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Information theoretic approach for performance evaluation of multi-class assignment systems
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Multi-class assignment is often used to aid in the exploitation of data in the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) community. For example, tracking systems collect detections into tracks and recognition ...
Holt, Ryan S.
Assignment #1: Developing Algorithms
The purpose of this assignment is to give you some experience developing algorithms. According to Wikipedia, an algorithm is �a finite list of well-defined instructions for accomplishing some task that, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined end-state � [1]. 1. Consider the following initial state: � A bag containing sliced bread � A jar containing peanut butter � A jar containing jelly � A plastic knife Develop an algorithm for producing, as an end-state, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Be as precise as possible when developing your list of instructions. 2 Hand-In Instructions The assignment is due at the start of class on August 27 th. You are required to turn in a typed document. The document should include your name, your username, the date, the course number, and the assignment number. For example:
Andrew R. Dalton; Andy Dalton (adalton
Overseas Assignments | Department of Energy
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assignments; assignments to embassies, international organizations, including cost-free experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the Department of...
Handbook on Overseas Assignments
Energy.gov (U.S. Department of Energy (DOE))
This handbook covers all types of Federal employment overseas, including details, both within DOE as well as to other agencies; transfers to approved international organizations; assignments to permanent DOE positions; cost-free experts; and personal services agreements (PSAs). This handbook contains information, guidance, sample service agreements, and related documentation that are to be used to implement the departments directives.
Truthful Assignment without Money
We study the design of truthful mechanisms that do not use payments for the generalized assignment problem (GAP) and its variants. An instance of the GAP consists of a bipartite graph with jobs on one side and machines on the other. Machines have capacities and edges have values and sizes; the goal is to construct a welfare maximizing feasible assignment. In our model of private valuations, motivated by impossibility results, the value and sizes on all job-machine pairs are public information; however, whether an edge exists or not in the bipartite graph is a job's private information. We study several variants of the GAP starting with matching. For the unweighted version, we give an optimal strategyproof mechanism; for maximum weight bipartite matching, however, we show give a 2-approximate strategyproof mechanism and show by a matching lowerbound that this is optimal. Next we study knapsack-like problems, which are APX-hard. For these problems, we develop a general LP-based technique that extends the ideas ...
Dughmi, Shaddin
Self-Assign Items Self-Assign Items © 2011 SuccessFactors, Inc. - 1 - SuccessFactors Learning Confidential. All rights reserved. Job Aid: Self-Assign Items Purpose The purpose of this job aid is to guide users through the step-by-step process of using the catalog to locate and assign items to their To-Do List. Each task demonstrates a different method of searching the catalog. Task A. Locate and Self-Assign Items Using Simple Catalog Search Navigate to the Catalog search box above Easy Links. Enter keywords to search for in the item's title and description. Click the Search icon ( ). 2 1 3 Locate and Self-Assign Items Using Simple Catalog Search - 4 Steps Task A Locate and Self-Assign Items Using Advance Catalog Search - 7 Steps Task B
On developmental mental architectures
Science Conference Proceedings (OSTI)
This paper presents a computational theory of developmental mental architectures for artificial and natural systems, motivated by neuroscience. The work is an attempt to approximately model biological mental architectures using mathematical tools. Six ... Keywords: Agent architecture, Autonomous mental development, Autonomous planning, Cognitive development, Computational neural science, Developmental robots, Developmental vision, Language acquisition, Learning types, Mental architecture, Reasoning, Speech recognition, Thinking
Juyang Weng
Program Assignments | Department of Energy
Services » Procurement Services » Program Assignments Services » Procurement Services » Program Assignments Program Assignments Office of Headquarters Procurement Services (MA-64) Program Assignments Office of Headquarters Procurement Services (MA-64) Mark C. Brady, Director, 287-1389 Patricia Davies, Acting Deputy Director, 586-8975 CORPORATE SERVICES OFFICE - Barry Ross, Director, MA-64.1, 287-5484 Competition Advocate Contracting Activity Task/Delivery Order Ombudsman Policy Flashes Independent Review Craig Ashline - 287-1412 Acquisition Planning Coordinator Balanced Scorecard Program Officer Federal Manager's Financial Integrity Act Action Officer Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence Point-of-Contact Inspector General/Government Accountability Office Liaison Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer Deborah Black - 287-1416
an Alternate Supervisor (Supervisor) an Alternate Supervisor (Supervisor) © 2011 SuccessFactors, Inc. - 1 - SuccessFactors Learning Confidential. All rights reserved. Job Aid: Assigning an Alternate Supervisor (Supervisor) Purpose The purpose of this job aid is to guide you through the step-by-step process of managing alternate supervisors within SuccessFactors Learning. When employees work for an extended period on a project where they report to a different manager or supervisor, you may want to transfer responsibility for completing the primary supervisor's tasks, for example, a performance review or competency assessment, to an alternate supervisor. The Manage Alternate Supervisors function allows you to identify other users as alternate supervisors and assign primary responsibility to them. After you assign a user as an alternate supervisor, the system
Handbook on Overseas Assignments | Department of Energy
Handbook on Overseas Assignments Handbook on Overseas Assignments This handbook covers all types of Federal employment overseas, including details, both within DOE as well as to...
Test instances for the traffic assignment problem
Test instances for the traffic assignment problem. F. Babonneau. ?. J.-P. Vial. ?. January 8, 2008. Abstract. This short note on the Traffic Assignment Problem�...
CSYM 012 Graphics Programming Assignment
CSYM 012 Graphics Programming Assignment: Development of 3D Graphics Software: Java 3D (100%). Due (to model windows and/or strip lights). · User defined geometry (i.e. not primitive shapes). · Loaded · Table of contents · Introduction / Problem statement for the task · Analysis and assumptions
Hill, Gary
Priority Assignment in Emergency Response
In the aftermath of mass-casualty events, key resources (such as ambulances and operating rooms) can be overwhelmed by the sudden jump in patient demand. To ration these resources, patients are assigned different priority levels, a process that is called ... Keywords: dynamic programming, emergency response, stochastic orders, stochastic scheduling, triage
Evin Uzun Jacobson; Nilay Tan?k Argon; Serhan Ziya
Planning with imperfect information : interceptor assignment
We consider the problem of assigning a scarce number of interceptors to a wave of incoming atmospheric re-entry vehicles (RV). In this single wave, there is time to assign interceptors to a wave of incoming RVs, gain ...
McAllister, Daniel B. (Daniel Brandford)
Delegates (Supervisor) Delegates (Supervisor) © 2011 SuccessFactors, Inc. - 1 - SuccessFactors Learning Confidential. All rights reserved. Job Aid: Assigning Delegates (Supervisor) Purpose The purpose of this job aid is to guide you through the step-by-step process of using the delegate feature within SuccessFactors Learning. A delegate is another user who you identify to act on the work that you need to complete in the user interface. When you identify a user as a delegate through the Delegates area in your Options and Settings screen, the system adds that user's name to the Delegators list. Typically, you identify a user as a delegate when you want the user to perform some of your tasks. You can use the Delegates area to add or edit the permissions for a delegate, which you might want to do, for example, if you plan to take an
Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire |
Services » Calibration Facilities » Unclassified Foreign National Services » Calibration Facilities » Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire Visitors who are foreign nationals must complete and submit the Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire 30 days before accessing facilities. Unclassified Foreign National Visits.doc Description Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire More Documents & Publications NEUP Foreign Travel Request Form FAQS Qualification Card - Safeguards and Security General Technical Base FAQS Qualification Card - Safeguards and Security Calibration Facilities Ecosystem Management Team Environmental Justice Environmental Management System Long-Term Surveillance - Operations and Maintenance
The purpose of this job aid is to guide users through the step-by-step process of launching and completing assigned surverys.
Project Registration Number Assignments (Completed) | Department...
& Publications Project Registration Number Assignments (Active) Technical Standards, DOE Orders and Applicable CFRsDEAR Crosswalk - February 2, 2002 All Active DOE Technical...
Project Registration Number Assignments (Active) | Department...
Registration Number Assignments (Completed) All Active DOE Technical Standards Document Technical Standards, DOE Orders and Applicable CFRsDEAR Crosswalk - February 2, 2002...
Object Assignment Strategy for Distributed Multimedia Systems
As application of multimedia and network have become popular in recent years, many technique have been proposed to create fascinating works, but little of them has focused on assigning tasks effectively in a distributed manner. In this paper we propose ... Keywords: dynamic assignment strategy, Petri-net modeling, load measurement
Wen-Tsung Chang; Chien-Chiung Hsieh
Computing role assignments of chordal graphs
In social network theory, a simple graph G is called k-role assignable if there is a surjective mapping that assigns a number from {1,...,k} called a role to each vertex of G such that any two vertices with the same role have ...
Pim Van't Hof; Dani�l Paulusma; Johan M. M. Van Rooij
Solving the Rectangular assignment problem and applications
is assigned to job j and 0 otherwise, and the corresponding costs cij the RLAP ...... Let the (production) cost of processing task i be cij on machine j and dij on a�...
In this jobaid you will learn to use the Course Catalog, Browse Catalog, Recommended Items, Locate and Self-Assign Items (Courses) Using the Search Catalog features, Narrow Course Searches using...
Help:Assigning permissions | Open Energy Information
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Assigning permissions Assigning permissions Jump to: navigation, search "Assigning permissions" means granting users extra rights within the wiki software (or revoking these rights). This is done by going to the Special:UserRights page, and adding users into a "group" which has specific rights. The first thing to note however, is that this action requires special permissions itself! Tools.png Tip for wiki admins: See Manual:User rights and Manual:User rights management for information on fine grained permissions tweaks, and how to define new groups, or adjust existing groups to give different rights. Note that this help page describes the default MediaWiki configuration, but every aspect of permissions is highly customisable with server config settings. You may wish to rewrite this help page to reflect your wiki configuration
Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire
Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire Unclassified Foreign National Visits & Assignments Questionnaire |Welcome to U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management! We are looking forward to your visit or assignment with us. In order to comply with our security requirements and ensure that your time with the Department of Energy goes smoothly we need to obtain some information from you prior to your arrival. Please take a few minutes to provide the information requested below for each member of your party that is not a U.S. citizen and then return the form(s) to your host. Please be sure to comply with the deadlines your host has communicated to you for returning this form.| |Part 1: Completed by Visitor Please complete all questions below, as applicable. | |1.|Given (first) name (exactly as it appears on passport)| |
Fair rate assignment in interference limited multi-hop networks
1.2 Utility Based Fair Rate Assignment . . . . . . 1.2.1de?ned in [21]. Utility Based Fair Rate Assignment In thisfunction. The utility based fair rate assignment policy (
Arisoylu, Mustafa
SESCDP Supervisor's Evaluation of Candidate's Performance During...
Assignment Form used by SES Supervisor to evaluate a SES candidate's performance in terms of meeting assignment objectives, an overall rating of the candidate's performance,...
Assigning multiple activities to work shifts
In some companies such as large retail stores, the employees perform different activities (e.g., cashier or clerk in a specific department) to respond to a customer demand for each activity that varies over the planning horizon and must be fulfilled ... Keywords: Activity assignment, Column generation, Multi-commodity network flow model, Rolling horizon, Work shifts
Quentin Lequy; Mathieu Bouchard; Guy Desaulniers; Fran�ois Soumis; Beyime Tachefine
CSY 3019 Graphics Programming Assignment 2
CSY 3019 Graphics Programming Assignment 2: Development of 2D/3D Graphics Software: Java 3D (50.e. not primitive shapes). · Loaded geometry using object files e.g. additional items rendered within the rooms · Table of contents · Introduction / Problem statement for the task · Analysis and assumptions
Reducing code size through address register assignment
In DSP processors, minimizing the amount of address calculations is critical for reducing code size and improving performance, since studies of programs have shown that instructions that manipulate address registers constitute a significant portion of ... Keywords: DSP, Software compilation, address registers, register assignment
G. Chen; M. Kandemir; M. J. Irwin; J. Ramanujam
Algorithms for the generalized weighted frequency assignment problem
We report the performance of 15 construction heuristics to find initial solutions, and 4 search algorithms to solve a frequency assignment problem where the value of an assigned frequency is determined by the site where it is assigned. The algorithms ... Keywords: Cross entropy, Frequency assignment, Genetic algorithm, Heuristics, Simulated annealing, Tabu search
David F. Mu�Oz; Diego F. Mu�Oz
Microsoft Word - CLP_Credit_Assignment_Table
Learning Points Credit Assignments Learning Points Credit Assignments CLP Opportunity Description* Unit = DOE CLP Units TRAINING/EDUCATION Attendance at academic courses at an accredited college or university 1 credit hour = 10 Audited academic courses at an accredited college or university 1 semester credit = 5 Instructing at an accredited college or university 1 semester credit = 10 Online training geared toward continuous learning and planned as part of individual's professional development. Online training must be supported by a record of completion 1 training hour = 1 Audit a course in your certification program and provide feedback. This must be approved by the Professional Development Division 1 course = 5 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Attendance at educational portions of technical
Linear Assignment Maps for Correlated System-Environment States
An assignment map is a mathematical operator that describes initial system-environment states for open quantum systems. We reexamine the notion of assignments, introduced by Pechukas, and show the conditions assignments can account for correlations between the system and the environment, concluding that assignment maps can be made linear at the expense of positivity or consistency is more reasonable. We study the role of other conditions, such as consistency and positivity of the map, and show the effects of relaxing these. Finally, we establish a connection between the violation of positivity of linear assignments and the no-broadcasting theorem.
C�sar A. Rodr�guez-Rosario; Kavan Modi; Al�n Aspuru-Guzik
A Bayesian approach to simultaneously quantify assignments and linguistic uncertainty
SciTech Connect
Subject matter expert assessments can include both assignment and linguistic uncertainty. This paper examines assessments containing linguistic uncertainty associated with a qualitative description of a specific state of interest and the assignment uncertainty associated with assigning a qualitative value to that state. A Bayesian approach is examined to simultaneously quantify both assignment and linguistic uncertainty in the posterior probability. The approach is applied to a simplified damage assessment model involving both assignment and linguistic uncertainty. The utility of the approach and the conditions under which the approach is feasible are examined and identified.
Chavez, Gregory M [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Booker, Jane M [BOOKER SCIENTIFIC FREDERICKSBURG; Ross, Timothy J [UNM
Provably Good Solutions for Wavelength Assignment in Optical ...
the transmission and switching capacities of the installed equipment. ..... wavelengths on all its links and that no wavelength is assigned more than its availability.
Parallel machine scheduling with nested job assignment restrictions
We derive a polynomial time approximation scheme for a special case of makespan minimization on unrelated machines. Keywords: Approximation algorithms, Restricted assignment, Scheduling
Gabriella Muratore; Ulrich M. Schwarz; Gerhard J. Woeginger
Robust Dynamic Traffic Assignment under Demand and Capacity Uncertainty
Assignment under Demand and Capacity Uncertainty ? Giuseppeworst-case sce- nario of demand and capacity con?gurations.uncertain demands and capacities are modeled as unknown-but-
Calafiore, Giuseppe; El Ghaoui, Laurent
Assignment of PCR markers to river buffalo chromosomes
Note Assignment of PCR markers to river buffalo chromosomes Hanaa A. Oraby Soheir M. El Nahas H physical map using somatic cell hybrids and the cattle gene map as a template, ten PCR primers designed / chromosome / synteny / PCR markers / gene mapping * Correspondence and reprints Résumé - Assignation de
Recanati, Catherine
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Student Seminar Series
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Student Seminar Series FALL 2013 regulation of torsinA during cellular polarization #12;Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology
Amin, S. Massoud
Runtime Assignment of Reconfigurable Hardware Components for Image Processing Pipelines
The combination of hardware acceleration and flexibility make FPGAs important to image processing applications. There is also a need for efficient, flexible hardware/software codesign environments that can balance the benefits and costs of using FPGAs. Image processing applications often consist of a pipeline of components where each component applies a different processing algorithm. Components can be implemented for FPGAs or software. Such systems enable an image analyst to work with either FPGA or software implementations of image processing algorithms for a given problem. The pipeline assignment problem chooses from alternative implementations of pipeline components to yield the fastest pipeline. Our codesign system solves the pipeline assignment problem to provide the most effective implementation automatically, so the image analyst can focus solely on choosing components which make up the pipeline. However, the pipeline assignment problem is NP complete. An efficient, dynamic solution to the pipeline assignment problem is a desirable enabler of codesign systems which use both FPGA and software implementations. This paper is concerned with solving pipeline assignment in this context. Consequently, we focus on optimal and heuristic methods for fast (fixed time limit) runtime pipeline assignment. Exhaustive search, integer linear programming and local search methods for pipeline assignment are investigated. We present experimental findings for pipelines of 20 or fewer components which show that in our environment, optimal runtime solutions are possible for smaller pipelines and nearly optimal heuristic solutions are possible for larger pipelines.
Heather Quinn; L. A. Smith King; Miriam Leeser; W. Meleis; Waleed Meleis
Electricity Suppliers' Service Area Assignments (Indiana) | Department of
Electricity Suppliers' Service Area Assignments (Indiana) Electricity Suppliers' Service Area Assignments (Indiana) Electricity Suppliers' Service Area Assignments (Indiana) < Back Eligibility Agricultural Commercial Construction Fuel Distributor General Public/Consumer Industrial Installer/Contractor Institutional Investor-Owned Utility Local Government Low-Income Residential Multi-Family Residential Municipal/Public Utility Nonprofit Residential Retail Supplier Rural Electric Cooperative Schools State/Provincial Govt Systems Integrator Transportation Tribal Government Utility Savings Category Alternative Fuel Vehicles Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Buying & Making Electricity Water Home Weatherization Solar Wind Program Info State Indiana Program Type Siting and Permitting Provider Utility Regulatory Commission To promote efficiency and avoid waste and duplication, rural and
Management Alert - Extended Assignments at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Extended Assignments at Princeton Extended Assignments at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory DOE/IG-0864 May 2012 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General Office of Audits and Inspections Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 May 17, 2012 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY FROM: Gregory H. Friedman Inspector General SUBJECT: INFORMATION: Management Alert on "Extended Assignments at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory" BACKGROUND Princeton University operates the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Princeton) under a contract with the Department of Energy's Office of Science. Princeton works with partners around the world to develop fusion as an energy source. The Laboratory's annual operating costs
Linear assignment maps for correlated system-environment states
Assignment maps are mathematical operators that describe initial system-environment states for open quantum systems. We re-examine the notion of assignments that account for correlations between the system and the environment and show that these maps can be made linear at the expense of giving up positivity or consistency of the map. We study the role of positivity and consistency of the map and show the effects of relaxing these. Finally, we establish a connection between the violation of the positivity of linear assignments and the no-broadcasting theorem.
Rodriguez-Rosario, Cesar A.; Aspuru-Guzik, Alan [Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States); Modi, Kavan [Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Developmental trajectories into substance use inadolescence.
??The present study examined cross-sectional and longitudinal developmental characteristics of the association between mental health and substance use. N=1182 adolescents aged between 11 and 20� (more)
McAloon, Thomas John
CNR PURCHASING ASSIGNMENTS as of September 27, 2013
CNR PURCHASING ASSIGNMENTS as of September 27, 2013 Jessie Jessie Jessie Robin Robin Darshan.talley@ leaf@ leaf@ leaf@ roberson@ 664-4058 664-9469 664-9469 664-9469 664-9466 Beissinger Allen
Wildermuth, Mary C
A fair assignment algorithm for multiple preference queries
Consider an internship assignment system, where at the end of each academic year, interested university students search and apply for available positions, based on their preferences (e.g., nature of the job, salary, office location, etc). In a variety ...
Leong Hou U; Nikos Mamoulis; Kyriakos Mouratidis
Peace Corps Assignment 114 Farm Management/Agribusiness
. Train agribusinesses in market analysis, production techniques, economic forecasting, financing options at agricultural training institutions. Technical Assistance and Training for Small Farmers Design and implementPeace Corps Assignment 114 Farm Management/Agribusiness Creating Sustainable Solutions As a Peace
Maxwell, Bruce D.
Optimal Routing and Assignment of Consultants for Energy Education, Inc.
Energy Education, Inc. EEI, a US management consulting firm, specializes in implementing energy conservation programs for schools, universities, and large churches. Similar to many consulting firms, travel expenses are among its largest budget items. ... Keywords: cluster analysis, consulting, employee assignment, vehicle routing
Junfang Yu; Randy Hoff
Channel assignment in cellular networks with synchronous base stations
A radio spectrum is a shared, limited, and expensive resource in cellular networks. A network allocates a channel from this spectrum to provide connectivity to a user. With the ever increasing number of users, it is a challenge and a business opportunity ... Keywords: cellular networks, dynamic channel assignment
Kshirasagar Naik; David S.L. Wei; Stephan Olariu
Domain assignments for FSSP representative set using DomainParser
NLE Websites -- All DOE Office Websites (Extended Search)
Domain assignments for the FSSP representative set Domain assignments for the FSSP representative set The following are the domain assignments for the FSSP representative set (released on January 31, 2000, 1987 chains in total) using DomainParser. Each line shows a PDB entry (with a chain identifier if any), total number of residues, number of domains, and domain assignments. The result is obtained fully automatically without manual editing. 12asa 327 2 (33-86; 271-288) (4-32; 87-270; 289-330) 153l 185 1 16pk 415 2 (5-205; 409-419) (206-408) 16vpa 311 2 (47-130; 164-233; 324-349) (131-163; 234-323; 395-402) 1914 171 1 19hca 292 2 (45-107) (1-44; 108-292) 1a02f 53 1 1a02j 52 1 1a02n 280 2 (399-569) (570-678) 1a04a 205 2 (5-126) (127-216) 1a0aa 63 1 1a0ca 437 1 1a0fa 201 2 (1-81) (82-201) 1a0ha 159 1 1a0i 332 2 (2-239) (240-349)
Developmental Light-Water Reactor Program
This report summarizes the progress of the Developmental Light-Water Reactor (DLWR) Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in FY 1989. It also includes (1) a brief description of the program, (2) definition of goals, (3) earlier achievements, and (4) proposed future activities.
Forsberg, C.W.
CELL, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Graduation Requirements
CELL, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Graduation Requirements: A minimum 2.0 average in all in Biology III: Cell Structure and Function (2 cr.; fall) 6. BIOL 24100 Biology IV: Genetics and Molecular Biology (3 cr.; spring) 7. BIOL 24200 Laboratory in Genetics and Molecular Biology (2 cr.; spring) 8. BIOL
Jiang, Wen
Image/Time Series Mining Algorithms: Applications to Developmental Biology, Document Processing and Data Streams
Applications to Developmental Biology, Document ProcessingApplications to Developmental Biology, Document Processingto develop- mental biology, historical manuscript
Tataw, Oben Moses
Inspection of Forrestal parking permit allocation and assignments
The purpose of this inspection was to review the process cr allocating and assigning parking permits at the Forrestal building. Specifically, we sought to determine the roles and responsibilities of Department of Energy (DOE) officials involved in the administration of the Forrestal parking permit process during the period June 1, 1991 to February 1, 1992. We also sought to determine if the allocation and assignment of Forrestal building parking spaces was implemented in accordance with Federal and DOE requirements. For our review, we interviewed the Headquarters officials involved in the administration of the parking permit allocation and assignment process. We also reviewed parking permit files and associated documentation for the period June 1, 1991 through February 1, 1992. In addition, we conducted a limited sampling of parking permits that were revoked during July and August 1991 to assess if they were processed in compliance with applicable regulations. We found no evidence that the actions by the Special Assistant to the Secretary (White House Liaison) and the other members of the parking committee regarding the issuance and revocation of parking permits were for any reason other than a desire to ensure that only individuals having a legitimate basis for a parking permit were issued a permit. However, we found that decisions by the parking committee regarding revocation of permits and appeals of revocation decisions were not always documented, nor were there written guidelines or procedures to govern the activities of the committee. In our view, the lack of written guidelines and procedures resulted in the use of invalidated personal knowledge by the parking committee in making decisions involving the revocation of parking permits and led to inconsistencies in the notification of individuals about the associated appeal process.
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A Direct Link between Feature Tracking and Height Assignment of Operational EUMETSAT Atmospheric Motion Vectors
Height Assignment (HA) is currently the most challenging task in the operational Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) extraction scheme. Several sources of error are associated with the height assignment step, including the sensitivity of the HA ...
R�gis Borde; Marie Doutriaux-Boucher; Greg Dew; Manuel Carranza
CNR PURCHASING ASSIGNMENTS Jessie Jessie Jessie Robin Robin Robin Nikki Nikki
CNR PURCHASING ASSIGNMENTS Jessie Jessie Jessie Robin Robin Robin Nikki Nikki Sanchez Sanchez Leaf Leaf Leaf Lywanda Groen Grenoble Grenoble Grenoble Dyer groenn@ leaf@ leaf@ leaf@ roberson@ 2
Silver, Whendee
Developmental transitions of germ cell lineage of the mouse
Mammalian germ cells arise during early embryogenesis and migrate to the developing gonad where, under the direction of the somatic environment, they initiate distinct sex-specific developmental programs resulting in the ...
Baltus, Andrew Edmund
The Developmental Testbed Center and its Winter Forecasting Experiment
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) was formed to promote exchanges between the development and operational communities in the field of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). The WRF DTC serves to accelerate ...
L�gia Bernardet; Steve Koch; Edward Szoke; Andrew Loughe; Jennifer Luppens Mahoney; Louisa Nance; Meral Demirtas; Tressa Fowler; Robert Gall; Hui-Ya Chuang; Matthew Pyle
Towards emergence of communication: a cognitive developmental robotics approach
This paper presents an introduction of the JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project (hereafter, SI) and its preliminary studies on emergence of communication. The project aims at building cognitive developmental artificial agents (humanoids), ...
Minoru Asada
A Constraint-Based Approach to Assigning System Components to Tasks
In multi-component systems, individual components must be assigned to the tasks that they are to perform. In many applications, there are several possible task decompositions that could be used to achieve the task, and there are limited resources ... Keywords: autonomous underwater vehicles, constrained heuristic search, constraint satisfaction, task assignment
Elise H. Turner; Roy M. Turner
Maximal network reliability with optimal transmission line assignment for stochastic electric power networks via genetic algorithms
This study proposes a genetic algorithm based method integrating the minimal paths and the recursive sum of disjoint products to find maximal network reliability with optimal transmission line assignment for a stochastic electric power network. In our ... Keywords: Genetic algorithm, Maximal network reliability, Recursive sum of disjoint products, Stochastic electric power network, Transmission line assignment
Yi-Kuei Lin; Cheng-Ta Yeh
Collaborative assignment using belief-desire-intention agent modeling and negotiation with speedup strategies
In this paper, we propose a distributed agent model that applies belief-desire-intention (BDI) reasoning and negotiation for addressing the linear assignment problem (LAP) collaboratively. In resource allocation, LAP is viewed as seeking a concurrent ... Keywords: Belief-desire-intention (BDI) negotiation model, Collaborative linear assignment, Distributed problem solving, Reasoning control
Kiam Tian Seow; Kwang Mong Sim
Generating Hard Test Instances with Known Optimal Solution for the Rectilinear Quadratic Assignment Problem
In this paper we consider the rectilinear version of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP). We define a class of edge-weighted graphs with nonnegatively valued bisections. For one important type of such graphs we provide a characterization of point ... Keywords: Combinatorial optimization, Graphs, Quadratic assignment, Test instances
G. Palubeckis
CMSC 475/675 Introduction to Neural Networks Fall 2011 Project 2 Assignment
CMSC 475/675 Introduction to Neural Networks Fall 2011 Project 2 Assignment This project assignment') is their Manhattan distance. For example, the distance between (1, 2) and (2, 2) is 1, between (1, 2) and (2, 1) is 2 vectors on the 3 by 3 output grid. You can use any language for this project. Report Besides
Peng, Yun
Audit Report - Follow-up Audit on Term Assignments of Contractor Employees, DOE-IG-0890
on Term on Term Assignments of Contractor Employees DOE/IG-0890 July 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General Office of Audits and Inspections Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 July 2, 2013 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY FROM: Gregory H. Friedman Inspector General SUBJECT: INFORMATION: Audit Report on "Follow-up Audit on Term Assignments of Contractor Employees" BACKGROUND The Department of Energy frequently assigns facility contractor personnel to the Washington, DC, area on a temporary basis when program officials consider it necessary to obtain technical expertise not available locally. Commonly referred to as term assignments, the estimated cost of all such assignments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 was over $37 million, all of which was
Nuggeteer: automatic nugget-based evaluation using descriptions and judgements
The TREC Definition and Relationship questions are evaluated on the basis of information nuggets that may be contained in system responses. Human evaluators provide informal descriptions of each nugget, and judgements (assignments of nuggets to responses) ...
Gregory Marton; Alexey Radul
Electric Utility Company Assigned to a Zip Code? | OpenEI Community
Electric Utility Company Assigned to a Zip Code? Electric Utility Company Assigned to a Zip Code? Home I have found an error in the utility company assigned to a zip code. I am not sure if the "assigned" utility company covers part of the zip code in question or not. How do I report an error like this for correction? Thanks. Submitted by Conroyt on 23 May, 2013 - 09:01 1 answer Points: 0 Thanks for submitting this. The Utilities Gateway (http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway:Utilities) uses the developer.nrel.gov service for zip-code lookups (http://developer.nrel.gov/doc/api/utility_rates/v3). This in turn uses Google for geocoding, and finds the centroid of the geographic region in question. This means that the result is based on the center of a zip code region, which may have no data. This question is timed well as we are
JM to Develop DOE O 321.2, Details and Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignments
Directives, Delegations, and Requirements
This Order will replace DOE M 321.1-1, dated 8/24/2000, and provides the continuing support and guidelines that addresses IPA assignments, and replaces Chapter ...
U.S. Average Depth of Dry Holes Developmental Wells Drilled ...
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (EIA)
Developmental Wells Drilled (Feet per Well) U.S. Average Depth of Dry Holes Developmental Wells Drilled (Feet per Well) Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6...
U.S. Footage Drilled for Natural Gas Exploratory and Developmental...
and Developmental Wells (Thousand Feet) U.S. Footage Drilled for Natural Gas Exploratory and Developmental Wells (Thousand Feet) Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5...
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Grade Assignments for Models Used for Calibration of Gross-Count Gamma-Ray Logging Systems (December 1983)
ICT Research in Africa: Need for a Strategic Developmental Focus
This paper argues the need to expand the research agenda on the use of ICT in African countries to include a stronger strategic developmental focus than is evident in much of the literature to date. Four strategic dimensions are identified, where ICT ... Keywords: Africa, ICT, IS research agenda, development, policy
Mark Thompson; Geoff Walsham
Modeling Behavior Cycles as a Value System for Developmental Robots
The behavior of natural systems is governed by rhythmic behavior cycles at the biological, cognitive, and social levels. These cycles permit natural organisms to adapt their behavior to their environment for survival, behavioral efficiency, or evolutionary ... Keywords: SART networks, behavior cycles, developmental robotics, motivated reinforcement learning, neural networks
Kathryn E. Merrick
OPIC US and Developmental Effects FY 2008 | Data.gov
OPIC US and Developmental Effects FY 2008 OPIC US and Developmental Effects FY 2008 BusinessUSA Data/Tools Apps Challenges Let's Talk BusinessUSA You are here Data.gov » Communities » BusinessUSA » Data OPIC US and Developmental Effects FY 2008 Dataset Summary Description Analysis of the project's expected impact on U.S. employment and U.S. balance of payments flows. Also includes impact analysis for each project receiving OPIC support in terms of net impact on the economic and social development of the project's host country. The analysis uses objective measurements to demonstrate the developmental impact of OPIC-supported projects. Tags {"Annual Policy Report","Foreign Assistance Act of 1961","US economic and host country development impacts","US economic effects","host country development effects","estimated economic impact",subproject,"agribusiness sector","minerals and energy sector","manufacturing sector","services sector","host country","investor procurement data","emerging market countries","financial services projects","investment guaranty","political risk insurance","OPIC loan","OPIC-supported private equity fund","OPIC-supported capital expansion","public infrastructure projects","foreign exchange benefits","foreign exchange costs","exports generated","imports replaced","capital outflows","project imports","net foreign exchange impacts"}
Inhalation developmental toxicology studies: Developmental toxicity of chloroprene vapors in New Zealand white rabbits. Final report
Chloroprene, 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene, is a colorless liquid with a pungent ethereal odor that is primarily used as an intermediate in the manufacture of neoprene rubber, and has been used as such since about 1930. This study addressed the potential for chloroprene to cause developmental toxicity in New Zealand white rabbits following gestational exposure to 0, 10, 40, or 175 ppm chloroprene vapors, 6h/dy, 7dy/wk. Each treatment group consisted of 15 artificially inseminated females exposed on 6 through 28 days of gestation (dg). Body weights were obtained throughout the study period, and uterine and fetal body weights were obtained at sacrifice on 29 dg. Implants were enumerated and their status recorded and live fetuses were examined for gross, visceral, skeletal, and soft-tissue craniofacial defects. There were no overt signs of maternal toxicity and the change in maternal body weight over the course of the study was not affected. Exposure of pregnant rabbits to chloroprene vapors on 6-28 dg had no effect on the number of implantation, the mean percent of live pups per litter, or on the incidence of resorptions per litter. The incidence of fetal malformations was not increased by exposure to chloroprene. Results of this study indicate that gestational exposure of New Zealand white rabbits to 10, 40, or 175 ppm chloroprene did not result in observable toxicity to either the dam or the offspring.
