Sample records for watchdog meets coding

  1. M.A.L.D.E.F.--Watchdog on Alien Issue

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Oliveira, Annette

    1978-01-01

    Concerned that the undocumented alien questions should not be pushed aside, MALDEF focused its efforts on presenting Mexican American immigration concerns both in individual meetings with Carter's "domestic issues man" and with other administration officials. MALDEF also facilitated Administration meetings on immigration with other…

  2. The Watchdog Task: Concurrent error detection using assertions

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    Ersoz, A.; Andrews, D. M.; Mccluskey, E. J.

    1985-01-01

    The Watchdog Task, a software abstraction of the Watchdog-processor, is shown to be a powerful error detection tool with a great deal of flexibility and the advantages of watchdog techniques. A Watchdog Task system in Ada is presented; issues of recovery, latency, efficiency (communication) and preprocessing are discussed. Different applications, one of which is error detection on a single processor, are examined.

  3. Returning Fire

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    Gould, Jon B.

    2007-01-01

    Last December saw another predictable report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a self-described watchdog group, highlighting how higher education is supposedly under siege from a politically correct plague of so-called hate-speech codes. In that report, FIRE declared that as many as 96 percent of top-ranked colleges…

  4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (85th, Miami, Florida, August 5-8, 2002). Communication Theory and Methodology Division.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    2002

    The Theory and Methodology Division of the proceedings contains the following 16 papers: "The Deep Audit as an Epistemology for the Watchdog: Computer-assisted Reporting and Investigative Journalism" (John E. Newhagen); "Race and Class in 1980s Hollywood" (Chris Jordan); "The Impact of Website Campaigning on Traditional…

  5. Watchdog Project

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

    Smith, Rhett; Campbell, Jack; Hadley, Mark

    The Watchdog Project completed 100% of the project Statement of Project Objective (SOPO). The Watchdog project was a very aggressive project looking to accomplish commercialization of technology that had never been commercialized, as a result it took six years to complete not the original three that were planned. No additional federal funds were requested from the original proposal and SEL contributed the additional cost share required to complete the project. The result of the Watchdog Project is the world’s first industrial rated Software Defined Network (SDN) switch commercially available. This technology achieved the SOPOO and DOE Roadmap goals to havemore » strong network access control, improve reliability and network performance, and give the asset owner the ability to minimize attack surface before and during an attack. The Watchdog project is an alliance between CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL), and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL). SEL is the world’s leader in microprocessor-based electronic equipment for protecting electric power systems. PNNL performs basic and applied research to deliver energy, environmental, and national security for our nation. CenterPoint Energy is the third largest publicly traded natural gas delivery company in the U.S and third largest combined electricity and natural gas delivery company. The Watchdog Project efforts were combined with the SDN Project efforts to produce the entire SDN system solution for the critical infrastructure. The Watchdog project addresses Topic Area of Interest 5: Secure Communications, for the DEFOA- 0000359 by protecting the control system local area network itself and the communications coming from and going to the electronic devices on the local network. Local area networks usually are not routed and have little or no filtering capabilities. Combine this with the fact control system protocols are designed with inherent trust the control system owners have very little choice on how to protect communications on the local network. The Watchdog project reduces security risks in electric sector control system local area networks (LANs) by providing: Network access control (NAC) Multi-Layer firewall (physical through transport layer) Containment of malware or unauthorized traffic spreading across the network White list protocols and application message types filtering Configurable, proactive traffic engineering The Watchdog project achieved all of the above by developing an SDN switch.« less

  6. Evaluation of the watchdog weather station to reduce drift from MDOT spray trucks.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2015-09-01

    Wind speed data collected with the Spectrum Watchdog Sprayer Station were compared to data : recorded with a Young 05103-5 anemometer at the Rodney R. Foil Plant Science Research : Center on the Mississippi State University campus June and July, 2014...

  7. Watching the Watchdog: Antecedents of Media Perceptions.

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    McLeod, Douglas M.

    A study examined the effects of several structural and individual variables on the perceived role of the media by media representatives and the general public. The focus of the study was on public perceptions of the media as "watchdog," but the images of the media as "guide dog,""rabid dog,""lap dog" and…

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

    Fuangrod, T; Simpson, J; Greer, P

    Purpose: A real-time patient treatment delivery verification system using EPID (Watchdog) has been developed as an advanced patient safety tool. In a pilot study data was acquired for 119 prostate and head and neck (HN) IMRT patient deliveries to generate body-site specific action limits using statistical process control. The purpose of this study is to determine the sensitivity of Watchdog to detect clinically significant errors during treatment delivery. Methods: Watchdog utilizes a physics-based model to generate a series of predicted transit cine EPID images as a reference data set, and compares these in real-time to measured transit cine-EPID images acquiredmore » during treatment using chi comparison (4%, 4mm criteria) after the initial 2s of treatment to allow for dose ramp-up. Four study cases were used; dosimetric (monitor unit) errors in prostate (7 fields) and HN (9 fields) IMRT treatments of (5%, 7%, 10%) and positioning (systematic displacement) errors in the same treatments of (5mm, 7mm, 10mm). These errors were introduced by modifying the patient CT scan and re-calculating the predicted EPID data set. The error embedded predicted EPID data sets were compared to the measured EPID data acquired during patient treatment. The treatment delivery percentage (measured from 2s) where Watchdog detected the error was determined. Results: Watchdog detected all simulated errors for all fields during delivery. The dosimetric errors were detected at average treatment delivery percentage of (4%, 0%, 0%) and (7%, 0%, 0%) for prostate and HN respectively. For patient positional errors, the average treatment delivery percentage was (52%, 43%, 25%) and (39%, 16%, 6%). Conclusion: These results suggest that Watchdog can detect significant dosimetric and positioning errors in prostate and HN IMRT treatments in real-time allowing for treatment interruption. Displacements of the patient require longer to detect however incorrect body site or very large geographic misses will be detected rapidly.« less

  9. Accessing Distributed Learning Repositories through a Couseware Watchdog.

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    Schmitz, Christoph; Staab, Steffen; Studer, Rudi; Stumme, Gerd; Tane, Julien

    Topics in education are changing with an ever faster pace. Especially in the field of lifeling learning, the aspects that need to be taught by information providers must keep up to date with emerging topics. The Courseware watchdog is a comprehensive module that allows users to focus on existing subfields of a discipline, but thereby be aware of…

  10. The Watchdog in Nineteenth Century Libel Law: A Common Law Concept of Freedom of the Press.

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    Gleason, Timothy W.

    In press law, the individual right of freedom of the press frequently is linked to a public interest or "watchdog" concept of freedom of the press. This concept suggests that the basis for the constitutional protection of press freedom is the role of the press as an institution serving a collective good, as opposed to the traditional…

  11. Implementing a Microcontroller Watchdog with a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

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    Straka, Bartholomew

    2013-01-01

    Reliability is crucial to safety. Redundancy of important system components greatly enhances reliability and hence safety. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are useful for monitoring systems and handling the logic necessary to keep them running with minimal interruption when individual components fail. A complete microcontroller watchdog with logic for failure handling can be implemented in a hardware description language (HDL.). HDL-based designs are vendor-independent and can be used on many FPGAs with low overhead.

  12. Watch-Dog: Detecting Self-Harming Activities From Wrist Worn Accelerometers.

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    Bharti, Pratool; Panwar, Anurag; Gopalakrishna, Ganesh; Chellappan, Sriram

    2018-05-01

    In a 2012 survey, in the United States alone, there were more than 35 000 reported suicides with approximately 1800 of being psychiatric inpatients. Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports indicate an upward trend in these numbers. In psychiatric facilities, staff perform intermittent or continuous observation of patients manually in order to prevent such tragedies, but studies show that they are insufficient, and also consume staff time and resources. In this paper, we present the Watch-Dog system, to address the problem of detecting self-harming activities when attempted by in-patients in clinical settings. Watch-Dog comprises of three key components-Data sensed by tiny accelerometer sensors worn on wrists of subjects; an efficient algorithm to classify whether a user is active versus dormant (i.e., performing a physical activity versus not performing any activity); and a novel decision selection algorithm based on random forests and continuity indices for fine grained activity classification. With data acquired from 11 subjects performing a series of activities (both self-harming and otherwise), Watch-Dog achieves a classification accuracy of , , and for same-user 10-fold cross-validation, cross-user 10-fold cross-validation, and cross-user leave-one-out evaluation, respectively. We believe that the problem addressed in this paper is practical, important, and timely. We also believe that our proposed system is practically deployable, and related discussions are provided in this paper.

  13. The California stem cell initiative: persuasion, politics, and public science.

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    Adelson, Joel W; Weinberg, Joanna K

    2010-03-01

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created by a California ballot initiative to make stem cell research a constitutional right, in response to Bush administration restrictions on stem cell research. The initiative created a taxpayer-funded, multibillion-dollar institution, intended to advance public health by developing cures and treatments for diabetes, cancer, paralysis, and other conditions. The initiative has been highly controversial among stakeholders and watchdog groups concerned with organizational transparency, accountability, and the ethics of stem cell research. We interviewed major stakeholders-both supporters and opponents-and analyzed documents and meeting notes. We found that the CIRM has overcome start-up challenges, been selectively influenced by criticism, and adhered to its core mission.

  14. The California Stem Cell Initiative: Persuasion, Politics, and Public Science

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    Weinberg, Joanna K.

    2010-01-01

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was created by a California ballot initiative to make stem cell research a constitutional right, in response to Bush administration restrictions on stem cell research. The initiative created a taxpayer-funded, multibillion-dollar institution, intended to advance public health by developing cures and treatments for diabetes, cancer, paralysis, and other conditions. The initiative has been highly controversial among stakeholders and watchdog groups concerned with organizational transparency, accountability, and the ethics of stem cell research. We interviewed major stakeholders—both supporters and opponents—and analyzed documents and meeting notes. We found that the CIRM has overcome start-up challenges, been selectively influenced by criticism, and adhered to its core mission. PMID:20075315

  15. Watchdog activity monitor (WAM) for use wth high coverage processor self-test

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    Tulpule, Bhalchandra R. (Inventor); Crosset, III, Richard W. (Inventor); Versailles, Richard E. (Inventor)

    1988-01-01

    A high fault coverage, instruction modeled self-test for a signal processor in a user environment is disclosed. The self-test executes a sequence of sub-tests and issues a state transition signal upon the execution of each sub-test. The self-test may be combined with a watchdog activity monitor (WAM) which provides a test-failure signal in the presence of a counted number of state transitions not agreeing with an expected number. An independent measure of time may be provided in the WAM to increase fault coverage by checking the processor's clock. Additionally, redundant processor systems are protected from inadvertent unsevering of a severed processor using a unique unsever arming technique and apparatus.

  16. Processing device with self-scrubbing logic

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    Wojahn, Christopher K.

    2016-03-01

    An apparatus includes a processing unit including a configuration memory and self-scrubber logic coupled to read the configuration memory to detect compromised data stored in the configuration memory. The apparatus also includes a watchdog unit external to the processing unit and coupled to the self-scrubber logic to detect a failure in the self-scrubber logic. The watchdog unit is coupled to the processing unit to selectively reset the processing unit in response to detecting the failure in the self-scrubber logic. The apparatus also includes an external memory external to the processing unit and coupled to send configuration data to the configuration memory in response to a data feed signal outputted by the self-scrubber logic.

  17. Avascular Necrosis

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    ... Financial Reports Watchdog Ratings Feedback Contact Select Page Avascular Necrosis Home > Cancer Resources > Late Effects of Treatment > Avascular Necrosis Avascular necrosis (AVN) is a disorder resulting from ...

  18. Processing device with self-scrubbing logic

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

    Wojahn, Christopher K.

    An apparatus includes a processing unit including a configuration memory and self-scrubber logic coupled to read the configuration memory to detect compromised data stored in the configuration memory. The apparatus also includes a watchdog unit external to the processing unit and coupled to the self-scrubber logic to detect a failure in the self-scrubber logic. The watchdog unit is coupled to the processing unit to selectively reset the processing unit in response to detecting the failure in the self-scrubber logic. The apparatus also includes an external memory external to the processing unit and coupled to send configuration data to the configurationmore » memory in response to a data feed signal outputted by the self-scrubber logic.« less

  19. Dealing with Sexism and Ethnocentrism in Literature.

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    Rasmussen, Bonnie

    1982-01-01

    Just as schools can teach consumerism and active criticism toward unfair advertising techniques, so too can schools teach a watchdog attitude toward prejudice through the use of multicultural reading materials in libraries and classrooms. (HOD)

  20. An efficient collaborative approach for black hole attack discovery and mitigating its impact in manet

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    Devipriya, K.; Ivy, B. Persis Urbana; Prabha, D.

    2018-04-01

    A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is an assemblage of nodes composed of mobile devices coupled in various ways wirelessly which do not have any central administration. Each node in MANET cooperates in forwarding packets in the network. This type of collaboration incurs high cost but there exits nodes that declines to cooperate leading to selfish conduct of nodes which effects overall network performance. To discover the attacks caused by such nodes, a renowned mechanism using watchdog can be deployed. In infrastructure less network attack detection and reaction and high false positives, false negatives initiating black hole attack becomes major issue in watchdog. This paper put forward a collaborative approach for identifying such attacks in MANET. Through abstract analysis and extensive simulation of this approach, the detection time of misbehaved nodes is reduced and substantial enhancement in overhead and throughput is witnessed.

  1. Incident Involving 30-Ah Li-ion Cell at NASA Glenn Research Center

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    Bennett, William

    2006-01-01

    The key lesson learned from the February 17, 2006 cell explosion incident is that PC-based test-systems, even those having built-in watchdog monitors, can lose control and malfunction. In the case of lithiumion cell/battery testing, the stored energy can be released explosively causing considerable injury and damage to facilities. The investigation showed that although the Arbin system has a built-in watchdog monitor, the circumstances of the incident defeated the action of the watchdog and allowed the cycler to continue operation without control. An upgrade to the most recent version of Arbin software (version 4) was provided as a fix to the presumed control problem. This upgrade included newer EPROM s for the cycler microprocessor. Investigation revealed that similar incidents have occurred at other NASA centers with a variety of PC-based test instruments. JPL suffered an incident with Maccor testers and the GRC fuel cell group observed similar problems with LabView software. This is not exclusively an Arbin problem, but an issue with all PC-based systems. In this incident, it was fortunate that the event occurred after-hours with no-one in the room. The facility arrangement placed control consoles adjacent to the test chamber doors. Had someone been in the room during the event, they would have been exposed to hot debris and toxic combustion products. It was also fortunate that the exploded cell stayed inside the chamber after the door was forced open. If the cell had been ejected into the room it could have caused serious facility damage by impact and possibly caused a fire in the facility.

  2. The threat at home: Confronting the toxic legacy of the US military

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    Shulman, S.

    1992-01-01

    The author, using personal impressions, information from goverment and watchdog agency documents, and interviews with military officers, local elected officials, and residents, produces a comprehensive account of the U.S. military's toxic waste stream.

  3. Country watch: South-East Asia.

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    Bagasao, T M

    1996-01-01

    Nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and community-based groups working on HIV/AIDS in Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other countries participated in a February 1991 workshop during which they recognized that human rights are inextricably linked with HIV prevention, the provision of services, and improving the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable, marginalized groups. They also noted how rarely environments were supportive with respect to either legal structures or sociocultural norms. The groups resolved to act as a watchdog, an advocacy and lobbying group to monitor legislation, provide public information, and empower people with HIV/AIDS as visible and active partners. Meeting again in 1993 to assess progress, the groups found few gains in addressing human rights violations such as the denial of medical services to people with HIV/AIDS and the deportation of HIV-positive migrant workers. The Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations (APCASO) responded by developing a pilot documentation, monitoring, and reporting system in the region to record HIV-related human rights violations. That system is described.

  4. Attitudes to genetically modified food over time: How trust in organizations and the media cycle predict support.

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    Marques, Mathew D; Critchley, Christine R; Walshe, Jarrod

    2015-07-01

    This research examined public opinion toward genetically modified plants and animals for food, and how trust in organizations and media coverage explained attitudes toward these organisms. Nationally representative samples (N=8821) over 10 years showed Australians were less positive toward genetically modified animals compared to genetically modified plants for food, especially in years where media coverage was high. Structural equation modeling found that positive attitudes toward different genetically modified organisms for food were significantly associated with higher trust in scientists and regulators (e.g. governments), and with lower trust in watchdogs (e.g. environmental movement). Public trust in scientists and watchdogs was a stronger predictor of attitudes toward the use of genetically modified plants for food than animals, but only when media coverage was low. Results are discussed regarding the moral acceptability of genetically modified organisms for food, the media's role in shaping public opinion, and the role public trust in organizations has on attitudes toward genetically modified organisms. © The Author(s) 2014.

  5. Business and the Media.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Barchie, Lisa

    By virtue of the different natures of the two institutions, the relationship between business and the media is simultaneously adversarial and symbiotic: the media see themselves as society's watchdog while business sees itself as society's driving economic force. Meanwhile, business relies on the media for information, and the media rely on…

  6. The Re-Think Tree.

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    Gear, Jim

    1993-01-01

    The Re-Think Tree is a simple framework to help individuals assess and improve their behaviors related to environmental issues. The branches of the tree in order of priority are refuse, reduce, re-use, and recycle. Roots of the tree include such things as public opinion, education, and watchdog groups. (KS)

  7. Imaging Sensor Flight and Test Equipment Software

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Freestone, Kathleen; Simeone, Louis; Robertson, Byran; Frankford, Maytha; Trice, David; Wallace, Kevin; Wilkerson, DeLisa

    2007-01-01

    The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) is one of the components onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, and was designed to detect and locate lightning over the tropics. The LIS flight code was developed to run on a single onboard digital signal processor, and has operated the LIS instrument since 1997 when the TRMM satellite was launched. The software provides controller functions to the LIS Real-Time Event Processor (RTEP) and onboard heaters, collects the lightning event data from the RTEP, compresses and formats the data for downlink to the satellite, collects housekeeping data and formats the data for downlink to the satellite, provides command processing and interface to the spacecraft communications and data bus, and provides watchdog functions for error detection. The Special Test Equipment (STE) software was designed to operate specific test equipment used to support the LIS hardware through development, calibration, qualification, and integration with the TRMM spacecraft. The STE software provides the capability to control instrument activation, commanding (including both data formatting and user interfacing), data collection, decompression, and display and image simulation. The LIS STE code was developed for the DOS operating system in the C programming language. Because of the many unique data formats implemented by the flight instrument, the STE software was required to comprehend the same formats, and translate them for the test operator. The hardware interfaces to the LIS instrument using both commercial and custom computer boards, requiring that the STE code integrate this variety into a working system. In addition, the requirement to provide RTEP test capability dictated the need to provide simulations of background image data with short-duration lightning transients superimposed. This led to the development of unique code used to control the location, intensity, and variation above background for simulated lightning strikes at user-selected locations.

  8. Motivating Factors for Philanthropy at a Ministry Preparation Graduate Institution

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    Reimer, Jay Paul

    2013-01-01

    A qualitative case study was conducted to determine whether major donors to an institution of higher education that existed to prepare ministers and missionaries were perceived by the institution's leaders as motivated by organizational effectiveness, financial efficiency, or evaluations by donor watchdog agencies. The case study was conducted…

  9. By All Means, Study the Founders: Notes from the Democratic Left

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    Street, Paul

    2003-01-01

    A thesis concocted by right-wing ideological watchdogs and advanced with elevated urgency in the wake September 11, 2001, claims that America's college and university students are hostage to a leftist, "moral-relativist" and multiculturalist professoriat. To restore right-thinking to college campuses, the argument continues, academic…

  10. In Russia, Corruption Plagues the Higher-Education System

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    Nemtsova, Anna

    2008-01-01

    From the top down, says the writer, Russia's universities are impoverished by bribery and insider deals large and small. A new president's dorm at Nizhniy Novgorod is one example of what anti-corruption watchdogs say is widespread mismanagement, and in some cases outright corruption, throughout the country's higher-education system. Presidents use…

  11. Disintegration in Peru - Consolidation in Chile: The Case for Militant Capitalism in Latin America

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-06-01

    organization Comision Chilena de Derechos Humanos (CCDH), (which along with the Church-sponsored Vicaria de la Solaridad are the principal watchdog...34 reported by Chile’s human rights group Comision de Desechos Humanos (CCDH), the majority reflect a particular 134 period in time during which DINA was the

  12. Risk factors of Toxoplasma gondii infection in hunting, pet and watchdogs from Southern Spain and Northern Africa

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    Dogs can act as reservoirs of Toxoplasma gondii infections for humans and other hosts. Here we determined seroprevalence and risk factors of T. gondii infection in dogs from Andalusia (Southern Spain) and Ceuta (Northern Africa). Antibodies to T. gondii were detected in 235 out of 769 dogs (30.6%; C...

  13. The Publisher as Official: Conflict of Interest or Libertarian Vestige?

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    Sneed, Don; Riffe, Daniel

    The press has long been considered the "watchdog" of government, yet today, more than 100 newspaper editors also serve in public office. A study sought to determine the types of role conflict that arise for editors who hold public office, the public's reaction to such dual roles, and the policies of several leading newspapers concerning…

  14. ROMPS critical design review data package

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    Dobbs, M. E.

    1992-01-01

    The design elements of the Robot-Operated Material Processing in Space (ROMPS) system are described in outline and graphical form. The following subsystems/topics are addressed: servo system, testbed and simulation results, System V Controller, robot module, furnace module, SCL experiment supervisor and script sample processing control, battery system, watchdog timers, mechanical/thermal considerations, and fault conditions and recovery.

  15. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Early Coverage of Times Beach: Watchdog or Muted Trumpet?

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    La Pierre, Yvette

    Times Beach, Missouri, a small town close to the Meramec River and about 25 miles from St. Louis, is now deserted due to contamination from dioxin, a contaminant generated during the production of some cleansers, herbicides, and pesticides. From November 30, 1982, until the end of January 1983, the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" ran 55…

  16. A Michigan Faculty Group Plays Role of Watchdog

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    Gose, Ben

    2008-01-01

    New administrative offices for diversity are popping up at universities around the country, and one can usually count on them to cast minority-recruiting efforts in a favorable light. There is still, however, a role for the old-school rabble-rousers, as a new report from a faculty committee at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor makes clear.…

  17. ROMPS critical design review. Volume 1: Hardware

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    Dobbs, M. E.

    1992-01-01

    Topics concerning the Robot-Operated Material Processing in Space (ROMPS) Program are presented in viewgraph form and include the following: a systems overview; servocontrol and servomechanisms; testbed and simulation results; system V controller; robot module; furnace module; SCL experiment supervisor; SCL script sample processing control; SCL experiment supervisor fault handling; block diagrams; hitchhiker interfaces; battery systems; watchdog timers; mechanical/thermal systems; and fault conditions and recovery.

  18. The Worried Well: Strategies for Installation Commanders

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-01-01

    require enlisting law enforcement personnel, members of the armed forces, pharmacists , veterinarians, and civilian volunteers to assist. Insights from...television, radio and print media protested that they may not view themselves as partners. They perceive of their role as the Fourth Estate, and have a...watchdog obligation.”52 In spite of the sometimes adversarial or skeptical Pilch—The Worried Well 26 posture that the media may feel their role

  19. Developing an Effective Plan for Smart Sanctions: A Network Analysis Approach

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-10-31

    data and a network model that realistically simulates the Iranian nuclear development program. We then utilize several network analysis techniques...the Iran Watch (iranwatch.org) watchdog website. Using this data, which at first glance seems obtuse and unwieldy, we constructed network models in... model is created, nodes were evaluated using several measures of centrality. The team then analyzed this network utilizing four of the most common

  20. Entering the Matrix: The Challenge of Regulating Radical Leveling Technologies

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-12-01

    Source Horizon: 3D Printing,” LinuxInsider, May 28, 2014, http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/ 80519.html; Nozomi Hayase, “ Blockchain Revolution: Open...Source Democracy for the 99%,” openDemocracy UK, August 4, 2014, https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/nozomi-hayase/ blockchain -revolution-open...8,000. The funds raised on Kickstarter: $500,000.75 A private technology watchdog, the ETC Group, notified the US Department of Agriculture about

  1. 78 FR 35260 - Multistakeholder Meeting To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile...

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    2013-06-12

    ... Meeting To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile Application Transparency AGENCY... convene a meeting of a privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile application transparency. This..., 2013 meeting is part of a series of NTIA-convened multistakeholder discussions concerning mobile...

  2. Strategies for the Legal Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes: Report on a WHO Meeting (Copenhagen, Denmark, November 10-12, 1982).

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    World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe.

    For various reasons, several countries have had difficulty implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. To address those problems, a meeting was convened under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Specific purposes of the meeting were to inform member states about the Code and to develop national…

  3. Exploring Type and Amount of Parent Talk during Individualized Family Service Plan Meetings

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    Ridgley, Robyn; Snyder, Patricia; McWilliam, R. A.

    2014-01-01

    We discuss the utility of a coding system designed to evaluate the amount and type of parent talk during individualized family service plan (IFSP) meetings. The iterative processes used to develop the "Parent Communication Coding System" (PCCS) and its associated codes are described. In addition, we explored whether PCCS codes could be…

  4. Watchdog Sensor Network with Multi-Stage RF Signal Identification and Cooperative Intrusion Detection

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-03-01

    detection and physical layer authentication in mobile Ad Hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been investigated. Résume Le rapport...IEEE 802.16 d and e (WiMAX); (b) IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) family of a, b, g, n, and s (c) Sensor networks based on IEEE 802.15.4: Wireless USB, Bluetooth... sensor network are investigated for standard compatible wireless signals. The proposed signal existence detection and identification process consists

  5. One Year Out: An Assessment of DADT Repeal’s Impact on Military Readiness

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-09-20

    17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT Same as Report (SAR) 18 . NUMBER OF PAGES 51 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON a. REPORT unclassified b. ABSTRACT...unclassified c. THIS PAGE unclassified Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39- 18 1 “Repeal… would undermine recruiting...opponents of DADT repeal and to 18 watchdog organizations, including opponents and advocates of repeal, who are known for their ability to monitor

  6. A Security Analysis of the 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network Routing Protocol and Its Secure Routing Protocols

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    Tan, Whye Kit; Lee, Sang-Gon; Lam, Jun Huy; Yoo, Seong-Moo

    2013-01-01

    Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can act as a scalable backbone by connecting separate sensor networks and even by connecting WMNs to a wired network. The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) is the default routing protocol for the 802.11s WMN. The routing protocol is one of the most important parts of the network, and it requires protection, especially in the wireless environment. The existing security protocols, such as the Broadcast Integrity Protocol (BIP), Counter with cipher block chaining message authentication code protocol (CCMP), Secure Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (SHWMP), Identity Based Cryptography HWMP (IBC-HWMP), Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm HWMP (ECDSA-HWMP), and Watchdog-HWMP aim to protect the HWMP frames. In this paper, we have analyzed the vulnerabilities of the HWMP and developed security requirements to protect these identified vulnerabilities. We applied the security requirements to analyze the existing secure schemes for HWMP. The results of our analysis indicate that none of these protocols is able to satisfy all of the security requirements. We also present a quantitative complexity comparison among the protocols and an example of a security scheme for HWMP to demonstrate how the result of our research can be utilized. Our research results thus provide a tool for designing secure schemes for the HWMP. PMID:24002231

  7. A security analysis of the 802.11s wireless mesh network routing protocol and its secure routing protocols.

    PubMed

    Tan, Whye Kit; Lee, Sang-Gon; Lam, Jun Huy; Yoo, Seong-Moo

    2013-09-02

    Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can act as a scalable backbone by connecting separate sensor networks and even by connecting WMNs to a wired network. The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) is the default routing protocol for the 802.11s WMN. The routing protocol is one of the most important parts of the network, and it requires protection, especially in the wireless environment. The existing security protocols, such as the Broadcast Integrity Protocol (BIP), Counter with cipher block chaining message authentication code protocol (CCMP), Secure Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (SHWMP), Identity Based Cryptography HWMP (IBC-HWMP), Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm HWMP (ECDSA-HWMP), and Watchdog-HWMP aim to protect the HWMP frames. In this paper, we have analyzed the vulnerabilities of the HWMP and developed security requirements to protect these identified vulnerabilities. We applied the security requirements to analyze the existing secure schemes for HWMP. The results of our analysis indicate that none of these protocols is able to satisfy all of the security requirements. We also present a quantitative complexity comparison among the protocols and an example of a security scheme for HWMP to demonstrate how the result of our research can be utilized. Our research results thus provide a tool for designing secure schemes for the HWMP.

