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Job applicant data sufficient to assess applicant qualification for specific job vacancies

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The dataset contains unemployment rate - 1 month change data

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The Facility Registry System (FRS) identifies facilities, sites, or places subject to environmental regulation or of environmental interest to EPA programs or delegated states. Using vigorous verification and data management procedures, FRS integrates facility data from program national systems, state master facility records, tribal partners, and other federal agencies and provides the Agency with a centrally managed, single source of comprehensive and authoritative information on facilities.

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FY 2014 Fourth Quarter High-Dollar Overpayments Report

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Dataset consists of two-dimensional marine seismic reflection profile data from the San Francisco Bay area. These data were acquired in 1993, with the vessel David Johnston. The USGS identifier for these data is J893SF. For more information on the seismic surveys see http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/j/j893sf/html/j-8-93-sf.meta.html These data are also available via GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean ( http://www.virtualocean.org/) earth science exploration and visualization applications.

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This annual report provides details on the demographic characteristics and economic circumstances of SNAP households at both the national and the State level. In 2012, one-person households comprised more than half the caseload (50.3 percent) and the average SNAP household benefit declined by $7 to $274.

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My Right-to Know Multi-Platform application delivers TRI data to mobile and desktop browsers. MyRTK displays information on toxic chemicals released in a contextual manner. Results are spatially based, using either device GPS or manual entry.

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Carson Sink is a low basin and drainage sump in a desert valley of westcentral Nevada. It embraces parts of 14 townships but the unit here considered falls within a twelve mile square. The shores are sage brush desert and sand dunes. There are two main inlets but no outlet. The water is only medium alkaline. There is a variety and great abundance of natural duck foods and plenty of cover for protection of nesting waterfowl. Ducks, geese, shore birds, and varied waterfowl in great numbers use the Carson Sink area, Muskrats are numerous and furfarming is a possibility. Frogs and clams are common and snails and aquatic insect life abundant. It has a great value as a potential bird refuge.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are assuming more numerous and increasingly important roles in global environmental and atmospheric research. There is a corresponding growth in equipment needs for UAVs so that they may meet their mission goals. Some critical measurement needs can only be satisfied by in-situ measurements. Key examples of such measurements include detailed atmospheric profiles, point meteorological conditions on the surface, and in-situ measurements for calibration and validation of remote sensing systems. A scalable dropsonde launcher will be developed that will be able to fit a range of UAVs. It will be able to launch a variety of dropsondes derived from Anasphere's existing radiosonde and dropsonde families. Dropsondes for high-precision, high-density, and surface-based measurements will be developed. Phase I will involve designing a launcher that uses an existing Anasphere dropsonde and fits into a representative UAV provided by Vanilla Aircraft. The launcher will be demonstrated in the laboratory and in a high-speed airflow environment. The ultimate result of the project will be a dropsonde system that can be fitted to many NASA UAVs and enable them to gather in-situ atmospheric profiles and surface measurements using dropsondes.

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Using data submitted by each zone, the FTZ Board prepares and submits a report annually to Congress summarizing activity conducted in foreign-trade zones throughout the year. The full report is available on the FTZ Board website.

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The Military Packaging laboratory is divided into 2 primary qualification testing areas:material and containers. Key materials testing capabilities and equipment located at Lakehurst include: Electrostatic Decay Surface Resistivity Triboelectric Charge Generation Electromagnetic Interference Watervapor Transmission Rate Oxygen Transmission Rate Tensile & Compression (Breaking, Elongation, Puncture, Bursting & Tear) Contact Corrosivity Vapor Inhibitor Ability. Key container testing capabilities and equipment include: Shock Vibration Superimposed Loading Leak Hoisting Handling Asset List: Static Decay Control Unit, Faraday Cage, Environmental Chamber: Tests for a material's ability to dissipate a 5000 volt charge within 2 seconds Resistivity Probe, Digital Teraohmmeter, Environmental Chamber:Tests for the electrical resistance of barrier materials and cushioning materials EMI Chamber, Signal Generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Antennae:Tests for a material's ability to provide a 25dB minimum attenuation a 1 - 10 GHz range Shielded Bag Test Fixture, Electrostatic Charge Generator, Digital Oscilloscope: Tests for a material's ability to attenuate 97% of a discharged pulse of 1000 volts MOCON OXTRAN 2/21: Detects and measures extremely small amounts of oxygen as it passes through barrier materials (films) MOCON PERMATRAN-W 3/31:Tests for extremely low transmission of water vapor through barrier materials under certain conditions of temperature, humidity, and flow rates

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The Global Human Influence Index Dataset of the Last of the Wild Project, Version 2, 2005 (LWP-2) is a global dataset of 1-kilometer grid cells, created from nine global data layers covering human population pressure (population density), human land use and infrastructure (built-up areas, nighttime lights, land use/land cover), and human access (coastlines, roads, railroads, navigable rivers). The dataset is produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) and is and is available in the Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection (IGHP) system.

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The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 purpose of this file is to provide the geography for the 2010 Census Blocks along with their 2010 housing unit count and population. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.