Mast, T.J.; Evanoff, J.J.; Westerberg, R.B.; Rommereim, R.L.; Weigel, R.J.
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Creative solutions for complex developmental testing
Sandia National Laboratories was requested to establish the FAA Aging Aircraft Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) Development and Demonstration Center. The Center is housed in a hangar at the Albuquerque International Airport and owns its own aged transport airplane. The Center`s work encompasses research and development in enhanced structural inspection. The goals of the Center are to: promote NDI technology development and maturation; help transfer new nondevelopment item technology to the hangar floor; validate NDI techniques; assess reliability or probability of detection of NDI processes. An important part of this project will be to make sure that the cost of implementation and operation of any technique is seriously considered and that techniques are usable in the field. Among the initial techniques to be evaluated are: enhanced visual, magneto-optic eddy current; coherent optics; ultrasonics; thermographics; eddy current scanners; experimental modal analysis. This project is a perfect example of how Development Testing draws on its own resources and teams up with others, as necessary, to get the job done. In this case, New Mexico State University and a private company, Science Applications International Corporation, are assisting.
Unclassified Foreign National Visits and Assignments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Unclassified Foreign National Visits Unclassified Foreign National Visits and Assignments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory INS-O-13-05 September 2013 Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 September 16, 2013 MEMORANDUM FOR THE MANAGER, OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY SITE OFFICE FROM: Sandra D. Bruce Assistant Inspector General for Inspections Office of Inspector General SUBJECT: INFORMATION: Inspection Report on "Unclassified Foreign National Visits and Assignments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory" BACKGROUND In support of its research and development mission, the Department of Energy's national laboratories host thousands of foreign national visitors and assignees (foreign nationals) every year for research collaborations and access to scientific user facilities. During calendar year
The Department of Energy's International Offices and Foreign Assignments, OAS-L-13-05
Department of Energy's Department of Energy's International Offices and Foreign Assignments OAS-L-13-05 January 2013 Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 January 16, 2013 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR FIELD OPERATIONS, OFFICE OF SCIENCE FROM: David Sedillo Director, Western Audits Division Office of Inspector General SUBJECT: INFORMATION: Audit Report on "The Department of Energy's International Offices and Foreign Assignments" BACKGROUND The mission of the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is to ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy,
A new algorithm for improved VDD assignment in low power dual VDD systems
We present the first in-depth study of the two existing algorithms, namely, Clustered Voltage Scaling (CVS) and Extended Clustered Voltage Scaling (ECVS), used for assigning the voltage supply to gates in integrated circuits having dual power supplies. ... Keywords: CVS, ECVS, dual VDD design, level converters, low power design algorithms
Sarvesh H. Kulkarni; Ashish N. Srivastava; Dennis Sylvester
Co-optimization of TSV assignment and micro-channel placement for 3D-ICs
The three dimensional circuit (3D-IC) brings forth new challenges to physical design such as allocation and management of through-silicon-vias (TSVs). Meanwhile, the thermal issues in 3D-IC becomes significant necessitating the use of active cooling ... Keywords: 3d-ic, liquid cooling, micro-channel, tsv assignment
Bing Shi; Caleb Serafy; Ankur Srivastava
A multiobjective faculty-course-time slot assignment problem with preferences
A faculty-course-time slot assignment problem is studied. The multiobjective 0-1 linear programming model considering both the administration's and instructors' preferences is developed and a demonstrative example is included. Both modeling and solving ... Keywords: AHP, Conic scalarization, Faculty course time slot problem, Multi-objective optimization
Nergiz A. Ismayilova; Mujgan Sa?Ir; Rafail N. Gasimov
A comparison between python and Tcl solution on four programs assigned in CS0
This paper takes four programs that were assigned to students in a bread-first computer science course and compares the solutions when written in Tcl/Tk and Python. It then concludes with a discussion of which programming language is better in a CSO ...
Peter C. Isaacson; Terry A. Scott
CAeSaR: unified cluster-assignment scheduling and communication reuse for clustered VLIW processors
Clustered architectures have been proposed as a solution to the scalability problem of wide ILP processors. VLIW architectures, being wide-issue by design, benefit significantly from clustering. Such architectures, being both statically scheduled and ... Keywords: cluster assignment, clustered VLIW, instruction scheduling
Vasileios Porpodas; Marcelo Cintra
Role assignment in institutional clouds for rule-based enterprise management
In the context of engineering cloud computing applications for enterprise management, we want to represent a theory of institutions and role assignment in terms of a formal specification of rule-based action and agency. We consider how a tripartite distinction ... Keywords: cloud computing, institutions, multi-agent systems, self-organisation
Jeremy Pitt; Julia Schaumeier; Alexander Artikis
Nodes organization for channel assignment with topology preservation in multi-radio wireless mesh networks
The wireless mesh network is a new emerging broadband technology providing the last-mile Internet access for mobile users by exploiting the advantage of multiple radios and multiple channels. The throughput improvement of the network relies heavily on ... Keywords: Channel assignment, Multiple channels, Multiple radios, Particle swarm optimization algorithm, Wireless mesh networks
Hongju Cheng; Naixue Xiong; Athanasios V. Vasilakos; Laurence Tianruo Yang; Guolong Chen; Xiaofang Zhuang
Roboshop: multi-layered sketching interface for robot housework assignment and management
As various home robots come into homes, the need for efficient robot task management tools is arising. Current tools are designed for controlling individual robots independently, so they are not ideally suitable for assigning coordinated action among ... Keywords: graphical user interface, home robots, housework management, human-robot interaction, sketching interface
Kexi Liu; Daisuke Sakamoto; Masahiko Inami; Takeo Igarashi
CSY3019 -Graphics Programming Assignment 2: Development of 3D graphics software: Java 2D (50%)
CSY3019 - Graphics Programming Assignment 2: Development of 3D graphics software: Java 2D (50 and/or strip lights). · User defined or loaded geometry (i.e. not primitive shapes). · The room & Title Page · Table of contents · Introduction · Analysis · Design · Implementation · Testing
A survey on physical layer impairments aware routing and wavelength assignment algorithms in optical networks
Optical networks are moving from opaque and translucent architectures towards all-optical (transparent) architectures. In translucent architectures a small amount of regeneration (e.g. optical-electronic-optical conversion) is available in the network. ... Keywords: Impairment aware RWA, Impairment constrained RWA, Impairment constraint-based routing, Optical network planning, Physical-layer impairments, Routing and wavelength assignment (RWA)
Siamak Azodolmolky; Miros?aw Klinkowski; Eva Marin; Davide Careglio; Josep Sol� Pareta; Ioannis Tomkos
An ant colony optimization approach for solving the nuclear magnetic resonance structure based assignment problem
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy is an important technique that allows determining protein structure in solution. An important problem in protein structure determination using NMR spectroscopy is the mapping of peaks to corresponding amino ... Keywords: ant colony optimization, backbone resonance assignments, n15-labeled, nmr
Jeyhun Aslanov; B�lent �atay; Mehmet Serkan Apaydin
An Improved Nuclear Vector Replacement Algorithm for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment
An Improved Nuclear Vector Replacement Algorithm for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment to the Nuclear Vector Replacement (NVR) algorithm [24] for high-throughput Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR% accu- racy) on the same test suite examined in [24], and runs in O(n5/2 log (cn)) time where n
Graduated assignment algorithm for finding the common labelling of a set of graphs
In pattern recognition applications, it is useful to represent objects by attributed graphs considering their structural properties. Besides, some graph matching problems need a Common Labelling between vertices of a set of graphs. Computing this Common ... Keywords: graduated assignment, graph common labelling, inconsistent labelling, multiple graph matching, softassign
Albert Sol�-Ribalta; Francesc Serratosa
Single-machine batch delivery scheduling with an assignable common due date and controllable processing times
We consider single-machine batch delivery scheduling with an assignable common due date and controllable processing times, which vary as a convex function of the amounts of a continuously divisible common resource allocated to individual jobs. Finished ... Keywords: Batch delivery, Common due date, Resource allocation, Scheduling
Yunqiang Yin, T. C. E. Cheng, Shuenn-Ren Cheng, Chin-Chia Wu
A Simple Heuristic for Assignment of Cells to Switches in a PCS Network
This work deals with a design problem for a network of Personal Communication Services (PCS). The goal is to assign cells to switches in a PCS Network (PCSN) in an optimum manner so as to minimize the total cost which includes two types of cost, ... Keywords: PCS, cell, clustering, handoff, heuristic, optimization, switch
Debashis Saha; Amitava Mukherjee; Partha Sarathi Bhattacharya
Single assignment C (SAC) high productivity meets high performance: high productivity meets high performance
We present the ins and outs of the purely functional, data parallel programming language SaC (Single Assignment C). SaC defines state- and side-effect-free semantics on top of a syntax resembling that of imperative languages like C/C++/C# or ...
Clemens Grelck
A joint centralized scheduling and channel assignment scheme in WiMax mesh networks
The IEEE 802.16 standard, also known as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax), which provides a mechanism for deploying high-speed wireless mesh networks in metropolitan areas. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is very important for WiMax ... Keywords: MDFS algorithm, WiMax mesh networks, centralized scheduling, channel assignment
Yuliang Tang; Yan Yao; Xinrong Lin
Balance Calibration � A Method for Assigning a Direct-Reading Uncertainty to an Electronic Balance.
Paper Title: Balance Calibration � A method for assigning a direct-reading uncertainty to an electronic balance. Intended Audience: Those who calibrate or use electronic balances. Abstract: As a calibration facility, we provide on-site (at the customer�s location) calibrations of electronic balances for customers within our company. In our experience, most of our customers are not using their balance as a comparator, but simply putting an unknown quantity on the balance and reading the displayed mass value. Manufacturer�s specifications for balances typically include specifications such as readability, repeatability, linearity, and sensitivity temperature drift, but what does this all mean when the balance user simply reads the displayed mass value and accepts the reading as the true value? This paper discusses a method for assigning a direct-reading uncertainty to a balance based upon the observed calibration data and the environment where the balance is being used. The method requires input from the customer regarding the environment where the balance is used and encourages discussion with the customer regarding sources of uncertainty and possible means for improvement; the calibration process becomes an educational opportunity for the balance user as well as calibration personnel. This paper will cover the uncertainty analysis applied to the calibration weights used for the field calibration of balances; the uncertainty is calculated over the range of environmental conditions typically encountered in the field and the resulting range of air density. The temperature stability in the area of the balance is discussed with the customer and the temperature range over which the balance calibration is valid is decided upon; the decision is based upon the uncertainty needs of the customer and the desired rigor in monitoring by the customer. Once the environmental limitations are decided, the calibration is performed and the measurement data is entered into a custom spreadsheet. The spreadsheet uses measurement results, along with the manufacturer�s specifications, to assign a direct-read measurement uncertainty to the balance. The fact that the assigned uncertainty is a best-case uncertainty is discussed with the customer; the assigned uncertainty contains no allowance for contributions associated with the unknown weighing sample, such as density, static charges, magnetism, etc. The attendee will learn uncertainty considerations associated with balance calibrations along with one method for assigning an uncertainty to a balance used for non-comparison measurements.
Mike Stears
Experiences of Adults with Developmental Disability and a Teacher of Mathematics in the Money Club.
??In my experiences, students with Developmental Disability (DD) are routinely excluded from Algebra and other high-level mathematics courses. People with DD do not have the� (more)
Rodriguez, Anthony Matthew
Developmental coordination disorder : identification methods and investigation of selected aspects of motor control.
??Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) are a heterogeneous group displaying difficulties in a range of domains including physical, behavioural, psychosocial, cognitive, and emotional deficits.� (more)
Civetta, Lauren Raena
Sub-microradian Surface Slope Metrology with the ALS Developmental Long Trace Profiler
upgraded LTP-II at the ALS Optical Metrology Laboratory,�Slope Metrology with the ALS Developmental Long TraceAdvanced Light Source (ALS) Optical Metrology Laboratory (
Yashchuk, Valeriy V.
upgraded LTP-II at the ALS Optical Metrology Laboratory,�Slope Metrology with the ALS Developmental Long Traceto operation at the ALS Optical Metrology Laboratory. The
Yashchuk, Valeriy V
A physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for developmental exposure to BDE-47 in rats
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are used commercially as additive flame retardants and have been shown to transfer into environmental compartments, where they have the potential to bioaccumulate in wildlife and humans. Of the 209 possible PBDEs, 2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-47) is usually the dominant congener found in human blood and milk samples. BDE-47 has been shown to have endocrine activity and produce developmental, reproductive, and neurotoxic effects. The objective of this study was to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for BDE-47 in male and female (pregnant and non-pregnant) adult rats to facilitate investigations of developmental exposure. This model consists of eight compartments: liver, brain, adipose tissue, kidney, placenta, fetus, blood, and the rest of the body. Concentrations of BDE-47 from the literature and from maternal-fetal pharmacokinetic studies conducted at RTI International were used to parameterize and evaluate the model. The results showed that the model simulated BDE-47 tissue concentrations in adult male, maternal, and fetal compartments within the standard deviations of the experimental data. The model's ability to estimate BDE-47 concentrations in the fetus after maternal exposure will be useful to design in utero exposure/effect studies. This PBPK model is the first one designed for any PBDE pharmaco/toxicokinetic description. The next steps will be to expand this model to simulate BDE-47 pharmacokinetics and distributions across species (mice), and then extrapolate it to humans. After mouse and human model development, additional PBDE congeners will be incorporated into the model and simulated as a mixture.
Emond, Claude, E-mail: email@example.com [Departement de sante environnementale et sante au travail Faculte de medecine, Universite de Montreal, P.O. Box 6128, Main Station, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 (Canada); BioSimulation Consulting Inc., Newark, DE 19711 (United States); Raymer, James H.; Studabaker, William B.; Garner, C. Edwin [RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (United States); Birnbaum, Linda S. [Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (United States)
User 'To Do' List as Soon as Beam Time is Assigned | Stanford Synchrotron
'To Do' List as Soon as Beam Time is Assigned 'To Do' List as Soon as Beam Time is Assigned Safety Review of Scheduled Experiments Identify potential safety issues on proposals and beam time requests. If there are any potential hazards with your samples, materials you are using, or overall set up you may be contacted by the safety office depending on the degree of the hazard indicated. If you want to bring hazardous equipment or substances to SSRL and have not previously indicated this on either your proposal or beam time request (BTR), contact the safety office immediately. Additionally, any changes you may wish to make to your proposal or BTR must be reviewed and approved by the safety office in advance. Late changes that involve potential hazards may not be possible. The experiment information provided by users is used to generate a Safety
Measuring the maturity of a technology : guidance on assigning a TRL.
This report provides guidance on how to assign a technology readiness level (TRL). The method proposed assists in assigning TRLs through a series of questions that focus on a set of unambiguous maturation metrics. This method is slightly biased towards the environment and approach to technology maturation at Sandia National Laboratories where customers and suppliers are in very close proximity to one another, allowing for supplier-customer interactions at a very early stage in technology development. The hope is that this report can serve as a practical guide to anyone trying to understand the maturity of a specific technology. Risk is reduced in system acquisition by selecting mature technologies for inclusion in system development. TRLs are used to assess the maturity of evolving technologies and therefore become part of an overall risk reduction strategy in system development.
Mitchell, John Anthony
Manual of functions, assignments, and responsibilities for nuclear safety: Revision 2
The FAR Manual is a convenient easy-to-use collection of the functions, assignments, and responsibilities (FARs) of DOE nuclear safety personnel. Current DOE directives, including Orders, Secretary of Energy Notices, and other assorted policy memoranda, are the source of this information and form the basis of the FAR Manual. Today, the majority of FARs for DOE personnel are contained in DOE`s nuclear safety Orders. As these Orders are converted to rules in the Code of Federal Regulations, the FAR Manual will become the sole source for information relating to the functions, assignments, responsibilities of DOE nuclear safety personnel. The FAR Manual identifies DOE directives that relate to nuclear safety and the specific DOE personnel who are responsible for implementing them. The manual includes only FARs that have been extracted from active directives that have been approved in accordance with the procedures contained in DOE Order 1321.1B.
Assignment of the Raman spectra of some deuterated-BEDT-TTF superconductors.
We present the room-temperature Raman spectra of both the protonated and deuterated forms of kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br, kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 and beta-(BEDT-TTF)2I3. Along with data for the neutral BEDT-TTF molecule these spectra are used to assign the many features in the spectra of the deuterated compounds.
Eldridge, J. E.; Wang, H. H.; Kini, A. M.; Schlueter, J. A.; Materials Science Division; Univ. of British Columbia
Solving the Frequency Assignment Problem by Site Availability and Constraint Programming
The efficient use of bandwidth for radio communications becomes more and more crucial when developing new information technologies and their applications. The core issues are addressed by the so-called Frequency Assignment Problems (FAP). Our work investigates static FAP, where an attempt is first made to configure a kernel of links. We study the problem based on the concepts and techniques of Constraint Programming and integrate the site availability concept. Numerical simulations conducted on scenarios provided by CELAR are very promising.
Linhares, Andrea Carneiro; Peinl, Peter; Michelon, Philippe
Assignment 3 MECH 6511 Due on Mar. 22, 06 Question 1
. Calculate the volume of air space in the walls of an expanded polystyrene foam cup of 50 kg/m3 densityAssignment 3 MECH 6511 Due on Mar. 22, 06 Question 1: The density of polystyrene is 1.05 g/cm3 (graphite): 2.25 g/cm3 . #12;Question 3: The time dependence of crystallization can be described by Avrami
Medraj, Mamoun
Assignment 3 MECH 421 Due on Mar. 22, 06 Question 1
. Calculate the volume of air space in the walls of an expanded polystyrene foam cup of 50 kg/m3 densityAssignment 3 MECH 421 Due on Mar. 22, 06 Question 1: The density of polystyrene is 1.05 g/cm3 (graphite): 2.25 g/cm3 . #12;Question 3: An extruder has a barrel diameter = 5.0 inch and length = 12 ft
On a joint temporal-spatial multi-channel assignment and routing scheme in resource-constrained wireless mesh networks
Use of multiple orthogonal channels can significantly improve network throughput of multi-hop wireless mesh networks (WMNs). In these WMNs where multiple channels are available, channel assignment is done either in a centralized manner, which unfortunately ... Keywords: Channel assignment, Linear programming (LP), Routing, Spatial, Temporal, Throughput, Wireless mesh networks (WMNs)
Yan Jin; Weiping Wang; Yingtao Jiang; Mei Yang
Using feedback to regulate gene expression in a developmental control architecture
We present what we believe is the first attempt to physically reconstruct the exploratory mechanism of genetic regulatory networks. Feedback plays a crucial role during developmental processes and its mechanisms have recently become much clearer due ... Keywords: adaptation/self-adaptation, developmental processes, evolvable hardware, gene regulatory networks, signal processing
Kester Clegg; Susan Stepney; Tim Clarke
Rainfall-Rate Assignment Using MSG SEVIRI Data�A Promising Approach to Spaceborne Rainfall-Rate Retrieval for Midlatitudes
The potential of rainfall-rate assignment using Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Instrument (SEVIRI) data is investigated. For this purpose, a new conceptual model for precipitation processes in connection ...
Meike K�hnlein; Boris Thies; Thomas Nau�; J�rg Bendix
Calibration Model Assignments expressed as %U3O8, Summary Table ES-1
ES-1. Assignments for Logging Models ES-1. Assignments for Logging Models Model Location Primary Use a Enriched-Zone Grade % e U 3 O 8 b ppm e U b Enriched- Zone Thickness (ft) b Enriched- Zone Moisture (wt-%) c Dry Bulk Density (g/cc) c U1 U2 U3 WF N3 D U A1 A2 A3 Grand Junction, Colorado TC TC TC TC TC FN KUT FN FN FN 2.636 ± 0.082 1.229 ± 0.038 0.4516 ± 0.0091 0.3003 ± 0.0053 0.2310 ± 0.0041 0.0772 ± 0.0012 0.05569 ± 0.00097 0.03051 ± 0.00044 0.0794 ± 0.0012 0.1611 ± 0.0024 22355 ± 697 10424 ± 326 3830 ± 77 2547 ± 45 1959 ± 35 654.5 ± 9.8 472.3 ± 8.2 258.7 ± 3.7 673.5 ± 9.8 1366 ± 20 4.06 ± 0.01 4.01 ± 0.00 4.01 ± 0.00 4.02 ± 0.00 4.19 ± 0.00 5.80 ± 0.00 4.98 ± 0.00 6.01 ± 0.00 5.94 ± 0.00
Assignment of the cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase gene (CARS) to 11p15. 5
The attachment of each of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids to their cognate tRNA isoaccepting families is catalyzed by a specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. The structural genes encoding 10 of these enzymes have been assigned to specific human chromosomes. The HARS, LARS, RARS, and TARS genes, encoding histidyl-, leucyl-, arginyl-, and threonyl-tRNA synthetases, respectively, are all located on chromosome 5( 1, 5, 7, 9, 14). The MARS (methionyl-tRNA synthetase), NARS (asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase), VARS (valyl-tRNA synthetase), and WARS (tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase) genes have been assigned to chromosomes 12, 18, 6, and 14, respectively (3, 4, 6, 8). A gene originally identified as encoding glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase was mapped to chromosome 1q32-q42 (10). However, a recent study suggests that the product of this gene is, in fact, a multifunctional enzyme with both glutamyl- and prolyl-tRNA synthetase activities (2). The fact that 4 of the 10 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase genes already mapped are located on chromosome 5 may be fortuitous but might also indicate an evolutionary or regulatory relatedness. It is therefore, of interest to map genes encoding other aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases to determine if additional examples of synteny exist. The recent isolation of cDNA and genomic DNA clones for human cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase has now enabled us to map the CARS gene to segment p15.5 on chromosome 11 by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
Cruzen, M.E.; Bengtsson, U.; McMahon, J.; Wasmuth, J.J.; Arfin, S.M. (Univ. of California, Irvine (United States))
Cognitive-developmental learning for a humanoid robot : a caregiver's gift
(cont.) which are then applied to developmentally acquire new object representations. The humanoid robot therefore sees the world through the caregiver's eyes. Building an artificial humanoid robot's brain, even at an ...
Arsenio, Artur Miguel Do Amaral, 1972-
Work plan for the developmental control of portable SHMS-E+platform
DOE Green Energy (OSTI)
This document describes the Developmental Control process to be used by Dyncorp Fabrication Services and SGN Eurisys Services Corporation - Remote Sensing and Sampling Equipment Engineering (RSSE) in the fabrication of two portable SHMS- E+ Platforms for Lockheed Martin Hanford (TWRS).
Philipp, B.L.
U.S. Crude Oil Developmental Wells Drilled (Number of Elements)
U.S. Crude Oil Developmental Wells Drilled (Number of Elements) Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov ... Crude Oil and Natural Gas Exploratory and ...
5 5 (11-03) SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) Candidate Developmental Assignment Evaluation DATE:_______________ NAME OF SES CANDIDATE TITLE OF POSITION LOCATION ASSIGNMENT DURATION: Which Executive Core Qualification(s) was this assignment intended to meet? Leading Change Leading People Results Driven Business Acumen Building Coalitions/Communication Please provide a brief description of your assignment. Did the experience meet your expectation? Was this a good learning experience? 1 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DOE F 360.5 (11-03) SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) Candidate Developmental Assignment Evaluation
GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) Practical Assignment Version 1.4b
While working for a multinational Original Equipment Manufacturer as a network administrator, the internal network degraded during a worm attack, management wanted the network to be assessed. The network team had been assigned to conduct a risk assessment of our company�s internal network security. We started prioritizing the risks by classifying them as at high, medium and low. The team then recommended a few solutions to address these risks. After publishing the risk assessment report, the team identified a few areas to be fixed as soon as possible. First, the Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) were not fully secured. Second, there was no separation of network services by function. Third, we audited the office environment and found Rogue Wireless Access Points connecting to the office network. Fourth, we found development labs network having many vulnerable workstations and servers. To start, we decided to secure our WAN and deploy IPSec VPN technology on top of a frame-relay PVC network with Quality of Service (QoS) Key fingerprint = AF19 FA27 2F94 998D FDB5 DE3D F8B5 06E4 A169 4E46
Jia Cherng Lee; Ded Fb E A E
Storage assignment problem with travel distance and blocking considerations for a picker-to-part order picking system
Order picking is a key operation in managing a warehouse efficiently. Most previous studies on picking only considered single-picker operation; however, many pickers frequently work concurrently in the same region. Since congestion may occur in such ... Keywords: Multi-picker operations, Order picking, Storage assignment policy, Warehouse management
Jason Chao-Hsien Pan; Po-Hsun Shih; Ming-Hung Wu
Optimal placement and channel assignment of relay stations in heterogeneous wireless mesh networks by modified Bender's decomposition
Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (FBWA) technology is designed to serve as a wireless DSL replacement to provide broadband Internet access in underserved areas where no other access technology exists. Due to the enormousness of the target service area, ... Keywords: Bender's decomposition, Fixed broadband wireless access, Mathematical programming/optimization, Placement and channel assignment, Relay stations
Aaron So; Ben Liang
CSY3019 -Graphics Programming Assignment 2: Development of 2D/3D graphics software: Java 3D (50%)
CSY3019 - Graphics Programming Assignment 2: Development of 2D/3D graphics software: Java 3D (50, directional, point and spot lighting (to model windows and/or strip lights). · User defined or loaded geometry. Front Sheet & Title Page · Table of contents · Introduction · Analysis · Design · Implementation
Delay-Jitter aware slot assignment for Real-Time applications in wireless multimedia ad hoc sensor networks
This paper presents a distributed time slot assignment algorithm which adopts TDMA as medium access control, specially suited to support applications with tight delay, jitter and throughput requirements in convergecast traffic network, e.g. wireless ... Keywords: Congestion, Delay, Jitter, QoS, Sensor network
Liqiang Tao; Fengqi Yu
A Heuristic Method for Co-optimization of Pin Assignment and Droplet Routing in Digital Microfluidic Biochip
Design automation in Digital micro fluidic biochip is of immense importance in to days clinical diagnosis process. In this paper, we try to build a heuristic algorithm to simultaneously perform droplet routing and electrode actuation. The proposed method ... Keywords: Digital microfluidic biochip, Droplet routing, Pin assignment, Co-optimization heuristic
Ritwik Mukherjee; Hafizur Rahaman; Indrajit Banerjee; Tuhina Samanta; Parthasarathi Dasgupta
Rate-adaption channel assignment and routing algorithm for multi-channel wirelessMAN mesh networks
Wireless mesh networks provide an easy deployed and extensible solution to access Internet or communicate with each other for both enterprises and individuals. With the help of multi-channel and multi-radio, wireless mesh network can support more traffic ... Keywords: IEEE 802.16, channel assignment, rate-adaption, routing, wireless mesh network
Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu; Wei-Li Chang; Hsuan-Hao Chan
Preliminary evaluation of alternative waste form solidification processes. Volume II. Evaluation of the processes
This Volume II presents engineering feasibility evaluations of the eleven processes for solidification of nuclear high-level liquid wastes (HHLW) described in Volume I of this report. Each evaluation was based in a systematic assessment of the process in respect to six principal evaluation criteria: complexity of process; state of development; safety; process requirements; development work required; and facility requirements. The principal criteria were further subdivided into a total of 22 subcriteria, each of which was assigned a weight. Each process was then assigned a figure of merit, on a scale of 1 to 10, for each of the subcriteria. A total rating was obtained for each process by summing the products of the subcriteria ratings and the subcriteria weights. The evaluations were based on the process descriptions presented in Volume I of this report, supplemented by information obtained from the literature, including publications by the originators of the various processes. Waste form properties were, in general, not evaluated. This document describes the approach which was taken, the developent and application of the rating criteria and subcriteria, and the evaluation results. A series of appendices set forth summary descriptions of the processes and the ratings, together with the complete numerical ratings assigned; two appendices present further technical details on the rating process.
Program Evaluation
Evaluation: Background and Methods Evaluation: Background and Methods Definition of evaluation: the process of determining the worth or merit of something; if "something" is a program, then it's "program evaluation." Other types of evaluation include: product evaluation (most widely practiced, e.g., Consumer Reports); personnel evaluation; research evaluation; policy studies; art, movie, play, and book reviews. Program evaluation is NOT the same as research although they share many characteristics--Both: Start with questions Use similar methods Provide similar information Program evaluation focuses on decisions. Research focuses on answering questions about phenomena to discover new knowledge and test theories/hypotheses. Research is aimed at truth. Evaluation is aimed at
Student Milestones Page This page is used to assign milestones to students.
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Jones, Michelle
Photodissociation of carbon dioxide in singlet valence electronic states. II. Five state absorption spectrum and vibronic assignment
The absorption spectrum of CO$_2$ in the wavelength range 120\\,nm --- 160\\,nm is analyzed by means of quantum mechanical calculations performed using vibronically coupled PESs of five singlet valence electronic states and the coordinate dependent transition dipole moment vectors. The thermally averaged spectrum, calculated for T=190\\,K via Boltzmann averaging of optical transitions from many initial rotational states, accurtely reproduces the experimental spectral envelope, consisting of a low and a high energy band, the positions of the absorption maxima, their FWHMs, peak intensities, and frequencies of diffuse structures in each band. Contributions of the vibronic interactions due to Renner-Teller coupling, conical intersections, and the Herzberg-Teller effect are isolated and the calculated bands are assigned in terms of adiabatic electronic states. Finally, diffuse structures in the calculated bands are vibronically assigned using wave functions of the underlying resonance states. It is demonstrated that...
Grebenshchikov, Sergy Yu
Computer processing of mass-spectral data. Part V. Assignment of formulas to experimental masses. Representative databases for program FZM
Program FZM assigns formulas to masses using databases generated with respect to the /sup 14/CH/sub 2/, /sup 50/CF/sub 2/, /sup 82/CCl/sub 2/, and /sup 170/Cbr/sub 2/ homologous-unit (Dendrick) mass Scales by program DBG. Each database consists of formula codes and fractional Kendrick masses grouped into 14 nominal-mass Z series tables. The formula codes in each table are arranged in order of decreasing fractional mass. In order to verify correct implementation of programs DBG and FZM and to allow manual application of the formula-assignment process, a database is reproduced for each homologous unit. The input parameters to program DBG required to generate each database are listed. The process of determining the formulas whose masses lie within a region 2 delta about the experimental mass is illustrated for each database.
Chung, K.C.; Hwang, C.S.; Scheppele, S.E.