  8. The TJO-OAdM robotic observatory: OpenROCS and dome control

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Colomé, Josep; Francisco, Xavier; Ribas, Ignasi; Casteels, Kevin; Martín, Jonatan

    2010-07-01

    The Telescope Joan Oró at the Montsec Astronomical Observatory (TJO - OAdM) is a small-class observatory working in completely unattended control. There are key problems to solve when a robotic control is envisaged, both on hardware and software issues. We present the OpenROCS (ROCS stands for Robotic Observatory Control System), an open source platform developed for the robotic control of the TJO - OAdM and similar astronomical observatories. It is a complex software architecture, composed of several applications for hardware control, event handling, environment monitoring, target scheduling, image reduction pipeline, etc. The code is developed in Java, C++, Python and Perl. The software infrastructure used is based on the Internet Communications Engine (Ice), an object-oriented middleware that provides object-oriented remote procedure call, grid computing, and publish/subscribe functionality. We also describe the subsystem in charge of the dome control: several hardware and software elements developed to specially protect the system at this identified single point of failure. It integrates a redundant control and a rain detector signal for alarm triggering and it responds autonomously in case communication with any of the control elements is lost (watchdog functionality). The self-developed control software suite (OpenROCS) and dome control system have proven to be highly reliable.

  9. 77 FR 46067 - Multistakeholder Meetings To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile...

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    ... Meetings To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile Application Transparency AGENCY... convene meetings of a privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile application transparency. DATES... of NTIA- convened multistakeholder discussions concerning mobile application transparency. The first...

  10. 78 FR 19461 - Multistakeholder Meetings To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile...

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    ... Meetings To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile Application Transparency AGENCY... convene meetings of a privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile application transparency. This... of a series of NTIA-convened multistakeholder discussions concerning mobile application transparency...

  11. 77 FR 75409 - Multistakeholder Meetings To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile...

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  12. A Comparison of Censorship, Control, and Freedom of the Press in Israel and Egypt: An Update from the Journalists’ Perspective

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-01-01

    wider view of limitations on freedom of speech and freedom of press within Israeli society. Galnoor (1982) mentions that radio had been controlled by the...Broadcast Authority’s watchdog agency, instituted a series of rules and other guidelines which have since havoered freedom of speech over television...What is your viewpoint on: the balance between security and freedom of speech /press in Israel; the Editors’ Committee and their guarding/withholding

  13. DRG Watchdog highlights new financial dimensions of laboratory diagnostics.

    PubMed

    2003-01-01

    As nebulous as the details of the German diagnosis-oriented case reimbursement rate (G-DRGs) might be, one thing is obvious: rapid and accurate diagnostics will be vital in future to the reimbursement of standard cases that reflect the actual outlay. The laboratory that up to now has always been categorized as a potential for savings, now becomes a source of revenue for hospitals. A study initiated by the VDGH provides evidence for this (Clinical Laboratory 2002, 48, 327).

  14. Children of Aphrodite: The Proliferation and Threat of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the Twenty-First Century

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-05-19

    65Peter La Franchi . “East Asia remains focus of UAV spy activity as US Defence watchdog releases suspected espionage report.” Flight Global ...drone fired one of the first UAV launched missiles in America’s “ Global War on Terror,” when it engaged and destroyed a vehicle carrying the...from the tactical small UAV, to theater and global strike and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets organic to primarily the U.S

  15. Commanders and Cyber Chat: Should More Guidance be Provided for Social Networking Sites

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-04-01

    his favorite book is Mein Kampf, his favorite movie is the Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will, his interests are “white women, and his...service member wearing a Navy uniform and holding a Confederate insignia is on a commander’s friends list? Is that commander responsible for...Cybervetting and Posting. January 10, 2011. www.inamecheck.com. 18 Ibid. 19 Ibid. 20 Baron, Kevin. "Watchdog group: Dozens of active-duty found on neo- Nazi

  16. 78 FR 13338 - Exposure Modeling Public Meeting; Notice of Public Meeting

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    ... code 22 Professional, Scientific and Technical NAICS code 54 B. How can I get copies of this document... dates and abstract requests are announced through the ``empmlist'' forum on the LYRIS list server at...

  17. 27 CFR 555.217 - Lighting.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ...) Electric lighting used in any explosives storage magazine must meet the standards prescribed by the “National Electrical Code,” (National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 70-81), for the conditions present... also meet the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code. (c) Copies of invoices, work orders...

  18. 27 CFR 555.217 - Lighting.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ...) Electric lighting used in any explosives storage magazine must meet the standards prescribed by the “National Electrical Code,” (National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 70-81), for the conditions present... also meet the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code. (c) Copies of invoices, work orders...

  19. 27 CFR 555.217 - Lighting.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ...) Electric lighting used in any explosives storage magazine must meet the standards prescribed by the “National Electrical Code,” (National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 70-81), for the conditions present... also meet the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code. (c) Copies of invoices, work orders...

  20. 27 CFR 555.217 - Lighting.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ...) Electric lighting used in any explosives storage magazine must meet the standards prescribed by the “National Electrical Code,” (National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 70-81), for the conditions present... also meet the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code. (c) Copies of invoices, work orders...

  1. 27 CFR 555.217 - Lighting.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ...) Electric lighting used in any explosives storage magazine must meet the standards prescribed by the “National Electrical Code,” (National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 70-81), for the conditions present... also meet the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code. (c) Copies of invoices, work orders...

  2. R-Matrix Codes for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions in the Resolved Resonance Region (3), Summary Report of an IAEA Consultants' Meeting IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 28-30 June 2017

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

    Leeb, Helmut; Dimitriou, Paraskevi; Thompson, Ian

    A Consultants Meeting was held at the IAEA Headquarters, from 28 to 30 June 2017, to discuss the results of a test exercise that had been defined and assigned to all participants of the previous meeting held in December 2016. Five codes were used in this exercise: AMUR, AZURE2, RAC, SFRESCO and SAMMY. The results obtained from these codes were compared and further actions were proposed. Participants’ presentations and technical discussions, as well as proposed additional actions have been summarized in this report.

  3. Radiation characterization report for the GPS Receiver microcontroller chip. Final report

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

    Not Available

    1994-06-20

    The overall objective of this characterization test was to determine the sensitivity of the Motorola 68332 32-bit microcontroller to radiation induced single event upset and latch-up (SEU/SEL). The microcontroller is a key component of the GPS Receiver which will be a subsystem of the satellite required for the {open_quotes}FORTE{close_quotes} experiment. Testing was conducted at the Single Event Effects Laboratory at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The results obtained included a latch-up (SEL) threshold LET (Linear Energy Transfer) of 20 MeV-CM{sub 2}/mg and an upset (SEU) threshold LET of 5 MeV-CM{sup 2}/mg. The SEU threshold is typical of this technology, commercial 0.8{mu}m HCMOS.more » Some flow errors were observed that were not reset by the internal watchdog timer of the 68332. It is important that the Receiver design include a monitor of the device, such as an external watch-dog timer, that would initiate a reset of the program when this type of upset occurs. The SEL threshold is lower than would be expected for this 12{mu}m epi layer process and suggests the need for a strategy that would allow for a hard reset of the controller when a latch-up event occurs. Analysis of the galactic cosmic ray spectrum for the FORTE orbit was done and the results indicate a worst case latch-up rate for this device of 6.3 {times} 10{sup {minus}5} latch-ups per device day or roughly one latch-up per 43.5 device years.« less

  4. 40 CFR 262.87 - Reporting and recordkeeping.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... movements subject to this subpart, persons (e.g., exporters, recognized traders) who meet the definition of...(s) and applicable waste code(s) from the appropriate OECD waste list incorporated by reference in... imprisonment. (b) Exception reports. Any person who meets the definition of primary exporter in § 262.51 or who...

  5. 40 CFR 262.87 - Reporting and recordkeeping.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... movements subject to this subpart, persons (e.g., exporters, recognized traders) who meet the definition of...(s) and applicable waste code(s) from the appropriate OECD waste list incorporated by reference in... imprisonment. (b) Exception reports. Any person who meets the definition of primary exporter in § 262.51 or who...

  6. 40 CFR 262.87 - Reporting and recordkeeping.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... movements subject to this subpart, persons (e.g., exporters, recognized traders) who meet the definition of...(s) and applicable waste code(s) from the appropriate OECD waste list incorporated by reference in... imprisonment. (b) Exception reports. Any person who meets the definition of primary exporter in § 262.51 or who...

  7. 40 CFR 262.87 - Reporting and recordkeeping.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... movements subject to this subpart, persons (e.g., exporters, recognized traders) who meet the definition of...(s) and applicable waste code(s) from the appropriate OECD waste list incorporated by reference in... imprisonment. (b) Exception reports. Any person who meets the definition of primary exporter in § 262.51 or who...

  8. 24 CFR 92.251 - Property standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ..., as applicable, one of three model codes: Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two...) Housing that is constructed or rehabilitated with HOME funds must meet all applicable local codes...

  9. 24 CFR 92.251 - Property standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ..., as applicable, one of three model codes: Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two...) Housing that is constructed or rehabilitated with HOME funds must meet all applicable local codes...

  10. 24 CFR 92.251 - Property standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ..., as applicable, one of three model codes: Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two...) Housing that is constructed or rehabilitated with HOME funds must meet all applicable local codes...

  11. 24 CFR 92.251 - Property standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ..., as applicable, one of three model codes: Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two...) Housing that is constructed or rehabilitated with HOME funds must meet all applicable local codes...

  12. 77 FR 12764 - POSTNET Barcode Discontinuation

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  13. 78 FR 31560 - Medicare Program; Public Meeting in Calendar Year 2013 for New Clinical Laboratory Test Payment...

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    ... announces a public meeting to receive comments and recommendations (including accompanying data on which recommendations are based) from the public on the appropriate basis for establishing payment amounts for new or substantially revised Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes being considered for Medicare...

  14. 12 CFR 1807.503 - Project completion.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... applicable: One of three model codes (Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI)); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two family... must meet the current edition of the Model Energy Code published by the Council of American Building...

  15. 12 CFR 1807.503 - Project completion.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... applicable: One of three model codes (Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI)); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two family... must meet the current edition of the Model Energy Code published by the Council of American Building...

  16. 24 CFR 578.75 - General operations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... assistance under this part must meet State or local building codes, and in the absence of State or local building codes, the International Residential Code or International Building Code (as applicable to the type of structure) of the International Code Council. (2) Services provided with assistance under this...

  17. 12 CFR 1807.503 - Project completion.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... applicable: One of three model codes (Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI)); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two family... must meet the current edition of the Model Energy Code published by the Council of American Building...

  18. 24 CFR 578.75 - General operations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... assistance under this part must meet State or local building codes, and in the absence of State or local building codes, the International Residential Code or International Building Code (as applicable to the type of structure) of the International Code Council. (2) Services provided with assistance under this...

  19. 12 CFR 1807.503 - Project completion.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... applicable: One of three model codes (Uniform Building Code (ICBO), National Building Code (BOCA), Standard (Southern) Building Code (SBCCI)); or the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) one or two family... must meet the current edition of the Model Energy Code published by the Council of American Building...

  20. RNA meets disease in paradise.

    PubMed

    Winter, Julia; Roth, Anna; Diederichs, Sven

    2011-01-01

    Getting off the train in Jena-Paradies, 60 participants joined for the 12 (th) Young Scientist Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) entitled "RNA & Disease". Excellent speakers from around the world, graduate students, postdocs and young group leaders enjoyed a meeting in a familiar atmosphere to exchange inspiring new data and vibrant scientific discussions about the fascinating history and exciting future of non-coding RNA research including microRNA, piRNA and long non-coding RNA as well as their function in cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

  1. WATCHDOG: A COMPREHENSIVE ALL-SKY DATABASE OF GALACTIC BLACK HOLE X-RAY BINARIES

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

    Tetarenko, B. E.; Sivakoff, G. R.; Heinke, C. O.

    With the advent of more sensitive all-sky instruments, the transient universe is being probed in greater depth than ever before. Taking advantage of available resources, we have established a comprehensive database of black hole (and black hole candidate) X-ray binary (BHXB) activity between 1996 and 2015 as revealed by all-sky instruments, scanning surveys, and select narrow-field X-ray instruments on board the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image, Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, and Swift telescopes; the Whole-sky Alberta Time-resolved Comprehensive black-Hole Database Of the Galaxy or WATCHDOG. Over the past two decades, we have detected 132 transient outbursts, trackedmore » and classified behavior occurring in 47 transient and 10 persistently accreting BHs, and performed a statistical study on a number of outburst properties across the Galactic population. We find that outbursts undergone by BHXBs that do not reach the thermally dominant accretion state make up a substantial fraction (∼40%) of the Galactic transient BHXB outburst sample over the past ∼20 years. Our findings suggest that this “hard-only” behavior, observed in transient and persistently accreting BHXBs, is neither a rare nor recent phenomenon and may be indicative of an underlying physical process, relatively common among binary BHs, involving the mass-transfer rate onto the BH remaining at a low level rather than increasing as the outburst evolves. We discuss how the larger number of these “hard-only” outbursts and detected outbursts in general have significant implications for both the luminosity function and mass-transfer history of the Galactic BHXB population.« less

  2. VizieR Online Data Catalog: WATCHDOG: an all-sky database of Galactic BHXBs (Tetarenko+, 2016)

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Tetarenko, B. E.; Sivakoff, G. R.; Heinke, C. O.; Gladstone, J. C.

    2016-03-01

    With the advent of more sensitive all-sky instruments, the transient universe is being probed in greater depth than ever before. Taking advantage of available resources, we have established a comprehensive database of black hole (and black hole candidate) X-ray binary (BHXB) activity between 1996 and 2015 as revealed by all-sky instruments, scanning surveys, and select narrow-field X-ray instruments on board the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image (MAXI), Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), and Swift telescopes; the Whole-sky Alberta Time-resolved Comprehensive black-Hole Database Of the Galaxy or WATCHDOG. Over the past two decades, we have detected 132 transient outbursts, tracked and classified behavior occurring in 47 transient and 10 persistently accreting BHs, and performed a statistical study on a number of outburst properties across the Galactic population. We find that outbursts undergone by BHXBs that do not reach the thermally dominant accretion state make up a substantial fraction (~40%) of the Galactic transient BHXB outburst sample over the past ~20 years. Our findings suggest that this "hard-only" behavior, observed in transient and persistently accreting BHXBs, is neither a rare nor recent phenomenon and may be indicative of an underlying physical process, relatively common among binary BHs, involving the mass-transfer rate onto the BH remaining at a low level rather than increasing as the outburst evolves. We discuss how the larger number of these "hard-only" outbursts and detected outbursts in general have significant implications for both the luminosity function and mass-transfer history of the Galactic BHXB population. (9 data files).

  3. WATCHDOG: A Comprehensive All-sky Database of Galactic Black Hole X-ray Binaries

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Tetarenko, B. E.; Sivakoff, G. R.; Heinke, C. O.; Gladstone, J. C.

    2016-02-01

    With the advent of more sensitive all-sky instruments, the transient universe is being probed in greater depth than ever before. Taking advantage of available resources, we have established a comprehensive database of black hole (and black hole candidate) X-ray binary (BHXB) activity between 1996 and 2015 as revealed by all-sky instruments, scanning surveys, and select narrow-field X-ray instruments on board the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image, Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, and Swift telescopes; the Whole-sky Alberta Time-resolved Comprehensive black-Hole Database Of the Galaxy or WATCHDOG. Over the past two decades, we have detected 132 transient outbursts, tracked and classified behavior occurring in 47 transient and 10 persistently accreting BHs, and performed a statistical study on a number of outburst properties across the Galactic population. We find that outbursts undergone by BHXBs that do not reach the thermally dominant accretion state make up a substantial fraction (∼40%) of the Galactic transient BHXB outburst sample over the past ∼20 years. Our findings suggest that this “hard-only” behavior, observed in transient and persistently accreting BHXBs, is neither a rare nor recent phenomenon and may be indicative of an underlying physical process, relatively common among binary BHs, involving the mass-transfer rate onto the BH remaining at a low level rather than increasing as the outburst evolves. We discuss how the larger number of these “hard-only” outbursts and detected outbursts in general have significant implications for both the luminosity function and mass-transfer history of the Galactic BHXB population.

  4. Control Software for the VERITAS Cerenkov Telescope System

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Krawczynski, H.; Olevitch, M.; Sembroski, G.; Gibbs, K.

    2003-07-01

    The VERITAS collab oration is developing a system of initially 4 and ˇ eventually 7 Cerenkov telescopes of the 12 m diameter class for high sensitivity gamma-ray astronomy in the >50 GeV energy range. In this contribution we describe the software that controls and monitors the various VERITAS subsystems. The software uses an object-oriented approach to cop e with the complexities that arise from using sub-groups of the 7 VERITAS telescopes to observe several sources at the same time. Inter-pro cess communication is based on the CORBA object Request Broker proto col and watch-dog processes monitor the sub-system performance.

  5. 77 FR 12077 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence

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  6. 76 FR 22147 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... 4-18-11; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6770-01-P ... FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION [F.C.S.C. Meeting Notice No. 2-11] Sunshine Act Meeting The... the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice in regard to the scheduling of meetings for the...

  7. 76 FR 9636 - Public Meeting

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY United States Mint Public Meeting ACTION: Notification of Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee March 1, 2011, Public Meeting. SUMMARY: Pursuant to United States Code, Title... (CCAC) public meeting scheduled for March 1, 2011. Date: March 1, 2011. Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Location...

  8. 77 FR 12078 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure

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  9. 76 FR 37831 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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  10. North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature Report 12 – Revision of article 37, lithodemic units, of the North American Stratigraphic Code

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Easton, Robert M.; Edwards, Lucy E.; Orndorff, Randall C.; Duguet, Manuel; Ferrusquia-Villafranca, Ismael

    2017-01-01

    At the 71st Annual Meeting of the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, 26 September, 2016, in Denver, Colorado, the Commission voted unanimously to accept the revision of Article 37 of the North American Stratigraphic Code (North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, 2005), printed below. It replaces all older versions of this Article. An application for this revision (Easton et al. 2015) was published in Stratigraphy more than one year prior to the meeting; thus, the vote on this application for revision follows Article 21 of the Code.

  11. 44 CFR 206.400 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications and standards. (b) Applicable codes, specifications, and standards shall include any disaster resistant building code that meets the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as...

  12. 44 CFR 206.400 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications and standards. (b) Applicable codes, specifications, and standards shall include any disaster resistant building code that meets the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as...

  13. 44 CFR 206.400 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications and standards. (b) Applicable codes, specifications, and standards shall include any disaster resistant building code that meets the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as...

  14. 44 CFR 206.400 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications and standards. (b) Applicable codes, specifications, and standards shall include any disaster resistant building code that meets the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as...

  15. 44 CFR 206.400 - General.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications and standards. (b) Applicable codes, specifications, and standards shall include any disaster resistant building code that meets the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as...

  16. Dysmenorrhea: Painful Periods

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    ... Journal Clinical Updates Practice Management Coding Health Info Technology Professional Liability Managing Your Practice Patient Safety & Quality Payment Reform (MACRA) Education & Events Annual Meeting CME Overview CREOG Meetings Calendar ...

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  18. The ROSS Language Manual.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-09-01

    when receiving (Mary requests meeting) (tell Mary meet for lunch at Superfood ) (tell Eunice bring stock reports) (tell Secretary cancel other lunch...someone requests meeting) (if (equal ’stockbroker (ask !someone recall your occupation)) then (tell ?someone meet for lunch at Superfood ) (tell...meet for lunch at Superfood ). Several other prefixes commonly used when writing ROSS code, either to control evaluation or to dictate variables in

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  1. 75 FR 35104 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... Announcement: [76 FR 41534, July 14, 2011]. STATUS: Open Meeting. PLACE: 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC...: Cancellation of Meeting. The Open Meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 10 a.m. has been cancelled..., 2011. Cathy H. Ahn, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2011-18051 Filed 7-14-11; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 8011-01...

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    ... Announcement: [76 FR 74835, December 1, 2011]. STATUS: Open Meeting. PLACE: 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC...: Cancellation of Meeting. The Open Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10 a.m. has been cancelled... 2, 2011. Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2011-31484 Filed 12-5-11; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE...

  4. Proceedings of the OECD/CSNI workshop on transient thermal-hydraulic and neutronic codes requirements

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    Ebert, D.

    1997-07-01

    This is a report on the CSNI Workshop on Transient Thermal-Hydraulic and Neutronic Codes Requirements held at Annapolis, Maryland, USA November 5-8, 1996. This experts` meeting consisted of 140 participants from 21 countries; 65 invited papers were presented. The meeting was divided into five areas: (1) current and prospective plans of thermal hydraulic codes development; (2) current and anticipated uses of thermal-hydraulic codes; (3) advances in modeling of thermal-hydraulic phenomena and associated additional experimental needs; (4) numerical methods in multi-phase flows; and (5) programming language, code architectures and user interfaces. The workshop consensus identified the following important action items tomore » be addressed by the international community in order to maintain and improve the calculational capability: (a) preserve current code expertise and institutional memory, (b) preserve the ability to use the existing investment in plant transient analysis codes, (c) maintain essential experimental capabilities, (d) develop advanced measurement capabilities to support future code validation work, (e) integrate existing analytical capabilities so as to improve performance and reduce operating costs, (f) exploit the proven advances in code architecture, numerics, graphical user interfaces, and modularization in order to improve code performance and scrutibility, and (g) more effectively utilize user experience in modifying and improving the codes.« less

  5. 28 CFR 36.601 - Definitions.

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    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.601... means a State law or local building code or similar ordinance, or part thereof, that establishes... designee. Certification of equivalency means a final certification that a code meets or exceeds the minimum...

  6. 28 CFR 36.601 - Definitions.

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    2012-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.601... means a State law or local building code or similar ordinance, or part thereof, that establishes... designee. Certification of equivalency means a final certification that a code meets or exceeds the minimum...

  7. 28 CFR 36.601 - Definitions.

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    2014-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.601... means a State law or local building code or similar ordinance, or part thereof, that establishes... designee. Certification of equivalency means a final certification that a code meets or exceeds the minimum...

  8. 78 FR 4170 - Sunshine Act Meetings: January 2013

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    ... Evidence. ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence will hold a one- day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation. DATES: October... Chief Rules Officer. [FR Doc. 2013-20669 Filed 8-23-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210-55-P ...

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  16. ''Smart'' watchdog safety switch

    DOEpatents

    Kronberg, J.W.

    1991-10-01

    A method and apparatus for monitoring a process having a periodic output so that the process equipment is not damaged in the event of a controller failure, comprising a low-pass and peak clipping filter, an event detector that generates an event pulse for each valid change in magnitude of the filtered periodic output, a timing pulse generator, a counter that increments upon receipt of any timing pulse and resets to zero on receipt of any event pulse, an alarm that alerts when the count reaches some preselected total count, and a set of relays that opens to stop power to process equipment. An interface module can be added to allow the switch to accept a variety of periodic output signals. 21 figures.

  17. "Smart" watchdog safety switch

    DOEpatents

    Kronberg, James W.

    1991-01-01

    A method and apparatus for monitoring a process having a periodic output so that the process equipment is not damaged in the event of a controller failure, comprising a low-pass and peak clipping filter, an event detector that generates an event pulse for each valid change in magnitude of the filtered periodic output, a timing pulse generator, a counter that increments upon receipt of any timing pulse and resets to zero on receipt of any event pulse, an alarm that alerts when the count reaches some preselected total count, and a set of relays that opens to stop power to process equipment. An interface module can be added to allow the switch to accept a variety of periodic output signals.

  18. Development of a flight software testing methodology

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    Mccluskey, E. J.; Andrews, D. M.

    1985-01-01

    The research to develop a testing methodology for flight software is described. An experiment was conducted in using assertions to dynamically test digital flight control software. The experiment showed that 87% of typical errors introduced into the program would be detected by assertions. Detailed analysis of the test data showed that the number of assertions needed to detect those errors could be reduced to a minimal set. The analysis also revealed that the most effective assertions tested program parameters that provided greater indirect (collateral) testing of other parameters. In addition, a prototype watchdog task system was built to evaluate the effectiveness of executing assertions in parallel by using the multitasking features of Ada.

  19. 75 FR 78707 - Medicare Program; First Semi-Annual Meeting of the Advisory Panel on Ambulatory Payment...

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    ... hospital payment systems; hospital medical care delivery systems; provider billing and accounting systems; APC groups; Current Procedural Terminology codes; Health Care Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes; the use of, and payment for, drugs, medical devices, and other services in the outpatient setting...

  20. Emergency readmissions to paediatric surgery and urology: The impact of inappropriate coding.

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    Peeraully, R; Henderson, K; Davies, B

    2016-04-01

    Introduction In England, emergency readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge after an elective admission are not reimbursed if they do not meet Payment by Results (PbR) exclusion criteria. However, coding errors could inappropriately penalise hospitals. We aimed to assess the accuracy of coding for emergency readmissions. Methods Emergency readmissions attributed to paediatric surgery and urology between September 2012 and August 2014 to our tertiary referral centre were retrospectively reviewed. Payment by Results (PbR) coding data were obtained from the hospital's Family Health Directorate. Clinical details were obtained from contemporaneous records. All readmissions were categorised as appropriately coded (postoperative or nonoperative) or inappropriately coded (planned surgical readmission, unrelated surgical admission, unrelated medical admission or coding error). Results Over the 24-month period, 241 patients were coded as 30-day readmissions, with 143 (59%) meeting the PbR exclusion criteria. Of the remaining 98 (41%) patients, 24 (25%) were inappropriately coded as emergency readmissions. These readmissions resulted in 352 extra bed days, of which 117 (33%) were attributable to inappropriately coded cases. Conclusions One-quarter of non-excluded emergency readmissions were inappropriately coded, accounting for one-third of additional bed days. As a stay on a paediatric ward costs up to £500 a day, the potential cost to our institution due to inappropriate readmission coding was over £50,000. Diagnoses and the reason for admission for each care episode should be accurately documented and coded, and readmission data should be reviewed at a senior clinician level.

  1. An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development

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    Porter, A.; Siy, H.; Toman, C. A.; Votta, L. G.

