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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Resident Supervision Handbook (VHA Handbook 1400.1) requires facility directors to report annually the status of their residency training programs to their Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) Director. VISN Directors review and then forward those reports to the VHA Chief Academic Affiliations Officer. This database enables electronic, paperless reporting of this information from VA Medical Centers to the VISN and from the VISN to the Office of Academic Affiliations.

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The grid of gravity anomaly data for the conterminous United States and adjacent marine areas was constructed from National Information Mapping Agency (NIMA) gravity data files. It was reprojected to the specifications for the Spatial Data Delivery (SDD) project.

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This document includes the survey forms necessary to assess cultural resources in Colorado. This document assesses the Lewis children graves site 5JA1478 on Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge. Included forms are resource surverymanagement data form, historic architectural buildingstructure form, and pictures and maps.

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<p>The first year objective of this multi-year project is to develop a plan to assemble the common, essential monitoring and control functions required by spacecraft and instrument power systems and implement them in a semi-custom application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a Power System-on-a-Chip (PSOC).</p><p>This approach promises at least 50% miniaturization of the presently used control circuits, to increase reliability and reduce development cost through re-use, and lower component count, while increasing robustness of spacecraft systems to extreme temperature and radiation environments.</p><p> </p>

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The Satellite View of Hawaii map layer is a 100-meter resolution simulated natural-color image of Hawaii. Vegetation is generally green, with forests in darker green and grasslands or shrublands in lighter green. Areas of high reflectance, including urban areas, rock, and dry bare soil, are shown in shades of tan and pink. Very bright areas, such as snow and ice, are light blue. The image was produced by mosaicking Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery from the Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 satellites. Bands 7 (mid-infrared), 4 (near-infrared) and 2 (green), were assigned to red, green, and blue, respectively, and adjusted to produce the final simulated natural-color image.

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Transparent Integration of SINDA/G into Patran Project

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Millionaire Dr. R.V. Pierce died at his winter estate on St. Vincents Island on February 4th, 1914.

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The imagery posted on this site is of the Florida panhandle and surrounding regions after Hurricane Dennis made landfall. The regions photographed range from Pensacola to Panama City, Florida. The aerial photograph missions were conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division the day after Dennis made landfall, July 11 and concluded July 13. The images were acquired from an altitude of 7,500 feet, using an Emerge/Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). A total of 1,003 aerial images were obtained during this time period, with most available to view online and download.

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Over the past decade, the importance of understanding the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been recognized. A variety of research studies funded by NASA, DOE and NOAA to measure the fluxes of CO2 from average conditions have been performed. In particular, flux measurements of CO2 in the boundary layer are critical toward understanding the carbon budget for this important greenhouse gas. The World Meteorological Organization has met its goal of 0.1 ppm CO2 accuracy for land based field sensors with gas chromatography and non-dispersive infrared instruments. However, these instruments are poorly suited for UAV use because of their high power requirements, large size and/or weight specifications. This proposal directly addresses NASA's need for high accuracy, UAV-compatible, CO2 instrumentation for their Global Hawk, Sierra, Dragon Eye or other unmanned aircraft. To address the lack of appropriate high accuracy CO2 instrumentation for UAVs, Southwest Sciences proposes to develop a compact, low power, diode laser based instrument designed to achieve dry-air corrected, high accuracy measurements of CO2 . We will target NASA's desired accuracy of 1 ppm CO2 (~1 part in 400) or better in 1 second using absorption spectroscopy in the 2.7 micron CO2 absorption band.

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A bare earth elevation map (also known as a Digital Elevation Model or DEM) of Fire Island National Seashore was produced from remotely-sensed, geographically-referenced elevation measurements in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Air and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Park Service (NPS). Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography. The system uses high frequency laser beams directed at the earth's surface through an opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the aircraft. The plane travels over the target area at approximately 50 meters per second at an elevation of approximately 300 m. The EAARL, developed by NASA at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, measures ground elevation with a vertical resolution of 15 centimeters. A sampling rate of 3 kHz or higher results in an extremely dense spatial elevation data set. Over 100 kilometers of coastline can be easily surveyed within a 3- to 4-hour mission time period. When subsequent elevation maps for an area are analyzed, they provide a useful tool to make management decisions regarding land development. For more information on Lidar science and the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) system and surveys, see http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/overview/index.php and http://ngom.usgs.gov/dsp/tech/eaarl/index.php .