4 4 (11-03) SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) Supervisor's Evaluation of Candidate's Performance During Developmental Assignment DATE:________________ NAME OF SES CANDIDATE: TITLE OF POSITION: LOCATION OF ASSIGNMENT: ASSIGNMENT DURATION: PART I: EVALUATION OF ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVES Please evaluate the candidate's level of performance in meeting the objectives of the assignment as Successful or Unacceptable. Objectives Standards Performance Evaluation PLEASE RATE YOUR OVERALL EVALUATION OF THE CANDIDATE'S PERFORMANCE BY CIRCLING A NUMBER ON THE SCALE BELOW: EXCELLENT VERY GOOD SATISFACTORY POOR UNACCEPTABLE
Case tool evaluation system
An automated system that uses an analytical approach to evaluate Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools is currently being developed. this system is referred to as the CASE Tool Evaluation System. The following general criteria will be used: overall tool functionality; tool stability; cost; interfaces with other software; customization; ease of use; output produced; hardware and operating system needs; documentation; training and vendor support; repository interface; methodologies; and vendor stability. in Phase 1 CASE tools will be eliminated that do not meet certain must-have'' characteristics specified by the user. Phase 2 will further reduce the size of the tool list by retaining those tools that possess desirable, but not absolutely necessary'' characteristics, also specified by the user. Phase 3 will employ the Analytic Hierarchy Process, developed by Dr. Thomas L. Saaty, to rank the tools. Users will be able to supply tools of their own choosing, in addition to tools that are generated via normal use of the system. All three phases will interact with a database that stores objective information about CASE tools. The use of the Analytic Hierarchy process (AHP) distinguishes this method of CASE tool evaluation from others. As used in this system, the AHP is a method of breaking down the complex, unstructured problem of selecting a CASE tool into its component evaluation criteria and candidate tools. These criteria and tools are arranged into a hierarchical order. Each criterion and tool is assigned a subjective numerical value (by experts or users or both). These values are then synthesized to determine which have the highest priority. The result will be a ranked list of CASE tools tailored to the needs and desires of the user.
Green, P.L.; Andreae, P.V.; Pennewell, W.J.; Clinard, L.A.; Thomas, B. Jr.; Tarrant, P.M.
Gene amplification in Drosophila ovarian follicle cells as a developmental strategy and model for metazoan DNA replication
The process of gene amplification in Drosophila ovaries provides a means of increasing the amount of template for transcription, thus increasing the amount of protein that can be made over a short developmental period. At ...
Claycomb, Julie Michelle, 1977-
Effects of position and number of relevant documents retrieved on users' evaluations of system performance
Information retrieval research has demonstrated that system performance does not always correlate positively with user performance, and that users often assign positive evaluation scores to search systems even when they are unable to complete tasks successfully. ... Keywords: Search performance, precision, presentation of search results, ranking, satisfaction, user evaluation of performance
Diane Kelly; Xin Fu; Chirag Shah
DOE F 360.3 | Department of Energy
about the SES candidate, qualifications, and the assignment. SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) Developmental Assignment Opportunity More...
A new optimum-word-length-assignment (OWLA) multiplierless integer DCT for lossless/lossy image coding and its performance evaluation
Recently, we proposed a multiplierless 1D Int-DCT improved from our previous proposed Int-DCT by approximating floating multiplications to bit-shift and addition operations. The multiplierless 1D Int-DCT can be well operated both lossless coding and ...
Somchart Chokchaitam; Masahiro Iwahashi
The high current, fast, 100ns, Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) developmental project at Sandia Laboratories and HCEI.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., USA, in collaboration with the High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI), Tomsk, Russia, is developing a new paradigm in pulsed power technology: the Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) technology. This technological approach can provide very compact devices that can deliver very fast high current and high voltage pulses straight out of the cavity with out any complicated pulse forming and pulse compression network. Through multistage inductively insulated voltage adders, the output pulse, increased in voltage amplitude, can be applied directly to the load. The load may be a vacuum electron diode, a z-pinch wire array, a gas puff, a liner, an isentropic compression load (ICE) to study material behavior under very high magnetic fields, or a fusion energy (IFE) target. This is because the output pulse rise time and width can be easily tailored to the specific application needs. In this paper we briefly summarize the developmental work done in Sandia and HCEI during the last few years, and describe our new MYKONOS Sandia High Current LTD Laboratory. An extensive evaluation of the LTD technology is being performed at SNL and the High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI) in Tomsk Russia. Two types of High Current LTD cavities (LTD I-II, and 1-MA LTD) were constructed and tested individually and in a voltage adder configuration (1-MA cavity only). All cavities performed remarkably well and the experimental results are in full agreement with analytical and numerical calculation predictions. A two-cavity voltage adder is been assembled and currently undergoes evaluation. This is the first step towards the completion of the 10-cavity, 1-TW module. This MYKONOS voltage adder will be the first ever IVA built with a transmission line insulated with deionized water. The LTD II cavity renamed LTD III will serve as a test bed for evaluating a number of different types of switches, resistors, alternative capacitor configurations, cores and other cavity components. Experimental results will be presented at the Conference and in future publications.
Ward, Kevin S. (Ketech Corporation, Albuquerque, NM); Long, Finis W.; Sinebryukhov, Vadim A. (High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI), Tomsk, Russia); Kim, Alexandre A. (High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI), Tomsk, Russia); Wakeland, Peter Eric (Ketech Corporation, Albuquerque, NM); McKee, G. Randall; Woodworth, Joseph Ray; McDaniel, Dillon Heirman; Fowler, William E.; Mazarakis, Michael Gerrassimos; Porter, John Larry, Jr.; Struve, Kenneth William; Savage, Mark Edward; Stygar, William A.; LeChien, Keith R.; Matzen, Maurice Keith
Developmental & Comparative
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Bosch, Thomas C. G.
Developmental Control
Science Center. Lignin has been considered as a major obstacle for cellulosic biofuel production from switchgrass biomass. The purpose of this study was to provide...
A new low budget slope measuring instrument, the Developmental Long Trace Profiler (DLTP), was recently brought to operation at the ALS Optical Metrology Laboratory. The design, instrumental control and data acquisition system, initial alignment and calibration procedures, as well as the developed experimental precautions and procedures are described in detail. The capability of the DLTP to achieve sub-microradian surface slope metrology is verified via cross-comparison measurements with other high performance slope measuring instruments when measuring the same high quality test optics. The directions of future work to develop a surface slope measuring profiler with nano-radian performance are also discussed.
Yashchuk, Valeriy V; Barber, Samuel; Domning, Edward E.; Kirschman, Jonathan L.; Morrison, Gregory Y.; Smith, Brian V; Siewert, Frank; Zeschke, Thomas; Geckeler, Ralf; Just, Andreas
Graphics Calculators In Developmental Mathematics�Policies And Practice: An Investigation Of Factors Affecting Instructors� Classroom Usage In Tennessee Community Colleges.
??The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of Tennessee community college full-time developmental mathematics instructors� classroom graphics calculator usage (percent of class� (more)
Smith, Joyce Petty
Assigned Keyword List
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Assignment 4 - CECM
Note, one way to clean up your Groebner basis G is to use Maple and compute and return Groebner[Basis](G,M) where M is the monomial ordering e.g. plex(x,y �...
Assignment 5 (.txt) - CECM
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Assignment 5 (.pdf) - CECM
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the first n such that the largest coefficient of ?n(x) is 3 in magnitude. Note: if ? is an ... They are over the cyloctomic fields of order k = 5, 3, and 24 respectively.
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Assignment 6 - CECM
Additional exercises Note, Q = field of rational numbers, R = real numbers, ... m(x) in Q[x] for (i) alpha = sqrt(2)+sqrt(3)+sqrt(5) and (ii) beta = 1+2^(1/2)+2^(1/4).
Nondestructive evaluation
Research reported in the thrust area of nondestructive evaluation includes: advanced 3-D imaging technologies; new techniques in laser ultrasonic testing; infrared computed tomography for thermal NDE of materials, structures, sources, and processes; automated defect detection for large laser optics; multistatic micropower impulse radar imaging for nondestructive evaluation; and multi-modal NDE for AVLIS pod shielding components.
Martz, H.E.
Inhalation developmental toxicology studies: Teratology study of methyl ethyl ketone in mice: Final report
Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) is a widely used industrial solvent which results in considerable human exposure. In order to assess the potential for MEK to cause developmental toxicity in rodents, four groups of Swiss (CD-1) mice were exposed to 0, 400, 1000 or 3000 ppM MEK vapors, 7 h/day, 7 dy/wk. Ten virgin females and approx.30 plug-positive females per group were exposed concurrently for 10 consecutive days (6--15 dg for mated mice). Body weights were obtained throughout the study period, and uterine and fetal body weights were obtained at sacrifice on 18 dg. Uterine implants were enumerated and their status recorded. Live fetuses were sexed and examined for gross, visceral, skeletal, and soft-tissue craniofacial defects. Exposure of pregnant mice to these concentrations of MEK did not result in apparent maternal toxicity, although there was a slight, treatment-correlated increase in liver to body weight ratios which was significant for the 3000-ppM group. Mild developmental toxicity was evident at 3000-ppM as a reduction in mean fetal body weight. This reduction was statistically significant for the males only, although the relative decrease in mean fetal body weight was the same for both sexes. 17 refs., 4 figs., 10 tabs.
Mast, T.J.; Dill, J.A.; Evanoff, J.J.; Rommereim, R.L.; Weigel, R.J.; Westerberg, R.B.
Therapeutic and developmental design: the relationship between spatial enclosure and impaired elder-child social interaction
Social interaction and the availability of meaningful activities promote the physical and psychological well-being of children and older adults. The development of social interaction is closely related to physical and social environments that complement the therapeutic needs of cognitively impaired elders and the developmental needs of young children. This study examined the effects of the degree of spatial enclosure on social interaction between these two groups during physical exercise in an assisted living facility co-located with a childcare center. The multi-methodological approach allowed for triangulation and employed the following techniques: naturalistic observation, a Web-based and mail out survey, an experiment, semi-structured interviews, sequential analysis, nonparametric analysis, and content analysis. The findings of this study demonstrated that a semi-enclosed spatial plan most influenced the prosocial behavior of older adults and young children. These elder-child prosocial behaviors were likely facilitated by a perception of adequate personal space, openness, and possible spaces for prospect and refuge within the semi-enclosed spatial plan. Elder-child social interaction was positively influenced by several programmatic factors which gave participants some sense of control. These findings led to design recommendations for creating appropriate developmental and therapeutic environments for children and older adults in intergenerational care settings. Recommendations were that a satisfactory balance be maintained between openness and enclosure as these stimulate elder-child social interaction.
Seo, Min-Young
Waste stored within tank farm double-shell tanks (DST) and single-shell tanks (SST) generates flammable gas (principally hydrogen) to varying degrees depending on the type, amount, geometry, and condition of the waste. The waste generates hydrogen through the radiolysis of water and organic compounds, thermolytic decomposition of organic compounds, and corrosion of a tank's carbon steel walls. Radiolysis and thermolytic decomposition also generates ammonia. Nonflammable gases, which act as dilutents (such as nitrous oxide), are also produced. Additional flammable gases (e.g., methane) are generated by chemical reactions between various degradation products of organic chemicals present in the tanks. Volatile and semi-volatile organic chemicals in tanks also produce organic vapors. The generated gases in tank waste are either released continuously to the tank headspace or are retained in the waste matrix. Retained gas may be released in a spontaneous or induced gas release event (GRE) that can significantly increase the flammable gas concentration in the tank headspace as described in RPP-7771. The document categorizes each of the large waste storage tanks into one of several categories based on each tank's waste characteristics. These waste group assignments reflect a tank's propensity to retain a significant volume of flammable gases and the potential of the waste to release retained gas by a buoyant displacement event. Revision 5 is the annual update of the methodology and calculations of the flammable gas Waste Groups for DSTs and SSTs.
Waste stored within tank farm double-shell tanks (DST) and single-shell tanks (SST) generates flammable gas (principally hydrogen) to varying degrees depending on the type, amount, geometry, and condition of the waste. The waste generates hydrogen through the radiolysis of water and organic compounds, thermolytic decomposition of organic compounds, and corrosion of a tank's carbon steel walls. Radiolysis and thermolytic decomposition also generates ammonia. Nonflammable gases, which act as dilutents (such as nitrous oxide), are also produced. Additional flammable gases (e.g., methane) are generated by chemical reactions between various degradation products of organic chemicals present in the tanks. Volatile and semi-volatile organic chemicals in tanks also produce organic vapors. The generated gases in tank waste are either released continuously to the tank headspace or are retained in the waste matrix. Retained gas may be released in a spontaneous or induced gas release event (GRE) that can significantly increase the flammable gas concentration in the tank headspace as described in RPP-7771, Flammable Gas Safety Isme Resolution. Appendices A through I provide supporting information. The document categorizes each of the large waste storage tanks into one of several categories based on each tank's waste and characteristics. These waste group assignments reflect a tank's propensity to retain a significant volume of flammable gases and the potential of the waste to release retained gas by a buoyant displacement event. Revision 6 is the annual update of the flammable gas Waste Groups for DSTs and SSTs.
Waste stored within tank farm double-shell tanks (DST) and single-shell tanks (SST) generates flammable gas (principally hydrogen) to varying degrees depending on the type, amount, geometry, and condition of the waste. The waste generates hydrogen through the radiolysis of water, thermolytic decomposition of organic compounds, and corrosion of a tank's carbon steel walls. Radiolysis and thermolytic decomposition also generate ammonia. Nonflammable gases, which act as diluents (such as nitrous oxide), are also produced. Additional flammable gases (e.g., methane) are generated by chemical reactions between various degradation products of organic chemicals present in the tanks. Volatile and semivolatile organic chemicals in tanks also produce organic vapors. The generated gases in tank waste are either released continuously to the tank headspace or are retained in the waste matrix. Retained gas may be released in a spontaneous or induced gas release event (GRE) that can significantly increase the flammable gas concentration in tank headspace as described in RPP-7771, Flammable Gas Safety Issue Resolution. Appendices A through L provide supporting information. This document categorizes each of the large waste storage tanks into one of several categories based on each tank's waste and characteristics. These waste group assignments reflect a tank's propensity to retain a significant volume of flammable gases and the potential of the waste to release retained gas by a buoyant displacement event.
Performance Evaluation
The Performance Evaluation Subcommittee of the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture sponsored a workshop at Argonne National Laboratories in October 1971. This issue is in part a result of that workshop.
R. R. Shirley
Plant Engineering: EPRI Standardized Task Evaluation Program Implementation Guide
The nuclear power industry uses supplemental workers to support outages and other work activities. It is important to provide assurances that these workers are knowledgeable and skilled in the performance of the specific tasks to which they will be assigned as independent workers. The end result must be objective, credible evidence to show that the independent workers have been evaluated to meet station standards. One method of determining whether a worker is proficient ...
PHYS C1601 Solution to Optional Problem from Assignment 5 [1] Energy stored in elastic equals gravitational potential energy which is mass times dis-
PHYS C1601 Solution to Optional Problem from Assignment 5 [1] Energy stored in elastic equals gravitational potential energy which is mass times dis- tance dropped. Thus (1) E0.34kG = 34kG 0.36m g = 120J energy. Specifically, if the initial velocity has x and z components vx,z, the initial position
Millis, Andrew
Time efficient heuristics for cell-to-switch assignment in quasi-static/dynamic location area planning of mobile cellular networks
This paper presents a set of time efficient, sub-optimal heuristics to solve the problem of assigning cells to mobile switching centers (or, switches in short) for an effective location area (LA) planning in a mobile cellular network (MCN). A common ... Keywords: CSA, Cellular networks, Clustering and heuristics, Handoff, Hybrid cost, Load balancing, Location area partitioning, Mobile communication, Optimization
Debashis Saha; Partha S. Bhattacharjee; Amitava Mukherjee
Relative risk site evaluations for Yakima Training Center
All 20 U.S. Army Yakima Training Center (YTC) sites evaluated were given a `low` relative risk. At Solid Waste Management Unit (SWMU) 22, a `minimum` soils contaminant hazard factor was assigned even though 6,700 mg/kg TPH-diesel was found in surface soil. SWMU 22 is physically located on top of and with the fence surrounding Area of Concern (AOC) 4. Because the diesel is most likely associated with AOC 4, and plans are to clean up AOC 4, any further actions regarding these contaminated soils should be addressed as part of the planned actions for AOC 4. Contaminant hazard factors of `moderate` were assigned to the soil pathway for SWMUs 4 and 7 because dieldrin and arsenic, respectively, were found in surface soil samples at concentrations exceeding standards. A `moderate` contaminant hazard factor was also assigned to the sediment pathway for AOC 1 because arsenic detected in sediments in `Larry`s Swimming Pool` exceeded the standard. All other contaminant hazard factors were rated as minimal. The receptor factor for all sites and pathways was rated `limited,` except for SWMU 54 in which the groundwater receptor factor was rated `potential.` A `potential` rating was assigned to the groundwater pathway at this site to be conservative. The site is located on the south side of the syncline axis where the unconfined aquifer may be present and there are no monitoring wells at the site to confirm or deny the presence of groundwater contamination.
Smith, R.M.; Whelan, G.
Assignment of the sup 1 H and sup 15 N NMR spectra of Rhodobacter capsulatus ferrocytochrome c sub 2
The peptide resonances of the {sup 1}H and {sup 15}N nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of ferrocytochrome c{sub 2} from Rhodobacter capsulatus are sequentially assigned by a combination of 2D {sup 1}H-{sup 1}H and {sup 1}H-{sup 15}N spectroscopy, the latter performed on {sup 15}N-enriched protein. Short-range nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) data show {alpha}-helices from residues 3-17, 55-65, 69-88, and 103-115. Within the latter two {alpha}-helices, there are three single 3{sub 10} turns, 70-72, 76-78, and 107-109. In addition {alpha}H-NH{sub i+1} and {alpha}H-NH{sub i+2} NOEs indicate that the N-terminal helix (3-17) is distorted. Compared to horse or tuna cytochrome c and cytochrome c{sub 2} of Rhodospirillium rubrum, there is a 6-residue insertion at residues 23-29 in R. capsulatus cytochrome c{sub 2}. The NOE data show that this insertion forms a loop, probably an {Omega} loop. {sup 1}H-{sup 15}N heteronuclear multiple quantum correlation experiments are used to follow NH exchange over a period of 40 h. As the 2D spectra are acquired in short time periods (30 min), rates for intermediate exchanging protons can be measured. Comparison of the NH exchange data for the N-terminal helix of cytochrome c{sub 2} of R. capsulatus with the highly homologous horse heart cytochrome c shows that this helix is less stable in cytochrome c{sub 2}.
Gooley, P.R.; Caffrey, M.S.; Cusanovich, M.A.; MacKenzie, N.E. (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson (USA))
Research Article Prevalence of Depression and Dementia among Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Manitoba, Canada
Copyright � 2011 Shahin Shooshtari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Study Objective. To estimate and compare the prevalence of dementia and depression among adults with and without developmental disabilities (DDs). Methods. We linked data from several provincial administrative databases to identify persons with DDs. We matched cases with DD with persons without DD as to sex, age, and place of residence. We estimated the prevalence of dementia and depression and compared the two groups using the Generalized Estimating Equations (GEEs) technique. Results. The estimated prevalence of depression and dementia among younger adults (20�54) and older adults (50+) with DD was significantly higher than the estimated rates for the matched non-DD group (Depression: younger adults: RR = 2.96 (95 % CI 2.59�
Shahin Shooshtari; Patricia Joan Martens; Charles A. Burchill; Natalia Dik; Saba Naghipur
Toward practical mutation analysis for evaluating the quality of student-written software tests
Software testing is being added to programming courses at many schools, but current assessment techniques for evaluating student-written tests are imperfect. Code coverage measures are typically used in practice, but they have limitations and sometimes ... Keywords: automated assessment, automated grading, bytecode transformation, mutation testing, programming assignments, reflection, software testing, test coverage, test-driven development
Zalia Shams, Stephen H. Edwards
Biological Evaluation
Biological Evaluation Biological Evaluation for the Proposed United States Army Military Training Activities on the Savannah River Site Department of the Army - Fort Gordon Range Control - Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization, and Security Location: Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell Counties, SC., Savannah River Site Contact Person: Donald S. McLean, 706-840-5522 / 706-791-2422 Submitted by Fort Gordon Range Control Training Facility Coordinator (DPTMS) Prepared By: ___________________________________________________________________ Donald S. McLean, Training Facility Coordinator Fort Gordon Georgia Date: 2 Table of Contents Summary, Page 4 Introduction, Page 6 Project Description, Page 6 Purpose and Need for Proposed Action, Page 7
Enhancing Transportation Education through On-line Simulation Using an Agent-based Demand and Assignment Model (07-0533) presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in
This research explores the effectiveness of using simulation as a tool for enhancing classroom learning in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. The authors developed a modern transportation planning software package, Agent-based Demand and Assignment Model (ADAM), that is consistent with our present understanding of travel behavior, that is platform independent, and that is easy to learn and is thus usable by students. An in-class project incorporated ADAM and the performance of this education strategy was evaluated through pre-class survey, post-class survey, scores in the quiz focusing on travel demand modeling and final scores. Results showed that ADAM effectively enhanced students � self-reported understanding of transportation planning and their skills of forming opinions, evaluating projects and making judgments. Students of some learning styles were found to benefit more than others through simulation-based teaching strategy. Findings in this research could have significant implications for future practice of simulation-based teaching strategy.
Shanjiang Zhu; Feng Xie; David Levinson
Evaluation Instruments
Teacher Logs Teacher Logs Teacher logs are to be collected 'pre' and 'post' program for the purpose of exploring changes in teaching practice that may have resulted from participation in the summer institute. Pre-Program: Identify teachers who will be asked to complete teacher logs plus 2-3 alternates. Telephone these teachers and include the following information: Teacher logs are a relatively new form of evaluating programs. We are using them to help us improve our program and to assess the extent to which the program affects teaching and learning. They have been selected randomly from teacher-participants of the [Name of Program] to help us evaluate our program. Several teachers in this and other programs are being asked to complete logs to assess the overall effectiveness of XX programs nationwide.
Eliminating livelock by assigning the same priority state to each message that is inputted into a flushable routing system during N time intervals
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Livelock-free message routing is provided in a network of interconnected nodes that is flushable in time T. An input message processor generates sequences of at least N time intervals, each of duration T. An input register provides for receiving and holding each input message, where the message is assigned a priority state p during an nth one of the N time intervals. At each of the network nodes a message processor reads the assigned priority state and awards priority to messages with priority state (p-1) during an nth time interval and to messages with priority state p during an (n+1) th time interval. The messages that are awarded priority are output on an output path toward the addressed output message processor. Thus, no message remains in the network for a time longer than T.
Faber, Vance (Los Alamos, NM)
Eliminating livelock by assigning the same priority state to each message that is input into a flushable routing system during N time intervals
Livelock-free message routing is provided in a network of interconnected nodes that is flushable in time T. An input message processor generates sequences of at least N time intervals, each of duration T. An input register provides for receiving and holding each input message, where the message is assigned a priority state p during an nth one of the N time intervals. At each of the network nodes a message processor reads the assigned priority state and awards priority to messages with priority state (p-1) during an nth time interval and to messages with priority state p during an (n+1) th time interval. The messages that are awarded priority are output on an output path toward the addressed output message processor. Thus, no message remains in the network for a time longer than T. 4 figures.
Faber, V.
Nuggeteer: Automatic NuggetBased Evaluation using Descriptions and Judgements
The TREC Definition and Relationship questions are evaluated on the basis of information nuggets that may be contained in system responses. Human evaluators provide informal descriptions of each nugget, and judgements (assignments of nuggets to responses) for each response submitted by participants. While human evaluation is the most accurate way to compare systems, approximate automatic evaluation becomes critical during system development. We present Nuggeteer, a new automatic evaluation tool for nugget-based tasks. Like the first such tool, Pourpre, Nuggeteer uses words in common between candidate answer and answer key to approximate human judgements. Unlike Pourpre, but like human assessors, Nuggeteer creates a judgement for each candidatenugget pair, and can use existing judgements instead of guessing. This creates a more readily interpretable aggregate score, and allows developers to track individual nuggets through the variants of their system. Nuggeteer is quantitatively comparable in performance to Pourpre, and provides qualitatively better feedback to developers.
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Computer processing of mass-spectral data. Part III. Assignment of formulas to experimental masses. Algorithms and structures of programs DBG, FZM, and FZMIN
A computer method for the assignment of formulas to experimental masses has been developed. Programs FZM, DBG and FZMIN are the main programs controlling the procedures for processing the exprerimental masses. The main purpose of this document is to describe the development of these programs and the associated alborithms. Program FZM assigns formulas to the experimental masses using a pregenerated database. A database is generated by program DBG with respect to one of the homologous units CH/sub 2/, CF/sub 2/, CCl/sub 2/, or CBr/sub 2/ using a formula-acceptability-criterion-based bound and branched combinatorial algorithm as part of the formula-assignment process. Program FZM calculates the correct mass number of a species from its experimental mass on the appropriate Kendrick-mass scale and the truncating factor calculated by program DBG for the current database in order to locate the correct database table. The homologous-unit-mass-scale fractional masses in this table which lie within the user-specified region about the experimental Kendrick fractional mass are retrieved using a binary and linear search algorithm. The formula codes associated with these fractional masses are decoded. Program FZMIN admits on-line acquired mass spectral data to program FZM or remote execution.
Chung, K.C.; Barker, G.A.; Hedrick, G.E.
The high current, fast, 100ns, Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) developmental project at Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., USA, in collaboration with the High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI), Tomsk, Russia, is developing a new paradigm in pulsed power technology: the Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) technology. This technological approach can provide very compact devices that can deliver very fast high current and high voltage pulses straight out of the cavity with out any complicated pulse forming and pulse compression network. Through multistage inductively insulated voltage adders, the output pulse, increased in voltage amplitude, can be applied directly to the load. The load may be a vacuum electron diode, a z-pinch wire array, a gas puff, a liner, an isentropic compression load (ICE) to study material behavior under very high magnetic fields, or a fusion energy (IFE) target. This is because the output pulse rise time and width can be easily tailored to the specific application needs. In this paper we briefly summarize the developmental work done in Sandia and HCEI during the last few years, and describe our new MYKONOS Sandia High Current LTD Laboratory.
Ward, Kevin S.; Long, Finis W.; Sinebryukhov, Vadim A. (High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI), Tomsk, Russia); Kim, Alexandre A. (High Current Electronic Institute (HCEI), Tomsk, RUSSIA); Wakeland, Peter Eric (Ktech Corporation, Albuquerque, NM); McKee, G. Randall; Woodworth, Joseph Ray; McDaniel, Dillon Heirman; Fowler, William E.; Mazarakis, Michael Gerrassimos; Porter, John Larry, Jr.; Struve, Kenneth William; Stygar, William A.; LeChien, Keith R.; Matzen, Maurice Keith
Inhalation developmental toxicology studies: Teratology study of acetone in mice and rats: Final report
Acetone, an aliphatic ketone, is a ubiquitous industrial solvent and chemical intermediate; consequently, the opportunity for human exposure is high. The potential for acetone to cause developmental toxicity was assessed in Sprague-Dawley rats exposed to 0, 440, 2200, or 11000 ppm, and in Swiss (CD-1) mice exposed to 0, 440, 2200, and 6600 ppm acetone vapors, 6 h/day, 7 days/week. Each of the four treatment groups consisted of 10 virgin females (for comparison), and approx.32 positively mated rats or mice. Positively mated mice were exposed on days 6-17 of gestation (dg), and rats on 6-19 dg. The day of plug or sperm detection was designated as 0 dg. Body weights were obtained throughout the study period, and uterine and fetal body weights were obtained at sacrifice (rats, 20 dg; mice, 18 dg). Implants were enumerated and their status recorded. Live fetuses were sexed and examined for gross, visceral, skeletal, and soft-tissue craniofacial defects. 46 refs., 6 figs., 27 tabs.
Mast, T.J.; Evanoff, J.J.; Rommereim, R.L.; Stoney, K.H.; Weigel, R.J.; Westerberg, R.B.
Mechanical design of PlayLamp : a minimally intrusive device for recording the behavior of children at-risk of developmental disorders
This thesis paper documents the design process, decisions, and outcomes of the design of the physical form factor of PlayLamp, a device for video and audio recording the development of children at-risk of having developmental ...
Steger, Stephen Andrew
Evaluating Benchmark . . .
To reduce the simulation time to a tractable amount or due to compilation (or other related) problems, computer architects often simulate only a subset of the benchmarks in a benchmark suite. However, if the architect chooses a subset of benchmarks that is not representative, the subsequent simulation results will, at best, be misleading or, at worst, yield incorrect conclusions. To address this problem, computer architects have recently proposed several statistically-based approaches to subset a benchmark suite. While some of these approaches are well-grounded statistically, what has not yet been thoroughly evaluated is the: 1) Absolute accuracy, 2) Relative accuracy across a range of processor and memory subsystem enhancements, and 3) Representativeness and coverage of each approach for a range of subset sizes. Specifically, this paper evaluates statistically-based subsetting approaches based on principal components analysis (PCA) and the Plackett and Burman (P&B) design, in addition to prevailing approaches such as integer vs. floating-point, core vs. memory-bound, by language, and at random. Our results show that the two statistically-based approaches, PCA and P&B, have the best absolute and relative accuracy for CPI and energy-delay product (EDP), produce subsets that are the most representative, and choose benchmark and input set pairs that are most well-distributed across the benchmark space. To achieve a 5 % absolute CPI and EDP error, across a wide range of configurations, PCA and P&B typically need about 17 benchmark and input set pairs, while the other five approaches often choose more than 30 benchmark and input set pairs.
Joshua J. Yi; Resit Sendag; Lieven Eeckhout; Ajay Joshi; David J. Lilja; Lizy K. John
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This report discusses Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) thrust area which supports initiatives that advance inspection science and technology. The goal of the NDE thrust area is to provide cutting-edge technologies that have promise of inspection tools three to five years in the future. In selecting projects, the thrust area anticipates the needs of existing and future Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) programs. NDE provides materials characterization inspections, finished parts, and complex objects to find flaws and fabrication defects and to determine their physical and chemical characteristics. NDE also encompasses process monitoring and control sensors and the monitoring of in-service damage. For concurrent engineering, NDE becomes a frontline technology and strongly impacts issues of certification and of life prediction and extension. In FY-92, in addition to supporting LLNL programs and the activities of nuclear weapons contractors, NDE has initiated several projects with government agencies and private industries to study aging infrastructures and to advance manufacturing processes. Examples of these projects are (1) the Aging Airplanes Inspection Program for the Federal Aviation Administration, (2) Signal Processing of Acoustic Signatures of Heart Valves for Shiley, Inc.; and (3) Turbine Blade Inspection for the Air Force, jointly with Southwest Research Institute and Garrett. In FY-92, the primary contributions of the NDE thrust area, described in this report were in fieldable chemical sensor systems, computed tomography, and laser generation and detection of ultrasonic energy.
Kulkarni, S.
Development of X-ray optics for 3rd and 4th generation X-ray light sources with a level of surface slope precision of 0.1-0.2 {micro}rad requires the development of adequate fabrication technologies and dedicated metrology instrumentation and methods. Currently, the best performance of surface slope measurement has been achieved with the NOM (Nanometer Optical Component Measuring Machine) slope profiler at BESSY (Germany) [1] and the ESAD (Extended Shear Angle Difference) profiler at the PTB (Germany) [2]. Both instruments are based on electronic autocollimators (AC) precisely calibrated for the specific application [3] with small apertures of 2.5-5 mm in diameter. In the present work, we describe the design, initial alignment and calibration procedures, the instrumental control and data acquisition system, as well as the measurement performance of the Developmental Long Trace Profiler (DLTP) slope measuring instrument recently brought into operation at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) Optical Metrology Laboratory (OML). Similar to the NOM and ESAD, the DLTP is based on a precisely calibrated autocollimator. However, this is a reasonably low budget instrument used at the ALS OML for the development and testing of new measuring techniques and methods. Some of the developed methods have been implemented into the ALS LTP-II (slope measuring long trace profiler [4]) which was recently upgraded and has demonstrated a capability for 0.25 {micro}rad surface metrology [5]. Performance of the DLTP was verified via a number of measurements with high quality reference mirrors. A comparison with the corresponding results obtained with the world's best slope measuring instrument, the BESSY NOM, proves the accuracy of the DLTP measurements on the level of 0.1-0.2 {micro}rad depending on the curvature of a surface under test. The directions of future work to develop a surface slope measuring profiler with nano-radian performance are also discussed.
Yashchuk, Valeriy V.; Barber, Samuel; Domning, Edward E.; Kirschman, Jonathan L.; Morrison, Gregory Y.; Smith, Brian V.; Siewert, Frank; Zeschke, Thomas; Geckeler, Ralf; Just, Andreas
Computer processing of mass-spectral data. Part IV. Assignment of formulas to experimental masses. Source listings of programs DBG, FZM, and FZMIN
A versatile and efficient computer method for processing masses has been developed. Program FZM assigns formulas and specific Z values to masses using a pregenerated database. The databases are generated by program DBG. Program FZMIN admits either on-line or off-line acquired data to program FZM for remote execution. Source listings of the three FORTRAN programs are reproduced to provide both a reference to be used in conjunction with the external documentation of the method and a means to code check programs reproduced on requestor-furnished magnetic tape.
