, 1995, a waiver to Hanford Site Solid Waste Acceptance Criteria, was approved by the US Department of Energy Richland Operations Office (RL) to replace the low-level, mixed, and transuranic (TRU) generator assessment programs with the Solid Waste Assurance Program (SWAP). This is associated with a waiver that was approved on March 16, 1995 to replace the Storage/Disposal Approval Record (SDAR) requirements with the Waste Specification System (WSS). This implementation plan and the SWAP applies to Solid Waste Disposal (SWD) functions, facilities, and personnel who perform waste acceptance, verification, receipt, and management functions of dangerous, radioactive, and mixedmore » waste from on- and off-site generators who ship to or within the Hanford Site for treatment, storage, and/or disposal (TSD) at SWD TSD facilities.« less

77 FR 28819 - Second Amendment to July 14, 2011 Order for Swap Regulation

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-05-16

... described herein; and (4) removing any reference to the exempt commercial market (``ECM'') and exempt board... scope of transactions eligible to be transacted on either an ECM or EBOT to include transactions in... transactions) that: (1) Are executed on an ECM or EBOT that is operating under the terms of the Commission's...

76 FR 35372 - Effective Date for Swap Regulation

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-06-17

... on an electronic trading facility (called exempt commercial markets, or ``ECMs''); \\28\\ 7 U.S.C. 2(h... it would extend grandfather relief to ECMs and EBOTs provided that certain conditions are met. See... electronic trading facility that, as of July 15, 2011, is not already operating as an ECM pursuant to CEA...

Multi-Party Quantum Private Comparison Protocol Based on Entanglement Swapping of Bell Entangled States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Ye, Tian-Yu

2016-09-01

Recently, Liu et al. proposed a two-party quantum private comparison (QPC) protocol using entanglement swapping of Bell entangled state (Commun. Theor. Phys. 57 (2012) 583). Subsequently Liu et al. pointed out that in Liu et al.'s protocol, the TP can extract the two users' secret inputs without being detected by launching the Bell-basis measurement attack, and suggested the corresponding improvement to mend this loophole (Commun. Theor. Phys. 62 (2014) 210). In this paper, we first point out the information leakage problem toward TP existing in both of the above two protocols, and then suggest the corresponding improvement by using the one-way hash function to encrypt the two users' secret inputs. We further put forward the three-party QPC protocol also based on entanglement swapping of Bell entangled state, and then validate its output correctness and its security in detail. Finally, we generalize the three-party QPC protocol into the multi-party case, which can accomplish arbitrary pair's comparison of equality among K users within one execution. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61402407

76 FR 42508 - Effective Date for Swap Regulation

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-07-19

... trading facility (called exempt commercial markets, or ``ECMs''); \\32\\ 7 U.S.C. 2(h)(3)-(7). \\33\\ The term... 723(c) and 734(c) of the Dodd-Frank Act, to ECMs and EBOTs provided that certain conditions are met... available to an electronic trading facility that, as of July 15, 2011, is not already operating as an ECM...

TangoLab-2 Card Troubleshooting

NASA Image and Video Library

2017-10-17

iss053e105442 (Oct. 17, 2017) --- Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei swaps out a payload card from the TangoLab-1 facility and places into the TangoLab-2 facility. TangoLab provides a standardized platform and open architecture for experimental modules called CubeLabs. CubeLab modules may be developed for use in 3-dimensional tissue and cell cultures.

Implementation and Performance of Factorized Back projection on Low-Cost Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Hardware

DTIC Science & Technology

performance on a low cost, low size, weight, and power (SWAP) computer : a Raspberry Pi Model B. For a comparison of performance, a baseline implementation...improvement factor of 2-3 compared to filtered backprojection. Execution on a single Raspberry Pi is too slow for real-time imaging. However, factorized...backprojection is easily parallelized, and we include a discussion of parallel implementation across multiple Pis .

17 CFR 240.3a68-2 - Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. 240.3a68-2 Section 240.3a68-2 Commodity and Securities..., Security-Based Swap, and Security-Based Swap Agreement; Mixed Swaps; Security-Based Swap Agreement Recordkeeping § 240.3a68-2 Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. (a) In...

17 CFR 240.3a68-2 - Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. 240.3a68-2 Section 240.3a68-2 Commodity and Securities..., Security-Based Swap, and Security-Based Swap Agreement; Mixed Swaps; Security-Based Swap Agreement Recordkeeping § 240.3a68-2 Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. (a) In...

17 CFR 37.8 - Information relating to transactions on derivatives transaction execution facilities.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... transactions on derivatives transaction execution facilities. 37.8 Section 37.8 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION DERIVATIVES TRANSACTION EXECUTION FACILITIES § 37.8 Information relating to transactions on derivatives transaction execution facilities. (a) Special calls for...

17 CFR 1.8 - Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. 1.8 Section 1.8 Commodity and Securities Exchanges... Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. (a) In general. Any person may... Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; or (3) A mixed swap, as that term is...

17 CFR 1.8 - Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. 1.8 Section 1.8 Commodity and Securities Exchanges... Requests for interpretation of swaps, security-based swaps, and mixed swaps. (a) In general. Any person may... Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; or (3) A mixed swap, as that term is...

Multi-party quantum private comparison based on the entanglement swapping of d-level cat states and d-level Bell states

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Zhao-Xu, Ji; Tian-Yu, Ye

2017-07-01

In this paper, a novel multi-party quantum private comparison protocol with a semi-honest third party (TP) is proposed based on the entanglement swapping of d-level cat states and d-level Bell states. Here, TP is allowed to misbehave on his own, but will not conspire with any party. In our protocol, n parties employ unitary operations to encode their private secrets and can compare the equality of their private secrets within one time execution of the protocol. Our protocol can withstand both the outside attacks and the participant attacks on the condition that none of the QKD methods is adopted to generate keys for security. One party cannot obtain other parties' secrets except for the case that their secrets are identical. The semi-honest TP cannot learn any information about these parties' secrets except the end comparison result on whether all private secrets from n parties are equal.

78 FR 32865 - Procedures To Establish Appropriate Minimum Block Sizes for Large Notional Off-Facility Swaps and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-05-31

... Financial Integrity of Markets c. Price Discovery d. Sound Risk Management Practices e. Other Public... Discovery d. Sound Risk Management Practices e. Other Public Interest Considerations E. Costs and Benefits..., Competitiveness and Financial Integrity c. Price Discovery d. Sound Risk Management Practices e. Other Public...

75 FR 55575 - Joint Public Roundtable To Discuss Data for Swaps and Security-Based Swaps, Swap Data...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-09-13

...; File No. 4-611] Joint Public Roundtable To Discuss Data for Swaps and Security- Based Swaps, Swap Data Repositories, Security-Based Swap Data Repositories, and Real-Time Public Reporting AGENCY: Commodity Futures... public roundtable discussion at which invited participants will discuss data for swaps and security-based...

17 CFR 45.3 - Swap data reporting: creation data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Swap data reporting: creation... (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA RECORDKEEPING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS § 45.3 Swap data reporting: creation data. Registered entities and swap counterparties must report required swap creation data electronically to a swap...

41 CFR 102-74.585 - What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... telework policy must Executive agencies follow? 102-74.585 Section 102-74.585 Public Contracts and Property... PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Telework § 102-74.585 What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow? Executive agencies must follow these telework policies: (a) In accordance with Section 359...

41 CFR 102-74.585 - What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... telework policy must Executive agencies follow? 102-74.585 Section 102-74.585 Public Contracts and Property... PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Telework § 102-74.585 What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow? Executive agencies must follow these telework policies: (a) In accordance with Section 359...

41 CFR 102-74.585 - What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... telework policy must Executive agencies follow? 102-74.585 Section 102-74.585 Public Contracts and Property... PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Telework § 102-74.585 What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow? Executive agencies must follow these telework policies: (a) In accordance with Section 359...

41 CFR 102-74.585 - What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... telework policy must Executive agencies follow? 102-74.585 Section 102-74.585 Public Contracts and Property... PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Telework § 102-74.585 What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow? Executive agencies must follow these telework policies: (a) In accordance with Section 359...

76 FR 57980 - Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-09-19

... DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board AGENCY... the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Senior Executive Service (SES) Performance Review... summary rating of the senior executive's performance, the executive's response, and the higher level...

78 FR 55244 - Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board; Membership

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-09-10

... DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board... the membership of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Senior Executive Service (SES... rating of a senior executive's performance, the executive's response, and the higher level official's...

76 FR 6708 - Orderly Liquidation Termination Provision in Swap Trading Relationship Documentation for Swap...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-02-08

... standards for swap dealers and major swap participants.'' On January 13, 2011, the Commission voted to issue... regarding internal business conduct standards for swap dealers and major swap participants. Prior notices of... comment on this issue. The Commission believes that the inclusion of this type of provision in the swap...

78 FR 21045 - Confirmation, Portfolio Reconciliation, Portfolio Compression, and Swap Trading Relationship...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-04-09

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 23 RIN 3038-AC96 Confirmation, Portfolio Reconciliation, Portfolio Compression, and Swap Trading Relationship Documentation Requirements for Swap Dealers..., portfolio compression, and swap trading relationship documentation for Swap Dealers and Major Swap...

17 CFR 23.504 - Swap trading relationship documentation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Swap trading relationship documentation. 23.504 Section 23.504 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Swap Documentation § 23.504 Swap trading relationship...

17 CFR 23.504 - Swap trading relationship documentation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Swap trading relationship documentation. 23.504 Section 23.504 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Swap Documentation § 23.504 Swap trading relationship...

17 CFR 22.1 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... such a swap) in an account segregated pursuant to section 4d(f) of the Act. Cleared Swaps Customer... derivatives clearing organization. A person shall be a Cleared Swaps Customer only with respect to its Cleared Swaps. Cleared Swaps Customer Account. This term refers to any account for the Cleared Swaps of Cleared...

17 CFR 22.1 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... such a swap) in an account segregated pursuant to section 4d(f) of the Act. Cleared Swaps Customer... derivatives clearing organization. A person shall be a Cleared Swaps Customer only with respect to its Cleared Swaps. Cleared Swaps Customer Account. This term refers to any account for the Cleared Swaps of Cleared...

17 CFR 22.1 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... such a swap) in an account segregated pursuant to section 4d(f) of the Act. Cleared Swaps Customer... derivatives clearing organization. A person shall be a Cleared Swaps Customer only with respect to its Cleared Swaps. Cleared Swaps Customer Account. This term refers to any account for the Cleared Swaps of Cleared...

17 CFR 49.9 - Duties of registered swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... privacy of any and all swap data and any other related information that the swap data repository receives... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Duties of registered swap data... (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.9 Duties of registered swap data repositories. (a) Duties. To be...

17 CFR 37.8 - Information relating to transactions on derivatives transaction execution facilities.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Information relating to transactions on derivatives transaction execution facilities. 37.8 Section 37.8 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION DERIVATIVES TRANSACTION EXECUTION FACILITIES § 37.8...

77 FR 54570 - Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-09-05

... DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board AGENCY... the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Senior Executive Service (SES) Performance Review.... The PRB shall review and evaluate the initial summary rating of the senior executive's performance...

77 FR 35199 - Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements: Pre-Enactment and Transition Swaps

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-06-12

...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is adopting rules to further implement the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'' or ``Act'') with respect to the new statutory framework regarding swap data recordkeeping and reporting established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''). The Dodd-Frank Act, which amended the CEA, directs that rules adopted by the Commission shall provide for the reporting of data relating to swaps entered into before the date of enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, the terms of which have not expired as of the date of enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act (``pre-enactment swaps'') and data relating to swaps entered into on or after the date of enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act and prior to the compliance date specified in the Commission's final swap data reporting rules (``transition swaps''). These final rules establish swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements for pre-enactment swaps and transition swaps.

Offering within-category food swaps to reduce energy density of food purchases: a study using an experimental online supermarket.

PubMed

Forwood, Suzanna E; Ahern, Amy L; Marteau, Theresa M; Jebb, Susan A

2015-06-25

Swaps are often used to encourage healthier food choices, but there is little evidence of their effectiveness. The current study assessed the impact of offering swaps on groceries purchased within a bespoke online supermarket; specifically the objective was to measure the impact on energy density (ED) of food purchases following the offer of lower ED alternatives (a) at point of selection or at checkout, and (b) with or without explicit consent to receive swap prompts. Participants were asked to complete a 12-item shopping task within an online shopping platform, developed for studying food purchasing. 1610 adults were randomly assigned to a no swap control condition or to one of four interventions: consented swaps at selection; consented swaps at checkout; imposed swaps at selection; or imposed swaps at checkout. Each swap presented two lower ED options from the same category as the participant's chosen food. Swap acceptance rate and purchased food ED were the primary outcomes. Of the mean 12.36 (SD 1.26) foods purchased, intervention participants were offered a mean of 4.1 (SD 1.68) swaps, with the potential to reduce the ED of purchased food (effect (95% CI): -83 kJ/100 g (-110 - -56), p = <0.0001). A median of one swap (IQR 0 to 2) was accepted, not significantly reducing the purchased food ED (effect (95% CI): -24 kJ/100 g (4 - -52), p = 0.094). More swaps were accepted when offered at selection than at checkout (OR (95% CI) = 1.224 (1.11 - 1.35), p < 0.0001), but no differences were seen with consent. Purchased food ED was unaffected by point of swap or consent, but reduced with number of swaps accepted (effect per swap (95% CI) = -24 kJ/100 g (-35 - -14), p < 0.0001). Within category swaps did not reduce the ED of food purchases reflecting the observation that the use of swaps within an on-line shopping platform offered small potential gains in ED and a minority was accepted.

17 CFR 240.3a68-4 - Regulation of mixed swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 4 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Regulation of mixed swaps. 240... Agreement; Mixed Swaps; Security-Based Swap Agreement Recordkeeping § 240.3a68-4 Regulation of mixed swaps. (a) In general. The term mixed swap has the meaning set forth in section 3(a)(68)(D) of the Act (15 U...

78 FR 42436 - Procedures To Establish Appropriate Minimum Block Sizes for Large Notional Off-Facility Swaps and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-07-16

... (ICE). Gold (COMEX and NYSE Liffe).. 2,500 troy oz. Goldman Sachs Commodity Index 5,000 times dollars... (NYMEX) 1,000 troy oz. PG&E Citygate Basis (ICE and 62,500 MMBtu. NYMEX). PJM Western Hub Real Time Off...). Platinum (NYMEX) 500 troy oz. Rainfall Index (CME)......... 10,000 times dollars. index. Rough Rice (CBOT...

Real-Time Signal Processing Systems

DTIC Science & Technology

1992-10-29

Programmer’s Model 50 15. Synchronization 67 16. Parameter Passage to Routines VIA Stacks 68 17. Typical VPH Activity Flow Chart 70 18. CPH...computing facilities to take advantage of cost effective solutions. A proliferation of different microprocessors and development systems spread among the... activities are completed, the roles of the VPH memory banks are reversed. This function-swapping is the primary reason, for the efficiency and high

77 FR 50425 - Clearing Exemption for Swaps Between Certain Affiliated Entities

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-08-21

... other categories of entities or corporate groups, such as non-swap dealers and non-major swap... exempt swaps between certain affiliated entities within a corporate group from the clearing requirement... meets the financial conditions associated with entering into non-cleared swaps. The Commission issued...

17 CFR 23.602 - Diligent supervision.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Diligent supervision. 23.602... MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Duties of Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants § 23.602 Diligent supervision. (a) Supervision. Each swap dealer and major swap participant shall establish and maintain a system to...

17 CFR 23.602 - Diligent supervision.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Diligent supervision. 23.602... MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Duties of Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants § 23.602 Diligent supervision. (a) Supervision. Each swap dealer and major swap participant shall establish and maintain a system to...

17 CFR 49.19 - Core principles applicable to registered swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... registered swap data repositories. 49.19 Section 49.19 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.19 Core principles applicable to registered swap data repositories. (a) Compliance with core principles. To be registered, and maintain registration, a swap data...

17 CFR 49.19 - Core principles applicable to registered swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... registered swap data repositories. 49.19 Section 49.19 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.19 Core principles applicable to registered swap data repositories. (a) Compliance with Core Principles. To be registered, and maintain registration, a swap data...

17 CFR 49.12 - Swap data repository recordkeeping requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Swap data repository... COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.12 Swap data repository recordkeeping requirements. (a) A registered swap data repository shall maintain its books and records in accordance with the requirements of part...

17 CFR 49.12 - Swap data repository recordkeeping requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Swap data repository... COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.12 Swap data repository recordkeeping requirements. (a) A registered swap data repository shall maintain its books and records in accordance with the requirements of part...

17 CFR 49.12 - Swap data repository recordkeeping requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Swap data repository... COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.12 Swap data repository recordkeeping requirements. (a) A registered swap data repository shall maintain its books and records in accordance with the requirements of...

17 CFR 45.4 - Swap data reporting: continuation data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... swap data repository as set forth in this section. This obligation commences on the applicable... swap data set forth in part 43 of this chapter; and, where applicable, swap dealers, major swap... traders set forth in parts 17 and 18 of this chapter. (a) Continuation data reporting method. For each...

17 CFR 45.4 - Swap data reporting: continuation data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... swap data repository as set forth in this section. This obligation commences on the applicable... swap data set forth in part 43 of this chapter; and, where applicable, swap dealers, major swap... traders set forth in parts 17 and 18 of this chapter. (a) Continuation data reporting method. For each...

17 CFR 45.4 - Swap data reporting: continuation data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... swap data repository as set forth in this section. This obligation commences on the applicable... swap data set forth in part 43 of this chapter; and, where applicable, swap dealers, major swap... traders set forth in parts 17 and 18 of this chapter. (a) Continuation data reporting method. For each...

77 FR 2613 - Registration of Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-01-19

...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting regulations under the Commodity Exchange Act (Act or CEA) that establish the process for the registration of swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs, and collectively with SDs, Swaps Entities) and that require Swaps Entities to become and remain members of a registered futures association (RFA). The Commission is also adopting regulations that define an ``associated person'' of an SD or MSP as a natural person and that implement the prohibition on a Swaps Entity permitting an associated person who is statutorily disqualified from registration from effecting or being involved in effecting swaps on behalf of the Swaps Entity. The Commission is adopting these regulations in accordance with section 4s of the CEA, which was recently added to the CEA by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).

Exploring the Roles of Proline in Three-Dimensional Domain Swapping from Structure Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

PubMed

Huang, Yongqi; Gao, Meng; Su, Zhengding

2018-02-01

Three-dimensional (3D) domain swapping is a mechanism to form protein oligomers. It has been proposed that several factors, including proline residues in the hinge region, may affect the occurrence of 3D domain swapping. Although introducing prolines into the hinge region has been found to promote domain swapping for some proteins, the opposite effect has also been observed in several studies. So far, how proline affects 3D domain swapping remains elusive. In this work, based on a large set of 3D domain-swapped structures, we performed a systematic analysis to explore the correlation between the presence of proline in the hinge region and the occurrence of 3D domain swapping. We further analyzed the conformations of proline and pre-proline residues to investigate the roles of proline in 3D domain swapping. We found that more than 40% of the domain-swapped structures contained proline residues in the hinge region. Unexpectedly, conformational transitions of proline residues were rarely observed upon domain swapping. Our analyses showed that hinge regions containing proline residues preferred more extended conformations, which may be beneficial for the occurrence of domain swapping by facilitating opening of the exchanged segments.

Paging memory from random access memory to backing storage in a parallel computer

DOEpatents

Archer, Charles J; Blocksome, Michael A; Inglett, Todd A; Ratterman, Joseph D; Smith, Brian E

2013-05-21

Paging memory from random access memory (`RAM`) to backing storage in a parallel computer that includes a plurality of compute nodes, including: executing a data processing application on a virtual machine operating system in a virtual machine on a first compute node; providing, by a second compute node, backing storage for the contents of RAM on the first compute node; and swapping, by the virtual machine operating system in the virtual machine on the first compute node, a page of memory from RAM on the first compute node to the backing storage on the second compute node.

77 FR 30595 - Further Definition of “Swap Dealer,” “Security-Based Swap Dealer,” “Major Swap Participant...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-05-23

...In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (``Dodd-Frank Act''), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'') and the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'') (collectively, the ``Commissions''), in consultation with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (``Board''), are adopting new rules and interpretive guidance under the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA''), and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act''), to further define the terms ``swap dealer,'' ``security-based swap dealer,'' ``major swap participant,'' ``major security-based swap participant,'' and ``eligible contract participant.''

78 FR 69433 - Executive Order 13650 Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security Listening Sessions

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-11-19

... Chemical Facility Safety and Security Listening Sessions AGENCY: National Protection and Programs... from stakeholders on issues pertaining to Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security (Executive... regulations, guidance, and policies; and identifying best practices in chemical facility safety and security...

A Program Management Framework for Facilities Managers

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

King, Dan

2012-01-01

The challenge faced by senior facility leaders is not how to execute a single project, but rather, how to successfully execute a large program consisting of hundreds of projects. Senior facilities officers at universities, school districts, hospitals, airports, and other organizations with extensive facility inventories, typically manage project…

75 FR 63080 - Interim Final Rule for Reporting Pre-Enactment Swap Transactions

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-10-14

... registered swap data repository (``SDR'') \\1\\ or to the Commission by the compliance date to be established... to the terms of such swaps. \\1\\ The term ``swap data repository'' is defined in Section 1a(48) of the... the date of the enactment of this subsection shall be reported to a registered swap data repository or...

41 CFR 102-74.585 - What Federal facility telework policy must Executive agencies follow?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What Federal facility... Management Federal Property Management Regulations System (Continued) FEDERAL MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Telework § 102-74.585 What Federal facility telework policy must Executive...

32 CFR 766.8 - Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility licenses.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... CIVIL AIRCRAFT § 766.8 Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility... license and Certificate of Insurance to the Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command or his... Facilities Engineering Command or his designated representative. (1) Upon receipt, the Commander, Naval...

75 FR 56999 - Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-09-17

... DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board AGENCY... the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Senior Executive Service (SES) Performance Review... performance review boards. The PRB shall review and evaluate the initial summary rating of the senior...

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Chang, Yu-Tzu; Shu, Chung-Li; Lai, Jing-Yang

Mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) grow slowly after cultivation from animals, however, after an extended period of cultivation, their growth accelerates. We found that SWAP-70 deficient MEFs failed to increase growth rates. They maintain normal growth rates and proliferation cycles for at least 5 years. Complementing SWAP-70 deficiency in one of these MEF clones, MEF1F2, by expressing human SWAP-70 resulted in fast growth of the cells after further cultivation for a long period. The resulting cells show a transformation phenotype, since they grow on top of each other and do not show contact inhibition. This phenotype was reverted when sanguinarine, amore » putative SWAP-70 inhibitor, was added. Two SWAP-70 expressing clones were examined in detail. Even after cell density became very high their cdc2 and NFκB were still activated suggesting that they do not stop growing. One of the clones formed colonies in soft agar and formed tumors in nude mice. Lately, one more clone became transformed being able to make colonies in soft agar. We maintain 4 human SWAP-70 expressing MEF1F2 cell lines. Three out of 4 clones exhibited transforming phenotypes. The mouse SWAP-70 gene also promoted transformation of MEFs. Taken together our data suggest that SWAP-70 is not a typical oncogene, but is required for spontaneous transformation of MEFs. - Highlights: • Mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) lacking SWAP-70 do not cause spontaneous transform. • Adding back of SWAP-70 to SWAP-70-deficient MEFs induces spontaneous transformation. • SWAP-70 is required for spontaneous transformation of MEFs.« less

32 CFR 766.8 - Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility licenses.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... distribution of aviation facility licenses. 766.8 Section 766.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY MISCELLANEOUS RULES USE OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY AVIATION FACILITIES BY CIVIL AIRCRAFT § 766.8 Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility...

32 CFR 766.8 - Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility licenses.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... distribution of aviation facility licenses. 766.8 Section 766.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY MISCELLANEOUS RULES USE OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY AVIATION FACILITIES BY CIVIL AIRCRAFT § 766.8 Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility...

32 CFR 766.8 - Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility licenses.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... distribution of aviation facility licenses. 766.8 Section 766.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY MISCELLANEOUS RULES USE OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY AVIATION FACILITIES BY CIVIL AIRCRAFT § 766.8 Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility...

32 CFR 766.8 - Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility licenses.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... distribution of aviation facility licenses. 766.8 Section 766.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY MISCELLANEOUS RULES USE OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY AVIATION FACILITIES BY CIVIL AIRCRAFT § 766.8 Procedure for review, approval, execution and distribution of aviation facility...

17 CFR 49.10 - Acceptance of data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... technological protocols established by a swap data repository shall provide for the receipt of swap creation data, swap continuation data, real-time public reporting data, and all other data and information... swap data repository shall adopt policies and procedures, including technological protocols, which...

17 CFR 49.26 - Disclosure requirements of swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... data repository's policies and procedures reasonably designed to protect the privacy of any and all... swap data repositories. 49.26 Section 49.26 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.26 Disclosure requirements of swap data...