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FOIAonline (aka:FOIA Module) a multi-agency web application within EPA's eRulemaking investment replaced FOIAXpress allows the public to submit and track FOIA requests, search and access responsive documents, and file appeals with participating agencies.

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The MEPS-IC is an annual survey of establishments that collects information about employer-sponsored health insurance offerings in the United States. With MEPSnet/IC you have easy access to national and state-level statistics and trends about employer-based health insurance. It provides statistics and trends about health insurance offered by private establishments as well as national and regional health insurance estimates for State and local governments. MEPSnet/IC guides you through a step-by-step process to obtain the statistics you need. MEPSnet/IC generates statistics using annual data from the MEPS Insurance Component Tables that start in 1996 and are updated each year.

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This catalog includes cetacean skin and blubber samples collected during both small boat and shipboard surveys. Samples are collected using projectile darts. The catalog also contains the database with Information associated with the sample collection and storage.

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Applicability of the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 to Decisions Concerning Benefits Administered by the National Cemetery Administration

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This Wildlife Inventory Plan for Horicon NWR describes procedures for the following surveys: weekly aerial goose survey, migratory bird survey, breeding population survey, brood survey, playback call survey, colonial bird nesting survey, midwinter waterfowl and eagle survey, Christmas bird count, may bird count, scent post survey, mourning dove call count, sandhill crane breeding survey, aerial deer count, population index based on deer hunt data, ringnecked pheasant survey, woodcock singingground survey, vegetation and invertebrate abundance, aerial sandhill crane production survey, refuge woodcock singingground survey, and muskrat survey.

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The aerial waterfowl surveys document the number of wintering, migratory waterfowl by species for management units on Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Phelps and adjacent private farm lands.

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NASA sees an increasing role in the near future for small satellites in the 5-100 kg size range. A potentially disruptive technology, small satellites, which are low cost and can be delivered in months, are being eyed as platforms for rapid demonstration of new technologies and even important science missions. From NASA's recently launched PharmaSat sub-10 kg free-flying nanosatellite, which has just successfully completed an experiment that could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space, to potential future missions like CRESPO, a ~100 kg microsatellite that will use a hyperspectral imager to monitor the condition of more than 50% of the Earth's coral reefs over a 2-year period, NASA is counting on these small satellites to deliver. A miniature PMB technology is widely applicable to small mechanisms and will allow for a greater technological payoff with the next generation of small satellite missions. Honeybee Robotics is developing a small, modular control moment gyroscope (CMG) technology for use on small satellites. The life limiting and power driving aspect of this technology as with any CMG or reaction wheel (RW), are the rotor bearings which operate at 12,000 rpm. Honeybee Robotics proposes to develop a miniature passive magnetic bearing (PMB) for small satellite ACS components such as CMGs and RWs. This cross-cutting technology can also be applied to any small mechanism that might benefit from low parasitic torque, low induced vibration (IV), and long life. PMB technology for small satellites will allow for a step increase in life for their ACS subsystems. Enabling a small satellite mission lifetime of 15+ years rather than 1-3 years is a game-changing development that will alter the way mission planners think about small satellite capabilities. Prototype units will be integrated with our Tiny Operationally Responsive CMG (TORC) technology to demonstrate the relative merits compared to traditional ball bearings.

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Experimental field study conducted on the Elwha River to test foodweb effects of adding coho salmon carcasses to side channels of the lower and middle river. Study was initiated in the summer of 2007, carcasses placed in January of 2008, and field data collected until August 2008. Our research approach is unique in that we will compare the effects of carcass placement in locations with and without current anadromy, and do so in the context of monitoring a major dam removal effort. By helping to develop a more mechanistic understanding of how marine nutrients affect freshwater productivity, this study directly tackles questions central to the NWFSC Salmon Research Plan and is of great interest to the larger scientific community. Temperature and light loggers

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ABSTRACT: The BigFoot project gathered Gross Primary Production (GPP) data for nine EOS Land Validation Sites located from Alaska to Brazil from 2000 to 2004. Each site is representative of one or two distinct biomes, including the Arctic tundra; boreal evergreen needleleaf forest; temperate cropland, grassland, evergreen needleleaf forest, and deciduous broadleaf forest; desert grassland and shrubland; and tropical evergreen broadleaf forest. BigFoot was funded by NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program.For more details on the BigFoot Project, please visit the website: http://www.fsl.orst.edu/larse/bigfoot/index.html.

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This map shows distribution of the Gunnison Sage-grouse relative to various protected areas

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The PMBS is used to conduct durability and performance tests on lunette trailers. It provides motion and force inputs to the test trailer's tires and lunette to reproduce dynamic conditions experienced at proving grounds. The PMBS fatigues the trailer the way a field test would, but under controlled laboratory conditions. Capabilities: The PMBS is designed to impart motion to an attached lunette trailer with the ability to conduct durability and performance tests on whole trailer systems. It moves the trailer lunette in three independent directions (vertical, longitudinal and lateral) while simultaneously providing vertical input to the trailer tires. The PMBS can accommodate trailers up to a gross vehicle weight of 20,000 lbs. and impart forces to the testing specimen via a bellcrank and strut arrangement. Benefits: •  Laboratory trailer testing offers the repeatability of dynamic events, and can eliminate performance variables such as weather conditions, driver variability and course maintenance. •  Extensive range of application design to integrate early stage development with flexibility to provide meaningful information that will minimize costs, accelerate development and compress test schedules. •  Provides a high-fidelity, multiaxial simulator that provides experimental test conditions for finite element analysis.