    1994-01-01

    This experiment (currently in progress) is designed to measure costs and benefits of different code inspection methods. It is being performed with a real development team writing software for a commercial product. The dependent variables for each code unit's inspection are the elapsed time and the number of defects detected. We manipulate the method of inspection by randomly assigning reviewers, varying the number of reviewers and the number of teams, and, when using more than one team, randomly assigning author repair and non-repair of detected defects between code inspections. After collecting and analyzing the first 17 percent of the data, we have discovered several interesting facts about reviewers, about the defects recorded during reviewer preparation and during the inspection collection meeting, and about the repairs that are eventually made. (1) Only 17 percent of the defects that reviewers record in their preparations are true defects that are later repaired. (2) Defects recorded at the inspection meetings fall into three categories: 18 percent false positives requiring no author repair, 57 percent soft maintenance where the author makes changes only for readability or code standard enforcement, and 25 percent true defects requiring repair. (3) The median elapsed calendar time for code inspections is 10 working days - 8 working days before the collection meeting and 2 after. (4) In the collection meetings, 31 percent of the defects discovered by reviewers during preparation are suppressed. (5) Finally, 33 percent of the true defects recorded are discovered at the collection meetings and not during any reviewer's preparation. The results to date suggest that inspections with two sessions (two different teams) of two reviewers per session (2sX2p) are the most effective. These two-session inspections may be performed with author repair or with no author repair between the two sessions. We are finding that the two-session, two-person with repair (2sX2pR) inspections are the most expensive, taking 15 working days of calendar time from the time the code is ready for review until author repair is complete, whereas two-session, two-person with no repair (2sX2pN) inspections take only 10 working days, but find about 10 percent fewer defects.

  2. Cardiac surgery outcomes.

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    Halpin, Linda S; Barnett, Scott D; Beachy, Jim

    2003-01-01

    Accrediting organizations and payers are demanding valid and reliable data that demonstrate the value of services. Federal agencies, healthcare industry groups, and healthcare watchdog groups are increasing the demand for public access to outcomes data. A new and growing outcomes dynamic is the information requested by prospective patients in an increasingly consumer-oriented business. Patients demand outcomes, and resources are developing to meet these demands. Physicians are increasingly confronted with requests for information about their mortality and morbidity rates, malpractice suits, and disciplinary actions received. For example, in Virginia, prospective patients have access to data provided by the nonprofit group Virginia Health Information. After numerous resolutions by the Virginia Senate since 1999, the prospective Virginia medical consumer now has access to several annual publications: Virginia Hospitals: A Consumer's Guide, 1999 Annual Report and Strategic Plan Update, and the 1999 Industry Report: Virginia Hospitals and Nursing Facilities. Consumers have access to cardiac outcomes data stratified by hospital, gender, and cardiac service line (cardiac surgery, noninvasive cardiology, and invasive cardiology). This is particularly relevant to IHI because Virginia Health Information specifically targets cardiac care. IHI has a sizable investment in cardiovascular outcomes and has found outcomes measurement and research are key to providing quality care. IHI's goal is to move from an outcomes management model to a disease management model. The hope is to incorporate all aspects of the patient's continuum of care, from preoperative and diagnostic services through cardiac interventions to postoperative rehabilitation. Furthermore, every step along the way will be supported with functional status and quality of life assessments. Although these goals are ambitious and expensive, the return on investment is high.

  3. 78 FR 52785 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure

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    ... Appellate Procedure. ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation..., Secretary and Chief Rules Officer. [FR Doc. 2013-20670 Filed 8-23-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210-55-P ...

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    ... Practice and Procedure. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. SUMMARY: The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.... Robinson, Deputy Rules Officer and Counsel. [FR Doc. 2012-4650 Filed 2-27-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210-55...

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    ... Criminal Procedure. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure will hold a one-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.... Rose, Secretary and Chief Rules Officer . [FR Doc. 2013-20980 Filed 8-27-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210...

  6. 77 FR 12077 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure

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    ... Rules of Appellate Procedure. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation.... Robinson, Deputy Rules Officer and Counsel. [FR Doc. 2012-4636 Filed 2-27-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210-55...

  7. 77 FR 12078 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence

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    ... Evidence. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence will hold a two- day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation. DATES: April 3... Committee Deputy and Counsel. [FR Doc. 2012-4664 Filed 2-27-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210-55-P ...

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    ... Civil Procedure. ACTION: Notice of open meeting. SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure will hold a two-day meeting. The meeting will be open to public observation but not participation.... Robinson, Deputy Rules Officer and Counsel. [FR Doc. 2012-4630 Filed 2-27-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 2210-55...

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  12. 75 FR 44272 - National Institute of Mental Health; Notice of Meeting

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  1. 75 FR 4355 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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  3. 28 CFR 36.602 - General rule.

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    2013-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.602 General... that a code meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the Act for the accessibility and usability of...

  4. 28 CFR 36.602 - General rule.

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    2014-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.602 General... that a code meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the Act for the accessibility and usability of...

  5. 28 CFR 36.602 - General rule.

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    2011-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.602 General... that a code meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the Act for the accessibility and usability of...

  6. 28 CFR 36.602 - General rule.

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    2012-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.602 General... that a code meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the Act for the accessibility and usability of...

  7. 28 CFR 36.602 - General rule.

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    2010-07-01

    ... ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes § 36.602 General... that a code meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the Act for the accessibility and usability of...

  8. Meeting highlights applications of Nek5000 simulation code | Argonne

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  9. Concatenated coding for low date rate space communications.

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    Chen, C. H.

    1972-01-01

    In deep space communications with distant planets, the data rate as well as the operating SNR may be very low. To maintain the error rate also at a very low level, it is necessary to use a sophisticated coding system (longer code) without excessive decoding complexity. The concatenated coding has been shown to meet such requirements in that the error rate decreases exponentially with the overall length of the code while the decoder complexity increases only algebraically. Three methods of concatenating an inner code with an outer code are considered. Performance comparison of the three concatenated codes is made.

  10. 77 FR 40023 - Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

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    ... code number 1876264. Any interested member of the public may call this number and listen to the meeting.... CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Erma Hodge, NCCC, Corporation for National and Community Service, 9th...

  11. SOC-DS computer code provides tool for design evaluation of homogeneous two-material nuclear shield

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    Disney, R. K.; Ricks, L. O.

    1967-01-01

    SOC-DS Code /Shield Optimization Code-Direc Search/, selects a nuclear shield material of optimum volume, weight, or cost to meet the requirments of a given radiation dose rate or energy transmission constraint. It is applicable to evaluating neutron and gamma ray shields for all nuclear reactors.

  12. Design and fabrication considerations for stainless steel liquid helium jackets surrounding SCRF cavities

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    Bonnema, E. C.; Cunningham, E. K.; Rumel, J. D.

    2014-01-01

    The Department of Energy requires its subcontractors to meet 10 CFR 851 Appendix A Part 4 for all new pressure vessels and pressure piping. The stainless steel pressure vessel boundaries surrounding SCRF cavities fall under this requirement. Methods for meeting this requirement include design and fabrication of the pressure vessels to meet the requirements of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code Section VIII Division 1 or Division 2. Design considerations include determining whether the configuration of the SCRF cavity can be accommodated under the rules of Division 1 or must be analyzed under Division 2 Part 4 Design by Rule Requirements or Part 5 Design by Analysis Requirements. Regardless of the Division or Part choice, designers will find the rules of the ASME Code require thicker pressure boundary members, larger welds, and additional non-destructive testing and quality assurance requirements. These challenges must be met and overcome by the fabricator through the development of robust, detailed, and repeatable manufacturing processes. In this paper we discuss the considerations for stainless steel pressure vessels that must meet the ASME Code and illustrate the discussion with examples from direct experience fabricating such vessels.

  13. Flexible video conference system based on ASICs and DSPs

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    Hu, Qiang; Yu, Songyu

    1995-02-01

    In this paper, a video conference system we developed recently is presented. In this system the video codec is compatible with CCITT H.261, the audio codec is compatible with G.711 and G.722, the channel interface circuit is designed according to CCITT H.221. In this paper emphasis is given to the video codec, which is both flexible and robust. The video codec is based on LSI LOGIC Corporation's L64700 series video compression chipset. The main function blocks of H.261, such as DCT, motion estimation, VLC, VLD, are performed by this chipset, but the chipset is a nude chipset, no peripheral function, such as memory interface, is integrated into it, this results in great difficulty to implement the system. To implement the frame buffer controller, a DSP-TMS 320c25 and a group of GALs is used, SRAM is used as a current and previous frame buffer, the DSP is not only the controller of the frame buffer, it's also the controller of the whole video codec. Because of the use of the DSP, the architecture of the video codec is very flexible, many system parameters can be reconfigured for different applications. The architecture of the whole video codec is a streamline structure. In H.261, BCH(511,493) coding is recommended to work against random errors in transmission, but if burst error occurs, it causes serious result. To solve this problem, an interleaving method is used, that means the BCH code is interleaved before it's transmitted, in the receiver it is interleaved again and the bit stream is in the original order, but the error bits are distributed into several BCH words, and the BCH decoder is able to correct it. Considering that extreme conditions may occur, a function block is implemented which is somewhat like a watchdog, it assures that the receiver can recover from errors no matter what serious error occurs in transmission. In developing the video conference system, a new synchronization problem must be solved, the monitor on the receiver can't be easily synchronized with the camera on another side, a new method is described in detail which can solve this problem successfully.

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    ...: Form 8867 helps preparers meet the due diligence requirements of Code section 6695(g), which was added... returns or claims for refund involving the earned income credit (EIC) must meet the due diligence...

  17. 78 FR 66074 - Sunshine Act Meetings: November 2013

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    ... NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Sunshine Act Meetings: November 2013 TIME AND DATES: All meetings....'' See also 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(10). CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Dated: October 31, 2013. William B. Cowen, Solicitor. [FR Doc. 2013-26408 Filed 10-31-13; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 7545-01-P ...

  18. 76 FR 21870 - Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on... 102-3.150, the Department of Defense announces that the following Federal advisory committee meeting... Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 2011-9440 Filed 4-18-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 5001-06-P ...

  19. 76 FR 1625 - National Institute of Mental Health; Amended Notice of Meeting

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health National Institute of Mental Health; Amended Notice of Meeting Notice is hereby given of a change in the telephone Access Code for the meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Subcommittee on Safety on January 12, 2011...

  20. 76 FR 18238 - Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting

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  1. 76 FR 1613 - Notice of Change in Time of Commission Meeting

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Notice of Change in Time of Commission Meeting January 4, 2011. The Commission's open meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 20, 2011, will begin at 9 a.m. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2011-300 Filed 1-10-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717...

  2. 75 FR 14604 - Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meeting

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    ...; Notice of Closed Meeting Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U...-435-1038, [email protected] . This notice is being published less than 15 days prior to the meeting...-6663 Filed 3-25-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140-01-P ...

  3. 77 FR 31620 - Medicare Program; Public Meeting in Calendar Year 2012 for New Clinical Laboratory Tests Payment...

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    ... announces a public meeting to receive comments and recommendations from the public on the appropriate basis... System (HCPCS) codes being considered for Medicare payment under the clinical laboratory fee schedule... the Federal Register notice of a meeting to receive comments and recommendations (and data on which...

  4. 77 FR 64514 - Sunshine Act Meeting; Open Commission Meeting; Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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  5. Emergency readmissions to paediatric surgery and urology: The impact of inappropriate coding

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    Peeraully, R; Henderson, K; Davies, B

    2016-01-01

    Introduction In England, emergency readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge after an elective admission are not reimbursed if they do not meet Payment by Results (PbR) exclusion criteria. However, coding errors could inappropriately penalise hospitals. We aimed to assess the accuracy of coding for emergency readmissions. Methods Emergency readmissions attributed to paediatric surgery and urology between September 2012 and August 2014 to our tertiary referral centre were retrospectively reviewed. Payment by Results (PbR) coding data were obtained from the hospital’s Family Health Directorate. Clinical details were obtained from contemporaneous records. All readmissions were categorised as appropriately coded (postoperative or nonoperative) or inappropriately coded (planned surgical readmission, unrelated surgical admission, unrelated medical admission or coding error). Results Over the 24-month period, 241 patients were coded as 30-day readmissions, with 143 (59%) meeting the PbR exclusion criteria. Of the remaining 98 (41%) patients, 24 (25%) were inappropriately coded as emergency readmissions. These readmissions resulted in 352 extra bed days, of which 117 (33%) were attributable to inappropriately coded cases. Conclusions One-quarter of non-excluded emergency readmissions were inappropriately coded, accounting for one-third of additional bed days. As a stay on a paediatric ward costs up to £500 a day, the potential cost to our institution due to inappropriate readmission coding was over £50,000. Diagnoses and the reason for admission for each care episode should be accurately documented and coded, and readmission data should be reviewed at a senior clinician level. PMID:26924486

  6. Uplink Coding

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    Andrews, Ken; Divsalar, Dariush; Dolinar, Sam; Moision, Bruce; Hamkins, Jon; Pollara, Fabrizio

    2007-01-01

    This slide presentation reviews the objectives, meeting goals and overall NASA goals for the NASA Data Standards Working Group. The presentation includes information on the technical progress surrounding the objective, short LDPC codes, and the general results on the Pu-Pw tradeoff.

  7. 76 FR 11339 - Update to NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, for State Home Facilities

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 38 CFR Part 51 RIN 2900-AN59 Update to NFPA 101, Life Safety Code..., Life Safety Code. The change is designed to assure that State Home facilities meet current industry- wide standards regarding life safety and fire safety. DATES: Effective Date: This final rule is...

  8. 76 FR 54740 - New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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    ... Meeting; 2. Review and provide feedback regarding the Draft Terms of Reference (TOR) for the upcoming... Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2011-22453 Filed 9-1-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510...

  9. 76 FR 70529 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

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    ... criterion for maximum angle of heel in turns of the 2008 IS Code; Development of amendments to SOLAS... plan to attend should contact the meeting coordinator, LCDR Catherine Phillips, by email at Catherine.A...

  10. 76 FR 7809 - Notice of Mineral County Resource Advisory Committee Meeting

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    ... Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393, as amended by H.R. 1424 January 3, 2008) the Lob..., and May 11, 2011 at 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. in Superior, Montana for a business meeting. The meeting is...-10-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-11-M ...

  11. 76 FR 24573 - Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War; Notice of Meeting

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War; Notice of Meeting... Committee Act) that the Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War has scheduled a meeting on May 16-18... benefits under title 38, United States Code, for veterans who are former prisoners of war, and to make...

  12. A VHDL Interface for Altera Design Files

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    1990-01-01

    this requirement dictated that all prototype products developed during this research would have to mirror standard VHDL code . In fact, the final... product would have to meet the 20 syntactic and semantic requirements of standard VHDL . The coding style used to create the transformation program was the...Transformed Decoder File ....................... 47 C. Supplemental VHDL Package Source Code ........... 54 Altpk.vhd .................................... 54 D

  13. National Combustion Code: Parallel Performance

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    Babrauckas, Theresa

    2001-01-01

    This report discusses the National Combustion Code (NCC). The NCC is an integrated system of codes for the design and analysis of combustion systems. The advanced features of the NCC meet designers' requirements for model accuracy and turn-around time. The fundamental features at the inception of the NCC were parallel processing and unstructured mesh. The design and performance of the NCC are discussed.

  14. 78 FR 77773 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

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    ... the International Code of safety for ships using gases or low flash-point fuels (IGF Code) Members of..., by fax at (202) 372-8283, or in writing at Commandant (CG-OES-1), U.S. Coast Guard Stop 7509, 2703...

  15. New ethical code reflects expectations for industry behavior.

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    Bailey, Pamela G

    2005-07-01

    Sporadic misbehavior, suspect sales and marketing practices, and the perceived deep pockets of the health care industry have put corporations and physicians alike at risk for investigation for fraud and abuse misconduct. The Advanced Medical Technology Association's (AdvaMed) Code of Ethics on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals addresses interactions between the technology industry and physicians, recommending appropriate behavior for partners engaged in developing, testing, learning, and applying often complex technical innovations. As this discussion shows, AdvaMed's industry code underscores uniformity between the drug and technology industries where similarities exist yet sets a distinct course where the needs of the two industries diverge. Health care professionals must be keenly aware of the differences and similarities of the overlapping codes of conducts. Provisions for allowable financial support for third-party conferences, sales and promotional meetings, industry-sponsored educational and training meetings, consulting arrangements, gifts to physicians, reimbursement for technical information, and charitable donations are all examined within the AdvaMed code of ethics and compared against codes and compliance guidance adopted by the American Medical Association; the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America; and the US Department of Health and Human Services; Office of Inspector General.

  16. Impact on quality activities of measurement systems meeting an L:1 rule

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    Hamada, M. S.; Burkhardt, J. H.

    2016-04-01

    This study considers the impact of a measurement system that meets an L:1 rule on various quality activities. These activities include inspection, acceptance sampling, and control charting. A measurement system that meets a 10:1 rule performs much better than one that meets a 4:1 rule. R code is provided so that the practitioner is able to evaluate these activities to his or her particular situation.

  17. How do primary care doctors in England and Wales code and manage people with chronic kidney disease? Results from the National Chronic Kidney Disease Audit.

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    Kim, Lois G; Cleary, Faye; Wheeler, David C; Caplin, Ben; Nitsch, Dorothea; Hull, Sally A

    2017-10-16

    In the UK, primary care records are electronic and require doctors to ascribe disease codes to direct care plans and facilitate safe prescribing. We investigated factors associated with coding of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with reduced kidney function and the impact this has on patient management. We identified patients meeting biochemical criteria for CKD (two estimated glomerular filtration rates <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 taken >90 days apart) from 1039 general practitioner (GP) practices in a UK audit. Clustered logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with coding for CKD and improvement in coding as a result of the audit process. We investigated the relationship between coding and five interventions recommended for CKD: achieving blood pressure targets, proteinuria testing, statin prescription and flu and pneumococcal vaccination. Of 256 000 patients with biochemical CKD, 30% did not have a GP CKD code. Males, older patients, those with more severe CKD, diabetes or hypertension or those prescribed statins were more likely to have a CKD code. Among those with continued biochemical CKD following audit, these same characteristics increased the odds of improved coding. Patients without any kidney diagnosis were less likely to receive optimal care than those coded for CKD [e.g. odds ratio for meeting blood pressure target 0.78 (95% confidence interval 0.76-0.79)]. Older age, male sex, diabetes and hypertension are associated with coding for those with biochemical CKD. CKD coding is associated with receiving key primary care interventions recommended for CKD. Increased efforts to incentivize CKD coding may improve outcomes for CKD patients. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA.

  18. The Astrophysics Source Code Library: Supporting software publication and citation

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    Allen, Alice; Teuben, Peter

    2018-01-01

    The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, ascl.net), established in 1999, is a free online registry for source codes used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications. The ASCL is indexed by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Web of Science and is citable by using the unique ascl ID assigned to each code. In addition to registering codes, the ASCL can house archive files for download and assign them DOIs. The ASCL advocations for software citation on par with article citation, participates in multidiscipinary events such as Force11, OpenCon, and the annual Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science, works with journal publishers, and organizes Special Sessions and Birds of a Feather meetings at national and international conferences such as Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS), European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, and AAS meetings. In this presentation, I will discuss some of the challenges of gathering credit for publishing software and ideas and efforts from other disciplines that may be useful to astronomy.

  19. 77 FR 37446 - Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes: Meeting Notice

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    ...; and (6) update on domestic production of molybdenum-99. The regular meeting agenda is subject to..., Advisory Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 2012-15173 Filed 6-20-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P ...

  20. 75 FR 68612 - National Institute of Mental Health; Notice of Meeting

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    ... Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Services...: Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Type of meeting: Services Subcommittee. Date: November 29..., Access code: 1427016. Contact Person: Ms. Lina Perez, Office of Autism Research Coordination, National...

  1. 75 FR 3197 - Tri-County Advisory Committee Meeting

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    ..., 2010, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the USDA building located 1002.... Myers, Designated Federal Official. [FR Doc. 2010-812 Filed 1-19-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-11-M ...

  2. 75 FR 14429 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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  4. 75 FR 38087 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday July 30, 2009. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-29-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., June 18, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed. MATTERS...-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday March 12, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-18-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, June 4, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-26-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday June 25, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-26-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  9. 75 FR 14429 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, April 2, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  10. 75 FR 14429 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday April 30, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., July 16, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed. MATTERS...-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  12. 75 FR 38086 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday, July 2, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status: Closed...-29-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  13. 75 FR 7568 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday March 5, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-18-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday, June 11, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status: Closed...-26-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  15. 75 FR 38086 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday, July 9, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status: Closed...-29-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday March 26, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-18-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday July 23, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status: Closed...-29-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  18. 75 FR 4355 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., February 19, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS: Closed...-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  19. 76 FR 3918 - National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Amended Notice of Meeting

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    ... General Medical Sciences; Amended Notice of Meeting Notice is hereby given of a change in the meeting of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, January 27, 2011, 8:30 a.m. to January 28... of Federal Advisory Committee Policy. [FR Doc. 2011-1198 Filed 1-20-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140-01...

  20. 78 FR 299 - Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board Meeting Dates and Agenda

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  1. 78 FR 47675 - Meeting of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; Cancellation of August 6...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Meeting of the National Commission on the Structure..., 2013 (78 FR 46329), the Department of Defense published a notice announcing an August 6, 2013 meeting... Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 2013-18937 Filed 8-5-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE...

  2. Development and Operations of the Astrophysics Data System

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    Murray, Stephen S.

    1998-01-01

    Preparations for the AAS meeting in January are progressing. We will have a talk, a poster, and a demonstration. We organized a meeting during the AAS conference to discuss bibliographic codes in order to make sure the different information providers can inter-operate. Our new server should be on-line for the AAS meeting. This will improve the search speed considerably.

  3. 78 FR 66372 - National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Notice of Closed Meetings

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    ... Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of the following meetings. The meetings will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and... Policy. [FR Doc. 2013-26417 Filed 11-4-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140-01-P ...

  4. Report: Examination of Costs Claimed under EPA Grant XP98069201 Awarded to the City of Blackfoot, Idaho

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    Report #10-4-0086, March 29, 2010. The grantee did not meet financial management requirements specified by Title 2 Code of Federal Regulations Part 225 and Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 31.

  5. Sharing the Code.

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    Olsen, Florence

    2003-01-01

    Colleges and universities are beginning to consider collaborating on open-source-code projects as a way to meet critical software and computing needs. Points out the attractive features of noncommercial open-source software and describes some examples in use now, especially for the creation of Web infrastructure. (SLD)

  6. 76 FR 22162 - Sixteenth Meeting: EUROCAE WG-72: RTCA Special Committee 216: Aeronautical Systems Security...

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    ... meeting held January 18-21, 2011. Report on the PMC/ICC Action on TOR. RTCA Specific Publication Progress... Advisory Committee. [FR Doc. 2011-9489 Filed 4-19-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-13-P ...

  7. 75 FR 7568 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Wednesday March 17, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS... Filed 2-18-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, February 12, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS... Filed 1-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  9. 75 FR 51016 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS... Filed 8-16-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  10. 75 FR 14429 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting Time and Date: 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status... Filed 3-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  11. 75 FR 38087 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Wednesday, July 21, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS... Filed 6-29-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Wednesday, February 17, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS... Filed 1-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  13. 25 CFR 256.22 - How can I be sure that the work that is being done on my dwelling meets minimum construction...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... construction, a trained and qualified servicing housing office representative or building inspector will review the construction to ensure that it meets applicable minimum construction standards and building codes...

  14. 25 CFR 256.22 - How can I be sure that the work that is being done on my dwelling meets minimum construction...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... construction, a trained and qualified servicing housing office representative or building inspector will review the construction to ensure that it meets applicable minimum construction standards and building codes...

  15. 25 CFR 256.22 - How can I be sure that the work that is being done on my dwelling meets minimum construction...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... construction, a trained and qualified servicing housing office representative or building inspector will review the construction to ensure that it meets applicable minimum construction standards and building codes...

  16. 25 CFR 256.22 - How can I be sure that the work that is being done on my dwelling meets minimum construction...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... construction, a trained and qualified servicing housing office representative or building inspector will review the construction to ensure that it meets applicable minimum construction standards and building codes...

  17. 25 CFR 256.22 - How can I be sure that the work that is being done on my dwelling meets minimum construction...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... construction, a trained and qualified servicing housing office representative or building inspector will review the construction to ensure that it meets applicable minimum construction standards and building codes...

  18. Report: Examination of Costs Claimed under EPA Grant X96906001 Awarded to Walker Lake Working Group, Hawthorne, Nevada

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Report #10-2-0054, January 6, 2010. The grantee did not meet financial management requirements specified by Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 30 and Title 2 Code of Federal Regulations Part 30.

  19. 77 FR 58978 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ...;and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, #0;delegations of authority..., telephone, fax, email, customer code, agency code, purchase order number, credit card number/exp. date and... submitting it to APFO. Information collected is used to process fiscal obligations, communicate with the...

  20. Performance analysis of optical wireless communication system based on two-fold turbo code

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Chen, Jun; Huang, Dexiu; Yuan, Xiuhua

    2005-11-01

    Optical wireless communication (OWC) is beginning to emerge in the telecommunications market as a strategy to meet last-mile demand owing to its unique combination of features. Turbo codes have an impressive near Shannon-limit error correcting performance. Twofold turbo codes have been recently introduced as the least complex member of the multifold turbo code family. In this paper, at first, we present the mathematical model of signal and optical wireless channel with fading and bit error rate model with scintillation, then we provide a new turbo code method to use in OWC system, we can obtain a better BER curse of OWC system with twofold turbo code than with common turbo code.

  1. 75 FR 13251 - Notice of Mineral County Resource Advisory Committee Meeting

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    ... Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-393, as amended by H.R. 1424 January 3, 2008) the Lolo... at 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. in Superior, Montana for a business meeting. The meeting is open to the... Sweeney, Designated Federal Official. [FR Doc. 2010-6034 Filed 3-18-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-11-M ...

  2. 76 FR 18292 - Announcement of a Meeting of the International Telecommunication Advisory Committee

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    ... Geneva the preceding week, January 16-20, 2012. The ITAC will meet from 10 am to 12 pm on Wednesday, April 21, 2011 at 1200 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209. This meeting is open to the public as... Policy, U.S. Department of State. [FR Doc. 2011-7766 Filed 3-31-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710-07-P ...

  3. 76 FR 65727 - Sunshine Act Meeting Notice

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    ... be open to the public. The rest of the meeting will be closed to the public. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Portion Open to the Public: (1) Oral Argument in The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners, Docket 9343...:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-M ...

  4. 78 FR 63968 - Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission. TIME AND DATE: 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 8, 2013. PLACE: 1155 21st St. NW...-25268 Filed 10-23-13; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  5. 76 FR 37372 - Notice of Proposed Withdrawal Extension and Notification of a Public Meeting; Montana

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [61510-8451-0000; MTM 80092] Notice of Proposed Withdrawal Extension and Notification of a Public Meeting; Montana AGENCY: Bureau of Land...; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-P ...

  6. Changing the nursing culture in a special hospital.

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    Dale, C; Rae, M; Tarbuck, P

    In August 1992 a damning report was published on the mental health services provided at Ashworth Special Hospital in Merseyside. It described a brutalising and damaging regime in which nurses were singled out for the strongest criticism. In November 1994 the Health Advisory Service (HAS), which has a watchdog role, spent three weeks at Ashworth reviewing developments in the wake of the inquiry report. The HAS report, published last March, praised the hospital for undergoing tremendous change and recovery. Areas of exemplary practice were evident and major dehumanising practices had been eliminated. This paper attempts to analyse some of the difficulties confronting nurses at the hospital during the years of change between the public inquiry and the HAS visit, and identifies recent major achievements and areas for further work.

  7. 77 FR 38597 - Multistakeholder Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile...

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    ... Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Mobile Application Transparency AGENCY... convene the first meeting of a privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile application transparency... concerning mobile application transparency. Stakeholders will engage in an open, transparent, consensus...