77 FR 48207 - Further Definition of “Swap,” “Security-Based Swap,” and “Security-Based Swap Agreement”; Mixed...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-08-13

...In accordance with section 712(a)(8), section 712(d)(1), sections 712(d)(2)(B) and (C), sections 721(b) and (c), and section 761(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'') and the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'') (collectively, ``Commissions''), in consultation with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (``Board''), are jointly adopting new rules and interpretations under the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'') and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'') to further define the terms ``swap,'' ``security-based swap,'' and ``security-based swap agreement'' (collectively, ``Product Definitions''); regarding ``mixed swaps;'' and governing books and records with respect to ``security-based swap agreements.'' The CFTC requests comment on its interpretation concerning forwards with embedded volumetric optionality, contained in Section II.B.2.(b)(ii) of this release.

75 FR 75207 - Regulation SBSR-Reporting and Dissemination of Security-Based Swap Information

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-12-02

...In accordance with Section 763 (``Section 763'') and Section 766 (``Section 766'') of Title VII (``Title VII'') of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ``Dodd-Frank Act''), the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'' or ``Commission'') is proposing Regulation SBSR--Reporting and Dissemination of Security-Based Swap Information (``Regulation SBSR'') under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'').\\1\\ Proposed Regulation SBSR would provide for the reporting of security- based swap information to registered security-based swap data repositories or the Commission and the public dissemination of security-based swap transaction, volume, and pricing information. Registered security-based swap data repositories would be required to establish and maintain certain policies and procedures regarding how transaction data are reported and disseminated, and participants of registered security-based swap data repositories that are security- based swap dealers or major security-based swap participants would be required to establish and maintain policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to ensure that they comply with applicable reporting obligations. Finally, proposed Regulation SBSR also would require a registered SDR to register with the Commission as a securities information processor on existing Form SIP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

17 CFR 49.19 - Core principles applicable to registered swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... registered swap data repositories. 49.19 Section 49.19 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.19 Core principles applicable to registered swap data repositories. (a) Compliance with core principles. To be registered, and maintain...

17 CFR 49.27 - Access and fees.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 49.27 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.27 Access and fees. (a) Fair, open and equal access. (1) A registered swap data repository..., swap dealers, major swap participants and any other counterparties, on a fair, open and equal basis...

17 CFR 49.27 - Access and fees.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 49.27 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.27 Access and fees. (a) Fair, open and equal access. (1) A registered swap data repository..., swap dealers, major swap participants and any other counterparties, on a fair, open and equal basis...

17 CFR 49.27 - Access and fees.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 49.27 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.27 Access and fees. (a) Fair, open and equal access. (1) A registered swap data repository..., swap dealers, major swap participants and any other counterparties, on a fair, open and equal basis...

17 CFR 49.26 - Disclosure requirements of swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.26 Disclosure requirements of swap data repositories... swap data repository shall furnish to the reporting entity a disclosure document that contains the... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Disclosure requirements of...

17 CFR 49.26 - Disclosure requirements of swap data repositories.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.26 Disclosure requirements of swap data repositories... swap data repository shall furnish to the reporting entity a disclosure document that contains the... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Disclosure requirements of...

77 FR 31767 - Aggregation, Position Limits for Futures and Swaps

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2012-05-30

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17 CFR 49.16 - Privacy and confidentiality requirements of swap data repositories.

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17 CFR 49.2 - Definitions.

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78 FR 20848 - Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants; Clerical or Ministerial Employees

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17 CFR 45.3 - Swap data reporting: creation data.

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2013-04-01

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17 CFR 45.3 - Swap data reporting: creation data.

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[The effect of colored syringes and a colored sheet on the incidence of syringe swaps during anesthetic management].

PubMed

Hirabayashi, Yoshihiro; Kawakami, Takayuki; Suzuki, Hideo; Igarashi, Takashi; Saitoh, Kazuhiko; Seo, Norimasa

2005-09-01

Syringe swap is an important problem in anesthetic care, causing harm to patients. We examined the effect of colored syringe and a colored sheet on the incidence of syringe swaps during anesthetic management. We determined the color code. The blue-syringe contains local anesthetics; yellow-syringe, sympathomimetic drugs; and white-syringe with a red label fixed opposite the scale, muscle relaxants. The colored sheet displays the photographs of the syringe with drug name, dose and volume. The colored syringe and colored sheet were supplied for use from February 2004. We compared the incidence of syringe swaps during the period from February 2004 to January 2005 with that from February 2003 to January 2004. Although five syringe swaps were recorded from February 2003 to January 2004, in 5901 procedures, we encountered no syringe swaps from February 2004 to January 2005, in 6078 procedures. The colored syringe and colored sheet significantly decreased the incidence of syringe swaps during anesthetic management (P <0.05). The use of the sheet together with colored syringes can prevent syringe swaps during anesthesia.

State recovery and lockstep execution restart in a system with multiprocessor pairing

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Gara, Alan; Gschwind, Michael K; Salapura, Valentina

System, method and computer program product for a multiprocessing system to offer selective pairing of processor cores for increased processing reliability. A selective pairing facility is provided that selectively connects, i.e., pairs, multiple microprocessor or processor cores to provide one highly reliable thread (or thread group). Each paired microprocessor or processor cores that provide one highly reliable thread for high-reliability connect with a system components such as a memory "nest" (or memory hierarchy), an optional system controller, and optional interrupt controller, optional I/O or peripheral devices, etc. The memory nest is attached to a selective pairing facility via a switchmore » or a bus. Each selectively paired processor core is includes a transactional execution facility, whereing the system is configured to enable processor rollback to a previous state and reinitialize lockstep execution in order to recover from an incorrect execution when an incorrect execution has been detected by the selective pairing facility.« less

77 FR 62273 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing and Order...

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... terms including Cleared Swap, Cleared Swaps Customer, Cleared Swaps Customer Account and Cleared Swaps... segregated (futures) accounts, including CFTC Regulations 1.20, 1.25, 1.27 to 1.30, and 1.49. Derivatives... designed to protect investors. As such, the proposed changes are designed to promote the prompt and...

17 CFR 1.9 - Regulation of mixed swaps.

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17 CFR 1.9 - Regulation of mixed swaps.

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75 FR 78892 - Reporting Certain Post-Enactment Swap Transactions

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76 FR 46668 - Business Conduct Standards for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap...

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Strategic benefits of master facility plans.

PubMed

Shannon, K

1996-02-01

In recent years, many healthcare executives have stopped developing master facility plans due to some basic misconceptions about them, namely that master facility plans are too rigid or require major capital commitment. By getting past these misconceptions, healthcare executives can help their organizations develop and implement master facility plans that serve as flexible, reliable blueprints in guiding the organizations toward achieving their strategic, operational, and financial goals.

17 CFR 37.2 - Exemption.

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2011-04-01

... Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION DERIVATIVES TRANSACTION EXECUTION FACILITIES § 37.2 Exemption. Contracts, agreements or transactions traded on a derivatives transaction... derivatives transaction execution facilities. [71 FR 37822, July 3, 2006] ...

Combining functional and structural tests improves the diagnostic accuracy of relevance vector machine classifiers

PubMed Central

Racette, Lyne; Chiou, Christine Y.; Hao, Jiucang; Bowd, Christopher; Goldbaum, Michael H.; Zangwill, Linda M.; Lee, Te-Won; Weinreb, Robert N.; Sample, Pamela A.

2009-01-01

Purpose To investigate whether combining optic disc topography and short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) data improves the diagnostic accuracy of relevance vector machine (RVM) classifiers for detecting glaucomatous eyes compared to using each test alone. Methods One eye of 144 glaucoma patients and 68 healthy controls from the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study were included. RVM were trained and tested with cross-validation on optimized (backward elimination) SWAP features (thresholds plus age; pattern deviation (PD); total deviation (TD)) and on Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II (HRT) optic disc topography features, independently and in combination. RVM performance was also compared to two HRT linear discriminant functions (LDF) and to SWAP mean deviation (MD) and pattern standard deviation (PSD). Classifier performance was measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROCs) generated for each feature set and by the sensitivities at set specificities of 75%, 90% and 96%. Results RVM trained on combined HRT and SWAP thresholds plus age had significantly higher AUROC (0.93) than RVM trained on HRT (0.88) and SWAP (0.76) alone. AUROCs for the SWAP global indices (MD: 0.68; PSD: 0.72) offered no advantage over SWAP thresholds plus age, while the LDF AUROCs were significantly lower than RVM trained on the combined SWAP and HRT feature set and on HRT alone feature set. Conclusions Training RVM on combined optimized HRT and SWAP data improved diagnostic accuracy compared to training on SWAP and HRT parameters alone. Future research may identify other combinations of tests and classifiers that can also improve diagnostic accuracy. PMID:19528827

17 CFR 1.68 - Customer election not to have funds, carried by a futures commission merchant for trading on a...

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2011-04-01

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The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope Part I: Instrument Overview and Pre-Flight Testing

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Seaton, D. B.; Berghmans, D.; Nicula, B.; Halain, J.-P.; De Groof, A.; Thibert, T.; Bloomfield, D. S.; Raftery, C. L.; Gallagher, P. T.; Auchère, F.; Defise, J.-M.; D'Huys, E.; Lecat, J.-H.; Mazy, E.; Rochus, P.; Rossi, L.; Schühle, U.; Slemzin, V.; Yalim, M. S.; Zender, J.

2013-08-01

The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) is an EUV solar telescope onboard ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) mission launched on 2 November 2009. SWAP has a spectral bandpass centered on 17.4 nm and provides images of the low solar corona over a 54×54 arcmin field-of-view with 3.2 arcsec pixels and an imaging cadence of about two minutes. SWAP is designed to monitor all space-weather-relevant events and features in the low solar corona. Given the limited resources of the PROBA2 microsatellite, the SWAP telescope is designed with various innovative technologies, including an off-axis optical design and a CMOS-APS detector. This article provides reference documentation for users of the SWAP image data.

Green Team Hosts Plant Swap to Encourage Gardening | Poster

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By Carolynne Keenan, Contributing Writer What started out as a way for Howard Young, Ph.D., to thin out his garden last fall turned into the NCI at Frederick Green Team’s Plant Swap. The group held its Fall Plant Swap on October 24, encouraging all members of the Fort Detrick community to pick up a free plant or swap a plant of theirs for another. “Those who love to garden introduce others to the joy of gardening,” said Dolores Winterstein, a member of the Green Team and the coordinator of the Fall Plant Swap.

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77 FR 9733 - Business Conduct Standards for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants With Counterparties

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...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is adopting final rules to implement Section 4s(h) of the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'') pursuant to Section 731 of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the ``Dodd-Frank Act''). These rules prescribe external business conduct standards for swap dealers and major swap participants.

SWAp dynamics in a decentralized context: experiences from Uganda.

PubMed

Jeppsson, Anders

2002-12-01

This paper examines the role of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Uganda in the process of developing a Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) within the health sector. Power dynamics are integral to any understanding of development assistance, and SWAps bring with them new opportunities for the deployment of influence. The SWAp process has changed the interaction between the donors and the Government, and the perspective of this interaction has shifted from various technical areas to the entire health sector. It is argued that although the decentralization of the public sector has transferred considerable responsibilities and duties from the central level to the districts, significant power, defined as a social construct, has been generated by the MoH in the very process of developing SWAps. The MoH has been able to exercise significant influence on defining the content and boundaries of the SWAp process, as well as the direction it is taking. This development has largely followed blueprints drawn by donors. Through the institutional framework associated with SWAps, the MoH has redefined the interaction between the central level and the districts as well as between the MoH and the donors. While the SWAp process is now moving from the planning to the implementation phase in Uganda, we see a number of new, changing, ambiguous and contradictory strategies emerging.

Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-07-20

to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues related to the...combatants could pursue legal challenges regarding their detention or other wartime actions taken by the Executive. The Bush Administration initially...that are likely to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues

Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-01-15

executive and/or legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues related to the transfer or release of...challenges regarding their detention or other wartime actions taken by the Executive. The Bush Administration initially believed that Guantanamo was...executive and/or legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues related to the transfer or release of Guantanamo

Green Team Hosts Plant Swap to Encourage Gardening | Poster

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By Carolynne Keenan, Contributing Writer What started out as a way for Howard Young, Ph.D., to thin out his garden last fall turned into the NCI at Frederick Green Team’s Plant Swap. The group held its Fall Plant Swap on October 24, encouraging all members of the Fort Detrick community to pick up a free plant or swap a plant of theirs for another. “Those who love to garden

Three-dimensional unstructured grid refinement and optimization using edge-swapping

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Gandhi, Amar; Barth, Timothy

1993-01-01

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3-D) 'edge-swapping method based on local transformations. This method extends Lawson's edge-swapping algorithm into 3-D. The 3-D edge-swapping algorithm is employed for the purpose of refining and optimizing unstructured meshes according to arbitrary mesh-quality measures. Several criteria including Delaunay triangulations are examined. Extensions from two to three dimensions of several known properties of Delaunay triangulations are also discussed.

Design of low SWaP optical terminals for free space optical communications

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Shubert, P.; Cline, A.; McNally, J.; Pierson, R.

2017-02-01

Along with advantages in higher data rates, spectrum contention, and security, free space optical communications can provide size, weight, and power (SWaP) advantages over radio frequency (RF) systems. SWaP is always an issue in space systems and can be critical in applying free space optical communications to small satellite platforms. The system design of small space-based free space optical terminals with Gbps data rates is addressed. System architectures and requirements are defined to ensure the terminals are capable of acquisition, establishment and maintenance of a free space optical communications link. Design trades, identification of blocking technologies, and performance analyses are used to evaluate the practical limitations to terminal SWaP. Small terminal design concepts are developed to establish their practicality and feasibility. Techniques, such as modulation formats and capacity approaching encoding, are considered to mitigate the disadvantages brought by SWaP limitations, and performance as a function of SWaP is evaluated.

Quantum Entanglement Swapping between Two Multipartite Entangled States

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Su, Xiaolong; Tian, Caixing; Deng, Xiaowei; Li, Qiang; Xie, Changde; Peng, Kunchi

2016-12-01

Quantum entanglement swapping is one of the most promising ways to realize the quantum connection among local quantum nodes. In this Letter, we present an experimental demonstration of the entanglement swapping between two independent multipartite entangled states, each of which involves a tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entangled state of an optical field. The entanglement swapping is implemented deterministically by means of a joint measurement on two optical modes coming from the two multipartite entangled states respectively and the classical feedforward of the measurement results. After entanglement swapping the two independent multipartite entangled states are merged into a large entangled state in which all unmeasured quantum modes are entangled. The entanglement swapping between a tripartite GHZ state and an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entangled state is also demonstrated and the dependence of the resultant entanglement on transmission loss is investigated. The presented experiment provides a feasible technical reference for constructing more complicated quantum networks.

Quantum Entanglement Swapping between Two Multipartite Entangled States.

PubMed

Su, Xiaolong; Tian, Caixing; Deng, Xiaowei; Li, Qiang; Xie, Changde; Peng, Kunchi

2016-12-09

Quantum entanglement swapping is one of the most promising ways to realize the quantum connection among local quantum nodes. In this Letter, we present an experimental demonstration of the entanglement swapping between two independent multipartite entangled states, each of which involves a tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entangled state of an optical field. The entanglement swapping is implemented deterministically by means of a joint measurement on two optical modes coming from the two multipartite entangled states respectively and the classical feedforward of the measurement results. After entanglement swapping the two independent multipartite entangled states are merged into a large entangled state in which all unmeasured quantum modes are entangled. The entanglement swapping between a tripartite GHZ state and an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entangled state is also demonstrated and the dependence of the resultant entanglement on transmission loss is investigated. The presented experiment provides a feasible technical reference for constructing more complicated quantum networks.

17 CFR 162.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... control with a covered affiliate. (b) Clear and conspicuous. The term “clear and conspicuous” means... exchange dealer, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, introducing broker, major swap..., commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, introducing broker, major swap participant or swap...

17 CFR 162.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... corporate control with a covered affiliate. (b) Clear and conspicuous. The term “clear and conspicuous... exchange dealer, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, introducing broker, major swap..., commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, introducing broker, major swap participant or swap...

17 CFR 162.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... control with a covered affiliate. (b) Clear and conspicuous. The term “clear and conspicuous” means... exchange dealer, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, introducing broker, major swap..., commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, introducing broker, major swap participant or swap...

77 FR 41109 - Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

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... and specifically requests quantitative data and analysis on the comparative costs and benefits of the... quantitative impact study (``QIS'') to assess the costs and benefits of margin requirements. The results of the...

Accelerated sampling by infinite swapping of path integral molecular dynamics with surface hopping

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Lu, Jianfeng; Zhou, Zhennan

2018-02-01

To accelerate the thermal equilibrium sampling of multi-level quantum systems, the infinite swapping limit of a recently proposed multi-level ring polymer representation is investigated. In the infinite swapping limit, the ring polymer evolves according to an averaged Hamiltonian with respect to all possible surface index configurations of the ring polymer and thus connects the surface hopping approach to the mean-field path-integral molecular dynamics. A multiscale integrator for the infinite swapping limit is also proposed to enable efficient sampling based on the limiting dynamics. Numerical results demonstrate the huge improvement of sampling efficiency of the infinite swapping compared with the direct simulation of path-integral molecular dynamics with surface hopping.

More than 3,200 Books and DVDs Donated to Annual Book Swap | Poster

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Robin Meckley, Contributing Writer The Scientific Library’s 14th Annual Book and Media Swap, held on April 16 in the lobby of Building 549, proved to be a popular event. When the swap was rescheduled from fall 2013 to spring 2014, the library staff was uncertain if the response would be equal to previous years, said Sue Wilson, principal manager of the Scientific Library. NCI at Frederick employees rose to the challenge, however, with 87 people donating more than 3,200 books and DVDs, according to Pam Noble, serials technician and book swap team leader. By the end of the first day of the swap, almost half of the materials had been claimed.

Highly efficient entanglement swapping and teleportation at telecom wavelength

PubMed Central

Jin, Rui-Bo; Takeoka, Masahiro; Takagi, Utako; Shimizu, Ryosuke; Sasaki, Masahide

2015-01-01

Entanglement swapping at telecom wavelengths is at the heart of quantum networking in optical fiber infrastructures. Although entanglement swapping has been demonstrated experimentally so far using various types of entangled photon sources both in near-infrared and telecom wavelength regions, the rate of swapping operation has been too low to be applied to practical quantum protocols, due to limited efficiency of entangled photon sources and photon detectors. Here we demonstrate drastic improvement of the efficiency at telecom wavelength by using two ultra-bright entangled photon sources and four highly efficient superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. We have attained a four-fold coincidence count rate of 108 counts per second, which is three orders higher than the previous experiments at telecom wavelengths. A raw (net) visibility in a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between the two independent entangled sources was 73.3 ± 1.0% (85.1 ± 0.8%). We performed the teleportation and entanglement swapping, and obtained a fidelity of 76.3% in the swapping test. Our results on the coincidence count rates are comparable with the ones ever recorded in teleportation/swapping and multi-photon entanglement generation experiments at around 800 nm wavelengths. Our setup opens the way to practical implementation of device-independent quantum key distribution and its distance extension by the entanglement swapping as well as multi-photon entangled state generation in telecom band infrastructures with both space and fiber links. PMID:25791212

Highly efficient entanglement swapping and teleportation at telecom wavelength.

PubMed

Jin, Rui-Bo; Takeoka, Masahiro; Takagi, Utako; Shimizu, Ryosuke; Sasaki, Masahide

2015-03-20

Entanglement swapping at telecom wavelengths is at the heart of quantum networking in optical fiber infrastructures. Although entanglement swapping has been demonstrated experimentally so far using various types of entangled photon sources both in near-infrared and telecom wavelength regions, the rate of swapping operation has been too low to be applied to practical quantum protocols, due to limited efficiency of entangled photon sources and photon detectors. Here we demonstrate drastic improvement of the efficiency at telecom wavelength by using two ultra-bright entangled photon sources and four highly efficient superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. We have attained a four-fold coincidence count rate of 108 counts per second, which is three orders higher than the previous experiments at telecom wavelengths. A raw (net) visibility in a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between the two independent entangled sources was 73.3 ± 1.0% (85.1 ± 0.8%). We performed the teleportation and entanglement swapping, and obtained a fidelity of 76.3% in the swapping test. Our results on the coincidence count rates are comparable with the ones ever recorded in teleportation/swapping and multi-photon entanglement generation experiments at around 800 nm wavelengths. Our setup opens the way to practical implementation of device-independent quantum key distribution and its distance extension by the entanglement swapping as well as multi-photon entangled state generation in telecom band infrastructures with both space and fiber links.

Using Executive Information Systems to Manage Capital Projects and Facilities.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kaynor, Robert

1993-01-01

In higher education, facilities data are essential for long-term capital and financial planning and for testing assumptions underlying anticipated policy change. Executive information systems should incorporate life-cycle considerations (planning, construction, renovation, and management) and resource linkages (describing interrelationships of…

17 CFR 45.2 - Swap recordkeeping.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... Section 45.2 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA..., complete, and systematic records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, of all activities..., complete, and systematic records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, with respect to each swap...

17 CFR 45.2 - Swap recordkeeping.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... Section 45.2 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA..., complete, and systematic records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, of all activities..., complete, and systematic records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, with respect to each swap...

77 FR 41601 - Process for Submissions for Review of Security-Based Swaps for Mandatory Clearing and Notice...

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2012-07-13

... Swaps g. Other Issues Related to Security-Based Swap Submissions h. Additional Comments 2. Prevention of... clearing and exchange trading due to individual business needs of certain users. Those users should retain...

17 CFR 45.2 - Swap recordkeeping.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... Section 45.2 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA..., complete, and systematic records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, of all activities..., complete, and systematic records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, with respect to each swap...

75 FR 70310 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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... Consumer Protection Act governing the security-based swap data repository registration process, the duties of such repositories, and the core principles applicable to such repositories. 4. The Commission will... security-based swap data repositories or the Commission and the public dissemination of security-based swap...

17 CFR 37.7 - Additional requirements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... Section 37.7 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION DERIVATIVES... transaction execution facility insofar as transactions in futures or option contracts of foreign traders are... of section 5c(c) of the Act and § 40.2 of this chapter, derivatives transaction execution facilities...

78 FR 66621 - Protection of Collateral of Counterparties to Uncleared Swaps; Treatment of Securities in a...

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2013-11-06

...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the ``Commission'') is issuing final rules implementing new statutory provisions enacted by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ``Dodd-Frank Act''). Specifically, the final rule contained herein imposes requirements on swap dealers (``SDs'') and major swap participants (``MSPs'') with respect to the treatment of collateral posted by their counterparties to margin, guarantee, or secure uncleared swaps. Additionally, the final rule includes revisions to ensure that, for purposes of subchapter IV of chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, securities held in a portfolio margining account that is a futures account or a Cleared Swaps Customer Account constitute ``customer property''; and owners of such account constitute ``customers.''

17 CFR 49.10 - Acceptance of data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... protocols established by a swap data repository shall provide for the receipt of swap creation data, swap continuation data, real-time public reporting data, and all other data and information required to be reported... repository shall adopt policies and procedures, including technological protocols, which provide for...

17 CFR 49.10 - Acceptance of data.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... protocols established by a swap data repository shall provide for the receipt of swap creation data, swap continuation data, real-time public reporting data, and all other data and information required to be reported... repository shall adopt policies and procedures, including technological protocols, which provide for...

17 CFR 49.3 - Procedures for registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... that such swap data repository is appropriately organized, and has the capacity: to ensure the prompt.... 49.3 Section 49.3 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA... desiring to be registered as a swap data repository shall file electronically an application for...

17 CFR 49.3 - Procedures for registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... if the Commission finds that such swap data repository is appropriately organized, and has the...) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.3 Procedures for registration. (a) Application procedures. (1) An applicant, person or entity desiring to be registered as a swap data repository shall file electronically an...

17 CFR 49.3 - Procedures for registration.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... that such swap data repository is appropriately organized, and has the capacity: to ensure the prompt.... 49.3 Section 49.3 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA... desiring to be registered as a swap data repository shall file electronically an application for...

77 FR 49428 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection, Comment Request: Further...

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2012-08-16

... Agreement''; Mixed Swaps; Security- Based Swap Agreement Recordkeeping: Book-out Agreement Confirmation... Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''), requiring that oral book- out agreements must be followed in a..., ``Product Definitions''); regarding ``mixed swaps;'' and governing books and records with respect to...

78 FR 26485 - Community Programs Guaranteed Loans

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2013-05-07

... community facility such as childcare, educational, or health care facilities; and amending Sec. 3575.25... manner delineated in 7 CFR part 3015, subpart V. Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform This rule has been reviewed under Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform. In accordance with this rule: (1...

17 CFR 45.6 - Legal entity identifiers

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... applied to swap data repositories by part 49 of this chapter. (4) Open Source. The schema for the legal... Section 45.6 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA... to the jurisdiction of the Commission shall be identified in all recordkeeping and all swap data...