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<p>Low specific mass (< 3  kg/kW) in-space electric power and propulsion can drastically alter the paradigm for exploration of the Solar System, changing human Mars exploration from a 3-year epic event to an annual expedition.   A specific mass of ~1 kg/kW can enable 1-year round-trips to Mars, regardless of alignment, with the same launch mass to low Earth orbit (350 mT) estimated by the Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 study for a 3-year conjunction mission. Key to achieving such a propulsion capability is the ability to convert, at high efficiency and with only minimal losses rejected as heat via radiators, the energy of charged particle reaction products originating from an advanced fission or aneutronic fusion source directly into electricity conditioned as required to power an electric thruster.  The TWDEC concept accomplishes this by converting particle beam energy into radio frequency (RF) alternating current electrical power, such as can be used to heat the propellant in a plasma thruster.</p><p>This project is core to the development of multi-MW power for electric propulsion.  The technology developed will enable high power systems which have specific mass in the low single-digits and which are sun-independent, require no neutron shielding, and produce no radioactive waste.  The power levels and specific mass this technology could provide will, when combined with either high-efficiency Q-thrusters or VASIMR-class plasma thrusters, enable rapid human missions to Mars and beyond.     Project Infusion Path: Low specific mass (a – kg/kWe) in-space electric power and propulsion can drastically alter the paradigm for exploration of the Solar System, changing human Mars exploration from a 3-year epic event to an annual expedition.   An a of ~1 kg/kWe can enable 1-year round-trips to Mars, regardless of opportunity, with the same launch mass to low Earth orbit (350 mT) estimated by the Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 study for a 3-year conjunction mission. Key to achieving such a propulsion capability is the ability to convert, at high efficiency and with only minimal losses rejected as heat via radiators, the energy of charged particle reaction products originating from an aneutronic fusion source directly into electricity conditioned as required to power an electric thruster. The TWDEC concept (originally conceived in Japan in the 1990’s for terrestrial fusion applications) accomplishes this by converting particle beam energy into radio frequency (RF) alternating current electrical power, such as can be used to heat the propellant in a VASIMR-class plasma thruster. In a more advanced concept (explored in a 2012 Phase 1 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project), the TWDEC could also be utilized to condition the particle beam such that it may transfer directed kinetic energy to a target propellant plasma for the purpose of increasing thrust and optimizing the specific impulse.  While other government agencies and/or industry partners are pursuing aneutronic fusion reactors and plasma propulsion, NASA JSC is the only entity advancing this core energy conversion technology. With successful development of this system by NASA and its partners, an intermediate NASA infusion step would demonstrate megawatt-class aneutronic fusion, TWDEC, and electric propulsion (e.g., Q-thruster, VASIMR) systems on robotic missions to the Jovian moons.  Human vehicle system development would then integrate such systems into the “ultimate” NASA application:  sustainable, routine human exploration of Mars and, with successful Q-thruster development, beyond.</p><p><strong><u>Project Infusion Path:</u></strong></p><p>Low specific mass (a – kg/kW<sub>e</sub>) in-space electric power and propulsion can drastically alter the paradigm for exploration of the Solar System, changing human Mars exploration from a 3-year epic event to an annual expedition.   An a of ~1 kg/kW<sub>e</sub> can enable 1-year round-trips to Mars, regardless of opportunity, with the same launch mass to low Earth orbit (350 mT) estimated by the Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 study for a 3-year conjunction mission. Key to achieving such a propulsion capability is the ability to convert, at high efficiency and with only minimal losses rejected as heat via radiators, the energy of charged particle reaction products originating from an aneutronic fusion source directly into electricity conditioned as required to power an electric thruster. The TWDEC concept (originally conceived in Japan in the 1990’s for terrestrial fusion applications) accomplishes this by converting particle beam energy into radio frequency (RF) alternating current electrical power, such as can be used to heat the propellant in a VASIMR-class plasma thruster. In a more advanced concept (explored in a 2012 Phase 1 NIAC project), the TWDEC could also be utilized to condition the particle beam such that it may transfer directed kinetic energy to a target propellant plasma for the purpose of increasing thrust and optimizing the specific impulse.  While other government agencies and/or industry partners are pursuing aneutronic fusion reactors and plasma propulsion, NASA JSC is the only entity advancing this core energy conversion technology.</p><p>With successful development of this system by NASA and its partners, an intermediate NASA infusion step would demonstrate megawatt-class aneutronic fusion, TWDEC, and electric propulsion (e.g., Q-thruster, VASIMR) systems on robotic missions to the Jovian moons.  Human vehicle system development would then integrate such systems into the “ultimate” NASA application:  sustainable, routine human exploration of Mars and, with successful Q-thruster development, beyond.</p>