  8. 7 CFR 801.12 - Design requirements incorporated by reference.

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    2011-01-01

    ... by reference. (a) Moisture meters. All moisture meters approved for use in official grain moisture determination and certification shall meet applicable requirements contained in the FGIS Moisture Handbook and the General Code and Grain Moisture Meters Code of the 1991 edition of the National Institute of...

  9. 7 CFR 801.12 - Design requirements incorporated by reference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... by reference. (a) Moisture meters. All moisture meters approved for use in official grain moisture determination and certification shall meet applicable requirements contained in the FGIS Moisture Handbook and the General Code and Grain Moisture Meters Code of the 1991 edition of the National Institute of...

  10. 7 CFR 801.12 - Design requirements incorporated by reference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... by reference. (a) Moisture meters. All moisture meters approved for use in official grain moisture determination and certification shall meet applicable requirements contained in the FGIS Moisture Handbook and the General Code and Grain Moisture Meters Code of the 1991 edition of the National Institute of...

  11. 7 CFR 801.12 - Design requirements incorporated by reference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... by reference. (a) Moisture meters. All moisture meters approved for use in official grain moisture determination and certification shall meet applicable requirements contained in the FGIS Moisture Handbook and the General Code and Grain Moisture Meters Code of the 1991 edition of the National Institute of...

  12. 76 FR 44977 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

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    ... packing of cargo transport units. --Consideration for the efficacy of Container Inspection Programme... Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC 16) to be held at IMO Headquarters, London, United... Solid Bulk Cargoes Code (IMSBC Code) including evaluation of properties of solid bulk cargos. --Casualty...

  13. ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2: International Standards for Language Codes. ISO 15924: International Standard for Names of Scripts.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Byrum, John D.

    This paper describes two international standards for the representation of the names of languages. The first (ISO 639-1), published in 1988, provides two-letter codes for 136 languages and was produced primarily to meet terminological needs. The second (ISO 639-2) appeared in late 1998 and includes three-letter codes for 460 languages. This list…

  14. Model-Driven Engineering: Automatic Code Generation and Beyond

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-03-01

    and Weblogic as well as cloud environments such as Mi- crosoft Azure and Amazon Web Services®. Finally, while the generated code has dependencies on...code generation in the context of the full system lifecycle from development to sustainment. Acquisition programs in govern- ment or large commercial...Acquirers are concerned with the full system lifecycle, and they need confidence that the development methods will enable the system to meet the functional

  15. A novel concatenated code based on the improved SCG-LDPC code for optical transmission systems

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Yuan, Jian-guo; Xie, Ya; Wang, Lin; Huang, Sheng; Wang, Yong

    2013-01-01

    Based on the optimization and improvement for the construction method of systematically constructed Gallager (SCG) (4, k) code, a novel SCG low density parity check (SCG-LDPC)(3969, 3720) code to be suitable for optical transmission systems is constructed. The novel SCG-LDPC (6561,6240) code with code rate of 95.1% is constructed by increasing the length of SCG-LDPC (3969,3720) code, and in a way, the code rate of LDPC codes can better meet the high requirements of optical transmission systems. And then the novel concatenated code is constructed by concatenating SCG-LDPC(6561,6240) code and BCH(127,120) code with code rate of 94.5%. The simulation results and analyses show that the net coding gain (NCG) of BCH(127,120)+SCG-LDPC(6561,6240) concatenated code is respectively 2.28 dB and 0.48 dB more than those of the classic RS(255,239) code and SCG-LDPC(6561,6240) code at the bit error rate (BER) of 10-7.

  16. 76 FR 38604 - Southern Montana Resource Advisory Committee

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    ... Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Big Timber, Montana. The committee is meeting as authorized under... be held at the Carnegie Public Library, 34 McLeod Street, Big Timber, MT. Written comments should be...-16557 Filed 6-30-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-11-P ...

  17. 75 FR 81589 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, January 7, 2011. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-32780 Filed 12-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  18. 75 FR 51016 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday September 17, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status.... [FR Doc. 2010-20600 Filed 8-16-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  19. 75 FR 72816 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday December 3, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-29904 Filed 11-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  20. 75 FR 81589 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, January 14, 2011. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-32781 Filed 12-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  1. 75 FR 81589 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, January 28, 2011. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-32783 Filed 12-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  2. 75 FR 51016 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday September 24, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-20605 Filed 8-16-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  3. 75 FR 66074 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, November 26, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-27324 Filed 10-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  4. 75 FR 66074 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, November 19, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-27326 Filed 10-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  5. 75 FR 57457 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, October 22, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-23649 Filed 9-17-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  6. 75 FR 66074 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, November 12, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-27327 Filed 10-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  7. 75 FR 57457 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, October 8, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-23647 Filed 9-17-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  8. 75 FR 57457 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday October 15, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-23648 Filed 9-17-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  9. 75 FR 43941 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, August 14, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-18493 Filed 7-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  10. 75 FR 72816 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday December 24, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-29901 Filed 11-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  11. 75 FR 51016 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday September 10, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status.... [FR Doc. 2010-20598 Filed 8-16-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  12. 75 FR 43941 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, August 28, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-18488 Filed 7-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  13. 75 FR 66074 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, November 5, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-27329 Filed 10-25-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  14. 75 FR 81589 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday January 21, 2011. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-32782 Filed 12-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  15. 75 FR 57457 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday, October 1, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status.... [FR Doc. 2010-23645 Filed 9-17-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  16. 75 FR 29995 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Wednesday, June 16, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. [[Page.... [FR Doc. 2010-13084 Filed 5-26-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  17. 75 FR 72816 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday December 31, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-29899 Filed 11-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  18. 75 FR 43941 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, August 21, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-18491 Filed 7-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  19. 75 FR 72816 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings Time and Date: 11 a.m., Friday December 10, 2010. Place: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. Status.... [FR Doc. 2010-29903 Filed 11-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  20. 75 FR 43941 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, August 7, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-18494 Filed 7-23-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  1. 75 FR 72816 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday December 17, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-29902 Filed 11-23-10; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  2. 75 FR 51016 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday September 3, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS.... [FR Doc. 2010-20597 Filed 8-16-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  3. 75 FR 57457 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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    ... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday, October 29, 2010. PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference Room. STATUS... Commission. [FR Doc. 2010-23650 Filed 9-17-10; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P ...

  4. 77 FR 59203 - Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC)

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    ... Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council. [FR Doc. 2012-23666 Filed 9-25-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9910-9P-P ... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY [Docket No. DHS-2012-0051] Critical Infrastructure Partnership... meeting. SUMMARY: The Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) Plenary Meeting will be...

  5. 76 FR 53697 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ...-25-11; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 4410-BA-P ... FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION [F.C.S.C. Meeting and Hearing Notice No. 8-11] Sunshine Act... Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice in regard to the scheduling of open...

  6. A New Capability for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Design

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

    Amiri, Benjamin W.; Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; Kapernick, Richard J.

    2007-01-30

    This paper describes a new capability for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) design that has been developed, and presents the results of some analyses performed with this design tool. The purpose of the tool is to design to specified mission and material limits, while maximizing system thrust to weight. The head end of the design tool utilizes the ROCket Engine Transient Simulation (ROCETS) code to generate a system design and system design requirements as inputs to the core analysis. ROCETS is a modular system level code which has been used extensively in the liquid rocket engine industry for many years. Themore » core design tool performs high-fidelity reactor core nuclear and thermal-hydraulic design analysis. At the heart of this process are two codes TMSS-NTP and NTPgen, which together greatly automate the analysis, providing the capability to rapidly produce designs that meet all specified requirements while minimizing mass. A PERL based command script, called CORE DESIGNER controls the execution of these two codes, and checks for convergence throughout the process. TMSS-NTP is executed first, to produce a suite of core designs that meet the specified reactor core mechanical, thermal-hydraulic and structural requirements. The suite of designs consists of a set of core layouts and, for each core layout specific designs that span a range of core fuel volumes. NTPgen generates MCNPX models for each of the core designs from TMSS-NTP. Iterative analyses are performed in NTPgen until a reactor design (fuel volume) is identified for each core layout that meets cold and hot operation reactivity requirements and that is zoned to meet a radial core power distribution requirement.« less

  7. Stimulation at Desert Peak -modeling with the coupled THM code FEHM

    DOE Data Explorer

    kelkar, sharad

    2013-04-30

    Numerical modeling of the 2011 shear stimulation at the Desert Peak well 27-15. This submission contains the FEHM executable code for a 64-bit PC Windows-7 machine, and the input and output files for the results presented in the included paper from ARMA-213 meeting.

  8. 77 FR 48107 - Workshop on Performance Assessments of Near-Surface Disposal Facilities: FEPs Analysis, Scenario...

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    ...) disposal facilities. The workshop has been developed to facilitate communication among Federal and State... and conceptual models, and (3) the selection of computer codes. Information gathered from invited.... NRC Public Meeting The purpose of this public meeting is to facilitate communication and gather...

  9. 77 FR 28640 - Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Cancellation of Upcoming Meeting

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    ... OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Cancellation of... Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee is issuing this notice to cancel the May 24, 2012, public meeting..., Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee. [FR Doc. 2012-11728 Filed 5-14-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6325...

  10. 78 FR 41962 - Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Cancellation of Upcoming Meeting

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    ... OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Cancellation of... Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee is issuing this notice to cancel the July 18, 2013, public meeting... Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee. [FR Doc. 2013-16763 Filed 7-11-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6325-49-P ...

  11. 76 FR 34781 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... discussions on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at the CFTC's headquarters at Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street... the meeting includes panel discussions concerning the definitions of ``swap dealer,'' ``security-based.... Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2011-14783 Filed 6-10-11; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 8011-01-P ...

  12. 76 FR 13361 - New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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    ... Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National... 31, 2011 The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will hold a new member orientation; discuss... Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2011-5643 Filed 3-10-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P ...

  13. 75 FR 11134 - Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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    ... limits (ACL) and accountability measures (AM). This meeting of the SAC is open to the public. DATES: The... with new ACL and AM requirements. The NS1 guidelines include recommendations for establishing several.... [FR Doc. 2010-5086 Filed 3-9-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-S ...

  14. 76 FR 51985 - ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting

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    ... and Public Health Data Standards Staff, announces the following meeting. Name: ICD-9-CM Coordination.... 2012 ICD-10-PCS GEM and Reimbursement Map Updates. ICD-10-PCS Official Coding Guidelines. ICD-10 MS... Pickett, Medical Systems Administrator, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards Staff, NCHS, 3311...

  15. 78 FR 28218 - Appraisal Subcommittee; Notice of Meeting

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    ... reasonable security measures. The meeting space is intended to accommodate public attendees. However, if the space will not accommodate all requests, the ASC may refuse attendance on that reasonable basis. The use.... Park, Executive Director. [FR Doc. 2013-11375 Filed 5-13-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P ...

  16. 77 FR 2760 - Sunshine Act Meeting

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    .... 2012-1065 Filed 1-17-12; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 4410-BA-P ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Foreign Claims Settlement Commission [F.C.S.C. Meeting and Hearing Notice No... CFR 503.25) and the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice in regard to...

  17. 75 FR 59741 - Notice of Proposed Withdrawal and Opportunity for Public Meeting; Montana

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLMTB072000-L14300000-ET0000; MTM 98499] Notice of Proposed Withdrawal and Opportunity for Public Meeting; Montana AGENCY: Bureau of Land.... [FR Doc. 2010-24281 Filed 9-27-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-$$-P ...

  18. The Lewis heat pipe code with application to SP-100 GES heat pipes

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Baker, Karl W.; Tower, Leonard K.

    The NASA Lewis Research Center has a thermal management program supporting SP-100 goals, which includes heat pipe radiator development. As a part of the program Lewis has elected to prepare an in-house heat pipe code tailored to the needs of its SP-100 staff to supplement codes from other sources. The latter, designed to meet the needs of the originating organizations, were deemed not entirely appropriate for use at Lewis. However, a review of their features proved most beneficial in the design of the Lewis code.

  19. Volume accumulator design analysis computer codes

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    Whitaker, W. D.; Shimazaki, T. T.

    1973-01-01

    The computer codes, VANEP and VANES, were written and used to aid in the design and performance calculation of the volume accumulator units (VAU) for the 5-kwe reactor thermoelectric system. VANEP computes the VAU design which meets the primary coolant loop VAU volume and pressure performance requirements. VANES computes the performance of the VAU design, determined from the VANEP code, at the conditions of the secondary coolant loop. The codes can also compute the performance characteristics of the VAU's under conditions of possible modes of failure which still permit continued system operation.

  20. Computer search for binary cyclic UEP codes of odd length up to 65

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    Lin, Mao-Chao; Lin, Chi-Chang; Lin, Shu

    1990-01-01

    Using an exhaustive computation, the unequal error protection capabilities of all binary cyclic codes of odd length up to 65 that have minimum distances at least 3 are found. For those codes that can only have upper bounds on their unequal error protection capabilities computed, an analytic method developed by Dynkin and Togonidze (1976) is used to show that the upper bounds meet the exact unequal error protection capabilities.

  1. Cognitive Code-Division Channelization

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    2011-04-01

    22] G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados, “New bounds on the total squared correlation and optimum design of DS - CDMA binary signature sets,” IEEE Trans...Commun., vol. 51, pp. 48-51, Jan. 2003. [23] C. Ding, M. Golin, and T. Klve, “Meeting the Welch and Karystinos- Pados bounds on DS - CDMA binary...receiver pair coexisting with a primary code-division multiple-access ( CDMA ) system. Our objective is to find the optimum transmitting power and code

  2. High-speed low-complexity video coding with EDiCTius: a DCT coding proposal for JPEG XS

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    Richter, Thomas; Fößel, Siegfried; Keinert, Joachim; Scherl, Christian

    2017-09-01

    In its 71th meeting, the JPEG committee issued a call for low complexity, high speed image coding, designed to address the needs of low-cost video-over-ip applications. As an answer to this call, Fraunhofer IIS and the Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart jointly developed an embedded DCT image codec requiring only minimal resources while maximizing throughput on FPGA and GPU implementations. Objective and subjective tests performed for the 73rd meeting confirmed its excellent performance and suitability for its purpose, and it was selected as one of the two key contributions for the development of a joined test model. In this paper, its authors describe the design principles of the codec, provide a high-level overview of the encoder and decoder chain and provide evaluation results on the test corpus selected by the JPEG committee.

  3. Current and anticipated uses of thermal-hydraulic codes in Germany

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    Teschendorff, V.; Sommer, F.; Depisch, F.

    1997-07-01

    In Germany, one third of the electrical power is generated by nuclear plants. ATHLET and S-RELAP5 are successfully applied for safety analyses of the existing PWR and BWR reactors and possible future reactors, e.g. EPR. Continuous development and assessment of thermal-hydraulic codes are necessary in order to meet present and future needs of licensing organizations, utilities, and vendors. Desired improvements include thermal-hydraulic models, multi-dimensional simulation, computational speed, interfaces to coupled codes, and code architecture. Real-time capability will be essential for application in full-scope simulators. Comprehensive code validation and quantification of uncertainties are prerequisites for future best-estimate analyses.

  4. DEGAS: Dynamic Exascale Global Address Space Programming Environments

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    Demmel, James

    The Dynamic, Exascale Global Address Space programming environment (DEGAS) project will develop the next generation of programming models and runtime systems to meet the challenges of Exascale computing. The Berkeley part of the project concentrated on communication-optimal code generation to optimize speed and energy efficiency by reducing data movement. Our work developed communication lower bounds, and/or communication avoiding algorithms (that either meet the lower bound, or do much less communication than their conventional counterparts) for a variety of algorithms, including linear algebra, machine learning and genomics. The Berkeley part of the project concentrated on communication-optimal code generation to optimize speedmore » and energy efficiency by reducing data movement. Our work developed communication lower bounds, and/or communication avoiding algorithms (that either meet the lower bound, or do much less communication than their conventional counterparts) for a variety of algorithms, including linear algebra, machine learning and genomics.« less

  5. HEPLIB `91: International users meeting on the support and environments of high energy physics computing

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    Johnstad, H.

    The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the current and future HEP computing support and environments from the perspective of new horizons in accelerator, physics, and computing technologies. Topics of interest to the Meeting include (but are limited to): the forming of the HEPLIB world user group for High Energy Physic computing; mandate, desirables, coordination, organization, funding; user experience, international collaboration; the roles of national labs, universities, and industry; range of software, Monte Carlo, mathematics, physics, interactive analysis, text processors, editors, graphics, data base systems, code management tools; program libraries, frequency of updates, distribution; distributed and interactive computing, datamore » base systems, user interface, UNIX operating systems, networking, compilers, Xlib, X-Graphics; documentation, updates, availability, distribution; code management in large collaborations, keeping track of program versions; and quality assurance, testing, conventions, standards.« less

  6. HEPLIB 91: International users meeting on the support and environments of high energy physics computing

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    Johnstad, H.

    The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the current and future HEP computing support and environments from the perspective of new horizons in accelerator, physics, and computing technologies. Topics of interest to the Meeting include (but are limited to): the forming of the HEPLIB world user group for High Energy Physic computing; mandate, desirables, coordination, organization, funding; user experience, international collaboration; the roles of national labs, universities, and industry; range of software, Monte Carlo, mathematics, physics, interactive analysis, text processors, editors, graphics, data base systems, code management tools; program libraries, frequency of updates, distribution; distributed and interactive computing, datamore » base systems, user interface, UNIX operating systems, networking, compilers, Xlib, X-Graphics; documentation, updates, availability, distribution; code management in large collaborations, keeping track of program versions; and quality assurance, testing, conventions, standards.« less

  7. 42 CFR 482.41 - Condition of participation: Physical environment.

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    2013-10-01

    ...: Life safety from fire. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section— (i) The hospital must meet the applicable provisions of the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association... Life Safety Code, issued January 14, 2000, for incorporation by reference in accordance with 5 U.S.C...

  8. 42 CFR 482.41 - Condition of participation: Physical environment.

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    2014-10-01

    ...: Life safety from fire. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section— (i) The hospital must meet the applicable provisions of the 2000 edition of the Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association... Life Safety Code, issued January 14, 2000, for incorporation by reference in accordance with 5 U.S.C...

  9. 25 CFR 11.104 - When does this part apply?

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    2011-04-01

    ... BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAW AND ORDER COURTS OF INDIAN OFFENSES AND LAW AND... effect a law-and-order code that establishes a court system and that meets the requirements of paragraph... tribe must notify the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs or his or her designee. The law-and-order code...

  10. 25 CFR 11.104 - When does this part apply?

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    2014-04-01

    ... BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAW AND ORDER COURTS OF INDIAN OFFENSES AND LAW AND... effect a law-and-order code that establishes a court system and that meets the requirements of paragraph... tribe must notify the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs or his or her designee. The law-and-order code...

  11. 25 CFR 11.104 - When does this part apply?

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    2012-04-01

    ... BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAW AND ORDER COURTS OF INDIAN OFFENSES AND LAW AND... effect a law-and-order code that establishes a court system and that meets the requirements of paragraph... tribe must notify the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs or his or her designee. The law-and-order code...

  12. 25 CFR 11.104 - When does this part apply?

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    2013-04-01

    ... BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAW AND ORDER COURTS OF INDIAN OFFENSES AND LAW AND... effect a law-and-order code that establishes a court system and that meets the requirements of paragraph... tribe must notify the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs or his or her designee. The law-and-order code...

  13. 78 FR 73502 - Multistakeholder Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Facial...

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    ... Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Code of Conduct Concerning Facial Recognition Technology AGENCY... technology. This Notice announces the meetings to be held in February, March, April, May, and June 2014. The... promote trust regarding facial recognition technology in the commercial context.\\4\\ NTIA encourages...

  14. 75 FR 9434 - Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section; Agency Information Collection Activities Under...

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  15. 75 FR 27816 - Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section; Agency Information Collection Activities Under...

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    ... certify that a State or local building code or similar ordinance that establishes accessibility requirements (Code) meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the ADA for accessibility and usability of... Management Division, Patrick Henry Building, Suite 1600, 601 D Street, NW., Washington, DC 20530. Dated: May...

  16. SU-A-210-00: AAPM Medical Physics Student Meeting: Medical Billing and Regulations: Everything You Always Wanted To Know, But Were Too Afraid To Ask

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    NONE

    The purpose of this student annual meeting is to address topics that are becoming more relevant to medical physicists, but are not frequently addressed, especially for students and trainees just entering the field. The talk is divided into two parts: medical billing and regulations. Hsinshun Wu – Why should we learn radiation oncology billing? Many medical physicists do not like to be involved with medical billing or coding during their career. They believe billing is not their responsibility and sometimes they even refuse to participate in the billing process if given the chance. This presentation will talk about a physicist’smore » long career and share his own experience that knowing medical billing is not only important and necessary for every young medical physicist, but that good billing knowledge could provide a valuable contribution to his/her medical physics development. Learning Objectives: The audience will learn the basic definition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes performed in a Radiation Oncology Department. Understand the differences between hospital coding and physician-based or freestanding coding. Apply proper CPT coding for each Radiation Oncology procedure. Each procedure with its specific CPT code will be discussed in detail. The talk will focus on the process of care and use of actual workflow to understand each CPT code. Example coding of a typical Radiation Oncology procedure. Special procedure coding such as brachytherapy, proton therapy, radiosurgery, and SBRT. Maryann Abogunde – Medical physics opportunities at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) The NRC’s responsibilities include the regulation of medical uses of byproduct (radioactive) materials and oversight of medical use end-users (licensees) through a combination of regulatory requirements, licensing, safety oversight including inspection and enforcement, operational experience evaluation, and regulatory support activities. This presentation will explore the career options for medical physicists in the NRC, how the NRC interacts with clinical medical physicists, and a physicist’s experience as a regulator. Learning Objectives: Explore non-clinical career pathways for medical physics students and trainees at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Overview of NRC medical applications and medical use regulations. Understand the skills needed for physicists as regulators. Abogunde is funded to attend the meeting by her employer, the NRC.« less

  17. 78 FR 64483 - Meeting of the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Meeting of the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council AGENCY: Department of Defense. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is... Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 2013-25512 Filed 10-28-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE...

  18. 78 FR 73850 - Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings and Hearings

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  19. 76 FR 36923 - Meeting of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC): Notice of...

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  20. 75 FR 36657 - Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; HIT Standards Committee's...

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  1. 76 FR 111 - Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting AGENCY.... 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150, the Department of Defense announces that the following Federal... Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 2010-33096 Filed 12-30-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 5001-06...

  2. 78 FR 25955 - Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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    ... Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS... orientation video about serving as an AP member for the Council. The Shrimp AP will nominate and elect a chair... Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2013-10518 Filed 5-2-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510...

  3. 76 FR 30965 - Notice of Public Meeting: Northwest California Resource Advisory Council

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    ... California District manager, (530) 221-1743; or Joseph J. Fontana, public affairs officer, (530) 252-5332.... Joseph J. Fontana, Public Affairs Officer. [FR Doc. 2011-13233 Filed 5-26-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310... Public Meeting: Northwest California Resource Advisory Council AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management...

  4. 78 FR 73862 - Notice of Sunshine Act Meeting

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    ... Floor Hearing Room, Washington, DC. STATUS: A portion of the meeting will be held in open session; the remainder will be held in closed session. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Open Session 1. Briefing on U.S.--China..., Secretary. [FR Doc. 2013-29373 Filed 12-5-13; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6730-01-P ...

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  7. 75 FR 50007 - Meetings of Humanities Panel

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  8. 76 FR 9358 - Notice of Proposed Withdrawal Extension and Opportunity for Public Meeting; Montana

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [MTM 067221] Notice of Proposed Withdrawal Extension and Opportunity for Public Meeting; Montana AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION.... Cynthia Staszak, Chief, Branch of Land Resources. [FR Doc. 2011-3617 Filed 2-16-11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE...

  9. A method for studying decision-making by guideline development groups.

    PubMed

    Gardner, Benjamin; Davidson, Rosemary; McAteer, John; Michie, Susan

    2009-08-05

    Multidisciplinary guideline development groups (GDGs) have considerable influence on UK healthcare policy and practice, but previous research suggests that research evidence is a variable influence on GDG recommendations. The Evidence into Recommendations (EiR) study has been set up to document social-psychological influences on GDG decision-making. In this paper we aim to evaluate the relevance of existing qualitative methodologies to the EiR study, and to develop a method best-suited to capturing influences on GDG decision-making. A research team comprised of three postdoctoral research fellows and a multidisciplinary steering group assessed the utility of extant qualitative methodologies for coding verbatim GDG meeting transcripts and semi-structured interviews with GDG members. A unique configuration of techniques was developed to permit data reduction and analysis. Our method incorporates techniques from thematic analysis, grounded theory analysis, content analysis, and framework analysis. Thematic analysis of individual interviews conducted with group members at the start and end of the GDG process defines discrete problem areas to guide data extraction from GDG meeting transcripts. Data excerpts are coded both inductively and deductively, using concepts taken from theories of decision-making, social influence and group processes. These codes inform a framework analysis to describe and explain incidents within GDG meetings. We illustrate the application of the method by discussing some preliminary findings of a study of a National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) acute physical health GDG. This method is currently being applied to study the meetings of three of NICE GDGs. These cover topics in acute physical health, mental health and public health, and comprise a total of 45 full-day meetings. The method offers potential for application to other health care and decision-making groups.

  10. Palliative Care Processes Embedded in the ICU Workflow May Reserve Palliative Care Teams for Refractory Cases.

    PubMed

    Mun, Eluned; Umbarger, Lillian; Ceria-Ulep, Clementina; Nakatsuka, Craig

    2018-01-01

    Palliative Care Teams have been shown to be instrumental in the early identification of multiple aspects of advanced care planning. Despite an increased number of services to meet the rising consultation demand, it is conceivable that the numbers of palliative care consultations generated from an ICU alone could become overwhelming for an existing palliative care team. Improve end-of-life care in the ICU by incorporating basic palliative care processes into the daily routine ICU workflow, thereby reserving the palliative care team for refractory situations. A structured, palliative care, quality-improvement program was implemented and evaluated in the ICU at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hawaii. This included selecting trigger criteria, a care model, forming guidelines, and developing evaluation criteria. These included the early identification of the multiple features of advanced care planning, numbers of proactive ICU and palliative care family meetings, and changes in code status and treatment upon completion of either meeting. Early identification of Goals-of-Care, advance directives, and code status by the ICU staff led to a proactive ICU family meeting with resultant increases in changes in code status and treatment. The numbers of palliative care consultations also rose, but not significantly. Palliative care processes could be incorporated into a daily ICU workflow allowing for integration of aspects of advanced care planning to be identified in a systematic and proactive manner. This reserved the palliative care team for situations when palliative care efforts performed by the ICU staff were ineffective.

  11. American Academy of Audiology

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    ... AAA Foundation Volunteer Opportunities Professional Advancement eAudiology Continuing Education ABA Certification Meetings & Events Employee Resources Research Academia Practice Management Reimbursement Coding Compliance ...

  12. The small stellated dodecahedron code and friends.

    PubMed

    Conrad, J; Chamberland, C; Breuckmann, N P; Terhal, B M

    2018-07-13

    We explore a distance-3 homological CSS quantum code, namely the small stellated dodecahedron code, for dense storage of quantum information and we compare its performance with the distance-3 surface code. The data and ancilla qubits of the small stellated dodecahedron code can be located on the edges respectively vertices of a small stellated dodecahedron, making this code suitable for three-dimensional connectivity. This code encodes eight logical qubits into 30 physical qubits (plus 22 ancilla qubits for parity check measurements) in contrast with one logical qubit into nine physical qubits (plus eight ancilla qubits) for the surface code. We develop fault-tolerant parity check circuits and a decoder for this code, allowing us to numerically assess the circuit-based pseudo-threshold.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society'. © 2018 The Authors.