17 CFR 45.6 - Legal entity identifiers

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... applied to swap data repositories by part 49 of this chapter. (4) Open Source. The schema for the legal... Section 45.6 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA... to the jurisdiction of the Commission shall be identified in all recordkeeping and all swap data...

17 CFR 49.22 - Chief compliance officer.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

....22 Section 49.22 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA... 49, the term “board of directors” means the board of directors of a registered swap data repository, or for those swap data repositories whose organizational structure does not include a board of...

17 CFR 49.22 - Chief compliance officer.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

....22 Section 49.22 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DATA... 49, the term “board of directors” means the board of directors of a registered swap data repository, or for those swap data repositories whose organizational structure does not include a board of...

78 FR 21045 - Adaptation of Regulations to Incorporate Swaps-Records of Transactions; Correction

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2013-04-09

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 1 RIN 3038-AD53 Adaptation of Regulations to Incorporate Swaps--Records of Transactions; Correction AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission. ACTION...), regarding Adaptation of Regulations to Incorporate Swaps--Records of Transactions. DATES: This correction to...

Gas-Grain Simulation Facility: Fundamental studies of particle formation and interactions. Volume 1: Executive summary and overview

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Fogleman, Guy (Editor); Huntington, Judith L. (Editor); Schwartz, Deborah E. (Editor); Fonda, Mark L. (Editor)

1989-01-01

An overview of the Gas-Grain Simulation Facility (GGSF) project and its current status is provided. The proceedings of the Gas-Grain Simulation Facility Experiments Workshop are recorded. The goal of the workshop was to define experiments for the GGSF--a small particle microgravity research facility. The workshop addressed the opportunity for performing, in Earth orbit, a wide variety of experiments that involve single small particles (grains) or clouds of particles. The first volume includes the executive summary, overview, scientific justification, history, and planned development of the Facility.

41 CFR 102-74.110 - What asset services must Executive agencies provide?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Property Management Regulations System (Continued) FEDERAL MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Facility Management Asset Services § 102-74.110 What asset services must Executive agencies... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What asset services must...

17 CFR 37.6 - Compliance with core principles.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Compliance with core... DERIVATIVES TRANSACTION EXECUTION FACILITIES § 37.6 Compliance with core principles. (a) In general. To... transaction execution facility must have the capacity to be, and be, in compliance with the core principles of...

17 CFR 37.6 - Compliance with core principles.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Compliance with core... DERIVATIVES TRANSACTION EXECUTION FACILITIES § 37.6 Compliance with core principles. (a) In general. To... transaction execution facility must have the capacity to be, and be, in compliance with the core principles of...

17 CFR 49.22 - Chief compliance officer.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... that the registered swap data repository provide fair and open access as set forth in § 49.27 of this...) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES § 49.22 Chief compliance officer. (a) Definition of Board of Directors. For... data repository, or for those swap data repositories whose organizational structure does not include a...

78 FR 4365 - Capital, Margin, and Segregation Requirements for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security...

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2013-01-22

... 3235-AL12 Capital, Margin, and Segregation Requirements for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major... public comment to establish capital, margin, and segregation requirements for security-based swap dealers... soliciting comment on proposed rules and rule amendments establishing capital, margin, and segregation...

75 FR 76930 - Real-Time Public Reporting of Swap Transaction Data

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2010-12-10

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 43 RIN 3038-AD08 Real-Time Public Reporting of Swap Transaction Data Correction In proposed rule document 2010-29994 beginning on page 76140 in the...--Additional Real-Time Public Reporting Data Fields for Options, Swaptions and Swaps with Embedded Options...

Scientific Library Will Hold 16th Annual Book and Media Swap | Poster

Cancer.gov

The Scientific Library has begun collecting materials for the 16th Annual Book and Media Swap and will continue to do so through Tuesday, October 25. Opening day for the Swap is Wednesday, October 26, and the event will continue through Wednesday, November 30.

Swap Bribery

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Elkind, Edith; Faliszewski, Piotr; Slinko, Arkadii

In voting theory, bribery is a form of manipulative behavior in which an external actor (the briber) offers to pay the voters to change their votes in order to get her preferred candidate elected. We investigate a model of bribery where the price of each vote depends on the amount of change that the voter is asked to implement. Specifically, in our model the briber can change a voter’s preference list by paying for a sequence of swaps of consecutive candidates. Each swap may have a different price; the price of a bribery is the sum of the prices of all swaps that it involves. We prove complexity results for this model, which we call swap bribery, for a broad class of voting rules, including variants of approval and k-approval, Borda, Copeland, and maximin.

Do Sector Wide Approaches for health aid delivery lead to 'donor-flight'? A comparison of 46 low-income countries.

PubMed

Sweeney, Rohan; Mortimer, Duncan; Johnston, David W

2014-03-01

Sector Wide Approaches (SWAp) emerged during the 1990s as a new policy mechanism for aid delivery. Eschewing many features of traditional project-based aid, SWAps give greater control of aid allocation to recipient countries. Some critics have questioned whether reducing a donor's level of influence over aid allocation might lead to a decrease in donor contributions. While some qualitative evaluations have described the level of fund pooling and donor participation in SWAps, no previous study has empirically examined this potential 'donor-flight' response to health SWAp implementation. This paper utilises a uniquely compiled dataset of 46 low-income countries over 1990-2009 and a variety of panel data regression models to estimate the impact of health SWAp implementation on levels of health aid. Results suggest that amongst 16 especially poor low-income countries, SWAp implementation is associated with significant decreases in health aid levels compared with non-implementers. This suggests donors are not indifferent to how their contributions are allocated by recipients, and that low-income countries considering a SWAp may need to weigh the benefits of greater control of aid allocations against the possibility of reduced aid income. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Genome-Wide Prediction and Analysis of 3D-Domain Swapped Proteins in the Human Genome from Sequence Information.

PubMed

Upadhyay, Atul Kumar; Sowdhamini, Ramanathan

2016-01-01

3D-domain swapping is one of the mechanisms of protein oligomerization and the proteins exhibiting this phenomenon have many biological functions. These proteins, which undergo domain swapping, have acquired much attention owing to their involvement in human diseases, such as conformational diseases, amyloidosis, serpinopathies, proteionopathies etc. Early realisation of proteins in the whole human genome that retain tendency to domain swap will enable many aspects of disease control management. Predictive models were developed by using machine learning approaches with an average accuracy of 78% (85.6% of sensitivity, 87.5% of specificity and an MCC value of 0.72) to predict putative domain swapping in protein sequences. These models were applied to many complete genomes with special emphasis on the human genome. Nearly 44% of the protein sequences in the human genome were predicted positive for domain swapping. Enrichment analysis was performed on the positively predicted sequences from human genome for their domain distribution, disease association and functional importance based on Gene Ontology (GO). Enrichment analysis was also performed to infer a better understanding of the functional importance of these sequences. Finally, we developed hinge region prediction, in the given putative domain swapped sequence, by using important physicochemical properties of amino acids.

17 CFR 23.205 - Real-time public reporting.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Real-time public reporting. 23... Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants § 23.205 Real-time public reporting. (a) Real-time public... information and swap transaction and pricing data required to be reported in accordance with the real-time...

17 CFR 23.205 - Real-time public reporting.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Real-time public reporting. 23... Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants § 23.205 Real-time public reporting. (a) Real-time public... information and swap transaction and pricing data required to be reported in accordance with the real-time...

76 FR 33817 - Protection of Cleared Swaps Customer Contracts and Collateral; Conforming Amendments to the...

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2011-06-09

...-defaulting cleared swaps customers for risk management reasons. If the DCO makes such a choice, it would... risk management standpoint. Id. 4. Benefits a. Fellow-Customer Risk and Investment Risk In general... 22 and 190 Protection of Cleared Swaps Customer Contracts and Collateral; Conforming Amendments to...

76 FR 27621 - Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

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2011-05-12

...). Elsewhere today in the Federal Register, the Commission is proposing to adopt capital, financial reporting... requirements, and supplemental financial reporting requirements for these FCMs. The Commission now is extending... proposing to adopt capital, financial reporting, and recordkeeping requirements for SDs and MSPs, as well as...

17 CFR 22.17 - Policies and procedures governing disbursements of Cleared Swaps Customer Collateral from Cleared...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... Section 22.17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION CLEARED SWAPS § 22... of Cleared Swaps Customer Collateral with the funds of a futures commission merchant, shall not be construed to prevent a futures commission merchant from having a residual financial interest in the funds...

76 FR 23732 - Margin Requirements for Uncleared Swaps for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

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2011-04-28

... these statutory bounds the Commission has endeavored to limit costs appropriately. For example, as... Commission anticipates that the prudential regulators will publicly post their proposed rules on their Web... containing a threshold below which the CSE was not required to post initial margin, i.e., zero thresholds...

17 CFR 230.239 - Exemption for offers and sales of certain security-based swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... specified Internet address or includes in its agreement covering the security-based swap that the eligible... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Exemption for offers and sales of certain security-based swaps. 230.239 Section 230.239 Commodity and Securities Exchanges...

17 CFR 230.239 - Exemption for offers and sales of certain security-based swaps.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... specified Internet address or includes in its agreement covering the security-based swap that the eligible... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 3 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Exemption for offers and sales of certain security-based swaps. 230.239 Section 230.239 Commodity and Securities Exchanges...

78 FR 45291 - Interpretive Guidance and Policy Statement Regarding Compliance With Certain Swap Regulations

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2013-07-26

... Section 2(i) A. Comments B. Statutory Analysis C. Principles of International Comity IV. Guidance A... Reporting ii. Swap Data Recordkeeping Relating to Complaints and Marketing and Sales Materials iii. Physical... Reporting 2. Swap Data Recordkeeping Relating to Complaints and Marketing and Sales Materials 3. Physical...

77 FR 26709 - Swap Data Repositories: Interpretative Statement Regarding the Confidentiality and...

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2012-05-07

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 49 RIN 3038-AD83 Swap Data Repositories... data repositories (``SDRs'').SDRs are new registered entities created by section 728 of the Dodd-Frank... Act amends section 1a of the CEA to add a definition of the term ``swap data repository.'' Pursuant to...

78 FR 22350 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; ICE Clear Credit LLC; Notice of Filing and Order Granting...

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2013-04-15

... governing security-based swap data repositories and security-based swap reporting. See, e.g., Pub. L. No... Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (``DTCC''), in conjunction with DTCC Data Repository (U.S.) LLC.\\40... 75208 (Dec. 2, 2010); Security-Based Swap Data Repository Registration, Duties, and Core Principles...

77 FR 48060 - Real-Time Public Reporting of Swap Transaction Data; Correction

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2012-08-13

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 43 RIN 3038-AD08 Real-Time Public Reporting of...'') published the Real-Time Public Reporting of Swap Transaction Data (``Real-Time Public Reporting'') rule and.... Background The Commission published the final rule entitled Real-Time Public Reporting of Swap Transaction...

17 CFR 50.4 - Classes of swaps required to be cleared.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... Fixed-to-floating swap class Currency U.S. dollar (USD) Euro (EUR) Sterling (GBP) Yen (JPY). Floating.... Conditional Notional Amounts No No No No. Specification Basis swap class Currency U.S. dollar (USD) Euro (EUR... agreement class Currency U.S. dollar (USD) Euro (EUR) Sterling (GBP) Yen (JPY). Floating Rate Indexes LIBOR...

Is therapist evaluation of Social Anxiety/Avoidance traits associated with patient-reported attachment style?

PubMed

Katz, Michael; Hilsenroth, Mark J

2017-11-01

The Social Anxiety/Avoidance Scale was recently added to the Shedler Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP), and requires independent validation. This study used data drawn from a larger ongoing project in order to retrospectively examine its convergent validity with two self-report attachment measures: Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) and Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire-Revised (ECR-R). Fifty-two patients completed the RQ and the ECR-R before beginning psychotherapy treatment. Clinicians rated the patients on the SWAP after six sessions. The SWAP Social Anxiety/Avoidance Scale (SWAP-SAAS) was negatively related to the RQ secure attachment prototype scale and positively related to the ECR-R attachment anxiety scale. Our findings provide initial support for the use of the SWAP-SAAS as a therapist-rated measure associated with lower patient-reported levels of fit with a secure attachment prototype and with higher patient-reported levels of attachment anxiety. Implications and suggestions for future research on the SWAP-SAAS, as well as for clinical work with socially anxious and avoidant patients, are discussed. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Fast ion swapping for quantum-information processing

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kaufmann, H.; Ruster, T.; Schmiegelow, C. T.; Luda, M. A.; Kaushal, V.; Schulz, J.; von Lindenfels, D.; Schmidt-Kaler, F.; Poschinger, U. G.

2017-05-01

We demonstrate a swap gate between laser-cooled ions in a segmented microtrap via fast physical swapping of the ion positions. This operation is used in conjunction with qubit initialization, manipulation, and readout and with other types of shuttling operations such as linear transport and crystal separation and merging. Combining these operations, we perform quantum process tomography of the swap gate, obtaining a mean process fidelity of 99.5(5)%. The swap operation is demonstrated with motional excitations below 0.05(1) quantum for all six collective modes of a two-ion crystal for a process duration of 42 μ s . Extending these techniques to three ions, we reverse the order of a three-ion crystal and reconstruct the truth table for this operation, resulting in a mean process fidelity of 99.96(13)% in the logical basis.

A Cellular Automaton model for pedestrian counterflow with swapping

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Tao, Y. Z.; Dong, L. Y.

2017-06-01

In this paper, we propose a new floor field Cellular Automaton (CA) model with considering the swapping behaviors of pedestrians. The neighboring pedestrians in opposite directions take swapping in a probability decided by the linear density of pedestrian flow. The swapping which happens simultaneously with the normal movement is introduced to eliminate the gridlock in low density region. Numerical results show that the fundamental diagram is in good agreement with the measured data. Then the model is applied to investigate the counterflow and four typical states such as free flow, lane, intermediate and congestion states are found. More attention is paid on the intermediate state which lane-formation and local congestions switch in an irregular manner. The swapping plays a vital role in reducing the gridlock. Furthermore, the influence of the corridor size and individual's eyesight on counterflow are discussed in detail.

41 CFR 102-74.205 - What Federal facility ridesharing policy must Executive agencies follow?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... of ridesharing (carpools, vanpools, privately leased buses, public transportation, and other multi... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What Federal facility ridesharing policy must Executive agencies follow? 102-74.205 Section 102-74.205 Public Contracts and Property...

17 CFR Appendix B to Part 36 - Guidance on, and Acceptable Practices in, Compliance With Core Principles

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... spot-month positions. Spot-month limits should be adopted for significant price discovery contracts to... market or derivatives transaction execution facility should set the spot-month limit for its significant... designated contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility. In this case, the spot-month...

10 CFR 170.21 - Schedule of fees for production and utilization facilities, review of standard referenced design...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., Certification Full cost. Amendment, Renewal, Other Approvals Full cost. C. Test Facility/Research Reactor... of components requiring Commission and Executive Branch review, for example, actions under 10 CFR 110... export of reactor and other components requiring Executive Branch review, for example, those actions...

41 CFR 102-74.330 - What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false What smoking... MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Facility Management Smoking § 102-74.330 What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control? Effective June 19, 2009...

41 CFR 102-74.330 - What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false What smoking... MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Facility Management Smoking § 102-74.330 What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control? Effective June 19, 2009...

41 CFR 102-74.330 - What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false What smoking... MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Facility Management Smoking § 102-74.330 What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control? Effective June 19, 2009...

41 CFR 102-74.330 - What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What smoking... MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Facility Management Smoking § 102-74.330 What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control? Effective June 19, 2009...

41 CFR 102-74.330 - What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false What smoking... MANAGEMENT REGULATION REAL PROPERTY 74-FACILITY MANAGEMENT Facility Management Smoking § 102-74.330 What smoking restrictions apply to outside areas under Executive branch control? Effective June 19, 2009...

17 CFR 4.32 - Trading on a Registered Derivatives Transaction Execution Facility for Non-Institutional Customers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Trading on a Registered Derivatives Transaction Execution Facility for Non-Institutional Customers. 4.32 Section 4.32 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION COMMODITY POOL OPERATORS AND COMMODITY TRADING...

SWAP-Assembler 2: Optimization of De Novo Genome Assembler at Large Scale

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Meng, Jintao; Seo, Sangmin; Balaji, Pavan

2016-08-16

In this paper, we analyze and optimize the most time-consuming steps of the SWAP-Assembler, a parallel genome assembler, so that it can scale to a large number of cores for huge genomes with the size of sequencing data ranging from terabyes to petabytes. According to the performance analysis results, the most time-consuming steps are input parallelization, k-mer graph construction, and graph simplification (edge merging). For the input parallelization, the input data is divided into virtual fragments with nearly equal size, and the start position and end position of each fragment are automatically separated at the beginning of the reads. Inmore » k-mer graph construction, in order to improve the communication efficiency, the message size is kept constant between any two processes by proportionally increasing the number of nucleotides to the number of processes in the input parallelization step for each round. The memory usage is also decreased because only a small part of the input data is processed in each round. With graph simplification, the communication protocol reduces the number of communication loops from four to two loops and decreases the idle communication time. The optimized assembler is denoted as SWAP-Assembler 2 (SWAP2). In our experiments using a 1000 Genomes project dataset of 4 terabytes (the largest dataset ever used for assembling) on the supercomputer Mira, the results show that SWAP2 scales to 131,072 cores with an efficiency of 40%. We also compared our work with both the HipMER assembler and the SWAP-Assembler. On the Yanhuang dataset of 300 gigabytes, SWAP2 shows a 3X speedup and 4X better scalability compared with the HipMer assembler and is 45 times faster than the SWAP-Assembler. The SWAP2 software is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/swapassembler.« less

Chromatic interocular-switch rivalry.

PubMed

Christiansen, Jens H; D'Antona, Anthony D; Shevell, Steven K

2017-05-01

Interocular-switch rivalry (also known as stimulus rivalry) is a kind of binocular rivalry in which two rivalrous images are swapped between the eyes several times a second. The result is stable periods of one image and then the other, with stable intervals that span many eye swaps (Logothetis, Leopold, & Sheinberg, 1996). Previous work used this close kin of binocular rivalry with rivalrous forms. Experiments here test whether chromatic interocular-switch rivalry, in which the swapped stimuli differ in only chromaticity, results in slow alternation between two colors. Swapping equiluminant rivalrous chromaticities at 3.75 Hz resulted in slow perceptual color alternation, with one or the other color often continuously visible for two seconds or longer (during which there were 15+ eye swaps). A well-known theory for sustained percepts from interocular-switch rivalry with form is inhibitory competition between binocular neurons driven by monocular neurons with matched orientation tuning in each eye; such binocular neurons would produce a stable response when a given orientation is swapped between the eyes. A similar model can account for the percepts here from chromatic interocular-switch rivalry and is underpinned by the neurophysiological finding that color-preferring binocular neurons are driven by monocular neurons from each eye with well-matched chromatic selectivity (Peirce, Solomon, Forte, & Lennie, 2008). In contrast to chromatic interocular-switch rivalry, luminance interocular-switch rivalry with swapped stimuli that differ in only luminance did not result in slowly alternating percepts of different brightnesses.

78 FR 42579 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate...

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2013-07-16

... Change Regarding a Change to Interest Rate Swap Margin Calculation Parameters July 10, 2013. Pursuant to... Interest Rate Swap Margin Parameters Please be advised that beginning 7/15/2013, CME Clearing will utilize a revised set of parameters for the margining of CME cleared Interest Rate Swap Products. The...

76 FR 42395 - Business Conduct Standards for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap...

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2011-07-18

... received. Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Statutory Framework B. Consultations C. Approach to Drafting.... Generally B. Consistency With CFTC Approach IV. Paperwork Reduction Act A. Summary of Collections of... that may rely on security-based swaps to manage risk and reduce volatility. C. Approach to Drafting the...

75 FR 80173 - Further Definition of “Swap Dealer,” “Security-Based Swap Dealer,” “Major Swap Participant...

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2010-12-21

.... The Commission will post all comments on the Commission's Internet Web site ( http://www.sec.gov/rules..., which are the subject of separate rulemakings. For example, whether the definition of a major... Regarding Dealing Activities Commenters provided numerous examples of conduct they viewed as dealing...

17 CFR 43.3 - Method and timing for real-time public reporting.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... § 43.5. (3) Prohibitions on disclosure of data. (i) If there is a registered swap data repository for... disclosure is made no earlier than the transmittal of such data to a registered swap data repository for... such data by a registered swap data repository unless: (A) Such disclosure is made no earlier than the...

76 FR 22833 - Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements: Pre-Enactment and Transition Swaps

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2011-04-25

... the IFRs. Comments generally fell into one or more of several broad categories and in a number of instances were common to both IFRs. Some commenters observed that issuance of IFRs in advance of regulations... required to keep records as provided in the Commission's IFRs concerning pre-enactment and transition swaps...

76 FR 6715 - Swap Trading Relationship Documentation Requirements for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

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2011-02-08

... VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). Section 731 of... registered entities and intermediaries subject to the Commission's oversight. \\1\\ See Dodd-Frank Wall Street... section 701 of the Dodd-Frank Act, Title VII may be cited as the ``Wall Street Transparency and...

77 FR 71369 - Capital, Margin, and Segregation Requirements for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security...

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17 CFR 46.8 - Data reporting for swaps in a swap asset class not accepted by any swap data repository.

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Comparison of Standard Automated Perimetry, Short-Wavelength Automated Perimetry, and Frequency-Doubling Technology Perimetry to Monitor Glaucoma Progression

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Hu, Rongrong; Wang, Chenkun; Gu, Yangshun; Racette, Lyne

2016-01-01

Abstract Detection of progression is paramount to the clinical management of glaucoma. Our goal is to compare the performance of standard automated perimetry (SAP), short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP), and frequency-doubling technology (FDT) perimetry in monitoring glaucoma progression. Longitudinal data of paired SAP, SWAP, and FDT from 113 eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma enrolled in the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study or the African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study were included. Data from all tests were expressed in comparable units by converting the sensitivity from decibels to unitless contrast sensitivity and by expressing sensitivity values in percent of mean normal based on an independent dataset of 207 healthy eyes with aging deterioration taken into consideration. Pointwise linear regression analysis was performed and 3 criteria (conservative, moderate, and liberal) were used to define progression and improvement. Global mean sensitivity (MS) was fitted with linear mixed models. No statistically significant difference in the proportion of progressing and improving eyes was observed across tests using the conservative criterion. Fewer eyes showed improvement on SAP compared to SWAP and FDT using the moderate criterion; and FDT detected less progressing eyes than SAP and SWAP using the liberal criterion. The agreement between these test types was poor. The linear mixed model showed a progressing trend of global MS overtime for SAP and SWAP, but not for FDT. The baseline estimate of SWAP MS was significantly lower than SAP MS by 21.59% of mean normal. FDT showed comparable estimation of baseline MS with SAP. SWAP and FDT do not appear to have significant benefits over SAP in monitoring glaucoma progression. SAP, SWAP, and FDT may, however, detect progression in different glaucoma eyes. PMID:26886602

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (center) gets information about the facility while on a tour of KSC. Behind the group is the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (center) gets information about the facility while on a tour of KSC. Behind the group is the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

Evaluation of Supported Placements in Integrated Community Environments Project (SPICE). Executive Summary of the Final Report.

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Wilson, Leslie; And Others

This executive summary presents highlights of a study which sought to determine whether participants in the Supported Placements in Integrated Community Environments project were better off after moving to community homes from intermediate care facilities and skilled nursing facilities, and to determine the variables that contribute to quality…

31 CFR 560.603 - Reports on oil transactions engaged in by foreign affiliates.

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2010-07-01

... transaction means any purchase, sale, or swap of Iranian-origin crude oil or natural gas. For purposes of this paragraph (b), a purchase, sale, or swap is deemed to have occurred as of the date of the bill of lading... each reportable transaction): (i) The nature of the transaction, e.g., purchase, sale, swap; (ii) A...

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Dynamic Quantum Allocation and Swap-Time Variability in Time-Sharing Operating Systems.

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Bhat, U. Narayan; Nance, Richard E.

The effects of dynamic quantum allocation and swap-time variability on central processing unit (CPU) behavior are investigated using a model that allows both quantum length and swap-time to be state-dependent random variables. Effective CPU utilization is defined to be the proportion of a CPU busy period that is devoted to program processing, i.e.…

Book Swap Now Open to All Employees | Poster

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Not only did the year 2000 mark the start of a new millennium, the beginning of the Human Genome Project, and the opening of the International Space Station, but it was also the first year that the Scientific Library held its annual Book & Media Swap. Starting Nov. 12, the 15th annual Book Swap is open to all NCI at Frederick employees.

17 CFR 45.11 - Data reporting for swaps in a swap asset class not accepted by any swap data repository.

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... Commission registrants (i.e., FCMs, retail foreign exchange dealers (RFEDs), IBs, CTAs, CPOs, and LTMs), and... FCMs, IBs, CPOs and CTAs and their APs that engage in swaps activity that is subject to Commission...\\ Therefore, the requirements of the RFA do not apply to SDs and MSPs. With respect to CTAs and IBs, the...

