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A collection of Hospital Medicare cost report data from the CMS Form 2552-96, extracted from the cost reports by the fiscal intermediaries

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The NOAA NDBC SOS server is part of the IOOS DIF SOS Project. The stations in this dataset have currents data. Because of the nature of SOS requests, requests for data MUST include constraints for the longitude, latitude, time, and/or station_id variables. WARNING: Always check the quality_flags before using this data. A simple criterion is: only use a row of data if the first quality_flags value for the row (overall bin status) is 3 (good data/passed quality test). You can do this by appending &quality_flags=~"3;.*" to your request.

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This data set provides estimates of Arctic sea ice extent and concentration from 1901 to 1956 created from a collection of historic, hand-drawn sea ice charts from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). These were used to create estimates for each summer month from 1901 to 1956 by manual, subjective interpretation of scanned versions of the charts. These estimates, shown in colored-coded fields, are available as image files in JPEG format and as GIS shapefiles.

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The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury (TN COMP) uses SSA’s assistance in administering the Tennessee Property Tax Rebate Program. SSA provides assistance through SVES regarding SSA recipients who reside in Tennessee and claim to be eligible for the rebate program. This information allows TN COMP to verify the accuracy of income and entitlement decisions. (R-527)

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This layer represents the contamination boundaries of all NPL sites located in EPA Region Region 2 (New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Attribute information includes site ID, name, locational information, RPM name, type (complete/non-complete), congretional district(s), area of contamination and population within 1 mile of the contamination border. Additional descriptive fields from CERCLIS have been included.

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Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee. Consistent with President Obama's commitment to transparency, this report is being publicly disclosed on our website as it is transmitted to Congress. In addition, this report also contains the title and salary details of administration officials who work at the Office of Policy Development, including the Domestic Policy Council and the National Economic Council -- along with White House Office employees. Note: Salaries listed do not reflect salary reductions staff have taken due to furloughs and commissioned officer salary reductions.

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A coastal vulnerability index (CPI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The CPI ranks the following in terms of their physical contribution to sea-level change-related coastal change: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, rate of relative sea-level change, historical shoreline change rates, mean tidal range and mean significant wave height. The rankings for each input variable were combined and an index value calculated for 1-minute grid cells covering the park. The CPI highlights those regions where the physical effects of sea-level rise might be the greatest. This approach combines the coastal system's susceptibility to change with its natural ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions, yielding a quantitative, although relative, measure of the park's natural succeptibility to the effects of sea-level rise. The CPI and the data contained within this dataset provide an objective technique for evaluation and long-term planning by scientists and park managers.

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This data set consists of digital polygons of constant hydraulic conductivity values for the Tillman terrace and alluvial aquifer in southwestern Oklahoma. The Tillman terrace and alluvial aquifer encompasses the unconsolidated terrace deposits and alluvium associated with the North Fork of the Red River and the Red River in the western half of Tillman County. These sediments consist of discontinuous layers of clay, sandy clay, sand, and gravel. The aquifer extends over an area of 285 square miles and is used for irrigation and domestic purposes. Granite and the Hennessey Formation outcrop in northern parts of the aquifer where alluvial deposits are absent. These outcrops were included as part of the aquifer in a thesis in which the ground-water flow in the aquifer was modeled. An average hydraulic conductivity value of 92.5 feet per day was used for both the terrace and alluvial deposits in this data set and was reported in the thesis. The hydraulic conductivity polygons were derived from two sources. The outer polygon representing the outer shell of a model grid for a ground-water flow model of the Tillman terrace and alluvial aquifer was digitized from a paper map in a thesis at a scale of 1:249,695. Polygons and lines representing geologic contacts were extracted from a published digital surficial geology data set based on a scale of 1:250,000. Small polygons along the eastern boundary of the aquifer were created when the outer polygon of the model grid and the geology polygons and lines were combined. These small polygons represent geologic units other than the Tillman terrace and alluvial aquifer within the model grid. Three small polygons representing outcrops of granite and the Hennessey Formation in the northern parts of the aquifer also were extracted from the digital surficial geology data set. Ground-water flow models are numerical representations that simplify and aggregate natural systems. Models are not unique; different combinations of aquifer characteristics may produce similar results. Therefore, values of hydraulic conductivity used in the model and presented in this data set are not precise, but are within a reasonable range when compared to independently collected data.