An Independent Evaluation of Safety Culture at the U.S. Department of
An Independent Evaluation of Safety Culture at the U.S. Department An Independent Evaluation of Safety Culture at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety and Security- Headquarters An Independent Evaluation of Safety Culture at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety and Security- Headquarters March 2013 An Independent Evaluation of Safety Culture at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety and Security- Headquarters This report describes the results of an independent evaluation of the existing safety culture at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Health, Safety, and Security (HSS). This evaluation was conducted at the request of the Department's Chief Health, Safety and Security Officer. The population addressed in the evaluation included all employees, federal and resident contractors, assigned to HSS. The evaluation was conducted in
Full differentiation and assignment of boron species in the electrolytes Li{sub 2}B{sub 6}O{sub 9}F{sub 2} and Li{sub 2}B{sub 3}O{sub 4}F{sub 3} by solid-state {sup 11}B NMR spectroscopy
The syntheses of two new fluorooxoborates, Li{sub 2}B{sub 3}O{sub 4}F{sub 3} and Li{sub 2}B{sub 6}O{sub 9}F{sub 2}, which possess considerable ion conductivity at higher temperatures, have been reported recently. Here, we describe the characterisation of these compounds by solid-state {sup 11}B NMR spectroscopy. The complex central-transition MAS spectra, resulting from overlap of sub-spectra contributed by the individual boron species in the crystal structures, could be clearly separated by acquisition and analysis of 3QMAS spectra. By numerical fit of these sub-spectra, the isotropic chemical shift {delta}{sub iso}, the quadrupolar coupling constant {chi}, and the asymmetry {eta} were determined. Using known relations between boron coordination and chemical shift as well as quadrupolar coupling, the individual {sup 11}B NMR resonances have been ascribed to boron species in tetrahedral or trigonal environment. To remove remaining assignment ambiguities, the response of the {sup 11}B resonances to {sup 19}F decoupling was qualitatively analysed. Thus, by using the combined information conveyed by chemical shift, quadrupolar and dipolar interaction, a complete assignment of the complex {sup 11}B line shapes exhibited by the fluorooxoborates has been achieved. - Graphical abstract: Structure and solid-state {sup 11}B NMR spectrum of Li{sub 2}B{sub 3}O{sub 4}F{sub 3}. Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Characterisation of title compounds by solid-state {sup 11}B NMR spectroscopy. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Sub-spectra of boron species separated by evaluation of 3QMAS spectra. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Isotropic chemical shift and quadrupolar interaction parameters determined. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Full boron assignment based on NMR parameters and response to {sup 19}F decoupling.
Braeuniger, Thomas, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com [Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany)] [Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany); Pilz, Thomas; Chandran, C. Vinod; Jansen, Martin [Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany)] [Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart (Germany)
Macroencapsulation is currently available at facilities permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection agency for the treatment of radioactively contaminated hazardous waste. The U.S. Department of Energy is evaluating the use of high-density polyethylene containers to provide a simpler means of meeting macroencapsulation requirements. Macroencapsulation is used for the purpose of isolating waste from the disposal environment in order to meet the Land Disposal Restriction treatment standards for debris-like waste. The containers being evaluated have the potential of providing a long-term reduction in the leachability and subsequent mobility of both the hazardous and radioactive contaminants in this waste while at the same allowing treatment by the generator as the waste is being generated. While the testing discussed in this paper shows that further developmental work is necessary, these tests also indicate that these containers have the potential to reduce the cost, schedule, and complexity of meeting the treatment standard for mixed waste debris.
Eaton, David; Carlson, Tim; Gardner, Brad; Bushmaker, Robert; Battleson, Dan; Shaw, Mark; Bierce, Lawrence
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A confirmative spin-parity assignment for the key 6.15 MeV state in $^{18}$Ne of astrophysical importance
Proton resonant states in $^{18}$Ne have been investigated by the resonant elastic scattering of $^{17}$F+$p$. The $^{17}$F beam was separated by the CNS radioactive ion beam separator (CRIB), and bombarded a thick H$_2$ gas target at 3.6 MeV/nucleon. The recoiled light particles were measured by using three sets of ${\\Delta}$E-E Si telescope at scattering angles of $\\theta$$_{lab}$$\\approx 3^\\circ$, 10$^\\circ$ and 18$^\\circ$, respectively. Four resonances, {\\it i.e.}, at $E_{x}$=6.15, 6.30, 6.85, and 7.05 MeV, were observed clearly. By $R$-matrix analysis of the excitation functions, $J^{\\pi}$=1$^-$ was firmly assigned to the 6.15 MeV state which is a key state in calculating the reaction rate of $^{14}$O($\\alpha$,$p$)$^{17}$F reaction. This reaction was thought to be one of the most probable key reactions for the breakout from the hot-CNO cycle to the $rp$-process in type I x-ray bursts In addition, a new excited state observed at $E_{x}$=6.85 MeV was tentatively assigned as 0$^{-}$, which could be the analog state of 6.880 MeV, 0$^{-}$ in mirror $^{18}$O.
J. Hu; J. J. He; S. W. Xu; H. Yamaguchi; K. David; P. Ma; J. Su; H. W. Wang; T. Nakao; Y. Wakabayashi; T. Teranishi; J. Y. Moon; H. S. Jung; T. Hashimoto; A. Chen; D. Irvine; S. Kubono
Assignment of near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectra of metalloporphyrins by means of time-dependent density-functional calculations
The C 1s and N 1s near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra of three prototype tetraphenyl porphyrin (TPP) molecules are discussed in the framework of a combined experimental and theoretical study. We employ time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) to compute the NEXAFS spectra of the open- and closed-shell metalloporphyrins CoTPP and ZnTPP as well as the free-base 2HTPP in realistic nonplanar conformations. Using Becke's well-known half-and-half hybrid functional, the computed core excitation spectra are mostly in good agreement with the experimental data in the low-energy region below the appropriate ionization threshold. To make these calculations feasible, we apply a new, simple scheme based on TDDFT using a modified single-particle input spectrum. This scheme is very easy to implement in standard codes and allows one to compute core excitation spectra at a similar cost as ordinary UV/vis spectra even for larger molecules. We employ these calculations for a detailed assignment of the NEXAFS spectra including subtle shifts in certain peaks of the N 1s spectra, which depend on the central coordination of the TPP ligand. We furthermore assign the observed NEXAFS resonances to the individual molecular subunits of the investigated TPP molecules.
Schmidt, Norman; Fink, Rainer [Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Lehrstuhl fuer Physikalische Chemie II and ICMM, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen (Germany); Hieringer, Wolfgang [Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Lehrstuhl fuer Theoretische Chemie, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
Operation Greenhouse. Scientific Director's report of atomic weapon tests at Eniwetok, 1951. Annex 6. 6. Evaluation of filter material
Four types of standard and developmental filter materials used in individual and collective-protective devices and one type of developmental filter material used for sampling of air for particulate matter were evaluated against the contamination produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb and present in the resulting radioactive cloud. These filter materials were evaluated in multilayer pads at the standard flow-rate conditions used by the Chemical Corps in evaluation studies of filter materials. This permitted correlation of results of laboratory data. Analysis of the materials was made by counting the gross beta activity collected on successive layers of the same filter material and the efficiency of the materials was calculated from the data obtained.
Engquist, E,H.
Savannah River Restart Peer Evaluation Program final examination report
During the period of August 13, 1990 through September 6, 1991 the Savannah River Peer Evaluation Program was administered during three distinct phases to 73 certified Central Control Room Operators, Central Control Room Supervisors, and Shift Technical Engineers assigned to the K Reactor, on the Savannah River Site (SRS). This program was conceived and developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and it`s implementation satisfies recommendations made by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The review identified both strengths and weaknesses of the procedures and personnel.
Morgan, M.P.; Draper, D.G.
During the period of August 13, 1990 through September 6, 1991 the Savannah River Peer Evaluation Program was administered during three distinct phases to 73 certified Central Control Room Operators, Central Control Room Supervisors, and Shift Technical Engineers assigned to the K Reactor, on the Savannah River Site (SRS). This program was conceived and developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and it's implementation satisfies recommendations made by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The review identified both strengths and weaknesses of the procedures and personnel.
Habitat Evaluation: Guidance for the Review of Environmental Impact Assessment Documents
HABITAT EVALUATION: HABITAT EVALUATION: GUIDANCE FOR THE REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT DOCUMENTS EPA Contract No. 68-C0-0070 work Assignments B-21, 1-12 January 1993 Submitted to: Jim Serfis U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Federal Activities 401 M Street, SW Washington, DC 20460 Submitted by: Mark Southerland Dynamac Corporation The Dynamac Building 2275 Research Boulevard Rockville, MD 20850 CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION ... ...... .... ... ................................................. 1 Habitat Conservation .......................................... 2 Habitat Evaluation Methodology ................................... 2 Habitats of Concern ........................................... 3 Definition of Habitat ..................................... 4
Analysis and Development of a Project Evaluation Process.
The Bonneville Power Administration has responsibility, assigned by the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-501; 16 USC 839), for implementing the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program of the Northwest Power Planning Council. One aspect of this responsibility is evaluation of project proposals and ongoing and completed projects. This report recommends formalized procedures for conducting this work in an accurate, professional, and widely respected manner. Recommendations and justifications are based largely on interviews with federal and state agencies and Indian tribes in the Northwest and nationally. Organizations were selected that have evaluation systems of their own, interact with the Fish and Wildlife Program, or have similar objectives or obligations. Perspective on aspects to be considered were obtained from the social science of evaluation planning. Examples of procedures and quantitative criteria are proposed. 1 figure, 2 tables.
Coutant, Charles C.; Cada Glenn F.
Field Artillery Ammunition Processing System (FAAPS) concept evaluation study
The Field Artillery Ammunition Processing System (FAAPS) is an initiative to introduce a palletized load system (PLS) that is transportable with an automated ammunition processing and storage system for use on the battlefield. System proponents have targeted a 20% increase in the ammunition processing rate over the current operation while simultaneously reducing the total number of assigned field artillery battalion personnel by 30. The overall objective of the FAAPS Project is the development and demonstration of an improved process to accomplish these goals. The initial phase of the FAAPS Project and the subject of this study is the FAAPS concept evaluation. The concept evaluation consists of (1) identifying assumptions and requirements, (2) documenting the process flow, (3) identifying and evaluating technologies available to accomplish the necessary ammunition processing and storage operations, and (4) presenting alternative concepts with associated costs, processing rates, and manpower requirements for accomplishing the operation. This study provides insight into the achievability of the desired objectives.
Kring, C.T.; Babcock, S.M.; Watkin, D.C.; Oliver, R.P.
This Determination of Importance Evaluation (DIE) applies to the Subsurface Exploratory Studies Facility (ESF), encompassing the Topopah Spring (TS) Loop from Station 0+00 meters (m) at the North Portal to breakthrough at the South Portal (approximately 78+77 m), the Enhanced Characterization of the Repository Block (ECRB) East-West Cross Drift Starter Tunnel (to approximate ECRB Station 0+26 m), and ancillary test and operation support areas in the TS Loop. This evaluation applies to the construction, operation, and maintenance of these excavations. A more detailed description of these items is provided in Section 6.0. Testing activities are not evaluated in this DIE. Certain construction activities with respect to testing activities are evaluated; but the testing activities themselves are not evaluated. The DIE for ESF Subsurface Testing Activities (BAJ3000000-01717-2200-00011 Rev 01) (CRWMS M&O 1998a) evaluates Subsurface ESF Testing activities. The construction, operation, and maintenance of the TS Loop niches and alcove slot cuts is evaluated herein and is also discussed in CRWMS M&O 1998a. The construction, operation, and maintenance of the Busted Butte subsurface test area in support of the Unsaturated Zone (UZ) Transport Test is evaluated in CRWMS M&O 1998a. Potential test-to-test interference and the waste isolation impacts of testing activities are evaluated in the ESF Subsurface Testing Activities DIE and other applicable evaluation(s) for the Job Package (JP), Test Planning Package (TPP), and/or Field Work Package (FWP). The objectives of this DIE are to determine whether the Subsurface ESF TS Loop and associated excavations, including activities associated with their construction and operation, potentially impact site characterization testing or the waste isolation capabilities of the site. Controls needed to limit any potential impacts are identified. The validity and veracity of the individual tests, including data collection, are the responsibility of the assigned Principal Investigator(s) (PIs) and are not evaluated in this DIE.
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Evaluation of Potential Impacts of Microbial Activity on Drift Chemistry
''Evaluation of Potential Impacts of Microbial Activity on Drift Chemistry'' focuses on the potential for microbial communities that could be active in repository emplacement drifts to influence the in-drift bulk chemical environment. This report feeds analyses to support the inclusion or exclusion of features, events, and processes (FEPs) in the total system performance assessment (TSPA) for the license application (LA), but this work is not expected to generate direct feeds to the TSPA-LA. The purpose was specified by, and the evaluation was performed and is documented in accordance with, ''Technical Work Plan For: Near-Field Environment and Transport In-Drift Geochemistry Analyses'' (BSC 2004 [DIRS 172402], Section 2.1). This report addresses all of the FEPs assigned by the technical work plan (TWP), including the development of exclusion arguments for FEPs that are not carried forward to the TSPA-LA. Except for an editorial correction noted in Section 6.2, there were no other deviations from the TWP. This report documents the completion of all assigned tasks, as follows (BSC 2004 DIRS 172402, Section 1.2.1): (1) Perform analyses to evaluate the potential for microbial activity in the waste emplacement drift under the constraints of anticipated physical and chemical conditions. (2) Evaluate uncertainties associated with these analyses. (3) Determine whether the potential for microbes warrants a feed to TSPA-LA to account for predicted effects on repository performance. (4) Provide information to address the ''Yucca Mountain Review Plan, Final Report'' (NUREG-1804) (NRC 2003 [DIRS 163274]) and Key Technical Issues and agreements, as appropriate. (5) Develop information for inclusion or exclusion of FEPs.
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Nondestructive Evaluation: Nondestructive Evaluation for Material Characterization
This report summarizes the results of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) for material characterization conducted on Alloy 600 samples that have undergone changes in material properties due to simulated operating conditions, including heat treatment, three-point bending load, cracking, and repair. The overall objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using eddy current and ultrasonic data fusion techniques to conduct NDE for material characterization by relying on a set of fabricated Alloy 600 samples.
Evaluating underbalanced perforating conditions
This paper presents an evaluation model which also predicts effects on the wireline gun system and allows formations to be aggressively perforated with optimum safe underbalanced pressure. Closed chamber techniques can be added to accurately evaluate completion efficiency.
Manohar, M.M.; Morris, C.W.; Hill, D.D. (Schlumberger Well Services (US)); Brunner, S.R. (Chevron USA Inc. (US))
Evaluating Transformer Losses
This paper outlines how to determine what transformer losses cost and how to evaluate transformer bids to optimize the investment.
Grun, R. L. Jr.
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Evaluation of systems usability
Motivation -- Development of complex system interfaces can benefit, in addition to the traditional safety focused evaluation, also from a usability approach to evaluation of system performance. But as the users, the information system, and the ... Keywords: activity theory, complex systems, joint cognitive systems, usability evaluation
Paula Savioja; Leena Norros; Leena Salo
California Beach Health: Evaluation of Grunion as an Indicator Species
Tidepools. University of California Press. Page Numbers: Pp.previous dearth of data on California Grunion, we became theDevelopmental Staging of California Grunion in Normal and
Martin, Karen
DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS 235:1738�1752, 2006 REVIEWS�A PEER REVIEWED FORUM Molecular Genetic Cascades for External Genitalia Formation: An Emerging
External genitalia are anatomical structures located at the posterior embryonic region as part of several urogenital/reproductive organs. The embryonic anlage of the external genitalia, the genital tubercle (GT) develops as a bud-shaped structure with an initial urethral plate and later urethra. Embryonic external genitalia are considered to be one of the appendages. Recent experiments suggest that essential regulatory genes possess similar functions for the outgrowth regulation of the GT and limb appendages. The transient embryonic epithelia located in the distal GT are called the distal urethral epithelium (DUE) regulating, at least in part, the (distal) GT development. This review covers the available data about early patterning of GT and discusses the molecular developmental similarities and points of divergence between the different appendages. Development of the male and female external genitalia is also reviewed. Developmental Dynamics
H. Kataoka; A. Kuroiwa; Y. Chen
Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program
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Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W.; Klerman, Jacob A.
Final Vitrification Melter Evaluation
Waste-Incidental-to-Reprocessing Evaluation Waste-Incidental-to-Reprocessing Evaluation for the West Valley Demonstration Project Vitrification Melter February 2012 Prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy West Valley, New York This page is intentionally blank. WASTE-INCIDENTAL-TO-REPROCESSING EVALUATION FOR THE WVDP VITRIFICATION MELTER CONTENTS Revision 0 i NOTATION (Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Units).................................................. v 1.0 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Purpose. ................................................................................................................. 2 1.2 Scope and Technical Basis ....................................................................................... 2
Evaluation Project 4492
LaboratoriesNew Mexico (SNLNM) proposes to perform machining work at the Kansas City Plant (KCP) in Kansas City, Missouri to evaluate parts that have undergone testing....
Emergency Management Evaluations - Reports
Emergency Management Evaluations Reports 2010 Independent Oversight Review of Emergency Management at the Pantex Site Office and Pantex Plant, November 2010 Independent Oversight...
Mapping of a possible X-linked form of familial developmental dysphasia (FDD) in a single large pedigree
Children diagnosed with developmental dysphasia develop speech very late without exhibiting sensory or motor dysfunction, and when they do begin to speak their grammar is abnormal. A large three-generation British pedigree was recently identified in which 16 out of 30 members were diagnosed as dysphasic. Assuming a dominant mode of inheritance with homogeneous phenotypic expression and complete penetrance among affected members, we showed by simulation analysis that this pedigree has the power to detect linkage to marker loci with an average maximum LOD score of 3.67 at {theta}=0.1. Given the absence of male-to-male transmission and a ratio of female to male affecteds (10/6) in this pedigree within the expected range for an X-linked dominant mode of inheritance, we decided to begin a genome-wide linkage analysis with microsatellite markers on the human X chromosome. Fifteen individuals (10 affected) from three generations were genotyped with 35 polymorphic STS`s (Research Genetics) which were approximately uniformly distributed along the X chromosome. Two-point linkage was assessed using the MLINK and ILINK programs from the LINKAGE package. Markers DXS1223, DXS987, DXS996 and DXS1060 on Xp22 showed consistent linkage to the disease locus with a maximum LOD score of 0.86 at a distance of 22 cM for DXS1060. If further analysis with additional markers and additional family members confirms X-linkage, such a localization would provide support for Lehrke`s hypothesis for X-linkage of major intellectual traits including verbal functioning.
Dunne, P.W.; Doody, R.S.; Epstein, H.F. [Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (United States)] [and others
Design and evaluation of small water turbines. Final report
An evaluation was made of the design and hydromechanical performance characteristics for three basic turbine types: axial flow (Jonval), inward radial flow (Francis) and crossflow (Banki). A single commercially available turbine representative of each type and within the appropriate power range (<5hp) was obtained for evaluation. Specific turbine selections were based on price, availability and suitability for operation at heads of 50 feet or less and flows under 2 cubic feet per second. In general, the peak operating efficiencies of each unit tended to be lower than anticipated, falling in the range of 40 to 50%. With sufficient flow, however, significant useful power outputs up to 3 hp were obtained. While the radial flow turbine (a centrifugal pump operated as a turbine) had the lowest initial unit cost, the axial and cross flow designs exhibited more stable operation, particularly under transient loadings. The crossflow turbine had the added advantage that it was essentially self-cleaning. With further developmental effort and appropriate design modifications it should be possible to bring each of these microhydro designs to their full performance potential.
Marquis, J.A.
Spanish Question Answering Evaluation
Abstract. This paper reports the most significant issues related to the launching of a Monolingual Spanish Question Answering evaluation track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2003). It introduces some questions about multilingualism and describes the methodology for test suite production, task, judgment of answers as well as the results obtained by the participant systems. 1
Anselmo Pe�as; Felisa Verdejo; Jes�s Herrera
Results of short-term corrosion evaluation tests at Raft River
Four categories of short-term materials evaluation tests were conducted in geothermal fluid from Raft River Geothermal Experiment, Well No. 1, to obtain corrosion data relevant to the design of the Raft River Thermal Loop Facility. Test programs are described and the testing philosophies are discussed. All materials and configurations which were tested are identified and details of posttest visual examinations are presented. The materials are then assigned to appropriate performance categories on the basis of test behavior, and the possible service limitations are appraised.
Miller, R.L.
Coupled-Channel Evaluations of Cross Sections for Scattering Involving Particle-Unstable Resonances
How does the scattering cross section change when the colliding bound-state fragments are allowed particle-emitting resonances? This question is explored in the framework of a multichannel algebraic scattering method of determining nucleon-nucleus cross sections at low energies. Two cases are examined, the first being a gedanken investigation in which n+{sup 12}C scattering is studied with the target states assigned artificial widths. The second is a study of neutron scattering from {sup 8}Be, a nucleus that is particle unstable. Resonance character of the target states markedly varies evaluated cross sections from those obtained assuming stability in the target spectrum.
Fraser, P.; Amos, K. [School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 (Australia); Canton, L.; Pisent, G. [Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 (Italy); Karataglidis, S. [Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140 (South Africa); Svenne, J. P. [Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2 (Canada); Knijff, D. van der [Advanced Research Computing, Information Division, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 (Australia)
Field Artillery Ammunition Processing System (FAAPS) concept evaluation study. Ammunition Logistics Program
Developmental Cell Short Article
D (Black and Olson, 1998; McKinsey et al., 2002). MEF2 proteins bind to a consensus DNA-binding element
ASI Supplier Evaluation Results
5 Vendor Evaluation Record 11_0203 1 of 4 5 Vendor Evaluation Record 11_0203 1 of 4 EOTA - Business Form Document Title: Vendor Evaluation Record Document Number: ADMF-015 Rev. 11_0203 Document Owner: Elizabeth Sousa Backup Owner: Melissa Otero Approver(s): Melissa Otero Parent Document: ADMP-002, Vendor Selection and Management Process Notify of Changes: EOTA Employees Referenced Document(s): N/A ADMF-015 Vendor Evaluation Record 11_0203 2 of 4 Revision History: Rev. Description of Change A Initial Release 08_1016 Added section for vendors that will not be used due to non-conformance of material delivered. 08_1110 Removed section for vendors that will not be used due to non-conformance of material delivered. Do Not Use section will be placed on ADMF-016, Vendor List.
NNSA-B-10-0412 Sandia National LaboratoriesNew Mexico (SNLNM) proposes to support the Bio-Response Operational Testing and Evaluation (BOTE) project. The BOTE project would...
Evaluating Our Instruction: Surveys
you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascod, so pagesEvaluating Our Instruction: Surveys Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship
Maryland at College Park, University of
Kirkpatrick's Learning Evaluation Model
One of the core principles of training evaluation is the model based on four sequential levels that was developed by Donald Kirkpatrick. The levels, 1) Reaction, 2) Learning, 3) Behavior, and 4)...
Altered cardiovascular reactivity and osmoregulation during hyperosmotic stress in adult rats developmentally exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and the structurally similar chemicals polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) disrupt the function of multiple endocrine systems. PCBs and PBDEs disrupt the secretion of vasopressin (VP) from the hypothalamus during osmotic activation. Since the peripheral and central vasopressinergic axes are critical for osmotic and cardiovascular regulation, we examined whether perinatal PBDE exposure could impact these functions during physiological activation. Rats were perinatally dosed with a commercial PBDE mixture, DE-71. Dams were given 0 (corn oil control), 1.7 (low dose) or 30.6 mg/kg/day (high dose) in corn oil from gestational day (GD) 6 through postnatal day (PND) 21 by oral gavage. In the male offspring exposed to high dose PBDE plasma thyroxine and triiodothyronine levels were reduced at PND 21 and recovered to control levels by PND 60 when thyroid stimulating hormone levels were elevated. At 14-18 months of age, cardiovascular responses were measured in four groups of rats: Normal (Oil, normosmotic condition), Hyper (Oil, hyperosmotic stress), Hyper PBDE low (1.7 mg/kg/day DE-71 perinatally, hyperosmotic stress), and Hyper PBDE high (30.6 mg/kg/day DE-71 perinatally, hyperosmotic stress). Systolic blood pressure (BP), diastolic BP, and heart rate (HR) were determined using tail cuff sphygmomanometry and normalized to pretreatment values (baseline) measured under basal conditions. Hyperosmotic treatment yielded significant changes in systolic BP in PBDE exposed rats only. Hyper PBDE low and high dose rats showed 36.1 and 64.7% greater systolic BP responses at 3 h post hyperosmotic injection relative to pretreatment baseline, respectively. No treatment effects were measured for diastolic BP and HR. Hyper and Hyper PBDE rats showed increased mean plasma osmolality values by 45 min after injection relative to normosmotic controls. In contrast to Hyper rats, Hyper PBDE (high) rats showed a further increase in mean plasma osmolality at 3 h (358.3 {+-} 12.4 mOsm/L) relative to 45 min post hyperosmotic injection (325.1 {+-} 11.4 mOsm/L). Impaired osmoregulation in PBDE-treated animals could not be attributed to decreased levels of plasma vasopressin. Our findings suggest that developmental exposure to PBDEs may disrupt cardiovascular reactivity and osmoregulatory responses to physiological activation in late adulthood. - Highlights: > We examined whether PBDE exposure could impact osmotic and cardiovascular regulation. > Hyperosmotic treatment yielded significant changes in systolic BP in PBDE exposed rats only. > PBDEs may disrupt cardiovascular and osmoregulatory responses to physiological activation.
Shah, Ashini [Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, 92521 (United States); Coburn, Cary G. [Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California, Riverside, 92521 (United States); Watson-Siriboe, Abena; Whitley, Rebecca; Shahidzadeh, Anoush; Gillard, Elizabeth R.; Nichol, Robert [Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, 92521 (United States); Leon-Olea, Martha [Neuromorfologia Funcional, Direccion de Investigaciones en Neurociencias, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico City (Mexico); Gaertner, Mark [Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, 92521 (United States); Kodavanti, Prasada Rao S. [Neurotoxicology Branch, NHEERL/ORD, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States); Curras-Collazo, Margarita C., E-mail: email@example.com [Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California, Riverside, 92521 (United States); Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, 92521 (United States)
Evaluation of Emerging Technologies
The ability to inspect and assess the condition of transmission assets has become vital as components age beyond their design margin. New and emerging inspection and sensing technologies may help meet this need.To provide members with objective information about emerging inspection technologies, EPRI�s Overhead Transmission program conducts an ongoing series of evaluations of promising inspection systems. The evaluations include laboratory and field testing and documentation of ...
Evaluated Nuclear Data
This chapter describes the current status of evaluated nuclear data for nuclear technology applications. We start with evaluation procedures for neutron-induced reactions focusing on incident energies from the thermal energy up to 20 MeV, though higher energies are also mentioned. This is followed by examining the status of evaluated neutron data for actinides that play dominant role in most of the applications, followed by coolants/moderators, structural materials and fission products. We then discuss neutron covariance data that characterize uncertainties and correlations. We explain how modern nuclear evaluated data libraries are validated against an extensive set of integral benchmark experiments. Afterwards, we briefly examine other data of importance for nuclear technology, including fission yields, thermal neutron scattering and decay data. A description of three major evaluated nuclear data libraries is provided, including the latest version of the US library ENDF/B-VII.0, European JEFF-3.1 and Japanese JENDL-3.3. A brief introduction is made to current web retrieval systems that allow easy access to a vast amount of up-to-date evaluated nuclear data for nuclear technology applications.
Oblozinsky, P.; Oblozinsky,P.; Herman,M.; Mughabghab,S.F.
The purpose of this study is to respond to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Technical Direction Letter (TDL) 02-003 (Waisley 2001), which directs Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC (BSC) to complete a design study to recommend repository design options to support receipt and/or emplacement of any or all of the following: commercial spent nuclear fuel (CSNF), high-level radioactive waste (HLW), DOE-managed spent nuclear fuel (DSNF) (including naval spent nuclear fuel [SNF]), and immobilized plutonium (if available), as soon as practicable, but no later than 2010. From the possible design options, a recommended approach will be determined for further evaluation to support the preliminary design of the repository. This study integrates the results of the repository Design Evolution Study (Rowe 2002) with supporting studies concerning national transportation options (BSC 2002b) and Nevada transportation options (Gehner 2002). The repository Design Evolution Study documents the processes used to reevaluate the design, construction, operation, and cost of the repository in response to TDL 02-003 (Waisley 2001), and to determine possible repository conceptual design options. The transportation studies evaluate the national and Nevada transportation options that support the repository conceptual design options. An evaluation methodology was established, based on Program-level requirements developed for the study in reference BSC 2001a, to allow the repository and system design options to be evaluated on a consistent basis. The transportation options and the design components were integrated into system design implementation options, which were evaluated using receipt and emplacement scenarios. The scenarios tested the ability of the design concept to adapt to changes in funding, waste receipt rate, and Nevada rail transportation availability. The results of the evaluation (in terms of system throughput, cost, and schedule) were then compared to the Program-level requirements, and recommendations for design alternatives, requirements changes, or further evaluation were developed.
S. Gillespie
Exercise Evaluation Forms
Hazardous Materials Hazardous Materials Exercise Evaluation Forms Prepared for the Department of Energy Office of Transportation and Emergency Management 02B00215-09.p65 This page intentionally left blank table of contents Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program (TEPP) planning tools planning tools Hazar Hazar Hazar Hazar Hazardous Materials dous Materials dous Materials dous Materials dous Materials Ex Ex Ex Ex Exer er er er ercise Ev cise Ev cise Ev cise Ev cise Evaluation Forms aluation Forms aluation Forms aluation Forms aluation Forms Objective 1: Initial Notification of Response Agencies and Response Personnel ........................................................ 3 Objective 2: Direction and Control .............................................................. 5 Objective 3: Incident Assessment ................................................................ 6
ASCE Avionic System Configuration Evaluation
ASCE - Avionic System Configuration Evaluation A novel approach to the problems associated with the development of total avionics systems design and evaluation is described. The ASCE framework provides a general, interactive aid for comparing and evaluating ...
Joe Clema; Stephen Zissos
Integrated heat pipe-thermal storage system performance evaluation
Performance verification tests of an integrated heat pipe-thermal energy storage system have been conducted. This system is being developed as a part of an Organic Rankine Cycle-Solar Dynamic Power System (ORC-SDPS) receiver for future space stations. The integrated system consists of potassium heat pipe elements that incorporate thermal energy storage (TES) canisters within the vapor space along with an organic fluid (toluene) heater tube used as the condenser region of the heat pipe. During the insolation period of the earth orbit, solar energy is delivered to the surface of the heat pipe elements of the ORC-SDPS receiver and is internally transferred by the potassium vapor for use and storage. Part of the thermal energy is delivered to the heater tube and the balance is stored in the TES units. During the eclipse period of the orbit, the stored energy in the TES units is transferred by the potassium vapor to the toluene heater tube. A developmental heat pipe element was fabricated that employs axial arteries and a distribution wick connecting the wicked TES units and the heater to the solar insolation surface of the heat pipe. Tests were conducted to verify the heat pipe operation and to evaluate the heat pipe/TES units/heater tube operation by interfacing the heater unit to a heat exchanger.
Keddy, E.; Sena, J.T.; Merrigan, M.
Cogeneration project evaluation manual
This is a guide for evaluating and implementing cogeneration projects in North Carolina. It emphasizes economic assessment and describes cogeneration technologies and legal guidelines. Included are hypothetical projects to illustrate tax and cash flow calculations and a discussion of cogeneration/utility system interconnection. In addition, the manual contains utility rate schedules and regulations, sources of financing, equipment information, and consulting assistance.