  13. National Combustion Code Parallel Performance Enhancements

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    Quealy, Angela; Benyo, Theresa (Technical Monitor)

    2002-01-01

    The National Combustion Code (NCC) is being developed by an industry-government team for the design and analysis of combustion systems. The unstructured grid, reacting flow code uses a distributed memory, message passing model for its parallel implementation. The focus of the present effort has been to improve the performance of the NCC code to meet combustor designer requirements for model accuracy and analysis turnaround time. Improving the performance of this code contributes significantly to the overall reduction in time and cost of the combustor design cycle. This report describes recent parallel processing modifications to NCC that have improved the parallel scalability of the code, enabling a two hour turnaround for a 1.3 million element fully reacting combustion simulation on an SGI Origin 2000.

  14. Civility on Campus: Harassment Codes vs. Free Speech. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.

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    Nordin, Virginia Davis

    In response to the resurgence of racial incidents and increased "gay-bashing" on higher education campuses in recent years, campus authorities have instituted harassment codes thereby giving rise to a conflicts with free speech. Similar conflicts and challenges to free speech have arisen recently in a municipal context such as a St. Paul…

  15. Square One TV: Coding of Segments.

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    McNeal, Betsy; Singer, Karen

    This report describes the system used to code each segment of Square One TV for content analysis of all four seasons of production. The analysis is intended to aid in the assessment of how well Square One is meeting its three goals: (1) to promote positive attitudes toward, and enthusiasm for, mathematics; (2) to encourage the use and application…

  16. Universities and Industry: Does the Lambert Code of Governance Meet the Requirements of Good Governance?

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    Buckland, Roger

    2004-01-01

    The Lambert Model Code of Governance proposes to institutionalise the dominance of governors from commercial and industrial organisations as core members of compact and effective boards controlling UK universities. It is the latest expression of a fashion for viewing university governance as an overly-simple example of an obsolete system, where…

  17. 78 FR 78819 - National Conference on Weights and Measures 99th Interim Meeting

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    ... 44: General Code Item 310-2 G.S.5.6. Recorded Representations. A variety of commercial weighing and... protections for buyers and sellers alike. This item is a proposal to revise the General Code requirement to... high-precision balances that are typically used by precious metal and gem buyers have built balances...

  18. 78 FR 28949 - Fund Availability Under VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (Rehabilitation)

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    ... Per Diem Program as a part of the effort to increase the useful life of the facilities of grantees... grantees are required to ensure that facilities rehabilitated under this NOFA meet the Life Safety Code of the National Fire and Protection Association. Please note, typically the Life Safety Code is more...

  19. Deregulation of the Building Code and the Norwegian Approach to Regulation of Accessibility in the Built Environment.

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    Lyngstad, Pål

    2016-01-01

    Deregulation is on the political agenda in the European countries. The Norwegian building code related to universal design and accessibility is challenged. To meet this, the Norwegian Building Authority have chosen to examine established truths and are basing their revised code on scientific research and field tests. But will this knowledge-based deregulation comply within the framework of the anti-discrimination act and, and if not: who suffers and to what extent?

  20. Streamlined Genome Sequence Compression using Distributed Source Coding

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    Wang, Shuang; Jiang, Xiaoqian; Chen, Feng; Cui, Lijuan; Cheng, Samuel

    2014-01-01

    We aim at developing a streamlined genome sequence compression algorithm to support alternative miniaturized sequencing devices, which have limited communication, storage, and computation power. Existing techniques that require heavy client (encoder side) cannot be applied. To tackle this challenge, we carefully examined distributed source coding theory and developed a customized reference-based genome compression protocol to meet the low-complexity need at the client side. Based on the variation between source and reference, our protocol will pick adaptively either syndrome coding or hash coding to compress subsequences of changing code length. Our experimental results showed promising performance of the proposed method when compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm (GRS). PMID:25520552

  1. 78 FR 20959 - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Advanced...

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    ... NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Advanced Boiling Water Reactor The ACRS Subcommittee on Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR... Committee on Reactor Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2013-08131 Filed 4-5-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P ...

  2. 78 FR 9678 - Multi-stakeholder Process To Develop a Voluntary Code of Conduct for Smart Grid Data Privacy

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    ... Grid Data Privacy AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (DOE OE) will convene the first meeting of the smart grid data privacy...

  3. 46 CFR 160.051-7 - Design and performance of Coastal Service inflatable liferafts.

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    2012-10-01

    ... diameter of the buoyancy chambers is greater than 500 mm (19.5 in). (g) Stability (IMO LSA Code, chapter IV/4.2.5). Each Coastal Service inflatable liferaft must either meet the stability criteria in § 160.151-17(a) or be fitted with water-containing stability pockets meeting the following requirements: (1...

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  12. Open Rotor Noise Prediction Methods at NASA Langley- A Technology Review

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    Farassat, F.; Dunn, Mark H.; Tinetti, Ana F.; Nark, Douglas M.

    2009-01-01

    Open rotors are once again under consideration for propulsion of the future airliners because of their high efficiency. The noise generated by these propulsion systems must meet the stringent noise standards of today to reduce community impact. In this paper we review the open rotor noise prediction methods available at NASA Langley. We discuss three codes called ASSPIN (Advanced Subsonic-Supersonic Propeller Induced Noise), FW - Hpds (Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings with penetrable data surface) and the FSC (Fast Scattering Code). The first two codes are in the time domain and the third code is a frequency domain code. The capabilities of these codes and the input data requirements as well as the output data are presented. Plans for further improvements of these codes are discussed. In particular, a method based on equivalent sources is outlined to get rid of spurious signals in the FW - Hpds code.

  13. News media and new media: Strong coverage of AGU Fall Meeting

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    Weiss, Peter

    2011-05-01

    As scientists at AGU's 2010 Fall Meeting engaged one another with talks, posters, and hallway chats last December, a steady stream of reporting and commentary about all things Fall Meeting spilled out from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., to audiences throughout the world. Some 150 journalists—representing print, online, and broadcast media outlets, plus freelancers—reported from the meeting. Other reporters not present at the meeting participated in press conferences and other press events via live webcasts. Writers for nearly 2 dozen Earth and space science blogs churned out Fall Meeting-related blog postings. Twitter users also busily commented from the meeting, generating more than 4500 tweets labeled with the meeting's #AGU10 hashtag (a Twitter identity code). The outpouring of meeting-related news and commentary added up to more than 3000 stories, of which many reached far-flung parts of the globe, according to an analysis made using Vocus, a media monitoring service.

  14. Two-Phase Flow Instrumentation Review Group Meeting. Proceedings of Meeting Held in Silver Spring, Maryland on January 13-14, 1977

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    1978-03-01

    ADWRESS OInclud Zip Code) 10. PROJECTfTASK/WORK UNI1 VO. Same as 9. above. I1. CONTRACT NO. 13. TYPE OF REPORT PERIOD COVERED (inclusive dews ) Meeting...Discussion of basic principles. c. Lists of y-emitling tracers for gas ; for liquid; commercially available radioisotope milking systems; elements easily...factors) - single phase loops, full flow, (2) prototype calibration (a) gas -water loop, (b) geometry effect. (c) scaling. (3) proof testing - simulation of

  15. Under-coding of secondary conditions in coded hospital health data: Impact of co-existing conditions, death status and number of codes in a record.

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    Peng, Mingkai; Southern, Danielle A; Williamson, Tyler; Quan, Hude

    2017-12-01

    This study examined the coding validity of hypertension, diabetes, obesity and depression related to the presence of their co-existing conditions, death status and the number of diagnosis codes in hospital discharge abstract database. We randomly selected 4007 discharge abstract database records from four teaching hospitals in Alberta, Canada and reviewed their charts to extract 31 conditions listed in Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices. Conditions associated with the four study conditions were identified through multivariable logistic regression. Coding validity (i.e. sensitivity, positive predictive value) of the four conditions was related to the presence of their associated conditions. Sensitivity increased with increasing number of diagnosis code. Impact of death on coding validity is minimal. Coding validity of conditions is closely related to its clinical importance and complexity of patients' case mix. We recommend mandatory coding of certain secondary diagnosis to meet the need of health research based on administrative health data.

  16. Survey Of Lossless Image Coding Techniques

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    Melnychuck, Paul W.; Rabbani, Majid

    1989-04-01

    Many image transmission/storage applications requiring some form of data compression additionally require that the decoded image be an exact replica of the original. Lossless image coding algorithms meet this requirement by generating a decoded image that is numerically identical to the original. Several lossless coding techniques are modifications of well-known lossy schemes, whereas others are new. Traditional Markov-based models and newer arithmetic coding techniques are applied to predictive coding, bit plane processing, and lossy plus residual coding. Generally speaking, the compression ratio offered by these techniques are in the area of 1.6:1 to 3:1 for 8-bit pictorial images. Compression ratios for 12-bit radiological images approach 3:1, as these images have less detailed structure, and hence, their higher pel correlation leads to a greater removal of image redundancy.

  17. Endometrial Cancer

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  18. Assessment of Programming Language Learning Based on Peer Code Review Model: Implementation and Experience Report

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    Wang, Yanqing; Li, Hang; Feng, Yuqiang; Jiang, Yu; Liu, Ying

    2012-01-01

    The traditional assessment approach, in which one single written examination counts toward a student's total score, no longer meets new demands of programming language education. Based on a peer code review process model, we developed an online assessment system called "EduPCR" and used a novel approach to assess the learning of computer…

  19. Common Day Care Safety Renovations: Descriptions, Explanations and Cost Estimates.

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    Spack, Stan

    This booklet explains some of the day care safety features specified by the new Massachusetts State Building Code (January 1, 1975) which must be met before a new day care center can be licensed. The safety features described are those which most often require renovation to meet the building code standards. Best estimates of the costs involved in…

  20. Exercise during Pregnancy

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  1. 78 FR 57845 - Notice of Public Meetings for the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the...

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  5. 78 FR 66342 - Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery (ACANC)

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  8. Mexican journalists: an investigation of their emotional health.

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    Feinstein, Anthony

    2012-08-01

    Mexican journalists are frequently the victims of violence, often drug related. The purpose of the study was to assess their mental well-being. Of 104 journalists recruited from 3 news organizations, those who had stopped working on drug-related stories because of intimidation from the criminal drug cartels (n = 26) had significantly greater social dysfunction (p = .024); and more depressive (p = .001) and higher intrusive (p = .027), avoidance (p = .005), and arousal (p = .033) symptoms than journalists living and working under threat in regions of drug violence (n = 61). They also had more arousal (p = .05) and depressive (p = .027) symptoms than journalists (n = 17) never threatened before and living in regions without a drug problem. These findings provide preliminary data on the deleterious effects of drug-related violence on the Mexican media, amplifying the concerns expressed by journalist watchdog organizations monitoring the state of the press in the country. Copyright © 2012 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

  9. Web Content Management Systems: An Analysis of Forensic Investigatory Challenges.

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    Horsman, Graeme

    2018-02-26

    With an increase in the creation and maintenance of personal websites, web content management systems are now frequently utilized. Such systems offer a low cost and simple solution for those seeking to develop an online presence, and subsequently, a platform from which reported defamatory content, abuse, and copyright infringement has been witnessed. This article provides an introductory forensic analysis of the three current most popular web content management systems available, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! Test platforms have been created, and their site structures have been examined to provide guidance for forensic practitioners facing investigations of this type. Result's document available metadata for establishing site ownership, user interactions, and stored content following analysis of artifacts including Wordpress's wp_users, and wp_comments tables, Drupal's "watchdog" records, and Joomla!'s _users, and _content tables. Finally, investigatory limitations documenting the difficulties of investigating WCMS usage are noted, and analysis recommendations are offered. © 2018 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

  10. Drupal as the platform of choice for the Skolr digital meeting poster service

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    Caron, B. R.

    2011-12-01

    In the Winter of 2011, a small team received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to build a pilot digital science meeting poster service (working name: Skolr). Skolr was successfully tested at the summer ESIP Federation meeting in Santa Fe. This talk will outline the issues for building out this service within Drupal. The use of Drupal as the framework/platform for Skolr is expected to facilitate the rapid development of the code base, an ability to then develop a mobile device application for meetings, and improved data-mining and searching. Each year in the USA (and elsewhere), professional academic societies host academic meetings where they provide for a poster session. Collectively, it is not difficult to imagine upwards of a quarter-million posters created, displayed, and discarded in a single year in the U.S. The Skolr service does not propose to replace the current poster activity with a digital activity, the direct person-to-person conversational aspects of these events remain worthwhile. When fully built, Skolr promises to enhance current poster session activities at academic meetings in several ways. For the poster presenter, Skolr offers the following opportunities: 1. Easy upload into an archive where the poster can be viewed by researchers across the globe. 2. Support for a wide range of metadata to improve search-ability. 3. Search and browse capabilities, combined with ratings and other user-generated value added capabilities (tagging and commenting). 4. The poster remains visible and findable for as long as the presenter wishes. 5. The presenter's profile and other information becomes available to those who view her poster, increasing the networking potential. 6. The presenter can activate their own RSS feeds to view similar posters from meetings across the planet and over years. For the meeting host organization, Skolr offers the following opportunities: 1. Social networking for meeting attendees/organizataion members. 2. Poster session recruitment, abstract posting, room scheduling, and judging are supported. 3. Poster browsing and poster ratings for meeting attendees; also personal scheduling for larger meetings. 4. Organizational branding of poster content for broader markets. For science and engineering communities, Skolr offers the following opportunities: 1. A searchable open-source archival repository for hundreds of thousands (eventually, millions) of posters. 2. Planet-wide access to science/engineering meeting content, and poster presenters. 3. A mine of collective information about the state-of-the-science in its up-to-date, pre-published form. 4. An ability to search across disciplines and organizations to connect research efforts and results. The Skolr service will be designed to scale up to a level that would encompass any/all science/engineering meetings. The use of Drupal creates specific affordances for sharing the code base. The open-source Skolr software code can be used by anyone to create other similar services.

  11. Methodology, status and plans for development and assessment of TUF and CATHENA codes

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    Luxat, J.C.; Liu, W.S.; Leung, R.K.

    1997-07-01

    An overview is presented of the Canadian two-fluid computer codes TUF and CATHENA with specific focus on the constraints imposed during development of these codes and the areas of application for which they are intended. Additionally a process for systematic assessment of these codes is described which is part of a broader, industry based initiative for validation of computer codes used in all major disciplines of safety analysis. This is intended to provide both the licensee and the regulator in Canada with an objective basis for assessing the adequacy of codes for use in specific applications. Although focused specifically onmore » CANDU reactors, Canadian experience in developing advanced two-fluid codes to meet wide-ranging application needs while maintaining past investment in plant modelling provides a useful contribution to international efforts in this area.« less

  12. Media and Body Image

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  13. 7 CFR 3550.10 - Definitions.

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    2012-01-01

    ..., meets or exceeds the requirements of the recognized development standards (model building codes) for... Federally Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standard and RHS Thermal Performance Standards. It is...

  14. 7 CFR 3550.10 - Definitions.

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    2014-01-01

    ..., meets or exceeds the requirements of the recognized development standards (model building codes) for... Federally Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standard and RHS Thermal Performance Standards. It is...

  15. 7 CFR 3550.10 - Definitions.

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    2013-01-01

    ..., meets or exceeds the requirements of the recognized development standards (model building codes) for... Federally Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standard and RHS Thermal Performance Standards. It is...

  16. Game-Based Learning Theory

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    Laughlin, Daniel

    2008-01-01

    Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments (PISE) are not just connection points, they are meeting places. They are the new public squares, village centers, malt shops, malls and pubs all rolled into one. They come with a sense of 'thereness" that engages the mind like a real place does. Learning starts as a real code. The code defines "objects." The objects exist in computer space, known as the "grid." The objects and space combine to create a "place." A "world" is created, Before long, the grid and code becomes obscure, and the "world maintains focus.

  17. The 1992 Seals Flow Code Development Workshop

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    Liang, Anita D.; Hendricks, Robert C.

    1993-01-01

    A two-day meeting was conducted at the NASA Lewis Research Center on August 5 and 6, 1992, to inform the technical community of the progress of NASA Contract NAS3-26544. This contract was established in 1990 to develop industrial and CFD codes for the design and analysis of seals. Codes were demonstrated and disseminated to the user community for evaluation. The peer review panel which was formed in 1991 provided recommendations on this effort. The technical community presented results of their activities in the area of seals, with particular emphasis on brush seal systems.

  18. Research on coding and decoding method for digital levels.

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    Tu, Li-fen; Zhong, Si-dong

    2011-01-20

    A new coding and decoding method for digital levels is proposed. It is based on an area-array CCD sensor and adopts mixed coding technology. By taking advantage of redundant information in a digital image signal, the contradiction that the field of view and image resolution restrict each other in a digital level measurement is overcome, and the geodetic leveling becomes easier. The experimental results demonstrate that the uncertainty of measurement is 1 mm when the measuring range is between 2 m and 100 m, which can meet practical needs.

  19. The proposed coding standard at GSFC

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    Morakis, J. C.; Helgert, H. J.

    1977-01-01

    As part of the continuing effort to introduce standardization of spacecraft and ground equipment in satellite systems, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and other NASA facilities have supported the development of a set of standards for the use of error control coding in telemetry subsystems. These standards are intended to ensure compatibility between spacecraft and ground encoding equipment, while allowing sufficient flexibility to meet all anticipated mission requirements. The standards which have been developed to date cover the application of block codes in error detection and error correction modes, as well as short and long constraint length convolutional codes decoded via the Viterbi and sequential decoding algorithms, respectively. Included are detailed specifications of the codes, and their implementation. Current effort is directed toward the development of standards covering channels with burst noise characteristics, channels with feedback, and code concatenation.

  20. 13 CFR 125.15 - What requirements must an SDVO SBC meet to submit an offer on a contract?

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    2010-01-01

    ... corresponding to the NAICS code assigned to the contract, provided: (A) For a procurement having a revenue-based... to the contract; or (B) For a procurement having an employee-based size standard, the procurement... specific contract: (1) It is an SDVO SBC; (2) It is small under the NAICS code assigned to the procurement...

  1. Media Images Abbott and Costello Meet the End of the World: Who Is the Enemy in "The Da Vinci Code" and "An Inconvenient Truth?"

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    Beck, Bernard

    2007-01-01

    Popular culture requires readily identifiable villains. Subcultural groups often serve this role, creating controversies. Controversies based on religion are especially bitter. As a rule, religion in the movies is inoffensively sentimental, but "The Da Vinci Code" is both popular and provocative, treading on the dangerous ground of Jesus's…

  2. P.L. 102-486, "Energy Policy Act" (1992)

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    None

    2011-12-13

    Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to set a deadline by which each State must certify to the Secretary of Energy whether its energy efficiency standards with respect to residential and commercial building codes meet or exceed those of the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) Model Energy Code, 1992, and of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, respectively.

  3. Glen Henshaw Briefs NASA Chief and Deputy Chief Technologists at the In-Space Assembly Technical Interchange Meeting on September 6, 2017

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    2017-09-06

    WASHINGTON, D.C.---S&T Partnership Forum In-Space Assembly Technical Interchange Meeting-On September 6th 2017, many of the United States government experts on In-Space Assembly met at the U.S. Naval Research Lab to discuss both technology development and in-space applications that would advance national capabilities in this area. Expertise from NASA, USAF, NRO, DARPA and NRL met in this meeting which was coordinated by the NASA Headquarters, Office of the Chief Technologist. This technical interchange meeting was the second meeting of the members of this Science and Technology Partnership Forum. Glen Henshaw of Code 8231 talks to the group in the Space Robotics Lab.

  4. 75 FR 30003 - Federal Advisory Committee; Meeting of the Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel

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    ...: Notice of meeting. SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.), Appendix, as amended) and the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S... Accessibility Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR 102-3.140 through 102-3.165, and the...

  5. 77 FR 53188 - Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery (ACANC)

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    ... Meeting: 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Place of Meeting: Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Conference... to the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Sunshine in the Government Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended) and 41 Code of the Federal Regulations (41 CFR 102-3. 140...

  6. Staying Active: Physical Activity and Exercise

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  7. Radiology and Ethics Education.

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    Camargo, Aline; Liu, Li; Yousem, David M

    2017-09-01

    The purpose of this study is to assess medical ethics knowledge among trainees and practicing radiologists through an online survey that included questions about the American College of Radiology Code of Ethics and the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics. Most survey respondents reported that they had never read the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics or the American College of Radiology Code of Ethics (77.2% and 67.4% of respondents, respectively). With regard to ethics education during medical school and residency, 57.3% and 70.0% of respondents, respectively, found such education to be insufficient. Medical ethics training should be highlighted during residency, at specialty society meetings, and in journals and online resources for radiologists.

  8. Spatial resampling of IDR frames for low bitrate video coding with HEVC

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    Hosking, Brett; Agrafiotis, Dimitris; Bull, David; Easton, Nick

    2015-03-01

    As the demand for higher quality and higher resolution video increases, many applications fail to meet this demand due to low bandwidth restrictions. One factor contributing to this problem is the high bitrate requirement of the intra-coded Instantaneous Decoding Refresh (IDR) frames featuring in all video coding standards. Frequent coding of IDR frames is essential for error resilience in order to prevent the occurrence of error propagation. However, as each one consumes a huge portion of the available bitrate, the quality of future coded frames is hindered by high levels of compression. This work presents a new technique, known as Spatial Resampling of IDR Frames (SRIF), and shows how it can increase the rate distortion performance by providing a higher and more consistent level of video quality at low bitrates.

  9. 23 CFR 771.117 - FHWA categorical exclusions.

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    2013-04-01

    ... to provide for noise reduction. (7) Landscaping. (8) Installation of fencing, signs, pavement... design, function, and location as the original (which may include upgrades to meet existing codes and...

  10. 23 CFR 771.117 - FHWA categorical exclusions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... to provide for noise reduction. (7) Landscaping. (8) Installation of fencing, signs, pavement... design, function, and location as the original (which may include upgrades to meet existing codes and...

  11. A new code for Galileo

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    Dolinar, S.

    1988-01-01

    Over the past six to eight years, an extensive research effort was conducted to investigate advanced coding techniques which promised to yield more coding gain than is available with current NASA standard codes. The delay in Galileo's launch due to the temporary suspension of the shuttle program provided the Galileo project with an opportunity to evaluate the possibility of including some version of the advanced codes as a mission enhancement option. A study was initiated last summer to determine if substantial coding gain was feasible for Galileo and, is so, to recommend a suitable experimental code for use as a switchable alternative to the current NASA-standard code. The Galileo experimental code study resulted in the selection of a code with constant length 15 and rate 1/4. The code parameters were chosen to optimize performance within cost and risk constraints consistent with retrofitting the new code into the existing Galileo system design and launch schedule. The particular code was recommended after a very limited search among good codes with the chosen parameters. It will theoretically yield about 1.5 dB enhancement under idealizing assumptions relative to the current NASA-standard code at Galileo's desired bit error rates. This ideal predicted gain includes enough cushion to meet the project's target of at least 1 dB enhancement under real, non-ideal conditions.

  12. National Aerospace Leadership Initiative - Phase I

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-09-30

    Devised and validated CFD code for operation of a micro-channel heat exchanger. The work was published at the 2008 AIAA Annual Meeting and Exposition...and (3) preparation to implement this algorithm in TURBO. Heat Transfer Capability In the short and medium term, the following plan has been adopted...to provide heat transfer capability to the TURBO code: • Incorporation of a constant wall temperature boundary condition. This capability will be

  13. A blind dual color images watermarking based on IWT and state coding

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    Su, Qingtang; Niu, Yugang; Liu, Xianxi; Zhu, Yu

    2012-04-01

    In this paper, a state-coding based blind watermarking algorithm is proposed to embed color image watermark to color host image. The technique of state coding, which makes the state code of data set be equal to the hiding watermark information, is introduced in this paper. When embedding watermark, using Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) and the rules of state coding, these components, R, G and B, of color image watermark are embedded to these components, Y, Cr and Cb, of color host image. Moreover, the rules of state coding are also used to extract watermark from the watermarked image without resorting to the original watermark or original host image. Experimental results show that the proposed watermarking algorithm cannot only meet the demand on invisibility and robustness of the watermark, but also have well performance compared with other proposed methods considered in this work.

  14. Communications and information research: Improved space link performance via concatenated forward error correction coding

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    Rao, T. R. N.; Seetharaman, G.; Feng, G. L.

    1996-01-01

    With the development of new advanced instruments for remote sensing applications, sensor data will be generated at a rate that not only requires increased onboard processing and storage capability, but imposes demands on the space to ground communication link and ground data management-communication system. Data compression and error control codes provide viable means to alleviate these demands. Two types of data compression have been studied by many researchers in the area of information theory: a lossless technique that guarantees full reconstruction of the data, and a lossy technique which generally gives higher data compaction ratio but incurs some distortion in the reconstructed data. To satisfy the many science disciplines which NASA supports, lossless data compression becomes a primary focus for the technology development. While transmitting the data obtained by any lossless data compression, it is very important to use some error-control code. For a long time, convolutional codes have been widely used in satellite telecommunications. To more efficiently transform the data obtained by the Rice algorithm, it is required to meet the a posteriori probability (APP) for each decoded bit. A relevant algorithm for this purpose has been proposed which minimizes the bit error probability in the decoding linear block and convolutional codes and meets the APP for each decoded bit. However, recent results on iterative decoding of 'Turbo codes', turn conventional wisdom on its head and suggest fundamentally new techniques. During the past several months of this research, the following approaches have been developed: (1) a new lossless data compression algorithm, which is much better than the extended Rice algorithm for various types of sensor data, (2) a new approach to determine the generalized Hamming weights of the algebraic-geometric codes defined by a large class of curves in high-dimensional spaces, (3) some efficient improved geometric Goppa codes for disk memory systems and high-speed mass memory systems, and (4) a tree based approach for data compression using dynamic programming.

  15. Transformation of two and three-dimensional regions by elliptic systems

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    Mastin, C. Wayne

    1993-01-01

    During this contract period, our work has focused on improvements to elliptic grid generation methods. There are two principle objectives in this project. One objective is to make the elliptic methods more reliable and efficient, and the other is to construct a modular code that can be incorporated into the National Grid Project (NGP), or any other grid generation code. Progress has been made in meeting both of these objectives. The two objectives are actually complementary. As the code development for the NGP progresses, we see many areas where improvements in algorithms can be made.

  16. Evaluation and utilization of beam simulation codes for the SNS ion source and low energy beam transport developmenta)

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    Han, B. X.; Welton, R. F.; Stockli, M. P.; Luciano, N. P.; Carmichael, J. R.

    2008-02-01

    Beam simulation codes PBGUNS, SIMION, and LORENTZ-3D were evaluated by modeling the well-diagnosed SNS base line ion source and low energy beam transport (LEBT) system. Then, an investigation was conducted using these codes to assist our ion source and LEBT development effort which is directed at meeting the SNS operational and also the power-upgrade project goals. A high-efficiency H- extraction system as well as magnetic and electrostatic LEBT configurations capable of transporting up to 100mA is studied using these simulation tools.

  17. Zika Virus and Pregnancy

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  18. 22 CFR 1300.4 - Operations.

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    ... financial work for the Board. (b) Rules published in the Federal Register and codified in this title of the Code of Federal Regulations. (c) Meetings of the Board of Directors conducted pursuant to the...