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Land-based reuse systems offer many advantages over netpens or flow-through systems. This includes reduced siting problems, better control of water quality, and optimization of growth rate and production. The primary disadvantages of reuse systems are higher energy use, carbon dioxide emissions, and capital costs. One of the most expensive unit processes in reuse systems is nitrification, the bacterial conversion of ammonia to nitrate. Typical nitrification systems involve pumping of the process water up 3-5 meter through a series of closed reactors using plastic beads or sand as the bacteria support media. A relatively new development is the moving bed filter, a system that uses small floating plastic media that are keep in circulation with mechanical mixing or diffused aeration. This project will integrate the moving bed biofilter and circular rearing tanks in order to significantly reduced the energy consumption and the size of the reuse system. This will involve the construction of a unique rearing unit/biological filter where the water moves horizontally through the biological filter and back into the rearing unit using airlift pumps with differential heads in the range of 3-4 cm. Both laboratory measurements and numerical modeling will be used in this research. The nitrification performance will be measured as a function of mixing velocity, head losses, and dissolved oxygen levels. Laboratory measurements will be used to validate a numerical model of the flow based on STAR-CCM+, a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics code. Once validated, the CFD model will be used to investigate scenarios to promote nitrification and how to reduce energy use. A prototype system will be constructed and evaluated in terms of fish growth, mortality, and water quality. This work will be conducted by NWFSC staff in cooperation with Dr. Jim Liou, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Idaho. The project webpage, peer reviewed articles, popular press articles, field demonstration days, and presentations at aquaculture meetings will inform stakeholders of the projects progress, and provide a mechanism to rapidly distribute relevant information during the life of the project. 1440Qfilter(TANin-TANout)/24Ptot

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The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, persons not in the labor force, hours of work, earnings, and other demographic and labor force characteristics. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://www.bls.gov/cps

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Terrain data, as defined in FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N: Data Capture Standards, describes the digital topographic data that were used to create the elevation data representing the terrain environment of a watershed and/or floodplain. Terrain data requirements allow for flexibility in the types of information provided as sources used to produce final terrain deliverables. Once this type of data is provided, FEMA will be able to account for the origins of the flood study elevation data. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N, Section N.1.2).

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We propose the continuation of our research and development of a Nitrous Oxide Fuel Blend (NOFBXTM) Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO) monopropellant propulsion system for future use on a Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) as part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) architecture. This liquid monopropulsion system architecture is also readily scalable to alternative planetary ascent vehicles (PAV's) and sample return systems.

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This Comprehensive Conservation Plan CCP was written to guide management on Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge for the next 15 years. This plan outlines the Refuge vision and purpose and describes how Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge will contribute to the overall mission of the Refuge System. The plan provides an introduction to the Refuge, Refuge goals and objectives, management policies, and implementation and monitoring strategies. Key planning issues include: habitat management, public use, and cultural resources.

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This dataset consists of classified LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) elevation points produced by the PAMAP Program. Additional information is available at the PAMAP website: www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/pamap. PAMAP data are organized into blocks, which do not have gaps or overlaps, that represent 10,000 feet by 10,000 feet on the ground. The coordinate system for blocks in the northern half of the state is Pennsylvania State Plane North (datum:NAD83, units: feet); blocks in the southern half of the state are in Pennsylvania State Plane South. A block name is formed by concatenating the first four digits of the State Plane northing and easting defining the block's northwest corner, the State identifier "PA", and the State Plane zone designator "N" or "S" (e.g. 45001210PAS). The following are the collection dates for each county chronologically from 2006-2008: Chester : 20060321 - 20060502 ---- Cumberland : 20060406 - 20060429 ---- Dauphin : 20060406 - 20060429 & 20060321 - 20060502 ---- Delaware : 20060406 - 20060429 ---- Fayette : 20060406 - 20060429 & 20070430 ---- Franklin : 20060406 - 20060429 & 20060321 - 20060502 ---- Fulton : 20060406 - 20060429 ---- Greene : 20060406 - 20060429 ---- Huntingdon : 20060406 - 20060429 ---- Indiana : 20060406 - 20060429 ---- Juniata : 20060426 - 20060430 ---- Lancaster : 20060426 - 20060430 ---- Lawrence : 20060426 - 20060430 & 20060406 - 20060429 & 20060321 - 20060502 ---- Adams : 20070430 ---- Allegheny : 20070430 ---- Armstrong : 20070430 ---- Beaver : 20070430 ---- Bedford : 20070430 ---- Berks : 20070430 ---- Blair : 20070430 ---- Bucks : 20070430 ---- Butler : 20070430 ---- Cambria : 20070430 ---- Lebanon : 20080330 - 20080418 & 20080419 - 20080420 ---- Lehigh : 20080330 - 20080418 & 20080419 - 20080420 & 20080415 - 20080419 & 20080423 - 20080424 ---- Mifflin : 20080410 - 20080411 & 20080330 - 20080418 & 20080410 - 20080419 ---- Montgomery : 20080410 - 20080411 & 20080425 ---- Northampton : 20080410 - 20080418 & 20080402 - 20080403 & 20080321 - 20080326 ---- Perry : 20080410 - 20080419 & 20080410 - 20080418 & 20080424 & 20080415 - 20080419 ---- Philadelphia : 20080410 - 20080419 & 20080424 & 20080414 - 20080510 ---- Schuylkill : 20080414 - 20080425 & 20080414 - 20080510 & 20080321 - 20080326 ---- Snyder : 20080414 - 20080425 & 20080410 - 20080418 - 20080510 ---- Somerset : 20080414 - 20080425 & 20080410 - 20080418 & 20080321 - 20080326 ---- Washington : 20080419 - 20080420 & 20080415 - 20080419 & 20080423 - 20080424 & 20080402 - 20080403 ---- Westmoreland : 20080419 - 20080420 & 20080423 - 20080424 ---- York : 20080419 - 20080420 ----