A combined ANP-delphi approach to evaluate sustainable tourism
The evaluation of sustainable tourism strategies promoted by National Parks (NP) related stakeholders is a key concern for NP managers. To help them in their strategic evaluation procedures, in this paper we propose a methodology based on the Analytic Network Process and a Delphi-type judgment-ensuring procedure. The approach aims at involving stakeholders in a participatory and consensus-building process. The methodology was applied to Los Roques NP in Venezuela. The problem included three sustainable tourism strategies defined by the stakeholders: eco-efficient resorts, eco-friendly leisure activities and ecological transportation systems. Representatives of eight stakeholders participated in the methodology. 13 sustainability criteria were selected. Results provide some important insights into the overall philosophy and underlying participants' conception of what sustainable development of Los Roques NP means. This conception is broadly shared by stakeholders as they coincided in the weights of most of the criteria, which were assigned individually through the questionnaire. It is particularly noteworthy that tourists and environmentalists almost fully match in their assessments of criteria but not of the alternatives. Moreover, there is a great agreement in the final assessment. This suggests that the regular contact among the different stakeholders, i.e. tourists with inhabitants, authorities with environmentalists, tour operators with representatives of the ministry, etc. has led to a common understanding of the opportunities and threats for the NP. They all agreed that the procedure enhances participation and transparency and it is a necessary source of information and support for their decisions.
Garcia-Melon, Monica, E-mail: email@example.com [INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain); Gomez-Navarro, Tomas, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com [Depto. Proyectos Ingenieria, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n 46022 Valencia (Spain); Acuna-Dutra, Silvia, E-mail: email@example.com [Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas, Caracas (Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of)
Methodology for evaluating energy R&D. Final report
Recent budgetary shortfalls and hightened concern over balancing the federal budget have placed increasing demand on federal agencies to document the cost effectiveness of the programs they manage. In fact, the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) requires that by 1997 each executive agency prepare a Strategic Plan that includes measurable performance goals. By the year 2000, the first round of Annual Reports will become due which describes actual program performance. Despite the growing emphasis on measuring performance of government programs, the technology policy literature offers little in terms of models that program managers can implement in order to assess the cost effectiveness of the programs they manage. While GPRA will pose a major challenge to all federal government agencies, that challenge is particularly difficult for research-oriented agencies such as the Department of Energy. Its basic research programs provide benefits that are difficult to quantify since their values are uncertain with respect to timing, but are usually reflected in the value assigned to applied programs. The difficulty with quantifying benefits of applied programs relates to the difficulties of obtaining complete information on industries that have used DOE`s supported technologies in their production processes and data on cost-savings relative to conventional technologies. Therefore, DOE is one of several research-oriented agencies that has a special need for methods by which program offices can evaluate the broad array of applied and basic energy research programs they administer. The general findings of this report are that few new methods are applicable for evaluation of R&D programs. It seems that peer review and bibliometrics are methods of choice for evaluating basic research programs while more quantitative approaches such as ROI, cost-benefits, etc. might be followed in evaluating applied programs.
Carter, C.
TIPSTER Text Summarization Evaluation Conference ...
... obtained by contacting the Retrieval Group Manager. The TIPSTER SUMMAC Summarization Evaluation Final Report.
Evaluation of natural phenomena hazards as part of safety assessments for nuclear facilities
The continued operation of existing US Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear facilities and laboratories requires a safety reassessment based on current criteria and guidelines. This also includes evaluations for the effects of Natural Phenomena Hazards (NPH), for which these facilities may not have been designed. The NPH evaluations follow the requirements of DOE Order 5480.28, Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation (1993) which establishes NPH Performance Categories (PCs) for DOE facilities and associated target probabilistic performance goals. These goals are expressed as the mean annual probability of exceedance of acceptable behavior for structures, systems and components (SSCs) subjected to NPH effects. The assignment of an NPH Performance Category is based on the overall hazard categorization (low, moderate, high) of a facility and on the function of an SSC under evaluation (DOE-STD-1021, 1992). Detailed guidance for the NPH analysis and evaluation criteria are also provided (DOE-STD-1020, 1994). These analyses can be very resource intensive, and may not be necessary for the evaluation of all SSCs in existing facilities, in particular for low hazard category facilities. An approach relying heavily on screening inspections, engineering judgment and use of NPH experience data (S. J. Eder et al., 1993), can minimize the analytical effort, give reasonable estimates of the NPH susceptibilities, and yield adequate information for an overall safety evaluation of the facility. In the following sections this approach is described in more detail and is illustrated by an application to a nuclear laboratory complex.
Kot, C.A.; Hsieh, B.J.; Srinivasan, M.G.; Shin, Y.W.
Evaluation of Condensate Polishers
A series of high-temperature tests was conducted to evaluate the potential for steam generator corrosion due to the release of resins or soluble impurity chemicals from full-flow condensate polishers. Three soluble impurities--sodium hydroxide, sodium silicate, and sulfuric acid--were tested, and resin ingress was simulated. Sulfate-induced intergranular attack of nickel alloy tubing, as well as instances of wastagelike attack, was observed.
Provenance Store Evaluation
Requirements for the provenance store and access API are developed. Existing RDF stores and APIs are evaluated against the requirements and performance benchmarks. The team�s conclusion is to use MySQL as a database backend, with a possible move to Oracle in the near-term future. Both Jena and Sesame�s APIs will be supported, but new code will use the Jena API
Paulson, Patrick R.; Gibson, Tara D.; Schuchardt, Karen L.; Stephan, Eric G.
Evaluating Rail Transit Criticism
This report evaluates criticism of rail transit systems. It examines claims that rail transit is ineffective at increasing public transit ridership and improving transportation system performance, that rail transit investments are not cost effective, and that transit is an outdated form of transportation. It finds that critics often misrepresent issues and use biased and inaccurate analysis. This is a companion to the report Rail Transit in
Todd Litman
Field Evaluation of Windows
Evaluation of Windows Evaluation of Windows Last Updated: 10/20/2009 Various tools can be used to evaluate windows in the field. Unless a new window still has the NFRC label attached to it, it is nearly impossible to determine by sight what the thermal and optical performance of a window is. These tools can provide information, such as low-e coating, gap width and gas fill, that can be used to approximate the performance of a window. Solar gain and Low-e detector This device can be used to determine if a low-e coating is present in the window, what type of coating it is, and where it is located. The type of low-e coating will indicate the amount of solar gain that is admitted through the coating. Readings can be "low", "medium" or "high". The device will also indicate on which glass surface the low-e coating is in relation to the position of the device. Limitations: Only works on glass of 1/8" (3 mm) or thinner. Cost: around $350 from EDTM.com
Energy-efficient buildings program evaluations. Volume 2: Evaluation summaries
This document presents summaries of code and utility building program evaluations reviewed as the basis for the information presented in Energy-Efficient Buildings Program Evaluations, Volume 1: Findings and Recommendations, DOE/EE/OBT-11569, Vol. 1. The main purpose of this volume is to summarize information from prior evaluations of similar programs that may be useful background for designing and conducting an evaluation of the BSGP. Another purpose is to summarize an extensive set of relevant evaluations and provide a resource for program designers, mangers, and evaluators.
Lee, A.D.; Mayi, D.; Edgemon, S.D.
RELAP5-3D Developmental Assessment: Comparison of Versions 4.0.3is and 2.4.2is
Figures have been generated comparing the parameters used in the developmental assessment of the RELAP5-3D code using versions 4.0.3is and 2.4.2is. The figures, which are the same as those used in Volume III of the RELAP5-3D code manual, compare calculations using the semi-implicit solution scheme with available experiment data. These figures provide a quick, visual indication of how the code predictions changed between these two code versions and can be used to identify cases in which the assessment judgment may need to be changed in Volume III of the code manual. Changes to the assessment judgments made after reviewing all of the assessment cases are also provided.
Paul D. Bayless
Evaluating Employee Training | Department of Energy
Evaluating Employee Training Evaluating Employee Training August 15, 2013 - 1:39pm Addthis Level 1 Course Evaluation Update Evaluating training activities is more important than...
Renewable Energy Evaluation Tools
RENEWABLE ENERGY RENEWABLE ENERGY EVALUATION TOOLS Andy Walker, PhD PE Principal Engineer, NREL Renewable Energy Round Table May 2, 2012 2 TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT AND SCREENING TOOLS WE USE IN OUR PROJECTS Campus/Base Assessments INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDINGS ASSESSMENT RENEWABLE SUPPLY SIDE VEHICLES & TOOLS Campus/Base Assessments INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDINGS ASSESSMENT RENEWABLE SUPPLY SIDE VEHICLES & TOOLS 9 9 Renewable Energy Technologies Photovoltaics Daylighting Biomass Heat/Power Concentrating Solar Heat/Power Solar Vent Air Preheat Solar Water Heating Wind Power Ground Source Heat Pump Landfill Gas 10 10 Renewable Energy Resources Geographical Information System (GIS) Datasets * NREL Datasets (http://www.nrel.gov/gis/) - solar radiation 10x10 km grid
ORISE: Process and Program Evaluation
Process and Program Evaluation Process and Program Evaluation As an integral part of producing effective health and safety programs, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) conducts scientific-based process and program evaluation to provide government agencies and organizations with the tools to improve the health of workers and the general public. Whether the goal is to change awareness, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, policies or systems, ORISE helps determine the right evaluation methods based on specific needs and resources, including: Formative evaluations to assess the problem, target audience needs and guide successful process implementation Assessments to identify unmet needs in programs, organizations or communities Audience evaluations to learn about targeted populations
Assignment Evaluation Form allows ESE candidates to evaluate assignments in terms of the executive core qualities the assignment was intended to meet, how well it met...
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Uniform criteria for US Hydropower Resource Assessment. Hydropower evaluation software status report
The Department of Energy is estimating the hydropower development potential in this country. The Hydropower Evaluation Software is a computer model that was developed by the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for this purpose. The Hydropower Evaluation Software estimates the potential hydropower resources available in the United States, using uniform criteria for measurement. The software was developed and tested using hydropower information and data provided by the Southwestern Power Administration. It is a DBASE, menu-driven software application. Hydropower Evaluation Software allows the personal computer user to assign environmental attributes to potential hydropower sites, calculate development suitability factors for each site based on the environmental attributes present, and generate reports based on these suitability factors. This status report details Hydropower Evaluation Software`s development, its data requirements, and its application to the 12 states assessed to date. This report does not discuss or present the various user-friendly menus of the Hydropower Evaluation Software. One is referred to the User`s Manual for specifics. This report focuses on data derivation, summarization of the 12 states (Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) extracted into the software to date, and plans for future assessments.
Francfort, J.E.; Rinehart, B.N. [EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Moore, K.M. [Morgantown Energy Technology Center, WV (United States)
Uniform criteria for U.S. hydropower resource assessment: Hydropower Evaluation Software status report -- 2
The US Department of Energy is estimating the undeveloped hydropower potential in the US. The Hydropower Evaluation software is a computer model that was developed by the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for this purpose. The Hydropower Evaluation Software estimates the undeveloped hydropower resources available in the US, using uniform criteria for measurement. The software was developed and tested using hydropower information and data provided by the Southwestern Power Administration. It is a menu-driven software application. Hydropower Evaluation Software allows the personal computer user to assign environmental attributes to potential hydropower sites, calculate development suitability factors for each site based on the environmental attributes present, and generate reports based on these suitability factors. This status report describes Hydropower Evaluation Software`s development, its data requirements, and its application to the 20 states assessed to date. This report does not discuss or present the various user-friendly menus of the Hydropower Evaluation Software. The reader is referred to the User`s Manual for specifics. This report focuses on data derivation, summarization of the 20 states (Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming) assessed to date, and plans for future assessments.
Conner, A.M.; Francfort, J.E.; Rinehart, B.N.
Cost-sensitive classifier evaluation
Evaluating classifier performance in a cost-sensitive setting is straightforward if the operating conditions (misclassification costs and class distributions) are fixed and known. When this is not the case, evaluation requires a method of visualizing ...
Robert C. Holte; Chris Drummond
Evaluating Incentives for Solar Heating ...
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Evaluating learning algorithms and classifiers
We analyse 18 evaluation methods for learning algorithms and classifiers, and show how to categorise these methods with the help of an evaluation method taxonomy based on several criteria. We also define a formal framework that make it possible to describe ... Keywords: classification, classifiers, evaluation methods, learning algorithms, supervised learning, taxonomy
Niklas Lavesson; Paul Davidsson
Evaluation Report: IG-0776
Department's Unclassified Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program - 2007 DOE/IG-0776 September 2007 Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 September 18, 2007 MEMOKANDLIM FOR THq SECRETARY . r FROM: , A F , ~ $ & M / ~ I Gregory riednian lnspcctor General SUBJECT: -- INFORMATIOH: Evaluation Report on "The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program - 2007" BACKGROUND The Department of Energy expects to spend about $300 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 to protect its investment in information technology resources. These protective act~vities are critical to ensuring that systenis and data remain secure and available, especially in light of the increasingly sophisticated probes and attacks on Departmental infonnation technology resources. Experts note that successful attacks on Federal systems have
Evaluated teletherapy source library
The Evaluated Teletherapy Source Library (ETSL) is a system of hardware and software that provides for maintenance of a library of useful phase space descriptions (PSDs) of teletherapy sources used in radiation therapy for cancer treatment. The PSDs are designed to be used by PEREGRINE, the all-particle Monte Carlo dose calculation system. ETSL also stores other relevant information such as monitor unit factors (MUFs) for use with the PSDs, results of PEREGRINE calculations using the PSDs, clinical calibration measurements, and geometry descriptions sufficient for calculational purposes. Not all of this information is directly needed by PEREGRINE. It also is capable of acting as a repository for the Monte Carlo simulation history files from which the generic PSDs are derived.
Cox, Lawrence J. (Los Alamos, NM); Schach Von Wittenau, Alexis E. (Livermore, CA)
Standardized radiological dose evaluations
Following the end of the Cold War, the mission of Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site changed from production of nuclear weapons to cleanup. Authorization baseis documents for the facilities, primarily the Final Safety Analysis Reports, are being replaced with new ones in which accident scenarios are sorted into coarse bins of consequence and frequency, similar to the approach of DOE-STD-3011-94. Because this binning does not require high precision, a standardized approach for radiological dose evaluations is taken for all the facilities at the site. This is done through a standard calculation ``template`` for use by all safety analysts preparing the new documents. This report describes this template and its use.
Peterson, V.L.; Stahlnecker, E.
Evaluation Report: IG-0738
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General Office of Audit Services The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2006 DOE/IG-0738 September 2006 Department of Energy Wash~ngton, DC 2 0 5 8 5 MEMORANDUM FOR FROM: lnspector General S1JBJ ECT: INFORMATlON: Evaluation Report on "The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program - 2006" BACKGROUND To help accomplish its strategic goals in the areas of defense, energy, science and the environment, the Department utilizes numerous interconnected computer networks and individual systems. Virtually all of the Department's systems are increasingly subjected to sophisticated attacks designed to circumvent security measures, trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive information or propagate harmful programs. A strong
Subsidence monitoring and evaluation plan for strategic petroleum reserve storage sites
Subsidence is occurring at all six Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) sites. It results from a combination of cavern closure, Frasch-process sulphur extraction, fluid withdrawal, and from natural causes. Of these, cavern closure resulting from slat creep is the predominant source. A subsidence monitoring program is recommended that includes: (a) continuation of annual releveling; (b) quadrennial determination of horizontal drift; (c) triennial measurement of gravity values to determine elevation change and to validate releveling data; (d) 1/2400 air photos quadrennially; (e) coordination of other subsidence monitoring efforts, especially involving regional subsidence; (f) continuation of cavern creep modeling; (g) engineering evaluation of observed and predicted subsidence effects; (h) information dissemination in the form of an annual review and report. A priority sequence is suggested that considers observed subsidence and operational factors such as oil inventories and risk appraisal. First (highest) priority is assigned to Weeks Island and West Hackberry. Second (intermediate) priority is given to Bayou Choctaw and Bryan Mound. Third, (lowest) priority is assigned to Sulphur Mines and Big Hill. The priority strategy can be used as a management tool in allocating resources and in determining relative attention that is required at the six sites. 32 refs., 1 tab.
Neal, J.T.
MATH 158 Assignment 2, Spring 2013 - CECM
Feb 4, 2013 ... For exercise 60, the current yearly production rate is 20 million tons per year and they want to increase it by 2te-0.05t tons per year. The way I�...
Stability issues for dynamic traffic assignment
This paper explores stability issues for operational route guidance control strategies for vehicular traffic networks equipped with advanced information systems, and develops a general procedure for the stability analysis of the associated dynamic traffic ... Keywords: Dynamical systems, Feedback control, Lyapunov methods, Stability analysis
S. Peeta; T. -H. Yang
The purpose of this job aid is to guide�you through the step-by-step process of managing alternate supervisors within SuccessFactors Learning.
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Instruction and the Stirling Engine Project for 2.670: M.E. Tools," S.B. dissertation, MIT Dept. of Mech. Eng
Li, Perry Y.
Genome Annotation Project Assignment Bioinformatics module 2009
generally accepted. This is not just a thing of the distant past [1]. Did you observe a similar outcome://www.geneprediction.org/. If you are up for installing software, we of course recommend EvoGene [9], but you may want to explore that is homologous to your human core data set. The more distant the species are, the stronger the signal left
Goldschmidt, Christina
Continuous Learning Points Credit Assignment Table | Department...
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CSI 1390A -Assignment 1 Instructions
Write a program in Java that asks the user to input: The number of gallons of gas in the tank The fuel in Java that calculates the area of a circle. The program asks the user to input the radius from the keyboard. The area of a circle is calculated as indicated below Area = 2 * 3.141592654 * Radius Question 4
Stojmenovic, Ivan
The recoverable robust tail assignment problem
using column generation in the master and subproblems of the Benders ...... described by (36)-(41) is a network flow problem with one source and multiple sink.
Resource Assignment in Hierarchical Multiple Resource Systems
Beauregard 2 Department of Mathematics and Computing Science Eindhoven University of Technology PO Box 513
van Gorp, Paul
MACM 202 Assignment 5, Spring 2004 - CECM
Michigan 4.9. 158. Erie. 0.46. 175. Ontario. 1.6. 209. Question 3: Second order ODEs. (a) Do problem 5.2 in the text. Give one set of values for L; R; C such that�...
MACM 202 Assignment 5, Fall 2005 - CECM
Michigan 4.9. 158. Erie. 0.46. 175. Ontario. 1.6. 209. 2. Let x(t) denote a fish population at time t. Consider models of the form x (t) = G(x) ? H(x, t) where G(x)�...
MATH 158 Assignment 3, Spring 2013 - CECM
(a) In which year did the oil well reach a maximum production rate? (b) Sketch the graph of R(t) for 0 ? t ? 20. (c) How much oil has it produced so far? (d) If the �...
MATH 158 Assignment 3, Spring 2011 - CECM
(a) In which year did the oil well reach a maximum production rate? (b) Sketch the graph of R(t) for 0 ? t ? 20. (c) How much oil has it produced so far? (d) If it is �...
Estimating Bounds for Quadratic Assignment Problems Associated ...
Manhattan Distance Matrices based on ... trix for a hypercube or a Manhattan distance matrix for a rectangular grid ...... Solving lift-and-project relaxations of.
Exact Solution of Emerging Quadratic Assignment Problems
National Science Foundation under grant No. DMI-. 0400155. .... Process Allocation Problem of Sofianopoulous ([63] and. [64]), the ...... lower bound is tight
Effect of evaluators' cognitive style on heuristic evaluation: Field dependent and field independent evaluators
Heuristic evaluation is a widely used usability evaluation method [Rosenbaum et al., 2000. A toolkit for strategic usability: results from workshops, panels, and surveys. In: Little, R., Nigay, L. (Eds.), In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2000 Conference, New ... Keywords: Cognitive style, Field dependency, Heuristic evaluation
Chen Ling; Gavriel Salvendy
Composite Load Model Evaluation
The WECC load modeling task force has dedicated its effort in the past few years to develop a composite load model that can represent behaviors of different end-user components. The modeling structure of the composite load model is recommended by the WECC load modeling task force. GE Energy has implemented this composite load model with a new function CMPLDW in its power system simulation software package, PSLF. For the last several years, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has taken the lead and collaborated with GE Energy to develop the new composite load model. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and BPA joint force and conducted the evaluation of the CMPLDW and test its parameter settings to make sure that: � the model initializes properly, � all the parameter settings are functioning, and � the simulation results are as expected. The PNNL effort focused on testing the CMPLDW in a 4-bus system. An exhaustive testing on each parameter setting has been performed to guarantee each setting works. This report is a summary of the PNNL testing results and conclusions.
Lu, Ning; Qiao, Hong (Amy)
Evaluating Steam Trap Performance
Laboratory tests were conducted on several types of steam traps at Holston Defense Corporation in Kingsport, Tennessee. Data from these tests, which determined their relative efficiencies, were used in performing economic analyses to determine their equivalent uniform annual cost (EUAC). The comparison was made using a computer program written for the Apple II computer to evaluate overall steam trap economics. This program calculates the EUAC for any steam trap based on 12 input variables including capital, maintenance and steam costs, interest rate and trap life. After determinIng the EUAC, the program will perform sensitivity analyses on any of the twelve variables. (This computer program is available from the author.) This study shows that inverted bucket traps have lower EUAC's under more conditions than other types of traps. Also, this study shows that live steam loss is the heaviest contributor to the annual operating cost of any steam trap and that maintenance frequency and repair cost are also more important than a trap's first cost.
Fuller, N. Y.
Comparative pharmacokinetic study of the role of gender and developmental differences in occupational and environmental exposure to benzene. Master's thesis
The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, it shows that physiological differences between men and women result in gender-specific exposures with respect to benzene. Second, it assesses the potential for a lactating woman's occupational and personal benzene exposure to impact a nursing infant's exposure, highlighting the possibility of subjecting an infant to the effects of industrial chemicals via breast feeding. This study employs physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling to investigate the influence of physiological parameters and to evaluate the ability of inhaled benzene to transfer from mother to infant through breastmilk. The models are run through scenarios that simulate occupational, smoking, and background exposures. The gender comparison is facilitated by a sensitivity analysis. The blood/air partition coefficient and maximum velocity of metabolism were found to substantially impact model output. These values were both higher in women and caused an increase in the percentage of benzene metabolized in all of the exposure scenarios. The study of lactating women and infants is essentially theoretical. There is evidence that over 65% of an infant's benzene exposure can be attributed to contaminated breastmilk. A large portion of the ingested exposure can be eliminated by adjusting the mother's working or nursing schedule. Benzene, Physiologically based pharmacokinetics, PBPK.
Brown, E.A.
Screening Risk Evaluation methodology
The Screening Risk Evaluation (SRE) Guidance document is a set of guidelines provided for the uniform implementation of SREs performed on D&D facilities. These guidelines are designed specifically for the completion of the second (semi-quantitative screening) phase of the D&D Risk-Based Process. The SRE Guidance produces screening risk scores reflecting levels of risk through the use of risk ranking indices. Five types of possible risk are calculated from the SRE: current releases, worker exposures, future releases, physical hazards, and criticality. The Current Release Index (CRI) calculates the risk to human health and the environment from ongoing or probable releases within a one year time period. The Worker Exposure Index (WEI) calculates the risk to workers, occupants, and visitors in D&D facilities of contaminant exposure. The Future Release Index (FRI) calculates the risk of future releases of contaminants, after one year, to human health and the environment. The Physical Hazards Index (PHI) calculates the risk-to human health due to factors other than that of contaminants. The index of Criticality is approached as a modifying factor to the entire SRE, due to the fact that criticality issues are strictly regulated under DOE. Screening risk results will be tabulated in matrix form and Total Risk will be calculated (weighted equation) to produce a score on which to base early action recommendations. Other recommendations from the screening risk scores will be made based either on individual index scores or from reweighted Total Risk calculations. All recommendations based on the SRE will be made based on a combination of screening risk scores, decision drivers, and other considerations, determined on a project by project basis. The SRE is the first and most important step in the overall D&D project level decision making process.
Hopper, K.M. [Midwest Technical, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Evaluation of Automated Model Calibration Techniques for Residential Building Energy Simulation
This simulation study adapts and applies the general framework described in BESTEST-EX (Judkoff et al 2010) for self-testing residential building energy model calibration methods. BEopt/DOE-2.2 is used to evaluate four mathematical calibration methods in the context of monthly, daily, and hourly synthetic utility data for a 1960's-era existing home in a cooling-dominated climate. The home's model inputs are assigned probability distributions representing uncertainty ranges, random selections are made from the uncertainty ranges to define 'explicit' input values, and synthetic utility billing data are generated using the explicit input values. The four calibration methods evaluated in this study are: an ASHRAE 1051-RP-based approach (Reddy and Maor 2006), a simplified simulated annealing optimization approach, a regression metamodeling optimization approach, and a simple output ratio calibration approach. The calibration methods are evaluated for monthly, daily, and hourly cases; various retrofit measures are applied to the calibrated models and the methods are evaluated based on the accuracy of predicted savings, computational cost, repeatability, automation, and ease of implementation.
Robertson, J.; Polly, B.; Collis, J.
Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation
Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation by Susan H. Holte In this paper, the Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting (OIAF) of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) evaluates the projections published in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO), (1) by comparing the projections from the Annual Energy Outlook 1982 through the Annual Energy Outlook 2001 with actual historical values. A set of major consumption, production, net import, price, economic, and carbon dioxide emissions variables are included in the evaluation, updating similar papers from previous years. These evaluations also present the reasons and rationales for significant differences. The Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting has been providing an
Hawaii-Okinawa Building Evaluations
NREL conducted energy evaluations at the Itoman City Hall building in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and the Hawaii State Capitol building in Honolulu, Hawaii. This report summarizes the findings from the evaluations, including the best practices identified at each site and opportunities for improving energy efficiency and renewable energy. The findings from this evaluation are intended to inform energy efficient building design, energy efficiency technology, and management protocols for buildings in subtropical climates.
Metzger, I.; Salasovich, J.
Compliance Evaluation | Department of Energy
as the Saltstone PA, is acceptable. Compliance Evaluation More Documents & Publications DOE Order 435.1 Performance Assessment Savannah River Site 2009 Performance Assessment for...
Process Evaluations | Superconducting Magnet Division
Process Evaluations Process Assessment Form Operational Control Form Environmental Mgmt. Program Training Module Process Description AM-522-EAO (pdf) OCF (pdf) EMP (pdf) AM-ENV-FS1...
Process and Program Evaluation As an integral part of producing effective health and safety programs, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) conducts...
Demonstration and Evaluation of U
Evaluation of U.S. Postal Service Electric Carrier Route Vehicles Southern California Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center An ISO 9001 Certified Facility Project Sponsor...
Commercial Building Technology Evaluation Process
Flow 4 Proposed Program Elements Building Technologies Program 2 2 commercialbuildings.energy.gov ver ew Program Overview * Program Objective: - Evaluate emerging and underutilized...
Formalising Evaluation in Information Retrieval
Arafat,S. van Rijsbergen,K. Jose,J. Proceedings of the CoLIS 5 Workshop on Evaluating User Studies in Information Access
Arafat, S.
Response Robot Evaluation Exercise (#6)
... in a series of DHS/NIST response robot evaluation exercises will be hosted at the emergency responder training facility known as Disaster City in ...
Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plan for NREL
AND MEASUREMENT PLAN FOR EVALUATING CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE AT THE NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY 1.0 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION and MEASUREMENT PLAN The Performance Evaluation...
Security and Cyber Evaluations - Guidance Documents
Guidance Documents Security and Cyber Evaluations Security Evaluations Appraisal Process Guide, April 2008 Cyber Security Evaluations Appraisal Process Guide, April 2008 Security...
Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide | Department...
Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide This Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide describes and provides guidance...
Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation - Table 1. Forecast Evaluations:
Average Absolute Percent Errors from AEO Forecast Evaluations: Average Absolute Percent Errors from AEO Forecast Evaluations: 1996 to 2000 Average Absolute Percent Error Average Absolute Percent Error Average Absolute Percent Error Average Absolute Percent Error Average Absolute Percent Error Variable 1996 Evaluation: AEO82 to AEO93 1997 Evaluation: AEO82 to AEO97 1998 Evaluation: AEO82 to AEO98 1999 Evaluation: AEO82 to AEO99 2000 Evaluation: AEO82 to AEO2000 Consumption Total Energy Consumption 1.8 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8 Total Petroleum Consumption 3.2 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.9 Total Natural Gas Consumption 6.0 5.8 5.7 5.6 5.6 Total Coal Consumption 2.9 2.7 3.0 3.2 3.3 Total Electricity Sales 1.8 1.6 1.7 1.8 2.0 Production Crude Oil Production 5.1 4.2 4.3 4.5 4.5
Training Evaluations | Department of Energy
Evaluations Evaluations Training Evaluations The Office of Learning and Workforce Development (HC-20) is working to find ways to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of our training solutions. This effort is to ensure that DOE is in compliance with 2009 OPM regulations, which require that agencies evaluate their training programs annually to determine their effectiveness (5 CFR 410.202). Our goal is to demonstrate the contribution of training to agency mission effectiveness, increase partnership with our key stakeholders and show clear connections between effective funding usage and agency outcomes. In order to accomplish this we have created a comprehensive strategy and standards for evaluating training that will demonstrate alignment between the learning experience
Title of Paper Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation Title of Paper Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation by Susan H. Holte OIAF has been providing an evaluation of the forecasts in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) annually since 1996. Each year, the forecast evaluation expands on that of the prior year by adding the most recent AEO and the most recent historical year of data. However, the underlying reasons for deviations between the projections and realized history tend to be the same from one evaluation to the next. The most significant conclusions are: Natural gas has generally been the fuel with the least accurate forecasts of consumption, production, and prices. Natural gas was the last fossil fuel to be deregulated following the strong regulation of energy markets in the 1970s and early 1980s. Even after deregulation, the behavior
Guidelines for the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification...
Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Forestry Projects for Climate Change Mitigation Title Guidelines for the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting,...
Implementation of the waste and reclaimed materials evaluation system. Research report
Large quantities of waste materials are generated in the United States every year. Due to societal and environmental concerns many states have enacted legislation to promote their use in highway construction projects. The standard approach to charcterize these materials has been to evaluate them in technical laboratory studies which is not appropriate because these materials do not match natural aggregate in technical quality and may still have a high societal, environmental and economic value. A Waste and Reclaimed Materials (WRM) evaluation process has already been developed which takes into account such factors. This WRM Evaluation process is carried out before detailed technical and economic studies are done to develop specifications for their use. The determinination of their utilization potential is based on technical, economic, societal and environmental aspects. An initial screening process is also incorporated which is used to discard WRMs which clearly displays a low utilization potential. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) from decision analysis theory is used to assign weights to the four evaluation sub-systems and the respective attributes based on their importance. Implementation of this systems was carried out after the system was verified by detailed laboratory studies and economic analysis. All the available WRMs were subjected to this evaluation method and were ranked from the highest utilization potential to the lowest. The selected top three WRMs, reclaimed asphalt, Portland cement concrete pavement, and electric arc furnace slag, were subjected to detailed laboratory and economic analyses to determine their viability and to develop specifications for their use in roadhouse construction. The WRM evaluation process, laboratory studies, and the implementation package are presented in the report.
Saeed, A.; Hudson, W.R.
Petrophysical evaluation of subterranean formations
Methods and systems are provided for evaluating petrophysical properties of subterranean formations and comprehensively evaluating hydrate presence through a combination of computer-implemented log modeling and analysis. Certain embodiments include the steps of running a number of logging tools in a wellbore to obtain a variety of wellbore data and logs, and evaluating and modeling the log data to ascertain various petrophysical properties. Examples of suitable logging techniques that may be used in combination with the present invention include, but are not limited to, sonic logs, electrical resistivity logs, gamma ray logs, neutron porosity logs, density logs, NRM logs, or any combination or subset thereof.
Klein, James D; Schoderbek, David A; Mailloux, Jason M
Developmental toxicity of clarified slurry oil, syntower bottoms, and distillate aromatic extract administered as a single oral dose to pregnant rats
Clarified slurry oil (CSO), syntower bottoms (STB), and distillate aromatic extract (DAE) are refinery streams produced by processing crude oil. Available data indicate that some refinery streams are developmentally toxic by the dermal route of exposure. However, there is no conclusive evidence for their being teratogenic. The present studies were designed to further explore the suspected teratogenic potency of refinery streams while at the same time limiting embryolethality. In general, evidence of maternal toxicity (i.e., decreased body weight gain, decreased thymus weight) was observed at doses greater than or equal to 500 mg/kg. For each refinery stream tested, the incidence of resorption was greatest on GD 11. A common pattern of fetal malformations was observed for all of the refinery streams tested and included cleft palate, diaphragmatic hernia, and paw and tail defects. The incidence and type of malformation observed were influenced by the gestation day of exposure. The incidence and type of malformation observed were influenced by the gestation day of exposure. The incidences of external and skeletal malformations were greatest on GD 11 and 12 for fetuses exposed to CSO; on GD 13 and 14, the incidence of malformation was comparable for CSO- and STB-exposed fetuses. The incidence of visceral anomalies was greatest on GD 11-13 for fetuses exposed to CSO and STB; on Gestation D 14, the incidence was comparable for each of the refinery streams tested. In general, the ability to produce adverse effects on development was greatest for CSO and least for DAE. Effects produced by STB were comparable to or less severe than those observed for CSO. 24 refs., 11 tabs.
