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This dataset gives the average life expectancy and corresponding confidence intervals for each Chicago community area for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010. See the full description at: https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/qjr3-bm53/files/AAu4x8SCRz_bnQb...\EPI\OEPHI\MATERIALS\REFERENCES\Life Expectancy\Dataset description - LE by community area.pdf

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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 riverline studies. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N)

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Research Area: Fungi Program: Partnerships for CAM Clinical Translational Research Description: Trametes versicolor is an immunologically active medicinal mushroom that is likely to improve the effectiveness of treatments for women with advanced breast cancer. We will investigate the effect of oral doses of PSK, a T. versicolor extract prescribed in Japan as a cancer drug, in augmenting the anticancer immune response in advanced breastcancer.

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A new chemical kinetics model and database will be developed for aerothermodynamic analyses on entry vehicles. Unique features of this model include (1) the ability to model chemical kinetics in highly nonequilibrium flows at high altitudes, (2) the ability to predict nonequilibrium dissociation without reliance on traditional continuum kinetic rate equations, and (3) the ability to model complex reactions from fundamental molecular quantum models. The model will permit analyzing high-speed, nonequilibrium flows about entry and aeroassist vehicles based on extensions to Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) codes, and a new database will be developed for these extensions. The new approach offers potential for treating other complex nonequilibrium flow physics including ionization and radiation in a more direct manner than has been previously used and therefore offers potential improvements in accuracy. These tools will provide essential data for assessing the aerothermodynamic performance for a wide range of vehicle designs over a wide range of vehicle attitudes and flight conditions. The improved accuracy offered by our proposed chemical kinetic modeling approach offers significant benefits in the design of vehicles for both unmanned planetary missions and manned missions to the Moon and Mars.

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EMME is a program specific M&E tool for the Iraq Mission that is managed by RTI and provides access to project statuses and success stories for USAID/Iraq Local Governance Support Project programs. It allows project teams to design, monitor, and manage the M&E for a program throughout its entire life cycle.

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<p>Conventional methods of manufacturing automation do not lend themselves to construction of large structures with internal features, especially if various other components (such as reinforcement, pipes, sensors, etc) are to be installed within the structure. This explains why the evolution of construction automation has been slow. While well known in parts manufacturing, a promising new automation approach in construction is layered fabrication, generally known as solid free form fabrication or additive manufacturing. However, most of the current layered fabrication methods are limited by their ability to deliver a wide variety of materials applicable to construction (especially if those materials are local, or in-situ). Additionally, they are severely constrained by the low rates of material deposition which makes them atttractive only for the fabrication of small industrial parts.</p><p>The ACME project will utilize additive construction expertise previously developed at MSFC and CCI, automation and robotics expertise from KSC, and fundamental construction knowledge developed by the USACE to develop and expand the knowledge base associated with automated construction of planetary surface structures using in-situ materials. Areas of emphasis will include characterization of typical Lunar and Martian regolith materials (using terrestrially-developed simulant materials), optimization of binder materials for each regolith, development of sub-scale followed by full-scale regolith beneficiation and processing, handling and transport and actual mobilitydeposition hardware, and development of automated cleaning processes.</p>

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Provide Persons participating in Commodity Supplemental Food Program on State level.

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The Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) Database depicts flood risk information and supporting data used to develop the risk data. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual- chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The DFIRM Database is derived from Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In addition to the preceding, required text, the Abstract should also describe the projection and coordinate system as well as a general statement about horizontal accuracy.

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Airborne gravity data for Texas collected in 2012 & 2013 over 2 surveys. This data set is part of the Gravity for the Re-definition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D) project initiated by NOAA's National Geodetic Survey to collect and monitor gravity data suitable for the re-definition of the vertical datum for at least the United States and territories. The data is available at http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/GRAV-D/data_cs06.shtml in ASCII text format.

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The High Production Volume Information System (HPVIS) provides access to select health and environmental effect information on chemicals that are manufactured in exceptionally large amounts.