  19. What variables affect public perceptions for EMS meeting general community needs?

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    Blau, Gary; Hochner, Arthur; Portwood, James

    2012-01-01

    In the fall, 2010, a phone survey of 928 respondents examined two research questions: does the general public perceive Emergency Medical Services (EMS) as meeting their community needs? And what factors or correlates help to explain EMS meeting community needs? To maximize geographical representation across the contiguous United States, a clustered stratified sampling strategy was used based upon zip codes across the 48 states. Results showed strong support by the sample for perceiving that EMS was meeting their general community needs. 17 percent of the variance in EMS meeting community needs was collectively explained by the demographic and perceptual variables in the regression model. Of the correlates tested, the strongest relationship was found between greater admiration for EMS professionals and higher perception of EMS meeting community needs. Study limitations included sampling households with only landline (no cell) phones, using a simulated emergency situation, and not collecting gender data.

  20. Team Software Development for Aerothermodynamic and Aerodynamic Analysis and Design

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    Alexandrov, N.; Atkins, H. L.; Bibb, K. L.; Biedron, R. T.; Carpenter, M. H.; Gnoffo, P. A.; Hammond, D. P.; Jones, W. T.; Kleb, W. L.; Lee-Rausch, E. M.

    2003-01-01

    A collaborative approach to software development is described. The approach employs the agile development techniques: project retrospectives, Scrum status meetings, and elements of Extreme Programming to efficiently develop a cohesive and extensible software suite. The software product under development is a fluid dynamics simulator for performing aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic analysis and design. The functionality of the software product is achieved both through the merging, with substantial rewrite, of separate legacy codes and the authorship of new routines. Examples of rapid implementation of new functionality demonstrate the benefits obtained with this agile software development process. The appendix contains a discussion of coding issues encountered while porting legacy Fortran 77 code to Fortran 95, software design principles, and a Fortran 95 coding standard.

  1. 77 FR 22846 - Notice of Meeting

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    ... States Code, as provided in subsection 1706(h)(3) of the United States Institute of Peace Act, Public Law... Management, Budget and Congress; Audit and Finance Committee FY 2011 Audit Report; National Peace Essay...

  2. Designing to Meet New Requirements of Differing Services.

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    Mathers, Andrew S.

    1982-01-01

    Characterizing "older library buildings" as those built prior to 1960, this article discusses special problems and challenges for the librarian and architect renovator, including building codes and new requirements of differing services. (EJS)

  3. 75 FR 3272 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

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  4. Coding for effective denial management.

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    Miller, Jackie; Lineberry, Joe

    2004-01-01

    Nearly everyone will agree that accurate and consistent coding of diagnoses and procedures is the cornerstone for operating a compliant practice. The CPT or HCPCS procedure code tells the payor what service was performed and also (in most cases) determines the amount of payment. The ICD-9-CM diagnosis code, on the other hand, tells the payor why the service was performed. If the diagnosis code does not meet the payor's criteria for medical necessity, all payment for the service will be denied. Implementation of an effective denial management program can help "stop the bleeding." Denial management is a comprehensive process that works in two ways. First, it evaluates the cause of denials and takes steps to prevent them. Second, denial management creates specific procedures for refiling or appealing claims that are initially denied. Accurate, consistent and compliant coding is key to both of these functions. The process of proactively managing claim denials also reveals a practice's administrative strengths and weaknesses, enabling radiology business managers to streamline processes, eliminate duplicated efforts and shift a larger proportion of the staff's focus from paperwork to servicing patients--all of which are sure to enhance operations and improve practice management and office morale. Accurate coding requires a program of ongoing training and education in both CPT and ICD-9-CM coding. Radiology business managers must make education a top priority for their coding staff. Front office staff, technologists and radiologists should also be familiar with the types of information needed for accurate coding. A good staff training program will also cover the proper use of Advance Beneficiary Notices (ABNs). Registration and coding staff should understand how to determine whether the patient's clinical history meets criteria for Medicare coverage, and how to administer an ABN if the exam is likely to be denied. Staff should also understand the restrictions on use of ABNs and the compliance risks associated with improper use. Finally, training programs should include routine audits to monitor coders for competence and precision. Constantly changing codes and guidelines mean that a coder's skills can quickly become obsolete if not reinforced by ongoing training and monitoring. Comprehensive reporting and routine analysis of claim denials is without a doubt one of the greatest assets to a practice that is suffering from excessive claim denials and should be considered an investment capable of providing both short and long term ROIs. Some radiologists may lack the funding or human resources needed to implement truly effective coding programs for their staff members. In these circumstances, radiology business managers should consider outsourcing their coding.

  5. 77 FR 61046 - Notice of Meeting of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Small and Minority Business (ITAC-11)

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    ... Committee on Small and Minority Business (ITAC-11) AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative... Minority Business (ITAC-11) will hold a meeting on Monday, October 15, 2012, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m..., Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement. [FR Doc. 2012-24680 Filed 10-4-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3290-F3-P ...

  6. Current and Future Applications of Mechanical Fasteners for Light-Frame Wood Structures: Proceedings of Mechanical Fasteners Plenary Session at the Forest Products Research Society Annual Meeting

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    Leslie H. Groom; [Compiler

    1993-01-01

    The title of this publication-"Current and Future Applications of Mechanical Fasteners for Light-Frame Wood Structures" is the theme of this plenary session from the 1991 annual meeting of the Forest Products Research Society (FPRS). This theme was chosen to address current issues in the forest products industry: changing design codes, fastener performance,...

  7. Software Certification - Coding, Code, and Coders

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    Havelund, Klaus; Holzmann, Gerard J.

    2011-01-01

    We describe a certification approach for software development that has been adopted at our organization. JPL develops robotic spacecraft for the exploration of the solar system. The flight software that controls these spacecraft is considered to be mission critical. We argue that the goal of a software certification process cannot be the development of "perfect" software, i.e., software that can be formally proven to be correct under all imaginable and unimaginable circumstances. More realistically, the goal is to guarantee a software development process that is conducted by knowledgeable engineers, who follow generally accepted procedures to control known risks, while meeting agreed upon standards of workmanship. We target three specific issues that must be addressed in such a certification procedure: the coding process, the code that is developed, and the skills of the coders. The coding process is driven by standards (e.g., a coding standard) and tools. The code is mechanically checked against the standard with the help of state-of-the-art static source code analyzers. The coders, finally, are certified in on-site training courses that include formal exams.

  8. A Large Scale Code Resolution Service Network in the Internet of Things

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    Yu, Haining; Zhang, Hongli; Fang, Binxing; Yu, Xiangzhan

    2012-01-01

    In the Internet of Things a code resolution service provides a discovery mechanism for a requester to obtain the information resources associated with a particular product code immediately. In large scale application scenarios a code resolution service faces some serious issues involving heterogeneity, big data and data ownership. A code resolution service network is required to address these issues. Firstly, a list of requirements for the network architecture and code resolution services is proposed. Secondly, in order to eliminate code resolution conflicts and code resolution overloads, a code structure is presented to create a uniform namespace for code resolution records. Thirdly, we propose a loosely coupled distributed network consisting of heterogeneous, independent; collaborating code resolution services and a SkipNet based code resolution service named SkipNet-OCRS, which not only inherits DHT's advantages, but also supports administrative control and autonomy. For the external behaviors of SkipNet-OCRS, a novel external behavior mode named QRRA mode is proposed to enhance security and reduce requester complexity. For the internal behaviors of SkipNet-OCRS, an improved query algorithm is proposed to increase query efficiency. It is analyzed that integrating SkipNet-OCRS into our resolution service network can meet our proposed requirements. Finally, simulation experiments verify the excellent performance of SkipNet-OCRS. PMID:23202207

  9. A large scale code resolution service network in the Internet of Things.

    PubMed

    Yu, Haining; Zhang, Hongli; Fang, Binxing; Yu, Xiangzhan

    2012-11-07

    In the Internet of Things a code resolution service provides a discovery mechanism for a requester to obtain the information resources associated with a particular product code immediately. In large scale application scenarios a code resolution service faces some serious issues involving heterogeneity, big data and data ownership. A code resolution service network is required to address these issues. Firstly, a list of requirements for the network architecture and code resolution services is proposed. Secondly, in order to eliminate code resolution conflicts and code resolution overloads, a code structure is presented to create a uniform namespace for code resolution records. Thirdly, we propose a loosely coupled distributed network consisting of heterogeneous, independent; collaborating code resolution services and a SkipNet based code resolution service named SkipNet-OCRS, which not only inherits DHT’s advantages, but also supports administrative control and autonomy. For the external behaviors of SkipNet-OCRS, a novel external behavior mode named QRRA mode is proposed to enhance security and reduce requester complexity. For the internal behaviors of SkipNet-OCRS, an improved query algorithm is proposed to increase query efficiency. It is analyzed that integrating SkipNet-OCRS into our resolution service network can meet our proposed requirements. Finally, simulation experiments verify the excellent performance of SkipNet-OCRS.

  10. SU-A-210-04: Panel Discussion

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

    Stanford, J.

    The purpose of this student annual meeting is to address topics that are becoming more relevant to medical physicists, but are not frequently addressed, especially for students and trainees just entering the field. The talk is divided into two parts: medical billing and regulations. Hsinshun Wu – Why should we learn radiation oncology billing? Many medical physicists do not like to be involved with medical billing or coding during their career. They believe billing is not their responsibility and sometimes they even refuse to participate in the billing process if given the chance. This presentation will talk about a physicist’smore » long career and share his own experience that knowing medical billing is not only important and necessary for every young medical physicist, but that good billing knowledge could provide a valuable contribution to his/her medical physics development. Learning Objectives: The audience will learn the basic definition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes performed in a Radiation Oncology Department. Understand the differences between hospital coding and physician-based or freestanding coding. Apply proper CPT coding for each Radiation Oncology procedure. Each procedure with its specific CPT code will be discussed in detail. The talk will focus on the process of care and use of actual workflow to understand each CPT code. Example coding of a typical Radiation Oncology procedure. Special procedure coding such as brachytherapy, proton therapy, radiosurgery, and SBRT. Maryann Abogunde – Medical physics opportunities at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) The NRC’s responsibilities include the regulation of medical uses of byproduct (radioactive) materials and oversight of medical use end-users (licensees) through a combination of regulatory requirements, licensing, safety oversight including inspection and enforcement, operational experience evaluation, and regulatory support activities. This presentation will explore the career options for medical physicists in the NRC, how the NRC interacts with clinical medical physicists, and a physicist’s experience as a regulator. Learning Objectives: Explore non-clinical career pathways for medical physics students and trainees at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Overview of NRC medical applications and medical use regulations. Understand the skills needed for physicists as regulators. Abogunde is funded to attend the meeting by her employer, the NRC.« less

  11. SU-A-210-03: Panel Discussion

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    Rodrigues, A.

    The purpose of this student annual meeting is to address topics that are becoming more relevant to medical physicists, but are not frequently addressed, especially for students and trainees just entering the field. The talk is divided into two parts: medical billing and regulations. Hsinshun Wu – Why should we learn radiation oncology billing? Many medical physicists do not like to be involved with medical billing or coding during their career. They believe billing is not their responsibility and sometimes they even refuse to participate in the billing process if given the chance. This presentation will talk about a physicist’smore » long career and share his own experience that knowing medical billing is not only important and necessary for every young medical physicist, but that good billing knowledge could provide a valuable contribution to his/her medical physics development. Learning Objectives: The audience will learn the basic definition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes performed in a Radiation Oncology Department. Understand the differences between hospital coding and physician-based or freestanding coding. Apply proper CPT coding for each Radiation Oncology procedure. Each procedure with its specific CPT code will be discussed in detail. The talk will focus on the process of care and use of actual workflow to understand each CPT code. Example coding of a typical Radiation Oncology procedure. Special procedure coding such as brachytherapy, proton therapy, radiosurgery, and SBRT. Maryann Abogunde – Medical physics opportunities at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) The NRC’s responsibilities include the regulation of medical uses of byproduct (radioactive) materials and oversight of medical use end-users (licensees) through a combination of regulatory requirements, licensing, safety oversight including inspection and enforcement, operational experience evaluation, and regulatory support activities. This presentation will explore the career options for medical physicists in the NRC, how the NRC interacts with clinical medical physicists, and a physicist’s experience as a regulator. Learning Objectives: Explore non-clinical career pathways for medical physics students and trainees at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Overview of NRC medical applications and medical use regulations. Understand the skills needed for physicists as regulators. Abogunde is funded to attend the meeting by her employer, the NRC.« less

  12. Members of the Science and Technology Partnership Forum Listen to a Presentation about In-Space Assembly and Satellite Servicing

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    2017-09-06

    WASHINGTON, D.C.---S&T Partnership Forum In-Space Assembly Technical Interchange Meeting-On September 6th 2017, many of the United States government experts on In-Space Assembly met at the U.S. Naval Research Lab to discuss both technology development and in-space applications that would advance national capabilities in this area. Expertise from NASA, USAF, NRO, DARPA and NRL met in this meeting which was coordinated by the NASA Headquarters, Office of the Chief Technologist. This technical interchange meeting was the second meeting of the members of this Science and Technology Partnership Forum. Glen Henshaw of Code 8231 talks to the group in the Space Robotics Lab.

  13. 76 FR 70703 - Senior Executive Service: Membership of Performance Review Board

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  14. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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  15. 76 FR 63612 - National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation Meeting

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  16. 76 FR 30184 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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  17. 15 CFR 734.9 - Educational information.

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    ...)). Note that the provisions of this section do not apply to encryption software classified under ECCN... under ECCN 5D002 when the corresponding source code meets the criteria specified in § 740.13(e) of the...

  18. 77 FR 545 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision

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  19. 75 FR 82129 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

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    ... consequential amendments; -- Application of the requirements for the carriage of bio-fuels and bio-fuel blends... through bio-fouling of ships; -- Revision of the IGC Code; -- Review of relevant non-mandatory instruments...

  20. Proceedings of the 21st DOE/NRC Nuclear Air Cleaning Conference; Sessions 1--8

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    First, M.W.

    1991-02-01

    Separate abstracts have been prepared for the papers presented at the meeting on nuclear facility air cleaning technology in the following specific areas of interest: air cleaning technologies for the management and disposal of radioactive wastes; Canadian waste management program; radiological health effects models for nuclear power plant accident consequence analysis; filter testing; US standard codes on nuclear air and gas treatment; European community nuclear codes and standards; chemical processing off-gas cleaning; incineration and vitrification; adsorbents; nuclear codes and standards; mathematical modeling techniques; filter technology; safety; containment system venting; and nuclear air cleaning programs around the world. (MB)

  1. Collaborative Software Development in Support of Fast Adaptive AeroSpace Tools (FAAST)

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    Kleb, William L.; Nielsen, Eric J.; Gnoffo, Peter A.; Park, Michael A.; Wood, William A.

    2003-01-01

    A collaborative software development approach is described. The software product is an adaptation of proven computational capabilities combined with new capabilities to form the Agency's next generation aerothermodynamic and aerodynamic analysis and design tools. To efficiently produce a cohesive, robust, and extensible software suite, the approach uses agile software development techniques; specifically, project retrospectives, the Scrum status meeting format, and a subset of Extreme Programming's coding practices are employed. Examples are provided which demonstrate the substantial benefits derived from employing these practices. Also included is a discussion of issues encountered when porting legacy Fortran 77 code to Fortran 95 and a Fortran 95 coding standard.

  2. Safety and health in the construction of fixed offshore installations in the petroleum industry

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    Not Available

    1981-01-01

    A meeting convened by the ILO (International Labor Office) on safety problems in the offshore petroleum industry recommended the preparation of a code of practice setting out standards for safety and health during the construction of fixed offshore installations. Such a code, to be prepared by the ILO in co-operation with other bodies, including the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation (IMCO), was to take into consideration existing standards applicable to offshore construction activities and to supplement the ILO codes of practice on safety and health in building and civil engineering work, shipbuilding and ship repairing. (Copyright (c) International Labour Organisation 1981.)

  3. Friendly Extensible Transfer Tool Beta Version

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    Collins, William P.; Gutierrez, Kenneth M.; McRee, Susan R.

    2016-04-15

    Often data transfer software is designed to meet specific requirements or apply to specific environments. Frequently, this requires source code integration for added functionality. An extensible data transfer framework is needed to more easily incorporate new capabilities, in modular fashion. Using FrETT framework, functionality may be incorporated (in many cases without need of source code) to handle new platform capabilities: I/O methods (e.g., platform specific data access), network transport methods, data processing (e.g., data compression.).

  4. Assessing Potential Energy Cost Savings from Increased Energy Code Compliance in Commercial Buildings

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    Rosenberg, Michael I.; Hart, Philip R.; Athalye, Rahul A.

    The US Department of Energy’s most recent commercial energy code compliance evaluation efforts focused on determining a percent compliance rating for states to help them meet requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. That approach included a checklist of code requirements, each of which was graded pass or fail. Percent compliance for any given building was simply the percent of individual requirements that passed. With its binary approach to compliance determination, the previous methodology failed to answer some important questions. In particular, how much energy cost could be saved by better compliance with the commercial energymore » code and what are the relative priorities of code requirements from an energy cost savings perspective? This paper explores an analytical approach and pilot study using a single building type and climate zone to answer those questions.« less

  5. Comparing Turbulence Simulation with Experiment in DIII-D

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    Ross, D. W.; Bravenec, R. V.; Dorland, W.; Beer, M. A.; Hammett, G. W.; McKee, G. R.; Murakami, M.; Jackson, G. L.

    2000-10-01

    Gyrofluid simulations of DIII-D discharges with the GRYFFIN code(D. W. Ross et al.), Transport Task Force Workshop, Burlington, VT, (2000). are compared with transport and fluctuation measurements. The evolution of confinement-improved discharges(G. R. McKee et al.), Phys. Plasmas 7, 1870 (200) is studied at early times following impurity injection, when EXB rotational shear plays a small role. The ion thermal transport predicted by the code is consistent with the experimental values. Experimentally, changes in density profiles resulting from the injection of neon, lead to reduction in fluctuation levels and transport following the injection. This triggers subsequent changes in the shearing rate that further reduce the turbulence.(M. Murakami et al.), European Physical Society, Budapest (2000); M. Murakami et al., this meeting. Estimated uncertainties in the plasma profiles, however, make it difficult to simulate these reductions with the code. These cases will also be studied with the GS2 gyrokinetic code.

  6. CMCpy: Genetic Code-Message Coevolution Models in Python

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    Becich, Peter J.; Stark, Brian P.; Bhat, Harish S.; Ardell, David H.

    2013-01-01

    Code-message coevolution (CMC) models represent coevolution of a genetic code and a population of protein-coding genes (“messages”). Formally, CMC models are sets of quasispecies coupled together for fitness through a shared genetic code. Although CMC models display plausible explanations for the origin of multiple genetic code traits by natural selection, useful modern implementations of CMC models are not currently available. To meet this need we present CMCpy, an object-oriented Python API and command-line executable front-end that can reproduce all published results of CMC models. CMCpy implements multiple solvers for leading eigenpairs of quasispecies models. We also present novel analytical results that extend and generalize applications of perturbation theory to quasispecies models and pioneer the application of a homotopy method for quasispecies with non-unique maximally fit genotypes. Our results therefore facilitate the computational and analytical study of a variety of evolutionary systems. CMCpy is free open-source software available from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CMCpy/. PMID:23532367

  7. CACTI: free, open-source software for the sequential coding of behavioral interactions.

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    Glynn, Lisa H; Hallgren, Kevin A; Houck, Jon M; Moyers, Theresa B

    2012-01-01

    The sequential analysis of client and clinician speech in psychotherapy sessions can help to identify and characterize potential mechanisms of treatment and behavior change. Previous studies required coding systems that were time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone. Existing software can be expensive and inflexible, and furthermore, no single package allows for pre-parsing, sequential coding, and assignment of global ratings. We developed a free, open-source, and adaptable program to meet these needs: The CASAA Application for Coding Treatment Interactions (CACTI). Without transcripts, CACTI facilitates the real-time sequential coding of behavioral interactions using WAV-format audio files. Most elements of the interface are user-modifiable through a simple XML file, and can be further adapted using Java through the terms of the GNU Public License. Coding with this software yields interrater reliabilities comparable to previous methods, but at greatly reduced time and expense. CACTI is a flexible research tool that can simplify psychotherapy process research, and has the potential to contribute to the improvement of treatment content and delivery.

  8. Recent Progress in the Development of a Multi-Layer Green's Function Code for Ion Beam Transport

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    Tweed, John; Walker, Steven A.; Wilson, John W.; Tripathi, Ram K.

    2008-01-01

    To meet the challenge of future deep space programs, an accurate and efficient engineering code for analyzing the shielding requirements against high-energy galactic heavy radiation is needed. To address this need, a new Green's function code capable of simulating high charge and energy ions with either laboratory or space boundary conditions is currently under development. The computational model consists of combinations of physical perturbation expansions based on the scales of atomic interaction, multiple scattering, and nuclear reactive processes with use of the Neumann-asymptotic expansions with non-perturbative corrections. The code contains energy loss due to straggling, nuclear attenuation, nuclear fragmentation with energy dispersion and downshifts. Previous reports show that the new code accurately models the transport of ion beams through a single slab of material. Current research efforts are focused on enabling the code to handle multiple layers of material and the present paper reports on progress made towards that end.

  9. Development of a three-dimensional transient code for reactivity-initiated events of BWRs (boiling water reactors) - Models and code verifications

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    Uematsu, Hitoshi; Yamamoto, Toru; Izutsu, Sadayuki

    1990-06-01

    A reactivity-initiated event is a design-basis accident for the safety analysis of boiling water reactors. It is defined as a rapid transient of reactor power caused by a reactivity insertion of over $1.0 due to a postulated drop or abnormal withdrawal of the control rod from the core. Strong space-dependent feedback effects are associated with the local power increase due to control rod movement. A realistic treatment of the core status in a transient by a code with a detailed core model is recommended in evaluating this event. A three-dimensional transient code, ARIES, has been developed to meet this need.more » The code simulates the event with three-dimensional neutronics, coupled with multichannel thermal hydraulics, based on a nonequilibrium separated flow model. The experimental data obtained in reactivity accident tests performed with the SPERT III-E core are used to verify the entire code, including thermal-hydraulic models.« less

  10. Capabilities needed for the next generation of thermo-hydraulic codes for use in real time applications

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    Arndt, S.A.

    1997-07-01

    The real-time reactor simulation field is currently at a crossroads in terms of the capability to perform real-time analysis using the most sophisticated computer codes. Current generation safety analysis codes are being modified to replace simplified codes that were specifically designed to meet the competing requirement for real-time applications. The next generation of thermo-hydraulic codes will need to have included in their specifications the specific requirement for use in a real-time environment. Use of the codes in real-time applications imposes much stricter requirements on robustness, reliability and repeatability than do design and analysis applications. In addition, the need for codemore » use by a variety of users is a critical issue for real-time users, trainers and emergency planners who currently use real-time simulation, and PRA practitioners who will increasingly use real-time simulation for evaluating PRA success criteria in near real-time to validate PRA results for specific configurations and plant system unavailabilities.« less

  11. An Integrated Magnetic Circuit Model and Finite Element Model Approach to Magnetic Bearing Design

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    Provenza, Andrew J.; Kenny, Andrew; Palazzolo, Alan B.

    2003-01-01

    A code for designing magnetic bearings is described. The code generates curves from magnetic circuit equations relating important bearing performance parameters. Bearing parameters selected from the curves by a designer to meet the requirements of a particular application are input directly by the code into a three-dimensional finite element analysis preprocessor. This means that a three-dimensional computer model of the bearing being developed is immediately available for viewing. The finite element model solution can be used to show areas of magnetic saturation and make more accurate predictions of the bearing load capacity, current stiffness, position stiffness, and inductance than the magnetic circuit equations did at the start of the design process. In summary, the code combines one-dimensional and three-dimensional modeling methods for designing magnetic bearings.

  12. The new CMSS code for interactions with companies managing relationships to minimize conflicts.

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    Kahn, Norman B; Lichter, Allen S

    2011-09-01

    Conflicts of interest in medicine have received significant attention in recent years, through the public and professional media, federal and state governments, and through a 2009 report of the Institute of Medicine on Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education and Practice. The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) Code for Interactions with Companies was adopted by the CMSS in April 2010. The Code guides specialty societies in the profession of medicine in ethical relationships between societies and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The Code serves to protect and promote the independence of specialty societies and their leaders in corporate sponsorships, licensing, advertising, society meetings, exhibits, educational programs, journals, clinical practice guidelines, and research. Copyright © 2011 Society for Vascular Surgery. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.

  13. Preface.

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    Ditlevsen, Susanne; Lansky, Petr

    2016-06-01

    This Special Issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering contains 11 selected papers presented at the Neural Coding 2014 workshop. The workshop was held in the royal city of Versailles in France, October 6-10, 2014. This was the 11th of a series of international workshops on this subject, the first held in Prague (1995), then Versailles (1997), Osaka (1999), Plymouth (2001), Aulla (2003), Marburg (2005), Montevideo (2007), Tainan (2009), Limassol (2010), and again in Prague (2012). Also selected papers from Prague were published as a special issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering and in this way a tradition was started. Similarly to the previous workshops, this was a single track multidisciplinary event bringing together experimental and computational neuroscientists. The Neural Coding Workshops are traditionally biennial symposia. They are relatively small in size, interdisciplinary with major emphasis on the search for common principles in neural coding. The workshop was conceived to bring together scientists from different disciplines for an in-depth discussion of mathematical model-building and computational strategies. Further information on the meeting can be found at the NC2014 website at https://colloque6.inra.fr/neural_coding_2014. The meeting was supported by French National Institute for Agricultural Research, the world's leading institution in this field. This Special Issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering contains 11 selected papers presented at the Neural Coding 2014 workshop. The workshop was held in the royal city of Versailles in France, October 6-10, 2014. This was the 11th of a series of international workshops on this subject, the first held in Prague (1995), then Versailles (1997), Osaka (1999), Plymouth (2001), Aulla (2003), Marburg (2005), Montevideo (2007), Tainan (2009), Limassol (2010), and again in Prague (2012). Also selected papers from Prague were published as a special issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering and in this way a tradition was started. Similarly to the previous workshops, this was a single track multidisciplinary event bringing together experimental and computational neuroscientists. The Neural Coding Workshops are traditionally biennial symposia. They are relatively small in size, interdisciplinary with major emphasis on the search for common principles in neural coding. The workshop was conceived to bring together scientists from different disciplines for an in-depth discussion of mathematical model-building and computational strategies. Further information on the meeting can be found at the NC2014 website at https://colloque6.inra.fr/neural_coding_2014. The meeting was supported by French National Institute for Agricultural Research, the world's leading institution in this field. Understanding how the brain processes information is one of the most challenging subjects in neuroscience. The papers presented in this special issue show a small corner of the huge diversity of this field, and illustrate how scientists with different backgrounds approach this vast subject. The diversity of disciplines engaged in these investigations is remarkable: biologists, mathematicians, physicists, psychologists, computer scientists, and statisticians, all have original tools and ideas by which to try to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. In this issue, emphasis is put on mathematical modeling of single neurons. A variety of problems in computational neuroscience accompanied with a rich diversity of mathematical tools and approaches are presented. We hope it will inspire and challenge the readers in their own research. We would like to thank the authors for their valuable contributions and the referees for their priceless effort of reviewing the manuscripts. Finally, we would like to thank Yang Kuang for supporting us and making this publication possible.