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This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

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This document is the final Comprehensive Conservation Plan CCP, Environmental Impact Statement EIS, and Wilderness Review WR for the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. It describes five alternatives for managing the refuge and identifies the possible consequences of implementing these alternatives. Each alternative provides broad policy guidance for managing the refuge. Each alternative also identifies lands suitable for wilderness designation. An overview of the Refuge is provided along with information about the planning process. Public involvement; potential problems affecting fish, wildlife, and habitats; and a description of the affected environment are provided.

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RBC Technologies has significanly improved the cycle life and wet life of silver/zinc battery technology through novel separator and anode formulations. This advanced silver/zinc technology may be further developed to work reliably in the low temperature and pressure environment of the upper atmosphere. The objective of the proposed program is to develop sealed spirally wound cylindrical silver cells and demonstrate their capability to deliver high specific energy and specific power at temperatures to -30C. This will be accomplished by the innovation of coated silver cathode and zinc anode formulations suitable for incorporation in high performance wound sealed cells with low freezing point electrolytes. In Phase I RBC will work with Moltech Power Systems to design and assemble test cells and assess energy, power and fade characteristics. In Phase II, RBC would build upon these results to design and assemble complete cells and batteries that would meet or exceed a modular battery specification for NASA earth science missions.

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Maps are organized by state and depict the Veteran population using VetPop2011 data as of 9/30/2013 and VA facilities using Veteran Affairs Site Tracking (VAST) data as of FY14Q1.

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<p>The problem to be solved here is that of designing complex interplanetary trajectories to destinations which are difficult to reach via direct flights and chemical propulsion. Some targets, such as Mars and Venus, are reachable using direct flights with chemical propulsion technology. Others, such as the Mercury, the outer planets, main-belt asteroids, comets, and many other scientifically interesting targets are not easily accessible, i.e. the Δv required to reach them via direct chemical flights is too high and therefore payloads of useful size cannot be easily delivered. There are two ways to mitigate this problem. One is by using more efficient propulsion systems, such as low-thrust solar electric propulsion (SEP). The other is to find more efficient paths to the destination, possibly including gravity assist maneuvers, also known as planetary flybys. Even better solutions might be found by combining these techniques. Unfortunately these trajectory optimization problems are very difficult to solve.</p><p>The multiple-flyby interplanetary trajectory optimization problem is characterized by having a highly nonlinear objective function, several nonlinear constraints to enforce feasibility (i.e. preventing the spacecraft from coming dangerously close to a planet) and many locally optimal solutions. The large number of locally optimal solutions makes finding the global optimum very difficult. The low-thrust trajectory optimization problem is characterized by a very large number of nonlinear decision variables and constraints. Problems which involve both planetary flybys and low-thrust propulsion suffer combine the two sets of challenges – they have many locally optimal solutions and also many (hundreds to thousands) of decision variables and many (tens to hundreds) of nonlinear constraints.</p><p>There are several methods that have been previously used to solve this type of problem. The most successful of these has been to search for combinations of planetary flybys using a grid search method or intuition and a highly simplified trajectory model, as in the case of Jet Propulsion Lab’s STOUR and STOUR-LTGA. A higher fidelity tool such as MALTO, GMAT, or Copernicus is then used to refine the solution.</p><p>The main problem with traditional design techniques is the risk of never considering the combination of choices that produces the optimal solution. When one uses a low-fidelity grid search, it is possible that the globally optimal solution will not be captured in the grid. In turn the higher-fidelity local optimization tools like MALTO, GMAT, and Copernicus will only converge to a locally optimal solution in the neighborhood of the user-supplied initial guess. None of the existing methods allow for fully autonomous global optimization of missions that include flybys, low-thrust propulsion, or combinations of the two.</p>

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The Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) dataset is a survey of the Suwannee River G14PD00206 0.7 Meter LiDAR Survey in central Florida and encompasses 571 square miles. The LiDAR point cloud was flown at a nominal post spacing of 0.7 meters for unobscured areas. The LiDAR data and derivative products produced are in compliance with the U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program Guidelines and Base Specifications, Version 1. The flight lines were acquired by Digital Aerial Solutions, LLC. between Feb 19, 2014 and March 1st , 2014. Derivative products from the aerial acquisition include: Raw point cloud data in LAS v1.2, classified point cloud data in LAS v1.2, bare earth surface tiles (raster DEM ERDAS Imagine format), bare earth surface DEMs mosaic (raster DEM ESRI Arc Grid format), control points, project report, and FGDC compliant XML metadata.