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<p> We propose here to develop the <em>Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares </em>(<em>GRIPS</em>), the next-generation instrument for high-energy solar observations. <em>GRIPS </em>will provide a nearoptimal combination of high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of solar-flare gamma-ray/hard X-ray emissions from ~20 keV to >~10 MeV (see Table 1). The key new technology (already developed for non-solar astrophysics by collaborator Steven Boggs) is that of a 3D position-sensitive germanium detector (3D-GeD) that allows the position and energy deposition of every photon interaction to be recorded individually, even within the same detector. With the 3D-GeDs, <em>GRIPS </em>can use a new single-grid imaging system, called the Multi- Pitch Rotating Modulator (MPRM), that provides a near-ideal point response function with twice the throughput per cm2 of detector area compared to the rotating modulation collimator (RMC) imaging of <em>RHESSI</em>. In addition, since Compton scattering (the dominant interaction at >~150 keV) of the incident photons can be tracked by the 3D-GeDs, much of the background can be rejected and the polarization of photons can be determined.</p> <p> The proposed balloon-borne <em>GRIPS </em>consists of a Spectrometer/Polarimeter with sixteen 3DGeDs in four stacked 2_2 planes, together with a single rotating MPRM grid placed 8 meters away, to provide a full-Sun field-of-view and angular resolution (12.5-arcsec FWHM at gamma ray energies) sufficient to separate the footpoints of 2.2 MeV sources for almost all flares.</p> <p> The spacecraft-borne version of <em>GRIPS </em>is envisioned to have sixty-four 3D-GeDs in four stacked 4_4 planes, together with a single grid ~20 meters away, in a spinning spacecraft. Such a space <em>GRIPS </em>would provide a tremendous leap forward for high-energy solar physics, with order of magnitude increases in effective area for gamma-ray line (and hard X-ray) imaging, and much better angular resolution and image quality (see Table 1). A space <em>GRIPS </em>will allow the 0.511 MeV positron-annihilation line and the weaker prompt nuclear de-excitation lines to be imaged for the first time. Together with line shifts and shapes from the simultaneous high-resolution spectroscopy, such an instrument will provide powerful new diagnostics of the flare energy release and particle acceleration process. Furthermore, precise polarization measurements would be obtained for the first time to constrain models and determine beaming of energetic electrons.</p>

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This Witness Name Search (WIS) program is used to search the ACTS database for possible matches between a witness that is being considered to be granted immunity for testimony and defendants of past cases or targets currently under investigation. The prog

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High performance thermal control technologies are needed to achieve the near term goals of NASA's science spacecraft development programs. High conductivity materials to minimize temperature gradients and provide high efficiency radiators and heat spreader panels are required. Integrated panels that minimize the challenges caused by thermal interfaces, including those of attached heat pipes and cooling loops would provide high performance and high reliability. kTC proposes a general technology development that permits the design of a high performance thermal distribution panel (TDP). The panel will be fabricated with a high conductivity macro-composite skin and in situ heat pipes. This advanced TDP concept will have high conductance that will obviate the need for bulky metal thermal doublers and heat pipe saddles. The conductivity of the proposed material system can be configured to exceed 800 W/mK with a density below 2.5 g/cm3. This material can provide efficient conductive heat transfer between the in situ heat pipes permitting the use of thinner panels further reducing the mass. kTC proved the feasibility of producing the proposed TDP and confirmed by measurements the performance gains the technology affords in the Phase I program. The Phase II work will concentrate on process refinements and scale up.

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NLRB R-Case (Elections) data from CATS (Case Activity Tracking System) for the period of 01/01/2009 through 12/31/2009. This dataset represents all data that is disclosable under FOIA, for a single calendar year, as obtained from the Agency's Case Activity Tracking System (CATS). Please be aware that from April 2011 through September 9, 2011, the NLRB implemented a new case management system (NxGen) that replaced CATS. This was an ongoing process, and each month, from April through September, additional regions migrated to NxGen, with the data for those regions being retained solely in NxGen. Accordingly, for cases that did not close before a region migrated to NxGen, any information regarding subsequent actions or dispositions that occurred after the region migrated to NxGen was not captured in CATS. Thus, this is the most complete information available from CATS. This supersedes any previous XML data publication by the NLRB on Data.Gov, as significant data review and cleanup was performed in CATS prior to the migration to NxGen. This also represents the final posting of the bulk-data (aka "Data Dump") from CATS. There are some known closing-date errors in this data, reflecting data-entry mistakes within CATS that have been identified and corrected within NxGen. This data has not been corrected within CATS since CATS is no longer the system of record for this Agency. Therefore, if any case shows a closing date beyond 09/30/2011, you can find the corrected closing date on http://www.nlrb.gov, under "Cases & Decisions," "Case Search."

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The Performance Reporting System (PRS) is a reporting system that enables USAID/Nigeria Implementing Partners to report their performance data and USAID/Nigeria staff to view and analyze the reported data.

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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. The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, schools, and churches and other religious institutions. The Census Bureau added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration. The Area Landmark Shapefile does not include military installations or water bodies because they each appear in their own separate shapefiles, MIL.shp and AREAWATER.shp respectively.

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Web-based application used to publish information on firefighter line-of-duty deaths to the USFA web site. Accessed through FEMA.gov and hosted on USFA web farm. Architecture includes web server, application server, database server, and statistics server.

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The Cascadia Tsunami Deposit Database contains data on the location and sedimentological properties of tsunami deposits found along the Cascadia margin. Data have been compiled from 52 studies, documenting 59 sites from northern California to Vancouver Island, British Columbia that contain known or potential tsunami deposits. Bibliographical references are provided for all sites included in the database. Cascadia tsunami deposits are usually seen as anomalous sand layers in coastal marsh or lake sediments. The studies cited in the database use numerous criteria based on sedimentary characteristics to distinguish tsunami deposits from sand layers deposited by other processes, such as river flooding and storm surges. Several studies cited in the database contain evidence for more than one tsunami at a site. Data categories include age, thickness, layering, grainsize, and other sedimentological characteristics of Cascadia tsunami deposits. The database documents the variability observed in tsunami deposits found along the Cascadia margin.