  14. Characterizing the effects of intermittent faults on a processor for dependability enhancement strategy.

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    Wang, Chao Saul; Fu, Zhong-Chuan; Chen, Hong-Song; Wang, Dong-Sheng

    2014-01-01

    As semiconductor technology scales into the nanometer regime, intermittent faults have become an increasing threat. This paper focuses on the effects of intermittent faults on NET versus REG on one hand and the implications for dependability strategy on the other. First, the vulnerability characteristics of representative units in OpenSPARC T2 are revealed, and in particular, the highly sensitive modules are identified. Second, an arch-level dependability enhancement strategy is proposed, showing that events such as core/strand running status and core-memory interface events can be candidates of detectable symptoms. A simple watchdog can be deployed to detect application running status (IEXE event). Then SDC (silent data corruption) rate is evaluated demonstrating its potential. Third and last, the effects of traditional protection schemes in the target CMT to intermittent faults are quantitatively studied on behalf of the contribution of each trap type, demonstrating the necessity of taking this factor into account for the strategy.

  15. Reducing youth exposure to alcohol ads: targeting public transit.

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    Simon, Michele

    2008-07-01

    Underage drinking is a major public health problem. Youth drink more heavily than adults and are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of alcohol. Previous research has demonstrated the connection between alcohol advertising and underage drinking. Restricting outdoor advertising in general and transit ads in particular, represents an important opportunity to reduce youth exposure. To address this problem, the Marin Institute, an alcohol industry watchdog group in Northern California, conducted a survey of alcohol ads on San Francisco bus shelters. The survey received sufficient media attention to lead the billboard company, CBS Outdoor, into taking down the ads. Marin Institute also surveyed the 25 largest transit agencies; results showed that 75 percent of responding agencies currently have policies that ban alcohol advertising. However, as the experience in San Francisco demonstrated, having a policy on paper does not necessarily mean it is being followed. Communities must be diligent in holding accountable government officials, the alcohol industry, and the media companies through which advertising occurs.

  16. Reducing Youth Exposure to Alcohol Ads: Targeting Public Transit

    PubMed Central

    2008-01-01

    Underage drinking is a major public health problem. Youth drink more heavily than adults and are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of alcohol. Previous research has demonstrated the connection between alcohol advertising and underage drinking. Restricting outdoor advertising in general and transit ads in particular, represents an important opportunity to reduce youth exposure. To address this problem, the Marin Institute, an alcohol industry watchdog group in Northern California, conducted a survey of alcohol ads on San Francisco bus shelters. The survey received sufficient media attention to lead the billboard company, CBS Outdoor, into taking down the ads. Marin Institute also surveyed the 25 largest transit agencies; results showed that 75 percent of responding agencies currently have policies that ban alcohol advertising. However, as the experience in San Francisco demonstrated, having a policy on paper does not necessarily mean it is being followed. Communities must be diligent in holding accountable government officials, the alcohol industry, and the media companies through which advertising occurs. PMID:18389374

  17. 2007 international meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR). Abstracts and available papers presented at the meeting

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    NONE

    2008-07-15

    The Meeting papers discuss research and test reactor fuel performance, manufacturing and testing. Some of the main topics are: conversion from HEU to LEU in different reactors and corresponding problems and activities; flux performance and core lifetime analysis with HEU and LEU fuels; physics and safety characteristics; measurement of gamma field parameters in core with LEU fuel; nondestructive analysis of RERTR fuel; thermal hydraulic analysis; fuel interactions; transient analyses and thermal hydraulics for HEU and LEU cores; microstructure research reactor fuels; post irradiation analysis and performance; computer codes and other related problems.

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  1. 77 FR 4059 - Meeting of the California Desert District Advisory Council

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  4. On-board attitude determination for the Explorer Platform satellite

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    Jayaraman, C.; Class, B.

    1992-01-01

    This paper describes the attitude determination algorithm for the Explorer Platform satellite. The algorithm, which is baselined on the Landsat code, is a six-element linear quadratic state estimation processor, in the form of a Kalman filter augmented by an adaptive filter process. Improvements to the original Landsat algorithm were required to meet mission pointing requirements. These consisted of a more efficient sensor processing algorithm and the addition of an adaptive filter which acts as a check on the Kalman filter during satellite slew maneuvers. A 1750A processor will be flown on board the satellite for the first time as a coprocessor (COP) in addition to the NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer. The attitude determination algorithm, which will be resident in the COP's memory, will make full use of its improved processing capabilities to meet mission requirements. Additional benefits were gained by writing the attitude determination code in Ada.

  5. Violations of exhibiting and FDA rules at an American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

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    Lurie, Peter; Tran, Tung; Wolfe, Sidney Manuel; Goodman, Robert

    2005-12-01

    We conducted a cross-sectional study of all exhibit booths for the 24 pharmaceutical companies at the 2002 American Psychiatric Association (APA) convention. We collected and categorized one of each item distributed by the companies at each booth. A total of 268 items were collected from 24 companies (median=8). The most common categories of items were "reprints or pamphlets" (37%) and "noneducational gifts" (27%), including music CDs and invitations to dinners and museums. There were a total of 16 violations of the APA's own exhibit rules: eight companies had one violation and two companies had four violations. Four companies engaged in FDA-prohibited off-label promotion; one also violated the APA code. Over half of all companies (54%) were in violation of either APA rules or FDA regulations. The APA's voluntary code has failed to adequately reduce inappropriate promotional activity at the annual APA meeting.

  6. BeiDou Signal Acquisition with Neumann–Hoffman Code Modulation in a Degraded Channel

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    Zhao, Lin; Liu, Aimeng; Ding, Jicheng; Wang, Jing

    2017-01-01

    With the modernization of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), secondary codes, also known as the Neumann–Hoffman (NH) codes, are modulated on the satellite signal to obtain a better positioning performance. However, this leads to an attenuation of the acquisition sensitivity of classic integration algorithms because of the frequent bit transitions that refer to the NH codes. Taking weak BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) signals as objects, the present study analyzes the side effect of NH codes on acquisition in detail and derives a straightforward formula, which indicates that bit transitions decrease the frequency accuracy. To meet the requirement of carrier-tracking loop initialization, a frequency recalculation algorithm is proposed based on verified fast Fourier transform (FFT) to mitigate the effect, meanwhile, the starting point of NH codes is found. Then, a differential correction is utilized to improve the acquisition accuracy of code phase. Monte Carlo simulations and real BDS data tests demonstrate that the new structure is superior to the conventional algorithms both in detection probability and frequency accuracy in a degraded channel. PMID:28208776

  7. An analytical procedure and automated computer code used to design model nozzles which meet MSFC base pressure similarity parameter criteria. [space shuttle

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    Sulyma, P. R.

    1980-01-01

    Fundamental equations and similarity definition and application are described as well as the computational steps of a computer program developed to design model nozzles for wind tunnel tests conducted to define power-on aerodynamic characteristics of the space shuttle over a range of ascent trajectory conditions. The computer code capabilities, a user's guide for the model nozzle design program, and the output format are examined. A program listing is included.

  8. Uncertainties of Optical Parameters and Their Propagations in an Analytical Ocean Color Inversion Algorithm

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    2010-01-20

    34’/ Office of Counsel,Code 1008.3 .( 41 «, • ADOR/Director NCST E. R. Franchi , 7000 Public Affairs (Unclassified/ Unlimited Only), Code 703o...satellite remote sensors are indispensable. To meet this requirement, systematic observations of the biogeochemical prop- erties of global oceans through...average a(550)qAA of each group) for the various a(550) groups. For O(550)QAA < 0.1 m" 1, which covers ~95% of global waters (Bryan Franz, personal com

  9. Proceedings of Workshop 15 of the COSPAR Meetings Held in Toulouse, France on 30 June-12 July 1986. Chapter 2. Reference Atmospheres and Thermospheric Mapping,

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    1988-01-21

    DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY OF REPORT Approved for public release; 2b. DECLASSIFICATION /’DOWNGRADING SCHEDULE Distribution unlimited 4. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION ...REPORT NUMBER(S) 5. MONITORING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER(S) AFGL-TR-88-0016 6a, NAME OF PERFORMING ORGANIZATION 6b. OFFICE SYMBOL 7a. NAME OF...MONITORING ORGANIZATION Air Force Geophysics (If applicable) Laboratory I oc. ADDRESS (City, State, and ZIP Code) 7b ADDRESS (City, Stare, and ZIP Code

  10. Workshop on Models for Plasma Spectroscopy

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    1993-09-01

    A meeting was held at St. Johns College, Oxford from Monday 27th to Thursday 30th of September 1993 to bring together a group of physicists working on computational modelling of plasma spectroscopy. The group came from the UK, France, Israel and the USA. The meeting was organized by myself, Dr. Steven Rose of RAL and Dr. R.W. Lee of LLNL. It was funded by the U.S. European Office of Aerospace Research and Development and by LLNL. The meeting grew out of a wish by a group of core participants to make available to practicing plasma physicists (particularly those engaged in the design and analysis of experiments) sophisticated numerical models of plasma physics. Additional plasma physicists attended the meeting in Oxford by invitation. These were experimentalists and users of plasma physics simulation codes whose input to the meeting was to advise the core group as to what was really needed.

  11. Support for Systematic Code Reviews with the SCRUB Tool

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    Holzmann, Gerald J.

    2010-01-01

    SCRUB is a code review tool that supports both large, team-based software development efforts (e.g., for mission software) as well as individual tasks. The tool was developed at JPL to support a new, streamlined code review process that combines human-generated review reports with program-generated review reports from a customizable range of state-of-the-art source code analyzers. The leading commercial tools include Codesonar, Coverity, and Klocwork, each of which can achieve a reasonably low rate of false-positives in the warnings that they generate. The time required to analyze code with these tools can vary greatly. In each case, however, the tools produce results that would be difficult to realize with human code inspections alone. There is little overlap in the results produced by the different analyzers, and each analyzer used generally increases the effectiveness of the overall effort. The SCRUB tool allows all reports to be accessed through a single, uniform interface (see figure) that facilitates brows ing code and reports. Improvements over existing software include significant simplification, and leveraging of a range of commercial, static source code analyzers in a single, uniform framework. The tool runs as a small stand-alone application, avoiding the security problems related to tools based on Web browsers. A developer or reviewer, for instance, must have already obtained access rights to a code base before that code can be browsed and reviewed with the SCRUB tool. The tool cannot open any files or folders to which the user does not already have access. This means that the tool does not need to enforce or administer any additional security policies. The analysis results presented through the SCRUB tool s user interface are always computed off-line, given that, especially for larger projects, this computation can take longer than appropriate for interactive tool use. The recommended code review process that is supported by the SCRUB tool consists of three phases: Code Review, Developer Response, and Closeout Resolution. In the Code Review phase, all tool-based analysis reports are generated, and specific comments from expert code reviewers are entered into the SCRUB tool. In the second phase, Developer Response, the developer is asked to respond to each comment and tool-report that was produced, either agreeing or disagreeing to provide a fix that addresses the issue that was raised. In the third phase, Closeout Resolution, all disagreements are discussed in a meeting of all parties involved, and a resolution is made for all disagreements. The first two phases generally take one week each, and the third phase is concluded in a single closeout meeting.

  12. 76 FR 24862 - Meeting of a Federal Advisory Committee

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  16. Fronting Integrated Scientific Web Applications: Design Features and Benefits for Regulatory Environments

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  20. A Socio-Technical Analysis of Computer Application within the Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing.

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    1987-03-01

    IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ORGANIZATION j I applicable) SC ADDRE SS (City, State, and ZIP Code) 10 SOURCE OF FUNDING NUMBERS PROGRAM IPROjECT ITASK WORK .jNIr... currently being- used is not sufficient to meet all the needs of 14tii MAW , Z0 11YR’UTiON /AVAILABILITY Of ABSTRACT 21 ABSTRACT SECURITY...implementation process currently being used is not sufficient to meet all the needs of 4th MAW units. This study identifies alternatives necessary to

  1. Certification of medical librarians, 1949--1977 statistical analysis.

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    Schmidt, D

    1979-01-01

    The Medical Library Association's Code for Training and Certification of Medical Librarians was in effect from 1949 to August 1977, a period during which 3,216 individuals were certified. Statistics on each type of certificate granted each year are provided. Because 54.5% of those granted certification were awarded it in the last three-year, two-month period of the code's existence, these applications are reviewed in greater detail. Statistics on each type of certificate granted each year are provided. Because 54.5% of those granted certification were awarded it in the last three-year, two-month period of the code's existence, these applications are reviewed in greater detail. Statistics on MLA membership, sex, residence, library school, and method of meeting requirements are detailed. Questions relating to certification under the code now in existence are raised.

  2. Certification of medical librarians, 1949--1977 statistical analysis.

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    Schmidt, D

    1979-01-01

    The Medical Library Association's Code for Training and Certification of Medical Librarians was in effect from 1949 to August 1977, a period during which 3,216 individuals were certified. Statistics on each type of certificate granted each year are provided. Because 54.5% of those granted certification were awarded it in the last three-year, two-month period of the code's existence, these applications are reviewed in greater detail. Statistics on each type of certificate granted each year are provided. Because 54.5% of those granted certification were awarded it in the last three-year, two-month period of the code's existence, these applications are reviewed in greater detail. Statistics on MLA membership, sex, residence, library school, and method of meeting requirements are detailed. Questions relating to certification under the code now in existence are raised. PMID:427287

  3. Construction method of QC-LDPC codes based on multiplicative group of finite field in optical communication

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    Huang, Sheng; Ao, Xiang; Li, Yuan-yuan; Zhang, Rui

    2016-09-01

    In order to meet the needs of high-speed development of optical communication system, a construction method of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes based on multiplicative group of finite field is proposed. The Tanner graph of parity check matrix of the code constructed by this method has no cycle of length 4, and it can make sure that the obtained code can get a good distance property. Simulation results show that when the bit error rate ( BER) is 10-6, in the same simulation environment, the net coding gain ( NCG) of the proposed QC-LDPC(3 780, 3 540) code with the code rate of 93.7% in this paper is improved by 2.18 dB and 1.6 dB respectively compared with those of the RS(255, 239) code in ITU-T G.975 and the LDPC(3 2640, 3 0592) code in ITU-T G.975.1. In addition, the NCG of the proposed QC-LDPC(3 780, 3 540) code is respectively 0.2 dB and 0.4 dB higher compared with those of the SG-QC-LDPC(3 780, 3 540) code based on the two different subgroups in finite field and the AS-QC-LDPC(3 780, 3 540) code based on the two arbitrary sets of a finite field. Thus, the proposed QC-LDPC(3 780, 3 540) code in this paper can be well applied in optical communication systems.

  4. Time for change: a roadmap to guide the implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code 2015

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    Dvorak, Jiri; Baume, Norbert; Botré, Francesco; Broséus, Julian; Budgett, Richard; Frey, Walter O; Geyer, Hans; Harcourt, Peter Rex; Ho, Dave; Howman, David; Isola, Victor; Lundby, Carsten; Marclay, François; Peytavin, Annie; Pipe, Andrew; Pitsiladis, Yannis P; Reichel, Christian; Robinson, Neil; Rodchenkov, Grigory; Saugy, Martial; Sayegh, Souheil; Segura, Jordi; Thevis, Mario; Vernec, Alan; Viret, Marjolaine; Vouillamoz, Marc; Zorzoli, Mario

    2014-01-01

    A medical and scientific multidisciplinary consensus meeting was held from 29 to 30 November 2013 on Anti-Doping in Sport at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, to create a roadmap for the implementation of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. The consensus statement and accompanying papers set out the priorities for the antidoping community in research, science and medicine. The participants achieved consensus on a strategy for the implementation of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. Key components of this strategy include: (1) sport-specific risk assessment, (2) prevalence measurement, (3) sport-specific test distribution plans, (4) storage and reanalysis, (5) analytical challenges, (6) forensic intelligence, (7) psychological approach to optimise the most deterrent effect, (8) the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) and confounding factors, (9) data management system (Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS), (10) education, (11) research needs and necessary advances, (12) inadvertent doping and (13) management and ethics: biological data. True implementation of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code will depend largely on the ability to align thinking around these core concepts and strategies. FIFA, jointly with all other engaged International Federations of sports (Ifs), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), are ideally placed to lead transformational change with the unwavering support of the wider antidoping community. The outcome of the consensus meeting was the creation of the ad hoc Working Group charged with the responsibility of moving this agenda forward. PMID:24764550

  5. Validation of Framework Code Approach to a Life Prediction System for Fiber Reinforced Composites

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    Gravett, Phillip

    1997-01-01

    The grant was conducted by the MMC Life Prediction Cooperative, an industry/government collaborative team, Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI) acted as the prime contractor on behalf of the Cooperative for this grant effort. See Figure I for the organization and responsibilities of team members. The technical effort was conducted during the period August 7, 1995 to June 30, 1996 in cooperation with Erwin Zaretsky, the LERC Program Monitor. Phil Gravett of Pratt & Whitney was the principal technical investigator. Table I documents all meeting-related coordination memos during this period. The effort under this grant was closely coordinated with an existing USAF sponsored program focused on putting into practice a life prediction system for turbine engine components made of metal matrix composites (MMC). The overall architecture of the NMC life prediction system was defined in the USAF sponsored program (prior to this grant). The efforts of this grant were focussed on implementing and tailoring of the life prediction system, the framework code within it and the damage modules within it to meet the specific requirements of the Cooperative. T'he tailoring of the life prediction system provides the basis for pervasive and continued use of this capability by the industry/government cooperative. The outputs of this grant are: 1. Definition of the framework code to analysis modules interfaces, 2. Definition of the interface between the materials database and the finite element model, and 3. Definition of the integration of the framework code into an FEM design tool.

  6. Time for change: a roadmap to guide the implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code 2015.

    PubMed

    Dvorak, Jiri; Baume, Norbert; Botré, Francesco; Broséus, Julian; Budgett, Richard; Frey, Walter O; Geyer, Hans; Harcourt, Peter Rex; Ho, Dave; Howman, David; Isola, Victor; Lundby, Carsten; Marclay, François; Peytavin, Annie; Pipe, Andrew; Pitsiladis, Yannis P; Reichel, Christian; Robinson, Neil; Rodchenkov, Grigory; Saugy, Martial; Sayegh, Souheil; Segura, Jordi; Thevis, Mario; Vernec, Alan; Viret, Marjolaine; Vouillamoz, Marc; Zorzoli, Mario

    2014-05-01

    A medical and scientific multidisciplinary consensus meeting was held from 29 to 30 November 2013 on Anti-Doping in Sport at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, to create a roadmap for the implementation of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. The consensus statement and accompanying papers set out the priorities for the antidoping community in research, science and medicine. The participants achieved consensus on a strategy for the implementation of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. Key components of this strategy include: (1) sport-specific risk assessment, (2) prevalence measurement, (3) sport-specific test distribution plans, (4) storage and reanalysis, (5) analytical challenges, (6) forensic intelligence, (7) psychological approach to optimise the most deterrent effect, (8) the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) and confounding factors, (9) data management system (Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS), (10) education, (11) research needs and necessary advances, (12) inadvertent doping and (13) management and ethics: biological data. True implementation of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code will depend largely on the ability to align thinking around these core concepts and strategies. FIFA, jointly with all other engaged International Federations of sports (Ifs), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), are ideally placed to lead transformational change with the unwavering support of the wider antidoping community. The outcome of the consensus meeting was the creation of the ad hoc Working Group charged with the responsibility of moving this agenda forward.

  7. Medicare program; inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system for federal fiscal year 2015.

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    2014-08-06

    This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2015 as required by the statute. This final rule finalizes a policy to collect data on the amount and mode (that is, Individual, Concurrent, Group, and Co-Treatment) of therapy provided in the IRF setting according to therapy discipline, revises the list of diagnosis and impairment group codes that presumptively meet the "60 percent rule'' compliance criteria, provides a way for IRFs to indicate on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) form whether the prior treatment and severity requirements have been met for arthritis cases to presumptively meet the "60 percent rule'' compliance criteria, and revises and updates quality measures and reporting requirements under the IRF quality reporting program (QRP). This rule also delays the effective date for the revisions to the list of diagnosis codes that are used to determine presumptive compliance under the "60 percent rule'' that were finalized in FY 2014 IRF PPS final rule and adopts the revisions to the list of diagnosis codes that are used to determine presumptive compliance under the "60 percent rule'' that are finalized in this rule. This final rule also addresses the implementation of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), for the IRF prospective payment system (PPS), which will be effective when ICD-10-CM becomes the required medical data code set for use on Medicare claims and IRF-PAI submissions.

  8. Minnesota Department of Transportation Research Services : 2009 annual report.

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    2010-01-01

    The purpose of this report is to meet the requirements set forth by the Code of Federal Regulations, : Part 420Planning and Research Program Administration420.117 2(e): : Suitable reports that document the results of activities performed wit...

  9. 76 FR 79656 - Notice of Meeting

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  11. Implementing 511 in Virginia and the Washington, DC metro area

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2001-04-20

    On July 21, 2000, the Federal Communications Commission assigned the abbreviated dialing code 511 to be used for traveler information services. The basis for reserving 511 is that it meets the "public interest" standard for such a determination, and ...

  12. 77 FR 543 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision

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    ... include the Agency name and the docket number for this notice. Note that DOT posts all comments received... continues to meet the vision exemption standards. These factors provide an adequate basis for predicting... am] BILLING CODE 4910-EX-P ...

  14. An Olive Branch for Boards.

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    Harrington-Lueker, Donna

    1993-01-01

    Peacekeeping strategies for school-board meetings include developing a code of conduct that spells out guidelines for behavior and then enforcing it; bringing in a neutral observer to help board members work through what is really worrying them; and concentrating on policy. (MLF)

  15. SU-A-210-01: Why Should We Learn Radiation Oncology Billing?

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    Wu, H.

    The purpose of this student annual meeting is to address topics that are becoming more relevant to medical physicists, but are not frequently addressed, especially for students and trainees just entering the field. The talk is divided into two parts: medical billing and regulations. Hsinshun Wu – Why should we learn radiation oncology billing? Many medical physicists do not like to be involved with medical billing or coding during their career. They believe billing is not their responsibility and sometimes they even refuse to participate in the billing process if given the chance. This presentation will talk about a physicist’smore » long career and share his own experience that knowing medical billing is not only important and necessary for every young medical physicist, but that good billing knowledge could provide a valuable contribution to his/her medical physics development. Learning Objectives: The audience will learn the basic definition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes performed in a Radiation Oncology Department. Understand the differences between hospital coding and physician-based or freestanding coding. Apply proper CPT coding for each Radiation Oncology procedure. Each procedure with its specific CPT code will be discussed in detail. The talk will focus on the process of care and use of actual workflow to understand each CPT code. Example coding of a typical Radiation Oncology procedure. Special procedure coding such as brachytherapy, proton therapy, radiosurgery, and SBRT. Maryann Abogunde – Medical physics opportunities at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) The NRC’s responsibilities include the regulation of medical uses of byproduct (radioactive) materials and oversight of medical use end-users (licensees) through a combination of regulatory requirements, licensing, safety oversight including inspection and enforcement, operational experience evaluation, and regulatory support activities. This presentation will explore the career options for medical physicists in the NRC, how the NRC interacts with clinical medical physicists, and a physicist’s experience as a regulator. Learning Objectives: Explore non-clinical career pathways for medical physics students and trainees at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Overview of NRC medical applications and medical use regulations. Understand the skills needed for physicists as regulators. Abogunde is funded to attend the meeting by her employer, the NRC.« less

  16. SU-A-210-02: Medical Physics Opportunities at the NRC

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    Abogunde, M.

    The purpose of this student annual meeting is to address topics that are becoming more relevant to medical physicists, but are not frequently addressed, especially for students and trainees just entering the field. The talk is divided into two parts: medical billing and regulations. Hsinshun Wu – Why should we learn radiation oncology billing? Many medical physicists do not like to be involved with medical billing or coding during their career. They believe billing is not their responsibility and sometimes they even refuse to participate in the billing process if given the chance. This presentation will talk about a physicist’smore » long career and share his own experience that knowing medical billing is not only important and necessary for every young medical physicist, but that good billing knowledge could provide a valuable contribution to his/her medical physics development. Learning Objectives: The audience will learn the basic definition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes performed in a Radiation Oncology Department. Understand the differences between hospital coding and physician-based or freestanding coding. Apply proper CPT coding for each Radiation Oncology procedure. Each procedure with its specific CPT code will be discussed in detail. The talk will focus on the process of care and use of actual workflow to understand each CPT code. Example coding of a typical Radiation Oncology procedure. Special procedure coding such as brachytherapy, proton therapy, radiosurgery, and SBRT. Maryann Abogunde – Medical physics opportunities at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) The NRC’s responsibilities include the regulation of medical uses of byproduct (radioactive) materials and oversight of medical use end-users (licensees) through a combination of regulatory requirements, licensing, safety oversight including inspection and enforcement, operational experience evaluation, and regulatory support activities. This presentation will explore the career options for medical physicists in the NRC, how the NRC interacts with clinical medical physicists, and a physicist’s experience as a regulator. Learning Objectives: Explore non-clinical career pathways for medical physics students and trainees at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Overview of NRC medical applications and medical use regulations. Understand the skills needed for physicists as regulators. Abogunde is funded to attend the meeting by her employer, the NRC.« less

  17. Elementary General Education Teachers' Knowledge of and Experience Teaching Students with Disabilities in Science and Social Studies

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    Rice, Diane

    In Grades 3 to 5 at a suburban southeastern elementary school, the percentage of students with disabilities (SWDs) who do not meet state standards in science and social studies is greater than that of their nondisabled peers. To address this disparity, district administrators required that proficiency ratings increase for SWDs without providing general education (GE) teachers with training. A qualitative bounded case study was used to understand how GE teachers constructed their knowledge of and met SWDs instructional needs and to understand GE teachers' needs as they worked toward meeting the district goals. Piaget's constructivist learning theory served as the conceptual framework for this study. A purposeful sample of 6 GE teachers, 2 each from Grades 3-5 whose classrooms included SWDs, volunteered to participate in open-ended interviews. Qualitative data were analyzed using provisional coding and pattern coding. A primary finding was that the participants identified teacher collaboration and professional development necessary to accommodate SWDs in the GE setting. This finding led to a recommendation that school leaders provide ongoing professional development for GE teachers as well as ongoing opportunities for collaboration between GE and special education teachers. These endeavors may contribute to positive social change by providing GE teachers instructional strategies and accommodations for meeting the learning needs of SWDs to increase the number and percentage of SWDs who meet the state standards and district goals in science and social studies.

  18. A Qualitative Exploration of a Clinical Ethicist's Role and Contributions During Family Meetings.

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    Bruce, Courtenay R; Bibler, Trevor M; Pena, Adam M; Kusin, Betsy

    2016-12-01

    Despite the interpersonal nature of family meetings and the frequency in which they occur, the clinical ethics literature is devoid of any rich descriptions of what clinical ethicists should actually be doing during family meetings. Here, we propose a framework for describing and understanding "transitioning" facilitation skills based on a retrospective review of our internal documentation of 100 consecutive cases (June 01, 2013-December 31, 2014) wherein a clinical ethicist facilitated at least one family meeting. The internal documents were analyzed using qualitative methodologies, i.e., "codes", to identify emergent themes. We identified four different transitioning strategies clinical ethicists use to reach a meaningful resolution. These transitioning strategies serve as a jumping-off point for additional analyses, future research, evaluating clinical ethics consultation, and overall performance improvement of a consultation service.

  19. CACTI: Free, Open-Source Software for the Sequential Coding of Behavioral Interactions

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    Glynn, Lisa H.; Hallgren, Kevin A.; Houck, Jon M.; Moyers, Theresa B.