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The aim of this proposal is to develop a low power consuming solid polymer electrolyte based, miniaturized electrochemical CO2 sensor that can continuously, accurately and rapidly monitor CO2 concentrations in closed or nearly closed environments for monitoring and control approaches for plant-production environments, to aid in NASA?s biomass (edible food) production research. The proposed sensor will introduce a much simpler, lower cost and more accurate alternative to the existing infrared CO2 measurement technology to measure CO2 and study its effects on plant growth. During Phase I, in addition to concept feasibility demonstration, the ability of the proposed sensor to detect (0 - 10) % CO2 in a wide temperature (15 ? 45) oC, and humidity (10 ? 99) % RH will be demonstrated. The proposed sensor will be evaluated for its fast response and continuous and uninterrupted operation for 100 hours. In Phase II the sensor will be integrated into a complete instrument, which will be small, lightweight and will allow for independent operation of the sensor complete with calibration routine, adjustable applied potential settings and digital display of numeric results. The unit will be battery operated with an AC converter and battery re-charger.

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This polygon feature class represents vegetation communities mapped at Dinosaur National Monument. The polygons were delineated following guidelines set by the National Vegetation Classification System (October 1995). Original lines were drawn on a mylar overlay on top of printed 1:12,000 digital scale orthophoto quadrangles (DOQ), collected in the summer of 2002. Hard copy 9X9 stereo aerial photography was used for photo interpretation. Intuitive ecological modeling and visual interpretation cues, such as shape, size, pattern, tone, texture, color, and shadow, were used to develop the polygons. Additional data layers used to aid the interpretation include slope, hydrology, geography, and ground-collected vegetation information. The lines developed in the image interpretation step were scanned using a large format scanner. The resultant scanned raster image was converted into a vector coverage to facilitate editing the linework within ArcGIS. The line work was cleaned, polygons created and attributed. The attributed vegetation classes were subjected to an accuracy assessment, following which final adjustments were made to the vegetation classes. As with any digital layer, this layer is a representation of what is actually occurring on the ground. Errors are inherent in any interpretation of ground qualities. Due to the "snapshot" nature of the DOQs, this vegetation layer reflects conditions that existed when the imagery was collected.

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This API provides data back to 1990 and projections annually, monthly, and quarterly for 18 months. Summarizes the outlook for supply, consumption, inventories, prices and market indicators for U.S. coal. Users of the EIA API are required to obtain an API Key via this registration form: http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/register.cfm

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This data set contains Official Protraction Diagram (OPD) outlines in ESRI Arc/Info export and Arc/View shape file formats for the BOEM Pacific Region. The use of OPD s makes it easier to refer to individual blocks within a region or planning area. Further information on the historic development of OPD s can be found in OCS Report BOEM 99-0006: Boundary Development on the Outer Continental Shelf. These OPD diagrams were clipped along the Submerged Lands Act (SLA) boundary and along lines contained in the Continental Shelf Boundaries (CSB) GIS data files to show only those blocks or portions thereof within federal jurisdiction. Because GIS projection and topology functions can change or generalize coordinates, these GIS files are NOT an OFFICIAL record for the exact OPD boundaries. Only the paper OPD or a digital image of them serve as OFFICIAL records.

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DSS's recently completed successful NASA SBIR Phase 1 program has established a TRL 3/4 classification for an innovative IMM PV Integrated Modular Blanket Assembly (IMBA) that can be rolled or z-folded and enables NASA's emerging high voltage solar electric propulsion (SEP) missions. Significant concept feasibility, design/analysis, trade study/evaluation, and proof-of-concept hardware build/test efforts executed during the NASA SBIR Phase 1 program have validated DSS's IMM PV IMBA technology as a potentially revolutionary flexible photovoltaic blanket assembly that provides high performance in terms of; high voltage operability, high specific power / lightweight (>1000 W/kg BOL at the blanket subsystem level, and >500 W/kg BOL at the array level), compact stowage volume (>50 kW/m3 BOL), rollable or z-foldable for stowage, reliability, modularity & rapid production, flexibility/durability and robustness, affordability, and adaptability to all existing industry flexible blanket solar array products. DSS's IMBA technology also accommodates standard ZTJ PV device technologies to provide significantly improved performance over current state-of-the-art.