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At the heart of scientific computing and numerical analysis are linear algebra solvers. In scientific computing, the focus is on the partial differential equations (PDEs) that arise from computational fluid dynamics (CFD), climate modeling, astrophysics, and structural and heat analysis that cannot be solved analytically. Certain problem formulations lead to sparse matrices, in which the majority of matrix elements are zero. Special attention is required when computing on sparse matrices in order to avoid using unrealistic amounts of memory or produce ill-performing software. Such topics have been the subject of considerable research and the limits of CPU-based performance have been reached. Recently, the graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as an attractive platform for high performance computing. The modern GPU boasts over 1 TFLOPS performance and as much as 6 GB onboard memory, but harnessing the power can be challenging. A library-based approach is common for HPC, with most applications using several libraries to offload well-known tasks. EM Photonics maintains a library of GPU-accelerated dense linear algebra solvers that has over 5000 users. In this project we will extend this library to include a wide range of sparse solvers, including many that have direct relevance to NASA projects.

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This personal geodatabase contains raster images of sea surface temperature (SST) in the Gulf of Maine. These raster images are seasonal composites, and were calculated as means or as medians.The seasons were defined as the following: 1) Fall= September, October, November; 2) Winter= December, January, February; 3) Spring= March, April, May; 4) Summer= June, July, August. For example, June '98, July '98, August '98 = SST Summer '98.These images were also reprocessed to remove land and no data values (value = 252 and value = 0 respectively), as well as to calculate the real world values for sea surface temperature in degrees Celsius (C).

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Hydrology data include spatial datasets and data tables necessary for documenting the hydrologic procedures for estimating flood discharges for a flood insurance study, which includes the hydrologic data expected by FEMA for new riverine studies. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N) - Note - Data Capture Standards (DCS) and Appendix N guidelines are no longer required by FEMA starting in 2007. However,they are required to be referenced in the Metadata file to ensure validation by the Metadata checker.

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A moose survey of the lower Nowitna drainage on the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge was conducted from 1721 November 1986. The 1986 population estimate for the study area is 783 191 moose at the 90 confidence level. A 1980 survey in the study area estimated a population of 1390 373 moose. The two estimates are significantly different at the 95 confidence level twotailed Students ttest. Sex and age composition data were collected during the surveys and during trend area surveys in 1982, 1983 and 1985. Calf:cow ratios are indicative of adequate summer survival of calves; however poor annual recruitment in 1983, 1985 and 1986 was reflected in low yearling bull:cow ratios. Poor winter survival of calves is a potential problem in the study area.

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In 2009, the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho released and implemented the Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Master Plan. This plan aimed to restore, enhance, and maintain the Kootenai River habitat and landscape to support and sustain habitat conditions for aquatic species and animal populations. In support of these restoration efforts, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, conducted high-resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetric surveys in May, June, and July 2011, as a baseline bathymetric monitoring survey on the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Three channel patterns or reaches exist in the study area—braided, meander, and a transitional zone connecting the braided and meander reaches. Bathymetric data were collected at three study areas in 2011 to provide: (1) surveys in unmapped portions of the meander reach; (2) monitoring of the presence and extent of sand along planned lines within a section of the meander reach; and (3) monitoring aggradation and degradation of the channel bed at specific cross sections within the braided reach and transitional zone. The bathymetric data will be used to update and verify flow models, calibrate and verify sediment transport modeling efforts, and aid in the biological assessment in support of the Kootenai River Habitat Restoration Master Plan. The data and planned lines for each study reach were produced in ASCII XYZ format supported by most geospatial software.