Interest rate swaps: financial tool of the '90s.

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Woodard, M A

1993-11-01

The implementation of prospective payment for capital costs makes it more necessary than ever for healthcare financial managers to be able to creatively balance capital costs with risk. A new financial management tool--the interest rate swap (a contractual agreement in which one party with a fixed interest rate payment liability and another party with a variable interest payment liability agree to trade those obligations)--is proving to be a solution for a growing number of hospital managers. This article describes the uses of interest rate swaps and discusses the variables to be considered when evaluating whether the benefits of an interest rate swap offset the additional risk.

Are reproductive health NGOs in Uganda able to engage in the health SWAp?

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Mugisha, Frank; Birungi, Harriet; Askew, Ian

2005-01-01

This paper explores the ability for reproductive health (RH) non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Uganda to survive in the context of SWAp and decentralization. The authors argue that, contrary to the perceptions that this context may increase NGO's financial vulnerability, a SWAp and a decentralized system may provide an opportunity that should be embraced by NGOs to enhance their sustainability and effectiveness by reducing their current dependency on donor funding. The paper discusses the systemic weaknesses of many NGOs that currently make them vulnerable, and observes that unless these weaknesses are addressed, such NGOs will lose their space in the SWAp and decentralization arena. The authors suggest that NGOs need to recognize the opportunities that participating in public-private partnerships through a SWAp can offer them for long-term and significant funding. They need also to develop their capacity to pro-actively participate in a SWAp and decentralized context by becoming more entrepreneurial in nature, through re-orienting their organizational philosophies and strategic planning and budgeting so as to be able to partner effectively with the public sector in accessing funds made available through health sector reform.

Simultaneous entanglement swapping of multiple orbital angular momentum states of light.

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Zhang, Yingwen; Agnew, Megan; Roger, Thomas; Roux, Filippus S; Konrad, Thomas; Faccio, Daniele; Leach, Jonathan; Forbes, Andrew

2017-09-21

High-bit-rate long-distance quantum communication is a proposed technology for future communication networks and relies on high-dimensional quantum entanglement as a core resource. While it is known that spatial modes of light provide an avenue for high-dimensional entanglement, the ability to transport such quantum states robustly over long distances remains challenging. To overcome this, entanglement swapping may be used to generate remote quantum correlations between particles that have not interacted; this is the core ingredient of a quantum repeater, akin to repeaters in optical fibre networks. Here we demonstrate entanglement swapping of multiple orbital angular momentum states of light. Our approach does not distinguish between different anti-symmetric states, and thus entanglement swapping occurs for several thousand pairs of spatial light modes simultaneously. This work represents the first step towards a quantum network for high-dimensional entangled states and provides a test bed for fundamental tests of quantum science.Entanglement swapping in high dimensions requires large numbers of entangled photons and consequently suffers from low photon flux. Here the authors demonstrate entanglement swapping of multiple spatial modes of light simultaneously, without the need for increasing the photon numbers with dimension.

A Large Deviations Analysis of Certain Qualitative Properties of Parallel Tempering and Infinite Swapping Algorithms

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Doll, J.; Dupuis, P.; Nyquist, P.

2017-02-08

Parallel tempering, or replica exchange, is a popular method for simulating complex systems. The idea is to run parallel simulations at different temperatures, and at a given swap rate exchange configurations between the parallel simulations. From the perspective of large deviations it is optimal to let the swap rate tend to infinity and it is possible to construct a corresponding simulation scheme, known as infinite swapping. In this paper we propose a novel use of large deviations for empirical measures for a more detailed analysis of the infinite swapping limit in the setting of continuous time jump Markov processes. Usingmore » the large deviations rate function and associated stochastic control problems we consider a diagnostic based on temperature assignments, which can be easily computed during a simulation. We show that the convergence of this diagnostic to its a priori known limit is a necessary condition for the convergence of infinite swapping. The rate function is also used to investigate the impact of asymmetries in the underlying potential landscape, and where in the state space poor sampling is most likely to occur.« less

Straighttalk. The ideal master facility plan begins with business strategy and integrates operational improvement.

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Powder, Scott; Brown, Richard E; Haupert, John M; Smith, Ryder

2007-04-02

Given the scarcity of capital to meet ever-growing demands for healthcare services, master facility planning has become more important than ever. Executives must align their master facility plans with their overall business strategy, incorporating the best in care- and service-delivery models. In this installment of Straight Talk, executives from two health systems--Advocate Health Care in Oak Brook, Ill. and Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas--discuss master facility planning. Modern Healthcare and PricewaterhouseCoopers present Straight Talk. The session on master facility planning was held on March 8, 2007 at Modern Healthcare's Chicago Headquarters. Charles Lauer, former vice president of publishing and editorial director at Modern Healthcare, was the moderator.

Chromatic interocular-switch rivalry

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Christiansen, Jens H.; D'Antona, Anthony D.; Shevell, Steven K.

2017-01-01

Interocular-switch rivalry (also known as stimulus rivalry) is a kind of binocular rivalry in which two rivalrous images are swapped between the eyes several times a second. The result is stable periods of one image and then the other, with stable intervals that span many eye swaps (Logothetis, Leopold, & Sheinberg, 1996). Previous work used this close kin of binocular rivalry with rivalrous forms. Experiments here test whether chromatic interocular-switch rivalry, in which the swapped stimuli differ in only chromaticity, results in slow alternation between two colors. Swapping equiluminant rivalrous chromaticities at 3.75 Hz resulted in slow perceptual color alternation, with one or the other color often continuously visible for two seconds or longer (during which there were 15+ eye swaps). A well-known theory for sustained percepts from interocular-switch rivalry with form is inhibitory competition between binocular neurons driven by monocular neurons with matched orientation tuning in each eye; such binocular neurons would produce a stable response when a given orientation is swapped between the eyes. A similar model can account for the percepts here from chromatic interocular-switch rivalry and is underpinned by the neurophysiological finding that color-preferring binocular neurons are driven by monocular neurons from each eye with well-matched chromatic selectivity (Peirce, Solomon, Forte, & Lennie, 2008). In contrast to chromatic interocular-switch rivalry, luminance interocular-switch rivalry with swapped stimuli that differ in only luminance did not result in slowly alternating percepts of different brightnesses. PMID:28510624

Random Access Frame (RAF) System Neutral Buoyancy Evaluations

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Howe, A. Scott; Polit-Casillas, Raul; Akin, David L.; McBryan, Katherine; Carlsen, Christopher

2015-01-01

The Random Access Frame (RAF) concept is a system for organizing internal layouts of space habitats, vehicles, and outposts. The RAF system is designed as a more efficient improvement over the current International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) used on the International Space Station (ISS), which was originally designed to allow for swapping and resupply by the Space Shuttle. The RAF system is intended to be applied in variable gravity or microgravity environments. This paper discusses evaluations and results of testing the RAF system in a neutral buoyancy facility simulating low levels of gravity that might be encountered in a deep space environment.

75 FR 80747 - End-User Exception to Mandatory Clearing of Swaps

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...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') is proposing new requirements governing the elective exception to mandatory clearing of swaps available for swap counterparties meeting certain conditions under Section 2(h)(7) of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Commission is requesting comments on the proposed rule and related matters.

Multivariate Complexity Analysis of Swap Bribery

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Dorn, Britta; Schlotter, Ildikó

We consider the computational complexity of a problem modeling bribery in the context of voting systems. In the scenario of Swap Bribery, each voter assigns a certain price for swapping the positions of two consecutive candidates in his preference ranking. The question is whether it is possible, without exceeding a given budget, to bribe the voters in a way that the preferred candidate wins in the election.

17 CFR 43.4 - Swap transaction and pricing data to be publicly disseminated in real-time.

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2014-04-01

... the nearest one million; (6) If the notional or principal amount is less than 500 million but equal to... greater than zero up to and including two years; (B) USD 100 million for swaps with a tenor greater than two years up to and including ten years; and (C) USD 75 million for swaps with a tenor greater than...

Military Medical Care: Questions and Answers

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2013-07-24

services through either Department of Defense (DOD) medical facilities, known as “military treatment facilities” or “MTFs” as space is available, or...Chiefs of Staff, CAE /PEO =Component Acquisition Executive/Program Executive Officer, DHA OGC = Defense Health Agency Office of General Counsel, NCR...funding for all fixed medical treatment facilities/activities, including such costs as real property maintenance, environmental compliance, minor

Spin-Swapping Transport and Torques in Ultrathin Magnetic Bilayers

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Saidaoui, Hamed Ben Mohamed; Manchon, A.

2016-07-01

Planar spin transport in disordered ultrathin magnetic bilayers comprising a ferromagnet and a normal metal (typically used for spin pumping, spin Seebeck and spin-orbit torque experiments) is investigated theoretically. Using a tight-binding model that puts the extrinsic spin Hall effect and spin swapping on equal footing, we show that the nature of spin-orbit coupled transport dramatically depends on the ratio between the layer thickness d and the mean free path λ . While the spin Hall effect dominates in the diffusive limit (d ≫λ ), spin swapping dominates in the Knudsen regime (d ≲λ ). A remarkable consequence is that spin swapping induces a substantial fieldlike torque in the Knudsen regime.

Dynamic Allocation of SPM Based on Time-Slotted Cache Conflict Graph for System Optimization

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Wu, Jianping; Ling, Ming; Zhang, Yang; Mei, Chen; Wang, Huan

This paper proposes a novel dynamic Scratch-pad Memory allocation strategy to optimize the energy consumption of the memory sub-system. Firstly, the whole program execution process is sliced into several time slots according to the temporal dimension; thereafter, a Time-Slotted Cache Conflict Graph (TSCCG) is introduced to model the behavior of Data Cache (D-Cache) conflicts within each time slot. Then, Integer Nonlinear Programming (INP) is implemented, which can avoid time-consuming linearization process, to select the most profitable data pages. Virtual Memory System (VMS) is adopted to remap those data pages, which will cause severe Cache conflicts within a time slot, to SPM. In order to minimize the swapping overhead of dynamic SPM allocation, a novel SPM controller with a tightly coupled DMA is introduced to issue the swapping operations without CPU's intervention. Last but not the least, this paper discusses the fluctuation of system energy profit based on different MMU page size as well as the Time Slot duration quantitatively. According to our design space exploration, the proposed method can optimize all of the data segments, including global data, heap and stack data in general, and reduce the total energy consumption by 27.28% on average, up to 55.22% with a marginal performance promotion. And comparing to the conventional static CCG (Cache Conflicts Graph), our approach can obtain 24.7% energy profit on average, up to 30.5% with a sight boost in performance.

Two-Hierarchy Entanglement Swapping for a Linear Optical Quantum Repeater

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Xu, Ping; Yong, Hai-Lin; Chen, Luo-Kan; Liu, Chang; Xiang, Tong; Yao, Xing-Can; Lu, He; Li, Zheng-Da; Liu, Nai-Le; Li, Li; Yang, Tao; Peng, Cheng-Zhi; Zhao, Bo; Chen, Yu-Ao; Pan, Jian-Wei

2017-10-01

Quantum repeaters play a significant role in achieving long-distance quantum communication. In the past decades, tremendous effort has been devoted towards constructing a quantum repeater. As one of the crucial elements, entanglement has been created in different memory systems via entanglement swapping. The realization of j -hierarchy entanglement swapping, i.e., connecting quantum memory and further extending the communication distance, is important for implementing a practical quantum repeater. Here, we report the first demonstration of a fault-tolerant two-hierarchy entanglement swapping with linear optics using parametric down-conversion sources. In the experiment, the dominant or most probable noise terms in the one-hierarchy entanglement swapping, which is on the same order of magnitude as the desired state and prevents further entanglement connections, are automatically washed out by a proper design of the detection setting, and the communication distance can be extended. Given suitable quantum memory, our techniques can be directly applied to implementing an atomic ensemble based quantum repeater, and are of significant importance in the scalable quantum information processing.

Two-Hierarchy Entanglement Swapping for a Linear Optical Quantum Repeater.

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Xu, Ping; Yong, Hai-Lin; Chen, Luo-Kan; Liu, Chang; Xiang, Tong; Yao, Xing-Can; Lu, He; Li, Zheng-Da; Liu, Nai-Le; Li, Li; Yang, Tao; Peng, Cheng-Zhi; Zhao, Bo; Chen, Yu-Ao; Pan, Jian-Wei

2017-10-27

Quantum repeaters play a significant role in achieving long-distance quantum communication. In the past decades, tremendous effort has been devoted towards constructing a quantum repeater. As one of the crucial elements, entanglement has been created in different memory systems via entanglement swapping. The realization of j-hierarchy entanglement swapping, i.e., connecting quantum memory and further extending the communication distance, is important for implementing a practical quantum repeater. Here, we report the first demonstration of a fault-tolerant two-hierarchy entanglement swapping with linear optics using parametric down-conversion sources. In the experiment, the dominant or most probable noise terms in the one-hierarchy entanglement swapping, which is on the same order of magnitude as the desired state and prevents further entanglement connections, are automatically washed out by a proper design of the detection setting, and the communication distance can be extended. Given suitable quantum memory, our techniques can be directly applied to implementing an atomic ensemble based quantum repeater, and are of significant importance in the scalable quantum information processing.

More than 3,200 Books and DVDs Donated to Annual Book Swap | Poster

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Robin Meckley, Contributing Writer The Scientific Library’s 14th Annual Book and Media Swap, held on April 16 in the lobby of Building 549, proved to be a popular event. When the swap was rescheduled from fall 2013 to spring 2014, the library staff was uncertain if the response would be equal to previous years, said Sue Wilson, principal manager of the Scientific Library. NCI

CMOS-APS Detectors for Solar Physics: Lessons Learned during the SWAP Preflight Calibration

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de Groof, A.; Berghmans, D.; Nicula, B.; Halain, J.-P.; Defise, J.-M.; Thibert, T.; Schühle, U.

2008-05-01

CMOS-APS imaging detectors open new opportunities for remote sensing in solar physics beyond what classical CCDs can provide, offering far less power consumption, simpler electronics, better radiation hardness, and the possibility of avoiding a mechanical shutter. The SWAP telescope onboard the PROBA2 technology demonstration satellite of the European Space Agency will be the first actual implementation of a CMOS-APS detector for solar physics in orbit. One of the goals of the SWAP project is precisely to acquire experience with the CMOS-APS technology in a real-live space science context. Such a precursor mission is essential in the preparation of missions such as Solar Orbiter where the extra CMOS-APS functionalities will be hard requirements. The current paper concentrates on specific CMOS-APS issues that were identified during the SWAP preflight calibration measurements. We will discuss the different readout possibilities that the CMOS-APS detector of SWAP provides and their associated pros and cons. In particular we describe the “image lag” effect, which results in a contamination of each image with a remnant of the previous image. We have characterised this effect for the specific SWAP implementation and we conclude with a strategy on how to successfully circumvent the problem and actually take benefit of it for solar monitoring.

WATCHMAN: A Data Warehouse Intelligent Cache Manager

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Scheuermann, Peter; Shim, Junho; Vingralek, Radek

1996-01-01

Data warehouses store large volumes of data which are used frequently by decision support applications. Such applications involve complex queries. Query performance in such an environment is critical because decision support applications often require interactive query response time. Because data warehouses are updated infrequently, it becomes possible to improve query performance by caching sets retrieved by queries in addition to query execution plans. In this paper we report on the design of an intelligent cache manager for sets retrieved by queries called WATCHMAN, which is particularly well suited for data warehousing environment. Our cache manager employs two novel, complementary algorithms for cache replacement and for cache admission. WATCHMAN aims at minimizing query response time and its cache replacement policy swaps out entire retrieved sets of queries instead of individual pages. The cache replacement and admission algorithms make use of a profit metric, which considers for each retrieved set its average rate of reference, its size, and execution cost of the associated query. We report on a performance evaluation based on the TPC-D and Set Query benchmarks. These experiments show that WATCHMAN achieves a substantial performance improvement in a decision support environment when compared to a traditional LRU replacement algorithm.

Impact of the Swap It, Don't Stop It Australian National Mass Media Campaign on Promoting Small Changes to Lifestyle Behaviors.

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O'Hara, Blythe J; Grunseit, Anne; Phongsavan, Philayrath; Bellew, William; Briggs, Megan; Bauman, Adrian E

2016-12-01

Mass media campaigns aimed at influencing lifestyle risk factors are one way that governments are attempting to address chronic disease risk. In Australia, a national campaign aimed at encouraging Australians to make changes in lifestyle-related behaviors was implemented from 2008 to 2011. The first phase, Measure Up (2008-2009), focused on why lifestyle changes are needed by increasing awareness of the link between waist circumference and chronic disease risk. The second phase, Swap It, Don't Stop It (2011), emphasized how adults can change their behaviors. Cross-sectional telephone surveys (after the campaign) were undertaken in July and November 2011 to evaluate the Swap It, Don't Stop It campaign and included measures of campaign awareness and lifestyle-related behavior change. Survey participants (N = 5,097) were similar across the two survey periods. Prompted campaign awareness was 62% (16% for unprompted awareness); females, younger respondents (18-44 years), those in paid employment, and those who spoke English at home were more likely to report prompted/unprompted campaign awareness. Moreover, 16% of survey respondents reported any swapping behavior in the previous 6 months, with the majority (14%) reporting only one swap; younger respondents and those in paid employment were significantly more likely to report having implemented a swapping behavior. The campaign achieved modest population awareness but demonstrated limited effect in terms of nudging behaviors. This evaluation indicates that encouraging swapping behaviors as a prelude to lifestyle change may not result from a mass media campaign alone; a comprehensive multicomponent population approach may be required.

'Change4Life Smart Swaps': quasi-experimental evaluation of a natural experiment.

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Wrieden, Wendy L; Levy, Louis B

2016-09-01

To evaluate the impact on food purchasing behaviour of the 'Change4Life Smart Swaps' campaign to encourage families to make small changes to lower-fat or lower-sugar versions of commonly eaten foods and drinks. Quasi-experimental study comparing the proportion of swaps made by an intervention group (267 families who had signed up to the 'Smart Swaps' campaign promoted through various media, including television and radio advertising in early 2014) and a comparison group (135 families resident in Wales, signed up for 'Change4Life' materials, but not directly exposed to the 'Smart Swaps' campaign). During weeks 1, 2 and 3 of the campaign participants were asked to record their purchases of dairy products, carbonated drinks and breakfast cereals, using a mobile phone app questionnaire, when making a purchase within the category. England and Wales. Families registered with 'Change4Life'. In weeks 2 and 3 a significantly higher percentage of the intervention group had made 'smart swaps' than the comparison group. After week 3, 58 % of participants had swapped to a lower-fat dairy product compared with 26 % of the comparison group (P<0·001), 32 % of the intervention group had purchased a lower-sugar drink compared with 19 % of the comparison group (P=0·01), and 24 % had made a change to a lower-sugar cereal compared with 12 % of the comparison group (P=0·009). In the short term a national campaign to change purchase habits towards healthier products may have some merit but the sustainability of change requires further investigation.

The use of interest rate swaps by nonprofit organizations: evidence from nonprofit health care providers.

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Stewart, Louis J; Trussel, John

2006-01-01

Although the use of derivatives, particularly interest rate swaps, has grown explosively over the past decade, derivative financial instrument use by nonprofits has received only limited attention in the research literature. Because little is known about the risk management activities of nonprofits, the impact of these instruments on the ability of nonprofits to raise capital may have significant public policy implications. The primary motivation of this study is to determine the types of derivatives used by nonprofits and estimate the frequency of their use among these organizations. Our study also extends contemporary finance theory by an empirical examination of the motivation for interest rate swap usage among nonprofits. Our empirical data came from 193 large nonprofit health care providers that issued debt to the public between 2000 and 2003. We used a univariate analysis and a multivariate analysis relying on logistic regression models to test alternative explanations of interest rate swaps usage by nonprofits, finding that more than 45 percent of our sample, 88 organizations, used interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional value in excess of $8.3 billion. Our empirical tests indicate the primary motive for nonprofits to use interest rate derivatives is to hedge their exposure to interest rate risk. Although these derivatives are a useful risk management tool, under conditions of falling bond market interest rates these derivatives may also expose a nonprofit swap user to the risk of a material unscheduled termination payment. Finally, we found considerable diversity in the informativeness of footnote disclosure among sample organizations that used interest rate swaps. Many nonprofits did not disclose these risks in their financial statements. In conclusion, we find financial managers in large nonprofits commonly use derivative financial instruments as risk management tools, but the use of interest rate swaps by nonprofits may expose them to other risks that are not adequately disclosed in their financial statements.

Scientific Library’s Book and Media Swap Coming April 16 | Poster

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By Robin Meckley, Contributing Writer The 14th annual Book and Media Swap will be held on Wednesday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the lobby of the Conference Center in Building 549. The staff is holding the swap to coincide with National Library Week, an annual celebration of libraries that occurs in April. As of April 10, the library had collected nearly 2,000 books,

41 CFR 102-83.70 - What is Executive Order 12072?

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... Space Urban Areas § 102-83.70 What is Executive Order 12072? Executive Order 12072, entitled “Federal... area to give first consideration to locating Federal facilities in central business areas, and/or adjacent areas of similar character, to use them to make downtowns attractive places to work, conserve...

41 CFR 102-83.70 - What is Executive Order 12072?

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... Space Urban Areas § 102-83.70 What is Executive Order 12072? Executive Order 12072, entitled “Federal... area to give first consideration to locating Federal facilities in central business areas, and/or adjacent areas of similar character, to use them to make downtowns attractive places to work, conserve...

48 CFR 970.5223-6 - Executive Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management.

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..., Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management. 970.5223-6 Section 970.5223-6... Contracts 970.5223-6 Executive Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation... contracts for the operation of a DOE facility or motor vehicle fleet. Executive Order 13423, Strengthening...

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Segment swapping aided the evolution of enzyme function: The case of uroporphyrinogen III synthase.

PubMed

Szilágyi, András; Györffy, Dániel; Závodszky, Péter

2017-01-01

In an earlier study, we showed that two-domain segment-swapped proteins can evolve by domain swapping and fusion, resulting in a protein with two linkers connecting its domains. We proposed that a potential evolutionary advantage of this topology may be the restriction of interdomain motions, which may facilitate domain closure by a hinge-like movement, crucial for the function of many enzymes. Here, we test this hypothesis computationally on uroporphyrinogen III synthase, a two-domain segment-swapped enzyme essential in porphyrin metabolism. To compare the interdomain flexibility between the wild-type, segment-swapped enzyme (having two interdomain linkers) and circular permutants of the same enzyme having only one interdomain linker, we performed geometric and molecular dynamics simulations for these species in their ligand-free and ligand-bound forms. We find that in the ligand-free form, interdomain motions in the wild-type enzyme are significantly more restricted than they would be with only one interdomain linker, while the flexibility difference is negligible in the ligand-bound form. We also estimated the entropy costs of ligand binding associated with the interdomain motions, and find that the change in domain connectivity due to segment swapping results in a reduction of this entropy cost, corresponding to ∼20% of the total ligand binding free energy. In addition, the restriction of interdomain motions may also help the functional domain-closure motion required for catalysis. This suggests that the evolution of the segment-swapped topology facilitated the evolution of enzyme function for this protein by influencing its dynamic properties. Proteins 2016; 85:46-53. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations as an Aid in the Prediction of Domain Swapping of Computationally Designed Protein Variants.

PubMed

Mou, Yun; Huang, Po-Ssu; Thomas, Leonard M; Mayo, Stephen L

2015-08-14

In standard implementations of computational protein design, a positive-design approach is used to predict sequences that will be stable on a given backbone structure. Possible competing states are typically not considered, primarily because appropriate structural models are not available. One potential competing state, the domain-swapped dimer, is especially compelling because it is often nearly identical with its monomeric counterpart, differing by just a few mutations in a hinge region. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide a computational method to sample different conformational states of a structure. Here, we tested whether MD simulations could be used as a post-design screening tool to identify sequence mutations leading to domain-swapped dimers. We hypothesized that a successful computationally designed sequence would have backbone structure and dynamics characteristics similar to that of the input structure and that, in contrast, domain-swapped dimers would exhibit increased backbone flexibility and/or altered structure in the hinge-loop region to accommodate the large conformational change required for domain swapping. While attempting to engineer a homodimer from a 51-amino-acid fragment of the monomeric protein engrailed homeodomain (ENH), we had instead generated a domain-swapped dimer (ENH_DsD). MD simulations on these proteins showed increased B-factors derived from MD simulation in the hinge loop of the ENH_DsD domain-swapped dimer relative to monomeric ENH. Two point mutants of ENH_DsD designed to recover the monomeric fold were then tested with an MD simulation protocol. The MD simulations suggested that one of these mutants would adopt the target monomeric structure, which was subsequently confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Patient SWAP-200 personality dimensions and FFM traits: Do they predict therapist responses?