Feuston, M.H.; Mackerer, C.R. [Stonybrook Labs., Princeton, NJ (United States)
ORNL Weatherization Program Evaluation | Open Energy Information
ORNL Weatherization Program Evaluation ORNL Weatherization Program Evaluation (Redirected from Weatherization Program Evaluation) Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Weatherization Program Evaluation Agency/Company /Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sector: Energy Focus Area: Buildings Topics: Policies/deployment programs Website: weatherization.ornl.gov/WeatherizationProgramEvaluations.htm References: Weatherization Program Evaluation [1] Logo: Weatherization Program Evaluation Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides weatherization program evaluations as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program. This evaluation program is also available to international organizations. This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides weatherization program evaluations
Report of the Peer Review Panel on the early site suitability evaluation of the Potential Repository Site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Yucca mountain Site Characterization Project Office (YMPO) assigned Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the Technical and Management Support Services (T&MSS) contractor to the YmPo, the task of conducting an Early Site Suitability Evaluation (ESSE) of the Yucca mountain site as a potential site for a high-level radioactive waste repository. First, the assignment called for the development of a method to evaluate a single site against the DOE General Guidelines for Recommendation of Sites for Nuclear Waste Repositories, 10 CFR Part 960. Then, using this method, an evaluation team, the ESSE Core Team, of senior YMP scientists, engineers, and technical experts, evaluated new information obtained about the site since publication of the final Environmental Assessment (DOE, 1986) to determine if new suitability/unsuitability findings could be recommended. Finally, the Core Team identified further information and analyses needed to make final determinations for each of the guidelines. As part of the task, an independent peer review of the ESSE report has been conducted. Expertise was solicited that covered the entire spectrum of siting guidelines in 10 CFR Part 960 in order to provide a complete, in-depth critical review of the data evaluated and cited in the ESSE report, the methods used to evaluate the data, and the conclusions and recommendations offered by the report. Fourteen nationally recognized technical experts (Table 2) served on the Peer Review Panel. The comments from the Panel and the responses prepared by the ESSE Core Team, documented on formal Comment Response Forms, constitute the body of this document.
NIST OpenHaRT'13 Evaluation: Overview and Results
... Evaluation Workshop Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC ... Manage the evaluations � Provide evaluation utilities and infrastructure for ...
Open Government Plan Self Evaluation
Government Plan Self Evaluation Government Plan Self Evaluation Page 1 of 3 NAME OF AGENCY: Department of Energy NAME OF EVALUATOR: TheAnne Gordon DIRECTIONS The enclosed list of 30 criteria is drawn directly from the text of the Open Government Directive. Please return this form to the White House Open Government team at email@example.com by 5 pm on Friday, April 23 rd . To complete the self- evaluation form, please indicate a response to each of the criteria as follows: Red (R) - plan does not satisfy the requirement Yellow (Y) - plan partially satisfies the requirement Green (G) - plan fully satisfies the requirement N/A - not applicable because agency does not engage in that activity or area Please include any explanatory comments on the last page. Optional: If you wish, please provide the page range for the relevant section of the plan that is the basis for your
Uncertainty, information and project evaluation
This paper presents a practical method for project evaluation using techniques of financial economics which were developed originally for valuing stock options and other financial assets. It is based on the formulation and ...
Jacoby, Henry D.
Model Selection in Summary Evaluation
A difficulty in the design of automated text summarization algorithms is in the objective evaluation. Viewing summarization as a tradeoff between length and information content, we introduce a technique based on ...
Perez-Breva, Luis
Liquefaction Evaluations at DOE Sites
LIQUEFACTION EVALUATIONS AT LIQUEFACTION EVALUATIONS AT DOE SITES M. Lewis, M. McHood, R. Williams, B. Gutierrez October 25, 2011 Agenda Background Purpose and Objective Liquefaction Methods Site Evaluations Aging Conclusions 2 Background 3 Liquefaction at DOE Sites Background Liquefaction evaluations are required at all DOE sites Methods have evolved over the years, but there is currently only one consensus methodology; Youd et al., 2001 Two other methods have emerged in the last few years; Cetin et al., 2004 Idriss & Boulanger, 2008 4 Background Youd et al., was the result of two workshops (NCEER/NSF) held in the late 1990s, culminating in a NCEER report and a ASCE publication in 2001. The method is widely used. Cetin et al., was the result of several doctoral
Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation
The objective of the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy?s (DOEs) Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation (AVTE) project was to provide test and evaluation services for advanced technology vehicles, to establish a performance baseline, to determine vehicle reliability, and to evaluate vehicle operating costs in fleet operations. Vehicles tested include light and medium-duty vehicles in conventional, hybrid, and all-electric configurations using conventional and alternative fuels, including hydrogen in internal combustion engines. Vehicles were tested on closed tracks and chassis dynamometers, as well as operated on public roads, in fleet operations, and over prescribed routes. All testing was controlled by procedures developed specifically to support such testing. Testing and evaluations were conducted in the following phases: ? Development of test procedures, which established testing procedures; ? Baseline performance testing, which established a performance baseline; ? Accelerated reliability testing, which determined vehicle reliability; ? Fleet testing, used to evaluate vehicle economics in fleet operation, and ? End of test performance evaluation. Test results are reported by two means and posted by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to their website: quarterly progress reports, used to document work in progress; and final test reports. This final report documents work conducted for the entirety of the contract by the Clarity Group, Inc., doing business as ECOtality North America (ECOtality). The contract was performed from 1 October 2005 through 31 March 2013. There were 113 light-duty on-road (95), off-road (3) and low speed (15) vehicles tested.
Garetson, Thomas
Evaluation Evaluation Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation by Esmeralda Sanchez The Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting has been providing an evaluation of the forecasts in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) annually since 1996. Each year, the forecast evaluation expands on that of the prior year by adding the most recent AEO and the most recent historical year of data. However, the underlying reasons for deviations between the projections and realized history tend to be the same from one evaluation to the next. The most significant conclusions are: Over the last two decades, there have been many significant changes in laws, policies, and regulations that could not have been anticipated and were not assumed in the projections prior to their implementation. Many of these actions have had significant impacts on energy supply, demand, and prices; however, the impacts were not incorporated in the AEO projections until their enactment or effective dates in accordance with EIA's requirement to remain policy neutral and include only current laws and regulations in the AEO reference case projections.
NETL: Predictive Modeling and Evaluation - Evaluation of the Emission,
Evaluation of the Emission, Transport, and Deposition of Mercury, Arsenic, and Fine Particulate Matter from Coal Based Power Plants in the Ohio River Valley Region Evaluation of the Emission, Transport, and Deposition of Mercury, Arsenic, and Fine Particulate Matter from Coal Based Power Plants in the Ohio River Valley Region Ohio University, in collaboration with CONSOL Energy, Advanced Technology Systems, Inc (ATS) and Atmospheric Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) as subcontractors will evaluate the impact of emissions from coal-fired power plants in the Ohio River Valley region as they relate to the transport and deposition of mercury, arsenic, and associated fine particulate matter. This evaluation will involve two interrelated areas of effort: regional-scale modeling analysis and ambient air monitoring. The scope of work for the modeling analysis will include (1) development of updated inventories of mercury and arsenic emissions from coal plants and other important sources in the modeled domain; (2) adapting an existing 3-D atmospheric chemical transport model to incorporate recent advancements in the understanding of mercury transformations in the atmosphere; (3) analyses of the flux of Hg0, RGM, arsenic, and fine particulate matter in the different sectors of the study region to identify key transport mechanisms; (4) comparison of cross correlations between species from the model results to observations in order to evaluate characteristics of specific air masses associated with long-range transport from a specified source region; and (5) evaluation of the sensitivity of these correlations to emissions from regions along the transport path. This will be accomplished by multiple model runs with emissions simulations switched on and off from the various source regions.
ORNL Weatherization Program Evaluation ORNL Weatherization Program Evaluation Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Weatherization Program Evaluation Agency/Company /Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sector: Energy Focus Area: Buildings Topics: Policies/deployment programs Website: weatherization.ornl.gov/WeatherizationProgramEvaluations.htm References: Weatherization Program Evaluation [1] Logo: Weatherization Program Evaluation Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides weatherization program evaluations as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program. This evaluation program is also available to international organizations. This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides weatherization program evaluations
M. Bahrami ENSC 388 Assignment # 1 1 Assignment #1 (Basic Concepts)
) Both a gage and a manometer are attached to a gas tank to measure its pressure. If the reading gas in the balloon. To calculate maximum load, mass of helium must subtracted from the maximum mass so filled with helium gas because it weighs only about one-seventh of what air weighs under identical
Bahrami, Majid
M. Bahrami ENSC 461 (S 11) Assignment 2 1 Assignment #2 (Cycles)
#0838874 Dynamic Modeling of a Regenerator for the Control-Based Design of Free-Piston Stirling Engines-piston Stirling engines with the goal of building a working prototype. The Stirling cycle is recast as a dynamic the potential of a new, compact free-piston Stirling engine configuration using elastomeric pistons. An engine
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The Department of Developmental Biology
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by by Esmeralda Sanchez The Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting has been providing an evaluation of the forecasts in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) annually since 1996. Each year, the forecast evaluation expands on that of the prior year by adding the most recent AEO and the most recent historical year of data. However, the underlying reasons for deviations between the projections and realized history tend to be the same from one evaluation to the next. The most significant conclusions are: * Over the last two decades, there have been many significant changes in laws, policies, and regulations that could not have been anticipated and were not assumed in the projections prior to their implementation. Many of these actions have had significant impacts on energy supply, demand, and prices; however, the
Annual Energy Outlook Evaluation, 2005
Outlook Evaluation, 2005 1 Outlook Evaluation, 2005 1 Annual Energy Outlook Evaluation, 2005 * Then Energy Information Administration (EIA) produces projections of energy supply and demand each year in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). The projections in the AEO are not statements of what will happen but of what might happen, given the assumptions and methodologies used. The projections are business-as-usual trend projections, given known technology, technological and demographic trends, and current laws and regulations. Thus, they provide a policy-neutral reference case that can be used to analyze policy initiatives. EIA does not propose or advocate future legislative and regulatory changes. All laws are assumed to remain as currently enacted; however, the impacts of emerging regulatory changes,
PAE Evaluation Portfolio Peer Review
Report from the Peer Review Panel Report from the Peer Review Panel on activities within the Planning, Analysis and Evaluation Unit Office of Planning, Budget and Analysis Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy U.S. Department of Energy Team Members: Kathryn Newcomer, The George Washington University (Chair) Irwin Feller, The Pennsylvania State University (Retired) Stephanie Shipman, Government Accountability Office Kathleen Sedlak O'Brien, Environmental Protection Agency Faith Lambert, EERE Final Report February 1, 2008 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) within the U.S. Department of Energy asked a panel of experts with relevant knowledge to review the evaluation activities of the Planning, Analysis and Evaluation Unit (PAE) within EERE's Office of Planning, Budget and
FY08 VPP Program Evaluation
The Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is a recognized third-party certification of worker safety and health program excellence, based on industry best practices that focus on management leadership and employee involvement, as well as other safety and health program elements. This Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) VPP Program Evaluation is the FY-2008 report of the PNNL VPP Steering Committee regarding the status of VPP at PNNL. It is an update of the previous annual report dated January, 2007 and was completed in January 2008. An annual evaluation of the status of VPP is required of all sites that participate in the DOE-VPP. This report provides a detailed summary of the PNNL VPP Steering Committee�s evaluation of program performance and documents both strengths and improvement opportunities related to the various aspects of the VPP model.
Dossett, Sharon D.
Evaluation of waste crate counter
A novel nondestructive measurement system has been developed to perform combined gamma-ray, passive neutron, and active neutron analyses of radioactive waste packaged in large crates. The system will be used to examine low level and transuranic waste at the Waste Receiving and Processing facility at Westinghouse-Hanford Corp. Prior to delivery of the system, an extensive evaluation of its performance characteristics will be conducted. The evaluation is to include an assessment of the mechanical properties of the system, gamma-ray attenuation correction algorithms, instrument response as a function of source positions, performance of the high resolution gamma-ray detector for ``hot spot`` and isotopic analyses, active and passive neutron counter response, instrument sensitivity, matrix effects, and packaging effects. This report will discuss the findings of the evaluation program, to date, and indicate future directions for the program.
Wachter, J.R. [Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Nuclear Materials Measurement and Accountability; Bieri, J.M. [Pajarito Scientific Corp., Los Alamos, NM (United States); Shaw, S.W. [Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
by Esmeralda Sánchez The Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting has produced an annual evaluation of the accuracy of the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) since 1996. Each year, the forecast evaluation expands on the prior year by adding the projections from the most recent AEO and the most recent historical year of data. The Forecast Evaluation examines the accuracy of AEO forecasts dating back to AEO82 by calculating the average absolute forecast errors for each of the major variables for AEO82 through AEO2003. The average absolute forecast error, which for the purpose of this report will also be referred to simply as "average error" or "forecast error", is computed as the simple mean, or average, of all the absolute values of the percent errors,
TEC Meeting Evaluations Summary -- Final
TEC Meeting Evaluation Summary TEC Meeting Evaluation Summary San Antonio, Texas February 6-7, 2008 Attendee Affiliation: TEC Member Organizations: 19 (38%) State, Tribal or Local Official: 21 (42%) U.S. Department of Energy: 2 (4%) DOE Contractor: 3 (6%) Other (e.g., AULG, DOT): 5 (10%) Assessment of Agenda Topics: DOE Program Updates: 42% very useful 58% somewhat useful Plenary I - Tribal Cultural Discussion: 40% very useful 36% somewhat useful 14% not useful 10% didn't attend Plenary II - Evaluation of Shortline Railroads 56% very useful 38% somewhat useful 6% not useful Plenary III - Addressing Risk Perception 74% very useful 16% somewhat useful 6% not useful 4% didn't attend Assessment of Topic Group Sessions Tribal: 23% very useful
RCS program evaluation plan options
The Residential Conservation Service (RCS) Program evaluation plan is designed to provide an ongoing evaluation during the RCS Program's active period as well as a measurement of the RCS Program's cumulative effect after the program's termination. The study options described include utility case studies, random survey sampling, directed survey sampling, and remote data collection. Survey techniques are described and appropriate questions are suggested. Several sample selection criteria are included as background for a DOE policy decision on this issue. Present and anticipated data sources are listed and discussed. Statistical data analysis plans include a preliminary determination of required sample sizes.
Stovall, T.K.; Bayne, C.K.
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) well construction technology evaluation report.
Electricity production from geothermal resources is currently based on the exploitation of hydrothermal reservoirs. Hydrothermal reservoirs possess three ingredients critical to present day commercial extraction of subsurface heat: high temperature, in-situ fluid and high permeability. Relative to the total subsurface heat resource available, hydrothermal resources are geographically and quantitatively limited. A 2006 DOE sponsored study led by MIT entitled 'The Future of Geothermal Energy' estimates the thermal resource underlying the United States at depths between 3 km and 10 km to be on the order of 14 million EJ. For comparison purposes, total U.S. energy consumption in 2005 was 100 EJ. The overwhelming majority of this resource is present in geological formations which lack either in-situ fluid, permeability or both. Economical extraction of the heat in non-hydrothermal situations is termed Enhanced or Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS). The technologies and processes required for EGS are currently in a developmental stage. Accessing the vast thermal resource between 3 km and 10 km in particular requires a significant extension of current hydrothermal practice, where wells rarely reach 3 km in depth. This report provides an assessment of well construction technology for EGS with two primary objectives: (1) Determining the ability of existing technologies to develop EGS wells. (2) Identifying critical well construction research lines and development technologies that are likely to enhance prospects for EGS viability and improve overall economics. Towards these ends, a methodology is followed in which a case study is developed to systematically and quantitatively evaluate EGS well construction technology needs. A baseline EGS well specification is first formulated. The steps, tasks and tools involved in the construction of this prospective baseline EGS well are then explicitly defined by a geothermal drilling contractor in terms of sequence, time and cost. A task and cost based analysis of the exercise is subsequently conducted to develop a deeper understanding of the key technical and economic drivers of the well construction process. Finally, future research & development recommendations are provided and ranked based on their economic and technical significance.
Capuano, Louis, Jr. (Thermasource Inc.); Huh, Michael; Swanson, Robert (Thermasource Inc.); Raymond, David Wayne; Finger, John Travis; Mansure, Arthur James; Polsky, Yarom; Knudsen, Steven Dell
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Speeding Up Zeolite Evaluation for Carbon Capture
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TEPP - Exercise Evaluation Forms | Department of Energy
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Building Energy-Efficiency Evaluation & Labeling Technologies...
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Evaluation Methods for Rail Transit Projects
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Johnston, Robert A.; DeLuchi, Mark A.
Evaluation of evolving residential electricity tariffs
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Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations
Welcome to the Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations The Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations, within the Office of Enforcement and Oversight, is...
Analysis Papers > Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation Analysis Papers > Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation Release Date: February 2005 Next Release Date: February 2006 Printer-friendly version Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation* Table 1.Comparison of Absolute Percent Errors for Present and Current AEO Forecast Evaluations Printer Friendly Version Average Absolute Percent Error Variable AEO82 to AEO99 AEO82 to AEO2000 AEO82 to AEO2001 AEO82 to AEO2002 AEO82 to AEO2003 AEO82 to AEO2004 Consumption Total Energy Consumption 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 Total Petroleum Consumption 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 Total Natural Gas Consumption 7.3 7.1 7.1 6.7 6.4 6.5 Total Coal Consumption 3.1 3.3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Total Electricity Sales 1.9 2.0 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.4 Production Crude Oil Production 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.7
INLAND PORT TRANSPORTATION EVALUATION GUIDE by Robert Harrison, Center for Transportation Research Transportation Institute, The Texas A&M University System; and Jolanda Prozzi, Center for Transportation Research, The University of Texas at Austin CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Bureau of Engineering Research
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Taiwan Power TCSC Evaluation Study
This report evaluates the use of Thyristor Controlled Series Compensation (TCSC) and conventional series compensation to more evenly distribute power flows on the Taiwan Power Company's (TPC) 345-kV Center-North interface and improve system dampings. This study concludes that the proposed compensation scheme would significantly improve the interface's performance capability.
Performance evaluation with temporal rewards
Today many formalisms exist for specifying complex Markov chains. In contrast, formalisms for specifying rewards, enabling the analysis of long-run average performance properties, have remained quite primitive. Basically, they only support the analysis ... Keywords: Markov chains, path-based reward variables, performance evaluation, reward functions, temporal logic
Jeroen P. M. Voeten
61 - 14470 of 28,905 results. 61 - 14470 of 28,905 results. Article DOE Hosts Record Number of Attendees at Annual Small Business Conference http://energy.gov/articles/doe-hosts-record-number-attendees-annual-small-business-conference Article Secretary Chu to Join Vice President Biden at Middle Class Task Force Event Tomorrow http://energy.gov/articles/secretary-chu-join-vice-president-biden-middle-class-task-force-event-tomorrow Download SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) Candidate Developmental Assignment Evaluation http://energy.gov/cio/downloads/senior-executive-service-candidate-development-program-sescdp-candidate-developmental Download SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) Evaluation of Formal Training http://energy.gov/cio/downloads/senior-executive-service-candidate-development-program-sescdp-evaluation-formal
Super Efficient Refrigerator Program (SERP) evaluation. Volume 1: Process evaluation
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) conducted this study for the US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Super Efficient Refrigerator Program (SERP) Evaluation. This report documents the SERP formation and implementation process, and identifies preliminary program administration and implementation issues. The findings are based primarily on interviews with those familiar with the program, such as utilities, appliance manufacturers, and SERP administrators. These interviews occurred primarily between March and April 1995, when SERP was in the early stages of program implementation. A forthcoming report will estimate the preliminary impacts of SERP within the industry and marketplace. Both studies were funded by DOE at the request of SERP Inc., which sought a third-party evaluation of its program.
Sandahl, L.J.; Ledbetter, M.R.; Chin, R.I.; Lewis, K.S.; Norling, J.M.
Nondestructive Evaluation: Indication Characterization, Evaluation, and Disposition Guideline
Operating experience of in-service inspections (ISIs) of nuclear power plants includes cases in which human error or inadequate implementation of examination plans resulted in issues with the application of qualified nondestructive evaluation (NDE) procedures. These issues can result in degraded NDE performance. The operating experience for the basis of the initial report centered principally on ultrasonic testing (UT) examination of dissimilar metal welds (DMWs) in reactor piping systems. The more ...
Nondestructive Evaluation: Nondestructive Evaluation and Measurement of Residual Stress
This report summarizes the results of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques for residual stress measurements conducted on Alloy 600 samples that have undergone changes in material properties resulting from simulated operating conditions, including heat treatment, three-point bending load, cracking, and repair. The overall objective was to identify suitable NDE techniques that would augment the existing and proven surface residual stress measurements by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and extend the measurem...
NIST Prototypes Framework for Evaluating Sustainability ...
NIST Prototypes Framework for Evaluating Sustainability Standards. ... Whatever the drivers, businesses are boosting their sustainability efforts. ...
Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 API ...
API Specification. Overview. The Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 will investigate the accuracy of fingerprint ...
Usability evaluation of selected web portals
This paper presents results of the usability evaluation performed according to the methodology of fuzzy usability evaluation that was presented in the previous research of the authors. As a result of a particular evaluation, a usability score is obtained. ... Keywords: information systems, usability, usability evaluation, web portal
Miloslav Hub; Michal Zatloukal
Evaluation of Contemporary Design of Reinforced Concrete ...
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New Program Evaluates Labs for Emergency ...
New Program Evaluates Labs for Emergency Communications Tests. For Immediate Release: March 24, 2009. ...
Specific test and evaluation plan
The purpose of this Specific Test and Evaluation Plan (STEP) is to provide a detailed written plan for the systematic testing of modifications made to the 241-AX-B Valve Pit by the W-314 Project. The STEP develops the outline for test procedures that verify the system`s performance to the established Project design criteria. The STEP is a lower tier document based on the W-314 Test and Evaluation Plan (TEP). Testing includes Validations and Verifications (e.g., Commercial Grade Item Dedication activities), Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), installation tests and inspections, Construction Acceptance Tests (CATs), Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs), Pre-Operational Test Procedures (POTPs), and Operational Test Procedures (OTPs). It should be noted that POTPs are not required for testing of the transfer line addition. The STEP will be utilized in conjunction with the TEP for verification and validation.
Hays, W.H.
Methodology for flammable gas evaluations
There are 177 radioactive waste storage tanks at the Hanford Site. The waste generates flammable gases. The waste releases gas continuously, but in some tanks the waste has shown a tendency to trap these flammable gases. When enough gas is trapped in a tank`s waste matrix, it may be released in a way that renders part or all of the tank atmosphere flammable for a period of time. Tanks must be evaluated against previously defined criteria to determine whether they can present a flammable gas hazard. This document presents the methodology for evaluating tanks in two areas of concern in the tank headspace:steady-state flammable-gas concentration resulting from continuous release, and concentration resulting from an episodic gas release.
Hopkins, J.D., Westinghouse Hanford
Depleted uranium disposal options evaluation
The Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, has chartered a study to evaluate alternative management strategies for depleted uranium (DU) currently stored throughout the DOE complex. Historically, DU has been maintained as a strategic resource because of uses for DU metal and potential uses for further enrichment or for uranium oxide as breeder reactor blanket fuel. This study has focused on evaluating the disposal options for DU if it were considered a waste. This report is in no way declaring these DU reserves a ``waste,`` but is intended to provide baseline data for comparison with other management options for use of DU. To PICS considered in this report include: Retrievable disposal; permanent disposal; health hazards; radiation toxicity and chemical toxicity.
Hertzler, T.J.; Nishimoto, D.D.; Otis, M.D. [Science Applications International Corp., Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Waste Management Technology Div.
Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations - Guidance Documents
Guidance Documents Guidance Documents Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Office Protocols Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Protocol for the Development and Maintenance of Criteria and Review Approach Documents, July 2013 Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Protocol for High Hazard Nuclear Facility Project Oversight, November 2012 Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Protocol for Required Reading, June 2012 Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Protocol for Small Team Oversight Activities, June 2012 (Rev. 1) Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Qualification Standard for the Site Lead Program, May 2011 Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Protocol for Site Leads, May 2011
CRADA NFE-08-01456 Evaluation of Alumina-Forming Austenitic Stainless Steel Alloys in Industrial Gas Turbines
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Solar Turbines Incorporated (Solar) participated in an in-kind cost share cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) effort under the auspices of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Technology Maturation Program to explore the feasibility for use of developmental ORNL alumina-forming austenitic (AFA) stainless steels as a material of construction for industrial gas turbine recuperator components. ORNL manufactured lab scale foil of three different AFA alloy compositions and delivered them to Solar for creep properties evaluation. One AFA composition was selected for a commercial trial foil batch. Both lab scale and the commercial trial scale foils were evaluated for oxidation and creep behavior. The AFA foil exhibited a promising combination of properties and is of interest for future scale up activities for turbine recuperators. Some issues were identified in the processing parameters used for the first trial commercial batch. This understanding will be used to guide process optimization of future AFA foil material production.
Brady, Michael P [ORNL; Pint, Bruce A [ORNL; Unocic, Kinga A [ORNL; Yamamoto, Yukinori [ORNL; Kumar, Deepak [ORNL; Lipschutz, Mark D. [Solar Turbines, Inc.
Nondestructive Evaluation: Training Course Materials
One of the final steps in the technology transfer process is personnel training. Training personnel in fundamental, and advanced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods and techniques is a major theme of the Nuclear NDE Program. Training is an essential part of NDE technology transfer and application, and it is an important element in maintaining the quality and supply of the NDE workforce serving the nuclear power industry. This has increasing importance with the aging workforce, the dawn of the nuclear...
Session: Test and Evaluation (Presentation)
The overall goal of this presentation is: (1) provide test and evaluation of PV cells/modules/systems to TPP participants, other PV industry, labs, and universities in support of technology optimization efforts sponsored by DOE's Solar Program and the SAI; (2) support commercial and emerging technology development; (3) provide component and system performance data to improve and validate system performance models; (4) provide T and E support for reliability activities; and (5) priority is placed on TPP's and other solicitations.
Marion, B.; Hanley, C.
Emergency response robot evaluation exercise
More than 60 robot test methods are being developed by a team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the sponsorship of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These test methods are being specified and standardized ... Keywords: HRI, capability, emergency response, evaluation, human-robot interaction, measure, metrics, mobility, performance, power, radio communications, repetition, robot, sensor, standard, task, test, test method, test suite, trial
Adam Jacoff; Hui-Min Huang; Ann Virts; Anthony Downs; Raymond Sheh
Nondestructive Evaluation: Training Program Update
BWR Fuel Deposit Sample Evaluation
River Bend Nuclear Power Station, a boiling water reactor (BWR) plant, experienced fuel defects during Cycle 11. The failed fuel pins were identified during the subsequent refueling outage. To assist analysis of the fuel failure root cause, crud flake deposit samples were collected for analyses. Results on the morphology and distribution of chemical elements in four tenacious crud flakes that are associated with the fuel failures are reported in EPRI report 1009733, BWR Fuel Deposit Sample Evaluation�Riv...
by Esmeralda Sanchez by Esmeralda Sanchez Errata -(7/14/04) The Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting has produced an annual evaluation of the accuracy of the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) since 1996. Each year, the forecast evaluation expands on the prior year by adding the projections from the most recent AEO and the most recent historical year of data. The Forecast Evaluation examines the accuracy of AEO forecasts dating back to AEO82 by calculating the average absolute forecast errors for each of the major variables for AEO82 through AEO2003. The average absolute forecast error, which for the purpose of this report will also be referred to simply as "average error" or "forecast error", is computed as the simple mean, or average, of all the absolute values of the percent errors, expressed as the percentage difference between the Reference Case projection and actual historic value, shown for every AEO and for each year in the forecast horizon (for a given variable). The historical data are typically taken from the Annual Energy Review (AER). The last column of Table 1 provides a summary of the most recent average absolute forecast errors. The calculation of the forecast error is shown in more detail in Tables 2 through 18. Because data for coal prices to electric generating plants were not available from the AER, data from the Monthly Energy Review (MER), July 2003 were used.
Infrasound Sensor Models and Evaluations
Sandia National Laboratories has continued to evaluate the performance of infrasound sensors that are candidates for use by the International Monitoring System (IMS) for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. The performance criteria against which these sensors are assessed are specified in ``Operational Manual for Infra-sound Monitoring and the International Exchange of Infrasound Data''. This presentation includes the results of efforts concerning two of these sensors: (1) Chaparral Physics Model 5; and (2) CEA MB2000. Sandia is working with Chaparral Physics in order to improve the capability of the Model 5 (a prototype sensor) to be calibrated and evaluated. With the assistance of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sandia is also conducting tests to evaluate the performance of the CEA MB2000. Sensor models based on theoretical transfer functions and manufacturer specifications for these two devices have been developed. This presentation will feature the results of coherence-based data analysis of signals from a huddle test, utilizing several sensors of both types, in order to verify the sensor performance.
Solar Two Performance Evaluation Methodology
Solar Two is a 10-MWe prototype central-receiver plant east of Barstow, California. Solar Two, which is sponsored by a consortium of utilities and industry in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, began regular electricity production in February 1997. The objective of Solar Two's performance evaluation activity is to understand the plant's performance and to use the evaluation information for the following purposes: optimize plant performance, extrapolate Solar Two's performance to general performance of molten-salt central-receiver technology, and recommend revisions to predictive models and engineering design methods for Solar Two and future-generation molten-salt central-receiver technology. The primary aspect of the performance evaluation is the lost-electricity analysis. This analysis compares the actual generation with the generation predicted by the Solar Two model. (SOLERGY, a computer program designed by Sandia National Laboratories to simulate the operation and power output of a solar central-receiver power plant is the code used to model Solar Two.) The difference between the predicted and the actual generation (i.e., the lost electricity) is broken down into the different efficiency and availability categories responsible for the loss. Having the losses broken down by system and in terms of electricity is useful for understanding and improving the plant's performance; it provides a tool for determining the best operating procedures for plant performance and the allocation of operation and maintenance resources for the best performance payback.
Mary Jane Hale
A methodology for design, test, and evaluation of real-time systems
This article presents a methodology that is suitable for use as part of either a prototyping approach or a component-reuse approach. This methodology integrates modeling and simulation as well as developmental and operational testing over the life cycle. ...
Kenneth D. Shere; Rachelle A. Carlson
Porous media experience applicable to field evaluation for compressed air energy storage
A survey is presented of porous media field experience that may aid in the development of a compressed air energy storage field demonstration. Work done at PNL and experience of other groups and related industries is reviewed. An overall view of porous media experience in the underground storage of fluids is presented. CAES experience consists of site evaluation and selection processes used by groups in California, Kansas, and Indiana. Reservoir design and field evaluation of example sites are reported. The studies raised questions about compatibility with depleted oil and gas reservoirs, storage space rights, and compressed air regulations. Related experience embraces technologies of natural gas, thermal energy, and geothermal and hydrogen storage. Natural gas storage technology lends the most toward compressed air storage development, keeping in mind the respective differences between stored fluids, physical conditions, and cycling frequencies. Both fluids are injected under pressure into an aquifer to form a storage bubble confined between a suitable caprock structure and partially displaced ground water. State-of-the-art information is summarized as the necessary foundation material for field planning. Preliminary design criteria are given as recommendations for basic reservoir characteristics. These include geometric dimensions and storage matrix properties such as permeability. Suggested ranges are given for injection air temperature and reservoir pressure. The second step in developmental research is numerical modeling. Results have aided preliminary design by analyzing injection effects upon reservoir pressure, temperature and humidity profiles. Results are reported from laboratory experiments on candidate sandstones and caprocks. Conclusions are drawn, but further verification must be done in the field.
Allen, R.D.; Gutknecht, P.J.