    2012-01-01

    The sequential analysis of client and clinician speech in psychotherapy sessions can help to identify and characterize potential mechanisms of treatment and behavior change. Previous studies required coding systems that were time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone. Existing software can be expensive and inflexible, and furthermore, no single package allows for pre-parsing, sequential coding, and assignment of global ratings. We developed a free, open-source, and adaptable program to meet these needs: The CASAA Application for Coding Treatment Interactions (CACTI). Without transcripts, CACTI facilitates the real-time sequential coding of behavioral interactions using WAV-format audio files. Most elements of the interface are user-modifiable through a simple XML file, and can be further adapted using Java through the terms of the GNU Public License. Coding with this software yields interrater reliabilities comparable to previous methods, but at greatly reduced time and expense. CACTI is a flexible research tool that can simplify psychotherapy process research, and has the potential to contribute to the improvement of treatment content and delivery. PMID:22815713

  20. Press briefing on results from the solar spacecraft SOHO

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    1998-04-01

    After its launch on 2 December 1995, SOHO travelled to take up a special orbit 1.5 million kilometres away on the sunward side of the Earth, where the Sun never sets. The full scientific programme began in April 1996. The occasion for the briefing is the celebration of that second anniversary and of the mission's extension to 2003. Organized by the European Space Agency, the briefing will be hosted by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which is near Oxford. Leading scientists associated with SOHO will announce to the press some remarkable new discoveries about the Sun's interior, atmosphere and solar wind. They will also briefly review the main achievements of the past two years. The role of SOHO as the chief watchdog for storms on the Sun that may affect the Earth will be demonstrated. Europe's creation of the finest spacecraft ever built to observe the Sun will be recalled by a top engineer from ESA. A speaker from NASA will explain transatlantic contributions to SOHO, which is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. ESA's director of science will also be present, to relate SOHO to ESA's general science programme. A lunch-time talk by the BNSC's director of science completes the line-up of speakers. This is also an exceptional opportunity for the press to meet and interview scientists from all over Europe and the USA, who are attending a meeting at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of SOHO's Science Working Team (SWT). Journalists are usually excluded from such meetings. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory plays a prominent part in SOHO, particularly through its provision of the CDS ultraviolet spectrometer. A visit to the CDS group will provide a chance to see what space research is really like. Please indicate your intention to attend, on the accreditation form that follows the schedule. Guidance on how to get to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is appended. PROGRAMME Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), 28 April 1998 10:30 Assembly of media representatives, with coffee 11:00 Press briefing starts: welcome to RAL and SOHO Richard Harrison, RAL, principal investigator for SOHO/CDS Congratulatory remarks Roger Bonnet, Director of Science, European Space Agency, Paris The watch on the Sun, including images of the day from SOHO Richard Harrison and link to Goddard Space Flight Center SOHO: technological highlights John Credland, Head of Scientific Projects, ESTEC, Noordwijk International cooperation David Bohlin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA Scientific highlights and news from SOHO: Inside the Sun (helioseismology) :Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge The Sun's atmosphere : Eric Priest, University of St Andrews The solar wind and particles : Antoinette Galvin, University of New Hampshire ESA's science programme : Roger Bonnet, Director of Science, European Space Agency, Paris 12:00 Questions and answers 12:15 Press visit to the SOHO/CDS facility at RAL 12:45 Buffet lunch, with remarks by: Paul Murdin, Director of Science, British National Space Centre, and Head of Astronomy, PPARC 12:15-14:00 Opportunities for interviews 14:00 Resumption of Science Working Team technical meeting - Media representatives are welcome to attend. SOHO Science Presentations : D. Gough - Helioseismology E. Priest - Solar Atmosphere A. Galvin - Solar Wind and Particles 15:30-16:00 Discussion and closing remarks

  1. Electromagnetic code for naval applications

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    Crescimbeni, F.; Bessi, F.; Chiti, S.

    1988-12-01

    The use of an increasing number of electronic apparatus became vital to meet the high performance required for military Navy applications. Thus the number of antennas to be mounted on shipboard greatly increased. As a consequence of the high antenna density, of the complexity of the shipboard environment and of the powers used for communication and radar systems, the EMC (Electro-Magnetic Compatibility) problem is playing a leading role in the design of the topside of a ship. The Italian Navy has acquired a numerical code for the antenna siting and design. This code, together with experimental data measured at the Italian Navy test range facility, allows for the evaluation of optimal sitings for antenna systems on shipboard, and the prediction of their performances in the actual environment. The structure of this code, named Programma Elettromagnetico per Applicazioni Navali, (Electromagnetic Code for Naval Applications) is discussed, together with its capabilities and applications. Also the results obtained in some examples are presented and compared with the measurements.

  2. 76 FR 66718 - Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC): Notice of Meeting

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    2011-10-27

    ...) 564-1082, FAX (202) 564-1352 or by mail at U.S. EPA, Office of Air and Radiation (Mail code 6102 A... contact Mr. Pat Childers at (202) 564-1082 or [email protected] . To request accommodation of a...

  3. 77 FR 54946 - Advisory Board; Notice of Meeting

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    ... interested public but limited to the space available. With the approval of the Acting Administrator, members... contact, not later than Friday, October 19, 2012, Anita K. Blackman, Chief of Staff, Saint Lawrence Seaway...-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-61-P ...

  4. 38 CFR 39.22 - Architectural design standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ...) Mechanical requirements. The heating system, boilers, steam system, ventilation system and air-conditioning system shall be furnished and installed to meet all requirements of the local and State codes and... apply. (c) Plumbing requirements. Plumbing systems shall comply with all applicable local and State...

  5. 78 FR 66373 - Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Amended Notice of Meeting

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    2013-11-05

    ... of the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs Special Emphasis Panel, October 09, 2013, 08:00 a.m... Advisory Committee Policy. [FR Doc. 2013-26434 Filed 11-4-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140-01-P ...

  6. Proceedings of the STRESS Data Review Meeting, 29-30 November 1977

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1978-06-01

    INSULATORS MAGNETOMETER BEACON ANTENNA fe?^ S-BAND ANTENNA- -DC PROBE SENSING ELEMENT PLASMA FREQUENCY PROBE MONOPOLE -GUARD ELECTRODE PLASMA...have demonstrated, using calculational results from MICE and MRHYDE (MHD computer codes), that the gradient-drift instability is the one primarily

  7. Structural evaluation of the 2736Z Building for seismic loads

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    Giller, R.A.

    The 2736Z building structure is evaluated for high-hazard loads. The 2736Z building is analyzed herein for normal and seismic loads and is found to successfully meet the guidelines of UCRL-15910 along with the related codes requirements.

  8. 76 FR 30229 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

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    .... --Strategy and planning. --Organizational reforms. --Resource management. --Technical Co-operation Fund--biennial allocation to support the ITCP Programme for 2012-2013. --Results-based budget. --Voluntary IMO... FSS Code for communication equipment for fire-fighting teams. --Development of guidelines for use of...

  9. 75 FR 19674 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision

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    2010-04-15

    ... posts all comments received without change to http://www.regulations.gov , including any personal... applicant continues to meet the vision exemption standards. These factors provide an adequate basis for...-8646 Filed 4-14-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-EX-P ...

  10. Embed dynamic content in your poster.

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    Hutchins, B Ian

    2013-01-29

    A new technology has emerged that will facilitate the presentation of dynamic or otherwise inaccessible data on posters at scientific meetings. Video, audio, or other digital files hosted on mobile-friendly sites can be linked to through a quick response (QR) code, a two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned by smartphones, which then display the content. This approach is more affordable than acquiring tablet computers for playing dynamic content and can reach many users at large conferences. This resource details how to host videos, generate QR codes, and view the associated files on mobile devices.

  11. Design and Evaluation of a Chamber Capable of Containing the Detonation Effects of 40 Pounds of TNT

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1975-11-01

    Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code , 197A. For the girth welds, short lengths of 26-in.-dia. pipe were tacked to the vessel around the...and tensile tests meet the requirements of Section IX, ASHE Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code , 1974. Weld made by W. H. Stefanov ■.^^ w-^iiMaLwärt...Macro Results Kos, No Remarl.s The results of the bond and it^nsile tests met the requirements of Section IX, ASME Boiler and Pressure

  12. Shielding Analyses for VISION Beam Line at SNS

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    Popova, Irina; Gallmeier, Franz X

    2014-01-01

    Full-scale neutron and gamma transport analyses were performed to design shielding around the VISION beam line, instrument shielding enclosure, beam stop, secondary shutter including a temporary beam stop for the still closed neighboring beam line to meet requirement is to achieve dose rates below 0.25 mrem/h at 30 cm from the shielding surface. The beam stop and the temporary beam stop analyses were performed with the discrete ordinate code DORT additionally to Monte Carlo analyses with the MCNPX code. Comparison of the results is presented.

  13. HANFORD FACILITY ANNUAL DANGEROUS WASTE REPORT CY2005

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    SKOLRUD, J.O.

    2006-02-15

    The Hanford Facility Annual Dangerous Waste Report (ADWR) is prepared to meet the requirements of Washington Administrative Code Sections 173-303-220, Generator Reporting, and 173-303-390, Facility Reporting. In addition, the ADWR is required to meet Hanford Facility RCR4 Permit Condition I.E.22, Annual Reporting. The ADWR provides summary information on dangerous waste generation and management activities for the Calendar Year for the Hanford Facility EPA ID number assigned to the Department of Energy for RCRA regulated waste, as well as Washington State only designated waste and radioactive mixed waste. An electronic database is utilized to collect and compile the large array ofmore » data needed for preparation of this report. Information includes details of waste generated on the Hanford Facility, waste generated offsite and sent to Hanford for management, and other waste management activities conducted at Hanford, including treatment, storage, and disposal. Report details consist of waste descriptions and weights, waste codes and designations, and waste handling codes, In addition, for waste shipped to Hanford for treatment and/or disposal, information on manifest numbers, the waste transporter, the waste receiving facility, and the original waste generators are included. In addition to paper copies, the report is also transmitted electronically to a web site maintained by the Washington State Department of Ecology.« less

  14. Computer program for optimal BWR congtrol rod programming

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    Taner, M.S.; Levine, S.H.; Carmody, J.M.

    1995-12-31

    A fully automated computer program has been developed for designing optimal control rod (CR) patterns for boiling water reactors (BWRs). The new program, called OCTOPUS-3, is based on the OCTOPUS code and employs SIMULATE-3 (Ref. 2) for the analysis. There are three aspects of OCTOPUS-3 that make it successful for use at PECO Energy. It incorporates a new feasibility algorithm that makes the CR design meet all constraints, it has been coupled to a Bourne Shell program 3 to allow the user to run the code interactively without the need for a manual, and it develops a low axial peakmore » to extend the cycle. For PECO Energy Co.`s limericks it increased the energy output by 1 to 2% over the traditional PECO Energy design. The objective of the optimization in OCTOPUS-3 is to approximate a very low axial peaked target power distribution while maintaining criticality, keeping the nodal and assembly peaks below the allowed maximum, and meeting the other constraints. The user-specified input for each exposure point includes: CR groups allowed-to-move, target k{sub eff}, and amount of core flow. The OCTOPUS-3 code uses the CR pattern from the previous step as the initial guess unless indicated otherwise.« less

  15. Surveillance of paediatric traumatic brain injuries using the NEISS: choosing an appropriate case definition.

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    Thompson, Meghan C; Wheeler, Krista K; Shi, Junxin; Smith, Gary A; Groner, Jonathan I; Haley, Kathryn J; Xiang, Huiyun

    2014-01-01

    To evaluate the definition of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) and compare TBI case ascertainment using NEISS vs. ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding. Two data samples from a NEISS participating emergency department (ED) in 2008 were compared: (1) NEISS records meeting the recommended NEISS TBI definition and (2) Hospital ED records meeting the ICD-9-CM CDC recommended TBI definition. The sensitivity and positive predictive value were calculated for the NEISS definition using the ICD-9-CM definition as the gold standard. Further analyses were performed to describe cases characterized as TBIs in both datasets and to determine why some cases were not classified as TBIs in both datasets. There were 1834 TBI cases captured by the NEISS and 1836 TBI cases captured by the ICD-9-CM coded ED record, but only 1542 were eligible for inclusion in NEISS. There were 1403 cases classified as TBIs by both the NEISS and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes. The NEISS TBI definition had a sensitivity of 91.0% (95% CI = 89.6-92.4%) and positive predictive value of 76.5% (95% CI = 74.6-78.4%). Using the NEISS TBI definition presented in this paper would standardize and improve the accuracy of TBI research using the NEISS.

  16. Use of open source information and commercial satellite imagery for nuclear nonproliferation regime compliance verification by a community of academics

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Solodov, Alexander

    The proliferation of nuclear weapons is a great threat to world peace and stability. The question of strengthening the nonproliferation regime has been open for a long period of time. In 1997 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors (BOG) adopted the Additional Safeguards Protocol. The purpose of the protocol is to enhance the IAEA's ability to detect undeclared production of fissile materials in member states. However, the IAEA does not always have sufficient human and financial resources to accomplish this task. Developed here is a concept for making use of human and technical resources available in academia that could be used to enhance the IAEA's mission. The objective of this research was to study the feasibility of an academic community using commercially or publicly available sources of information and products for the purpose of detecting covert facilities and activities intended for the unlawful acquisition of fissile materials or production of nuclear weapons. In this study, the availability and use of commercial satellite imagery systems, commercial computer codes for satellite imagery analysis, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) verification International Monitoring System (IMS), publicly available information sources such as watchdog groups and press reports, and Customs Services information were explored. A system for integrating these data sources to form conclusions was also developed. The results proved that publicly and commercially available sources of information and data analysis can be a powerful tool in tracking violations in the international nuclear nonproliferation regime and a framework for implementing these tools in academic community was developed. As a result of this study a formation of an International Nonproliferation Monitoring Academic Community (INMAC) is proposed. This would be an independent organization consisting of academics (faculty, staff and students) from both nuclear weapon states (NWS) and non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS). This community analyzes all types of unclassified publicly and commercially available information to aid in detection of violations of the non-proliferation regime. INMAC shares all of this information with the IAEA and the public. Since INMAC is composed solely by members of the academic community, this organization would not demonstrate any biases in its investigations or reporting.

  17. National Combustion Code: Parallel Implementation and Performance

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Quealy, A.; Ryder, R.; Norris, A.; Liu, N.-S.

    2000-01-01

    The National Combustion Code (NCC) is being developed by an industry-government team for the design and analysis of combustion systems. CORSAIR-CCD is the current baseline reacting flow solver for NCC. This is a parallel, unstructured grid code which uses a distributed memory, message passing model for its parallel implementation. The focus of the present effort has been to improve the performance of the NCC flow solver to meet combustor designer requirements for model accuracy and analysis turnaround time. Improving the performance of this code contributes significantly to the overall reduction in time and cost of the combustor design cycle. This paper describes the parallel implementation of the NCC flow solver and summarizes its current parallel performance on an SGI Origin 2000. Earlier parallel performance results on an IBM SP-2 are also included. The performance improvements which have enabled a turnaround of less than 15 hours for a 1.3 million element fully reacting combustion simulation are described.

  18. Software Certification for Temporal Properties With Affordable Tool Qualification

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    Xia, Songtao; DiVito, Benedetto L.

    2005-01-01

    It has been recognized that a framework based on proof-carrying code (also called semantic-based software certification in its community) could be used as a candidate software certification process for the avionics industry. To meet this goal, tools in the "trust base" of a proof-carrying code system must be qualified by regulatory authorities. A family of semantic-based software certification approaches is described, each different in expressive power, level of automation and trust base. Of particular interest is the so-called abstraction-carrying code, which can certify temporal properties. When a pure abstraction-carrying code method is used in the context of industrial software certification, the fact that the trust base includes a model checker would incur a high qualification cost. This position paper proposes a hybrid of abstraction-based and proof-based certification methods so that the model checker used by a client can be significantly simplified, thereby leading to lower cost in tool qualification.

  19. Visual information processing; Proceedings of the Meeting, Orlando, FL, Apr. 20-22, 1992

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Huck, Friedrich O. (Editor); Juday, Richard D. (Editor)

    1992-01-01

    Topics discussed in these proceedings include nonlinear processing and communications; feature extraction and recognition; image gathering, interpolation, and restoration; image coding; and wavelet transform. Papers are presented on noise reduction for signals from nonlinear systems; driving nonlinear systems with chaotic signals; edge detection and image segmentation of space scenes using fractal analyses; a vision system for telerobotic operation; a fidelity analysis of image gathering, interpolation, and restoration; restoration of images degraded by motion; and information, entropy, and fidelity in visual communication. Attention is also given to image coding methods and their assessment, hybrid JPEG/recursive block coding of images, modified wavelets that accommodate causality, modified wavelet transform for unbiased frequency representation, and continuous wavelet transform of one-dimensional signals by Fourier filtering.

  20. The obligations of Member Countries of the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) in the Organisation of Veterinary Services.

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    Vallat, B; Wilson, D W

    2003-08-01

    The authors discuss the mission, organisation and resources of Veterinary Services in the new international trading environment and examine how the standards for Veterinary Services, contained in the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) International Animal Health Code (the Code), help provide the necessary support for Veterinary Services to meet their rights and obligations under the provisions of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The authors describe the challenges of gaining access to international trading markets through surveillance and control of OIE listed diseases. Finally, the approach in the Code to the principles underpinning the quality of Veterinary Services and to guidelines for evaluating Veterinary Services, is discussed.

  1. System optimization on coded aperture spectrometer

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Liu, Hua; Ding, Quanxin; Wang, Helong; Chen, Hongliang; Guo, Chunjie; Zhou, Liwei

    2017-10-01

    For aim to find a simple multiple configuration solution and achieve higher refractive efficiency, and based on to reduce the situation disturbed by FOV change, especially in a two-dimensional spatial expansion. Coded aperture system is designed by these special structure, which includes an objective a coded component a prism reflex system components, a compensatory plate and an imaging lens Correlative algorithms and perfect imaging methods are available to ensure this system can be corrected and optimized adequately. Simulation results show that the system can meet the application requirements in MTF, REA, RMS and other related criteria. Compared with the conventional design, the system has reduced in volume and weight significantly. Therefore, the determining factors are the prototype selection and the system configuration.

  2. Code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system: Codifying and compilation

    PubMed Central

    Salari, Pooneh; Namazi, Hamidreza; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Khansari, Fatemeh; Nikfar, Shekoufeh; Larijani, Bagher; Araminia, Behin

    2013-01-01

    Pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. Other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. Therefore, pharmacy practice is vulnerable to ethical challenges and needs special code of conducts. On feeling the need, based on a shared project between experts of the ethics from relevant research centers, all the needs were fully recognized and then specified code of conduct for each was written. The code of conduct was subject to comments of all experts involved in the pharmaceutical sector and thus criticized in several meetings. The prepared code of conduct is comprised of professional code of ethics for pharmacists, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical manufacturers, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical importers, ethics guideline for pharmaceutical distributors, and ethics guideline for policy makers. The document was compiled based on the principles of bioethics and professionalism. The compiling the code of ethics for the national pharmaceutical system is the first step in implementing ethics in pharmacy practice and further attempts into teaching the professionalism and the ethical code as the necessary and complementary effort are highly recommended. PMID:24174954

  3. Research on Streamlines and Aerodynamic Heating for Unstructured Grids on High-Speed Vehicles

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    DeJarnette, Fred R.; Hamilton, H. Harris (Technical Monitor)

    2001-01-01

    Engineering codes are needed which can calculate convective heating rates accurately and expeditiously on the surfaces of high-speed vehicles. One code which has proven to meet these needs is the Langley Approximate Three-Dimensional Convective Heating (LATCH) code. It uses the axisymmetric analogue in an integral boundary-layer method to calculate laminar and turbulent heating rates along inviscid surface streamlines. It requires the solution of the inviscid flow field to provide the surface properties needed to calculate the streamlines and streamline metrics. The LATCH code has been used with inviscid codes which calculated the flow field on structured grids, Several more recent inviscid codes calculate flow field properties on unstructured grids. The present research develops a method to calculate inviscid surface streamlines, the streamline metrics, and heating rates using the properties calculated from inviscid flow fields on unstructured grids. Mr. Chris Riley, prior to his departure from NASA LaRC, developed a preliminary code in the C language, called "UNLATCH", to accomplish these goals. No publication was made on his research. The present research extends and improves on the code developed by Riley. Particular attention is devoted to the stagnation region, and the method is intended for programming in the FORTRAN 90 language.

  4. Retrofit Gloveport Cover and Security Device

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    Hinckley, Jon E.

    2015-01-01

    The world of glovebox work in the areas of science and manufacturing is in a consistent state of flux due to the inherent nature of changing missions. These rapidly changing work environments result in almost continuous regulatory changes within the codes and standards in order to maintain worker and environmental safety. Gloveboxes designed and manufactured prior to these regulations are not easy to update or retrofit to accommodate new requirements. In order to meet the challenge of retrofitting gloveboxes to the meet the requirements, the following solutions have been developed.

  5. 75 FR 55847 - Fourteenth Meeting: EUROCAE WG-72: RTCA Special Committee 216: Aeronautical Systems Security...

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    ..., (RTCA Paper No. 137-10/SC216-029). Report on the PMC/ICC action on TOR: Publication Progress and Update... Advisory Committee. [FR Doc. 2010-22879 Filed 9-13-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-13-P ...

  6. 77 FR 3030 - Twenty-Eighth Meeting: RTCA Special Committee 206: Aeronautical Information and Meteorological...

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    2012-01-20

    ... and normal definitions Review proposed TOR changes ConUse Review February 7, 2012 ConUse Review... proposed TOR changes and new or modified Sub-groups' roles and responsibilities Decision to release ConUse...] BILLING CODE 4910-13-P ...

  7. 75 FR 8363 - Meeting of the National Biodefense Science Board

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    ... the Secretary on other matters related to public health emergency preparedness and response... Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasure Enterprise (PHEMCE). Availability of Materials: The... Preparedness and Response. [FR Doc. 2010-3670 Filed 2-23-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4150-37-P ...

  8. How to describe a new fungal species

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    The formal and informal requirements for the publication of descriptions of new fungal species are discussed. This involves following the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as well as meeting the standards set by the editorial board of the journals in which these descriptions ...

  9. Columbia Switches to Automatic Fire Detection

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    Gardner, John C.

    1978-01-01

    Columbia University has started a project that, in the first two phases, will provide an internal fire alarm system to residence halls and academic buildings. The third phase will be major structural changes to bring older academic buildings up to meet new life safety codes. (Author/MLF)

  10. 78 FR 49725 - Census Scientific Advisory Committee

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    ..., including communications, decennial, demographic, economic, field operations, geographic, information... Committee Act (Title 5, United States Code, Appendix 2, Section 10). The meeting is open to the public, and... DOMA Ruling on Census Data Collection. 2013 Census Test. Dated: August 8, 2013. Nancy A. Potok, Deputy...

  11. 75 FR 51684 - Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish...

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    ... result of management measures designed to meet the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP objective of achieving..., subpart G, are revised to read as follows: BILLING CODE 3510-22-P [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TR23AU10.046 [[Page 51687

  12. 75 FR 64396 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision

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    ... include the Agency name and the docket number for this notice. Note that DOT posts all comments received... meet the vision exemption standards. These factors provide an adequate basis for predicting each driver...-18-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-EX-P ...

  13. 75 FR 3443 - Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Nebraska Advisory Committee

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    ... Regional Office and TTY/TDD telephone number, by 4 p.m. on February 22, 2010. Members of the public are... Programs Coordination Unit. [FR Doc. 2010-1060 Filed 1-20-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6335-01-P ...

  14. 75 FR 20031 - Notice of Public Meeting on FY 2011 Refugee Admissions Program

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    ... must notify the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration at telephone (202) 663-1006 by 5 p.m. on..., Refugees, and Migration, Department of State. [FR Doc. 2010-8785 Filed 4-15-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710...

  15. 77 FR 2924 - Notice of Public Meeting and Request for Comment on the Branch Technical Position on the Import...

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    ... exclusion, initially adopted in a 1995 rule.\\3\\ In accordance with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources and the IAEA supplemental Guidance on...

  16. Effect of doping on electronic properties of HgSe

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    Nag, Abhinav, E-mail: abhinavn76@gmail.com; Sastri, O. S. K. S., E-mail: sastri.osks@gmail.com; Kumar, Jagdish, E-mail: jagdishphysicist@gmail.com

    2016-05-23

    First principle study of electronic properties of pure and doped HgSe have been performed using all electron Full Potential Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (FP-LAPW) method using ELK code. The electronic exchange and co-relations are considered using Generalized Gradient Approach (GGA). Lattice parameter, Density of States (DOS) and Band structure calculations have been performed. The total energy curve (Energy vs Lattice parameter), DOS and band structure calculations are in good agreement with the experimental values and those obtained using other DFT codes. The doped material is studied within the Virtual Crystal Approximation (VCA) with doping levels of 10% to 25% ofmore » electrons (hole) per unit cell. Results predict zero band gap in undopedHgSe and bands meet at Fermi level near the symmetry point Γ. For doped HgSe, we found that by electron (hole) doping, the point where conduction and valence bands meet can be shifted below (above) the fermi level.« less

  17. Automatic hot wire GTA welding of pipe offers speed and increased deposition

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    Sykes, I.; Digiacomo, J.

    1995-07-01

    Heavy-wall pipe welding for the power and petrochemical industry must meet code requirements. Contractors strive to meet these requirements in the most productive way possible. The challenge put to orbital welding equipment manufacturers is to produce pipe welding equipment that cost-effectively produces code-quality welds. Orbital welding equipment using the GTA process has long produced outstanding quality results but has lacked the deposition rate to compete cost effectively with other manual and semiautomatic processes such as SMAW, FCAW and GMAW. In recent years, significant progress has been made with the use of narrow-groove weld joint designs to reduce weld joint volumemore » and improve welding times. Astro Arc Polysoude, an orbital welding equipment manufacturer based in Sun Valley, Calif., and Nantes, France, has combined the hot wire GTAW process with orbital welding equipment using a narrow-groove weld joint design. Field test results show this process and procedure is a good alternative for many heavy-wall-pipe welding applications.« less

  18. Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity: introduction.

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    Fox, Kevin; Stryker, Michael

    2017-03-05

    Hebbian plasticity is widely considered to be the mechanism by which information can be coded and retained in neurons in the brain. Homeostatic plasticity moves the neuron back towards its original state following a perturbation, including perturbations produced by Hebbian plasticity. How then does homeostatic plasticity avoid erasing the Hebbian coded information? To understand how plasticity works in the brain, and therefore to understand learning, memory, sensory adaptation, development and recovery from injury, requires development of a theory of plasticity that integrates both forms of plasticity into a whole. In April 2016, a group of computational and experimental neuroscientists met in London at a discussion meeting hosted by the Royal Society to identify the critical questions in the field and to frame the research agenda for the next steps. Here, we provide a brief introduction to the papers arising from the meeting and highlight some of the themes to have emerged from the discussions.This article is part of the themed issue 'Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity'. © 2017 The Author(s).

  19. 76 FR 51380 - National Institute of Mental Health Notice of Meeting

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    ....S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a conference call of the Interagency Autism Coordinating...-in number and access code. Name of Committee: Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). Type... public. Contact Person: Ms. Lina Perez, Office of Autism Research Coordination, National Institute of...

  20. 7 CFR 1773.5 - Qualifications of CPA.

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    2011-01-01

    ... regulations of professional conduct promulgated by the accountancy board of the state in which the borrower is...: (1) Meets the standards for independence contained in the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct in... the accounting and audit practice conducted by an approved peer review program under paragraph (c)(4...

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