PubMed

Tanzilli, Annalisa; Lingiardi, Vittorio; Hilsenroth, Mark

2018-05-01

The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between therapists' emotional responses and patients' personality evaluated by 3 dimensional diagnostic approaches empirically derived from the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-200 (SWAP-200; Westen & Shedler, 1999a, 1999b): Two of these rely on the 5-factor model (FFM) domains, that were assessed with different SWAP-200 FFM versions developed by Shedler and Westen (SW-FFM scales; 2004) and McCrae, Löckenhoff, and Costa (MLC-FFM scales; 2005); the third approach is based on a multifaceted model of personality syndromes (SWAP personality dimension scales; see Shedler & Westen, 2004). A national sample of psychiatrists and psychologists (N = 166) of various theoretical orientations completed the Therapist Response Questionnaire (TRQ; Zittel Conklin & Westen, 2003) to identify patterns of therapist response, and the SWAP-200 to assess personality regarding a patient currently in their care. The findings showed good levels of construct validity between the SW-FFM and MLC-FFM scales, with the exception of the Openness trait. Moreover, specific SW-FFM and MLC-FFM scales were significantly associated with distinct SWAP personality dimension scales according in a conceptually meaningful nomological network. Although there were significant, theoretically coherent, and systematic relationships between therapists' responses and patients' personality features, overall the contribution of the SW-FFM and MLC-FFM traits in predicting therapists' responses was less sizable than the SWAP personality dimensions. These results seem to confirm the diagnostic and therapeutic value of countertransference as an essential tool in understanding psychological traits/dimensions that underlie the patients' psychopathology, both from within and outside of the FFM. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

Corrosion Screening of EV31A Magnesium and Other Magnesium Alloys using Laboratory-Based Accelerated Corrosion and Electro-Chemical Methods

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-07-01

corrosion studies (16). A schematic of the SWAP process and example of the powder produced is included in figure 4. This alloy contains amounts of Al ...advanced powder -based alloy and ZAXE1711 (both from Japan) were produced using a Spinning Water Atomization Process (SWAP) to yield powder particles with...and ZAXE1711 Mg alloy powders and (b) morphology of coarse Mg alloy powder prepared by SWAP

Green Team Readies for Spring with Plant Swap | Poster

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By Carolynne Keenan, Contributing Writer Those looking for a cost-effective way to spruce up their yards this spring can stop by the National Cancer Institute at Frederick Green Team’s booth during the Spring Research Festival (SRF) on May 7 and 8. Pick up a free plant, donate overgrown plants from your yard, or swap for a new plant. Everyone is invited to participate in the swap, whether you have plants to donate or not.

Fault tolerance in a supercomputer through dynamic repartitioning

DOEpatents

Chen, Dong; Coteus, Paul W.; Gara, Alan G.; Takken, Todd E.

2007-02-27

A multiprocessor, parallel computer is made tolerant to hardware failures by providing extra groups of redundant standby processors and by designing the system so that these extra groups of processors can be swapped with any group which experiences a hardware failure. This swapping can be under software control, thereby permitting the entire computer to sustain a hardware failure but, after swapping in the standby processors, to still appear to software as a pristine, fully functioning system.

The Annual Fall Book Swap Is On! | Poster

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The Scientific Library staff is happy to announce that our 17th Annual Book and Media Swap will be held again this year beginning on Wednesday, November 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Building 549. If you need to make room for new books, are looking for new homes for your old books, or are tired of viewing those same old DVDs over and over, then the Swap is for you.

Preliminary Results on Irradiance Measurements from Lyra and Swap

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kumara, S. T.; Kariyappa, R.; Dominique, M.; Berghmans, D.; Damé, L.; Hochedez, J. F.; Doddamani, V. H.; Chitta, Lakshmi Pradeep

The first and preliminary results of the photometry of Large Yield Radiometer (LYRA) and Sun Watcher using Active Pixel system detector and Image Processing (SWAP) onboard PROBA2 are presented in this paper. To study the day-to-day variations of LYRA irradiance, we have compared the LYRA irradiance values (observed Sun as a star) measured in Aluminum filter channel (171Å-500Å) with spatially resolved full-disk integrated intensity values measured with SWAP (174Å) and Ca II K 1 Å index values (ground-based observations from NSO/Sac Peak) for the period from 01 April 2010 to 15 Mar 2011. We found that there is a good correlation between these parameters. This indicates that the spatial resolution of SWAP complements the high temporal resolution of LYRA. Hence SWAP can be considered as an additional radiometric channel. Also the K emission index is the integrated intensity (or flux) over a 1 Å band centered on the K line and is proportional to the total emission from the chromosphere; this comparison clearly explains that the LYRA irradiance variations are due to the various magnetic features, which are contributing significantly. In addition to this we have made an attempt to segregate coronal features from full-disk SWAP images. This will help to understand and determine the actual contribution of the individual coronal feature to LYRA irradiance variations.

Multiscale implementation of infinite-swap replica exchange molecular dynamics.

PubMed

Yu, Tang-Qing; Lu, Jianfeng; Abrams, Cameron F; Vanden-Eijnden, Eric

2016-10-18

Replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) is a popular method to accelerate conformational sampling of complex molecular systems. The idea is to run several replicas of the system in parallel at different temperatures that are swapped periodically. These swaps are typically attempted every few MD steps and accepted or rejected according to a Metropolis-Hastings criterion. This guarantees that the joint distribution of the composite system of replicas is the normalized sum of the symmetrized product of the canonical distributions of these replicas at the different temperatures. Here we propose a different implementation of REMD in which (i) the swaps obey a continuous-time Markov jump process implemented via Gillespie's stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA), which also samples exactly the aforementioned joint distribution and has the advantage of being rejection free, and (ii) this REMD-SSA is combined with the heterogeneous multiscale method to accelerate the rate of the swaps and reach the so-called infinite-swap limit that is known to optimize sampling efficiency. The method is easy to implement and can be trivially parallelized. Here we illustrate its accuracy and efficiency on the examples of alanine dipeptide in vacuum and C-terminal β-hairpin of protein G in explicit solvent. In this latter example, our results indicate that the landscape of the protein is a triple funnel with two folded structures and one misfolded structure that are stabilized by H-bonds.

Debt-for-nature swaps: A new strategy for protecting environmental interests in developing nations

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Hamlin, T.B.

1989-01-01

Nature swaps are a generally well-conceived approach to mitigating the destruction of environmentally sensitive areas in developing nations while remaining sensitive to the economic needs of developing countries. They allow developing countries to dedicate some of their debt repayment to local projects, thus benefiting both their economies and the environment. Swaps also help them obtain assistance from environmental organizations in developed nations to manage their own natural resources. Environmentalists, through the purchase of steeply discounted debt, maximize their investment in tropical forest preservation. In addition they can strengthen environmental organizations in developing nations by including local environmentalists in both policymore » decisionmaking and the implementation of conservation projects. Debt-for-nature swaps also keep the subject of tropical deforestation on the agenda of the international community and offer small international lending institutions a socially redeeming means of removing bad loans from their ledgers. Finally, each government's authority to choose its own development objectives is only slightly encumbered by sharing decisionmaking authority with the environmentalists. Essentially, the swapping governments have agreed to cooperate. consequently, tropical forests only have as much protection as the tropical states desire. This does not mean that swaps are of little moment. Hopefully, collaboration between conservationists in the developed world and leaders of the developing nations will contribute to a constructive framework for future efforts to preserve the earth's tropical forests.« less

Study of quantum correlation swapping with relative entropy methods

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Xie, Chuanmei; Liu, Yimin; Chen, Jianlan; Zhang, Zhanjun

2016-02-01

To generate long-distance shared quantum correlations (QCs) for information processing in future quantum networks, recently we proposed the concept of QC repeater and its kernel technique named QC swapping. Besides, we extensively studied the QC swapping between two simple QC resources (i.e., a pair of Werner states) with four different methods to quantify QCs (Xie et al. in Quantum Inf Process 14:653-679, 2015). In this paper, we continue to treat the same issue by employing other three different methods associated with relative entropies, i.e., the MPSVW method (Modi et al. in Phys Rev Lett 104:080501, 2010), the Zhang method (arXiv:1011.4333 [quant-ph]) and the RS method (Rulli and Sarandy in Phys Rev A 84:042109, 2011). We first derive analytic expressions of all QCs which occur during the swapping process and then reveal their properties about monotonicity and threshold. Importantly, we find that a long-distance shared QC can be generated from two short-distance ones via QC swapping indeed. In addition, we simply compare our present results with our previous ones.

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-steering swapping between two Gaussian multipartite entangled states

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Wang, Meihong; Qin, Zhongzhong; Wang, Yu; Su, Xiaolong

2017-08-01

Multipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering is a useful quantum resource for quantum communication in quantum networks. It has potential applications in secure quantum communication, such as one-sided device-independent quantum key distribution and quantum secret sharing. By distributing optical modes of a multipartite entangled state to space-separated quantum nodes, a local quantum network can be established. Based on the existing multipartite EPR steering in a local quantum network, secure quantum communication protocol can be accomplished. In this manuscript, we present swapping schemes for EPR steering between two space-separated Gaussian multipartite entangled states, which can be used to connect two space-separated quantum networks. Two swapping schemes, including the swapping between a tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entangled state and an EPR entangled state and that between two tripartite GHZ entangled states, are analyzed. Various types of EPR steering are presented after the swapping of two space-separated independent multipartite entanglement states without direct interaction, which can be used to implement quantum communication between two quantum networks. The presented schemes provide technical reference for more complicated quantum networks with EPR steering.

Replacement of tritiated water from irradiated fuel storage bay

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Castillo, I.; Boniface, H.; Suppiah, S.

2015-03-15

Recently, AECL developed a novel method to reduce tritium emissions (to groundwater) and personnel doses at the NRU (National Research Universal) reactor irradiated fuel storage bay (also known as rod or spent fuel bay) through a water swap process. The light water in the fuel bay had built up tritium that had been transferred from the heavy water moderator through normal fuel transfers. The major advantage of the thermal stratification method was that a very effective tritium reduction could be achieved by swapping a minimal volume of bay water and warm tritiated water would be skimmed off the bay surface.more » A demonstration of the method was done that involved Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of the swap process and a test program that showed excellent agreement with model prediction for the effective removal of almost all the tritium with a minimal water volume. Building on the successful demonstration, AECL fabricated, installed, commissioned and operated a full-scale system to perform a water swap. This full-scale water swap operation achieved a tritium removal efficiency of about 96%.« less

Non-3D domain swapped crystal structure of truncated zebrafish alphaA crystallin

PubMed Central

Laganowsky, A; Eisenberg, D

2010-01-01

In previous work on truncated alpha crystallins (Laganowsky et al., Protein Sci 2010; 19:1031–1043), we determined crystal structures of the alpha crystallin core, a seven beta-stranded immunoglobulin-like domain, with its conserved C-terminal extension. These extensions swap into neighboring cores forming oligomeric assemblies. The extension is palindromic in sequence, binding in either of two directions. Here, we report the crystal structure of a truncated alphaA crystallin (AAC) from zebrafish (Danio rerio) revealing C-terminal extensions in a non three-dimensional (3D) domain swapped, “closed” state. The extension is quasi-palindromic, bound within its own zebrafish core domain, lying in the opposite direction to that of bovine AAC, which is bound within an adjacent core domain (Laganowsky et al., Protein Sci 2010; 19:1031–1043). Our findings establish that the C-terminal extension of alpha crystallin proteins can be either 3D domain swapped or non-3D domain swapped. This duality provides another molecular mechanism for alpha crystallin proteins to maintain the polydispersity that is crucial for eye lens transparency. PMID:20669149

Improved IR detectors to swap heavy systems for SWaP

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Manissadjian, Alain; Rubaldo, Laurent; Rebeil, Yann; Kerlain, Alexandre; Brellier, Delphine; Mollard, Laurent

2012-06-01

Cooled IR technologies are challenged for answering new system needs like the compactness and the reduction of cryopower which is a key feature for the SWaP (Size, Weight and Power) requirements. Over the last years, SOFRADIR has improved its HgCdTe technology, with effect on dark current reduction, opening the way for High Operating Temperature (HOT) systems that can get rid of the 80K temperature constraint, and therefore releases the Stirling cooler engine power consumption. Performances of the 640×512 15μm pitch LW detector working above 100K will be presented. A compact 640×512 15μm pitch MW detector presenting high EO performance above 130K with cut-off wavelength above 5.0μm has been developed. Its different performances with respect to the market requirements for SWaP will be discussed. High performance compact systems will make no compromise on detector resolution. The pixel pitch reduction is the answer for resolution enhancement with size reduction. We will therefore also discuss the ongoing developments and market needs for SWaP systems.

78 FR 48029 - Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security

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FPI: FM Success through Analytics

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Hickling, Duane

2013-01-01

The APPA Facilities Performance Indicators (FPI) is perhaps one of the most powerful analytical tools that institutional facilities professionals have at their disposal. It is a diagnostic facilities performance management tool that addresses the essential questions that facilities executives must answer to effectively perform their roles. It…

Efficient quantum circuits for one-way quantum computing.

PubMed

Tanamoto, Tetsufumi; Liu, Yu-Xi; Hu, Xuedong; Nori, Franco

2009-03-13

While Ising-type interactions are ideal for implementing controlled phase flip gates in one-way quantum computing, natural interactions between solid-state qubits are most often described by either the XY or the Heisenberg models. We show an efficient way of generating cluster states directly using either the imaginary SWAP (iSWAP) gate for the XY model, or the sqrt[SWAP] gate for the Heisenberg model. Our approach thus makes one-way quantum computing more feasible for solid-state devices.

Quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping of electron spins in superconducting hybrid structures

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Bubanja, Vladimir, E-mail: vladimir.bubanja@callaghaninnovation.govt.nz

2015-06-15

We present schemes for quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping of electronic spin states in hybrid superconductor–normal-metal systems. The proposed schemes employ subgap transport whereby the lowest order processes involve Cooper pair-electron and double Cooper-pair cotunneling in quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping protocols, respectively. The competition between elastic cotunneling and Cooper-pair splitting results in the success probability of 25% in both cases. Described implementations of these protocols are within reach of present-day experimental techniques.

17 CFR 240.3a68-4 - Regulation of mixed swaps.

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2013-04-01

....S.C. 78c(a)(68)(D)). (b) Regulation of bilateral uncleared mixed swaps entered into by dually...(f) and 12; (B) Enforcement: 7 U.S.C. 2(a)(1)(B), 6(b), 6b, 6c, 6s(h)(1)(A), 6s(h)(4)(A), 9, 13b, 13a-1, 13a-2, 13, 13c(a), 13c(b), 15 and 26; (C) Reporting to a swap data repository: 7 U.S.C. 6r; (D...

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2012-07-01

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9 CFR 2.31 - Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).

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2010-01-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANIMAL WELFARE REGULATIONS Research Facilities § 2.31 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). (a) The Chief Executive Officer of the research facility shall appoint an... members to assess the research facility's animal program, facilities, and procedures. Except as...

Conceptual design of an in-space cryogenic fluid management facility, executive summary

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Willen, G. S.; Riemer, D. H.; Hustvedt, D. C.

1981-01-01

The conceptual design of a Spacelab experiment to develop the technology associated with low gravity propellant management is summarized. The preliminary facility definition, conceptual design and design analysis, and facility development plan, including schedule and cost estimates for the facility, are presented.

17 CFR 1.4 - Electronic signatures, acknowledgments and verifications.

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2014-04-01

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2013-04-01

... commission merchant or introducing broker, a retail forex customer of a retail foreign exchange dealer or..., retail forex customer, participant, client, counterparty, swap dealer, or major swap participant will be...

Entanglement swapping with independent sources over an optical-fiber network

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Sun, Qi-Chao; Mao, Ya-Li; Jiang, Yang-Fan; Zhao, Qi; Chen, Si-Jing; Zhang, Wei; Zhang, Wei-Jun; Jiang, Xiao; Chen, Teng-Yun; You, Li-Xing; Li, Li; Huang, Yi-Dong; Chen, Xian-Feng; Wang, Zhen; Ma, Xiongfeng; Zhang, Qiang; Pan, Jian-Wei

2017-03-01

Establishing entanglement between two remote systems by the method of entanglement swapping is an essential step for a long-distance quantum network. Here we report a field-test entanglement swapping experiment with two independent telecommunication band entangled photon-pair sources over an optical fiber network in Hefei. The two sources are located at two nodes that are 12.5 km apart and the Bell-state measurement is performed at a third location which is connected to the two source nodes with 14.7-km and 10.6-km optical fibers, respectively. The observed average visibility is 79.9 ±4.8 % , which is sufficient for the violation of Bell inequalities. Furthermore, with the swapped entanglement, we demonstrate a source-independent quantum key distribution, which is also immune to any detection attacks at the measurement site.

Austerity and the "sector-wide approach" to health: The Mozambique experience.

PubMed

Pfeiffer, James; Gimbel, Sarah; Chilundo, Baltazar; Gloyd, Stephen; Chapman, Rachel; Sherr, Kenneth

2017-08-01

Fiscal austerity policies imposed by the IMF have reduced investments in social services, leaving post-independence nations like Mozambique struggling to recover from civil war and high disease burden. By 2000, a sector-wide approach (SWAp) was promoted to maximize aid effectiveness. 'Like-minded' bilateral donors, from Europe and Canada, promoted a unified approach to health sector support focusing on joint planning, common basket funding, and streamlined monitoring and evaluation to improve sector coordination, amplify country ownership, and build sustainable health systems. Notable donors - including US government and the Global Fund - did not participate in the SWAp, and increased vertical funding weakened the SWAp in favor of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In spite of some success in harmonizing aid to the health sector, the SWAp experience in Mozambique demonstrates how continued austerity regimes that severely constrain public spending will continue to undermine health system strengthening in Africa, even in the midst of high levels of foreign aid with the ostensible purpose of strengthening those systems. The SWAp story provides a poignant illustration of how continued austerity will impede progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3); "Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all". However, the SWAp continues to offer an alternative model to health system support that can provide a foundation for resistance to renewed austerity measures. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Considerations on Facilities Planning

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Baule, Steven

2007-01-01

Most facilities renovation projects occur because someone at the executive or board level has lobbied successfully for them. Often in public schools, the voters have agreed to the project as well via a building referendum. Therefore, facilities projects are highly visible to the community. Unlike many other issues in schools, facilities projects…

76 FR 27801 - Capital Requirements of Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

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...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is proposing regulations that would implement the new statutory framework in the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), added by the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). These new provisions of the CEA require, among other things, the Commission to adopt capital requirements for certain swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs). The proposed rules also provide for related financial condition reporting and recordkeeping by SDs and MSPs. The Commission further proposes to amend existing capital and financial reporting regulations for futures commission merchants (FCMs) that also register as SDs or MSPs. The proposed regulations also include requirements for supplemental FCM financial reporting to reflect section 724 of the Dodd-Frank Act. In order to align the comment periods for this proposed rule and the Commission's earlier proposed rulemaking on margin requirements for uncleared swaps,\\1\\ the comment period for the proposed margin rulemaking is being extended elsewhere in the Federal Register today, so that commenters will have the opportunity to review the proposed capital and margin rules together before the expiration of the comment periods for either proposed rule. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Semiannual Report to the Congress, October 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012

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2012-03-31

0013-ALM Follow-up Audit of Rotor Blades 11/08/2011 USAAA A-2012-0015- FFM Controls Over the Incentive Program in the Indiana Army National Guard...Financial Statements 11/02/2011 USAAA A-2012-0022- FFM Army Executive Dining Facility Fund Financial Statements, Office of the Administrative Assistant to...the Secretary of the Army 12/06/2011 USAAA A-2012-0023- FFM Army Executive Dining Facility Fund Internal Controls, Office of the Administrative

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (right) looks at the newly arrived Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (right) looks at the newly arrived Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (left) looks at the newly arrived Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (left) looks at the newly arrived Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

The Annual Fall Book Swap Is On! | Poster

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The Scientific Library staff is happy to announce that our 17th Annual Book and Media Swap will be held again this year beginning on Wednesday, November 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Building 549. If you need to make room for new books, are looking for new homes for your old books, or are tired of viewing those same old DVDs over and over, then the Swap is for you. Collection for materials has already begun, but donations will continue to be accepted through Tuesday, October 31.

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Balakrishnan, S.; Sankaranarayanan, R.

Nonlocal two-qubit gates are geometrically represented by tetrahedron known as Weyl chamber within which perfect entanglers form a polyhedron. We identify that all edges of the Weyl chamber and polyhedron are formed by single parametric gates. Nonlocal attributes of these edges are characterized using entangling power and local invariants. In particular, SWAP{sup -{alpha}} family of gates with 0{<=}{alpha}{<=}1 constitutes one edge of the Weyl chamber with SWAP{sup -1/2} being the only perfect entangler. Finally, optimal constructions of controlled-NOT using SWAP{sup -1/2} gate and gates belong to three edges of the polyhedron are presented.

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77 FR 20127 - Swap Dealer and Major Swap Participant Recordkeeping, Reporting, and Duties Rules; Futures...

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2012-04-03

... between research and trading and between clearing and trading. Finally, these regulations also require... compared to the costs involved. ISDA & SIFMA provided the Commission with no quantitative data regarding...

The effect of interest rate derivative transactions on debt savings for not-for-profit health systems.

PubMed

Venkataramani, Prakash; Johnson, Tricia; O'Neil, Patricia; Poindexter, Victoria; Rooney, Jeffrey

2006-01-01

The utilization of interest rate derivative instruments in US for-profit companies has grown exponentially since the early 1980s. International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), reported that the amount of outstanding standard swaps grew by 25 percent during the first six months of 2003. The growth rate of all interest rate derivatives, which includes single-currency interest rate swaps, cross-currency interest rate swaps, and interest rate options, grew by 24 percent during the same period. The total outstanding amount of interest rate derivatives now totals $123.9 trillion compared to $99.9 trillion at the end of 2002 (Dodd, 2003). This explosion in usage is a testament to the efficacy and flexibility of the instruments and the increased appreciation by financial managers of the importance of financial risk management in a volatile interest rate environment.

Deterministically Entangling Two Remote Atomic Ensembles via Light-Atom Mixed Entanglement Swapping

PubMed Central

Liu, Yanhong; Yan, Zhihui; Jia, Xiaojun; Xie, Changde

2016-01-01

Entanglement of two distant macroscopic objects is a key element for implementing large-scale quantum networks consisting of quantum channels and quantum nodes. Entanglement swapping can entangle two spatially separated quantum systems without direct interaction. Here we propose a scheme of deterministically entangling two remote atomic ensembles via continuous-variable entanglement swapping between two independent quantum systems involving light and atoms. Each of two stationary atomic ensembles placed at two remote nodes in a quantum network is prepared to a mixed entangled state of light and atoms respectively. Then, the entanglement swapping is unconditionally implemented between the two prepared quantum systems by means of the balanced homodyne detection of light and the feedback of the measured results. Finally, the established entanglement between two macroscopic atomic ensembles is verified by the inseparability criterion of correlation variances between two anti-Stokes optical beams respectively coming from the two atomic ensembles. PMID:27165122

41 CFR 102-79.10 - What basic assignment and utilization of space policy governs an Executive agency?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... must provide a quality workplace environment that supports program operations, preserves the value of... fitness facilities in the workplace when adequately justified. An Executive agency must promote maximum...

5 CFR 2502.4 - Public reference facilities and current index.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... public reading area located in the Executive Office of the President Library, Room G-102, New Executive... of records requested. (c) The FOIA Officer shall also maintain a file open to the public, which shall...

5 CFR 2502.4 - Public reference facilities and current index.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... public reading area located in the Executive Office of the President Library, Room G-102, New Executive... of records requested. (c) The FOIA Officer shall also maintain a file open to the public, which shall...

NMR Studies on Structure and Dynamics of the Monomeric Derivative of BS-RNase: New Insights for 3D Domain Swapping

PubMed Central

Spadaccini, Roberta; Ercole, Carmine; Gentile, Maria A.; Sanfelice, Domenico; Boelens, Rolf; Wechselberger, Rainer; Batta, Gyula; Bernini, Andrea; Niccolai, Neri; Picone, Delia

2012-01-01

Three-dimensional domain swapping is a common phenomenon in pancreatic-like ribonucleases. In the aggregated state, these proteins acquire new biological functions, including selective cytotoxicity against tumour cells. RNase A is able to dislocate both N- and C-termini, but usually this process requires denaturing conditions. In contrast, bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS-RNase), which is a homo-dimeric protein sharing 80% of sequence identity with RNase A, occurs natively as a mixture of swapped and unswapped isoforms. The presence of two disulfides bridging the subunits, indeed, ensures a dimeric structure also to the unswapped molecule. In vitro, the two BS-RNase isoforms interconvert under physiological conditions. Since the tendency to swap is often related to the instability of the monomeric proteins, in these paper we have analysed in detail the stability in solution of the monomeric derivative of BS-RNase (mBS) by a combination of NMR studies and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. The refinement of NMR structure and relaxation data indicate a close similarity with RNase A, without any evidence of aggregation or partial opening. The high compactness of mBS structure is confirmed also by H/D exchange, urea denaturation, and TEMPOL mapping of the protein surface. The present extensive structural and dynamic investigation of (monomeric) mBS did not show any experimental evidence that could explain the known differences in swapping between BS-RNase and RNase A. Hence, we conclude that the swapping in BS-RNase must be influenced by the distinct features of the dimers, suggesting a prominent role for the interchain disulfide bridges. PMID:22253705

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (center) joins others for a tour. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of the newest Space Station module, the Japanese Experiment Module/pressurized module.

