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KWJ offers this proposal for a very low power but very practical "nano-watt" MEMS sensor platform for NASA requirements. The proposed nano-sensor platform is ultra low power and has a long sensor lifetime for extended battery life or power-harvester operation. The extremely fast response time of the sensor (<100 nsec) will be utilized in this SBIR as a possible new and innovative avenue to create selectivity for TCDs. This approach would only be available to very fast detectors like the new KWJ MEMS detector. The sensor is a platform technology designed for multiple analyte measurement on a single chip. In addition to cryogenic system leak detection for CH4, H2, and He, the platform can address trace levels of N2, O2, and H20 in gaseous helium purge streams. The SBIR project creates products and spin offs for NASA, industrial, and medical applications.

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The Hostage Barricade Database System (HOBAS) is a centralized repository for hostage and barricade incident data and resolution outcomes. The system provides data collection functions, search capabilities, and statistical analysis. HOBAS is made availabl

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Information presented in this report is final documentation of the 1990 environmental contaminants evaluation of water, sediments, and fish in the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Massachusetts, under Catalog 6332, Region ID 905103. Study design, implementation, data analyses, and reporting were completed by Environmental Contaminants personnel in the New England Field Office.

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From these files, data users may determine how 2010 Census collection blocks relate to 2010 Census tabulation blocks and vice versa.

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Production figures for circulating coins by denomination manufactured in Denver and Philadelphia. Updated monthly. Data includes active and inactive programs. Programs tracked in this report include: America the Beautiful Quarters, Presidential $1 Coins, District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters, 50 State Quarters, Westward Journey Nickel Series. Presidential $1 Coins, Native American $1 Coins, and Kennedy Half Dollar Coins are currently only minted for numismatic products. Coins minted for numismatic bags, rolls, and boxes are produced in the circulating departments and may be shown in circulating totals

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This layer of the National Elevation Dataset (NED) is 2 arc-second (approximately 60 m) resolution. The 2 arc-second NED are derived from diverse source data that are processed to a common coordinate system and unit of vertical measure. These data are distributed in geographic coordinates in units of decimal degrees, and in conformance with the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83). All elevation values are in meters and, over the continental United States, are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). The 2 arc-second NED layer provides seamless coverage of Alaska. The 2 arc-second NED layer is available as pre-staged products tiled in 1 degree blocks in Erdas .img, ESRI arc-grid, and grid float formats. The NED is updated continually as new data become available. All NED data are in the public domain.

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On the Historical Significant Events Imagry (HSEI) page, you will find hundreds of selected satellite images capturing some of the more important weather and environmental events over the last 30 years.

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The NEPmap is designed to provide information in context with National Estuary Program Study Areas. There are 28 National Estuary Programs (NEPs) in the U.S.that implement habitat protection and restoration projects with their partners and submit their project data to the EPA annually. NEPmap contains that project data from 2009 to the present.

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The innovation in this project is model-based design (MBD) tools for predicting the performance and useful life of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components and COTS-based systems beyond their rated temperature range. Phase I results have shown the feasibility of these tools, which consist of novel modeling tools and advanced system and data analysis capability. The modeling tools differ from all known technologies in that they facilitate the capture of experimental data on COTS devices that get automatically transformed through novel modeling methods into newly created behavioral models with performance degradation and lifetime effects. These tools are relevant and important in providing NASA the means to quantify the reliability and lifetime (i.e., capability and risk) of COTS components and COTS-based systems and provide a trade structure for the assessment of competing technologies. Furthermore, these modeling and design tools provide a means of integrating disparate models, allow agile evolution of models, and encourage MBD reporting mechanisms be used in reviews. Ultimately, these MBD tools will enable lower-cost system development and cost versus lifetime assessment, shorten development time, and extend flight-proven technology to broader applications. Lynguent plans to develop MBD tools based on its Phase I feasibility study and to utilize a high temperature testbed (DC-DC converter) as a case study to demonstrate a calibration methodology for the tools to insure accuracy with respect to accelerated testing results. This calibration methodology will be developed in consultation with leading experts in the field of reliability modeling and high temperature measurements of electronics and packaging.

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Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery is operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is located on the Warm Springs River within the Warm Springs Indian Reservation of Oregon. The Warm Springs River is a major tributary of the Deschutes River in north central Oregon, which enters the Columbia River 205 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The purpose of the hatchery program is to cooperatively manage the hatchery with the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon to provide harvest opportunities and protect wild fish populations. The management objectives established for the hatchery are: 1 produce fish for harvest, 2 maintain wild fish traits in the hatchery and stream environment, 3 minimize impact on wild fish to very low, acceptable levels, and 4 develop and implement a hatchery operations plan to achieve our harvest and conservation goals for Warm Springs River fish populations. The management of Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery demonstrates a sustainable program which integrates hatcheries, harvest and wild fish production.

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The Disaggregated Futures-Only Commitments of Traders dataset provides a breakdown of each week's open interest for agriculture, energy, metals, lumber, and emissions futures markets in which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC. Open interest is reported separately by reportable and non-reportable positions for Producer/Merchant/Processor/User, Swap Dealers, Managed Money. and Other Reportables holdings, including spreading, changes from the previous report, percents of open interest by category, and numbers of traders. Agriculture futures market data is also grouped by crop year, where appropriate, and shows the concentration of positions held by the largest four and eight traders.