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FBI Secure Video Teleconferencing (SVTC) provides secure VTC equipment throughout Field Offices and top Resident Agency locations. VTC equipment, including multipoint control units, is implemented in all 56 Field Offices. SVTC provides system broadcast, c

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A list and description of Living Assistance benefits publically available on the Benefits.gov website

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DOH Environmental Indicators

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The humanitarian crisis in Yemen continues to deteriorate with an estimated 21.1 million, 80% of the population, in need of assistance. This map depicts key humanitarian issues in Yemen, specifically providing an overview for population in need, food security, health, water and sanitation, and displacement. This map product is hosted on State GeoNode athttp://geonode.state.gov/documents/30.

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To ensure mission success, astronauts must maintain a high level of performance even when work-rest schedules result in chronic sleep restriction and circadian misalignment, both of which contribute to fatigue and performance deficits unless effective countermeasures are used. We are proposing to build an Individualized Fatigue Meter that incorporates light inputs, sleep history, work schedule information, and brief performance tests (e.g. PVT SelfTest) to provide immediate individualized feedback about alertness. For the past 8 years, we have been actively developing many of the system components (funded by NASA, DOD, and NIH) that can be leveraged in this project. The result of this project will be a system prototype that can be evaluated using data already being collected in space flight analog expeditions (e.g., NEEMO, HMP) and on ISS. The critical need for an Individualized Fatigue Meter has been identified as a priority outlined in the Behavioral Health and Performance Integrated Research Plan GAP 1.1.1. During Phase 2 we will build a prototype Individualized Fatigue Meter by developing: (1) an interactive graphical console; (2) a model-independent computational architecture; (3) a hybrid biomathematical fatigue model; and (4) a data fusion algorithm that statistically combines multiple inputs (Phase 2 TRL of 5-6).

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The CDNS was published from 1950 - 1980. Monthly and annual editions contain summarized climatological information from the following publications: Local Climatological Data (LCD), Climatological Data (CD), Monthly Climatic Data for the World (MCDW), Storm Data (SD), Mariners Weather Log (MWL), Weatherwise, Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (WWCB), Monthly Weather Review (MWR). Data includes a national general summary of weather conditions, observed extremes of temp & precip by states, climatological data by station, heating degree/cooling degree days, flood data and losses, and storm summaries. Upper air data, sunshine and solar radiation data are also summarized. The annual issue each year also contains the year's short rainfall duration statistics, hurricane and typhoon data and storm tracks for various basins, tornado information and long term statistics.

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Rehabilitation acute care hospitals (REHABs) are defined by the Social Security Administration as providing care to evaluate and restore function. This table shows the incidence rates of hospital onset (HO) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (MRSA BSI) reported by California REHABs to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), during the time period January through December 2013. MRSA BSI cases are classified as HO when a positive blood sample is obtained on day four or later during a hospital stay, from a patient with no prior positive blood culture within the preceding two weeks. The HO MRSA BSI rate is calculated by dividing the number of cases by the total number of patient days; the rate is then reported per 10,000 patient days. The MRSA BSI rates in this data release are not risk adjusted because there are no such methods available at this time for REHABs. In addition to patient-based risk factors, the unadjusted REHAB MRSA BSI rates herein are also affected by facility bed size, community prevalence rate, clinical and infection control practices, and/or surveillance methods. While stratifying MRSA BSI rates by hospital type may make rates more comparable, it cannot control for all factors that can affect MRSA BSI rates. Therefore, comparisons between hospitals within REHABs should still be made with caution. That is, differences in rates within this hospital type can represent other factors besides differences in infection and transmission prevention practices. To link the CDPH facility IDs with those from other Departments, like OSHPD, please reference the "Licensed Facility Cross-Walk" Open Data table at https://chhs.data.ca.gov/Facilities-and-Services/Licensed-Facility-Cross...

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Contains data on compliance reviews and investigations performed by FMCSA and State grantees.