NASA Image and Video Library

2003-06-12

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto (center) joins others for a tour. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of the newest Space Station module, the Japanese Experiment Module/pressurized module.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto points to other Space Station elements. Behind him is the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

NASA Image and Video Library

2003-06-12

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, Executive Director of NASDA Koji Yamamoto points to other Space Station elements. Behind him is the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM)/pressurized module. Mr. Yamamoto is at KSC for a welcome ceremony involving the arrival of JEM.

77 FR 22825 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing and Order...

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2012-04-17

... Proposed Rule Change Regarding Acceptance of Additional Interest Rate Swaps and Related Interbank Rates for... organization offering interest rate swap (``IRS'') clearing services. More specifically, the proposed rule... Dollar (``AUD'') [[Page 22826

Impacts and Future of the California Fuel Tax Swap of 2010.

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

2016-05-01

California's Gas Tax Swap remains controversial, and the issue is compounded by the States current need to finance some $59 billion worth of backlogged highway maintenance projects. Even before the Governor Schwarzenegger made his proposal, there ...

77 FR 58899 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing and Order...

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2012-09-24

...; Overnight Index Swaps (``OIS'') denominated in USD, EUR, GBP and Japanese Yen (``JPY'') with Termination... Termination Dates up to 50 years; Overnight Index Swaps (``OIS'') denominated in USD, EUR, GBP and Japanese...

78 FR 43785 - Exemptive Order Regarding Compliance With Certain Swap Regulations

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2013-07-22

... the MSP definition in Commission regulation 1.3(hhh). When a person holds swap positions above those...(ggg)(4) or in its calculation of whether it is an MSP for purposes of Commission regulation 1.3(hhh...

Understanding your capital options.

PubMed

Payne, Christopher T

2012-05-01

When planning capital expenditures, hospitals and health systems should understand the following financing considerations: Traditional fixed-rate tax-exempt bonds; Variable-rate financing alternatives; Basel III Accord requirements; Direct tax-exempt bank loans; Total return swaps Taxable financings; Interest-rate swaps and collateral requirements

78 FR 19339 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; ICE Clear Credit LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness...

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2013-03-29

... Circular Related to Swap Data Repository Reporting March 21, 2013. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the... (``CFTC'') Part 43 and Part 45 regulations (Swap Data Repository Reporting) (``ICC Circular 2013/005...

Can we scan the supernova model space for collective oscillations?

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Pehlivan, Y., E-mail: yamac.pehlivan@msgsu.edu.tr; National Astronomical Observatory of Japan 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588; Subaşı, A. L.

Collective neutrino oscillations in a core collapse supernova is a many-body phenomenon which can transform the neutrino energy spectra through emergent effects. One example of this behavior is the neutrino spectral swaps in which neutrinos of different flavors partially or completely exchange their spectra. In this talk, we address the question of how model dependent this behavior is. In particular, we demonstrate that these swaps may be independent of the mean field approximation that is typically employed in numerical treatments by showing an example of a spectral swap in the exact many-body picture.

Theoretical Bounds of Direct Binary Search Halftoning.

PubMed

Liao, Jan-Ray

2015-11-01

Direct binary search (DBS) produces the images of the best quality among half-toning algorithms. The reason is that it minimizes the total squared perceived error instead of using heuristic approaches. The search for the optimal solution involves two operations: (1) toggle and (2) swap. Both operations try to find the binary states for each pixel to minimize the total squared perceived error. This error energy minimization leads to a conjecture that the absolute value of the filtered error after DBS converges is bounded by half of the peak value of the autocorrelation filter. However, a proof of the bound's existence has not yet been found. In this paper, we present a proof that shows the bound existed as conjectured under the condition that at least one swap occurs after toggle converges. The theoretical analysis also indicates that a swap with a pixel further away from the center of the autocorrelation filter results in a tighter bound. Therefore, we propose a new DBS algorithm which considers toggle and swap separately, and the swap operations are considered in the order from the edge to the center of the filter. Experimental results show that the new algorithm is more efficient than the previous algorithm and can produce half-toned images of the same quality as the previous algorithm.

Correlation between Macular Thickness and Visual Field in Early Open Angle Glaucoma: A Cross-Sectional Study.

PubMed

Fallahi Motlagh, Behzad; Sadeghi, Ali

2017-01-01

The aim of this study was to correlate macular thickness and visual field parameters in early glaucoma. A total of 104 eyes affected with early glaucoma were examined in a cross-sectional, prospective study. Visual field testing using both standard automated perimetry (SAP) and shortwave automated perimetry (SWAP) was performed. Global visual field parameters, including mean deviation (MD) and pattern standard deviation (PSD), were recorded and correlated with spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT)-measured macular thickness and asymmetry. Average macular thickness correlated significantly with all measures of visual field including MD-SWAP (r = 0.42), MD-SAP (r = 0.41), PSD-SWAP (r = -0.23), and PSD-SAP (r = -0.21), with P-values <0.001 for all correlations. The mean MD scores (using both SWAP and SAP) were significantly higher in the eyes with thin than in those with intermediate average macular thickness. Intraeye (superior macula thickness - inferior macula thickness) asymmetries correlated significantly with both PSD-SWAP (r = 0.63, P < 0.001) and PSD-SAP (r = 0.26, P = 0.01) scores. This study revealed a significant correlation between macular thickness and visual field parameters in early glaucoma. The results of this study should make macular thickness measurements even more meaningful to glaucoma specialists.

Dude Looks like a Lady: Gender Swapping in an Online Game

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Huh, Searle; Williams, Dmitri

After reviewing the literature on online identity construction and developing a set of theory-based hypotheses, this chapter employs a novel combination of survey data and game-generated behavioral logs to examine gender swapping in EverQuest II. Gender swapping is defined as a difference between the gender reported by the player in the survey from the gender of the player's main character in the game. Motivations for play were measured using Yee's condensed MMO motivations scale, and behavioral logs supplied four main measures of gender-stereotypical in-game behaviors. Contrary to expectations, gender swapping was less common among female players, and swapping was rather rare in general. Homosexual players were more likely to change their online gender than straight players. Performance and socialization motivations for play did not differ significantly between swappers and nonswappers. Men who play female characters were not more likely to engage in stereotypically female acts than men who play male characters; however, women who played male characters did display a degree of hyper-masculine behavior. Some of these findings suggest that there may be less of the identity exploration or challenging of gender norms than some had expected, but the female population of players may be bimodal, composed of stereotypically female and male-leaning subgroups.

17 CFR 49.2 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... data repository. (10) Position. The term “position” means the gross and net notional amounts of open... Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES... directly, or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the swap data...

75 FR 59666 - Agricultural Swaps

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2010-09-28

..., grain sorghums, mill feeds, butter, eggs, Solanum tuberosum (Irish potatoes), wool, wool tops, fats and oils (including lard, tallow, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, soybean oil, and all other fats and oils... the Commodity Exchange Act (a) Permitting Eligible Swap Participants To Submit for Clearing and ICE...

77 FR 41110 - Exemptive Order Regarding Compliance With Certain Swap Regulations

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2012-07-12

... delay compliance with certain entity-level requirements of the CEA (and Commission regulations promulgated thereunder), subject to specified conditions. Additionally, with respect to transaction-level.... major swap participants may delay compliance with certain entity-level requirements of the CEA (and...

75 FR 82489 - Process for Submissions for Review of Security-Based Swaps for Mandatory Clearing and Notice...

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2010-12-30

... Part IV Securities and Exchange Commission 17 CFR Parts 240 and 249 Process for Submissions for Review of Security-Based Swaps for Mandatory Clearing and Notice Filing Requirements for Clearing...;#0; [[Page 82490

17 CFR 39.5 - Review of swaps for Commission determination on clearing requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... publicly; (vi) Risk management procedures, including measurement and monitoring of credit exposures... derivative clearing organization's ability to manage the risks associated with clearing the swap, especially... of rule framework, capacity, operational expertise and resources, and credit support infrastructure...

17 CFR 39.5 - Review of swaps for Commission determination on clearing requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... publicly; (vi) Risk management procedures, including measurement and monitoring of credit exposures... derivative clearing organization's ability to manage the risks associated with clearing the swap, especially... of rule framework, capacity, operational expertise and resources, and credit support infrastructure...

Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-11-17

immigration consequences. This report provides an overview of major legal issues likely to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to...legal challenges regarding their detention or other wartime actions taken by the Executive. The Bush Administration initially believed that Guantanamo...major legal issues that are likely to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses

Simulation of water flow and nitrogen transport for a Bulgarian experimental plot using SWAP and ANIMO models.

PubMed

Marinov, Dimitar; Querner, Erik; Roelsma, Jan

2005-04-01

Unsaturated zone models are useful tools in predicting effects of measures and can be used to optimise agricultural practice aiming to minimise the impact on the environment. However, current soil models have a varying degree of abstraction level referring to simulated processes in time and space. In the framework of an EU funded project the SWAP (Soil-Water-Atmosphere-Plant) and ANIMO (Agricultural-Nutrient-Model) models were tested for an experimental arable plot in Bulgaria. SWAP was used to simulate water flow in the soil while ANIMO describes nitrogen movement and transformations. The objectives of this study are: (i) to show results of the combined application of water and nitrogen dynamics of originally Dutch models SWAP and ANIMO for specific Bulgarian soil and hydrological conditions; (ii) to calibrate and evaluate SWAP and ANIMO models by comparing numerical results with field measurements collected for an arable field in western Bulgaria and (iii) to analyse possible contamination of groundwater due to agricultural practice in the considered region. Further a short description of the experimental plot, as well as information about parameters of the investigated soil profiles, is provided. The obtained SWAP results evidenced that the model gives sufficient adaptation for soil water dynamics. The simulations of ANIMO for nitrogen cycle show greater divergence with observations but are satisfactory precise for the purposes of assessing land use impact on groundwater quality. In general, differences between model results and field measurements do not exceed 10-15%. For the experimental plot predictions indicate nitrate-N concentrations less then 5 mg/l in deeper soil compartments and low downward annual flux containing 0.133 kg N/ha. These results indicate that there is no serious pollution of the shallow groundwater table by nitrogen resulting from land use and agricultural activities.

8 CFR 1003.27 - Public access to hearings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 1003.27 Aliens and Nationality EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GENERAL PROVISIONS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW Immigration Court-Rules of Procedure § 1003.27 Public...: (a) Depending upon physical facilities, the Immigration Judge may place reasonable limitations upon...

76 FR 43851 - Large Trader Reporting for Physical Commodity Swaps

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2011-07-22

... position, or gross long and gross short futures equivalent positions on a non-delta-adjusted basis if the... from clearing organizations, clearing members and swap dealers and apply non-routine reporting... implementing and conducting effective surveillance of economically equivalent physical commodity futures...

17 CFR 23.23-23.40 - [Reserved

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false [Reserved] 23.23-23.40 Section 23.23-23.40 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Registration §§ 23.23-23.40 [Reserved] ...

17 CFR 23.1-23.20 - [Reserved

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false [Reserved] 23.1-23.20 Section 23.1-23.20 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Reserved §§ 23.1-23.20 [Reserved] ...

17 CFR 23.23-23.40 - [Reserved

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false [Reserved] 23.23-23.40 Section 23.23-23.40 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Registration §§ 23.23-23.40 [Reserved] ...

17 CFR 23.23-23.40 - [Reserved

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false [Reserved] 23.23-23.40 Section 23.23-23.40 Commodity and Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION SWAP DEALERS AND MAJOR SWAP PARTICIPANTS Registration §§ 23.23-23.40 [Reserved] ...

17 CFR 37.1000 - Core Principle 10-Recordkeeping and reporting.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... records relating to swaps defined in section 1a(47)(A)(v) of the Act open to inspection and examination by the Securities and Exchange Commission. (b) Requirements. The Commission shall adopt data collection... requirements for derivatives clearing organizations and swap data repositories. ...

75 FR 67277 - Process for Review of Swaps for Mandatory Clearing

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2010-11-02

... enacted to reduce risk, increase transparency, and promote market integrity within the financial system by... ability to manage the risks associated with clearing the swap, especially if the Commission determines... relating to product specifications; participant eligibility standards; pricing sources, models, and...

76 FR 4751 - Position Limits for Derivatives

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2011-01-26

... designated contract markets (``DCM'') and physical commodity swaps that are economically equivalent to such... non-spot-month limits based on open interest levels as well as establishing Commission-determined spot...''), swaps that are economically equivalent to DCM futures and option contracts with position limits, and...

76 FR 65999 - Effective Date for Swap Regulation

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2011-10-25

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Chapter 1 Effective Date for Swap Regulation AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission. ACTION: Notice of proposed amendment. SUMMARY: On July 14, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or the ``Commission'') issued a final order (``July 14 Order...

Domain-Swapped Dimers of Intracellular Lipid-Binding Proteins: Evidence for Ordered Folding Intermediates.

PubMed

Assar, Zahra; Nossoni, Zahra; Wang, Wenjing; Santos, Elizabeth M; Kramer, Kevin; McCornack, Colin; Vasileiou, Chrysoula; Borhan, Babak; Geiger, James H

2016-09-06

Human Cellular Retinol Binding Protein II (hCRBPII), a member of the intracellular lipid-binding protein family, is a monomeric protein responsible for the intracellular transport of retinol and retinal. Herein we report that hCRBPII forms an extensive domain-swapped dimer during bacterial expression. The domain-swapped region encompasses almost half of the protein. The dimer represents a novel structural architecture with the mouths of the two binding cavities facing each other, producing a new binding cavity that spans the length of the protein complex. Although wild-type hCRBPII forms the dimer, the propensity for dimerization can be substantially increased via mutation at Tyr60. The monomeric form of the wild-type protein represents the thermodynamically more stable species, making the domain-swapped dimer a kinetically trapped entity. Hypothetically, the wild-type protein has evolved to minimize dimerization of the folding intermediate through a critical hydrogen bond (Tyr60-Glu72) that disfavors the dimeric form. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) conceptual design report. Part I: executive summary. Part II: facilities and system

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Not Available

1977-06-01

The pilot plant is developed for ERDA low-level contact-handled transuranic waste, ERDA remote-handled intermediate-level transuranic waste, and for high-level waste experiments. All wastes placed in the WIPP arrive at the site processed and packaged; no waste processing is done at the WIPP. All wastes placed into the WIPP are retrievable. The proposed site for WIPP lies 26 miles east of Carlsbad, New Mexico. This document includes the executive summary and a detailed description of the facilities and systems. (DLC)

77 FR 70213 - Capital, Margin, and Segregation Requirements for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security...

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2012-11-23

...In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (``Dodd-Frank Act''), the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''), pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act''), is proposing capital and margin requirements for security-based swap dealers (``SBSDs'') and major security-based swap participants (``MSBSPs''), segregation requirements for SBSDs, and notification requirements with respect to segregation for SBSDs and MSBSPs. The Commission also is proposing to increase the minimum net capital requirements for broker-dealers permitted to use the alternative internal model-based method for computing net capital (``ANC broker-dealers'').

Analytical pricing formulas for hybrid variance swaps with regime-switching

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Roslan, Teh Raihana Nazirah; Cao, Jiling; Zhang, Wenjun

2017-11-01

The problem of pricing discretely-sampled variance swaps under stochastic volatility, stochastic interest rate and regime-switching is being considered in this paper. An extension of the Heston stochastic volatility model structure is done by adding the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) stochastic interest rate model. In addition, the parameters of the model are permitted to have transitions following a Markov chain process which is continuous and discoverable. This hybrid model can be used to illustrate certain macroeconomic conditions, for example the changing phases of business stages. The outcome of our regime-switching hybrid model is presented in terms of analytical pricing formulas for variance swaps.

75 FR 80637 - Business Conduct Standards for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants With Counterparties

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2010-12-22

... Acting as Counterparties to Special Entities 1. Qualifications of the Independent Representative 2. Statutory Disqualification 3. Independent 4. Best Interests 5. Makes Appropriate and Timely Disclosures 6... Contributions by Independent Representative of a Municipal Entity 9. Unqualified Independent Representative 10...

17 CFR 4.34 - General disclosures required.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... the commodity trading advisor may engage in retail forex transactions pursuant to the offered trading... pursuant to such program (including retail forex and swap transactions, if any). (h) Trading program. A... difference between bid and asked prices on retail forex or swap transactions, the trading advisor must...

17 CFR 4.34 - General disclosures required.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... the commodity trading advisor may engage in retail forex transactions pursuant to the offered trading... pursuant to such program (including retail forex and swap transactions, if any). (h) Trading program. A... difference between bid and asked prices on retail forex or swap transactions, the trading advisor must...

12 CFR 237.22 - Transition period for insured depository institutions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... quantitative and qualitative impacts of divestiture or cessation of swap or security-based swaps activities on the insured depository institution, including information that addresses the factors in paragraph (d... consideration of the factors in paragraph (c) of this section. (c) Factors governing Board determinations. In...

78 FR 909 - Further Proposed Guidance Regarding Compliance With Certain Swap Regulations

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2013-01-07

... establish a new regulatory framework for swaps. The legislation was enacted to reduce systemic risk... increase understanding of each other's regulatory approaches and to harmonize the cross-border approaches... may lead to divergent approaches to cross-border activities. The Commission also recognizes the...

17 CFR 23.500 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... market value or net present value of a swap. [77 FR 55960, Sept. 11, 2012] ... notional value of some or all of the swaps submitted by the counterparties for inclusion in the portfolio... whose combined notional value (or some other measure of risk) is less than the combined notional value...

17 CFR 23.500 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... market value or net present value of a swap. [77 FR 55960, Sept. 11, 2012] ... notional value of some or all of the swaps submitted by the counterparties for inclusion in the portfolio... whose combined notional value (or some other measure of risk) is less than the combined notional value...

76 FR 44464 - Process for Review of Swaps for Mandatory Clearing

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2011-07-26

... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Parts 39 and 140 RIN 3038-AD00 Process for Review of Swaps for Mandatory Clearing AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting regulations to implement...

[Project to enhance bone bank tissue storage and distribution procedures].

PubMed

Huang, Jui-Chen; Wu, Chiung-Lan; Chen, Chun-Chuan; Chen, Shu-Hua

2011-10-01

Organ and tissue transplantation are now commonly preformed procedures. Improper organ bank handling procedures may increase infection risks. Execution accuracy in terms of tissue storage and distribution at our bone bank was 80%. We thus proposed an execution improvement project to enhance procedures in order to fulfill the intent of donors and ensure recipient safety. This project was designed to raise nurse professionalism, and ensure patient safety through enhanced tissue storage and distribution procedures. Education programs developed for this project focus on teaching standard operating procedures for bone and ligament storage and distribution, bone bank facility maintenance, trouble shooting and solutions, and periodic inspection systems. Cognition of proper storage and distribution procedures rose from 81% to 100%; Execution accuracy also rose from 80% to 100%. The project successfully conveyed concepts essential to the correct execution of organ storage and distribution procedures and proper organ bank facility management. Achieving and maintaining procedural and management standards is crucial to continued organ donations and the recipient safety.

Recovery of chemical Estimates by Field Inhomogeneity Neighborhood Error Detection (REFINED): Fat/Water Separation at 7T

PubMed Central

Narayan, Sreenath; Kalhan, Satish C.; Wilson, David L.

2012-01-01

I.Abstract Purpose To reduce swaps in fat-water separation methods, a particular issue on 7T small animal scanners due to field inhomogeneity, using image postprocessing innovations that detect and correct errors in the B0 field map. Materials and Methods Fat-water decompositions and B0 field maps were computed for images of mice acquired on a 7T Bruker BioSpec scanner, using a computationally efficient method for solving the Markov Random Field formulation of the multi-point Dixon model. The B0 field maps were processed with a novel hole-filling method, based on edge strength between regions, and a novel k-means method, based on field-map intensities, which were iteratively applied to automatically detect and reinitialize error regions in the B0 field maps. Errors were manually assessed in the B0 field maps and chemical parameter maps both before and after error correction. Results Partial swaps were found in 6% of images when processed with FLAWLESS. After REFINED correction, only 0.7% of images contained partial swaps, resulting in an 88% decrease in error rate. Complete swaps were not problematic. Conclusion Ex post facto error correction is a viable supplement to a priori techniques for producing globally smooth B0 field maps, without partial swaps. With our processing pipeline, it is possible to process image volumes rapidly, robustly, and almost automatically. PMID:23023815

Recovery of chemical estimates by field inhomogeneity neighborhood error detection (REFINED): fat/water separation at 7 tesla.

PubMed

Narayan, Sreenath; Kalhan, Satish C; Wilson, David L

2013-05-01

To reduce swaps in fat-water separation methods, a particular issue on 7 Tesla (T) small animal scanners due to field inhomogeneity, using image postprocessing innovations that detect and correct errors in the B0 field map. Fat-water decompositions and B0 field maps were computed for images of mice acquired on a 7T Bruker BioSpec scanner, using a computationally efficient method for solving the Markov Random Field formulation of the multi-point Dixon model. The B0 field maps were processed with a novel hole-filling method, based on edge strength between regions, and a novel k-means method, based on field-map intensities, which were iteratively applied to automatically detect and reinitialize error regions in the B0 field maps. Errors were manually assessed in the B0 field maps and chemical parameter maps both before and after error correction. Partial swaps were found in 6% of images when processed with FLAWLESS. After REFINED correction, only 0.7% of images contained partial swaps, resulting in an 88% decrease in error rate. Complete swaps were not problematic. Ex post facto error correction is a viable supplement to a priori techniques for producing globally smooth B0 field maps, without partial swaps. With our processing pipeline, it is possible to process image volumes rapidly, robustly, and almost automatically. Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Closing the Guantanamo Detection Center: Legal Issues

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-04-14

issues likely to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues related to...detention or other wartime actions taken by the Executive. The Bush Administration initially believed that Guantanamo was largely beyond the...C. Henning. This report provides an overview of major legal issues that are likely to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to

Underwater Facilities Inspection and Assessment at Magnetic Silencing Facility, Naval Submarine Base, Trident Support Site, Bangor, Washington.

DTIC Science & Technology

1980-10-01

failure was noted in any other area of the facility. :’.. - . - ..- UNDERWATER FACILITI ES INSPECTION AND ASSESSMENT AT S- MAGNETIC SILENCING FACILITY...piling were found to be in excellent condition. No damage or failure was noted in any other * area of the facility. EXECUTIVE SUI’IARY TABLE U Piling...5-1 LEGEND TO TABLES. .... ........... ........ T-1 - -TABLE 1: REMAINING CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA AND DESCRIPTION OF DAMAGE TO

78 FR 42572 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate...

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2013-07-16

... Change Regarding Interest Rate Swap Clearing Changes July 10, 2013. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the... a derivatives clearing organization offering interest rate swap (``IRS'') clearing services. More... the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and currently offers clearing services for interest rate...

77 FR 66211 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-11-02

... audited by independent public accountants to all CDS Clearing Members engaged in security-based swap... clearing security-based swaps a report by independent public accountants regarding CME Group's system of... CME Group Inc. by independent public accountant regarding its system of internal accounting control...

75 FR 4626 - Order Granting a Temporary Exemption From Certain Government Securities Act Provisions and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-01-28

... accommodate customer clearing of credit default swaps that reference government securities. Treasury is also... regulations impose obligations concerning financial responsibility, protection of customer securities and... clearance of credit default swaps (CDS)\\8\\ transactions on behalf of customers of ICE Trust clearing members...

77 FR 65177 - Swap Data Repositories: Interpretative Statement Regarding the Confidentiality and...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-10-25

... participation in standard-setting bodies to develop international standards relevant to the swap markets. Cloud Strategix, LLC (``Cloud Strategix''), representing the data hosting and cloud computing industry, in... Roundtable, June 6, 2012; (iii) Cloud Strategix, LLC, June 5, 2012; and (iv) the Depository Trust & Clearing...

Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Sensor Web Prototype

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Ames, Troy; Case, Lynne; Krahe, Chris; Hess, Melissa; Hennessy, Joseph F. (Technical Monitor)

2002-01-01

This paper describes the Sensor Web Application Prototype (SWAP) system that was developed for the Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). The SWAP is aimed at providing an initial engineering proof-of-concept prototype highlighting sensor collaboration, dynamic cause-effect relationship between sensors, dynamic reconfiguration, and remote monitoring of sensor webs.

78 FR 21046 - Amendment to Rule Filing Requirements for Dually-Registered Clearing Agencies

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2013-04-09

... relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any instrument commonly known as a `security'; or any..., potentially, energy and foreign exchange swaps.\\35\\ CME raised concerns that, by omitting swaps and certain... substantial potential delays'' when implementing rule changes that deal with products over which the...