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This data displays a regional outline of the Hanna Shoal Ecosystem Study area.

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NLRB R-Case (Elections) data from CATS (Case Activity Tracking System) for the period of 01/01/2005 through 12/31/2005. This dataset represents all data that is disclosable under FOIA, for a single calendar year, as obtained from the Agency's Case Activity Tracking System (CATS). Please be aware that from April 2011 through September 9, 2011, the NLRB implemented a new case management system (NxGen) that replaced CATS. This was an ongoing process, and each month, from April through September, additional regions migrated to NxGen, with the data for those regions being retained solely in NxGen. Accordingly, for cases that did not close before a region migrated to NxGen, any information regarding subsequent actions or dispositions that occurred after the region migrated to NxGen was not captured in CATS. Thus, this is the most complete information available from CATS. This supersedes any previous XML data publication by the NLRB on Data.Gov, as significant data review and cleanup was performed in CATS prior to the migration to NxGen. This also represents the final posting of the bulk-data (aka "Data Dump") from CATS. There are some known closing-date errors in this data, reflecting data-entry mistakes within CATS that have been identified and corrected within NxGen. This data has not been corrected within CATS since CATS is no longer the system of record for this Agency. Therefore, if any case shows a closing date beyond 09/30/2011, you can find the corrected closing date on http://www.nlrb.gov, under "Cases & Decisions," "Case Search."

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Measurements of currents and other oceanographic properties were made at two locations to understand the transport and long-term fate of sediments and associated contaminants in Massachusetts Bay, one to the south of the new ocean outfall (LT-A), and at a second location about 22 km to the southeast of the ocean outfall offshore of Scituate, Mass (LT-B). This set of field observations is part of a larger project to develop a predictive capability and understanding of the fate, transport, and environmental effects of sewage wastes discharged to the coastal ocean (see http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/bostonharbor/).

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The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation study deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual- chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation flood risk boundaries are derived from the engineering information Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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The Comprehensive Passage (COMPASS) model was developed by the Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) in collaboration with scientists from other federal agencies, state and tribal agencies, and the University of Washington. The model predicts the effects of alternative dam and reservoir operations on salmon survival rates, expressed both within the hydropower system and through adult return. The model was designed to accommodate a range of alternative hypotheses regarding the functional form of underlying relationships. COMPASS moves cohorts of fish through the hydrosystem according to behavioral rules. A hydrological model simulates flows and temperatures, and dam operations are specified. Fish move through reservoirs based on specified migration rates and rates of spread, and suffer mortality according to relationships that relate survival to travel time, travel distance, flow, magnitude of spill, and temperature. Fish can pass dams through several alternative passage routes, including turbines, spillways, and juvenile bypass systems, and each route has a probability of passage and survival. Fish that pass through bypass systems at the three uppermost dams on the Snake River can be placed into barges for transportation to below Bonneville Dam. For Biological Opinion (BiOp) modeling, we used a relationship that related adult return rate to timing of arrival below Bonneville Dam. Database of output produced by the COMPASS model

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This dataset provides information on the percentage of Social Security disability applications filed via the internet.

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While in the 1970's and 1980's, composites were adopted for aerospace structure for increased performance and weight savings, the 1990's and 2000's witnessed the attention towards cost-effective fabrication. All thermoset processes that utilize such machines rely on autoclaves to consolidate the laminates, at significant acquisition and operational expense. Autoclaves to consolidate wings are hugely expensive. Autoclaves for fuselages are nearly cost-prohibitive (only one exists). Autoclaves for the Ares V do not exist. The marketplace would welcome a proven out-of-autoclave fabrication technology. The tasks in the ASI/UD-CCM STTR phase 1 was to assess the performance of the current TP-ATP heads, do a model based parametric study to determine possible head and process parameter changes and demonstrate an improved understanding of the head, with a goal of autoclave level properties. A set of models for the in situ Automated Tow/Tape Placement (ATP) processes that capture the important process phenomena were developed by UD-CCM. Accudyne then measured the laminate roughness, fabricated samples using a variety of conditions and tested the samples. Testing of the laminates indicate: placing with flat tape and using improved head chilling increases mechanical properties. Compacting with only a < load reduces properties. Using a vacuum bag oven reconsolidation is ineffective, and even reduces mechanical properties. The phase 2 program innovation is to develop and deploy University of Delaware process models to Accudyne's thermoplastic tow and tape placement head to remedy the mechanical property shortfall between the two fabrication processes used to manufacture large composite aerospace structure important to NASA. An additional advantage that would accrue by adopting TP-ATP would be the use of novel thermoplastic materials with thermal stability and toughness far in excess of what thermosetting materials can achieve.