The multifamily building evaluation project
In 1991 the New York State Energy Office embarked on a comprehensive multi-year study of multifamily housing in New York City. The principal objective of the evaluation was to determine the degree to which new windows and boiler/burner retrofits installed in 22 multifamily buildings located in the New York City region save energy and whether the savings persist over a minimum of two years. Window and boiler retrofits were selected because they are popular measures and are frequently implemented with assistance from government and utility energy programs. Approaches prospectively, energy consumption monitoring and a series of on-site inspections helped explain why energy savings exceeded or fell short of expectations. In 1993, the scope of the evaluation expanded to include the monitoring of domestic hot water (DHW) consumption in order to better understand the sizing of combined heating/DHW boilers and water consumption patterns. The evaluation was one of ten proposals selected from over 100 candidates in a nationwide competition for a US Department of Energy Building Efficiency Program Grant. The Energy Office managed the project, analyzed the data and prepared the reports, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory served as technical advisor, and EME Group (New York City) installed meters and dataloggers, collected data, and inspected the retrofits. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority collaborated with the Energy Office on the DHW monitoring component. Results did not always follow predictable patterns. Some buildings far exceeded energy saving estimates while others experienced an increase in consumption. Persistence patterns were mixed. Some buildings showed a steady decline in energy savings while others demonstrated a continual improvement. A clear advantage of the research design was a frequent ability to explain results.
Site Familiarization and Introduction of New Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Site Lead for the Office of River Protection Waste Treatment Plant and Tank Farms, February 2013
HIAR-HANFORD-2013-02-25 HIAR-HANFORD-2013-02-25 Site: Hanford - Office of River Production Subject: Office of Enforcement and Oversight's Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Activity Report for Site Familiarization and Introduction of New Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations Site Lead Dates of Activity : 02/25/13 - 03/07/13 and 03/18-28/13 Report Preparer: Robert E. Farrell Activity Description/Purpose: The Office of Health, Safety and Security's (HSS) Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations (HS-45) assigned a new Site Lead to provide continuous oversight of activities at the Office of River Protection (ORP) Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) and tank farms. To gain familiarity with the site programs and personnel, the new Site Lead made
Evaluating High Efficiency Motor Retrofit
In the petrochemical and refining Industries, and most manufacturing plants, the reliable operation of AC motors always has been crucial to the continuous operation of the process. Now, the cost of operating these motors has also become a significant factor. Engineers Involved In motor specification can help lower plant operating costs and reduce electrical energy consumption dramatically by a relatively simple technique: retrofit of existing, standard-efficiency motors with new, high efficiency models. This article demonstrates strong reasons for motor retrofit, and explains step-by step how process and manufacturing engineering personnel can fully evaluate a retrofit decision.
Evans, T. A.
Concurrent ultrasonic weld evaluation system
A system for concurrent, non-destructive evaluation of partially completed welds for use in conjunction with an automated welder. The system utilizes real time, automated ultrasonic inspection of a welding operation as the welds are being made by providing a transducer which follows a short distance behind the welding head. Reflected ultrasonic signals are analyzed utilizing computer based digital pattern recognition techniques to discriminate between good and flawed welds on a pass by pass basis. The system also distinguishes between types of weld flaws.
Hood, Donald W. (Idaho Falls, ID); Johnson, John A. (Idaho Falls, ID); Smartt, Herschel B. (Idaho Falls, ID)
Evaluation of Retrofit Delivery Packages
Residential energy retrofit activities are a critical component of efforts to increase energy efficiency in the U.S. building stock; however, retrofits account for a small percentage of aggregate energy savings at relatively high per unit costs. This report by Building America research team, Alliance for Residential Building Innovation (ARBI), describes barriers to widespread retrofits and evaluates opportunities to improve delivery of home retrofit measures by identifying economies of scale in marketing, energy assessments, and bulk purchasing through pilot programs in portions of Sonoma, Los Angeles, and San Joaquin Counties, CA. These targeted communities show potential and have revealed key strategies for program design, as outlined in the report.
Berman, M.; Smith, P.; Porse, E.
Hood, D.W.; Johnson, J.A.; Smartt, H.B.
The purpose of this Specific Test and Evaluation Plan (STEP) is to provide a detailed written plan for the systematic testing of modifications made to the 241-AN-A Valve Pit by the W-314 Project. The STEP develops the outline for test procedures that verify the system`s performance to the established Project design criteria. The STEP is a ``lower tier`` document based on the W-314 Test and Evaluation Plan (TEP) This STEP encompasses all testing activities required to demonstrate compliance to the project design criteria as it relates to the modifications of the AN-A valve pit. The Project Design Specifications (PDS) identify the specific testing activities required for the Project. Testing includes Validations and Verifications (e.g., Commercial Grade Item Dedication activities), Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), installation tests and inspections, Construction Acceptance Tests (CATs), Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs), Pre-Operational Test Procedures (POTPs), and Operational Test Procedures (OTPs). It should be noted that POTPs are not required for testing of the modifications to the 241-AN-A Valve Pit. The STEP will be utilized in conjunction with the TEP for verification and validation.
To better ensure the reliability of the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) remote canyon process equipment, a materials evaluation program was performed as part of the overall startup test program. Specific test programs included FA-04 ('Process Vessels Erosion/Corrosion Studies') and FA-05 (melter inspection). At the conclusion of field testing, Test Results Reports were issued to cover the various test phases. While these reports completed the startup test requirements, DWPF-Engineering agreed to compile a more detailed report which would include essentially all of the materials testing programs performed at DWPF. The scope of the materials evaouation programs included selected equipment from the Salt Process Cell (SPC), Chemical Process Cell (CPC), Melt Cell, Canister Decon Cell (CDC), and supporting facilities. The program consisted of performing pre-service baseline inspections (work completed in 1992) and follow-up inspections after completion of the DWPF cold chemical runs. Process equipment inspected included: process vessels, pumps, agitators, coils, jumpers, and melter top head components. Various NDE (non-destructive examination) techniques were used during the inspection program, including: ultrasonic testing (UT), visual (direct or video probe), radiography, penetrant testing (PT), and dimensional analyses. Finally, coupon racks were placed in selected tanks in 1992 for subsequent removal and corrosion evaluation after chemical runs.
Gee, T.; Chandler, G.; Daugherty, W.; Imrich, K.; Jankins, C.
Microdrill Initiative - Initial Market Evaluation
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is launching a major research and development initiative to create a small, fast, inexpensive and environmentally friendly rig for drilling 5000 feet boreholes to investigate potential oil and gas reservoirs. DOE wishes to get input from petroleum industry operators, service companies and equipment suppliers on the operation and application of this coiled-tubing-based drilling unit. To that end, DOE has asked Spears & Associates, Inc. (SAI) to prepare a special state-of-the-market report and assist during a DOE-sponsored project-scoping workshop in Albuquerque near the end of April 2003. The scope of the project is four-fold: (1) Evaluate the history, status and future of demand for very small bore-hole drilling; (2) Measure the market for coiled tubing drilling and describe the state-of-the-art; (3) Identify companies and individuals who should have an interest in micro drilling and invite them to the DOE workshop; and (4) Participate in 3 concurrent workshop sessions, record and evaluate participant comments and report workshop conclusions.
Spears & Associates, Inc
Hysterosalpingography using a flat panel unit: Evaluation and optimization of ovarian radiation dose
Purpose: The aim of the present study was the evaluation and optimization of radiation dose to the ovaries (D) in hysterosalpingography (HSG). Methods: The study included a phantom study and a clinical one. In the phantom study, we evaluated imaging results for different geometrical setups and irradiation conditions. In the clinical study, 34 women were assigned into three different fluoroscopy modes and D was estimated with direct cervical TLD measurements. Results: In the phantom study, we used a source-to-image-distance (SID) of 110 cm and a field diagonal of 48 cm, and thus decreased air KERMA rate (KR) by 19% and 70%, respectively, for beam filtration: 4 mm Al and 0.9 mm Cu (Low dose). The least radiation exposure was accomplished by using the 3.75 pps fluoroscopy mode in conjunction with beam filtration: Low dose. In the clinical study, D normalized to 50 s of fluoroscopy time with a 3.75 pps fluoroscopy mode reached a value of 0.45 {+-} 0.04 mGy. Observers' evaluation of diagnostic image quality did not significantly differ for the three different modes of acquisition that were compared. Conclusions: Digital spot radiographs could be omitted in modern flat panel systems during HSG. Fluoroscopy image acquisitions in a modern flat panel unit at 3.75 pps and a beam filtration of 4 mm Al and 0.9 mm Cu demonstrate acceptable image quality with an average D equal to 0.45 mGy. This value is lower compared to the studied literature. For these reasons, the proposed method may be recommended for routine HSG examination in order to limit radiation exposure to the ovaries.
Messaris, Gerasimos A. T.; Abatzis, Ilias; Kagadis, George C.; Samartzis, Alexandros P.; Athanasopoulou, Panagiota; Christeas, Nikolaos; Katsanos, Konstantinos; Karnabatidis, Dimitrios; Nikiforidis, George C. [Department of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion (Greece); Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion (Greece); Department of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion, Greece and Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion (Greece); Department of Medical Physics, 'EVANGELISMOS' General Hospital, 45-47 Ypsilantou Street, GR 106 76 Athens (Greece); Philips Hellas, 44 Kifisias Avenue, GR 151 25 Marousi (Greece); Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion (Greece); Department of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion, Greece and Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, GR 265 04 Rion (Greece)
UHM/HNEI EV test and evaluation program
The electric vehicle (EV) program of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) focuses primarily on the field testing of promising EV/traction batteries. The intent is to utilize typical driving cycles to develop information that verifies or refutes what is obtained in the laboratory. Three different types of battery were assigned by the US DOE for testing in this program: Sonnenschein Dryfit 6V-160, Exide GC-5, Trojan T-145. We added the following battery to the test program: ALCO2200. HNEI's existing EVs were utilized as test beds. The following EVs were chosen in our program: Converted Ford Escort station wagon, Converted Ford Escort two-door sedan, Converted Ford Escort two-door sedan, Converted Dodge van (typically daily driving distances, 10--30 miles). Capacity testing is a very effective way of monitoring the status of battery modules. Based on capacity tests, corrective action such as battery replacement, additional charging, adjusting terminal connections, etc., may be taken to maintain good performance. About 15,500 miles and 600 cycles have been accumulated on the Sonnenschein Dryfit 6V-160 battery pack. Five of its 18 modules have been changed. Based on DOE's standard, the battery has reached the end of its useful life. Nevertheless, the battery pack is still operational and its operating range is still greater than 40 miles per charge. It is too early to evaluate the life expectancy of the other three batteries, the Trojan T-145, Exide GC-5, and Alco 2200. No module has been replaced in these three packs. The Trojan T-145 battery is a very promising EV traction battery in terms of quality and reliability versus price. HNEI will keep the Trojan and Exide battery packs in operation. The Alco 2200 batteries will be transferred to another vehicle. The Additional Charging Method seems to be an effective way of restoring weak modules. The Smart Voltmeter'' developed by HNEI is a promising way of monitoring the remaining range for an EV.
UHM/HNEI EV test and evaluation program. Final report
The electric vehicle (EV) program of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) focuses primarily on the field testing of promising EV/traction batteries. The intent is to utilize typical driving cycles to develop information that verifies or refutes what is obtained in the laboratory. Three different types of battery were assigned by the US DOE for testing in this program: Sonnenschein Dryfit 6V-160, Exide GC-5, Trojan T-145. We added the following battery to the test program: ALCO2200. HNEI`s existing EVs were utilized as test beds. The following EVs were chosen in our program: Converted Ford Escort station wagon, Converted Ford Escort two-door sedan, Converted Ford Escort two-door sedan, Converted Dodge van (typically daily driving distances, 10--30 miles). Capacity testing is a very effective way of monitoring the status of battery modules. Based on capacity tests, corrective action such as battery replacement, additional charging, adjusting terminal connections, etc., may be taken to maintain good performance. About 15,500 miles and 600 cycles have been accumulated on the Sonnenschein Dryfit 6V-160 battery pack. Five of its 18 modules have been changed. Based on DOE`s standard, the battery has reached the end of its useful life. Nevertheless, the battery pack is still operational and its operating range is still greater than 40 miles per charge. It is too early to evaluate the life expectancy of the other three batteries, the Trojan T-145, Exide GC-5, and Alco 2200. No module has been replaced in these three packs. The Trojan T-145 battery is a very promising EV traction battery in terms of quality and reliability versus price. HNEI will keep the Trojan and Exide battery packs in operation. The Alco 2200 batteries will be transferred to another vehicle. The Additional Charging Method seems to be an effective way of restoring weak modules. The ``Smart Voltmeter`` developed by HNEI is a promising way of monitoring the remaining range for an EV.
Evaluating N-gram based evaluation metrics for automatic keyphrase extraction
This paper describes a feasibility study of n-gram-based evaluation metrics for automatic keyphrase extraction. To account for near-misses currently ignored by standard evaluation metrics, we adapt various evaluation metrics developed for machine ...
Su Nam Kim; Timothy Baldwin; Min-Yen Kan
EVALUATING CONSERVATION EFFECTIVENESS AND ADAPTATION IN DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES ADENA R. RISSMAN* I INTRODUCTION Despite the widespread use of conservation easements, their conservation outcomes are relatively unknown.1 Evaluating conservation easement effectiveness requires interdisciplinary research that reaches
Rissman, Adena
A defense of checklists for courseware evaluation
This paper examines the role of checklists as a device for evaluating CALL courseware. After defining checklists, it examines the reasons why courseware is difficult to evaluate compared to other educational materials. It then covers in detail the main ...
Bernard Susser
VAP Development: Initiation, Development, Evaluation, and Release
This white paper provides a plan to formalize the evaluation of newly developed VAPs and a framework for the development of value-added products through four different stages: Initiation, Development, Evaluation, and Release.
Jensen, M; Collis, Fast, J; Flynn, C; Mather, J; McFarlane, S; Monroe, J; Sivaraman, C; Xie, S
Sensors and Instrumentation and Nondestructive Evaluation - Nuclear...
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A Performance Evaluation of Text Analysis Technologies
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Towards Security Evaluation BASED ON EVIDENCE COLLECTION
Information security evaluation of software-intensive systems typically relies heavily on the experience of the security professionals. Obviously, automated approaches are needed in this field. Unfortunately, there is no practical approach to carrying out security evaluation in a systematic way. Here we introduce a general-level holistic framework for security evaluation based on security behaviour modelling and security evidence collection, and discuss its applicability to the design of security evaluation experimentation setups in real-world systems.
Reijo Savola
Generation and Evaluation of Indexes for Chemistry Articles
This paper describes AIMS (Assisted Indexing at Mississippi State), a system that aids human document analysts in the assignment of indexes to physical chemistry journal articles. There are two major components of AIMS�a natural language processing ... Keywords: automatic indexing, document analysis, user interface
Julia Hodges; Shiyun Yie; Sonal Kulkarni; Ray Reighart
Test and Quality Assurance Plan Environmental and Sustainable Technology Evaluation
EPA REVIEW NOTICE This report has been peer and administratively reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. Final Version � October 2006 EPA Contract No. EP-C-04-056 Work Assignment No. 1-8-101
Biomass Co-firing; Industrial Boilers
Hazard Evaluation for 244-CR Vault
This document presents the results of a hazards identification and evaluation performed on the 244-CR Vault to close a USQ (USQ No.TF-98-0785, Potential Inadequacy in Authorization Basis (PIAB): To Evaluate Miscellaneous Facilities Listed In HNF-2503 And Not Addressed In The TWRS Authorization Basis) that was generated as part of an evaluation of inactive TWRS facilities.
Programmer-focused website accessibility evaluations
Suggested methods for conducting website accessibility evaluations have typically focused on the needs of end-users who have disabilities. However, programmers, not people with disabilities, are the end-users of evaluations reports generated by accessibility ... Keywords: accessibility, evaluation, internet, reporting
Chris Law; Julie Jacko; Paula Edwards
NREL Develops New Optical Evaluation Approach for
NREL Develops New Optical Evaluation Approach for Parabolic Trough Collectors New analytical method makes it possible to carry out fast evaluation of trough collectors for design purposes. Parabolic, and accurate analytical method for the optical evaluation of parabolic trough collectors: First
Preliminary Process and Market Evaluation
- February 13, 2013 - February 13, 2013 BBNP Preliminary Process & Market Study ? LBNL Project Manager: Ed Vine DOE Project Manager: Jeff Dowd Project Team: Research Into Action, Inc., NMR Group, Evergreen Economic Consulting, and Nexant, Inc. Page 2 - February 13, 2013 BBNP Preliminary Process & Market Study ? Who we are We are a team of evaluators... independent of the BBNP program with whom DOE has contracted to assess the performance of BBNP and identify lessons learned We are: Research Into Action, NMR Group, Nexant, and Evergreen Economics Page 3 - February 13, 2013 BBNP Preliminary Process & Market Study ? What we are doing, what we hope to learn We are assessing the national BBNP program, not individual grantees or their programs
LLNL-TR-411568 Evaluation
568 568 Evaluation of Simulated Precipitation in CCSM3: Annual Cycle Performance Metrics at Watershed Scales Peter J. Gleckler, David C. Bader March 26, 2009 Disclaimer This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. Neither the United States government nor Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, nor any of their employees makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the
ARM - Evaluation Product - Interpolated Sonde
ProductsInterpolated Sonde ProductsInterpolated Sonde Comments? We would love to hear from you! Send us a note below or call us at 1-888-ARM-DATA. Send Evaluation Product : Interpolated Sonde Site(s) GAN SGP TWP General Description The interpolated-sonde value-added product is a modification of the mergesonde VAP that produces a daily file of thermodynamic variables from radiosonde soundings, the microwave radiometer, and surface meteorological instruments. This product does not incorporate ECMWF model output. Interpolated-sonde includes many of the same sophisticated scaling/interpolation/smoothing schemes that are the hallmark of the mergesonde VAP, but there are benefits to excluding ECMWF model output. These benefits include (1) a shorter time lag in producing a thermodynamic profile, and (2) the profiles are independent of the model so comparisons
Field Evaluation of Programmable Thermostats
Prior research suggests that poor programmable thermostats usability may prevent their effective use to save energy. We hypothesized that home occupants with a high-usability thermostats would be more likely to use them to save energy than people with a basic thermostat. We randomly installed a high-usability thermostat in half the 77 apartments of an affordable housing complex, installing a basic thermostat in the other half. During the heating season, we collected space temperature and furnace on-off data to evaluate occupant interaction with the thermostats, foremost nighttime setbacks. We found that thermostat usability did not influence energy-saving behaviors, finding no significant difference in temperature maintained among apartments with high- and low-usability thermostats.
Sachs, O.; Tiefenbeck, V.; Duvier, C.; Qin, A.; Cheney, K.; Akers, C.; Roth, K.
Evaluation of End Mill Coatings
Milling tests were run on families of High Speed Steel (HSS) end mills to determine their lives while machining 304 Stainless Steel. The end mills tested were made from M7, M42 and T15-CPM High Speed Steels. The end mills were also evaluated with no coatings as well as with Titanium Nitride (TiN) and Titanium Carbo-Nitride (TiCN) coatings to determine which combination of HSS and coating provided the highest increase in end mill life while increasing the cost of the tool the least. We found end mill made from M42 gave us the largest increase in tool life with the least increase in cost. The results of this study will be used by Cutting Tool Engineering in determining which end mill descriptions will be dropped from our tool catalog.
L. J. Lazarus; R. L. Hester,
The primary aspect of the performance evaluation is the lost-electricity analysis. This analysis compares the actual generation with the generation predicted by the Solar Two model. (SOLERGY, a computer program designed by Sandia National Laboratories to simulate the operation and power output of a solar central-receiver power plant is the code used to model Solar Two.) The difference between the predicted and the actual generation (i.e., the lost electricity) is broken down into the different efficiency and availability categories responsible for the loss. Having the losses broken down by system and in terms of electricity is useful for understanding and improving the plant's performance; it provides a tool for determining the best operating procedures for plant performance and the allocation of operation and maintenance resources for the best performance payback.
The information and evaluations provided in this report were compiled to address the recurring problem of synthetic sling failure. As safety is the number one priority in all work aspects, a solution must be devised to prevent accidents from occurring. A total of thirteen cases regarding synthetic sling failure were evaluated in order to determine their causes, effects, and preventative measures. From the collected data, it was found that all cases in which the synthetic sling contacted the edge of its load resulted in sling failure. It is required that adequate synthetic sling protection devices be used to protect slings in any lift where the sling comes in direct contact with the edge or corner of its load. However, there are no consensus codes or standards stating the type, material, or purpose of the type of protective device used to protect the sling from being cut. Numerous industry standards and codes provide vague descriptions on how to protect synthetic slings. Without a clear, concise statement of how to protect synthetic slings, it is common for inadequate materials and sling protection devices to be used in an attempt to meet the intent of these requirements. The use of an inadequate sling protection device is the main cause of synthetic sling failure in all researched cases. Commercial sling protection devices come in many shapes and sizes, and have a variety of names, as well as advertised uses. 'Abrasion pads' and 'wear protectors' are two different names for products with the same intended purpose. There is no distinguishable way to determine the extent of sling protection which these devices will provide, or what specific scenarios they are made for. This creates room for error in a field where error is unacceptable. This report provides a recommended action for hoisting and rigging activities which require synthetic slings to contact a load, as well as recommended changes to industry standards which will benefit overall industry safety.
ENergy and Power Evaluation Program
In the late 1970s, national and international attention began to focus on energy issues. Efforts were initiated to design and test analytical tools that could be used to assist energy planners in evaluating energy systems, particularly in developing countries. In 1984, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) commissioned Argonne National Laboratory`s Decision and Information Sciences Division (DIS) to incorporate a set of analytical tools into a personal computer-based package for distribution in developing countries. The package developed by DIS staff, the ENergy and Power Evaluation Program (ENPEP), covers the range of issues that energy planners must face: economic development, energy demand projections, supply-and-demand balancing, energy system expansion, and environmental impact analysis. Following the original DOE-supported development effort, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with the assistance from the US Department of State (DOS) and the US Department of Energy (DOE), provided ENPEP training, distribution, and technical support to many countries. ENPEP is now in use in over 60 countries and is an international standard for energy planning tools. More than 500 energy experts have been trained in the use of the entire ENPEP package or some of its modules during the international training courses organized by the IAEA in collaboration with Argonne`s Decision and Information Sciences (DIS) Division and the Division of Educational Programs (DEP). This report contains the ENPEP program which can be download from the internet. Described in this report is the description of ENPEP Program, news, forums, online support and contacts.
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Evaluation Report: IG-0856 | Department of Energy
Evaluation Report: IG-0856 Evaluation Report: IG-0856 Evaluation Report: IG-0856 October 20, 2011 The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program - 2011 The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) provides direction on the development, implementation and management of an agency-wide information security program to provide protection commensurate with risk for Federal information and systems, including those managed by another agency or contractors. In accordance with FISMA, the Office of Inspector General conducted its annual independent evaluation to determine whether the Department of Energy's (Department) unclassified cyber security program adequately protected its information and systems. Our evaluation disclosed that the Department had taken steps to enhance its
Evaluation Report: IG-0704 | Department of Energy
Evaluation Report: IG-0704 Evaluation Report: IG-0704 Evaluation Report: IG-0704 October 6, 2005 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2005 Regulatory Commission (Commission) had taken steps to strengthen its cyber security program and implemented countermeasures to reduce network vulnerabilities addressed in our previous evaluation reports. Specifically, the Commission improved the Continuity of Operations Plan and system-specific disaster recovery plans. In addition, a System Development Life Cycle manual was developed and finalized to ensure that all information technology systems support Federal statutes and the Commission's business and strategic objectives. Evaluation Report: IG-0704 More Documents & Publications PIA - GovTrip (DOE data)
Tanzania Roads Evaluation - Baseline | Data.gov
Tanzania Roads Evaluation - Baseline Tanzania Roads Evaluation - Baseline Agriculture Community Menu DATA APPS EVENTS DEVELOPER STATISTICS COLLABORATE ABOUT Agriculture You are here Data.gov » Communities » Agriculture » Data Tanzania Roads Evaluation - Baseline Dataset Summary Description Baseline survey for impact evaluation of MCC's roads improvement investments in Tanzania. The evaluation will examine the project's household- and community-level effects on local standards of living along the roads. For the evaluation of major roads on the mainland, Economic Development Initiatives conducted a survey of 3,000 households in 200 communities in 2009. For the Pemba rural roads evaluation, Economic Development Initiatives conducted a survey on 570 households in the treatment group and 630 households in the comparison group.
Solar energy program evaluation: an introduction
The Program Evaluation Methodology provides an overview of the practice and methodology of program evaluation and defines more precisely the evaluation techniques and methodologies that would be most appropriate to government organizations which are actively involved in the research, development, and commercialization of solar energy systems. Formal evaluation cannot be treated as a single methodological approach for assessing a program. There are four basic types of evaluation designs - the pre-experimental design; the quasi-experimental design based on time series; the quasi-experimental design based on comparison groups; and the true experimental design. This report is organized to first introduce the role and issues of evaluation. This is to provide a set of issues to organize the subsequent sections detailing the national solar energy programs. Then, these two themes are integrated by examining the evaluation strategies and methodologies tailored to fit the particular needs of the various individual solar energy programs. (MCW)
deLeon, P.
Eighteen-Month Final Evaluation of UPS Second Generation Diesel Hybrid-Electric Delivery Vans
A parallel hybrid-electric diesel delivery van propulsion system was evaluated at a UPS facility in Minneapolis using on-vehicle data logging, fueling, and maintenance records. Route and drive cycle analysis showed different duty cycles for hybrid vs. conventional delivery vans; routes were switched between the study groups to provide a valid comparison. The hybrids demonstrated greater advantage on the more urban routes; the initial conventional vans' routes had less dense delivery zones. The fuel economy of the hybrids on the original conventional group?s routes was 10.4 mpg vs. 9.2 mpg for the conventional group on those routes a year earlier. The hybrid group's fuel economy on the original hybrid route assignments was 9.4 mpg vs. 7.9 mpg for the conventional group on those routes a year later. There was no statistically significant difference in total maintenance cost per mile or for the vehicle total cost of operation per mile. Propulsion-related maintenance cost per mile was 77% higher for the hybrids, but only 52% more on a cost-per-delivery-day basis. Laboratory dynamometer testing demonstrated 13%-36% hybrid fuel economy improvement, depending on duty cycle, and up to a 45% improvement in ton-mi/gal. NOx emissions increased 21%-49% for the hybrids in laboratory testing.
Lammert, M.; Walkowicz, K.
Total System Performance Assessment, 1993: An evaluation of the potential Yucca Mountain repository
Total System Performance Assessments are an important component in the evaluation of the suitability of Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a potential site for a mined geologic repository for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in the United States. The Total System Performance Assessments are conducted iteratively during site characterization to identify issues which should be addressed by the characterization and design activities as well as providing input to regulatory/licensing and programmatic decisions. During fiscal years 1991 and 1992, the first iteration of Total System Performance Assessment (hereafter referred to as TSPA 1991) was completed by Sandia National Laboratories and Pacific Northwest Laboratory. Beginning in fiscal year 1993, the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System Management and Operating Contractor was assigned the responsibility to plan, coordinate, and contribute to the second iteration of Total System Performance Assessment (hereafter referred to as TSPA 1993). This document presents the objectives, approach, assumptions, input, results, conclusions, and recommendations associated with the Management and Operating Contractor contribution to TSPA 1993. The new information incorporated in TSPA 1993 includes (1) revised estimates of radionuclide solubilities (and their thermal and geochemical dependency), (2) thermal and geochemical dependency of spent fuel waste alteration and glass dissolution rates, (3) new distribution coefficient (k{sub d}) estimates, (4) revised estimates of gas-phase velocities and travel times, and (5) revised hydrologic modeling of the saturated zone which provides updated estimates of the advective flux through the saturated zone.
Andrews, R.W.; Dale, T.F.; McNeish, J.A.
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PUBLIC HEALTH EVALUATION PUBLIC HEALTH EVALUATION PROJECT RULISON (PRODUCTION TESTING) by R o y B . E v a n s , D a v i d E . B e r n h a r d t P r o g r a m s 'and P l a n s S o u t h w e s t e r n R a d i o l o g i c a l H e a l t h L a b o r a t o r y U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h , E d u c a t i o n a n d Welfare P u b l i c H e a l t h S e r v i c e E n v i r o n m e n t a 1 H e a l t h S e r v i c e E n v i r o n m e n t a l C o n t r o l A d m i n i s t r a t i o n B u r e a u of R a d i o l o g i c a l H e a l t h D r a f t e d - O c t o b e r 1969 P u b l i s h e d - May 1 9 7 0 S e c o n d P r i n t i n g - A u g u s t 1 9 7 0 This page intentionally left blank ABSTRACT Project Rulison i s a Plowshare experiment t o i n v e s t i g a t e the f e a s i b i l i t y o f nuclear explosive s t i m u l a t i o n of n a t u r a l gas production. The detonation of t h e e x p l o s i v e took place on September 1 0 , 1969. Production t e s t i n g a c t i v i t i e s w i i l be i n i t i a t e d s i x months or more a f t e r t h e d e t o n a t i o n and w i l l e n t a i l f l
TurningPoint Evaluation Results
Results of the Knoxville 2012 Meeting Evaluation 15 22.06% 5 7.35% 36 52.94% 0 0% 3 4.41% 6 8.82% 3 4.41% Totals 68 100% 25 17.86% 38 27.14% 38 27.14% 38 27.14% 1 0.71% Totals 140 100% 35 47.30% 36 48.65% 2 2.70% 1 1.35% Totals 74 100% 1.) Please indicate what type of agency or company you represent. Responses Federal 2.) Which breakout sessions did you attend? Responses NRC: Storage and disposal topics NRC: Rulemakings and studies Emerging technologies for HAZMAT shipments Harmonization, DOE directives, TEPP activitie... Tribal State executive State legislature Local Private Other Didn't attend None 3.) Keynote Address: DOE Office of Environmental Management Responses Very Somewhat Not useful 22.1% 7.4% 52.9% 0% 4.4% 8.8% 4.4% Federal Tribal State executive State legislature Local
A radiological evaluation of phosphogypsum
Phosphogypsum is the by-product resulting from phosphoric acid or phosphate fertilizer production. The phosphate used in these chemical processes contains the naturally occurring radioactive material U and all its subsequent decay products. During processing, the U generally remains in the phosphoric acid product, while the daughter, {sup 226}Ra, tends to be concentrated in the phosphogypsum. Phosphogypsum has physical properties that make it useful as a sub-base for roadways, parking lots, and similar construction. A radiological evaluation, to determine exposures to workers mixing this material with a stabilizing agent (portland cement), was performed at a South Louisiana phosphoric acid chemical plant. Measurements of the {sup 226}Ra content of the phosphogypsum showed an average of 1.1 +/- 0.3 Bq g-1 (0.7-1.7 Bq g-1). The average measured gross gamma exposure rate on the phosphogypsum pile corresponded to a dose equivalent rate of 0.368 +/- 0.006 mu Sv h-1 (0.32-0.42 mu Sv h-1). Radon daughter concentrations measured on top of the phosphogypsum pile ranged from 0.0006 to 0.001 working levels. An analysis of the airborne {sup 226}Ra concentrations showed only background levels.
Laiche, T.P.; Scott, L.M. (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge (USA))
Evaluating verbose query processing techniques
Verbose or long queries are a small but significant part of the query stream in web search, and are common in other applications such as collaborative question answering (CQA). Current search engines perform well with keyword queries but are not, in general, effective for verbose queries. In this paper, we examine query processing techniques which can be applied to verbose queries prior to submission to a search engine in order to improve the search engine�s results. We focus on verbose queries that have sentence-like structure, but are not simple �wh- � questions, and assume the search engine is a �black box. � We evaluated the output of two search engines using queries from a CQA service and our results show that, among a broad range of techniques, the most effective approach is to simply reduce the length of the query. This can be achieved effectively by removing �stop structure � instead of only stop words. We show that the process of learning and removing stop structure from a query can be effectively automated.