Green Team News and Upcoming Events | Poster

Cancer.gov

By Melissa Porter, Staff Writer Spring Plant Swap 2013 This past October, you may have seen several members of the Green Team standing in front of Building 549 giving out free plants or offering to take extra plants off your hands—this was the first Green Team Fall Plant Swap.

17 CFR 50.25 - Clearing requirement compliance schedule.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... major security-based swap participant; or an active fund. Category 2Entity means a commodity pool; a... beneficial owner to clear swaps. (b) Upon issuing a clearing requirement determination under section 2(h)(2... Entity, or any other entity that desires to clear the transaction, must comply with the requirements of...

17 CFR 50.50 - Exceptions to the clearing requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... the reduction of risks in the conduct and management of a commercial enterprise, where the risks arise... causes to be provided, the information specified in paragraph (b) of this section to a registered swap data repository or, if no registered swap data repository is available to receive the information from...

17 CFR 50.50 - Exceptions to the clearing requirement.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... management of a commercial enterprise, where the risks arise from: (A) The potential change in the value of... information specified in paragraph (b) of this section to a registered swap data repository or, if no registered swap data repository is available to receive the information from the reporting counterparty, to...

76 FR 49291 - Agricultural Swaps

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-08-10

...) Pursuant to Section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act, Permitting the Kansas City Board of Trade Clearing Corporation To Clear Over-the-Counter Wheat Calendar Swaps and (2) Pursuant to Section 4d of the Commodity... businesses that produce, process, and merchandize energy commodities at retail and wholesale levels; National...

17 CFR 23.451 - Political contributions by certain swap dealers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (iii) Any political action... Special Entity for the swap dealer and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee...) After learning of the contribution: (A) Has taken all available steps to cause the contributor involved...

17 CFR 23.451 - Political contributions by certain swap dealers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (iii) Any political action... Special Entity for the swap dealer and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee...) After learning of the contribution: (A) Has taken all available steps to cause the contributor involved...

17 CFR 23.451 - Political contributions by certain swap dealers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee; and (iii) Any political action... Special Entity for the swap dealer and any person who supervises, directly or indirectly, such employee...) After learning of the contribution: (A) Has taken all available steps to cause the contributor involved...

17 CFR 39.15 - Treatment of funds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... members and customers; (J) An analysis of the ability of the derivatives clearing organization to manage a... the criteria that would be used to define eligible futures, options, and swaps; (B) Analysis of the...) Analysis of the liquidity of the respective markets for the futures, options, and swaps that would be...

17 CFR 39.15 - Treatment of funds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... members and customers; (J) An analysis of the ability of the derivatives clearing organization to manage a... the criteria that would be used to define eligible futures, options, and swaps; (B) Analysis of the...) Analysis of the liquidity of the respective markets for the futures, options, and swaps that would be...

17 CFR 39.15 - Treatment of funds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... members and customers; (J) An analysis of the ability of the derivatives clearing organization to manage a... the criteria that would be used to define eligible futures, options, and swaps; (B) Analysis of the...) Analysis of the liquidity of the respective markets for the futures, options, and swaps that would be...

77 FR 42559 - End-User Exception to the Clearing Requirement for Swaps

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2012-07-19

...-owners to support their general business activities, rather than to finance purchases from its member... using non-cleared swaps to hedge risks associated with their underlying business, such as manufacturing... (IPM&CSA) stated that the end-user exception should be narrowly tailored to businesses that produce...

Geospatial Video Monitoring of Benthic Habitats Using the Shallow-Water Positioning System (SWaPS)

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-01-01

established from the video frames collected using SWaPS. C) Cover contours for the seagrass Thalassia testudinum. A B C surveyed using a spatial grid...distributions of seagrass species within this area are clearly influenced by their tolerance to salinity patterns. Thalassia testudinum, a species

75 FR 71379 - Registration of Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

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2010-11-23

.... Presently, all registered futures commission merchants (``FCMs''), introducing brokers (``IBs''), retail...., FCMs, IBs, RFEDs, CPOs and CTAs. The information called for includes the firm's full legal name and... Commission registrants (e.g., FCMs, IBs, RFEDs, CPOs or CTAs) are required to be registered. The term...

Computer-implemented security evaluation methods, security evaluation systems, and articles of manufacture

DOEpatents

Muller, George; Perkins, Casey J.; Lancaster, Mary J.; MacDonald, Douglas G.; Clements, Samuel L.; Hutton, William J.; Patrick, Scott W.; Key, Bradley Robert

2015-07-28

Computer-implemented security evaluation methods, security evaluation systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented security evaluation method includes accessing information regarding a physical architecture and a cyber architecture of a facility, building a model of the facility comprising a plurality of physical areas of the physical architecture, a plurality of cyber areas of the cyber architecture, and a plurality of pathways between the physical areas and the cyber areas, identifying a target within the facility, executing the model a plurality of times to simulate a plurality of attacks against the target by an adversary traversing at least one of the areas in the physical domain and at least one of the areas in the cyber domain, and using results of the executing, providing information regarding a security risk of the facility with respect to the target.

3 CFR - Federal Support for the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... 3 The President 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Federal Support for the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program Presidential Documents Other Presidential Documents Memorandum of January 20, 2012 Federal Support for the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies Thousands of American...

The Ohio School Facilities Commission. Revamping the State's School Construction Projects.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

De Patta, Joe

2001-01-01

Presents an interview with the Ohio School Facilities Commission's (OSFC) Executive Director who discusses the OSFC's history and its work in managing K-12 school facilities throughout the state. Topics include its efforts to help school districts get bond measures on ballets, funding projects, and its "Partnering Program" for construction…

An assessment of high-occupancy vehicle facilities (HOV) in North America : executive report

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

This executive report provides an overall summary of the major elements of the assessment of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane projects located either on freeways or in separate rights-of-way in North America. The report includes a discussion of the ...

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011590 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin (left) and Fyodor Yurchikhin, both Expedition 36 flight engineers, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Yurchikhin replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011593 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin (left) and Fyodor Yurchikhin, both Expedition 36 flight engineers, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Yurchikhin replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed one new one.

17 CFR 4.32 - Trading on a Registered Derivatives Transaction Execution Facility for Non-Institutional Customers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Trading on a Registered... Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION COMMODITY POOL OPERATORS AND COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS Commodity Trading Advisors § 4.32 Trading on a Registered Derivatives Transaction Execution...

17 CFR 4.32 - Trading on a Registered Derivatives Transaction Execution Facility for Non-Institutional Customers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Trading on a Registered... Securities Exchanges COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION COMMODITY POOL OPERATORS AND COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS Commodity Trading Advisors § 4.32 Trading on a Registered Derivatives Transaction Execution...

How we're fixing up Tyco.

PubMed

Pillmore, Eric M

2003-12-01

Among all the companies that were touched by scandal in 2002, Tyco was uniquely positioned to serve as a laboratory for governance reform. It had solid manufacturing businesses and, unlike Enron or WorldCom, it was not the victim of massive, systemic accounting fraud. Yes, there was serious malfeasance at the top--exemplified by the $6,000 shower curtain, the $2,200 wastebasket, and the other extravagant items purchased at shareholders' expense for former CEO Dennis Kozlowski's New York apartment. But undergirding the company was a foundation of profitable basic businesses. In this article, Tyco's first-ever senior vice president for corporate governance describes the steps the company is taking to wipe the slate clean and restore share-holders' and employees' trust in its operations. The company began by bringing in a new CEO, Ed Breen; hiring some 60 new senior executives; swapping out the entire board of directors with individuals who boast strong backgrounds in operations as well as in finance; and meticulously, systematically scrubbing all the books. Tyco's new board is clear about who has authority over which transactions and, with three executives within the company reporting directly to it, has a window into day-to-day affairs. Most important, Tyco is creating the conditions for good governance below the senior executive level, including a stronger boundary between finance and operations management. "In the heat of the new economy ... it became unfashionable for [finance] to exercise checks and balances on [operations]," Pillmore explains, which is why a lot of abuses went unchecked at many companies. After more than a year of effort, much of the groundwork for effective governance has been laid at Tyco. Now, the challenge is to get the word out about the reforms and let the effects speak for themselves.

75 FR 76573 - Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-12-08

..., counterparties verify the primary or essential economic terms of their swap with each other in some fashion... Omissions in Previously Reported Data Appendix 1 to Part 45--Tables of Minimum Primary Economic Terms Data..., as a response to the global economic crisis, the G-20 met in Washington. In September 2009, G-20...

75 FR 65881 - Ownership Limitations and Governance Requirements for Security-Based Swap Clearing Agencies...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-10-26

... or make available for trading security-based swaps: Nancy Burke-Sanow, Assistant Director, at (202... Cong. (2008) (Statement of Erik Sirri, Director of the Division of Trading and Markets, Commission..., 2009, and letter from Ann K. Shuman, Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel, CME, to Elizabeth...

78 FR 70610 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Relating...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-11-26

...-traded futures contracts, options on futures contracts and swap agreements. Generally, derivatives are... to invest in derivative instruments, such as options contracts, futures contracts and swap agreements... derivatives will allow the Fund to selectively add diversifying sources of return from selling options. Option...

78 FR 30800 - Reopening of Comment Periods for Certain Proposed Rulemaking Releases and Policy Statements...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-05-23

..., among other things: (1) The registration and comprehensive oversight of security-based swap dealers and... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 17 CFR Parts 240, 242, and 249 [Release No. 34-69491; File Nos... Releases and Policy Statements Applicable to Security-Based Swaps AGENCY: Securities and Exchange...

78 FR 14870 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.; Notice of Filing and Order...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-03-07

... Proposed Rule Change Regarding Acceptance of Additional Interest Rate Swaps for Clearing March 1, 2013... amend rules related to its business as a derivatives clearing organization offering interest rate swap... this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons and to approve the...

76 FR 65783 - Registration of Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-10-24

... Act Rules and Forms A. Registration Application and Amendment 1. Proposed Rule 15Fb2-1 i. Form of Application ii. Senior Officer Certification iii. Electronic Filing iv. Standards for Granting or Denying Applications v. Request for Comment on Additional Registration Considerations 2. Amendments to Application...

76 FR 80233 - Amendment to July 14, 2011 Order for Swap Regulation

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-12-23

... amendment to agricultural swaps; and, (3) the expiry date applicable to exempt commercial markets (``ECMs... on exempt and excluded commodities, may trade on either a DCM, ECM or exempt board of trade (``EBOT... agricultural commodities on ECMs or EBOTs.\\35\\ Nothing in the Notice or the Commission's recently promulgated...

17 CFR 23.600 - Risk Management Program for swap dealers and major swap participants.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... at the consolidated entity level. (iii) The Risk Management Program shall include policies and...; and whether the product requires a novel pricing methodology or presents novel legal and regulatory... management unit, as to whether the new product would materially alter the overall entity-wide risk profile of...

17 CFR 23.600 - Risk Management Program for swap dealers and major swap participants.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... at the consolidated entity level. (iii) The Risk Management Program shall include policies and...; and whether the product requires a novel pricing methodology or presents novel legal and regulatory... management unit, as to whether the new product would materially alter the overall entity-wide risk profile of...

76 FR 34920 - Exemptions for Security-Based Swaps Issued by Certain Clearing Agencies

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2011-06-15

... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 17 CFR Parts 230, 240 and 260 [Release Nos. 33-9222; 34-64639; 39-2474; File No. S7-22-11] RIN 3235-AL16 Exemptions for Security-Based Swaps Issued by Certain Clearing Agencies AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission. ACTION: Proposed rules. SUMMARY: We are...

75 FR 75520 - Order Extending Temporary Conditional Exemptions Under The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-12-03

... other things, that transactions in security-based swaps be cleared through a clearing agency that is... Reserve System, shall, among other things, jointly further define the terms ``swap'' and ``security- based... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34-63389; File No. S7-16-09] Order Extending...

77 FR 69694 - Determination of Foreign Exchange Swaps and Foreign Exchange Forwards Under the Commodity...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-11-20

... trading and clearing of foreign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards would create systemic risk... clearing and exchange trading requirements on the foreign exchange market would increase systemic risk by... argue that the exemption would create a large regulatory loophole that could exacerbate systemic risk...

17 CFR 240.3a67-3 - Definition of “substantial position.”

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... at the net present value of the unpaid premiums. (ii) Adjustment for netting agreements... value in a major security-based swap category, less the value of the collateral the person has posted in... given major security-based swap category: (i) Determine the dollar value of the aggregate current...

17 CFR 240.3a67-3 - Definition of “substantial position.”

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... at the net present value of the unpaid premiums. (ii) Adjustment for netting agreements... value in a major security-based swap category, less the value of the collateral the person has posted in... given major security-based swap category: (i) Determine the dollar value of the aggregate current...

17 CFR 50.4 - Classes of swaps required to be cleared.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... class Currency U.S. dollar (USD) Euro (EUR) Sterling (GBP) Yen (JPY). Floating Rate Indexes LIBOR... Amounts No No No No. Specification Basis swap class Currency U.S. dollar (USD) Euro (EUR) Sterling (GBP... Currency U.S. dollar (USD) Euro (EUR) Sterling (GBP) Yen (JPY). Floating Rate Indexes LIBOR EURIBOR LIBOR...

17 CFR 1.7 - Books and records requirements for security-based swap agreements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Books and records requirements... FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION GENERAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT Definitions § 1.7 Books... not be required to keep and maintain additional books and records regarding security-based swap...

17 CFR 1.7 - Books and records requirements for security-based swap agreements.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Books and records requirements... FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION GENERAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT Definitions § 1.7 Books... not be required to keep and maintain additional books and records regarding security-based swap...

75 FR 75162 - Protection of Cleared Swaps Customers Before and After Commodity Broker Bankruptcies

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-12-02

... are different from the current model for protecting futures customer collateral would bring... 10-11. (4) Baseline Model--The current approach to futures. The rights and obligations arising out of... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 17 CFR Part 190 RIN 3038-AD99 Protection of Cleared Swaps...

Dimer formation through domain swapping in the crystal structure of the Grb2-SH2-Ac-pYVNV complex.

PubMed

Schiering, N; Casale, E; Caccia, P; Giordano, P; Battistini, C

2000-11-07

Src homology 2 (SH2) domains are key modules in intracellular signal transduction. They link activated cell surface receptors to downstream targets by binding to phosphotyrosine-containing sequence motifs. The crystal structure of a Grb2-SH2 domain-phosphopeptide complex was determined at 2.4 A resolution. The asymmetric unit contains four polypeptide chains. There is an unexpected domain swap so that individual chains do not adopt a closed SH2 fold. Instead, reorganization of the EF loop leads to an open, nonglobular fold, which associates with an equivalent partner to generate an intertwined dimer. As in previously reported crystal structures of canonical Grb2-SH2 domain-peptide complexes, each of the four hybrid SH2 domains in the two domain-swapped dimers binds the phosphopeptide in a type I beta-turn conformation. This report is the first to describe domain swapping for an SH2 domain. While in vivo evidence of dimerization of Grb2 exists, our SH2 dimer is metastable and a physiological role of this new form of dimer formation remains to be demonstrated.

High-performance, event-driven, low-cost, and SWaP imaging sensor for hostile fire detection, homeland protection, and border security

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Rizk, Charbel G.; Lin, Joseph H.; Kennerly, Stephen W.; Pouliquen, Philippe; Goldberg, Arnold C.; Andreou, Andreas G.

2012-06-01

The advanced imagers team at JHU APL and ECE has been advocating and developing a new class of sensor systems that address key system level performance bottlenecks but are sufficiently flexible to allow optimization of associated cost and size, weight, and power (SWaP) for different applications and missions. A primary component of this approach is the innovative system-on-chip architecture: Flexible Readout and Integration Sensors (FRIS). This paper reports on the development and testing of a prototype based on the FRIS concept. It will include the architecture, a summary of test results to date relevant to the hostile fire detection challenge. For this application, this prototype demonstrates the potential for this concept to yield the smallest SWaP and lowest cost imaging solution with a low false alarm rate. In addition, a specific solution based on the visible band is proposed. Similar performance and SWaP gains are expected for other wavebands such as SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR and/or other applications like persistent surveillance for critical infrastructure and border control in addition to unattended sensors.

Strand swapping regulates the iron-sulfur cluster in the diabetes drug target mitoNEET

PubMed Central

Baxter, Elizabeth Leigh; Jennings, Patricia A.; Onuchic, José N.

2012-01-01

MitoNEET is a recently identified diabetes drug target that coordinates a transferable 2Fe-2S cluster, and additionally contains an unusual strand swap. In this manuscript, we use a dual basin structure-based model to predict and characterize the folding and functionality of strand swapping in mitoNEET. We demonstrate that a strand unswapped conformation is kinetically accessible and that multiple levels of control are employed to regulate the conformational dynamics of the system. Environmental factors such as temperature can shift route preference toward the unswapped pathway. Additionally we see that a region recently identified as contributing to frustration in folding acts as a regulatory hinge loop that modulates conformational balance. Interestingly, strand unswapping transfers strain specifically to cluster-coordinating residues, opening the cluster-coordinating pocket. Strengthening contacts within the cluster-coordinating pocket opens a new pathway between the swapped and unswapped conformation that utilizes cracking to bypass the unfolded basin. These results suggest that local control within distinct regions affect motions important in regulating mitoNEET’s 2Fe-2S clusters. PMID:22308404

Model swapping: A comparative performance signature for the prediction of flow duration curves in ungauged basins

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Qamar, Muhammad Uzair; Azmat, Muhammad; Cheema, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud; Shahid, Muhammad Adnan; Khushnood, Rao Arsalan; Ahmad, Sajjad

2016-10-01

The issue of lack of donor basins for prediction of flow duration curves (FDCs) in ungauged basins (PUB) is an important area of research that is not resolved in the literature. We present a distance based approach to predict FDCs at ungauged basins by quantifying the dissimilarity between FDCs and characteristics data of basins. This enables us to bracket hydrologically similar basins and thus allowing us to estimate FDCs at ungauged basins. Generally, a single regression model is selected to make hydrological estimates at an ungauged basin. Based on established laws and theories of hydrology, we work to devise a method to improve the output of selected model for an ungauged basin by swapping it with another model in case the latter gives better coverage and statistical estimates of the nearest neighbors of an ungauged basin. We report two examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of model swapping. Out of 124 basins used in analysis, 34 basins in example 1 and 41 basins in example 2 fulfill the set criteria of model swapping and subsequently their estimates are improved significantly.

Low-SWAP Lidar Instrument for Arctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance Monitoring Final Report

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Williams, George; Barsic, David

To meet the need to obtain statistically significant data in the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) in support of climate models, Voxtel is developing an nmanned-aircraft-system (UAS)-optimized lidar focal plane array (FPA) and lidar instrument design that integrates the most recent developments in optics, electronics, and computing. Bound by the size, weight, and power (SWAP) budget of low altitude/long endurance (LALE) small UAS (SUAS) platforms—a design tradeoff study was conducted. The class of SUAS considered typically: operates at altitudes between 150 meters and 2,000 meters; accommodates payloads weighing less than 5 kg; encompasses no more than 4,000 cm3 of space;more » and consumes no more than 50 watts of power. To address the SWAP constraints, a lowpower standalone strap-down (gimbal-less) lidar was developed based on single-photon-counting silicon avalanche photodiodes. To reduce SWAP, a lidar FPA design capable of simultaneous imaging and lidar was developed. The 532-nm-optimized FPA modular design was developed for easy integration, as a lidar payload, in any of a variety of SUAS platforms.« less

Satisfaction With Appearance Scale-SWAP: Adaptation and validation for Brazilian burn victims.

PubMed

Caltran, Marina P; Freitas, Noélle O; Dantas, Rosana A S; Farina, Jayme Adriano; Rossi, Lidia A

2016-09-01

Methodological study that aimed to adapt the Satisfaction with Appearance Scale (SWAP) into Brazilian Portuguese language and to assess the validity, the reliability and the dimensionality of the adapted version in a sample of Brazilian burn victims. We carried out the adaptation process according to the international literature. Construct validity was assessed by correlating the adapted version of SWAP scores with depression (Beck Depression Index), self-esteem (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale), health-related quality of Life (Short Form Health Survey-36) and health status of burn victims (Burn Specific Health Scale-Revised), and with gender, total body surface area burned, and visibility of the scars. We tested dimensionality using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and the reliability by means of Cronbach's alpha. Participants were 106 adult burned patients. The correlations between the Brazilian version of the SWAP scores and the correlated construct measures varied from moderate to strong (r=.30-.77). The participants who perceived their burn sequelae was visible reported being more dissatisfied with their body image than the participants who answered that their scars would not be visible (p<.001). Cronbach's alpha for the adapted version was 0.88 and the item-total correlation varied from moderate to strong (r=.35-.73). The EFA resulted in three factors with a total explained variance percentage of 63.2%. The Brazilian version of the SWAP was valid and reliable for use with Brazilian burn victims. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.

A distributed data base management facility for the CAD/CAM environment

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Balza, R. M.; Beaudet, R. W.; Johnson, H. R.

1984-01-01

Current/PAD research in the area of distributed data base management considers facilities for supporting CAD/CAM data management in a heterogeneous network of computers encompassing multiple data base managers supporting a variety of data models. These facilities include coordinated execution of multiple DBMSs to provide for administration of and access to data distributed across them.

a Movable Charging Unit for Green Mobility

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

ElBanhawy, E. Y.; Nassar, K.

2013-05-01

Battery swapping of electric vehicles (EVs) matter appears to be the swiftest and most convenient to users. The existence of swapping stations increases the feasibility of distributed energy storage via the electric grid. However, it is a cost-prohibitive way of charging. Early adaptors' preferences of /perceptions about EV system in general, has its inflectional effects on potential users hence the market penetration level. Yet, the charging matter of electric batteries worries the users and puts more pressure on them with the more rigorous planning-ahead they have to make prior to any trip. This paper presents a distinctive way of charging. It aims at making the overall charging process at ease. From a closer look into the literature, most of EVs' populations depend on domestic charge. Domestic charging gives them more confidence and increases the usability factor of the EV system. Nevertheless, they still need to count on the publically available charging points to reach their destination(s). And when it comes to multifamily residences, it becomes a thorny problem as these apartments do not have a room for charging outlets. Having said the irritating charging time needed to fatten the batteries over the day and the minimal average mileage drove daily, hypothetically, home delivery charging (Movable Charging Unit-MCU) would be a stupendous solution. The paper discusses the integration of shortest path algorithm problem with the information about EV users within a metropolitan area, developing an optimal route for a charging unit. This MCU delivers charging till homes whether by swapping batteries or by fast charging facility. Information about users is to be provided by the service provider of the neighbourhood, which includes charging patterns (timing, power capacity). This problem lies under the shortest path algorithms problem. It provides optimal route of charging that in return shall add more reliability and usability values and alleviate the charging/ limited range / daily planning anxieties. The model is in a very preliminary stage of development, future work is needed to elaborate on the model and developing a complete feasibility study.

The use of emulator-based simulators for on-board software maintenance

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Irvine, M. M.; Dartnell, A.

2002-07-01

Traditionally, onboard software maintenance activities within the space sector are performed using hardware-based facilities. These facilities are developed around the use of hardware emulation or breadboards containing target processors. Some sort of environment is provided around the hardware to support the maintenance actives. However, these environments are not easy to use to set-up the required test scenarios, particularly when the onboard software executes in a dynamic I/O environment, e.g. attitude control software, or data handling software. In addition, the hardware and/or environment may not support the test set-up required during investigations into software anomalies, e.g. raise spurious interrupt, fail memory, etc, and the overall "visibility" of the software executing may be limited. The Software Maintenance Simulator (SOMSIM) is a tool that can support the traditional maintenance facilities. The following list contains some of the main benefits that SOMSIM can provide: Low cost flexible extension to existing product - operational simulator containing software processor emulator; System-level high-fidelity test-bed in which software "executes"; Provides a high degree of control/configuration over the entire "system", including contingency conditions perhaps not possible with real hardware; High visibility and control over execution of emulated software. This paper describes the SOMSIM concept in more detail, and also describes the SOMSIM study being carried out for ESA/ESOC by VEGA IT GmbH.

Considerable improvement of entanglement swapping by considering multiphoton transitions via cavity quantum electrodynamics method

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Pakniat, R.; Soltani, M.; Tavassoly, M. K.

2018-03-01

Recently we studied the effect of photon addition in the initial coherent field on the entanglement swapping which causes some improvements in the process [Soltani et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 31, 1750198 (2017)]. In this paper, we investigate the influence of multiphoton transitions in the atom-field interaction based on the cavity quantum electrodynamics on the entanglement swapping and show its considerable constructive effect on this process. The presented model consists of two two-level atoms namely A1 and A2 and two distinct cavity fields F1 and F2. Initially, the atoms are prepared in a maximally entangled state and the fields in the cavities are prepared in hybrid entangled state of number and coherent states, separately. Making the atom A2 to interact with the field F1 (via the generalized Jaynes-Cummings model which allows m-photon transitions between atomic levels in the emission and absorption processes) followed by their detection allows us to arrive at the entanglement swapping from the two atoms A1, A2 and the two fields F1, F2 to the atom-field A1-F2 system. Then, we pay our attention to the time evolution of success probability of detecting processes and fidelity. Also, to determine the amount of entanglement of the generated entangled state in the swapping process, the linear entropy is evaluated and the effect of parameter m concerning the multiphoton transitions on these quantities is investigated, numerically. It is observed that, by increasing the number of photons in the transition process, one may obtain considerable improvement in the relevant quantities of the entanglement swapping. In detail, the satisfactorily acceptable values 1 and 0.5 corresponding to success probability and fidelity are obtained for most of the times during observing of the above-mentioned procedure. We concluded that the presented formalism in this paper is much more advantageous than our presentation model in our earlier work mentioned above.