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This coverage includes arcs, polygons and polygon labels that describe U.S. Geological Survey defined geologic provinces of the Far East (China, Mongolia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and parts of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam). Each province has a set of geologic characteristics distinguishing it from surrounding provinces. These characteristics may include the dominant lithologies, the age of the strata, and the structural style. Some provinces include multiple genetically-related basins. Offshore province boundaries are defined by the 2000 meter bathymetric contour.

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The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Linear Water Features includes single-line drainage water features and artificial path features that run through double-line drainage features such as rivers and streams, and serve as a linear representation of these features. The artificial path features may correspond to those in the USGS National Hydrographic Dataset (NHD). However, in many cases the features do not match NHD equivalent feature and will not carry the NHD metadata codes. These features have a MAF/TIGER Feature Classification Code (MTFCC) beginning with an "H" to indicate the super class of Hydrographic Features.

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The Global 15x15 Minute Grids of the Downscaled GDP Based on the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) B2 Scenario, 1990 and 2025, are geospatial distributions of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per unit area (GDP densities). These global grids were generated using the Country-level GDP and Downscaled Projections Based on the SRES B2 Scenario, 1990-2100 dataset, and CIESIN's Gridded Population of World, Version 2 (GPWv2) dataset as the base map. First, the GDP per capita was developed at a country-level for 1990 and 2025. Then the gridded GDP was developed within each country by applying the GDP per capita to each grid cell of the GPW, under the assumption that the GDP per capita was uniform within a country. This dataset is produced and distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

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This data set provides map images of hydrographic, morphologic, and edaphic features for the northern Amazon Basin in eastern Ecuador. The hydrographic data are available at two scales based on the 1:50,000 and 1:250,000-scale topographic source maps that were generated in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Morphological and edaphological data were digitized from a 1:500,000 map published in 1983. There are 3 compressed (*.zip) data files with this data set.

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This data set contains ortho-rectified mosaic tiles, created as a product from the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative. The source imagery was acquired from 20110421 - 20111026. The images were acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). The original images were acquired at a higher resolution than the final ortho-rectified mosaic.

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The public use waybill sample provides a cleansed version of the waybill sample for public use. The sensitive shipping and revenue data is removed.

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Trace contamination of the International Space Station (ISS) by formaldehyde -- a known carcinogen -- is a significant threat to crew health. The spacecraft maximum allowable concentration (SMAC) in air is only 40 parts per billion and ambient concentrations appear to be increasing as formaldehyde outgasses from a variety of plastic components. Monitoring formaldehyde levels is difficult because few analytical methods can achieve sufficient sensitivity from instrumentation that can be adapted for space-based operation. The current detection method -- using absorbent "badges" -- relies on post-flight analysis of the adsorbent material. Some of those measurements show formaldehyde concentrations close to the SMAC upper bound. As a result, a need exists for a reliable, fully automated analyzer that can provide continuous monitoring of formaldehyde concentrations on board the ISS. The target detection sensitivity is 10 ppb and the response time should be < 10 minutes. Southwest Sciences proposes the development of an optical analyzer for formaldehyde that is expected to meet the requirements of space-based operation. The instrument will be compact, light weight, require little electrical power and no consumables, and will be able to operate for extended periods (months to years) without maintenance or re-calibration.

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The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series, previously called the National Crime Surveys (NCS), has been collecting data on personal and household victimization through an ongoing survey of a nationally-representative sample of residential addr

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Automated detection of land cover changes between multitemporal images (i.e., images captured at different times) has long been a goal of the remote sensing discipline. Most technology in this area has focused on methods for detecting and identifying land cover or surface object changes in two or more images, but precise co-registration of images remains a key challenge. In fact, image-to-image registration and image-based change detection are intricately related, as the success of conducting both relies on the precision of the other; software that supports these functions should do so in an integrative manner. Image registration is the key factor influencing the success of detecting land cover changes at or near pixel scale. We will develop tools in the form of a "software development kit" (SDK) specifically optimized for precise co-registration of two or more images with minimal user interaction, with the primary motivation to enable change detection algorithms to focus on salient changes rather than highlight image registration errors. The SDK will be available to NASA at no cost, after which we will build user applications based on the SDK for commercial offering.

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This match allows SSA to verify a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipient’s income and other resources are within the eligibility ranges. SSA will use the match results to verify eligibility and payment amounts of individuals under the SSI program. SSI sends SSN finders to the Bureau of Public Debt (BPD) for all claims in current pay/current eligibility status. BPD provides information on ownership of Savings Bonds and book entry securities which count as resources for Title XVI purposes.

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The State of the Climate is a collection of periodic summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale. The State of the Climate Monthly Overview-National Wildfires provides a summary of wildland fires in the U.S. and related weather and climate conditions. Statistical summaries such as the number of fires and acres burned are provided as are reports from the U.S. Drought Monitor and fire danger maps. Monthly reports for the summer "fire season" and annual summaries begin in July 2002. Depending on conditions, reporting was extended beyond the summer and fall seasons, and beginning in 2009 a summary was generated for each month. Following the July 2013 report, and until further notice, NCEI will no longer issue the Wildfire component of its Monthly Climate report. All previous Wildfire reports will be maintained online. Updated statistics will be updated on our Wildfire Societal Impacts webpage.

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An explanation of the primary insurance amount formula.

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The Great River and Clarence Cannon NWRs Habitat Management Plan provides a longterm vision and specific guidance on managing habitats for the resources of concern at Great River and Clarence Cannon NWRs, to facilitate continuity in management programs. Refuge background, resources of concern, and habitat management goals and objectives are discussed. Management strategies and prescriptions then identify how and the specific means by which management and monitoring strategies will be implemented. Appendices follow.