Samuel Huston; W. Bruce Croft
Evaluation of nitrate destruction methods
A wide variety of high nitrate-concentration aqueous mixed [radioactive and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous] wastes are stored at various US Department of Energy (DOE) facilities. These wastes will ultimately be solidified for final disposal, although the waste acceptance criteria for the final waste form is still being determined. Because the nitrates in the wastes will normally increase the volume or reduce the integrity of all of the waste forms under consideration for final disposal, nitrate destruction before solidification of the waste will generally be beneficial. This report describes and evaluates various technologies that could be used to destroy the nitrates in the stored wastes. This work was funded by the Department of Energy`s Office of Technology Development, through the Chemical/Physical Technology Support Group of the Mixed Waste Integrated Program. All the nitrate destruction technologies will require further development work before a facility could be designed and built to treat the majority of the stored wastes. Several of the technologies have particularly attractive features: the nitrate to ammonia and ceramic (NAC) process produces an insoluble waste form with a significant volume reduction, electrochemical reduction destroys nitrates without any chemical addition, and the hydrothermal process can simultaneously treat nitrates and organics in both acidic and alkaline wastes. These three technologies have been tested using lab-scale equipment and surrogate solutions. At their current state of development, it is not possible to predict which process will be the most beneficial for a particular waste stream.
Taylor, P.A. [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States); Kurath, D.E.; Guenther, R. [Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
Evaluation of Torsatrons as reactors
Stellarators have significant operational advantages over tokamaks as ignited steady-state reactors. This scoping study, which uses an integrated cost-minimization code that incorporates costing and reactor component models self-consistently with a 1-D energy transport calculation, shows that a torsatron reactor could also be economically competitive with a tokamak reactor. The projected cost of electricity (COE) estimated using the Advanced Reactor Innovation and Evaluation Studies (ARIES) costing algorithms is 65.6 mill/kW(e)h in constant 1992 dollars for a reference 1-GW(e) Compact Torsatron reactor case. The COE is relatively insensitive (<10% variation) over a wide range of assumptions, including variations in the maximum field allowed on the coils, the coil elongation, the shape of the density profile, the beta limit, the confinement multiplier, and the presence of a large loss region for alpha particles. The largest variations in the COE occur for variations in the electrical power output demanded and the plasma-coil separation ratio.
Lyon, J.F. [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States); Gulec, K. [Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Miller, R.L. [Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States); El-Guebaly, L. [Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Verti Jack Pumping Unit evaluation
The Verti Jack Pumping Unit was tested primarily to establish the energy comsumption efficiency of the unit as compared with that of conventional pumping unit. Before the unit was field tested, extensive static testing was performed to determine the effect of the counterbalance system throughout the operational cycle. The field test included comparing the performance of the Verti Jack Unit and conventional pump jacks - a Bethlehem 16 and Cabot 25 pumping unit. The Verti Jack unit was operated at four different pumping conditions. The Verti Jack unit peformed satisfactorily during the testing. Only minor problems that could not be attributed to the design or operation of the unit were encountered. Changing the stroke length was difficult in the field, but such operational problems were expected in operating the first phototype and can be corrected on future models. During the higher pumping rate tests of the Verti Jack unit, the well ceased to deliver fluid quantities at rates adequate to the pumping rate. These data are shown in table 8. Therefore, evaluation data are based on theoretical pump performance and are presented in table 9. The data show that the Verti Jack is more efficient than the conventional units tested. The most direct comparison was the Verti Jack test at 36-inch stroke and 12 1/2 strokes per minute versus the Cabot unit at 37-inch stroke and 12 strokes per minute. In the comparison the Verti Jack operated about 24 percent more efficiently than the Cabot unit. Comparing the summation of all Verti Jack tests with that of all conventional unit tests, the Verti Jack operated about 15 percent more efficiently. Compared to the Cabot unit only, the Verti Jack was about 17 percent more energy efficient. 13 figs., 12 tabs.
Porter, R.; Spence, K.
Evaluation of high-performance computing software
The absence of unbiased and up to date comparative evaluations of high-performance computing software complicates a user`s search for the appropriate software package. The National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) is attacking this problem using an approach that includes independent evaluations of software, incorporation of author and user feedback into the evaluations, and Web access to the evaluations. We are applying this approach to the Parallel Tools Library (PTLIB), a new software repository for parallel systems software and tools, and HPC-Netlib, a high performance branch of the Netlib mathematical software repository. Updating the evaluations with feed-back and making it available via the Web helps ensure accuracy and timeliness, and using independent reviewers produces unbiased comparative evaluations difficult to find elsewhere.
Browne, S.; Dongarra, J. [Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Rowan, T. [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Capturing the Green River -- Multispectral airborne videography to evaluate the environmental impacts of hydropower operations
The 500-mile long Green River is the largest tributary of the Colorado River. From its origin in the Wind River Range mountains of western Wyoming to its confluence with the Colorado River in southeastern Utah, the Green River is vital to the arid region through which it flows. Large portions of the area remain near-wilderness with the river providing a source of recreation in the form of fishing and rafting, irrigation for farming and ranching, and hydroelectric power. In the late 1950`s and early 1960`s hydroelectric facilities were built on the river. One of these, Flaming Gorge Dam, is located just south of the Utah-Wyoming border near the town of Dutch John, Utah. Hydropower operations result in hourly and daily fluctuations in the releases of water from the dam that alter the natural stream flow below the dam and affect natural resources in and along the river corridor. In the present study, the authors were interested in evaluating the potential impacts of hydropower operations at Flaming Gorge Dam on the downstream natural resources. Considering the size of the area affected by the daily pattern of water release at the dam as well as the difficult terrain and limited accessibility of many reaches of the river, evaluating these impacts using standard field study methods was virtually impossible. Instead an approach was developed that used multispectral aerial videography to determine changes in the affected parameters at different flows, hydrologic modeling to predict flow conditions for various hydropower operating scenarios, and ecological information on the biological resources of concern to assign impacts.
Snider, M.A.; Hayse, J.W.; Hlohowskyj, I.; LaGory, K.E.
An Approach to Evaluating Equipment Efficiency Policies
The National Energy Conservation Policy Act of 1978 authorized studies of several types of industrial equipment to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of labeling rules and minimum energy efficiency standards. An approach to the evaluation of these and related policy options is under development. The approach includes equipment classification and characterization, market characterization, and the subsequent evaluation of effectiveness and costs of the policy options. Technical, economic, and marketing data obtained with the cooperation of industrial groups, such of policy impacts.
Newsom, D. E.; Evans, A. R.
Evaluation of potential surface rupture and review of current seismic hazards program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Final report
This report summarizes the authors review and evaluation of the existing seismic hazards program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The report recommends that the original program be augmented with a probabilistic analysis of seismic hazards involving assignment of weighted probabilities of occurrence to all potential sources. This approach yields a more realistic evaluation of the likelihood of large earthquake occurrence particularly in regions where seismic sources may have recurrent intervals of several thousand years or more. The report reviews the locations and geomorphic expressions of identified fault lines along with the known displacements of these faults and last know occurrence of seismic activity. Faults are mapped and categorized into by their potential for actual movement. Based on geologic site characterization, recommendations are made for increased seismic monitoring; age-dating studies of faults and geomorphic features; increased use of remote sensing and aerial photography for surface mapping of faults; the development of a landslide susceptibility map; and to develop seismic design standards for all existing and proposed facilities at LANL.
Independent Oversight Evaluation, Office of Secure Transportation -
Evaluation, Office of Secure Transportation - Evaluation, Office of Secure Transportation - February 2004 Independent Oversight Evaluation, Office of Secure Transportation - February 2004 February 2004 Evaluation of the Office of Secure Transportation Emergency Management Program The Secretary of Energy's Office of Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance (OA) conducted an inspection of emergency management programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Secure Transportation (OST) in October 2003. Inspection activities included the observation of the OST annual emergency exercise and reviews of selected emergency management program elements. The exercise demonstrated that the OST emergency response organization could effectively provide for prompt event categorization, DOE and NNSA
Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide
Impact Evaluation Guide Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification Working Group December 2012 The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network is a state and local effort facilitated by the federal government that helps states, utilities, and other local stakeholders take energy efficiency to scale and achieve all cost-effective energy efficiency by 2020. Learn more at www.seeaction.energy.gov DOE/EE-0829 ii December 2012 www.seeaction.energy.gov ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT This Energy Efficiency Program Impact Evaluation Guide describes the common terminology, structures, and approaches used for determining (evaluating) energy and demand savings as well as avoided emissions and other non-energy benefits resulting
Methodology for Evaluation of Collaboration Systems
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Evaluation Report: IG-0700 | Department of Energy
0 Evaluation Report: IG-0700 September 27, 2005 The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2005 We found that the Department of Energy (Department) continued to take...
Evaluation Report: IG-0620 | Department of Energy
20 Evaluation Report: IG-0620 September 16, 2003 The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2003 While improvements were made during the last year, we noted that...
Appendix E National Type Evaluation Technical Committee ...
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Future Air traffic management Concepts Evaluation Tool ...
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Retrospective Evaluation of Appliance Price Trends
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Programs for Evaluating Software Testing Tools and ...
... PESTTT materials can be used to evaluate and compare both white box and ... A draft conference paper has been submitted but not yet accepted for ...
Evaluation of Electric Field Exposure Assessment Methods
This evaluation of electric field exposure assessment methods highlights a renewed interest in characterizing electric field exposures and their attendant perceptible nuisance shocks.
Geothermal: Sponsored by OSTI -- Reconnaissance evaluation of...
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
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Technology Validation: Fuel Cell Bus Evaluations (Presentation)
This presentation by Leslie Eudy at the 2007 DOE Hydrogen Program Annual Merit Review Meeting provides information about NREL's fuel cell bus evaluations.
Eudy, L.
Production Evaluation of 718-ER Alloy - TMS
A fill-scale production trial was conducted to evaluate 718-ER in comparison with standard alloy 718. The processing characteristics of both alloys in.
Fuel Cell Bus Evaluation Results (Presentation)
Presentation on the results from the DOE fuel cell bus evaluation given at the Transportation Research Board's 87th annual meeting, January 14, 2008.
Federal Energy Management Program: Water Efficiency Evaluation...
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Evaluation and testing of internet firewalls
In this article we propose a testing methodology for evaluating Internet firewalls and apply it to compare two popular firewalls. Copyright � 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Khalid Al-Tawil; Ibrahim A. Al-Kaltham
D R A F T Evaluating Interconnect
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ARM - Evaluation Product - Cloud Classification VAP
properties includes cloud boundaries, thickness, phase, type, and precipitation information, and hence provides a useful tool for evaluation of model simulations and...
Issues evaluation process at Rocky Flats Plant
This report describes the issues evaluation process for Rocky Flats Plant as established in July 1990. The issues evaluation process was initiated February 27, 1990 with a Charter and Process Overview for short-term implementation. The purpose of the process was to determine the projects required for completion before the Phased Resumption of Plutonium Operations. To determine which projects were required, the issues evaluation process and emphasized risk mitigation, based on a ranking system. The purpose of this report is to document the early design of the issues evaluation process to record the methodologies used that continue as the basis for the ongoing Issues Management Program at Rocky Flats Plant.
Smith, L.C.
California Evaluation Framework | Building Energy Codes Program
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California Energy Efficiency Evaluation Protocols | Building...
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Technology Validation: Fuel Cell Bus Evaluations (Poster)
Poster discusses hydrogen fuel cell transit bus evaluations conducted for the Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, & Infrastructure Technologies Program (HFCIT). It was presented at the 2006 HFCIT Program Review.
Geothermal: Sponsored by OSTI -- Geothermal resource evaluation...
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Battery Recycling by Hydrometallurgy: Evaluation of Simultaneous ...
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Evaluation of the cooling fan efficiency index.
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Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent ...
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Plenary II -- Evaluation of Shortline Railroads
Evaluation of Shortline Railroads Task: Task: Identify Shortline Railroads Serving Nuclear Power Plants or Identify Shortline Railroads Serving Nuclear Power Plants or...
Evaluated data collections from ENSDF. [ORNL
For several years the Nuclear Data Project has been maintaining an Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF), which is designed to include critically evaluated values for most nuclear spectroscopic quantities. The information in ENSDF is the same as in the Nuclear Data Sheets, which illustrates two particular output formats (drawings and tables). Spectroscopic information for nuclei with A < 45 is put into ENSDF from the evaluations of Aizenberg-Selove and of Endt and van der Leun. An international network was organized to provide regular revisions of the data file. Computer facilities were developed to retrieve collections of evaluated data for special calculations or detailed examination.
Ewbank, W.B.
Multics Security Evaluation (Volume II): Vulnerability Analysis
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NETL: Health Effects - Toxicological Evaluation of Realistic...
TERESA: Toxicological Evaluation of Realistic Emissions of Source Aerosols The overall objective of the TERESA program is to investigate and clarify the impact of the sources and...
Technology Validation: Fuel Cell Bus Evaluations
Presentation for the 2005 U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Program review showing status of U.S. and international fuel cell transit bus evaluations.
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DOT DOT U.S. DOT Federal Railroad Federal Railroad Administration Administration DOE Rail TEC DOE Rail TEC Winter Winter Meeting Meeting February February 6, 6, 2008, San Antonio, TX 2008, San Antonio, TX Evaluation of Shortline Railroads Evaluation of Shortline Railroads Tasked for the Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Tasked for the Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Evaluation of Shortline Railroads Evaluation of Shortline Railroads Task: Task: Identify Shortline Railroads Serving Nuclear Power Plants or Identify Shortline Railroads Serving Nuclear Power Plants or Involved in the Transportation Link Involved in the Transportation Link Establish Contact Information with Railroads Officials Establish Contact Information with Railroads Officials Field Review of each Railroad
Evaluation of Resource Acquisition Approaches : Final Report.
Over the last few years, Bonneville has been addressing this need and has developed numerous ways of acquiring resources. Four of these Approaches, the Competitive Acquisition, Billing Credits, and Targeted Acquisition Programs, and the Cowlitz Falls Hydroelectric Project, were the subject of this evaluation project. Each Approach is currently in different stages of a process, and Bonneville felt it was an appropriate time that an evaluation be conducted. The purpose of this evaluation is to analyze the various Approaches` processes, to learn what`s working and what`s not, and to offer recommendations as to how Bonneville might improve their resources acquisition efforts. The evaluation was conducted with no preconceived biases.
O`Neill, Maura L.; Mortimer, Tom; Palermini, Debbi; Nelson, Kari
Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation-Table 1
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Offline partial evaluation for shift and reset
This paper presents an offline partial evaluator for the ?-calculus with the delimited continuation constructs shift and reset. Based on Danvy and Filinski's type system for shift and reset, we first present a type system that specifies ... Keywords: CPS transformation, binding-time analysis (BTA), continuation-passing style (CPS), delimited continuations, logical relations, offline partial evaluation
Kenichi Asai
Evaluation of Calcine Disposition Path Forward
This document describes an evaluation of the baseline and two alternative disposition paths for the final disposition of the calcine wastes stored at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The pathways are evaluated against a prescribed set of criteria and a recommendation is made for the path forward.
Birrer, S.A.; Heiser, M.B.
Evaluation of Calcine Disposition - Path Forward
Steve Birrer
Evaluation of the Strategic Alliance for Agricultural
local entrepreneurship, agribusiness cluster formation and the development of competitive value chains Evaluation of the Strategic Alliance for Agricultural Development in Africa (SAADA program) 2006-20092 | SAADA Evaluation 2006-2009Local entrepreneurship, agribusiness cluster formation and the development of competitive value chains
Moussiliou Alidou; Marjolein Lem; Ted Schrader; Fons De Zeeuw; Moussiliou Alidou; Marjolein Lem; Ted Schrader; Fons De Zeeuw
Three web accessibility evaluation perspectives for RIA
With the increasing popularity of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), several challenges arise in the area of web accessibility evaluation. A particular set of challenges emerges from RIAs dynamic nature: original static Web specifications can change ... Keywords: automated evaluation, web accessibility, web browser processing, web science
N�dia Fernandes, Ana Sofia Batista, Daniel Costa, Carlos Duarte, Lu�s Carri�o
Topic relatedness in evaluative information extraction
The task of extracting opinions/evaluations related to a given topic from a large number of documents such as Web documents is crucial for developing an automatic evaluation finding system, which can handle a wide variety of topics as input. In this ...
Takuya Kawada; Tetsuji Nakagawa; Kentaro Inui; Sadao Kurohashi
Performance evaluation of robotic knowledge representation (PERK)
In this paper, we explore some ways in which symbolic knowledge representations have been evaluated in the past and provide some thoughts on what should be considered when applying and evaluating these types of knowledge representations for real-time ... Keywords: knowledge representation, ontologies, performance metrics, real-time, robotics
Craig Schlenoff; Sebti Foufou; Stephen Balakirsky
Duke Power Compact PHOCUS Boresonic System Evaluation
Reliable and repeatable boresonic inspection of turbine rotors and generators is critical for accurately predicting remaining life. EPRI's boresonic system evaluation program provides utilities with insight into commercial boresonic system performance capabilities. This report, one in a series of boresonic system evaluations, features an assessment of Duke Power Company's compact PHOCUS boresonic inspection system.
Evaluation of Medium-Voltage Cable Joints
This research is a continuation of work evaluating performance of state-of-the-art joints. Three single-phase cold shrink joints and three "I"-type premolded separable connector joints were evaluated. Two of the separable connectors were rated 600 A and one was rated 900 A; both were installed on ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) 15-kV cables.
Weldability Tests for Evaluating Cracking Susceptibility
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Improving Geocoding Practices: Evaluation of Geocoding Tools
This study examined the sources of error involved in geocoding, by systematically evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of three widely used tools for geocoding. We tested them against a random sample of addresses from a state administrative address ... Keywords: address matching, census block, evaluation, geocoding, geocoding tools
Duck-Hye Yang; Lucy Mackey Bilaver; Oscar Hayes; Robert Goerge
Context-based question-answering evaluation
In this poster, we will present the results of efforts we have undertaken to conduct evaluations of a QA system in a real world environment and to understand the nature of the dimensions on which users evaluate QA systems when given full reign to comment ... Keywords: question taxonomies, question understanding, question-answering systems, real-time systems
Elizabeth D. Liddy; Anne R. Diekema; Ozgur Yilmazel
Cellular Energy Efficiency Evaluation Framework (Invited Paper)
Cellular Energy Efficiency Evaluation Framework (Invited Paper) Gunther Auer, Vito Giannini, Istv, the power consumption of the entire system needs to be captured and an appropriate energy efficiency evaluation frameworks are discussed, such that the energy efficiency of the entire network comprising
Stevenson, Paul
REPORT NO. 4 ESTIMATES AND EVALUATION OF FALLOUT IN THE UNITED STATES FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS ESTIMATES AND EVALUATION OF FALLOUT IN THE UNITED STATES FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING CONDUCTED THROUGH 1962 Transport and Distribution of Fallout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Section IV Radionuclides in the Diet
An Evaluation of Spray Formed Alloy 718
USA. Abstract. Spray deposited 718 was evaluated and its characteristics ... gas and depending on the deposition conditions, as-sprayed shapes are typically .... from production size as-cast and cast-wrought material were also evaluated. .... ( 175O"F)/l Hr/Oil Quenched; Double aged at 718�C (1325'F)/8 Hrs/Furnace Cooled.
A new evaluation measure for imbalanced datasets
The area of imbalanced datasets is still relatively new, and it is known that the use of overall accuracy is not an appropriate evaluation measure for imbalanced datasets, because of the dominating effect of the majority class. Although, researchers ... Keywords: ROC and cost sensitive learning, evaluation, imbalanced datasets
Cheng G. Weng; Josiah Poon
Security and Cyber Evaluations | Department of Energy
Security and Cyber Evaluations Security and Cyber Evaluations Security and Cyber Evaluations Security and Cyber Evaluations within the Office of Enforcement and Oversight implements the independent security performance monitoring functions for DOE. The other half of the Independent Oversight Program is implemented by the Office of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations for safety oversight. The independent oversight function performed by these two offices is delineated in DOE Order 227.1, Independent Oversight Program, issued on August 30, 2011. This recently revised Order reflects lessons learned in conducting inspections and incorporates earlier and more frequent line management involvement in the inspection planning process. We welcome an opportunity to discuss our inspection process and potential
Computational evaluation of two reactor benchmark problems
A neutronic evaluation of two reactor benchmark problems was performed. The benchmark problems describe typical PWR uranium and plutonium (mixed oxide) fueled lattices. WIMSd4m, a neutron transport lattice code, was used to evaluate multigroup macroscopic cross sections for various pincell models in each benchmark problem. DEF3D, a multigroup multidimensional diffusion code, was used to evaluate the uranium-fueled lattice benchmark problem of the American Nuclear Society. TWODANT, a multigroup, two-dimensional transport code, was used to evaluate the mixed oxide lattice benchmark problem from the Nuclear Energy Agency. Both benchmark problems yielded results consistent with preliminary results submitted by other participants in the benchmarking exercises. Some suggestions are made to improve future benchmark evaluations.
Cowan, James Anthony
Applying DSM evaluation results to utility planning
This paper describes the results of a study to assess the application of DSM evaluation results to utility forecasting and planning. The paper has three objectives: (1) identify forecasting and planning applications of evaluation studies, (2) identify major obstacles and problems associated with applying evaluation results to forecasting and planning, and (3) suggest approaches to address the major problems. The paper summarizes results from interviews with utilities, regulators, and consultants to determine how the utility industry currently applies evaluation results in forecasting and planning. The paper also includes results from a detailed case study of Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and Southern California Edison Company (SCE), two utilities with large DSM programs and active evaluation efforts.
Baxter, L.W.
Layered evaluation of interactive adaptive systems: framework and formative methods
The evaluation of interactive adaptive systems has long been acknowledged to be a complicated and demanding endeavour. Some promising approaches in the recent past have attempted tackling the problem of evaluating adaptivity by "decomposing" and evaluating ... Keywords: Design, Evaluation framework, Formative evaluation methods, Layered evaluation
Alexandros Paramythis; Stephan Weibelzahl; Judith Masthoff
Evaluation Report: IG-0738 | Department of Energy
Evaluation Report: IG-0738 Evaluation Report: IG-0738 Evaluation Report: IG-0738 September 18, 2006 The Department's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2006 To help accomplish its strategic goals in the areas of defense, energy, science and the environment, the Department utilizes numerous interconnected computer networks and individual systems. Virtually all of the Department's systems are increasingly subjected to sophisticated attacks designed to circumvent security measures, trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive information or propagate harmful programs. A strong cyber security program is essential to minimizing adverse impacts on Department mission associated with successful attacks or intrusions and protecting operational, personally identifiable and other sensitive data
Slimholes for geothermal reservoir evaluation - An overview
The topics covered in this session include: slimhole testing and data acquisition, theoretical and numerical models for slimholes, and an overview of the analysis of slimhole data acquired by the Japanese. The fundamental issues discussed are concerned with assessing the efficacy of slimhole testing for the evaluation of geothermal reservoirs. the term reservoir evaluation is here taken to mean the assessment of the potential of the geothermal reservoir for the profitable production of electrical power. As an introduction to the subsequent presentations and discussions, a brief summary of the more important aspects of the use of slimholes in reservoir evaluation is given.
Hickox, C.E.
Evaluating Model Abstractions: A Quantitative Approach
An \\evaluation " approach devised for an inductive reasoning system called Logic-based Discrete-event Inductive Reasoner is the focus of this paper. The underlying inductive reasoning methodology utilizes abstractions as its primary means to deal with lack ofknowledge. Based on abstractions and their treatments as assumptions, the Logic-based Discrete-event Inductive Reasoning system allows non-monotonic predictions. The evaluation approach takes into account explicitly the role of abstractions employed in non-monotonically derived multiple predictions. These predictions are ranked according to the type and number of abstractions used. The proposed evaluation approach is also discussed in relation to the dichotomy of model validation and simulation correctness.
Hessam S. Sarjoughian; Bernard P. Zeigler; Francois E. Cellier
Evaluating Message Understanding Systems: An Analysis of . . .
This paper describes and analyzes the results of the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3). It reviews the purpose, history, and methodology of the conference, summarizes the participating systems, discusses issues of measuring system effectiveness, describes the linguistic phenomena tests, and provides a critical look at the evaluation in terms of the lessons learned. One of the common problems with evaluations is that the statistical significance of the results is unknown. In the discussion of system performance, the statistical significance of the evaluation results is reported and the use of approximate randomization to calculate the statistical significance of the results of MUC-3 is described
Nancy Chinchor; Lynette Hirschman; David D. Lewis
An evaluated neutronic data file for bismuth
A comprehensive evaluated neutronic data file for bismuth, extending from 10{sup {minus}5} eV to 20.0 MeV, is described. The experimental database, the application of the theoretical models, and the evaluation rationale are outlined. Attention is given to uncertainty specification, and comparisons are made with the prior ENDF/B-V evaluation. The corresponding numerical file, in ENDF/B-VI format, has been transmitted to the National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory. 106 refs., 10 figs., 6 tabs.
Guenther, P.T.; Lawson, R.D.; Meadows, J.W.; Smith, A.B.; Smith, D.L.; Sugimoto, M. (Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)); Howerton, R.J. (Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA))
A laboratory evaluation of color video monitors
Sandia National Laboratories has considerable experience with monochrome video monitors used in alarm assessment video systems. Most of these systems, used for perimeter protection, were designed to classify rather than to identify intruders. There is a growing interest in the identification function of security video systems for both access control and insider protection. Because color video technology is rapidly changing and because color information is useful for identification purposes, Sandia National Laboratories established a program to evaluate the newest relevant color video equipment. This report documents the evaluation of an integral component, color monitors. It briefly discusses a critical parameter, dynamic range, details test procedures, and evaluates the results.
Terry, P.L.
4 4 Evaluation Report: IG-0704 October 6, 2005 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Unclassified Cyber Security Program-2005 Regulatory Commission (Commission) had taken steps to strengthen its cyber security program and implemented countermeasures to reduce network vulnerabilities addressed in our previous evaluation reports. Specifically, the Commission improved the Continuity of Operations Plan and system-specific disaster recovery plans. In addition, a System Development Life Cycle manual was developed and finalized to ensure that all information technology systems support Federal statutes and the Commission's business and strategic objectives. Evaluation Report: IG-0704 More Documents & Publications Slide 1 PIA - GovTrip (DOE data) PIA - Bonneville Power Adminstration Ethics Helpline
NREL: Fleet Test and Evaluation - Truck Efficiency
Efficiency Efficiency The Fleet Test and Evaluation team is working with industry partners to evaluate truck efficiency technologies in long-haul truck cabs. To keep their cabs at a comfortable temperature, heavy-duty truck drivers idle their engines an average of 1,400 hours annually, using more than 800 million gallons of fuel each year. With diesel prices at an all-time high, carrier companies are looking into ways to incorporate truck efficiency technologies to eliminate engine idling. By doing so, they not only save money on fuel but reduce tailpipe emissions. To find ways trucks can be more efficient without idling, the Fleet Test and Evaluation team is researching: Thermal Load Reduction Idle Reduction Printable Version Fleet Test and Evaluation Home Research & Development
NREL: Fleet Test and Evaluation - Alternative Fuels
Alternative Fuels Alternative Fuels NREL's Fleet Test and Evaluation Team works with industry partners to evaluate the use of alternative fuels in delivery, transit, and freight vehicles. Although biodiesel is the most commonly used alternative fuel in medium- and heavy-duty diesel vehicles, compressed and liquefied natural gas and Fischer-Tropsch diesel are also viable options for trucking companies. Learn more about the team's evaluations of alternative fuels in fleet operations: Biodiesel Compressed Natural Gas Fischer-Tropsch Diesel Liquefied Natural Gas Printable Version Fleet Test and Evaluation Home Research & Development Vehicle Drive Cycle Analysis Hybrid Electric Drive Systems Electric & Plug-in Hybrid Electric Drive Systems Hydraulic Hybrid Drive Systems Truck Stop Electrification
Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation 2005
Forecast Evaluation 2005 Forecast Evaluation 2005 Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation 2005 Annual Energy Outlook Forecast Evaluation 2005 * Then Energy Information Administration (EIA) produces projections of energy supply and demand each year in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). The projections in the AEO are not statements of what will happen but of what might happen, given the assumptions and methodologies used. The projections are business-as-usual trend projections, given known technology, technological and demographic trends, and current laws and regulations. Thus, they provide a policy-neutral reference case that can be used to analyze policy initiatives. EIA does not propose or advocate future legislative and regulatory changes. All laws are assumed to remain as currently enacted; however, the impacts of emerging regulatory changes, when defined, are reflected.
Appendix A National Type Evaluation Technical Committee ...
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Yosemite Waters Vehicle Evaluation Report: Final Results
Document details the evaluation of Fischer-Tropsch diesel, a gas-to-liquid fuel, in medium-duty delivery vehicles at Yosemite Waters. The study was conducted by NREL at the company's Fullerton, California, bottling headquarters.
Eudy, L.; Barnitt, R.; Alleman, T. L.
Strategies for Evaluating Quality Assurance Procedures
The evaluation strategies outlined in this paper constitute a set of tools beneficial to the development and documentation of robust automated quality assurance (QA) procedures. Traditionally, thresholds for the QA of climate data have been based ...
Imke Durre; Matthew J. Menne; Russell S. Vose
This report describes the most recent and most sophisticated of these evaluations, the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3) 1 This evaluation was sponsored by the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plays a key role in sponsoring evaluations for other types of language interpretation systems, including performance evaluations for speech recognition carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Pallett 1990). Background and History In June 1990, a call for participation went out to research laboratories in industry and academia. The intent was to bring together established natural language processing systems for the sake of seeing how they would each handle a uniform text comprehension task. The call emphasized the importance of having a "mature" natural language processing system ready to go. The short time frame associated with MUC-3 was not amenable to extensive system construction or exploratory experimentation on a major scal
By Wendy; Wendy Lehnert; Beth Sundheim
1.011 Project Evaluation, Spring 2005
1.011 examines methodologies for evaluating civil engineering projects, which typically are large-scale, long-lived projects involving many economic, financial, social, and environmental factors. Topics covered include: ...
Martland, Carl D.
Visualizing subjective decision criteria for system evaluation
The tools and methods used to evaluate complex systems in terms of human systems integration (HSI) include software, hardware, models, simulations, processes, and techniques. Hundreds of such tools currently exist to ...
Coley, Jodyann Felicia
Symposium J: Materials Characterisation and Evaluation
Design of Pre-Weakening and Evaluation of Structural Safety for Explosive ... Crystallization Temperature of Pd-Cu-Si System Using Integrated Thin Film Samples ... Mechanical Properties of 5083 Aluminium Welds after Manual and Automatic�...
Hypothesis Tests for Evaluating Numerical Precipitation Forecasts
When evaluating differences between competing precipitation forecasts, formal hypothesis testing is rarely performed. This may be due to the difficulty in applying common tests given the spatial correlation of and non-normality of errors. ...
Thomas M. Hamill
Performance Evaluation of Undulator Radiation at CEBAF
The performance of undulator radiation (UR) at CEBAF with a 3.5 m helical undulator is evaluated and compared with APS undulator-A radiation in terms of brilliance, peak brilliance, spectral flux, flux density and intensity distribution.
Chuyu Liu, Geoffrey Krafft, Guimei Wang
A Parallelizing Compiler Based on Partial Evaluation
We constructed a parallelizing compiler that utilizes partial evaluation to achieve efficient parallel object code from very high-level data independent source programs. On several important scientific applications, ...
Surati, Rajeev
Exploiting the Parallelism Exposed by Partial Evaluation
We describe the key role played by partial evaluation in the Supercomputing Toolkit, a parallel computing system for scientific applications that effectively exploits the vast amount of parallelism exposed by partial ...
HVAC Energy Recovery Design and Economic Evaluation
ENRECO has prepared this paper on HVAC energy recovery to provide the engineer with an overview of the design engineering as well as the economic analysis considerations necessary to evaluate the potential benefits of energy recovery.
Kinnier, R. J.
Evaluation of Budget Analyses during MISMO
Results of sounding-derived heat and moisture budgets for the Mirai Indian Ocean Cruise for the Study of the MJO Onset (MISMO) project in 2006 are evaluated using observational and simulated datasets. Estimated rainfall rates from the budget ...
Masaki Katsumata; Paul E. Ciesielski; Richard H. Johnson
Data Assimilation and Model Evaluation Experiment Datasets
The Institute for Naval Oceanography, in cooperation with Naval Research Laboratories and universities, executed the Data Assimilation and Model Evaluation Experiment (DAM�E) for the Gulf Stream region during fiscal years 1991�1993. Enormous ...
Chung-Chieng A. Lai; Wen Qian; Scott M. Glenn
Final Vitrification Melter And Vessels Evaluation Documentation
DOE has prepared final evaluations and made waste incidental to reprocessing determinations for the vitrification melter and feed vessels (the concentrator feed makeup tank and the melter feed hold...