Reducing Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) of Perception Systems in Small Autonomous Aerial Systems

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Jones, Kennie H.; Gross, Jason

2014-01-01

The objectives are to examine recent trends in the reduction of size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements of sensor systems for environmental perception and to explore new technology that may overcome limitations in current systems. Improving perception systems to facilitate situation awareness is critical in the move to introduce increasing autonomy in aerial systems. Whether the autonomy is in the current state-of-the-art of increasing automation or is enabling cognitive decisions that facilitate adaptive behavior, collection of environmental information and fusion of that information into knowledge that can direct actuation is imperative to decisions resulting in appropriate behavior. Artificial sensory systems such as cameras, radar, LIDAR, and acoustic sensors have been in use on aircraft for many years but, due to the large size and weight of the airplane and electrical power made available through powerful engines, the SWaP requirements of these sensors was inconsequential. With the proliferation of Remote Piloted Vehicles (RPV), the trend is in significant reduction in SWaP of the vehicles. This requires at least an equivalent reduction in SWaP for the sensory systems. A survey of some currently available sensor systems and changing technology will reveal the trend toward reduction of SWaP of these systems and will predict future reductions. A new technology will be introduced that provides an example of a desirable new trend. A new device replaces multiple conventional sensory devices facilitating synchronization, localization, altimetry, collision avoidance, terrain mapping, and data communication in a single integrated, small form-factor, extremely lightweight, and low power device that it is practical for integration into small autonomous vehicles and can facilitate cooperative behavior. The technology is based on Ultra WideBand (UWB) radio using short pulses of energy rather than continuous sine waves. The characteristics of UWB yield several desirable characteristics to facilitate integration of perception for autonomous activities. The capabilities of this device and its limitations will be assessed.

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Spin Hall and Spin Swapping Torques in Diffusive Ferromagnets

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Pauyac, Christian Ortiz; Chshiev, Mairbek; Manchon, Aurelien; Nikolaev, Sergey A.

2018-04-01

A complete set of the generalized drift-diffusion equations for a coupled charge and spin dynamics in ferromagnets in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling is derived from the quantum kinetic approach, covering major transport phenomena, such as the spin and anomalous Hall effects, spin swapping, spin precession, and relaxation processes. We argue that the spin swapping effect in ferromagnets is enhanced due to spin polarization, while the overall spin texture induced by the interplay of spin-orbital and spin precession effects displays a complex spatial dependence that can be exploited to generate torques and nucleate or propagate domain walls in centrosymmetric geometries without the use of external polarizers, as opposed to the conventional understanding of spin-orbit mediated torques.

L&D Manual Turn Lane Storage Validation/Update : Executive Summary Report

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2012-08-01

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Workflow Management Systems for Molecular Dynamics on Leadership Computers

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Wells, Jack; Panitkin, Sergey; Oleynik, Danila; Jha, Shantenu

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations play an important role in a range of disciplines from Material Science to Biophysical systems and account for a large fraction of cycles consumed on computing resources. Increasingly science problems require the successful execution of ''many'' MD simulations as opposed to a single MD simulation. There is a need to provide scalable and flexible approaches to the execution of the workload. We present preliminary results on the Titan computer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility that demonstrate a general capability to manage workload execution agnostic of a specific MD simulation kernel or execution pattern, and in a manner that integrates disparate grid-based and supercomputing resources. Our results build upon our extensive experience of distributed workload management in the high-energy physics ATLAS project using PanDA (Production and Distributed Analysis System), coupled with recent conceptual advances in our understanding of workload management on heterogeneous resources. We will discuss how we will generalize these initial capabilities towards a more production level service on DOE leadership resources. This research is sponsored by US DOE/ASCR and used resources of the OLCF computing facility.

Mapping from multiple-control Toffoli circuits to linear nearest neighbor quantum circuits

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Cheng, Xueyun; Guan, Zhijin; Ding, Weiping

2018-07-01

In recent years, quantum computing research has been attracting more and more attention, but few studies on the limited interaction distance between quantum bits (qubit) are deeply carried out. This paper presents a mapping method for transforming multiple-control Toffoli (MCT) circuits into linear nearest neighbor (LNN) quantum circuits instead of traditional decomposition-based methods. In order to reduce the number of inserted SWAP gates, a novel type of gate with the optimal LNN quantum realization was constructed, namely NNTS gate. The MCT gate with multiple control bits could be better cascaded by the NNTS gates, in which the arrangement of the input lines was LNN arrangement of the MCT gate. Then, the communication overhead measurement model on inserted SWAP gate count from the original arrangement to the new arrangement was put forward, and we selected one of the LNN arrangements with the minimum SWAP gate count. Moreover, the LNN arrangement-based mapping algorithm was given, and it dealt with the MCT gates in turn and mapped each MCT gate into its LNN form by inserting the minimum number of SWAP gates. Finally, some simplification rules were used, which can further reduce the final quantum cost of the LNN quantum circuit. Experiments on some benchmark MCT circuits indicate that the direct mapping algorithm results in fewer additional SWAP gates in about 50%, while the average improvement rate in quantum cost is 16.95% compared to the decomposition-based method. In addition, it has been verified that the proposed method has greater superiority for reversible circuits cascaded by MCT gates with more control bits.

Specificity of cell–cell adhesion by classical cadherins: Critical role for low-affinity dimerization through β-strand swapping

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Chen, Chien Peter; Posy, Shoshana; Ben-Shaul, Avinoam; Shapiro, Lawrence; Honig, Barry H.

2005-01-01

Cadherins constitute a family of cell-surface proteins that mediate intercellular adhesion through the association of protomers presented from juxtaposed cells. Differential cadherin expression leads to highly specific intercellular interactions in vivo. This cell–cell specificity is difficult to understand at the molecular level because individual cadherins within a given subfamily are highly similar to each other both in sequence and structure, and they dimerize with remarkably low binding affinities. Here, we provide a molecular model that accounts for these apparently contradictory observations. The model is based in part on the fact that cadherins bind to one another by “swapping” the N-terminal β-strands of their adhesive domains. An inherent feature of strand swapping (or, more generally, the domain swapping phenomenon) is that “closed” monomeric conformations act as competitive inhibitors of dimer formation, thus lowering affinities even when the dimer interface has the characteristics of high-affinity complexes. The model describes quantitatively how small affinity differences between low-affinity cadherin dimers are amplified by multiple cadherin interactions to establish large specificity effects at the cellular level. It is shown that cellular specificity would not be observed if cadherins bound with high affinities, thus emphasizing the crucial role of strand swapping in cell–cell adhesion. Numerical estimates demonstrate that the strength of cellular adhesion is extremely sensitive to the concentration of cadherins expressed at the cell surface. We suggest that the domain swapping mechanism is used by a variety of cell-adhesion proteins and that related mechanisms to control affinity and specificity are exploited in other systems. PMID:15937105

SWAP OBSERVATIONS OF THE LONG-TERM, LARGE-SCALE EVOLUTION OF THE EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET SOLAR CORONA

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Seaton, Daniel B.; De Groof, Anik; Berghmans, David

The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) EUV solar telescope on board the Project for On-Board Autonomy 2 spacecraft has been regularly observing the solar corona in a bandpass near 17.4 nm since 2010 February. With a field of view of 54 × 54 arcmin, SWAP provides the widest-field images of the EUV corona available from the perspective of the Earth. By carefully processing and combining multiple SWAP images, it is possible to produce low-noise composites that reveal the structure of the EUV corona to relatively large heights. A particularly important step in this processing was tomore » remove instrumental stray light from the images by determining and deconvolving SWAP's point-spread function from the observations. In this paper, we use the resulting images to conduct the first-ever study of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the corona observed in the EUV over a three year period that includes the complete rise phase of solar cycle 24. Of particular note is the persistence over many solar rotations of bright, diffuse features composed of open magnetic fields that overlie polar crown filaments and extend to large heights above the solar surface. These features appear to be related to coronal fans, which have previously been observed in white-light coronagraph images and, at low heights, in the EUV. We also discuss the evolution of the corona at different heights above the solar surface and the evolution of the corona over the course of the solar cycle by hemisphere.« less

The Relation of White-on-White Standard Automated Perimetry, Short Wavelength Perimetry, and Optic Coherence Tomography Parameters in Ocular Hypertension.

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Başkan, Ceyda; Köz, Özlem G; Duman, Rahmi; Gökçe, Sabite E; Yarangümeli, Ahmet A; Kural, Gülcan

2016-12-01

The purpose of this study is to examine the demographics, clinical properties, and the relation between white-on-white standard automated perimetry (SAP), short wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP), and optical coherence tomographic (OCT) parameters of patients with ocular hypertension. Sixty-one eyes of 61 patients diagnosed with ocular hypertension in the Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital ophthalmology unit between January 2010 and January 2011 were included in this study. All patients underwent SAP and SWAP tests with the Humphrey visual field analyser using the 30.2 full-threshold test. Retinal nerve fiber layers (RNFL) and optic nerve heads of patients were evaluated with Stratus OCT. Positive correlation was detected between SAP pattern standard deviation value and average intraocular pressure (P=0.017), maximum intraocular pressure (P=0.009), and vertical cup to disc (C/D) ratio (P=0.009). Positive correlation between SWAP median deviation value with inferior (P=0.032), nasal (P=0.005), 6 o'clock quadrant RNFL thickness (P=0.028), and Imax/Tavg ratio (P=0.023) and negative correlation with Smax/Navg ratio (P=0.005) were detected. There was no correlation between central corneal thickness and peripapillary RNFL thicknesses (P>0.05). There was no relation between SAP median deviation, pattern standard deviation values and RNFL thicknesses and optic disc parameters of the OCT. By contrast significant correlation between several SWAP parameters and OCT parameters were detected. SWAP appeared to outperform achromatic SAP when the same 30-2 method was used.

Liquid rocket booster integration study. Volume 1: Executive summary

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1988-01-01

The impacts of introducing liquid rocket booster engines (LRB) into the Space Transportation System (STS)/Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch environment are identified and evaluated. Proposed ground systems configurations are presented along with a launch site requirements summary. Prelaunch processing scenarios are described and the required facility modifications and new facility requirements are analyzed. Flight vehicle design recommendations to enhance launch processing are discussed. Processing approaches to integrate LRB with existing STS launch operations are evaluated. The key features and significance of launch site transition to a new STS configuration in parallel with ongoing launch activities are enumerated. This volume is the executive summary of the five volume series.

The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP): Evaluating Psychometric Questions about Its Reliability, Validity, and Impact of Its Fixed Score Distribution

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Blagov, Pavel S.; Bi, Wu; Shedler, Jonathan; Westen, Drew

2012-01-01

The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) is a personality assessment instrument designed for use by expert clinical assessors. Critics have raised questions about its psychometrics, most notably its validity across observers and situations, the impact of its fixed score distribution on research findings, and its test-retest reliability. We…

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Engineering of chimeric eukaryotic/bacterial Rubisco large subunits in Escherichia coli.

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Koay, Teng Wei; Wong, Hann Ling; Lim, Boon Hoe

2016-11-26

Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is a rate-limiting photosynthetic enzyme that catalyzes carbon fixation in the Calvin cycle. Much interest has been devoted to engineering this ubiquitous enzyme with the goal of increasing plant growth. However, experiments that have successfully produced improved Rubisco variants, via directed evolution in Escherichia coli, are limited to bacterial Rubisco because the eukaryotic holoenzyme cannot be produced in E. coli. The present study attempts to determine the specific differences between bacterial and eukaryotic Rubisco large subunit primary structure that are responsible for preventing heterologous eukaryotic holoenzyme formation in E. coli. A series of chimeric Synechococcus Rubiscos were created in which different sections of the large subunit were swapped with those of the homologous Chlamydomonas Rubisco. Chimeric holoenzymes that can form in vivo would indicate that differences within the swapped sections do not disrupt holoenzyme formation. Large subunit residues 1-97, 198-247 and 448-472 were successfully swapped without inhibiting holoenzyme formation. In all ten chimeras, protein expression was observed for the separate subunits at a detectable level. As a first approximation, the regions that can tolerate swapping may be targets for future engineering.

Spectrum-based method to generate good decoy libraries for spectral library searching in peptide identifications.

PubMed

Cheng, Chia-Ying; Tsai, Chia-Feng; Chen, Yu-Ju; Sung, Ting-Yi; Hsu, Wen-Lian

2013-05-03

As spectral library searching has received increasing attention for peptide identification, constructing good decoy spectra from the target spectra is the key to correctly estimating the false discovery rate in searching against the concatenated target-decoy spectral library. Several methods have been proposed to construct decoy spectral libraries. Most of them construct decoy peptide sequences and then generate theoretical spectra accordingly. In this paper, we propose a method, called precursor-swap, which directly constructs decoy spectral libraries directly at the "spectrum level" without generating decoy peptide sequences by swapping the precursors of two spectra selected according to a very simple rule. Our spectrum-based method does not require additional efforts to deal with ion types (e.g., a, b or c ions), fragment mechanism (e.g., CID, or ETD), or unannotated peaks, but preserves many spectral properties. The precursor-swap method is evaluated on different spectral libraries and the results of obtained decoy ratios show that it is comparable to other methods. Notably, it is efficient in time and memory usage for constructing decoy libraries. A software tool called Precursor-Swap-Decoy-Generation (PSDG) is publicly available for download at http://ms.iis.sinica.edu.tw/PSDG/.

Source-water susceptibility assessment in Texas—Approach and methodology

USGS Publications Warehouse

Ulery, Randy L.; Meyer, John E.; Andren, Robert W.; Newson, Jeremy K.

2011-01-01

Public water systems provide potable water for the public's use. The Safe Drinking Water Act amendments of 1996 required States to prepare a source-water susceptibility assessment (SWSA) for each public water system (PWS). States were required to determine the source of water for each PWS, the origin of any contaminant of concern (COC) monitored or to be monitored, and the susceptibility of the public water system to COC exposure, to protect public water supplies from contamination. In Texas, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) was responsible for preparing SWSAs for the more than 6,000 public water systems, representing more than 18,000 surface-water intakes or groundwater wells. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) worked in cooperation with TCEQ to develop the Source Water Assessment Program (SWAP) approach and methodology. Texas' SWAP meets all requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act and ultimately provides the TCEQ with a comprehensive tool for protection of public water systems from contamination by up to 247 individual COCs. TCEQ staff identified both the list of contaminants to be assessed and contaminant threshold values (THR) to be applied. COCs were chosen because they were regulated contaminants, were expected to become regulated contaminants in the near future, or were unregulated but thought to represent long-term health concerns. THRs were based on maximum contaminant levels from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s National Primary Drinking Water Regulations. For reporting purposes, COCs were grouped into seven contaminant groups: inorganic compounds, volatile organic compounds, synthetic organic compounds, radiochemicals, disinfection byproducts, microbial organisms, and physical properties. Expanding on the TCEQ's definition of susceptibility, subject-matter expert working groups formulated the SWSA approach based on assumptions that natural processes and human activities contribute COCs in quantities that vary in space and time; that increased levels of COC-producing activities within a source area may increase susceptibility to COC exposure; and that natural and manmade conditions within the source area may increase, decrease, or have no observable effect on susceptibility to COC exposure. Incorporating these assumptions, eight SWSA components were defined: identification, delineation, intrinsic susceptibility, point- and nonpoint-source susceptibility, contaminant occurrence, area-of-primary influence, and summary components. Spatial datasets were prepared to represent approximately 170 attributes or indicators used in the assessment process. These primarily were static datasets (approximately 46 gigabytes (GB) in size). Selected datasets such as PWS surface-water-intake or groundwater-well locations and potential source of contamination (PSOC) locations were updated weekly. Completed assessments were archived, and that database is approximately 10 GB in size. SWSA components currently (2011) are implemented in the Source Water Assessment Program-Decision Support System (SWAP-DSS) computer software, specifically developed to produce SWSAs. On execution of the software, the components work to identify the source of water for the well or intake, assess intrinsic susceptibility of the water- supply source, assess susceptibility to contamination with COCs from point and nonpoint sources, identify any previous detections of COCs from existing water-quality databases, and summarize the results. Each water-supply source's susceptibility is assessed, source results are weighted by source capacity (when a PWS has multiple sources), and results are combined into a single SWSA for the PWS.'SWSA reports are generated using the software; during 2003, more than 6,000 reports were provided to PWS operators and the public. The ability to produce detailed or summary reports for individual sources, and detailed or summary reports for a PWS, by COC or COC group was a unique capability of SWAP-DSS. In 2004, the TCEQ began a rotating schedule for SWSA wherein one-third of PWSs statewide would be assessed annually, or sooner if protection-program activities deemed it necessary, and that schedule has continued to the present. Cooperative efforts by the TCEQ and the USGS for SWAP software maintenance and enhancements ended in 2011 with the TCEQ assuming responsibility for all tasks.

Pollution Swapping in Agricultural Systems: deciding between mitigation measures with conflicting outcomes

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Quinton, John; Stevens, Carly

2010-05-01

Pollution swapping occurs when a mitigation option introduced to reduce one pollutant results in an increase in a different pollutant. Although the concept of pollution swapping is widely understood it has received little attention in research and policy design. This study investigated diffuse pollution mitigation options applied in combinable crop systems. They are: cover crops, residue management, no-tillage, riparian buffer zones, contour grass strips and constructed wetlands. A wide range of water and atmospheric pollutants were considered, including nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon and sulphur. It is clear from this investigation that there is no single mitigation option that will reduce all pollutants and in this poster we consider how choices may be made between mitigation measures which may have a positive effect on one pollutant but a negative effect on another.

Simulation of Swap-Out Reliability For The Advance Photon Source Upgrade

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Borland, M.

2017-06-01

The proposed upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) to a multibend-achromat lattice relies on the use of swap-out injection to accommodate the small dynamic acceptance, allow use of unusual insertion devices, and minimize collective effects at high single-bunch charge. This, combined with the short beam lifetime, will make injector reliability even more important than it is for top-up operation. We used historical data for the APS injector complex to obtain probability distributions for injector up-time and down-time durations. Using these distributions, we simulated several years of swap-out operation for the upgraded lattice for several operatingmodes. The results indicate thatmore » obtaining very high availability of beam in the storage ring will require improvements to injector reliability.« less

Clues From Pluto's Ions

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kohler, Susanna

2016-05-01

Nearly a year ago, in July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft passed by the Pluto system. The wealth of data amassed from that flyby is still being analyzed including data from the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument. Recent examination of this data has revealedinteresting new information about Plutos atmosphere and how the solar wind interacts with it.A Heavy Ion TailThe solar wind is a constant stream of charged particles released by the Sun at speeds of around 400 km/s (thats 1 million mph!). This wind travels out to the far reaches of the solar system, interacting with the bodies it encounters along the way.By modeling the SWAP detections, the authors determine the directions of the IMF that could produce the heavy ions detected. Red pixels represent IMF directions permitted. No possible IMF could reproduce the detections if the ions are nitrogen (bottom panels), and only retrograde IMF directions can produce the detections if the ions are methane. [Adapted from Zirnstein et al. 2016]New Horizons data has revealed that Plutos atmosphere leaks neutral nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide molecules that sometimes escape its weak gravitational pull. These molecules become ionized and are subsequently picked up by the passing solar wind, forming a tail of heavy ions behind Pluto. The details of the geometry and composition of this tail, however, had not yet been determined.Escaping MethaneIn a recent study led by Eric Zirnstein (Southwest Research Institute), the latest analysis of data from the SWAP instrument on board New Horizons is reported. The team used SWAPs ion detections from just after New Horizons closest approach to Pluto to better understand how the heavy ions around Pluto behave, and how the solar wind interacts with Plutos atmosphere.In the process of analyzing the SWAP data, Zirnstein and collaborators first establish what the majority of the heavy ions picked up by the solar wind are. Models of the SWAP detections indicate they are unlikely to be nitrogen ions, despite nitrogen being the most abundant molecule in Plutos atmosphere. Instead, the detections are likely of methane ions possibly present because methane molecules are lighter, allowing them to more efficiently escape Plutos atmosphere.Reconstructed origins of heavy ions detected by SWAP shortly after New Horizons closest approach to Pluto. Color represents the energy at the time of detection. [Adapted from Zirnstein et al. 2016]Magnetic DirectionNew Horizons does not have a magnetometer on board, which prevented it from making direct measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF; the solar magnetic field extended throughout the solar system) during the Pluto encounter. In spite of this, Zirnstein and collaborators are able to determine the IMF direction using some clever calculations about SWAPs field of view and the energies of heavy ions it detected.They demonstrate that the IMF was likely oriented roughly parallel to the ecliptic plane, and in the opposite direction of Plutos orbital motion, during New Horizons Pluto encounter. This would cause the solar wind to deflect southward around Pluto, resulting in a north-south asymmetry in the heavy ion tail behind Pluto.The new knowledge gained from SWAP about the geometry and the composition of Plutos extended atmosphere will help us to interpret further data from New Horizons. Ultimately, this provides us with a better understanding both of Plutos atmosphere and how the solar wind interacts with bodies in our solar system.CitationE. J. Zirnstein et al 2016 ApJ 823 L30. doi:10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L30

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the USDA-ARS "Soils" Lab in Morris, Minnesota

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Soils Lab in Morris adopted energy goals originally set forth by Executive Order 13423, which in short, called for a 30% reduction in energy use in federal facilities by 2015 and a 16% reduction in water use in the same time frame. Executive Order 13514 "Federal Leadership in Environmental, Ener...

Nuclear Warheads: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program and the Life Extension Program

DTIC Science & Technology

2006-12-13

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board was created by Congress 1988 "as an independent oversight organization within the Executive Branch charged... nuclear facilities ." U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. “Who We Are,” at [http://www.dnfsb.gov/about/index.html]. involving CHE and plutonium...approach, if successful, would “reduce or eliminate the need for ESD controls.”42 Kent Fortenberry, Technical Director of the Defense Nuclear Facilities

Nuclear Warheads: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program and the Life Extension Program

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-07-16

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board was created by Congress 1988 “as an independent oversight organization within the Executive Branch charged... nuclear facilities .” U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. “Who We Are,” at [http://www.dnfsb.gov/about/index.html]. beginning, addressed safety...approach, if successful, would “reduce or eliminate the need for ESD controls.”55 Kent Fortenberry, Technical Director of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety

Final Environmental Assessment: Base-Wide Building Demolition Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee

DTIC Science & Technology

2006-02-01

Building • Engine Test Facility ( ETF )-B Exhauster • ETF -A Airside • ETF -A Exhauster • ETF -A Reefer • CE Facility • Rocket Storage • Von Karman Gas...Executive Order ESA Endangered Species Act ETF Engine Test Facility FamCamp Family Camping Area P:\\ARNOLDAFB\\333402DO42COMPLIANCE\\DEMOLITION...Fabrication Shop • Natural Resources Building • Salt Storage Building • Administration Building • Engine Test Facility ( ETF )-B Exhauster • ETF -A

Appendix D : policy review of the ITS priority corridors : executive summary

DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

1989-04-01

Selected data on highway toll facilities in the United States are contained in Table T-1 of this report based on a survey of facilities in operation, financed, or under construction as of January 1, 1989. The data include information such as the name...

Numerical aerodynamic simulation facility preliminary study: Executive study

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1977-01-01

A computing system was designed with the capability of providing an effective throughput of one billion floating point operations per second for three dimensional Navier-Stokes codes. The methodology used in defining the baseline design, and the major elements of the numerical aerodynamic simulation facility are described.

Facility fence-line monitoring using passive samplers

EPA Science Inventory

In 2009, the U.S. EPA executed a year-long field study at a refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, to evaluate the use of passive diffusive sampling technology for assessing time-averaged benzene concentrations at the facility fence line. The study utilized 14-day time-integrated Car...

3 CFR - Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... Elimination Act Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies Sexual violence, against any... confinement facilities adopt high standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse. In addition to adopting such standards, the success of PREA in combating sexual abuse in confinement facilities will...

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011479 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011459 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011481 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011441 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011747 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (bottom center), Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011642 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011440 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed one new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011480 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011745 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (bottom center), Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011598 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Misurkin and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed one new one.

Russian EVA 33

NASA Image and Video Library

2013-06-24

ISS036-E-011477 (24 June 2013) --- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 34-minute spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (out of frame), Expedition 36 flight engineer, replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the Russian segment of the station. They also installed clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket. Yurchikhin and Misurkin also retrieved two science experiments and installed a new one.